The laptop seems less grumpy. Huzzah.
Apologies
My laptop is misbehaving, so I haven't been able to blog much. That should be resolved shortly.
August's Travesties
By far the busiest month since I started keeping track... 48 different songs.
Me doing Joe Cocker has a future, I think. His earlier stuff is great fun for both me and the crowd, and you can pretty much just make it up as you go along and not have to worry too much about 'sticking to the script'. I refuse to do Cockeresque twitchy air guitar, though. Sorry ladies.
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails
Dragula - Rob Zombie
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Police
Go With the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
Hounds of Love - Futureheads
I Melt With You - Modern English
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
I Would Die 4 U - Prince
I'll Be Around - Spinners
It's a Long Way To the Top (If You Want To Rock 'n' Roll) - AC/DC
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
Lazy River - Bobby Darin
Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
Let's Spend the Night Together - Rolling Stones
Mac the Knife - Bobby Darin
Maneater - Hall & Oates
Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
Mr. Roboto - Styx
Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - Beatles
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Slow Hands - Interpol
Sober - Tool
Song For Whoever - Beautiful South
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Tribute - Tenacious D
Watchin' the Wheels - John Lennon
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Who Are You - Who
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'arby
With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
Inglorious Basterds
Thought it was quite good, but not great. Too many of Tarantino's tics were cranked up to full volume to really let me sink into the film.
District 9 is still easily the film of the year.
Definition of 'Running Good'
Had a roller coaster tourney on Full Tilt tonight. At one point I was forced to push all-in with king-five off from under the gun (had about four big blinds left). I got called by pocket 10s and pocket aces... and promptly flopped two pair.
I went on to win the tourney.
A Desperate Cry For Help
Even on nights when I have no intention of going out to karaoke, I end up going out to karaoke.
I now eagerly await the day I will get to star in the lamest episode of Intervention ever. Maybe I'll get paired with some Japanese girl addicted to Hello Kitty merchandise.
Miyazaki-san
Saw Ponyo earlier today. It's tremendously stupendous, as all Miyazaki films are, but it might be the most "young kid"-friendly movie he's made since Totoro.
Of course every Miyazaki, with the exception of Porco Rosso (which is still great but is way more "adult" than his other movies) , brings out a sense of child-like wonder in me, but Ponyo seems explicitly aimed at a younger audience than, say, Mononoke or Spirited Away were.
eMiranda?
There's some pretty amazing fallout from the Ninth Circuit's hearing of an appeal on the baseball drug testing case.
To me, the majority opinion reads like a giant middle finger extended in the government's direction. This isn't just smacking the government's hand after it's caught in the cookie jar; this is cutting that hand off, and then sealing the jar in a block of cement and hiding it in an underground bunker. It's a massive rejection of cowboy-style law enforcement when it comes to digital information.
The chances of it surviving an appeal to the Roberts Supreme Court seem about nil to me, but at least someone in the judicial branch is pushing back.
Endangered No More
He didn't hang on long enough to see health care reform happen, but at least Teddy saw his political species make a miraculous comeback.
Proof of God's Existence
Lily Cole.
Now, if you're wondering what led me to this conclusion, well... I can't really talk about it. Yet.
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