Had some fun answering those questions yesterday and judging from the feedback a bunch of you had fun reading those responses so I'll tackle another batch in a few minutes.
We saw Shutter Island last night* and my friend Leonardo DiCaprio wanted me to tell you that I'm filling in for my ailing friend Pogo and taking tonight DJ slot at The Continental from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. Leonardo also wanted me to tell you he strongly suggests you attend. He apologized he could not make because, well, he's kind of busy on Shutter Island right now.
I was watching Reality Bites last night -- which other than seeing most of the cast of The Ben Stiller show on the big screen wasn't that good back then and is still not that good now -- and must admit cringing at Ethan Hawke's character. If you were to revisit the characters now I bet Winona Ryder's character would have eventually married someone like Ben Stiller's character unless, of course, Hawke's philosophical angry slacker never actually grew up and out of his self-centered blindness.* See, I can say this with some conviction since, at that time, I was pretty similar to the Hawke's character, right down to tossing off "important quotes" and lording my intelligence over all within earshot.
This got me to thinking about Tumblr and just what works on it and what doesn't. It's primary use is as a platform for curation, where you dig around stuff and share what you hope is of interest with everyone else. It's most successful when sharing images or a story you want to comment on, but I've also noticed a large number of people who use it to collect quotes they find interesting. However they usually pick a few lines of a quote out of context and then don't supply any commentary so often you haven't a clue why the quote is / should be notable. This isn't a huge problem, but it is one that sort of stops the dialogue cold, which seems counter-intuitive on a platform built on propagation and piquing readers' interests to keep the flow going.
I have too much music. So much it's actually become somewhat difficult to DJ. I have tons of awesome songs, but now when the hour arrives I often find I'm paralyzed by indecision. What to play first? Will I forget something? Didn't I just play that song last time I spun? How can I justify playing the same music twice when I have SO MUCH other stuff that deserves insertion in to the rotation.
I've suspected this for a while, but it wasn't until I recently stumbled across a couple DJ sets from 2006, which would have been right around when I switched from CDs to iPods, and realized they had a vitality that I don't notice in my current sets.To be fair, I probably thought theyr were tired back then, but i do think there's more of a playful breadth to the rediscovered set-lists.
Further hilarity here. Maybe they are geniuses collecting the email addresses of Dems sending these around because they ARE hilarious?
Back in the early days of our world, when the young planet was still steaming in it's own volcanic afterbirth, spasming and shuddering as it violently took its shape, there was a single being. This precursor to life as we know it grew proud because it was perfect, so from on high came a lightning bolt to cleave this perfect creature into two complementary halves. These two new beings were ripped from each other's company and thrown to opposite sides of the planet, but destiny promised they would one day reunite.
Man, more people than I expected have read my negative reviews of Big Star. Over the last couple months I've had a number of random folks tell me they thought my negative reviews of big Star were kind of mean. A few are personal friends with one or the other of the owners and i think they took my words a tad too personally.* Or, more accurately, didn't really read my exact complaint, they just glazed over in anger that I was taking friends of theirs to task.