When did it become ok to be selfish, rude and stupid? I mean I recall my 3rd grade teacher wouldn't stand for any of that crap.... So when did it become ok? When did Americans give up on being smart? Why are you some how defective if you are interested in something besides getting high, getting laid or getting paid? Where would we be if Crick and Watson had only been interested in chasing skirts?
Politics.... It seems that a lot of people are saying anyone but Bush, fine I say who ever will make it easiest for me to immigrate to a EU country get's my vote. For the most part I haven't voted most of my life, I have vetoed and protested. The only time that I voted for a winner was when I was vetoing. It was the only time that I have voted Democrat in my life, my old home town's local congressional district was redistricted and 2 districts were folded into one, because Detroit lost
too much of it's population. Anyway the Ann Arbor Rep was an ultra liberal fool who's daughter went to my High School and were snooty liberialer than thou types that I couldn't stand... and then this woman's campaign kept sending us junk mail and calling our house. One day my brother got a pre-recorded call from Martin Sheen asking that we vote for her..... I got so fed up that I considered sending her a do not contact letter, and under Michigan Law having a 3rd party contact you after you have informed someone to stop can be charged as stalking.... I would have loved to see that... any way she lost, so maybe there is some justice in the world....
I just got done having visitors, my sister and her 'friend'. I don't have issues with my sister as a guest, and her friend was ok, but do we ever think about how much we cost others when we stay at their homes? I think of the people that I have stayed with around the world and I know that I do my best to be unibtrusive and to pay my own way, but there is no way that you can 100% pay your own way when staying at someone's place. So to everyone that has let me crash on your floor, couch or what ever thank you and you are welcome to my couch...
Which reminds me, I have been spending my IKEA pay at the store and I now have a couch, a coffee table and a new quilt and cover.
in black of course
I couldn't find the photo of my quilt cover it's a cool blue eyeball/bubbles/ Yog - Sothoth looking thing.
I have also been buying stuff to aid in my drunkeness, a cocktail shaker, a strainer, coasters and cocktail glasses.... now I can drink my vodka tonic in style... and by the way Shakers rose vodka is worth the price, classy stuff for the wanna be hip booze hound.
A while ago I wrote about seeing the Jetsons and Disney's Tomorrowland DVD. I just received the 2nd disc in that Tomorrowland series from netflix, and while I have yet to watch all of it, the short on the original intent behind EPCOT and the interview with Ray Bradbury make me want to go out and buy my own copy of these DVDs. EPCOT was planed as a future city where people would be able to live and work with in a simple system to life. Everything was planned so that people could walk a lot of places and interact with nature and a community.... you just have to see it for yourself.
been reading a lot lately... maybe it will start me writing again. .....
'How the world should have cried on the day that Jack Kirby died'
- Monster Magnet
They are going to be playing locally on Sept 1st and I plan to go and see them. Also I just read a great book called Tales to Astonish by Ronin Ro about the life and times of Jack 'King' Kirby. if you don't Kirby drew the Fantastic Four and just about ever other great Marvel comic of the 1960's, and created, co created or helped develop marvel's roster of heroes and all of that. He, along with almost all of there great artists, never cashed in the way that Stan Lee did on the creativity period. Anyway a solid read that gives a good overview of the man and his life... why do I get chocked up at even the thought that Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys and Kalivier & Klay) credits Jack for inspiring everything that he ever wrote, and the fact that Glen Danzig attended Kirbys funeral and was quoted to say 'The King is dead Long Live the King'?
The other book I just read is the very sold memoir "Never the Same Again' by Jesse Sublett who fronted the Austin punk/ new wave group the Skunks. It's about his girlfriends murder in 1976 and his time playing in bands and his fight with cancer. It's a good read that has a hard boiled edge and in so many ways tells of the inner pain that drives so much great music and writing....
currently I am re reading 'Under the Sweetwater Rim' by Louis L'amour. I read all of his stuff back in high school and haven't picked up a single book if his since the early 1990's, I just figured that I should see if I could find what made his books to readable when I was 17, but not when I was 27....
what are you reading? do you read?
Ok, now more iTunes stuff... here is a playlist from my iTunes...
I have named this one
The Time Crunch Crisis
I Left as a Lamb (But I'll Return as a Lion) by Adam West
The Last Goodbye by Agent Orange
Bury My Body by The Animals
Summer Sun by The Beathovens
Words Enough To Tell you by The Mascots
Searchin`for shake by The Shakemakers
The man You`ll Be Looking for by The Tages
Bay City Rollers We Love You By The Tartan Horde
Graveyard Rock by Tarantula Goul
Dreams Of Poe by The 3 D Invisables
American Midnight by The Wednesdays
Angela by New Math
Politics.... It seems that a lot of people are saying anyone but Bush, fine I say who ever will make it easiest for me to immigrate to a EU country get's my vote. For the most part I haven't voted most of my life, I have vetoed and protested. The only time that I voted for a winner was when I was vetoing. It was the only time that I have voted Democrat in my life, my old home town's local congressional district was redistricted and 2 districts were folded into one, because Detroit lost
too much of it's population. Anyway the Ann Arbor Rep was an ultra liberal fool who's daughter went to my High School and were snooty liberialer than thou types that I couldn't stand... and then this woman's campaign kept sending us junk mail and calling our house. One day my brother got a pre-recorded call from Martin Sheen asking that we vote for her..... I got so fed up that I considered sending her a do not contact letter, and under Michigan Law having a 3rd party contact you after you have informed someone to stop can be charged as stalking.... I would have loved to see that... any way she lost, so maybe there is some justice in the world....
I just got done having visitors, my sister and her 'friend'. I don't have issues with my sister as a guest, and her friend was ok, but do we ever think about how much we cost others when we stay at their homes? I think of the people that I have stayed with around the world and I know that I do my best to be unibtrusive and to pay my own way, but there is no way that you can 100% pay your own way when staying at someone's place. So to everyone that has let me crash on your floor, couch or what ever thank you and you are welcome to my couch...
Which reminds me, I have been spending my IKEA pay at the store and I now have a couch, a coffee table and a new quilt and cover.
in black of course
I couldn't find the photo of my quilt cover it's a cool blue eyeball/bubbles/ Yog - Sothoth looking thing.
I have also been buying stuff to aid in my drunkeness, a cocktail shaker, a strainer, coasters and cocktail glasses.... now I can drink my vodka tonic in style... and by the way Shakers rose vodka is worth the price, classy stuff for the wanna be hip booze hound.
A while ago I wrote about seeing the Jetsons and Disney's Tomorrowland DVD. I just received the 2nd disc in that Tomorrowland series from netflix, and while I have yet to watch all of it, the short on the original intent behind EPCOT and the interview with Ray Bradbury make me want to go out and buy my own copy of these DVDs. EPCOT was planed as a future city where people would be able to live and work with in a simple system to life. Everything was planned so that people could walk a lot of places and interact with nature and a community.... you just have to see it for yourself.
been reading a lot lately... maybe it will start me writing again. .....
'How the world should have cried on the day that Jack Kirby died'
- Monster Magnet
They are going to be playing locally on Sept 1st and I plan to go and see them. Also I just read a great book called Tales to Astonish by Ronin Ro about the life and times of Jack 'King' Kirby. if you don't Kirby drew the Fantastic Four and just about ever other great Marvel comic of the 1960's, and created, co created or helped develop marvel's roster of heroes and all of that. He, along with almost all of there great artists, never cashed in the way that Stan Lee did on the creativity period. Anyway a solid read that gives a good overview of the man and his life... why do I get chocked up at even the thought that Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys and Kalivier & Klay) credits Jack for inspiring everything that he ever wrote, and the fact that Glen Danzig attended Kirbys funeral and was quoted to say 'The King is dead Long Live the King'?
The other book I just read is the very sold memoir "Never the Same Again' by Jesse Sublett who fronted the Austin punk/ new wave group the Skunks. It's about his girlfriends murder in 1976 and his time playing in bands and his fight with cancer. It's a good read that has a hard boiled edge and in so many ways tells of the inner pain that drives so much great music and writing....
currently I am re reading 'Under the Sweetwater Rim' by Louis L'amour. I read all of his stuff back in high school and haven't picked up a single book if his since the early 1990's, I just figured that I should see if I could find what made his books to readable when I was 17, but not when I was 27....
what are you reading? do you read?
Ok, now more iTunes stuff... here is a playlist from my iTunes...
I have named this one
The Time Crunch Crisis
I Left as a Lamb (But I'll Return as a Lion) by Adam West
The Last Goodbye by Agent Orange
Bury My Body by The Animals
Summer Sun by The Beathovens
Words Enough To Tell you by The Mascots
Searchin`for shake by The Shakemakers
The man You`ll Be Looking for by The Tages
Bay City Rollers We Love You By The Tartan Horde
Graveyard Rock by Tarantula Goul
Dreams Of Poe by The 3 D Invisables
American Midnight by The Wednesdays
Angela by New Math
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I love ROTLD and watch it too much (on dvd of course). Anyways, I didn't know a soundtrack existed!!! Do you have it in mp3 or is it still in print and for sale? I would love to check it out
You got excellent taste in movies btw
[Edited on Aug 20, 2004 1:12PM]