Saturday Aug 14, 2004

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Things to see on the highway from Irvine to Cotati:

The LA jail bus
A sailboat named maude and a motorboat named silverback
A bus stop on the back of a truck (the only time i've seen one of them move)
Orange trucks
A minaret
A massive windmill farm on the 580
A golf course in the middle of a desert
Something called the latino taxi (reprazent)
The marin county civic center (its a frank lloyd wright)
And trees. Dear god I nearly wept to see so many trees lining the highways and covering the hills like moss. Not the phoney desert palms of SoCal (because SoCal is really just a desert anyway), but really real trees! Evergreens and the kind that lose their leaves peaking over the three storey cities. I breathe deeper there, trying to get the place back in my blood. I can't get enough of the hills and the trees and these leafless wildflowers that only bloom for a month of the year. I count my life off with them. I bring them back on ice to share.




and there was a wedding in Maui (no, not mine). more later
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keefa:
Hey, man. You're probably familliar with lots of Elvis Costello without being aware of it; I'd be surprised if you hadn't heard: Oliver's Army, Alison, Watching The Detectives, Accidents Will Happen, Pump It Up, What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love And Understanding, and lots more. I guess his most acclaimed early album is Imperial Bedroom, which is fantastic. But he has a lot of great stuff. I'd also highly recommend This Year's Model for some excellent old punk-attitude with wicked tunes. There is a very good Best Of around which features 2CDs of awesome songs in basically chronological order, which might also be a good starting point, it has most of his well-known songs, some punk, some pop, some of his singer-songwriter stuff, some of his avant-garde things.
boundcreature:
i'm not too hip with the transferring of electronic files... if you have a high-speed connection, you could always just zip up and email a few tracks for me to check out.

i read a few predator comics and the first few issues of Alien/Predator: Deadliest of the Species... but i always found that the Alien and Predator comics that Dark Horse did were boring as shit. Now, I LOVE comics, don't get me wrong, but I just think the visuals are too intense for commercial comics. Most of the artists who worked on that stuff didn't have the chops (or possibly the time and finances) to do it right.

Honestly, I'd love to take a shot at an Alien vs Predator comic myself, but it would take a long time to do right.

I think the movie would've been fine with humans, I think that would be the only way you could make it suspenseful without being goofy. The big problem this movie had was they tried to humanize the Predator and it made the whole audience laugh. They should've humanized the HUMANS and let the creatures remain terrifying and mysterious, they could've created a lot of tension if they had the humans pulling for the Predator to win, never really knowing for sure if he would kill them or let them free. This human/predator tag-team shit was a joke though.

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