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Here's an interesting article about porn as a technical innovator, which is something I've been fascinated by for years—no, I don't mean porn, which seems to confuse almost everything I actually enjoy about sex with simple hydraulics. What I find interesting is that every innovation that Hollywood and the record labels decried as the end of the world was actually embraced by and made mainstream by porn. Video cassettes took movies, dirty and otherwise, out of crappy theaters and into our homes; DVDs improved the audio and video quality of the product, while mainstreaming owning the product;…
Often when I think I have nothing to write about, I remember. I remember. I remember JA commenting on one of my entries:
"It's amazing how you can write 300 words about nothing, and make it seem important."
"It's amazing how you can write 300 words about nothing, and make it seem important."
I don't think he really used the word "amazing," but it was something like that.
I remember when.
I remember. I remember when I lost my mind.
Sometimes I think I'm crazy. I really do. But I tell myself:
Crazy people don't think they're crazy. Relax, fool.
Maybe it would be better if I didn't call myself names.
Has it been 300…
If you like (or even if you don't like) the album version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," try this slow live jam.
If you don't like this version, well, I just think you're crazy.
Nod your head "hell yeah" as Cee-Lo's voice shatters the heavens and makes the rain pour down at 2:08 into the song (or 5:43pm EST).
Erstwhile Stereophile scribe and Audio editor Corey Greenberg has a new mission: To bring back the manly art of wet-shaving with a badger hair brush and a "real" razor. No matter how obscure the subject, Greenberg's always an entertaining read.
Via Mikey Fremer and Grow-A-Brain blog.
Bagheera and Huckleberry have pruned the Venetian blinds so they can bask in the late afternoon sun.
After a hard afternoon of sunbathing, relaxing in the dark living room is nice, too.
That's an anagram of "Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code." Oh drat! I just gave away answer #4 on this important cultural quiz. And, if you haven't already done so, read Tony Scott's hilarious review of the movie from yesterday's NY Times.
The movie opened today, but when JA and I were having a brew at the corner pub last night, a lady came by offering DVDs of, you guessed it, The Da Vinci Code. So we managed to start not seeing it a whole day early.
Gary Younge discovered that America is a big country—too big to be just one thing.