Slabs of Glue Have No Standards

I realized last night that VH-1 Classic’s The Alternative is much less fun to watch alone than with a friend. I mean, when something like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones comes on, who am I gonna talk shit with? My cat? Wally doesn’t care about how annoying Eddie Trunk is.

Tim’s got it right: They should just rerun every episode of 120 Minutes from beginning to end. That would be cool.

I keep meaning to catch this Subterranean show on MTV2. It looks decent, but for some reason I always forget about it. Oh yeah—because it’s on right in the goddamn middle of The Alternative (Sundays at Midnight).

I need a DVR.

April 4, 2005 | Filed Under Music, TV | Leave a Comment 

I’m a Pro

I decided to upgrade my flickr account to Pro. They cut off your photos at 100 for free accounts, so my older ones were being hidden away. Also, I wanted to be able to create more photo sets, and I have enough fun with that site to make it worth it.

A year’s account costs $45+. Which is…not cheap. But, now I have the features I was looking for and instead of a 10MB/mo bandwidth limit, I have a GB/mo.

Click through the flying Snoopy to see some fascinating shots I took while cleaning my room yesterday.

April 4, 2005 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

Blue’s News

This Just In: the Pope Is Still Dead [W. Post]

Nothing else is going on in the world, really. It’s about as exciting as the Cherry Blossom Cam.

44 U.S. Troops Injured In Attack on Iraqi Jail [from DN! headlines]

At Abu Ghraib? Well, you reap what you sow.

Telescopes see ‘distant planet’ [BBC]

Because it is in a young system, the planet is relatively hot.

Young? Hot? I’m totally moving there.

Japan’s virgin wives turn to sex volunteers [Guardian]

“The women who come to see me love their husbands and aren’t looking for a divorce,” [Kim] told the Guardian. “The problem is that their husbands lose interest in sex or don’t want sex from the start. Many men think of their wives as substitute mothers, not as women with emotional and sexual needs.”

Just when I think Japan is pretty weird, it always gets weirder. I understand losing interest in sex, but never having it ever? Where’s the honeymoon period? Man, those people are advanced.

The Best 90 Minutes of My Life [Wired]

Thurston Moore discusses the art of the mixtape and offers a few words on home taping: “Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is like trying to control an affair of the heart. Nothing will stop it.”

April 4, 2005 | Filed Under Culture | Leave a Comment 

Dark Green of My Soul

1. Never be disappointed: expect nothing.

I’ve been cleaning my room. It’s all dust and pennies and unmarked CD-Rs. It feels good to do something productive on an otherwise lazy weekend. I didn’t get out on Friday, due to the bad weather and my usual end-of-the-week collapse. Saturday’s highlight was a good Thai meal with Jonathan and his friend Brent. I’ve decided that Pad Pik King is a simple yet delicious dish. I wish I had leftovers.

I worked a little on these button designs I’ve been thinking about for a while. Allison has a button maker thing and will hopefully hook me up after I’ve printed them. I’ll post those when I feel like it. In other semi-creative news, I did some precursory recording of this song I’ve been fucking around with lately. It’s not really a song yet, just a couple different bass parts and basic drums. I really like the bassline I came up with, so hopefully I can take it somewhere.

2. Movies are photographs, twenty-four times a second.

I watched the Criterion Collection edition of Slacker today, a most fitting title for my weekend. Despite being nearly fifteen years-old, I think it’s aged pretty well. Speaking of Linklater, I’m really looking forward to A Scanner Darkly this summer. [Trailer here.] I’ve been reading the novel recently, on loan from Tim.

3. Music is for chumps.

Last night I discovered this little section of reviews on Tiny Mix Tapes where they recommend older records and review them. I love that. You’re bound to find out about something cool that you missed the first time or rediscover something you already have but haven’t listened to in a while. Give ‘er a try.

I found the latest Four Tet album, Everything Ecstatic, on SoulSeek last night (also thanks to TMT). I haven’t listened enough to get a good impression, but it sounds at least decent so far. Looks like legal copies will be out May 23rd on Domino.

Coming this week on my little ol’ site: recently acquired records I’ve been enjoying, site updates to the oft-neglected photos and music sections, and The End of Days.

PS: Fuck daylight savings.

April 3, 2005 | Filed Under Film, Music, Personal | Leave a Comment 

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