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October 29, 2006

Dinkinflickr

So, in setting up my new Flickr account, I was amazed to find out that nobody had taken Dinkinflickr as their user name.

So I took it.

Dinkin' flicka, yo.

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It's OK to Have a Good Time in a Music Video

"Dejate Caer" by the legendary Mexican rockers, Cafe Tacuba.

This is maybe my favorite of all the Cafe Tacuba videos. (Check out more here, in particular the one for "Cero y Uno.") Stick with this one for the killer choreography at the end. Even if the song's main keyboard riff is dangerously close to belonging to Depeche Mode.

If you've never heard Cafe Tacuba before, I highly recommend them. Their recent live DVD/CD set, Un Viaje, is brutally good.

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October 24, 2006

A Few Quickiedings

1. I have succumb to the pressure and have begun pimping out -- AND USING -- my MySpace page. I've been doing my most of bloggage over there as of late, which isn't much, though, as the whole "gonna be a dad any minute" thing is taking up a bunch of my time. The main thing I like about MySpace? You can, like, make friends with everybody! Did you know that Will Ferrell and Dog The Bounty Hunter are now BOTH personal friends of mine? And they don't talk about Bob Corker or Harold Ford AT ALL! Sweet!

2. Speaking of the Senate race, most people are missing a key point: Bob Corker and Harold Ford hate each other.

3. Another key point?: Harold Ford speaks in bullet points.

Example:

Hi, Harold. How are you today?

First, you should focus on you. Did you eat a good, balanced breakfast?
Second, are your clothes ready to go?
And lastly, America wants you to have a good day.

Oh, OK. Cool. Thanks.

4. Being opinionated and a Red Sox fan makes me a classless tool. OK. I'll go with that. Sure. I'm sure other things contribute, too, though.

5. I've been re-watching PBS' "Eyes on the Prize" this week (I taped it as it aired the last few weeks), and I've noticed a subtle-but-important thing: Julian Bond should narrate more things. And, oh yeah, lots of Democrats in the South used to hate -- and sometimes kill -- black people. I don't know what the Republicans did. They didn't talk about them much in the film.

6. My cat has $97.20 bladder infection.

7. My neighbor is in the hospital. She's 85 and was dehydrated. The doctors want to keep her a few extra days. After the mail started piling up in front of her door, and I heard no sounds coming from her apartment, I thought she might've, well, you know. I called my friend/landlord to come over and check on her. She wasn't there. She'd already been taken to the hospital. That's good. The thought of her falling and not being being able to get up and, well, you know, was awful. Now that I know she's OK, I can do laundry as late as I want (we share a laundry room between our two units) and I can brush up on my tuba. The walker she left in the foyer is freaking me out, though.

8. I still haven't eaten dinner.

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October 19, 2006

Take Your Favorite Baseball Team With You to the Grave

Baseball urns.

It is at this point that I'm forced to consider just how much I love the Red Sox.

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October 16, 2006

Warriors, Here's What I Did Yesterday-ee-yay

Oh, the fun!

Yesterday we had our FOURTH baby shower -- albeit a mini one, but a nice one nonetheless.

Since my computer desk will now share a room with a baby, I have removed most of the clutter, dusted it and am looking for a snazzy three-panel room divider to, well, divide the computer desk-havin' part of the room. All should work out.

I also hung some pictures yesterday, am going to re-hang some curtains and am filing tons of papers, files, receipts, etc.

Let's see... What else?

Oh, yeah...

The Pulse won -- for the second straight year -- the "Best Entertainment Publication" award at Saturday night's C.I.A. Awards. (Though I couldn't go, Ted called me from the awards to tell me about it.) As always, we're very grateful and honored to be recognized.

I talked with Ernie last week. We are going to get together very soon to record. We'll start with one song and see what happens. If you didn't know, in addition to being an engineer for a local company and a writer for our paper, Ernie is also a band.

Last week's episode of The Office was the funniest of the season so far.

That is all.

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October 12, 2006

Subtleties in Voice

George Carlin touched on "finding your voice" in our recent interview with him:

See, you’re mixed up when you’re young. You really don’t know who you are yet. You don’t find your voice for a long time. I found [that to be true], for me anyway. When you find your voice, then you know who you are. For years, I described myself – because I’ve been doing this for 50 years, now – as a comedian who wrote his own material. Because I was proud of that. Not every comedian did, and it was a special mark of being different. Then, one day, I found out that I was a writer who performed his own material, and that changed my whole way of looking at myself and my work. I suddenly had grown up. I suddenly had matured into a writer who had two outlets: one is the books – and that’s only been the last ten years – and the other is the stage shows. The stage shows got better after I discovered that. There’s more texture in them. There’s more stuff there. There’s more to get your hands on.

Good, good stuff.

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October 09, 2006

Today's Greatest Video Ever of the Day: "Injured Bad" BlueCross Commercial

This made the rounds awhile back, but now it's on YouTube.
It just doesn't stop being funny.

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October 05, 2006

Video: "The East Ridge Song"

We're just a few tweaks away from having a finished "On The Other Hand" compilation DVD, so I thought I'd post the original video of "The East Ridge Song." While it's rough and rushed, it is BY FAR the most requested bit we ever did. Dan wrote most of the words. I wrote a few of the words and the music.

Now, the fun part...

Ernie Paik and I are planning to re-record the song with bass, drums, violin, electric guitars and a new verse. I'd love to shoot a new video for the new version, but it's taken me three years to complete a DVD of the stuff we already shot, so I'm not holding my breath.

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