| Change of plans... |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|08:49 am] |
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The RF7 show has been changed. I've been told there was a "misunderstanding with Tipitina's management regarding production costs", whatever that means. Now it's going to be at Maison Musique on Dec. 11th, 508 Frenchmen St. For those of you old-school scenesters like me, that is the old Faubourg Center. |
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| Confirmation |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|11:21 pm] |
I will officially be performing with RF7 at the reunion gig. Just got the word today. Going to run through the set tomorrow night with the bassist and drummer, and get a CD of the material.
If you're in town, that's gonna be December 10th, at Tipitina's Uptown. Opening bands are Clockwork Elvis and the Local Skank. Check it out if you can. |
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| new car. |
[Mar. 24th, 2009|06:17 am] |
2009 Toyota Corolla LE. Power windows, locks, mirrors, everything. Cruise, keyless entry, tons of other shit. I'm leasing it for $300 a month, down payment was $3K. Gonna keep paying this one off to build up my credit rating, then hopefully swap it out next year for something much nicer.
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| problem. |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|07:31 am] |
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Anybody know a way to identify a song you keep hearing on the radio, but you don't know the artist or any of the words? I have this problem- Whenever we have the rock station on at work, I keep hearing this song. I like it, but I don't know who it is, and we have to keep the music at a low volume in the office so I can't make out the lyrics. All I can really say to describe it is the verse sounds a little reggae-ish, and the singer sounds kind of like Peter Gabriel. And I'm pretty sure it's a relatively new release. |
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| For tomorrow: Guinness corned beef and cabbage. |
[Mar. 16th, 2009|09:13 am] |
I'll be doing a more simplified version of this. Honestly- you've got corned beef, you've got cabbage, you've got potatoes, you've got Guinness. What the fuck do you need friggin' thyme and mustard powder for?
Ingredients
* 3 carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces
* 3 parsnips, cut into 1 inch pieces
* 3-4 lbs corned beef brisket
* 2-3 onions, cut into quarters
* 10 small red potatoes, halved, 6 medium quartered, 4 large cut into six pieces
* 1 small head of cabbage, cut into wedges keeping the core on each wedge so they stay in wedges
* 1/2-2 teaspoon mustard powder
* 1/2-2 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1 sprig thyme
* 1 teaspoon sugar
* 12 ounces Guinness stout
* 1 cup water
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon pepper
Directions
1. Place carrots and parsnips into bottom of crock pot.
2. Add corned beef brisket & onions.
3. Mix together beer, water, sugar, dry mustard, garlic powder, sprig of thyme, salt and pepper.
4. Pour into crock pot.
5. Cover & cook on low heat for 8 hours.
6. If carrots, parsnip and onions are tender you can remove them, placing them in a covered dish. Add cabbage wedges and potatoes to crock pot & push down into liquid.
7. Turn crock pot on high & cook 2 more hours adding back the veggies if removed just to warm. |
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| Holy shit. |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
I must have this.
Games Included:
* Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
* Alien Storm
* Altered Beast
* Beyond Oasis
* Bonanza Bros.
* Columns
* Comix Zone
* Decap Attack starring Chuck D. Head
* Dr. Robotnik's MBM
* Dynamite Headdy
* Ecco the Dolphin
* Ecco II: The Tides of Time
* E-SWAT
* Fatal Labyrinth
* Flicky
* Gain Ground
* Golden Axe I
* Golden Axe II
* Golden Axe III
* Kid Chameleon
* Phantasy Star II
* Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
* Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
* Ristar
* Shining in the Darkness
* Shining Force
* Shining Force 2
* Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
* Sonic 3D Blast
* Sonic and Knuckles
* Sonic Spinball
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sonic the Hedgehog 2
* Sonic the Hedgehog 3
* Streets of Rage
* Streets of Rage 2
* Streets of Rage 3
* Super Thunder Blade
* Vectorman
* Vectorman 2
This is right in my wheelhouse right here. Altered Beast? Kid Chameleon? The entire Golden Axe trilogy? Fuck yeah.
But I just gotta say, only one Shinobi game? You're gonna leave out Revenge of Shinobi, the best of the series? Come on! What the fuck, Sega? |
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| Watchmen review. |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|11:23 pm] |
So I went to see it Sunday night, and in my own opinion, it fucking rocked.
I tried to go into it with no expectations, despite having been a fan of the graphic novel. I read a lot of internet reviews that totally trashed the film. A little under 10% of them were people who either read the book and didn't like how it was adapted, or who read the book and never liked it in the first place. The other 90% seemed to be people who had never read it and knew little to nothing about it, and went into it expecting it to be an Iron Man/Spider-man/Transformers-style, big Hollywood franchise, super-hero action flick. And yes, if you go into it expecting it to be something it isn't, and, in fact, was never intended to be, you are going to be profoundly disappointed. It would be like me going to see There Will Be Blood and saying, "That movie sucked! You call that a comedy? It wasn't funny at all!" Watchmen is NOT AN ACTION MOVIE. It's part film-noir murder mystery, and part political drama, underlined with various layers of social and philosophical commentary, which happens to involve costumed crime-fighters.
Now that that's out of the way, I thought it was a great movie. You simply couldn't ask for a better adaptation of the source material in a theatrical release. Needless to say, a lot of elements from the book had to be cut due to time constraints (though a much longer director's cut has been promised down the line), but the overall story does not suffer from this. The downside to this is Zack Snyder had to pack a SHITLOAD of exposition into 160 minutes, and anyone unfamiliar with the book might find it a little convoluted and hard to follow. For this reason I'd recommend reading it before you watch it if you haven't already. Or, failing that, check out the Watchmen Motion Comic, which is a fully animated, word for word, frame for frame adaptation of the graphic novel available on iTunes in 12 episodes. It follows the book exactly, leaving nothing out, save for the appendices that appeared between chapters in the book, with a total run time of about 5 hours and 20 minutes.
On the downside, they changed the ending, which was a little disappointing. But without giving anything away, I can say the new ending is still in the spirit of the old one. I suppose it was changed in the interest of plausability, and due to the fact that the book's ending involved a whole subplot about a super-secret project on a remote island, and the film-makers simply didn't have the time to fit that whole arc into the movie. The soundtrack is hit or miss- Snyder obviously hasn't mastered the ability to weave songs seamlessly into the context of a film in the tradition of Scorcese, some songs fit perfectly (the song choices for the opening scene of the Comedian's death, the opening credits montage, Comedian's funeral, Dr. Manhattan's origin are all perfect, while other songs seem strangely out of place.) As for the cast, while Jackie Earl Haley is phenomenal as Rorschach, Matthew Goode's portrayal of Ozymandias falls a little flat.
Overall, a damn good movie provided you know what to expect going in, or at least watch with an open mind. |
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| Dammit. |
[Feb. 4th, 2009|07:17 am] |
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I've got fucking jury duty. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|10:16 am] |
Ill-conceived corporate bail-outs, ineffectual "stimulus packages", and manufacturing consent for a soon-to-come, unjustified, illegal war in another Mid-East country.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. |
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| Well, I'll be goddamned |
[Dec. 11th, 2008|06:28 am] |
It's friggin' snowing in Kenner, Louisiana. Maybe next the Saints will make the playoffs.
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| News to me. |
[Dec. 6th, 2008|08:54 am] |
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Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...
Naturalistic31% Logical, 29% Spatial, 39% Linguistic, 31% Intrapersonal, 16% Interpersonal, 18% Musical, 25% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 41% Naturalistic! 
"This area has to do with nature, nurturing and relating information to one's natural surroundings. Those with it are said to have greater sensitivity to nature and their place within it, the ability to nurture and grow things, and greater ease in caring for, taming and interacting with animals. They may also be able to discern changes in weather or similar fluctuations in their natural surroundings. They are also good at recognizing and classifying different species. 'Naturalists' learn best when the subject involves collecting and analyzing, or is closely related to something prominent in nature; they also don't enjoy learning unfamiliar or seemingly useless subjects with little or no connections to nature. It is advised that naturalistic learners would learn more through being outside or in a kinesthetic way. Careers which suit those with this intelligence include scientists, naturalists, conservationists, gardeners and farmers." (Wikipedia)
Take Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test at HelloQuizzy
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| In a Mencken kind of mood. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|08:17 am] |
A few choice, and highly applicable quotes from Mr. H. L. Mencken. Enjoy.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
If he were alive, I'd buy him a beer. Happy voting! |
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| Would you kindly... |
[Oct. 25th, 2008|09:40 am] |
get me a fresh pair of underwear?
The Bioshock 2 teaser trailer:
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| Fuck. |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|05:03 pm] |
We've only got one car right now, and it's in no shape for a long range evacuation. We'll just have to see which way it goes, maybe we can make it up to Baton Rouge just until the storm passes. |
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