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Friday, March 30, 2001

It's not every day that you get your socks rocked off by both a sandwich and a rock band. I'm a very lucky man.

Also on the cryptic quip tip: The city smells so nice tonight.

7:38 PM | e-mail |

Is Blogger back? Excellente!

I've been working on the new site, so it's not like I'd have had much to blog about anyway (other than my complete and utter failure to make a simple design work -- if I understood CSS it'd be done like that, but I definitely don't. So). I'm aiming to greet the new month with the site's launch, so wish me luck and I'll see you Sunday.

3:32 PM | e-mail |

Thursday, March 29, 2001

Fearless Conqueror! Raucous.

(via lukelog)

12:05 AM | e-mail |

Wednesday, March 28, 2001

Prol lists her favorite U2 songs. Always fun to see what one of the pre-eminent U2 fans on the 'net loves about the band. And because I'm a filthy copycat, I'm going to do the same. Mwah!

NOTE: This list was revised a few hours after the original posting, because I am never satisfied.

"All I Want Is You"
"Discotheque"
"Your Blue Room"
"Elevation"
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
"With Or Without You"
"Mysterious Ways"
"One"
"Mofo"
"Lady With The Spinning Head"
"Until The End Of The World"
"Where The Streets Have No Name"
"Please"
"Zooropa"
"New Year's Day"
"One Tree Hill"
"Bullet The Blue Sky"
"Wild Honey"
"11 O'Clock Tick Tock"
"Staring At The Sun"
"New York"
"I Will Follow"
"Miami"
"Slow Dancing"
"In A Little While"
"North And South Of The River"
"Big Girls Are Best"
"Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad"

In other news, that is somewhat related, I've bought myself a domain name, and this blog will be moving there within the next week, and probably being renamed (!) in its honor. Strange things are afoot.

5:24 PM | e-mail |

Monday, March 26, 2001

I'm back from the greatest concert of my short life. I'll be posting a review somewhere on the Net before the day is out.

In the meantime, have a look at this: The Myakka Skunk Ape. This is happening in my hometown, and I never knew a thing about it. Fascinating. As they say in PLANETARY: "It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."

(via shey.net)

2:42 PM | e-mail |

Wednesday, March 21, 2001

The trailer for MOULIN ROUGE is online, and it's AMAZING. Go watch it now! Now! The soundtrack is officially shaping up to be the greatest film soundtrack ever, if you ask me -- it now comprises:

David Bowie and Massive Attack teaming up to cover Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy"
Beck and Timbaland covering Bowie's "Diamond Dogs"
Christina Aguilera, Li'l Kim, Mya, and Pink covering "Lady Marmalade (Voulez-Vous Couchez Avec Moi)"
Gavin Friday and Bono doing T.Rex's "Children Of The Revolution"
Fatboy Slim's "Because You Can, Can-Can" (a remix of the Can-Can, of course)

Release date is still up in the air re: May or June in the States, but the film will be opening the Cannes Film Festival. I've gushed about how excited I am about it before, so do us all a favor and go learn about it so that I can save us some time. It stars Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, and John Leguizamo, and is directed by Baz Lurhmann of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET fame.

Blogging activity will probably be grinding to a halt until Sunday or Monday, as I've got much to do before leaving tomorrow night for the U2 concert. I'm sure you'll make do without me...

2:40 PM | e-mail |

Sunday, March 18, 2001

That's OK -- I will start the meme for you.

I Have Never Heard:

ABBEY ROAD.
Anything by The New York Dolls.
Anything by the solo Morrissey.
The pre-LONDON CALLING Clash albums.
The Pixies' COME ON PILGRIM.
The Eno/Bowie albums, except for the song "Heroes."

I'm sure there are more, but that's a start...

5:17 PM | e-mail |

I've decided that I am bored of the underline-overline link-hover schtick, and therefore, out it goes. I am all-powerful! Mwah!

In other news, I've made my first utterly inconsequential post as a member of U2Log (the cool/fun thing I mentioned on Thursday night). Mwah-2!

4:56 PM | e-mail |

DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS, DO NOT ASK FOR CONTEXT, JUST WATCH THIS.

If you want some context, read this. But I find it works better without it.

3:48 AM | e-mail |

Saturday, March 17, 2001

Martin Amis on the porn industry. If you're reading, Dan, this one's for you -- two of your favorite subjects in one place.

(via LinkMachineGo)

4:50 PM | e-mail |

Admit it: if you saw a TV ad for a hair removal product from Australia called "Nad's," you'd think it was a joke, right?

Oh no.

("www.nads.com"? They must have registered that a looooong time ago...)

3:40 PM | e-mail |

As I am a frequent viewer of fine late-night cable television, I get to see some truly wonderful ads. Behold the awe-inspiring wrath of Monster Booty. Couldn't make it up if I tried.

2:31 AM | e-mail |

I am relatively sure that I will never read FINNEGAN'S WAKE.

Jeff admitted, "I'm thinking about getting rid of the book and just reading the guide." Chris protested: "But there are passages that seem to be about something!"

(from Salon)

1:56 AM | e-mail |

Friday, March 16, 2001

Meg and Luke are going to be offline for a few days. This saddens me (Best of luck with the move).

But I'm sure this will pass the time nicely, thank you.

1:15 AM | e-mail |

Thursday, March 15, 2001

Lea Hernandez (who rules) on the Warren Ellis Forum (which also rules) points us to The Earthquake Rose (which, ah, you know). It's a sand pattern traced by a pendulum -- during the Seattle Earthquake. Unexpectedly pretty.

In other news: Something very cool and fun just happened to me. News as soon as it's finalized.

8:46 PM | e-mail |

Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Wow. So I'm idly browsing, thinking of domain names I would like and checking to see what's on them. And I stumble across the most flawless trifecta of Awesome Name Wastage ever, on a set of domains I'd love to have. I present to you bornslippy.com, .net, and .org.

2:01 AM | e-mail |

Tuesday, March 13, 2001

Oooops. Bit late in the day now, but happy birthday anyway to Adam Clayton from -- who else? -- U2.

The album-catalog geekfest is going along swimmingly. I never do listen to the early stuff anymore... tomorrow: UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY.

8:14 PM | e-mail |

CNN: NYC Democrats Want Clinton As Mayor. I'd vote for him.

6:26 PM | e-mail |

Monday, March 12, 2001

Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer, and Bono will cover T. Rex's "Children Of The Revolution" for the MOULIN ROUGE soundtrack. I am *crying with joy*, you have NO IDEA...

(via gavinfriday.com)

How ironic that this should be on the CD player right now -- "Rejoice," by U2. ;-)

7:19 PM | e-mail |

Sunday, March 11, 2001

A *very* happy birthday to Meg! She just rocks, a whole lot. I wish I had the money to spend on something from her wishlist... *sigh*

If you want some triumphant Meg genius, check out her list of disturbing search requests, recently mentioned in the Village Voice (in the issue sitting next to my chair right now, no less). We had a grand old laugh with it tonight...

10:44 PM | e-mail |

An open declaration of geekiness: I am listening to a new U2 album every day until the concert on the 24th. (Mind you, this leaves the 23rd and 24th open, but I have singles and bootlegs for those days, as well as some PJ Harvey stuff, since she's the opening act). Starts today with BOY and runs chronologically through the catalog. Yay, big loser!

5:11 PM | e-mail |

Jubilee 2000: The Movement America Missed.

1:21 PM | e-mail |

Saturday, March 10, 2001

You are about to embark on a most delightful journey!

Lucky numbers 6 7 18 22 29 34.

Spotted in front of the Chinese place: Two white stretch sport-utility limos. Big ones. I love this town.

Excuse my terseness; I've been temporarily struck dumb by the genius of Daft Punk's video for "One More Time"... bizarre anime of a rock band, and some kind of space terrorists, slowed down and sped up to match the music. Fantastic. Song's hilariously goofy, too. God bless the French. (I'll catch hell for THAT one, I'm sure...)

9:31 PM | e-mail |

The dining hall is closed for spring break. Which is good, in that it forces me to eat some real food, but bad in that it's gonna be more than a little bit expensive to feed myself in New York for a week. Sigh.

I've ordered Chinese tonight from the place around the corner. Haven't had sesame chicken in months, I'm definitely looking forward to it...

8:24 PM | e-mail |

The page is starting to become roughly presentable cross-browser. If you're using something old, I can't seem to get the sidebars to want to be in Verdana, so they look like crap, but at least you can tell what's a link now.

I am so not cut out for this stuff.

For the record, the last six blog entries, not counting this one, have had something to do with music. Methinks I have a one-track mind at the moment. Or should I say, "eight-track"? Actually, no, I shouldn't. Scratch that.

6:23 PM | e-mail |

So y'know, I'm working on the ID3 tags of some of my MP3s, and I take a gander at the list of genres I can include using WinAmp. Two of the genres are "Christian Gangsta" and "Porn Groove." I want to go somewhere far away from the Earth right now.

I mean, "Christian Gangsta"? "Love thy neighbor -- wit' yo nine millimeta"? Honestly.

5:21 PM | e-mail |

Friday, March 09, 2001

Prol makes me a very, very happy man.

There's a new design up at Glitterdammerung!, because it looked like hell in various browsers. This place does too. *sigh* Please, I beg you all, if you're using Netscape 4, then go download version 6, all our lives will become much easier...

11:31 PM | e-mail |

Jack informs me that the U2 video on the MTV2 special I previously mentioned is "Numb." Which pisses me right the hell off. That's a *great* video.

Don't ask why this matters. But dammit, it just does.

For the record, Jack also introduced me to Jonah Falcon, and I hate him for it. That is the cockiest bastard I've ever seen, no pun intended.

9:38 PM | e-mail |

So I finally get around to doing the "What was #1 on the day you were born?" thingy. Apparently it determines your life's worth or your future or something. At the very least, it's got to say something about you.

So guess what mine is?

"I Love Rock And Roll," by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

I can't tell you how f**king awesome that is.

It's not very rock and roll to blank out swearing with asterisks, but it's not very rock and roll to lose your Geocities account, either. Well, OK, come to think of it, it is rock and roll in that Pete Townshend guitar-smashing kind of way, but really, I just don't want to.

7:57 PM | e-mail |

Elvis Costello names the 500 albums you need to live a happy life. I have sixteen. Apparently, I'm miserable. ;-)

(via Metafilter)

Sorry I've been neglecting this blog; I hope to do better this weekend. I might even have things to say. God help us all.

5:23 PM | e-mail |

Wednesday, March 07, 2001

Y'know, by all rights this should have been a shitty day. I had a midterm, was dissatisfied with myself in writing workshop, had all the new comics delayed a day (by the apocalyptic snow flurry, apparently), and listened as the Burger King people made fun of my order (I shit you not). But I'm still feelin' pretty fine. Mainly because the midterm went well. And because I've got money. For the record, it really can buy happiness, at least for me. ;-)

8:32 PM | e-mail |

Tuesday, March 06, 2001

I just saw the guy across the way making spaghetti. Naked.

No witty comment springs to mind. Do you have one?

8:34 PM | e-mail |

I do NOT understand this. But I LOVE it.

(via Ghost In The Machine, who also informs me that the new Depeche Mode album is up on Napster, and I love him for it)

3:45 PM | e-mail |

Oh, these are just too funny: Hilarious Sports Quotes. Double-entendres galore. I never liked sports before, but I think I do now...

(via swishcottage)

3:28 PM | e-mail |

The broadband stream of Not Enough Music has been revamped for March, with almost 40 new songs, including some of the new Nick Cave album and some U2 live stuff in celebration of the launch of the tour on the 24th (and I shall be there, oh yes). Check it out. If you're not the spontaneous type, you can check the new playlist first.

The 56k stream will get the same update by the end of the week, but I've got studying to do right now...

2:51 PM | e-mail |

Sunday, March 04, 2001

Gavin Friday will have a new song on the MOULIN ROUGE soundtrack!

'Scuse me while I masturbate with indescribable glee...

11:26 PM | e-mail |

Added: one of the pictures I previously mentioned. It's taking a while to scan 'em in properly, and who knows if I'll even bother to do the rest. But that one sure is here now.

11:09 PM | e-mail |

So I'm watching MTV2, as usual, and I stumble across a show called "When Bad Videos Happen To Good Artists." Genius. Prince's "Batdance" is on now, horrible abortion that it is. But. In the title screen of the show, I caught a glimpse of a picture of The Edge. Which means there's a U2 video somewhere in the mix here. Which saddens me. I mean, I personally think that most every video they did between 1980 and 1990, with the exceptions of the JOSHUA TREE singles and "All I Want Is You," are pretty terrible, but most people seem to think that the God-awful image of the bemulletted Bono waving a flag in "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is sacrosanct, who knows why. But I digress. It looked like a recent shot of Edge, which depresses me even more, since every video they've made for the last four albums has been pretty cool. With the possible exception of the brand new video for "Walk On" that debuted this week, which is just boring. And Wim Wenders' video for "Stay," which is just trite. I missed the first hour of the show, so maybe I missed U2's appearance already and will never know. I'll just go insane, then.

And now, it's PJ Harvey's "50 Ft. Queenie." Never seen this video before, but as much as I love Da Peej, I have to agree with the assessment being made. Yikes.

Last bit of music babble: Meg believes there's a new Guinness ad featuring Lamb's "Gorecki," possibly my favorite song in the universe. I find myself discomfited by this fact. I once got in a huge argument, with members of a mailing list I belong to, about artists selling their songs for commercials. Most of the time I don't give a flying crap. Moby sold every track on PLAY for commercials and I didn't blink an eye. It's his music, he can do whatever he wants with it, and it's not like anything material about the song was changed by it. But something about the juxtaposition of "Gorecki" and Guinness is just... odd to me. And not in a good way. I feel like a hypocrite, but I love that song to death and I'm just oh so confused.

3:33 PM | e-mail |

Learned today: I share my birthday with Tom Ewing of New York London Paris Munich. Rock. I disagree with him more often than not, but he's still a good read.

Just got the divine MP3-playlist transition of Marilyn Manson's "Disposable Teens" into N'Sync's "Bye Bye Bye." Sheer genius, I'm telling you...

12:20 AM | e-mail |

Saturday, March 03, 2001

Remember The Crystal Method? I didn't really think so. But boy, that version of "Trip Like I Do" that they did with Filter kind of rocked, didn't it? Anyway, they're apparently putting out a new album this summer, with a very stupid title -- Tweekend. I am told you can preview it at their website. I haven't yet, but I definitely will. Been too busy listening to the new Nick Cave album over and over again. I object to filesharing, but damn I can't stop... I'll be buying the thing anyway without a doubt, so I feel less guilt.

And Reba was surprisingly decent, by the way -- it's a great character for her. Hardly a life-changing theatre experience by any stretch, but a pleasant night for something goofy, I suppose.

12:07 AM | e-mail |

Friday, March 02, 2001

We are most definitely amused. This pleases us.

(via notsosoft)

We're going to see Annie Get Your Gun (Comic Sans font! DAMN IT!) tonight. Starring Reba McEntire. The things we will do for our mother and sister... wish us luck and pray for our ability to tolerate country-inflected Broadway hilarity. *Sigh*

1:08 PM | e-mail |

Thursday, March 01, 2001

Peter's Evil Overlord List: A list of the stupid things Peter would NOT do upon becoming an evil overlord. I am so printing this out and taping it up next to my master plan.

"42. When I capture the hero, I will make sure I also get his dog, monkey, ferret, or whatever sickeningly cute little animal capable of untying ropes and filching keys happens to follow him around."

"58. If it becomes necessary to escape, I will never stop to pose dramatically and toss off a one-liner."

(Thank you Cameron)

10:41 PM | e-mail |

All I can say is: It's March. Thank God. February was just not a pleasant time. I'd rhapsodize about it, but I seem to have slipped out of the funk I was in that would've made writing about it interesting, so you're just going to have to know that I was all depressed-like the last couple days. But now I'm mindlessly happy again. Ta.

6:12 PM | e-mail |

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