It’s a terrible thing to watch Nathan Barley and feel all superior to those trendy new media assholes…and then suddenly realize that you’re watching Nathan Barley and feeling all superior to those trendy new media assholes whilst simultaneously editing together clips from the Prelinger archives to make videos for spoken word pieces about monsters. While […]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
All Time Top Fives @ Daily Mojo
I’ve started a new feature over at the Daily Mojo: All Time Top Fives. Which is exactly what you think it would be. My first installment? Songs about the end of the world. Go check it out.
'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA – Yahoo News
LOS ANGELES – Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show “The Prisoner,” has died. He was 80. McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said. McGoohan won two Emmys for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama […]
Song: "Divine Intervention"
My new song “Divine Intervention” is up on the work blog. More info and credits there. It’s also up on Red State Soundsystem’s MySpace page.
Oakland cop shoots cuffed prone suspect…on video
I am not an anti-police sort of person. I have a couple of friends who are police and, by large, they and their colleagues do as best they can in a thankless, difficult and probably traumatizing job. I think 95% or more of policework happens within boundaries which are tolerable by society. But then you […]
Celebrity trauma
My RSS feed of entertainment news is full of variations on the same headline: “John Travolta is heartbroken over son’s death, sources say”. As opposed to…? “John Travolta dancing the fucking tarantella over son’s death”? “John Travolta staging massive party to celebrate death of child, hires Katy Perry and Perez Hilton to MC”? “Travolta’s son […]