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Archives for August 2002
Colonel Sanders & Patience
I heard someone remark a while back that you could fit the entire Beatles career into the amount of time since the last Guns ‘n’ Roses album.
Axl and his new band played at the Video Music Awards last night and it looks like Buckethead (of Praxis fame) is replacing Slash in the band’s new lineup.
This could be really cool.
The Future of Intellectual Property
Jack Valenti is an asshole (courtesy of Julian Sanchez).
You Can’t Make This Shit Up
Ed Headrick, the inventor of the Frisbee, died yesterday at the age of 78. His ashes will be molded into “memorial flying discs.”
Five Birthday Presents From My Wife
My wife knows me well and (despite this) she loves me. Today she gave me five different presents for my 24th birthday:
- Criterion Collection DVD of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie, by Luis Buñuel
- Criterion Collection DVD of 8½, by Federico Fellini
- Teach Yourself Ancient Greek by Gavin Betts and Alan Henry.
- Langenscheidt’s Pocket Dictionary – Classical Greek
- 1 package Slurpy’s (flavored sugar syrup in wax tubes)
What a woman. Don’t you all just envy me?
Don’t Help
It seems there’s a fine line between art and felony kidnapping these days.
At first, the story seems like a case-study on the absurdities of market-demand in NYC. Then you read the horrible and shocking part:
Surprisingly however, there have not been any cases so far of outraged New Yorkers intervening in a kidnap scenario on Manhattan, despite the fact that many are carried out on city streets during the day.
As the whole business began initially as a piece of video installation art, before he realised its commercial potential, Brock Enright is well aware of the reason.
“People don’t seem to bother us because they see a video camera – maybe two or three cameras going. Then they say – oh, it’s a movie.”
Remind me to bring along the camcorder when I commit that public ritual-killing I’ve been planning. Good to know that New Yorkers are doing their part to look out for suspicious behavior in our post-9/11 world.
