The sis is into a site that posts drunk texts regrets. came across this one and had the same feeling as Chunk's latest "fingers in the mouth" test, but it seems way better.

"(586): There was a point where some of my friends attempted 'moi's', which stands for makeout on introduction.
(586): It involved going up to women and very aggressively trying to make out with them upon meeting them
(586): Surprisingly the success rate was exceedingly high"

from now on let's just start make out sesssion when needed and see who gets arrested first.


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I Love...

this picture:




first in a series?
possible name: things i found living on my hard drive.

Be Seeing You...

AMC is reworking Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner" as a mini-series, with Jesus himself as #6. Ian Mckellan will play #2 throughout (#2 was several different characters in the orginal, played by seperate actors, tho they all served the same function). You can view the lenghty teaser after the jump.

Caviezel seems to lack McGoohan's suspicous, fiercely independent dryness and could be the weak link. On the plus side Ian McKellan seems awesome as #2, and the production design is interesting. I'm excited.

pretty good ep

http://www.mediafire.com/?ntnudjgmm23

Evidence of our heavy rep....

What About Your Block - Parker and The Numberman from BlackBoard Productions on Vimeo.

Michael Showalter with Zach Galifianakis

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Heard the album and tour are delayed cause MCA gotts throat cancer, but this shit is still great.


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I hate when they do that

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I had a real chris moment when looking at artwork for the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. i recall when the movie was going to come out i saw the poster and was all hell yes, then the dvd came out and it looked super gay.

I know they gotta sell the movie but how come the dvd covers get so superfucked, doesnt the director have any say about that phase? it just makes me mad when i try to get someone interested in the movie, show em the cover and they say no thankyou. i have to promise them its actual good.

I encountered alot of this when making my movie table. great movies with some really tragic home video artwork.

I watched this again tonight and Confessions is a cult classic, charlie Kaufman wrote it and its crazy like you would expect. and no amount of drew barrymoreness can sink it.

this is a link with a bunch of examples of the shit some of these are even in my personal collection.
http://knemonic.com/colin/?m=200809

Soul Power & 'It Might Get Loud'

ALL MY HEROES YES!!


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Moon

Me and lee went to see this one.(sorry chris couldnt wait) its excellent! imagery is similar to 2001. but the story is real good. hard sci-fi for all you fans of that genre. sam rockwell is one of my favorite actors and you get a big dose of him here. I realized after the movie that i may have adsorbed a big part of Rockwell personality inadvertently.
The writer/director is david bowie's son, and it kind of feels like a bowie song. most of you probably wont see this one in the theaters but when it hits dvd be sure to check it. I give it 4 out 5 stars.

TTW- one couch, two ways

Stray observations:

-Ice pops- so it's summer, right?

-It's interesting to see how far rick's look has evolved in the last 8 years. Har. Also, Vee looks like he's audtioning to be a weldon.

-Apparently at some point i owned a Led Zeppelin black light poster. I have to believe, for me, that this was a purchase made when i was very, very high.


Okay, i'm saying this pic hails from august 2001. Does the below pic precede or follow?





I say later, maybe october of the same year. Peter's wearing long pants and shirt, and the place looks a little more ramshackle. On the other hand, peter is known for wearing season inappropriate garb, and the poster arrangement is weirdly different.

Why the blues brothers for devo? strange times. Meeting people that age now, i wonder, "where we like that?" Fuck no. We were cooler.

BONUS: i do remember the second picture being taken, and that the guy under peter was not happy about what was happening. He was a friend of a friend, and a little upset by us, so peter went ahead and sealed the deal by jumping on him for a kiss.
It was a wonderful moment.

Social Control

Amazon sold people "1984" and "Animal Farm" for their Kindles, but it turns out the people who said they owned it didn't. So they had to delete it. From everybody.

Hadn't really given this story much thought, kind of laughing at the irony of it but seeing it as a simple rights issue. After reading this article at io9, it made me think that maybe this idea is a little scary.

"Whispernet"

Weird.

says one doctor:

“A woman’s private parts have become her face."

Also: Back, crack, and sack is my new personal mantra.

TTW - eating glass

This file named: eating glass. Do not remember naming it- but chunk is a drunk compute-er, so no suprise. This evening we (me) drank an entire handle of Jim Beam and drove Rick home. Sometime after this I developed the stomach problems that prevent me from drinking like that to this day.

Does anyone remember this night? In my mind all of the nights at dustin's place (also jesse's?) kinda blend together. A thoroughly pleasant backyard for drinks and conversation. Though i remember more drunk navel-gazing, less the conversation.

Actually i remember very little of it.

From the same time and place (and maybe the same night) is peteguitar. aptly named.

TTW- earlydome50

I can't really explain why i like this picture so much. It's a low-quality, low-light, out of focus picture probably taken by accident on an early digital camera.

But...

It really captures the time, doesn't it? Jesse is passive, which is wierd, but interesting, and also very young and slim. In the background you can see peter wearing a basketball jersey over camo's.

This picture sucks, but for some reason it captures an honest moment in time unlike so many other from the period.

Maybe it's context again....this is earlydome49 (the preceding pic):



What's interesting about both of these pics is that the photographer (most likely me, but who knows) was obviously having to much fun to fuck with the flash. I like that. Also, the flower sitting in the mouth of the jug in earlydome49 was also featured in the stagefright movie....chris, still waiting for you to get your shit together on bringing that to the internet.

Must see

Lee brought this to my attention. For full effect, you absolutely have to watch until the end. It is beyond confusing, everything that could possibly be wrong with music and popular culture all at once. I've never actually said "the fucking kids these days..." and meant it until now.

"Stick Stickly" Attack Attack! @ Yahoo! Video

neutered hardcore, synchronized headbanging/guitar shaking, autotune heart swoon, and ridiculously off mark techno, all with non-existant arrangement transitions, while all band members undifferentiate-able.

i thought the bankruptcy of hot topic had brought the unfortunate progression of shit like this to a halt. silly me.

and to think 5 yrs ago The Blood Brothers upset me on the same level. if only i were to know what was to come.

TTW- Lights & Music

Goldeneye on the TV; i can see from the lights on the stereo it's on way too loud. Also, Rick is high. How do i know? b/c this picture precedes it:

Time Travel Week

Found this one hiding in my collection. If you click it you'll get a higher res version. To-morow: more random oldness.

English House

Possibly a repost? I don't care. Great performance of a great song.

Fuck.

Fuck.

New Andre 3000 snippet

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Andy & Ed Play Quarters

Scott Walker+Oldboy

I like this paring

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Scott Walker bonus for Rick

As far as I can tell, the Walker-sung track (he didn't write it), appears orginally on "The World Is Not Enough" soundtrack, and was recorded at roughly the same time. Nice to know he can still do it when he wants to. Didn't make it into the movie...suprised?



In 1997 Walker recorded this cover of dylan's "I Threw It All Away" for another film soundtrack. I prefer dylan's version, but it's interesting nonetheless.



Also, my Walker Brothers collection does not include this song, and is so woefully imcomplete:

Danger Crew Beach Fun

I've uploaded some to the pictures of our second beach trip from a few weeks ago to my flickr photostream. enjoy.

Modern Discourse, long diatribe, forewarned

Just joined facebook. Here's what happened in a two week period that's fucked my head up moreso than usual.

#1 Opened while still fresh out the bar to talk to a girl definitely my junior (but within acceptable age difference, shut up). No direct contact as far as i can tell other than added to a "friend" list nearing the thousands, still not sure how facebook works. Fingers crossed she's into me!

#2 "Friended" without an approval process by people who were never my friends but "know" me through high school, college, randomness, etc.

#3 Subjected to updates of ex-girlfriends on their current status when it wasn't a concern, goal, nor passing interest to know what's going on in their lives.

Just now, asked to send contact info for a ten year high school reunion by disclosure #2, bum bum! things become compounded.

So many issues at once, never came up with the courage to delete myspace, though i've regretted/attempt deleted/wanted to remove my account and the majority of aspects of it for years but can't because of:

a: the idea that this is how we communicate now. evolution of social discourse. fear of being out of the loop, out of touch, fighting progress because i'm not hip

b: vanity: someone somewhere outside of us is paying attention to my drunken rants/opinions/prose on things that don't/can't/will never matter

c: addendum: i'm clever and important but no one knows it yet and will need a bloggable history of my life for future generations to make sense of how important/cool/googleable i am after i croak and they realize what a mistake it was they didn't pay atteniton to me sooner.

there is so much wrong on so many levels.

is myspace/facebook/twitter really a positive addition? especially considering that it's evolving so quickly into less cognizant variations so quickly? we should start a site that let's you post single words so that six months from now we'll make money off a stream of conscience book of the stream of concious from the collective conscience. it will be unreadable, meaningless in a directly informative way, but will get plenty of blog hype and 2nd page fodder for local newspapers usually providing free advertising for local business.

oh the aspiration!

chunks seems excited about twitter from the aspect that now it doesn't matter, but in the future you'll be able to look at posts to see exactly what was going on at that point in time over a grand scope. social experiment yes, communication no?

let's log the failure to communicate clearly in a format that prohibits from communicating clearly?

reposting other's ideas/art/music/contributions in lieu of working on creating your own. feels like the well is running dry and we're feeding on ourselves instead of finding a way out. i've done it a million times, sharing something with friends as a common memory/check this out type of deal, but feel 99.9% of the time it's passing on something someone else has done instead of us creating something to share with each other. i'm uncomfortable with that for some reason.

the same reason family guy is hated for it's pop culture references. it's the easy way out. hey you know about this, i know about this, let's bond over the fact we all know about this.

that equals the key component for a misery party akin to a high school reunion. oh shit! speak of the devil.

ten years later. let's be forced to think about what we have/haven't accomplished. let's revisit the juvenile notions of popularity/superiority and who we think we are. and let's all do it with people we haven't talked to in years because we didn't care about/hated/or grew apart from the people we haven't kept in touch with for good reason whether we can explain those reasons or not.

in day to day life, i enjoy where i'm at. long way to go, plenty of misteps, complete failures, and regrets, but ecstatic to still be inolved in a large group comparitively of interesting, thoughtful, and intelligent people whom all keep in contact well after the fact.

we're a rare breed. and it's become glaringly obvious, exciting, and upsetting all at once. why haven't we done more? if we're extraordinary as we've always felt why haven't we done extraordinary things, why are we still talking about things we're going to do, wish we did, are stopping ourselves from doing?

i've forced my opinion on plenty, but there's a common veign amongst us that spurts when we get together, but goes dry when left on our own. how do we stop this and get shit pumping again?

i don't want to give a shit about a high school reunion and own up that no one is ever gonna figure it out, but i definitely don't want to be bothered by a high school reunion because we haven't lived up to our own expectations.

whatever we thought they were.

fuck.






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J.B. M.J.

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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

This is a really great, upsetting, beautiful, strange thing. its on netflixs instant. i recommend everyone check it out.

Good Album

Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue

A Serious Bummer

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
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MJ dies today, and i am sad. Sadder than i should be. For most people our age, MJ was the first music we can remember liking- i remember singing his praises on the swing in the second grade. My mom taped a long video retrospective on him in the early 90's that survived well into the the Danger Dome.

Besides being immensely talented, MJ had this weird magical overgrown child thing going on that made his early and middle work extra-special and fun for a kid. Unfortunatley for him this translated into being a profoundly strange adult with serious problems. Oh well. That's the price you pay for being the king of pop.

When we were all at the beach a couple of weeks ago, we played the "who should have died young" game, and MJ was universally agreed to have been better off if he'd kicked it in the late 80's. Even considering his diminished, often embarassing image over the last 20 years, i now regret saying that. He died today, and I feel loss.

Maybe it has more to do with the death of childhood than of MJ himself. He'll always be a huge part of my memories growing up, and seeing him go means letting a part of that go. It's time i guess. I'm twenty-six goddamn years old.

Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone
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Michael Jackson-Billie jean
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So many nuggets in this one

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Chop'n'n'n

In lieu of a past/present post we have to dig up all the time, i've had a dormant blog for a while that could house the mediashare posts Lee has been so kind as to set up.

Danger Crew expansion son'n'n'n.

Chop'n'n'n

Directions for confused's after the bump...


make a folder of the album you'd like to share on your desktop.

right click and select "compress to XXXXXX.rar and email"

cancel when requested to email.

logged into the mediashare account, select upload files.

choose the .rar you just made. it looks like a stack of books.

press the green start upload bar.

press the BLUE "upload to new folder"

name it under "New Folder Name" and click Save and Continue

after it reaches 100% click MY FILES

find the one you made, to the right click SHARE

Select Embed in Website

Copy and paste "html code" into post for new album.

Not as hard as the number of steps make it seem. You'll figure it out.

Schwartzman wants to help the peoples.

Rick tried for the steez, now in a reversal his life is getting played.

B.T.W. How's that job search coming buddy?

p.s. it helps if you actually send out resume's and go to real interviews with people that have the potential to hire you.

Hope the bahamas are snazzy.