Mike Daisey

Mike Daisey, a comedian monologer, I guess you would call him, was protested in an odd way, and he jumped back very well. It's hilarious to see him sit stunned, in his "Well I'll be." moment and then proceed to whity remarks.

Congratulations Steven Colbert

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Americone Dream keeps being sold out. I still have not had any. Damn it.

The Zimmers

These are my favorite people. They completely changed the meaning of the song in a good way. Not like that other girl who covered the song and changed it to "I hope I don't die before I get old." Who ever that was.

It's too late

Found an amazing TV show today. UFO--a BBC SciFi show from the 70's--full of over sexualized characters, uncomfortable jumpsuits. questionable scientific understanding, and big push buttons. (Thats what are technology needs today, big push buttons) Yep this is definitely from the 70's. Beyond the campy-ness, there's little more. No more or less intelligent then any other bad SciFi. If you have access to UFO I would encourage you to watch it, but don't seek it out. I've only seen the first episode, maybe I'll be pleasantly suppressed.

Oh yeah, the music is pretty sweet. Very fitting. And the models are surprisingly good.

In researching this show I stumbled upon this website. My Science Fiction Life: The story of science fiction in Britain. It just peaked my interest. Do the English like Science Fiction more then Americans? Is it more ingrained in there culture?

Grindhouse

I watched this movie last week. A brilliant premise with a brilliant movie by Rodriguez, followed by brilliant mock-trailers, followed by complete crap by Terinteno. Rodriguez followed the exploitation grindhouse zombie movie perfectly, and Terinteno gets off from his own ideas. Any redeeming qualities--mostly Kurt Russell--was completely ruined by Terinteno trying to be, um, something. Thats all I have to say.

Batman Begins

I just watched Batman Begins. What do I think of this 2 hour anti-drug campaign? Well, there needed to be more hallucinogenic sines, much more of the Scare Crow, and less corny jokes that only seemed to happen when the Batmobile was involved. Other then that it was the best Batman film I've ever seen, and I liked Tim Burton's Batman.

For the most part, it was exactly what the new Batman should be. Dark and action packed, except for the ill advised Batmobile jokes. He's not overly vengeful, except for end which i didn't really like. It seems as if every good point of this movie has an equal and opposite bad point, but it doesn't take to much out of the film. Hopefully the next one will be as good.

Highrise

www.highrisehq.com

"Highrise is a shared contact manager that helps you keep track of who you talked to, what was said, and what to do next." This is how the people of 37 signals discribe this web app. The website explains the usefulness for journalists, which peaked my interest as a journalism student. Looking at it, I realized how it would help me as a student, too. I could keep my teachers contact info and assignments in one place--online.

I've only used it for the last hour or so, which let me sign up and enter my school projects. So far, I'm pretty impressed. Each teacher has his or her own tab. Each one with my notes and different tasks and when they are due.

But this seems to be only the very peak of what can be done. Ultimately, the point of Highrise is to keep track of conversations had online, in person, or on the phone. And to keep track of what needs to be done or has happend. Lets say . . . you are a journalist, writing an article on the recent up-rise on little kids acting like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the likes of which has not been seen sence the late 80's. You would talk to some kids on the street, their parents, the creator of the TMNT, some physiologist, perhaps somebody involved in the original cartoon. How could you keep track of all this crap? Well, supposedly Highrise is to help with this. I haven't been able to work with this part at all yet so I would have to talk about that later.

So far it seems like a workable, useful tool. More on it later.

Two cop shows. Holy Crap!

Raines

It's the normal cop drama/comedy, but with one distinctive difference. Like all the police featured in these shows, this cop is a bit insane. He sees dead people, but not in the normal "twist." In this he imagines the dead people. Wooo. But thats not the distinctive difference referenced above. The distinctive difference is, and this is what makes the show pretty good, the cop is played by beloved actor and nerd god Jeff Goldblum.

It's only three shows in, and so far it has been entertaining. It's one of the few shows that is different enough to peek my interest, but not so much that either the majority of Americans won't get it or NBC will think the majority of Americans won't get it.

It's watchable. a bit obvious sometimes but still fun. Jeff Goldblum really give it his all. Real acting--like in Jurassic Park when the T-Rex is chasing after the car, kind of acting.

Life On Mars

This BBC show is in it's second season, and I've only seen this last season so far. It's about cop, Sam Tyler, who gets hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. He's trying to figure out if he's in a coma or really back in time while still maintaining his cop job.

The idea is basically the best cop show ever made. Sam knows an awful lot about his 70's era British crime, but to his cop coworkers he just seems eerily good at his job.

Sometimes it feel like the writers and director are trying to hard to prove it's actually 1973. A perfectly framed album cover put out that year--the technological backwardness. They seem to try to make the sexism a running theme, but to me the one working woman (she's a pretty high ranking police officer) seems kind of dumb and dull. But despite some problems it's still bloody brilliant, (said in your best Cockney accent) and it's better then any of the crap cop shows we have here.

Sweet

Also stay tuned for what I think of Life On Mars.

Seriously?

I'm trying to write an essay on a fantastic book "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places" and I found an horable fucking joke of a bug. Eveyone knows I can't spell for crap so I rely heavily on words spellcheck. I'm using Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac version 11.2

Ok, so I write the the string of letters "wrighting" and of course it is picked up by the spellcheck. I left click on it to make it correct and Word crashes. I tried it again and it did it again. Every time I've repeated the test Word crashes. What the fuck is that.

I thought I would publish my pain, so there you go.

Hey guess what I saw today.

Down Michigan ave. in Chicago. R2D2 wants your mail. Anyway I got a picture with my phone, but its stuck on it.

Chicago Asian American Showcase

The Chicago Asian American Showcase is coming: march 30th through April 12th. I just found this because wired had an interesting article. Bruce Lee died making his last movie, Game of Death, and they had to replace him with many different actors. It was very obvious, apparently. Asians all look the same.

Anyway, Justin Lin has made a parody of the movie. A pho-documentary, about the casting of Game of Death after his death.

It sounds pretty awesome, and I'd really like to go see this. But I probably wont have the time or money or energy to. that sucks.

Hey look at this

I'm so glad they put this up

This American Life the TV show is up on Showtimes website. It's awesome they have it online, I was worred I wouldn't be able to see it.

I watched it and I would say I liked it. It was enjoyable. They did a pretty good job formating the video to feel like the radio show, and there was a lot of really nice cinematography. But it was lacking in something. When I saw Ira Glass live, he talked about the intimate feeling of radio. Listening to the radio show there is a connection with the stories, thats not completely there with this TV show. The characters were visable, which was the whole point of the TV, but it replaced the all important imagination the show should create.

Saying that, I still liked the Television verson of This American Life. I wouldn't rate it as high as the original, but thats expected. Definitely worth watching, and I will try to watch the rest of the season.

Pining for Some Sort of Community

After listening to my History profecer talk about the history of chicago, and walking home to run into a wall of cop cars on Argyle St, I've been pining for a community. We discused things like Muddy Waters and Maxwell St. and Emit Till--I don't think I'll be seeing the next one of these where I am right now.



I think thats why I want to go into Journalism. So I have to be in the middle of everything that's happening.

Spring Break Woo

Last week was my spring break. Kind of boring. Only went to Datona Beach and judged pretty lady contests all day and smooched all night with the pretty ladies.



And then had the cutest car chase in histroy!!





Or I actually sat around not doing homework. Either way it was alright.

Bane of my Existents

Hey Everybody Pi Day

Tomorrow is March 14th (3/14) isn't that awesome. Go here for more information.

Have this.

Happy Pi Day.

Edit: Oh also beware the day after. Those crazy Ides of March and all.

Here's a picture of that for good measure.

Im a little down again

Although I did find a dollor on the ground today. But still a little down.

HUGGS!

Is this creepy of me.

Just a few moments ago I found this blog and I've been reading it and injoying it. Mostly because the writer is attractive.

She has other blogs. They're intersting, but not really aimed toward me. But shes attractive.

Edit: Plus. She's apparently geeky. At least according to this blog of hers.

This is More or Less My Dinner