I’m stealing my daughter’s one line review of Heros, season 3. “Epic Fail.” You can’t nail it more precisely than that.
I’m stealing my daughter’s one line review of Heros, season 3.
“Epic Fail.”
You can’t nail it more precisely than that.
new favorite band: Portico Quartet
I just ran across mention of these guys on BoingBoing. – Portico Quartet. I think they’re incredibly fabulous. They’re a jazz group with latin and vaguely middle-eastern/indonesian influences. The most distinctive thing about their sound is the use of a hang, a sort of steel-drum-meets-gemelan-meets-flying-saucer. One day after finding them, they’re at the top of […]
I just ran across mention of these guys on BoingBoing. – Portico Quartet.
I think they’re incredibly fabulous.
They’re a jazz group with latin and vaguely middle-eastern/indonesian influences. The most distinctive thing about their sound is the use of a hang, a sort of steel-drum-meets-gemelan-meets-flying-saucer.
One day after finding them, they’re at the top of my last.fm playlist and I’m already wishing they had more albums out.
You can find a number of videos of them on youtube but none with satisfactory sound, so here:
(I finally fixed the above link, you should be able to play it now)
If you dig ’em, though, go buy the cd.
Kenny in New York
My friend Kenny – the guy whose name is actually tattooed under my tattoo (I think that makes us some fucked up kind of brothers), is in New York next week. Words fail me for how much he’d love to have people who’ve heard of him come to these shows. Kenny plays a very personal […]
My friend Kenny – the guy whose name is actually tattooed under my tattoo (I think that makes us some fucked up kind of brothers), is in New York next week.
Words fail me for how much he’d love to have people who’ve heard of him come to these shows.
Kenny plays a very personal sort of singer/songwriter folk; his shows are always entertaining. He’s brilliantly talented, funny, and odd as hell.
Check samples out on his mySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/basement3music – though he’s even better live; his performance always has a crazy energy.
I miss him – go tell him that in person.
Here are the show dates:
September, 28 2008, 7PM at Arlene’s Grocery , 95 Stanton St, NY, New York 10002 Cost : $8
September, 29 2008, 9:30 PM at Shayni Rae’s Truckstop @ the National Underground 159 E. Houston, New York, New York 10002
September, 30 2008 at Banjo Jim’s, 9:30 PM, 700 East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009
New Home
If you’re reading this it means you’ve found the new, and not-at-all-improved, version of moronosphere.com. Lucky you. If anything seems broken let me know; all we did was swap hardware, so everything should be identical.
If you’re reading this it means you’ve found the new, and not-at-all-improved, version of moronosphere.com.
Lucky you.
If anything seems broken let me know; all we did was swap hardware, so everything should be identical.
fall migration
I’m working on moving all the domains I host to a new server. This isn’t helped much by the fact that that company that physically maintains our hardware fucked up the machine and had to wipe and re-do it, after I’d moved half my domains. But in any case, I’m down to the hard ones, […]
I’m working on moving all the domains I host to a new server.
This isn’t helped much by the fact that that company that physically maintains our hardware fucked up the machine and had to wipe and re-do it, after I’d moved half my domains.
But in any case, I’m down to the hard ones, the ones that have database-driven blogs and so forth.
Sometime in the next couple of days, this site and others hosted here may go unreachable for a short duration. The move should (knock wood) be largely invisible to the user, but still, fair warning.
I’ll post a note here when I’m done.
from my sad kermit period
My friend Pink made this for (of?) me. It suits my Sad Kermit phase.
My friend Pink made this for (of?) me.
It suits my Sad Kermit phase.
mo’c’bell
This is funny in a fucked up pointless way: (via BoingBoing) MoreCowbell.dj is a little Flash app that takes in any MP3, analyses it, and adds rhythmic cowbell and Christopher Walken samples, thus vastly improving it. I didn’t get it to work as far as uploading my own song, but click a couple. They’re worth […]
This is funny in a fucked up pointless way:
(via BoingBoing)
MoreCowbell.dj is a little Flash app that takes in any MP3, analyses it, and adds rhythmic cowbell and Christopher Walken samples, thus vastly improving it.
I didn’t get it to work as far as uploading my own song, but click a couple. They’re worth significant giggles.
In other news, oh my god the week I’m having. It’s like trench warfare in the office the last ten days, and me? I’m the guy wearing the biggest target.
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Ok, here’s the new Koolknobs shift knob in place – plus custom shift boot by ShiftStyle, and hotrod flames on the console by Barb. (click for a larger view) Edit: For those who keep asking what the HELL is that?, it’s a rattlesnake’s rattle. Actually it will look great with my boots.
Ok, here’s the new Koolknobs shift knob in place – plus custom shift boot by ShiftStyle, and hotrod flames on the console by Barb.
(click for a larger view)
Edit: For those who keep asking what the HELL is that?, it’s a rattlesnake’s rattle. Actually it will look great with my boots.
Bring me the head of the fortune teller
God DAMN I love swervedriver. Pisses me RIGHT the fuck off that I missed ’em when they did a reunion tour this year. Nevermind though – just Bring Me The Head of the Fortune Teller:
God DAMN I love swervedriver.
Pisses me RIGHT the fuck off that I missed ’em when they did a reunion tour this year.
Nevermind though – just Bring Me The Head of the Fortune Teller:
Tropic Thunder
It’s not the sort of movie you write a detailed review of. It’s just not. It’s funny, though. It’s howlingly, screamingly funny; it’s about as offensive as it can be without being mean spirited, and it works way, way better than you would expect. Sure, Ben Stiller is still playing the same character he plays […]
It’s not the sort of movie you write a detailed review of. It’s just not.
It’s funny, though. It’s howlingly, screamingly funny; it’s about as offensive as it can be without being mean spirited, and it works way, way better than you would expect.
Sure, Ben Stiller is still playing the same character he plays in every movie; shallow, vapid, self-involed, self-important, and stupid. But y’know, it keeps working. Yes, Jack Black is still playing Jack Black (he, though, can play other people, he just usually doesn’t).
And yes, they say ‘retard’ about fifty million times.
Here’s the thing though, with a movie like this. They know completely how offensive they’re being. But the joke isn’t at the expense of whomever they’re poking fun at. The joke is on a character (in this case Stiller’s character), but more importantly, it’s on us, the audience. They’re waving it in our faces (fat jokes, gay jokes, ‘retard’ jokes, race jokes), and they’re saying, you’re laughing at it aren’t you? Shame on you.
The plot? Stupid. The characters? Stupid. The humor? Maybe not as low brow as it’s possible to get, but close. But Robert Downey Jr is absolutely brilliantly funny as a method actor who’s gone so far he’s surgically changed races for a part. And Tom Cruise – who I loath – is hysterical and profoundly creepy as a lunatic studio exec **cough**justplayinghimself**cough**.
This is a movie where you hurt from laughing, and feel a vague sense that you should be offended, but aren’t.
Get there on time, the movie opens with one of the funniest fake trailers you’ve ever seen (no, not the ‘fatties’ one!). And get the fuck over the ‘retard’ jokes.