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March 2nd, 2009
12:03 pm
I've pretty much moved over entirely to Twitter now to chronicle the wacky adventures of Dr. Neptune.
I prefer the shorthand, fragmented update style they have going on. I'm not shutting down the LJ or anything though. I'll still be checking in and maybe doing the occasional entry but for the most part the "OMG I like this movie!" entries will be over on twitter.
"Poo-tee-weet?"
Current Music: The Stooges - "1970"
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February 16th, 2009
08:14 pm
( Song Shuffle Meme )
Current Music: Stereolab - "New Orthophony"
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January 26th, 2009
10:17 pm
Nah, shipping "tweets" here is not such a great idea.
But to make up for it...
Oh baby.
Current Music: Elastica - "Stutter"
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01:01 am - Tweets for Today
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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January 25th, 2009
02:50 am - Tweets for Today
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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January 24th, 2009
12:20 pm - Tweets for Today
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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January 23rd, 2009
01:17 pm
Uh oh, I have a twitter now.
I might link it up to LJ using one of those twangamadoodles. We'll see.
Current Music: Flaming Lips - "Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell"
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January 20th, 2009
09:50 pm
I haven't said anything here about politics since Obama won the election. Now that he's officially in office I think we have momentum going that I hope we can sustain as we have so much collective work to do.
But we're facing a massive paradigm shift with him in office that requires us to forget politics for a while and simply do what needs to be done in order for this country to survive. One where, as he said in his speech, we have to face "our collective failure to make hard decisions" that have been floating around for decades. Health care, environmental issues, 8 years of godawful foreign policy, and a tanking economy. Yikes.
But we already got a black president. That was pretty much thought to be impossible in the near future. Makes you wonder what other "impossible" stuff we can get away with if we just put some effort into the next four years, doesn't it?
Current Music: The Stooges - "No Fun"
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January 14th, 2009
11:54 pm
ARRRRGGH WHEN THE HELL ARE THE STOOGES GOING TO GET INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME!?!?!?!?!
Ron Asheton will now rise from the grave to devour Jeff Beck's brains.
In other news, I have finished comprehensive exams and I feel pretty confident that they went just fine. I am now a free man like this guy once proclaimed to be.
What's with all these awesome people dying so suddenly?
Current Music: Danzig - "Her Black Wings"
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January 7th, 2009
09:34 pm
Two nights ago, something happened in my home county that would have seriously freaked me out when I was 14. Nationally recognized UFO sightings!
I would normally think that the news people would doctor up a video to keep things exciting in the stagnant local news environment of early January, but my dad actually saw this too. He reports...
"Believe it or not, I actually saw them too! I had left for Syracuse and was driving along Route 24 to 287 about 8:40PM. I glanced up to the left and saw the 5 red lights. At first I thought they were landing lights for Morristown airport (since it’s right there), but then I noticed they were moving. Pretty slow, so the notion of flares on helium balloons certainly seems possible. But I was thinking about pulling over to watch them – it was THAT unusual."
No crop circles reported yet, but I'm thinking of making a tin foil helmet just in case.
Current Music: R.E.M. - "Everybody Hurts"
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December 22nd, 2008
09:56 pm
Current Music: my man Max Headroom
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December 19th, 2008
12:34 pm
Oh right, there were movies in 2008 too.
Favorite Movies of 2008 That I've Seen
Be Kind Rewind
Wall E
The Dark Knight
Hellboy 2
Pineapple Express
Burn After Reading
Tell No One
Synecdoche, NY
Milk
Let The Right One In
Sooner or later I'll end up watching...
Rachel Getting Married
I've Loved You So Long
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Happy Go Lucky
Doubt
In Bruges
Paranoid Park
Tropic Thunder
Man On Wire
Titanic 2: Revolutionary Road (maybe)
What movies would YOU like to see?
Current Music: Ministry - "Reload"
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01:00 am
Oh boy, it's that time of year to list favorite stuff!
Let's do this!
But none of that listing in order business as I can never decide.
Favorite Albums Of 2008
Portishead - Third
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
No Age - Nouns
Beach House - Devotion
High Places - High Places
Sigur Ros - Fuck This Naked Hippie Shit
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Favorite Older Albums Heard In 2008
David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Big Star - Third / Sister Lovers
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
The Replacements - Let It Be
Television - Adventure
Mission Of Burma - Vs.
X - Los Angeles
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Damon & Naomi - More Sad Hits
Wilco - Summerteeth
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
The Velvet Underground - VU
Favorite Older Movies Seen In 2008
Dead Of Night
Black Orpheus
The Big Sleep
Closely Watched Trains
Rififi
Day For Night
The Double Life Of Veronique
Blast Of Silence
The Red Shoes
Underground
Performance
Sid & Nancy
Le Notti Bianche
Pickpocket
Au Hasard Balthazar
Mouchette
Diary Of A Country Priest
The Flowers Of St. Francis
Le Doulos
Woman In The Dunes
Red Desert
Jules & Jim
My Little Loves
Favorite Books Read In 2008
The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
The Crying Of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
The Western Lands (William S. Burroughs)
This Side Of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Camp Concentration (Thomas Disch)
The Ginger Man (JP Donleavy)
A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
334 (Thomas Disch)
Tropic Of Capricorn (Henry Miller)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
A Season In Hell (Arthur Rimbaud)
Current Music: The Flaming Lips - "The Horrors Of Isolation"
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December 12th, 2008
12:23 am
RIP Bettie Page :(
Them hussies like Katy Perry don't even KNOW.
Current Music: King Geedorah - "Fazers"
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December 10th, 2008
07:39 pm
It's snowing in Houston right now.
So begins the complete unraveling of the space-time continuum.
Current Music: Portishead - "We Carry On"
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November 3rd, 2008
03:32 pm
or
The choice should be pretty clear tomorrow.
Current Music: Brian Eno - "China My China"
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October 26th, 2008
09:32 pm
9 more days to the election. I sent out my absentee ballot for NJ earlier this week and naturally insist everyone that can read this participate too.
I only have one more thing to say about the current political situation. Two words actually. Case studies.
These are situations where you make a statement about the population using a single person to justify your reasoning. If anyone advances a platform that increasingly relies on this approach it suggests desperation. If I were to read a journal article advocating a new type of therapy because it worked on one guy (let's call him Joe and say he's maybe a plumber) would you believe it? Or would it make more sense if it worked for hundreds or even thousands of people? The fact that the first approach just looks at one person suggests that it doesn't have the effectiveness to truly translate to a larger population. Someone advocating such an approach does so usually as a last resort in conjunction with attacking other approaches as a result of general insecurity. Sounds pretty desperate to me. And awfully familiar.
Current Music: Gang Of Four - "Damaged Goods"
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October 22nd, 2008
08:18 pm
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test... Extroverted, Progressive, and Intelligent
Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It revolutionized European art and inspired changes in music and literature. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism. It was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1908 and 1911 mainly in France. In its second phase, Synthetic Cubism, (using synthetic materials in the art) the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919. People that chose Cubist paintings as their favorite art form tend to be very individualized people. They are more extroverted and less afraid of speaking their opinions then other people. They tend to be progressive and are very forward thinking. As the cubist painting is like looking into a shattered mirror where you can see different angles of the images, the people that prefer these paintings like looking at all angles of a problem. These people are intelligent and they are the transformers of our generation. They look beyond what is seen into what things could become. They are ready to leave the ideas of the past behind and look at what the future has to offer. Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy
Current Music: Wire - "Start To Move"
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October 20th, 2008
12:11 am
I have a confession to make. I absolutely love VH1 on Sunday nights. Especially anything related to "Rock of Love With Bret Michaels." And now there's "Rock Of Love Charm School With Sharon Osbourne." Ah yes, a full hour packed with unadulterated wild behaviors of the North American "unchecked ho" at its finest, boy oh boy.
But this evening I had a revelation somewhat similar to this one. Anyone who is at all familiar with these programs knows of Lacey, the conniving, backstabbing (which psychology people would refer to as "Axis II") dyed redhead always willing to remind viewers that she has played in bands for most of her life. One of these bands she revealed was called Nocturne which I didn't think much of as it's about as standard a metal band name as Marley is to a reggae singer's last name. But then I remembered tonight that I had seen a band called Nocturne as an opener during this rather enjoyable show. They indeed had a singer with dyed red hair who started the show by removing several layers of her "gothic/industrial accessories" for "the boys out there." This may have been mildly enjoyable though her music was not so much. It should also be noted that her fellow musicians were advertised as including ex members of a band known as "Bozo Porno Circus." But nevertheless it was filed away in my memory banks.
And after some research I have now officially confirmed that I have been a mere ten feet away from someone who has engaged in some serious televised ho activity. Dream come true.
Current Music: Portishead - "Machine Gun"
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October 8th, 2008
12:37 pm
I was reading this article in the New York Times about the increasing trend of guys that love cats and noticed that the main person they interview has a cat named Parappa: the namesake of a most excellent Playstation 1 game. It's been years since I heard this memorable ditty from it about really needing to use the bathroom...
The guy playing this has a very different style from when I played. I was going for a pretty standard old school battle rap button mashing approach whereas the dude here is getting all Bone Thugs n Harmony on us. Now I'm tempted to find a copy of this and attempt to duplicate Lil Wayne's delivery.
Current Music: TV On The Radio - "Golden Age"
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