And now, a joke: Q: What did Sushi A say to Sushi B? A: Wassa B!
I saw something really f'n cool today. I was walking to my apartment, and there's this Belgian fries place on the corner (these fantastic fries are sold in paper funnels with special dipping sauces. Ahh). It must have been delivery time, because there was a truck out front. I saw like, 5,000 bags of potatoes. Really. There were like 5,000 bags of 100-pound potato sacks. I couldn't avert my eyes. It was wild!
Guy in a record store: "Where can I find Duran Duran?" Clerk: "Kmart." - That 80s Show.
Ouch! I hope everyone will be supporting this situation comedy throughout the season, even if it does poke fun at Duran Duran.
Today was the first class of my 1960s-1970s American Film course. It rocks! My professor screened French New Wave clips, and the feature was Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night. Man, that movie is ill! I love when Paul's grandfather says hello to the band, and John exclaims in surprise, "He can talk then, can he?, and Paul replies, " Of course he can talk. He's a human being, isn't he?" and Ringo says, "Well if he's your grandfather, who knows! Ha ha ha!"
Hahaha. Good times. Or...I guess you had to be there.
I've created a multiple choice quiz so you can guess what I'm doing. Am I: a) eating my scarf b) scratching my head c) singing a Devo tune d) none of the above
Thanks to Jeremiah for taking such a suspicious picture.
I keep getting hits from people searching for "run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music..." Kristian Wilson, who was (is?) the CEO of Nintendo, uttered this phrase long ago; I blogged this quote months ago because I thought it was so amusing. Apparently, a ton of other people do, too! See the full list of ways people find my site.
"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music." - Kristian Wilson, CEO, Nintendo Gaming Corporation, Inc, 1989
The Golden Globe awards last night weren't too bad. I was proud of Jennifer Connelly for her work in A Beautiful Mind (although the movie's less than perfect). I was also happy to see a lot of the stars there, especially Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, and Cameron Diaz. Harrison Ford received a long overdue special award, and although it was nice to see Sissy Spacek win a best actress award (for In the Bedroom), I thought the whole acception speech could have greatly improved with the presence of some pig's blood. Jeremiah has a fun description of our Carrie-esque desires on his site.
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
