tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53506172641186680272011-06-22T04:13:46.790-04:00<i>"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives." --Jeron Criswell, Philosopher and B.S. Artiste</i>Gottafanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12778381458869384559noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350617264118668027.post-73048706291842635202006-10-29T12:16:00.000-05:002006-10-29T12:48:13.307-05:00

Sounds like a rather uncreative, generic name for a store that sells. . .well, books and stuff. But that's not what's this entry's about.Harry Houdini, Secret Agent? Sounds plausible. This forthcoming biography of Houdini speculates he worked for the U.S. Secret Service, Scotland Yard, and monitored Russian anarchists. That he was America's First Superhero. Makes sense. Even Teller (of Penn

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On vacation from my real job this week. Daughter's visiting us. Finished up work for next month's LMN. Not changing out of my pajamas until after lunch. But still keeping up with the world. See you soon.UPDATE: If you're needing some light, cheerful reading. . .don't click here.(h/t: the folks at Pajamas Media)

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Louisville musician Brigid Kaelin is one of 56 who will compete in the regional finals for a chance to appear on USA Network's Nashville Star. She was originally one of 20,000 to have initially auditioned. Full list here. Here's my story on her from the July, 2005 issue of Louisville Music News. And starting here are the pictures my wife took for Brigid's cover shoot session.Honestly, you

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Only once in the last couple of months, says I. And that was to see this. I liked it, but wasn't too enthralled. But I'm looking forward to this, this, and, of course, this. So why are the only films I'm looking forward to based on comic books? This guy might have an answer. End stick. Strike the set.

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The duck-walker turned 80 years old on Thursday. Sing a few lines of "My Ding-a-Ling" to honor the man.

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EXTREME PUMPKINS!Have an EXTREME Halloween!

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And brought into attempted relevance today, Ladies and Gentlemen:Billy Jack vs. George W. Bush! (h/t: Libertas)This film will be, according to BillyJack.com, just the start of a:multifaceted Political, Sexual, Spiritual and Psychological Revolution, and because America is “the only Nation founded for a Moral Purpose … the rights of every man, everywhere,” the film calls out to Mainstream America

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Creative gratuitous stick figure violence from the kind folks at SomethingAwful.com.And for all my musician friends, take a look at Something Awful's Photoshop Friday projects "Band Name Movies" and "Band Name Movies 2."You're welcome.

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The snarky WuzzaDem wades into the bongwater swamp and gets 9-11 Truther reactions to this past Wedesday's episode of South Park that took on the Kooky Konspiracy Kidz and their nonsense (which they proclaim as THE TRUTH, AND YOU NEED TO OPEN YOUR EYES AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH ABOUT IT AND BUY INTO WHAT WE SELL. REALLY, MAN! YOU SHEEPLE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. ESPECIALLY YOU, BILL O'REILLY.

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Is to have it mentioned in Playboy as one of the best of the blogs. Just like the good Captain was named recently. To be sure, CQ was named as one of the best political blogs. Maybe mine can be in another category. Something like Blogs Containing Random Sporadic Nonsense. Wouldn't mind being at the awards ceremony though. Here are the presenters going through orientation:Okay, so they're

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Our TV was on early Monday evening, but neither my wife and I paid much attention to it. She was busy editing some pictures she had taken while a delicious dinner simmered on the stove. I had just finished a shower after cutting the grass for the final time this year (I hope). I glanced at it while walking back to the bedroom. A political ad was on. Not surprising, since they're now running

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Forgot to mention it earlier this month. Pick it up at your favorite music place in Louisville. Or check it out at www.louisvillemusic.net. I took a month off from writing the cover feature, so my contributions this month are minimal. You'll find my review of works from two Louisville musicians: Basic Needs from Leigh Ann Yost, and Thenceforward, from Tom Staley and Rick Harper. Click here

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Plain beat to the socks, Daddy-O. Saturday was one of the Days-Full-o'-Stuff-to-Do: cash-up, gas up for a trip out to Buckner, KY (in the next county east of here) so my daughter could cheerlead for a youth-league football team, but not before a stop at Meijer to get her a white turtleneck to wear under her uniform (she's already outgrown the ones she's had here). Her team lost, again (0-6 on

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Somali refugee kills his four children, wounds wife.Developing. . .

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Today was just a bad news day. I can't add anything more to what's been said. I grieve for the loss of those children. I have one in that age group, and my gut knots up when I hear of something like this done to any child. Anywhere.Still, I did have a brief shot of joy this weekend when I found out that the lead for the upcoming Iron Man feature film had been cast. Robert Downey, Jr., will

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Visit the Tim Burton Collective.And you can actually find a forum there dedicated to Burton's movie about this guy, whose most famous work is now in glorious color. More here.The Man Himself (not Tim Burton, I mean)And as portrayed by Johnny Depp.Almost can't tell one from the other.UPDATE: Give all your documents at work the Tim Burton touch with these.UPDATE: Belated h/t to The Screengrab

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Via Hot Air: Oprah names Kos one of her sexiest men in the worldHuh?Does she mean The Candidate Stalker?The Barge-In Neighbor With a Mouth Full of Nuts He's Saving for Winter?Or The Dead-Sexy Nipple Stroker?I guess one billionaire's definition of "sexy" doesn't have to fit everyone else's.Vid caps courtesey Allahpundit via LGF.

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(with apologies for the obvious Dave Barry ripoff of this post's title)I never knew they even left.

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So I can eventually travel into space, thanks to Sir Richard Branson. Check out this video from Virgin Galactic, appearing on Space.com.Expected cost for a two-hour suborbital flight? $200,000. That'll be about 2000 jars of change.

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They don't want to leave anyone out.The 10th season of South Park premieres next Wednesday, October 4.

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And a return to a mondo-geeky era of my early teens. Ladies and Gentlemen, Doc Savage and his Fabulous Five! I remember seeing the Bantam reprints of the Doc Savage pulp novels in used book stores. And it wasn't until I got a copy of a Marvel Giant-Size reprint of their first two issues of the Doc Savage comic, the ones that adapted The Man of Bronze (shown at right), the first book of the

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. . .I wouldn't have wasted my time trying to get into film school 25 years ago.The best part, and I wish I had come across this when I was fermenting these dreams of making a major feature film, is this pair of sentences from the Kubrick quote:The point to stress is that anyone seriously interested in making a film should find as much money as he can as quickly as he can and go out and do it.

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"Where do I begin to tell the storyOf how great a love can beThe sweet love story that is older than the sea. . ."--Francis Lai,"Theme from Love Story"Lebanese President Emile Lahoud shares a moment with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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A six year old burned to death for Muslim honor. These people must pay and will pay. There is absolutely no reason why they should do this. None. At. All. The mass murder on September 11, 2001 exposed these vile fuckers and their alleged religion for what it really is: a sick and twisted fantasy mindset that wants its way with the rest of the world, that can't stand any of the kind of

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Sean Penn may play Einstein in film.

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I have often thought that if a rational, fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. --Noam ChomskyOh, really?James Lileks has a response to that. If you don't want to read about how most of his day was spent yesterday, scroll down to the boldface type that says "We arrive an hour early. . ." and read from there. And if you don't already, read Lileks everyday.

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(that's "What ho" as in "What's up," not "What ho stole my wallet?")Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day! Go shivver somebody's timbers, me hearties!Also: What ho, my lords 'n ladies! Prithee, click upon this very text and allow thine eyes to behold all works of Merrie Master Shakespeare rendered searchable by the ethereal device of which you now use. Sorry, you can only limit your blue language

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Here's what to do:1. Dim whatever lighting you can.2. Make sure your computer speakers are on. If you have crappy ones or you're using a laptop, plug in a set of headphones. Boost the sound just a little. 3. Get really comfortable.4. Click here.5. Let it load.6. Close your eyes.7. Listen.It's a sample of Ken Nordine's Word Jazz. It's like nothing you've ever heard.Realize your

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Islam, you have a problem. Those with eyes not blinded by bullshit appeasement and codependency see it.Many years ago, I knew a guy who was an artist and a recovering alcoholic. He always depicted himself in his paintings as a Pierrot, an object of scorn and ridicule to him. I remember his Pierrot's eyes: rectangular and black, lifeless, unsettling and scary. The body was boxlike, all angles

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Clips from more than 60 movies spliced 'n sync'd together with soundtrack provided by Ricky Martin's "La Vida Loca." Must see TV for your weekend is here.You're welcome.

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So this guy who was caught in a photograph last year in New Orleans bailing water out of a leaky boat, loaded down with photographers, videographers, and sound guys, with a cup is now an expert on the military, foreign policy, and international finance?And this guy addresses the UN on the crisis in Darfur. And she knows who the real threat to the world is.To be fair, Penn did place his hand on

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Here's a near-complete list of work I've done for Louisville Music News since 2001. I took a "retirement" midway through '01, feeling the first stages of what I thought was burn-out (but, as I say in this Jazzin' column, I was just tired), but returned two years later. Rested up, you might say. The list o'links doesn't include anything I did from 1996 through 2000. I'm not sure The Chief's

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Dude!

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Repeatedly, that is, but always find the will to pull themselves up with the ropes, sway a little while getting balanced, then stagger and flail toward the target. Again. Robert Bidinotto drops 'em hard in this piece on conspiracy theories in general and the 9-11 Stoners. . .er, Truthers in specific. What completely leaves me with my jaw adrop is how the Truthers have concocted a conspiracy of

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Whoa, dude. Like, the government so totally did 9-11 (h/t: LGF)How can these numbnuts actually think people can take them seriously when they have the rhetoric and mannerisms of someone who hangs out on the couch in his friend's parents' basement and smells like spilled bongwater?Even better: the Loose Change children eat floor when they face off against the men of Popular Mechanics. Watch it

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The fifth anniversary of the Attacks has passed. My tribute to one of the victims is below. As a distressing coda to the day, I willingly watched a pair of disturbing video clips that have just now been released via YouTube. A tourist from Seattle and his wife had a camcorder trained on Tower 1 after the plane smashed into it. They captured the falling bodies of the people who chose their own

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How hard is it to memorialize someone you never knew? How comfortable would you be if you were walking in front of a church and a pastor came out and said, "Excuse me. We're having a funeral in here and the deceased needs some words said about him. Could you come in and say a few?"But writing about Jim Murphy, I'm finding it's easy when I thought it would be the hardest thing I've ever written

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Crystal Morning, a short film edited by Evan Coyne Maloney from video shot by David Volger and audio dubbed from 911 calls and NYPD/NYFD dispatches. Download or stream. Tell friends.(h/t: Professor Reynolds)

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I have a hard job to do this weekend. It should be easy, quick, simple, but it isn't. It's like one of those toys you'd get as a kid, where the packaging shows it in action, but when you open it up there are hundreds of different small pieces that have to go together in just the right way. And no matter how close you pay attention to what goes where, you always end up with a stray piece.It

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And really, really stupid.

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This piece in the Boston Globe has a few answers.Overall, it says, our primitive ancestors created music for probably one of three reasons:1. For males to impress females ("Hey, babe, nice fox hide. Say, I'm in a band. Yeah, we just jam together, bang a few rocks, blow through a few hollow bones. . . .")2. Lullabies mothers sang to soothe their children as they worked a few short feet away ("

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Is this the real life?Is this just fantasy?Caught in a landslide,No escape from reality. Honor Freddie Mercury today: shake your boa in the face of some prude. And Keep Yourself Alive!

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I guess because of all the labor that you have to do when it finally rolls around.Corny, yes, but our weekend was spent staining furniture. No, not like cats. More like "re-staining" furniture. I have four of those fold-down bookcases, real solid stuff, made of pine, where the sides fold out and the shelves fold down. They're the stackable kind. I bought them from Barnes & Noble's catalog

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Eugene of Live from an Isreali Bunker. Seventeen years old, an Isreali, a survivor of the attacks from Hezbollah, and already a member of the esteemed Pajamas Media. Go. Read. Learn.

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As I did a couple of posts ago, I watched a couple episodes of Star Trek on G4 this morning. They have a show called "filter," that features guy-oriented lists of things like "20 Things that Went from Cool to Crap," (first on the list is the Star Wars series) "17 Most Dangerous Women," (Lara Croft and Tonya Harding are ranked first and second) and "13 Really Bad Ideas" (where Competitive Eating

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The September issue of Louisville Music News is available online and in its regular distribution spots throughout Louisville and the area.For this month, I dig into The Big Diggity. I also review their CD and say a few hundred words about the latest from Ut Gret and Less the Band.UPDATE: As always, the photography in the story is by the lovely and talented Laura Roberts, who just happens to be

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I just received this annoying little chunk of spam in my Inbox:Do not aignore me please,Ib found your emaail sombewhere anda now decided to write you.I am coming to your place in few weebks and thought we can meet each other. Let me know if you do not mind.I am a nice pretty girl. Don't reply to thibs email. Email me direclty at XXX@XXXXXXX.comSounds like it was written by this guy:MushMouth, one

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I'm a fan of the movie High Fidelity, the one where John Cusak's character Rob plays a guy who owns a record store that sells only vinyl (albums, that is). Throughout it, he and his co-workers (one played with restrained zaniness by Jack Black, who does a few inappropriate things to customers he doesn't like, stuff those of us who worked, or still work, in retail fantasized about) make lists of

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I've just signed up to have a blog entry honoring a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It's called The 2,996 Project. My assignment: a post to honor James F. Murphy IV, a 30-year old account manager with Thomson Financial who was attending a breakfast meeting of the Waters Financial Technology Congress at Windows on the World, on the 106th floor of Tower 1.Thirty is a good age for a man

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The Black Dahlia.I was transfixed by Ellroy's book, as I was by all the ones that followed. I had first-edition copies of Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, but had to sell them (along with lots of other first editions) to hire a lawyer to handle a rather complicated divorce.That was 10 years ago. Still, I think having to sell them broke my heart more than the marriage

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Jews Rock!*Shtetl - a small town or village with a large Jewish population (thanks to Wikipedia).

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My editor at Louisville Music News is cutting his first record.

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On Friday night's episode of Real Time. Good for him, I say. Smug audiences that fill Maher's show and Stewart's Daily Show sometimes need to get the middle digit from someone who just might have a different, and probably more informed, opinion than the groupthink they get from Kos, the Huffington Post, and the MSM.(h/t: Pajamas Media)UPDATE: Apparently, there have been worse things on TV

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And apparently they were dumbasses.Most telling quote:"I'm gonna tell you there's two major buildings that you gotta blow up. The Empire State Building and … the uh, and the uh, Sears Tower. With those two buildings down, all radio communication is out. . . ." To be sure, as was once said of the IRA bombers, they only have to be lucky once.

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Hi. I've officially joined the Blogosphere today. Hats 'n horns for everybody! Posting here will either be sporadic or regular, depending on how I feel or what I have to say. How's that for being noncommital! Either way, I hope I manage to say something worthwhile. Thanks for stopping by.

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