"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, videos on Feb 21st, 2009
When I was listening to the newest Morning Musume single, “Naichau Kamo” the other day, I thought that it reminded me of two of their previous songs. Iroppoi Jirettai, from the early days of 6th Gen and a fairly recent single, Resonant Blue. It’s got that Latin sound of Iroppoi, and the Thwarted-Love/Playing-Tease theme of […]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia, Recommendations, videos on Feb 19th, 2009
There are a lot of bands I like and a lot of albums I like, but I’d have to say that my favorite album of all time, could listen to it straight through, both sides, is The Black Crowes‘ second album, Southern Harmony & Musical Companion. The whole album just flows so smooth, and the […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Distractions, Photo entries on Feb 18th, 2009
I don’t know why I never published this back when I wrote it (in April of ’08) but here’s my writeup from the Ouachita Challenge weekend last spring. ————————————————————— Last weekend, Joel and I went down to Arkansas: he to participate in the Ouachita Challenge and me to ride around the countryside and really put […]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Distractions, nostalgia, videos on Feb 18th, 2009
My love of covers is well documented. I really love how different bands can put their individual stamp on a song, and so here are a couple of wildly different takes on the same song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sS5jSbV0Vg] First we have Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, doing a “western swing” version of a super-cool song about […]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos on Feb 11th, 2009
Someone from Hello Online made this ages ago. It’s a capture from Ayaka’s Surprise English Lessons, where Kimura Ayaka from Coconuts Musume would ambush members of Morning Musume and teach them useful (or not so useful) phrases, and usually reward/bribe them with desserts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXj6RnaK4Pw] Here’s the episode it came from. Ishikawa Rika was learning about […]
Posted in Distractions, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Feb 4th, 2009
So, I’m pretty much on tenterhooks of late, because I’ve been awaiting a callback from a job I really, really, really want. I’m hoping for a second interview, but at this point, I’d possibly let out a sigh of relief if the callback was telling me that I’m out of the running. At least the […]
Posted in Distractions, videos on Jan 29th, 2009
You might recognize the little orange fairy in the lower left corner of this tableau. I wrote about her a few years ago when I randomly discovered that she wasn’t just a miscellaneous cute figure but was actually a character from a Japanese kids’ show called “Ojamajo DoReMi.” The Internet, which has grown to contain […]
Posted in Distractions, Oh, for fuck's sake, Other Bike Stuff, Recommendations on Jan 25th, 2009
I sort of sometimes read New York City Bike Snob but after a post or two, his blog makes me get all head-punchy. His “your bike sucks, you sucky hipster” shtick gets really tired. Sure, fixie evangelicals can get super annoying, but what sort of zealot doesn’t? There are annoying people in pretty much every […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Jan 14th, 2009
IMG_6369, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I highly recommend clicking through to the main photo page for this image and reading the various notes that describe and clarify the various motifs pictured above. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I’ve been sorting out a bunch of old stuff of mine that has moved from one apartment […]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia, videos on Nov 25th, 2008
A videoblog session for your pleasure. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY__kf_N2NE] This video is just a little bit of background about where the jewelry box came from and why I decided to film it today. Please forgive the dreadful video quality. I uploaded it to Flickr as nice as could be, but couldn’t crosspost it from Flickr to here, […]