Hand-delivered by Czelticgirl is this little ol’ piece of greatness written by Harvey Pekar about Bill Hicks. Doesn’t get much better than that, folks.
Am I the only one who thinks that Bill Hicks’ entire collection should be given to every high school student upon graduation?
Said I to Bjorn in the year of our Lord 1999, “We should truly mimic our favorite rock band, The Led Zeppelin, and produce an epic, yet incredibly short, tune obviously written about J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. Perhaps we could have severe guitar chords followed by the repetition of the name ‘Gollum.'”
Said Bjorn to me, “It is done.”
And it was good. And, lo, was a genre born unto us. And then, some guy made some movies and our rightful riches were handed to the plagiarized, yet altogether worthy, work of a hack.
(Apologies for the lame bookends of MTV on that last link.)
Linus helped me define myself today. I wish I was closer to Islam and farther from Scientology, but my buddhist nature reveals to me that I mustn’t wish at all.
You’d think that Buddhism wouldn’t lend to jaded railings about comic book superhero movies, but you’d be wrong. I mean, just look at that score. And I’d be a Jain if I hadn’t murdered thousands of silverfish last night.
1.?Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2.?Theravada Buddhism (96%)
3.?Unitarian Universalism (96%)
4.?Liberal Quakers (91%)
5.?Jainism (80%)
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1. Grab the nearest book to you, turn to page 18, line 7. Read what it says:
“batch is equivalent to at -q b -m now.”
But I’ve never read that book.
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More on this thread between Bjorn and the world of rock, somethingawful chimes in.
Someone better do something about this soon, or my little brother’s generation will never understand what the words “new” and “music” sound like together.
UPDATE: Road trip to save music.
This smokescreen of funny will keep you reading long enough for me to be bitter again, I promise.
The reel truth, from Wannabe Giant, who never posts anymore. Too cool to blog, B-rock?
Does Chipotle frighten you? You are not alone. Go to the 16th of April and listen around. This is probably the most genius one can post on the web by law. Bjorn, take note. This could be you, and you could ascend.
And finally, nothing is more surefire comedy than monkeys in hats.
Those last two stolen remorselessly from the mighty research girl herself.
In response to this mockery, I post Steelbuddha’s 100 Best Movie Characters From Movies (Mostly Geeky Ones) I’ve Seen Subject To Change As I Remember Others Or Am Reminded By Comments And/or Angry Emails And Most Importantly In No Particular Order.
Also, I’m a totally uninteresting person with nothing better to post than the fact that I had haggis this weekend at a Tartan Day party and didn’t see what people get so disgusted over. It tasted like pork liver hash to me.
P.S. I’m still behind on my classic films; I may change a lot of these once I’ve actually seen things like To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and *gasp* The Godfather.
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WTF?
Before I sign off today, thought I’d leave you with one last thing.
Got this important missive right as I closed my Mail program. The subject: ERIC CLAPTON ON SALE THIS MONDAY AT 10 AM!
Poor Eric. The government should be craking down on this illegal internet trade. Hasn’t he suffered enough tragedy? Now to be sold into white slavery by a place as forgettable as the Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee…just made me weep a little.
I don’t even know what to put here. MHG had been trying for two weeks to get in touch with the real estate agent in charge of her dreams. Today. she received a call back with the message, “Oh, the landlord’s been in negotiations with [someone with a less geeky store concept] for a while now.”
Well, thanks for getting back to us with that vital information before we started working or putting any sort of emotional energy towards that particular location. Good customer service that.
I’m sorry that we didn’t show up in suits to see the torn-up guts of the building we were considering. I guess we must not be serious about this.
And thank you for acting excited (poorly) about our idea when you really didn’t have any intention of selling the property to us. We’ve learned our lesson.
For someone who loves games as much as I do, you’d think I would have learned the rules of this one faster.
