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tuesday, february 29, 2000 i can hear what sounds like a dog barking in the next room but i know that can't be true. it comes every three seconds. it is not the heart beating as one--it's torture! okay, it wasn't a dog barking. it was the fan my officemate had turned on, squeaking as it oscillated. it oscillates no more, and i can return to sanity. unfortunately i am going to miss tonight's tom green show (with guest star monica lewinsky) because i will be at the yo la tengo show. hopefully i will not be snoozing through it, as their most recent album seems to suggest. anyway did you know tom green is an accomplished rap artist? monday, february 28, 2000 coolest thing i've ever seen on a weblog: riothero's moving eyes. transfixing. friday, february 25, 2000 now that entropy has named me an indie-rock geek (that's not true, is it?), i feel justified in spouting off about the excessive cd-purchasing i have been engaging in of late. i think i may have an addiction. yesterday i strolled down to the virgin megasuck and bought discs by guided by voices, the make-up, and the promise ring (oh yeah there's that indie style). then today i was out buying movie tickets for tonight's showing of wonder boys and i simply could not help but be drawn inside tower records, where i found crooked rain, crooked rain for ten bucks, plus morphine's the night and the new yo la tengo (both on sale, of course). i still haven't got very far through a stack of 10 i bought at a flea market a couple of weeks ago.... i can't seem to control myself. but i still have some crack money left over, so i think it's okay. i'm the same way with books: too many to read. i also popped in to barnes & noble today and bought a history of psychedelic music. luckily i only paid three bucks for it. maybe i should stop talking about myself? here's a pretty cool thing i found on mediagossip: a zine publisher decides to make a punk zine about that most un-punk of subjects: money. read his story here then go look at the magazine, called green, which is supposed to be geared toward people who are really not into personal finance, if you can stand to think about that kind of stuff. obscure doomsday scenarios, from shift magazine. alien memes! thursday, february 24, 2000 salon considers jon to be a frat boy. not sure i agree with them there, though remember actual fraternity affiliation is not required to qualify. what do you think, is jon stewart a frat boy? come on people, i'm ultrabored today. everybody is linking to the grim reaper age guesser, and everybody loves quizzes, so why not? first chapter of jon katz's geeks. wednesday, february 23, 2000 strange little "supergroup": members of primus, phish, and the police. mini elliott smith review, at the request of two guys who were in attendance: town hall, a plush-seat concert hall comparable to radio city but more intimate, was the perfect venue for this acoustic show. just elliott and his acoustic guitar, sitting in a chair playing his sad, beautiful songs. it was funny to hear him ask "do you want to hear a happy song or a sad song?" because even the happy songs are sad. or is it that "happy and sad come in quick succession," so it's hard to differentiate? he broke the spell just a couple of times, once collapsing in giggles after messing up. more comic relief came when he threw up his hands in good-natured exasperation at the umpteenth call for "sweet adeline," from a trio of loud, misguided boys in the balcony. he played a bunch of songs from "either/or" ("ballad of big nothing," "between the bars," "rose parade," "angeles," "say yes"), a couple from "xo" ("waltz no. 2," "independence day"), some new ones ("son of sam," "happiness," maybe more) and some even older ones ("clementine" my fave). he did two encores before blowing us kisses and shuffling offstage, graceful to the last. oh, and thanks to this fan page, i give you the setlist: son of sam tuesday, february 22 fans of john chabalko, check out some of his photos. note the absence of slant-angles and wonder why. note especially oakland childers. maybe not suitable for viewing if you happen to be so unlucky to be at work today: the alternative english dictionary. [via my dog wants to be on the radio] thursday, february 17, 2000 damn netscape to hell! now as i was saying before i was so rudely interrupted (while trying to click a freaking pull-down menu!), lest you should forget that women are exploited and objectified, some folks are keeping track of the top ten most offensive magazine ads. includes an editorial page from harper's bazaar, which i think is a bit of a stretch. magazines make their models look cracked out all the time. what's the harm in that? quotes a lot from the poorly written feminist work "the beauty myth." [via the excellent pith & vinegar] silly email forward in the form of a website. wednesday, february 16, 2000 1. Rage Against the Machine: Racism Bad, Black People Good! (Epic) 25 i could have sworn i linked to mediachannel.org a couple of moons ago, but maybe not. i saw it linked at monkeyfist a few days ago, and revisited. there really is a lot of stuff there. good for when you're in a calm, reading mood, rather than a show-me mood. so i missed dave eggers last night, due to working late. :( perhaps i should read another story about him. a survey says the internet is creating a new kind of social isolation. this reminds me of a compelling story published in rolling stone a while back that is now out in full book form as "geeks," a nonfiction/ thing by jon katz. i should freeze my credit card in water like my mom says to stop myself from buying it and the eggers book. but they're both so cheap! tonight i am going to hear literary it boy dave eggers, author of "a heartbreaking work of staggering genius," read from said memoir. and the still-hibernating but kicking-in-real-life mysterious box points me to a dissection of the work of eggers and his predecessor, david foster wallace, whose first novel, "the broom of the system," i am reading and loving right now. counterculture-lovers will enjoy a whole buncho stuff about william burroughs, including original reviews, blah blah blah. meanwhile i'm really pissed that "magnolia" got mostly snubbed in the oscar nominations. p.t. anderson probably is too. i mean, come on, "the green mile" for best picture?! i take a little comfort in the razzies, sort of the anti-oscars, honoring the worst films and actors. new from the spark: the bitch test. at 35 percent, i am actually less bitchy than the average bitch. there is also an an ass quiz, also 35 percent! what that means i don't know. [via mouse] friday, february 11, 2000 thursday, february 10, 2000 she's my hero. built to spill live album, imaginatively titled "live," will out itself april 18. how about those crystal skulls?...or maybe some anti-cell phone activists? [that last one came from pith and vinegar, a very nice blog indeed.] i'm getting excited for tomorrow's old 97s show. i will be soooo sad if i don't hear my strongest song-obsession in recent memory, "barrier reef." (what's so great?) and then there is the giddiness i feel looking at this picture of the lead singer. his name is rhett. wednesday, february 9,2000 tuesday, february 8, 2000 early script versions of magnolia contain a character called The Worm. this is really kind of confusing but it contains all the words to the little kid's rap. [via strange brew] monday, february 7, 2000 whoa. ally mcbeal's weird-bodied roommate is crazy. check those quotes! drudge reports that a naughty song was playing just before hillary clinton was introduced at a campaign stop where she officially announced her candidacy for senate. i don't think i know the song, because i avoid billy joel like the plague, but why do i have a vague idea as to the chorus? can someone sing it for me? friday, february 4, 2000 i'm kind of disappointed in steven brill (not my brother). his media-watchdog magazine once gave all appearances of being idealistic and committed to its mission. now it's hopelessly tied to brill's greed, and him quitting as editor-in-chief doesn't make a whit of difference. you gotta go here just because of the name: eric conveys an emotion. i like "sarcastic respect for authority figures," even though technically it's not an emotion. [via medley] thursday, february 3, 2000 dave grohl was arrested in australia for being drunk on a moped. and he's not that sorry about it. imagine that. wednesday, february 2 i better hurry up and finally switch my registration to new york so i can vote for jello biafra, huh? he believes in "nonviolent extermination of the rich." how could i not? ... i'm loving salon's political coverage lately; particularly this drier-than-dry primary preview. (oh just read it, who cares if it's old news? it's not really news anyway.) |
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