Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Some Crap that I Wrote

February Something, 2007

I just realized that pretty soon there will not be any kids at Casa Pacifica that were even born in the eighties let alone remember it.

Anyway, nice to see the sun and feel the warmth again. Of course, in less than three months, you will hear me complaining about how hot it is around here. Either way, it was nice to finally give the car/s a good wash and restore them to their original colour. I am knocking on wood and hoping that it was not the dirt that was holding everything together. Some kids at Casa Pacifica helped me the last time I washed the car, if you want to know how long it has been since it got a rinse.

I read this article at http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archives/2007/02/one_cranky_asia.html#more and reread the one at http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/18/18_yellow.html and reminded that in a country originally inhabited by the red skin and now primarily ruled by those originally from the Caucus Mountains that people like me will never 100% fit in. But thankfully we do not have John Wayne trying to be Genghis Khan anymore although the recent Rosie O’Donnell debacle was suspiciously hushed as we forgot that she does not think much of Asians as she went to Trump her next target. Was she not once the Queen of Nice and now is just the Queen-whose-head-must-be-bashed-in?

More pics of what the Transformers are going to look like in the live action movie have gone online. My favourite design so far is for the Decepticon helicopter, Blackout I think is the name- very evil mecha. The one I hate the most is the new one they put up of Frenzy- who in earlier drafts of the script was Soundwave. Either way, the design is nothing more than a stick figure with spiny bits. And he has evil CD’s. Whoever designed this guy must have their head bashed in.

Then there are the designs for Ironhide and Ratchet. I think the Autobot designs have fared better than the Decepticon ones. These two for example just look awesome. Yes, the look nothing like the original designs but they exhibit a sense of power that is expected when you are looking big giant robots. I have also come to accept the Bumblebee design although I may hold judgment on the Optimus Prime design until I see the movie. The retractable faceplate and the emoting eyes look pretty goofy in the designs I have seen but the figure looks amazing in that Empire magazine cover.

As for the Jazz design- I am also waiting to see more designs or see how he looks on the big screen. The character is a favourite of mine as he was the first Transformer I owned. I am pretty ‘jazzed’ that they kept his facial design, weird visor and all.

For the Decepticons, aside from the helicopter, they are all pretty ugly. I tend to like what I have seen of Megatron, but he just looks nothing like the original character. Starscream is a big robotic monkey, the wannabe constructicon looks just dumb and the Skorponok one dumber. The police car has an awesome vehicle mode- but the robot leaves a lot to be desired.

But then again the Decepticons are the bad guys and bad guys are ugly anyway.

And all bad guys need to have their heads bashed in.

And yes, I am going to drive the heads-bashed-in thing to the ground. My head must be bashed in.

Repeatedly.

I will be happy when the Transformers movie has come and gone so I can stop talking like a lifeless fan boy and get on with the important things in life.

Like the Stardust movie, whose release date has been moved up to August 10th.

Dammit!

About 500 bands have confirmed for SXSW. So far then only one I HAVE to, HAVE to, HAVE to see is VNV Nation. Interpol is going to be there, I would not mind seeing them, but then again, no loss if I do not.

And here are other bands that I do not care about if they show up at SXSW or not (but say they will be, list taken from someone else who did all the work):

120 Days
22-Pistepirkko
28costumes
65daysofstatic
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Against Me!
Airbourne
Akimbo
Albert Hammond Jr.
Alela Diane
Alexi Murdoch
Alina Simone
Allison
AM
AM Syndicate
Amy Millan
Amy Winehouse
An Angle
Andrew Winton
Andrew WK
Ane Brun
Annuals
Antibalas
Apes & Androids
Apollo Sunshine
Apostle Of Hustle
Apples In Stereo
Aqualung
Aqueduct
Architecture In Helsinki
Ariel Pink
As He Bled
As Tall As Lions
Asobi Seksu
Attack Formation
Audible Mainframe
Awesome Cool Dudes
Badly Drawn Boy
Band Of Bees
Bang Gang
Baptist Generals
Barzin
Battle
Beach House
Bears
Beasts Of Bourbon
Bedroom Walls
Berko
Besnard Lakes
Best Fwends
Bic Runga
Big A little a
Big Business
Bishop Allen
Black Fiction
Black Helicopter
Black Lips
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Black Rose Band
Blake Miller
Blindspott
Bloc Party
Blonde Redhead
Bloody Hollies
Blues Control
Bonde Do Role
Boris
Bosque Brown
Bound Stems
Brave Radar
Brett Dennen
Brothers & Sisters
Buffalo Killers
Buildings Breeding
Call Me Lightning
Calla
Callisto
Canada
Car Stereo (Wars)
Carly Binding
Casket Salesmen
Castanets
Catfish Haven
Charalambides
Charlie Louvin
Children Collide
Chingo Bling
Chris Bathgate
Chris Garneau
Chris Lee
Chris Mills
Chris Smither
Circa Survive
Clipd Beaks
Clouds
Cold War Kids
Crooked Still
Crystal Castles
Cute Is What We Aim For
Dallas Crane
Damien Dempsey
Daniel Johnston
Danny Saul
Dark Meats
Datarock
Daughters
David and the Citizens
David Cross
David Vandervelde
Daylight's For The Birds
Dead Rock West
Dead Town Revival
Dear and the Headlights
Deerhunter
Delorentos
Demander
Devin The Dude
Die! Die! Die
Dimmer
Diplo
Dirty Fuzz
Dirty On Purpose
Dirty Projectors
Disco Ensemble
Do Make Say Think
Dosh
Dujeous
Duncan Sheik
Ecstatic Sunshine
Eilen Jewell
Elemeno P
Emily Haines
Emma Pollock (ex-Delgados)
Emmylou Harris
Erase Errata
Errors
Eugene
Eugene McGuinness
Evangelicals
Evermore
Every Move a Picture
Experimental Aircraft
Faceless Werewolves
Fancy
Fatal Flying Guilloteens
Ferraby Lionheart
Field Guides
Fight the Quiet
Fionn Regan
Flosstradamus
Foals
Forward Russia
Four Year Strong
Frida Hyvonen
Friends of Dean Martinez
Frog Eyes
Fujiya & Miyagi
Future Of The Left
Gallows
Gasoline Cowboy
George Byrne
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Ghostland Observatory
Girl Talk
Glacier Hiking
Go! Go! 7188
Golden Dogs
Good Shoes
Grand Island
Great Lakes Myth Society
Gruff Rhys
Hadouken
Hard Lessons
Haunt (Matt Hebert)
Hazey Janes
Headlights
Hedrons
Hello Stranger
Hera
Hero Pattern
High Dials
Hit By a Bus
Holy Fuck
Honeycut
Honeydogs
Hoodoo Gurus
Hopewell
Hot Club De Paris
Hot Cross
House of Fools
Hummersqueal
HY
Hymns
I Heart Hiroshima
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
I Walk The Line
IAMX
Ian Wadley
Ice Age Cobra
iLiKETRAiNS
Imperial Teen
Interpol
IV Thieves
Jamie T
Jandek
Jape
Jeffrey Foucault
Jeremy Warmsley
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
Jessie Deluxe
Jesu
John Digweed
Johnossi
Josh Pyke
Kaki King
Kate Walsh
KBC
Kill Surf City
Kings Of Leon
Kiosk
Kris Delmhorst
Kristoffer Ragnstam
KTU
Lab Partners
Ladybug Transistor
Ladyhawk
Land of Talk
Les Savy Fav
Lexie Mountain Boys
Lily Allen
Lionheart Brothers
Lions in the Street
Little Birdy
Little Man
Little Man Tate
Little Ones
Lodger
Loney Dear
Los Abandoned
Louis XIV
Love In October
Loxsly
Luminous Orange
LZ Love
Macromantics
Mae-Shi
Magik Markers
Magnet
Malajube
Mando Diao
Marca
Margot and the Nuclear So And Sos
Marnie Stern
Mason Proper
Mastodon
Mates Of State
Matt & Kim
Meat Puppets
Melissa Ferrick
Menomena
Messiah J & The Expert
Metermaids
Mezklah
Michael Zapruder's Rain Of Frogs
Michelle Shocked
Mickey Avalon
Midlake
Mika
Mika Miko
Minipop
Mint Chicks
Moe.
Money Waters
Monotract
Mooney Suzuki
Moonlight Towers
Morning After Girls
Mother Truckers
MSTRKRFT
Mud
Mute Math
MV+EE
My Latest Novel
Nellie McKay
New Buffalo
New Violators
New Young Pony Club
Nicole Atkins
O'Death
Oakley Hall
Octave Museum
OFFICE
Okkervil River
Oppenheimer
Oreska Band
OWKMJ (Ore Wa Konna Mon Janai)
Oxbow
Oxford Collapse
Ozomatli
Pagoda
Painkiller Hotel
Palm School Choir
Panthers
Patrice Pike
Pattern Is Movement
Paul Collins Beat
Paul Kelly
Pelican
Pete Townshend
Peter & the Wolf
Peter Elkas
Phonograph
Pig Out
Pilot Spiral
Pink Nasty
Pistol Valve
Plan B
Popup
Protokoll
Prototypes
Quetzal
Rachel Fuller
Rachel Sage
Rahim
Razorlight
Real Ones
Reigning Sound
Richard Swift
Richmond Fontaine
Riverboat Gamblers
RJD2
Robbers on High Street
Robyn Hitchcock
Rock Plaza Central
Rocky Votolato
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Ruby Isle
Rumble Strips
San Saba County
Sarah Blasko
Sasquatch
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Say Hi To Your Mom
Schoolboy Humor
Scissor Sisters
Scout's Honor
Sean Lennon
Secretary Bird
Shaky Hands
Shit Disco
Shout Out Out Out
Simian Mobile Disco
Simple Kid
Sinden
Sissy Wish
Six Nation State
Sloan
Small Sins
Snowden
So So Modern
Sondre Lerche
Sonic Flyer
Soular
Sparkle Motion
Spektrum
Spod
Starky
Stars of Track and Field
Stax 50th Anniversary Soul Review
Steel Train
Steve Earle
Stiletto Formal
Subtle
Sunburned
Sunwrae
Tall Firs
Tally Hall
Teitur
Temposhark
The 50 Kaitens
The Affair
The Amity Front
The Attorneys
The Automatic
The Berg Sans Nipple
The Big Sleep
The Black Angels
The Black Hollies
The Boggs
The Bravery
The Broken West
The Caribbean
The Cinematics
The Comas
The Creteens
The Dears
The Deaths
The Early November
The Early Years
The Emeralds
The Envy Corps
The Ettes
The Frames
The Fratellis
The Gear
The Gentle Good
The Good, The Bad, and The Queen
The Have
The Hero Factor
The Horrors
The Hot Puppies
The Hourly Radio
The Immediate
The Isles
The Lucky Stiffs
The Melismatics
The Melvins
The Moaners
The Moog
The Narrator
The Needles
The Octopus Project
The Old Soul
The One whose music actually sucks but pretentious Austinites love their music because dude, they are like so indie
The Panda Band
The Phoenix Foundation
The Photo Atlas
The Pipettes
The Ponys
The Presets
The Rosebuds
The Sammies
The Scare
The Secret Fire
The Shivers
The Shondes
The Shys
The Silent Years
The Sleeping
The Soft Hands
The Sterns
The Stooges
The Storys
The Strange Boys
The Sunshine Underground
The Theater Fire
The Thunder Boys
The View
The Walkmen
The Weird Weeds
The White Barons
The Wildhearts
The Wombats
The Young Knives
The Zebras
These Arms Are Snakes
Thinking Aloud
Thirteen Seconds
Thunderbirds Are Now!
Thurston Moore
Tigercity
Tin Bangs
Tiny Masters Of Today
Tom Brosseau
Tom Morello
Trainwreck Riders
Turbonegro
Twilight Sad
Uncrowned
Uncut
Under Byen
Union Of Knives
Via Tania
Victorian English Gentleman's Club
Village Green
Vincent Black Shadow
Vincent Van Go Go
Viva Voce
Voxtrot
W-S Burn
Walter Meego
Watson Twins
Waxplanet
Wendy Colonna
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Wild Eyes
Winterkids
Winterpills
Wolf and Cub
Wooden Shjips
Wooden Wand
Working For A Nuclear Free City
X-Wife
YACHT
Yip Yip
Yip-Yip
Yoko Ono
You Am I
Young Galaxy
Young Love
Youth Group
Zach Galifianakis


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