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Vince Scary

About Me

Reading, Biking, Drinking, attempts at writing

My Interests

Reading

I'd like to meet:

Fidel Castro

Music:

For starters, "everything" in the New Wave section of Record Bar, Gautier, MS, circa early 80s. Lots and loud. Weird shit and straight ahead. Nothing beats live music and house parties. I own records, cassettes or shiny discs by UNWOUND, Terrifying Sickos, Pink Floyd, The Spits, The Boomtown Rats, The Who, The Clash, Dead End Cruisers, The Pogues, Dwight Yoakum, The Vapors, Joe Strummer, Nurse With Wound, Next Window, Fleetwood Mac, The Stranglers, Gershwin, Radio Birdman, Magazine, the Chumps, Mission of Burma, The Saints, The Stooges, Dispersion, Led Zeppelin, Let's Active, Graham Parker, Rhythm Pigs*, The Motards*, The Crack Pipes*, The Secret Lovers*, The Godamned Gentlemen, Bazooka Joe*, The Buzzcocks, Chromeo, Turbo Negro, The Skids, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Academic Dismissal (yeah, right, I wish), X, Can You Hear Me? Music From the Deaf Club, Graves Brothers Deluxe, Legion of Decency, and at least one song by No Rules on Thrasher comp tape from St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Goula. Play crude and spare lines on the Thrasher/Memphis bass.

Movies:

Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, Three Days of the Condor, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, On the Beach, Running on Empty, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Lord of the Rings, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and all of the Coen Brothers output, Videodrome, The Odd Couple, Union City, Fire in the Sky, Flower Drum Song, Operation Petticoat

Television:

BookTV, Futurama, King of the Hill, Fat Albert (if you're not careful, you just might learn something) The Rockford Files, CSPAN, M*A*S*H, The Waltons, The Wire, The Simpsons, Match Game, The Riches, The Muppet Show!

Books:

Bibliography in progress

Heroes:

Charles Nelson Riley, Molly Ivins, Joe Strummer, Ira Harkey Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Cockburn, Ralph Nader, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ted Turner, Hugo Chavez, Skippy Acapella, Fidel Castro, Marc Maron, Lt. Ehren Watada, E. O. Wilson, Jim Hansen, Jim Henson, Charles Darwin, The Diggers, Mr. Rogers, Karl Marx, FDR, The Brains Trust, The People and most of all my folks

My Blog

Clash Clash

Has anyone else noticed the music of the CLASH showing up in commercials. Is it just a coincidence it's begun after the death of Joe Strummer? Would he have prevented it? Their version of "Pressu...
Posted by Vince Scary on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:38:00 PST

USM film and music departments move/moving to Gulf Coast

I love Hattiesburg but I'm glad to see the Gulf Park campus growing.  LONG BEACH --It's show time, literally, at the University of Southern Mississippi. University officials this semester relo...
Posted by Vince Scary on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:15:00 PST

They are known as bibliomulas

Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries   A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. As James Ingham reports, the sche...
Posted by Vince Scary on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:32:00 PST

Bangladesh to India rail service set to resume

Some news from Asia. Shout out to Waseem! Indian train goes to Bangladesh after 42-year breakBy Masud Karim2 hours, 17 minutes agoAn Indian train arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday on the first trial ru...
Posted by Vince Scary on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST

Streetcars of New Orleans article added to photos

In my photo album Thee Coast I have just posted j-pegs of the cover story from the August issue of Trains magazine. It's a look at the Streetcars of New Orleans post-Katrina. Additional...
Posted by Vince Scary on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:17:00 PST

Robot kid

OSAKA - A group of scientists in Japan have developed a humanoid that acts like a toddler to better understand child development. The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team...
Posted by Vince Scary on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:33:00 PST

cassette vs shiny plastic scratchable disc

Does anyone else have 20-30 year old cassettes that still play and sound about as good as ever? And that's pretty good especially if it's a high bias cassette. Meanwhile I have cd burns from just a fe...
Posted by Vince Scary on Fri, 18 May 2007 09:51:00 PST

Friday the 13th was the 5th anniversary of the restoration of the Bolivarian Revolution

Winding down a laid back weekend. We rewatched the Return of the King last night. And also caught Shawn of the Dead on cable. Pretty hilarious. Never seen it before. Now I'm thinking even more of...
Posted by Vince Scary on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:01:00 PST

Friday 16 was a bXg day

At work by 8ish. Even with my boss on the Iberian penisula I can still roll in on time. Split around 10 to get the hell to the Austin City Limits current studio to line up for The Stooges free live ra...
Posted by Vince Scary on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:18:00 PST

FuckedUpApeShitsMelvinsChairsofPerceptionSuicidalFailures

Ouch! Too much fun. Great day. 5 for 5ive on targeted shows.Biking is the only way to fly, my friends. Zipping past the chummers. Fucked Up at 4th and NavasotaThe Ape Shits on Red River.The Melvins a ...
Posted by Vince Scary on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:46:00 PST