Vertigo, then and now
Before and after images of various San Francisco locations used in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece. My favorite Hitchock movie, right after Rear Window.
Tipping the Velvet
If you haven’t read the book, you should. It’s delicious. But short of that, catch the three-part mini-series on BBCAmerica, starting Friday, May 23rd at 10 p.m. I’m buying a new video tape just for the occasion. I have the DVD now.
“A lavish tale of life and lesbian love in 19th-century London. Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling) falls in love with captivating performer, Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes). They move to London and begin a romance, but Kitty has a terrible secret.”
Trucker hats: yet another fashion trend I started
Back in 1997 I had one of these hats that was blue mesh, with a blue bill, and I wore it around everywhere. After that, I had a pioneer seed corn one, and now I have a blue one with white mesh, and a brown one with yellow mesh. Just now, they’re coming into style. And of course, New Yorkers having finally caught on the trend, are starting the backlash against them. New Yorkers are so five minutes ago.
Graphic Design Stuff
This is one of those areas of graphic design that I always thought was really cool: antique seed packets. A while back I had an option to design a landscaping website for a friend (it didn’t work out) but this was one of my plans, to create a design like this. Another cool example of this is the art for the Squirrel Nut Zippers CD “Perennial Favorites.”
The seed packet site really makes me want to go put some more MiracleGro on my flowerbeds.
You Were Watching What?
So I’m reading my friend Lori’s website, and she has this post about the Amber Alert System:
So, i’m watching the sunday night repeat of The Practice on channel 6 and the tv goes freaky – buzzing and making weird noises…then at the top of the screen there’s an announcement about a Civil Alert for all of Indiana from 12:00 till 5:00am – what the hell? A little while later, there’s a box in the corner that says it’s an Amber Alert – go to the Indy Star website – nothing…go to the Channel 6 website nothing… you’d think the damned channel that announces something like this would have the info on their website!!! So i track down the Amber Alert page – apparently there’s something happening in Gary, Indiana…
And the first thing that popped into my head was that maybe the problem wasn’t the Amber Alert system at all. Maybe the buzzing and weird noises were happening because the TV was objecting to Lori watching “The Practice” on a Sunday night, when “The Sopranos” and “Six Feet Under” are on. I didn’t even realize that “The Practice” was still on TV. Hollywood really must be out of ideas.
Number of Times Buffy Has Saved The World
Six, according the USA Today. Actually, that’s only in season enders. She also saved the world in midseason, in episodes “Innocence”, “The Zeppo” and “Doomed”. And technically last season, it wasn’t Buffy that saved the world, but Xander, and Giles. So she’s saved in eight times, so far. I’m guessing number 9 is coming in the next couple of weeks.
Wow, those are some mp3s
Check out this bizarre collection of mp3s. There’s some great wacky songs and spoken word items there, and hilarious comedy bits.
Happy “Make Fun of the Cheneys” Day!
On December 12, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn sent a DCMA notice to the White House parody site, where the site hosted a fake biography of Lynn Cheney. Partial bio:
Mrs. Dick Cheney was born Lynne Ann Vincent on August 14, 1941 in Casper, Wyoming. The daughter of a ruggedly masculine sheriff and her demurely erudite husband, Lynne took an early and girlishly appropriate interest in those aspects of American art and culture which are so comfortably reminiscent of 18th century thought and tradition. A voracious reader of books, the young future Mrs. Dick Cheney took a special liking to the tragically romantic works of the Frenchman Victor Hugo, most notably his seminal novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” from whose dog-eared pages she would later would take her inspiration when selecting a mate.
Text of the DCMA notice:
“This is to request adjustments in the content of your website at www.whitehouse.org. On the webpage http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/lynne.asp appear photographs of the Honorable Lynne V. Cheney and a fictitious biographical statement about her.
It is important to avoid using her name and picture for the purposes of trade without her written consent, see N.Y. Civil Rights Law”
To protest their legal threats and harassment, April first is “Make Fun of the Cheneys Day.”
mp3 downloads funding terrorism
Now we have congressional hearings suggesting that if you download mp3s from the internet, you’re funding Terrorism. Yeah, Right.
Crap, I thought I was only riding with Hitler and channeling Satan. I guess now I’m also funding the terrorists. Looks like the folks at Modern Humorist were ahead of their time.
I Love Television
There are tons of people I know who say things like “I never watch TV.” I’m not one of those. I watch TV. A lot. Usually while doing other things, like laundry, reading, working on the house… but I watch TV. I love TV. Well, the good shows, anyway. Because of the harsh winter this year, I’ve been watching a lot of the WISH-TV’s Local Weather Service, which is 24 hour channel of local weather. This is much cooler than the weather channel because I don’t have to hear about what the weather is like in California, or Texas. It’s all about Indianapolis, all the time. I’ve also been tuning into the morning news to get the weather report, which I never did before. Mostly the local news is pretty lame.
Before I started watching all the weather, I was watching practically every home improvement show on cable TV. For a while there, HGTV was on at my house all day Saturdays and Sundays. But lately I’ve started getting a bit irritated at these shows, because they never seem to have the small niggling problems & screw-ups that I have when doing home improvement projects. And they can do the same thing I’m doing in about 1/4 the time it takes me, which is really a pain. And they never have to figure shit out, either. That’s really annoying.
So, anyway, if you like TV as much as I do, you might like this website: Teevee.org. It’s regular people who write reviews of their favorite TV shows, and of TV viewing in general. It’s much fun.
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