home again

back when Danny Elfman still wasn't (fully) Danny-the-movie-scorer-Elfman, when his band of troubadours wowed indie fans all over. goddamn, i love the Boi-Ngo album and that killer horn section.
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where is she going
ooh, she looks like she's lost
won't someone help her
somebody give her a hand
She's got such sweet eyes
look like they've seen too much
knew someone like her
nobody helped, but she's ...

Home again
Home again
Home again

Where are you going - to see a crazy old man
What will he tell you - he'll tell me where I'm going
What will you do then - I might just quit my job
What will you do then - I'm gonna find my way

Home again
Home again
Home again

Where are we going, where are we going
Home again,
We're home again
We're home

Where is he going - why does he walk that way
Sticking his chest out - what is he trying to say
He's got charisma - but when he's all alone
He curls up in a ball - and wishes that he was

Home again
Home again
Home again

Where are we going - why do we feel so small
Alone and helpless - in this big crazy world
Looking for something - that's so hard to describe
But just like children - going along for the ...

Ride again
Ride again
Ride again

Well, ain't that something - guess I lost my head
Must have took a wrong turn - when I got out'a bed
ended up on the wrong street - wrong side of town
People here are the wrong type - they've got me down
I'm eating the wrong food - drinkin' the wrong wine
Can't hardly see straight - can't walk the line
Shakin' all the wrong hands - makin' the wrong talk
Steppin' on the wrong feet - every time I walk

Where are we going, where are we going
Home again,
We're home again
We're home

and there goes your presidential ambitions.

recession? what recession?

get T.O. too, why don't you, Dan Snyder?

intercepted

walking out of the hotel, the doorman accosts me and makes small talk. things like when am i leaving town and would i need a car. sure i do, i said. he recommends a driver, quoted same price as i paid with the taxi that i rode in last week who got lost all over downtown - what the heck, ok, i said.

"so where you from?" he asks.

New York, i say.

"really? that's where i retired, man." he points to an "NFL Alumni" pin.


holy crap. i look at his name tag.

"played for the Jets."

holy crap.


so i say, does the 'W' stand for 'William'?


stupid, stupid, stupid.


"Google me, man." gave me his card.


to think that a former NFL defensive back who retired the year i was born would be familiar with Google. he kinda looks like Bill Russell, and he has big hands (which served him well in his career). he's a shining example of athletes who avoid drowning in the trappings of fame and fortune. i apologize for not knowing you, Mr. Hicks. hats off.


W.K. Hicks, INT leader in 1965, a Pro Bowler in 1966, now works as head captain and ambassador for the Lancaster Hotel in downtown Houston.

take it, take it!

ash wednesday blues

craving while fasting!

will anybody follow his example?

Survivor, the Big C.

we hope this is not an actual reality show.

go build a megachurch

actual CNN Headline:



yeah, the best advice is to establish your own church. you don't hear of any church folding or filing for some kind of bankruptcy, do you? at the most, you'd have pastors that get disgraced for having gay affairs while prominently attacking homosexuality. putting up your own church ensures constant income.

greatest car salesman in the world?

thank you, Larry Miller.

closing

why are we not surprised? all those in-vitro stuff and Angelina-like facial enhancements can't help you now. are you sure you didn't shakedown NBC for a 7-figure interview deal?

if she had an agent, she should have made arrangements that she gets a check for every news story about her in whatever media. and that includes second-hand references like this blog. gulp!

is it racist?

i'm ambivalent about this.

my initial take is it opines that the Stimulus Bill was written by monkeys (cross-referencing chimps gone wild). but with the current political climate, the African-American community in general is understandably sensitive about things like these.


on a related tangent, we can draw and make fun of Jesus and no one riots in huge numbers or declares a fatwa on the cartoonists.

twenty years ago ...

i had a walkman and cassette tapes, and i was a college boy living life one album at a time.


now am a corporate slave wondering where the time went and marveling at the vast expanse of the Texan horizon.

get Carter?

i can't believe somebody still believes in Half Man, Half Amazing, because he's more Half-Man, That's It, in recent years. add to that his penchant for shirking from the big shot, why would you still bet on him?

i agree the Nets should dump him off somewhere before they rebuild in Brooklyn, but i kinda pity the Rockets. if this deal goes through, Houstonians, you better make sure you still have Shane Battier, and hope Yao Ming becomes a gritty playoff primetime player, because VC most likely won't.

the anti-Jack

"we used to outsource this stuff." Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson's character in the current $78M juggernaut Taken) tells his criminal captive, before torturing him. this is the kind of Jack Bauer stuff the right-wingers loved and championed especially after 9/11. and Mills would make Bauer proud, leaving a trail of broken bodies and carnage through Paris (take that, you French pussies - oh wait, Luc Besson co-wrote the screenplay). but then Mills has a personal mission: to retrieve his daughter kidnapped by sex traffickers. and that's where he parts ways with dear old Jack - the latter increasingly needs a mission, the mission to have a sense of purpose. Mills gave that career up to re-bond with his estranged daughter, and in one unfortunate series of events, he's back doing what he does best (at this point, even the liberals cheered). Jack can always start having a life, but then maybe he's been that unlucky. Mills can't afford not to have a life, which is why he does what he has to do. may we all do the same under similar circumstances.

what the hell?

a link on CNN about Prez Obama's enthusiasm about Air Force One had this pic alongside it (i said the link, not the main article itself).


and look at what it reminds me of:

brownbag

yeah, ok. so why am i skeptical of your apology?

the statement was released by a spokesman? this would have worked better if he came out in a press conference and poured his heart out, no coaching by media handlers, no paper statements to hide behind.



a face that says 'i'm sorry' without really meaning it, and trying to get away with it without damaging his rep any further.



what, you're gonna hit me too? with an umbrella? ella? ella? eh? eh?

religious right, transform and roll out!

scavenging

i finally got to mosey over the local Circuit City today on 86th, to check out if there were any useful stuff left, before they finally close their doors. the economic crisis has been unforgiving, considering they opened this branch merely two years ago.

didn't find much, and i wasn't about to buy an HDTV. so i ended up getting a couple of games for me and my brother-in-law. not having played for awhile, it made me dizzy early. perhaps it was fitting that my final purchases here were PS3 games, as i got my system (MGS4 combo) from their website last year when everyone else didn't have it.

with the advent of better online stores in recent years, Circuit City and Best Buy faced stiff competition, and even i barely went into one unless there was a huge sale. i loved these brick-and-mortar stores (including CompUSA - these days, purely a Florida and Puerto Rico operation - and Tower Records) back at the turn of the millennium, because they were the best places to go for gadgets and music and movies back then. but they never found a way to compete nimbly, given the business models were evolving. within a decade - three down, one to go (and that's not even a sure thing).

for CC nostalgia buffs, you can still go to a Canadian branch.

jailbreaking news

if that's the case, then why don't you just rent the unit out to us for a nominal fee, instead of charging us hundreds of dollars, asshole?

hehehehehehehe!

i. am. not. a. dork.

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adios?

or maybe see you in July? in Minneapolis?

holy shitty!

what a way to go.

hello, ladies. here's the love of your life.

censor

what would Rem Koolhaas think?

at least Stormy has no illusions as to what she is.

and they look at Westerners with disdain and disgust?

Adam's also probably crying right now.

so who's your savior now?

yes, yes, cut them down to size! bastards!

of grass and high fructose corn syrup

really, Kellogg? you drop him because of image issues? and you produce supposedly healthy foods that contribute to obesity anyway?

trying to have the best of both worlds

and you are saying this now, because ...? you got the fruits of those unchecked years; now that someone's cutting the flow, you talk about transparency and full disclosure. "rewarded for taking prudent risks"? if that's the case, we should also punish those who brought us into the brink of economic disaster, whether by intent or sheer stupidity.

right?

right???

i lego NYC!

one man's love for NYC thru Lego

what critics are saying about ...

The United States of Tara, Sundays, 10 PM at Showtime.

try watching Cops after you read this.

Steeler nation

it seems prescient that the Steelers won. Obama backed you, and youth is served. perhaps that too, is symbolic of change.

and now, America needs to steel itself as it goes through the worst recession since the Great Depression.

this should be the last SuperBowl i'll be watching ...

... in my 6-year old, 27-inch, past-its-warranty, already-has-a-humming-sound, non-HDTV.


the foolish prediction: Arizona 24, Pittsburgh 20