Cursive - Let Me Up
My Cursive Music Video Theory still holds up — for some reason they can’t make two good music videos in a row. This is the good (or at least interesting) one.
Bad Track Record
Well, this thing has survived past two weeks. Who'd've guessed?
I just finished watching Transformers 2...
I want my fucking auto-bot industry bailout back!
*wonder how much GM paid to have there cars in it… wonder how much of our money was used.
Now, Del….you’re probably joking, but you’re smarter than this. You know how long it takes to make a movie, and you know that as long as it takes to make a movie, it takes even LONGER to make a movie with as much CGI as Transformers 2.
GM received government money in what? March?? And Transformers 2 came out in June. So there is absolutely no way government bailout (our) money went into financing the completion or distribution of Transformers 2.
I know the movie sucked (if the decepticons could turn into humans why did they only do it once and WHY did it turn into a slutty co-ed and not the President or something useful to their scheme), but this is Tumblr, not cable news….let’s be rational.
Please reblog this to help strike a blow against pediatric cancer. I will post on Sunday exactly how much I’ve raised by doing this!
Additionally, if you would like to make your own donation, you can do so by clicking here. My mom is donating an additional $.25 for every $1 that is donated until 8 AM CST on 10/17/09.
NO SPOILERS....
…but if you’re going to see Where The Wild Things Are in order to reaffirm your belief in the splendors of childhood….
DON’T.
(I thought it was a good movie, it’s just not the movie that Warners is marketing, which I think will disappoint/piss off some people.)
Hey All You West Coast Twee-Hipster-Nerds!!
I’m going to watch Where The Wild Things Are at least six hours before you.
Suck it.
HOLY SHIT.
Next time something like this balloon boy thing happens, would someone just text me and tell me to stay away from the Internet ALL DAY.
New Minus The Bear →
This band’s music always conveys a strong feeling of time and place to me. That’s super pretentious-sounding and vague, I know, but something about this song just feels like an unseasonably warm September night in the late 1980s.
I can’t explain why.
This is why I hate The Eagles. All their songs make me think of sunset in some sad, dusty podunk town in the Southwest circa 1979. Which is really. fucking. depressing.
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Whoa.
(via hmobius)
I was just talking about this over the weekend with some friends and now Capt Lou dies.
Everyone should Do The Mario today in his honor.
GPOYW Sorting Out Car/Health Insurance Bullshit Edition
In other news, I will be riding the Magnum 2000XL tomorrow in balmy 50 degree weather.
Sure, it will be a little chilly, but roller coasters are roller coasters, right?
THIS IS ROCKTOBER!!!
Adventures In Subbing: “Is It The Shoes?”
Since middle school teachers usually dress down a bit on Fridays, I’ve gotten in the habit of wearing my chucks when I sub in middle school on a Friday.
Turns out, middle schoolers FUCKING LOVE CONVERSE ALL-STARS. I had at least a dozen kids legitimately compliment me on my shoes. I earned major cool cred today.
Today was middle school band, which — being a former band kid — was pretty awesome.
Also: As I see it, teaching middle school is a tough job. They put up with so much hormonal insanity and general immaturity that I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a lot of evidence of teacher on student killing sprees. Now as tough as the job is on its own, now factor in that your last name is Dickman. There was a teacher named Dickman at this middle school.
I don’t think I met the teacher in question, but I’d like to believe that he/she has developed a capacity for serenity that would make the dalai lama jealous. That or he/she is a total masochist.
HIGH SEA ADVENTURE!!!
The Old Man says, “Sea!”
(I think that’s a borderline pun/literary reference/a weak age joke about Dave Lyons)
