| because there wasn't a darth vader portrait that was as badass |
[Apr. 6th, 2005|04:43 am] |
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| | thingy - o.b.1. | ] |
i have decided that if prince can legally change his name to a symbol,
i can change my name to have line breaks, spaces, and punctuation.
therefore, from now on, i'd like to be known by the following
( name )
i'm pretty sure this will make me the biggest badass of all time. and i have bob vanderclay to thank. |
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| IIIIIIII LLOOOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIST! |
[Dec. 14th, 2004|08:31 am] |
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| | neutral milk hotel - king of carrot flowers pts. 2-3 | ] |
yes! my finals are set to begin rather shortly, and will be over in 11 hours or so, but this doesn't worry me, cause i have something to be excited about. my younger brother (genetic), chip off the old block, received his acceptance letter to the NYU music technology program last night. there is not a day that goes by that i don't slightly regret my decision to pass up going to the music business program there. at the time, berkeley computer science seemed like such a good idea... mistakes were made, but my brother comes out ahead for it, so i am glad. at least i got to spend a few more years in the bay area, which is, to quote the late ronald wilson reagan, a city on a hill.
now, if i go for the music business master at nyu, i can even become roommates with my brother, leading to many great misadventures and comedies of errors. ha ha ha. |
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| oooooh oooh oh ooh ooh oooooooh oooooooooooh |
[Dec. 9th, 2004|02:54 am] |
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| | arcade fire | ] |
"bill, you and i have witnessed many things, but nothing as bodacious as what just happened."
the arcade fire just played one of the greatest shows i've ever witnessed. and they played "cars go by" and "headlights look like diamonds" back to back. i may have thought that their debut was a step down in quality, but just as buttercup learns to "never doubt again" the power of her love for weseley in the princess bride, i will never again doubt the greatness of this band. better than the oc. especially this seasons oc. better than the chrismukah episode. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 15th, 2004|03:42 am] |
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| | windy & carl - consciousness | ] |
in space, up and down cease to exist, becoming just as arbitrary as left and right. it has occured to me that in addition to to keeping us grounded, gravity also serves to give us this orientation. my problem stems from the observation that in television and film, space crafts are inevitably all oriented with the same understanding of up and down, even in the deepest, most remote parts of space, where no landmarks exist to use for calibration. this greatly disturbed me until i realized that just like we have standards of measurements, so can standards of orientation be developed to make space travel less discombobulative. nonetheless, i feel that it is unlikely that aliens from the gamma quadrant would coincidentally develop the same standards. perhaps i have been listening to too much drone music without the clarifying power of drugs. |
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| yeah yeah, you're crackin' up |
[Nov. 14th, 2004|09:38 pm] |
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| | bo diddley - crackin' up | ] |
white cheddar cheez-it crackers are covered in a powder in order to enhance flavor, while original cheez-its are not, even though the only purported flavor difference is that one cheddar is white. i find myself wondering what the implications of this are. |
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| off on a natural charge, bon voyage |
[Nov. 14th, 2004|03:54 am] |
i have learned much this evening. first, never go scuba diving underwater if you are a naked woman, not only because of the dangers that sharks pose, but also of aquatic zombies. while they can serve to distract the sharks by trying to eat their flesh, they tend to take one by surprise by hiding amongst sea plants.
second, after seeing portions of apocalypse now and the west wing, i realize why martin sheen deserves the electorate's trust and is able to serve as a good president: his military experience fighting in viet nam. also, there is apparently a movie entitled apocalypse pooh, which is winnie the pooh cartoons overlaid with dialogue from apocalypse now. it leaves something to be desired, but at the end, piglet as dennis hopper's character is spot on. in the same vein, there is also apparently blue peanuts, which is charles shulz's peanuts characters speaking dialogue from blue velvet
my final, and perhaps most important lesson of the night came from wallace shawn, who said, "you fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land ware in asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'never go in against a sicilian when death is on the line.'"
odb, dirt dogg, big baby jesus, unique ason, russel tyrone jones, osirus, joe bananas, etc... rip. i christened our bush outside with the last of my forty in honor of you. |
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| like a sound you hear that lingers in your ear, but you can't forget from sundown to sunset |
[Nov. 12th, 2004|04:09 pm] |
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| | marlena shaw - california soul | ] |
"There is no Hitler building as such. We are quartered in Centenary Hall, a dark brick structure we share with the popular culture department, known officially as American environments. A curious group. The teaching staff is. . . here to decipher the natural language of the culture, to make a formal method of the shiny pleasures they'd known in their Europe-shadowed childhoods--an Aristotelianism of bubble gum wrappers and detergent jingles."
don delillo - white noise
don delillo's portrayal of the american studies department is frighteningly accurate, and would be just like the cal department if you replaced the new york males with a group of californians, genders evenly split, if not primarily female.
how am i supposed to listen to the one hundred odd albums i've accumulated in the last 25 days when i'm continually drawn back to music i already know i enjoy? am i supposed to ignore it? call the love affair to an end? sorry kid, you were great, but i've got to move on to things i don't even know if i'll like, let alone love like i've loved you. songs have feelings too. the most insulting part of this, to the songs, must be that much of the newly acquired music was sought because it was described as having similarities to my favorite past loves. any review that sites my bloody valentine, neutral milk hotel, bjork, curtis mayfield, or tom waits will undoubtedly garner my attention, but almost invariably disappoint. why do i put us through this? and then, unless it is irredeemably bad music, i lack the heart to delete or sell it. yet i did have the heart to abandon and neglect other music. part of this is due to the postmodern desire to continually acquire and collect, and part of it is a hope that i will in the future internalize the entire contents of my music collection and be forever with it in my mind. ah, man is a cold and fickle creation.
life is a difficult and hard struggle. in the immortal words of freddie foxxx, who can always be counted on to bring voice to my inner turmoil, hard "like tryin' to find an ass on a chinese woman." |
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| so let's live the success of an american dream |
[Nov. 11th, 2004|10:37 pm] |
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| | love and rockets - an american dream | ] |
so, there has been some discussion about bright eyes having the top two singles on the charts. that's certainly surprising, but until that turns into massive exposure, making me listen to connor oberst, that's fine. but i'd like to point out that almost the entire saddle creek roster are at best mediocre or boring. but, despite the relative mainstream popularity of this disappointing label, there is a light, and it is the oc. ( Read more... ) |
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| wild horses |
[Nov. 9th, 2004|09:35 pm] |
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| | pete rock & c.l. smooth - mecca and the soul brother | ] |
i just saw ten minutes of true lies on television. in that short time frame, i saw arnold schwarzenegger steal the horse from a mounted police officer to chase a terrorist on a motorcycle. the chase led them through a hotel and up its elevator to the top floor, from which the terrorist jumps into a pool. sadly, schwarzenegger does not follow, but the next scene features charlton heston wearing an eye patch. eye patches aside, this is assuredly the best equestrian based scene i've ever seen on film. |
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| midnight in a perfect world |
[Nov. 4th, 2004|01:22 am] |
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| | dj shadow - endtroducing | ] |
first, mike post is perhaps the most amazing man ever to breath. he is responsible for the following theme songs: rockford files, ChiPs, captain america, magnum p.i., l.a. law, blossom, the commish, silk stalkings, nypd blue, roughnecks. as if that wasn't accomplishment enough, he also wrote the themes to quantum fucking leap, night rider, doogie howser, m.d., and the a-team. why he didn't write the macgyver theme song, i don't know, but he takes up a third of the list of top ten theme songs ever. why does john williams garner fame while this genius toils in obscurity. i want to commission him to do a theme song and possible score for my life. something bouncy, but with an inner depth and turmoil that hints at the complexity of my character.
also, endtroducing has some of the most perfect night songs ever. and the smashing pumpkins' siamese dream still doesn't get the credit it deserves. |
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| i made a fire, and watching it burn, thought of your future. with one foot in the past now just how |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|11:13 pm] |
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| | tears for fears - head over heals | ] |
well, the full extent of the sad state of america has been revealed in the last day, but one thing keeps me going. the oc season premiere is tomorrow night @ 8:00 pm. it is almost as if the very good people at fox saw disappointment coming, and chose to ease our woes by giving us new hope. the more i think about it, you can say what you will about the bush administration, but it did bring us the oc. what more can you really ask for from a presidency? certainly good decision making, moral standards, and social progress are unreasonable expectations. anyway, come and let us bask in television's warm glowing warming glow, courtesy of duck central. perhaps there will be eating, drinking, and merriment as well if so desired. |
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| bedbugs and ballyhoo, that's the way the bee bumbles |
[Oct. 31st, 2004|06:15 am] |
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| | echo & the bunnymen - bedbugs and ballyhoo | ] |
friday, anthony, my new brother, and I carved pumpkins that i believe capture fully the spectrum of human emotion. ( see really large pictures here )since the pumpkins my new brother and i carved represents emotion, and emotion is super-panoramic, it cannot be fully represented by a photograph because not all of its facets will be visible. so here is a movie, but only play it if you are not faint of heart.
do bees actually bumble? perhaps only bumble bees. but i must confess to never having seen a bee that i thought was bumbling. does this mean i've never seen a bumble bee, or that the name is misleading?
now that i have my bed, i go sleep. |
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| come a little closer, it's easy to trace... |
[Oct. 26th, 2004|05:27 pm] |
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| | smokey robinson & the miracles - tracks of my tears | ] |
"voting gives you a natural high, like climbing a great mountain, or sniffing aretha franklin's ass"
- triumph the insult comic dog
while sniffing smokey robinson's ass might not give you a natural high, i have am beginning to believe that the miracles are the second best motown group after the four tops. however, it still bothers me that smokey was greatly responsible for the success of the second most over-rated motown group (after the supremes), the temptations, writing "my girl," "get ready," and "the way you do the things you do." on the other hand, marvin gaye got his start as a session drummer for the miracles, and smokey also wrote songs for gaye in the ealry years, so he is redeemed. also, "tracks of my tears" allegedly inspired the zombies' "time of the season." and as was pointed out to me earlier today, his version of "tracks of my tears" is far superior to aretha franklins. |
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| who can it be now |
[Oct. 24th, 2004|12:38 pm] |
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| | roxy music | ] |
award for most european name ever: brian eno, whose full name is brian peter george st. john le baptiste de la salle eno
also thank god for men at work's "who can it be now," and it's sexy sexy saxophone line. |
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| i like to stack my bread and flip my chips |
[Oct. 22nd, 2004|10:51 am] |
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| | white magic - one note | ] |
"welcome to dungeon majesty, the show where we take four ladies and play dungeons and dragons."
thank god someone had the good sense to make a prequel to cube. every nightmare has a beginning: cube zero.
also, lil' flip is a poet:
i need a lady in the streets but a freak in the sheets
that now how to cook cause a nigga like to eat
spaghetti, shrimp and steak and i'll adore you
i'll treat you like milk, i'll do nothing but spoil you.
lil' flip - sunshine |
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| upcoming shows |
[Oct. 18th, 2004|01:51 am] |
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| | telegraph melts - septembrist | ] |
anyone interested in going to see britt daniel (of spoon) and two gallants play at the swedish american hall (sf) on friday, oct 29? $12.00. i saw britt daniel play solo in austin, and he was great. he mostly plays stripped down versions of spoon songs.
also, the dead science is playing the same week, wednesday oct 27, at the hemlock tavern. $6
also, tom fucking jones. dec 15-18 at the fillmore!!!!! rich, i want to review this show. please. it's $55, and i don't have that kind of money, but oh god. |
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| you didn't have the decency to change the sheats |
[Oct. 17th, 2004|05:53 am] |
i know that most people will disagree with me greatly, but prince's greatest contribution to pop music was writing "when u were mine" for cyndi lauper. although, perhaps it was cyndi lauper's greatest contribution to prince. also, the live acoustic version of "time after time" with cyndi playing the dulcimer is also incredible.
also, i never thought that the prospect of getting married could excite me as much as this does.
you get married right on the enterprise bridge. the hovering borg behind them seems like an unfriendly omen, but the presence of isolinear chips and dip and holy rings of betazed (onion rings) at the reception should ease any uneasiness.
with any luck, one wedding gift would be the voice interface module, which allows voice activated control of the lights. example: "computer, disengage lights" turns of the lights. amazing.
at this point, i've already proven my sad obsession, so i shall share this conversation between worf and riker that proves that worf is star trek's biggest pimp:
riker: even klingons need love now and then.
worf: for what we would consider love, sir, i would need a klingon woman.
riker: what about plain old basic sex? you must have some need for that.
worf: of course, but with the females available to me, sir - earth females - i must restrain myself too much. they are quite fragile sir.
riker: worf, if anyone else had said that i'd suspect he was bragging.
worf: bragging, sir? |
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| 6.4 = makeout |
[Oct. 13th, 2004|11:08 am] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | gary wilson - you think you really know me | ] |
i started writing a response to maria on rich's journal about my thoughts on team america, but it got out of hand, so i decided to post it here instead since i haven't posted in a while.
( my rambling thoughts )
gary wilson has usurped the title of "greatest gary w. in music. ."( Read More )
listen to 6.4 = makeout |
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| "accurate selenography, or description of the moon." -- sir t. browne |
[Oct. 13th, 2004|10:35 am] |
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| | rachel's - selenography | ] |
selenography is a great word. Definition: Sel`e*nog"ra*phyn. [Gr. ??? the moon +
-graphy.]
The science that treats of the physical features of the moon;
-- corresponding to physical geography in respect to the
earth.
i have been listening selenography and a few other albums by rachel's on loop when i go to sleep, which has resulted in some amazing ( dreams ) |
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