750 sounds like a lot

Hey, who's in charge here?

also, Colbert at the White House correspondents dinner
(thanks Ann)

if you ever need a guest lecturer...

Photo by Alex Dunk for the Tufts Daily

Clint Conley: guest lecturer?

Almost as cool as that time he offered me a job.

I don't know if there's anything quite as manly as withstanding this intense pain

I've been watching Jack Black's 'Nacho Libre Confessional' video podcast. 13 episodes on iTunes so far and, as you could imagine, absolutely spectacular. (the link above isn't as up to date as iTunes, but it's a start)


Nacho Libre is a film by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), written by Jared & Jerusha Hess (who wrote ND) and Mike White (who wrote every other good movie ever), and starring Jack Black as a priest who dons a masks and moonlights as a luchador in order to save an orphanage from closing.
Yeah, you heard me.
Trailer here.




oh, ok, here's episode 3 of the Confessionals. enjoy:

Lala

The website lala.com is new, and works like this:
You become a member. tell them what CDs you have and what CDs you want. Someone requests a CD from your list and you send it out (though you can always decline and decide to keep it). Then someone else sends you a CD from your want list. You pay $1 to the website (20% of which goes to the artist) and 49¢ shipping per cd.
This is amazing.

Basically, there's someone out there who wants my No Doubt CD that I bought 11 years ago, and I just sit and wait for someone else to send me, say, the new Animal Collective or some old Swans record.

I love this already.

Membership is by invitation only; the invite system isn't set up yet but will be up and running soon. So if you're interested in joining, drop me a line and when invites become available I'll send you one.

I've already got Sketches of Spain en route; if only I didn't leave all my never-listened-to CDs in back Boston... from now on I'm buying any used CD under $5.

Girlysound

Liz Phair Experience has a serious treasure trove of early Liz Phair demos. Good quality mp3s of 2 Girly Sound cassettes from 1991, Yo Yo Buddy Yup Yup Word To Ya Muthuh, and Girls Girls Girls. Don't wait go get 'em.

my same dilemma

photo courtesy Associated Press

It is unknown whether Schrödinger actually owned a cat

that's not related to anything I just really like the photo.
via Wikipedia

YOU MEAN REVERSE SLIDER GRIP? / I CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE BUT YES / ... WHAT DO YOU CALL IT / SLIDER GRIP

Nick Sylvester tells all!

Gawker is all like 'you should read it but get high first'
I say you should read it.

But seriously, you should be high when you read it.


I'll throw Nick's new spot a link too: Riff Market


I will now just quote from the piece as long as I feel like it.


A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THE WOMEN OF ENRON

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GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: DID YOU GO TO ONE OF THOSE COLLEGE WHERE THE LGBLTSA CALLS APRIL GAYPRIL?

NICK SYLVESTER: YES

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: GO ON

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GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: DID HE HOLD THEM WITH HIS THUMB AND INDEX FINGER WHILE HIS OTHER THREE FINGERS INEXPLICABLY JUTTED OUT

NICK SYLVESTER: YOU MEAN REVERSE SLIDER GRIP?

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: I CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE BUT YES

NICK SYLVESTER: ...

NICK SYLVESTER: WHAT DO YOU CALL IT

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: SLIDER GRIP

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NICK SYLVESTER: WE TALKED A BUNCH AND I SENT HIM A BUNCH OF CDS HE SHOULD LISTEN TO

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: DID YOU SEND HIM THE BORIS

NICK SYLVESTER: YEAH HE LOVED IT, HE SAID "BEST OF GENRE"

GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: ROFFLE

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Rocketboom

the Rocketboom studio

I just discovered Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon's amazing daily video video blog. It should really be the first 3 minutes of your day every day. She was recently named one of Paper Magazine's Beautiful People 2006.
Here's why:



Photos courtesy of amandacongdon.com

To further prove my point about Rocketboom's awesomeness, Amanda's the reason I found out about "Rabbits," David Lynch's 9-Part (so far) live-action DV-shot "sitcom." The best description I've read: "In a nameless city, deluged by a continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery." (LynchNet). Starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, and Scott Coffey. It's available to pay subscribers on DavidLynch.com, or for the rest of us: on YouTube. [if you really like what you see, spring for a subscription. David Lynch is worth it.]

L, A take LA

Aaron Hilliard and Luke Del Tredici Co-Produce New Fox Sitcom

cool.

Speaking of Wesleyan Mafia takeover maneuvers, we got Universal.


Unrelated but fabulous - the disposable Seder plate:

wish I had known about that yesterday.



so apparently I'm back in the blogging game?

Boccaccio and Barton, together at last

Decameron: Angels and Virgins
starring Mischa B. and Hayden Christiansen


what?

hmmm.. Pier Paolo Pasolini vs. David Leland...

though I do think Mischa can pull this off. She's significantly underrated as an actress, and as long as the casting is done with a nod to her range, she can be very good. I believe she will shine in this movie, precisely for it's lightness.

they certainly are casting some (other) very pretty women

but, can they act?