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09:11 pm
[Link] | The Dark Knight was awesome.
I have a lot of cleaning to do.
Craig forgot to get a thing for me again! But he gave me a ride to Reading... HMM...
Also, James Webber hates it when people clap in movies!
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07:05 pm
[Link] | I've deleted that fucking awful thing.
I feel like a grade A asshole, and that may mean I don't deserve what I really want.
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11:49 pm
[Link] | I'm tying up my Wed-Sunday tour of Austin, at South By Southwest tonight.
Tomorrow I get on a plane with Brooke (My girlfriend? Have I not posted in six months? Sounds crappily plausible.), and am going back to work on Tuesday.
The people in the room above ours have been having crazy sex (lots of banging and creaking and thumping) for three days now. Frankly, it's impressive.
I'm exhausted, and blisters, and have all kinds of questions about love and music that maybe I'll answer for myself in writing, which maybe I'll post here.
In the meantime, here are the acts I saw this weekend:
The Weakerthans (twice)
Anathallo
Throw Me the Statue
Kevin Devine
Human Giant
The Upright Citizen's Brigade
Two Gallants
Eugene Mirman
Brian Posehn (for a minute)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltzin
Jens Lekman
The Cribs
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb (they sucked, they were drunk)
Lightspeed Champion
MxPx
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01:34 pm
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Dear Boston Bands
DO NOT PLAY THE FUCKING ROXY.
They have no box office, and the minimum ticket price is 20 dollars. Which means that you have to go through Ticket Master, and they have an 11 dollar per ticket surcharge. A CONVENIENCE CHARGE. It's not CONVENIENCE if there is NO OTHER WAY TO ACQUIRE TICKETS.
Bands I Was Going to Go See But Now Will Not Because They Are Playing the Roxy And FUCK THAT:
Bang Camaro
New Pornographers
They Might Be Giants
Spoon
Ted Leo & The Pharmacist
and any other band that will be playing there short of Piebald or Pixies.
UGH. PUNCHES FOR ALL.
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12:53 pm
[Link] | I love the song "Young Americans", in spite of it's prominent saxophone action.
I once had a friend hear it and write it off, because at the 4 minute mark, the female backup singers do a line from a beatles song. "I fucking hate it when songs do that!" Oh, Steve...
The Konks rock (God says, woah mother fucker, God says), as does walking around forever with no plan other than to keep walking around.
Also: surfer rosa gets better with every listen. I sit down purely intending to put on Tromp Le Monde or Doolittle, but somehow I end up listening to Bone Machine, and then rest from there. I'm going to go ahead and deem it my favorite album, uh, ever. Stop Making Sense is a close second.
Mission of Burma tonight.
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12:47 am
[Link] |
fucking alston
I hate Alston.
That's pretty much all I got right now.
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01:48 am
[Link] |
Mix CDs Take A Long Time
2 Hours for this one.
( Read more... )
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07:41 pm
[Link] |
Joe Quesada Said This...
When asked about his opinion on downloading comics from the internet, Marvel Editor in Chief replied:
"I'm against it. It's the same thing as going in to a comics shop and stealing a comic off the shelf."
Now, I recently got into a fairly lengthy debate at work about the morality of downloading comics from the internet, whether or not it was "Okay." My co-worker's stance was a very futurist perspective; that with the internet and scanners, comic books as the exist currently are not a viable economic model, and by stealing them he was simply furthering their evolution to the next step in finding a profitable model. He's not wrong.
My perspective was, I believe, more realistic - The real casualties of this evolution in comics will be the voices that most need to be heard. The larger books, Avengers, Spider-Man, Batman and Superman, they will all remain even if comics turn to an all digital medium. And even if their comics divisions close completely, Marvel and DC's strongest intellectual properties will remain prominent in popular culture for years. By stealing comics off the internet you are punishing companies for publishing riskier titles like Manhunter and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane; and more importantly the creators who are bringing a fresh perspective and new voice the medium. The voices that are going to be silenced during this massive change are going to be smaller creators - and I think that if you truly enjoy an artist's work, it's important to support them so that they can create further.
NOWHERE IN MY ARGUMENT DID I SUGGEST THAT IT'S LIKE STEALING A COMIC.
Yes, stealing comics takes one less potential buyer out of the pool for comics shops, but a physical comic is something that someone else has already paid the cost for, so you are effectively taking 3 dollars out of the pocket of (Most likely in the case of comics shops) a small business. It just drives me nuts that in order to try and get people to stop doing something that is (arguably) hurting his company, Joe Quesada guilt trips and accuses people of stealing from business owners who are not part of his billion dollar company.
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10:57 pm
[Link] | that was pretty great, just then.
between no sleep, a family accident, and being told my personality could cost me my job, i got this excellent bit of fuck you. this is why i try not to tempt fate.
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12:05 am
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Music Revelations
Weezer has an unreleased second album from which several tracks resurfaced onto Pinkerton.
It is an epic Space Opera about Space Accademy Cadet Jonas and his girlfriend Maria. Swear to god.
Also, can we talk about Guyz Nite for just a second? This is Guy Manly, the lead singer:
They do such songs as "Die Hard" about the Die Hard Trilogy, "Wingman" about being a wingman, and "I'm Always Game (For some Football)" which is about football.
http://www.myspace.com/guyznite
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06:23 pm
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MoCCA Festival!
This was the first of what I hope will be an annual trip the MoCCA festival in NYC.
NYC is kind of crappy. I'm just putting that out there.
The festival was awesome though, I have a ton of stuff I never would have read if I hadn't gone, got an awesome Jeffrey Brown sketch, and met some of my favorite creators.
Creators I was super excited to meet:
Evan Dorkin
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Jeffrey Brown
Rick Spears
Rob G
Vasilis Lolos
Maris Wicks (Hey! She's from Somerville!)
J. Jacques (Hey! He's from somewhere in Western Mass!)
Creators I Kind of Saw, and Like, But Didn't Go Say Anything To:
Hope Larson
Adrian Tomine (Serious, his table was packed with the ladies, the ladies.)
Creators I Got To Embarrass Myself In Front Of:
Becky Cloonan
Paul Hornschemeier
I am pleased that the first two lists are longer than the third.
Also, had a nice little conversation with Morgan Spurlock of all people. Serious.
Also, Kevin Church (www.beaucoupkevin.org) deserves a special thanks for introducing me around. The man is like the king of indie comics land.
'spect to see some reviews of the books I picked up over my mah blog, which reboots in July.
P.S. If you like Punk, and are not listening to "The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine," you need to get on that fast.
Current Music: The Thermals - Here's Your Future
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11:47 pm
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Ow. Ow. Scratchy.
So, today, my company had their annual picnic/clambake. It was on Georges Island.
Now, sunblock was offered. It was PRO-FUCKING-VIDED. But I said "No. I do not need this."
So I spent most of the day, with the exception of maybe a HALF AN HOUR in the shade, hanging out under the awning at the picnic tables. It was fun!
What I forgot about was the 45 minute ferry ride back. And the 20 minute walk to the train. And the 30 minute walk home.
I am fucking burnt.
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11:28 pm
[Link] | I cannot...
CANNOT...
Stop listening to ODB.
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11:17 pm
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Nerdiest Thing
So I'm listening to Canadian Public Radio and playing a Lord of the Rings video game.
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01:11 am
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Blog View 2.0
Here's version 2 of the blog layout. It looks like each post is going to be a seperate page, and the piece of paper is going to expand to meet each post length.
Thanks to Nicole for the logo!
Large image under the cut.
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02:12 am
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Sneak Peak
So I'm undertaking a massive blog redesign.
Since i have no HTML skills, a friend is setting up the actual page for me, but I need to design it. Here's my preliminary shot at it. It needs a logo, I want it to be sort of carved into the wood, and I have a very talented graphic design friend who said she'd help me with it.
Yes, she's reading this. Yes, that was transparent flattery.*
So I spent a couple hours w/photoshop getting the basics down, here's a sneak peek:
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More to come.
*Which makes her skillz no less awesome.
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12:24 am
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A Few, Final Words On Rock Band Vs Guitar Hero 3
Because this shit is confusing, here's the rundown to the best of my knowledge:
Guitar Hero/Rock Band Related Ramblings
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03:28 am
[Link] |
Stolen From LightBunny
Movie Meme Thing
<Lj-cut>
(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Total: 10
(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
(x) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) Saw III
() White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 19
(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 27
(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 35
(x) Finding Nemo
() Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
() I, Robot
() Robots
Total so far: 40
(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(x) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
() Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG
Total so far: 46
( ) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
() The Ring
(x) The Ring 2
(x ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 52
(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
(x) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 60
() The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
(x) 10 Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
() Gothika
() Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
() Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
() The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 64
(x) Bad Boys
(x) Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
(x) Predator II
() The Fog
() Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George
Total so far: 73
(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
() Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
() My Bosses Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 79
( ) Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
(x) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
() The Terminator 3
Total so far: 87
(x) X-Men
(x) X2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
(x) Sky High
() Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x ) Freaky Friday
(x) Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 100
( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
(x) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 106
(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 118
(x) Baseketball
() Hostel
() Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
() Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Three
Total so Far: 122
() The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
(x) Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
() Willard
Total so far: 128
() High Tension
(x) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 days later
(x) Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(x) Waterworld
Total so far: 135
(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() the Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 139
(x) Star Wars5 Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
() Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
(x) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 146
(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
(x) Evil Dead
(x) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal
Total 156
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Dont drink and lj, kids. it leads to late night, stupid stupid memes.
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02:00 am
[Link] | Thinking about buying an XBox 360 tomorrow.
And a PS3 in November.
That's fucking retarded.
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02:03 am
[Link] | my weekend has been insane
a double-surprise birthday party triple surprise funeral for people who were neither celebrating a birthday nor dead
the muppet movie
a beautiful, hurt, sniffling woman
wandering around by myself trying to figure out what's happening
an extremely cute girl who dissapeared quickly, confusingly
more confusion and absurdity I thought was done with
and tomorrow I have potentially brunch with my family, seeing and old friend's new house, and a wrestlemania party full of people who don't like wrestling.
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