Total bummer. I just read an interview with Evel Knievel earlier this week. He's still a badass or an ornery ol' SOB. He talked about how he thought it might be his last interview. If you didn't grow up pretending to be Evel Knievel at some point in your life, then you haven't really lived.
sidenote: Kanye West and Evel Knievel just resolved their dispute over Kanye's "Touch the Sky Video" earlier this week.
Friday, November 30, 2007
RIP : Evel Knievel
some original thoughts (aka Movie Review)...
ok, so i watched the movie Into the Wild last night. Started a bit hokey and sentimental, but then i kinda got absorbed by it. In the end it was enjoyable and pretty sad. There was a nice dichotomy between the kid, Alexander Supertramp, and the people he met along his journeys. He kept advocating for getting up and going being with nature away from society. His acquaintances kept trying to remind him that human contact was also valuable (i.e. love, forgiveness, sharing). So while Alex forged on to Alaska and his eventual death, he finally starts to realize that all the beauty and the experience in the world is a bit lacking without others. Or at least thats how i understood it. Solid performances by Emile Hersch (he lost lots of weight during the filming, kinda creepy) and others. Including a very sad bit with Hal Holbrook. The traveling and alone scenes were filled with Eddie Vedder's a bit too self-indulgent and preachy tunes. Overall, I guessed I enjoyed the movie. At home later, more discussion followed, after reading up a bit more on Alexander Supertramp, we debated whether he was heroic, naive, stupid, foolish, genuine, spoiled, disillusioned, hopeful, or hopeless. I guess we decided on all of the above.
Silly side note: I was struck during the post-film conversation that the notion of calling a film "thought provoking" might be redundant. I mean, if you've thought to say that it is thought provoking isn't it already obvious. What about seeing something that you describe to someone as "making you want to speak out." Too late, you already spoke out about it. Redundant. This side note is my "free gift" to you all.
We Got The Olympics!!!!
Remember back in the day, living in Georgia, being so excited when Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Olympics. It was awesome! Then they introduced this:
They called it Izzy the Whatizit. Maybe should have been called Atlanta, What the Fuck? Well, it turns out that it might not be the worst olympic mascot ever.
These dudes have a list of some of the worst (Atlanta made the list twice):
Thursday, November 29, 2007
some live tunes...
So the dudes over at Mesmerization Eclipse posted some links to a Yo La Tengo show and many others from the Boston scene on their site. They refer you to Bradley's Almanac, an excellent site for live tunes...
I just came across a similar site, but this time its shows (mostly house shows) from Santa Cruz between 1999-2004. Check it out here: post-consumer.com
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Fart Rule Exception
See about 1min.50sec. in to find when farts aren't funny.
also dmitri martin is just plain funny
auburn should stay away from dogs...
I've been thinking about this since i saw it the other day. this is just insane. you figure the last thing a football player would have to worry about is being bitten by a dog during a game. in the video clip there is also a flashback to Uga trying to bite another Auburn player. this is where i am torn. on one hand it was awesome when Uga tried to bite that guy and then on the other it was completely ridiculous when that police dog actually bit the dude.
Monday, November 26, 2007
RIP
Sad news today... Kevin Dubrow is dead. I saw Quiet Riot a few years back and it was awesome. cum on feel the total bummer.
rememberin' athens...
I was in athens this weekend and became very reminiscent. patton sums it up well. i got out, but sometimes, i wish i was back.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Welcome to Top Gun.
This is the annoying type of conversation that I imagined Quentin Tarentino has all the time.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
the best...? Please debate.
The Top 15 Best Football Catches Ever.
This is on the list...
this should be...
or what about this... Stomping on faces with a hobnail boot!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
currently listening to...
Screening a few records for wxdu
Caribbean "Populations" : Pleasant indierock
Aloha "Light Works" : Slightly more pleasant indierock
Let's Go Sailing "the chaos in order" : girl twee to the max
David Byrne "The Knee Plays" : Awesome. This re-release is a collection of music intended to be the bumpers between the larger pieces of Robert Wilson's theatrical 8-hour epic The CIVIL WarS. Together as an album they are great. Talking Heads meets a live orchestra. Great.
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