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bobby from ernest

2009-07-18T21:46:00.000-04:00

been watchin' "ernest scared stupid" and forgot about this sidekick. originally gaylord perry was the other member of the two person goofball duo, but this movie must've been made after he died. eartha kitt is in this one too.

digging through cds to find...

2009-07-13T14:02:00.007-04:00

i recently had to revisit the npr site to see what song they were playing during a spot for the movie "500 days of summer." the interviewer for npr was discussing the role of soundtracking a movie and used this movie as an example b/c the director has done a number of music videos. i recognized the voice singing the tune as that of morrissey of the smiths. but was it a solo thing or a smiths' song? i am no morrissey scholar, nor have i ever professed the love of his voice as many have. so, i had to dig out the smiths/morrissey discs i've referred to (in the past) as "wendy's-cds-that-were-incorporated-into-my-collection-when-we-were-married." i do not outwardly claim to be any better of a music critic than anyone else who has worked at a used cd store, read trouser press and spin alternative guide front to back, said that they would grab the harry smith's folk anthology from any co-worker who took it in (used) - purchase it and then quit their job, or hunted down "lick my decals off, baby" b/c someone in passing said it was captain beefheart's best. i never had a proper introduction to the smiths and skateboarded to the cramps, misfits, and bad brains around the time that other (seemingly more depressed-than-i) fellow teenagers were discovering their music. the song turns out to be "please, please, please, let me get what i want" and is the last track off of the smiths' "hatful of hollow" release.
(i have to half-heartedly apologize to mary mccampbell for singing in the morrissey-esque voice back when she'd select anything of his to play in the store.) i say his voice is still kinda weird though. (on a side note, i just checked her blog and morrissey's new album was on her most recent post at the time that i'm typing this.) i've always been curious and will occasionally ask people who like the smiths why, in fact, they do - mainly because it seems like such an acquired taste. like a certain way you may prefer a slightly-burnt piece of garlic bread over a perfectly toasted piece to go with your lasagna. (maybe a bad analogy, but you get the idea).
once in a while, i'll get sorta hung up on tracking down an album or song to the point of becoming annoying, but this time wendy saved me the struggle by quickly scanning the backs of the nine smiths/morrissey discs i had exhumed from boxes over the garage and said, "this is it."
so, maybe i'm becoming a new found smiths listener, or more understanding of his "turtle-turtle" (from dana carvey movie "master of disguise") type vocal phrasings, or i'm yearning for some music with lyrics that don't seem trite or recycled from previous songs. possibly, i'm just another hipster taking music cues from npr's latest interviews. but, i'll just say now that if the movie sucks, i don't really care b/c it gave me the chance to hear how wendy came to the smiths and why she liked it back then. (and it also gave her a chance to "one-up" me on some music).

surprise link.

2009-07-10T20:22:00.000-04:00

see here.

coincidental?

2009-07-09T19:31:00.004-04:00

i just realized that my grandfather (on my mom's side) had the same name (cecil) as the turtle on that bugs bunny episode (tortoise beats hare) where he calls his cousins up and concocts a scheme to beat bugs at a race. so, here's the weird part. my grandfather's brother's name was chester which is the name of the turtle who cecil calls up on the phone. see here for details.

continuation of singing people w/ microphones in the air.

2009-07-09T18:43:00.003-04:00

since the past couple of posts (tony danza/danzig and elvis) both have microphones raised, i thought i would post a random shot of a singer with the mic raised. googling "singing mic raised" got me this. enjoy.

turtle and cat.

2009-07-09T18:41:00.002-04:00

this is not my cat nor my turtle. i couldn't resist.

how stuff works/stuff you should know.

2009-07-08T19:09:00.004-04:00

ok, so i've become officially addicted to the podcast of two guys (somewhere in/near atlanta) named charles (or chuck) and josh. they do a podcast about random facts and oddball things that you normally would wonder about but never investigate... i am subscribed.
check it out here.

in other news, i have stopped counting dead celebrities. these folks are devoting a blog roll type thing to it.

danzig/danza.

2009-07-08T02:54:00.002-04:00

hey, i found this while randomly searching for tony danza pictures.

Sorry for leaving you hanging...

2009-07-07T14:05:00.001-04:00

To any interested blog reader; my facebook phone application has directly affected my posting to this. I have ranted about so much there that this forum has become neglected. I hope to post less on facebook and more on here. While I can't post images (or links) as quickly to this blog as facebook allows, I will try to address the problem w/ my camera phone uploads.
To those of you who emailed me recently, thanks for expressing concern to the lack of recent posts to this blog. I appreciate knowing this gets views.

oh, and a while back i mentioned...

2009-05-02T19:26:00.003-04:00

matthew vollmer, who i did a little blog interview with a while back, has finally had his book released from book bondage. (some hold-up w/ the publisher)... so, his book titled, "future missionaries of america" is on its way to me via amazon. get yourself one right now. here.

just got this book in the mail...

2009-05-02T19:17:00.003-04:00

if you like music, bands, and graphic design (and/or comics); then you best be gettin' this book. go ahead. i ordered it through amazon and it came from england. woo hoo a british book. i'd like some tea now.

Land of the Fees, Home of the Paid.

2009-04-17T15:51:00.000-04:00

Petting zoo.

2009-04-11T14:26:00.000-04:00

Lottery

2009-04-10T17:38:00.000-04:00

I bought 4 lottery tickets... If I win, I will buy a follower of this blog something awesome. And I will make my dad retire.

New 2007 poster!

2009-04-10T16:27:00.002-04:00

hey, i just saw the new riverbend '07 poster and wanted to let everyone know it's out there. get one yourself to let everyone know that this 2007 will be the most rockin' riverbend yet... wait... it's 2009 you say? seems we're missing a few minor keys in 2009. that's good i suppose. chattanooga can only handle so many minor keys before someone becomes uncomfortable. we wouldn't want that.

Did anyone figure Dwight Yoakam as a culinary genius?

2009-04-09T23:07:00.000-04:00

Two words: Pizza Fries.

happy easter...

2009-03-31T22:57:00.003-04:00

i came across this one while looking for un-copywritten images of bunnies. this seems too bizarre to be real. it is brought to you by www.myhouserabbit.com. here's the original post.

found on ffffound.

2009-03-31T21:36:00.001-04:00

too clever for words.

Clip Art.

2009-03-31T21:02:00.000-04:00

Not to disappoint! Get your Clip Art here. (Bulldog Clip and Rembrandt c.1640 painting sold separately.)

Thanks Bill!

2009-03-25T13:17:00.000-04:00

To Bill,
Thanks for wishing more weirdness from this blog!
I had a "sore thumb/un-funster" comment and put his/her 2 cents in on how they felt my blog was basically wasting their precious time (on their search for clip-art - I suppose for a great flyer they were putting together for a gathering of really cool people out there somewhere.) I've since come to the realization that I should strive to waste the maximum amount of blog-visitor's time as possible. What am I? The place for usuable clip-art? I say get-a-life. So thanks Bill for keeping it real (and weird) as well! And, yes, that is me in the statue o' liberty shot.

Take that, you un-funsters.

2009-03-24T18:40:00.000-04:00

Clip art...

2009-03-24T00:24:00.001-04:00

It seems that lots of people have been drawn to my clip art post (I found some off of a texas university copy center site). Most comments have been constructive and understanding as I had tried to determine why, exactly, clip art of a goat pooping would be available. However, an anonymous post recently did not get the idea. There was no humor in this individuals life as he/she (posting cowardly as "anonymous") repeatedly made some insults w/ a few 5 dollar words thrown in to sound "educated." If this person wanted to find clip-art, they could've followed some links from those posts to a large bank of images... It must've been out of frustration and lack of patience that this individual typed "clip art" into google, didn't immediately get what they felt entitled to (I'm guessing it was someone younger than 30 w/ a false sense of entitlement), and lashed out b/c the internet did not instantly deliver the goods. To whom it may concern, I hope to find your blog someday so I can see how politically correct (and boring) your posts are. Thanks for keeping things bland.

Can I make a come-back?

2009-03-02T23:47:00.000-05:00

Dear Bloggibindoggins, I have spent too much time away. Will you accept more blog entries from me? I hope so. See you in the future.
-B.

Car clock.

2009-02-18T01:30:00.000-05:00

It's late.

tunnel runner.

2009-02-17T18:49:00.005-05:00

i loved this game. it was one i played until the atari 2600 smoked and died.