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What Do You Have To Say? - Best. Concert. Ever.
Smashing Pumpkins (the kind WITH James Iha version) in their penultimate Chicago concert, Aragon Theatre, April 200o. -
My LJ Friends....
Whatever feast or observation you may or may not be feasting, observing or refusing to acknowledge this time of year, whether it be Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Eid, the Solstice, Saturnalia, Nondemonitional Seasonal Observance Day, Tet, New Underwear Day, Fesitvus, Boxing Day or commemorating Gozer's roasting of all those Chrubs and Zuels in the ( Read more... ) -
New Heights in Dorkitude
(The following is a public service announcement.)
My apologies for saying this to you, sir, I know we don't know each other, but as your fellow human being, I feel it incumbent upon me to inform you that someone (whether it be your cavalier young mistress, your growing-more-resentful-by-the-day wife, that young gun at the office who will inevitably ( Read more... ) -
Guilt-induced opto-tag from weaklingrecords
1) What is your fondest memory from college?
(a) Pretty much any minute I spent with my (super) section-mates in varying states of sobriety.
(b) Shawn Wodden batting down Charlie Ward's final pass in the 1993 FSU game.
(c) Getting college credit to do things like drink beer, go to concerts, and go hiking and scuba-diving at the Great Barrier ( Read more... ) -
Mandatory cultural literacy inventory
1 The Godfather (1972)
2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
5 Pulp Fiction (1994)
6 Schindler’s List (1993)
7 Casablanca (1942)
8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
10 Shichinin no samurai (1954)
11 The Lord of the ( Read more... ) -
In Defiance of God's Will, I Self-Tag.
1. "No!" - TMBG
2. Stanford Hall Demos - Chisel
3. "Werewolves & Lollipops" - Patton Oswalt
4. "Stairs & Elevators" - Heartless Bastards
5. "Best of" - Velvet Underground -
Attention LJ friends... and thw world writ large...
The new Patton Oswalt album is teh brilliant. The fact that it contains material already presented in Comedians of Comedy and Last Laugh '06 does not diminish its brilliance. Its brilliance must be experienced by all, post-haste. -
Friday is Poetry Day; Two years ago today....
First Child ... Second Child by Ogden Nash ( Read more... ) -
Procrastination Nation
With props to Shacid and JPBass ( Read more... ) -
Double your standards, double your fun...
Okay, I'm trying to get this straight. If someone anywhere near the center or left thereof seeks high office, his/her detractors and the press have the divine right to divulge the most minute, trivial details of their lives, no matter how little they may bear on the candidate/nominee's ability to execute the duties of the office he/she seeks. But, ( Read more... )