I’m up for a minipalooza. I’ll record thoughts on Eraserhead sometime in the next few weeks (as you said it wouldn’t be for DP 100 or 101, so there’s time). You can through them out whenever you want.
Four to go, go, go!
CP: Warcraft II: The Tides of Darkness – Human Song 4
Geeky Moment:
Listening to the unshow, streaming over the coffee’s shop wifi connection.
Tres geeky, Van!
Morning Ed, morning Van, morning JB.
CD: GOODEARTH Green Tea w/ Lemongrass, bought by mistake
CP: yesterday’s Democracy Now!
Work. Meh.
Number 9
Yesterday’s Democracy Now! is terribly sad. It’s an interview (the last segment is, anyway) with the parents of LaVena Johnson, a soldier who died in Iraq. Her parents were told that she committed suicide, but they allege that she was raped and murdered. It’s awful.
Morning Pan!
Well, I survived both my in-laws and my boss being in town. All left yesterday so life should be back to normal.
On the up side, my husband and I exchanged our anniversary gifts a week early so I have a new toy. He gave me an iPod Touch. Very cool! 🙂
I gave him a Gibson SG (because you can never have too many guitars in the house 🙂 )
So we both have new toys.
Hiya, Ditto!
JACK!!! You are completely wrong. You are very entertaining. 🙂
Panimaniacs! I like it!!!
CP: Does This Mean You’re Moving On? — The Airborne Toxic Event
(via KEXP song of the day)
CP: The Hot Spot (podcast)
A GIBSON SG!!! Wow, you must really love your husband. Congratz!
The number is 451. You should not count 450 unless it is immediately followed by 451. 452 is right out.
I thought he’d said “Pandamaniacs”. Yours makes more sense, ditto.
“We’re the Pan-O-Manics! We have greasy nipples in our slacks!”
It’s time for Pan-i-man-i-acs
And we’re zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You’ll laugh till you collapse
We’re Pan-i-man-i-acs
(verses edited out)
Meet Pinky and the brain
…
The writers flipped
We have no script
Why bother to rehearse
We’re Pan-i-man-i-acs
We have play for play contracts
We’re zany to the max
There’s baloney in our slacks
We’re Pan-i-man-ee
Totally and zany
Here’s the shows namey
Pan-i-man-i-acs
Those are the facts!
Ok, maybe not completely edited (Pinky and the Brain??? – doesn’t fit)
That’s OK, TEB. A little Pinky and the Brain never hurt anybody.
Is that what happens when you stick your little finger in your ear?
Ouch!
CP: Nature – India.Arie
3 hour conference call looms.
How’s everyone?
Getting by. No conf call hell for me today. Sorry about you, Jack.
Doing well. And you?
Blech. At least you don’t have to wear ping pong balls with black dots on them, just try not to snore.
Catching up on a weeks worth of work and personal stuff. (As well as playing with my new toy 😉 )
It’s an uphill battle at Evil, Inc. today.
More politics around here. =P I’m ready start wrapping up my involvement with this two year long project and start applying what I’ve learned to the next one.
My kitty kat is driving me insane. Since I’ve been at the office for the last couple of days (boss in town) I haven’t been at home to brush her twenty times a day. Also she doesn’t like strangers and my inlaws stayed with us while they were in town.
Now she’s all cuddly and constantly pawing at me for attention. Hard to get any work done with a cute kitty looking for lovin.
On another up note: When my boss was out here, she said I wasn’t taking enough holiday time. Now I have to take at least one more week, preferably two, because they won’t carry all of them over to next year.
I have a hard enough time taking the holidays I have, without finding where to add more.
the eagle has landed
Dre currently:
Playing: Spoon – Don’t you Evah
Drinking: Mate Tea
Doing: retouching someones wedding photos
Doing2: getting high off the fumes from Hugh’s oil painting
Hugh currently:
Playing: Spoon – Don’t you Evah
Drinking: nothing
Doing: painting
CP: In The Waiting Line – Zero 7
TEB, she is just teaching you what happens when you neglect her. That way, as George Lopez would say, you’ll learn.
Welcome back from vacation bunny and happy anniversary
back to work… got deadlines…
TSH!
CP: Cruel – Tori Amos
CP: City Nights — Surplus Sons
Here’s another criticism of Dr. Horrible and the comic:
Sorry I have been sparce lately The FAA doing an audit while I was holding training on how to glue 2 pieces of metal together with Heat. (Lots of heat!)
CP: Lucifer, Quel Giorno… — Emma Shapplin
EssBee: I think some people are spending way too much time over analyzing Dr. Horrible.
Not like it is really important… Its just airplane parts.
Aww wndr, who cares if the airplane parts are put together properly. It’s not like they’ll fall out of the sky or something…
oh wait…
I prefer my planes not fall out of the sky, especially when I’m on them.
Can’t play ZP on the iPhone….grrrrr!
Have you browsed the app store yet TEB?
The free ereader is cool.
I agree, ditto.
In other DH news, I got my Hammer’s Hammer t-shirt in the mail yesterday!
CP: This Is How It Goes – Aimee Mann
Slowly from the darkness a strange little variety show emerges from the depths of broke-atude…
No I did not work on those airplane parts that was someone else therefore still on the plane…
CP: Talk Nerdy To Me – Possible Oscar
YES! Thanks, wolf. Now to go download back-episodes . . .
No Van, I haven’t really done much more than play with my touch. I did add Calgary weather and my company’s stocks to it, but haven’t looked at the apps yet.
I so want a shirt that says “Captain Hammer is a corporate tool” 🙂
“I’m sorry, I lost interest in your message after the first paragraph and couldn’t be bothered to finish it. No doubt it was very clever and devastating and if it makes you feel good, please consider me abashed or chagrined or whatever it was that you intended me to feel after reading your brilliant, scintillating words. In the meantime, allow me to congratulate you in your decision not to breed, as clearly a person of your qualities represents a full stop on the genetic paragraph; the evolution of your line need go no further.
Please feel free to respond, whereupon I’ll be happy to ignore you again in greater detail.
That’s too funny. I was just looking at that too, TEB.
CP: Circle of Light – Ani DiFranco
CP: On a Podcast – Cruisebox
CP: Into The Great Wide Open – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
CP: The Next Big Thing — Jesus Jones
I watched the Age of Conan ZeroPunct review and it was okay, but the Alone in the Dark one was brilliant! “If some one serves you a dead dog for lunch, you don’t stick around for pudding.” LOL
CP: Male Model – Sleater-Kinney
CP: Twilight Singers – I Wish I Was
Ive finished my work for the day but Ive lost my husband to the stock market 🙂
He is enthralled in finance shows now
Hugh is the only man I know who is equally engrossed in painting and finance
I was feeling like doing some baking.. I’m going to search through my kitchen and see what I can make! Methinks I need to make a bread. Bread baking is very relaxing
My fortune cookie contained the following note:
“Someone is speaking well of you.”
And hey, congrats on the anniversary, TEB. Enjoy the new toys.
Gibson SG *swoooon*
That was me, Jack.
*angling for greasy spoon prizes*
CP: There Is No Time – Lou Reed
CP: Tampa – Gipsy Kings
CP: My Morning Song – The Black Crowes
You need to find the right bait Essbee, a picture of whatever a Gibson SG is, may help..
cough
CP: No Compute – Funkadelic
Guitar porn, in other words, Van?
Well I wouldn’t go that far.
CP: The Air Near My Fingers – The White Stripes
CP: Jungle Love – Steve Miller Band
So dumb conversation for today.
Preparing to leave coffee shop, was accosted by one of the staff:
“Is that an iPhone?”
“Err yeah”
“What do you think of it? would you recommend it? I want to get one but not sure if I need one”
“So what do you usually use your phone for?”
“Talking”
“Then you don’t need an iPhone”
At this point I began to think they must think I’m an idiot (what else would you use a phone for).
Explaining that I use the phone to listen to podcasts, browse the internet and watch videos and only use it as an actual phone on the odd occasion didn’t crop up…groan.
Bah! Conference call from hell!
Van, and least you didn’t say, “mind your business!”
-and
+at
I keep forgetting that for some people a phone is as much a fashion statement as an actual tool.
Thanks for the well-speaking, EssBee.
A phone just for speaking? But then I’d have to wear a watch!
And how am I going to get those up skirt shots of young girls discreetly? Er.. I mean tell time. Yeah that’s it.
That is why I like my iPod touch… I gots a phone.
I think Rhett’s talking about a completely different kind of iTouch…..
I’d like to iTouch rhett after what has recently been revealed about his manhood
Hugh sez: Damn it woman! Rhett! I challenge you to a length/girth contest to win the adoration of the fair dre. We measure at sunrise tomorrow. May the best morning wood win Mr Rhettro
LOL
wow.. ummmm.. Im speechless.. ummm…
Hugh sez: and by the way, I can’t speak on the iTouch but i loooooove my iPhone. I used it all the time for everything. It replaced my blackberry, phone and ipod. It was a great asset to my professional life. I could check stocks, set up appointments, contact people by phone or email, look at nudie photos of my wife AND listen to Naked Raygun all at once! On one gadget! It was a stock traders dream!
wait… do all stock traders look at nudie shots of your wife on their iPhones?
Hugh sez: They better not be. Dirty minded fuckers that they are.
🙂
mmmkay.. where were we
Deadpan 96 continues…
1. You cannot understand the book of revelations. Henceforth Southland Tales makes no sense
Southland Tales 0
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
greasy spoon remix!
Southland Tales Break
whats the best thing to have on break?
Hugh sez: Nipples! Yes!! I want nipples on my break!
Smarty Hotties® – 25
The Energizer Bunny – 22
justa j0e – 19
Vanamonde – 17
Mr ditto swooon – 14
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Trucker Overdrive – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
EesBee – 2
psion andy – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
*deadpan pause*
Rebecca Del Rio
j0e
obvious: this film is whacked
Southland Tales 0
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
someone thought The Rock was “good”
Hugh sez: whatever drugs said people are taking, I want to buy an ounce
🙂
j0e has flowers growing out of his nose?
wow
Hugh sez: I’d like to see that
j0e liked it!!!!!!!
its satire
Southland Tales 1
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
its satire allegory: 1
Hugh sez: if j0e likes it, we might have to watch it
We trust j0e’s movie opinions?
Hugh sez: yes. I like j0e.
awwwwww Hugh + j0e = love
it had a repoPan homage
Hugh sez: and we loved Naked Lunch
we did
mmkay. We trust j0e
Vanamonde
didn’t much like watching it
Southland Tales 1
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
its satire allegory: 1
didn’t much like it, boring and slow: 1
The Rock says know your role and shut your mouth
Ees Bee
DeadSouthLand Tales
EesBee is whipping out the poetry
this is the way the world ends
TSH *swooon*
satire
anti war
anti war on terror
funny/ironic:
have a nice apocalypse
people get naked in it?
Hugh sez: this movie sounds better and better!
ditto swooned us!!!
*swoooon*
Hugh sez: *swoooon*
LOL.. we are so ghey
Hugh sez: we are
No, you aren’t!
*stamps foot*
That was ghey, wasn’t it?
*headdesk*
gas shortage
petered out
pornagraphic SUV’s
He’s On Top
Hugh sez: I like being on top
🙂
LOL!!!!
Thanks ditto! 🙂
Hugh sez: we are comfy in our ghey-ness
Best quote evar
“Dubshack, I never thought I would be thanking you for anything. But thank you for making me watch this movie”
-EesBee
Southland Tales: 2
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
its satire allegory: 1
didn’t much like it, boring and slow: 1
funny and ironical and war on terror jokage: 1
She is actually buying it
Hugh sez: Hustler?
That woke him up!
Hugh sez: Im a jugs kinda guy really
LOL.. thank you for sharing Hugh
Hugh sez: Actually Jugs is pretty tame on my list of turn ons.
true. I now what kinda guy you really are
Hugh sez: I’m a rubberdoll kinda guy
exactly 🙂
Night pan
You Tube comments
10 facts
I can fuck Kristen now?
Hugh sez: I wanna fuck Kristen now too!
We can share Hughie 🙂
Night ditto!
*mwa*
Hugh sez: *mwa*
you just kissed ditto
Hugh sez: *swooon*
🙂
Southland Tales race issues
9 chapter saga
the earth isn’t spinning
Alright pan, we gotta stop here for the night
Hugh is going out in an hour and needs to go get all sexy and hot. Not that he isn’t so fucking sexy and hot right now.
Hugh sez: *blush*
Blush? The Hugh just blushed?
Hugh sez: I have to fake modesty sometimes.. help keep it real
LOL. Modesty doesn’t suit you my love
Hugh sez: Ok, what if I said- Of course I am sexy and hot as I am. I don’t have to try, but when dealing with women, you have to make them think you care. But I don’t fucking care.
LOL!!! Insight on Hugh and women from Hugh, ladies and gentlemen
Hugh sez: Holy fucking christ look at the black and white shots in the center! *swoon* *hardon*
NSFW at all.. and highly perverted. You have been warned
And no, I’ve never felt obligated to follow that silly 5 o’clock rule. I’ll have a beer when I want one. Except, when I’m at work, of course. Or driving. Or scuba diving. Or running naked through the rain. Scratch that last one. 🙂
Trent Reznor has enlisted 50 McTrillion (read: five) bands to open for his tour in support of Nine Inch Nails’ 50 McTrillion (read: two) new albums, The Slip and Ghosts I-IV, but perhaps you already knew that.
Deerhunter, Crystal Castles, White Williams, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Does It Offend You, Yeah? will provide the entrance music for Nine Inch Nails on their “Lights in the Sky” tour, which begins tonight (July 25) at the Pemberton Festival in British Columbia.
Ol’ Trent’s also added some shows south of the U.S. border since our last report. The new dates are in October.
Dre: .5
Wordpress: 2
That’s awesome TSH!
Have you all caught up on FreakAngels? It is awesome.
That’s the subtext in HP that I just didn’t want to mention, Jeremy!
Well you *do* know they were playing with each others wands, right? Right?
Eureka slash:
Carter/Stark
Judging by Axl Rose’s lyrics – I guess if you paired him and his G n’ R guitarist, you’d have Hack n Slash slash.
Wheel of Time slash:
Perrin/Matt
Will channel surfing yesterday, I thought I saw a clip of “Dr. Horrible.” Sure enough one of the fluff entertainment shows had a segment about how it was the most popular download on iTunes. They even interviewed Joss about it. More Joss exposure can’t be bad right?
Booya, Jack. Nice wand joke, ditto.
BSG slash:
Six/Eight
Apollo/Anders
Tigh/Bill
Six Tigh’s Anders and Apollo Eight the Bill?
CP: Lonesome Johnny Blues — Cracker
Jack,
You know it’s strange how an individual can interpret things. When I read Van’s posting “slash – to urinate” it made me think about an article in which Slash talked about how when you wear leather pants and piss in them, you don’t get cold like when you’re wearing jeans. That’s your public service announcement for the day.
Dr. Horrible/Capt’n Hammer.
*titters*
Dresden/Marcone
I know when I was scuba diving, my instructor told us to pee in our suit if we got too cold. Not something I was interested in doing.
Truly disgusting, Rhettro.
Every time I see Slash, I think, “imagine what that guy smells like.” Now I have THIS to have nightmares about.
Literary Slash: Ahab/Ishmael
Weird self love humour slash: Austin Powers/Dr. Evil
The Comedian/Doctor Manhattan
Ooooo: Buffy/Vampirella
Heroes slash:
Claire/Elle
I need a minute
Dresden/Bob
EssBee,
That’s kinda my feelings as well.
Yogi/Boo Boo
Wilma & Betty
LOL
LOST slash:
Sayid/Hurley
‘But he hasn’t got the machinery’ necro/literary slash:
HAL/Frank Poole after the accident
ough
+c
Beastality cartoon slash:
Dick Dastardly/pigeon
I thought Sawyer/Hurley would be more appropriate or maybe Sawyer/Jack. LOL
The Middleman slash:
Wendy/Ida
ugh!
Hmmm.. Lunchtime. Thinking about going to the Paradise Mall and getting a chicken salad sandwich. Of course I need to stop for gas first. Hrm..
Heh: Jesus/Mohammad
Clay slash:
Wallace/Gromit
I think I need a shower after that…
Firefly slash: Kaylee/Inara
.
.
.
.
sorry my mind went blank there for a moment.
Zeus/Jupiter
Hellboy/Abe
Oh new bionic woman slash:
Jaime Sommers/Sarah Corvus
But only if SC smokes a ciggie in the rain first…
Bush/Osama
*declares win*
Hah!
God/Devil + pile of butter
Jeremy FTW!
I need a healthy dose of brain bleach now. 🙁
Rhoobarb/Custard
obscure UK cartoon slash.
I bet Bush’d be the catcher in that pairing.
FTW?
Jesus/Judas
CP: (Mad Donna) Ve o zing
Moses/Pharaoh
Wolverine/Magneto
(for the win)
“Ye varily, the Lord smote Pharaoh with a plague of crabs….”
CP: Daughter – Pearl Jam
On that note….Runchtime!!
Batman/Robin
Oh, wait. Slash is supposed to be made up/outside canon. Forget that one.
CP: Less Cities, More Moving People — The Fixx
CP: Do Re Me (Live) – Ani DiFranco
CP: Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash
CP: Stand or Fall (live) — The Fixx
CP: Gather Round The Stone – Ben Harper
CP: Ride — Liz Phair
Joker/Penguin
Waaaaw waaaww Waaaaw!
Wow, I just hacked my way through a lot of slash here this afternoon.
Buffy/Faith
The wife and I just got back from “The Dark Knight”. It was……ok. I think the thing has been greatly overhyped. It was too long. And I have nothing against a long running movie, but this one just dragged out, both in the overall plot and in the editing of the various scenes.
Heath Ledger did an interesting portrayal as the Joker, but I found it really hard to get into it as they made a clearly deliberate choice to give him no background. He was simply an agent of chaos dropped onto Gotham to stir up trouble.
While not nearly as bad as Crystal Skull, I don’t think this was as good a Iron Man in considering Summer movies. I also find it really hard to justify this being IMDB’s number 1 rated movie of all time.
YMMV.
Chewbacca/Admiral Ackbar?
(Would that be the surf n turf?)
Surf n Fur
Fff
Reviews of The Dark Knight have been all over the place. We’re going to try and catch it Sunday.
Interesting review Ed. I have no idea if I’ll like Batman or not. I liked Batman Begins, although I found it a little cold. I really liked Memento, Chris Nolan’s earlier film.
I concurr it was long. There were lots of cool things about it though. My biggest peeve was Bale’s stupid batman voice. I like him as batman in all aspects but that one.
I dug the minimalist soundtrack too.
I would have to say that I liked Batman Begins much better than TDK.
I’ve been more impressed with Bale in “American Psycho” and “The Prestige” than in Batman.
OMG, American Psycho freaked me out. I can’t look at him without thinking about that movie. One of the scariest books I’ve ever read too.
I’m only familiar with the movie, not the book.
Buffy/Faith/Willow/Anya
drooooooooooool
cough
So enough of my version of heaven, what about hell?
TDK tomorrow…well hopefully.
Big airshow on this weekend, public transport will be screwed up in a BIG way.
Downpour in Longmont — YES!
CP: The Moth – Aimee Mann
Uh . . . flash flood in Longmont . . .
I liked TDK much more than BB.
CP: Fill Me Up – Linda Perry
CP: Drama – L7
CP: Sweetleaf – Galactic
CP: Explain It To Me – Liz Phair
I’m developing a deep, deep hatred for iTunes.
Oh no, Van! What happened?
CP: Porcelina Of The Vast Ocean – Smashing Pumpkins
Trying to get it to sync newly downloaded podcasts, they are in the library, they are marked new, and the damn thing won’t transfer them to the phone.
If I had hair on my head to pull out…
That bastard!
Quite…lol
CP: Tonight You Belong to Me – Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters
…… yes, I rushed here to share that.
iTunes is supposed to provide convenience and pleasure, Van. Not frustration.
CP: Through the Morning, Through the Night – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
I’ve been a manual copier for years, too much of a dinosaur for iTunes I suspect.
I got my monthly comics in the mail yesterday. I got:
Angel After the Fall #10
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 #16
Spike After the Fall #1
Ooooh didn’t know about Spike After the Fall.
The first collection of Angel After the Fall in hardback, is cooling it’s heels at the local PO cos it wouldn’t fit through the letterbox.
I am loving Buffy, and really liking Angel.
The cover of #16 w/ Fray sent me into gushes of excitement when I opened the parcel last night.
Ah I’ve the original Fray around here somewhere, liked that story.
Got the damn thing to sync!
wahoo!
Even the videos got transferred.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the anime version of Black Lagoon rocks!
Victory!
Okay, friends, I’m heading on home. If I don’t check back in, have a great Friday night!
Here’s hoping the Hotties drop by tonight for more fun.
Work’s been especially sucktacular today. I hope it’s not a new trend.
Today in general has been sucktacular. And yes, that has been the trend. Sorry to complain. Carry on.
Van: I love Black Lagoon. I’m excited that there will be a 3rd season!
Dam Busters!!! Great movie. And one of the “inspirations” for the Death Star run. And by inspiration, I mean rip-off… uh, tribute, since Uncle George stole dialog and scenes for Star Wars.
Sucktastic. Yep. Describes my day.
302 — Looks like we’ll blow past the required comments goal this week.
I third the sucktastic assessment.
Thank goodness it’s the weekend, is all I can say. Anybody have any good weekend plans?
Wow. It got quiet in here.
morning pan!
[minor spoilers for those who haven’t seen Batman yet]
We saw Batman last night. LOVED it!
I know it got some ho-hums from some of you, and some people I talked to, but that was Batman how we like it.
I know when Batman started it was silly and cheesy and Bruce Wayne was perfectly well adjusted and it was kinda goofy really. That Batman is ok, I mean we have been getting those Batman Chronicles graphic novels as they come out (they are printig in order every Batman appearance since the beginning of Batman time in graphic novel form- its wicked cool)
But the Batman we really love is the dark, tortured with a side order of psychotic please. The Joker was perfect! That little tongue flick he gave the character was inspired and I just think he did an exellent job. Nicholsons joker was ok, he was goofy and funny. But this Joker was fucking insane.. which the Joker was. The Joker was psychotic. He killed cause he loved to kill, he didnt care about what he got. He enjoyed the chase and getting into Batmans head. He loved fucking with Batman and watching Batman being driven nuts chasing him.
Thats the Batman universe as I like to see it. I think there is a place for the candy colored, silly, goofy version of the Batman world and we enjoy that too, but this dark, dirty, psychotic, version was perfect.
Hugh sez: and they filmed a whole bunch at my work
Yeah! Chicago looked awesome as Gotham!! I loved the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) bus that they changed the C ot a G very cute 🙂
But they filmed on top of the Chicago Board of Trade several times. That whole financial district area with the Board of Trade in the middle.
Hugh sez: you mean Chicago Mercantile Exchange now 🙂
Bah! whatever! It will always be CBOT to me. They were all over dowtown in that movie. The hospital they blew up was on the south side of the city.
[/minor spoilers for those who haven’t seen Batman yet]
{more Batman spoilers]
Hugh just remided me of the scene when he sez: wanna see a pencil disappear. That was disgusting.. that was The Joker. Awesome.
{/more Batman spoilers]
ok we have yoga and tai chi this morning
l8r panitos
Today I forgot to buy:
Orange Juice
CW:
Futurama – the anthology episode where Bender goes human and Life becomes a video game.
Off to see Dark Knight, hopefully it won’t be too busy at the arty farty cinema.
Morning, Pan!
Not gonna read the Hotties’ post until Sunday night b/c we haven’t seen TDK yet. Hopefully today!
We’re headed to Canon City, CO (home of Colorado apples, the SuperMax prison, and my babe’s grandma) today. We plan to enjoy the scenery, some good coffee, and the rest of David Sedaris’ new book (“When You Are Engulfed In Flames”) from audible. I recommend the book, BTW, for some good laughs.
I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday! I might check back in when we arrive at our destination.
That’s a great episode, Van.
And a fine Saturday, paniacs.
CP: Young Sherlock Holmes Score – Solving the Crime
Today Fox visits grandma and grandpa, and Darcy and I get some Dark Knight action. Was going to be DK and XFiles both, but we remembered an evening potluck that is expecting our whole crew this evening so we cut it back to the better-reviewed of the two flicks…
Morning Pan!
A beautiful day out, and I’m stuck inside working 🙁
Been on the line with Apple for 40 minutes now. My new toy won’t register on I-Tunes (It keeps telling me my address isn’t a US address – Which I already know!!), so I can’t get the updates or the cool apps.
ok, an hour later we’ve finally got it sorted out. Now my Touch knows I’m from Canada. – good lord.
Well, since this is such a happening place, I’m leaving.
Time for lunch, then back for more work – lucky me 😉
Saturdays are sometimes like this.
So cinema was quiet, enjoyed the movie but agree about Batman’s voice.
I know the voice was unpopular, but I rewatched Batman Begins on the same day I saw TDK and found it was pretty consistent between the two. They might have done something better, but to be realistic, Batman *had* to disguise his voice somehow.
Just finished reading “Soon I Will Be Invincible” by Grossman. Highly recommended.
I’ve only seen Batman Begins once (when I saw it at the cinema) so my memory of the movie is vague at best. Will have to dig out the DVD when I’ve got the time.
Oh and according to my watch the running time for Dark Knight (well till the credits roll) was 2 hours 18 minutes, so not quite in the same league as the LOTR movies.
It sure felt longer…and not in a good way.
So tonight old TV program is ‘The Flipside of Dominick Hide’:
Interesting. One of the kids favorite shows is now “Phineas and Ferb” about a couple of boys forever on summer vacation and finding creating schemes to entertain themselves each day.
Smoked kitten, coming to a curry house near you soon…
I read at Backseat Producers that MTV plans to remake “Rocky Horror Picture Show” keeping only the screenplay and writing all new music.
How do you remake a movie based on a stage musical and not use the original score???
Okay, after looking at several other sources, it looks like original score is staying, but may be supplemented by all-new songs as well..
Saw X-Files: I Want to Believe yesterday. More like “I Want my money back” or “I want to believe Chris Carter can make a scarier movie than a gay Russian abducting women and harvesting their body parts to keep his lover alive, who happens to have once been the alter boy victim of the priest he has a psychic connection to that the FBI are using to find them”
Yeah I just spoiled the whole movie but honestly beyond a few good jokes on David Duchovney’s behalf and what I’m certain must have been a scene accidentally inserted from the gag reel (in which Mulder’s car is being pushed over a cliff and Mulder is desperatly trying to decide whether to call “Dana” or “Gillian” on his cell phone) the movie is pretty much pointless. Other than getting a sense of what Mulder and Scully are as lovers and the fact that they’ve just been together in hiding for six years and Scully’s a doctor on a Catholic hospital… You really get no sense of their relationship ever having moved anywhere, in fact their coupling comes across just as bizzare as it did when they revealed it and failed to explain it in the final two seasons of the show.
So other than being able to see just how old David Duchovney and Gillian Anderson have really gotten, or see a really amazingly done joke about George Bush, I’d wait for DVD on this one kids. And even then I’d Netflix it, or BT it even. I actually had to apologize to my wife for making her watch six season of the show (we only got that far before the movie came out, we were going for ninee) and then watch a shitty movie. I was really expecting this one to be good, but wow, it just went nowhere.
Yeah, I never intended to watch that film.
Same here. I watched X-Files from the first season and one season past the first movie, but after that Carter just lost focus. Much like some other shows that out stayed their welcome and die violent deaths (i.e. Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Moon Lighting etc.) X-Files didn’t know how to bow out gracefully. There should have been a sense of closure brought to the uneven season ender, but they took too much time and now it just doesn’t matter. I may end up renting it on Netflix but that’s it.
I stopped watching X-Files right after the dreadful personality swapping episode aired. That cliche is pretty much the kiss of death imo: it means the writers are out of ideas. I tried watching a few episodes after that point but couldn’t get into it anymore, especially after the new cast was introduced.
When I heard they were going to make a new movie, my reaction was basically ‘meh’. I would only watch it if everyone swore it was a great movie. From Dub’s wonderful reaction… I think I’d rather be forced to watch Spider-Man 3 repeatedly.
“The truth is over the shark”.
Thanks for the warning, Dub. I never watched the TV series, really enjoyed the first film, had almost zero interest in seeing this new one.
Moon Patrol rocked.
So the Martha Wainwright gig was good but boy was she off her rocker or at least acting like she was.
She seemed so ‘normal’ seven years ago.
Van, I’d so go see Martha live. I agree — she does seem to have some issues….. What nutty things did she do?
Did she do “Bloody Mother Fuckin Asshole”?
I think I’m a bigger fan of her brother Rufus. (Yes, you can be straight and appreciate Rufus Wainwright)
Nope on the song, just the way she was talking between songs and interacting with the audience.
Good gig anyway, Rufus is on my to do list for seeing him performing live.
Hughie do you think he will let me share anything else with him?
Hugh sez: if the dude has half a brain he will
*swooon*
Hugh sez: *swooon2*
[singing with trent]
and this is not my face
and this is not my life
and there not a single thing that i can recognize
this is all a dream
and none of you are real
[/singing with trent]
ok I just rewindeded Head Down.. 1 more listen before more Deadpan 🙂
there was an article in the books section of the Chicago Tribune about the growing popularity of Graphic Novels and how they are taken much more seriously now as relevant fiction
kinda interesting…
I wonder what this tour of Trents is gonna be like.. it is for 2 albums that are almost all instrumental. Trent only sings on like 2 or 3 songs on The Slip and none on Ghosts.
Does this mean we are going to see Trent actually playing.. oh that would rule! To see him playing with his keyboards and Mac and shit
Hugh sez: Are yuo going to need a cold shower?
I might! Oh! and Im going to have like front row access to Trent! I got the ok to shoot NIN. I begged and begged. I said I would shoot anyone I didn’t care as long as I could do Gutter Twins and NIN.
Hugh sez: well you saved their asses at Pitchfork too
I did 🙂
I just keep having these lollapalooza visions of Greg Dulli, and Trent Reznor and Hugh and me.. and we’re all naked.. ummm.. sorry
Hugh sez: you are NOT sorry. You ho.
LOL! Can I be a Greg, Trent and Hugh sandwich?
Hugh sez: a 3 sided sandwich?
yes
Hugh sez: as long as we don’t make a club sandwich with a bread in the middle
LOL!!!
*submit comment*
[tangent]
I love how the episode description for Deadpan 96 sez: “pimp show notes”
Hugh sez: [rapping] big pimping spending g’s [/rapping]
[/tangent]
Order that one with extra bacon and mayo.
OK, I gotta get ready to run out to a writer’s meeting thing. w00t, it looks like I’ll have a Smarty Hotties play-by-play when I get back *swoon*
You know, X-files used to be one of my favorites. In truth, it was the first movie that killed my interest in the show. I had hoped that, with as long a break as everyone has had from the series, they might come back with something fresh and interesting.
Alas, it looks like the horse is still dead.
Deadpan 96 continues…
The Rock
baby with no bowel movements
no bowel movements in 6 days
funny and ironical
no joke
when baby farts the world shakes
new christ
it was planned
what you need to know before getting into the movie
you won’t understand it all
based off book of revelations
salon.com is wrong about the harlot
Mega zepplin?
serpent woman is the harlot of revelations
agrees with the rest.. maybe
last 3 days of the end of the world
everything is gone to shit
big boom
republicans win in congress in 2006 *shudders*
homeland security freak out
empire of evil
LOL
Re: x-files
Yes, the movie soured quite a bit and the season without Mulder was wicked retarded.
I will have to see the movie though. I just have to. I don’t know. I’ll probably hate it but I will have to go. I loved X-Files up to the movie and last season.
I want to believe
back to pan
Jon Lovitt and Laro-however you spell it are best actors of the movie
disturbin
crap fest
he’s pissed off
donnie darko
shoot in the eye
fucking good movie
pimps don’t die
what does that mean?????
AAAAAAAAA
still have 18 more minutes and 15 seconds of Dubshack
and something else
people had a lot to say about it, got lots o’ content
people loved it or hated it
mega zepplin
random unpredictable strangeness
props, yo
Deadpanpalooza 4
tie up loose ends
short music
maybe he will come back
Deadpan is the motherfucking pimp
Chris Lmabert was in it
Is Jack coming back after the music?
Hugh sez: yes
Dre sez: no
very pretty song Jack 🙂
He came back for jelly beans!!
Hugh wins!!!
Jack fucked up last beans
Paul Maki wins too
and Paul Maki wins this week too!!
Paul Maki is the new Vanamonde
goodnight mush
powered by podango
Unshow 16
snap snap snap
nothing like regular Deadpan
0 prep time
less entertaining game
jelly beans
Vanamonde wins!!!!!!!
Smarty Hotties® – 25
The Energizer Bunny – 22
justa j0e – 19
Vanamonde – 17
Mr ditto swooon – 14
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Trucker Overdrive – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
EesBee – 2
psion andy – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
why yes Mr WordPress…. this IS a duplicate comment, well done. Well done indeed!
*unpause*
Vanamonde – colonoscopy
ditto – buffalo = new orleans
vanamonde- solo play
bunny – vultures
*intentional pause*
Trucker OD- list of ailments, podcast bitching
Smarty Hotties – BOO!!!!!!
G squared – good morning
Greasy Spoon Nipples Udder Bangles Susanna Hoffs Dickens Comments Cockles Spooges Comment-a-palooza shitzus donkus nose hairs nipples Comments solo nipples privates nipples sphincters comments comments teets areolas nipple comments comments nipples nipples greasy jelly nipple comments through Un show 16
Smarty Hotties® – 26
The Energizer Bunny – 23
justa j0e – 19
Vanamonde – 19
Mr ditto swooon – 15
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Trucker Overdrive – 5
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
EesBee – 2
psion andy – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
g squared – 1
*pause*
we gotta split yo
l8r
New series of Mad Men has stared…I feel all tingly.
But PB project moving ahead (albeit slowly)
DM Project had a set back (Not thrilled oh well)
DP Project releases this week – Oh shit…
State of the Wolf address.
I’ve got tons of deadlines for Between the Lines Studios this month, a bunch of edits, a voice role, and an episode script for Angel Between the Lines.
Poor hubby had to go back into work. He’s not a happy camper
Ditto – email resent
Morning Bunny you look tasty this morning.
Wait never mind.
Am I the only that sees “TDK” and think cassette tapes?
Victorian slap-fighting: curing boredom? If I was that bored, I’d really be in trouble!
Morning, TEB.
I didn’t get to the cassette tape movie over the weekend. Darn! Maybe one evening this week.
^You weren’t the only one Wolf. LOL
Unfortunately, with my husband’s schedule, we probably won’t be able to see “TDK” until it comes out on video.
CP: Pavlov’s Bell – Aimee Mann
I keep thinking TDK is a cassette tape too! lol
Remember when cassettes were the piracy scourge?
406 – so if I subtract the goal of 451 from the current count of 406 I should get the number of comments to hit our goal right??? Looks right except it is reversed you moron that is why you don’t write…
451-406= 45 comments to go!
Damn ditto swoon messed up my calculations….
CP: For the Turnstiles – The Be Good Tanyas
wolf – what are one or two nipples among friends, really?
EssBee- A comment Orgy?
Is is a free-for-all, no doubt!
Boob Face Plant
That is just fun to say….
*strips and jumps into the comment pile*
OH YEAH!!
That’s *boob* face plant, Jeremy, not *cock* face plant!
Guide Bruce through a series of screens to finally defeat a evil wizard. Infamous for being very east to complete..the phrase ‘piece of piss’ springs forth unbidden.
A platformer from a company that turned into Rare.
CP: Price I Pay – Janes Addiction
Not this time Van. Not this time.
Nice to be missed 🙂 Seems I missed a lot of swell discussions.
Hope things have turned for you Rhett. From what I’ve read … there is now a Rhett, head-shapped dent in your desk.
I think I’ll go blow the dust off my recording equipment and see if it still works.
A bit of a cheat this one, as it was the Apple 2 version that came out in 1984 and it was written in BASIC. Origin converted i to machine code for the C64 version.
Phew JJ and welcome back.
So tonight I will watch the first episode of the new series of Mad Men as I hve my tea.
60sretrovision ahoy!
+a
I DVR’d Mad Men last night as well, Van. I missed Season 1, but am just going to jump in at this point.
I am looking forward to Eureka tomorrow night. I am all caught up with that, and love the show!
Ok, done ghosting. Now time for lunch. May be back after. Lots more work to do.
CP: Shit Towne – Live
CP: Green is the Colour – Pink Floyd
Mad Men – also TiVo’d. Looking forwarc to watching tonight.
EssBee, you should download last years Episodes and watch first if you can. It is THAT good.
I have re-watched several of the episodes and they are just as engaging each time I view them.
CP: Criminal – Fiona Apple
Damn, my stock portfolio is in shambles.
I’ve been real good about staying diversified and following the energy/comodity issues so I’ve been able to stand on the outskirts and watch smugly while Rome Burned … but while I was on the road and out of touch the disaster finally caught up to me. 🙁
The horror. The Horror. The Horror.
This economy needs an enema.
EssBee and Wolf, yes I know. My ass is currently in one piece, but it’s fate still hangs in the balance.
JOe, should I watch S1 before even trying S2?
CP: Gentle Groove – Mother Love Bone
Rhettro, I was just joking – I am sorry about your ass’ current hanging. Work drama is so unfun. I’m really glad that you may have turned a corner!
CP: Circus Envy – R.E.M.
EssBee, no worries. The day has gotten better as it has progressed. 🙂
CP: Just a Dream — Great Northern
EssBee – While I believe each episode can stand on it’s own … it will be SO much more fun to watch S2 if you have watched how the characters have unfolded/grown/self-destructed from S1.
CP: Escape Pod 167
with annoying work mates blasting local radio (arrrggghhh!)
I will do that, then, JOe. I’ll just pile them up in the DVR until I get caught up. I’ve heard nothing but good about the show.
I was in Canon City, CO over the weekend. It’s a pretty small place. Their movie theater had the following choices:
– X-Files
– The Dark Knight
– Hancock
– Hellboy II
– Journey to the Center of the Earth
I felt like I was in a geeky wonderland.
That’s because Geeky Wanderland is in Oklahoma…
Ok that was a bad pun…(I am in a strange mood today…must be sleep dep)
Was Journey in 3D?
I saw the Cassette Tape movie this weekend…I was floored by it.
Crap I have a detail question about the movie…but don’t want to spoil it…off to the forums.
It wasn’t THAT bad, wolf.
Journey was in 3D, but I’m not giving good money to see that one.
CP: Beginning To See The Light – The Velvet Underground
Had beer bread for dinner last night. Easy to make and very tasty to eat!
CP: If I Had My Way – Big Sugar
What’s the recipe?
CP: Guys Like Me – Aimee Mann
3 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 can/bottle beer (I like using an amber).
Preheat oven to 350F. Mix the flour, sugar, and beer in a large bowl. Melt butter. Add a butter to loaf pan until the bottom is coated. Spoon dough into pan. Pour remaining butter onto the top of the dough. Place into oven and bake 50-60 minutes or until surface is golden.
oh, yum! I’m going to make that this week!
CP: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away – Eddie Vedder
Ok now this maybe down to my sieve like memory, but was the Dale character in S1 of Mad Men?
I think I’m mastering iTunes, even got the ereader to stop crashing after a sync…cool.
CP: “Lets Reggae All Night” – CSS
Go on with your bad self, Van!
CP: High On A Mountain Top – Loretta Lynn
CP: “Bonfire” – Lamb
Van – Re: Dale – I’ll have to let you know after I watch tonight.
Remember: you have to use self-rising flour. Plain flour will not do. 🙂
What if you substitute the 1/2 cup of butter with a 1/2 cup of Like Butta?
Will I Can’t Believe It’s Not Like Butta work?
self-rising, check. Me baking is a scary prospect . . .
CP: Paranoid Android – Radiohead
1/2 cup of Like Butta + a bottle of amber beer = ?
CP: Coming Home – Stereo MCs
Grabbed the recipe, will have to try it this weekend.
1/2 cup of Like Butta + a bottle of amber beer = happy buttah!
I can’t get the self-rising to leave it’s bunk.
A search engine that has recently come online for all Internet users:
Okay, I’m leaving Evil, Inc. before I forget I’m a pacifist. Tonight: sushi and TDK.
Talk to you later, friends.
*LFP* (Lawn Face Plant)
Van, I used to play Archon, Lode Runner, and Wizard of Wor on a friend’s Atari 800. All 3 were pretty damn good games, if memory serves.
Fish breath ewwwwwwwwww!
Well all good things must come to an end, work tomorrow.
Night Pan.
“Lawn dart”
No I don’t know what that means either.
So what would I do when testing out cuil.com? A vanity search on Jack Mangan, of course. . .
“No results because of high load…
Due to excessive load, our servers didn’t return results. Please try your search again.”
I saw the Batman movie and was impressed. I had no desire to see the X-Files movie. I saw the first one back when they were in their prime and was nonplussed. It was cutting edge television back in the mid-1990s. In the late 80s Twin Peaks was cutting edge television. I don’t feel like either show they dated particularly well. It is interesting to see Jack Black and Giovanni in the TV show together when there are both playing teenagers still.
Ironman was an okay movie. I do think that Batman will stand up as a work of cinema. Iron Man will be replaced by some better special effects even though Robert Downey Jr. did a great job acting. It just wasn’t as impressive as Heath Ledger. Personally I felt the best acting job was Matthew Lillard as shaggy in the first Scooby Doo movie. That was an impressive job acting. You can’t give an Academy award for that sadly.
I now Dub is now a retired podcaster, but I have to find a place to get his cynical harsh sarcasm. I miss the shack.
Doing a vanity search I mostly got back Twitter pages. Go figure.
I definately like Matthew Lillard’s work in “Scooby Doo” over “Wing Commander.”
Nice. On a more serious note, I will say that “SLC Punk” (with aforementioned Mr. Lillard) is a good movie. I own a copy, and I recommend it.
A vanity search under JohnBoze comes up with lots of me on FPM-related web pages, and also one from back at the turn of the millenium. Not really anyone talking about me tho…
THankfully, I live online in anonymity as some book writer has my name, so any vanity search gives dozens of hits on that guy while I cruise happily under the radar.
I shall definitely have to add that “photoshop disasters” blog to my RSS reader along with failblog. I shall never despair again….so long as I’m never featured in either of those blogs.
I suspect Cuil.com is still finding it feet, jack mangan threw up no results where as Jack Mangan threw up 25,142.
My real name throws up links mostly to people other than me…apart from a couple of 80’s computer centred websites.
So just read the Hotties’ review of the movie, and totally agree with it, as well as with ditto’s take on the film. It was great and dark. That was The Joker, with no sense of right/wrong. He was scary!
Thanks, too, Hotties, for the compliment of “best quote ever”! Heh heh.
No video games for me, lately. Unless you count me teaching my son how to play Pirates Online. Mostly we do the constructible model game thing. The 15yr old plays, the 9yr old plays, and the 4yr old now has his own pirate ships… Granted, I’m busy re-gluing the masts back on one of his ships. 4yr olds are rough on WizKids Pirate ships…
Jack, I totally dig being called out, man… I love this frakkin’ community. I’m just so busy with all my other SocNet things, that I never get in here… this is a world unto itself… The Looking Glass has got nothing on the Deadpan community 🙂
Scary they at one time had my show on there directory with out my knowledge or consent… If you want to use my show just ask Geesh. Chances are that I would let you use it… but damn…
I feel so used …
and not in a good way.
Kind of like being raped with an un sanded two by four and I just received splinters from hell that make hemorrhoids feel like a relief.
Sorry I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.
On a happier note – Since it is no longer a seekrit. Anyone who wants to wish Jack a happy 100th and have not gotten to it yet…please send mp3 to me @ gmail.com Dead(pan)line is upon us tonight.
… aaaand that would be MY que to say “Good Morning Deadpan!”
CP: Skullcrusher Mountain – J. Coulton
CP: Hit the Wall — Brendan Canning
(Indiefeed Alternative/Modern Rock podcast)
Wndr – just sent you a topic relative e-mail. Which topic? Ah, that’s the mystery isn’t it!
CP: “Betty and ME” – agian with the J. Coulton
JaJ – Replied.
I am probably going to make a couple upset with me, but since JM knows it is coming. No reason to keep the doors closed.
Heck, we don’t even lock the door to the DP Bar at night!
CP: “Bangs” – They Might Be Giants
CP: Yesterday’s Democracy Now! about Obama’s history in Chicago
Pretty interesting.
DP Bar – Where my bourbon has a tendency to disappear…
I am thinking about putting progress meters on my website to let people know where productions are being to being completed.
JaJ – Wait til you hear some of the original content that we have for this special episode!!! We have so many talented people here.
The Space Siege demo has been released. Almost a Gig though!
Wow EssBee… I would have dropped those off…Episode 1-6 really are pretty bad…(Damn those episodes are 2 years old.)
It’s GREAT, wolf. Just let me listen over here. Shh.
[no deadpan whatsoever]
WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[/no deadpan whatsoever]
w00t!! Congrats Hotties!
Hey I know when to be quiet nobody needs to tell me to shut up more than once. Geesh it not like I don’t want anyone to listen to the show. That’s the whole reason that the show is there for people to enjoy and who am I to keep people from listen to the show that I have so much time producing. I mean like wow someone has actually wanted to go back and listen to all of the back episodes just to sit back and listen to the stuff that I have pulled together. I think I may need to switch to decaf. This has been such weird morning considering all the stuff that has been going on. The Pulling of Wander Radio from the darkness of obscurity wait who the hell am I kidding Wander Radio is destined to be obscure just do to the fact that there is no niche market that I truly focus on, but then again what one person can just listen to one type of program and how in the hell are you going to know whether or not you’re going like something else if you are never given the opportunity to give it a try, I mean who can live on just audio dramas or just one type of music there is so much good content out there that is available for free. Like wow podcasting is how I found Brad Sucks and the Brobdingnagian Bards the Fump (I have been playing Fump music since their inception) There are also many great authors that really don’t understand the power of the internet yet.
Wow I really need to switch to Decaf…
wolf, you’re just fine full-caf.
I couldn’t get eps 2 or 3 on iTunes, so now I’m CP: Wander Radio #4
Here’s what I like so far: it’s like nothing else out there. The music is great. The comedy is super funny. The yogurt bit, for example, is hilarious. I’m gonna play that for my babe when I get home. It made me laugh out loud.
Congrats! TSH!
TSH: Concratz! Hope you have a place to stay now. 😉
Wolf: I listened to your last few episodes and really liked them. I was going to mine for more gold when you site went down. Sounds like it’s up again. Where’d I put my miner hat?
Rhettro – More gems coming soon.
See the last post for upcoming Wander Radio events.
Thanks!
Yes we have a place to stay 🙂
We’ve been living in our new place for a while now, so it will be nice to not pay for 2 places now.
Wolf- It’s always good to get validation for your work isn’t it? Sorry I haven’t been listening, but I barely listen to the 3 podcasts I am actually subscribed to as it is, its nothing personal 🙂
l8r
No problem TSH!
Brad P. from NJ is liberated from murgatory.
We can twist one step further to meh-gatory….?
Heavens to Meh-gatory!
Hi, Brad! Nice to meh-t you. I’m newish.
Screw you, WordPress.
I was just TRYING to say:
CP: Creo – Ozomatli
And, now that I mention it, earbuds: Don’t Mess With the Dragon – Ozomatli. Great, eclectic, bilingual band out of L.A. I love them, and this IMO is their best album so far.
WNDR, I admit I’m a bit confused reading your stream of posts today. Has someone been putting down your work on WNDR Radio? If so, that’s just crap. Your show remains one of my favorites.
Hello Brad P. ! Message in a bottle or just ships?
Wndr – the witch turned her into a New-ish.
CONGRADULATIONS SMARTY HOTTIES ! Now don’t go and blow all that cash on comic books and pop!
CP: “I wanna take you higher” – Sly and the Family Stone
Yah just tell us who Wndr and we’ll go give them the “MEH”ing of their life!
Ed – I see your “Spaceballs” and raise you a “High Anxiety”
… wait. That didn’t sound right.
I ain’t looking at NOBODY’S Spaceballs!
Dear Ed from Texas,
Just feeling kind of lost and amazed at how some things in life work (or don’t work as the case may be). Today has been kind of strange for me since my head is in a cloud (sleep dep from the con this weekend) I am just trying to keep myself going on it.
Jack H aka WNDRWolf
Thanks guys,
You are the best.
CP: “Can I take you higher” – Damn Yankees
^Talk about retro, Rhettro!
Srsly!
CP: Policy of Truth – Depeche Mode
Congrats on the loss of the double mortgage TSHs!!!
CP: Si è spento il sole — Adriano Celentano
Welcome, Brad!
Congrats, TSH!
Wndr, just do what you enjoy. That’s really the important thing.
CP: Old Mr. Heffer – 4 Non Blondes
Actually, that should have been CPIMM: “Currently playing in my mind”
JJ inspired me with his CP: LOL
Although technically, my wife bought that cassette when it came out.
Ha! “Over 1 billion served” takes on a new meaning w/ that one, ditto.
wolf, that’s even worse! Take this one:
CPIMM: Because The Night (unplugged) – 10,000 Maniacs
Ha ha – I am the master of the ear worm…
CPIMM: Turn Up (the Radio) – Autograph
CP: Promises In The Dark – Pat Benatar
LOL
CP: Love On The Run – Galactic
CP: Down Boys – Warrant
(not really. Just trying to remember the worst possible crappy 80s rock song)
I saw Warrant live once. They opened for Motley Crue at McNichols arena in Denver. Lord have mercy, that was like 400 years ago.
CP: Hide and Seek – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
CPIMM: Nobody’s Fool – Cinderella
CP: Don’t Ease Me In – Grateful Dead
CPIMM: Rock you Like a Hurricane – Scorpions
CPIMM: Round and Round – RaTT
Ack make it stop!!!
Warrent – Ouch Jack. LOL
I wonder how many hair metal acts I’ve actually seen?
Ratt
Def Leppard
Kiss
Bullet Boys
Mamas Boys (am I detecting a pattern here?)
Cinderella
Winger (yeah, yeah make your fun, but it was a good show)
I’m sure there had to be others. LOL
Worst hair metal song evar? I nominate FireHouse’s “Baby, Don’t Treat Me Bad.” Yee-ouch!
I’ve seen:
Bon Jovi (I know, I know)
Def Leppard
Alice Cooper
and:
Stevie Nicks multiple times
Tori Amos
Ani DiFranco
and:
Grateful Dead multiple times
Phish
Widespread Panic
Leftover Salmon
Papa Grows Funk
Galactic
Twangerama
That’s my jam band/New Orleans funk side
And a bunch of others, including some New Orleans JazzFests. But I saw the Dead too many times, and my memory is for shit.
EssBee No worries it was probably in the air at those Dead concerts 😉
EssBee’s on a roll.
I’ve also seen:
Iron Maiden (Thank’s Jack)
Chicago
Styx (Mr. Roboto tour – way cool)
Flash Cadillac (muliple times)
Fats Domino
Dr. Hook (set the way back machine)
Bread
Jethro Tull
Am I the only Deadpanite to make up dirty lyrics for the Boston song “Amanda?”
Rhettro – No you are not the only dirty old man here…
ooh, let’s hear em!
“Im gonna take you by surprise and make you realize,
Amanda
Im gonna tell you right away, I cant wait another day,
Amanda
Im gonna say it like a man and make you understand
Amanda
I love you”
Oh it’s too easy. Above are the line just begging to be bastardized. I think I see justa joe sweating.
See it now!
CP: Killing the Blues – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
It’d be tough to name all the bands I’ve seen live….. so instead, the hokiest bands I’ve seen:
Whitesnake (with Great White opening)
Scorpions (with Great White opening again – ack. . . Aldo Nova also did a set at that show)
Electric Angels (omg, they were terrible)
Steve Harris’s daughter’s set didn’t sound too impressive. Rhett and I were in the t-shirt line the entire time.
Guns N Roses – saw them with Metallica.
A friend’s band once opened for W.A.S.P.
Hmm, there have got to be others.
CP: Ashes – Ben Harper
Oh, and also went to see the Jackson Victory Tour when I was in 8th grade.
Holy Subliminal message Batman!
I can’t tell you when the last time I heard this song was … but I guess that all this coverage of the Earthquake in L.A. has triggered some synapsis.
CPIMM: “Aenemia” – Tool
CP: Blood – Pearl Jam
“Learn to Swim”
(Kirk Mode) …must try … to resist … song … parody. Force … to …strong. Noooooooooo (/Kirk Mode)
“Im gonna take you by surprise open up those thighs,
Amanda
It doesn’t mean your gay, If you take it the same way,
A man does
If you’ll take it like a man and then your going to understand
Amanda
Behind youâ€
well if nothing else, that cleared my CPIMM buffer
OMG! That was shocking, hilarious, and a little exciting.
hmmmm … that’s what my dates usually write in the comment card I send them home with them.
… that, and “What kind of geek asks his date to fill out a comment card?”
A comment card is a fantastic idea. I don’t know why I never thought of that. Is it essay-based? Or scantron?
Ironic, J0e, that you went from Aenima to that re-interpretation of Amanda.
jOE – Well done sir, you did not dissappoint. 🙂
It’s a “On a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being best, How would you rate …”
With a section to write general impressions, areas of concern and suggestions.
CP: “Telephone Book” – Violent Femmes
Rhet – no fair. you snuck up on me. Given a few hours I could have done something clever. Given a few days I could have gotten distracted by other things and never gotten around to it, thus letting us avoid this whole unpleasant incident. 😉
CP: “Mr. Bitterness” – Soul Coughing
“areas of concern”!!
CP: Come On In To My Kitchen – Willie Nelson
Jack – “I AM IRON-IC MAN” Doh DA Doh DA DA, DADA DADA DADA DA DA Da Da
(boy … that doesn’t work at all does it?)
“areas of concern†seemed so much more eloquent then “What can I do to reduce the terrified screaming?”
CP: “Race Car Ya-Ya” – Cake
“would you hire this date again?”
CP: Closet Romantic – Damon Albern
LOL.
What?!?!? You mean I don’t always have to hire THEM?
CP:”No Such Thing”(acoustic version) – John Mayer
Ha!
CP: Autonomy – The Buzzcocks
CP: Spanish Castle Magic – Jimi Hendricks
CP: Lonely Years – John Mayall
CP: “King of Kings” – House Of Freaks
So I got to see the season opener of “Mad Men” last night. I WON’T give any spoilers here but I will say I didn’t think it was their strongest effort. Still, I was left wanting to see more so I guess they met their objective.
I’m just not sure that if it had been my first viewing of the show, it would have been enough to hook me.
CP: Livin’ In The Future – Bruce Springsteen
CP: Migra – Santana
CP: Magic – Bruce Springsteen
CP: Transformer Man – Neil Young
JOe, I took everyone’s advice and picked up some of Season 1 on iTunes last night. Now just to find time to watch it in the evenings.
One show that I watch, but am losing interest in for lots of reasons is Weeds on Showtime. Yet I still keep watching — why is that?
CP: I Will Run To You – Stevie Nicks
CP: Holding Hands in the Shower – Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
Hmmmm ….
Maybe it’s like any long term relationship where the spark has cooled.
You hang in there because you know it. It’s familure, you have it’s back story, moving on means finding something else … and your always holding out hope that what once attracted you so much to it will return.
… um, what were we discussing?
CP: “Control” – Traci Lords
CP: Cry Baby Cry – The Beatles
Traci wants to kiss it and make it better.
I want to let her.
One thing I am really enjoying is rewatching LOST on DVD. I got the first 3 seasons, and am really having a good time with them.
CP: Get a Job – The Greyboy Allstars
Has anyone here run across any wall mountable, wooden storage units for Hi8/Digital8 video tape?
It was hard to type past the word “mountable” while Traci is singing to me.
Traci has a CD?
huh hhuh huh
I typed “Hard”.
CP: “This Love” – Maroon 5
Someone remind me to remove that Traci Lords song from my play list. It makes me stupid.
CP: Midnight in Her Eyes – The Black Keys
EssBee – Yep. Although … I think I would go the “individual track” route with her. (wow is THAT open for inturpretation!).
I’m not so sure her voice holds up without the techno-mix effects.
Still, give “control” a listen when your in that sort of mood. Use headphones. mmmmmmm
CP: “Lie in our graves” – Dave Mathews
“That” sort of mood. Hmm.
CP: Someday – Los Lobos
CP: “If you were in my Movie” – Susan Vega (putting me back in THAT mode)
CP: Judy Is A Punk – The Ramones
CP: Red Dust – Iron And Wine
Control is a good tune. Kinda generic 90s techno.
Talented girl, that Traci Lords. Did she ever do anything else in media?
Does Traci Lords’ music have the same gravitas as music from Dale Bozzio, Samatha Fox or Wendy O Williams?
WNDRWolf: I associate “TDK” with cassette tapes, too.
TSH: Congratulations! My family is in the process of selling their house, too.
Amy Bowen’s Earthquake Report
Yes, I could feel the LA-area earthquake today. I was in the kitchen, helping my mom pack stuff. It surprised us all, and it went on for a long time, too – between 10 and 20 seconds, I think. I got scared and ducked out the sliding glass door to the backyard. You could feel the ground rolling. Very disconcerting, but also kind of cool on some leve.
Jack, I’m pretty sure Traci Lords had a stint as a television actress. Wasn’t she in Stephen King’s “The Tommyknockers”.
That’s “Tommyknockers.” One word.
Scary, Amy! Did any of the stuff you were packing get broken?
Wow, Amy. Glad you’re okay. I’ve never experienced an earthquake.
EssBee: Not that we know of. At that point, we’d closed up all our boxes of breakable stuff and moved on to plastic and other stuff.
I don’t know you go and work a shift and miss all the fun.
I still have a few TDK tapes with copied games on them, doubt they would still work after all this time, heck they were a bit dodgy when new.
+l (lowercase L) to the end of my report.
Welcome home, Van!
That’s great news, Amy! Stay safe.
Friends, I’m heading home for the evening. Have a good one!
As to bands (or individual) I’ve seen performing live and much as I hate to give the impression I wear tweed and hold my ear, some follow:
Don Maclean (of American Pie and Vincent)
Texas
Paul Young (post throat op sadly)
Belinda Carlisle (on the back end of her career)
Cara Dillon
Eric Bibb
Loudon Wainwright III
Martha Wainwright
Kate Rusby
Christine Collister
Billy Bragg
Richard Thompson
Martyn Joseph
Fairport Convention
Steeleye Span
Martin Simpson
Dana and Susan Robinson
Jez Lowe
Bob Fox
Lindisfarne
and a few more I’ve forgotten.
RE: Control
The album is essentially Juno Reactor featuring Traci Lords if I recall.
Oh and shout out to Jack, did you receive an email from me this week?
Got it, Van. . . Just wrote you back.
Amy, thanks for the earthquake report! Glad that it was nothing more than a little scary.
Maybe in the next TDK movie, Batman will face his dread nemesis: Memorex.
The puzzle pieces are going together nicely –
Last call!
Wow. We’re talking about Traci Lords and AMY gets to feel the earth move.
Go figure.
(glad you’re okay Amy 🙂 )
CP: “Shiny Happy People” – REM
Did I ever tell you guys I used to operate a home built seismic monitoring station?
(Why am I starting to remind myself of Baron Von Münchhausen? )
(Let’s just ride this subject into the ground – hehe)
Traci Lords in film –
* Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
* Crazy Eights (2006) – Gina Conte
* Novel Romance (2005) – Max
* Frostbite (2005) – Naomi Bucks
* Home (2003) – Lorna
* Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002) – Chameleon
* You’re Killing Me… (aka: The Killing Club) (2001) – Laura Engles
* Chump Change (2001) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Sam
* Certain Guys (2000) – Kathleen
* Epicenter (2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Amanda Foster
* Extramarital (1999) – Elizabeth
* Me and Will (1999) – Waitress
* Stir (1998) – Kelly Bekins
* Blade (1998) – Racquel
* Boogie Boy (1998) – Shonda Lee Bragg
* Nowhere (1997) – Valley Chick #1
* Underworld (1996) – Anna
* Blood Money (1996) – Wendy Monroe
* Virtuosity (1995) – Media Zone Singer
* Skinner (1995) – Heidi
* Ice (1994) – Ellen Reed
* Serial Mom (1994) – Carl’s Date
* Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994) – Norma
* Desperate Crimes (1993) – Laura
* Intent to Kill (1993) – Vickie Stewart
* Laser Moon (1992) – Barbara Fleck
* The Nutt House (1992) – Miss Tress
* Raw Nerve (1991) – Gina Clayton
* A Time to Die (1991) – Jackie
* Cry-Baby (1990) – Wanda Woodward
* Shock ‘Em Dead (1991) – Lindsay Roberts
* Fast Food (1989) – Dixie Love
* Not of This Earth (1988) – Nadine Story
Traci Lords in TV
* Celebrity Paranormal Project (2006) (as herself)
* Gilmore Girls (2003) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Natalie Zimmermann
* Deathlands (2003) – Lady Rachel Cawdor
* They Shoot Divas, Don’t They? (2002) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Mira
* First Wave (2000-01) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Jordan Radcliffe
* D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Lena Brant
* Profiler (TV series) (1997-1998) – Sharon Lesher
* Dead Man’s Island (1996) – Miranda Prescott
* As Good as Dead (1995) – Nicole Grace
* Melrose Place (1995) – Rikki
* Dragstrip Girl (1994) – Blanche
* Roseanne (1994) – Stacy
* Bandit: Bandit’s Silver Angel (1994) – Angel Austin
* Highlander: The Series (1993) – Greta
* Tales from the Crypt (1993) – Emma Conway
* The Tommyknockers (1993) – Nancy Voss
* Murder in High Places (1991) – Diane
* Married…With Children (1991) – Vanessa Van Pelt
* MacGyver Jenny (1 episode, 1990)
Traci Lords in Video games
* True Crime: New York City (2005) – Cassandra Hartz
* Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (2004) – Dr. Alice McNeil
* Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004) – Pestilence
* Defender (2002) – Commander Kyoto
last but not least a picture of
Traci Lords in a panel at Dragon Con 2006
I knew there was a reason we felt compelled to check up on Deadpan!!
Hugh sez: Traci lords *swooon*
Thanks on all the congrats peeps 🙂
Lets invite everyone over for a Deadpan convention and trash our house before we leave!!! 😉
Hugh sez: I was just thinking we could bless every room of the house 1 more time
that’ll work!
TSH – I like the party idea…can we do both?
ok we’re like Jack and have seen way too many concerts to list, but will list the cheesiest
Hugh sez: or we can do an abc list
we could.. well cheesiest first
Madonna Like A Virgin Tour
Kiss
ummmmm.. we haven’t done too much cheese….. *thinking*
Lionel Richie!
EMF
ok we’re reaching for cheese here:
Johnny Cash *swooon*
Luciano Pavarotti
The 3 Tenors
Wndr: yes!
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
A
Afghan Whigs *swoooooooooon*
Annie Lenox
Adolescents
Amy Wine house
Alien Sex Fiend
Arcade Fire
Against Me!
After Hours
Animal Collective
High TSH!
Cheesy concerts? hmmmm
I though an early 90’s Bruce Springstein concert I saw was pretty cheesy.
I’m pretty sure I may have seen “Huey Lewis and the News” in concert in the late 80s or early 90s. Since I can’t remember the concert … I must have had a great time but I can’t imagine that wasn’t cheesy.
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
B
Beastie Boys
Blonde Redhead
Bad Religion
Boris
Babes In Toyland
Bjork
Big Black
Blur
Black Flag
Bauhaus
Bloc Party
*cough* Boys II Men *cough*
what??
Did someone say something..
umm…
Butthole Surfers
Burbonais Qualk
HHHHHIiiiiii j0e!!! *swooooon*
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
C
The Cure
Cindytalk
Cop Shoot Cop
Clock DVA
Circle Jerks
Common
Cyndi Lauper!!!!! Total cheese fest!!
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
D
Depeche Mode
Diary Of Dreams
Dead Milkmen
Dizzee rascal
DRI
David Bowie
Daft Punk
Dinosaur Jr
Hugh sez: *cough* Duran Duran *cough*
LOL!! I forgot about that
Hugh sez: I was forced to take my sister. *blush*
awwwww
Is this a “combined list” or actual shows you two have seen together?
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
E
Eurythmics
Einstuzende Neubauten
Electric Six
[cheese] Erasure [/cheese]
Echo and the Bunnymen!!!
Elf Power
EMF
this is combined, although we have seen a lot of these together
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
F
Fugazi
Foo Fighters
Front 242
Front Line Assembly
Fuck Buttons!
Flaming Lips
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
G
Gnarls Barkley
Gypsy Kings
Gutter Twins
Doorbell!
Gotta run
l8r
Figures JJ and TSH would come in this week and bomb their nipples all over the board. Makes me glad I forgot to send in a guess for this week as I would have just embarrassed myself.
Not that my guess matters this week, anyway 😉
Morning Pan,
this talks of old tapes reminds me of the old video tape ads, one of the most memorable were the Scotch Tapes:
I’m keeping my fingers crossed but wish things could be moved along a bit quicker.
Ed From Texas – Yeah Van would probably win it anyway.
+n in the johnny cash post…sheeeesh.
btw, if the sequel to TDK will be taking on Memorex, does that mean we’ll get to see it live?
Could be, but watch out for that new nemesis: The Degausser!
Van Don’t worry we are fluent in typo’s here…
Morning, Deadpan!
Morning EssBee!
Morning Pan
RE: Alzheimer’s
There was an interesting “NOVA science Now” segment on recently in which they showed that what was probably happening with memory loss was NOT actual loss of memory but destruction of the neural pathways used to access the memories.
The REALLY neat part was that they showed that the brain could reestablish those connections itself (over time) simply by placing the subject in an environment where it had fun and stimulating social interaction.
This was shown with rats of course but they pointed out that this is something family members of elderly people have anecdotally claimed for some time.
They are currently working on medicine to trick the brain into producing the same chemicals it generates when you are hanging out with your best mates … however it seems to me that this is as good a justification as any for just having fun with your friends!
Morning Pan
It’s overcast and just a little gloomy here.
Now to catch up on comments
TEB – Good Morning
Waiting for Episode 100 has me on the edge…
(Entering Metaphor City)
It’s like waiting for the other show to drop.
It’s like sitting on pins and needles.
It’s like … (help me out here).
Ok, going way back in the comments, did a vanity search on my full name and got only 96 hits (not many people around with my name 🙂 ), mostly World Fantasy stuff comes up, although there are a few things on various other Sci Fi cons I’ve worked on as well as other things.
It’s like waiting for the pregnancy test to come back –
Hoping it is negative.
J0e:
“it’s like raaaaain, on a cloudy day,
A free ride when you already paid…”
sorry.
How about…
It’s like… you know..
So I don’t know my lyrics
sb: “it’s like raaaain on your wedding day…”
Ok, I have work to do. Will check back in later.
your leerics however, are most excellant.
It’s like licking a gift horse in the mouth.
It’s like paddling your own canoe.
It’s like walking in your footsteps.
It’s like drying the cat in the mircowave oven.
… um, I may have gotten off track here.
What were we talking about?
It’s like waiting for Wndr to get off his but and get the episode finished….
(just kidding 😉 )
fingers not working
but = butt
You can lead a wolf to water but you can’t make him pass it!
TEB – 😛
The episode is complete. Comes in at 37.5 minutes.
I had some fun with your clip you sent in.
You will hear in the show… 😀 (Hoping you don’t mind)
justa J0e – I like water especially on Tshirts of well endowed women.
😀
750
What gets me in this article is the quote “I remember one lady dancing, and another lady lap dancing, and I believe that’s when the oral sex took place,”
I believe????
there are two possiblities… one – he has oral sex so often that he doesn’t think anything of it when it happens or, two, it wasn’t that good.
TEB – RE: un-memorable dates. That is exactly why the “post date comment card” seems like such a good idea … in theory.
Comments:
“The pole dancing was spot on. However, the oral sex could have been more memorable. Oh, and what was that thing with the slinky? That was just weird.”
J0e – on a scale of 1 – 5 how would you rate the sex???
How did her choice of lingerie work for you???
Or, in the case of this article…
Do you feel you got you’re money’s worth from this person? If not, how much do you feel would have been a fair charge for her services?
Are strippers supposed to bite you on the penis during a performance?
I don’t actually have that problem, Rhettro 😉
I can imagine not. LOL
If they are biting your penis during a performance, they *aren’t* strippers. 😉
Work = shit storm today. I think this is karma for teasing Rhettro on Monday.
There are so many holes in his argument that it seems like a heap of nonsense to me.
I can understand why someone would be against gay marriage based on their religeous beliefs. In fact, I think the major bone of contention with offended parties is that they see the the government as redefining a sacred religious tradition. I know that in the Catholic church for instance, marraige is one of the sacrements. So in my opinion, government shouldn’t be dealing in marrages, but in civil unions for all.
As far as objections to gay couples given legal protections, I say get over it. People are going to couple as they see fit, with or without legal protection. It’s legal for people to drink and gamble in this country even though it is objectionable to some religions. As such religious objections alone shouldn’t be a basis of government law, especially when it concerns the conduct between consenting adults.
Okay, I’m off my soapbox now. 🙂
EssBee, I deserve all the teasing I get. You got no bad Karma from me. 🙂
ditto, that Card stuff has been on the Seattle Stranger’s (a weekly mag here) online blog. They kept saying “Orson Scott Card is a hateful homophobe” so google will catch on.
One of the best arguements is a funny one:
“Not to belabor the obvious, but old people can’t produce offspring either. Which raises the question, since Scott Card’s wife is probably post-menopausal, should she and Card be executed, or just forcibly divorced from each other?”
CP: To Have And To Hold — Depeche Mode
JfS: Yeah, he’s been beating this drum for a long, long time.
Jeremy, totally hilarious argument.
Also, OMG I am all aflutter over here over the HP trailer. Squee!
ditto, he sure has. The man is a full-fledged hater.
Does anyone here listen to Pendant Productions Fan DC Shows?
I had no idea about O.S. Card. I’ve actually only read the first in his 8,000-book Ender’s Game series.
I also had no idea until recently that A.C. Clarke was a pedophile.
wtf?!?!?!
Next, someone is going to tell me that Heinlein was a chauvinist —
Or that Harlan Ellison can get cranky.
I have been worried about O.S. Card’s crap for a long time. “Worried” = sickened by. I had to stop, for the most part, listening to my favorite Browncoat podcasts because he is such a hero in those circles.
I learned a long time ago not to hero worship. I went to hear one of my favorite authors (Rudolfo Anaya) give a talk at my undergrad college, and he was a giant sphincter. He appeared, actually, to hate women. Since then, I don’t need to know the personalities of the authors I enjoy.
However, when I find out an author that everyone is telling me to read thinks that I am sub-human, I tend to steer clear. By the same token, when I find out a really cool person writes books, I buy them.
I do, however, have my limits on what I can know about the author while still allowing myself to enjoy his/her work. I’ve had this very conversation with a group of my feminist friends, and I always end up with the same decision: that there are way too many books out there to read for me to spend my $$ on Card’s given what I know about him as a person.
CP: (dedicated to OSC) Your Little Secret – Melissa Ethridge
CP: Rattlesnake Shake (Live) – Fleetwood Mac
Manhole – Ani DiFranco
I’m holding here a book
Notable, but not the greatest
Stolen for me by the latest
In a long line of thieves
And I’m just about to drop it
Down that manhole of memories
When I realize it doesn’t bother me
Like love’s mementos usually do
And I look up to see who’s different here
The latest me or the latest you
Course, you’re the kind of guy who doesn’t lie
He just doctors everything
Chooses some unassuming finger
And quietly moves his wedding ring
Who rewrites his autobiography
For any pretty girl who’ll sing
But you can’t fool the queen, baby
Cuz I married the king
And maybe it was I who betrayed his majesty
With no opposite reality
Like a puddle with no reflection
Of the sky or the trees
But after my dreaded beheading
I tied that sucker back on with a string
And I guess I’m pretty different now
Considering
I kissed you on the street that night
On the far side of four
But I didn’t like the taste
In my mouth or yours
And ignoring the persona you wore for my benefit
For once I had the balls to call it
Just call it
But a lesson must be lived
In order to be learned
And the clarity to see and stop this now
That is what I’ve earned
CP = Six Pixels of Separation : The Google and Wired Effect (114)
I have to admit willingly having read Battlefield Earth. More than once. And, I’ve even read the Mission Earth Series… more than once. And I don’t even think I’m a reincarnated spirit from Xenu… or Zenu… and Tom Cruise is, in fact, a bit loopy…
The last read through, though, I finally started to pick up a lot of clues that let you in on the fact that Hubbard was pretty much a loon.
I sense a new segment for the Pan : “New positions tried by the Smartie Hotties as they christen their new house” to be used in place of the “contents of my fridge”
I like it, Brad!
CP: Dream Brother – Jeff Buckley
The Minolta repairman is right outside of my office door training my team on how to use the new copy machine. I just realized that my job could be a lot worse.
CP: Stay – Me’Shell Ndegiocello
*BFP*
Work sucks!
*applause for Brad*
Well done!
Clarke I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn’t wipe my arse on the paper that ran the story in the UK.
Oh and the late Charlton Heston’s political beliefs never stopped me enjoying Planet of the Apes or Soylent Green.
CP: Waiting For The Bus – Violent Femmes
EssBee: Women’s soccer is always worth watching! 🙂
ditto, ditto
I see that now. All these wasted years!
CP: Vamanos – Chavela Vargas
CP : View from the Quad : Epi 109.
Frak. I just realized I’m almost out of PodCasts… how will I ever make the ride home? I may have to listen to… gasp… music…
I won’t be listening to the radio, that’s for sure. I took off my antenna and rewired my car for pretty much PodCasts only (via my Treo).
Those things play music too?
CP: Walking After You – Foo Fighters
lmfaorofl!!!
“Somewhat related to this, Orson Scott Card brings the economy-sized jug of crazy sauce to the same-sex marriage discussion with this gem of a column. ” http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1181
John Scalzi is among my secret man crushes. He is so funny, smart, and sarcastic.
CP: Dogsong 2 – The Be Good Tanyas
CP: Charades — En Ningun Lugar
CP: Beginning Of A Great Adventure – Lou Reed
CP: If I Wanted To — Melissa Etheridge
Brad: Ummm Wander Radio Episode 26 my personal favorite.
Episode 20 holds up well.
Episode 17 has a good mix but not my favorite.
CP: Success – Linda Perry
Time to clog the arteries of the city. Headed Home!
Yes I quite like a white woman dipped in tea, or a black woman dipped in milk. I’m a fan of all sorts of women being dipped into things. LOL
You know the iPhone/ipod touch might look nice and sexy, but when you are running out of podcasts, the lack of a FM radio is a pisser.
“Run out of podcasts?”
First Brad and now Van, what is this “Run out of podcast” of which you speak? This does not compute.
CP: “Brave new world” – Micheal Penn
I feel your pain Van. I broke my first two MP3 players and they both had FM. Now I’m using my wife’s backup iPod Shuttle and my Sony PSP, both of which don’t have any radio capacity. I’ve been thinking about snaring a cheap Sansa.
“snaring a cheap Sansa.” – OK I don’t get this Euphemism.
What is that site that is like wikipedia for pop/street slang ?
CP: “You” – Radiohead
“snaring a cheap Sansa.â€
Make sure to tell her “no teeth”
(pops out again)
Maybe I should have posted about the Sansa a little further away from my “dipping women” comment.
Not to mention ditto’s link to THE picture of the day.
Please tell me that was his shirt tucked down low.
To be exact: caughtupwithallthepodcastsonmyrssfeeds!
So any suggestions for new podcasts to listen to would be appreciated…
Van – What kind of podcasts are you looking for music, story, what…
look on the side bar of my site. Most of those are still going.
Oh music and stories WNDR, I’ll have a look at your site later, thanks.
That was more for Van. You should be able to do it through the iPhone, however, I’m not sure if it would be worth it over the data service.
Quiet night in the bar.
Well – I just gotta say thanks to all y’all for #100.
Wow. More gushing to come.
Well, Deadpan is the way, Jack.
Totally!
Just finished watching Nova’s “Car of the Future” episode with the guys from “Car Talk”. Pretty good show overall. I didn’t see anything on the compressed air technology, but I didn’t expect to either. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/
Because you people wanted it Episode #31 of Wander Radio has posted.
ditto – some good technology there. The stuff on just how inefficient our cars really are is amazing/horrifying/inexcusable.
Wndr – undoubtedly some good technology there as well. 🙂
JOe: I know what you mean. Combustion engines will never be very efficient sources of power. It’s impossible. This page will give you an idea, just ignore the formulas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_efficiency
So, if we really want efficient transportation, we have to come up with something other than a combustion engine. It’s worked fine until now, but we are capable of making something better.
“Its worked fine until now, but we are capable of making something better.”
I think that’s what vexes me so. The US has this long history of embracing “problems” as an opportunity to flex our creative genius and (truth be said) turn the solution into a profitable capitalist venture.
Something has happened in the last few decades though. Now, instead of stoically facing problems head on, we strap on the blinders, cover our ears and shout loudly “Lalalala I can’t hear you lalalalala there is no problem lalalala STAY THE COURSE!”
We are capable of making something better (re: transportation) … but will we ever do so again?
Sometimes it isn’t that simple. Often there are a lot of new materials and technology that need to be invented, perfected, and productized before such revolutions can take place. Of course, the resistance to change hasn’t helped matters any.
Well got unlimited data on 3G and Wifi, didn’t know you could stream radio to the iPhone.
Well it’s one for the money…
Two for the unshow?
Three to get Mangan
Jack,
I’m up for a minipalooza. I’ll record thoughts on Eraserhead sometime in the next few weeks (as you said it wouldn’t be for DP 100 or 101, so there’s time). You can through them out whenever you want.
Four to go, go, go!
CP: Warcraft II: The Tides of Darkness – Human Song 4
Geeky Moment:
Listening to the unshow, streaming over the coffee’s shop wifi connection.
Tres geeky, Van!
Morning Ed, morning Van, morning JB.
CD: GOODEARTH Green Tea w/ Lemongrass, bought by mistake
CP: yesterday’s Democracy Now!
Work. Meh.
Number 9
Yesterday’s Democracy Now! is terribly sad. It’s an interview (the last segment is, anyway) with the parents of LaVena Johnson, a soldier who died in Iraq. Her parents were told that she committed suicide, but they allege that she was raped and murdered. It’s awful.
Morning Pan!
Well, I survived both my in-laws and my boss being in town. All left yesterday so life should be back to normal.
On the up side, my husband and I exchanged our anniversary gifts a week early so I have a new toy. He gave me an iPod Touch. Very cool! 🙂
TEB! Wow, you were missed!
iPod Touch – what a great gift! How many years?
ZP takes on Age of Conan.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/138-Age-of-Conan
Hiya TEB!!!!
Essbee – 12 years.
I gave him a Gibson SG (because you can never have too many guitars in the house 🙂 )
So we both have new toys.
Hiya, Ditto!
JACK!!! You are completely wrong. You are very entertaining. 🙂
Panimaniacs! I like it!!!
CP: Does This Mean You’re Moving On? — The Airborne Toxic Event
(via KEXP song of the day)
CP: The Hot Spot (podcast)
A GIBSON SG!!! Wow, you must really love your husband. Congratz!
The number is 451. You should not count 450 unless it is immediately followed by 451. 452 is right out.
I thought he’d said “Pandamaniacs”. Yours makes more sense, ditto.
“We’re the Pan-O-Manics! We have greasy nipples in our slacks!”
It’s time for Pan-i-man-i-acs
And we’re zany to the max
So just sit back and relax
You’ll laugh till you collapse
We’re Pan-i-man-i-acs
(verses edited out)
Meet Pinky and the brain
…
The writers flipped
We have no script
Why bother to rehearse
We’re Pan-i-man-i-acs
We have play for play contracts
We’re zany to the max
There’s baloney in our slacks
We’re Pan-i-man-ee
Totally and zany
Here’s the shows namey
Pan-i-man-i-acs
Those are the facts!
Ok, maybe not completely edited (Pinky and the Brain??? – doesn’t fit)
That’s OK, TEB. A little Pinky and the Brain never hurt anybody.
Is that what happens when you stick your little finger in your ear?
Ouch!
CP: Nature – India.Arie
3 hour conference call looms.
How’s everyone?
Getting by. No conf call hell for me today. Sorry about you, Jack.
Doing well. And you?
Blech. At least you don’t have to wear ping pong balls with black dots on them, just try not to snore.
Catching up on a weeks worth of work and personal stuff. (As well as playing with my new toy 😉 )
It’s an uphill battle at Evil, Inc. today.
More politics around here. =P I’m ready start wrapping up my involvement with this two year long project and start applying what I’ve learned to the next one.
My kitty kat is driving me insane. Since I’ve been at the office for the last couple of days (boss in town) I haven’t been at home to brush her twenty times a day. Also she doesn’t like strangers and my inlaws stayed with us while they were in town.
Now she’s all cuddly and constantly pawing at me for attention. Hard to get any work done with a cute kitty looking for lovin.
On another up note: When my boss was out here, she said I wasn’t taking enough holiday time. Now I have to take at least one more week, preferably two, because they won’t carry all of them over to next year.
I have a hard enough time taking the holidays I have, without finding where to add more.
the eagle has landed
Dre currently:
Playing: Spoon – Don’t you Evah
Drinking: Mate Tea
Doing: retouching someones wedding photos
Doing2: getting high off the fumes from Hugh’s oil painting
Hugh currently:
Playing: Spoon – Don’t you Evah
Drinking: nothing
Doing: painting
CP: In The Waiting Line – Zero 7
TEB, she is just teaching you what happens when you neglect her. That way, as George Lopez would say, you’ll learn.
Welcome back from vacation bunny and happy anniversary
back to work… got deadlines…
TSH!
CP: Cruel – Tori Amos
CP: City Nights — Surplus Sons
Here’s another criticism of Dr. Horrible and the comic:
http://tinyurl.com/5j4e2u
CP: Phenomena – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Spoon – Do you Evo!
Why sure, jump into my Spoon!
Sorry I have been sparce lately The FAA doing an audit while I was holding training on how to glue 2 pieces of metal together with Heat. (Lots of heat!)
CP: Lucifer, Quel Giorno… — Emma Shapplin
EssBee: I think some people are spending way too much time over analyzing Dr. Horrible.
Not like it is really important… Its just airplane parts.
Aww wndr, who cares if the airplane parts are put together properly. It’s not like they’ll fall out of the sky or something…
oh wait…
I prefer my planes not fall out of the sky, especially when I’m on them.
Can’t play ZP on the iPhone….grrrrr!
Have you browsed the app store yet TEB?
The free ereader is cool.
I agree, ditto.
In other DH news, I got my Hammer’s Hammer t-shirt in the mail yesterday!
CP: This Is How It Goes – Aimee Mann
Slowly from the darkness a strange little variety show emerges from the depths of broke-atude…
With as much fanfare as it disappeared it returns. http://wanderradio.com is back up!
Yeah.
No I did not work on those airplane parts that was someone else therefore still on the plane…
CP: Talk Nerdy To Me – Possible Oscar
YES! Thanks, wolf. Now to go download back-episodes . . .
No Van, I haven’t really done much more than play with my touch. I did add Calgary weather and my company’s stocks to it, but haven’t looked at the apps yet.
I so want a shirt that says “Captain Hammer is a corporate tool” 🙂
“I’m sorry, I lost interest in your message after the first paragraph and couldn’t be bothered to finish it. No doubt it was very clever and devastating and if it makes you feel good, please consider me abashed or chagrined or whatever it was that you intended me to feel after reading your brilliant, scintillating words. In the meantime, allow me to congratulate you in your decision not to breed, as clearly a person of your qualities represents a full stop on the genetic paragraph; the evolution of your line need go no further.
Please feel free to respond, whereupon I’ll be happy to ignore you again in greater detail.
Bye, now.”
lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!! Brilliant!!!
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1087
There’s going to be a second one. Cool!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i78def930c52edb05aa837875fc3e5ae6
Of course, the response is much funnier in context.
A symphony of games
http://www.umgso.com/recordings.php
That’s too funny. I was just looking at that too, TEB.
CP: Circle of Light – Ani DiFranco
CP: On a Podcast – Cruisebox
CP: Into The Great Wide Open – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
CP: The Next Big Thing — Jesus Jones
I watched the Age of Conan ZeroPunct review and it was okay, but the Alone in the Dark one was brilliant! “If some one serves you a dead dog for lunch, you don’t stick around for pudding.” LOL
CP: Male Model – Sleater-Kinney
CP: Twilight Singers – I Wish I Was
Ive finished my work for the day but Ive lost my husband to the stock market 🙂
He is enthralled in finance shows now
Hugh is the only man I know who is equally engrossed in painting and finance
I was feeling like doing some baking.. I’m going to search through my kitchen and see what I can make! Methinks I need to make a bread. Bread baking is very relaxing
l8r
Mmm, bread!
CP: Phone Call From Rita – Los Lobos
CP: All Over You – Live
Today’s ‘vegetable’ was mushy peas.
CP: Something Positive – Tom Smith
But at least it was green.
Mmm, mushy peas?
CP: Do I Do – Stevie Wonder
http://tinyurl.com/36enrv
Not sure they deserve a Mmmm!
Well, if you had the fish & chips too, it’d make the peas easier to enjoy.
CP: Master of Puppets – Metallica
Oh they go well with potatoes.
So after seeing the author interviewed on The Daily Show, think I will getting this book next:
http://tinyurl.com/6j5bwy
Well, my husband just got back from the music store. He decided his new toy needed a new toy so he picked up a pedal.
CP: Little Girl Blue – Janis Joplin
Cool! What pedal?
earplugs on standby
CP: Somebody To Love – Queen
He got a Zoom G1X
http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1899
CP: Starface – White Zombie
My fortune cookie contained the following note:
“Someone is speaking well of you.”
And hey, congrats on the anniversary, TEB. Enjoy the new toys.
Gibson SG *swoooon*
That was me, Jack.
*angling for greasy spoon prizes*
CP: There Is No Time – Lou Reed
CP: Tampa – Gipsy Kings
CP: My Morning Song – The Black Crowes
You need to find the right bait Essbee, a picture of whatever a Gibson SG is, may help..
cough
CP: No Compute – Funkadelic
Guitar porn, in other words, Van?
Well I wouldn’t go that far.
CP: The Air Near My Fingers – The White Stripes
CP: Jungle Love – Steve Miller Band
So dumb conversation for today.
Preparing to leave coffee shop, was accosted by one of the staff:
“Is that an iPhone?”
“Err yeah”
“What do you think of it? would you recommend it? I want to get one but not sure if I need one”
“So what do you usually use your phone for?”
“Talking”
“Then you don’t need an iPhone”
At this point I began to think they must think I’m an idiot (what else would you use a phone for).
Explaining that I use the phone to listen to podcasts, browse the internet and watch videos and only use it as an actual phone on the odd occasion didn’t crop up…groan.
Bah! Conference call from hell!
Van, and least you didn’t say, “mind your business!”
-and
+at
I keep forgetting that for some people a phone is as much a fashion statement as an actual tool.
Thanks for the well-speaking, EssBee.
A phone just for speaking? But then I’d have to wear a watch!
And how am I going to get those up skirt shots of young girls discreetly? Er.. I mean tell time. Yeah that’s it.
That is why I like my iPod touch… I gots a phone.
I think Rhett’s talking about a completely different kind of iTouch…..
And here is your Failblog moment of Zen for today
http://failblog.org/2008/07/21/biking-fail/
herro?
I’d like to iTouch rhett after what has recently been revealed about his manhood
Hugh sez: Damn it woman! Rhett! I challenge you to a length/girth contest to win the adoration of the fair dre. We measure at sunrise tomorrow. May the best morning wood win Mr Rhettro
LOL
wow.. ummmm.. Im speechless.. ummm…
Hugh sez: and by the way, I can’t speak on the iTouch but i loooooove my iPhone. I used it all the time for everything. It replaced my blackberry, phone and ipod. It was a great asset to my professional life. I could check stocks, set up appointments, contact people by phone or email, look at nudie photos of my wife AND listen to Naked Raygun all at once! On one gadget! It was a stock traders dream!
wait… do all stock traders look at nudie shots of your wife on their iPhones?
Hugh sez: They better not be. Dirty minded fuckers that they are.
🙂
mmmkay.. where were we
Deadpan 96 continues…
1. You cannot understand the book of revelations. Henceforth Southland Tales makes no sense
Southland Tales 0
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
greasy spoon remix!
Southland Tales Break
whats the best thing to have on break?
Hugh sez: Nipples! Yes!! I want nipples on my break!
Greasy Spoon Nipples Udder Bangles Susanna Hoffs Dickens Comments Cockles Spooges Comment-a-palooza shitzus donkus nose hairs nipples Comments solo nipples privates nipples sphincters comments comments teets areolas nipple comments comments nipples through Unshow 15
Smarty Hotties® – 25
The Energizer Bunny – 21
justa j0e – 18
Vanamonde – 17
Mr ditto swooon – 13
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Trucker Overdrive – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
psion andy – 1
EesBee – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
*pause*
I just got a text message!
Hugh sez: booty call?
mehopes so
Hugh sez: that better not be Rhett
LOL.. poor Rhett
Hugh sez: LOL.. Rhett. I’m totally kidding, man.
I got a hot booty call for midnight baby
Hugh sez: I am so jealous
Yeah, I doubt that
Hugh sez: YOu’re right. I’ve got my own booty calls to deal with, do what you will with your own booty.
I will!
ditto!! *swoooon* : *basks in glow*
j0e: songwriting
Energizer Bunny: marriage proposal / alien sightings
EesBee: crackers 4 cheese
Trucker OD: nuclear war
Greasy Spoon Nipples Udder Bangles Susanna Hoffs Dickens Comments Cockles Spooges Comment-a-palooza shitzus donkus nose hairs nipples Comments solo nipples privates nipples sphincters comments comments teets areolas nipple comments comments nipples nipples through episode 96
Smarty Hotties® – 25
The Energizer Bunny – 22
justa j0e – 19
Vanamonde – 17
Mr ditto swooon – 14
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Trucker Overdrive – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
EesBee – 2
psion andy – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
*deadpan pause*
Rebecca Del Rio
j0e
obvious: this film is whacked
Southland Tales 0
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
someone thought The Rock was “good”
Hugh sez: whatever drugs said people are taking, I want to buy an ounce
🙂
j0e has flowers growing out of his nose?
wow
Hugh sez: I’d like to see that
j0e liked it!!!!!!!
its satire
Southland Tales 1
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
its satire allegory: 1
Hugh sez: if j0e likes it, we might have to watch it
We trust j0e’s movie opinions?
Hugh sez: yes. I like j0e.
awwwwww Hugh + j0e = love
it had a repoPan homage
Hugh sez: and we loved Naked Lunch
we did
mmkay. We trust j0e
Vanamonde
didn’t much like watching it
Southland Tales 1
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
its satire allegory: 1
didn’t much like it, boring and slow: 1
The Rock says know your role and shut your mouth
Ees Bee
DeadSouthLand Tales
EesBee is whipping out the poetry
this is the way the world ends
TSH *swooon*
satire
anti war
anti war on terror
funny/ironic:
have a nice apocalypse
people get naked in it?
Hugh sez: this movie sounds better and better!
ditto swooned us!!!
*swoooon*
Hugh sez: *swoooon*
LOL.. we are so ghey
Hugh sez: we are
No, you aren’t!
*stamps foot*
That was ghey, wasn’t it?
*headdesk*
gas shortage
petered out
pornagraphic SUV’s
He’s On Top
Hugh sez: I like being on top
🙂
LOL!!!!
Thanks ditto! 🙂
Hugh sez: we are comfy in our ghey-ness
Best quote evar
“Dubshack, I never thought I would be thanking you for anything. But thank you for making me watch this movie”
-EesBee
Southland Tales: 2
No story line: 3
Makes no sense: 1
this film is whacked: 1
its satire allegory: 1
didn’t much like it, boring and slow: 1
funny and ironical and war on terror jokage: 1
She is actually buying it
Hugh sez: Hustler?
That woke him up!
Hugh sez: Im a jugs kinda guy really
LOL.. thank you for sharing Hugh
Hugh sez: Actually Jugs is pretty tame on my list of turn ons.
true. I now what kinda guy you really are
Hugh sez: I’m a rubberdoll kinda guy
exactly 🙂
Night pan
You Tube comments
10 facts
I can fuck Kristen now?
Hugh sez: I wanna fuck Kristen now too!
We can share Hughie 🙂
Night ditto!
*mwa*
Hugh sez: *mwa*
you just kissed ditto
Hugh sez: *swooon*
🙂
Southland Tales race issues
9 chapter saga
the earth isn’t spinning
Alright pan, we gotta stop here for the night
Hugh is going out in an hour and needs to go get all sexy and hot. Not that he isn’t so fucking sexy and hot right now.
Hugh sez: *blush*
Blush? The Hugh just blushed?
Hugh sez: I have to fake modesty sometimes.. help keep it real
LOL. Modesty doesn’t suit you my love
Hugh sez: Ok, what if I said- Of course I am sexy and hot as I am. I don’t have to try, but when dealing with women, you have to make them think you care. But I don’t fucking care.
LOL!!! Insight on Hugh and women from Hugh, ladies and gentlemen
Hugh sez: Holy fucking christ look at the black and white shots in the center! *swoon* *hardon*
NSFW at all.. and highly perverted. You have been warned
http://www.rubberdoll.net/intropage.htm
TEB: It’s “pay or play contracts.” Lyrics to the Animaniacs theme song are here:
http://www2.cruzio.com/~keeper/00.html#1
And an explanation of what a “pay or play contract” is can be found in the Cultural Reference Guide here:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/2636/crga.txt
Since it’s a .txt file, you have to search for the word “play” to find it.
(Animaniacs and Star Wars were the first two subjects I looked up when I first got on the Internet. 🙂 )
Ed from Texas, I sure hope Dolly doesn’t cause you any grief.
TEB: It’s “pay or play contracts.” Lyrics to the Animaniacs theme song are here:
http://www2.cruzio.com/~keeper/00.html#1
Either WP is eating my comments, or they’re getting moderated.
Hugh, you’d totally win. LOL
Knowing how evil the WP bot is Amy, I’m betting on the former.
Morning Pan, grey is the colour for today. Might be safer to stop using your credit card online:
http://tinyurl.com/6nxzha
Actually, in my part of the state, all we had is some rather much needed rain.
Which means I’m now looking at about 242% humidity today. Alas….
must get off the east coast please
Yay! I see my comments were freed. Sorry for the double post.
Thanks for the links, Amy!
Morning, Deadpan! TGIF
You’re welcome!
Good morning, Pan!
Morning Pan!
It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood…
Morning, panimaniacs. I need a beer.
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, ditto.
there’s a great album by that name, EssBee. By Slash’s Snakepit.
Neither Can I – one of the songs on that album is one of my favourites.
Slash as in GNR Slash?
I have a great beer recommendation: Old Scratch Amber Ale from Flying Dog Brewery in Denver.
http://www.flyingdogales.com/beer-old-scratch.asp
EssBee: I’ll check that out.
And no, I’ve never felt obligated to follow that silly 5 o’clock rule. I’ll have a beer when I want one. Except, when I’m at work, of course. Or driving. Or scuba diving. Or running naked through the rain. Scratch that last one. 🙂
Drunk woman calls police to find out when the internet started:
http://gizmodo.com/5028848/drunk-british-woman-wonders-when-the-internet-started-calls-911-to-ask
CP: Want — The Cure
RP: Hessain Peel – Opeth
Hasan, CHOP!
Opeth Chop Chop!
Opel. Get yours today!
http://www.opel.com/
Opus?
http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Opus-Berke-Breathed/dp/0316108537
Bill the Cat?
Some interesting history on the Joker:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003831559
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/142467-nine-inch-nails-lights-in-the-sky-tour-launches
*swooon*
lemme try that again..
http://tinyurl.com/56lwzo
*swooon*
Dre: 0
Wordpress: 2
Trent Reznor has enlisted 50 McTrillion (read: five) bands to open for his tour in support of Nine Inch Nails’ 50 McTrillion (read: two) new albums, The Slip and Ghosts I-IV, but perhaps you already knew that.
Deerhunter, Crystal Castles, White Williams, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Does It Offend You, Yeah? will provide the entrance music for Nine Inch Nails on their “Lights in the Sky” tour, which begins tonight (July 25) at the Pemberton Festival in British Columbia.
Ol’ Trent’s also added some shows south of the U.S. border since our last report. The new dates are in October.
Dre: .5
Wordpress: 2
That’s awesome TSH!
Have you all caught up on FreakAngels? It is awesome.
http://www.freakangels.com/
Turning the corner past 2 hours now on conference calls. Help me, Pan.
Just order the following from Amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/6jf4ka
and
http://tinyurl.com/6n67p7
Trying to complement my Opeth purchase. 🙂
Finnish Melodic Death Metal!
Canadian Thrash Metal/Progressive Metal!
It’s up tempo. 🙂
CP: Get off this — Cracker
slash – to urinate
slash – erotic pairing (usually homo-) of popular culture characters or personalities
Example: Mulder/Smoking Man
CP: Space Doggity — Jonathan Coulton
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/Space%20Doggity.mp3
Better example: Malfoy/Harry.
Pedo-slash!!
CP: mishka mix july 2008 FINAL from diplo’s Mad Decent Blog.
Have I mentioned I loooooove Santogold??
http://www.maddecent.com/blog
That’s the subtext in HP that I just didn’t want to mention, Jeremy!
Well you *do* know they were playing with each others wands, right? Right?
Eureka slash:
Carter/Stark
Judging by Axl Rose’s lyrics – I guess if you paired him and his G n’ R guitarist, you’d have Hack n Slash slash.
Wheel of Time slash:
Perrin/Matt
Will channel surfing yesterday, I thought I saw a clip of “Dr. Horrible.” Sure enough one of the fluff entertainment shows had a segment about how it was the most popular download on iTunes. They even interviewed Joss about it. More Joss exposure can’t be bad right?
Booya, Jack. Nice wand joke, ditto.
BSG slash:
Six/Eight
Apollo/Anders
Tigh/Bill
Six Tigh’s Anders and Apollo Eight the Bill?
CP: Lonesome Johnny Blues — Cracker
Jack,
You know it’s strange how an individual can interpret things. When I read Van’s posting “slash – to urinate” it made me think about an article in which Slash talked about how when you wear leather pants and piss in them, you don’t get cold like when you’re wearing jeans. That’s your public service announcement for the day.
Dr. Horrible/Capt’n Hammer.
*titters*
Dresden/Marcone
I know when I was scuba diving, my instructor told us to pee in our suit if we got too cold. Not something I was interested in doing.
Truly disgusting, Rhettro.
Every time I see Slash, I think, “imagine what that guy smells like.” Now I have THIS to have nightmares about.
Literary Slash: Ahab/Ishmael
Weird self love humour slash: Austin Powers/Dr. Evil
The Comedian/Doctor Manhattan
Ooooo: Buffy/Vampirella
Heroes slash:
Claire/Elle
I need a minute
Dresden/Bob
EssBee,
That’s kinda my feelings as well.
Yogi/Boo Boo
Wilma & Betty
LOL
LOST slash:
Sayid/Hurley
‘But he hasn’t got the machinery’ necro/literary slash:
HAL/Frank Poole after the accident
ough
+c
Beastality cartoon slash:
Dick Dastardly/pigeon
I thought Sawyer/Hurley would be more appropriate or maybe Sawyer/Jack. LOL
The Middleman slash:
Wendy/Ida
ugh!
Hmmm.. Lunchtime. Thinking about going to the Paradise Mall and getting a chicken salad sandwich. Of course I need to stop for gas first. Hrm..
Heh: Jesus/Mohammad
Clay slash:
Wallace/Gromit
I think I need a shower after that…
Firefly slash: Kaylee/Inara
.
.
.
.
sorry my mind went blank there for a moment.
Zeus/Jupiter
Hellboy/Abe
Oh new bionic woman slash:
Jaime Sommers/Sarah Corvus
But only if SC smokes a ciggie in the rain first…
Bush/Osama
*declares win*
Hah!
God/Devil + pile of butter
Jeremy FTW!
I need a healthy dose of brain bleach now. 🙁
Rhoobarb/Custard
obscure UK cartoon slash.
I bet Bush’d be the catcher in that pairing.
FTW?
Jesus/Judas
CP: (Mad Donna) Ve o zing
Moses/Pharaoh
Wolverine/Magneto
(for the win)
“Ye varily, the Lord smote Pharaoh with a plague of crabs….”
CP: Daughter – Pearl Jam
On that note….Runchtime!!
Batman/Robin
Oh, wait. Slash is supposed to be made up/outside canon. Forget that one.
CP: Less Cities, More Moving People — The Fixx
CP: Do Re Me (Live) – Ani DiFranco
CP: Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash
CP: Stand or Fall (live) — The Fixx
CP: Gather Round The Stone – Ben Harper
CP: Ride — Liz Phair
Joker/Penguin
Waaaaw waaaww Waaaaw!
Wow, I just hacked my way through a lot of slash here this afternoon.
Buffy/Faith
The wife and I just got back from “The Dark Knight”. It was……ok. I think the thing has been greatly overhyped. It was too long. And I have nothing against a long running movie, but this one just dragged out, both in the overall plot and in the editing of the various scenes.
Heath Ledger did an interesting portrayal as the Joker, but I found it really hard to get into it as they made a clearly deliberate choice to give him no background. He was simply an agent of chaos dropped onto Gotham to stir up trouble.
While not nearly as bad as Crystal Skull, I don’t think this was as good a Iron Man in considering Summer movies. I also find it really hard to justify this being IMDB’s number 1 rated movie of all time.
YMMV.
Chewbacca/Admiral Ackbar?
(Would that be the surf n turf?)
Surf n Fur
Fff
Reviews of The Dark Knight have been all over the place. We’re going to try and catch it Sunday.
Interesting review Ed. I have no idea if I’ll like Batman or not. I liked Batman Begins, although I found it a little cold. I really liked Memento, Chris Nolan’s earlier film.
I concurr it was long. There were lots of cool things about it though. My biggest peeve was Bale’s stupid batman voice. I like him as batman in all aspects but that one.
I dug the minimalist soundtrack too.
I would have to say that I liked Batman Begins much better than TDK.
I’ve been more impressed with Bale in “American Psycho” and “The Prestige” than in Batman.
OMG, American Psycho freaked me out. I can’t look at him without thinking about that movie. One of the scariest books I’ve ever read too.
I’m only familiar with the movie, not the book.
Buffy/Faith/Willow/Anya
drooooooooooool
cough
So enough of my version of heaven, what about hell?
TDK tomorrow…well hopefully.
Big airshow on this weekend, public transport will be screwed up in a BIG way.
Downpour in Longmont — YES!
CP: The Moth – Aimee Mann
Uh . . . flash flood in Longmont . . .
I liked TDK much more than BB.
CP: Fill Me Up – Linda Perry
CP: Drama – L7
CP: Sweetleaf – Galactic
CP: Explain It To Me – Liz Phair
I’m developing a deep, deep hatred for iTunes.
Oh no, Van! What happened?
CP: Porcelina Of The Vast Ocean – Smashing Pumpkins
Trying to get it to sync newly downloaded podcasts, they are in the library, they are marked new, and the damn thing won’t transfer them to the phone.
If I had hair on my head to pull out…
That bastard!
Quite…lol
CP: Tonight You Belong to Me – Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters
…… yes, I rushed here to share that.
iTunes is supposed to provide convenience and pleasure, Van. Not frustration.
CP: Through the Morning, Through the Night – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
I’ve been a manual copier for years, too much of a dinosaur for iTunes I suspect.
I got my monthly comics in the mail yesterday. I got:
Angel After the Fall #10
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 #16
Spike After the Fall #1
Ooooh didn’t know about Spike After the Fall.
The first collection of Angel After the Fall in hardback, is cooling it’s heels at the local PO cos it wouldn’t fit through the letterbox.
I am loving Buffy, and really liking Angel.
The cover of #16 w/ Fray sent me into gushes of excitement when I opened the parcel last night.
Ah I’ve the original Fray around here somewhere, liked that story.
Got the damn thing to sync!
wahoo!
Even the videos got transferred.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the anime version of Black Lagoon rocks!
Victory!
Okay, friends, I’m heading on home. If I don’t check back in, have a great Friday night!
Here’s hoping the Hotties drop by tonight for more fun.
I’m humming the Dambusters theme tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3tF-iLP8Oo
toodlepip!
Work’s been especially sucktacular today. I hope it’s not a new trend.
Today in general has been sucktacular. And yes, that has been the trend. Sorry to complain. Carry on.
Van: I love Black Lagoon. I’m excited that there will be a 3rd season!
Dam Busters!!! Great movie. And one of the “inspirations” for the Death Star run. And by inspiration, I mean rip-off… uh, tribute, since Uncle George stole dialog and scenes for Star Wars.
Sucktastic. Yep. Describes my day.
302 — Looks like we’ll blow past the required comments goal this week.
I third the sucktastic assessment.
Thank goodness it’s the weekend, is all I can say. Anybody have any good weekend plans?
Wow. It got quiet in here.
morning pan!
[minor spoilers for those who haven’t seen Batman yet]
We saw Batman last night. LOVED it!
I know it got some ho-hums from some of you, and some people I talked to, but that was Batman how we like it.
I know when Batman started it was silly and cheesy and Bruce Wayne was perfectly well adjusted and it was kinda goofy really. That Batman is ok, I mean we have been getting those Batman Chronicles graphic novels as they come out (they are printig in order every Batman appearance since the beginning of Batman time in graphic novel form- its wicked cool)
But the Batman we really love is the dark, tortured with a side order of psychotic please. The Joker was perfect! That little tongue flick he gave the character was inspired and I just think he did an exellent job. Nicholsons joker was ok, he was goofy and funny. But this Joker was fucking insane.. which the Joker was. The Joker was psychotic. He killed cause he loved to kill, he didnt care about what he got. He enjoyed the chase and getting into Batmans head. He loved fucking with Batman and watching Batman being driven nuts chasing him.
Thats the Batman universe as I like to see it. I think there is a place for the candy colored, silly, goofy version of the Batman world and we enjoy that too, but this dark, dirty, psychotic, version was perfect.
Hugh sez: and they filmed a whole bunch at my work
Yeah! Chicago looked awesome as Gotham!! I loved the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) bus that they changed the C ot a G very cute 🙂
But they filmed on top of the Chicago Board of Trade several times. That whole financial district area with the Board of Trade in the middle.
Hugh sez: you mean Chicago Mercantile Exchange now 🙂
Bah! whatever! It will always be CBOT to me. They were all over dowtown in that movie. The hospital they blew up was on the south side of the city.
[/minor spoilers for those who haven’t seen Batman yet]
{more Batman spoilers]
Hugh just remided me of the scene when he sez: wanna see a pencil disappear. That was disgusting.. that was The Joker. Awesome.
{/more Batman spoilers]
ok we have yoga and tai chi this morning
l8r panitos
Today I forgot to buy:
Orange Juice
CW:
Futurama – the anthology episode where Bender goes human and Life becomes a video game.
Off to see Dark Knight, hopefully it won’t be too busy at the arty farty cinema.
Morning, Pan!
Not gonna read the Hotties’ post until Sunday night b/c we haven’t seen TDK yet. Hopefully today!
We’re headed to Canon City, CO (home of Colorado apples, the SuperMax prison, and my babe’s grandma) today. We plan to enjoy the scenery, some good coffee, and the rest of David Sedaris’ new book (“When You Are Engulfed In Flames”) from audible. I recommend the book, BTW, for some good laughs.
I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday! I might check back in when we arrive at our destination.
That’s a great episode, Van.
And a fine Saturday, paniacs.
CP: Young Sherlock Holmes Score – Solving the Crime
Today Fox visits grandma and grandpa, and Darcy and I get some Dark Knight action. Was going to be DK and XFiles both, but we remembered an evening potluck that is expecting our whole crew this evening so we cut it back to the better-reviewed of the two flicks…
Morning Pan!
A beautiful day out, and I’m stuck inside working 🙁
Been on the line with Apple for 40 minutes now. My new toy won’t register on I-Tunes (It keeps telling me my address isn’t a US address – Which I already know!!), so I can’t get the updates or the cool apps.
ok, an hour later we’ve finally got it sorted out. Now my Touch knows I’m from Canada. – good lord.
Well, since this is such a happening place, I’m leaving.
Time for lunch, then back for more work – lucky me 😉
Saturdays are sometimes like this.
So cinema was quiet, enjoyed the movie but agree about Batman’s voice.
I know the voice was unpopular, but I rewatched Batman Begins on the same day I saw TDK and found it was pretty consistent between the two. They might have done something better, but to be realistic, Batman *had* to disguise his voice somehow.
Just finished reading “Soon I Will Be Invincible” by Grossman. Highly recommended.
I’ve only seen Batman Begins once (when I saw it at the cinema) so my memory of the movie is vague at best. Will have to dig out the DVD when I’ve got the time.
Oh and according to my watch the running time for Dark Knight (well till the credits roll) was 2 hours 18 minutes, so not quite in the same league as the LOTR movies.
It sure felt longer…and not in a good way.
So tonight old TV program is ‘The Flipside of Dominick Hide’:
http://tinyurl.com/63yayl
Timetravel story..
Interesting. One of the kids favorite shows is now “Phineas and Ferb” about a couple of boys forever on summer vacation and finding creating schemes to entertain themselves each day.
A look at IMDB show that this dude voices the dad
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639782/
Yes, from Rocky Horror to Toon Disney.
Who let this Riff Raff into the room?
*sniff sniff*
Is someone smoking something?
Just watched “Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Batman”. Well worth watching if you get the chance.
Is it a safe bet to think it doesn’t involve kittens?
Smoked Kitten? Yummy…
Today’s retro game is the C64 version of Moon Patrol:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1710
Avoid the holes and blast the aliens..
Smoked kitten, coming to a curry house near you soon…
I read at Backseat Producers that MTV plans to remake “Rocky Horror Picture Show” keeping only the screenplay and writing all new music.
How do you remake a movie based on a stage musical and not use the original score???
Okay, after looking at several other sources, it looks like original score is staying, but may be supplemented by all-new songs as well..
Saw X-Files: I Want to Believe yesterday. More like “I Want my money back” or “I want to believe Chris Carter can make a scarier movie than a gay Russian abducting women and harvesting their body parts to keep his lover alive, who happens to have once been the alter boy victim of the priest he has a psychic connection to that the FBI are using to find them”
Yeah I just spoiled the whole movie but honestly beyond a few good jokes on David Duchovney’s behalf and what I’m certain must have been a scene accidentally inserted from the gag reel (in which Mulder’s car is being pushed over a cliff and Mulder is desperatly trying to decide whether to call “Dana” or “Gillian” on his cell phone) the movie is pretty much pointless. Other than getting a sense of what Mulder and Scully are as lovers and the fact that they’ve just been together in hiding for six years and Scully’s a doctor on a Catholic hospital… You really get no sense of their relationship ever having moved anywhere, in fact their coupling comes across just as bizzare as it did when they revealed it and failed to explain it in the final two seasons of the show.
So other than being able to see just how old David Duchovney and Gillian Anderson have really gotten, or see a really amazingly done joke about George Bush, I’d wait for DVD on this one kids. And even then I’d Netflix it, or BT it even. I actually had to apologize to my wife for making her watch six season of the show (we only got that far before the movie came out, we were going for ninee) and then watch a shitty movie. I was really expecting this one to be good, but wow, it just went nowhere.
Yeah, I never intended to watch that film.
Same here. I watched X-Files from the first season and one season past the first movie, but after that Carter just lost focus. Much like some other shows that out stayed their welcome and die violent deaths (i.e. Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Moon Lighting etc.) X-Files didn’t know how to bow out gracefully. There should have been a sense of closure brought to the uneven season ender, but they took too much time and now it just doesn’t matter. I may end up renting it on Netflix but that’s it.
I stopped watching X-Files right after the dreadful personality swapping episode aired. That cliche is pretty much the kiss of death imo: it means the writers are out of ideas. I tried watching a few episodes after that point but couldn’t get into it anymore, especially after the new cast was introduced.
When I heard they were going to make a new movie, my reaction was basically ‘meh’. I would only watch it if everyone swore it was a great movie. From Dub’s wonderful reaction… I think I’d rather be forced to watch Spider-Man 3 repeatedly.
“The truth is over the shark”.
Thanks for the warning, Dub. I never watched the TV series, really enjoyed the first film, had almost zero interest in seeing this new one.
Moon Patrol rocked.
So the Martha Wainwright gig was good but boy was she off her rocker or at least acting like she was.
She seemed so ‘normal’ seven years ago.
Van, I’d so go see Martha live. I agree — she does seem to have some issues….. What nutty things did she do?
Did she do “Bloody Mother Fuckin Asshole”?
I think I’m a bigger fan of her brother Rufus. (Yes, you can be straight and appreciate Rufus Wainwright)
Nope on the song, just the way she was talking between songs and interacting with the audience.
Good gig anyway, Rufus is on my to do list for seeing him performing live.
Still think their Dad is better though (LW3).
This show is awesome!
“Atom”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/atom.shtml
currently playing NIN Head Down
I will be sharing oxygen with Trent in 7 days
Hughie do you think he will let me share anything else with him?
Hugh sez: if the dude has half a brain he will
*swooon*
Hugh sez: *swooon2*
[singing with trent]
and this is not my face
and this is not my life
and there not a single thing that i can recognize
this is all a dream
and none of you are real
[/singing with trent]
ok I just rewindeded Head Down.. 1 more listen before more Deadpan 🙂
there was an article in the books section of the Chicago Tribune about the growing popularity of Graphic Novels and how they are taken much more seriously now as relevant fiction
kinda interesting…
I wonder what this tour of Trents is gonna be like.. it is for 2 albums that are almost all instrumental. Trent only sings on like 2 or 3 songs on The Slip and none on Ghosts.
Does this mean we are going to see Trent actually playing.. oh that would rule! To see him playing with his keyboards and Mac and shit
Hugh sez: Are yuo going to need a cold shower?
I might! Oh! and Im going to have like front row access to Trent! I got the ok to shoot NIN. I begged and begged. I said I would shoot anyone I didn’t care as long as I could do Gutter Twins and NIN.
Hugh sez: well you saved their asses at Pitchfork too
I did 🙂
I just keep having these lollapalooza visions of Greg Dulli, and Trent Reznor and Hugh and me.. and we’re all naked.. ummm.. sorry
Hugh sez: you are NOT sorry. You ho.
LOL! Can I be a Greg, Trent and Hugh sandwich?
Hugh sez: a 3 sided sandwich?
yes
Hugh sez: as long as we don’t make a club sandwich with a bread in the middle
LOL!!!
*submit comment*
[tangent]
I love how the episode description for Deadpan 96 sez: “pimp show notes”
Hugh sez: [rapping] big pimping spending g’s [/rapping]
[/tangent]
Order that one with extra bacon and mayo.
OK, I gotta get ready to run out to a writer’s meeting thing. w00t, it looks like I’ll have a Smarty Hotties play-by-play when I get back *swoon*
You know, X-files used to be one of my favorites. In truth, it was the first movie that killed my interest in the show. I had hoped that, with as long a break as everyone has had from the series, they might come back with something fresh and interesting.
Alas, it looks like the horse is still dead.
Deadpan 96 continues…
The Rock
baby with no bowel movements
no bowel movements in 6 days
funny and ironical
no joke
when baby farts the world shakes
new christ
it was planned
what you need to know before getting into the movie
you won’t understand it all
based off book of revelations
salon.com is wrong about the harlot
Mega zepplin?
serpent woman is the harlot of revelations
agrees with the rest.. maybe
last 3 days of the end of the world
everything is gone to shit
big boom
republicans win in congress in 2006 *shudders*
homeland security freak out
empire of evil
LOL
Re: x-files
Yes, the movie soured quite a bit and the season without Mulder was wicked retarded.
I will have to see the movie though. I just have to. I don’t know. I’ll probably hate it but I will have to go. I loved X-Files up to the movie and last season.
I want to believe
back to pan
Jon Lovitt and Laro-however you spell it are best actors of the movie
disturbin
crap fest
he’s pissed off
donnie darko
shoot in the eye
fucking good movie
pimps don’t die
what does that mean?????
AAAAAAAAA
still have 18 more minutes and 15 seconds of Dubshack
and something else
people had a lot to say about it, got lots o’ content
people loved it or hated it
mega zepplin
random unpredictable strangeness
props, yo
Deadpanpalooza 4
tie up loose ends
short music
maybe he will come back
Deadpan is the motherfucking pimp
Chris Lmabert was in it
Is Jack coming back after the music?
Hugh sez: yes
Dre sez: no
very pretty song Jack 🙂
He came back for jelly beans!!
Hugh wins!!!
Jack fucked up last beans
Paul Maki wins too
and Paul Maki wins this week too!!
Paul Maki is the new Vanamonde
goodnight mush
powered by podango
Unshow 16
snap snap snap
nothing like regular Deadpan
0 prep time
less entertaining game
jelly beans
Vanamonde wins!!!!!!!
Greasy jelly nipple comments
wait!
*pause*
Greasy Spoon Nipples Udder Bangles Susanna Hoffs Dickens Comments Cockles Spooges Comment-a-palooza shitzus donkus nose hairs nipples Comments solo nipples privates nipples sphincters comments comments teets areolas nipple comments comments nipples nipples through episode 96
Smarty Hotties® – 25
The Energizer Bunny – 22
justa j0e – 19
Vanamonde – 17
Mr ditto swooon – 14
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Trucker Overdrive – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
EesBee – 2
psion andy – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
why yes Mr WordPress…. this IS a duplicate comment, well done. Well done indeed!
*unpause*
Vanamonde – colonoscopy
ditto – buffalo = new orleans
vanamonde- solo play
bunny – vultures
*intentional pause*
Trucker OD- list of ailments, podcast bitching
Smarty Hotties – BOO!!!!!!
G squared – good morning
Greasy Spoon Nipples Udder Bangles Susanna Hoffs Dickens Comments Cockles Spooges Comment-a-palooza shitzus donkus nose hairs nipples Comments solo nipples privates nipples sphincters comments comments teets areolas nipple comments comments nipples nipples greasy jelly nipple comments through Un show 16
Smarty Hotties® – 26
The Energizer Bunny – 23
justa j0e – 19
Vanamonde – 19
Mr ditto swooon – 15
Rhettro – 12
Dubshack – 11
Ed From Texas – 8
Rhettro – 8
Jeremy- 6
Leann 2.0 – 6
Trucker Overdrive – 5
Alvie – 4
disgruntled scientist – 4
Thomas – 3
Jackamo – 3 (even though it doesn’t count according to him)
Amy Bowen – 3
Lost Ralph – 3
WNDR wolfie – 2
Addie in boulder – 2
EesBee – 2
psion andy – 1
Leather Clad Mistress of Deadpan – 1
John Boze: 1
g squared – 1
*pause*
we gotta split yo
l8r
New series of Mad Men has stared…I feel all tingly.
cough
Yes, I’m up too late………
This is not for everyone – but some amazing virtuoso bass-playing here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ccfe_Oc4R8&feature=related
It is Monday Morning here…
I already miss my con friends.
But PB project moving ahead (albeit slowly)
DM Project had a set back (Not thrilled oh well)
DP Project releases this week – Oh shit…
State of the Wolf address.
I’ve got tons of deadlines for Between the Lines Studios this month, a bunch of edits, a voice role, and an episode script for Angel Between the Lines.
So what was the con?
Conestoga
A small literature con here in Tulsa http://www.sftulsa.org
I met MH (Maggie) Bonham there and much parting ensued…
And WR is planning a new interview series…coming out of this.
I want to believe… in the existance of pants…
Sounds cool Wolf.
Okay to get neared the 451 goal, aa trip down to memory lane. From ‘The Commodore 64 Book – 1982 to 199x’.
1982
Axis Assassin written by John Field
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=184
Tempest Clone, not bad for the time.
Hey Van It was… I am struggling with today…
Choplifter by Dan Gorlin and Dane Bigham
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=477
Using a helicopter to kill enemies vehicles and rescue people.
Radar Rat Race:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2068
Poor Rally X clone.
1983
Archon by Free Fall Associates
Cross between arcade and board game, review at:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=7
Beachhead by Bruce Carver:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=221
Invading an island to destroy a big gun, advance by a series of mini games.
Blue Max by Peter Adams:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=226
A Zaxxon clone with a WW1 aeroplane instead of a spaceship.
International Soccer by Andrew Spencer:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=823
One of he first arcade soccer games, also available in cartridge format.
Morning, Deadpan!
Lots of links to look at from Van!
Lode Runner by Doug Smith and Dane Bingham:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1534
classic arcade puzzler, converted to loads of different computers and consoles.
Manic Miner by Matthew Smith, converted by “Chris & Kris” Lancaster:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1594
Faithful conversion of the Spectrum original, perhaps too faithful.
Wizard of Wor by Jeff Bruette:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=257
Conversion of arcade game.
More years later…
Nope, no time to look at Van’s links. I’m sure we’ll break 451 today.
Meow.
Wolfy meow?
TDK now has 13 box office records.
http://www.mania.com/box-office-update-knight-scores-victory-over-brothers-fbi_article_86524.html
Was it something I said?
EssBee – I am camouflaged.
People always expect a sheep….they don’t expect a cat…
*Nobody expects a cat*
Damn that was bad…no wonder I only have 2 greasy nipple points.
Nope ditto – Did you get my email?
Nope. It’s not in my spam filter either. I’ll check again in a bit.
Some of these are just bizarre. ‘Victorian slap-fighting game’?????
http://kotaku.com/5029685/365-days-of-free-games
Morning Pan
Poor hubby had to go back into work. He’s not a happy camper
Ditto – email resent
Morning Bunny you look tasty this morning.
Wait never mind.
Am I the only that sees “TDK” and think cassette tapes?
Victorian slap-fighting: curing boredom? If I was that bored, I’d really be in trouble!
Morning, TEB.
I didn’t get to the cassette tape movie over the weekend. Darn! Maybe one evening this week.
^You weren’t the only one Wolf. LOL
Unfortunately, with my husband’s schedule, we probably won’t be able to see “TDK” until it comes out on video.
CP: Pavlov’s Bell – Aimee Mann
I keep thinking TDK is a cassette tape too! lol
Remember when cassettes were the piracy scourge?
406 – so if I subtract the goal of 451 from the current count of 406 I should get the number of comments to hit our goal right??? Looks right except it is reversed you moron that is why you don’t write…
451-406= 45 comments to go!
Damn ditto swoon messed up my calculations….
CP: For the Turnstiles – The Be Good Tanyas
wolf – what are one or two nipples among friends, really?
EssBee- A comment Orgy?
Is is a free-for-all, no doubt!
Boob Face Plant
That is just fun to say….
*strips and jumps into the comment pile*
OH YEAH!!
That’s *boob* face plant, Jeremy, not *cock* face plant!
*runs away from naked Jeremy*
CP: Skunk – MC5
*impale*
Whoops…sorry!
*CFP*
Ew. No offense, guys.
No offense taken! 😉
CP: Elba — E.S. Posthumus
CP: Planet Telex – Radiohead
CP: Orion – Metallica
1984
Ancipital:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=3018
Difficult to play blaster by the legendary (at least in the UK) Jeff Minter
Boulderdash by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=16
Another arcade puzzler, there was a version recently released for the NDS.
Bruce Lee by Ron Fortier and Kelly Day:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=550
Guide Bruce through a series of screens to finally defeat a evil wizard. Infamous for being very east to complete..the phrase ‘piece of piss’ springs forth unbidden.
+n
Chiller by David and Richard Darling:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=658
Inspired by the MJ’s Thriller video, part of a budget range by Mastertronic, released in 1984 in the UK.
Chuckie Egg (original game by Nigel Alderton):
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=485
A platformer that truly deserves to be called a classic, the C64 version is arguably not the best one.
Van, have you actually played all of these? Impressive, if so.
CP: Top – Live
Dropzone by Archer Maclean:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=134
Although inspired by Defender, this was one of the better clones..the Atari 800 version ran faster.
A lot them Essbee, but only on emulators, I had a different computer in the early 80’s.
Still impressive!
I have a 7:00 date to see TDK!
Ghostbusters by David Crane, Adam Bellin and Hillary Mills:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=55
Nice theme tune shame about the game.
Gryphon by Tony Crowther:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1110
An exercise in tedium is a line from the review in the book.
Where did the bunny go?
I scared the bunny… Fail.
sigh
H.E.R.O. (original game by John Van Ryzin):
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=67
Stands for Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operations, unusual platformer.
Might have been the meowing, wolf.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretsky:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1205
Been there, done that, bought the hat.
Sorry, wolf. I’m still here. Just working at the same time so more, ghosting it than actually participating.
I’m not afraid of the big bad meower… :0
CP: Such Great Heights – Iron & Wine
lol – That would scare a bunny wouldn’t it…
Impossible Mission by Dennis Caswell:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=69
“Another Visitor, stay a while, stary forever..hahahaha”
Jet Set Willy by Matthew Smith:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1364
The sequel to Manic Miner, loads of rooms and surreal objects, and still the stamping foot.
Park Patrol by Tony Ngo:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=91
Fight against chaos in a Park, nicely animated enemies and funny sound effects.
Pastfinder by Tim Wilson:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=787
Innovative arcade game.
CP: Have Mercy – Loretta Lynn
Pitstop II by Stephen Landrum and Dennis Caswell :
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=548
A decent clone of Pole Position, with the added bonus of split screen player v player
CP: Mujer – Gipsy Kings
Raid on Bungeling Bay by Will Wright (yes the guy who created the sims series):
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=146
Designing the maps for this game inspired WW to create Sim City.
451
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I’ve started so I’ll finish 1984.
Raid Over Moscow by Bruce Carver:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=95
A controversial game in Europe, it was shortened to Raid in some European countries.
Van = the man
CP: The Show Must Go On – Pink Floyd
*BFP*
Space Taxi by John Kutchner and Silas Warner:
http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=357
A rather good puzzler, mint condition copies go for high prices on ebay it seems.
CP: Deep and Meaningful – Franklin Pearce
Hi Deadpan.
Looks like I am finally back from my wanderings.
Now taking a deep breath and looking around me.
Spy v Spy by Mike Reidel:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2438
Based on the cartoon in MAD magazine, although a fun game against the computer, came into it’s own playing against a friend (split screen).
You ain’t going to kill us all with a single arrow JJ?
Work has been stressful this week, but I may have turn a corner. Hopefully things will either A. Improve or at least B. Not gets anymore sucky.
Rhettro, you do realize it’s only Monday, right?
JJ, missed you!
The Staff of Karnath by Ultimate Play the Game:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2444
A platformer from a company that turned into Rare.
CP: Price I Pay – Janes Addiction
Not this time Van. Not this time.
Nice to be missed 🙂 Seems I missed a lot of swell discussions.
Hope things have turned for you Rhett. From what I’ve read … there is now a Rhett, head-shapped dent in your desk.
I think I’ll go blow the dust off my recording equipment and see if it still works.
Trashman converted by James Day:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2705
Imagine frogger twisted to the vertical with garbage collection…and you get the idea.
Rhettro – This is Monday…you have a long way to go.
JJ – Welcome Back We have missed you.
and finally for 1984, Ultima 1 by Richard Garriot:
http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2747
A bit of a cheat this one, as it was the Apple 2 version that came out in 1984 and it was written in BASIC. Origin converted i to machine code for the C64 version.
Phew JJ and welcome back.
So tonight I will watch the first episode of the new series of Mad Men as I hve my tea.
60sretrovision ahoy!
+a
I DVR’d Mad Men last night as well, Van. I missed Season 1, but am just going to jump in at this point.
I am looking forward to Eureka tomorrow night. I am all caught up with that, and love the show!
Ok, done ghosting. Now time for lunch. May be back after. Lots more work to do.
CP: Shit Towne – Live
CP: Green is the Colour – Pink Floyd
Mad Men – also TiVo’d. Looking forwarc to watching tonight.
EssBee, you should download last years Episodes and watch first if you can. It is THAT good.
I have re-watched several of the episodes and they are just as engaging each time I view them.
CP: Criminal – Fiona Apple
Damn, my stock portfolio is in shambles.
I’ve been real good about staying diversified and following the energy/comodity issues so I’ve been able to stand on the outskirts and watch smugly while Rome Burned … but while I was on the road and out of touch the disaster finally caught up to me. 🙁
The horror. The Horror. The Horror.
This economy needs an enema.
EssBee and Wolf, yes I know. My ass is currently in one piece, but it’s fate still hangs in the balance.
JOe, should I watch S1 before even trying S2?
CP: Gentle Groove – Mother Love Bone
Rhettro, I was just joking – I am sorry about your ass’ current hanging. Work drama is so unfun. I’m really glad that you may have turned a corner!
CP: Circus Envy – R.E.M.
EssBee, no worries. The day has gotten better as it has progressed. 🙂
CP: Just a Dream — Great Northern
EssBee – While I believe each episode can stand on it’s own … it will be SO much more fun to watch S2 if you have watched how the characters have unfolded/grown/self-destructed from S1.
CP: Escape Pod 167
with annoying work mates blasting local radio (arrrggghhh!)
I will do that, then, JOe. I’ll just pile them up in the DVR until I get caught up. I’ve heard nothing but good about the show.
I was in Canon City, CO over the weekend. It’s a pretty small place. Their movie theater had the following choices:
– X-Files
– The Dark Knight
– Hancock
– Hellboy II
– Journey to the Center of the Earth
I felt like I was in a geeky wonderland.
That’s because Geeky Wanderland is in Oklahoma…
Ok that was a bad pun…(I am in a strange mood today…must be sleep dep)
Was Journey in 3D?
I saw the Cassette Tape movie this weekend…I was floored by it.
Crap I have a detail question about the movie…but don’t want to spoil it…off to the forums.
It wasn’t THAT bad, wolf.
Journey was in 3D, but I’m not giving good money to see that one.
CP: Beginning To See The Light – The Velvet Underground
CP: Priscilla – Suzanne Vega
Interesting blog called Photoshop Disasters:
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/
Crazy one, ditto!
CP: Radio Nowhere – Bruce Springsteen
Dr. Horrible (NPH) is on Seasame Street!
He’s the Shoe Fairy….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaszN9ByxM
Anyone heard Girl Talk?
Anyone want to?
let me know…..
and cuz I am lazy…what is Cassette Tape movie??
Never mind….Got it…
Dur.
I heard Girl Talk. Not bad! I hear a little Lindsay Buckingham mixed in there.
CP: Let Me Love You Up – Sophie B. Hawkins
Jeremy you just proved how young you really are….
😛
Back from lunch – leftover pizza, yum.
Will probably still be a ghost, just hanging out in the background as I still have a fair amount of work to do. (I just luvs month ends).
CP: (Da Le) Yalleo – Santana
No. TDK I get it…I gots lots of those. I used to make cassette tapes of my friends and I like we were Radio DJs.
I just didn’t read and pick up what you were talking about.
I’m Old…seriously!
http://www.wikiupload.com/images/dollars.php
CP: When I’m Up — Great Big Sea
Meh. Work sucks.
CP: Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac
ditto, ditto.
500!
Had beer bread for dinner last night. Easy to make and very tasty to eat!
CP: If I Had My Way – Big Sugar
What’s the recipe?
CP: Guys Like Me – Aimee Mann
3 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 can/bottle beer (I like using an amber).
Preheat oven to 350F. Mix the flour, sugar, and beer in a large bowl. Melt butter. Add a butter to loaf pan until the bottom is coated. Spoon dough into pan. Pour remaining butter onto the top of the dough. Place into oven and bake 50-60 minutes or until surface is golden.
oh, yum! I’m going to make that this week!
CP: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away – Eddie Vedder
Ok now this maybe down to my sieve like memory, but was the Dale character in S1 of Mad Men?
I think I’m mastering iTunes, even got the ereader to stop crashing after a sync…cool.
CP: “Lets Reggae All Night” – CSS
Go on with your bad self, Van!
CP: High On A Mountain Top – Loretta Lynn
CP: “Bonfire” – Lamb
Van – Re: Dale – I’ll have to let you know after I watch tonight.
Remember: you have to use self-rising flour. Plain flour will not do. 🙂
What if you substitute the 1/2 cup of butter with a 1/2 cup of Like Butta?
Will I Can’t Believe It’s Not Like Butta work?
self-rising, check. Me baking is a scary prospect . . .
CP: Paranoid Android – Radiohead
1/2 cup of Like Butta + a bottle of amber beer = ?
CP: Coming Home – Stereo MCs
Grabbed the recipe, will have to try it this weekend.
1/2 cup of Like Butta + a bottle of amber beer = happy buttah!
I can’t get the self-rising to leave it’s bunk.
A search engine that has recently come online for all Internet users:
http://www.cuil.com
susposed to be better than google.
LOL twice
CP: Johnny Rottentail – Amy Ray
Just give it a good rub JJ!
CP: Navy Bean – Tracy Bonham
LOL thrice
CP: End of the World — Great Big Sea
Van – that’s just it … you don’t have to.
CP: Hunter – Bjork
It is really nice to have you back, JOe!
🙂
… but now I am off to mow the yard (no … not a euphemism).
So, no hot wax involved in your “yard mowing?”
Yow!
*BFP*
CP: Boom Boom Boom – Widespread Panic
Ouch!
Tonight’s retro game, Hover Bovver:
http://tinyurl.com/6j2k5m
Just mowing the lawn…
You guys and your mowing . . .
Okay, I’m leaving Evil, Inc. before I forget I’m a pacifist. Tonight: sushi and TDK.
Talk to you later, friends.
*LFP* (Lawn Face Plant)
Van, I used to play Archon, Lode Runner, and Wizard of Wor on a friend’s Atari 800. All 3 were pretty damn good games, if memory serves.
Fish breath ewwwwwwwwww!
Well all good things must come to an end, work tomorrow.
Night Pan.
“Lawn dart”
No I don’t know what that means either.
So what would I do when testing out cuil.com? A vanity search on Jack Mangan, of course. . .
“No results because of high load…
Due to excessive load, our servers didn’t return results. Please try your search again.”
I saw the Batman movie and was impressed. I had no desire to see the X-Files movie. I saw the first one back when they were in their prime and was nonplussed. It was cutting edge television back in the mid-1990s. In the late 80s Twin Peaks was cutting edge television. I don’t feel like either show they dated particularly well. It is interesting to see Jack Black and Giovanni in the TV show together when there are both playing teenagers still.
Ironman was an okay movie. I do think that Batman will stand up as a work of cinema. Iron Man will be replaced by some better special effects even though Robert Downey Jr. did a great job acting. It just wasn’t as impressive as Heath Ledger. Personally I felt the best acting job was Matthew Lillard as shaggy in the first Scooby Doo movie. That was an impressive job acting. You can’t give an Academy award for that sadly.
I now Dub is now a retired podcaster, but I have to find a place to get his cynical harsh sarcasm. I miss the shack.
Doing a vanity search I mostly got back Twitter pages. Go figure.
I definately like Matthew Lillard’s work in “Scooby Doo” over “Wing Commander.”
Nice. On a more serious note, I will say that “SLC Punk” (with aforementioned Mr. Lillard) is a good movie. I own a copy, and I recommend it.
A vanity search under JohnBoze comes up with lots of me on FPM-related web pages, and also one from back at the turn of the millenium. Not really anyone talking about me tho…
THankfully, I live online in anonymity as some book writer has my name, so any vanity search gives dozens of hits on that guy while I cruise happily under the radar.
I shall definitely have to add that “photoshop disasters” blog to my RSS reader along with failblog. I shall never despair again….so long as I’m never featured in either of those blogs.
I suspect Cuil.com is still finding it feet, jack mangan threw up no results where as Jack Mangan threw up 25,142.
My real name throws up links mostly to people other than me…apart from a couple of 80’s computer centred websites.
Big ‘Lego’ house:
http://tinyurl.com/6e8oy5
Amazed no websites with ‘my husband is hung like a porn star’ from your significant other Rhettro…
cough
Play the classic Defender online with your browser:
http://tinyurl.com/6xv5a6
Has anyone heard of Daily Splice?
Here is the link http://www.dailysplice.com/home
That would be a no.
Morning, Deadpan!
Saw TDK last night & loved it.
So just read the Hotties’ review of the movie, and totally agree with it, as well as with ditto’s take on the film. It was great and dark. That was The Joker, with no sense of right/wrong. He was scary!
Thanks, too, Hotties, for the compliment of “best quote ever”! Heh heh.
Interesting directory, wolf.
CP – History According to Bob – Napoleon in Syria (Part 1) http://historyaccordingtobob.com
No video games for me, lately. Unless you count me teaching my son how to play Pirates Online. Mostly we do the constructible model game thing. The 15yr old plays, the 9yr old plays, and the 4yr old now has his own pirate ships… Granted, I’m busy re-gluing the masts back on one of his ships. 4yr olds are rough on WizKids Pirate ships…
Jack, I totally dig being called out, man… I love this frakkin’ community. I’m just so busy with all my other SocNet things, that I never get in here… this is a world unto itself… The Looking Glass has got nothing on the Deadpan community 🙂
Scary they at one time had my show on there directory with out my knowledge or consent… If you want to use my show just ask Geesh. Chances are that I would let you use it… but damn…
I feel so used …
and not in a good way.
Kind of like being raped with an un sanded two by four and I just received splinters from hell that make hemorrhoids feel like a relief.
Sorry I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.
On a happier note – Since it is no longer a seekrit. Anyone who wants to wish Jack a happy 100th and have not gotten to it yet…please send mp3 to me @ gmail.com Dead(pan)line is upon us tonight.
… aaaand that would be MY que to say “Good Morning Deadpan!”
CP: Skullcrusher Mountain – J. Coulton
CP: Hit the Wall — Brendan Canning
(Indiefeed Alternative/Modern Rock podcast)
Wndr – just sent you a topic relative e-mail. Which topic? Ah, that’s the mystery isn’t it!
CP: “Betty and ME” – agian with the J. Coulton
JaJ – Replied.
I am probably going to make a couple upset with me, but since JM knows it is coming. No reason to keep the doors closed.
Heck, we don’t even lock the door to the DP Bar at night!
CP: “Bangs” – They Might Be Giants
CP: Yesterday’s Democracy Now! about Obama’s history in Chicago
Pretty interesting.
DP Bar – Where my bourbon has a tendency to disappear…
I am thinking about putting progress meters on my website to let people know where productions are being to being completed.
JaJ – Wait til you hear some of the original content that we have for this special episode!!! We have so many talented people here.
Random thoughts of a tired Wolf.
CP: Episode 1 of Wander Radio
Officially getting on board.
CP: Lost my faith — Seal
But they’re good thoughts Wolf. 🙂
http://nzone.com/object/nzone_spacesiege_downloads.html
The Space Siege demo has been released. Almost a Gig though!
Wow EssBee… I would have dropped those off…Episode 1-6 really are pretty bad…(Damn those episodes are 2 years old.)
It’s GREAT, wolf. Just let me listen over here. Shh.
[no deadpan whatsoever]
WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[/no deadpan whatsoever]
w00t!! Congrats Hotties!
Hey I know when to be quiet nobody needs to tell me to shut up more than once. Geesh it not like I don’t want anyone to listen to the show. That’s the whole reason that the show is there for people to enjoy and who am I to keep people from listen to the show that I have so much time producing. I mean like wow someone has actually wanted to go back and listen to all of the back episodes just to sit back and listen to the stuff that I have pulled together. I think I may need to switch to decaf. This has been such weird morning considering all the stuff that has been going on. The Pulling of Wander Radio from the darkness of obscurity wait who the hell am I kidding Wander Radio is destined to be obscure just do to the fact that there is no niche market that I truly focus on, but then again what one person can just listen to one type of program and how in the hell are you going to know whether or not you’re going like something else if you are never given the opportunity to give it a try, I mean who can live on just audio dramas or just one type of music there is so much good content out there that is available for free. Like wow podcasting is how I found Brad Sucks and the Brobdingnagian Bards the Fump (I have been playing Fump music since their inception) There are also many great authors that really don’t understand the power of the internet yet.
Wow I really need to switch to Decaf…
wolf, you’re just fine full-caf.
I couldn’t get eps 2 or 3 on iTunes, so now I’m CP: Wander Radio #4
Here’s what I like so far: it’s like nothing else out there. The music is great. The comedy is super funny. The yogurt bit, for example, is hilarious. I’m gonna play that for my babe when I get home. It made me laugh out loud.
Congrats! TSH!
TSH: Concratz! Hope you have a place to stay now. 😉
Wolf: I listened to your last few episodes and really liked them. I was going to mine for more gold when you site went down. Sounds like it’s up again. Where’d I put my miner hat?
Rhettro – More gems coming soon.
See the last post for upcoming Wander Radio events.
Thanks!
Yes we have a place to stay 🙂
We’ve been living in our new place for a while now, so it will be nice to not pay for 2 places now.
Wolf- It’s always good to get validation for your work isn’t it? Sorry I haven’t been listening, but I barely listen to the 3 podcasts I am actually subscribed to as it is, its nothing personal 🙂
l8r
No problem TSH!
Brad P. from NJ is liberated from murgatory.
We can twist one step further to meh-gatory….?
Heavens to Meh-gatory!
Hi, Brad! Nice to meh-t you. I’m newish.
Screw you, WordPress.
I was just TRYING to say:
CP: Creo – Ozomatli
And, now that I mention it, earbuds: Don’t Mess With the Dragon – Ozomatli. Great, eclectic, bilingual band out of L.A. I love them, and this IMO is their best album so far.
http://www.ozomatli.com/site.php
But that was before. Now:
CP: Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
CP: Here For Now (Live in Chicago) – Ani DiFranco
CP: Parchman Farm – John Mayall
Funny EssBee doesn’t look New-ish…
(Guess the reference)
Spaceballs
WNDR, I admit I’m a bit confused reading your stream of posts today. Has someone been putting down your work on WNDR Radio? If so, that’s just crap. Your show remains one of my favorites.
Hello Brad P. ! Message in a bottle or just ships?
Wndr – the witch turned her into a New-ish.
CONGRADULATIONS SMARTY HOTTIES ! Now don’t go and blow all that cash on comic books and pop!
CP: “I wanna take you higher” – Sly and the Family Stone
Yah just tell us who Wndr and we’ll go give them the “MEH”ing of their life!
Ed – I see your “Spaceballs” and raise you a “High Anxiety”
… wait. That didn’t sound right.
I ain’t looking at NOBODY’S Spaceballs!
Dear Ed from Texas,
Just feeling kind of lost and amazed at how some things in life work (or don’t work as the case may be). Today has been kind of strange for me since my head is in a cloud (sleep dep from the con this weekend) I am just trying to keep myself going on it.
Jack H aka WNDRWolf
Thanks guys,
You are the best.
CP: “Can I take you higher” – Damn Yankees
^Talk about retro, Rhettro!
Srsly!
CP: Policy of Truth – Depeche Mode
Congrats on the loss of the double mortgage TSHs!!!
CP: Si è spento il sole — Adriano Celentano
Welcome, Brad!
Congrats, TSH!
Wndr, just do what you enjoy. That’s really the important thing.
CP: Old Mr. Heffer – 4 Non Blondes
Actually, that should have been CPIMM: “Currently playing in my mind”
JJ inspired me with his CP: LOL
Although technically, my wife bought that cassette when it came out.
And now it’s CPIMM. Thank you very much.
I knew there was a reason I didn’t eat at McDonalds!
http://failblog.org/2008/07/29/mcfail-2/
CPIMM: Final Countdown – Europe
Ha! “Over 1 billion served” takes on a new meaning w/ that one, ditto.
wolf, that’s even worse! Take this one:
CPIMM: Because The Night (unplugged) – 10,000 Maniacs
Ha ha – I am the master of the ear worm…
CPIMM: Turn Up (the Radio) – Autograph
CP: Promises In The Dark – Pat Benatar
LOL
CP: Love On The Run – Galactic
CP: Down Boys – Warrant
(not really. Just trying to remember the worst possible crappy 80s rock song)
I saw Warrant live once. They opened for Motley Crue at McNichols arena in Denver. Lord have mercy, that was like 400 years ago.
CP: Hide and Seek – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
CPIMM: Nobody’s Fool – Cinderella
CP: Don’t Ease Me In – Grateful Dead
CPIMM: Rock you Like a Hurricane – Scorpions
CPIMM: Round and Round – RaTT
Ack make it stop!!!
Warrent – Ouch Jack. LOL
I wonder how many hair metal acts I’ve actually seen?
Ratt
Def Leppard
Kiss
Bullet Boys
Mamas Boys (am I detecting a pattern here?)
Cinderella
Winger (yeah, yeah make your fun, but it was a good show)
I’m sure there had to be others. LOL
Worst hair metal song evar? I nominate FireHouse’s “Baby, Don’t Treat Me Bad.” Yee-ouch!
I’ve seen:
Bon Jovi (I know, I know)
Def Leppard
Alice Cooper
and:
Stevie Nicks multiple times
Tori Amos
Ani DiFranco
and:
Grateful Dead multiple times
Phish
Widespread Panic
Leftover Salmon
Papa Grows Funk
Galactic
Twangerama
That’s my jam band/New Orleans funk side
And a bunch of others, including some New Orleans JazzFests. But I saw the Dead too many times, and my memory is for shit.
EssBee No worries it was probably in the air at those Dead concerts 😉
EssBee’s on a roll.
I’ve also seen:
Iron Maiden (Thank’s Jack)
Chicago
Styx (Mr. Roboto tour – way cool)
Flash Cadillac (muliple times)
Fats Domino
Dr. Hook (set the way back machine)
Bread
Jethro Tull
Am I the only Deadpanite to make up dirty lyrics for the Boston song “Amanda?”
Rhettro – No you are not the only dirty old man here…
ooh, let’s hear em!
“Im gonna take you by surprise and make you realize,
Amanda
Im gonna tell you right away, I cant wait another day,
Amanda
Im gonna say it like a man and make you understand
Amanda
I love you”
Oh it’s too easy. Above are the line just begging to be bastardized. I think I see justa joe sweating.
See it now!
CP: Killing the Blues – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
It’d be tough to name all the bands I’ve seen live….. so instead, the hokiest bands I’ve seen:
Whitesnake (with Great White opening)
Scorpions (with Great White opening again – ack. . . Aldo Nova also did a set at that show)
Electric Angels (omg, they were terrible)
Steve Harris’s daughter’s set didn’t sound too impressive. Rhett and I were in the t-shirt line the entire time.
Guns N Roses – saw them with Metallica.
A friend’s band once opened for W.A.S.P.
Hmm, there have got to be others.
CP: Ashes – Ben Harper
Oh, and also went to see the Jackson Victory Tour when I was in 8th grade.
Holy Subliminal message Batman!
I can’t tell you when the last time I heard this song was … but I guess that all this coverage of the Earthquake in L.A. has triggered some synapsis.
CPIMM: “Aenemia” – Tool
CP: Blood – Pearl Jam
“Learn to Swim”
(Kirk Mode) …must try … to resist … song … parody. Force … to …strong. Noooooooooo (/Kirk Mode)
“Im gonna take you by surprise open up those thighs,
Amanda
It doesn’t mean your gay, If you take it the same way,
A man does
If you’ll take it like a man and then your going to understand
Amanda
Behind youâ€
well if nothing else, that cleared my CPIMM buffer
OMG! That was shocking, hilarious, and a little exciting.
hmmmm … that’s what my dates usually write in the comment card I send them home with them.
… that, and “What kind of geek asks his date to fill out a comment card?”
A comment card is a fantastic idea. I don’t know why I never thought of that. Is it essay-based? Or scantron?
Ironic, J0e, that you went from Aenima to that re-interpretation of Amanda.
jOE – Well done sir, you did not dissappoint. 🙂
It’s a “On a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being best, How would you rate …”
With a section to write general impressions, areas of concern and suggestions.
CP: “Telephone Book” – Violent Femmes
Rhet – no fair. you snuck up on me. Given a few hours I could have done something clever. Given a few days I could have gotten distracted by other things and never gotten around to it, thus letting us avoid this whole unpleasant incident. 😉
CP: “Mr. Bitterness” – Soul Coughing
“areas of concern”!!
CP: Come On In To My Kitchen – Willie Nelson
Jack – “I AM IRON-IC MAN” Doh DA Doh DA DA, DADA DADA DADA DA DA Da Da
(boy … that doesn’t work at all does it?)
“areas of concern†seemed so much more eloquent then “What can I do to reduce the terrified screaming?”
CP: “Race Car Ya-Ya” – Cake
“would you hire this date again?”
CP: Closet Romantic – Damon Albern
LOL.
What?!?!? You mean I don’t always have to hire THEM?
CP:”No Such Thing”(acoustic version) – John Mayer
Ha!
CP: Autonomy – The Buzzcocks
CP: Spanish Castle Magic – Jimi Hendricks
CP: Lonely Years – John Mayall
CP: “King of Kings” – House Of Freaks
So I got to see the season opener of “Mad Men” last night. I WON’T give any spoilers here but I will say I didn’t think it was their strongest effort. Still, I was left wanting to see more so I guess they met their objective.
I’m just not sure that if it had been my first viewing of the show, it would have been enough to hook me.
CP: Livin’ In The Future – Bruce Springsteen
CP: Migra – Santana
CP: Magic – Bruce Springsteen
CP: Transformer Man – Neil Young
JOe, I took everyone’s advice and picked up some of Season 1 on iTunes last night. Now just to find time to watch it in the evenings.
One show that I watch, but am losing interest in for lots of reasons is Weeds on Showtime. Yet I still keep watching — why is that?
CP: I Will Run To You – Stevie Nicks
CP: Holding Hands in the Shower – Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
Hmmmm ….
Maybe it’s like any long term relationship where the spark has cooled.
You hang in there because you know it. It’s familure, you have it’s back story, moving on means finding something else … and your always holding out hope that what once attracted you so much to it will return.
… um, what were we discussing?
CP: “Control” – Traci Lords
CP: Cry Baby Cry – The Beatles
Traci wants to kiss it and make it better.
I want to let her.
One thing I am really enjoying is rewatching LOST on DVD. I got the first 3 seasons, and am really having a good time with them.
CP: Get a Job – The Greyboy Allstars
Has anyone here run across any wall mountable, wooden storage units for Hi8/Digital8 video tape?
It was hard to type past the word “mountable” while Traci is singing to me.
Traci has a CD?
huh hhuh huh
I typed “Hard”.
CP: “This Love” – Maroon 5
Someone remind me to remove that Traci Lords song from my play list. It makes me stupid.
CP: Midnight in Her Eyes – The Black Keys
EssBee – Yep. Although … I think I would go the “individual track” route with her. (wow is THAT open for inturpretation!).
I’m not so sure her voice holds up without the techno-mix effects.
Still, give “control” a listen when your in that sort of mood. Use headphones. mmmmmmm
CP: “Lie in our graves” – Dave Mathews
“That” sort of mood. Hmm.
CP: Someday – Los Lobos
CP: “If you were in my Movie” – Susan Vega (putting me back in THAT mode)
CP: Judy Is A Punk – The Ramones
CP: Red Dust – Iron And Wine
Control is a good tune. Kinda generic 90s techno.
Talented girl, that Traci Lords. Did she ever do anything else in media?
Does Traci Lords’ music have the same gravitas as music from Dale Bozzio, Samatha Fox or Wendy O Williams?
WNDRWolf: I associate “TDK” with cassette tapes, too.
TSH: Congratulations! My family is in the process of selling their house, too.
Amy Bowen’s Earthquake Report
Yes, I could feel the LA-area earthquake today. I was in the kitchen, helping my mom pack stuff. It surprised us all, and it went on for a long time, too – between 10 and 20 seconds, I think. I got scared and ducked out the sliding glass door to the backyard. You could feel the ground rolling. Very disconcerting, but also kind of cool on some leve.
Jack, I’m pretty sure Traci Lords had a stint as a television actress. Wasn’t she in Stephen King’s “The Tommyknockers”.
That’s “Tommyknockers.” One word.
Scary, Amy! Did any of the stuff you were packing get broken?
Wow, Amy. Glad you’re okay. I’ve never experienced an earthquake.
EssBee: Not that we know of. At that point, we’d closed up all our boxes of breakable stuff and moved on to plastic and other stuff.
I don’t know you go and work a shift and miss all the fun.
I still have a few TDK tapes with copied games on them, doubt they would still work after all this time, heck they were a bit dodgy when new.
+l (lowercase L) to the end of my report.
Welcome home, Van!
That’s great news, Amy! Stay safe.
Friends, I’m heading home for the evening. Have a good one!
As to bands (or individual) I’ve seen performing live and much as I hate to give the impression I wear tweed and hold my ear, some follow:
Don Maclean (of American Pie and Vincent)
Texas
Paul Young (post throat op sadly)
Belinda Carlisle (on the back end of her career)
Cara Dillon
Eric Bibb
Loudon Wainwright III
Martha Wainwright
Kate Rusby
Christine Collister
Billy Bragg
Richard Thompson
Martyn Joseph
Fairport Convention
Steeleye Span
Martin Simpson
Dana and Susan Robinson
Jez Lowe
Bob Fox
Lindisfarne
and a few more I’ve forgotten.
RE: Control
The album is essentially Juno Reactor featuring Traci Lords if I recall.
Has anyone heard Gillian Anderson’s techno song??
http://www.discogs.com/release/65642
1000 Fires | Traci Lords album page.
Oh and shout out to Jack, did you receive an email from me this week?
Got it, Van. . . Just wrote you back.
Amy, thanks for the earthquake report! Glad that it was nothing more than a little scary.
Maybe in the next TDK movie, Batman will face his dread nemesis: Memorex.
The puzzle pieces are going together nicely –
Last call!
Wow. We’re talking about Traci Lords and AMY gets to feel the earth move.
Go figure.
(glad you’re okay Amy 🙂 )
CP: “Shiny Happy People” – REM
Did I ever tell you guys I used to operate a home built seismic monitoring station?
(Why am I starting to remind myself of Baron Von Münchhausen? )
(Let’s just ride this subject into the ground – hehe)
Traci Lords in film –
* Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
* Crazy Eights (2006) – Gina Conte
* Novel Romance (2005) – Max
* Frostbite (2005) – Naomi Bucks
* Home (2003) – Lorna
* Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002) – Chameleon
* You’re Killing Me… (aka: The Killing Club) (2001) – Laura Engles
* Chump Change (2001) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Sam
* Certain Guys (2000) – Kathleen
* Epicenter (2000) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Amanda Foster
* Extramarital (1999) – Elizabeth
* Me and Will (1999) – Waitress
* Stir (1998) – Kelly Bekins
* Blade (1998) – Racquel
* Boogie Boy (1998) – Shonda Lee Bragg
* Nowhere (1997) – Valley Chick #1
* Underworld (1996) – Anna
* Blood Money (1996) – Wendy Monroe
* Virtuosity (1995) – Media Zone Singer
* Skinner (1995) – Heidi
* Ice (1994) – Ellen Reed
* Serial Mom (1994) – Carl’s Date
* Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994) – Norma
* Desperate Crimes (1993) – Laura
* Intent to Kill (1993) – Vickie Stewart
* Laser Moon (1992) – Barbara Fleck
* The Nutt House (1992) – Miss Tress
* Raw Nerve (1991) – Gina Clayton
* A Time to Die (1991) – Jackie
* Cry-Baby (1990) – Wanda Woodward
* Shock ‘Em Dead (1991) – Lindsay Roberts
* Fast Food (1989) – Dixie Love
* Not of This Earth (1988) – Nadine Story
Traci Lords in TV
* Celebrity Paranormal Project (2006) (as herself)
* Gilmore Girls (2003) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Natalie Zimmermann
* Deathlands (2003) – Lady Rachel Cawdor
* They Shoot Divas, Don’t They? (2002) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Mira
* First Wave (2000-01) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Jordan Radcliffe
* D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999) (as Traci Elizabeth Lords) – Lena Brant
* Profiler (TV series) (1997-1998) – Sharon Lesher
* Dead Man’s Island (1996) – Miranda Prescott
* As Good as Dead (1995) – Nicole Grace
* Melrose Place (1995) – Rikki
* Dragstrip Girl (1994) – Blanche
* Roseanne (1994) – Stacy
* Bandit: Bandit’s Silver Angel (1994) – Angel Austin
* Highlander: The Series (1993) – Greta
* Tales from the Crypt (1993) – Emma Conway
* The Tommyknockers (1993) – Nancy Voss
* Murder in High Places (1991) – Diane
* Married…With Children (1991) – Vanessa Van Pelt
* MacGyver Jenny (1 episode, 1990)
Traci Lords in Video games
* True Crime: New York City (2005) – Cassandra Hartz
* Ground Control II: Operation Exodus (2004) – Dr. Alice McNeil
* Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004) – Pestilence
* Defender (2002) – Commander Kyoto
last but not least a picture of
Traci Lords in a panel at Dragon Con 2006
http://tinyurl.com/63j3ed
I knew there was a reason we felt compelled to check up on Deadpan!!
Hugh sez: Traci lords *swooon*
Thanks on all the congrats peeps 🙂
Lets invite everyone over for a Deadpan convention and trash our house before we leave!!! 😉
Hugh sez: I was just thinking we could bless every room of the house 1 more time
that’ll work!
TSH – I like the party idea…can we do both?
ok we’re like Jack and have seen way too many concerts to list, but will list the cheesiest
Hugh sez: or we can do an abc list
we could.. well cheesiest first
Madonna Like A Virgin Tour
Kiss
ummmmm.. we haven’t done too much cheese….. *thinking*
Lionel Richie!
EMF
ok we’re reaching for cheese here:
Johnny Cash *swooon*
Luciano Pavarotti
The 3 Tenors
Wndr: yes!
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
A
Afghan Whigs *swoooooooooon*
Annie Lenox
Adolescents
Amy Wine house
Alien Sex Fiend
Arcade Fire
Against Me!
After Hours
Animal Collective
High TSH!
Cheesy concerts? hmmmm
I though an early 90’s Bruce Springstein concert I saw was pretty cheesy.
I’m pretty sure I may have seen “Huey Lewis and the News” in concert in the late 80s or early 90s. Since I can’t remember the concert … I must have had a great time but I can’t imagine that wasn’t cheesy.
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
B
Beastie Boys
Blonde Redhead
Bad Religion
Boris
Babes In Toyland
Bjork
Big Black
Blur
Black Flag
Bauhaus
Bloc Party
*cough* Boys II Men *cough*
what??
Did someone say something..
umm…
Butthole Surfers
Burbonais Qualk
HHHHHIiiiiii j0e!!! *swooooon*
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
C
The Cure
Cindytalk
Cop Shoot Cop
Clock DVA
Circle Jerks
Common
Cyndi Lauper!!!!! Total cheese fest!!
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
D
Depeche Mode
Diary Of Dreams
Dead Milkmen
Dizzee rascal
DRI
David Bowie
Daft Punk
Dinosaur Jr
Hugh sez: *cough* Duran Duran *cough*
LOL!! I forgot about that
Hugh sez: I was forced to take my sister. *blush*
awwwww
Is this a “combined list” or actual shows you two have seen together?
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
E
Eurythmics
Einstuzende Neubauten
Electric Six
[cheese] Erasure [/cheese]
Echo and the Bunnymen!!!
Elf Power
EMF
this is combined, although we have seen a lot of these together
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
F
Fugazi
Foo Fighters
Front 242
Front Line Assembly
Fuck Buttons!
Flaming Lips
ABC Bands the smarty hotties have seen
G
Gnarls Barkley
Gypsy Kings
Gutter Twins
Doorbell!
Gotta run
l8r
Figures JJ and TSH would come in this week and bomb their nipples all over the board. Makes me glad I forgot to send in a guess for this week as I would have just embarrassed myself.
Not that my guess matters this week, anyway 😉
Morning Pan,
this talks of old tapes reminds me of the old video tape ads, one of the most memorable were the Scotch Tapes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffa1E9k3H4k&feature=related
Lifetime guarantee…I wonder if it’s still valid…
Can seeing Johnny Cash really be classed as Cheesey TSHs?
Ok he was in Columbo, but he can be forgive for that.
Possibly some good news for Alzheimers:
http://tinyurl.com/6y9gqx
I’m keeping my fingers crossed but wish things could be moved along a bit quicker.
Ed From Texas – Yeah Van would probably win it anyway.
+n in the johnny cash post…sheeeesh.
btw, if the sequel to TDK will be taking on Memorex, does that mean we’ll get to see it live?
Could be, but watch out for that new nemesis: The Degausser!
Van Don’t worry we are fluent in typo’s here…
Morning, Deadpan!
Morning EssBee!
Morning Pan
RE: Alzheimer’s
There was an interesting “NOVA science Now” segment on recently in which they showed that what was probably happening with memory loss was NOT actual loss of memory but destruction of the neural pathways used to access the memories.
The REALLY neat part was that they showed that the brain could reestablish those connections itself (over time) simply by placing the subject in an environment where it had fun and stimulating social interaction.
This was shown with rats of course but they pointed out that this is something family members of elderly people have anecdotally claimed for some time.
They are currently working on medicine to trick the brain into producing the same chemicals it generates when you are hanging out with your best mates … however it seems to me that this is as good a justification as any for just having fun with your friends!
Morning Pan
It’s overcast and just a little gloomy here.
Now to catch up on comments
TEB – Good Morning
Waiting for Episode 100 has me on the edge…
(Entering Metaphor City)
It’s like waiting for the other show to drop.
It’s like sitting on pins and needles.
It’s like … (help me out here).
Ok, going way back in the comments, did a vanity search on my full name and got only 96 hits (not many people around with my name 🙂 ), mostly World Fantasy stuff comes up, although there are a few things on various other Sci Fi cons I’ve worked on as well as other things.
It’s like waiting for the pregnancy test to come back –
Hoping it is negative.
J0e:
“it’s like raaaaain, on a cloudy day,
A free ride when you already paid…”
sorry.
How about…
It’s like… you know..
So I don’t know my lyrics
sb: “it’s like raaaain on your wedding day…”
Ok, I have work to do. Will check back in later.
your leerics however, are most excellant.
It’s like licking a gift horse in the mouth.
It’s like paddling your own canoe.
It’s like walking in your footsteps.
It’s like drying the cat in the mircowave oven.
… um, I may have gotten off track here.
What were we talking about?
It’s like waiting for Wndr to get off his but and get the episode finished….
(just kidding 😉 )
fingers not working
but = butt
You can lead a wolf to water but you can’t make him pass it!
TEB – 😛
The episode is complete. Comes in at 37.5 minutes.
I had some fun with your clip you sent in.
You will hear in the show… 😀 (Hoping you don’t mind)
justa J0e – I like water especially on Tshirts of well endowed women.
😀
750
What gets me in this article is the quote “I remember one lady dancing, and another lady lap dancing, and I believe that’s when the oral sex took place,”
I believe????
there are two possiblities… one – he has oral sex so often that he doesn’t think anything of it when it happens or, two, it wasn’t that good.
http://wvgazette.com/News/200807290789
Maybe it’s just me, but all I see is a dirty rust stain in the sink
http://tinyurl.com/5gke2y
TEB – RE: un-memorable dates. That is exactly why the “post date comment card” seems like such a good idea … in theory.
Comments:
“The pole dancing was spot on. However, the oral sex could have been more memorable. Oh, and what was that thing with the slinky? That was just weird.”
J0e – on a scale of 1 – 5 how would you rate the sex???
How did her choice of lingerie work for you???
Or, in the case of this article…
Do you feel you got you’re money’s worth from this person? If not, how much do you feel would have been a fair charge for her services?
Are strippers supposed to bite you on the penis during a performance?
I don’t actually have that problem, Rhettro 😉
I can imagine not. LOL
If they are biting your penis during a performance, they *aren’t* strippers. 😉
That’s kinda what I thought. LOL
I may like some of Card’s books, but sometimes he just has to shut the hell up.
http://mormontimes.com/ME_blogs.php?id=1586
Should it be renamed the Moron Times?
O.S. Card pisses me off. Such a bigot.
His books might be great, but I won’t read them.
It’s like waiting for this work day to end.
Work = shit storm today. I think this is karma for teasing Rhettro on Monday.
There are so many holes in his argument that it seems like a heap of nonsense to me.
I can understand why someone would be against gay marriage based on their religeous beliefs. In fact, I think the major bone of contention with offended parties is that they see the the government as redefining a sacred religious tradition. I know that in the Catholic church for instance, marraige is one of the sacrements. So in my opinion, government shouldn’t be dealing in marrages, but in civil unions for all.
As far as objections to gay couples given legal protections, I say get over it. People are going to couple as they see fit, with or without legal protection. It’s legal for people to drink and gamble in this country even though it is objectionable to some religions. As such religious objections alone shouldn’t be a basis of government law, especially when it concerns the conduct between consenting adults.
Okay, I’m off my soapbox now. 🙂
EssBee, I deserve all the teasing I get. You got no bad Karma from me. 🙂
Rhettro, 😉
CP: Bodies – Smashing Pumpkins
!!!!!!!!ALERT!!!!!!!!!!
New Harry Potter Trailer
http://tinyurl.com/56uvwz
ditto, that Card stuff has been on the Seattle Stranger’s (a weekly mag here) online blog. They kept saying “Orson Scott Card is a hateful homophobe” so google will catch on.
One of the best arguements is a funny one:
“Not to belabor the obvious, but old people can’t produce offspring either. Which raises the question, since Scott Card’s wife is probably post-menopausal, should she and Card be executed, or just forcibly divorced from each other?”
CP: To Have And To Hold — Depeche Mode
JfS: Yeah, he’s been beating this drum for a long, long time.
Jeremy, totally hilarious argument.
Also, OMG I am all aflutter over here over the HP trailer. Squee!
ditto, he sure has. The man is a full-fledged hater.
Does anyone here listen to Pendant Productions Fan DC Shows?
I had no idea about O.S. Card. I’ve actually only read the first in his 8,000-book Ender’s Game series.
I also had no idea until recently that A.C. Clarke was a pedophile.
wtf?!?!?!
Next, someone is going to tell me that Heinlein was a chauvinist —
Or that Harlan Ellison can get cranky.
OMG, The Day the Earth Stood Still looks epic.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thedaytheearthstoodstill/large.html
Wait, A.C. Clarke was a pedophile?
I have been worried about O.S. Card’s crap for a long time. “Worried” = sickened by. I had to stop, for the most part, listening to my favorite Browncoat podcasts because he is such a hero in those circles.
I learned a long time ago not to hero worship. I went to hear one of my favorite authors (Rudolfo Anaya) give a talk at my undergrad college, and he was a giant sphincter. He appeared, actually, to hate women. Since then, I don’t need to know the personalities of the authors I enjoy.
However, when I find out an author that everyone is telling me to read thinks that I am sub-human, I tend to steer clear. By the same token, when I find out a really cool person writes books, I buy them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/s/w_asia/74938.stm
There’s still some skepticism regarding Clarke.
This = one of my thoughts on “Deadpan is the way”:
Life is too fucking short to read OSC books.
Well EssBee, I think you can be a fan of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings without being an ear cu
ahem.. without being an advicate of ear cutting. LOL
I haven’t read any of Card’s work however.
My favorite Card –
The Ace of Detectives.
http://pendantaudio.com/batman.php
Quick hop in…
My favourite “card” is the three of clubs
.. Hop’s out for lunch
Wood, Iron, putter?
Ha! I agree, Rhettro, 100%.
I do, however, have my limits on what I can know about the author while still allowing myself to enjoy his/her work. I’ve had this very conversation with a group of my feminist friends, and I always end up with the same decision: that there are way too many books out there to read for me to spend my $$ on Card’s given what I know about him as a person.
CP: (dedicated to OSC) Your Little Secret – Melissa Ethridge
CP: Rattlesnake Shake (Live) – Fleetwood Mac
Manhole – Ani DiFranco
I’m holding here a book
Notable, but not the greatest
Stolen for me by the latest
In a long line of thieves
And I’m just about to drop it
Down that manhole of memories
When I realize it doesn’t bother me
Like love’s mementos usually do
And I look up to see who’s different here
The latest me or the latest you
Course, you’re the kind of guy who doesn’t lie
He just doctors everything
Chooses some unassuming finger
And quietly moves his wedding ring
Who rewrites his autobiography
For any pretty girl who’ll sing
But you can’t fool the queen, baby
Cuz I married the king
And maybe it was I who betrayed his majesty
With no opposite reality
Like a puddle with no reflection
Of the sky or the trees
But after my dreaded beheading
I tied that sucker back on with a string
And I guess I’m pretty different now
Considering
I kissed you on the street that night
On the far side of four
But I didn’t like the taste
In my mouth or yours
And ignoring the persona you wore for my benefit
For once I had the balls to call it
Just call it
But a lesson must be lived
In order to be learned
And the clarity to see and stop this now
That is what I’ve earned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cUEtMk3nQg
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080730/D928ACMG0.html
How timely!
Now that I think about it, I probably wouldn’t read any scifi novels from Fred Phelps.
Fred Phelps is a jackass. He needs to get some hot prison sex, because anyone who protests that much is hiding secret desires…IMO.
That good old famous “Potato Eaters” . . .
I wouldn’t read any by Jesse Helms either! LOL
It’s times like these I ask myself, “what would Bono do?”
because like, i dunno. LOL
All this negative energy here… Let’s talk about good things!
Like how much we love Jack M.
EssBee: I agree which is why I really try and avoid learning about the personal views of musicans, actors, and authors; Jack excepted, of course! 😉
*passes EssBee fresh bottle of Bourbon*
😀
What would Boner do?
Let me count the ways . . .
Right you are Wolf. I think we are in need of a good BFP.
ditto, *BFP*?
Pinch, poke, you owe me some coke, Rhettro.
BFP FTW!
Beware of free-roaming hands!
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/07/milk-its-olympic-thing.html
LOLx2
I know it isn’t my hand… My hand wouldn’t be that high!
Neither would my hand.
BFP!
CP: The Rhythm Of The Heat — Peter Gabriel
Who’s the hot chick w/ the tattoos?
CP: Bone China – Mother Love Bone
I believe she’s on the soccer team:
http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2008/6/23/Hawaii_Natasha_Kai_Olympic_soccer_team
Note to self: Women’s Olympic Soccer, DVR.
CP = Six Pixels of Separation : The Google and Wired Effect (114)
I have to admit willingly having read Battlefield Earth. More than once. And, I’ve even read the Mission Earth Series… more than once. And I don’t even think I’m a reincarnated spirit from Xenu… or Zenu… and Tom Cruise is, in fact, a bit loopy…
The last read through, though, I finally started to pick up a lot of clues that let you in on the fact that Hubbard was pretty much a loon.
I sense a new segment for the Pan : “New positions tried by the Smartie Hotties as they christen their new house” to be used in place of the “contents of my fridge”
I like it, Brad!
CP: Dream Brother – Jeff Buckley
The Minolta repairman is right outside of my office door training my team on how to use the new copy machine. I just realized that my job could be a lot worse.
CP: Stay – Me’Shell Ndegiocello
*BFP*
Work sucks!
*applause for Brad*
Well done!
Clarke I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn’t wipe my arse on the paper that ran the story in the UK.
Oh and the late Charlton Heston’s political beliefs never stopped me enjoying Planet of the Apes or Soylent Green.
CP: Waiting For The Bus – Violent Femmes
EssBee: Women’s soccer is always worth watching! 🙂
ditto, ditto
I see that now. All these wasted years!
CP: Vamanos – Chavela Vargas
CP : View from the Quad : Epi 109.
Frak. I just realized I’m almost out of PodCasts… how will I ever make the ride home? I may have to listen to… gasp… music…
I won’t be listening to the radio, that’s for sure. I took off my antenna and rewired my car for pretty much PodCasts only (via my Treo).
Those things play music too?
CP: Walking After You – Foo Fighters
lmfaorofl!!!
“Somewhat related to this, Orson Scott Card brings the economy-sized jug of crazy sauce to the same-sex marriage discussion with this gem of a column. ”
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=1181
John Scalzi is among my secret man crushes. He is so funny, smart, and sarcastic.
CP: Dogsong 2 – The Be Good Tanyas
CP: Charades — En Ningun Lugar
CP: Beginning Of A Great Adventure – Lou Reed
CP: If I Wanted To — Melissa Etheridge
Brad: Ummm Wander Radio Episode 26 my personal favorite.
Episode 20 holds up well.
Episode 17 has a good mix but not my favorite.
CP: Success – Linda Perry
Time to clog the arteries of the city. Headed Home!
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGG! MY EYES!!!
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2008/07/gallery_comiccon_faces?slide=7&slideView=7
You did not need to share that, ditto!
He needs a mom, I think. And, I might know that guy!
CP: Atonement – Lucinda Williams
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHA HAH.
Wait until the boys see that, ditto. You’re gonna get an earful.
CP: Nothing At All – Santana
It doesn’t half compare to some of the punishment Jeremy has inflicted on us.
I mean, who goes out like that?
True. Also, remember the vagina bicycle?
But still, wtf dude?
Wow, passing that one onto the team…
I *knew* Jeremy would like that one. lol
Not as funny as Scalzi, but another blogger’s post about OSC:
http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=409
I’m still trying to unsee that picture.
Sorry, but misery loves company.
Good article, EssBee.
Here’s another one — maybe the one Jeremy mentioned earlier today:
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/lets_call_a_jackass_a_jackass
(I’m on a conf call — :))
ZP takes it out on E3:
http://tinyurl.com/65h22q
‘a white woman dipped in tea’…oh yes!
Yes I quite like a white woman dipped in tea, or a black woman dipped in milk. I’m a fan of all sorts of women being dipped into things. LOL
You know the iPhone/ipod touch might look nice and sexy, but when you are running out of podcasts, the lack of a FM radio is a pisser.
“Run out of podcasts?”
First Brad and now Van, what is this “Run out of podcast” of which you speak? This does not compute.
CP: “Brave new world” – Micheal Penn
I feel your pain Van. I broke my first two MP3 players and they both had FM. Now I’m using my wife’s backup iPod Shuttle and my Sony PSP, both of which don’t have any radio capacity. I’ve been thinking about snaring a cheap Sansa.
“snaring a cheap Sansa.” – OK I don’t get this Euphemism.
What is that site that is like wikipedia for pop/street slang ?
CP: “You” – Radiohead
“snaring a cheap Sansa.â€
Make sure to tell her “no teeth”
(pops out again)
Maybe I should have posted about the Sansa a little further away from my “dipping women” comment.
Not to mention ditto’s link to THE picture of the day.
Please tell me that was his shirt tucked down low.
To be exact: caughtupwithallthepodcastsonmyrssfeeds!
So any suggestions for new podcasts to listen to would be appreciated…
Van – What kind of podcasts are you looking for music, story, what…
look on the side bar of my site. Most of those are still going.
Oh music and stories WNDR, I’ll have a look at your site later, thanks.
Some suggestions:
Six String Bliss
http://www.sixstringbliss.com
Bands Under the Radar
http://bandsundertheradar.com/
Coverville
http://www.coverville.com
Metal Injection Radio
http://www.metalinjection.net/category/podcasts
Fanboy Radio
http://fanboyradio.libsyn.com/
Oh I forgot two link minimum.
Six String Bliss
http://www.sixstringbliss.com
Bands Under the Radar
http://bandsundertheradar.com/
and
Coverville
http://www.coverville.com
Metal Injection Radio
http://www.metalinjection.net/category/podcasts
and
Fanboy Radio
http://fanboyradio.libsyn.com/
Van & Rhettro: Have you tried streaming radio?
Wow, that Scalzi felllow is a major league idiot.
ditto:
I’m not allow to stream at work. 🙁
That was more for Van. You should be able to do it through the iPhone, however, I’m not sure if it would be worth it over the data service.
Quiet night in the bar.
Well – I just gotta say thanks to all y’all for #100.
Wow. More gushing to come.
Well, Deadpan is the way, Jack.
Totally!
Just finished watching Nova’s “Car of the Future” episode with the guys from “Car Talk”. Pretty good show overall. I didn’t see anything on the compressed air technology, but I didn’t expect to either.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/
Because you people wanted it Episode #31 of Wander Radio has posted.
ditto – some good technology there. The stuff on just how inefficient our cars really are is amazing/horrifying/inexcusable.
Wndr – undoubtedly some good technology there as well. 🙂
JOe: I know what you mean. Combustion engines will never be very efficient sources of power. It’s impossible. This page will give you an idea, just ignore the formulas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_efficiency
So, if we really want efficient transportation, we have to come up with something other than a combustion engine. It’s worked fine until now, but we are capable of making something better.
“Its worked fine until now, but we are capable of making something better.”
I think that’s what vexes me so. The US has this long history of embracing “problems” as an opportunity to flex our creative genius and (truth be said) turn the solution into a profitable capitalist venture.
Something has happened in the last few decades though. Now, instead of stoically facing problems head on, we strap on the blinders, cover our ears and shout loudly “Lalalala I can’t hear you lalalalala there is no problem lalalala STAY THE COURSE!”
We are capable of making something better (re: transportation) … but will we ever do so again?
Sometimes it isn’t that simple. Often there are a lot of new materials and technology that need to be invented, perfected, and productized before such revolutions can take place. Of course, the resistance to change hasn’t helped matters any.
Well got unlimited data on 3G and Wifi, didn’t know you could stream radio to the iPhone.
Also thanks to Rhettro for the links to peruse.
No problem.