Rock Band vs. Rush

The Canadian rock power trio RUSH appeared on The Colbert Report last Wednesday, performing an extended version of their hit “Tom Sawyer” that reached into the beginning Thursday’s show. Before they took the stage, Alex, Geddy, and Neil accepted our…

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Firsts

Everyone has a lot of “firsts” in their lives. The ones I’m thinking of here are the milestones on your journey to becoming an adult, the ones that made you suddenly feel like you grew a foot taller, like your…

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clerks II

Clerks II managed to be both a 2-hour-long dick joke, and suprisingly sweet and sentimental at the same time. Highlights: Cameo by Jason Lee (playing neither Brodie nor Banky) Cameo by Ben Affleck (thankfully short, although I have to admit I did like him as Bartleby in Dogma) Cameo by the absolutely adorable Ethan Supplee Randal’s “You’re going to make me do this, aren’t you?” speech while he and Dante sit in jail The whole “ass to mouth” thing The Lord of the Rings debate with the gay hobbit references at the end Jason Mewes’ sorta-full-frontal nude scene. Disturbing. Jay’s line about turning his life around and maybe becoming an astronaut: “I could discover a new alien life form! And fuck it.” “I assure you, we’re re-open!” And my personal highlight: The look of pure unrequited love that Dante gave Becky as she danced for him on the roof of Mooby’s. That intense stare where you can tell he’s just DYING to declare his feelings. Dear god, I nearly melted into my seat. Hats off to Brian O’Halloran for brilliant acting. And despite all the jokes throughout the film about Dante’s looks (he called himself fugly!), I can’t help but admit that Brian O’Halloran is totally hot. He just is. Always has been.

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fun with playlists

An anonymous comment was left on this post: Let’s see you nailed the top 10 for me. Almost. ‘In your eyes’ by guess who. ‘New Year’s Day’ by guess again. ‘Headhunter’ and ‘Diamonds on the soles of her shoes’ by people not on your list. How cool is that, that I got someone’s top ten! (Almost.) I like your taste in music, Anonymous. I’ve started making playlists that correspond to specific people or time periods in my life. Sometimes that’s easy, sometimes it’s not so easy. I find it really interesting that something as esoteric as a specific set of songs can evoke memories, when the individual songs by themselves don’t necessarily do that. I want to post my “Songs That Remind Me Of Doc” playlist, but it’s 43 songs long so far and I’m not done. Y’all’d get sick of reading my playlists if I started to do that. You probably already are. Damn. I can’t resist. I’ll just list the top ten from that playlist: Sanctum Sanctorum (The Damned), God’s Comic (Elvis Costell0), Alone Again Or (The Damned), The Carnival Is Over (Dead Can Dance), Strength of Strings (This Mortal Coil), Jane Says (Jane’s Addiction), Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie), Somebody (Depeche Mode), The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen), and Appetite (Prefab Sprout).

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45 mercy street

One of my favorite poems in the world (along with The Wasteland and The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot, and Domination of Black by Wallace Stevens). 45 Mercy Streetby Anne Sexton In my dream,drilling into the marrowof my entire bone,my…

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old dreams part 1

I recently found some old notebooks in which I’d written down dreams that I’d had. Here’s an interesting one. August 24, 1992. I was walking around a small square-shaped park on a track of some sort with Patrick Stewart dressed in his Star Trek uniform. We were building a model log cabin as we went, and so were a number of other people on the track. Some people were lying on the grass in the center of the park. All of a sudden, Patrick Stewart leaned over and gave me an absolutely mad passionate kiss. I was taken aback and thought My god! He’s so old and I’m only 19! But then I thought, oh to hell with it, because I was enjoying it too much to worry. Then he pulled away and said “Damn. Grass fire.” in that deep sexy British voice. There was smoke coming from the grass up a ways, so he went ahead to check it out while I stayed behind. Some of the people on the grass had set their log cabins on fire and it had caught the grass. The the dream shifted. I was in some sort of hospital/space center, in a little room with two chairs that you could be strapped into and I suppose experience what it was like to be in space. People had just left so I walked up and said that I wanted to try it. I sat in a chair and a woman told me that I had to take off my aquasocks. Then they listened to my heart and did some other medical-type things. A doctor held up an instrument that looked like a tiny squatty pair of scissors with really short pointy blades. He put the pointy end in my mouth and touched the blades […]

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