I've always wanted to have a building named after me. Any building. A church, a gymnasium – hell, I'll even take a strip mall. I just want to have a building named after me. I want to be immortalized in drywall. As you can see, I already have a time zone (sorry, Rwanda) named after me in my old high school journalism class stomping ground. It's a start, but you can't fly a plane through a time zone. Wait…
During Film & TV 106A, Tim Collins sits in the front row and takes notes with a laptop. How sad is that?
Okay, I've been thinking about this a lot. The symbol of a cross is sacred nowadays because Jesus was nailed to a wooden cross. What if Jesus was nailed to, say, a wooden circle, or a trapezoid? Better yet, what if they had just thrown him into a pile of shit? Everybody then would be walking around today with feces pendants on their necks and churches would have some pretty interesting decor. Hmmm. Repenting with shit. Sounds like a good religion. Sounds like…Scientology.
Uh oh. KROQ added "Days of the Phoenix" by AFI and "At Your Funeral" by Saves The Day to its playlist. Prepare to hear these two bands played on every rock radio station in America.
I'm such a compulsive record buyer. I buy way too many records for my own good. Sometimes, I don't even know what I'm buying. Last month, for example, I picked up the Little T and One Track Mike record just because it was cheap and I kinda liked the single "Shaniqua." I still haven't listened to it. Moreover, used record stores only exacerbate my impulse buying. Today, I was at a used record store in Westwood looking for a Finch EP and ended up buying an advance copy of Six Million Ways To Live by trip-hoppers Dub Pistols and Wave Twisters – Episode 7 Million: Sonic Wars Within The Protons by DJ QBert, both records in good condition and priced under $9. Here's to adding some credibility to my record collection.
From QBert to D12.
D12 (minus Eminem) turned up at a bar mitzvah in suburban Detroit on Saturday to sign autographs for Ethan Weisman and his friends.
Ethan's parents paid the Motor City hip-hop group an undisclosed sum to appear at the event, held at a private country club in West Bloomfield.
The rappers nicknamed Ethan "E13" and let him wear their massive gold and silver necklaces to pose for pictures.
"It was a wish come true," Ethan, 13, said Tuesday (October 9). "Kids I don't even know are coming up to me and saying, 'I heard you had D12 at your bar mitzvah.'"
Yes, Ethan. I heard you had a pathetically offensive rap group at your bar mitzvah…WITHOUT ITS STAR TALENT! Congratulations. You're a man now.
My summer roommate Chet was making out with his girlfriend outside my door tonight and I decided to interrupt. There's nothing more satisfying than rudely walking by two people engaged in a public display of affection just to see them do that instant "I wasn't making out with him/her" split.
West Wing went widescreen. Whoo! Does television really need to be in widescreen though? Watching movies in widescreen makes sense, seeing as how movies are filmed in different aspect ratios. Television, however, was designed for a 16:9 ratio. Who is Wing producer John Wells fooling? He claims that the use of widescreen "looks classy," but let's face it – there is nothing classy about television. Jay-Z videos have black bars. Is the "Girls Girls Girls" video the Citizen Kane of the early 21st century? I think not. Like pop culture analyst Marshall McLuhan remarked, television is a "cool" medium, presented in low definition to involve the high participation of an audience busily accounting for missing information. I say leave the classiness to film. Nobody, in their right mind, does critical studies of television episodes. I paid for my entire television screen, Mr. Wells. Now, would you mind filling it?
Would you have sex with this man?
(out of 44 votes)
yes • 7 votes • 16%
no • 37 votes • 84%
Survey says…[loud buzz]! I rest my case.