godthedog

my friend at one time was insistent on getting a wiener dog that she would name "werner herzdog." THAT is a cool dog name.

wasn't that the tv special where the california raisins appear at the end? and there's some running joke about wassaling? i watched that when i was a kid and it pissed me off, cause i only tuned in to see the california raisins & they were only in it for 3 minutes. my favorite: tie between pogues' "fairy tale of new york" and donny hathaway's "this christmas"

somewhat related to that, i fucking hate harmonica solos in songs. the average performer can do 2, at most 3, things with a harmonica, and every solo sounds exactly the same. dylan's especially bad about it.

no need to justify veruca salt, they were worlds better than STP. no pretensions about being important or anything. just catchy, catchy shit. i'll pick 'american thighs' three times over 'purple' any day.

i saw a judge on 'iron chef america' make that same peaness slip. she didn't catch it when she said it, but the other judges laughed at her; one of them almost did a spit take.

i still don't understand why 'on the beach' is supposed to be so good.

the majority of athens is quite frattastic, but there's a very strong hipster undercurrent, so you can avoid the greek crowd pretty easily. when it's not a drinking/game night, the hipsters & townies pretty much rule the downtown area. there's 3 record stores and 3 coffee shops within a block and a half of each other, for chrissakes. sounds pretty serious with the girlfriend if you're moving to another state for her. how are you making a living?

I don't want you, operator...I want my baaaaaaaaaaaaaaby!

i'm disgustingly lukewarm toward "tracks of my tears," though i know everyone else on the planet loves it. there's just something really stirring and yearning about "tears of a clown" that still seems joyful at the same time. can't really put my finger on it. "who's loving you" is also excellent. far better than the jackson 5 version; doesn't have that orgy of syrupy strings, and michael didn't really have the mature chops to sing it well.

what hints have you gotten that she'd do that (or even that the writers would want them to call it off)?

1. beatles - a day in the life 2. john lennon - jealous guy 3. smokey robinson & the miracles - tears of a clown 4. sam cooke - a change is gonna come 5. bonnie tyler - total eclipse of the heart 6. bjork - pagan poetry 7. radiohead - street spirit 8. rolling stones - it's all over now 9. gza - liquid swords 10. r.e.m. - leave

good episode overall--aside from trying to jump the train, that was some of the best character development michael's ever gotten. also, great way to keep the tone of the show from getting too happy-go-lucky now that jim & pam are together. what i don't get is that now that jim & pam are together, they've suddenly turned into these 2 perfectly content & well-adjusted people with no further ambitions or aspirations. some college kids in their late teens would be happy treading water as long as they were in a happy relationship, but jim & pam seem like they should be too old and too smart for that. if their characters continue to go nowhere, they're really going to irritate me.

who's this?

i'm wondering if this will affect 'the office', where a number of the writers wear 2 or 3 different hats. i'm also sort of disturbed that the story quoted goes into great detail about the changes in programming, but doesn't say anything about WHY the writers might strike, what the terms of the disagreement are, etc.

'training day' is pretty bad. his big speech at the end is fucking ridiculous.

i remember long after he was banned, when marney left the board in a huff. in the "marney's gone" thread i made a comment to the effect of, "well, what's the big deal, she was just a female version of chris coey anyway." the next day i got a pm from coey, through my account on HIS board, that said, "i can't believe you compared me to fucking marney." strange man. incidentally, that was the day i really knew i was established: when a really famous poster that you've never talked to before cares enough to tell you that you hurt his feelings on a board he's not even a member of anymore.

red robin has surprisingly substandard burgers for being a place that's famous for its burgers.

i once made a mix cd of 80s and 90s jangly rock music, and i put "cigarettes & alcohol" on it. that's exactly how much appreciation they should be getting.

odenkirk was the best and most under-control part of 'the ben stiller show', but that was 13 years ago. i blame him as the primary reason that will arnett will never have a respectable acting career.

no one should ever unironically repeat dialogue written by rob zombie under any circumstances, ever.

currently reading 'how far she went', a collection of short stories by mary hood. won the flannery o'connor award apparently. nice language but nothing special.

i don't think robert johnson was insane, at least on the level that you seem to be looking for.

sam cooke, 1962-64ish. not the white people shows he did. james brown 1964-5 would be a very close second.

i agree. there's something really satisfying about that kind of over-direction that you really don't find in the over-direction of, say, 'crash'.

so my obsession with james joyce is renewing itself and i'm seriously considering getting an irish tweed cap to wear when the weather gets cold. normally i look very weird in hats, but that might just be eccentric enough for me to pull it off. plus i'll be teaching by then, and i feel like humanities teachers at a college are sort of obligated to look off-center and not quite of this world. i'd very much like to have students recognize me in a crowd by my dapper tweed cap.