i seriously cannot explain the feeling this movie gave me. and i cant remember the last movie that i felt this way about. if i had to guess i would say the matrix, or the first 10 minutes of x-men two.
I have been watching your show for four seasons and i must say, you love shocking this face. you could also say you love . . .rocking , this face. I have thought about it alot, and the only conclusion i have is,... you suprised me and i didnt see that coming. i dont like it, but i'll roll with. just be careful next season,
ps. quit your day job to become a real detective, so that you can quit your night job.
Featuring Andrew W.K., Tegan and Sara, GZA, and David Cross doing an excellent Bono impersonation. I love the band Fucked Up (go download "The Chemistry of Common Life" if you've never heard them), and think this is actually a great cover. Merry Christmas, boys and girls!
Guys, the boyfriend of one my best friends in Ohio died unexpectedly yesterday. Still don't know why, but basically if you have any good thoughts or higher powers you can send her (and my) way, that'd be good. :/
Personal update time! So, it's come to this... after some time spent sitting on my ass at home and getting nowhere sending off resumes, I've decided to take matters on the road and ditch the one horse hell hole of Corsicana for greener pastures... and what pasture in this state is greener than Austin? So I'm here in ATX for a little while canvassing for a job to tide me over until I take the Bar this summer. I've been staying with Micky, as well as Sarah and Ryan, who have all been very generous in providing me with a base of operations while I try to line up some employment. I love this city, and figure that it's as good a place as any, and better than most, really, to languish for a time. I'm gonna try and stick around for a little while longer... got an interview next Wednesday for a part time LSAT teaching gig, and past that... well... we'll see what I can find. Wish me luck.
Oh, and if ya'll happen to know of anybody in the Austin area who's hiring underexperienced and overeducated law school grads, gimme a ring. :)
i woke up this morning and it was snowing. i wasnt dreading work and i actually enjoyed it. i came home and made baked potato soup for katie and sarah. katie made jalepeno cheese corn bread that ruled. we went to see new moon, bad acting, bad plot, sweet dire wolvies. we snuck into another movie called kurbaan. (apparently the neighborhood i live in demands bollywood films. they showed the one preview before that movie and it was for THAT movie. we left that movie before it started and snuck into see brothers. that movie was intense and really good compared to new moon.
all in all it was a pretty good day.
i miss you guys, come visit if you can even if its for a night.
The first one is not the most epic beard ever. But watch out for the second one, it will blow your friggin minds! Seriously, make sure you're sitting when you see it. Not because you're gonna faint or anything, because you're gonna be so excited about how awesomely epic this beard is. Enough with the build up, here it is...
if you havent caught it yet, watch the league on FX, its pretty funny. People you might recognize from it are paul scheer from human giant and john lajoie from the internet video everyday normal guy and ofcourse SHOW YOUR GENTIALS!
I know I posted this on facebook too but I can't help myself.
Guys, I just found out today that the poem about zombies I wrote and posted here on the blog awhile back (in like November of last year I'd say) was accepted for publication in Hiram Poetry Review. I don't really know a ton about this journal, but it's been continuously publishing since 1966 which in the literary world is a pretty damned impressive feat.
I'M SO STOKED - this is the first time I've finally gotten something accepted. Validation is nice.
This annual meteor shower is created when Earth passes through trails of comet debris left in space long ago by Halley's Comet. The "shooting stars" develop when bits typically no larger than a pea , and mostly sand-grain-sized, vaporize in Earth's upper atmosphere.
"Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
People in cities and suburbs will see far fewer meteors, because all but the brightest of them will be overpowered by light pollution. The best view will be from rural areas (the moon will not be a factor, so dark skies will make for ideal viewing).
When and how to watch
The best time to watch will be between 1 a.m. and dawn local time Wednesday morning, regardless of your location. That's when the patch of Earth you are standing on is barreling headlong into space on Earth's orbital track, and meteors get scooped up like bugs on a windshield.
Peak activity, when Earth wades into the densest part of the debris, is expected around 6 a.m. ET (3 a.m. PT).
hey dudes, it has been a while. it had def been a hard month, trying to find a job, an apartment and dealing with other stuff. but after all that stress I moved into a new apartment with my friends dustinn and reagan. and i got a job! my apartment is off westheimer and dunvale, which is basically like 10-15 mins from everything i need. AMC and walmart across the street, chipotle down the street, 10 minutes from the museum district, 10 minutes from dru ( hey man ). Although i have job, its starting to annoy me. the chefs are deuchers. apparently i did somethign wrong the other night and i should be "expecting a talk" at work today. am i fucking twelve?! anyway ill prolly start looking else where. oh yeah the place i work is called beavers and its BBQ set in fine dining kinda, cocktails and whatnot. nothing special. but then again i never really took a liking to BBQ so . . .
in good news, dustinn and i went to see every time i die last night at the new house of blues and it was sweet. its basically a better verizon wireless. the show was just what i needed to get my spirits up. i feel like myself at shows, which i havent been feeling lately.
cant wait for the wedding, i miss all of you.
also i should be having a house warming party in the future i will notify in advance.
Can someone that is going back to Nac on Sunday night let Beth tag along? She needs to be back in town for work/school Monday morning and I'd rather not drive from dallas to nac to houston to catch a flight for a weekend trip ><
this is the Halfway Pool on the Abel Tasman Coastal Track. it is in New Zealand. that is Hart giving me the sweet high-five. the water was a very chilly 12ish degrees C. which is 53ish in F. this jump was just after about 4 hours of moderate hiking. the Abel Tasman is one of the most famous places in NZ. we had great weather. we took over 700 pictures. so. they're coming online soon in batches. when i get around to it. it was a great trip and i want to thank hart and katie for coming to visit me. and especially anne and klaus for hosting us and making the trip possible.
Here's some video of Irish dancing (it's called ceili - pronounced Kay-lee)at my sister's recent wedding. It was pretty awesome. I wish we always danced like that!
I'm in front in the first video and Greg is the extra-bouncy one in a red shirt. My sister, obviously, is the one in white.
It's funny watching people (myself included) mess up and get corrected by the instructor. :)
I have no idea why I'm posting this. Or, for that matter, why I've watched it a good 14 times in the past hour and a half. All I know is 1) it started when I caught about 20 minutes of one of the National Lampoon Vacation flicks on tv earlier today, and 2) it does sort of match that photo of Mick Fleetwood that Smashley posted below.
in response to sarah's post, i figured i should post here so everyone would see it, instead of in the comments, where only everyone who cares about responses to sarah would see it.
you should book a hotel room for the wedding now if you are going to stay in the hotel lawrence. that is where ashley and rabbit, and more importantly, josephine, are staying for the wedding. there are rooms set aside for us both saturday and sunday nights (wedding on sunday) and they will only be held until the 9th of september (THAT IS IN 8 DAYS). after that, you can still get a room, but it might not be at the same price, and there won't be guaranteed rooms available for wedding guests.
if you're invited to the wedding, i sent you an email. if you didn't get it, email me at josephine (dot) bibby (at) gmail (dot) com. i'll forward you the email with all the details.
the phone number to hotel lawrence is 214-761-9090. tell them you are with the stinedurf/shepherd wedding. you need a credit or debit card to reserve, but you can pay in any form, and not until you get there.
Any of you need roommates at the hotel for Smash and Rabbit's wedding? It would be Greg and me...no funny business of course!
Should I be reserving a room RIGHT NOW? Can I wait?
update on me: i have no job still and a seriously damaged bank account to boot. i got an interview though - wish me luck. i might be a nanny in a couple weeks! i am interning right now (no pay obviously) at a middle school. schools are weird. it's like everyone there lives in a different world and they all believe they are very, very special. and i'm not referring to the students.
which means we might see some marvel action figures in the new toy story 3
or
there will be an xmen movie where mickey plays cyclops, minnie plays jean grey
or
they will remake beauty and the BEAST . . . .either way these are the things that arent good, i read that marvel and pixar are excited about a team-up, sigh
I got linked this today at work and it is some of the most hilarious shit I have ever read =)
http://dontevenreply.com/
I'll put one here just for a taste.
Original ad: DOG WATCHER WANTED! we are leaving town for a week and need someone to take care of our 6-year-old rottweiler. he is very friendly! we are looking for someone trustworthy with experience, so we will need references. will pay $30 per day. email if interested!
From Tyrone Jackson to ************@******.org yo wat up! i saw your ad looking for someone to take care of your rottweiler. ill do it no problem. i live in the area and can pick him up.
From Tanya ****** to Me tyrone do you have any references? can you tell us a little about yourself?
From Tyrone Jackson to Tanya ******* yea i got some references. you can talk to my bro devon, or my associate g-ice. ill have them hit u up. a little about myself: i love taking care of dogs and shit
now you said your rottweiler is friendly. how friendly is he? would he be able to fight another dog if they were both put in a ring? just wonderin.
also can you pay me the money up front straight cash? i need it to enter in a contest.
From Tanya ****** to Me I dont want you watching my dog!!!! find someone else for your dog fighting ring sicko!!!!!!!
From Tyrone Jackson to Tanya ******* whoa whoa slow yo role! who said anything about dog fighting? i was just wondering if your dog could protect itself, in case an angrier dog tries to start some shit while im walkin him. you need to chill the fuck out and stop jumpin to conclusions
From Tyrone Jackson to Tanya ******* look you triflin bitch just gimme the dog. i need it, the fight is tonight! ill pay you 200 cash plus 20 percent of whatever i win
From Tanya ****** to Me STOP IT
A few hours later...
From G Ice to Tanya ****** ay yo wat up woman, its ya boy tyrone's boy G Ice. tyrone was sayin he needed a reference for ur dog babysittin job so here i am. tyrone be great with dogs. he loves em so much and will care the shit out of them. my boy tyrone is definitely the right man for the job, i aint playin
ive watched probably a hundred ted talks in the past week, which is something i highly recommend, but this one stands out as having universal appeal. such a good story teller.
I found out about this site - http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ and it's hilarious. Please check it out. It really made me LOL and is very quotable for you boys.
I saw these last nights with some friends...Hilarious!
This one spurned the debate of whether or not either of us would do katie couric. Most of us agreed on yes, but for different reasons. A few said cause she's hot, others said just because you could brag about it. I think it'd be awesome just because you would always think that she was telling the news to you personally, and also you could tell everyone some of the stories she's bringing up is totally because you said something, or that any particular line that night was just for you...
Don't forget about Jobs!
Gettin blessed by Joe Biden in space...
and now to lighten the mood =)
Also there is a metal remix of that song, that turns out to be a remix, of the remix. They keep the original video, the lil jon part, and also parody what little jon says in metal form.
Ran across this a few minutes ago... nothing too special, just the latest edition of The Onion. It provided me a fun bit of levity after getting gored in the ass by a bankruptcy exam. Check it out, and don't forget to pay tribute to our new Chinese masters!
I can only assume you are going to put your point into "cock size", but im interested to hear for certain. Also, huge earthquake off the coast, care for tsunami!
It tells us very, very little about what's actually going on, but I have a feeling that this is the beginning of yet another historical scale clusterfuck... the kind of shit that makes Sir Edward Gibbon wish he was still around so he could write about it. Feel free to speculate in the comments as to what's actually going on.
Also, if any of you are actually interested, I've come across this full version of Matt Tiabbi's Rolling Stone screed against Goldman Sachs. They seem to have ommitted a lot of the gory mechanical details in the abridged version that I posted a link to earlier... but this... this just makes me angry. Anyone interested in justice n' shit really should read and try to understand what's going on here... and what's even more ridiculous is the number of people who are actually jumping to the defense of this firm... who are so comfortable with their ideological blinders that they refuse to impute moral culpabilty to the institutions who are so actively subverting democratic ideals and engaging in outright securities fraud at our expense. This Adam Smith/Pavlov reaction baffles me.
"The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
God... hyperbole really is the most fucking awesome thing ever, you know?
You know how occasionally... just occasionally... I'll go off on rants and convoluted explanations about things that I know less about than I'm letting on and you really don't want to hear about in the first place, but that I nonetheless regard as fundamental for understanding the future of western democracy? This is sorta like that, only I'm not cornering you at flashbacks some eight beers deep, and you don't have to feign interest because you're that good of a friend. :) But seriously, though, this stuff is pretty interesting.
Full disclaimer: I certainly don't want to bring anyone down over the following, so if you're easily disturbed by national financial uncertainty (or are heavily vested in the status quo) you might want to just disregard this post and turn your attention to the Disney/Dali collaboration a little further down.
I'm bored with my studies... fucking real estate fraud litigation horseshit... and have decided to put together a post of little bits and pieces of the bigger (and unremittingly bleak) economic picture we all keep hearing about. I don't know nearly as much as I'd like about it... it's one of those areas where the more you learn exposes just how much you don't and probably will never know. But me... I get a real kick out of watching the collapse unfold. Yeah, I'm something of an armchair doomsayer in my spare time, but if you're stuck in the lower decks of the same sinking ship as everyone else, what else are you going to but stay informed and laugh heartily at the whole clusterfuck? Hell, I personally think I'm gonna come out of this whole thing ahead of the pack, as my massive law school debts will be rendered worthless by coming devaluation of the dollar. In short, I see no reason to fret these days, as I really don't have much interest in watching the late 20th century maintain long into the 21st... it's just that the mechanics of this change are fucking fascinating. So, below is a little sampling of information I've come across that you might find interesting.
Also: I think I've told a lot of you about this lecture, but watch as Elizabeth Warren explains the possibility of massive future wealth disparity (as a function of the increasingly unstable American family).
On the Federal Reserve: This one is complicated. I have a lot of problems with the structure of the Fed (namely how our money supply is controlled exclusively by a shadowy board of governers elected by private shareholders in the form of major banks... yes, our country's central bank is privately owned... and how there is no accountability to Congress or Article III courts... let alone any sort of firm, transparent audit process in place). Check out the following, as a top Fed official plays dumb before Congress and refuses to disclose anything about the $9 trillion or so in new money they've just introduced into the system. (Also, pretty much any video on youtube of Rep. Grayson sticking it to the oligarchs is worth your time) Incidentally, Rep. Ron Paul, that stodgy old "constitutionalist" maverick, has introduced legislation in the House requiring a full audit of the Fed... at last count, it has something like 245 votes behind it, meaning that we may get the veil pulled back for us pretty soon.
My personal favorite Jenga pieces in the whole mess: Anyone heard of Credit Default Swaps? This piece does a pretty good job of explaining them and their role in destabilizing our economy (though a lot of guys made a shitload of money over the course of a decade trading these bullshit abstractions that pass for insurance policies). If you want a little more in-depth discussion, check out the CDS wiki.
Why Goldman Sachs officials, if not wholly to blame, should be the first to hit the wall when the revolution comes: I want to say that I called this one before Rolling Stone, of all publications, wound up turning it into kind of a big thing. There's been a sort of war of words now between RS (which is now somewhat relevant for the first time in... gah... at least since they caved and put Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show on the cover) and Goldman Sachs (who used the AIG scandal as a conduit to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars their way, and then used the whole executive bonus scandal as a clever sleight of hand to distract from the funneling of much larger amounts). Anyway, check this piece out... maybe not the most solid, objective reporting I've ever read, but I think it sums up the problem nicely.
Only tangentially related:
... and this is just a little smattering of all the press out there waiting for the informed citizen to untangle. And Christ, it is daunting. All the stuff I just posted is pretty scattershot and unorganized... really more just trivia about our problems than comprehensive overview. But, you know, I see this all as good news in the end. Things are about to change, and if you're like me you'll agree that it's been a long time coming. So me... I like to spend my time daydreaming about the brave new world a'coming down the pike. If nothing else, we'll have some great stories to tell our grandchildren, right? :)
I don't really have too much to say that Mike, Dru, and Brian haven't already laid out. Needless to say, the whole affair was suitably epic from start to finish... plenty of stories, all laid out in bullet points below, to which I have little to add.
But I will say this: I have fallen desperately in love with New York City. There's nothing I can say here that would impart to you, if you've never been there, the scale and diversity and pervasive weirdness of the place. I don't care that it was founded by the vile Dutch... NYC is the Great American Melting pot brought to a rapid boil... everything right and wrong about America stacked 80 stories high, with stakes in the endeavor up for grabs to anyone willing to take part. Oppressive institutions and limitless opportunity abound, and while they may not actually have an inch physical space left in the place, there's room for you and me there.
...
Sometime on Wednesday night, absolutely floating after a solid showing at the Jeopardy audition, I chugged a pitcher of Irish Car Bomb in a bar somewhere in the East Village (thanks again, BriBri). This is not as hard as one might think, and it earns you a spot on the wall of fame at Cheapshots Bar, plus a healthy round of drunken applause. Needing a few minutes to recover, I dragged Dru outside to smoke and gawk some more at the hip, frantic madness of the Village.
"So, did I mention again that I nailed that audition?" "Yeah, homie... I'm really excited for you." I lit a smoke, cocked my head to the side, and let out a pitcher's worth of belch. "Dru, I really hope that this pans out. I mean, I know it's a dumb pipe dream, but the money they have up for grabs could solve a lot of problems... fund a lot of other dumb pipe dreams." "Dan, if there's anyone who could make some crazy shit like this happen, it's you. I mean, we've come this far." "Yeah..." I looked around, feeling that massive drink starting to come on and still just stunned that, Holy Freaking God, we're actually in New York City. "So I think I want to move here, man. I have no idea how I'd do it, short of... uh... winning a bunch of money on Jeopardy"
Dru nodded his approval, obviously as impressed with the place as I was. Then we started throwing out all kinds of fun bullshit plans, playing with about a half-mil worth of game show winnings I'll likely never see, gathering everyone up and settling ourselves into that enormous urban playground. We finished our cigarettes and stumbled back inside, and I, having gone from zero to drunk in the lifespan of a Camel Light, thought to myself... "Goddamn... that was a pitcher of Guinness"
It's official, just dropped brian off, now im gonna show rip van winkle how it's really done.
Things Mike left out: Downing a beer in every state. Watching a cars wheel fall off right in front of us. Best Jerusalem food ever. Rocking "i <3 NYC" by Andrew WK as NYC came into view. Partying like fucking rock stars in Athens (well at least like alt-bluegrass stars). Subway performers. "Whats teh worst thing a black guy can say to a jew?" 'Hi dad!' Im not looking for a hand out, just a hand up." - Guy selling The Onion (dan bought one). If its Armageddon, then Arm-a-gettin' drunk. The Empire State Building. MoMA MoMA MoMA. Challenging freggot new yorkers to a game of beer pong. Times Square at night. "this car smells like nutsack and farts" 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.
im sure someone will fill in the blanks, for now ZZZzzZzzzzzZZZ
