007 is packin...a 6 pack that is (or old guys who used to be really hot )

did you know that sean connery put in a bid to be mr. universe back in the 50s??
i can certainly see why.
(and is it just me or what but doesn't he sorta kinda look like morrissey in this picture??)



they sure don't make em like they used to huh? there will only ever be one james bond as far as i'm concerned.

san dimas high school football RULZ!

i went to movie night at the troc on monday for a screening of bill and ted's excellent adventure.



it's just as classic as i remembered it being. and keanu was just as cute as i remember-forever making his starring spot pinup (from some teenybopper magazine or other naturally) on the inside of my high school locker completely timelessly worthy.







a few things i noticed while watching the movie that i hadn't realized before:

1. the tributary move in the future is really just a pete townsend windmill slowed waaaay down.

2.the movie takes place in 1988. their time machine from the future brought unto them by rufus is from the year 2688. it's a phone booth.in the present time only 20 years in the future from 1988 we really don't even have phone booths anymore. which means if i ever have children or grandchildren i'm going to have to explain to them what the hell a phone booth is. ( incidentally the same can be said if we wind up watching any old superman movies.)

3. the time travelling phone booth they use is quite a bit like what dr. who uses to travel in time...

4. jane wiedlin of the go-go's played joan of arc in the movie. i forgot she never had a single line in english.
she was totally one of my guitar heroes when i was younger.
(she was WAYYY cooler than belinda).
and speaking of...remember her big solo hit "rush hour"? it was a pretty big one hit wonder back in the day.


5.i never realized how much my friend devin looks like alex winter. you can't quite get the full idea of it from these pictures but trust me he really does...which is funny because i used to think that devin looked like andrew mccarthy in mannequinn.




the whole thing kinda comes around full circle...george carlin is in bill and ted's excellent adventure as rufus. the first time i think i saw george carlin's stand-up comedy was with devin while staying up all night at his parents' house watching hbo after being his date to his sister's wedding. good times good times...

iron and whine

i just found out that blitzen trapper won't be coming to philly on the next leg of the tour because iron and wine (their tourmates this time around) opted to skip over philly and dc.
i was really looking forward to seeing the boys again. especially since this time i have my NEW CAMERA.
oh well.

their new album- furr - comes out on september 23rd. you should buy it!!!!

in the meantime enjoy these delicious nuggets.

art is an orgasm

one of my favorite artists- jeremy fish- just wanted to do somethin special for all the ladies of the world.

mecca

AAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

a new road trip destination unveiled.


i'm going to give it two thumbs up....sorry i couldn't resist. next question is....is there an arnold's to eat at nearby?












crispin glover??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

gold diggers

so i've been watching the olympics and i have to admit it's actually really entertaining/exciting this year.i even yelled at my tv out loud a couple of times just like my dad does when he's watching football.

i know everyone is all super hyped about michael phelps. and they should be-the guy is amazing! however i'm fairly certain he's the product of some kind of genetic experiment in which his mother mated with a marlin or something.Some ichthyologists need to get together with fox mulder and start studying this man.

the swimmer who gets the gold for being a stone cold fox however is ryan lochte. have you seen this guy?


other amusements mid-olympics:
during one of the swim meets: a swimmer named tancock competed with a swimmer named beavers.
one of the trampoline athletes was named dong dong (nevermind the fact that trampoline is an actual olympic sport?!).that's right-first name dong.last name dong. possible relation to long duck dong?


somehow despite the cheating chinese team (CLEARLY underage!!) and the obviously biased votes and the ridiculous new scoring system, nastia liukin (i could go on for hours on how bad i feel for a girl whose parents actually named her nastia) of the us women's gymnastics team took home the gold. that reminded me of the chemical brothers video for "elektrobank".directed by spike jonze starring his then-wife sofia coppola.


i wonder why none of the girls competing in the olympics actually have decent songs they use for the floor exercises.or even if not *decent* songs then at least modern songs or songs that maybe they would listen to in their personal lives. i'd be interested to see the choreography to something other than random classical music.


also in honor of the olympics i thought i'd just rehash one of my favorite youtube videos.
the hipster olympics.


the first time i saw this was after a hangover standing outside sunglasses on smoking a cigarette with unwashed hair. i looked like i could have been in it.

the greatest invention of all time?

there've been a lot of great inventions in the 21st century. today i read about the best one of all.
is it the ipod? uhhhhh nope.
is it a hybrid car? not even close!


quite possibly it's the wake n' bacon!

http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/projects/wakeNbacon_1.php

Decapitation's the latest craze

The Canadian Bus Attack:

I'm sure you have heard about it by now.and I'm pretty sure this is the craziest/most fascinating thing I have ever heard of in my entire life. You would *think* it's from a rob zombie movie not yet in production but nope! this is real life!!this REALLY happened! i mean jesus.this shit is crazy.




http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080805/API/808051029&title=Canada_bus_beheading_suspect_says__please_kill_me_&template=printpicart




The police scanner tapes:



Greyhound ads in Canada scrapped due to attack
http://www.startribune.com/world/26340039.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhU


http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=eb5cea0a-b78f-4351-afb8-e242ece5e4fd


AND if that weren't enough-same week on another continent: a man in Greece decapitates his girlfriend and parades around town with her head on a stick.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7539944.stm

Seriously...what the fuck is going on in society these days?????
I know I'm at least a week late in blogging about this but I've been doing research...and also i've been busy trying not to get decapitated.

You would think all this clearly equals a slew of new "true story" horror flicks about decapitation but the stories are actually too short to flesh out a suitable feature length plot which most likely means there will still be horror flicks loosely based on these current events only with a whole lot of made up backstory. I think I will just wait for the book.



I have soooo many questions on all this.

I want to know if there were any children on the bus witnessing it.I mean can you imagine the psychological damage inflicted by this? I mean I'm certain all the adult passengers are no doubt scarred for life but I can't imagine what this would do to a small child having to see this.

Why were the police referring to the killer as "Badger"? Who came up with that? The killer was a 6' tall Chinese man...

Paranoid schizophrenia, drugs, pure evil? What's the motive? and why *that* kid-there were 36 other passengers onboard afterall. Did "badger" just not like what the kid was playing on the his headphones?

After the attack how did the rest of the passengers even get home or to their destinations? You can bet they didn't want to get on another bus...

they were probably listening to stairway to heaven backwards

hear about this one yet?

http://www.kyw1060.com/Bizarre-Animal-Remains-Found-in-Juniata-Park/2722143

uhhh-isn't that how *you* barbecue? i mean it IS summer and all....they probably forgot to mention the leftover plastic packaging from the kraft jet-puffed marshmallows.





(oh and don't you worry i'm DEFINITELY getting around to blogging on the canadian bus story. i just have too many thoughts on it and not quite enough time just yet to write it all out just yet. but just you wait.)

there's no such thing as monsters

or is there?
by now you've probably seen/heard about the montauk monster.


http://gawker.com/5032730/the-2008-montauk-monster-yearbook

many theories abound-government experiment,the result of animallife living nearby nuclear waste, an elaborate hoax/viral marketing?
some combination of pig,dog,eagle?the griffin without it's feathers and wings?

personally i think it kinda looks like gozer's hounds from hell in ghostbusters...




or possibly the offspring of the world's ugliest dog


i'm gonna go ahead and debunk the nutria theory


because i've seen one of those in real life and they really look a lot more like the r.o.u.s.'s from princess bride.




for further possibilities of what teh "monster" could be go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids

(i'm thinking most likely it is a laughable hoax/marketing bit/art project)

there are certainly things a LOT scarier than monsters though-and they reside in canada. but i'll write more on that later-i have too many thoughts on that subject...