If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!

[Bizarro]

Ten years ago today, we lost Phil Hartman.

Hi I'm Troy McClure, you may remember me from...
....such educational films as "Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly," and "Here Comes the Metric System!"
....such fishing films as 'Cast Out' or 'The Reel Deal.'
....such films as "The Erotic Adventures of Hercules" and "Dial 'M' for Murderousness"
....such films as "'P' is for Psycho" and "The President's Neck is Missing"
....such films as "Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die" and "Gladys, the Groovy Mule"
....such films as "The Greatest Story Ever Hula-ed" and "They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall"
....such Fox Network Specials as "Alien Nose Job" and "The Five Fabulous Weeks of the Chevy Chase Show"
....such self-help videos as "Smoke Yourself Thin" and "Get Some Confidence, Stupid!"
....such nature films as "Earwigs: Ewwww" and "Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory"
....such celebrity funerals as "Andre The Giant, We Hardly Knew Ye" and "Shemp Howard, Today We Mourn A Stooge"
....such telethons as "Out With Gout '88" and "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"
....such cartoons as "Christmas Ape" and "Christmas Ape goes to Summer Camp"
....such driver's ed films as "Alice's Adventures through the Windshield Glass" and "The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot"
....such TV spinoffs as "Son of Sanford and Son" and "After Mannix"
....such instructional videos as "Mothballing Your Battleship" and "Dig Your Own Grave and Save"
....such public service videos as "Designated Drivers, the Lifesaving Nerds" and "Phony Tornado Alarms Reduce Readiness"
....such medical films as "Alice Doesn't Live Anymore" and "Mommy, What's Wrong With That Man's Face?"
....such automated information kiosks as "Welcome to Springfield Airport" and "Where's Nordstrom?"
....such Do-It-Yourself home videos such as "The Half-Assed Approach to Foundation Repair"
....such dates as last night's dinner.

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[captqitn]

jinx!!


(moving my thread over to this one)

[captqitn]

G'morn y'all!

Watched "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" last night.    Really really dug it.    My only complaint during it was that it was skating dangerously along the edge of melodrama the whole time (though never breaking the seal).     Then in the minidoc in the bonus tracks, Lumet flat out says thats exactly what he wanted to do.  To bring back the lost art of melodrama but NOT cross that line that made it a bad word in the first place.

Most suprising was getting through the entire movie and never realizing that it was all shot on HD dv.   I'm a little sensitive to digital movies usually.  Not a nerd about it, but sort of in the same way I like albums that start on tape, I just enjoy the warmth of physical film.     

But I guess we are now crossing that line where it won't matter anymore, because light and color can be captured just as beautifully digitally.

Granted, Lumet is a true technical genius, so he had a lot to do with it working.   But he proved it can be done.

Also, my bagel tastes kinda funny.   Smell it for me?

[bebopbalogna]

 (holds nose)  whewww! what is that?  when they said "everything" bagel,  they weren't lying!



(go ahead and eat it, it may be ergot.  then you can wig out like moses!)

[Bizarro]

Film/tv composer Earle Hagen has passed away.

In his hono(u)r, here is a cockatiel performing his best known work:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/TiFboW8mqd4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/TiFboW8mqd4</a>

[Bizarro]

Hey Bamah, did you see that Rainn Wilson is apparently going to be in Transformers 2?

[captqitn]

Dear Scott McClellan,

Write it all down and mail it to 2003, you fuck.

Cordially,
Eric

[bebopbalogna]

Dear Scott McClellan,

Write it all down and mail it to 2003, you fuck.

Cordially,
Eric

[Tripp]

I put up a few more fotos on der grifters myspace

[bebopbalogna]

So THIS saturday night (may 31) at the Buccaneer we're gonna
do 2 or 3 of them with a guest vocalist (hopefully).


If you think you want to take a stab at it come on out.

very cool.  be sure to give us a detailed report. ("t" is silent)

[matthew]

Dear Scott McClellan,

Write it all down and mail it to 2003, you fuck.

Cordially,
Eric

Ditto Pat's comments.

However, it may serve as another blunt object to take to John McCain.

I just got called in again and I wonder if I am being taken advantage of. I hope that it at bumps me up to more hours and a steadier schedule. I was hired a week or two after this 17 year old who does nothing and I wish they would give me his hours.

Oh, and how late do practice spaces generally remain open? ganesha is planning on getting back with its original regular guitarist (circa '97-'98, the days of weed and roses) and managing to squeeze it in our three schedules while mine is a photo-negative of the average W-F schedule, it promises to be difficult to manage.

[Doctor Rock]

Went to see this earlier today:

The World According to Monsanto

Largely information I was already aware of, but it served as a good refresher once you got past what my sister referred to as the "sexy French mom" clothing the director wore while she sat in front of her iMac doing Google image searches for the subjects of the different sections of her doc.


Playlist on Youtube


Intro:
CALL ME, WE'RE IN THE DE-REG BUSINESS - George H.W. Bush to Monsanto Scientist Who Complained to Him About A Herbicide They Have Had A Hard Time Pushing Through
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/oEZAnUd6PLk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/oEZAnUd6PLk</a>

I've read somewhere that, according to polls, 9 out 10 Canadians want products containing genetically modified organisms clearly labelled.  In spite of this, laws on mandatory labelling of GMOs have been repeatedly defeated by our Parliament (I know of one attempt in 2001, and of another attempt early this month)... And we're only talking about labelling GMOs here, not outlawing GMOs!  Just giving folks a choice...   

[brainfiber]

So sometimes the old job gets a little boring...and you wish you could do something more exciting. Well this photo just goes to show that even the most exciting jobs get boring.
 
I mean look at this lady...she's driving a car around the "Wall of death" ...dangerous enough?...no....she's gotta go ahead and throw a lion into the mix.


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[Doctor Rock]

....such telethons as "Out With Gout '88" and "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/DSnj15pY2tA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/DSnj15pY2tA</a>

[captqitn]

So sometimes the old job gets a little boring...and you wish you could do something more exciting. Well this photo just goes to show that even the most exciting jobs get boring.
 
I mean look at this lady...she's driving a car around the "Wall of death" ...dangerous enough?...no....she's gotta go ahead and throw a lion into the mix.

A lion is exactly what I need here in my department.   (checking eBay for cheap ones)