Monsoon Wedding Um, have you seen this movie? If not, why? Wonderful. Go tonight.
Ice Cream Nation Our good pal Raq took me to go see the Gerhard Richter show at the MOMA. It was a fine time, but the kool thing was when I turned the corner and saw the fullsize painting that they used on the cover of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. Totally neat.
Monkey Vs Robot Hey, there is a new Monkey Vs. Robot video out from that song that James Kokaladoodle sings. I found out because it's going to be shown at a film festival some of my pals run. Check it
Big Baby Dude, I am such a big baby. I had to go to the doctor's office the other day, so they could take some of my valuable blood (they don't think I need it). Two weeks earlier, this lovely little woman took my blood. She was sweet and said men are always way more squeamish than women when this happens. I barely felt her doing anything. I told her that it was the best blood drawing I have ever had, and she smiled and said to her that was the best thing anyone could of said. And then we went running through a field of flowers and played with some puppies.
But today, the gruff man who is always interested in my palm pilot ("is that a Vx or a V?") took my blood, and I think he just used a soda straw and forced it into my vein - like you do with a Capri Sun Drink. Ow! I started sweating and felt kind of funny like you do. He kept saying, "are you all right?" "oh yea, just fine. But, could put my vein back into my arm when you are done?"
Then I get on the train to go home, and it's totally crowded but I find a seat. The guy next to me pulls out a magazine, and I sneak a look at it, and the very first thing I see is my friend Joanna who is a writer for this particular magazine that he is reading. In my blood-less state, it was really weird to look at the magazine and see someone I knew. I guess you had to be there. Maybe you were. What do I know?
The doctor's office lost my first blood sample results, or at least the ones they really wanted. I had some sort of odd blood count or something, which she said was perfectly normal... if I was an African American man. After that, as I was staring at the wall waiting for Mr. Blood Guy to come I started thinking that it would be really funny if they switched my blood sample with a dogs at the lab. And someone is at the vet right now hearing that their dog has blood that is more like a smart ass white guy's blood than a retrievers. And then my doctor would come back and tell me I had distemper, or heartworms, or that I was pregnant with 5 puppies.
Let me tell you this though. If your doctor calls and says something like, "well there was a low blah-blah and a high blah-blah blood count, which isn't anything to worried be about..." DON'T go on the interweb and type in "low blah blah", because invariably every friggin disease will come up. Just don't do it. According to Google, I may have 20 different diseases including but limited to distemper, night shakes, angry pirate disorder, and mumbley-mumbles disease.
Music Industry Did you watch the Grammys? Well, why the hell did you do that? Who the hell watched the Grammys?
OK, so I am guy and stuff, but when I see this picture, I cringe. What the hell is going on? We got 'Pink', who looks like a guy I went to school with dressed up as a member of the band Missing Persons, at least with the eye makeup thing. And then there is Chrstina, who has single handily brought back the popular phrase, "Christina Aguilera dresses like a f*cking trainwreck" Lastly, we have Mya, who I have never had the pleasure to hear, but based on this picture... um, I have no idea what to say. Just say out loud your own smart ass comment.
My favorite news headline for the week "Drunken Hunters Ruin Alcohol Abuse Meeting "
I Steal Music The ol music industry is all in a twit about the interweb and copying of music and such. Maybe I am totally different than anyone else, but I think the advent of downloading music has made me buy tons more CDs. MP3s are great and all, but they sound like shit for the most part, especially if you download them off the net... you have whole albums with 5 different bitrates and different volume levels. But they will never (at least for now) replace the quality we get from my old fashioned stereo. So I just want to say to the music biz people four things:
1. I download a poop-load of music. 2. After listening
