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things only my father and I find amusing.
So, I'm driving back to cubicle hell from my lunch break, and the flashing marquee at Walgreens catches my eye.
"Alli is here," it reads, flashing and moving in some elaborate motion.
Immediately, I start laughing, because, as any Spanish speaker knows, Alli does not mean "here." Alli is "there."
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an even darker place.
i dare one of these bastards to set foot within four feet of me.
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come hell or high water...
I don't have much energy today to do anything save for slump in my chair as much as my stiff, sore back will allow and pray that, when they finally come for me, I have enough in me to make sure every single one of these vile motherfuckers remembers I was here. -
unexpected
So how in the fuck did Black Snake Moan end up being so good?
Granted, I'm only forty minutes in, but seriously--wtf? Why didn't I go see this in the theater? -
ernie banks.
I've been watching The Brother From Another Planet, another heretofore-lost cinematic classic from my childhood, and am surprised at how intriguingly-relevant it still is, some twenty-three years after its release ( Read more... ) -
in light of my recent journal entry about finding music...
...to everyone who has championed the Noisettes from their inception to the time they first hit my ears today--
I CAN TOTALLY SEE WHY YOU LIKE THIS BAND. OMG.
(Special thanks to the University of Edinburgh, whose student-run radio station pumped "Scratch Your Name" into my ears.) -
rahrahrahruuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
Every now-and-then, a band I love will do something I don't quite understand--my favorite example being The Mercury Program, who started out as one of the coolest-sounding bands in existence, only to relegate the coolest part of their sound (the drums) to the far back of the mix and become a jazz ensemble--and I'm forced to sit back and listen to ( Read more... ) -
Brevity.
Okay, so the whole 'Blog Like It's the End Of the World' thing has been beyond awesome--just reading what everyone's been writing has been enough to distract me from doing my job to a dangerous degree ( Read more... ) -
I don't know why I'm taking the time to write this.
Seeing as the internet has yet to come to a screeching halt, I'm guessing I have enough time. There's still television, for now--news broadcasts aren't giving much in the way of information--there's lots of speculation as to where people should go, how to get there, what's the official response from the government (none yet, the east coast is ( Read more... ) -
List of things to buy before I have children:
Gibson Echoplex & Foot Controller
Fender Cyber-Twin Amp
Fender '72 Reissue Custom Telecaster
Boss Rv-3 Reverb pedal
Boss Metal Zone
DOD BassGrunge
Boss Bass Overdrive
Danelectro Baritone
Fender American Standard Jazz bass
Fender Standard 5-String P-Bass
3-Piece Drumkit, cymbals, and hardware