New Category: Words (In Print) I Hate

Posted on May 31, 2005 - Filed Under

Charter Member: "Natch"Maybe because I’d read it before I heard it. Or maybe it is too much like ’snatch’. IRREGARDLESS, a Word (In Print) I Hate.As you were.

New Pornographers Fix

Posted on May 29, 2005 - Filed Under

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While you wait for their upcoming album, feed your New Pornographer cravings with this video of Your Daddy Don’t Know - apparently a cover of a song originally by some 80’s band, Toronto. [via Chromewaves]

On a side note, I declare BMK: “Post-Blog”

Posted on May 26, 2005 - Filed Under

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The Telegraph asks, whatever happened to subversive pop?
What on earth was Green of Scritti Politti doing trying to get
post-structuralism-influenced songs into the charts? People like him
shouldn’t have been pop stars, but they had incredible ambition,
sky’s-the-limit aspirations. Underneath it all, there was a core of
seriousness, so much so that they risked looking ludicrous. I admire
the strenuousness [...]

I’m a Mestizo Indian. Is there a video for me?

Posted on May 26, 2005 - Filed Under

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"If you are in a Tejano quartet and all four of you start taking mescaline (and
if all the kids who come to your shows drop acid in the parking lot before
entering the venue), you now play â€œpsych Tejano.â€ Thatâ€™s the whole equation."

Fathers And Crows: pp. 1-106

Posted on May 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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Some of my reactions, thoughts & reactions upon reading pages 1-106 of William T. Vollmann’s Fathers and Crows - because I’m either too lazy/forgetful to document them all.

Bitchslap rappin & cocaine tongue

Posted on May 25, 2005 - Filed Under

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I’ll show YOU the Longest Yard (with VIDEO!)

I’d Be Happy With Reliable MUNI Service

Posted on May 24, 2005 - Filed Under

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"That puts hopeful wormhole travellers between a rock and a hard place, forcing them to choose between reliability and (relative) safety for their mode of transportation, says Hsu. But the newly discovered instability actually has positive implications for the fate of the universe." Which is nice.

Terrorists might fill Wall Street with jello

Posted on May 23, 2005 - Filed Under

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Not quite reductio ad absurdum, but no more than two degrees removed. This man’s collection of all the ways the terrorists could get us is, for whatever reason, oddly reassuring.

Music To My Ears

Posted on May 20, 2005 - Filed Under

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1. The person (or persons) who passed the baton to you.Jeff at Syntax of Things - no doubt drowning the sorrow of a Braves sweep in the sweet, sweet elixir of music and internetting.2. Total volume of music files on your computer.Hmmm… my files are scattered to and fro, but I would guesstimate a couple [...]

We May Be Listening To The Greatest Simon Says Player of All Time

Posted on May 20, 2005 - Filed Under

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"We cannot confirm whether it is or it isn’t happening until Bob Geldof announces whether it is or it isn’t happening." - Bernard Doherty on whether Super-Secret Live8 (to coincide with the G8 summit) will or will not take place.

Those Crazy Californians

Posted on May 17, 2005 - Filed Under

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It appears that the name "Mt. Diablo" was too much for one Golden Stater to bear, and is petitioning the federal government to rename the pile of dirt and rock: "The devil does nothing but rob, cheat, steal and kill. That is his nature. I’ve known about this for years, but I’ve now decided it [...]

Here Goes Nothing

Posted on May 17, 2005 - Filed Under

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For whatever reason*, Ed has decided to invite me to join his on-line William T. Vollmann (hereafter WTV) "In The Flesh" reading group - I’ll call this affair "Voll-Tron". I wonder if this isn’t how David Letterman’s mom felt covering the Winter Olympics. I’m happy to included; not sure why; but will give it my [...]

Roxie Goin’ Away

Posted on May 16, 2005 - Filed Under

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It looks like a great movie theater, the Mission’s Roxie, may not be around much longer, due to $$$ problems:
The warm, funky theater at 16th Street near Valencia, which Banning began programming in ‘84, has screened everything from John Waters’ "Pink Flamingos” to Luis Bunuel’s "L’Age d’Or,” the films of Billy Wilder, Werner Herzog and [...]

Don’t mess with Texas

Posted on May 16, 2005 - Filed Under

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So new developments on the legal horizon, it looks like someone is finally calling George Bush’s bullshit. Bush has been sued in federal court in order to prevent "seven last plagues from coming, which includes the Battle of Armageddon." Among other things, the plaintiff is demanding over $50 million, two giant pearls, a Stradivarius violin [...]

Emo: the New Structuralism?

Posted on May 14, 2005 - Filed Under

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While doing a little noodling around on Italo Calvino I came across this nugget on Wikipedia: "The definition of ’structuralism’ also shifted as a result of its popularity. As its popularity as a movement waxed and waned, some authors considered themselves ’structuralists’ only to later eschew the label."

7th Rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to

Posted on May 13, 2005 - Filed Under

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Counting Crows never wins.

From Vonnegut with Love, part 2

Posted on May 12, 2005 - Filed Under

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His inimitable style holds true to form in a poem published this week in the New Yorker.

Happy Baby or Road House?

Posted on May 12, 2005 - Filed Under

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OR
Consider this a low-to-middle brow rip off of the Guardian’s various quizes. Can you name the source of each quote? It will either be from Stephen Elliott’s novel Happy Baby or the Patrick Swayze vehicle Road House. If you aren’t familiar with both, then frankly I question your loyalty. And now the quotes! [...]

From Vonnegut, with love

Posted on May 11, 2005 - Filed Under

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Via Huffington:
Dearest Iraq: Act like me. After 100 years of democracy, let your slaves go. After 150, let your women vote. At the start of democracy, ethnic cleansing is quite OK. Love you madly! Uncle Sam