linusvanpelt

Once a year I make a trek to the UMDNJ in bee-you-tee-full Newark NJ for my yearly evaluation as a post-op liver transplant patient. I dread this day for weeks ahead of time, for reasons I cannot easily fathom. I mean, it's a total of about five hours from when I leave my house until I return. I irrationally fear my car will break down...
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Just watched Medium Cool, having never seen it. Wow, what a terrific movie. Very much of its time (1969, set in 1968) with a documentary feel. Plus, any movie with Frank Zappa music prominently played starring Robert Forester can't be bad. Another strong win for the folks at the Criterion Collection! When I become an eccentric millionaire (well, I'm halfway there anyway) I will own...
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I fly out to Illinois tomorrow for a work-related week of training and high-level strategy meetings. I know it's the not the most glamorous thing ever, but it breaks up the day-to-day monotony somewhat. I cannot help but wish sometimes our main office was in, like, Hawaii or something like that. But, hey! I cannot really complain, I actually like my job.

I spent a...
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On second consideration, taking an end-of-the-work-week-nap at 7:30PM EST was not such a hot idea.
Cannot sleep. Wide awake.
I am seriously considering booking passage on the Weezer Cruise next February. Never did a cruise before, and I know lots of people swear by them (not really my cup of tea--not a big fan of not being able to leave somewhere if I want to)....
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Prescription Bottle Orange should be its own color in the Pantone thing. Shaded somewhat lighter is the view of the pills inside.

"You have nice eyebrows, I want to make fuck on you." That thought just randomly came into my head and now it is making me laugh like an idiot whilst I sit here by myself.

I saw my father tonight for the first time in something like 15 years. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. I would like to have...
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This summer (so far) my concert itinerary is as follows:
Sting
Billy Idol
Cyndi Lauper
Bon Jovi (don't laff)
Brian Wilson
Courtney Love
The Monkees

I couldn't afford the Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney tickets that weren't sold out instantly. $500 for a ticket seems to me a bit insane. I have a fetish for old Rolling Stone magazines, and in one from 1989 it...
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I don't sing nor dance and yet I have found myself in the cast of a local production of Sound Of Music (basically party guest, concert official, and Nazi). I made no bones about my inabilities, so we shall see how this all shakes out. Singing is OK since the only time I have to do that is with the rest of the cast, so...
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Roger Ebert was (is and will be) a MAJOR influence on my writing, as well as my ability to critically analyze something (be it a movie or anything else). I started reading his work in 1985 (way before the internet) when he began publishing yearly collections of his movie reviews. They tended to come out around my birthday, so they would invariably be the present...
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Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was an intriguing mix of mainstream commercial elements and odd artistic impulses. It wasn't entirely successful, but was still pretty worthy. James Franco continues to be the most WTF of all actors, and is very watchable here. I wonder what audiences expecting a totally different movie than this is are going to make of it (my guess is most people will...
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