Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
I could probably do a blog exclusively about nothing but homes that the boy, the wife and I go to look at. There is just not enough time to wade thru all the material. And believe me there is alot of it.
That said, looking at homes, staged to buy, is ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
ParkLife by Blur.
Another classic video. Simple concept, Damon Driving around with that guy from Quadrophenia, A bunch of Benny Hill speed ups, and mugging for the camera.Funny Lyrics.
Side note: vorsprung durch technic: translation: Progress through technology. Audi slogan. FYI.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I don't have the patience to type out the 3 page passage in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest about Fond du Lac's No Coat tongue scrapers. The short version is that the commercials made for this product(something to clean your tongue.) are so effective and so powerful that they ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Why do I love this video? The band pops up again and again in the charmless man's path. Thusly representing the ever present, inescapable reality of the charmless man's douchitude.
I said douchitude. heh.
Tagged as: Blur & douchitude & Music & Video|
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I've been a little obsessed on and off, for years, with a detail from the story Branwen Daughter of Llyr, of the Mabinogion. In this story, there is a description of a caldron that, when dead warriors were thrown in, they'd come back to life the next day, ready to ...
Tagged as: Cycling & Mabinogian|
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Shes the bomb.jpg, originally uploaded by chris_mckenna.
Mis En Scene. What does the way I have set the stage say about my wife?
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
3 videos. 1 thing in common. Well, besides being in heavy rotation at Revival, Pulsations, Phoenix, Shadows...or whatever other dumb dance club I might have visited in the late 80s/ early 90s. They all feature the green screen and lots of pointless layering. I'll bet they ...
Tagged as: Early 90s & Music & Music Videos & Revival|
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I'm not sure if it was watching the Joe Strummer doc The Future is Unwritten, or that time I heard E=MC squared in a Trader Joe's last winter that put Mick Jones back into my rotation, but I've been stuck on Big Audio Dynamite's song The Medicine Show lately. (sidenote:For ...
Tagged as: Art & Big Audio Dynamite & Damien Hirst & Mazarin & The Clash & The Tate|
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Graham and Christian 2, originally uploaded by chris_mckenna.
S's niece had minor surgery this morning. We visited tonight. Graham got to chase his second cousin all over the pediatrics ward.
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
This one takes me back. A coworker pointed out that Hulu.com is now hosting movies. They have frickin ENTER THE NINJA up there. I watched that in my friend Johnny C's basement in like 6th? maybe 7th grade? The VCR we watched it on had one of those spring loaded ...
Tagged as: Movies & Ninjas|
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