Things That Make You Go, "hmm." Part Duex

Evel Knievel dies at age 69, and he's from Butte, Montana!

These Guys Know How To Par-tay

Quotes From the Nard Dog

From The Office episode "Local Ad," Andy's trying to remember what the ad is originally for. (It's sad, because I really thought he said "Poison Tree" at one point, but it's just the usual gas stuff.)

Andy: Best ad ever? [singing] Give me a break…gimme a break…break me off a piece of that…[stops] I am totally blanking! What is the thing?

Jim: Nobody tell him!

Andy: Wha? No…why?

Jim: You got it, you’re so close.

Andy: Break me off a piece of that…apple sauce

Jim: Break me off a piece of that apple sauce. I don’t think…

Andy: Piece of that Chrysler car…

Jim: Nope

Andy: Football cream…


LATER

Andy: Break me off a piece of that Lumber tar... Snickers Bar. Break me off a piece of that Grey Poupon.

EVEN MORE LATER

Andy: Claude Van Damme... Hair for Men... Poison gas... NutraSweet... It's gotta rhyme with "piece." Fancy Feast! [sings] Break me off a piece of that Fancy Feast! It's the cat food. Nailed it.

I Am Officially In Love With. . .

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For the Widows in Paradise For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti

Someone once said that Sufjan has developed an ego. Um, I don't get it.

What Zack Says

Still Makes Me Feel Good After So Long

Listening to music while I am doing my on-line writing tutoring, I am moved to give a shout out to the Wicker Park Soundtrack, still changing my life and making me feel relaxed since 2004. Part of the wonder of it all is how many artists released exclusive tracks for this album: Lifehouse, The Shins, The Postal Service, Napolitano & Lohner. Rarely is a soundtrack so forward-thinking that it's still kicking strong at 3 years of age. (This is a different kind of long-lasting that the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack has, for example. But that is a conversation of another day.)

My feelings for the soundtrack have nothing to do with the way Wicker Park the film gets under my skin. It wasn't bad; it wasn't good. The music is awesome (obviously, IMO). The narrative is interesting and what some "trying to be edgy high school juniors" might call "experimental, but it's been my experience that if you're going to go that route, you have your story together or give up. The first time I watched it, I was in California and making fun of it under my breath with my college roommate, not necessarily out of pain but out of a fondness that I usually feel for a movie that's trying to do something hard without alienating its audience, only to succeed in completely alienating its audience.

But that's not the reason I posted. This is:

1. Maybe Tomorrow - Stereophonics

2. Everybody Is Someone - Lifehouse (exclusive)
*Yes, even Lifehouse is capable of writing a song that doesn't sound like everything else they've ever written.*

3. A Movie Script Ending - Death Cab for Cutie (acoustic version)
*The video is not the acoustic version, but it's the best I could do under the circumstances.*

4. How to Be Dead - Snow Patrol

5. Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene

*This is one of my favorite songs ever.*

6. Retour A Vega - The Stills

7. Flowers in December - Mazzy Star
*As stated in a previous post, HARMONICA = LOVE.
Also, it reminds me a bit of a vocalist that would appear at The Bronze singing to a song instrumentalized by someone from the Firefly time period.*

8. When the Day is Gone - The Legends
*The simple opening note phrase do-re-mi, do-ti-do completely works. It's haunting in the mouth of whatever the heck instrument/synthesized instrument they're using. And even that title = longing.*

9. When I Goosestep - The Shins (rare non album track)

10. Light Switch - Jaime Wyatt

11. These Days - Mates of State

12. All I Do - +/-

13. We All Have a Map of the Piano - Mum

14. Against All Odds - Postal Service (rare non album track)

15. Strange and Beautiful - Aqualung

*This song is
a) strange and beautiful and
b) puts a spell on me.*

16. I Know You Are But What Am I? - Mogwai
*The heavy, pensive nature of the beginning that lasts most of the song--it just kills me. A sense of forboding but then the high melody comes in on a xylophone-like instrument and there's a moment of light. These words I give it really aren't worth the song itself. Good thing the youtube video has R&J on it--something possibly worthy of such an tense sound.*

17. The Scientist - Johnette Napolitano & Danny Lohner (exclusive)
*We all know this song. Now for it a bit more melancholy.*













God bless Youtube.

Support the WGA Strike

There's LOTS of info about this on the web. And I'm assuming everyone can learn about the possible waves of striking to follow if the writers don't get what they way by clicking a few times with a mouse. But, here we have it. As everyone's reporting, The Office is the first casualty of the strike:



I got this video from the New York Times TV Decoder, which seems to be keeping up with the minutia of the strike here.

Just Another Reason Why I Hate Mostly Everything Country

And I mean Hick-Country. This is the epitome, if I must say. "Badonkadonk" and "britches" in the same song. Only when you sing with a twang are things like this considered "talent."

WARNING: I am not responsible for any suicidal urge or intense rage that this song may/may not send viewers into.

In Honor of November 16th at the Verizon Center.

A moment from Dane Cook's ouvre that still makes me laugh.

Preceding this, the couple has gotten into a fight and they're making up by going to the movies. Man-date has just bought a crapload of snacks for woman-date. Man-date has finally been able to find where he was previously sitting.




As an added bonus, here's an interpretation of the a:f6 video.