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| Friday, August 29th, 2008 | | 12:51 pm |
dear women,
i'm sorry that john mccain thinks that you're all so gullible that you'll vote for him because he picked a lady to be his VP. as if all those hillary voters were just dumb broads who were only in it to see a woman in the highest public office. as if they don't care about issues, just emotions. you know, i've been saying what a bad decision it would be for him to pick a woman. we'll see if i was right.
kinda makes sense, though, that an old guy like mccain would think like this. this decision is sexist in an old-fashioned sort of way.
the media wants you to think that there are tons of these depressed hillary followers who just aren't going to vote because now they can't vote for a woman. come on, really? i'm sure some of these people exist, but it can't be THAT many. and those people, are they just going to vote for anyone because they share gender? john mccain is saying to you, "here you go, ladies. here i come to throw a woman your way because that's all you care about, not health care or abortion rights. you want to vote for a woman, here you go." as if all women are just governed by their emotions and not their brains. yeah, that used to be the way people thought, mccain. but not anymore. i think you'll see. unless we really ARE that stupid. are we?
this is a cynical decision, and i honestly can't wait for the GOP to fall all over themselves trying to think of ways to support it.
if john mccain keels over in office, is this person really qualified to be the president? | | Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | | 11:10 am |
another new metallica track
it's the last track from the new album. and it's thrash metal, maaaan.
james still isn't breathing fire like he used to (and his vocals are mixed too loud and should be double-tracked), but the track itself is pretty much "...and justice for all" stuff. it's taken them 20 years to get back to this:
i was smiling during a couple of parts of this song. usually when i listen to new metallica, i'm wiping away tears. | | Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | | 2:17 pm |
new metallica single http://metallica.com/index.asp?item=601119the good: - sounds like "fade to black" meets "one" - production is decent - lyrics aren't off-the-charts embarrassing - really good main guitar melody - totally RAD two-guitar harmony solos at the end the bad: - sounds A LOT like "fade to black" meets "one" - hetfield straddles the line between good het and bad het, vocal-wise - song is a little overwritten - lars' drumming is very bland, even more than usual all in all, if this is the "ballad" of the album, i'm still very excited to hear the whole thing. this might be something that works really well in the context of the record. it's easily better than their last 15 years of bullshit. it sounds like a metal band trying to kick ass and blow minds. whether they do is up to the listener. my mind isn't blown, but it's nice that they're making an effort. they were my heroes, growing up. i've always wanted them to do well again. this is pretty acceptable. never thought i'd hear anything like this from them ever again, this far removed from their prime, after so much total garbage. /end street team | | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | | 4:42 pm |
drilling for morons i mentioned to my brother yesterday that i had a sneaking suspicion that gas prices have dropped so dramatically in the last few weeks because of a conspiracy among the fat cats to soothe the aching populus' pocketbooks and make them more apt to vote republican. today, i'm reading some comments on an article ( http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/20/expertinent-why-obama-needs-a-big-convention-bump.aspx), and i come across this hunk of gold: "If you don't think oil drilling helps with oil prices then you are an Obama sheep. Since Bush lifted the oil drilling ban, gas prices have plummeted by 60 cents. It didn't take 10 years as you said to move a nickel. It only took 1 month to lower it by 60 cents." okay. three things. first: this person is smart enough to have access to and use a computer. think of how many millions of backwoods idiot hicks have never been on the internet before. so there are STUPIDER people in existence than this person. second: BUSH HAS LIFTED NO OIL DRILLING BANS. none. mccain is trying to trick people into thinking that drilling for more oil will help us. yes, it will. years down the road, after all that exploration and construction, it will ease gas prices. by a few cents. and by that time, we'll be even FURTHER behind on breaking out of the iron grip of fossil fuels. another step taken towards extinguishing ourselves through sheer stupidity. history repeats itself again and again. we are the romans, as the band botch once put it. third: gas hasn't dropped 60 cents. it's dropped 30 or 40. this is partly due to the fact that supply and demand has changed. i know that i haven't filled my car all the way up in months, and i'm sure i'm not the only one. and then there's that whole conspiracy idea, which is hardly far-fetched, but is just a hunch of mine. *sigh* your voice, your vote? it counts EXACTLY the same as this person's. this total moron, he matters just as much as you. i doubt the founding fathers ever thought people would be THIS STUPID. | | Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | | 4:01 pm |
metallica i wrote this five years ago: http://dametonybennett.livejournal.com/31275.htmlit's me getting into the "st. anger" hype. i actually thought that that album was going to be the one to bring back the metallica of my youth. i was wrong. WAY wrong. i got tricked by the early talk of thrash beats and aggression. there WERE thrashy beats. it WAS aggressive. but it was HORRIBLE. their worst album by far. everyone laughed at me for having faith. they were right. but here i am again, and i really think that this time it's going to happen. rick rubin. rick rubin was what they needed. i honestly think rubin's gone and made them realize just what it was that made them who they originally were. that "cyanide" song was very promising. and now, here's a couple of album clips that metallica's released on their website. it's METAL, and it sounds like...jesus, it sounds like '80's metallica. mms://wm.elektra.com/metallica/metallica _com/2008/riffs/ALittleTasteOfDeath01.as f mms://wm.elektra.com/metallica/metallica _com/2008/riffs/ALittleTasteOfDeath02.as f i'm thinking that this has the potential to at least be as good as the black album. if they accomplished that feat, i would be totally thrilled. because as much as the black album was the beginning of the end, it still ruled in places. and it still sounded like metallica. if james hetfield can muster up some of the old vocal power and stay away from the fat-albert-like "hey hey hey" shit, this could very well be the musical comeback of the decade. | | Monday, August 18th, 2008 | | 10:12 pm |
c'mon...
biden biden biden biden | | 3:01 pm |
justice for ernie hudson!
if you ever were bothered by the fact that ernie hudson gets no credit as an O.G. (Original Ghostbuster), here's something for you:
| | Thursday, August 14th, 2008 | | 3:23 pm |
four more years! four more years!
hey, you. me and kelli have been hitched for four years, now. we in love. give us some props.
i love mah wife!
(seriously, though, she puts up with me. that's heroic.) | | Sunday, August 10th, 2008 | | 9:52 pm |
is it possible metallica is...gulp...GOOD again?!?
before you say "no, of course not, they've sucked for at least fifteen years," listen to this tune and tell me it doesn't kindasorta sound like something that they might have written between "...and justice for all" and the black album:
could it be possible that the subtraction of bob rock and the addition of rick rubin has worked some sort of magic, here? | | 3:12 pm |
my grad picture  | | Friday, August 8th, 2008 | | 3:13 pm |
and now i know why i never liked john edwards...
...the guy cheated on his cancer-patient wife. in the last few months.
way to go, edwards. now we get to see the mccain ads with obama and edwards together, and that will damage obama.
and, man, elizabeth has cancer, again, and you decide to go fuck around on her? you're as slimy as i always suspected you were.
tonight, i hope you're forced to sleep on a grate under a bridge with those homeless vets you were always telling us about. asshole.
way to act like a republican, johnny boy. | | Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | | 12:54 pm |
neat!  pretty much the coolest thing that ever came of my days in the dames was getting to play a few shows with our heroes the melvins. it was cool enough just to be around them, chit-chatting and stuff, but when it turned out that they wanted to play our gear for the shows we did with them in '04, well, that was even better. we got to stand there and watch our idols play THOSE songs through OUR equipment. the ampeg amp i'd started on, it's been juiced by king buzzo. ian prince's drums got bashed by dale crover. and rusty's amp was tortured by kevin rutmanis (who actually ordered a replacement amp for night two, heh). the reason i'm bringing this up is, amrep recently released a 3-disc compilation of minneapolis melvins shows, and the two they played on our stuff are both included. this means that my amp can be heard on an official melvins release. i feel honored and maybe even a little content with my musical accomplishments. which is nice, because i usually feel like a total loser and a failure. if i was to never do anything else with my music, at least i got to do this. | | Sunday, July 27th, 2008 | | 2:33 pm |
i wantED to believe
but the film i saw, it wasn't really too hot. it felt true to the characters. it wasn't bad. the acting was good. it just wasn't very exciting. it felt very soapy and leaden. the villians weren't well-drawn. the action was lackluster. the plot was a good idea poorly executed. i was more excited for this movie than any movie since the last one, and it was a real letdown. felt like one of the later, new-agey x-files episodes, which isn't really a good thing. honestly, at least 2/3 of the series is better than this movie.
and it bombed. 10 million in its opening weekend. that's horrible, folks. fourth place? jeez. it only cost $30 million to make, too. wow.
here's hoping that, somehow, it makes enough money and becomes profitable enough to warrant another film. and i hope THAT film has action, guns, flashlights, drama, blood, guts, scares, and a full-scale alien invasion. oh, and give mulder and scully their fuckin' JOBS back, man. because the lifetime movie that was "i want to believe" was not enough for this x-phile.
i'm really kinda bummed.
*changes desktop and ringtone back to non-x-files content* | | Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | | 9:18 pm |
i want to believe!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i will, tomorrow night at midnight! midnight showing! i'm gonna be there!
(this message brought to you by pure x-files nerd love, dormant for years but now in full swing again. welcome back, you great old feeling.)
man, i'm so excited. and i just can't hide it. i'm about to lose cont | | Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | | 11:36 am |
| | Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 | | 3:48 pm |
rock autobiographies of the damned this exists.  and the product description is really fine, fine prose: "Beautiful blondes attracted Erna like a moth to an open flame, and his affairs with them were intense and often unstable. Outwardly hardened, yet privately vulnerable, he couldn't open up. This, combined with his high-adrenaline lifestyle, seemed bound to catch up with him and did."
what did? blondes? "Sully's story shows us that whatever hardship we may face, ultimately, our choices determine our destiny. He's made the most of every advantage and obstacle he has faced, and reminds us that we can, too. But for Sully, career success is not an ultimate destination. Every day brings a new fork in the road another path to choose."thank you, uh, sully. thank you for teaching us your wisdom. who knew that a third-rate alice in chains cover band could go on to become gatekeepers of such sage knowledge? god has been smacked, indeed. i look forward to learning even more about life when "yeah, oh, yeah: the art alexakis story" and "taking you higher or, how to oil your chest and stand in front of a giant wind machine: the scott stapp story" come out. | | Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | | 12:00 pm |
more sad stuff
so, george carlin. a great voice for atheism and agnosticism in popular culture. of course, a great voice for free speech. a funny guy. died too young.
also died too young: chris johnson, the singer of useless wooden toys, a band the dames played with once at the triple rock. they were good 80's style skater hardcore. he got stabbed at a party because he was defending a woman who got her ass grabbed by some creep. said creep pulled a knife, and chris' life was over. 32, same as me.
i remember you, man. i never knew you, maybe never even spoke to you. but i remember you. you made music. | | Friday, June 13th, 2008 | | 3:14 pm |
tim russert, R.I.P.
damn, tim russert just died. i really loved watching that guy work. i'll always remember watching the 2000 presidential election coverage, with him and that white board of his.
he died while doing voiceover work for "meet the press." jeez.
go bills. | | Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | | 7:20 pm |
if that's moving up, then i'm... welllll... today's the last day in the apartment we've lived in for -- gasp -- almost six years. tomorrow is uhaul day. wow. it's been a long six years. it's also been a tiny blip, an eyelash-bat. it's a huge chunk of my life, but it seems like only last week that we were moving in, shellshocked from our time in the cities, from that stressful, confusing year. we were glad to be back home, and i was happy to return to UWS. so we set down our roots. we got as comfortable as we could, which only can last so long. so much has happened since then. life has continued to happen. our landlord has become utterly intolerable and impossible to communicate with, and i've graduated from that horrible college. time to go. time to go, now. i am going to be so glad to never have to have another confrontation with my landlord ever again. no more unannounced visits, no more bullshit. no more hammering, sawing, pounding on the walls. no more little fucking projects going on with no warning. no more loud talking in the basement. no more. no more trashy neighbors. no more cop cars. no more. our new place isn't perfect, but i think it will be okay. it's old. but we've got light. lots of light. you can see the bay from our front porch. you can see the woods. it feels neighborhood-y. i think we're going to make it. if anything, we needed to shake up our little snow globe and alter our perspectives. hopefully, this will especially help me to figure out my next step in life, as far as earning money and figuring out just what the hell it is i'm supposed to be doing. i really, really want to feel like i haven't missed the bus. i really hope i've still got a chance to be happy. i really do. sometimes i honestly feel like i'm just too weird to do this. i don't like feeling like that. i want to be appreciated for who i am, not dismissed for who i am not. this feels like the right thing to be doing, right now. wish us luck. here we go... Current Mood:  hopeful | | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | | 10:42 am |
great moments in typos
"If I had known the ending was like this I would have snuk out and watched Indian Jones."
- from an Ain't it Cool News review of "The Strangers." |
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