Goodbye Old Paint

"If you want to matter, though, apparently you need boys. The third film adaptation of the Twilight..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:16:33 -0800

“If you want to matter, though, apparently you need boys. The third film adaptation of the Twilight series, Eclipse, will be helmed by horror director David Slade, who has made such movies as Hard Candy and Thirty Days of Night. Even though it will not hit theaters until June 2010, it is already being touted as “darker,” more action-packed, and more “guy friendly.” Because the popularity of the Twilight formula guarantees Eclipse will be a box-office smash, the decision to consciously appeal to boys seems more like a grab at credibility than at profit. Romance-loving Twi-Hards be damned! Who cares about disappointing a huge, passionate, lucrative fan base if they’re all a bunch of girls?  ”

- Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs | The American Prospect

She has a point here.

Favorite songs right now: Help I’m Alive by Metric and Ambling Alps by Yeasayer.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:04:10 -0800

Favorite songs right now: Help I’m Alive by Metric and Ambling Alps by Yeasayer.

Yeasayer - "Ambling Alp"

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:15:10 -0800

Yeasayer - "Ambling Alp":

I love it!

"The discovery of the new species was made by postgraduate student Marc Blackbeard, who was..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:32:49 -0800

“The discovery of the new species was made by postgraduate student Marc Blackbeard, who was excavating two sites about five years ago.”

- New dinosaur found in South Africa. Nice last name, Marc!! Arrrr.

Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:31:29 -0800

Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake - NYTimes.com:

My brain likes to practice while I sleep.

A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:20 -0800

A New Spacecraft to Explore on Waves of Light - NYTimes.com

hope springs eternal

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:19:22 -0800

I received a sincere, dizzying rush of relief for a week or so from Eckart Tolle’s “watching the thinker” philosophy, but inevitably, it’s now fading and I’m struggling to keep afloat. I’ve had all my creative wellsprings damned up, stifled, and I often find it hard to even think. This is both because of a physical handicap and the despondency it has started festering in me. I just read books and watch movies. It’s escapism, but it also gives me other things to think about than the pain in my hands, my dwindling bank account and the depression that comes with realizing you are trapped in a certain situation.

But hope flutters somewhere about. I’ve started looking at other living situations again, and talking to professionals about my options. If it all sounds vague and dark, that’s because it is. But I am the Wizard. “I just know that something good is gonna happen. I don’t know when, but just saying it could even make it happen.” - Kate Bush

Doctors Making Health Care Better

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:20:03 -0800

Doctors Making Health Care Better:

This is quietly fantastic. Wish it would get louder.

via www.codinghorror.com

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:48:41 -0800

via www.codinghorror.com

First LSU football game and we won! :) Discovered tailgating...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:27:00 -0700

First LSU football game and we won! :) Discovered tailgating is a lot of fun, haha.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:03 -0700

Art Brut show at The Spanish Moon in Baton Rouge! Lot of fun. ...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:00 -0700

Art Brut show at The Spanish Moon in Baton Rouge! Lot of fun. Very small but enthusiastic crowd. Two cocktails and a beer there = $15. Wow.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:47:40 -0700

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:22:38 -0700

“Too-Cute-For-Words”

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:25:45 -0700

“Too-Cute-For-Words” :

Big goofy smile on my face.

via www.inspirationline.com Halloween is coming! I love the...

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:11:42 -0700

via www.inspirationline.com

Halloween is coming! I love the change in the air right around this time.

"The story has its genesis in the summer of 1816, the Year Without a Summer, when Europe and parts of..."

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:21:30 -0700

“The story has its genesis in the summer of 1816, the Year Without a Summer, when Europe and parts of North America underwent a severe climate abnormality. Lord Byron and his young physician John Polidori were staying at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva and were visited by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont. Kept indoors by the “incessant rain” of that “wet, ungenial summer”,[3] over three days in June the five turned to telling fantastical stories, and then writing their own. Fueled by ghost stories such as the Fantasmagoriana, William Beckford’s Vathek and quantities of laudanum, Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Polidori was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron’s and in “two or three idle mornings” produced “The Vampyre”.”

- The Vampyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would’ve loved to be a fly on the wall during those conversations.

Building on cinematic vision - inspired by Blade Runner

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:16:12 -0700

Building on cinematic vision - inspired by Blade Runner:

This could either be really cool or really hideous. I remember the first time I saw an electronic billboard, I did think of Blade Runner.

Art Brut goes to DC Comics!

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:49:23 -0700

Art Brut goes to DC Comics!

Baby Dancing to Beyonce This nearly made me cry with laughter. ...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:21:15 -0700

Baby Dancing to Beyonce

This nearly made me cry with laughter. I can’t tell if it’s a boy or a girl (the name Cory is unisex too), but “she” does little arm moves and leg kicks that are hilarious.