Dr. Lanny Latham’s Daily Psychazoid today was “Warm it Up, Kris” and involved Dr. Lanny pretty much just quoting that song and then eating ice cream as fast as he can. Also Lanny calls it “freeze brain” but I’m pretty sure it’s normally “brain freeze.” But it got me pretty psyched!
Had dinner with Tabitha’s family Friday night in celebration of Chinese New Year, which is actually today (Monday). Year of the Ox. It was fun! Things I did not know that I learned Friday: you’re supposed to wear red (Tabitha had warned me, so I had on a shirt with some red), you’re supposed to eat foods whose names sounds like or are the names of things associated with good luck, that in Cantonese you say Happy New Year like “Gung Hay Fat Choy” and if you want you respond with “Sun ty gen hong.” Although if you’re me, you get nervous of saying it incorrectly and instead smile and [...]
This guy ranked all the Beatles songs, with extensive explanations for all of them. I only looked a few pages and disagreed with him all over the place (“Good Day Sunshine” is not the fifth worst Beatles song, although that is hilarious to put it there) — but I respect his obsessive thoroughness. (via kottke)
If were to rank them, I’d put them all tied for number one except for “Mr. Moonlight” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and that is it.
The Big Picture, a really cool photo blog over at The Boston Globe, has great pictures from yesterday’s inauguration. Among the cool stuff:
My friend Porter Mason draws a comic strip called Bassist Wanted, which will soon be available in for-real book form. It looks very cool and reminds me of days when I’d pluck a Bloom County collection out of the shelves of the otherwise-completely-lame “humor” section of Waldenbooks.
Here’s a sample that I like:
I was on an improv team with Porter for years (Arsenal, then 1985 as well as TJ Monkeys) and might I say that he is an amazing [...]
Two old stories by Gilbert Hernandez from the 80s Love and Rockets. If you like Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, check out “A True Story” (published 1986) which is Gilbert’s true encounters with a wrestler in the twilight of his career.
And if you like that see “The Whispering Tree” (1984) which is a short sweet story of the sort that Gilbert used to do all the time.
It’s hard to defend Love and Rockets comics these days. The characters have stories that are decades old and that alienate new readers, no matter how hard the bros. try [...]
Alan Moore once wrote and drew a cat comic strip. That’s weird. (“Jill De Ray” is his psuedonym). They’re not terrible.
Journalista has been linking to obscure Alan Moore stories all week. The best one is “The Bowing Machine” which he did with Mark Beyer for RAW magazine back in 1991 or something. I had a hip college professor who passed it out at the time. It was good then and it’s good now.
There’s also Just Born Lucky I Guess (a True Hollywood Story look at a werewolf’s acting career) and Love Doesn’t Last Forever (a cautionary tale about alien STDs) which are more standard fare but also good.
Checkmates. A trailer for a movie about a good girl chess player who meets a bad boy checkers player from the streets. Written by Sean Clements. Directed by me. Starring Ellie Kemper and Sean. Shot/edited by Todd Bieber. For ucbcomedy.com. We had a blast making this. It took a ton of people all volunteering their efforts. Anthony King picked the script and helped edit that. Curtis Gwinn, Neil Casey, Jill Donnelly, Joe Wengert, Tabitha Lee and a bunch of extras appeared. Donald Glover did the music. Noah Plener did the voiceover. Check it out!
If you want to be a super-friend, please go to the YouTube version and leave a [...]
Things:
Coffee, jargon, free food. It’s Stuff Journalists Like! [via boingboing]
Also, I discovered Netflix’ streaming videos which lets subscribers watch movies instantly on their computers. In the past 4 days I’ve watched Stop Making Sense, Born Yesterday (original), and Little Dieter Needs To Fly. And the first ten minutes of La Vie en Rose. Goodbye sleep.
Speaking of lists, I’m on #277 of Pitchfork’s top 500 songs since 1977, which is “C Is the Heavenly Option” by Heavenly. I like it. I still don’t like electronica, of which there is much on this list.
It only took ten minutes for Tabitha to become completely obsessed with World of Goo. Goodbye, Tabitha sleep.
Go see MixTape ’98 tonight at Maude Night! [...]
