February 2009

Setting off the smoke detector is becoming part of my Saturday morning routine.

There is a great premise here, but not quite enough plot to fill out a feature. As a result, there’s some heavy padding, mostly in the form of a superfluous love story that films of its era unfortunately weren't allowed to go without. Edmond O’Brien gives a solid performance, smoothly alternating between manic and shrewd, but the rest of the cast is easily forgotten. Genre fans ought to give it a look; others might not… See more →

Why are Stringer Bell and Ziggy Sobotka slumming it in Prom Night? Also, why am I watching Prom Night?

Issuing your weekly reminder to vote for my karaoke destiny: cogaoke.com/contestants/windh…

Consuming junk foods and beers at the annual Harmonix Bowlening. Also bowling. My team is For Whom the Bell Bowls.

Watching this extraordinary music video for a second time: youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShh…

Unsure of two things: 1) How long my stove's pilot light has been out. 2) When the maintenance guy will get here.

Creating a half dozen new Writeboards. There's a lot to write about, and I'm looking forward to sharing.

Just paid a Dreamhost bill for the first time in years. Apparently my referral rewards have run out. The halcyon days are behind me.

Considering taking a trip to Europe this summer to witness a very unexpected Faith No More reunion! thetripwire.com/uncategorized…

Morgan Spurlock is smart. If he called the movie Why Osama Bin Laden Is Irrelevant, which he certainly knew before he began, it would have garnered a lot less interest. And then his target audience would have missed out on some good conversations he had with people at all levels of society throughout the Middle East, which reveal that the world's real problems are poverty and the codependency of extremists and corrupt governments. As filmmaking,… See more →

Disposing of the remains of my first and last Harvest Co-op "sandwich."

At AS22 in Providence, where J Mascis is waiting in line for the bathroom and Earthless is boring me to death.

Anxiously awaiting the start of Cinematic Titanic with @waynekoby, @drinkerthinker, @beep, and many overweight people in trenchcoats.

Enjoying the ICA's struggle to intellectualize Shepard Fairey's work.

Have you really not yet voted for me to incinerate the #cogaoke stage? cogaoke.com/contestants/windh…

Was sure I'd get tickets to a taping of The Conan O'Brien Show at some point before it was over. Also, where is my flying car?

Feeling like a dork for getting needlessly (and unintentionally) name-droppy in what should have been a simple story.

Kicking out the jams, motherfuckers.

Pretty bummed out by the number of people in Central Square willing to just walk past a kid crying on the sidewalk because he lost his mom.

The Smiths were remarkably inconsistent.

Nostradamus was vague. I am not. My prophecy (twitter.com/cowpiesurprise/status…) is fulfilled (youtube.com/watch?v=6LG39Wp7O…). Do I get money now or what?

Trying to decide if I like Witch enough to justify owning this magnificent poster: gigposters.com/poster/109430_…

Thanks all for the raster-to-vector info. AI's Live Trace is exactly what I was looking for.

Any designers know the best tools for hi-res raster-to-vector conversion these days? I haven't done it since the days of Streamline.

Thinking about what's next for robweychert.com.

Check out this guy’s name.

Static electricity is the icing on winter's shit cake.

Are you in need of some truly wretched terribleness to knock your day down a few pegs? I've got you covered! youtube.com/watch?v=SkELRp4wK…

My, how we do drag ourselves kicking and screaming into the future.

The business card proclaiming you to be a "Passive Income Guru" might as well be instructing me to force-feed you powdered bleach.

Just learned that both Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare and Black Roses are now available on DVD, so I don't need to hoard my VHS copies anymore.

This very nearly had me in tears.

The music wasn't loud and the woman was barely elderly, but that didn't stop her from yelling her order with her fingers in her ears.

I have the PDF if you have a hard time downloading it. It’s... wow.

Keep your eyes peeled for this exhibition when it hits the Met in the fall.

Having spent 20 formative years under Catholicism's thumb, I find its persistence in the face of irrelevance astounding. nytimes.com/2009/02/10/nyregi…

Anybody know a good resource for select (drop-down) menu usability best practices?

This sounds very cool. I hope it comes to XBLA.

After his impossibly beautiful girlfriend dumps him, a slacker schlub takes a vacation in Hawaii where high jinks ensue, he somehow attracts yet another impossibly beautiful woman, and he comes to realize his amazing potential. Apatow devotees and detractors alike will find exactly what they’ve come to expect from anything bearing his name: A level of sophistication and cast of reasonably endearing characters that fall just short of saving this formulaic, broad comedy from itself.

Apatow's secret weapon is to make the successes of his identifiably average leads seemingly plausible. I tend not to buy it.

Wondering how you Red Bull drinkers do it. This shit is fucking awful.

Plans for my "This MacBook brought to you by" joke fell through when I couldn't find a beach ball manufacturer with a familiar name.

Sitting with@beep and @meyerweb, looking forward to fleeing the Burren's, um, comedy show that started happening while we were here.

It is the '00s, and when a graphic designer tells Metallica that his die cuts are more important than their lyrics, they listen.

It sounds like my upstairs neighbors are shoveling their apartment. Maybe they left their windows open today.

Searchlight on my trail. Tonight's the night all systems fail. Hey you! Good-lookin' female. C'mere.

My floorboards are creaky as shit. And yes, shit IS creaky. As shit.

Since the two series share subject matter, writers, producers, and many cast members, it’s impossible to talk about The Corner without mentioning its successor, The Wire. While The Wire explores the entire hierarchy of Baltimore’s failed war on drugs, The Corner focuses on one small community’s struggles with addiction and its baggage. The smaller scope gives this series a slower pace and a more easily managed narrative; at times, it almost feels like a stage… See more →