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Jan. 8th, 2009
The second installment of our coverage of the Def Holiday covers our time in Maryville, TN, with a side trip to Nashville to meet up with old friends who still live there (as well as a pair who drove all the way from Atlanta GA to see me – which is epic).
TENNESSEE HIGHLIGHTS
1. Meals with friends (yay!)
2. Grimey’s (indie record stores!)
3. Wal-mart (Hannah Montana!)
4. Nintendo Wii + AC/DC = EPIC WIN (Highway to Hell!)
5. Christmas with Charlie Murphy and Rick James (Darkness!)
6. Christmas booty (Fuck the MPAA!)
7. Revisiting the homestead (cop cars!)
8. Fine art (Candid photography!)
9. Cheap gas ($1.45!)
10. Free-to-air TV: still horrible (Bristol Palin!)
( Details and extended play after the break! )
And can I just say that Kathie Lee Gifford is still one of the most irritating people on TV?
And so much for Tennessee. All up, it was a good visit, albeit mainly to catch up with my friends and to remind myself why I got the hell out of the state in the first place.
Up next: Chicago!
You can’t go home again,
This is dF
TENNESSEE HIGHLIGHTS
1. Meals with friends (yay!)
2. Grimey’s (indie record stores!)
3. Wal-mart (Hannah Montana!)
4. Nintendo Wii + AC/DC = EPIC WIN (Highway to Hell!)
5. Christmas with Charlie Murphy and Rick James (Darkness!)
6. Christmas booty (Fuck the MPAA!)
7. Revisiting the homestead (cop cars!)
8. Fine art (Candid photography!)
9. Cheap gas ($1.45!)
10. Free-to-air TV: still horrible (Bristol Palin!)
( Details and extended play after the break! )
And can I just say that Kathie Lee Gifford is still one of the most irritating people on TV?
And so much for Tennessee. All up, it was a good visit, albeit mainly to catch up with my friends and to remind myself why I got the hell out of the state in the first place.
Up next: Chicago!
You can’t go home again,
This is dF
STAR TREKKIN’: THE CHUD LIST
Jan. 8th, 2009 02:32 pmITEM [via Cat Taylor]: Devin Farachi of CHUD.com is celebrating the May 2009 release of the New Improved Star Trek film by reviewing every single episode of the original TV show and the seven feature films that involve members from the original cast.
He takes the piss, mostly. But with love. And he pretty much nails it.
Categories include: Kirkin' Out, Spockmarks, Redshirt, Dilithium Bullshit, Support Staff of the Week, Continerdity, and Set Phasers to Quote.
He’s up to Episode 8 already, so you don’t have that much catching up to do.
DISCLAIMER: I’m skeptical about the whole New Improved Star Trek thing. Part of it comes down to Hollywood’s general track record at this kind of thing, but it’s especially dangerous when mucking about with things that are so firmly engrained in pop culture. Imagine someone trying to remake Star Wars (other than George Lucas, I mean, and you just KNOW he’s going to try it one of these days).
But I’ll probably see it anyway out of morbid curiosity. And okay, sure, New, Improved Battlestar Galactica worked out fine. But then no one besides me remembers the original show anyway, so that’s different.
Been there done that,
This is dF
He takes the piss, mostly. But with love. And he pretty much nails it.
Categories include: Kirkin' Out, Spockmarks, Redshirt, Dilithium Bullshit, Support Staff of the Week, Continerdity, and Set Phasers to Quote.
He’s up to Episode 8 already, so you don’t have that much catching up to do.
DISCLAIMER: I’m skeptical about the whole New Improved Star Trek thing. Part of it comes down to Hollywood’s general track record at this kind of thing, but it’s especially dangerous when mucking about with things that are so firmly engrained in pop culture. Imagine someone trying to remake Star Wars (other than George Lucas, I mean, and you just KNOW he’s going to try it one of these days).
But I’ll probably see it anyway out of morbid curiosity. And okay, sure, New, Improved Battlestar Galactica worked out fine. But then no one besides me remembers the original show anyway, so that’s different.
Been there done that,
This is dF
OMG OMG SCARY 10-FOOT JESUS!
Jan. 8th, 2009 08:23 pmYr favorite news story for today will be this:
How you make a sculpture of a man being tortured to death LESS scary to children, I have no idea. According to the rest of the article, the secret is stainless steel, apparently.
And people wonder why I’m a militant agnostic.
I died for you,
This is dF
How you make a sculpture of a man being tortured to death LESS scary to children, I have no idea. According to the rest of the article, the secret is stainless steel, apparently.
And people wonder why I’m a militant agnostic.
I died for you,
This is dF