January 26, 2005 – 8:49 pm ·
Okay, so yeah, it’s almost been a week since I’ve posted anything interesting. I’ve been preoccupied. During long stretches of inactivity on this blog you can almost always find me over at my other site, counterinvasion.com. For about a year now, my friend Sara and I have been obsessed with tracking down art by the […]
January 20, 2005 – 5:47 pm ·
i. I’m aware that Safari users are having difficulty with the collapsing menus on the right side of this blog. Clicking on the “links” heading gets you the whole shebang, throwing down a bunch of hypertext and thumbnails in a way that renders useless all of my careful page design. It’s a problem with the […]
January 20, 2005 – 5:08 pm ·
In Washington, a president is sworn in to another term while his daughter professes her allegiance to the Dark Lord. Meanwhile, today is a strange, smoky day in Los Angeles. On La Brea towers pluck cars from the stretch of curb below Santa Monica. And an aggravated man grabs copies of LA Weekly and hurls […]
January 17, 2005 – 1:36 pm ·
My car’s been through a lot. And for all its loyalty, I’m not the best caretaker it could have. I got it more than ten years ago, a Honda Accord. It already had 100,000 miles on it. Now the odometer reads 250,000. The clutch is slipping. It’s leaking oil and power steering fluid. If I […]
January 14, 2005 – 1:41 am ·
Cool. You gotta love it when Defamer locks in on a blog. That Alexander post below caught someone’s attention over there. Web traffic at this site has jumped a little. I suppose my bandwidth will be okay, as long as visitors don’t notice all those mp3’s lying about… Obviously I don’t get a lot of […]
January 13, 2005 – 10:16 am ·
Well, this Vangelis Collector site provides a glimmer of an answer to the Alexander conundrum (see previous post.) While it mentions a recent Ebay auction of the disc, it doesn’t indicate that the price was anything unusual about it. But then, this was a few weeks ago. It seems there are some music cues on […]
January 13, 2005 – 1:21 am ·
This time of year a cluster of Academy demos come through the doors of Amoeba. Often, we’ll buy them. Heck, if someone sells it to us (and it’s not an obvious bootleg) we’ll happily make it available for someone else to buy. In most cases, screeners and demo copies are marked down to sub-basement prices. […]
January 12, 2005 – 1:47 am ·
I’m trying to accumulate twenty pitchable script ideas for the new year. I’ve always had three or four within reach, but I’m making a determined effort to pour every ounce of creative strength I have into a long list of ideas. I don’t want toss-away notions. I want twenty ideas that speak to me, that […]
January 12, 2005 – 1:37 am ·
Wow. After hearing about Newsom three months ago, I’ve finally gotten my grubby paws on a copy of her solo debut (she also works with The Pleased and Nervous Cop.) If you haven’t heard her before be prepared for something unique. Not only is harp her primary instrument here, her voice is so unusual it […]
January 11, 2005 – 1:00 pm ·
There’s a clip of Mark’s episode up at this address. Check it out.
January 10, 2005 – 11:50 pm ·
My buddy Mark arrived in L.A. just over a year ago. Met him when he got a job at Rocket. Remember this pic? Fondly, I’m sure. At last, after countless auditions and many moments of serious doubt, he’s landed a role in the CBS series, Cold Case. It’s a good role. He’s got the lead, […]
January 9, 2005 – 1:34 am ·
I’ve been looking at my cd collection lately. There was a time when I could absorb it all, use it all, peruse it and draw from it. But now I’m beginning to realize that I have too damned many of them. I’m not saying I have too much music. I don’t think anyone can have […]
January 7, 2005 – 9:40 pm ·
I’m making a conscious effort to catch up on my movie watching. I’m so far behind I still think Valley Girl is a hip modern look at a cutting-edge subculture. So a year and a half after it breached into American theaters I finally see Whale Rider today. Man, it’s a good thing I watch […]
January 7, 2005 – 8:31 pm ·
This is me, writing: Sprawled on the floor, blue pen, thick notebook. I write about how I’m unable to write. KUSC 91.5 plays and I wonder, does life have four movements like a symphony, three movements like a concerto or multiple, phasing movements like a John Digweed set? I begin a list of partial ideas. […]
January 4, 2005 – 5:07 pm ·
Scoring high points in the irony department today. I was all set to return to the blogging routine, when the stormy skies over L.A. caused some kind of power hiccup. The blackout lasted all of an eighth of a second. My computer restarted. My monitor, alas, did not. It’s flatlining, folks. No picture. And then […]
