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July 31, 2009
Friday Night Blues
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July 27, 2009
Monday PM
1. How out of touch am I? It's getting bad but I don't mind. I just listened to Hot 97 for an hour and heard an ad for notorious Buffalo superlawyers Cellino & Barnes on the air. I was blown away. These dudes were the billboard kings of my youth. I used to drive past their smiling faces on the Scajaquada every day on the way to high school. Now they're on Hot 97 with their Buffalo accents talking about 700 million dollars worth of settlements. I love it. When I was done laughing, I realized that they'd probably been advertising on Hot 97 for weeks, months, years maybe even. Then I stopped laughing because I realized it's been a while since I've listened to a solid block of Hot 97 on some whatever weeknight. The high school me would be shocked that I'm sitting here in Brooklyn and NOT listening to Hot 97, that I could be in the airspace of blazing hip-hop and r&b but not listening to it.
2. But getting older's cool with me. And it's cool with Rich Fourfour, too. Rich just djed a Sweet 16 party with a couple of friends - one of them being Morgan Geist (!!!!!!) - for Geist's half-sister Maryssa, and it sounds awesomely refreshing in the way that djing for significantly younger people always is. Here's an excerpt from Rich's ace report:
My favorite request of the night came from some sweaty kid, who between heavy, aerobic breaths, wheezed at me, "Taylor. Swift. Now." I couldn't help him out. Another kid came up while Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" was playing, mimed shooting himself in the head and said, "Bad song! Bad song!" I guess it wasn't techno enough for him. When Dan played Missy Elliott's "We Run This," a kid came up and asked for "Jump On It." He was referring to the Sugarhill Gang's "Apache," but I didn't know what he meant at first and when I asked him who the performer was, he said, "MC Hammer?" I get the feeling that to these kids, any hip-hop before 1990 was performed by MC Hammer.
I haven't DJed in so long, but this by far the easiest gig of my life. Once the kids were on their feet, they would dance to anything (albeit weirdly -- slow dancing to "Groove Is in the Heart," anyone?). We went from the frenetic Crookers remix of Kid Cudi's "Day 'n' Nite" to the tempered booming of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" to the midtempo "Best I Ever Had" by Drake and despite the tempo decrease and stylistic changes, we lost zero bodies. (Though again, I thought it was weird that they slow danced to "Best I Ever Had.") I got the feeling that the night was just nonstop joy for them, and that was contagious to me. It wasn't even a nostalgia thing, as much as those types of events defined my teenage years. It was actually just nice to enjoy a party like this with my current perspective that finds me perpetually amused by human behavior. It occurred to me that if youth is wasted on the young, we elders just need to figure out a way to siphon it off, that's all.
3. My dude Capski - no relation (ahaha) - did THE DO-OVER, LA's (maybe America's?) best summer party a couple weekends back. Capski and his copilot Lambo got their set recorded, per the Do-Over's useful custom, and you can download it here.
It's hot in Brooklyn and I'm sweating all over the keyboard so I'm done typing for now.
Posted by caps at 09:51 PM | Comments (0)
Birthers
Best commentary I've read on the Birthers yet comes from Erik Tarloff in The Atlantic. He writes:
Something troubling has happened to the Republican Party in the last twenty years or so, and it demonstrates why these tactics are always a bad idea, even if they win you the occasional election. The respectable, responsible wing of the Republican Party, the wing that for decades thought it could use its crazies but still control them, has been unhorsed. The crazies are in the saddle. The sorry spectacle of the noble John McCain forced continually to kowtow to the religious right wing honchos of his party during last year's presidential campaign, and his evident although only intermittent pain at being confronted with what he had thereby unleashed; the transparent and pusillanimous eagerness of Mitt Romney in pursuit of his party's approval to disavow almost everything he has ever stood for in public life; the willingness of putatively serious conservative pundits to defend and even laud the indefensible and incoherent Sarah Palin; the reduction of a once-proud political philosophy to a set of simple-minded bromides and shibboleths, combined with vitriolic, dishonest, and irrelevant personal attacks on the other side...these bespeak a party that has lost not only its way, but its soul. If you're willing to keep on telling your supporters that the other side fucks pigs, at some point they may actually believe it, and beyond that, they may think pig-fucking is what elections are about.
But the whole thing has to be read in full.
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July 24, 2009
Friday Night
1.2009-2010 Bills arrive at camp. Repeat: THE 2009 BUFFALO BILLS HAVE ENTERED THE INTERNET.
2. Geoff Litwack has been one of my favorite bloggs for the past almost-five years. For example, this feels instantly real and familiar.
3. Dudes. I can play Sid Meier's Pirates! tonight? SQ and KQ? And INDY and SoMI? Wow! Also: I am waiting for Finny to return from Seattle, and this is the most relaxed Friday night. I cleaned the place up.
4. Speaking of videogames: SECRET TRIFORCE EQUALs LIKE 0.1% MUTED HORN. But still, that 0.1 is cool.
5. RIP Barth!
6. Mike updated his digital pog page!
Posted by caps at 10:28 PM | Comments (0)
real bear that play hockey
"some bear can play hockey bizzard !!! "
VIA THE ONE AND ONLY L.G. !!!! THANK YOU !!!
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July 23, 2009
McCoy Tyner: African Village
Pt. 1.
So beautiful.
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July 20, 2009
Nothing He Can't Do
Via Nash.
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July 17, 2009
Friday
Tomorrow's gonna be sunny in Brooklyn - come to the bbq!
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July 15, 2009
Wednesday PM
Hand update: Splint is now off. The scar is gnarly and my hand is stiff as death and half-numb. But it'll be cool soon enough.
1. Keggers of Yore. (Via @johnnnyAa.)
2. The Gopher Hole Museum.
(Via Finny.)
4. Have you been checking for Fool's Gold's RAPPIN ASS THURSDAYS? If not stop sleeping! It's later than you think.
5. Pretty Polly Production's Availabilities Listings. Third Eye Blind still gets 50K a show? Fiery Furnaces are only 7500 - we could all go in and get them to do a date here in my Sunset Park living room. And while Ludacris and Snoop are making Katy Perry / Good Charlotte money - 80-100K per gig - Ghostface is ready to hang out for a mere 15-20 grand. Let's bring him out tailgating with us for a Bills game this fall. Ghost at the Ralph - it's a natural. Hell, he doesn't even have to perform. He can just drink some Blues with us and do "Go Bills" drops.
6. Speaking of the Bills, the new white throwbacks just got leaked:
Fully approve and shall cop. It's like they already have my money. If Ghost came out, I'd get him a custom GHOSTDINI, #36.
7. Speaking of football, former Browns legend Bernie Kosar's life is fucked now. Whoa. Representative sample:
Kosar holds up his left arm and points to the scar on his elbow.
"Have a cadaver's ligament in there," he says.
And that's the good arm. He bends over and lets both arms hang in front of him. His throwing arm is as crooked as a boomerang.
The doorbell rings. It's his assistant with the papers he needs to autograph.
She puts all the legalese from four folders in front of him on a coffee table that is low to the ground.
A groaning Kosar, 45, gets down very slowly onto the rug until he is symbolically on his hands and knees at the center of what used to be his glamorous life. And then he signs the documents that begin the process of filing for bankruptcy.
"Let me tell you something, bro," he says. "It was all worth it."
8. Ok, last up cause Finny's callin: They're remaking A Boy And His Blob!
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July 13, 2009
This Saturday
Come through!
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July 09, 2009
Rhett Warrener v. Glass
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Alex i/r/t New Movies
ITEM:
DreamWorks eyes View-Master pic; In negotiations with Mattel to buy movie rights to the toy
Remember View-Master, the Fisher-Price toy with those little 3D picture discs of mountains, rivers and caverns that you could rotate through a viewfinder? Well, DreamWorks is in negotiations to acquire movie rights to the toy from Mattel (which owns Fisher-Price) and has asked Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to do some "Transformers"-style magic on it.
Brad Caleb Kane, who worked as a writer-producer on the duo's Fox series "Fringe," is on board to write the screenplay. Kurtzman and Orci would produce.
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@capsworth: For real? A forthcoming major motion picture based on... the Fisher Price View-Master? http://tr.im/rBmU
@capsworth: Also coming soon: A Candyland movie, a Battleship movie, and an Asteroids movie. And He-Man. And Thundercats. And Voltron. #notagoodlook
Enter Alex:
alex (2:39:28 PM): yo
alex (2:39:34 PM): re: viewmaster
alex (2:40:00 PM): play-doh fun factory would be a better analogy
http://www.dailydadvice.com/uploaded_images/play-doh_fun_factory-785575.jpg
alex (2:40:22 PM): you named a bunch of 80s cartoons that would be RAD movies!
alex (2:40:24 PM):
caps (2:40:35 PM): I wasn't making an analogy
caps (2:40:40 PM): they are all in development
caps (2:40:42 PM): check IMDB
alex (2:40:47 PM): you know what i mean thesaurus boy
caps (2:40:55 PM): I disagree
caps (2:41:01 PM): transformers is an abomination
caps (2:41:10 PM): they will all be equally awful
alex (2:41:12 PM): yeah... execution isn't the point though
caps (2:41:17 PM): I am tired of movie-ification
alex (2:41:25 PM): what the fuck is a viewmaster movie going to be about
caps (2:41:25 PM): you're right, it's not
caps (2:41:38 PM): it will be goonies-style, according to the article
caps (2:41:41 PM): Amblin-esque
alex (2:41:44 PM): that's why i'm bringing up another weird toy for a movie subject
alex (2:41:50 PM): that's all i mean by it
alex (2:41:55 PM): weird
alex (2:41:57 PM): goonies?
alex (2:42:11 PM): i WISH there were more movies as rad and original as goonies
caps (2:42:30 PM): amblin entertainment
caps (2:42:38 PM): made goonies
alex (2:42:40 PM): is go-bots next?
caps (2:43:04 PM): already happened
caps (2:43:04 PM): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376622/
alex (2:43:08 PM): the gi-joe movie looks fucking weird
alex (2:43:28 PM): haaa
alex (2:43:29 PM): lame
alex (2:43:34 PM): go-bots
alex (2:43:39 PM): micro machines!
alex (2:43:51 PM): super soaker the movie
caps (2:44:12 PM): lol
alex (2:44:14 PM): sentient super soakers from out space, burried under the ocean
caps (2:44:21 PM): dude, get rich with that!
alex (2:44:24 PM): for gazillions of years
caps (2:44:25 PM): ahahaha
caps (2:44:36 PM): one can be "hiphop," one can be deep-voiced and wise
alex (2:44:44 PM): the inventor of the super soaker was an engineer at JPL
alex (2:44:53 PM): literally a ROCKET SCIENTIST
caps(2:45:10 PM): saaaaaaaaweeeeeeeet
alex (2:45:17 PM): yep
alex (2:46:35 PM): i want a sanrio / japanese erasers-that-look-like-cool-stuff movie
alex (2:46:54 PM): saving kids homework from spelling and math mistakes
caps (2:48:14 PM): aaaaaaaahahahahahaha
caps (2:48:15 PM): YESSSSSSSSS
caps (2:48:19 PM): Alex, you're HIRED
alex (2:48:23 PM): the antagonists would be a rogue crew, the ERASORS, who go and fuck with kids' shit, making it look like they turn in bad stuff... the ERASORS break ties with the good erasers and join up with PENS who cannot be erased to wreak havoc on the elementary schools of the world
caps (2:48:24 PM): we're gonna make a BILLION!!!!!!!
alex (2:48:50 PM): at least
caps (2:49:41 PM): dude I love that idea
caps (2:49:42 PM): hahahahaha
caps (2:49:46 PM): "ERAAAAAAAAASORS"
caps (2:50:29 PM): ok I wanna publish this
caps (2:50:32 PM): that is classic material
caps (2:50:35 PM): Y/N
alex (2:50:39 PM): do what you gotta do
caps (2:50:45 PM): it is better than lute music, even
alex (2:50:50 PM): ha
alex (2:51:00 PM): you need to rock some Jethro Tull
caps (2:51:08 PM): I am thick as a brick, homie
alex (2:51:15 PM): ha
alex (2:51:33 PM): here's another blockbuster concept
alex (2:51:42 PM): Paper vs Plastic!
alex (2:51:57 PM): what happens when the lights go out at the super market?
caps (2:52:34 PM): OH HELL YEAH
alex (2:53:35 PM): in the sequel, paper and plastic team up to destroy the world and a small band of CANVAS TOTE-BAG rebels comes on the scene after the BAGOCALYPSE to save the world
caps (2:53:51 PM): Tagline: "CHOOSE WISELY"
alex (2:54:03 PM): BYOB
alex (2:54:11 PM): Bring Your Own BAAAAAGGGG!!!!!!
alex (2:54:26 PM): *booming movie trailer voice*
caps (2:54:52 PM): SOLD
alex (2:55:08 PM): we're better than homer simpson at the movie studio
alex (2:55:21 PM): even better than Cartman's Awesome-O 2000
caps (2:56:11 PM): you ain't lyin, brother
alex (2:57:55 PM): there can be rad evil side characters like those plastic 6-pack loops that birds and dolphins get caught in
caps (2:58:14 PM): MUAHAHAHAHA, I AM 6PAK
alex (2:58:36 PM): they'll get cut apart by sentient pairs of stock-room box-cutters
alex (2:58:55 PM): or those snips that butchers have in leather sheaths
caps (2:59:15 PM): who will be old and friendly
caps (2:59:21 PM): voiced by, say, liam neeson
alex (2:59:28 PM): ha
alex (2:59:45 PM): umm... those lawn chairs that never get sold on top of the aisles?
alex (2:59:49 PM): naww...
alex (3:00:04 PM): there would be a great roll for an evil styrofoam cooler though
caps (3:00:12 PM): yeah it could be real eco
alex (3:00:22 PM): oh! i know!
alex (3:00:30 PM): those huge burlap sacks of beans
alex (3:00:38 PM): old, friendly, warm
alex (3:01:20 PM): there can be a funny scene when the market is open and a hot Megan Fox character sticks her arm, elbow deep into the beans
alex (3:01:42 PM): and we hear a low, subtle MMMMMM-HMMMMM goran of pleasure from the bag
caps (3:01:47 PM): hahaha EW
alex (3:01:49 PM): groan
alex (3:01:57 PM): not groan
alex (3:02:00 PM): err
alex (3:02:04 PM): goran
alex (3:02:08 PM): nevermind
caps (3:02:16 PM): goran
alex (3:02:31 PM): then there can be the comic relief, rascal shit-talker types
alex (3:02:58 PM): those bins of chocolate covered pretzels, trail mix, ASSORTED NUTS... get it?
alex (3:03:23 PM): their bin flaps can flap around and talk shit and make fun of 'people' or other characters
caps (3:03:24 PM): hahahahaha
alex (3:03:33 PM): and they can get all mad when people sneak a treat
caps (3:03:40 PM): yeah cranky
alex (3:03:45 PM): they can snap their lids on the fat kid
caps (3:03:56 PM): dude you're killing it
caps (3:03:59 PM): PAPER OR PLASTIC?
alex (3:04:24 PM): there can even be an homage joke based on when Richard Gere snaps Julia Roberts' hand when she touches the diamond necklace in Pretty Woman
wcreeley (3:04:33 PM): wow meta
alex (3:04:40 PM): hell yeah
alex (3:05:15 PM): there can be the super-wise but extremely cranky-type old guy that everyone warns the young bags about
alex (3:05:29 PM): he's all dusty in a corner of the stockroom
alex (3:05:43 PM): he'd be an old shopping cart with those fucked up shaking wheels
alex (3:05:51 PM): but he's SEEN mad shit
alex (3:05:51 PM): you know?
alex (3:05:57 PM): he's OLD SCHOOOOOL
alex (3:06:07 PM): voiced by Nick Nolte
caps (3:06:58 PM): let's pitch this
alex (3:08:16 PM): ok I gotta pick up some shirts from the printers
alex (3:08:32 PM): AISLE BE BACK
Posted by caps at 03:26 PM | Comments (0)
Archlute
Posted by caps at 12:51 PM | Comments (0)
July 06, 2009
Back (Monday PM)
Back from my trip up north.
1. Watching Mark McKinnon and Ross Douthat talk Palin on Hardball as I type. First time I've seen the actual video of her press conference, since I was blessedly off the grid all weekend. Jeeeeeeesus fuckin Christ, man. When word filtered through to me, I suddenly felt very far away from the tubes and kinda wished I could plug my brain into memeorandum for a good two hours worth of digital news-soak. By now you've perhaps read/watched all you can stand about ol' Sarah Palin, but if not, Mr. Sullivan is your one-stop shop. Start here.
2. Skull Swap is hi-quality internet and a necessary companion to He Who Cannot Be Named.
3. The dude who played Boss Hogg was a Buffalo native and seems to have been the striking opposite of the character he made famous. A counterintelligence officer during the Korean War? And he wasn't even really fat, dudes - it was a suit!
4. This shit is breathtakingly anti-Semitic, right? Goddamn. I saw this in a store this past weekend and couldn't believe it. Same store also stocked Hangin' Hussein Hot Sauce, Bomb Laden Mad Blast Hot Sauce (with novelty turban), Screaming Sphincter Cayenne Pepper Sauce and Bubba's Butt Blaster Hot Sauce. I guess once you get past Franks and the Anchor Bar, rednecks are running the hot sauce game. Damn.
5. Dave over at BfloBlog provides an excellent analysis of free agency thus far - seen through a Sabres fan's lens, of course. BfloBlog, even when quieted by the offseason, is a must-check for me.
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