Filed under: public service announcment
if you had knee surgery 3 weeks ago, do not, under any circumstance, forget that you just had knee surgery and then proceed to kneel on your knee (therefore placing your full weight on it) while assembling equipment for a show.
HOLY-FUCKING-MOTHER-OF-GOD-SHIT-FUCKER-DAMN-GEORGE BUSH-SON OF A BITCH-SHITSTORM that hurt.
Filed under: film
yes, another blogger blogging about pan’s labyrinth. deal with it.
i really do believe this film will be sticking with me for a bit. much more i want to write about it; but i’ve got to process what i’ve just watched. however, in a word or two, this movie is why i love movies. i was so completely transported – it blew me away.
there were three movies that came out this past year that really transported me in a way that so rarely happens anymore – the prestique, the fountain and this one.
in anticipation for the oscars, i’ve been writing up my own thoughts on the best films of the year (i’ll be posting those thoughts sometime in the next couple of days). i can add this to that ++++ column.
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knee update: off crutches (thank god). still got a bit of a limp, but it’s getting better everyday. the weird thing about my knee is it feels completely removed from my body. almost like i’m experiencing the knee remotely. it still doesn’t do what i want it to do (sitting cross legged for example) but it’s getting there. the doc says these feelings will continue on and off for about 6 months or so and i should have reasonably full mobility back within a month.
i’ll be happy when that happens.
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finally, the truth.
from the current issue of
gq’s interview with sarah silverman:gq: so hillary clinton for president, then?
ss: i’m more of the barack obama camp.
gq: why obama?
ss: oh, not for any real, intellectual reason. just for the same reason real people make their decisions – i saw him on letterman and i thought he was awesome.
i’ve often thought that people really tend to just make their political decisions on something as influential as a gut response. there are exceptions of course, (i’m sure alexander over at voenix rising and mike at lolife/ are in the other camp, the one where you weigh all the options and make a truly intellectual decision), but i think most poor slobs like me make it on a base response to something.
nice to see someone admit it in the press though.
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just a a reminder.
before there was the whole pope shredding thing on snl and the marriage to god and the divorce from god and the other kooky happenings there was:
a fucking brilliant debut album that still resonates today.
Filed under: music
just today i won this little treasure, dale bozzio’s riot in english:
formerlly the lead singer of missing persons, dale bozzio signed to prince’s paisley park label in the late 80’s and put out this pure pop fluff of an album in 1988. while i had it on casette and remember liking the album just fine, i can’t imagine it’s aged well at all.
however, it has a prince song on it (so strong), so ultimatly it was necessary for me to eventually own this again. so ebay to the rescue.
as mentioned, i remember liking it on the whole; it’s a very “pop” album, not nearly as experimental as her work with frank zappa or missing persons – but if memory services it was pretty left field for pop music at the time. i’ve poked around the ‘net since i started bidding on this and am kinda surprised how well the album seems to have been reviewed (i dismissed it almost immediatly back in the day – it was just fun fluff, nothing great)… from all music: “the tight-as-a-drum production sounds are right out of trevor horn’s notebook” and “bozzio has grown up here, as ’simon simon’ rocks with authority, a good album leadoff, as is the song which launches side two, the title track, ‘riot in english.’“
all in all i’m pretty jazzed to have won this; and am anxious to give it another listen.
p.s., i’d post the video to ’simon simon’ on here, but it’s a pretty bad video, very 1988; but if your so inclined, do a search on you tube; it’s out there.
Filed under: art
Filed under: superfluous prince
no big secret, i loves me some skinny mother fucker with the high voice. yes, it’s a bittersweet love – i mean the man’s a fuckin’ genius, but sometimes he’s a lame-ass fuck that is mearly resting on his laurels.
well shit if this didn’t remind me how much i love it when the man just simply plays – for the love of the guitar! the above video is from prince’s 2004 induction into the rock and roll hall of fame. if you don’t know, at the end of the induction ceremony, the recently inducted members do a “jam session” – the video is princes solo during the george harrison tune “while my guitar gently weeps”.
i love this.
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Filed under: music
i’ve been super agitated tonight. i’m not sure why. as the hours passed tonight, i was getting more and more agitated, jumpy, crabby. i have no idea.
certainly, i don’t think my knee is helping things. i’m still very mobility-limited. while i’ve gone into the office the last two days, i haven’t really been out and about much. my knee is hurting more, the vicodin is just masking the pain. i’m not sleeping well and i can’t get physically comfortable.
earlier, i was on the phone with
cb and he pretty much had to talk me off the ledge so to speak. when i get agitated, the nervous energy just multiplies like bunnies and it feeds the demon which only serves to get me more jumpy. cb was fairly adamant that i needed to take some pain pills and lie down, or read, or – here’s an idea, listen to music, to calm my center.music is the my favorite thing in the world, virtually my one constant, but do you think i thought of that? nope. i just sat pacing (as best as a gimp can pace). cb reminded me about a piece of music i own (thanks to him) he knows how i love it, and how it has a calming effect on me.
so i took an hour out of my night, turned off the lights, lit a candle and listened to jonathan elias’ the prayer cycle. i’m almost a differen man!
combining such divergent voices as nusrat fateh ali kahn, alanis morissette, ofra haza, linda ronstadt and perry farrell (to name just a few) with the american boy choir (featuring the staggeringly amazing devin provenzano) and the english chamber orchestra and chorus – the work evokes (for me) the combined one-ness of the greater global community.
elias wrote the piece (a choral symphony in 9 movements) just before the turn of the century, and in his words: “…the world we live in is both joyous and cruel. the divide between love and hate has never been as wide as it is on our world today. i pray that we can move forward and that the next generations rise where we have fallen.”
i find it interesting that he chose to take music from all over the globe, in combination with voices that are at equally divergent (i count voices singing in 15 different languages) – and yet, what came out was one cohesive sound. it also seems relevant (or at the very least interesting) that 7 years on from the millennial change, the world is even more at odds – and yet, when one listens to music that was created with a true sense of purpose, and are taken on a journey to the far points of the globe, your left feeling more connected to the world around you than when you started.
so here i sit, listening to the piece for the third time tonight, and i’m calmer, more at peace (at least for the moment). yes, landry, i do need to figure out the source of my agitation, but sometimes just getting lost in another world for a bit of time can make all the difference in both the long and short run.
there you have it, prodded a bit by a good friend to just sit down and be in the moment – it’s a nice little reminder now and then. especially for the densest duck in the pond.
