[from PostSecret]
Author: Dan Dickinson
An evening of disappointments
Disappointment #1: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (imdb | rotten tomatoes). In retrospect I don’t even know why I wanted to see this. I think I was sucked in by the preview, with the shot of the Kraken tentacles enveloping a ship, but even those special effects — which were very good, as was Davey Jones’ head — couldn’t save this movie. It was scattered and nearly plotless, it was only funny once or twice and it dragged on forever. That was three hours of my life that I could’ve spent watching squirrels waterski or something.
Disappointment #2: again…I don’t know what I was thinking. We decided to go to 7 West after the movie, even though I swore I’d never go there again. It’s just so convenient, and the food’s ok…but the service is just unbelievably bad. It’s like they train their staff to be inattentive. Granted, the guy we had last night was new to the job, but I don’t know why they’d leave a newbie to cover a whole floor. Things were ok at first — we got a bottle of wine and split a plate of pasta — but it took him half an hour to bring us the bill and then return for it, both times only doing so because one of us signalled wildly from across the room. Then, when he finally returned, he’d forgotten to bring a pen.
Normally I’d give the guy a break; everyone has service like this once in a while. But this has happened nearly every time we’ve gone. We seem to keep forgetting, I guess. Must write note to self on back of hand: avoid 7 West.
Fortunuately we’d had a much better dining experience earlier in the day when T-Bone treated Nellie and I to lunch at Fieramosca. Not only is their food a cut above anything at 7 West, they treat you like old friends.
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Great article by Robert Ouellette in Reading Toronto this morning titled The Real Cost Of Suburbia. They expand on an op/ed piece in the Globe about the consequences of low-density housing growth:
“I fume when the water bill for our downtown home comes in when I know the amount of water used is a tenth of the billed amount. Where does the rest of that money go? Well, let’s just say it costs a lot to water those suburban lawns and keep their backyard pools filled and run the storm sewers all the way down to the lake where their waste closes once pristine beaches. For once I’d like suburban dwellers to subsidize me.”
Ouellette raises a the related issue of gas prices, one I plan to touch on in the next few days (when studying down-time presents itself):
“Ironically, it might be gas prices that finally force the end to the disaster known as suburbs. $3 per litre gas anyone?”
[tags]pirates of the caribbean, 7 west, fieramosca, reading toronto, robert ouellette, suburbs[/tags]
From the mouths of fucktards…
It’s a pretty sure sign that I’m overweight when assholes hang out their car windows to yell insults at me as I walk down the street.
[tags]weight[/tags]
Apparently I listen to a lot of music on Fridays
July:
- be your own pet . “thresher’s flail”
- be your own pet . “we will vacation, you can be my parasol”
- belafea . “tara”
- cold war kids . “hang me out to dry”
- cold war kids . “hospital beds”
- cold war kids . “saint john”
- dears . “ticket to immortality”
- jesu . “dead eyes”
- jesu . “silver”
- john frusciante . “communique”
- john frusciante . “sphere”
- john frusciante . “walls”
- ladyhawk . “the dugout”
- mischa . “cubicle”
- mission of burma . “2wice”
- my latest novel . “sister sneaker sister soul”
- primal scream . “country girl”
- primal scream . “dolls”
- primal scream . “the 99th floor”
- spangle call lilli line . “b”
- spangle call lilli line . “piano”
- spoon . “idiot driver”
- spoon . “mountain to sound”
- sunset rubdown . “stadiums and shrines ii”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
…aaaaaaaaaaaaaand June
- blowoff . “hormone love”
- bruce springsteen . “john henry”
- curve . “chinese burn”
- faders . “no sleep tonight”
- fiona apple . “not about love”
- justine electra . “defiant & proud”
- kristin hersh . “echo”
- liars . “the other side of mt. heart attack”
- ll cool j . “mama said knock you out”
- matt pond pa . “holiday road”
- mercers . “sexy youth”
- mercers . “use for abuse”
- smoosh . “find a way”
- thom yorke . “and it rained all night”
- thom yorke . “the clock”
- tilly & the wall . “bad education”
- tilly & the wall . “rainbow in the dark”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
I can't be 100% sure…
…but “NYC” by Interpol might just be the best song of all time.
Hmmm…one of these I shall have to take a run at the 20 best songs of all time.
Suggestions?
[tags]interpol, best song of all time[/tags]
May loose? Mai oui.
Seriously? I am struggling with those post titles…
- 1900s . “bring the good boys home”
- detroit cobras . “boss lady”
- final fantasy . “many lives”
- final fantasy . “this lamb sells condos”
- frank black . “cold heart of stone”
- gomez . “how we operate”
- josh ritter . “girl in the war”
- katatonia . “deliberation”
- petra haden . “god only knows”
- pilate . “barely listening”
- pilate . “knife-grey sea”
- she wants revenge . “these things”
- stills . “destroyer”
- tilly & the wall . “lost girls”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
"You'll need a snorkel to breathe underneath the pile of groupies that will sack you."
My wife sent me this link titled How to totally fake being a geek (which I assume she found through some sort of google search that scours the web for any mention of Buffy The Vampire Slayer). I’m glad it’s tongue-in-cheek, ’cause I’d hate to think that knowing Assembler is the ne plus ultra of geekiness. Why? Because I know Assembler. At least, I knew it. At least, a I knew a little bit. When I first moved here my job was mainframe programming; don’t ask me why, ’cause I had no programming experience.
It was tough to learn, since writing Assembler is what I imagine it’s like to talk to a retarded robot, but from then on every other programming language seemed like a treat. The first time I tried COBOL I was ecstatic because it could do, you know, math like a human. It was like when my brothers and I learned to drive; we didn’t learn on a car, or on any automatic…we learned on the 2-ton stick-shift farm truck. Once you can work with that, a Ford Tempo’s a pussycat.
That said, it’s been so long since my foot’s touched a clutch, it’d probably be pretty comical to watch me try.
[tags]geekery, buffy, assembler, cobol[/tags]
"Any site that's got a longer entry on 'truthiness' than on Lutherans has its priorities straight."
I’m not sure even Stephen Colbert himself expected this after wikiality was The Word on Monday night. [via Digg]
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Also via Digg, I learned about the Christian version of Ubuntu Linux. I anxiously await operating system flavours for Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Scientology. Unless someone figures out that this is retarded first.
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Make Marketing History points us to a couple of disturbing statistics: 58% of people never read a book once they leave high school, and 46% of people don’t read newspapers. I think the first stat freaks me out the most. I actually can’t figure out how you’d avoid it, what with long airport waits and bedtime stories and such.
[tags]colbert report, wikiality, truthiness, christian ubuntu, people don’t read[/tags]
Aprilooseness
- calexico . “deep down”
- calexico . “letter to bowie knife”
- calexico . “panic open string”
- caroline . “where’s my love”
- cut copy . “going nowhere”
- elf power . “an old familiar scene”
- fembots . “history remade”
- fembots . “so long”
- human television . “in front of the house”
- imperial teen . “ivanka”
- irving . “situation”
- jason collett . “i’ll bring the sun”
- jets overhead . “seems so far”
- kt tunstall . “suddenly i see”
- kula shaker . “govinda”
- kula shaker . “into the deep”
- kula shaker . “knight on the town”
- lanterna . “luminous”
- mono . “the flames”
- pearl jam . “life wasted”
- pearl jam . “marker in the sand”
- raconteurs . “steady as she goes”
- robert cray & shemekia copeland . “i pity the fool”
- rogers sisters . “never learn to cry”
- sebadoh . “hoppin’ up and down”
- sebadoh . “the freed pig”
- sebadoh . “total peace”
- shearwater . “white waves”
- snow patrol . “chasing cars”
- snow patrol . “you’re all i have”
- velvet underground . “sister ray”
- wilderness . “emergency”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
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