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Dave

These are the years of GO GO GO!

About Me

These are my paintingsand they consume roughly 90% of my waking life
And now an art blog as well! www.davepalumbo.blogspot.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


the perfect woman

Music:

Currently in heavy rotation:
Portishead - Third
The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
The Teeth - You're My Lover Now
v/a - Memento Soundtrack
Underworld - Oblivion with Bells
Sasha - Involver
Vangelis - Blade Runner 25th Anniversary
Ratatat - Ratatat
Joe Strummer - Global A Go-Go
The Beta Band - The Three E.P.s

Movies:

The new list (movies I've seen in '08 that I'd never seen before):
American Gangster (2007), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), The Heartbreak Kid (2007), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Iron Man (2008), Juno (2007), Lenny (1974), Persepolis (2007), Ratatouille (2007), Reno 911 Miami (2007), Silent Running (1972), Sleuth (2007), The Triplets of Belleville (2003), The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
the count is 15 (re-e-e-e-e-eally slow year so far, or more accurately a crazy one).

Television:

Brisco County Jr., Scrubs

Books:

All time favorites: Book of the New Sun, Neuromancer, Dune, Treasure Island
Currently reading War Stories by Joe Haldeman
Comics: Hate, 8-Ball, Jeffrey Brown, Silver and Bronze-Age Marvel - Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, also Secret Wars, Excalibur, Howard the Duck

My Blog

five songs

Randomly running around my head most recently:today was really only one day?  how is that possible?why do I feel like I'm getting a sore throat again?people are crazy out there tonight, good thin...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 18 May 2008 11:56:00 PST

Spectrum pieces for 08

So when I came home from Europe, my official notice had finally arrived :) Here are the two that were accepted this year: I think that these were both in "unpublished", but still just happy to ...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:34:00 PST

I woke up this morning in Paris

It was a strange thought when it struck me a couple hours ago eating dinner in Philly.  An omelet for breakfast outside the Boulevard Pasteur metro, and panang chicken for dinner on 11th and Wash...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:21:00 PST

Home

Back in the LV.  I'm up to my ass in work and leave again for Europe in a week though, so I won't likely make my way back to Philly until the end of the month.  Once I do, I have a list of a...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:53:00 PST

This is Jack Burton and the Pork Chop Express...

...and I’m talking to whoever’s listening out there...It’s been an insane two months since I left for California.  That day that Tony and I first set out seems so much further a...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:21:00 PST

The official press release

So word has trickled here and there, but I suppose a pointless wide-release blog may be in order and probably overdue at that.  Don't you just love and hate Myspace all at the same time?Anyhow, I...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:24:00 PST

Erase your past

The movie reviews stay, as well as the love letter to the '88 for personal reasons.  The rest of it... fuck it.  New year, new directions. It was 60 degrees outside today and I spe...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:59:00 PST

2007 movie reviews pt. 2

So I didn't make it to 100 this year, only 84.  Overall, I'm going to say my personal stellar standout of '07 was The Hitcher (1986), and other notables were: House Party, My Neighbor Totoro, No ...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:39:00 PST

First 50 movies for '07

Another 50.  I'm not giving * and - this time, so you have to read the shit if you want to know what's worthwhile.All the President's Men (1976) - The story of Woodward and Bernstein's investigat...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:56:00 PST

Final reviews of 2006, 101-126

The 40 Year Old Virgin* (2006) - I kind of avoided this the same way I avoided Old School and Wedding Crashers until Tony convinced me to give it a chance. I was not sorry for doing so, good god damn ...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:51:00 PST