For the last few years I have struggled with my inability to keep a certain five British actresses straight. Be it due to similarity in name or appearance, in my head they tend to merge together into a single, whimsical, five-headed creature. (I call her Semmaly Morthomptonson.) After seeing Synecdoche, New York (disappointing!) last night, and ( Read more... )

In celebration of I AM SEEING THE SILVER JEWS PLAY MUSIC TONIGHT, here is the song "Trains Across the Sea."

Trains Across the Sea (from Starlite Walker by Silver Jews, 1994)

What we have here is arguably the finest Silver Jews song, and inarguably their (insofar as the Jews are a "they") finest-sounding recording. Highlights (including but not ( Read more... )

Hello, friends and lovers. Today I am making available to you an album I recorded many (like, six) years ago. It is being offered completely free of charge -- the only catch is that it isn't very good. The songs were sloppily played and recorded on a 4-track, though you shouldn't really expect to find any lo-fi, GbVish charm here, due to the fact ( Read more... )

Yesterday Andy and I were walking past this cake shop that had some fairly impressive cake designs on display in its front window, and Andy pointed out a cake that was shaped like Oscar the Grouch and said, "Hey look, it's...a garbage man."


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It was so hot here over the weekend, guys. Yesterday it literally broke 140 outside. Oh, if only I were joking:


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I recently made a pretty excellent find at this thrift store near my house. It's a framed print of a cartoonish sort of rendering of Orlando and environs. The cool thing about it is the scope of said environs, and the way the following places are put on pretty much the same scale:

a) the building I worked in for a year and a half with skinnyarms and zorklogicb) ( Read more... )

In celebration of Bobby "Bobby V" Valentine's birthday, please enjoy this Sparks cover I've recorded. The original is presented as a duet between a girl and a guy who are stranded together on a desert island. Unfortunately the person who was going to do the Jane Wiedlin part on my version backed out, so I just sang all of it myself. Lyrically ( Read more... )

Good morning! There's a new Impatiens song up at Cartwheeling.net -- it's an upbeat, almost Christmasy number entitled Seasonal Affective Disorder. Check it out if that sounds in any way appealing to you.

I like in older movies when people use the word "jerk" to mean kind of a stupid or bumbling person rather than someone who is more malicious and assholeish. Partially because I think it's cute, but also because it's funny to think of the more modern connotation being used in that context. It'd be like, "Did you hear Chris spilled coffee on his ( Read more... )

For my seventh birthday one of the the main things I wanted was the vinyl Littlefoot hand puppet offered by Pizza Hut as part of its Land Before Time kids' meal. Seems like an easy and inexpensive enough thing for a parent to pick up, right? Well, yes, assuming your dad knows exactly which fast food place's kids' meal currently features little ( Read more... )