so stooooormy

self portrait taken just moments ago

It's raining out, again. Now all the barbecues I was gonna to go to are cancelled and I can just stay inside wrapped in a blanket and focus on my neglected projects. What an exciting opportunity for me. I probably didn't need all that sun and liver damage anyway. It's like I always say when the lord closes a door he opens a window and then the rain gets inside and ruins all those stacks of newspapers you were going to read someday when you get around to i[GUNSHOT]

Classics IV - Stormy

Alela Diane - Can You Blame the Sky

Cat Power - Top Expert

Up for Grabs

Two items I own* that I will never wear, unless I wake up as a Japanese teenager.

*One was a gift and the other was a thrift shoppie in Utah.

Last night I was sick in bed so I watched Lost Boys: The Tribe. It's a 20 years too late straight-to-video sequel, but I chose to pretend I was watching a supernatural-themed Lifetime movie which really helped me enjoy it more. It stars the chick from when The OC got unwatchable and the scary vampire is played by Kiefer Sutherland's half brother, which is ostensibly his sole qualification for the job.

Corey Feldman also grits and grizzles his way through an uncomfortable-making performance as the lone Frog Brother. I was like, "Why do I find this so hard to watch?" and then I realized that it's because he is weirdly likable and watching him be such a terrible actor makes me embarrassed for him. But he's getting paid and stuff, Corey Feldman neither wants nor needs my pity so I will save it all for Corey Haim's ghost (Haimster is in the movie for two seconds at the very end).

Gerard McMann - Cry, Little Sister (Theme from the Lost Boys)

Why I Shouldn't Get Overly Familiar with People Who Don't Know My Sense of Humor, Part 45234820

[At work, I call someone we've just hired to do a project. It's our first meeting.]

Me: Hi.

Her: Hi!

Me: 702, where is that?

Her: I'm outside Las Vegas.

Me: Oh! There was an all-girl R&B group in the 90s called 702, they must have been from there.

Her: Oh.

[pause]

Me: Wait you weren't in the group, were you?

Her: ...What?

Me: Just uh, just kidding! Um. Moving on.

*scene*

702 - Where My Girls At

The first bar it was just alright, the second bar was Friday night

I saw Jonathan Richman last night at a sold out show at the (pretty tiny-sized) Hideout here in Chicago. Despite being a fan for years I've never seen him live before, and at 60 he still has the energy he had in every Conan appearance I've obsessively watched on Youtube.

My favorite of his many mid-song storytelling digressions was when he demonstrated the difference between the dancing that went on at the first bar, and then explained/showed us the clearly superior dancing that then transpired at the lesbian bar. What a weird and wonderful man.

Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar

Modern Lovers - Dignified and Old