| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 |
| 5:44 am |
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| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 |
| 6:01 am |
comix
Went to see Beautiful Losers with Vern and Jeannine. I'd never heard of it, but it's in Jeannine's professional interest to go, so off we went. After the movie, we were driving back to Vern's, and he said that he'd gone to see Watchmen and we were talking about it. I said something about Tales of the Black Freighter -- "It's a comic book within the Watchmen comic book, but it wasn't in the movie -- they're making a separate movie." Vern said, "Well, I haven't read the graphic novel, but I definitely will." (emphasis in the original) Ouch! I felt like I'd used some kind of unPC word like "oriental" or "queer" and was gently corrected... Current Music: life after records - lazy town |
| Thursday, March 19th, 2009 |
| 5:56 pm |
DC DJ gig
DC peeps -- DJ Pinstriped Rebel and The Kaiser have kindly invited DJ Leonine Al (that's me!) to DJ tomorrow night! So head to the Marx Cafe, 10 pm to 2 am or thereabouts, and I'll be playing some of my fave pop tunes from over the years.  Current Music: Acid House Kings - I Didn't Mean to Hurt You |
| Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 |
| 8:00 pm |
Telephone Sanitizers of Gor
Kdotdammit reminded me of Boris Vallejo, my favorite artist. I think this is my favorite of his paintings.  Me, sitting in my underwear, my paunchy stomach growling, watching TV... Current Music: Butthole Surfers - Space I |
| Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 |
| 7:58 pm |
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latest meme! write a review of Watchmen! I don't think any movie has ever packed my friends list like this one. Me, I'm just disappointed that they didn't reach into a time warp and grab a 1987 Brad Greenquist to play Rorschach and proceed to shoot issue 6 frame by frame. |
| Saturday, March 7th, 2009 |
| 11:29 am |
verite schmerite
Remember that movie CQ? I kept thinking about it while I was watching David Holzman's Diary (1967). This Diary movie is one of the VHS cassettes that the library lets people take on the honor system, not checking out. Which I interpret to mean that they don't really care if you bring it back or not. Anyway, I'd never heard of this movie before, so I believed it as cinema verite -- I thought it was for real. I did wonder a bit at the legal issues, the copyrights of the songs, the TV shows, and the unwilling participants. But then, only after consulting imdb (which I hate to do before I watch a movie) it turns out it was all a parody. The actor who played Holzman later had a part in CQ, so obviously the hommage was deliberate. The movie wasn't all that great, even in the context of it being real. The only part I liked was how Holzman obsessed over Truffaut's "cinema is truth at 24 fps" or whatever, contrasted with Holzman's buddy's statment that the minute Holzman transfers his life to film, it ceases to be "the truth" but "something else." I guess there's something amusing about the filmmaker just turning into a pathetic perv, but I can't really imagine that this movie is actually worth watching, knowing that it's just a spoof. At least it was only 74 minutes. Current Music: Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance |
| Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 |
| 6:30 pm |
I've never heard a woman say, "Oh, he needs a girlfriend," who was actually willing to be that girlfriend. I think what it really means is, "Oh, what a pitiful slob." Current Music: Opeth - Deliverance |
| Monday, February 16th, 2009 |
| 6:35 pm |
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| Sunday, February 8th, 2009 |
| 10:04 am |
38.8% "Other"
 based on LastFM stats, calculated by scaicha Current Music: Menomena on Guy DiMatteo Radio |
| Friday, January 2nd, 2009 |
| 7:54 am |
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| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 |
| 7:30 pm |
The Duck-Billed Jackalope
The Mayborn Museum in Waco was pretty solid -- had a big kid's discovery section I wasn't that interested in, but it had a good natural history exhibit. The best part was the curiosity cabinet section -- just several cabinets with unlabeled curiosites a la 19th century museums. And it wasn't til I was almost out of the room before I saw the stuffed jackalope up on a shelf.  From my photo you can't tell, but it has a duck's bill on it... Big Black - Texas Current Music: Wavemaster - Tumbling Xylophone |
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| 3:42 pm |
a long, strange trip
Ended up flying from Charlotte to San Antonio instead of driving, and it all worked out. Drove from San Antonio up to Lubbock, Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Waco. I brought a bio of James K. Polk on CD. Also, the rental car had XFM so I got to listen to the Led Zeppelin channel a lot. Yep, that's Zep 24/7 (well, they played some of that awful Robert Plant 80's garbage and a few covers of bands doing Zeppelin -- though the covers never deviated that much from the originals -- I was kinda hoping to hear that version of Kashmir that's on the Godzilla soundtrack). Anyways, got to seriously experience the dust bowl in Lubbock, my aunt's cemetery in Amarillo, a butterfly conservatory in Wichita Falls, the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, and a duck-billed jackalope in Waco. Really, pictures later. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick/Bonzo's MontreuxThey Might Be Giants - James K. Polk Current Music: Lee Hazelwood & Ann Margret - Am I That Easy to Forget? |
| Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 |
| 6:10 pm |
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| Saturday, December 6th, 2008 |
| 9:06 am |
Asobi
Got the new Mary & Me 7" from Asobi Seksu -- the A-side was a little disappointing, but the B-side was pretty good. And then this morning, my netflix recommended this:  Which an Asobi Seksu fan like me may have a deja vu...  Current Music: The Cat's Miaow - Get Over It! |
| Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |
| 8:15 pm |
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| Thursday, November 20th, 2008 |
| 5:53 pm |
Yes!
Went to see Spamalot last week and happened to see Vikki, with her boyfriend Keith and her sister Alex -- it's been at least a year since I've seen Vikki -- and like 10 years or more since I saw Alex. I hadn't seen Vikki since a Stinking Lizavetta show at the New Belmont. Vikki asked me if I'd heard any Mars Volta -- she was pretty into them. All I could think of was yourmom's refrain, "YES! FOR THE MARS VOLTA!" I phrase I now and then use myself when I think "YES!" and then tack on the meaningless "FOR THE MARS VOLTA!" That would have been way too much trouble to explain to Vikki, so I stuck with "Yeah, I have one of their discs, the one with a golden head on a plate on the cover..." And in other news, I give up, what is this Felt song??? I only have it identified as "TRACK 08" and I've been googling the lyrics, amazoning various compilations, to no effect. https://www.yousendit.com/download/TTZrUGhWUnI3N0EwTVE9PQ Current Music: Felt - Track 07 |
| Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 |
| 6:14 pm |
If you saw me in the back of a police car, what would you think I was arrested for? Answer me, then post this in your own journal to see how many different crimes you get accused of committing. Current Music: Dread Zepplin - Bring It On Home |
| Monday, November 10th, 2008 |
| 6:22 pm |
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| Thursday, November 6th, 2008 |
| 5:33 pm |
deja vu
Arctic Monkeys solo project:  Cubismo Grafico album:  crazy -- anybody know where the image is from? Current Music: The Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun |
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