April 13, 2005 – 12:02 am ·
Now there’s something you don’t see too often: an empty street in front of the Cinerama Dome. Today is a blur. Hundreds upon hundreds of new movies, not enough people to drop them into shelves, phones ringing off the hook (“Mezzanine, lines 2,4 AND 7 are for you…”) and through it all this damned ringing […]
April 12, 2005 – 11:16 pm ·
Man, is this cool: Taken from the top level of the CNN parking lot.
April 12, 2005 – 12:05 am ·
At least that’s what it sounds like. I’m hoping it goes away. It’s the end of a long night at Amoeba. The music’s off. Customers have cleared out. I’m heading down the long back hallway in search of a sink to scrub the dirt accumulated from the music DVD section off my fingers. The sounds […]
April 11, 2005 – 8:40 am ·
Incidentally, I’ve posted the previous installment of Michael’s music reviews. It’s worth a read if you’re looking for some new tunes. Soon, I hope to integrate them a little more seamlessly with the general web page.I suppose that will happen when I make the full move to www.hollywoodland.la
April 11, 2005 – 8:28 am ·
Man, I’m on fast forward right now. I drag myself out of bed this morning at seven, plop myself in front of the computer and throw some climbing gear on eBay. While I list the various cams, nuts and stoppers I have for sale I’m ripping cd after cd of my collection onto my hard […]
April 6, 2005 – 1:29 pm ·
I’ve mentioned my music maven friend Michael before. He’s got a knack for writing about records. In fact, I had intended to post his round-up of the best of 2004 a couple months ago, but I’ve been so busy keeping my head above water lately, I never got around to it. A couple days ago […]
April 3, 2005 – 9:21 am ·
I get an email this morning from Macromedia, who apparently labor under the impression that I’m a Flash developer extraordinaire. The email provides a link that, they hope, explains my nagging wonder at just how designers created the “roving cat” at the Whiskas cat food website. After reading the article, I click through to see […]
April 2, 2005 – 7:01 pm ·
We’re into the last twenty four hours of bidding for the Pillsbury Pornboy. Not that the bidding has been out of control. In fact, it seems rather lackluster. Someone’s going to be the lucky winner, but it’s not going for the millions I had hoped it would. I suppose what he really needs is an […]
March 31, 2005 – 8:08 am ·
A little action on the auction. Yesterday a small flurry of bids pushed the Pillsbury Pornboy up to just over twenty bucks, which matches my expectations, if not my hopes. And the Pornboy himself? He’s chillin’ Meanwhile, Manager Guy and The Empress over at my favorite Query Letters site have tipped us off to an […]
March 30, 2005 – 1:37 pm ·
I’m beginning to think I’ve overestimated the public’s need to see a baking icon festooned with porn starlet signatures. A common mistake, to be sure. I’m sure we all know many people who’ve made the same mistake. Bidding stands at $1.25. I’d been planning to use auction proceeds to buy a house on Beachwood Canyon. […]
March 29, 2005 – 11:58 am ·
I’m at Wells Fargo, trying to get a cashier’s check to pay for the new Silver Beetle. The bank teller is nice, but she spends a full ten minutes staring at her computer screen, tapping the keys, contemplating, thinking, mulling. Then she says she has to call another bank to confirm that the deposit made […]
March 29, 2005 – 12:42 am ·
Two bids came in pretty quickly, but the thing is still only at $1.25. That’s pretty cool. Usually bids don’t start rolling in until Day 5. Seventy visitors so far. Not bad, really. I’m actually kind of pleased with the design of the auction page, so that’s the best that can be said of the […]
March 29, 2005 – 12:05 am ·
Sara makes fun of me tonight because I’m waxing ecstatic over the unexpected release of the old Sting film, Bring On The Night. It’s a cool flick, part document’ry, part concert film, capturing Sting during his Dream of The Blue Turtles phase. Somewhere after The Soul Cages, Sting got insufferably boring, but back then he […]
March 27, 2005 – 11:32 pm ·
The auction’s online. Check it out here. Oh boy, this is exciting…
March 27, 2005 – 10:46 pm ·
I write in my last post that one rarely sees the Pillsbury Doughboy (hee-hee!) mentioned in the same breath as the fine women of Vivid Entertainment. I’m hoping to change that, if even for just a little while. Some time ago I ran an Isla Vista video store called Emerald Video. As emmissaries of that […]
