Blog Title: Regional Geographic

Answer and Question

In regards to the blog posting on this blog two blog posts ago, I've recently learned that The Knife are writing a libretto for an opera called Tomorrow, in a Year. Sounds artsy.



The other theme of this blog from now on is going to be, what's up with this or that talented person or whatever that has not done something in a while? Well, since the Knife have sated my curiosity for a minute, let's move back to the popular French electronic music band Daft Punk. They haven't been on their laurels for as long as The Knife, but I mean come on.



If you're ready for a new component of the blog, read on. You know how sometimes your mom asks you what you would do if you would win a million dollars? This is kind of like that. If Daft Punk were doing anything right now, what should it be?

a) Interstella Pyramid Disney Ride
b) Another boring but cool movie
c) Shitty Favela Spaceship Crossover album
d) Collaboration with the Knife "Into The Black Space With Daft Punk And The Knife"
e) Willie Nelson Smoke Weed In a Spaceship Tour of Impoverished Farms On Mars Tour Planning
f) Opening taco shack in Venice Beach "Daft Punk At the Beach" after being inspired by Coney Island
g) Opening posh gastroscience expensive eatery in Beverly Hills
h) Just taking it easy for a few light years
i) All of the above

Technology Department

Hello, and welcome to the latest blog post, in the category "Things That Should Be On The Internet But Are Not"

The Roland SP-404 Sampler, which is supposed to be able to run on 6 AA batteries, will not run on NiMH rechargables. What kind of world do we live in?

Knife

What's the deal with The Knife? I know they said they weren't going to do anything for a while but seriously? What the fuck are they doing RIGHT NOW?

Products

Obviously things have changed around here and mission statements have shifted and morphed to different places, so I'm going to use this as a FORUM FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET ON THE INTERNET

88BOADRUM Complaints Department. I really want to go to Los Angeles to see 88BOADRUM, on August 8th, the followup to one of the most amazing days of my life, 7/7/2007, 77BOADRUM, where my favorite live band Boredoms makes a lot of drummers do the best thing any number of people could do. Gang Gang Dance are doing their own version in Williamsburg, still apparently written by EyE from Boredoms, but is it going to be the same? NO! I don't like Gang Gang Dance and don't even equate them with anything in the same galaxy as Boredoms. I have a feeling this is happening because GGD are close with Hisham Bharoocha, an awesome guy who I met at the airport once, from black dice, soft circle and used to be animal collective, he speaks Japanese and is like in with them and liked GGD I guess. But someone else, if anyone else is qualified, should be doing this: someone like Sonic Youth or at least someone with a long history of sick drumming experimentation like Nomeansno who face the drummer sideways or even the awesome guy who was Brian Wilson's percussionist the other night at Brighton Beach, or even someone pretentious like Jim Black who does crazy shit with drums. Or maybe just go straight to the source and get actual Animal Collective to do it instead of some ripoff. Gang Gang Dance are, to me, nothing more than half-baked Animal Collective ripoffs with boring Williamsburg aesthetics that just make me want to ... well they don't make me want to do anything besides complain. I'm sure they're nice folks and all, and some people like them, so whatever, but I can assure you there will be no Sevena, I can almost promise you, because that's something that EyE probably keeps tucked in his back pocket at all time (big pocket with rainbow spirals on it).



This is a very first world problem but I feel like going to go see the LA version (at the La Brea Tar Pits!) would be worth the $400. Or maybe charter a Concorde for EyE and company to make the EST version.

TAKING APART MY CANON POWERSHOT G7 TO CLEAN OUT THE DUST. Look, I have a speck



and I'm not going to get a new camera so someone, please, give me a PDF on how to take it apart and get that speck out.

Disney is a Hypocrite

Look, Disney HATES it when you pirate their shit. But here's a question for you, Mr. Eisner: If you hate stealing so much then why does your company support characters like THESE:





This is just one of many problems we have today in corporate America, not looking at your roots.

Applicator

Hey guys, just checking in with a few new Facebook App projects I'm workin' on!!

Boing Boing Has Bounced over the Shark ;)

Thunderina - Full Speed

Style Watch

Hey guys! The new thing is, get a rubber band and turn that fluffy mess into a lightning rod for controversy.



Or better yet - TWO lightning rods! Little cutie! Another lightning rod is to GIS "man pigtail"

That's it for today - watch out for more fashion tips here on the website!

A Miracle

Normally I like every movie I see. Until yesterday I could count the number of bad movies I had seen in a year on 2 fingers. But then I saw two shitty, boring, long, cheesy, boring movies in the SAME NIGHT, a bad night for the history of Cinema.

NASHVILLE



RETURN OF THE JEDI



FUCK THESE BORING MOVIES

The Prime Time Of Your Life

Now...do it. Don't wait. What are YOU going to take the time to do today?



You have to do something. Being in Las Vegas with people who are doing what they want to do in a place that was built out of the desert at a convention that is all about bringing the future to the present is strange but it's just like, the prime time of your life, now, do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm at the point now where I don't think it matters that what you do is extraordinarily important. I think the problem now is that people don't do anything, whether they think it's important or not (well, you, YOU - you should do something you think is important. People in general should just do SOMEthing). The prime time of your life! NOW - DO IT!

Thoughts Less Complicated

The thoughts I've been having lately aren't very complicated.

Oh!

It's hard to be Mitch McDeere.



Mud Island

Revelation

It's hard being a Ghost.



303 Prospect Place, Apartment 4D

Lil' Green Black Man

"I'm a Martian, and if you understand me you're Jesus Christ."

Old Folks

Y'all are OK, for real, just please go party alone! Thank you!



I don't have much to say to you.

Life Hack

Maybe you've faced the problem of wanting to read a magazine while you're in the toilet. Well that's normally not a problem unless you're AT WORK and don't want everyone to see you going to let it all out with a copy of Us magazine in your hands. So here's the Life Hack. Wear a sweatshirt and stick the magazine in the sweatshirt and zip it up. Go do your thang and take the mag out and read it in there and zip it up before you exit the stall. Now you're refreshed, well-read, and ready to get back to gChating all day long.

What It's Like

I was at this party tonight for Good Magazine and was like, what is wrong with these people? The problem is they're not REAL. U just gotta be REAL iz all



Not so real



T'real

Feeding Trough

Winter Stew

This winter stew is fantastic to feed to your cold family. Let them eat it in the den, in their rooms, or altogether in the big kitchen dining room table. It's delicious and will make your whole house smell like the right end of a hot dog stand. Eat the stew and make it for your family: Delicious Winter Stew. Serves 12.

Ideas

The only thing I have been doing for the past 5 hours is playing Guitar Hero II. Here are some ideas based on that activity that I have been doing. I know this is nothing new.

The Hunt

I grew up going to all you can eat buffets like 3 or 4 times a week. Panda's, Taj Mahal, Golden Corral, Pancho's, Crystal's Pizza Palace, Cici's, man, whatever, if they would give you a bunch of plates I would be there. My parents loved these places and they both ate like the food was going to run away. I still love these places and often lament their absence in New York City. In "The Big City" I guess it's too much of a risk some dirty ol' homeless will come in there and eat too much or something like that.

So as I usually do when I come home I have been eating every weekday at either Suma Veggie Cafe or Veggie Garden. Man, this shit is good. Right now I'm full of tacos, some curry chicken, brown rice, kung pao whatever, and like a million egg rolls and some soup and iced tea. I was proud of myself for limiting myself to just 2 pile-high plates.

But then when I got up from the table a familiar old feeling came over me.



Some people used to think I was bulimic because after lunch at school I would usually like puke up a little bit of food, but really, I wasn't. I just had to puke a little because I had eaten too much and my stomach didn't need all of that food. Not like a huge amount but like maybe half a cup of puke. If I had been bulimic I certainly hope I could've managed to puke up more than just a half a cup.

I don't ever do this in New York, just Dallas. It's very comforting. But now I think that idea of that restaurant I had is a bad one, about eating all you can.

Coincidentally I also learned a few days ago that most girls at Hockaday "sister school" school for private school girls in Dallas had eating disorders. So there is definitely something going on here and if you are some sort of doctor, I think this is a field you could make a lot of money in off of these people.

Post on Biker Guys, Redacted

Hello, well as you may know sometimes I post some things where I say how much I hate something / someone and it always comes back to bit me in the ass later. I wrote one of those this morning, and in the name of "learning" I have made some edits it and will give you just the pictures and a few verbal highlights.

Yesterday me and some Friendsters were just sitting around at the Blue Goose Cantina trying to get a little eating and hanging out done. The weather was real nice and the beer only cost $2.

....

Let me, then, just try to describe to you what kind of people these were, maybe with a little help from the internet along the way. OK, so on one end of the spectrum you have the real fuckin' badass Hell's Angel types. They'll kill you.



Then on the other end of the spectrum you have your regular guy who works at the IT department in Richardson and is "in town on Lower Greenville" just looking for a good time on the weekend and to watch the game ...



...one really tragic piece of the New Dallas on your hands.

You're thinking, OK, they're just people growing up confused in a confused world trying to make meaning out of their meaningless and middling lives. Give them a break, right? No. Don't give them a break. One of them, a real Oakley-wearing, sensible ... had on a sensible Harley tank top (actually a regular top with the sleeves cut off) that revealed his massive tat: a harley logo with the words "Everyone dies...not everyone lives" written above and below it in "Celtic" script. Thanks to Aric who pointed out that this was a quote from the movie Braveheart. ...

I'd like to differentiate between these types and types like this man, HelixBlue, who is just out there having a good time and riding a relatively low-noise BMW bike in a neon suit with his beautiful girlfriend.



This guy is just out there to have a good time. He's a nerd but doesn't have any bones about it.

... worst VISUAL aspects of the Hell's Angel, but also all of the EMOTIONAL ... aspects of the nerd - you know, the inability to defend oneself in the face of harsh criticism, probably ingrained in them from years of psychological torment as a skinny or fat dweeb in middle school....store up all their hatred...Trenchcoat Mafia style, but it will probably just be their office where they're on support staff, you're not going to be around, so who cares?



... Do you think a REAL guy would allow this kind of .... to exist? Or even a REAL nerd?



....Thanks and have a great rest of your day!

Instant Update: Just found out that these people have their own ... website!

Identity Crisis

There is so much music out there, most of the time it's like why even bother? So instead of trying to develop my own taste, digging through Gigglebytes of MP3s every day, most of which are just seriously terrible, I have decided to give myself over to what everybody else likes.

This just started yesterday after I was heading into the bathroom and noticed a copy of Rachael Ray's delicious new magazine on the sink!



I was reading through it, and was thinking, you know, this is really fun to read. Just like little tips of what R. R. is doing in the kitchen these days, and some delicious recipes for Pumpkin Whoopee Pie. And if I talk to my mom or one of her friends, she will like to talk about it too. Here's the other side of the coin, did you know that RR is such a huge slut?



I feel like she really has the magic touch, so she's the first new thing I'm into in this new life. I know I'm going to like it because, how could millions of "foodies" be wrong? Fatasses.

So while I might not be the place to go to for the best new underground music rock, maybe I'll be way more interesting to everyone in general, who could ask for more? Bon voyage!

Poll Question

After talking about babies, I ended up with more questions than answers like ANY good conversation, so now that ball is in your court.



Looking forward to your responses!

Dream Gernal Part 2: Trading Places

It's an old green-gold-in-the-afternoons and green-gray at night place. Pale white brick eaten through by ivy at every outside corner. End of a rounded dead-end block surrounded mostly by horizontal, weeping trees. Sunlight reaches through to blandly lick the furry wallpaper and sticks around only because it has to.

Mike and I live in one end of the house. Ellen DeGeneres lives at the other. We eat and shower at the dining room and bathroom; both are in the middle of the house.

Ellen gets out of the shower. It's steamy and Mike is brushing his teeth. He closes his eyes:

- I didn't see anything!, through a mouthful of foam.

- And my name's not Ellen DeGeneres! He giggle-spits and she towels her hair while she flops her boobs around on his back. He does a cute little ewee-eww-eww dance. I flush the toilet and open the toilet room door. Now we are all in the steamy center. Mike sniffs, hacks and spits violently with a lot of drama.

- Why do you eat ice cream when you know it does that to you? Spit spit spit. Yuck!

- Yuck! Says Ellen. She puts on the pink soft Turkish robe: eDl. Now your ugly breeder poop particles are mingling with our clean homo suds. When was the last time you showered?

- Uh, the day before I saw Mike having a jizz session in there with Donatello or whatever.

- MICHAEL and there was no jizz and no session.

- Yeah right. Ellen wipes her feet violently on a pumice rug.

- FUCK OFF. If I make you both breakfast wil all eat a sack of pubes and go to hell?

- Yeah, if you Windex the shower bottom and promise not to eat any more pubes in there.

- Yeah, if you Windex out the shower bottom and promise not to eat any more pubes in there, Ellen DeGeneres says but it's funnier and Mike goes to the store. When the door shuts behind him:

- Gay guilt, we snort and whip each other with damp towels until we get tired of the joke.

A little while later we eat breakfast and decide to trade places.