The other night I sat through that really, really (really!) bad Star Wars movie. Watching Cgi-Wan Kenobi ride around on that iguana-with-feathers thing, it struck me that it’s about time for someone with a little talent to make a good ERB movie.
(Frazetta image from this gallery, I think)
If you’re me, all that’s necessary is:
Lift (light) weights for ten minutes
Pedal on the bike for five minutes
Lame!
Next up: sticking to it, for the first time in almost ten years.
During some down time over the weekend I was wondering about the origins of the song When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and learned the tune was lifted from an Irish folksong called Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (same link, just scroll down a bit), first published around the same time as WJCMH (after the Civil [...]
Luc generously offers:
Feel free to print him onto iron-on paper for your own personal use, and send me pics of your swellegant tee!
Man, it would make an excellent tshirt! Without the background color, but printed on a shirt of that green.
I just wish the image was bigger.
UPDATE: D’oh! There IS a bigger image! Sweet.
I missed a Tim Hecker show last Saturday night. Damn.
Some shots taken after Uppercase Sound #1:
(some of these are slightly photoshopped)
If I manage to get out of the house for these:
The Fun Years, April 18th, PA’s Lounge, Somerville.
Mogwai*, May 14th, Avalon, Boston.
Tag-alongs are welcome.
*Mogwai’s new release is excellent, btw.
One thing that’s really grabbed my interest lately is East Africa (Somalia in particular). While I’m still waiting for Law of the Somalis to arrive, I’ve been bookmarking lots of interesting news items on the area, which I’ll try to push into some coherent blogform in the next week or two (after a work project [...]
TJIC fisks an overwrought review of V for Vendetta:
Douglas Kern has done a decent job of arguing that - for example - Saddam Hussein wasn’t the real fascist; the Iraqi Kurds who fought against him were the real fascists. After all, they killed government employees, they had an “endless sense of grievance” (just because family [...]
There are apparently some amateur videos set to James Kochalka Superstar’s masterpiece on YouTube.
I’m amused.
(via a long, unreproducable seriers of links)
UPDATE:
Coincidentally, his song Hockey Monkey (more or less from memory):
all the scientists are runnin’ around
they’re looking for the monkey
but he can’t be found
’cause he’s down at the lake
playin’ hockey with the kids
and it’s one-two-three
the kids [...]
Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don’t Want To Have A Country Anymore:
Among the 86 percent of poll respondents who were in favor of discontinuing the nation, the most frequently cited reasons were a lack of significant results from the current democratic process (36 percent), dissatisfaction with customer service (28 percent), and exhaustion (22 percent).
“I [...]
My Buddha Machine arrived Wednesday night and has been droning at me pretty much nonstop since. For the first day I used it, I was irritated that it apparently had been built without an off switch and that I had to unplug it when I didn’t want it on anymore. Then I remembered that back [...]
Chinese ambient band FM3 (American-born, expat musician Christiaan Virant, and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian)’s recent release, according to this review:
is not a CD release, or even an LP release. It’s a small plastic box (that runs on two batteries) made in China that has not only an integrated speaker, but a volume [...]