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| Friday, August 12, 2005 11:39 AM |
| Spam, Eggs, Bacon, and Spam |
 by Fëanor |
- Wow, this pirate name quiz (via babyraven) spat some pretty awful html at me. The image tag was broken (a relative URL doesn't work so well from a completely different site) and the text was written over top of the image. Blargh. Anyway, I've taken out all the ridiculous div tags and reduced to it to its basics:
Black Sam Bonney
Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.
- Dude, Jon Voight is going to play the Pope! I want him to play the Pope as if the Pope were his character from Anaconda. "The Vatican can kill you in a thousand ways." That would rock so hard.
It also amuses me that Cary Elwes is going to play the young Pope Voight. Why, I can't really say. For some reason, I think Jon Voight, Cary Elwes, and the Pope are all really funny, so combining them all in one movie is hilarious to me.
- I've been reading Bram Stoker's Dracula on Dracula Blogged, and I'm enjoying it generally in spite of Stoker. His characters are just so utterly ridiculous sometimes--so melodramatic, and so focused on really unimportant things at really pivotal moments. Having seen her friend possibly attacked by some stranger out in the graveyard, Mina is worried most about people seeing her walk around without shoes on (she stops to cover both feet in mud so as to obscure them), or possibly catch a glimpse of Lucy in her nightgown (which is not described, but I'm sure it was a voluminous coat of some sort). For me, the pinnacle of this kind of thing comes later on in the book, in a scene not yet blogged, wherein all the men pause outside of Mina's room, even though they know she is almost certainly being attacked by Dracula within, because they're afraid it might be impertinent to just rush willynilly into a woman's bedroom.
Stoker's prissyness is only one-upped by his repressed sexual desires, which practically leak off of every page. Read the following excerpt from Mina Harker's most recent diary entry and tell me what you think:Lucy woke, too, and I was glad to see, was even better than on the previous morning. All her old gaiety of manner seemed to have come back, and she came and snuggled in beside me and told me all about Arthur. I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable. - Poppy and I got a free six-month subscription to a music magazine called Paste for some reason (something to do with Salon, I think?), and it's pretty cool. It's packed with reviews of CDs and movies and articles on various bands. (PinkHairedGirl and SteakKnife would be interested to hear that the latest issue included an article on The Mountain Goats and another one on Steve Malkmus and Pavement.) The best part, though, is that each issue comes with a free CD and DVD. I haven't looked at any of the DVDs yet, but the CDs are cool. They're just a bunch of tracks by various "up-and-coming" contemporary artists. So of course a lot of the music tends to be mediocre, but I've also come across a couple of really neat songs that have turned me onto random indie bands I probably never would have heard of otherwise.
Case in point: Matisyahu. I don't know how good his other songs are, but his track "Heights" is absolutely fantastic. I listened to it twice in a row so far today and I like it more every time. In case you haven't heard of him before (I read about him first in the Metro), Matisyahu is a Hasidic Jew who does reggae/rap. I'm totally not kidding, and neither is he; he's very serious about his religion and his music. (Sadly, none of the audio links on his site seem to work. But I swear he's totally cool!)
Ooh, looks like the next issue of Paste (that link is to a PDF, btw) has a cover article on Death Cab for Cutie, and the CD includes a track from their new album! Hmm...we may have to subscribe to this thing after all, poppy... |
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