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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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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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