September 2009
30 posts
Tokyo Kid Brothers - Freedom
Tokyo Kid Brothers...
Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law (The Only Ones...
The Gerbils - Fluid
It’s weird that people...
John Phillips - Mississippi
Upon hearing the...
“James Frey can gargle my balls and play tongue darts with my ass. I’d like to...”
– Mike Edison, author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.
Morphine - In Spite of Me
Not long ago my...
Le Shok - No Fun At the Beaches
Summer ended...
Vibes - Psychic
I’ve always had a pretty...
“I do a lot of my writing to Dave Matthews Band.”
– God damn it, Michael Ruhlman. I’m pretty sure I can keep this from breaking us apart forever, but if Bourdain hears about this he’s going to eat you alive.
Things Wrong With The Structure of Two Movies I...
District 9
- Staggeringly banal and boring plot laid over the best concept for a sci-fi movie in years.
- All the subtitles for the prawns were in Russian/Cyrillic instead of English, so it’s technically possible I missed an entire subplot.
The Hangover
- Starts out really strong, only to lose almost all of its steam in a too-absurd third act.
- You can constantly hear people...
Curtis Mayfield & The Staples Singers -...
Screenplay Idea
A Luge of Their Own, chronicling the misadventures of the first women lugers, who I assume had to overcome various political and social obstacles in order to practice their sport. No one will remain seated during the “serious and terrifying luge wipeout while wearing a short pleated skirt” sequence.
Rock N' Roll Cereals
13-Point Bran to Destroy America
21st Century Schizoid Bran
Box Elders - Atlantis
I saw the Box Elders for...
Unrest - Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl
(Via...
Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue - Me and J.G....
Gifts, Birthdays
Isn’t it weird how when you were young most of the gifts you received revolved around some random hobby that, regardless of your actual level of interest, your family seemed to agree that you had taken up?
My birthday is on Friday, and after spending last weekend at my parents’ house it occurred to me how weird it was that, while my requests for Green Day CDs and SNES RPG’s...
Screenplay Idea
The only two men who know the full recipe for Coca-Cola secretly fall in love, only to be constantly kept apart by their company, who is afraid they will both die. Eventually a third-world dictator steals the recipe, but as a romantic ex-freedom fighter agrees to return it if the pair announces their love to the world.
