Halloween is just around the corner. What are you going as? Me? I going as my own character invention: Dr. Acula. He emerged from the recess of my brain with a taste for blood and knowledge of the anatomy. Actually, he came out of a hung-over Saturday morning conversation... somebody mentioned how bad they felt, and somehow we start talking about leaches being used to cure diseases along with blood-letting. And I suggested, with my sarcastic wit, that you should make sure that you don't go to Dr.acula. (rim-shot!)
I got the scrubs, half old-man mask painted white, obnoxiously large black wig, white face paint, fangs, vampire medallion, and old-school dr.'s mirror that they used to wear on their heads. Pictures up soon.
You might see me at the Iron Hill Booery tonight.
Sat. I'm going to a sweet party with a haunted path from the depths of hell! MUHAHAHAHA!
2004 scariest Halloween costumes
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Daily Dose
I know this is old, and I wanted to post it earlier, but found myself very busy. So here is some excellent redemption for those of you, who like me, can't stand that culture whore Ashlee Simpson and hate the fact that she is popular and dumping such garbage into the ear holes of naive children who think she is talented.
Ahhh… her suffering is sweeter than her sisters luscious breasts that she is so desperately trying to suckle fame from.
rejected iPOD themes
Wouldn't you know it. As soon as I get one, they comes out with one I want even more.
According to a new report, the glam rockers have sold so much official merchandise - including black g-strings emblazoned with 'The Darkness', which cost 10GBP each - that they can afford to make another album and go on tour without having to sell any records.
The shins will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live on November 5th.
As a result of the “excessive prices” of bootlegs, Neutral Milk Hotel is putting together a 2volume set of early material, including the self-released cassettes, live performances, and unreleased recordings. No release date yet.
Yo La Tengo will play eight days of Hanukkah shows again this year at Maxwell's in Hoboken, from December 7th through the 14th. Ticket sales haven't been announced, but are available through TicketWeb (click the TicketWeb link at the very bottom, and keep clicking "more events" until they show up).
Previous Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows (in 2001 and 2002) have featured David Byrne, Portastatic, David Cross, The Sun Ra Arkestra, and many others. The tickets are gone quickly, so jump on these if you're interested.
Looking for a New Year's Eve show to attend? Wilco, The Flaming Lips, and Sleater-Kinney will play Madison Square Garden in New York this year on December 31st.
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DAILY DOWNLOADS
Friday, October 29, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Hey!! Stop what you're doing! You're not going to stumble across the b-side
to "Hand In Glove", and you're not going to find the unreleased Pixies
album. What you need to do is get ready to vote in the most important
election of our lives.
Find your nearest polling place and get prepared to vote.
Tell your friends to vote, tell your enemies for that matter. But just vote.
Too lazy? Our vote doesn’t really count? FUCKING exercise you ability to make a change and VOTE!
Ok, I’ll help. go to these sites and register.
MoveOn.org
Rock The Vote
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Daily Dose
(only it’s Jon Stewart from The Daily show, and it’s not today, it was Friday.)
Highlights from Friday's Crossfire when things heat up between CNN’c Tucker Carlson and Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart
TUCKER CARLSON: You have a chance to interview the Democratic nominee. You asked him questions such as "How are you holding up? Is it hard not to take the attacks personally?" ... Why not ask him a real question, instead of just suck up to him?
JON STEWART: Yes. "How are you holding up?" is a real suck-up. And I’m actually giving him a hot stone massage as we were doing it. You know, it's interesting to hear you talk about my responsibility ... that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity. If your idea of confronting me is that I don't ask hard-hitting enough news questions, we're in bad shape, fellows.
PAUL BEGALA: Let me get this straight. If the indictment is -- if the indictment is -- and I have seen you say this -- that Crossfire reduces everything, as I said in the intro, to left, right, black, white.
STEWART: Yes.
BEGALA: Well, it's because, see, we're a debate show.
STEWART: No, no, no, no, that would be great. I would love to see a debate show.
CARLSON: Jon, Jon, Jon, I'm sorry. I think you're a good comedian. I think your lectures are boring.
STEWART: Now, this is theater. It's obvious. How old are you?
CARLSON: Thirty-five.
STEWART: And you wear a bow tie.
CARLSON: Yes, I do. I do.
STEWART: So this is theater.
CARLSON: Now, let me just...
STEWART: Now, listen, I'm not suggesting that you're not a smart guy, because those are not easy to tie. ... But the thing is that this -- you're doing theater, when you should be doing debate, which would be great.
BEGALA: We do, do...
STEWART: It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. And I will tell you why I know it.
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: Absolutely.
CARLSON: You've got to be kidding me. He comes on and you...
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. ... What is wrong with you?
CARLSON: Well, I'm just saying, there's no reason for you -- when you have this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy's butt boy, to go ahead and be his butt boy. Come on. It's embarrassing.
STEWART: You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.
STEWART: You need to go to one. The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk...
CARLSON: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.
STEWART: No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey ... I watch your show every day. And it kills me.
CARLSON: I can tell you love it.
STEWART: It's so painful to watch.
CARLSON: Is this really Jon Stewart? What is this, anyway?
STEWART: Yes, it's someone who watches your show and cannot take it anymore. I just can't.
CARLSON: I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion.
STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.
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Taken from the new animated movie, and so aptly changed today to…
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SPONGEBOB ROCKPANTS
Monday, October 18, 2004
OK!
Sorry for the long break, but needed to be done. My life has improved from the doldrums of where I was. Not only does my new job rock, but so does my apartment in West Chester. My title is Asst. Art Director. Here's an example of what I've been doing. Not bad for my first website. Background doesn't look as good as I wanted it to, but that's because my boss wanted me to lighten it alot, and that created this bad texture in low-rez gif format. Oh well. (If you find your way back to my job's homepage you'll see that it majorly needs a re-vamp, so that'll be my next project)
I'm also doing some sick mailer pieces right now, which I'll post later. Basically my job has me in charge of a team of 3 (graphic designer, IT guy, and webmaster) and we create all the collateral for this society of telecommunications engineers. Sometimes I pick a project I want to do (like the website, mostly because I wanted to teach myself more web stuff), but most often I give the overall direction and see to it that they meet deadlines, then give the comps to my boss for final approval. I also got a nice office, no window though.
Soooo... the past month has pretty much been moving in and getting settled.
I was also questioning if me writing about myself everyday was narcissistic, or therapeutic.
I mean, the post for mp3's is cool, but do you really care about my day? But I guess that is what blogs are all about, and if you hit the next button on the blogger ad at the top of my page, you'll see alot of random crap out there.
Either way, my new job job has me pretty busy, and satisfied, so I doubt I'll be posting as much as I did at my old job. I just found some free time tonight, as the sox are in extra innings with the Yanks, so I figured I'd indulge in an old escape.
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DAILY RANT
I've talked a lot about politics this year, and I'm glad that this election has sparked my interest in politics. I know I've stepped on some toes with my opinions and probably fell over my own with my confusing opinion. So here is the best way I can say my opinion on this election. (as told by the Tampa Tribune)
The newspaper said its "deeply conflicted" editorial board could not back Bush "because of his mishandling of the war in Iraq, his record deficit spending, his assault on open government and his failed promise to be a 'uniter not a divider' within the United States and the world."
But the paper said it could not endorse Kerry, "whose undistinguished Senate record stands at odds with the nation's conservative principles and whose positions on the Iraq war -- the central issue in this campaign -- have been difficult to distinguish or differentiate."
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DAILY DOWNLOADS
here are some big download pages to help fill your iPOD's
Album Download
'bout time I gave you a Modest album, huh Boris?
