I don’t have a comprehensive knowledge of these things. Don’t really remember who’s who. But for the first time I can remember, a Ms. Texas has won one of the beauty pageants, Ms. USA. I have vague memories of Ms. Texas’s often making the final 10 or 5, but I don’t have much memory of them winning it all. So congrats to Ms. USA 2008, Crystal Stewart.
Link.
wow…. decapitation just under gay kissing. Not gay sex, just kissing. Sheesh.
I’m not up to date with all the movies coming out (I should be though). But I’m definitely looking forward to this:
Burn After Reading – A Coen Brothers’ film
Two links this Saturday.
I Did Not Know That Yesterday – pretty straightforward trivia type info, but somewhat entertaining, if only for the blog title.
When to use what type of numbers (fonts/typefaces/etc.)
Figuring It Out: OSF, LF, and TF Explained – Here’s the image from the post so you have a general idea what you’re clicking:
Perfect accessory for this paparazzi generation. Partly, I’m too cool for this photograph. Partly, I don’t consent to the paps. Good on a lot of levels.
Buy them here.
Is Channing Frye of the New York Knickerbockers. His “cons” of being tall:
Cons
- Growing up I could never get any of the cool shoes in my size
- No matter what I wear, unless it’s a basketball jersey, I feel like it’s just not made for people my size (I personally just make it look good)
- Even though small cars are cool I can’t fit comfortably in any of them. I try and save the earth by conserving gas but I can’t fit in a Subaru or Honda, so I ride in a realy simple Tahoe. I try to do my part.
- No matter what seat I have on an airplane, unless it’s the team plane, NOTHING is comfortable — absolutely nothing. It’s a mental battle the whole trip trying to keep my knees from the people in front of me smashing them with their seats. I mean, seriously, do you not see the 7-ft man behind you? Do you think it’s cool to slam your chair back on our 330-hr flight?
Other than that, I mean, there really aren’t any other cons. Being tall is great. I love it and wouldn’t change it in the world.
Hilarious. The blog post with the full list here.
Recently released an album (Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo – non-affiliate Amazon link) of essentially demos and songs that didn’t quite make the Weezer cut. Some good stuff, some not so good stuff, some experimental stuff, some weird stuff. Thoroughly Cuomo through and through. There’s a lot on this album I like a lot. But this is what I share:
This is the Way – youtube
Here’s Rivers’s review of the whole album. Here’s what he had to say about “This is the Way”:
For Weezer’s sixth album, I was feeling extremely adventurous again. I wrote an epic, six-minute, symphonic type of art song called “Daydreamer.” After I wrote the song, though, I reversed myself again, deciding to write a straight-ahead, nothing-fancy, middle-of-the-road, urban pop type of song. I took the chords from a Mario hit, fired up the drum machine and the synth pads, and wrote “This is the Way.”
Sometime between writing these two songs, I realized that one of them wouldn’t work. Which one, I’m still not sure: I think I might ask Rick [Rubin]. He’s the most extraordinary producer. He has these big beardy jowls because of all the producing he does. At the same time, though, he’s a huge Danzig fan and has a caustic wit.
Everyone around us was saying “‘This is the Way’ is the bomb—you should really do that song.” Scott [Shriner], in particular was like, “I want to sing that song. I can own it.” Even with all the professional respect I have for Scott (he’s been the best, really) I just sort of felt that an urban type pop song wasn’t where I wanted to be. I mean, I’m a married man now. Last year I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. In any case, Weezer has already conquered that territory—multiple times, and with other bassists—in the guise of “Hash Pipe,” “El Scorcho” and “We Are All On Drugs.” It was time to move on. I’ve resolved to do this pretty regularly from now on.
But who knows. Maybe “This is the Way” will end up on Weezer album number seven. We’ll see.
So incredibly weird. Not bad weird. Just weird when not knowing much about the songs on the album, just listening, I thought my iPod skipped to some other album. But straight up Rivers rocking some R&B. I kind of hope some up and coming R&B artist covers this song.
An article on Bravo’s latest: Step It Up and Dance.
Berkley has a strong background in dance that should help her relate to the contestants. Berkley said that since the age of 4, dancing has been her “heart and soul.” She also has performed with members of the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet, and starred in the dance classic “Showgirls.”
Umm, okay, Showgirls, dance classic? Camp classic, or famously bad, or any other descriptor, but dance classic? I mean I guess so…
A few of my favorites, in no particular order:
For seconds 20-27 and 33-37 only.
Well listening to some muxtapes now. It’s as good a way to find new music as Last.FM or Pandora, though limited to the actual mix and not as wide and webby as those two services.
I’ve never been good at the mixtape, mix cd, etc. I don’t have a flow with that sort of thing. Maybe it’s the paralysis of choice due to my library size, or maybe from not knowing or being fully familiar with all the music in my library (complete albums I’ve not listened to yet, tons of unlistened songs as well). I just usually toss in songs I know/like until I get a CD full. I used to have a friend who would make mix cd stories. Taking into account the lyrics and all. The one I remember most was the story of a relationship, from courtship to breakup. Mostly R&B, but not because that’s most suited to the story, but that was just his style of music more so than other things.
I’d like to have this skill though. Mix of music that flows together. Appropriate for whatever purpose. So rising and falling songs. Or when needed, as Barney of How I Met Your Mother would want it, always rising! Hell even a good workout mix. Which you’d think would be easy given I have Tangerine, but nope, still not that easy.