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Wednesday, 12 November 2003 |
from undercover.com:
Moby, Michael Stipe and Eddie Vedder are just a few entertainment stars on a quest to expose all things wrong about George W. Bush.
A contest called Bush-in-30-Seconds has been announced for a nationwide search to create a 30 second ad exposing the lies and failures of George Dubya. The winners add will then be booked to air the week of Dubya's State of the Union address in early 2004.
Moby, an organizer of the project says "it is crucial that voters understand what President Bush's policies really mean for our country. And to do that, we need creative new ads that clearly show what's at stake. he 'Bush-in-30-Seconds' ad contest has been developed and run by a small team of people. We've come together because we believe that by tapping into the vast talent pool of creative people beyond the Beltway, we'll find the right messages and ads to expose the failure of President Bush's policies".
Names involved with this project include Jack Black, Donna Brazile, James Carville, Margaret Cho, Hector Elizondo, Janeane Garofalo, Stan Greenberg, Michael Moore, Mark Pellington, Tony Shalhoub, Katrina vanden Heuvel and Gus Van Sant.
A website has been set up to enter at www.bushin30seconds.org. At the site it says "Sick of the propaganda being beamed at you from the current administration's media mavens? Here's a new way to fight back: Enter MoveOn.org Voter Fund's political ad contest. You don't have to be formally trained in the art of filmmaking, just ready, willing and able to create an ad that tells the truth about George Bush".
Submissions will be taken at the site from November 24 to December 5.
as cheesy as i think this is, i also think that its kinda cool. im not a very politically articulate person, but i do know that in many ways our government is faiing us, the deficit, the huge amount of people without health insurance and so on and so on and so on.
and if you have and the ears of a country, and maybe more importantly, the ears of the young adults, why not use your 'voice' to call attention to some of the things going wrong around these parts. so get out your cameras and make some commercials kids.
this post composed while listening to: interpol turn on the bright lights
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Tuesday, 11 November 2003 |
saw a really good movie this weekend on the sundance channel (or it may have been ifc or bravo). called waydowntown. 4 co-workers bet that they can stay indoors for the longest amount of time. which isnt really difficult because their whole downtown area is connected by a maze of underground walkways, so they can easily get from home to work to shopping and the like without having to go outdoors. but they start to go crazy. worrying about the indoor air being contaminated, headaches, hallucinations, not being able to go without sex. its kind of a cross between office space and what i imagine donnie darko is probably like. definitely worth hunting down if you're looking for a good movie.
and yesterday i watched the movie altered states on dvd. it was a really good movie as well. about a crazy scientist who is desperate to discover the meaning of life. of the one true self. a very strange, but good movie. lots of hallucination and drugs. im not going to go into it too much, but if you havent seen it you may want to stop reading now, because im going to get into a couple of details.
the guy regresses into the past, both mentally and physically while using some sort of drug he took from an indian ceremony he participated in. he turns into what is supposed to be like the very 1st human(very ape like), and goes on a rampage. the concept is fine, but the rest of the movie is really well done, and when he's running around getting chased by dogs and digging through the garbage, its, well, bad. they could have conveyed the same idea in different manner, and stayed away from the cheese factor. anyhow. really liked the movie. could have done without so much of monkey boy running around town.
so the hard rock cafe opened here in detroit last night. its like we've been baptized as a real city. it brings a tear to my eye. ill probably never go there, but its kinda cool just the same. now if only some more businesses would follow suit, we might actually start to resemble a real city.
if you've never tried scrambled eggs with tomato onion and yellow peppers in them, you're missing out.
this post composed while watching: the godfather part 2
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Friday, 07 November 2003 |
im taking a swing at selling some of my cds online via ebay. things i just dont want anymore (or never wanted to begin with and got for free). its so fun that i may just end up selling everything i own, spending hours at the post office shipping all of it, cashing in on my paypal account, and become some sort of nomad. but ill have to nomad my way to somewhere warmer, and pronto! its damn cold here today. but at least the sun is out (which is quite uncommon during cold weather in these parts).
actually selling stuff is pretty time consuming and a bit of a pain in the ass. but ive got nothing better to do, and really, we all can use a little extra cash (especially after a recent 300 dollar car repair).
at work we have one of the old-school stand alone centipede arcade games. its totally addictive. i play it for so long that my forearms and wrists start to hurt. the cool thing about it is the learning curve is really small. theres not much to figure out, you can just play it. it takes a little while to get good, and there are some tricks to it, but basically you have to avoid the centipede, the little thing that falls from the sky that makes mushrooms appear and thats it. avoid those things, and shoot at them to make them go away. chris currently holds ALL of the high scores, and everytime i get one of my little akm initals up there he plays until he beats it makes them all him again. its very annoying, but great incentive for me to do less work and play more centipede.
this post composed while listening to :the voices in my head.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2003 |
got the car back. im 310 dollars poorer than i was an hour ago. and its just as messy as it was when i left it. but now im noticing a cute little chirping noise when i accelerate. the good news is i figured out how to make it stop. turn the radio up louder.
and thats car care 101 with yours truly.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2003 |
my car had a leaking rear wheel cylinder. and needed new rear brakes. total cost to me: 302 dollars(estimate). i should be getting the piece of crap back this afternoon. i hope they cleaned it out too while they were at it. currently in the back seat there are probably 14 empty water bottles, 12 empty pop cans, countless gum wrappers, 3 and a half pairs of shoes, 1 rollerblade, and about 2 years worth of un-vaccuumed dirt.
i guess im not exactly what youd call a neat freak.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2003 |
boy oh boy.
my car is in bad shape. the brakes stopped working. almost completely. which is bad. so i had to have it towed to the car fixer place. theyre going to call me up and tell me its going to cost like a grand to get it fixed. and im going to laugh and tell them to keep it. i have to decide how much its worth to me to get it fixed. because in reality, id be lucky if i got 500 bucks if i sold it. it runs fine (besides the whole no brakes thing), but its pretty banged up from the accident i got in last year. and it has car cancer (my dads term for rust). however, its worth more than that to me, because to buy myself a reliable car would cost me WAY more than 500 dollars. see the dilemma?
in order to cheer myself up, i spent a hundred and eighty dollars on a pair of white stripes/flaming lips tickets for new years eve in chicago. a few years back i was lucky enough to be in chicago for the flaming lips and hum for new years eve, and that was quite the memorable event. chicago=fun. the flaming lips=fun. period. im still picking confetti out of the luggage from that trip. cant wait.
little by little things are coming together with the website. its like every time i figure out something new and get it posted, im already frustrated with the constraints of the way i did it or the program (frontpage). ill probably have to scrap it and move on to dreamweaver at some point.
there is now the option for you to leave comments here for me. please do. it would make me very happy.
this post composed while listening to: the the mind bomb
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Monday, 03 November 2003 |
monday morning again.
so halloween was fun! got all dressed up and went to a little party and drank some beer, played some cards, drank some beer, caught up with people from high school i probably havent seen in 6 or 7 years. pictures will be up on the site later today or tomorrow.
random thought: every time i put away the clean dishes from the dishwasher i come very close to stabbing myself in the foot. i drop a knife every time. so far ive been lucky and the knives have missed my foot, but im pretty sure that some day i wont be so lucky. maybe i should start wearing steel toed boots when i put the dishes away.
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