Day #230: The Pioneers – “Long Shot Kick the Bucket”
I’m pulling the plug on the soundtrack. Time for something new.
Stay tuned…
Day #229: Best Coast – “Our Deal”
Does Nabisco have some kind of secret deal with crossword writers that says that Oreo-related clues must appear in like 75% of all puzzles?!
Day #228: The Melvins – “A History of Drunks”
I finally finished reading Mark Yarm’s Everybody Loves Our Town. The story in a nutshell: punk and metal fans in Washington state formed a bunch of bands and a few record labels. They made some good music. Word started getting out. Everyone started doing a ton of heroin. Nevermind reached #1 on the Billboard charts. Lots of money was thrown around. The scene imploded. Then people moved on to the next thing.
Overall a good read, except for all the parts about Candlebox.
Day #227: Metronomy – “On the Motorway”
When I first started living in DC, my grandma used to ask me all the time why it was that I didn’t like DC. I was confused by the question at first, because I had nothing against this place. Or at least I never remembered saying I did. And, she’d say, “you must not like it very much, you’re always leaving it to go someplace else.”
Tonight, we’re sitting in Logan airport waiting for our flight home. In the span of a month, I’ll have been to the southwest, the midwest, the northeast, and the southeastern United States. Not that I didn’t love just about every minute of it, but after next weekend, I’m looking forward to planting my feet at home base for a few consecutive weeks. I don’t know how some people do this all the time.
The weekend, like this yahd sale, was wicked awesome.
Day #226: Billie Holiday – “Cheek to Cheek”
Caroline and Asaf got married today!
Day #225: Flight of the Conchords – “The Humans Are Dead”
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Boston tonight watching Back to the Future II with Phil. I love old movies’ visions of the future. All those great technological wonders. Especially in this movie, because Zemeckis and company seemed to have worked it out that we’d have ALL the conveniences. Right down to hydratable take-out pizza and power shoe laces.
I’m not so sure about the whole flying cars thing. Can you imagine what the safety features would be on something like that? Maybe one giant airbag that engulfs the whole vehicle on impact. Can you imagine what the road testwould would be like? The instructor would be going through the preliminary checks and ask the driver to check his side, rear, top, and bottom mirrors.
I’d never be able to adjust to all of that as quickly as Marty did in Back to the Future II. While he was in a hoover chase with Griff and the gang just minutes after being transported into this strange new universe, I was still struggling with how he was going to get that bottle of Pepsi open that he ordered at the Cafe 80’s.
Day #224: Pangea – “Make Me Feel Weird”
UPROXX posted another marathon of 5 Second Films. This time with Patton Oswalt and Juliette Lewis guest star this time in what are literally blink-and-you-miss them parts. I still prefer the first round of Top 20 picks. Watch it now. Seriously, it’ll take like less than 5 minutes to watch both unless your Internet is just embarrassingly slow. In which case, you probably won’t be able to offer a sound explanation as to why people would willingly walk into a baby shower. How could you?!!
Day #223: The Amplifites – “It’s My Life”
We got a new intern today. I think she’s going to be a good one. She comes to us for the semester by way of Atlanta. Since it’s her first day, we took her to lunch at Vapiano’s, the chain Italian restaurant, and it surprised me by how totally blown away she was by how trendy DC is, and kept saying so. (We are indeed real northeastern yuppie). “That place is like an adult cafeteria! That’s soooo trendy!” she said as we left the restaurant.
I know Atlanta is far less pretentious by comparison, but I never thought someone from another big city would have such culture shock.
Day #222: The Action – “Follow Me”
I recently read that Bill Clinton wrote only two emails in the course of his entire Presidency, the first of which was just a test email. Today, President Obama signed on to that beloved time wasters portal known as Reddit for an hour-long “Ask Me Anything” chat, responding to something like 10 of 10,000 questions submitted in advance. There was one was about Afghanistan. Another about campaign finance. There was a suspect buzz word question about his platform for small businesses. But it wasn’t all business. He took a question about his favorite basketball player (Jordan) and said a few words about balancing the job and family life. Though, he kept his lips sealed about the recipe for the White House’s own Honey Ale, he assured it will be out soon.
Obama probably went over well with the Reddit crowd — at least those who didn’t get bumped from the site because of the massive spike in traffic — because he answered questions with far less boilerplate pandering that usually happens when the public is invited to ask major candidates questions, punctuating that by closing with a reference to his own “Not Bad” meme.
You can read the chat transcript on Reddit. Scroll down a little to where Biinaryy posted all questions and answers together.
Day #221: Earl Hooker – “You Got to Lose”
…except this picture of a walrus.
