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The other guy looks like he's about to beat you up... have you shown this picture to your therapist?

I don't have much use for casettes. My tape deck is old and dusty and I don't trust it to be gentle with my tapes. If you can't listen to Stephen's show on the air, you can always check it out online. That's the only way I get to hear it since they don't syndicate it here.

naah i got lots of room here LOL

Of course there are special effects. But the movie is not about bombarding you with special effects with occasional breaks for a crack at throwing in a love story between spaceship battles. Also, the effects are always in service of the story. Of course, the story does lend itself handily to lots of effects, but the particular effects used are part of Gondry's signature -- nobody else does them like he does. But this movie is such a great collaboration... on top of Gondry's unique talents you've got Kate Winslet, who is a Goddess; Charlie Kaufman who (I'll say it again) is either riding that zeitgeist wave or he IS it; Jim Carey, who wouldn't be my first casting choice for his character by a long shot, does an excellent job -- and he will bring in those audiences, and this one deserves them. Go. Go now. Run, don't walk. Jesus... am I getting paid to rave like this?

So I Married an Axe Murderer was awesome. I might just watch that tonight, but I'm afraid since I'm back in Long Beach I'll cry during the whole thing since it was filmed in SF and I'm not there anymore.

Yes, my eye is scary and so is Paco. You should see LITHIUM_PICNIC's pics; he has a chinchilla/apnea combination. Apchilla. Jeremy thinks it's scary but I can't stop laughing at it.

Hey, hope you're feeling better. Gerald V. Casale (Pr. CaSAhLee) is the bass player... I think he is. It's hard to tell what instruments they're playing sometimes, and they do switch it up a bit. Anyway, he refers to himself as Devo's "main strategist," and he's credited with directing a lot of the videos. But then there's this other guy they worked with a lot... a friend of theirs from Kent State U. where they all went to school, and he was in some experimental art classes with them, I think his name is Chuck Statler, also directed or co-directed a lot of their stuff.

And the way they tell the story in their V.O. commentary to the videos certainly paints DEVO out to be total music video pioneers. And I don't think they exaggerate. But...

Something happened to DEVO at some point... don't get me wrong, I love them, I love the idea of them and their idea of themselves, but... at some point they seem to have left the scene, and when they came back, they had a new drummer and... and... and it seems like they completely lost whatever it was that made them DEVO. They became... like... God. I hate to say this. Like bitter has-beens.

Mark Mothersbaugh went on to do a lot of commercial stuff... I'm sure you've seen his name in the Rugrats credits. And Jerry Casale (I've seen it spelled "Jerry") went on to direct other music videos and commercials. But they seemed to be all about spoofing Corporate America and the images they feed us through advertising before SHOUT came out, and then they seemed to become a part of Corporate America. Casale blames their "falling off the radar"' on Enigma, the record label they switched to, but I think what really happened is that they stopped being angry rebels and started trying to be a band.

It's late. I'm rambling. I mean... I been up all night. I'm rambling. Now it's early tomorrow. That's your DEVO editorial for the day, spud.

oh yeah, the Animal Collective is pretty goddamned dope. They're giving me flashbacks. Like some Jaoquin Phoenix in U-Turn fucking flashbacks. Toby N Tucker. Growl!!!!

It's a band

Okay, in the spirt. This below really gives me full athourity to hunt down someone's mom and sock her in the nose. She makes Joan Crawford look like betty-f'n crocker.



ARRGHGHHHHH Urge to kill, rising. <---

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I will have to try this French new wave shindig.

My exposition is always craptacular.

More intelligent viewing? Keep up the excellent work my good sir.

Thanks for posting on my pics!

Hey what do you think of me recording those Neil Young 'boots to CDR for you? Just a thought.

I actually haven't read that last Dirk Gently book. Just the 'Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul', which is alos one of the coolest titles a novel ever had.

Given the cliffhanger you talk about, I may just avoid that second book...

JJ Leigh....

She was Amy in Chasing Amy right? And the girl in the changing room in Mallrats when Kevin Smith does the Batman impression...

Thanks.

http://www.amtrak.com/ - the goods are here!

Maybe if I was a halfway organized human being I could let you chomp at some Karoli.

P.S. - You can see my adidas pretty good, though.