, and Repo Man, among others) directed a movie version of Borges' "Death and the Compass", which fucking rocks! Click on the shopping link on his site. Side note regarding The Man...the bunny with a pancake on his head is blocked from our server. That bunny must have really been causing problems...sigh.
::: posted by Grezmiralda . at 4:48 PM
We know about all these media layoffs due to advertising revenue drops and the usual corporate greed, but even the Weekly World News* is in trouble! Is nothing sacred, even fiction writing about mermaids in sandwiches and Batboy in Afghanistan?
More on pancakes! Mmmmm...
A book-puzzle*. See, these kinds of games I can handle. It's like editing.
::: posted by alura allumeuse at 10:35 AM
I saw the paradise lost documentaries a few months back...by the end I was completely convinced that the real killer is the father of one of the victims, the one who delivered the big preachy sermon at the crime scene. It's so creepy watching him cause he's got all the serial killer behavior signs, and he makes several incriminating slips of tongue...not to mention owning the most likely murder weapon and having it found with blood on it. But, alas, the town was so damn convinced that these boys had done it (and the police must have been too ashamed to admit that they had made a mistake) that they never even looked into him as the killer. Those documentaries make me want to cry and rage at the same time.
Alura, you should have run up and been the mysterious masked belly dancer in the midst of all that ridiculous bunny hoppiting. Make No Mistake, Just Watch My Shake!
::: posted by Grezmiralda . at 10:35 AM
have you seen paradise lost I & II? documentaries on the west memphis three. two have life sentences, one is on death row -- indicted basically because they wore black, listened to heavy metal, and read about wicca. rent the first paradise lost if you haven't seen it. unbelievable miscarriage of justice.
also, i'm thinking about asking daisy if i can use her painting, "farewell my bunnies," as the album cover for the sextet horn sextet CD. the painting was destroyed in the WTC attack, but the digital images that are still around are high-enough quality to use...
::: posted by kevin seal at 9:30 AM
ha ha...I just saw 4 people from the Sarah & Vinnie morning radio show do the bunny hop in the Marina Green, which is next to Ft.Mason. Vinnie lost a Superbowl bet, so he, the weather woman, the producer and the movie review guy had to bunny hop for 10 min, 2 of the guys in pink bunny ears. Sarah apparently wanted them to do it across the GG Bridge, go for a world record of some sort, but they weren't allowed. Anyway, it was just totally funny...I sat in my car (drove to work today, because of Halou tonight...that's how I knew this was all going on) and watched for a bit while listening to the radio, figured out who the various people were by watching them talk on cell phones to Sarah back at the station, then I came to work and rollerbladed right back to catch the actual event. A fun start to my day. :)
::: posted by alura allumeuse at 8:59 AM
Wednesday, February 06, 2002
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Police force hires poet-in-residence.
Speaking of shitty poetry:
Nobody wears that retro-kitsch
Better than Rini, that Hipster Trish
Did you all read the transcript of that Terry Gross interview with Gene Simmons? Wow. I want to defend her honor, yo. That guy's the most overrated rock musician ever, and here he is insulting such a classy lady.
Invasion of Privacy, Betrayal of Secrecy: Bloomington publishes DOBs and home addresses of every single person pulled over for traffic violations.
::: posted by kevin seal at 5:58 PM
Je vous presente Roadside America, a tour of this great country's tackiest and most unusual sights. I dunno, suddenly this sort of thing is appealing to me. I've never liked retro-kitsch anything, and suddenly I have this faux nostalgia for pink flamingos and the bright sunshiny style of L.A. in the '50s. Just to look at, not to live in. And don't worry, I'm still into my tight-shirt-and-rave-pants lack of fashion. Screw vintage clothing stores. Yuck.
::: posted by alura allumeuse at 4:23 PM
The recession combined with the growing acclaim of the U.C. Berkeley J-School has boosted applications to the school by some 40 percent this year. More than 465 people have applied to the J-School and are now being considered for 80 to 85 slots. All qualified applicants are interviewed by an alumnus or faculty member and must complete a 20-minute writing exercise. FUCK! My chances of finishing my degree are diminishing with time, I worry...
::: posted by kevin seal at 2:27 PM
Be sure to enjoy some free pancakes for National Pancake Day on Feb 12. Maybe have some eggs with them. And be sure to feed one to your bunny.
::: posted by alura allumeuse at 1:19 PM
Ha ha ha alura, vewwy funny, well, I may try to bring gurlfren
to the party at the DNA lounge since she knows about crushee already, but I'm pretty sure there's a
boy thing in the way anyway. The latter is the one who will be in drag and evidently he's fucking fantastic on the decks.
Funny, had a dream about them last night, actually. Hm.
::: posted by Zarbet Rabbit at 12:24 PM
From the Onion...you know, I've been wondering why no one seems to connect these two things. No job = less spending power.
Report: Recently Laid-Off Workers Not Doing Enough To Help Economy
WASHINGTON, DC— According to a Labor Department report released Monday, Americans who lost their jobs in the past year are doing little to aid the recovery of the nation's economy. "Unemployed Americans are neglecting their patriotic duties by spending far less than the gainfully employed," the report read. "Until these laid-off workers start pitching in and buying things, America's economy will continue to stagnate." The report did note that jobless citizens have strongly supported America's fortified-wine industry.
Another good but unrelated Onion peeling*...
News that mixes two of Kevin's interests...NPR and heavy metal*.
Hrm, will Zarbet spend Valentine's Day with his girlfriend, or at this, which will feature his crush object in drag? ;) All I can say is, I'd damn well better not get any of these that night.
As for Kurt's absinthe link...Absenta Tunel (do a quick page search on "Tunel") is what I smuggled back from Barcelona. No one believes me that it's the real stuff, but it IS. Granted, it doesn't make me hallucinate (although I'm sure if I had enough of 140-proof ANYTHING, I would), and it tastes like ass, but darnit, I can pretend to be in Paris at the turn of the century.
My Fireworks homework assignment is to create a map of my brain. How would YOUR brains look on paper?
Also, does anyone know how to go about securing grants to go do interesting things? All the journalism ones I find are for big-time professionals, or college students.
::: posted by alura allumeuse at 9:59 AM
Tuesday, February 05, 2002
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i agree with kurt that you've been great so far, trish. the fact that she's in therapy is a good sign. sounds like just talking to her and listening is what she needs most. i've never helped anyone get help for anorexia/bulimia/bigorexia... i've tried to help people get help, but haven't been successful. i do know a few people with eating disorders, though; i could ask them for some advice if you wish...
on a lighter note, some diversions: people sharing their stories of personal connection with songs, and rock-star penis sizes.
::: posted by kevin seal at 10:44 AM
Monday, February 04, 2002
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I'd say you've done a great thing so far. You've obviously spent some time and energy for someone who hasn't necessarily been a great friend in the past. More than most I'd say. Sometimes its best to listen and do just what you have already done, research. I wish I could give you more to go on. Its certainly a tricky situation. LOL
::: posted by Kurt Kistler at 11:07 PM
Sigh…turns out that a friend who inexplicably flaked on our relationship a little more than a year ago (reportedly because she didn’t want to be around someone who voted for Nader and our incompatible shopping habits – I prefer thrift stores, she prefers Banana Republic) has been suffering from bulimia and anorexia this whole time. She called me this weekend to apologize for, well, ditching me, and to explain what’s been going on with her. It sounds like for the last year and a half she’s been living two lives, on the outside she’s extremely successful with work, she’s beautiful and charming, but inside she’s delusional about her body image and full of self-hate. She gave me a glimpse into the twisted logic that’s holding her prisoner - for example, she’s a vegetarian but she decided that she could eat meat because since she’s purging after every meal she’s not really eating it. And while she’s saying it I can tell that her conscious mind knows that it doesn’t make sense, but still she believes it. Does anyone have any experience helping a friend through this? I read some websites this morning with articles written by survivors of this disease and I can see her in their stories. She’s in several types of therapy (for the last month or so) and may soon be either an in- or out- patient for medical treatment, but she says she’s still in denial that she has a problem. She told me she weighs about 115 now, which is obviously very thin but for her height it’s probably not dangerous yet. Her doctor wants her to be 130, she wants to be 110 but knows that would be unacceptable to her doctor. She’s only recently told her family and a few friends about her “secret” which most of the people closest to her suspected already. That’s got to be a good sign, right? Admitting there’s a problem and telling people about it. I know that part of AA therapy is to talk to people you have hurt through your addiction and apologize to them, so maybe her calling me is part of that healing process. How do you heal from an illness when your mind is telling you that your cure is the problem? She has to reprogram all her thoughts even though she believes that her purging is the core part of her personality, she told me without it she’s nothing.
::: posted by Grezmiralda . at 7:48 AM
Bigfoot in Bloomington. No joke. Four sightings of Sasquatch in the past two weeks, just south of town.
::: posted by kevin seal at 7:35 AM
Sunday, February 03, 2002
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My roommates homepage , absinthe ;) , and
Some cute kitties
::: posted by Kurt Kistler at 11:33 PM
Jennifer and Mark and I just discovered a horrifying late-night TV show – Cheaters. Yep, it's what it sounds like – someone contacts the show saying they think their spouse is unfaithful, so they secretly film the person for a few weeks, show the tapes to the client, and then there's a big confrontation between the wronged one, the spouse, and the person that they've been screwing around with. Yuck. In the first segment, this big fat guy in his 60s is seeing a stripper. When she finds out he's married during the big finale, she takes off in his car. The wife goes off with the show producers. The remaining crew asks him if he needs a ride. "Yeah, I need a ride!" It was totally Cartman in another 50 years, I'm telling you.
TV is BAD. I remembered why I don't watch it. After watching the tail end of a terribly unfunny Saturday Night Live, there was an NBC commerical for their Superbowl halftime show* – starring mostly naked Playboy Playmates. Great prime-time fare, guys. And then there was a commercial for Enzyte (suffragium asotas), which we couldn't figure out until it said "adds size and pleasure to your sex life." It provides "natural male enhancement." If I were gonna enhance males, a bigger weenie wouldn't be number one on my list. But I digress...
Your corporate news for the weekend. Yay, Adbusters. And, more underreported world news than you can shake a stick at. (if that's your idea of a good time, as Groucho said) And, Kevin's new keyboard.*
::: posted by alura allumeuse at 2:29 AM
