"Hurt" by Sad Kermit
Love, reign o'er me...
Kiss me, my darling!
Paula and Edwin time-travel to 1962, and visit the World's Fair in Seattle!
[courtesy of MST3k's "Century 21 Calling"]
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Squirrel Yin and Yang
This is Precisely How I Looked and Felt
During the 8-hour Graduate School Class
Which I Survived On 4 November 2006:
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And, where are YOU from, eh?
I'm from the Pacific Northwest aka The Great Wet North! (Actually, I am e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e . . . all of the time.)
(Except for Russia -- they seem to be immune to my powers!)
Click here to make your own map [pause][pause][pause] NOT!
This is Hunter. He is King of the World. Show some respect.
Care for a glass of absinthe . . . the REAL thing? ..
I never knew that kitties could tea-bag like this! Did you? Meowee!
Lenny Bruce. John Lennon. Abraham Maslow. Chet Baker. Shelly Manne. Edgar Allen Poe. Kurt Cobain. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Leonardo da Vinci. Hunter S. Thompson. Keith Moon. Sir Lawrence Olivier. Graham Chapman. Richard Pryor. Jimi Hendrix.
All of 'em men, all of 'em dead. How does this reflect on me? Am I a secret necrophile that lurks in the shadows of graveyards? (you wish)
But, most of all, the man I really want to meet, every single day for the rest of my life, is very much alive and kicking. He is my special love, the
Ki Meester.
The Who. Nine Inch Nails. Nirvana. Pearl Jam. Coldplay. The Beatles. Beck. The Cure. Alice In Chains. Depeche Mode. Foo Fighters. Cat Stevens. R.E.M. Basement Jaxx. Thievery Corporation. Yes. The Chemical Brothers. Lenny Kravitz. Led Zeppelin. U2. Moby. Soundgarden. Boards of Canada. Sting. Peter Gabriel. Simon and Garfunkel. Filter. Pete Townshend. Smashing Pumpkins. Crowded House. Underworld. Neil Young. The Smiths. Electronic. Neil Finn. Michael Penn. Fatboy Slim. Prodigy. INXS.
Grab your glowsticks, and let's all go to Ibiza
to see Underworld perform "Born Slippy" for the 375,829th time! ..
The Smiths: "How Soon Is Now?" Such a happy tune! Tra la laa la la!
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Depeche Mode: John the Revelator. Another happy, happy song!
Follow along with the Bouncing Bushtator! ..
W.A.Mozart. C.Debussy. J.S.Bach. L.V.Beethoven. A.Vivaldi.
The Chet Baker Quartet. Shelly Manne and his Men. Art Pepper. Shorty Rogers.
And, of course, the West Coast bebop jazz piano playing and songwriting of Russ Freeman, who I might be related to in some strange way.
I found this nifty little animation about New York City (by Ed Moorman), featuring my father on piano, playing the tune "Lush Life."
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Best Music to Fuck My Sweet Gumdrop By: Nine Inch Nails -- Year Zero
Best In Love Music: Coldplay
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Spartacus. Harold and Maude. Fahrenheit 9/11. Reservoir Dogs. Trainspotting.
What's that, you say? You don't have the time or the patience to watch all 94 minutes of "Trainspotting"? Can't understand a bloody word that Begbie says? Well, fear no more, ya bunch o' tossers! Director Danny Boyle has been kind enough to squash his classic movie into a dandy four-minute video, accompanied by the acoustic version of Underworld's "Born Slippy." (No glowsticks allowed this time -- only heroin!)
And, as Mark "Rent-Boy" Renton says so brilliantly:
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . .
But why would I want to do a thing like that?"
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Take The Ewan McGregor Test!
The Producers (1968).
"Springtime for Hitler" from comic genius Mel Brooks: ..
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Graduate. A Clockwork Orange. Goodfellas.
The Godfather I and II. Brokeback Mountain. Pulp Fiction. Dances With Wolves.
The Thing (1982). Falling Down. Permanent Midnight. Team America. Jesus' Son. Almost Famous. The Matrix. This is Spinal Tap. Blazing Saddles. Amadeus.
Long Riders. Scanners. Natural Born Killers. Paradise Lost. Rosemary's Baby.
Citizen Kane. 2001: A Space Odessey. The Basketball Diaries. March of the Penguins. Bliss. Dr. Strangelove. Thirteen. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next.
A Date With Your Family (1950), as presented by Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3k), with commentary by Mike Nelson, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot. Shows how to not have emotions while dining with your loved ones. ..
The Daily Show. South Park. Monty Python's Flying Circus. Reno 911. MST3k. The Colbert Report. I Love Lucy. Oz. The Sopranos.
Da Ali G Show. Ren and Stimpy. Judge Judy. Real Time with Bill Maher.
Six Feet Under. Mr. Show. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Jeopardy.
Being a graduate student, I don't have the luxury of leisure time to read FUN books these days. But, if I were to read, here are some of my old-timey favourites: Toward a Psychology of Being (Abraham Maslow), The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran), Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh), Deep In A Dream (James Gavin)(hi Jim!!), Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Al Franken), Stupid White Men (Michael Moore), Straight Life (Art and Laurie Pepper), Centennial (James Michener), Makes Me Wanna Holler (Nathan McCall), Midlife Orphan (Jane Brooks), Himalaya (Michael Palin)
My father, Russ Freeman, is my all-time real-life hero. Even though his physical life is done now, he is still always with me. He taught me how to make wise choices, and he convinced me that I deserve to have all the happiness that life has to offer. He was also the wittiest man I have ever met. Thank you, Dad. You make me so proud, and I think you would be proud of me too.