April 2008
Month archive / 69 posts
Consumption: April 2008
On the Web
- We Bleed Design: The style is a bit trendy for my taste, but the site employs some very novel and intriguing transitions using a clever combination of JavaScript, CSS, and transparent PNGs.
In the Stereo
- Pharaoh: Be Gone
- Rupa & The April Fishes: Extraordinary Rendition
On the Silver Screen
Hoping I'm not half as dumb as the sIFR documentation is making me feel.
Listening to DAT Politics cheat the spelling of "video tape" to fit the 4/4 time of their song of the same name. justsomelyrics.com/1659211/D…
Leaving an REI store for the first and last time.
Checking out TwittEarth. twittearth.com?lat=39.95227&lon=-…
Lots of helicopters and sirens directed at a big church fire a few blocks away from me. inquirer.com/philly/news/bre…
Awake from a long and strange dream of discussing the greater economic implications of the price of coffee beans with Mike Patton.
Just had the most pleasant rejection imaginable to my sheepish request that someone at Hatch Show Print show me the shop on their day off.
Just made the heftiest Dopplr update I ever expect to make. dopplr.com/traveller/cowpiesu…
Assigning every available neuron to the unreasonable task of imagining what it must be like to have things go right once in awhile.
Leaving @danielmall's nuptial celebration, very happy for the newlyweds and my bulging belly.
Wanting to play Mario Kart Wii so bad, but I have no plans to own a Wii.
Tour EP #2
At some point, I apparently gained some fratboy fuckhead neighbors. Congratulations to me.
Distilling a 60-minute mixtape from a 4-hour playlist.
Decided against ATP tickets. The lineup is worth the expense, but the admirably careful anti-scalping policies force absolute commitment.
On the ATP New York 2008 site, hovering paralyzed over the Buy These Tickets button at the bottom of a fully filled-out form.
If your web design podcast's very simple site is needlessly rendered in Flash, it doesn't do much for your credibility. 101webdesignshow.com
Planning a month-long, cross-country road trip is an intense amount of work.
NewsGator for iPhone is fantastic, but I wish the e-mail feature actually worked more than half the time.
Lake of Fire is an intelligent examination of the abortion debate. Soldiers in the Army of God is redneck crackpots repeating themselves.
"Ping" is not a synonym for "contact."
May skip OIAF (ottawa.awn.com) in favor of ATP New York (atpfestival.com/events/atpnew…). Ability to get tickets for the latter will decide.
Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Philip Glass.
Damned refracted light! I can never tell quite how much water is in the pot.
Hoping the Dem that gets the nomination takes the other as their running mate. Neither is just right, but they complement each other well.
A funeral plus a trip to Safelite for smashed window repair equals a case of the Mondays.
Just finished Season 3 of The Wire. As with the end of each season, I dread the quickening approach of the final episode.
Jimmie's Chicken Shack is playing at the bar down the street from me. That place is running out of Miller Lite tonight.
Bailing on the double feature because I couldn't even get through half of the interminable opener (George Romero's Knight Riders). Boo.
Ten minutes to showtime at a sparsely-attended double feature.
Philly peeps: Who wants to join me for Exhumed Films Bizarre Biker Battles tonight? ihousephilly.org/exhumedbikerbatt…
Worrying about the prolonged and frantic critter activity I just heard in my living room ceiling.
Glad to find that I'm already on top of most of these excellent tips for freelancers: salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/04…
Alanis Morissette must owe a lot to circumstance. There's no other explanation.
Short of enduring a total catastrophe, insurance is such a fucking scam.
If you didn't think the huge toolbox holding 1/2 your life-long Lego collection could be stolen from your car's trunk, think again.
All Illustrator documents are closed, but it takes its time quitting. AI is that final party guest who doesn't notice you put on pajamas.
Typesetting the whole of Ulysses on a quarter panel of a 7" sleeve.
Be Gone
Just found out that a high school friend's father died very suddenly this morning. :(
Dancing with Mr. Brownstone.
Calculating how much I paid for Illustrator to always fuck up my saved workspace arrangements.
Annoyed by the way Jeremy Enigk puts a W in front of words that begin with vowels.
Sorting out road trip details.
Finished this year's Philadelphia Film Festival with a thud. Average score for the ten films I saw: 2.7/5. Not so good.
Extraordinary Rendition
Heading into the Frida show at the Art Museum.
West Philadelphia Orchestra
Wondering what motivates people to spend money to talk over a band.
Apparently I’m a sucker for a cute girl with an accordion.
You know how nice it feels to be full of good food? It's not quite as nice to be full of Twizzlers and rice.
How did we ever get to the point where organic foods are a delicacy rather than a standard?
Convinced the film I just saw (Korean "thriller" Black House) was written by an eight-year-old with a copy of Insurance Fraud for Dummies.
Five minutes to showtime in a theater full of hardcore dorks, hearing a little too much of myself in the conversations surrounding me.
A typo in a medical appointment's iCal entry renames my imaginary band for the umpteenth time. All shall tremble before the mighty Bloodworm
Watching a PBS educational series about the Medici family on Joost. It's interesting, but the narrator and dramatizations are annoying.
Even if the film I just saw wasn't awful, $9 is too much to pay for a screening that fails to advertise that it's a projected Criterion DVD.
Philly peeps: I'm looking for an honest, trustworthy auto mechanic to do a pre-road-trip tuneup/examination. Any recommendations?
Anxiously awaiting karma's plans for people who attempt to promote themselves by following thousands of unfamiliar Twitter users.
Just saw someone hail a cab bound for a destination five blocks away.
Someone has removed the screws from my left pedal clip. I don't get it.
We're crazy about Barbara Kruger
In a Dream, last night's initial foray into the film fest, was outstanding and deeply moving. Trying to keep pace with three films today.
Having a lot of admiration for responsible SEOs, swimming against the current in a river of assholes.
Has xScope's Dimensions tool always worked like this and I'm just making a wonderful, belated discovery? urltea.com/335b
Reclaiming my stolen Mario Kart DS legacy, piece by piece. The Nintendo DS Lite is in the running for least ergonomic handheld device ever.
Very unhappy with Stringer Bell.
Steeples on churches don't reach for the divine so much as they stab at it.
Having a heated imaginary discussion with the inventor of the popcorn ceiling.
Why, yes, I do want to go see King Crimson in August. I also kind of want to kick my own ass.