Farthead & Kenneth

You can guess which one you are. Speaking of fartheads, check out this guy.

Put this up in your ear hole. It's pretty good.

Apple awaits piles of cash.

I think our blog is the Ministry of Awesome.....and so do a lot of other people who sell useless junk.

North by Northwang

From imdb:
-Jessie Royce Landis played Thornhill's (Cary Grant's) mother, yet he was ten months older than her.
-Azlo, creepy sidekick Leonard was Martin Landau who continues to be creepy....and old.
-Cary Grant did not have male genetalia.

I'll probably get Bob Mould tickets at the 930 box office after work today.

Some Norm Chad from yesterday, which is pretty good because he makes fun of Univ of Tenn football. I too hate them for many reasons including him and this brainiac. Your defense is offensive, check out my butt.

If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college. This is surely one of the most retarded things I have ever read about, I hate horse people, they creep me out, where is this idiot from anyway......oh crap, what happened to "Bel Air punk rock kids unite, to create a scene and keep it fighting, destory hate, prejudice, to educate and unite the kids".....and make glue.

Astra-wha?

I took a late lunch today, and missed my customary Kornweasel/Kojo blend, instead enjoying the relaxed soft local news of WAMU's Metro Connection.

They finished the show with credits, and a nod the the theme song by "local Washington band Astralyte." Wha? The Ross - er - Astralyte? Sure enough, they've even made it on NPR's All Songs Considered, though I couldn't find them in their archives. I may want a Press Kit.

I'll be as local Washington as Astralyte tonight - that is, an hour away in Towson. Should be back to enjoy films and stuff sometime Saturday.

Quite Frankly

Listened to the Orioles game on the radio a bit last night. Guessing you didn't stick around long enough for Tejada's grand slam at the end, a shame they lost anyway. Did you see Tony Danza or Danny Glover? The Palmeiro bobblehead seems upset about this, Chuck Thompson shouts about Frank Robinson's 500th home run, I assume that's who he's siding with.

I did abuse Mayorga and get those BSS songs, pretty good. That Morrocco Mole blog also had a few of the Twin Cinema songs and the new Franz Ferdinand. New Franz is very dancy, not as good as "Take Me Out" and kind of repeats a lot in the same vein as "Tell Her Tonight." It still needs a few more spins.

Echo & the Bunnymen is listed on the Black Cat site at $20, and it's a Friday. Hmmmmm.

Washington's Socially Broken Scene

I'm really digging on the new Broken Social Scene songs - Moroccan Role (blog) has several. They're all very good. I had given "You Forgot it in People" a chance when it was the coolest thing with a bunch of people in it, but it was too ethereal, except for "Anthem for a Seventeen Year Old Girl," which is good but kind of creepy. The new stuff really has some force to it, and the vocals [particularly the ladies - Emily Haines (Metric) and Leslie Feist (Feist, Stars, Kings of Convenience, etc.)] are awesome. Their songs sometimes make we want to lay down, but these make me want to go to concerts.

Did I get my blogs mixed up?

I'm going to this tonight.

Crazy Blog

I can't wait for new-release Tuesday, because I hear this guy has a new greatest hits compilation. Speaking of hits, Stereogum has Willie doing The Harder They Come.

Go sports teams.

Any story that starts '"George Bush doesn't listen to us," Keith Richards said' must be good.

Is that frog anatomically correct? It certainly doesn't look like the Honduran Frog.

Splogger

We got Spam blogged like hell yesterday (a good use of spleening outta you). I'm guessing it's all in reaction to that "Diddy" article link. I blame him.

McSweeneys also likes Ombudsmen.

Here's a funny picture of Hawaiian Matt Howe.

Hooray college basketball, #13.

I'm goin' to Baltimore for the weekend, send everyone my hate.

Irked.

Go Phillies. "Tied for wild card lead" is a much better headline than "Cory Lidle Irked when Rain Interrupts his Evening." Watch the Phillies lose live today at 1:05. Tickets are still available for the Labor Day weekend series. Not good tickets.

In other news, I'm busy.

Happy Borf day to me

Saw Wedding Crashers last night. Meh. There's a good sequence where they're at the estate on the Chesapeake, and decide to take "a bike ride to this beach nearby" that has waves. Vince Vaughn is in full "Swingers" mode. Whatever Wilson that is is less funny. And this girl is attractive.

Erik claims he's putting the team back together - he threw around Howe's name, Nick, etc. We'll see. He should be in the area Friday night.

The Killing Moon

A couple odd shows at the Black Cat:
From Echo & the Bunnymen's website: 18/11/05 Washington DC 'Black Cat' (they're foreign and their calendars have more months)
Black Cat website: WED SEPT 28- THE LEMONHEADS (2 days after the Posies, what year is it?)

I had a dream last night that they were selling Harry Potter books that were 2x's as big but included classic literary works, and because of Book World, Eudora Welty's short stories were bundled with the Half Blood Prince. I thought it odd.

Here's a funny picture that I couldn't figure out how to use. Azlo, here's Dane Cook and his heist monkey.

God help 'em if one uh their dang hippie frisbees comes on his property.

Luna Park

So Bret "Eastern" Ellis has a new book out. Good, I was getting way too comfortable reading pleasant novels about disconnection from American life, I need some hard core reality bending. Also, according to Amazon, the audio version is narrated by James Van Der Beek. "I don't want... your audiobook!" I'll listen to this instead.

As long as we have cable by 2007....

So, with bluetooth, can your computer and mine exchange files? This would only be beneficial to me, as I cannot as yet get songs off the iPod. I also can't even play purchased songs until we get internet and I can verify that it's alright to play them on my computer. It's iTarded.

Strap your Skates on Mates

Go Flyers. They better be good. Some actual Hockey news.

Q and Not U tickets are still avaliable for Friday September the 23rd. It's the day before the Pharmacists/Thievery Corp. show. Maybe Tej will be hangin with us at the Black Cat? Interested?

From the soundtrack listing:
"Get A Bloomin' Move On!"
Written by Quincy Jones
Performed by The Italian Job (vocal)
Listen/Download here.

Ross! Ross! Ross!

I remembered what was so funny about Bill Simmons's latest cowbell column. He recounts some jokes told at the Pam Anderson roast - the funniest stuff is about Courtney Love. Jeffrey Ross said to Love "God, what happened? Even Kurt Cobain looks better than you!"

Simmons also describes Love falling all over herself, and "At one point, Tommy Lee was pouring himself champagne from Rodman's table, they looked at each other and both kind of shrugged. Imagine being so crazy that Dennis Rodman and Tommy Lee had to share a 'Wow, she's nuts!' moment about you?"

Speaking of Flyers goalies, they can't seem to sign Esche, so we might go with the guy named after a sushi roll. We also have Jeff Hackett on our roster for some reason, but who doesn't? Flyer at Caps exhibition Oct. 1.

Hey, what's half of a good concert?

This sure looks like fun.

The NHL... It's faaaantastic! And outside!

The NHL and Comcast are close to a contract to televise two games a week nationally.
"The cable giant plans to put the games on its Outdoor Life Network (OLN)." Wha? Guess we have to get Comcast.

Even more nuts is that the TV contract is worth $50 mil/year. The NFL must rake in more than that during halftime at a Cardinals preseason game. That's barely the payroll of one team.

Least the Phillies had the day off, and so didn't lose.

Yay sports!

Pitchfork is not particularly worksafe today.

Whisky River Take Me Home

I leave you alone for three days and you go and kill Peter Jennings. Great.

In sports, Greg Lewis will be starting for the Eagles, Gretzky will be coaching the Coyotes, That guy from Ace Ventura got into the hall of fame, and Palmeiro will be enjoying a steroid cocktail at Pickles.

On the homefront, the dartboard is back in service and the Badger King has remedied our severe Makers Mark deficiency, but the fridge.......that's still broken.

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow

I guess you're gonna want cable to watch Flyers games. Forsberg continues to be one of the weirdest looking dudes in hockey.

We probably should have seen Murderball when we had the chance at AFI. It's in the "no release date announced yet" section of my Netflix queue racing against We Jam Econo, The Aristocrats and the Johnny Cash movie.

Finally, Pitchfork reviews some reissues I can relate to.

Partying all the time will catch up with you.

I Have-a Someting to Tell Us

Here's some Down by Law info. Some further internet movie databasing reveals that the guy in Stanger than Paradise from the AFI magazine cover is the garage attendant from Ferris Bueller and oddly enough, I just read about him since he was Sonic Youth's first drummer.....ya know when they were awesome.

What a moron. Speaking of sports: blockbuster hockey trade. Go Oilers.

Speaking of blockbuster deals. Ian MacKaye could not be reached for comment.

Ha ha ha ha. Sufjan will be next.

Palmiiiiiiiiierrrrrrro

Bob Mould wrote the theme song to the Daily Show. Did I know that? I don't think I did but it sounds familiar.

Which of our favorite columnists will weight in on the Palmiero situation first? Here's hoping it's Simmons, not Killbon 3000 or Frank A Smith. Jayson Stark has something to say but he doesn't count because he doesn't know how to spell Jason.

I think if Sufjan Stevens farts on a snare drum Pitchfork will let us know within the hour.

More Aristocrats coverage, further solidifying our reputation as cool advance screening guys.

Sandboggs

Simmons on Hockey is pretty funny and I am excited to hear multiple songs on the Rubber Soul cover album. All caught up.

The Orioles suck, real hard. They do not; however, suck certain gases out of certain bathroom holes. Neither do Ryno and Wade Boggs.

Jarmusched!