I would have I would have! My best friend growing up is a ballerina and she dropped mad ballet knowledge on me (I too knew that was not first position, but wouldn't have remembered which one it was). Dancing on my Grave was her favorite book for a while.
When you're a band very few people give a shit about, you get thrown onto bills with whoever's around. We have played with the most incongruous bands and what ends up happening is that everyone's fans get pissed at having to sit through the other bands because at shows like that it's anyone's guess what the order will be and what time things will happen.
Bravo. My husband and I were just talking about how there has been a never-ending stream of phenomenally bad Christmas TV movies in the last 20 years. Someone's always looking for something or someone and finding something or someone unexpected in the process and OH HOW SPECIAL it's on Christmas and everyone learns something.
If that is the one with Dudley Moore, I saw that with my mom in the theaters while we were taking a break from shopping or something, and we were both speechless at how bad it was. I can't remember how old I was but I think I still had some tiny vestige of my Arthur-era Dudley Moore crush and that movie killed it.
I was forced to sit through it as an adult (^*#@! adolescent brothers-in-law) and the one entertaining second of that film is towards the end when they're in some damn house and their display manger catches on fire and it gets thrown through a plate glass window onto the front lawn where carolers are singing and everyone screams.
I am thrilled when I see the word Slayer and it's not about Buffy. I have no opinion on that show whatsoever - never seen it - but any time I turn on Logo with the hopes of unwinding to RuPaul's Drag Race or the A List, BUFFY IS ALWAYS ALWAYS FUCKING ON.
Also, Slayer is bad ass and that video made my day just now.
I know I never will. sorry NVR will. The Kevin Smith/SWA debacle was the subject of my very first Videogum post, and my first experience with downvotes. And all I did was mention the time he broke that toilet seat by sitting on it.
I am quitting my job so I can keep up with you guys. Here it is so many hours later and I was sitting here thinking the SAME THING and knowing that everyone already said it. My job sucks.
oh boo AND hiss. My band has a show in Houston December 11 otherwise I would totally make the trip to Austin. Any excuse to go to a better part of Texas than this one!
I have a Sesame Street poster that came with an LP that my parents got me when I was like 2, which as I'm sure you can tell was a long-ass time ago. Not only was it of Sesame Street, it was drawn by the great Jack Davis who some of you may know is (was?) a Mad Magazine artist, and as it happened a few years later Mad became one of my consuming passions. Since it was drawn by Jack Davis all of the characters look very weird.
The poster is totally jacked up because it traveled with me to boarding school and college for years, where I did not quite realize the damage that taping or blue-tacking it on the walls and pulling it down every few months was going to do. But a few years ago I restored it the best I could with a little foam board and elbow grease and finally framed it. And the thing is HUGE. It makes me sad when people come over and don't comment on it since it is in a very prominent place in my living room.
Yes, I am a huge pop culture nerd.
I personally have smoked enough weed in my life that it does.
I am kidding, not about the weed but I know what you mean even without it. Like when you see "Easy Reader" on Electric Company years later and you get that it was an Easy Rider joke.
Me too... I guess it was someone that was there with whoever was videoing her, but at first I didn't realize that she was standing in front of a mirror and I thought maybe someone was coming to kill her.
The rats that were still alive looked really psyched to be there, especially with her flashing their dead comrade all over the place.
Bingo, Steve-o. It's why I quit too, once I checked out how many kids and divorces the junior-high and high school bullies had. And why I don't feel sorry for one second when someone asks "are you on Facebook" and I say "no" and they act like there is absolutely no other way that they could possibly contact me so ooh, I'm so screwed because some a-hole I just met can't remember how to use a telephone or an e-mail program.
The first time I ever saw Myst I was totally high and this friend of my boyfriend's took us up to his company's conference room on a Saturday when nobody was around and we watched while he played it ON A BIG SCREEN, MAN. I was like "Whooooooaaaaa" because I had never seen that type of video game before and of course, I was baked.
Later I tried actually playing it, while not high, and was not as impressed.
Roughnecks! He must be from the county in which I currently reside.
I make fun of the people around here all the time and I can assure you that they make more money than I do. You can make a fortune in the dominant local industries because there is nothing to spend money on except housing and SUVs and most people from here are afraid to fly or leave the county at all so they don't take expensive vacations.
Good on your dad. Empathy is a quality I see very lacking around here these days but it does exist. It's just not expressed towards transplants from... yes, New Jersey.
Bull hockey, it's clearly me.
Also, I saw this episode of SVU and while it was a little ridiculous, the guy does kind of remind me of a gamer that I work with. Replace "child" with "job" and the level of disregard is the same.
The Butthole Surfers album "Locust Abortion Technician" has a photo on either the back cover or inside cover that I'm pretty sure is of this guy in 1987. I tried (not hard) but I couldn't find it online.
OH MY GOD that would be so awesome because people would think it was just a photo at first and they might think it was weird, because who would have a photo in their office of a friend or family member shirtless, holding a teacup and glaring at the camera. But the best part would be when they would flip the fuck out when they saw him move a little.
My mother works for the State of DE and has spent more than enough time around Christine O'Donnell. She is even worse in person than what you see in the media. Can't speak in complete sentences, wears clothes like a slutty 12-year-old to public appearances, makes shit up (ok we knew that already), etc. My mom called me last night embarrassed for her state to the point that all she could do was laugh.
I hope you mean the Crash with James Spader (if you mean one about race, I have no opinion because I never saw it). Another movie I had high hopes for that crushed me with its suckitude. Some stories should never be made into David Cronenberg films.
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