I've been recommending Bloc Party people lately. Not that I expect anybody to get airplay anymore, but still I think K-Rock in New York could throw a crumb to these guys and play "Banquet". I sent my buddy Zimm over to the .com and .net namesakes for mp3s, since there's definitely a good primer available between the two. I also recommended my them to my friend Wayne also.

In passing I mentioned them as what Coldplay or U2 would sound like if they were really good, or something like that. But when I listen to Silent Alarm I don't think they sound like either band. So really I guess if someone liked either of those bands, and there are at least a handful, they would like Bloc Party. Well, only if they past the fact that the only way the songs will be drilled into their skull is if they play them over and over and over for themselves. There are also a lot of Gang of Four mentions in review of Bloc Party, I see where they come from, but I only just picked up Entertainment recently. So basically I'm just namedropping. In summary, whether you love or hate U2 or Coldplay, you'll like Bloc Party, or you won't, but you probably will. My taste is not your taste. I'm kind of jumping back and forth in this post right now. I kind of signed off like 5 minutes but skipped back up here to type some more.

I'm sleepy now and sleep is a rare commodity in my house right now (an infant will do that to you), so I'll make my links and be back next month, if not later today.

Kids say the darndest things don't they?

I mean, umm, repeat the darndest things. Darnedest. It sure looks funny when you type it. I know its only slang, is there a spellchecker for that? Wow, MS Word knew exactly what I was talking about. It feels weird giving Microsoft some credit for something besides owning the planet.

The anedcote is from the blog of writer, Cherie Priest, who I know absolutely nothing about. Except this exchange she heard in McDonald's, maybe I should stop my personal boycott of the place.

I wasted too much time looking for an appropriate graphic in this post and didn't find one. Ah well.

Deepdiscountdvd.com has a 20% off deal going on through Thursday. And they are typically the cheapest to begin with (but shop around anyway, don't just take my word for it). But they are already low priced, they don't charge shipping and they are taking 20% off everything.

I make no money on this deal. I just like to pass deals along to my friends if they are worth wasting the time of reading yet another blog posting.

IMPORTANT: to get the extra 20% off, enter the coupon code SUPERSALE in the promotion code box upon checkout to receive your discount.

This ends 6/25/05.

Void where prohibited.

I felt like adding that.

Good day.

I fondly recall the days of posting about edisoncarter and his cheat codes for GTA: San Andreas. The PC version is out now so here's a link to edisoncarter's cheat codes for PC.

The PS2 community owes a great deal to edisoncarter for his research endeavors in going where no one else was going to go. At least not as quickly, in delving into the unknown netherworlds within San Andreas. He has no booth at E3. There is no Hall of Fame for him. But he looks not for thanks and praise, just for more cheat codes.

Catcher in the Rye, Spider-Man, Han Solo

That's all you get for now. Less about this to come.

Although this was from the Attack of the Clones premiere, it's culturally relevant. I'm pretty certain this same group turned out again in droves for Revenge of the Sith.

More Triumph.

Type "triumph" in the search box at Milk and Cookies, and there's plenty more.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog has found a new target for abuse.

I just heard that there's a drive-in movie theatre in New Jersey again. It's in Vineland which is nowhere near where I live, but still I feel better knowing that it's there. I remember going to see the Pink Panther movies at the old Amboy drive-in movie theatre before it became the Amboy Multiplex, which is closing soon as well. Something about the floor sinking or something.

Anyway the Delsea Drive-In is open and is playing Revenge of the Sith to boot. Taking Star Wars back into the 70's.

Lame animation alert.

http://www.whitesnake.com

Yes they are still around.

Don't ask why I found this. I'm still wondering myself.

Apple will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Sort of. They'll pay you for about 10% of the burger which will probably get you the bottom half of the bun without the juiciness of the burger soaked into it. Now if the bun was a nice kaiser roll, perhaps you could make an argument for this deal. But I'm willing to bet that you can get a lot more for your old iPod than the 10% off the purchase of a new one offered by Apple.

I'm really surprised to hear of Apple getting in bed with Intel for future chips. All I would imagine this would do is encourage Intel to slow down the releases of faster chips even more than they already do. If both Macs and PCs are run by Intel chips, what's going to drive the market. I would have liked to see Apple get behind AMD who has always been there to keep Intel in check. They do not nearly have the market share, but this will make it a little tougher to keep Intel honest.

Apple, you know, "think different", and all that business. It would just make sense for Apple to go with AMD. The whole "Macs are faster" argument would fall by the wayside when the chips are the same, wouldn't it? If Apple's goal is to make the transition to Macs that much easier for the PC user, you know, so much easier that it doesn't seem any different, well then why would a PC user want to pay a few hundred more to get a Mac.

PC users aren't as spellbound by Steve Jobs as much as the hardcore Apple users, so before the assimilation process into PCs edges further toward completion, Apple has to think about whether they want to continue to hold their place in the computer market, or become an iPod company.

Threadless still has tees left at $10, but only until June 6. I guess they'll be printing a whole new batch, but there's still some good stuff left. And some new shirts have just been made available at this bargain price. Star Wars fans will definitely appreciate Dark side of the Garden, featuring Darth Vader in Martha Stewart moment tending to his topiary, which just happens to be shaped like the Death Star. I also like We're Toast, Maxim Vixen, My Dearest Friend, Bye Pussy and Nothing (which I recently ordered).

Yes, I'm shilling for Threadless, but I like the whole user-submitted design process. If you want something to be made into a t-shirt, you can vote for the submissions, or design one yourself. There's currently a design competition involving IFC. Hence the nearby graphic.

Vin Diesel did not play Screech on Saved by the Bell. That was Dustin Diamond.

Vin Diesel also rolls the 20-sided die. I shit you not. He wrote the forward to a book about Dungeons & Dragons.

Last night I dreamt the new Star Wars movie, mind you I haven't seen it yet, so it was up to my sleeping mind's machinations. It started out Lucasian enough, but once the flooding started, as well as run-ins with mall security, and Method Man getting fired from The Gap, I realized I was a little off base. There were no Gaps on Tatooine, only Old Navy stores, and Method Man wouldn't work in either.

Perhaps some more useful blog posts will appear soon. You don't need me to tell you that Deep Throat's identity has been revealed. So consequently there's no accompanying link.

Post 5-31-05 evening LL 9:58PM

This post should have appeared Tuesday evening, but there were some upgrades going on at the host, so it appears today instead. God forbid you didn't know that little fact, considering the pertinence of the information of my wacked out dreams to your everyday life.

Last night I dreamt I was shot in the heart. I didn't much like this dream. The idea that if you die in your dream, you die in real life, was introduced to my young mind early enough in my formative years to still have a stronghold in my sometimes adult years. Whether my dreams are wondrous or nightmarish, they are always vivid. They might not appear every night, or even for stretches of weeks to months, but they are presented in glorious detail, if not artisticly rendered.

Do people who die in their sleep die in their dreams? Can we actually ever know this? Either this is conversation worth kicking around over a pint, or a thought only worthy to those who've indulged in multiple hits from the bong. I haven't been hanging around with Cypress Hill tonight, but this thought entered my head stone cold sober.

However vivid the dream was, my retention of details is poor. My brain has not been fitted with any type of cyborg Tivo to record this dream (without those fucking commercials), so all I recall is that there were some type of unsavory characters I was associating with, and I believe it was some type of doublecross on their parts (what can you expect from un-savories) that got me shot.

And when I say I was shot in the heart, it wasn't the anatomically correct, behind the breastplate heart location, Pulp Fiction OD Bitch adrenaline hypodermic heart. It was the upper left side, I pledge allegiance..., home of love letters and initials on school book covers and countless tomes of bad and good poetry heart. This can be analyzed however one chooses. I just was having some fun with that last sentence.

I want to go to be now. I'd like to go back in armed, and get those fuckers.

Hasta luego,
LL

Third installment of the fledgling podcast covering the BlogHarbor community. Hosted by John Keegan, this selection features lots of ways to improve your blog appearance. Something I've been meaning to do, but just haven't got around to. Content is still king, but window dressing gets people to stick around long enough to read. If a blog is constructed with care, viewers will suspect the author to put forth that same effort in their posts.

I knew if I looked there would be new White Stripes' mashups. And here's two:

DJ Zebra - Voodoo Stripes (White Stripes vs Prodigy) Thanks, Totally Crap.

Team9 - Blue & White Antenna (White Stripes vs Kraftwerk)

The White Stripes always seem to distract me now and again. It must be the color palette, or Meg's...ummm...drumming. Who knows?

The Blue Orchid video has a quite sinister feel to it, provided by Floria Sigismondi in conjunction with a burnt up old mansion, Jack's mustache, a girl with painful shoes, albino snakes, and ummm...Meg drumming on dishes with a hammer. The will not take over your entire conscious, subconscious, id, ego, and superego, like "Seven Nation Army" did. But it least it won't have your co-workers throwing stuff at you for sitting at your desk going, "Dum...Dum Dum Dum Dum Dum...Dum" incessantly. You'll just be making that swishy guitar sound with your mouth, but not nearly as often.

Whitestripes.net has an .mpg file.
Triple Tremolo has a .wmv file.

I actually wrote a review of Elephant that a never posted anywhere, not that anybody needs to read it, since they already have the CD by now. But perhaps it will appear. But then again, it looks better as a piece of paper lying beneath a bunch of credit card applications, receipts, post-its, random pieces of envelopes with unnamed phone numbers, magazines, crapalogs, and outdated coupons. Aesthetics are important, you know.

It's official. Grand Theft Auto for Sony PSP. Fall 2005. Now maybe I'll think about keeping that unopened box that wasn't going to fund my retirement on eBay.

Any PC users looking for multi-plaer mods of GTA. Try this.

I guess this post may as well include all things Rockstar, so here's the official site for Bully. No info, much like the GTA:LCS site, but bookmark these things, it will come.

Rockstar is supporting the PS3, apparently a Red Dead Revolver demo was shown at E3. No announcements of GTA for PS3 yet, there are rumours floating on the Yahoo Finance messageboards about Microsoft buying TakeTwo (Rockstar's owner/publisher), but as a lot of rumours on finance messageboards, there's a good chance they're crap. They probably heard from the same two morons at a Gamestop that told me last year that Microsoft already had XBox exclusivity for the next version of GTA. Of course, I knew they were full of shit, because I was a TakeTwo shareholder at the time. But as they possessed the oft time ugly "clerk-snob/god" attitude, there was no telling them otherwise. But now if there is any truth to the new rumours, these tow will pat themselves on the back, with the only real gain being the 4 words, "I told you so". Meanwhile I've picked up 10 points on TTWO stock. Now I'm the one with the smug little smirk.

Star Wars Kid: A New Hope.

Just found this appearance in Tony Hawk Underground 2.

Perfect time to revisit young Ghyslain. (Follow the links for video.)

Star Wars Kid (original)

Star Wars Kid vs Matrix Agents

Star Wars Kid vs Drones

More Star Wars Kid vs Drones

My personal favorite - Star Wars Kid vs Star Wars Kid

Star Wars Kid vs Blasters

And what it's inspired...

Space Ghost Kid