You know what’s awesome? Finding the right key to play David Bowie’s “Heroes” in…and then standing in your living room with an unplugged electric guitar at eight in the morning, pretending you’re playing the Reading Festival or Lollapalooza or something like that, shrieking “And we can be HEROOOOOES if just for one day!” at full […]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
He just keeps saying he's "the Firestarter"
New Venture Bros. is up on Adult Swim for your (lo-res) viewing pleasure. Brilliant. Bonus quiz: how many of the 80s video icons in the steam tunnels can you name? I got Michael Jackson in “Thriller” of course, the dude from Alphaville’s “Forever Young”, and of course the Art of Noise (with the little girl […]
links for 2008-07-12
Robert Reich’s Blog: Why Most Who Lose Their Jobs Don’t Get Unemployment Benefits Niiiice. You go, dude. (tags: economics politics society)
There Is No Them.
Patton Oswalt is a genius. I’m not gonna give you a bit of this — go and read it, all of it, and come back to me. He’s right. I realize it more the older I get. There is no Them. There is only Us. The most vile fucking redneck Religious Right crusader asshole is […]
RIP John Andrews
I found out today that my old Internet friend John Andrews, aka jand, died a couple of weeks ago. Apparently he was attacked and beaten outside of a pub in his town in East Anglia, England, and presumably died a few days later from it — I don’t know the exact cause of death, and […]
Nice Day. Fuck Yeah.
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Patchwork ideas
A lot of people have been linking to Warren’s post “The Patchwork Years“. I thought you might be interested in something I emailed him back in January, which is my take on the ideas he’s exploring in his post. (Which is to say, great minds think alike.) I think this email was occasioned by this […]
links for 2008-07-09
INDUSTRYFINEST.com – The Top 20 most influential Rock Producers Good list. Not entirely my top 20, but still good. (tags: music production) YouTube – 2 Girls 1 Cup: Stewie’s reaction Hee hee hee. (tags: comedy animation meme)
The Vagaries Of Pronunciation
In the parking lot of this apartment complex, directly below the balcony where I go to smoke, there’s a Best Buy delivery truck with California plates. It has a dealership license plate frame. On top of the frame, in all caps, is the name TODEY. On the bottom, in title case, it reads “Not Toady, […]
iTunes Movie Rentals
My parents gave me a $15 iTunes gift card for my birthday back in March. I don’t buy AAC music from the iTunes Store, so to be honest I kinda forgot until I found it in my wallet and decided to rent a movie tonight. I got Starship Troopers, which I’d actually never seen. (I […]