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05 July 2009 @ 01:00 am
- 06:10:10: @MCBrennan !!!
- 06:10:42: @VoVat A lot of times, that seems to be the case.
- 06:11:14: @limnrix It is SO good. SO good. so GOOD.
- 06:12:34: ALSO! HAPPY FOURTH.
- 08:17:12: @limnrix I am probably doing nothing! RIght now I'm listening to Belle & Sebastian like a sad boy!
- 09:15:44: @BoringPostcards But, really, it IS a splendid table.
- 15:30:57: @VoVat I don't think I've ever HAD a fig. But I too love Fig Newtons.
- 15:58:15: Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: Belle and Sebastian - 28. Eels - 21. They Might Be Giants - 17. http://bit.ly/yCnhE
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04 July 2009 @ 04:31 pm
I have done THINGS. Kinda. So yay!
On Thursday, Julie and Ben and I went to the SAM -- Target Practice just opened, and we all really really wanted to see it -- so we did. It was particularly good as the first Thursday of the month is free, so, there you go! I REALLY recommend going to that exhibit, even if you have to pay. Which you probably would, since it's no longer that first Thursday. Really, really cool art -- a few Jasper Johns pieces, a couple of Lichtenstein (none of the pop-art comic pieces; one was a brush stroke piece (yaaaay!!!!) and one was a depiction of the backs of canvases), a couple Rauchenbergs, INCLUDING the Erased DeKooning Drawing (!!!!!), and and and a couple Yoko Ono pieces! Super super cool. I hammered a nail. Some really cool pieces by folks I didn't know, including some film work, including one by someone I forget the name of of a room being painted time-lapse in 6 different colors. That was awesome and hypnotic.
Seriously -- if you are in Seattle (or if it's a touring show, I don't know) -- you totally should see it. It's the kind of art that's totally up my alley, or at least one of the kinds of art, as I'm not really a one-type-of-art person. They also had one of the Warhol Piss Paintings, which was surprisingly beautiful with the way the acids ate the copper. Neato.
And on Friday, Ben and I were gonna see the Evangelion 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE at the Grand Illusion (which I've seen before, it's awesome), but it didn't work. Since I had the day off, I finally watched stuff in the Netflix pile -- Me You And Everyone We Know and PRAY TV. I... did not care for the former. (or the latter, really, but the former was more surprising.) I'd heard Aila mention that people'd compared it to Solondz (which, IIRC, she was all "Yeah, um, kinda? Not really, but kinda?" about), and yeah that sounds about right. It's kinda like Solondz if he didn't write about people with real problems. The dude in the film -- Richard? -- was such a colossal douche in ways I don't think were intended, and um, Miranda July was total MPDG, which... errgh. Does that ever really work? I guess if you count Maude in Harold & Maude. But yeah -- one of those things where what she's doing is basically stalking but since she's a MPDG, she's OK. Except that instead of being a Nebbishy Nothing like most of the male leads in MPDG pictures, the dude was actively a creep. It WAS however, very, VERY pretty -- the photography WAS gorgeous; and the film was compelling enough for me to not turn it off. (Though it was one of those weird situations where I kept thinking "God, do I really wanna watch the rest of this? Eh, I should turn this off..." and never did. Perhaps it was because of the prettiness or because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, or maybe to find out who the ))<>(( lady would turn out to be, but... eh.) I am glad that after like 4 years and having lost the copy Aila burned for me a while ago and having the damn thing on my table for like 6 months I finally got around to watching it.
PRAY TV, though -- at least I KNEW that was gonna be crap going in. I mainly Netflixed it because DEVO (as DOVE, the band of Love) is in it. And they were just in the end, in DOVE gear, miming (kinda poorly, which was a recurring theme -- people miming poorly to music... only Dr. John didn't mime poorly) to the Q: recording of "Shrivel Up". Which seemed like an odd choice? But it did have Paul Reubens in, and Dr. John, too. So that was kinda cool. Basic plot -- as Ben ended up putting it when I told him about it -- is that it's UHF with the "station becoming awesome" plot, only with the "awesome" swapped out for "religious". One of those films that wanted to be a sketch film, but then figured they should have a story as well... but they don't want to take time away from the sketches, so you get people going "YOU HAVE CHANGED, CHARACTER 1!!" when they haven't really just because they've had maybe 5 minutes of screen time, so we barely know what they're supposed to have changed from, but they don't seem that different anyway. And the ending doesn't quite work, but oh well! It was also weird -- an actress was basically doing a Poor Man's Andrea Martin... and in the credits it was Marcia Wallace! Which is weird, because she's usually really awesome. Oh well. It probably would have also worked better had they toned down the mugging and hamming a bit.
So, yay! Now I am at my parents' and we had chinese food. Hooray!
On Thursday, Julie and Ben and I went to the SAM -- Target Practice just opened, and we all really really wanted to see it -- so we did. It was particularly good as the first Thursday of the month is free, so, there you go! I REALLY recommend going to that exhibit, even if you have to pay. Which you probably would, since it's no longer that first Thursday. Really, really cool art -- a few Jasper Johns pieces, a couple of Lichtenstein (none of the pop-art comic pieces; one was a brush stroke piece (yaaaay!!!!) and one was a depiction of the backs of canvases), a couple Rauchenbergs, INCLUDING the Erased DeKooning Drawing (!!!!!), and and and a couple Yoko Ono pieces! Super super cool. I hammered a nail. Some really cool pieces by folks I didn't know, including some film work, including one by someone I forget the name of of a room being painted time-lapse in 6 different colors. That was awesome and hypnotic.
Seriously -- if you are in Seattle (or if it's a touring show, I don't know) -- you totally should see it. It's the kind of art that's totally up my alley, or at least one of the kinds of art, as I'm not really a one-type-of-art person. They also had one of the Warhol Piss Paintings, which was surprisingly beautiful with the way the acids ate the copper. Neato.
And on Friday, Ben and I were gonna see the Evangelion 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE at the Grand Illusion (which I've seen before, it's awesome), but it didn't work. Since I had the day off, I finally watched stuff in the Netflix pile -- Me You And Everyone We Know and PRAY TV. I... did not care for the former. (or the latter, really, but the former was more surprising.) I'd heard Aila mention that people'd compared it to Solondz (which, IIRC, she was all "Yeah, um, kinda? Not really, but kinda?" about), and yeah that sounds about right. It's kinda like Solondz if he didn't write about people with real problems. The dude in the film -- Richard? -- was such a colossal douche in ways I don't think were intended, and um, Miranda July was total MPDG, which... errgh. Does that ever really work? I guess if you count Maude in Harold & Maude. But yeah -- one of those things where what she's doing is basically stalking but since she's a MPDG, she's OK. Except that instead of being a Nebbishy Nothing like most of the male leads in MPDG pictures, the dude was actively a creep. It WAS however, very, VERY pretty -- the photography WAS gorgeous; and the film was compelling enough for me to not turn it off. (Though it was one of those weird situations where I kept thinking "God, do I really wanna watch the rest of this? Eh, I should turn this off..." and never did. Perhaps it was because of the prettiness or because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, or maybe to find out who the ))<>(( lady would turn out to be, but... eh.) I am glad that after like 4 years and having lost the copy Aila burned for me a while ago and having the damn thing on my table for like 6 months I finally got around to watching it.
PRAY TV, though -- at least I KNEW that was gonna be crap going in. I mainly Netflixed it because DEVO (as DOVE, the band of Love) is in it. And they were just in the end, in DOVE gear, miming (kinda poorly, which was a recurring theme -- people miming poorly to music... only Dr. John didn't mime poorly) to the Q: recording of "Shrivel Up". Which seemed like an odd choice? But it did have Paul Reubens in, and Dr. John, too. So that was kinda cool. Basic plot -- as Ben ended up putting it when I told him about it -- is that it's UHF with the "station becoming awesome" plot, only with the "awesome" swapped out for "religious". One of those films that wanted to be a sketch film, but then figured they should have a story as well... but they don't want to take time away from the sketches, so you get people going "YOU HAVE CHANGED, CHARACTER 1!!" when they haven't really just because they've had maybe 5 minutes of screen time, so we barely know what they're supposed to have changed from, but they don't seem that different anyway. And the ending doesn't quite work, but oh well! It was also weird -- an actress was basically doing a Poor Man's Andrea Martin... and in the credits it was Marcia Wallace! Which is weird, because she's usually really awesome. Oh well. It probably would have also worked better had they toned down the mugging and hamming a bit.
So, yay! Now I am at my parents' and we had chinese food. Hooray!
04 July 2009 @ 02:00 am
- 07:57:45: is FINALLY listening to _Everything That Happens Will Happen Today_ despite having it forever. I think I was intimidated by the awesome tin.
- 10:39:52: FINALLY saw _Me You & Everyone We Know_. Iz not so grate aktully.
- 11:32:40: OH MY GOD. CHANNEL NINE JUST CANCELLED MISTER ROGERS ON WEEKDAYS. HE'S ONLY ON 9AM ON SATURDAYS NOW. BOO TO THIS.
- 11:35:49: Contact KCTS9 about the cancellation of Mister Rogers on the Weekday Schedule here: http://www.kcts9.org/about/contact
- 12:20:48: @limnrix Y'know? I'm fine with that.(actually that was one of the bits I kind of liked, how the ))<>(( symbol made it on the art show sign.)
- 12:46:17: Just posted! Nathan DeHoff's review of the recent Steve Wynn show in NYC! http://ping.fm/FIoR3
- 18:35:22: Put in _Pray TV_ an hour and half ago because his Internet was down -- as soon as the film started, the connection came back. Mwomp mwomp!
- 18:54:10: waiting for Jack Van Impe. The preachers before kept saying "PISSING THROUGH DARKNESS!!" It took a beat to realize it was "PIERCING".
- 18:55:56: Now the preachers are going "TOUCH US JESUS! NOW GOD NOW GOD NOW NOW TOUCH US NOW GOD TOUCH US NOW NOW NOW GOD NOW TOUCH US NOW GOD NOW GOD"
- 18:56:21: Now he just started saying "touch it now, god".
- 19:02:16: @oddharmonic It was pretty hilarious, just because I was kinda... like "wait, what?!" It honestly took me a while to figure out what it WAS
- 19:08:12: ...the spirit of god came on Jack Van Impe, when telling him about how the Bilderberg Group are working with the European Union.
- 19:08:47: @oddharmonic Have you heard Jack Van Impe? He and his creepy wife Rexilla (for REALS) are basically a cuisinart of conspiracy theories.
- 19:12:57: @oddharmonic AWESOME, he's on TBN too? I'm watching him on Daystar now. I wonder if it's the same episode, or if it's a second show?
- 19:19:29: @oddharmonic Oh, dang -- I didn't know it was a podcast, too! That's awesome!
- 19:24:06: @oddharmonic Well, just point 'em to Van Impe (and Rexella!) and they'll understand. DAMN BILDERBURG GROUP and their friends at the EU!
- 22:17:58: @jdcrowley YOU WOULD.
I don't know, it just... it was very pretty, but I think I've discovered I don't like that entire genre. - 22:35:19: @BoringPostcards FUCK! I forgot that came out!! I LOVE the EELS. Have you read E's book?
- 22:51:16: @BoringPostcards Book's REAL good. It's his memoir. He's, unsurprisingly, a good writer. If you also get a chance, check the doc on E's dad.
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29 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 14:23 Awww... The baby crows have left the nest. They're fledglings now, crowin' it up elsewhere... #
- 15:37 @joshofarc They're off to crow-school now, to learn how to crow. #
28 June 2009 @ 08:03 pm
- 23:33 Dale and I just watched _Taking Of Pelham One Two Three_ (the real one, not the shitty-ass remake). It was AWEX0ME. A+++ WILL WATCH AGAIN. #
- 10:14 @BoringPostcards I'd maybe suggest if you wanted to do a pride-type article for KS, but going to a festival is WAY more fun..8) #
- 11:10 OK, I'm dumb. In @amandapalmer's "Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner" what's the reference to "there were matchsticks in my pants" mean? #
- 11:34 @BoringPostcards Why's Atlantapride so late?(hopefully that's not an embarassing question; I'm not full up on my gay history as I should be) #
- 11:34 @BoringPostcards (BTW: It looks like next weekend is Suspiria weekend! My parents wanna watch it too.) #
- 11:35 I don't like pimps none, but the riff to "Willie the Pimp" is AWESOME. #
- 11:38 @BoringPostcards (I guess there's some sort of "Wrong Stonewall" joke I could make, too, but I'm not as up on my Civil War history, either.) #
- 12:06 @limnrix That's kinda what I heard/expected. But she still does records that are fuckin' awesome. #
27 June 2009 @ 08:03 pm
- 10:00 @BoringPostcards Bobtopus is gone! Noooooooo #
- 13:36 @BoringPostcards Aww, you found the one way to make kitties more adorable! Making them octopuses! #
- 16:01 Top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: They Might Be Giants - 15. Don Ellis - 15. Concrete Blonde - 13. bit.ly/yCnhE #
26 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 20:51 @MCBrennan Once they die, though, someone better make a Taco Taco. #
- 20:52 @jdcrowley you jerk, I actually fell for that one! #
- 05:57 @MCBrennan I couldn't remember! I thought it was two guys, not just the one guy. But still. But now I want some Ham Ham. #
- 17:52 Huh, that was interesting. In an Orbitz ad, a guy was wearing a silence=death "=" sign button on his polo shirt. Nothing was made of it. #
- 18:18 @douggpound I'm glad T&E are doing a screening of True Stories. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, too. #
26 June 2009 @ 07:53 am
I came in this morning, and they were being taught how to fly by their mommy! It was adorable. Only two were in the nest, so I think one might be in the living-on-the-ground-for-a-couple-days stage, because otherwise I can’t see him flying so far away that I wouldn’t see him. But the mommy was on one branch and would kinda flap a little bit, then she jumped to a nearby branch, and flapped a bit more. One baby was screaming at her, presumably on a “No, I don’ wanna! Billy just fell!” type of thing, but then she flew across the street to a telephone wire, to watch. And the babies were kinda flapping, looking uncertain, but still it looks like only the one was brave enough to try, as he wasn’t there. So, yeah!
They’re still pretty fluffy, but much more crow-like now. I’m not QUITE sure if they’ve hit the fledgling stage or not – if they have, they’re JUST, and if not, they’re on the cusp. Either way, though, they are so cute. I’m proud of that one for trying at least! He’s a good crow. They all are, really. I love them!
They’re still pretty fluffy, but much more crow-like now. I’m not QUITE sure if they’ve hit the fledgling stage or not – if they have, they’re JUST, and if not, they’re on the cusp. Either way, though, they are so cute. I’m proud of that one for trying at least! He’s a good crow. They all are, really. I love them!
25 June 2009 @ 08:06 pm
- 06:24 I'm still workin' on today's post -- it's gonna be the finale of Gravity's Rainbow, or at least for me! #
- 06:25 (and, Dave -- I promise to have the article I promised you last week to you pretty soon!) #
- 06:25 (in the meantime, if anyone else wants to post a wrap-up or somethin' on GR, like Ben or Dave, that'd be rad.) #
- 19:21 Finally posted! Matt's last piece on Gravity's Rainbow! ping.fm/KIUTG #
25 June 2009 @ 02:21 pm
ME: Hey, you're done that George Michael kid!
MC: (Awkwardly.) Uh, yes, I am. Kinda. My real name's Michael Cera.
ME: Yeah! George Michael Cera! How's it goin' George Michael?
MC: (Awkwardly.) Uh, it's goin' pretty good, I guess, yeah.
ME: YEAH! I remember when you done jerked off in the gas station an' got busted!
MC: (Awkwardly.) Um, that wasn't me.
ME: Yeah, I know, I wouldn't be coppin' to it either if I was you. Gas stations ain't sexy. Ain't sexy at ALL. Now Pee-Wee, he got busted jerkin' in a porno! That makes sense! Damn, Pee Wee totally got railroaded. You... eeeehhhhh. (Makes "kinda-sorta-not-really" hand gesture)
MC: (Awkwardly.) Um, yes, well, um, I should really be goin'.
ME: Yeah, OK, I'll see you later.
MC: (Awkwardly turns to leave then looks back over his shoulder unsure if he should say goodbye or not.)
ME: Better watch yer pecker, though!
MC: (Awkwardly.) ....thanks.
MC: (Awkwardly.) Uh, yes, I am. Kinda. My real name's Michael Cera.
ME: Yeah! George Michael Cera! How's it goin' George Michael?
MC: (Awkwardly.) Uh, it's goin' pretty good, I guess, yeah.
ME: YEAH! I remember when you done jerked off in the gas station an' got busted!
MC: (Awkwardly.) Um, that wasn't me.
ME: Yeah, I know, I wouldn't be coppin' to it either if I was you. Gas stations ain't sexy. Ain't sexy at ALL. Now Pee-Wee, he got busted jerkin' in a porno! That makes sense! Damn, Pee Wee totally got railroaded. You... eeeehhhhh. (Makes "kinda-sorta-not-really" hand gesture)
MC: (Awkwardly.) Um, yes, well, um, I should really be goin'.
ME: Yeah, OK, I'll see you later.
MC: (Awkwardly turns to leave then looks back over his shoulder unsure if he should say goodbye or not.)
ME: Better watch yer pecker, though!
MC: (Awkwardly.) ....thanks.
24 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 06:40 @BoringPostcards Dang, that's a good one. Sometimes Dawkins can be a little shrill (even if I agree with him), but sometimes he's right on. #
23 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 21:20 Just posted! A review of the Light In The Attic reissue of Black Monk Time! IT'S BEAT TIME IT'S HOP TIME IT'S MONK TIME ping.f ... #
- 21:21 Oh, dang, the URL got munched. Black Monk Time Review is Here: ping.fm/6Y0qF #
- 17:05 Stupid migraine made him spend the day lying in bed, getting up, reading bits of Gravity's Rainbow (last episode!) and repeating the cycle. #
- 17:05 @MCBrennan Really -- that should have been White Chick Pees to be accurate. #
- 17:11 @MCBrennan I'm like school on Sunday. NO CLASS. And I really really really hate the BEP, also like school on Sunday. #
22 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 05:45 Just posted -- Emily C's fictional look at the Apollo 1 disaster: ping.fm/Vo94o #
21 June 2009 @ 08:03 pm
- 21:31 No, I'm not shutting up about the SCOTUS/DNA Evidence decision... ping.fm/zbYRe #
- 11:11 @BoringPostcards GAYFAIL.... 8) #
- 11:38 on coming back to his apartment, walking down the hallway, smelled an odd combination of breakfast sausage and weed. #
- 12:03 @VoVat Hm -- that could be good. I don't know how pot tastes (unless it's like it smells, ugh), but I am always a fan of sausages. #
- 12:42 yaaaay, finally got my wii to work with my new router! #
- 13:49 @BoringPostcards I concur! Someone should dig up Jove and kick his ass. #
- 13:55 Also -- if you like Folding Things with your Computer, try Folding@Home! Kittysneezes' team number is 160437. ping.fm/FPPj9 #
- 14:02 @tweeklyfm Hm -- didn't seem to want to work for me -- I tried a manual one, and it errored out... #
- 14:02 @tweeklyfm - the error is: Fatal error: Call to undefined function strtokstrtok() in /home/tweeklyf/public_html/index.php on line 225 #
- 15:05 now has a new cable modem as well! Yaaaay! #
- 15:07 @tweeklyfm Oh, dear -- I'm getting a longer error message now... access denied/link to server not established, with errors in lines 225-7. #
20 June 2009 @ 08:03 pm
- 01:57 The Young Fresh Fellows remain awesome. The Tripwires were real good too, but I knew that as well. #
- 10:23 Kittysneezes Klassiks! Keith Lawrence looks at six scenes he likes in films he's seen! ping.fm/8O0v8 #
- 10:45 had no idea Fado was a chain. #
- 14:12 If the SCOTUS decision denying DNA evidence to people convicted of crimes shocked you, check out the Innocence Project. ping.fm/rETVj #
- 14:13 Also check out the book of oral histories of exonerees, Surviving Justice by Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen ping.fm/Wfe2L #
- 18:55 I've added Tweekly.fm. Tweets weekly stats from #lastfm. tweekly.fm #
19 June 2009 @ 08:03 pm
- 21:28 Just posted! Emily C's great review of Nick Abadzis' _Laika_ about the Soviet Space Hero Dog! ping.fm/uZOAe #
- 21:59 and, KS is down right now. Dang. I'll re-post the Laika link in the morning, assuming KS is back up. (Seriously, it's a great article.) #
- 22:11 Yay! KS is back! #
- 22:32 @Strand206 The Fellows are AWESOME live. I recommend it! #
- 22:33 Anyway, now that KS is back: Emily C's great review of Nick Abadzis' _Laika_ about the Soviet Space Hero Dog! ping.fm/uZOAe #
- 16:18 @jdcrowley ....has the new season started? Or the last ep of season 3? #
- 17:35 gonna go see the Young Fresh Fellows to-nite! yaaaay! #
18 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 20:44 @ailas Baseball, boo, Baseball Project, yay! #
- 21:46 Just now posted! More Gravity's Rainbow Stuff! Up to page 500! Whoo! ping.fm/o3HhJ #
- 14:22 @jdcrowley Ok -- "Curbstomp Your Enthusiasm" is hilarious. #
- 14:23 @jfruh ...but then where will she keep her ham? #
- 19:41 @wolfsothern the Chained Heat one is AWESOME. #
- 19:54 was sad that Geen Ween was sold out, but THEN found out that the Young Fresh Fellows are playing the same night, so hooray! It worked out. #
17 June 2009 @ 08:06 pm
- 20:54 @AgentRamona To be fair, Juno did suck ass. #
- 20:54 @AgentRamona OH! Modern Lovers are AWESOME. I take back what I said. #
- 14:35 @thomasjpr I still think there should be odor-sensors at the entrances of buses and trains that, if over a certain threshold, hose you down. #
- 14:35 @sanspoint Actually, we've had a record run of no-rain. Like, 29 days? #
- 19:29 @3rdActor I like Katsu Curry! #
16 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
- 22:04 Is kinda amused that though he's So Not A Doors Fan, he really likes Weird Al's "Craigslist". #
- 22:27 Just posted! A review of Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely's new Batman & Robin #1! ping.fm/O3CoG #
- 15:26 @alexbrunelle I don't mind it, but it's really a template for far, far better versions. #
- 15:27 @sanspoint GOD DAMN STRAIGHT. I HATE stealing focus. If I wanted to look at that app, I'd LOOK AT IT. #
- 15:27 Just posted! Eric Paul Johnson's Open Letter to Sarah Palin! ping.fm/MRdrZ #
- 19:25 @AgentRamona The Bluegrass Guy? I have to say, though I'm a fan of that sorta music, TO'B just leaves me cold. #