Monthly Archives: June 2005
My Street Looked Fantastic
For those who have seen or will see War of the Worlds this weekend pay particular attention to the last scene.
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Playlist Thunderdome – Week 6
Sorry for the delay, folks, but work intervened with reality.
To recap: our last poll ended in confusion and re-voting, but ultimately Hendrix’ "Purple Haze" crushed Rush’s "Tom Sawyer", 27 votes to 8. After taking time off to heal our broken nation, I have returned to divide it.
Basic Drawing
If I had to choose the most important class I took in college I’d say it was Basic Drawing. Anything that I’ve learned since then (both undergrad and graduate work) are just appendages of what I learned in that class.
Our Top Songs of the 00′s…so far
I took the liberty of sort-of compiling the top songs from Dallin’s thread and posting them to the radio.blog. If a band had more than one nomination I included one song by them–only a couple songs had more than one nomination, I’m pretty sure. Hopefully everyone who posted something will have a song from their list included, but I don’t have time to go through and check on that. If you’d like to post a song just email it to me at whenigodeaf@gmail.com.
Of course, I’m limited to songs I already have. I think the only band I didn’t have that got two nominations was the New Pornographers. Oh, and I’m not posting any White Stripes because we’ve already got some up there, and I don’t have the song that was most nominated. ("Seven Nation Army.") I also don’t have the Badly Drawn Boy songs mentioned (I only have an earlier album I guess).
Funniest Woman
Last night I watched the movie “I Heart Huckabees” It was a somewhat funny, often confusing, highly irregular movie about existentialism. If this were a review I’d give it a B-.
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UPDATED: Playlist Thunderdome – Week 5
NOW WITH A NEW POLL! VOTE AGAIN!!
In a controversial battle, G’N'R’s "Paradise City" beat out "Hell’s Bells" for a shot at eternal glory, with 26 of 47 votes. Susan cries in her root beer, but the battle wages on!!
The Movie Game
When I was a kid my siblings and I would sit around the table at mealtime and play what we called “the movie game”.
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Experimenting with Children
This article is a fun piece on continuity problems in science fiction and movies. It’s entertaining, and highly nerdy, but it posits an interesting experiment: what happens if someone watches the Star Wars films for the first time, watching them in numerical order? What do they notice? Can they figure out the big secrets?
Anyone tried this? Anyone got kids that wants to do it? KB offers to be your official sponsor.
Playlist Thunderdome – Week 4
Talking Heads’s "Psycho Killer" handily won last weeks’ Thunderdome, garnering 60% of the popular vote. Joy Division was a distant 2nd (too bad!)
So, strap on your spandex, crimp your hair and vote for this week!!!
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