Weird Thing #1: I never noticed until tonight that this brand of canned iced coffee we sometimes get from Trader Joe's ("America's Best" brand, this was the cappucino variety) has a taste not unlike Honey Smacks/Super Golden Crisp cereal.
Weird Thing #2: I'm okay with this.
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Monday, June 28, 2004
Tried to see Prince Saturday night, only to arrive at the Allstate Arena to see tons of cars EXITING the parking lot. Canceled, rescheduled for August 3 -- a schoolnight, but I have no conflicts. And the Krispy Kreme people were giving out free dozens to people in Mannheim Rd. traffic, so I've no complaints. Instead we went over to Dee's to finally break in her Trivial Pursuit 20th-anniversary edition. Meh...out of all the TP editions, I still prefer Genus Edition and the original expansions (Silver Screen, Baby Boomer). There was some care in questionwriting that just isn't there any more.
Coincidentally, last week I had compiled this List of Ten Things, which I now present with some adjustments and annotations:
Ten artists I had tickets for but didn't see:
Prince (you know why)
a Queen Latifah
b Siouxsie & the Banshees
c Suicidal Tendencies
c Circle Jerks
a Volcano Suns
d Duran Duran
d Georgia Satellites
e Public Image, Ltd.
f Buzzcocks
a no-show opening act
b canceled a stretch of Lollapalooza-I dates due to laryngitis
c no-show headliners
d were scheduled to open for David Bowie on the Glass Spider tour in the Metrodome. Bowie postponed the concert to make room for more Detroit dates. The rescheduled date changed venues and was sans openers.
e I bought tix specifically for opening act PiL but was lukewarm on INXS, the headliners. When PiL canceled, I got rid of my ticket.
f like an idiot, I completely forgot I had a ticket to this show. Damn!
two items in brief, maybe more later:
Fahrenheit 9/11: essentially, it's everything both sides say it is. The most mature work from someone who still has a long way to go.
Big Fish: Remember when Tim Burton used to be cool? He's now 100% irrelevant to my life. His last OK movie was Sleepy Hollow, and hasn't been TIM! F'ING! BURTON! since Ed Wood. I also dread a "Music by Danny Elfman" credit the way I dread James Horner. What a waste of time, even watching with subtitles on at 2x speed.
Coincidentally, last week I had compiled this List of Ten Things, which I now present with some adjustments and annotations:
Ten artists I had tickets for but didn't see:
Prince (you know why)
a Queen Latifah
b Siouxsie & the Banshees
c Suicidal Tendencies
c Circle Jerks
a Volcano Suns
d Duran Duran
d Georgia Satellites
e Public Image, Ltd.
f Buzzcocks
a no-show opening act
b canceled a stretch of Lollapalooza-I dates due to laryngitis
c no-show headliners
d were scheduled to open for David Bowie on the Glass Spider tour in the Metrodome. Bowie postponed the concert to make room for more Detroit dates. The rescheduled date changed venues and was sans openers.
e I bought tix specifically for opening act PiL but was lukewarm on INXS, the headliners. When PiL canceled, I got rid of my ticket.
f like an idiot, I completely forgot I had a ticket to this show. Damn!
two items in brief, maybe more later:
Fahrenheit 9/11: essentially, it's everything both sides say it is. The most mature work from someone who still has a long way to go.
Big Fish: Remember when Tim Burton used to be cool? He's now 100% irrelevant to my life. His last OK movie was Sleepy Hollow, and hasn't been TIM! F'ING! BURTON! since Ed Wood. I also dread a "Music by Danny Elfman" credit the way I dread James Horner. What a waste of time, even watching with subtitles on at 2x speed.
Saturday, June 26, 2004
There are some myths about the Jack Ryan debacle that I want to clear up for out-of-state readers. They seem like things that the conservative spin machine would push on a national level, particularly to redstaters far from Illinois who never heard liberal-media/hypocritical Democrat stories they didn't like, but to be fair I don't know if these are actually being propagated. So they're proto-myths right now; nonetheless, I want to nip them in the bud.
Myth #1: The media unfairly targeted Ryan.
The Tribune and ABC pursued Ryan's sealed divorce records in the same manner they pursued similar records of Democratic candidate Blair Hull in the primary. I don't recall the "where's the right to know?" hue and cry then.
Myth #2: Democrats are hypocrites for lambasting Ryan, against whom nothing is proven, while defending Clinton.
It's true that the sex-club allegations are just he-said/she-said, and are nothing illegal or (what I would consider) adulterous. But the Democrats didn't say a peep about the Ryan allegations. Leading Illinois Republicans, with the exception of outgoing Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, got together and vowed not to campaign with or for Ryan. They're the only ones to whom this mattered.
Myth #1: The media unfairly targeted Ryan.
The Tribune and ABC pursued Ryan's sealed divorce records in the same manner they pursued similar records of Democratic candidate Blair Hull in the primary. I don't recall the "where's the right to know?" hue and cry then.
Myth #2: Democrats are hypocrites for lambasting Ryan, against whom nothing is proven, while defending Clinton.
It's true that the sex-club allegations are just he-said/she-said, and are nothing illegal or (what I would consider) adulterous. But the Democrats didn't say a peep about the Ryan allegations. Leading Illinois Republicans, with the exception of outgoing Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, got together and vowed not to campaign with or for Ryan. They're the only ones to whom this mattered.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Ten books I started but have yet to finish:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Xenocide*, Orson Scott Card
Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson
The Devil in the White City*, Erik Larson
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
*- what I'm currently reading
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Xenocide*, Orson Scott Card
Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson
The Devil in the White City*, Erik Larson
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
*- what I'm currently reading
Monday, June 21, 2004
Something Hypocritical This Way Comes
A fella's gotta work pretty hard to take on Michael Moore in the asshattery realm. Enter Ray Bradbury. He's mad at Moore over Fahrenheit 9/11 and its play on the title of his book Fahrenheit 451.
"He didn't ask my permission," Bradbury, 83, told The Associated Press on Friday. "That's not his novel, that's not his title, so he shouldn't have done it."
No doubt Mr. Bradbury got permission from William Shakespeare, Sara Teasdale, Voltaire, Walt Whitman, and the songwriters and screenwriters behind the film Animal Crackers before titling the works Something Wicked This Way Comes, "There Will Come Soft Rains," "The Best of All Possible Worlds," "I Sing the Body Electric!," and "Hello, I Must Be Going."
A fella's gotta work pretty hard to take on Michael Moore in the asshattery realm. Enter Ray Bradbury. He's mad at Moore over Fahrenheit 9/11 and its play on the title of his book Fahrenheit 451.
"He didn't ask my permission," Bradbury, 83, told The Associated Press on Friday. "That's not his novel, that's not his title, so he shouldn't have done it."
No doubt Mr. Bradbury got permission from William Shakespeare, Sara Teasdale, Voltaire, Walt Whitman, and the songwriters and screenwriters behind the film Animal Crackers before titling the works Something Wicked This Way Comes, "There Will Come Soft Rains," "The Best of All Possible Worlds," "I Sing the Body Electric!," and "Hello, I Must Be Going."
Friday, June 18, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
uncontrollable urge I wanna tell you all about it
Unless there's a sudden run on tickets, I'm seeing DEVO!This is very big. I'm seeing the Pixies in November, and that's big, too, but this is bigger. So big I'm sure I'm setting myself up for inevitable disappointment. I'm trying to think of bigger things that would not involve resurrections. Suicide Commandos? They're more a latter-day discovery, not something I grew up on but missed. I know...Talking Heads. That'd be bigger.
Unless there's a sudden run on tickets, I'm seeing DEVO!This is very big. I'm seeing the Pixies in November, and that's big, too, but this is bigger. So big I'm sure I'm setting myself up for inevitable disappointment. I'm trying to think of bigger things that would not involve resurrections. Suicide Commandos? They're more a latter-day discovery, not something I grew up on but missed. I know...Talking Heads. That'd be bigger.
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