"You, Your Mom, and Her Friends" Redux

JASON FALKNER IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All right. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system…
Simon Knight, my pal from across the pond, looks like a scary dude in his picture. Looks, however, can be deceiving…
Simon answered my call to give production notes to “You, Your Mom, and Her Friends.” In fact, Simon wrote [...]

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TFStWtYCLD (I Love to Hate You Edition)

You know those songs you hate to love? I do. They’re by Hootie and the Blowfish. They’re by Britney Spears. They’re songs that you dis in front of your friends but that you keep, secretly, on your iPod.
This weeks Top Five Songs (This Week) That You Can Legally Download is not [...]

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Michael Penn

The new Michael Penn album, Mr. Hollywood Jr. 1947, is available as a pre-order from iTunes. Click here to order before the album’s proper release date of 02 August!

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TFStWtYCLD (Four on the Floor)

Wow. I can’t believe it’s already Week Four of our little “Top Five Songs (This Week) That You Can Legally Download” musicfest! I’ve added a link below that will send you to an iTunes playlist where you can download all the songs at once, if you’d like. (The individual links still go [...]

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Nerds (Part II)

My good buddy Deron Chang takes pictures for the summer school. Here are two pictures he took of me, doing what I do best. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size picture.

Here are some pictures from tonight’s closing dinner. Note my dorkiness in full swing. (All of these pictures were [...]

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Danny Elfman

That’s it. A post called “Danny Elfman” is all you need to know.
As I mentioned, his score to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is the best thing on two (or four) legs. It’s his finest score ever, easily. The orchestrations are ingenious, the use of electronics is brilliant, and the melodies are [...]

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Birthday Fun-tivities

Today’s birthday was fun.
I taught in the morning. In the afternoon, Andrew, Bobby, Esteban, James, and I went to go see “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Despite what Anthony Lane said in today’s New Yorker, I thought the movie was ingenious. I didn’t see the connection between Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka and [...]

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TFStWtYCLD Week Threeeeee (Birthday Edition)

Whose birthday is it tomorrow? Yep, that’s right! Mine!
So in honor of my birthday (and in honor of the fact that I actually have followed through with something on this blog), I hereby present the TOP FIVE SONGS THIS WEEK THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY DOWNLOAD: Birthday Edition! (Please note that you can [...]

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New Jetta Successfully…um, Leased!

J.Z. and I went down to Langan yesterday and picked up the new Jetta! It rocks and rolls more than any other car. J. took some pictures as we drove home; once I can find my damned digital camera cable (which I seem to lose all the time), I’ll post them on the [...]

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TFStWtYCLD Week Two!

Yo.
It’s time for the second installment of the TOP FIVE SONGS THIS WEEK THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY DOWNLOAD! (See last week’s here.) These are my favourite songs from, um, like, this minute. And you can only buy and play them with iTunes, so don’t be a foo’.
1. Adventures of Jet | [...]

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