- RT @NikkiGlaser: Tell me I'm not the only one who has to get drunk to look at my checking account. #
- RT @eddiepepitone: Capitalism's last ad- "Since the nuclear devastation we are slashing prices! Everything Must Go!" #
Twitter: 2010-09-12
Twitter: 2010-09-11
- RT @kausmickey: Once again troubled by possibility that LA Times might not collapse & vanish quickly enough to enable vibrant civic culture. #
- Overheard: "Therein lies the rub." #
Hard Knocks
— And that concludes my presentation.
— It all sounds a bit “academic” to me.
— It would be if the School of Hard Knocks were a fully accredited institution of learning.
You Don’t Say
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and hawing on that.
Twitter: 2010-09-10
- RT @joshcomers: “Who’s ready to rock?” (funniest geologist on expedition). #
More People I’m Sick Unto Death Of
Anyone who REALLY likes one or more of the following:
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Tom Clancy
- Golf
- The Big Lebowski
- Beer (bonus points if you call it “brew”)
- Las Vegas
- Boating
- KISS
- Skiing
- Frank Zappa (bonus points if you just say “Zappa”)
- Their own abs
- When Harry Met Sally…
- Mitch Albom
- Maya Angelou
Twitter: 2010-09-09
- RT @fakerahmemanuel: Why leave the White House to be mayor of Chicago? The same reason that guy from White Star got the fuck off Titanic. #
Twitter: 2010-09-08
- Man sought for sex act in store | The Augusta Chronicle http://goo.gl/PJPD SEND YOUR RESUMES! #
Words
Our words no longer correspond to the world. When things were whole, we felt confident that our words could express them. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos. And yet our words have remained the same. They have not adapted themselves to the new reality.
Goodbye to All That
I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every word, all of it.
EppsNet at the Movies
Thanks to Netflix, I’m catching up on movies that I never got around to seeing. It’s a long list because I don’t see a lot of movies.
Almost Famous
With the exception of the boy’s mom, there aren’t any interesting characters in this movie. It’s like spending two hours with uninteresting people.
The Lester Bangs character doesn’t count because Lester Bangs was an actual person who was interesting in real life. You don’t get credit as a writer/filmmaker for creating an interesting Lester Bangs character.
Cameron Crowe seems to have learned his directorial style from an Olive Garden commercial.
Great soundtrack.
Rating: Blah.
The Big Lebowski
Look at the scene and ask yourself “Is it dramatic? Is it essential? Does it advance the plot?
Answer truthfully.
If the answer is “No” write it again or throw it out.
This movie has interesting characters and snappy dialogue. I laughed a couple of times. But most of the scenes are just dropped in randomly out of nowhere.
My wife fell asleep early on as we were watching this. When she woke up she asked me what happened.
I said, “The girl wasn’t really kidnapped.” What else is there to say?
If you removed all the scenes (and characters) that aren’t essential and don’t advance the plot, there might be a good movie left, but it would be a very short movie.
The soundtrack includes a couple of songs I really like but rarely hear — “The Man in Me” by Bob Dylan, and (a cover of) “Dead Flowers,” originally by The Rolling Stones.
Rating: Crock of shit
Rushmore
Now this is a great movie.
Rating: Highly recommended!
Lester Bangs, 1948-1982
My responsibility as I see it as a critic is not to help a lot of new bands sell their records. It’s to help people who are buying the records to keep from making a purchase that they’re going to get home and hate my guts and the band’s too because it’s a piece of shit. And these critics, most of them, it’s much easier to help the bands, because you get more work that way and every magazine wants to print reviews that say, “This is wonderful, this is great, go out and buy it.” A lot of magazines won’t even print negative reviews. A friend of mine does a record review column in Esquire, and it’s like five positive reviews every time. They don’t want you to say anything that’s bad because they don’t get advertising bucks that way. So it becomes like a facet of your groovy modern lifestyle. Well fuck that shit.
When I look back on it, it was obvious that I was gonna end up doing this because my two big obsessions were always music and writing. It’s an outgrowth of being a fanatical record collector and a fanatical listener. You have fanatical opinions that you want to inflict on people.
I don’t know where I can go really from having as bad an attitude as I do, but it’s the only attitude I think that you can have.
Bird Sings USC Fight Song
Twitter: 2010-09-04
- NINR requests applicants for research fellowship http://bit.ly/clfSpo #nursing #nurses #AACNchat #
Conditions
- What actions you take, you believe in.
- What commitments you make, you keep.
- What resources you have, you use.
- What words you say, you believe to be true.
- What you create, you intend to be great.
Overheard at Souplantation
“The lemon chicken soup is good.”
“I don’t like soup. And I don’t like lemon-flavored soup. I like chicken — but not when you dunk it in lemon-flavored soup.”
Fight On, Bozo!
I learned today that Larry Harmon, a.k.a. Bozo the Clown, was a USC grad, class of 1950.
Something Out of Nothing
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.
I still don’t get it. This is the one question that really gives me a headache: Why is there anything at all instead of absolutely nothing — no time, no matter, nothing?
For the universe to create itself out of “nothing,” doesn’t there have to be something?
Nice Guys Finish Last
You can lead a nice life; you can be a nice guy or you can be a great scientist. But nice guys end last, is what Leo Durocher said. If you want to lead a nice happy life with a lot of recreation and everything else, you’ll lead a nice life.
Twitter: 2010-09-01
- I hate to see my son cry when I drop him off for the first day of school. Fortunately he’s old enough to drive himself this year. #