alien with a comb over

quote of the day

Religion is my favorite hobby. It's deep and voluptuous--a pure delight. Nothing is comparable to the delight you get from this activity. -- Leonard Cohen

the k chronicles

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco currently has a room devoted to cartoonist Keith Knight. His strips had me laughing out loud. Check out a strip with sound here.

among the living and the dead

urge

Urge

hotel peephole

Ordinary peephole?

hit the lights

back to san francisco

My flight leaves tonight for San Francisco. It's the same trade show as last year, but this time I am staying for the entire show, not just the installation of the client's exhibit. So I will be gone until July 19, hurray! I plan on doing some major used CD hunting at Amoeba Music and Aquarius Records. Plus I will be visiting the Museum of Modern Art and the Cartoon Art Museum. Can't forget Fisherman's Wharf and all the museums there, plus Alcatraz! My camera is in working condition (unlike last year), so expect plenty of photos upon my return.

Talk and/or type to y'all later!

still life

glaring at rockets

on a clear day

happy fourth of july

fade to black

the stompbox as art

Check out these cool art installations by Yoshihiko Satoh:

MXR

Soul Effecter Series

Present Arms

Brilliant.

electronic poetry magnet kits

Electronic Poetry Kits

Using the Morrissey kit, I came up with this:

Never heard how Caligula died--
dizzy, dreaded, drunken,
twice as whore-happy,
virtually worth two hundred lumps.

into the light

zombie mimes

You'll wish that they were trapped in a box.

abstract geese

achtung zombie?

I was at a video store yesterday and saw a promo blurb on a video box for "the best of the Nazi zombie movies yet." I didn't even realize that such a genre existed. Are the movies about WWII-era Nazis that became zombies? I don't think that the fallout from Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have drifted that far west. Maybe Dr. Mengele was the German version of Herbert West from Re-Animator. Or do these movies focus on modern-day neo-Nazi zombies? Hmmm, neo-Nazi zombie sounds redundant, doesn't it?

I just Googled "nazi zombie movie" and found this interesting history of movie zombies. Turns out that in the 1940s there were many movies wherein Nazis attempted to control zombie armies to do their dirty work. I have a mental image now of one Nazi and three zombies seated around a card table playing Risk.

Are there any other subgenres of zombie movies that I should know about? Maybe ambient zombies--they only bother you if you pay attention to them. Oh, wait, those are mimes.

miles to go before i sleep

monster?

alone

photoshop phun

feeling blue

embrace the random xxvi

Here's an odd little site that randomly loops, bleeps, bloops, and drones, accompanied by primitive Atari-esque graphics of a red car traveling on a never-ending highway. Enjoy your drive.

apocryphal quote of the day

Despite all my rage, I am still making minimum wage.
-- Billy Corgan, age 16

hello, miro

the melty man cometh

quote of the day

One unfortunate result of expressing dopey views, rudely, in public is that people might mistake us for a clueless pillock. -- Robert Fripp

when sloth becomes art

The result of falling asleep on the sofa while watching TV: pathetic.

in a haze at work today

embrace the momdom ii

My mom emailed me earlier this past week to see if I wanted to work on our bathroom Saturday (finish some grouting and maybe paint the walls). I replied that I just didn't have the energy this weekend (work is grinding me down something fierce lately), but I would gladly go out and do some fun stuff with her instead.

So yesterday we began our micro-adventure by having lunch at the VegiTerranean, the vegetarian restaurant in Akron owned by Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. Readers, if you have the chance, go there! The food was excellent--I had the potato gnocci with Gardein chicken and broccoli in a light Rawmesan sauce that was much better than your typical alfredo sauce. My mom had the chili and a portabello sandwich, and enjoyed it very much too.

The only downer there was a table of eight older women, all wearing gaudy red hats. Yes, you've seen them at other restaurants too--they've followed me to at least three other establishments with their cackling and Oprah-fueled look-at-me sense of entitlement and arrogance. So you are over fifty, whoop-dee-fucking-doo: no one cares.

Next we went to the Akron Art Museum. Their new building is much larger than the old one, and its architecture is a work of modern art in itself. I appreciated the photography section there the most (big surprise) as well as the many Durer prints. There were a couple of incredible bric-a-brac collage sculptures by a local artist--I can't remember her name but will make sure to write it down upon my next visit (which will be free as I just became a supporting member of the museum, yay!).

In the gift shop I spotted a Holga camera. I had been reading a lot about these artsy toy cameras lately and was surprised to actually find a shop that carried them. After chatting a bit with the saleswoman about the Holga and its lo-fi charm, I decided to buy one. I hope to post some of my first efforts with the Holga in the next few weeks. In the meantime, check out other Holga photos here.

We ended our day at the main Akron Library, right across the street from the museum. This building is also relatively new, and I was blown away by their huge collection of popular and classical CDs. I need to get a library card there soon! The library has a little shop inside that sells old books for dirt-cheap prices. I picked up a travel guide on San Francisco for fifty cents, so as to be better prepared for my next business trip there in July.

All in all, yesterday was way more fun than painting the bathroom would have been. Thanks, Mom, for being an accomplice to my shirking of domestic responsibility.

embrace the momdom

Happy Mother's Day!

i like satire -- who doesn't?

The Uncyclopedia

The entry on King Crimson gave me quite a chuckle, and there's plenty more assorted absurdities and assinine annotations. Have fun!

tubby's