Arvid

RIP The Blue Blur

My car died Friday morning, my mechanic friend said, and I quote "we had to shoot it."I put a lot of miles and memories on that car. Took it from Baton Rouge to Los Angeles and Back. New Orleans to Fl...
Posted by Arvid on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:13:00 PST

Metal is Alive and Well in New Orleans

And I'm not talking about that NuMetal crap that heralded the end of the 90s. I'm talking balls to the wall power chords and raspy vocals that would make a Norwegian church burner shit his pants. I mi...
Posted by Arvid on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:17:00 PST

Sometimes I love living in New Orleans

The mayor and police superintedent checking out the NOPD's brand new arsenal......
Posted by Arvid on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:56:00 PST

RIP Steve Gerber

I just learned Steve Gerber, legendary comic book writer and creator of Howard the Duck, passed away yesterday.A moment of silence to remember a legend....
Posted by Arvid on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:25:00 PST

Our Destiny

Of all the movies I've seen about the future of human civilization, unfortunately "Idiocracy" seems the most accurate.I went to check out "Cloverfield" today and was sadly reminded of that fact. I wen...
Posted by Arvid on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:26:00 PST

Boring myself to death

Yesterday I spent the morning at an orientation at the New Orleans Zen Temple for my first official Zazen practice. I've been intrigued by Zen Buddhism for quite some time and finally got a chance to ...
Posted by Arvid on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:19:00 PST

Seriously...

How dumb do you have to be to work for the TSA?
Posted by Arvid on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:43:00 PST

On Protests and Such

So the masses were protesting today against the resolution to tear down the projects around town. Now i've never reallly understood protests, I've been to a couple. One particularly memorable one was ...
Posted by Arvid on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:58:00 PST

Best movies of 07

So here it is, my list of favorite movies of the year...300Yes I have soft spot in my heart for comic book movies, but I was never a big Frank Miller fan. That said, I think his books work way better ...
Posted by Arvid on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:33:00 PST

The Goddamn Murder Junkies

Tonight was a night I'd been looking forward to ever since I saw "Hated" in early '06. The Murder Junkies played @ the Hi-Ho Lounge. Overall, the only way the show could have been better is if GG was ...
Posted by Arvid on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:12:00 PST