Happy Halloween
Came home to find this across from me in my darkened living room. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it actually sort of scared me a little, as it was late, dark, and I wasn't expecting an evil glowing pumpkin in my apartment.
October 31, 2006 at 7:41 AM | TrackBack
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According to Bob Clark, Halloween was first conceived as a sequel to his 1974 film Black Christmas, but director John Carpenter took the holiday horror idea and ran with it.
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Clever, and anything that mentions The Tar Man is a-okay in my book.
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Woo-hoo. This looks like a day trip.
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I need enough money in life to run a year-round haunted house and 3-D/William Castle-style revival theatre without having to worry about making money on it.
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Handy!
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This makes me want to type letters.
October 31, 2006 at 12:22 AM | TrackBack
All alone.
According to How Many of Me, there are 0 people named Starlen Rosencrans in the country. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm pretty sure that's not entirely correct.
That said, the service lists 0 people named Starlen in the country. I once worked at a place where I had the ability to check names (only names - no numbers were ever displayed) against the social security database, and exactly 6 Starlens came up as having had SSNs since the inception of Social Security. Two of them were me; one was the guy I was named after. That leaves three other Starlens floating out their somewhere.
Back to How Many of Me, though, I find a little more luck with Star Rosencrans, rather than Starlen. No other Star Rosencranses, but there are apparently 4500 (how's that for a round number!) people in the US with the first name Star, and 630 people with the last name Rosencrans. That makes Rosencrans rarer than I would have expected, though there are 1110 Rosecranses out there, which is supposed to be my grandfather's birth surname.
How does your name fare? Alan Berliner invited 12 other Alan Berliners to join him for dinner, and made a movie about it. This would probably be much more difficult for my friend Matthew Smith, if he were interested in inviting all 9,943 of his fellow Matthew Smiths.
Oh, and of those 4,500 Stars? "More than 99.9 percent" are girls. Sigh.
October 30, 2006 at 7:33 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
French Toast
I don't know about you, but I like my french toast crispy. What's wet french toast all about, anyway? Gross.
October 30, 2006 at 7:22 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
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October 25, 2006 at 1:23 AM | TrackBack
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Joel Tauber's working to save a tree in the Rose Bowl Parking Lot. This interview with him is pretty great.
October 14, 2006 at 1:23 AM | TrackBack
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Now that it's out on dvd, I finally got to see this film after reading about it for the last eight years or so. It's a great horror film, creepy and idiosyncratic in a way that few horror films have been in the last twenty years.
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Time to buy new furniture.
October 13, 2006 at 1:26 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
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Interesting look at how Wal-Mart deals with its suppliers and manufacturers. 3 years old, but new to me.
October 12, 2006 at 1:22 AM | TrackBack
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“Do you have any questions? Anything you want to know about me before I go into character and start saying these terrible things?
October 11, 2006 at 1:21 AM | TrackBack
Chiru!
I've just learned of Chiru, a fantastic Telugu actor, also known as Chiranjeevi, or Konidela Siva Snara Vara Prasad. He apparently founded the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust for Eye and Blood Donations. According to Wikipedia, he's also won four Nandi Awards and seven Southern Filmfare awards for Best Actor.
But that's not important. What is important, though, is this trio of videos on YouTube, posted in approximate order of excellence. Chiru, it seems, really likes Michael Jackson. And Axel Foley. And Boogaloo Shrimp. And cowboys. Which makes him pretty awesome in my book.
If you watch only one, watch this, Chiru's take on Michael Jackson's Thriller. They appear to have roughly grabbed scenes from Thriller and done away completely with the storyline of the original video. The song is way more kick-ass than Thriller, though - check the crazy synth-line, and the addictive Goli Mar! refrain. Also, note how hard Chiru works to keep the fangs in the beginning as he opens his mouth:
Here, Chiru sings something to the tune of Beverly Hills Cop and threatens to put you in a "Rock Trance." Also, he's dressed straight-up Breakin' style:
And finally, here's his Smooth Cowboy:
October 10, 2006 at 9:05 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
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I could have sworn I read this exact same story a year or so ago. But nothing on snopes.
October 10, 2006 at 1:24 AM | TrackBack
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Advice in event of snakebite: no venom-sucking. Not that I would have jumped to do that in the first place.
October 9, 2006 at 1:20 AM | TrackBack
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The Stooges concert rider is awesome.
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The most hard-hit areas will be in California, alongside the Southwest coast of Florida, and in Arizona and Nevada.
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Wow...this is just creepy all around.
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This is funny. Also, undoubtedly better than the movie is going to be.
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A sadly hilarious pre-Report Daily Show clip where Colbert bravely takes a gas-station owner to task for lowering his prices and denying profits to the hurting oil industry (who eventually tear his station down).
October 7, 2006 at 1:23 AM | TrackBack
The Rose Bowl Biennale
Following up on the Bronco Swap Meet Biennale from earlier this year, Clancco and Outpost for Contemporary Art have joined forces, Voltron-style, to put together The 2006 Rose Bowl Flea Market Biennale, of which I'm honored to be a participant.
It's this Sunday, and there's a whole slew of super-talented people involved. As with last time, I feel I've snuck in and am waiting for someone to kick me out. The full list of artists:
Sky Burchard, Star Rosencrans, Aganetha S. Dyck, Douglas Melini, Ami Brett, Charles Gaines, Andrew Reyes, Channing Hansen, Chris Sollars, Collin Zipp, Christiane Robbins, Dani Tull, David Bunn, Dorit Cypis, Emma J. Bloomfield, Edith Abeyta, Fritz Haeg, Theresia Rosa Kleeman, Adrian Rivas, Gina Osterloh, Paul Robles, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez + Valerie Tavere), Juana Menses, Julian Hoeber, Julie Lequin, Kathryn Van Dyke, Kika Thorne, Kim Schoen, Linda Pollock, Marc Fischer, Paul Druecke, Peter Cole, Renato Garza Cerver, Rebecca Morris, Robert Larkin, Annie Shaw, Shannon Spanhake, Marcy Freedman, Tim Hyde, Tom Lawson, Stephen Prina, Will Rogan, Eric Magnuson, Don Jamón, Javier Piñon, Jim Schatz, Mary Beth Heffernan, Cooper Griggs, Erik Bakke, Christine Wuermell, Kim Schoen, Phil Chang
Hoo boy, that's a list. There's also a really fascinating debate/friendly discussion occurring over in the comments on the Clancco site, between Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento and Dorit Cypis, one of the participating artists. What starts out as a few questions about the point of the Biennale ends up evolving into a discussion about the relevance of contemporary art in general. It remains a perpetually unfinished debate, but the hashing out in the meantime is pretty interesting.
In any event, it should be interesting to see how this turns out - there's quite a different audience at the Rose Bowl Flea Market, especially given its proximity to Los Angeles and its art collectors, than at the El Paso Bronco Swap Meet.
If you're in the area, I'd highly recommend you check it out and pick some stuff up.
