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we don't need no stinking badges
Having watched Marty and Gentleman's Agreement this past week, I have just 19 films remaining to see on the list of Oscar winners. I think I'm going to make a big push to finish them by the end of the year. I plan to watch The Best Years Of Our Lives, Going My Way, and The Greatest Show On Earth in the coming week. The last time I updated my ( Read more... ) -
he probably waited this long just to see if the rapture was gonna happen
Joseph Brooks, the composer of "You Light Up My Life" was found dead of an apparent suicide. While there's a delicious irony in the story of the man who penned the line "you give me hope to carry on" offing himself, the suicide isn't really surprising or particularly sad. Brooks was in the midst of a trial which included 90+ counts of rape, ( Read more... ) -
i've been good and i've been good for nothing
In the southern Chicagoland area, the Tri-State Tollway (I-80/I-294) crosses Thornton Quarry. You can see the highway in the upper quarter of the photo. It's the second largest quarry in the world at 1.5 miles long, a half mile wide and over 400 feet deep. The beginnings of the quarry date back as far as 1846, when several independent quarries ( Read more... ) -
New York! New York! It's a helluva town. The Bronx is up and the Battery's down!
The load I had over the weekend had entirely too much time in it, leaving roughly 20 hours of downtime. The customer said they couldn't take me early and dispatch couldn't get me an earlier appointment time. I decided, then, that a side-trip to NYC was long over-due. The last time I was in New York was December of 2005, when me and a student I ( Read more... ) -
there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone
So I've been obsessed with Loretta Lynn this week. She was a bad ass! Whereas a lot of her contemperaries, like Dolly Parton, pleaded with rivals, Loretta made it clear she'd slap a bitch before she let some tramp take her man on tracks like "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and especially on "Fist City".
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soopa@LJ 3.0
So it may be apparent that I'm trying to get back into the LJ swing of things. Obviously, it's a different place than it used to be in the days of yore. First MySpace, then Facebook and Twitter have resulted in a mass exodus. To that, I say GOOD! Most of the people who left for those other sites were the same people who posted 10 times a day ( Read more... ) -
RIP Poly Styrene
Poly Styrene passed away last night at the age of 53 after a battle with cancer. Coincidentally, she had a new solo album being released today. As a mixed-race, curly-haired, chubby-faced, big-eyed young woman with braces on her teeth and a knock-kneed stage presence, she was the most unlikely person to ever front a band. She embodied the ( Read more... )
