Scraps of time

Yahoo Domains sucks. No support email addresses or phone numbers. I used it just to see how the big Y! would do it. Crappily. The one domain I had with them is non-functional until a nameserver change finishes going through.

All the Real Girls impressed me greatly. I had high expectations because of my fondness for George Washington and it exceeded them. I was so caught up in the emotions of one particular scene that I realized I had clenched my hand into a fist and was angry. AtRG features the only (?) and best use of a Mogwai Fear Satan remix in a movie.

Cowboy Bebop

I saw “Cowboy Bebop: The Movie” today. Let me add a small warning. Seeing this on opening day was probably not the best idea. The 99% adolescent male audience had dull, insipid comments to make throughout. They were only mediocre fanboys at best as true fans would have sat in shock and awe. I really don’t care if they have a crush on Edward, but every time she shows up on screen I heard “Ed is awesome.”

From Raging Cow to Neutral Milk Hotel...

I’d been listening to a few mp3s of songs by Neutral Milk Hotel for a few weeks now. Yesterday I finally bought the album (Screw you RIAA). I don’t think I own a CD with as many songs about life and death. If I do, they certainly don’t have the upbeat, magical view of our beginnings and endings that this album has. “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”, “Ghost” and “Holland, 1945” in particular stand out.

Slammin' Milk

I finally did the raging cow thing. Dr. Pepper’s new milk product with lots of sugar and fat. Pleasantly diverting, and boy I wonder how they get milk to stay good as long as they do. The one I got lasts till August 5th, 2003. It must not be milk.

What makes me curious about it is their web site. They have a regularly updated blog running on Movable Type. The blog has a CowCam webcam, and lists of links of friends. They have a What Raging Cow Flavor Are You? quiz because people love those. (I’m Jamocha Frenzy) I wonder if this appeal to weblog people will work. They aren’t the first to try it.

I read stories about the

I read stories about the hellish life of an Iraqi soldier and other stories about Iraqi soldiers using women and children as shields and I wonder why it had to be this way. If George Bush 43 hadn’t been such an incompetent at foreign policy. If he had used his lifetime of leisure and unparalleled opportunity to travel to somewhere besides Mexico we wouldn’t be in this mess. We’d have a multilateral UN mandated force taking out the monsters in Sadaam’s regime. Feeling: numb

I just read about a

I just read about a feast prepared for US soldiers by Iraqi civilians and it made me wonder how that might trickle back to America. Wouldn’t it be nice if American soldiers came back with a taste for the local food, and we saw huge growth in milddle eastern restaurants back home? Feeling: numb

So my experiment to build

So my experiment to build a career with Apt Minds has come to a pause after 13 months or so. It’s taken the wind out of me and I feel numb. It’s my own fault really. I didn’t work hard enough. I am not as good as I thought I was. I didn’t find the discipline I had hoped to find. At any rate, I’m willing to walk away right now and let Dave make of it what he can. What surprises me is Leia still trying to retain some control.

Marching in lockstep

According to a Zogby poll about attitudes towards the war:

“Greatest support is among Republicans (91%-8%), while only 46% of Democrats are supportive and 52% are opposed. Independents support the war 69% to 30%.”

What kind of automatons make up the Republican party that they are 91% behind Bush on this war!? I imagine you’d find the same brown shirt obedience across policies. (Don’t give me the “they support their president bullshit”, do you need a reminder of what they said about Clinton during the war in Kosovo?) I say the same thing with equal vehemence about the 90% percent of the African-American population that voted for Gore.

Crap, there goes my chance

Crap, there goes my chance to see godspeed you black emperor! again. They were captured at an Oklahoma gas station after leaving the Fort Worth show I saw. Apparenty the gas station attendant though that nine white folks from Canada were terrorists and called the police.

And the mightyness of Rush

And the mightyness of Rush carries on, this time in the web medium. Congrats to rush.com for winning a 2003 SXSW Web Award for best Musical Artist/Band site.

Oh and I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that fellow DFWer Griff trounced the competition in the “Weblog” category with his site ultramicroscopic. DFW reprezent! Listening: Cold Fire-Rush-Counterparts