Composing music, indie rock, seeing good live bands, writing and recording music, playing bass guitar, electro house, Syd Gris, Burning Man, downtempo, my solar-powered indie rock music festival (Yurtstock 4, May 23-26, 2008), rafting, telemark skiing, powder, astronomy, Colorado, mountains, hiking, biking, tall bikes, golf, surfing, travel, my loft, my Yurt, solar power, getting off the grid, the Avs, Jeopardy!, spaghetti westerns, classic sci-fi, the Big Lebowski, science fiction, red wine, single malt scotch.
Old friends and new lovers.
and Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery and William Shatner in 1967.
and Hope Sandoval, Chan Marshall and Neko Case in 1997
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1960s Westerns: Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, A Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Magnificent Seven, Hang’em High
1970s Science Fiction: Colossus, The Andromeda Strain, A Clockwork Orange, THX 1138, Logan’s Run, Silent Running, A Boy and His Dog, Rollerball, Capricorn One, Damnation Alley, Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Mad Max, Solaris, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Westworld, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dark Star, The Man Who Fell to Earth, with honorable mention to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barbarella, both of which came out in 1968.
1980s Horror Movies: Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dead Zone, Prom Night, Terror Train, My Bloody Valentine, Friday the Thirteenth Part 4 – The Final Chapter, Halloween II, The Shining, Scanners, Swampthing, The Thing, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, The Hunger, Videodrome.
Honorable mention to 70s psychedelia: Performance, Vanishing Point, O Lucky Man, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (!!!), Pink Floyd: Live at Pompei, Point of Terror
was a pretty good band.
I'm just finishing my first book, an autobiography called "On The Fringe"
As he is frog-marched towards another limo the Dude holds his Caucasian away from his chest.
DUDE
Hey, careful, man! There's a beverage here!
The waiting limo's back door is flung open.
INSIDE
The Dude is shoved in and awkwardly takes a seat facing the
rear. The door is slammed behind him. The drink is still in tact.
LEBOWSKI
Start talking and talk fast you lousy bum!
BRANDT
We've been frantically trying to reach you, Dude.
Brandt sits catty-corner from the Dude; directly across from
the Dude is the big Lebowski, a comforter across his knees.
LEBOWSKI
Where's my goddamn money, you bum?!
DUDE
Well, we--I don't--
LEBOWSKI
They did not receive the money, you
nitwit! They did not receive the
money. HER LIFE WAS IN YOUR
HANDS!
BRANDT
This is our concern, Dude.
DUDE
No, man, nothing is fucked here--
LEBOWSKI
NOTHING IS FUCKED! THE GODDAMN PLANE
HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOUNTAIN!
The Dude takes a hurried sip from his drink.
DUDE
Man, c'mon, who're you gonna believe?
Those guys or--we dropped off the
damn money--
LEBOWSKI
WE???!
DUDE
I--the Royal We, you know, the
editorial--I dropped off the money,
exactly as per--Look, I've got certain
information, certain things have
come to light, and you know, has it ever
occurred to you, that given the
nature of all this new shit, that,
uh, instead of running around blaming
me, given the nature of all this new shit, you know, this could be a lot more ah ah, uh--you know?
LEBOWSKI
What in God's holy name are you
blathering about?
DUDE
I'll tell you what I'm blathering
about! I got information--new shit
has come to light and--shit, man!
She kidnapped herself!
Lebowski stares at him, dumbstruck. The Dude is encouraged.
DUDE
Well sure, look at it! Young trophy
wife, I mean, in the parlance of our
times, owes money all over town,
including to known pornographers--
and that's cool, that's cool-- but
I'm saying, she needs money, and of
course they're gonna say they didn't
get it 'cause she wants more, man,
she's gotta feed the monkey, I mean--
hasn't that ever occurred to you...?
Sir?
LEBOWSKI
(quietly)
No. No Mr. Lebowski, that had not
occurred to me.
BRANDT
That had not occurred to us, Dude.
DUDE
Well, okay, you're not privy to all
the new shit, so uh, you know, but
that's what you pay me for. Speaking
of which, would it be possible for
me to get my twenty grand in cash?
I gotta check this with my accountant
of course, but my concern is that,
you know, it could bump me into a
higher tax--
LEBOWSKI
Brandt, give him the envelope.
DUDE
Well, okay, if you've already made
out the check.
Brandt is handing him a letter-sized envelope which is distended by something inside.
BRANDT
We received it this morning.
The Dude, frowning, untucks its flap, takes out some cotton
wadding and unrolls it.
LEBOWSKI
Since you have failed to achieve,
even in the modest task that was
your charge, since you have stolen
my money, and since you have
unrepentantly betrayed my trust.
The wadding, undone, reveals a smaller wad of gauze taped up
inside. The Dude undoes the tape with his fingernails and
starts to unroll the inner package.
LEBOWSKI
I have no choice but to tell these
bums that they should do whatever is
necessary to recover their money
from you, Jeffrey Lebowski. And
with Brandt as my witness, tell you
this: Any further harm visited upon
Bunny, shall be visited tenfold upon
your head.
Between thumb and forefinger the Dude holds up the contents
of the package--a little toe, with emerald green nail polish.
LEBOWSKI
...By God sir. I will not abide
another toe.