What's up with that? I wanted to be the principal! Although he's probably not a possible answer.
Hey that's my bike!
Photos from a public garden in the East Village.
Graffiti in Soho.
Hollow sidewalk in Soho. Yikes!
By the way, that's not really my bike in the first photo - that's the name of Ethan Hawke's band in Reality Bites! Jeremiah and I saw Hart's War last night (or as I refer to it, Purple Heart's War). It was pretty good - a nice refresher from some of the stale, trite war films that have been emerging recently.
Everybody else is doing it, so why can't I? Here are my Top Five lists, just like in the film High Fidelity.
All-Time Top Five Recording Artists: The Beatles Duran Duran Madonna Led Zeppelin R.E.M / The Doors
Top Five Records To Play On A Monday Morning: Duran Duran - Rio Elastica - Elastica Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction ABBA - Arrival Iggy Pop - Lust For Life / Go-Go's - Talk Show
Top Five Side One, Track Ones: Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-V)" (Wish You Were Here) The Cardigans - "Paralyzed" (Gran Turismo) The Who - "Baba O'Riley" (Who's Next) R.E.M. - "Drive" (Automatic for the People) Lou Reed - "Vicious" (Transformer) / Hole - "Violet" (Live Through This) / The Go-Go's - "Head Over Heels" (Talk Show)
Top Five Songs About Death: The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter" David Bowie - "Space Oddity" Madonna - "Like a Prayer" Bob Dylan - "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" R.E.M. - "Man on the Moon" / Tracy Bonham - "Sharks Can't Sleep" / Pink Floyd - "Brain Damage" / The Cardigans - "Paralyzed"
Songs To Play At My Funeral: The Doors - "The End" Nena - "99 Luftballons" U2 - "With or Without You" Elastica - "Stutter" Stray Cats - "Stray Cat Strut" / Madonna - "Like a Prayer"
All-Time Top Five Favorite Records: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Duran Duran - Seven & the Ragged Tiger Lou Reed - Transformer Elastica - Elastica Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin / The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon / The Beatles - Abbey Road
Top Five Dream Jobs: International Goods Smuggler Crack Dealer Film Critic Baker Duran Duran theorist
These lists are not definitive, but I did my best. Don't forget to link or comment on yours!!
MP3 fever! I acquired Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie and I go way back...I owned one of her cassette tapes in third grade! she's dope) from Do You Feel Loved, as well as some Bowie and New Order from Barkins.com. Rock 'n roll!
I just came across the Cinephiles message board, and saw a couple of reviews I wrote last year near the bottom of the page. I don't even remember writing them! I must have been in a daze or something. Anyway, I thought it was funny.
Lord of the Rings scored far too many nominations for the Academy Awards this year. The movie was entertaining, but come on. The committee needs to start giving breaks to less flamboyant and more frugal films.
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
