Congrats to Al Gore on the Nobel win.
If only the US media would discuss climate change instead of continuously asking if he'll run for president.
Oct 12, 2007
Is Double D One Less Than 3-D?
Oh how fall is an interesting time for entertainment. All the new Cd's, the new movies, Halloween, and of course the trees are even getting creative with their leaves changing colors and all. Here's what's getting me excited this autumn.
How great is the new Dropkick Murphys Cd? i can't stop listening to it. i know i've mentioned this before but i can't state enough how much i like their new Cd. i can't wait until the St. Patrick's Day shows.
Despite the local deer knocking the head off of my pumpkin ghost and eating it's innards, and although i have failed to find a reasonably prices gorilla suit, i am still psyched about Halloween. Feeding into that is the re-release of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas" in IMAX theaters... this time in 3-D. i missed it last year... maybe i'll make it this year.
While talking about movies, few capture that introspective fall feeling like Wes Anderson and he's got a new movie coming out: "The Darjeeling Limited". With Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman it's looking pretty good. Every time i watch "The Royal Tenenbaums" i like it even more. Did i hear Natalie Portman mentioned?
Pile on a Thursday cd/dvd release, the possibility of a Weezer release, Angels & Airwaves, "Into The Wild", wow... looking pretty good so far. On top of all that, it's cool enough to wear my hoodie ALL THE TIME. Whoooo Hooooo!
Now if only the grass would stop growing so that i didn't have to mow it any more this year i'd be styling hardcore.
How great is the new Dropkick Murphys Cd? i can't stop listening to it. i know i've mentioned this before but i can't state enough how much i like their new Cd. i can't wait until the St. Patrick's Day shows.
Despite the local deer knocking the head off of my pumpkin ghost and eating it's innards, and although i have failed to find a reasonably prices gorilla suit, i am still psyched about Halloween. Feeding into that is the re-release of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas" in IMAX theaters... this time in 3-D. i missed it last year... maybe i'll make it this year.
While talking about movies, few capture that introspective fall feeling like Wes Anderson and he's got a new movie coming out: "The Darjeeling Limited". With Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman it's looking pretty good. Every time i watch "The Royal Tenenbaums" i like it even more. Did i hear Natalie Portman mentioned?
Pile on a Thursday cd/dvd release, the possibility of a Weezer release, Angels & Airwaves, "Into The Wild", wow... looking pretty good so far. On top of all that, it's cool enough to wear my hoodie ALL THE TIME. Whoooo Hooooo!
Now if only the grass would stop growing so that i didn't have to mow it any more this year i'd be styling hardcore.
Oct 8, 2007
i Remember Stars
Driving home from the Henry Rollins show last night i was driving down a very familiar route from my youth. It was well after midnight and i was traveling down the highway that runs between the city i grew up in and the beach. In the just over three decades that i have been breathing i have noticed a change.
As a child we drove alot. As with all children from that era in addition to not having child seats (or even seat belt usually) we did not have walkmen, iPods, dvd players, or much of anything to entertain us during car trips. We could entertain ourselves by harassing our siblings but that didn't last long before threats of pulling the car over and/or threats of physical violence came from the parental quarters of said vehicle.
During those hours spent in the family station wagon we had to entertain ourselves, and usually quietly. Much of that time for me was spent either creating rhythms in my head based on the tempo of passing trees and light posts by day or staring up at the stars by night.
Yes, i was a drumming science geek from birth.
Later, in my teenage years those same trips to the beach were made as a passenger in friends' cars (i never own a car until senior year in college). Again i looked up to the stars, sometimes chemically altered, sometimes attempting to escape the horrible '...all i wanna do is zoom a boom boom' rap coming out of the stereo. But again i was making note of the stars.
A lonely late night drive down that familiar path had me taking stock of all that star gazing. What happened to all those stars? The scientist in me knows that those stars haven't gone anywhere. It is not the stars that have changed but the sky. That black snake with the yellow dashes down it's back i travel upon now slithers from one glow in the horizon to the next. No matter were you are along that stretch of highway now there is always a dome of light in sight.
The light pollution has taken those stars from me. There used to be millions of them up there. The wildest corners of my childhood imagination could not begin to come up with all the possible things that were going on in all those different bits of outer space. A lifetime of rides would not give me enough time to count them all. Now i wouldn't even get the chance to try.
Growing up in that area i know that there is very little to do in any of those towns i passed through after 7 pm, and there is NOTHING to do after 9:30 pm. So why all the exterior illumination? These lights were not guiding people through their nigh-time entertainment. So what are all those kilowatts doing? Of course... they are keeping vast expanses of empty parking lots and closed box-stores a glow.
As long as they can carry the touch for all of humanity things must be all right with the world.
All that coal burned, all those atoms excited, all those rivers damned (and dammed) for this? All those stars extinguished (from our view at least) for this? i know i am a curmudgeon, but couldn't the last guy out flick the switch?
We are constantly remind how the little things can add up when it comes to conservation. Switch to more efficient bulbs, keep your car tires properly inflated, turn the heat down a degree or two in the winter. That parking lot illuminated throughout the night probably accounts for my electric bill for the entire month.
We could fight air pollution and light pollution all at the same time. How about it? i want my stars back.
As a child we drove alot. As with all children from that era in addition to not having child seats (or even seat belt usually) we did not have walkmen, iPods, dvd players, or much of anything to entertain us during car trips. We could entertain ourselves by harassing our siblings but that didn't last long before threats of pulling the car over and/or threats of physical violence came from the parental quarters of said vehicle.
During those hours spent in the family station wagon we had to entertain ourselves, and usually quietly. Much of that time for me was spent either creating rhythms in my head based on the tempo of passing trees and light posts by day or staring up at the stars by night.
Yes, i was a drumming science geek from birth.
Later, in my teenage years those same trips to the beach were made as a passenger in friends' cars (i never own a car until senior year in college). Again i looked up to the stars, sometimes chemically altered, sometimes attempting to escape the horrible '...all i wanna do is zoom a boom boom' rap coming out of the stereo. But again i was making note of the stars.
A lonely late night drive down that familiar path had me taking stock of all that star gazing. What happened to all those stars? The scientist in me knows that those stars haven't gone anywhere. It is not the stars that have changed but the sky. That black snake with the yellow dashes down it's back i travel upon now slithers from one glow in the horizon to the next. No matter were you are along that stretch of highway now there is always a dome of light in sight.
The light pollution has taken those stars from me. There used to be millions of them up there. The wildest corners of my childhood imagination could not begin to come up with all the possible things that were going on in all those different bits of outer space. A lifetime of rides would not give me enough time to count them all. Now i wouldn't even get the chance to try.
Growing up in that area i know that there is very little to do in any of those towns i passed through after 7 pm, and there is NOTHING to do after 9:30 pm. So why all the exterior illumination? These lights were not guiding people through their nigh-time entertainment. So what are all those kilowatts doing? Of course... they are keeping vast expanses of empty parking lots and closed box-stores a glow.
As long as they can carry the touch for all of humanity things must be all right with the world.
All that coal burned, all those atoms excited, all those rivers damned (and dammed) for this? All those stars extinguished (from our view at least) for this? i know i am a curmudgeon, but couldn't the last guy out flick the switch?
We are constantly remind how the little things can add up when it comes to conservation. Switch to more efficient bulbs, keep your car tires properly inflated, turn the heat down a degree or two in the winter. That parking lot illuminated throughout the night probably accounts for my electric bill for the entire month.
We could fight air pollution and light pollution all at the same time. How about it? i want my stars back.
Provoked
Apparently readers of this this site are not recreational drug users. Good for you. Nancy Reagan would be proud. Other than that it was a three way tie for what you do to deal with those times when life gets rough.
As always, the new survey can be found to the right. Yeah, i know it's a day late, thanks for bringing it up you bastard (or bitch, depending on sex of reader). i was busy eating delicious vegan food and seeing Hank Rollins do a spoken word. Suck it up. It is a Holiday Weekend after all, even if it is the celebration of discovering something that was already discovered, or the celebration of the beginning of the extermination of native cultures.
Maybe we should rename Columbus Day to keep up with the times. Let's call it National Asshole Day. Find stuff that already exists and claim theories that people already believe. i think politicians would love that holiday.
As always, the new survey can be found to the right. Yeah, i know it's a day late, thanks for bringing it up you bastard (or bitch, depending on sex of reader). i was busy eating delicious vegan food and seeing Hank Rollins do a spoken word. Suck it up. It is a Holiday Weekend after all, even if it is the celebration of discovering something that was already discovered, or the celebration of the beginning of the extermination of native cultures.
Maybe we should rename Columbus Day to keep up with the times. Let's call it National Asshole Day. Find stuff that already exists and claim theories that people already believe. i think politicians would love that holiday.
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