I just blew my nose in a used sheet of Bounce. Thursday night, I saw Green Day at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. No one had a car available, so we rode the bus downtown. The timetable said a Metro 2 bus would arrive in Westwood…
Date Archives July 2004
Brain Stew
I saw Garden State again Wednesday night. The screening was sold out. I scalped two extra tickets I had. Tickets went on sale Wednesday afternoon (and quickly sold out) for a one-off Green Day show Thursday night at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, a special dress…
Prostitute in a Parachute
Today at work, I learned that my supervisor owns an extensive collection of wigs. He then showed me a website full of graphic photographs of him in drag. Apparently, in his off-time, my supervisor likes to pose as a female cheerleader…without any underwear on. Also…
Matinee in the Garden of Good and Evil
Garden State first 2/3: final 1/3: I should preface this piece by saying that I hate writing movie reviews. If Wes Anderson and Sub Pop Records remade The Graduate, the result might be Garden State, a contemporary bildungsroman for post-college twentysomethings. Zach Braff (Scrubs) plays…
I'll see you in Hillel
New feature: Passive-Aggressive Comics
I see you're drinking 1% milk
—Fox Searchlight will attach a five-minute epilogue to Napoleon Dynamite for its wide expansion this Friday. Shot on June 22 and 23 in Idaho, the epilogue offers a peek into the future of Napoleon and his friends. It's "the wedding of the century." Goddammit, Fox….
If it takes shit to make bliss, well I feel pretty blissfully
Two firsts today: I saw a black person in the Sunset Canyon Rec Center pool and I saw a black person wearing a (The) Used shirt. I want to rent a knight costume for Halloween so I can be "the chink in the armor." I…
Tinnitus Tonight
I saw Modest Mouse Sunday night at the Hollywood Avalon. Good show. "Doin' The Cockroach" was particularly awesome live. There was a group of girls standing behind me who kept screaming at Isaac. —Isaac, take off your shirt! —"Truckers Atlas"! Play "Truckers Atlas"! "Truckers Atlas"!…
Bringing That Beat Back
—All 10 members of the Wu-Tang Clan will perform together for the first time in over 10 years at the Rock The Bells festival in San Bernadino, CA on Saturday. Scratch another band off my list. A few years ago, bored in class, I dreamt…
Factor Fiction
—Fox Networks Group on Tuesday said it would launch a reality television cable network early next year. As a result of corporate synergy, one of the original series for the upstart network will document the life of Fox News Channel personality Bill O'Reilly a la…