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What I learned… (4) [Roman, Immortalized]

Posted in Boston, MA, Digression, Funky Web Sites on May 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

My friend Roman has just been immortalized in a blog–and not even this one, although now this makes two; granted my immortalization pales in comparison to THIS ONE. Congratulations Roman, for being The 50th Inductee Into Utter Wonder’s Hall of Fame! You can be in my hall of fame as well! And, while you would be the first, which is an accomplishment in itself, we’ll have to wait and see if any other folks clamor to follow you in.

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David Foster Wallace–Consider the Lobster (2005)

Posted in Big Books, Boston, MA, David Foster Wallace, Essays, Funny (ha ha), Funny (strange), Gilmore Girls, Meta, Tom Waits on May 29, 2007| 2 Comments »

lobster.jpgSOUNDTRACK: TOM WAITS-Orphans (Bastards) (2006).

orphans1.jpgThis is the piece de resistance of the Orphans set. All of the really, really weird songs by Waits get thrown together on this disc. Weird and wonderful, including a crazy cover of “Heigh Ho” from Snow White.

[READ: Summer 2006] Consider the Lobster.

When I was living in Boston, and going to graduate school, (more…)

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Jeanette Winterson–Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Posted in Augusten Burroughs, Boston, MA, Chavez, David Sedaris, Digression, Jeanette Winterson, LGBTQ, Memoirs, School House Rock, Short Books, Terry Pratchett on May 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

orange.jpgSOUNDTRACK: CHAVEZ-Better Days Will Haunt You (2006).

chavezz.jpgI first fell in love with Chavez when I saw a video for their song “Break Up Your Band.” I loved the video, and loved the music. And, I basically became of fan of them because of this video, which I think I must have seen on 120 Minutes, way back when. Turns out that my memory of this video is the equivalent of my memory of Good Omens (cf. Good Omens). The video is on the DVD that comes with this collection, and wow, I don’t recall the video looking like that at all! Huh, clearly I am an unreliable narrator.

Chavez is such a great noisy dissonant band. Squealy guitars, weird tempos, and noise, noise, noise. Fun! But what’s really fun is their cover of “Little Twelvetoes,” a song from the School House Rock oeuvre. This song is SO bizarre, and that’s even before Chavez gets their hands on it. The premise is that people from other planets with six fingers and toes and each hand and foot could count to twelve as easily as we count to ten. And, they made up two new numbers that would fill in the gap between nine and ten so that their twelve could be our number 10. Therefore, they could just add a zero when multiplying by 12. Or something.

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