Tiger Town

Too bad I can't find a bigger & cleaner picture of the original VHS cover. Oh well.
I have a memory of seeing this movie on a hotel televison when I was young. I've asked people about it before, and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about.
What I remember about the story is short; The Tigers suck, but there is this kid that has some kind of psychic connection with Detroits pitcher, played by Roy Schinder, and when this kid is (at the stadium?) watching the game, then he can make the pitcher play better.
That's about all I remember, but that stuck with me for years. I'm sure the movie blows, and I probably wouldn't want to watch today.
I think the customer reviews of this movie on Amazon.com are funny.

Week 4

After last weeks 9 of 14, I've decided to take a little
time, and look into the teams, before I choose blindly. I'm still not
confident in my ability to pick, because I really don't know about
football all that much. However, this week I took a few things into
consideration that I overlooked last week.
Three things I considered before making this week picks:
1.Team record; how many games have they own so far.
2.Injured players; who's gonna play, who's sitting out.
3.Home field advantage; Will it have an impact.

So, after all that, here are my NFL picks.

Sunday
Arizona @ Atlanta
Dallas @ Tennessee
Indianaplis @ N.Y. Jets
Miami @ Houston
Minnesota @ Buffalo
New Orleans @ Carolina
San Diego @ Baltimore
San Francisco @ Kansas City
Detroit @ St. Louis
Cleveland @ Oakland
Jacksonville @ Washington
New England @ Cincinnati
Seattle @ Chicago
Monday
Green Bay @ Philedelphia


Glabe, I'd like to see what you think.
Guys in Japan, since you're a
day ahead of us, make sure to keep us updated on the scores, so we can
make some last-minute money bets.

nerd flavor

all of yous thats using firefox should try del.icio.us and play around. if you're using it, we should be network buddies. here's my page

social bookmarking available online.
imports bookmarks from other browsers
organized by tags

As For The Diddy Thing.

This is how it went.
1pm: I showed up at the Dakota, and I'm with Derek & Ned. I thought to bring them, because I didn't want to do this alone. Matt Hallman shows up with girlfriend Sarah. We met up with some Fetus people, Ron, Mandy, and Allie, and get some food and soft drinks. Hallman leaves.
1:30pm: The label people are starting to run around with a stressed look. Diddy is running late.
We sit, and talk, thinking of things we might ask Diddy, all the while we're listen to some Diddy music that is playing over the house system.
1:45pm: A woman comes out, and starts handing out Sean John duffle bags. I get one.
1:50pm: I go outside for a smoke, and notice 5 guys with walkie talkies surrounding the enterance. Diddy is on his way, and they're there to keep fans from mobbing him, I assume. No fans are there. I finish my smoke and go back in.
2:00pm: An older white guy gets on stage and thanks everyone for coming, then introduces Diddy, and Diddy walks into the the room to a standing ovation.
Diddy thanks everyone for being there, then thanks everyone for doing their job, and making him a success.
Diddy then tells us that he would like to play the new single feat. Christina Agulera from his up coming album Press Play.
The music starts. It's very loud, and we all sit there and listen. Diddy begins to nod his head to the beat. Others follow Diddy's lead, and begin nodding their heads too.
3 mintues later, and the song is finally over. Everyone cheers. Someone annouces that Diddy doesn't have much time to take pictures, so we can't do individual pictures, but we'll do group pictues, a couple tables at a time. I got up and got in a picture with Ron, Ron's wife, Mandy, Allie, TK, and some other people.
Then Diddy left, and I rode my bike back home.

Today I ran into the event photographer. She gave me her card, and told me to email her for copies of the pictures. Hopefully I'll get those up soon.


Go Twins!
From the MLB News Wire


Minnesota Twins' Brad Radke pitches to Kansas City Royals' David DeJesus during the first inning in a baseball game Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, in Minneapolis. This was Radke's first start since Aug. 24. Radke pitched five innings, giving up one run on three hits.

Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Pat Neshek, standing right, who pitched the sixth inning, congratulates starting pitcher Brad Radke (22) in the dugout during the sixth inning after Radke pitched five innings, giving up one run and three hits, against the Kansas City Royals in a baseball game Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, in Minneapolis. It was Radke's first start since August 24, 2006. Minnesota's Justin Morneau, lower right, looks up at the scoreboard.


Minnesota Twins' Joe Mauer watches his ninth-inning solo home run against the Kansas City Royal in a baseball game Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 in Minneapolis. Mauer's home run tied the game and the Twins went on to win 2-1 in the 10th inning.



Minnesota Twins' Justin Morneau (33) scores the winning run in the 10th inning as teammates, from left, Luis Rodriguez, Mike Redmond, Johan Santana, Nick Punto, Joe Mauer and Michael Cuddyer (5) race out to celebrate the Twins' 2-1 win over the Kansas City Royals in a baseball game Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, in Minneapolis. With the win, Minnesota moved into a tie with the Detroit Tigers in the American League Central division.

Also: Right now, I can hear Miles having sex with his ladyfriend. I think he just blew.

Dinkytowner

NYC DJ you've undoubtedly heard of, Cosmo Baker, is plays tonight at the Dinkytowner. MPLS dudes can check it out (for free?).

The Old West

Charles Bronson plays Harmonica, in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.


It's taking me days to get through this movie.
I love it, but I don't have time to watch it all, so I watch 15 minutes here, 15 mintues there, soon I'll reach the end.
Every once in a while I'll take days to finish a long movie. I took a week to get through Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. It's the same feeling of suspense I get from catching up on Sopranos, or Deadwood.
Sergio Leone (R.I.P.) is a cinematic master, and the music Ennio Morricone provides is so perfectly bad ass, that no one should ever attempt remaking this in any other way.
I loved Fist Full Of Dollars, and The Good The Bad, And The Ugly, both are spaghetti western classics, and must see films.
Chuck Bronson (R.I.P.), and Henry Fonda (R.I.P.) play some bad mutha fuckas, and I'm having a ball with it.

I don't have any good Ennio Morricone music to put up, but you might want to check out this album I Killed My Best Friend by this french chick, who goes by Le Volume Courbe

Kill The Vultures...

...Before They Dine On All Of Us.

If you live in Minneapolis I hope you have had a chance to see Kill the Vultures play live. I first saw them play at the 7th st Entry, I dunno, a year ago for a Dax Pearson benefit show, and the sound was pretty bad, but their energy was strong, and vibrant.
A few months later I caught a scaled down, two person version of the band at a Ron Essex studio party. That show was really what pulled me in to their raw sound, and style. I had the feeling that I wasn't watching a development in rap, but watching an evolution of punk rock. Alexei Casselle, aka Cresent Moon, was rapping, but he appeared more like a young Henry Rollins, filled strong with frustration, dissaticfaction, and angst.
Later down the road, Alexei's wife Channy, ended up working at the coffee shop with me, and I got a chance to get to know them, and gave Channy one of my extra bikes.
Alexei & Channy are also in a very different sounding group called Roma Di Luna, that I've yet to see live.
Anyway, good people, for sure.
Check out the album, Kill The Vultures. released in 2005.
www.killthevultures.com

D.I.D.

Diddy will be coming to Mpls to visit with Best Buy and Target this Tuesday. In between his meetings, I'm going to have an opportunity to meet him, and listen to tracks off his new record Press Play
Food and soft drinks will be provided.
I don't know about this. I mean, I'm going to go, but I've never been to interested in Diddy, but whatever, I'll still take an opportunity to meet the guy. Hopefully I get a picture of the two of us. You'll see it.
I was trying to think of something to ask him, but I dunno. The most interesting thing about him is his beef with 50 cent. That, and his Proactive acne medicine commercials.
I thought I should ask him, "Diddy, do you think Proactive can help smooth out the beef between you and 50 cent?"
"Did you arrive on your jetpack?"

ALSO
Twins beat Royals 8-1
Indians Beat White Sox 14-1

For the fourth time in five years, the Twins have secured themselves a spot in the playoffs.


This has been one of the most remarkable seasons of Twins baseball I have ever seen.
As of May 2, the Twins were dead last among 30 major league teams in scoring, and tied for 27th in runs allowed. With the exception of the Kansas City Royals, they were statistically the worst team in baseball.

www.marriedtothesea.com

Back To The Lake

I've lived in a lot of places growing up. Moved from Hawaii, to the Mainland, to Europe, and back to Minnesota. I have found a home in Minnesota, and I know that Minneapolis is where I'll probably seem most at home for the rest of my life.
The weather here is getting colder, and summer fun is becoming less, and less with each week.
I did a lot this summer, and feel that I have taken advantage of every little thing I wanted to accomplish. It's been a lot of good times.

This section from a 2004 Harp Magazine interview with Robert Pollard describes how I feel about MN.

Harp: You’re still living in Dayton, Ohio, where you grew up and your base throughout your Guided By Voices tenure. Have you ever considered moving to a city that’s more of a music biz hub – L.A., New York, etc.?

Pollard: Mmm… I’ve entertained the notion, but I’ve got too many friends here – we get together and drink once a week – and I also have family. I’d thought about moving to Austin for awhile. Maybe New York. But it’s cheap to live here. I just bought a new house, and I got it for, I know, one-tenth the price it would cost me on the east or west coast. But the main thing is all these buddies here that I’ve known since I was a kid. The closeness is kind of unique. People will come and hang out with us and they’ll go, “Man, I wish I still got together with my friends like this.” I’d miss that if I left.

In fact, I think [moving] is kind of a clichéd thing to do. Musicians are always saying, “I’m going to go to New York.” Or, “I’m going to Austin.” You know, to “make it” or whatever shit. I don’t need to be at the hub, and it’s kind of nice to remove yourself from that. I sometimes think that people in New York or wherever can’t see the forest for the trees. There’s too much going on. There’s nothing going on here, so it’s easier – you have more time, you’re basically by yourself. I’ve become kind of a loner, musically, and I like that. That’s one of the reasons I broke up the band. There’s nobody here to bump ideas off so I just do it myself.

GBV - Back To The Lake

and this one
GBV - A Salty Salute
Go Twins.

MIN 8 - BOS 2

Darkel

I'm listening to the new album by Darkel,, it's a J.B., of AIR, side project. It's blows. It's Mike Love - Summer Of Love bad. It's really that bad.
No song.

Happy Birthday!

Go Josh, It's your birthday!
You know we all give a F--k dat it's your Birthday!
Hip Hip - Hooray! Hippyty hip-Hooray!

SPAM

You know I love SPAM. Just like rice, or banana's SPAM is a household staple for Hawaiians, and growing up there I ate a lot.
But now computer nerds are giving SPAM, a great food, a bad name.

A guy named Winnie Wise sent me a SPAM that reads; What if there was an all wet and warm pussy at your beck and call any day any time? With your Personal Puss! that's what you get. A nice, hot ,slurpy, wet pussy at your command. Yes sir! and what's more? It's a VIRGIN!!

That's not so bad. I imagine Mr. Wise was only letting me in on this hot & slurpy deal, because he knows I really want it.

Sometimes I get emails that don't make sense, like the emails that have paragraphs taken from strange fiction novels, and I actually enjoy some of those.

I would be interested to read some of the SPAM you guys get, if you can post it.

Also...

Minnesota! Minnesota!

Go Twins! Go Vikes!

The Vikings are off to a good start. A win, for the second week in a row. 2 & 0, what more could we ask for?
Glabe? What more can we ask for?

The Twinks are still rockin' it. They let Cleveland take one, but not the series. No sir.


Last night we went out to Champions bar, across the street from the White Castle, and adjacent to the crusty penis towers. That palce is a good time, if you don't get shot. Which sometimes happens.

Glabe, I'm really bad at bringing exciting sports new to the floor, so how about some help?

Bottom of the Universe

Hey dudes, thanks to a record nerd-site I frequent, waxidermy, I DLed this mix a long time ago. I thought it was great--but just today once again realized how fucking heavy it really is. It is neither, in the parlence of our timez, bangin' nor bumpin', but simply...quality. Best suited for periods of melancholy introspection, depressed attentive listening, or suicidal mushroom trips. I present to you, near & dear listeners, the Bottom of the Universe: by some person using the online moniker of whitelily.

Seriously, don't even fuck with this until you're in the mood/mind/TPO to zone-out-and-get-gone with languid sounds of serious solitude.

Note To Self...

...Norm MacDonald still cracks me up.

Norm MacDonald just released a comedy cd titled Ridiculous, it's not a stand-up cd, it's a skit cd, which I think works better for Norm's brand of humor.

In this skit, titled The World's First Two Gay Guys, MacDonald uses Will Ferrell to discover the joy of sex, sans femmes.
The kids will love it.

Crime Watch

Upon arriving to work this morning, I read a little from a St. Paul neightborhood newspaper called the Villager. In it there was a crime watch section that had a couple police encounters I thought sounded funny.

Assult - An assault occured at Grand Avenue and I-35E at about 8:00 p.m. Monday, August 21. Two men argued over whose turn it was to hold up their cardboard sign asking for donation. One man stabbed the other in the arm as the argument escalated. Paramedic treated the minor injury. The suspect was gone when police arrived.

Miscellaneous - Police investigated a dispute at O'Gara's Bar and Grill, 164 N. Snelling Ave, just before midnight on Sunday, July 30. The restaurant had donated the party room to a foundation for a fundraiser, but the event's organizers said they did not realize the food was not included and refused to pay the $600 bill.

Ten Years After Tupac

It's been ten years since the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, and he still manages to show up on all sort of new releases. People act like that means he will never die, but I think it's the product of a lot of untalented people that can't do it with out him.
Last year, Bad Boy released a B.I.G. compilation, titled Duets, that features Tupac & Big on the song Living In Pain, and before this year ends, Tupac & Scarface are due to release an album titled 2face.
Tupac keeps showing up on so many new releases, it's no wonder people believe Pac never really died. Even Chappelle Show did a skit about it.

It's well known that Snoop & Tupac were tight, so it only makes sense that this week allhiphop.com would post this Snoop interview in which he remembers back on the good old days with his n***a Tupac.

Sorry no song. zshare & yousendit aren't working too well.

September 13, 2006 - Associated Press
Despite Liriano's injury and the tough loss, the mood was relatively light in the clubhouse after the game. That was helped by the annual rookie show, in which the rookies dress up in creative outfits that they have to wear on the plane for the road trip. RHP Boof Bonser wore a huge afro wig, tight plaid pants and a short vest. DH Jason Kubel dressed up like a Catholic school girl with nothing underneath, and OF Josh Rabe dressed as a keg of beer.

Martsch Madness

I've never been a fan of Built to Spill, mainly because I've never been introduced to them properly, never owned an album, and never saw a live show, but today Doug Martsch played an unannounced in-store at the Fetus, while I was working, and he blues-jammed me away.
He sat down, and jacked-off three, or four unwritten jams, each lasted about 10 minutes. I was really impressed with what he was doing, and a little disappointed it wasn't being recorded. The stuff he was playing is much more interesting to me than anything I've heard by Built to Spill. Since the in-store wasn't advertised, there were only a handful of people there. It was a real treat to witness.
Molly Hill, now works at WEA as a college rep, or something, and she & Pam were driving Martsch, and his equiptment around all day, taking him from radio interviews, to the Fetus, and finally First Ave. I thought that was kinda funny.

This Talking Heads song has nothing to do with anything above, it's just a good song.
Warning Sign

Blatatat

Well my kickball team lost by, like, a hundred points, but it was a fun Tuesday anyway. I went ot the Ratatat concert at the 7th st entry.
I'm waiting for some delivery fried chicken from Dulono's.
At the Ratatat show, I walked in on the list with James Buckley, and we went right down to the basement,a nd pulled out some beers I had left in my bag. We talked to the guys in Envelopes, and had a good time, until the Ratatat tour manager came down stairs, and started asking questions.
"what are you guys doing down here?"
"Drinking beer, it's ok"
"who do you know?"
"oh... we're with the Electric Fetus"
"what's That?"
"a local record store"
"oh... well I need you guys to finish your beers, and leave."
So that's what I did, after stealing 5 or 6 beers from the table set up for Ratatat.
Good Show. Thanks guys. I had a good time.

I play kickball with a guy named Josh, and he just lost his mother. I think that sucks. Sorry Josh.
Dear Mama (live)

So Gangsta

What a day for Minnesota sports. The Twins are two games out of first place after a 9 - 4 victory against the A's, and the Vikings show Washington what a W looks like. It's So Gangsta, but it's Like That.

EGGPLANT

This is how I'm spending my time.
Feeling a little out of touch, though.
I hangout with an Eggplant. Watch turkeys in my backyard. Grow some veggies. Go to the fair.

H P P Y B R T H D Y D R K

Wrestle in Peace

Haven't blogged much in a while but I couldn't let this tragedy go unpublished. Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, is dead. Stung through the heart by a sting-ray in Australia while filming scenes for his daughter's show Oceans's Deadliest.

Which for me at least, really puts things in perspective.

Lookwell!

Conan O'brian and Robert Smigel wrote this pilot in the early nineties. It was never picked up, once again proving the non-existence of god.

As of Tuesday

The Roots want you to start Livin' In A New World.

Gnarls is Dynamite

Not to be confused with JJ Walker's "DYN-O-MITE!" catch-phrase.
I'm actually pretty bored with Gnarls Barkley & Napolean Dynamite, but this picture seems to entertain me.

Have a Rockin' Weekend

See you muthas in Hell!
Grim Reaper
See You in Hell
Now Or Never
Never Coming Back

Motorhead
Motorhead
On Parole
Stick to the used bins, and you'll never go wrong!

GoSs!

So for some reason I am subscribed to this damn UK gossip email newsletter, and I actually read it. Today's had something interesting though:

>> Human after all <<
The greatest rock'n roll swindle

So, you're a reclusive but legendary dance
act. You decide to do a few gigs. Your
agent contacts the big European festivals
and tells them you are prepared to do three
dates only - to the highest bidders. Bidding
reaches 300,000 euros, so you agree. And
then your agent rings more festivals and says
- ok, you'll do ten dates only, at 300k a
pop. You then do these festivals dressed as
robots. Except, you don't even bother going on
stage for every gig, you get two replacements
to work the pre-programmed synths etc.

Congratulations - you are Daft Punk!

I'd believe it. I remember years ago, I think it was NME had a story about Oasis and other massive UK bands who would often employ a look-a-like to fill in for a member when they were too fooked up just 'coodn't be bovered' to play.
That newsletter, Popbitch also had this:

Charles Barkley is intending to run for Governor
of Alabama in 2010 for the Democrats.

Radical!
Also, have a look at the FatCat Records website to see the shirt that Jason & Aya designed for them. Way to Tai-Bo!