August 2011
1 post
listening to "BATTLES / Race Out" →
July 2011
2 posts
listening to "Pointer Sisters - Automatic" →
Based on what I’ve learned from pop music, in the ‘80’s people were often taking romantic woes to their medical doctor.
listening to "Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Pt... →
June 2011
1 post
listening to "El-P - Lazerface →
May 2011
3 posts
listening to "Sparklehorse - Ghost Of His Smile" →
listening to "Tricky →
listening to "JWLS →
listening to "Public Enemy - Harder Than You... →
listening to "The Beastie Boys - Grasshopper Unit... →
listening to "Shadrach - Beastie Boys (Pauls... →
If I had a penny for my thoughts I’d be a millionaire
April 2011
7 posts
listening to "Daedelus - Slowercase d" →
listening to "Daedelus - Slowercase d" →
listening to "Squarepusher - Tundra" →
listening to "Sounds of Science-Beastie Boys" →
March 2011
0 posts
listening to " →
listening to "The Breeders - Cannonball" →
listening to "Sugar - A Good Idea" →
listening to "Ol →
February 2011
7 posts
listening to "Ol Dirty Bastard - Snakes" →
listening to "Anika - Terry" →
listening to "Ike →
December 2010
1 post
listening to "Anika - Terry" →
November 2010
4 posts
listening to "La Roux - Bulletproof" →
listening to "Last Day Of Magic - The Kills" →
listening to "Santigold - Unstoppable" →
listening to "Sheila E. - The Belle of St. Mark... →
October 2009
1 post
August 2009
5 posts
Words that are not onomatopoeic...
…but sort of feel like they are. Like they make the sound of the essence of the thing they label even if not the sound of the sound of the thing they label
Chicken (but for the food, not the animal)
Pencil
Pickle
Noodle
I am collecting scrap metal with which to build a...
Because it is becoming increasingly clear that this is no longer an occasional aberration but rather where the language is going now.
That is: “between ____ & I” or “from _____ & I” and all other varieties of following a preposition with “I” because people think somehow to say ”_____ & me” is incorrect even when it is the object of...
Adore
I don’t know quite why this is, but when someone says “I adore ____”, 9 times out of 10 it translates to “I love this and I am simultaneously giving myself a pat on the back for loving it.”
There is some kind of self-satisfaction with the slightest whiff of smugness just hardwired into that word at this point.
Driving around an ocean-front community, I am inspired to create a book of photography called “Dick Move” that will be pictures of the kind of architectural monstrosity created by someone who wants a view but does not really have one from their property.
Cigarette smoking and sincere mullets are alive and well at the Days Inn in Ocean Shores, WA.
July 2009
11 posts
And speaking of language fashion...
…I cannot believe anyone is still using the “Blanky McBlankerson” construction as a punchline.
I really wish I could invent some kind of internet worm that would make every home page in the English-speaking world a list of tired, battered, exhausted, threadbare internet language trends and beg BEG people to stop using them.
Watching TV at the hotel, I learn that National Geographic is now referring to itself as “Nat Geo.” I am sure that this abbreviated form has been used before, but the way the announcer said it just made me imagine strategy meetings about appealing to younger viewers and this was one of the sad, pointless decisions made that actually seems to highlight the old-fashionedness of...
Sometimes I remember my perspective from, say, a year ago, and when I do, I realize I was so incredibly stupid that I’m amazed I was able to function. Does this ever stop?
the older I get the more I look like a man who should be buying black market vodka in Czechoslovakia in 1983 and it’s just so depressing on a variety of levels, not least of which is I am not a dude.
The usual little insults
Listening to this week’s On The Media podcast. Usual hosts are off, it is instead being hosted by NPR sports guy Mike Pesca. So of course he does a few stories on the sports media.
One of which is the baseball writers selecting the baseball hall of fame players, and how they are handling that decision in the face of steriod use.
At one point, Pesca says that if a reported secret list...
"his mastery of gesture"
from the wikipedia on Baryshnikov.
For the past two weeks I have been completely obsessed with watching and re-watching Katt Williams’ routines. It’s not even the content of the jokes, it’s the way he uses his body and his voice, it feels like music and dance.
Tonight on TBTL, a segment on hit songs from flop movies brought up “Say You Say Me” from “White...
Adding to the list: "full of win/suck" and ALL... →
“.
All trees aspire to bigness. Bigness is their gaudium—the characteristic...”
– Charles Mudede
June 2009
3 posts
the uniform lack of interest in what I produce isn’t going to stop me from producing it
1 tag
Other than the secret blog (and the other secret...
…I generally try to keep my Andy Rooney internet griping to a minimum because you know rantings, ramblings, musings.
But sometimes I simply cannot contain the righteous indignation and now is one of those times. Here are some things I could do without. The first two are related.
1. Usage of fonts that look like how people wrote on denim binders in the 1980’s.
2. The current...
Song as Autobio Auditions #4
May 2009
16 posts
Song as Autobio Auditions #3
