Monday, July 31, 2006
A Wet, Drunk, Loud Weekend with Old Friends and Fucked-up Faces...
What a fun weekend! On Friday, Cormac, Jon and I went to Cakeshop to see Hightower. Jake and Shane from Hightower are Jake and Shane from Jiker, who are also skating buddies of mine
from when I was like 14. I still get on a skateboard every once in awhile, but I never do anything really daring. These guys STILL skate actively and use it as inspiration for their band. They seem to have not changed from the time that I first met them, which made me feel envious. I feel like I'm getting older and less rocking. And all the time I sense reality tugging at me to grow up, take my job seriously, find a wife and have kids, get a house, etc. These guys never did that shit, never seem to even have had any hang-ups over it. They just did it without question and without reluctance. I admire them and am terribly JEALOUS. It was a very excellent show, but I went home a little depressed.
The next day was the Dream Decievers viewing event at my apartment, which meant I had to CLEAN and think about how much I HATE cleaning. But the event was lots of fun. A
comfortable number of people arrived. My friend Jess came, who I go WAY back with. Plus Ms. Mew, Gingerbird, Matt and Cormac. The movie was a little too depressing to base a party around, so afterward Geoff took us to a friends house with a pool and we totally crashed this pool party. Present at this party were members of 914 bands The Vibration and Blue Velvet. They're all rock stars, but they're very nice! The gentleman who owned the pool was named...Brian? Sorry, I was a little drunk. Anyway, thank you for your hospitality and you are welcome in my home any time.
The next day, me, Cormac and Jess pretended we were Holly and slept inside all day. Here's an actual conversation...
Don: We to go out to this nice park I know, if you want.
Cormac: Can we watch that zombie movie?
The zombie movie he was talking about isn't a movie, really. It was Joe Dante's Homecoming from the Masters of Horror series. This movie wasn't very scary, but it was VERY cheesy. The plot is that the war dead from a war much like the Iraq war come back as zombies to vote against the current president, who is a republican and sounds just like Bush when you hear him in the film. In it there is a character who is exactly like Ann Coulter and another character just like Cindy Sheehan. It's not a very good movie, but I like the idea.
Anyway, more pics from the weekend at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sardonic/
from when I was like 14. I still get on a skateboard every once in awhile, but I never do anything really daring. These guys STILL skate actively and use it as inspiration for their band. They seem to have not changed from the time that I first met them, which made me feel envious. I feel like I'm getting older and less rocking. And all the time I sense reality tugging at me to grow up, take my job seriously, find a wife and have kids, get a house, etc. These guys never did that shit, never seem to even have had any hang-ups over it. They just did it without question and without reluctance. I admire them and am terribly JEALOUS. It was a very excellent show, but I went home a little depressed.The next day was the Dream Decievers viewing event at my apartment, which meant I had to CLEAN and think about how much I HATE cleaning. But the event was lots of fun. A
comfortable number of people arrived. My friend Jess came, who I go WAY back with. Plus Ms. Mew, Gingerbird, Matt and Cormac. The movie was a little too depressing to base a party around, so afterward Geoff took us to a friends house with a pool and we totally crashed this pool party. Present at this party were members of 914 bands The Vibration and Blue Velvet. They're all rock stars, but they're very nice! The gentleman who owned the pool was named...Brian? Sorry, I was a little drunk. Anyway, thank you for your hospitality and you are welcome in my home any time.The next day, me, Cormac and Jess pretended we were Holly and slept inside all day. Here's an actual conversation...
Don: We to go out to this nice park I know, if you want.
Cormac: Can we watch that zombie movie?
The zombie movie he was talking about isn't a movie, really. It was Joe Dante's Homecoming from the Masters of Horror series. This movie wasn't very scary, but it was VERY cheesy. The plot is that the war dead from a war much like the Iraq war come back as zombies to vote against the current president, who is a republican and sounds just like Bush when you hear him in the film. In it there is a character who is exactly like Ann Coulter and another character just like Cindy Sheehan. It's not a very good movie, but I like the idea.
Anyway, more pics from the weekend at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sardonic/
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Upcoming Shows...
Here's a picture of Holly eating my new MP3 player. This is to show scale for how small it is. It's roughly the size of a mouse. I put off buying one for a long time
. I'm not real good with techy things. They ask too many questions. This thing in particular has been relatively easy, but I'm still bewildered. For some reason my computer tells me it's copying files to the device, but then I turn the device on and only a fraction of what I transferred is actually there. The names of the songs are on the device, but when I click play it says "NO FILE".
This is what gets me about this stuff. I feel like it doesn't make my life easier, just more frustrating. Of course, I also haven't read the hefty instruction manual or installed the software that came with the device. Too lazy. Don't they have some sort of computer that does that for me?
Yesterday, I let Holly out so she could sniff stuff and eat grass, but kept a pretty keen eye on her as always. I stepped inside for a moment and came back out to see Holly on the sidewalk in front of our house and two twenty-something black ladies walking toward her. I watched from a distance and sipped my coffee. The ladies didn't see Holly until she was about 3 feet away from them, but when they did they stopped with a gasp. "You must NEVER cross paths with a black cat!" one of them said in West Indian accent. Then the two of them stepped into the street around Holly and continued on.
Okay, first of all, Holly is a tuxedo cat! Which makes her half-black and half-white. Plus, she wears white socks!! And if you look closely, she's not even black - she's dark brown! I've got no time for discriminatory superstitions!!
This summer's been nice, but September's shows in NYC are good enough to make me want summer to be over! Not really. Well, after the beaching and the camping and the sweating are all done, it will be nice to see some good rock. So lets talk about it!
Shellac at Northsix, 9/2
Steve Albini is quite possibly the greatest musician and sound-engineer that ever lived. Tell you what, if he was a preacher, he'd save a million souls. Even you!
Mastodon at Webster Hall, 9/8
Drummer Brann Drailor can best be described as "inhuman" and this show is only $15 - probably the cheapest you'll ever get to see them before we start hearing "Blood & Thunder" in a Cadillac commercial. Plus, it's drum-king Jon Gill's birthday and this is where he'll be partying!
Boris at Northsix, 9/11
What better way to honor our nation's greatest tragedy in NYC then with a balls-out Japanese metal band? Plus a guitar player I have a total crush on. Sorry Ted Nugent.
Nomeansno at Northsix, 9/28
YESSSS!! I've been waiting years for these old bastards to come around! HOLY FUCK they are going to rock you to pieces! Hipsters better wear helmets.
Finally, good people, religious people, whatever...please address your prayers and/or good feelings to my friend and best boss I ever had, Ann, who's husband died last week. It's a terrible tragedy, my hopes and prayers are with her.
. I'm not real good with techy things. They ask too many questions. This thing in particular has been relatively easy, but I'm still bewildered. For some reason my computer tells me it's copying files to the device, but then I turn the device on and only a fraction of what I transferred is actually there. The names of the songs are on the device, but when I click play it says "NO FILE".This is what gets me about this stuff. I feel like it doesn't make my life easier, just more frustrating. Of course, I also haven't read the hefty instruction manual or installed the software that came with the device. Too lazy. Don't they have some sort of computer that does that for me?
Yesterday, I let Holly out so she could sniff stuff and eat grass, but kept a pretty keen eye on her as always. I stepped inside for a moment and came back out to see Holly on the sidewalk in front of our house and two twenty-something black ladies walking toward her. I watched from a distance and sipped my coffee. The ladies didn't see Holly until she was about 3 feet away from them, but when they did they stopped with a gasp. "You must NEVER cross paths with a black cat!" one of them said in West Indian accent. Then the two of them stepped into the street around Holly and continued on.
Okay, first of all, Holly is a tuxedo cat! Which makes her half-black and half-white. Plus, she wears white socks!! And if you look closely, she's not even black - she's dark brown! I've got no time for discriminatory superstitions!!
This summer's been nice, but September's shows in NYC are good enough to make me want summer to be over! Not really. Well, after the beaching and the camping and the sweating are all done, it will be nice to see some good rock. So lets talk about it!Shellac at Northsix, 9/2
Steve Albini is quite possibly the greatest musician and sound-engineer that ever lived. Tell you what, if he was a preacher, he'd save a million souls. Even you!
Mastodon at Webster Hall, 9/8
Drummer Brann Drailor can best be described as "inhuman" and this show is only $15 - probably the cheapest you'll ever get to see them before we start hearing "Blood & Thunder" in a Cadillac commercial. Plus, it's drum-king Jon Gill's birthday and this is where he'll be partying!
Boris at Northsix, 9/11
What better way to honor our nation's greatest tragedy in NYC then with a balls-out Japanese metal band? Plus a guitar player I have a total crush on. Sorry Ted Nugent.
Nomeansno at Northsix, 9/28
YESSSS!! I've been waiting years for these old bastards to come around! HOLY FUCK they are going to rock you to pieces! Hipsters better wear helmets.
Finally, good people, religious people, whatever...please address your prayers and/or good feelings to my friend and best boss I ever had, Ann, who's husband died last week. It's a terrible tragedy, my hopes and prayers are with her.
This Saturday, July 29 Dream Deceivers Viewing in Mount Vernon!
It's been a long time coming, but it seems like this weekend finally seems like a good time to view Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest ( 1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104140/ at my apatment in Mount Vernon. Cormac taped the film origially and it's currently a very rare find. This is a very interesting documentary where Christianity confronts the idea of subliminal messages in heavy metal music, the subject is dealt with legally, and the band Judas Priest is put on trial. It is at times hilarious and extremely disturbing.
In addition to Dream Deceivers, we will also be viewing Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322526/ and other docu-shorts regarding heavy metal. There will also be heavy metal music from my extensive library, beer, wine, snacks and whatever you bring. And don't feel obligated to watch the films - come hang out, drink with friends, etc. I hope to see you!
Umm...I'm mainly intending for this to be seen by people that I know. But if I don't know you and you feel like watching a creepy documentary with strangers, then comment on this blog and we'll talk about it.
Saturday, July 29th
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Ressurected
Okay, first things first: Ken Lay is NOT dead. This is a no-brainer. Again, I'm only a junior detective. But in this day and age, how many 64 year-old billionaires die of heart disease? Let's also consider that he's capable of bribing numerous coroners with more $ than most of us will ever see and still have enough to live out the rest of his life quite comfortably, somewhere sunny and without an extradition treaty to the U.S. And let's consider again that a coroner's job is to 
look at dead bodies all day for not as much $. And that NOBODY has better means or motive for faking his own death. With contacts all over the world, some of whom have yet evaded prosecution in the Enron scandal. Let's also consider that we know that this man has no scruples and has shown that he is interested only in the preservation and enhancement of his own wealth. So I don't buy it for a second. I really hope someone is looking into this.
I've been busy at work so I haven't felt much like being bloggy lately. At my job I spend a lot of time putting together not-very-exciting language to describe people who aren't very exciting (except that they have $). Basically, it's the kind of writing that makes me feel like not writing at all. So lately it's been lots of TV, video games and heavy metal listening (Lately!)
Otherwise, I've immersing myself in the current pop-culture. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It was very good, but very LONG. And SPOILER, like all second films of a trilogy, a much liked character is killed, assuring attendence at Part 3. "Will they bring him back?" I wonder.
I refer to this as Mr. Spock treatment because in the Star Trek movies Mr. Spock is killed in part 2 and ressurrected in part 3. The same happens with Jean Grey in the recent X-men films, Star Wars (Han Solo doesn't "die" really, but his mortality is definitely in question at the end of Empire), The Terminator (okay, a little different, but still...), the Matrix, I think they do some shit like that, I don't know...
Oh yeah! Also in the Bible. Jesus dies in part two, but (and this just for people who haven't seen the movie. SPOILER), something tells me that's not the last we hear of him (Revenge of the Jesusith).
Generally, ressurection is the theme here today. Be it faking your own death, Hollywood magic, or a widely held spiritual belief. Not much difference in those things, if you think about it...hmmm...
Anyways, this is what we've been up to lately. Being lazy at home. Too hot to work on the blog. Holly likes her boxes and plastic bags (good thing I keep those around!) Lots of TV - which SUCKS during summer, in case anyone hasn't noticed. Talk about needing a ressurrection!
I guess I'm supposed to be outside doing something. I've done a little of that. Hit some golf balls last weekend, went to Water Taxi Beach and visited a nice park on the Long Island Sound. But outside's not all it's cracked up to be. It's been HOT and the sun is not very healthy. So fuck that shit! Holly says, "The best way to beat the heat is to lay in a bed of plastic shopping bags. And - this is critical - don't get up, sleep a lot, and move as little as possible."
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look at dead bodies all day for not as much $. And that NOBODY has better means or motive for faking his own death. With contacts all over the world, some of whom have yet evaded prosecution in the Enron scandal. Let's also consider that we know that this man has no scruples and has shown that he is interested only in the preservation and enhancement of his own wealth. So I don't buy it for a second. I really hope someone is looking into this.I've been busy at work so I haven't felt much like being bloggy lately. At my job I spend a lot of time putting together not-very-exciting language to describe people who aren't very exciting (except that they have $). Basically, it's the kind of writing that makes me feel like not writing at all. So lately it's been lots of TV, video games and heavy metal listening (Lately!)
Otherwise, I've immersing myself in the current pop-culture. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It was very good, but very LONG. And SPOILER, like all second films of a trilogy, a much liked character is killed, assuring attendence at Part 3. "Will they bring him back?" I wonder.
I refer to this as Mr. Spock treatment because in the Star Trek movies Mr. Spock is killed in part 2 and ressurrected in part 3. The same happens with Jean Grey in the recent X-men films, Star Wars (Han Solo doesn't "die" really, but his mortality is definitely in question at the end of Empire), The Terminator (okay, a little different, but still...), the Matrix, I think they do some shit like that, I don't know...
Oh yeah! Also in the Bible. Jesus dies in part two, but (and this just for people who haven't seen the movie. SPOILER), something tells me that's not the last we hear of him (Revenge of the Jesusith).
Generally, ressurection is the theme here today. Be it faking your own death, Hollywood magic, or a widely held spiritual belief. Not much difference in those things, if you think about it...hmmm...
Anyways, this is what we've been up to lately. Being lazy at home. Too hot to work on the blog. Holly likes her boxes and plastic bags (good thing I keep those around!) Lots of TV - which SUCKS during summer, in case anyone hasn't noticed. Talk about needing a ressurrection!I guess I'm supposed to be outside doing something. I've done a little of that. Hit some golf balls last weekend, went to Water Taxi Beach and visited a nice park on the Long Island Sound. But outside's not all it's cracked up to be. It's been HOT and the sun is not very healthy. So fuck that shit! Holly says, "The best way to beat the heat is to lay in a bed of plastic shopping bags. And - this is critical - don't get up, sleep a lot, and move as little as possible."