I'm taking two classes this semester. One is Wednesday from 7-10 pm, the other is Thursday from 7-10 pm. Both are taught by the same woman. In both classes, she just talks and talks and talks, sometimes to the topic, but usually not. We ALWAYS stay late as she tries to 'inspire' us with yet another (or the same) rousing speech about how "we are the ( Read more... )

An email from Amazon caught my eye:

THE GIFTS HOT TEENS WANT THIS YEAR!

But of course what it really said was:

THE HOT GIFTS TEENS WANT THIS YEAR!

Made me sad...

Had a bizarre conversation with a co-worker. She's a pleasant woman, probably about 55, and she mentioned how she was still suffering from Michael Jackson's death. I asked, "Suffering...how?" She said she suffered inside, and that whenever her friends died, she had to take to the bed sometimes and just cry for hours. So I asked, "Michael Jackson ( Read more... )

I read a truly phenomenal book just recently and I'm surprised to say that it's Scott Spencer's "Endless Love," the very same "Endless Love" that inspired one of the worst movies and one of the worst songs of all time. I'd read another Spencer book, "Ship Made of Paper," that was pretty good but, having seen "Endless Love" in high school, I just ( Read more... )

I had never investigated the state of film the year I was born (1963) but I gotta say, it's pretty good. There are a lot of different threads going on. Great films from the foreign arthouse guys (Fellini's 8 1/2, Visconti's The Leopard, Godard's Contempt, Kurosawa's High & Low, Bergman with the deeply depressing two-fer of The Silence and Winter ( Read more... )

Alright, I'll go ahead and be 'the guy who didn't like the Star Trek movie,' because, well, I didn't. To be fair, I have a total tin ear when it comes to summer blockbusters and the format may well be wasted on me. But this just seems like another in an ENDLESS line of super-slick CGI entertainments with cookie-cutter stories, generic pretty faces ( Read more... )

I've made the decision. I am going completely digital, getting rid of all my CDs (except for the very best of the boxes, like that Charley Patton thing and the Jerry Lee Lewis complete Sun, and the Stax-Volt, etc.) and storing my music on computers and ipods. And why not? I have NEVER had an affection for the CD format; in fact, I felt utterly ( Read more... )

Haven't posted since the band's debut performance, so...here goes ( Read more... )

The Bag We Bag show last night was just transcendent. At least from my vantage point. We had more than 200 people there, sold out all the CDs, had a genuine vibe of excitement running through the place...and then we played a killer show, right up there near 'the best we can do.' A couple fluffed cues here and there, but it's bound to happen in a ( Read more... )

Bag We Bag plays its first-ever show tomorrow night (Friday ( Read more... )