April 2008
28 posts
A Crystal Skullfuck
Like I said earlier, good things come in threes. Who do Steven Spielberg and George Lucas think they are by trying to mess with that? Upon seeing a poster at a bus-stop yesterday, I was reminded that the new (and fourth) Indiana Jones movie will be released, in about three weeks, on May 22nd. Considering that this franchise was one of my childhood favorites, along with Star Wars and Back to the...
There Can Be Only One
Yesterday, I had to allow a Highlander reference to pass. Again. It was frustrating. It always is. The opportunity presented itself at work, when a co-worker and I discussed a new employee, who shares my name and a couple of my interests (a musician who likes “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” by Hall & Oates). We joked of him being my doppelganger/clone and how I had to...
No Future
Can I ask you something? Ooh. I like when people say “Shoot.” That Western feel. Like Sam Elliot. Where’s The Future? What?! The future is a time that is yet to exist so we will never truly experience it because when that time does arrive it will actually be the present? Is that it? Fine. Where’s The Promised Present? It’s 2008, you know? Where’s the...
WatchNo Age wiping out my mind in Juan’s Basement on Pitchfork.tv with “Eraser”. It’s the single from their forthcoming album of joyous clamor, Nouns.
I Have A Dream. And It's Scored by Carlos...
While walking to the train this morning, on my way to work, I came across a couple of Latin gentlemen in a truck enjoying the gorgeous spring morning. Parked next to the park, with feet kicked up on the dash, they were relaxing under the shade of a budding tree, salsa music dancing out of the speakers. For some reason (like it being in syndication now yet having only two seasons to play over and...
American Airlines Ticket Counter at...
Ebert Leaves TV →
Back when I was a kid, my parents would watch a ton of movies. Mainly new releases. My dad would either go to a place called Captain’s Video or tape them off of a movie channel on our enormous satellite dish.
Captain’s Video was a pirate-themed video store located in a strip mall. They had a parrot (which I was never sure was real or a robot), a net hanging from the ceiling and an...
“I feel silly even trying to explain how this works, because it’s so...”
– Resonant Frequency #56 by Mark Richardson I know just what you mean, Mark. I’ve always liked “Half hours on earth, what are they worth, I don’t know. In 27 years I’ve drunk fifty thousand beers & they just wash against me like the sea into a pier….” from...
Bald Folk: (Thinking while perusing shelf of...
Marty exits building and looks at his car.
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The Great Upper Peninsula Battle or: Yooper Bowl I
“The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that comprise the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to simply as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan, and more casually as the land ‘above the Bridge’. It is bounded on the north by Lake Superior, on the east by St. Mary’s River, on the south by Lake Michigan and Lake...
Impressionism & Shoegaze
On Saturday, I spent an afternoon at The Met. While looking through the “European Paintings” collection, at the Monets, an idea I had had returned to me. A couple of years ago, around Christmas, I was in Illinois visiting family. While there, my cousin and I went to the Art Institute of Chicago. It was here, while, again, looking at the Monets, that I asked myself, “What is...
http://www.myspace.com/DMX →
So that’s where you are DMX! I was beginning to think that you had given up on the rap game to further pursue your real passion: becoming a man/dog shape-shifter. I thought that you had opened up shop in an abandoned warehouse in upstate New York. There, you created a secret laboratory and began work on the “Dog Man X Project”. All day and all night, in your black lab-coat, a...
“Those are security forces. Sent by the...
Have you ever heard the band Sparks? Have you...