February 2009
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January 2009
37 posts
lilyna:
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
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Purple Mountain's Majesty
The last night of last year’s South By South West music festival, we were in desperate need of an after-hours party. Partying is like any other type exercise: If you do it rarely, then any amount of activity will suffice, but if you’re drinking from noon to 4 a.m. on a daily basis, then greater amounts of activity are necessary to achieve the desired effect.
An old friend had come...
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Cubs Now a LOCK! →
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Cubs acquire Former Met right-hander Heilman from Mariners
Just wait…The Cubs will move Heilman into the rotation and he’ll win 15 games. It happens all the time.
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My interview with Cheech & Chong for Submerge... →
I didn’t grow up with Cheech & Chong like a lot of people have. My parents were older when they had me. I grew up with the Rat Pack and American popular standards instead. Still, it was a big thrill to speak with both of them. We had a good time, I think. I even made them laugh once or twice.
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Workshop
Watching Slumdog Millionaire this evening, alone in an empty theater, reminded me of this guy I sort of knew in college. He was in one of my writing classes, and we were in the same workshop group. I can’t remember his name. I can’t recall what he looked like either, but for some reason I keep thinking he resembled my second cousin in California. All of his stories were about this...
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Domo Ariegato
“You know what you should do?” he asked me.
He was kind of a runt, I guess. Only in the second grade, but it seems kids are a lot bigger now than they were when I was young.
“You should make a robot of you.”
Obviously.
“That way you could rest when you’re tired and your robot could do your work for you.”
“That’s a good idea,” I told...
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Rob Base - It Takes Two
I’ll just...
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Moondust smells like burnt gunpowder.
The man on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was a chubby fellow with a trim goatee and a gunslinger’s attitude. He said he wasn’t a gambler, but he said that the money he was playing with was yet to be truly his—and he tackled the questions accordingly. He’d made it up to the $100,000 question when he was asked how moonwalkers had described the smell of moondust.
My first...
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bonerparty:
R. Kelly “Igniton (Remix)”
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Pegasus
I’m a being of mythical creature at my school. I don’t mean that as an egotistical staement, but it’s true. The children treat me with the same kind of curiousity as they might a winged horse.
It has nothing to do with me. I sit at a desk and answer phones or make spreadsheets. I hardly interact with the students, and that detachment may give me a certain amount of mystery that...
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Envy Fish
I don’t know what it is about koi ponds that I love so much. The only reason why I’d ever buy a house is so I could have my own. I’d put a bench next to it and a cooler full of beer, and I’d drink myself to sleep every night just staring at it. It would be the most amazing koi pond ever.
The house at the end of the block has a koi pond in its front yard. It is inhabited...
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“There was a jar of boiled sweets by her bed, and a thick glass bottle of the...”
– The witch Nanny Ogg tries to turn in early in Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies.
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Frosted
Happiness may very well be an Entemann’s Rich Frosted Chocolate Donut and a glass ef milk. The donuts have the look and texture of waxed fruit; they’re so perfectly dark, glossy and well-perserved. They’re the high rulers of all boxed snack cakes.
I love the slight crunch when I bite into them. The ones with the extra skirt of frosting residue at the bottom of the donut are the...
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Ugh.
It pains me to say “Congrats, Eagles.”
But I suppose it is well deserved. Luckily being a Mets fan has left me well-acquainted with disappointment.
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Medusa part 2
I interviewed Katy Perry today. She was my first real pop star. I think it went alright. I’m just going through the tape now, but beforehand, the anxiety was crippling. I think I’m afraid of famous people.
When the publicist told me I was on the line with her, I wanted to shriek like Gollum and slither back to my normal person cave away from the light. That being said, she seemed very...
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Sleater-Kinney - “More than a...
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kaytee:
The Hold Steady- Magazines
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Old Yellow Cake
There’s one wing of the school building that always has a peculiar odor. It usually fluctuates in the gray area between old hotdog water, corn chips and poo. Two children’s bathrooms in close proximity to each other (the boys’ bathroom probably being the greatest offender) could be to blame. Strangely, the aroma is not as foul as it sounds.
Today was the first time I ventured...
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The Devil's Reject
I went to see Valkyrie tonight, and it was disappointing. The trailer had me hooked, for some reason, even with Tom Cruise front and center. I didn’t think it would rock my world, but I thought it would be good for a cheap rise, because the only cinematic thrill that compares to watching people kill zombies is watching people kill Nazis. It wasn’t awful, but I’d hoped it would be...
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