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List Time Again

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:21:05 GMT

It's been raining almost non-stop for over a week, so here's a list on the 1st journal I have visited in the new year. Now I'm off to some other friends' journal.

1-WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING AT THE MOMENT?
"Keith Richards The Biography" by Victor Bockris

2-WHAT IS PRINTED ON YOUR MOUSEPAD?
No mousepad

3-WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Scrabble

4-WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Do they still make magazines?

5-WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SOUND? I can't write this sound

6-WHAT'S THE WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
A swift kick in the nutz.

7-WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF IN THE MORNING?
"I don't wanna go to sleep yet. I gotta go to sleep."

8-HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU PICK UP THE PHONE? Howmanylicks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Who knows?

9-WHAT WOULD YOU NAME YOUR FUTURE CHILD AND/OR DOG?
Son: Sidney Oliver (from 2 of my favorite films - "Sid and Nancy" & "Oliver") than I can call him by his initials: 'Come here, ya silly little SOD.'

10-WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE?
The L?

11-WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE FOODS?
free and/or made by others.

12-DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST?
Does the Pope shit in the woods!

13-DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
Only when my gf has eaten too much lol

14-WOULD YOU CLASS STORMS AS COOL OR SCARY?
Same as earthquakes...coooool

15-WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
'72 Blue Plymouth Valiant

16-WHAT ISYOUR FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? Any One that does not come back up/

17-DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OFF BROCCOLI?
No, I break them off before bagging and paying for them at the grocery store.

18-IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
If I could dye my hair any color (and who says I can't?) it would already be that color!

19-IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?
What glass?

20-WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE?
It's a close tie: "Sid and Nancy" All-Time Favourite, "Harold & Maude" for favourite American movie,so...."Sid and Maude"? "Baraka" is in a first place class by itself

21-DO YOU TYPE WITH THE CORRECT FINGERS ON THE CORRECT KEYS? Not even when I got a "B" in Typing class -- in fact I am typing this quickly with just my right hand

22-WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Carpet

23-WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? It's a toss-up between cock-fighting, the Special Olympics, and the L.A. Singles scene

27-DO YOU PREFER HORROR MOVIES OR COMEDY FILMS?
Hmmm, most horror movies are pretty funny, and most comedies are pretty horrific, so...

28-WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE TIME OF DAY? Night.

29-WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE?
Four-foot-one.

30-IS THERE ANYONE YOU HAVEN'T FORGIVEN?
What am I, Jesus?

31-WHAT TYPE OF MILK DO YOU DRINK?
Cow milk,or cereal milk, if I'm not mistaken

32-DO YOU MAKE YOUR BED IN THE MORNING? Never, cause I sleep till noon.

33-HOW MANY TVs ARE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD? 2 too many

34-WHO PUTS THE GARBAGE OUT? I think it's the same people that sing "Who Let the Dogs Out"...?

"When I get to to the Bottom I Go Back To The Top Of the Slide...

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 06:49:29 GMT

And I Stop and I Turn and I Go For A Ride ...

1. What's your main source of music (radio, MTV, CD, Cassette player, etc)?

My main source would have to be the car radio/cassette player.

2. What is currently in that source or what station/channel is it set to?

KROQ for new music. Yesterday, I bought an old Taj Mahal cassette, "The Natch'l Blues" and took out my well-worn Blues Explosion copy of "Damage" to listen to Taj's (now listening to both in the house). The song I bought it for is one of my favorites, "Ain't That A Love", which a blistering live version of a young spry Taj Mahal can be found on "The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus", which I recently saw a newly-released CD at Tower Records.

3. What channel would your TV be set on, from the night before, when the TV is turned on in the morning?

If not a pay-movie channel, and not Wednesday morning after a day of VH1 Classic's Tuesday Twoplay, then most likely Comedy Central.

4. What book(s) are you currently reading right now? .

Currently, my reading habits are for shiite--I'm in the middle of 3 books -- "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Keith Richards - The Biography" about the Rolling Stones guitar legend, and an English novel by David Nobbs, "The Return of Reginald Perrin" a sequel to a novel that, according to the book's liner notes, was turned into a TV programme for the BBC. And just finished another, by one of England's funniest writers, Ben Elton, about a Big Brother-type show where one of the houseguests is murdered.

How can I call such an extensive list shit reading habits?

Well, because I almost always read exclusively when I have a sit-down visit to the bathroom!

5. What TV shows do you always stop on no matter what?

I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H (original cast), Benny Hill, TheDaily Show, Mr. Show, Duckman, Family Guy, South Park, Simpsons, Blind Date, The Office, Saturday Night Live (original cast)

6. What TV shows do you never stop on no matter what?

Nearly everything else...The Sopranos, Oz, any lawyer/cop/crime solving drama, any comedy where the husband is as wide as his wife is beautiful.

7. What movies do you always stop to watch no matter what?

Sooo many but always Fletch, JFK, Wasabi, Sid and Nancy, At Close Range, Harold & Maude, Husbands. Highlander, The Breakfast Club, La Bamba, The Blues Brothers

8. What movies do you never stop to watch no matter what?

That list is even longer

9. What songs/groups do you always stop for?

Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Sublime, The Rolling Stones, Bon Scott AC DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin

10. What songs/groups/music do you always switch off/away from?

The Doors, Journey/REo Speedwagen/Supertramp/Styx (except for "Renegade"),Bruce Springsteen, country, (most, but not all, pre-1967 Beatles)

11. What song(s) always makes you get misty/cry?

Stain'd - "It's Been Awhile" used to do it for me; this year, out of the blue, Carole King's "You're So Far Away" got to me

During a massive, messy break-up Ben Harper was the ticket　

12. What TV show episode(s)/movie scene(s) make you get misty/cry?

(Note: Much like some candies, my hard exterior gives way to a soft(er) interior sweetness that is not only healthy but delicious. Scenes in films where random acts of genuine kindness, heart-felt reunions, or any signs of deep happiness, if done effectively, ie. image displayed/music played/feeling conveyed I am unashamed by the natural human response of tears in one's eyes. Just because my eyes may well-up doesn't mean I cannot or will not kick yer ass, so be careful! lol)

The I LOVE LUCY episode at the Tropicana, where Ricky receives an anonymous note by a woman in the audience who has been trying to tell her busy husband that she is expecting, requesting the song "We're Having A Baby, My Baby And Me". A touched Ricky proceeds singing, asking each table he passes, if its them. when the next table he reaches finds Lucy sitting alone, Ricky says "Hi honey" before moving along to the next table. As a mere afterthought, Ricky looks back at thetable, and like the others before her, he asks Lucy if its her, expecting another denial. But Lucy, instead, smiles and nods her head as Ricky turns to the next table before her answer sinks in. When Lucy nods it is like a cue for my eyes to mist up.

The M*A*S*H episode when Radar enters the operating room, where he is shouted at to put on a surgical mask, announces that Col. Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan always gets to me.

"The Joy Luck Club" - Scene in beauty parlor, last scene

"La Bamba" 1st scene at Del Phi Records, in response to Bob's ultimatum "Your friends, or your music?": "My family." When Bob finds their mother after learning of Richie's death.

"Once Were Warriors" - Scene in the rental car when the whole family is going to see Boog and singing "What's the Time, Mr. Wolf". I think, Why can't they always be this happy?

13. What TV show episode(s)/movie scene(s) make you laugh no matter how often you've seen it/them?

All of them, if its funny, its always funny to me

14. What's the scariest scene/movie you've ever seen?

"Oliver!" whenI was around 9 years old, Bill Sykes was scary, but Bill forcing Oliver to climb up and out on the edge of the roof, and then them both trying to swing over to the next building, and Sykes getsshot. Heavy stuff for that age.

The Mickey the Wizard sequence in "Fantasia" scared me as a kid.

The last scene in the original 1976 TV movie "Helter Skelter" where Charlie is bouncing on his jail bunk singing and clapping just as he turns and looks through the bars of the cell, and they freeze-frame it still...after watching it, I would check behind all the doors in the house.

That Bill Paxton movie he directed, "Frailty" was also pretty scary, because of him and his son's point(s) of view(s) not being able to reason with such a person, especially when that person is the one person you completely look up to, and depend upon.

15. What movie/scene really offended you?

Oddly, it wasn't a scene in a movie that offended me, it was a scene not in a movie that offended me. I went to see a newly-remastered print of John Cassavetes "Husbands" by the UCLA Film Department and was sucker-punched in the gut when my over 5 minutes from my favorite scene was excised, and further on in the film, there were scenes inserted that added absolutely nothing to the film, especially in light of the scene already butchered. I actually applied to UCLA Film School in the hopes of, if accepted, finding the person/persons responsible for what I considered blasphemous.

Oddly enough, I think "The Sopranos" is reprehensible, think about the same regarding "Oz" and during the O.J. trial I was offended by The Tonight Show's nightly assault of The Dancing Itos. Also the show "Extra", which had just started, and one evening it's annoying broadcaster who, sounding like a game show emcee, announced" "Well, there was no court today at the O.J. Simpson trial so we visited the murder scene!"

16. What movie that you thought you would dislike/or avoided altogether completely took you by surprise?

Several including "Once Were Warriors", "La Bamba" and "Mr. Saturday Night", the latter two I avoided like the plague, and then was blown away by them.

What are some of your's? Copy andpaste to your journal and answer if you so desire...and let me know so I can see...

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And I See You Agai-i-i-n..."

A Few of My Favorite Things

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:46:02 GMT

DA ALI G. SHOW

Da Only Reazon 2 Get Da HBlOw, Mon.

Click on Ali,,,

VH1 Classics - Rock Show, Tuesday Twoplay

Comedy Central - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Insomniac, Crank Yankers, Chapelle Show, Reno 911, Trigger Happy TV

BLIND DATE, Elimidate, 5th Wheel, Ex-treme Dating

MTV - BOILING POINT, Punk'd

BBC America -

The Young Ones

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Fawlty Towers Blackadder

THE OFFICE

The Simpsons

Late Night With Conan O'Brien

FAVORITE SHOWS OF THE PAST

All-Time Favorite - "I Love Lucy"

What do I and legend Cher have in common? Both of us will always stop on I Love Lucy, no matter how far into the show, no matter how many times we've seen that particular episode..

"Moonlighting"

"Soap"

The Original Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players on Saturday Night Live

M*A*S*H - Original Cast

Alfred HitchcockPresents

Homicide: Life on the Street - Original Cast

Late Night With David Letterman

Several Seasons of The Real World - Original New York, San Francisco, L.A., Boston, Hawaii

Tales of the Unexpected

Kids In The Hall

Vacant Lot

Did I Ever Tell You About The Time I...Entered A Contest At America's Top Ten With Kasey Kasem?

Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:59:07 GMT

1979-1980 was the most pivotal year of my entire childhood.

It was the year I passed from the 6th grade of elementary school to the seventh grade of junior high school. That summer I would, for the second of four times total, remove the wallpaper of posters, pictures, and newspaper clippings from my bedroom wall, replacing the make-up-adorned flashy theatrics of KISS for the latest passion, The Beatles (the wallpaper, which later carried onto the ceiling, began with Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and ended with nearly everything heavy metal). That fall I took up smoking, recommended by an older friend, in order to better prepare myself for what I really wanted to try: reefer.

My little league baseball team, The Giants, won the World Series. I played strip-poker with a girl the same age, Fran, and her 3-year-older baby-sitter, Kim O'Neil, my gorgeous neighbor and the first girl I ever saw completely naked (and, come to think of it, the first girl to ever see me naked). We both lost successive poker hands; she had to run through the room naked (at 16, she was built like a brick privy); I had to do a striptease to music; Fran continuously ran to her room and put more clothes on thereby avoiding showing any skin as well as any embarassment.

I smoked weed and ran home to sleep it off, as I was told to do, because I would not get "high" the first time.

I got as close as I ever would to seeing The Beatles when I saw ..."Not The Beatles, but an incredible simulation", "Beatlemania" , at Painter's Mill Theatre .

Sometime around John Lennon's birthday, October 9th, one of my favorite shows, America's Top Tenwith Kasey Kasem, announced they were having a contest. Write down your guess as to were the 3 greatest music groups of all-time on a postcard and mail it to the address on the screen.

I wrote down:

1. The Beatles

2. The Rolling Stones

3. Queen

Now, while I do I like Queen alot, they were not my 3rd favorite group of all time. It was at that time when "The Game" was released which became a huge hit due in large part to what was my favorite song that year -- "Another One Bites The Dust".

In November, Ronald Reagan, was elected president. Later that month, a new song was released by John Lennon, "(Just Like) Starting Over", from the forthcoming "Double Fantasy", his first in five years. Rumors of a Beatles reunion, a charity concert to help Haitiian boat people, were dashed, I learned, when my cousin (who, forever changing my life, had turned me onto The Beatles 3 months earlier) called to ask if I had heard the news: John Lennon was murdered entering the New York brownstone, The Dakota, that he shared with his wife, Yoko, and son, Sean. As I got ready for school, I cried harder than I have ever cried before or since.

One Friday night a week or two later I fell asleep watching "Fridays", a Saturday Night Live rip-off that gave "Seinfeld"s 'Kramer' an early start, and woke up during America's Top Ten. I thought I heard my name announced. I got up, turned the TV off (this was before remote controls) and shuffled off to bed.

The next morning the same cousin that called with the shocking news about John Lennon called with more shocking news. "Congratulations." "For what?" "Didn't you see America's Top Ten last night. You won second prize in the 3 Best Groups of All Time contest!" So, I wasn't dreaming. "What did I win?" "A jukebox, I think."

The next Friday night I stayed awake until 12:30. They again announced the winners and lo and behold there I was listed under the second place winners list. I bee-lined down the hallway, burst into my mother's room, jolting her awake as I turned her TV on, but by the time it warmed up and the screen illuminated, my name was long gone.

A letter with the America's Top Ten logo on the corner of the envelope arrived a month or so later, just after the new year informing me that I had won a jukebox stereo valued at $750.00. It would be delivered in 4 to 6 weeks.

I watched on TV in Mrs. Miller's Social Studies class Ronald Reagan getting sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, and the subsequent release of the Americans held hostage in Iran (whose imprisonment spawned the Ted Koppel news program "Nightline").

The week before Energy Conservation was to begin, a shipping company arrived, delivering a huge box up to our second floor apartment. When they cut and removed the box I got my first real glimpse at what I won: It was a stereo designed like a jukebox. It had an AM/FM stereo receiver, a record player able to stack albums atop each other, and an 8-Track player you could record on. It also had an auxillary mode that allowed a cassette recorder/player could (and later was) attached. At the top center a mirrored disco ball spun in in front of 2 mirrors while hanging above another. The length of the bottom was a large 2-way mirror, with Christmas-type lights behind it, that blinked in time to the music playing.

So, what was "Top Ten's" list?

1. Queen

2. The Rolling Stones

3. The Beatles

What was First Prize?

A trip for 2 to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. 2nd Prize was the best prize.

Was this a gift from John Lennon from beyond the grave?

To hear a hilarious, expletive-filled tirade by Case Casem...click the following link ...http://nutty.chris.com/nutty/audio/casey-full.mp3

I've always been lucky. I've won a lot of prizes over the years. Too many to count. So many, like from the local radio station at the time, 98 Rock, that I used friend's names, and after running out of friends' names began using names of favorite musicians, changing the spelling or interchanging their names just a bit (GaryBlackmore, Ritchie Moore). I've won records, books, T-shirts, tennis shoes, meals, and tons of concert tickets.

I've also had wishes come true, like the time when I was about 6 years old and I held one of those dandelion flowers that you blow off the furry "petals". If you catch one of them, you hold it in both hands, make a wish, and send it off into the sky. If it flies up and away and doesn't hit the ground, your wish is supposed to come true. I wished that mt favorite kids newspaper would do an issue about magic. A month later they did just that!

What happened to the jukebox stereo?

After having it for four years, it was starting to slowly fall apart. The plastic moulding began ungluing, some of the lights stopped blinking or working entirely. When, after I graduated high school, my mother decided to move, and I decided to not join her, I abandoned the stereo right about where it is in this picture, in my old room, a room I finally had to myself after moving from our apartment where I shared a room with my brother for about 9 years, to the house of a long-time family friend, my senior year.

But it was cool while it lasted...if it could only have talked, oh boy..., the stories it could tell about what it witnessed in those years!

The Life and Death Of Peter Sellers

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:14:39 GMT

"Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-a-a"

I finally caught up with this movie over the weekend.. I really wanted to see it, since catching a preview of it after Da Ali G. Show. I am a huge Peter Sellers fan. After I began watching it, I started thinking I'm not going to like this. And then, of course, I was interrupted for about 20 minutes. And then, at the end, when they re-create the final scene in "Being There" before it transforms into the poster, framed and hanging on Sellers' wall, I was very moved by that simple transition

I watched it again virtually for its entirety. It is a teriffic movie and everyone in the cast is brilliant!.. Geoffrey Rush is phenomenal!

One of the best lines:
"Don't you love us anymore, Daddy?"

"Of course I do. Just not as much as I love Sophia Loren."_______________

Ringo Starr & Peter Sellers in "The Magic Christian".

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Here are 2 jokes I know that these two could tell --

Ringo: What do you call male prostitutes?

Peter: I don't know, Ringo, what do you call male prostitutes?

Ringo: Peter sellers!

Peter: How do you geta drummer off your front door step?

Ringo: I don't know, Peter, how do you get a drummer off your front door step?

Peter: Pay for the pizza!

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Funny little stories from old Hollywood

Last Sunday, I picked up a couple sections of the newspaper scattered throughout the house. At the bottom of the front page was a picture of actress

Tallulah Bankhead.

I was instantly reminded of two legendary stories about her:

Tallulah Bankhead was known as much for her unusually deep voice as she was for her beautiful looks. One day, a woman was sitting on the toilet in a public women's bathroom when the unmistakable voice of Ms. Bankhead filled the room.

"Excuse me, could you pass me some toilet paper?"

"Im sorry, there's barely going to be enough for me."

There was a pause. ":well, then, 'do you have two 5's for a ten?"

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The Marx Brothers' Chico (pronounced Chick-O beacause he had a passion for the ladies) was at a party where he was told Tallulah Bank was there. He told his friends in no uncertain terms what he wanted to do. They stressed to Chico that he could not speak to her in such a manner. Eventually, he complied, sayng he understood.

Later on they both found themselves standing next to each other. Chico looks to her and says, "I wanna f*!# you." Without missing a beat, Tallulah replied, "Then f*!%$ me you shall." ...and off they went.

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When told he could not join a popular Beverly Hills Country Club because he was Jewish, Groucho Marx replied, "Well, my kids are only half-Jewish, can they get in the pool up to their waist?

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She says: Irrashaimasse or Welcome

often peruse my Temporary Files in search of anything interesting.One would be amazed if they knew just what is collected and stored there. Since my last computer crash I lost a lot of really cool pix, gifs, and the like. But there are always new ones to be found...lemme tune the channel in here...

"White Lightnin's flashin across the sky, You're only young but you're gonna die." AC/DC

I haven't seen this Napoleon Dynamite yet as I've stopped going to the cinema, but it should be excellent on DVD

"The Office" has got to be (along wth the Ali G show) one of the best things on TV

I wonder who got their moves from whom.

It sure wasn't this guy

I don't know who he is or where he came from but...he's always got the best Black Tibetan finger hash!

Play "Hail to the Chief" and see how Arnold reaches those all-important decisons. I wonder who got their weed from whom.

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:32:55 GMT

I found these questions at Kell's journal and really liked them, so I am going to answer them here!

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:

1. Michael

2. Mike

3. Maikeru (Japanese)

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:

1. BadBoy_GoodSoul

2. KoolHandFluke

3. ManBand-n-SkoolGirl

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:

1. Self

2. Your

3. Our

THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:

I only reserve hatred for things as extreme as hate...Nazis, Child-killers, haters

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:

1. Blackfoot Indian

2. Welsh

3. Hillbilly

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND:

1. Domesic violence

2. MPAA

3. Monogamy

THREE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU:

1. Slow driving cellphone users

2. Stupid people

3. Commercials

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:

1. Snakes

2. Losing my hearing

3. Getting caught

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:

1. Tobacco

2. Electricity

3. Relief

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:

1. Sandals

2. jeans

3. black t-shirt

THREE THINGS ON YOUR DESK:

1. Dust

2. CDRW's, piles of them

3. Speakers

THREE THINGS YOU SAY THE MOST:

1. F*%# 'em if they can't take a joke

2. Now that's good planning

3. 間示威で　（ma-jee-de or really? in Japanese)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS AT THE MOMENT:

1. (Jon Spencer) Blues Explosion

2. Ben Harper

3. Jett

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITES SONGS AT THE MOMENT:

1. "Hot Gossip" - Blues Explosion

2. "Cold Hearted Bitch" - Jett

3. "666" - Billy Corgan (of Smashing Pumpkins covering Iron Maiden)

THREE PEOPLE YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME WITH:

1. Aki

2. Bethan

3. Ian

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOUR CLOSE FRIENDS:

1. They get me/my humor

2. They're English

3. They party

THREE THINGS YOU WOULD WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:

1. Sex

2. Freedom

3. Sex

THREE THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:

1. Humor/voice/laugh

2. Body

3. Sex

THREE THINGS YOU CAN'T DO:

1. Dive

2. Kill myself

3. Kill anyone

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:

1. Sex

2. Drugs

3. Movies & Music

THREE THINGS YOU WANT REALLY BAD RIGHT NOW:

1. Drugs

2. Sleep!!!!

3. Sex!!!!

THREE CAREERS YOU'VE CONSIDERED:

1. Teacher

2. Porno star

3. Writer

THREE PLACES YOU WOULD GO ON VACATION:

1. Europe

2. Japan

3. Hawaii

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:

1. Live

2. Sex

3. Drugs

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Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:17:36 GMT

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So that's what Canadian Gypsies look like...and other weekend activities

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:55:43 GMT

Got a phone call on Saturday evening. I usually won't answer my phone if I don't recognize the number, especially from surrounding area codes (of which there are about four). As it was from the 818 area code I definitely was going to let it go to voicemail, but I remembered something...

dangero's take on phones: A necessary evil I could do without. I especially don't like calling people. I dislike not being able to see the person on the other end, wondering if I am interrupting them (as we always are--usually myself included -- right in the middle of watching something), if they are making faces on the other end or sharing the call with a friend for laughs (not that I'm that paranoid). And while I'm happy to hear from most friends, even touched by their thinking of me, I don't like to spend long amounts of time on the phone either. (I'll spare ye all of popular rants: ie. cell phone charges, drivers on cell phones, telemarketers, etc.)

I answered and it was an associate friend, "J". He recently started working for a Canadian show in Santa Monica and asked if we wanted to attend that night's 8 o'clock performance. Hell yes!

The show is called and is billed as A Magical Encounter between Man and Horse (I know what some may be thinking, but No). So I got him to hold 4 tickets for us and we drove over to Santa Monica Pier where Cavalia is being held, under the White Big Top tent.

Amazing, beautiful, funny, spellbinding and magical. The circus was performed by beautiful men, women and horses. Around the back of the "stage" was a screen upon which images, both still and moving, we projected. Behind it was a live music group singing and performing what could be aptly considered haunting new age music.

They did tricks on the horses, performed amazing feats of flight and acrobatics. The entire presentation was simply amazing

I took these photos (discreetly) while a Santa Monica police officer sat nearby. Shot with a daylight digital camera, they came out surprisingly good, and it does give one a tiny idea what the show is like...

When I read the first passage that was illuminated by yellow light splashed across the red curtains, I was hooked. Something to the effect of Man's Historical Partnership with Horses (not remotely close to verbatim - except for maybe man and, I'd say, definitely horse). It was true, at the end, what I thought at the beginning -- a better appreciation of horses

Snippets of conversations:

Entering the Big White Tent:

"Since you work here, can you take us through another flap? You know - avoid the peasants" (you know, the ones that actually paid the $75 each for tickets! : )._

Reaching the Concession Stand:

"So is this where the gravy-train ends, or do we get VIP cotton candy, as well?"

"4 bucks for a bottle o' Pepsi? Cotton candy must be a fuckin' fortune!"_____

Inside the Big White Tent:

"Is it true there's some sort of sacrifice performed at the end?"

"J"...are they Canadian Gypsies?" "Yeah." "So that's what Canadian Gypsies look like? They some good looking Canadians."________________________________

Outside at Intermission:

"You're can' t take pictures." "I know, I used 'em all up. That's why I want to run home, download them and come back for the second half."

Standing In the Center of Restroom Trailer Square:

"Doody Digital Surround-Smell!"

My AOL Expressions - What's On Your's?

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:06:09 GMT

AOL Expressions are those greetings that say "Welcome", "You've Got Mail", "You've Got A Voicemail", "You've Got Pictures" and, of course, "Good-bye". But did you know that you can insert your own audio file or those of Celebrities listed on AOL? Of course you did.

Here's mine - Just 'right-click' on the following links and click on Save Target As (they're all under 50k and are completely virus-free--oh yeah, and they're funny, too)

"Welcome" = "Wide AWAKE!" Jason Schwarzman in "Spun" http://members.aol.com/goodsoulbadboy/aspunwide.wma

"You've Got Mail" = "Ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em" Harry Dean Stanton in "Repo Man" http://members.aol.com/goodsoulbadboy/arepoman-ordfngppl.wma

"You've Got A Voicemail" = "Holy Shit" John Belushi in "Animal House" http://members.aol.com/goodsoulbadboy/abluto.wma

"You've Got Pictures" = "Fucking Japs wakatta shitte iru bakayero ("I understand Fucking Japs, asshole") Beat Takeshi in "Brother" http://members.aol.com/goodsoulbadboy/aBrother-fngjaps.wma

"Good-bye" = "Heh-heh See Ya Johnny" Gary Oldman in "Sid and Nancy" http://members.aol.com/goodsoulbadboy/sidnancy-cyajony.wma

Random Rubbish

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:50:39 GMT

THIS WEEK IN THE NEWS (That I bothered to Watch or Read)

So, Scott Peterson was found guilty and sentenced to death. Who does this guy think he is? O.J.?

He killed his wife and unborn child because he wanted to be with another woman. I've seen her, she's allright, She's not all that, certainly not worth killing 3 people. But now that he's going to Hell a little sooner than planned, how can I get her number?

Has anyone ever really thought about this issue? If Scott Peterson can afford Mark Geragos, why didn't he just hire him to handle divorce proceedings??

Geragos is handling Michael Jackson's molestation case. Well, things ARE looking up!

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon take up the issue of file swapping. Artists are complaining that they're not getting their due royalties. Hey, you got paid for your record contract, you now get loads of free stuff from, like, everybody....and for what? 'Cause you wrote a song? People spend their whole lives writing a book -- and then you find it at the library, where you can borrow it, take it home, maybe buy it at the annual library spring cleaning/book drive for 25 cents. Crackdown on the pirate assholes that provide people with DVDs in Tailand of movies that haven't even been released in America yet, not the music lovers that just want to hear a song they haven't heard since before the internet. I think new albums should be off-limits for the first 3 months of release then after that, gradually songs can be downloaded, 1 or 2 at a time. I think the film & music industries are screwed because of the invention and subsequent acceptance of Video Cassette Recorders, Audio Cassette recorders, TiVo...

Go after the profiteers not people that don't even know that according to some guild they are violation of some law. Come on, get real.

That's about all the news I can remember

Spin of the Cable TV Roulette Wheel - The Shows I Always Stop On

I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H (Original Cast Only), Duckman, Mr. Show,The Simpsons, The Family Guy (recent convert),

Tuesday Twoplay was kicking them out today. Sometimes they can play the lamest videos, but every once on a while, the slip on a gem or two.

Today it started with XTC - "Dear God" From the beginning with the downward crane shot onto the little boy...brilliant song, great video

Not long after 2 from the Stones, Rolling they were-1st song "Oooooh, baby, you're a foool to cryyyy" Mick playing keyboards-Ron Wood and Keith on guitars - great song, video not too scary

**Once, on a train from Florida to Maryland when I was around 10 or so, I saw a pulp fiction-type book being read by a man called "The Assassination of Mick Jagger" - I have never been able to find a shred of information that such a book exists. Coincidence? I think not. Yes, that's right, Government Conspiracy

The next video was "You Can't Always Get What You Want" from R.S. Rock 'n' Roll Circus -- A GREAT GREAT Show -- if you like the 60's type of rock music, see it...I taped it from laser disc 5 years ago, and recently at Tower Records I saw it newly released on DVD. Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal (in my favorite performance), A John Lennon Supergroup

Then Pink Floyd - "Learning to Fly" nice song, nice video (reminded me of Iron Maiden's "Flight of Icarus" video...followed by "The Lunatic Is In My Head"

Whatever Happened To Re-Runs of:

Lancelot Link - Does anyone remember Lancelot Link, the secret agent monkeys? What happened to that show? Why is it not on Nick @ Nite, every night?

The Rock Chick In Me

I took this quiz today just for a laugh

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<h2>You Are Ani Difranco!</h2>
Honest, real, and well liked.
You're not limited by any boundaries.
"And you can call me crazy
But I think you're as lazy as white paint on the wall"

You can take it too ifyou want.

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