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Wednesday, 19 November 2003 |
there was an explosion in our backyard last night. now mind you, we live in an apartment on the 3rd floor, so it wasnt exactly our backyard, but pretty close. i was on the couch watching the west wing and had the shades on our big sliding door to the balcony open, and had the door itself cracked open. all of a sudden theres a huge explosion like noise and a bright flash of light. it was dark and raining, so i couldnt tell where it came from, but at my insistence chris continued to check it out. and sure enough, across the parking lot a transformer had blown and was on fire. we called 911, but apparently so had other people because the fire department was already almost there. we were far enough away that there was no danger, but it was close enough that it was kinda exciting.
otherwise, not much is happening. ive come down with some sort of nose/throat/ear sinus-like problem that sent me home early from work yesterday and kept me home today as well. and lucky chris, hes got it now too. we're one pathetic pair right now.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2003 |
there was an explosion in our backyard last night. now mind you, we live in an apartment on the 3rd floor, so it wasnt exactly our backyard, but pretty close. i was on the couch watching the west wing and had the shades on our big sliding door to the balcony open, and had the door itself cracked open. all of a sudden theres a huge explosion like noise and a bright flash of light. it was dark and raining, so i couldnt tell where it came from, but at my insistance chris continued to check it out. and sure enough, across the parking lot a transformer had blown and was on fire. we called 911, but apparently so had other people because the fire department was already almost there. we were far enough away that there was no danger, but it was close enough that it was kinda exciting.
otherwise, not much is happening. ive come down with some sort of nose/throat/ear sinus-like problem that sent me home early from work yesterday and kept me home today as well. and lucky chris, hes got it now too. we're one pathetic pair right now.
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Monday, 17 November 2003 |
what a big piece of crap the american music awards were last night. i didnt actually watch them because i wanted to, but we went through them at work today to archive anything worthwhile. unfortunately, there was nothing worthwhile in the whole 10 hour long ordeal. hillary duff was a complete and total embarrassment, ruben looks like hes put on another hundred pounds since winning american idol, and kid rock and pamela anderson are the nastiest two people in the universe. plus, jimmy kimmel had maybe one good joke all night long. the first 2 minutes of the outkast performance was the only thing that qualified as anything that even remotely resembled entertainment.
and to top it off, there was no alias on because of it.
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Monday, 17 November 2003 |
something is wrong with my car again. something that has to do with fuel injection or the transmission im guessing. though i really dont know anything about cars. i really cant afford more repairs this month. plus, the car is a total piece of shit and im not sure its really worth putting more money into it. ugggghhhh. i guess ill have to make the ever-so-familiar call to my dad later today. the 'daaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddd, somethings wrong with my car, what should i do" call. its all very frustrating, because i feel pretty much helpless in a broken car situation.
last night was fun. met up with friends at the wab. 1.50 well drinks, great jukebox, and the best turkey chili on the face of the earth.
and then went home and watched donnie darko in its entirety. i dont get it. it was good, but i dont get it. yea, i get that it has something to do with time travel, but im going to have to go and do a little more research on the net before i draw any conclusions.
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Thursday, 13 November 2003 |
is it worth seeing janes addiction live at this point in their career? they're touring around christmas with marilyn manson, who im also somewhat in seeing, but will it be a big waste of my time, money and christmas vacation? im fascinated by perry farrell, but something tells me id be better off passing on this one. anyone? anyone?
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Wednesday, 12 November 2003 |
one of my ex-coworkers from dvd is featured this week in one of the big trades, all access. scott herrold. if you have a login for allaccess.com and you know him you definitely need to go and check out the interview. his picture is on the homepage. ill let you come to your own conclusions, but for some reason i found it very entertaining.
and as everyone here locally probably knows (probably knows more than i do), kevin o'neill, with whom i worked with in mornings at dvd between the time the rocky show got canned and when i quit to re-join the rocky show, just got replaced in the mornings at dvd after 9 months of 'filling in'. kevin is a great guy with a spectacular work ethic and a great attitude, and it really sucks that he was strung along there with the possibility of doing mornings permanently for so long. hes currently doing traffic updates in the morning, which he is just way too overqualified for. i dont know what the plan for the long run is, but i hope he ends up in a good stable environment. i could go on and on about this, but as this is a semi-public forum, thats all im going to say about that for now.
and it looks like i left at a pretty good time, because some bad stuff has gone down at the abc fms in detroit in the last week. people have been comparing abc to clear channel. thats never good. im surprised they had enough foresight to do the downsizing in november instead of december.
enough from radio world for now.
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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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