Really, how far the fuck have we fallen?
Just went over to CNN.com, and this was the headline (cut and pasted, not making this up):
U.N. smackdown on N. Korea
CNN, the *eyeroll* most trusted name in news? Who wrote this, a fucking twelve-year-old? Why not "U.N. gets all up in Kim Jong Il's grill"?
14 October 2006
Another edition of Ceeeeeee-lebrity Ceeeeee-Corner...
* The big guy is back! I'm glad to hear it, I saw ol' Roger when he did his famous shot-by-shot workshop at the Virginia Film Festival (it was "The Birds" that year). Hope those thumb muscles are workin'...
* Thanks to C.Franz for pointing out Robyn Hitchcock has a new album out, with Peter Buck on guitar no less! It's 1991 all over again!
* I thought it was because he was a boozehound, but apparently Mel hates the Jews because of...South Park?
Yeah, I don't get it either.
* The big guy is back! I'm glad to hear it, I saw ol' Roger when he did his famous shot-by-shot workshop at the Virginia Film Festival (it was "The Birds" that year). Hope those thumb muscles are workin'...
* Thanks to C.Franz for pointing out Robyn Hitchcock has a new album out, with Peter Buck on guitar no less! It's 1991 all over again!
* I thought it was because he was a boozehound, but apparently Mel hates the Jews because of...South Park?
Yeah, I don't get it either.
11 October 2006
Lucretiuuuuuuuuuus, you got some explaining to do...
Like, how come every time I click on your link to the right, your blog doesn't show up? What the fuck, man? What the fucking fuck? You can't just leave like that, at least leave your blog up like C. Franz so I can check it once in a while in the vain hope that someday you'll repair the hole in my heart...come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
You can't leave! NOOOOOOOO!
Like, how come every time I click on your link to the right, your blog doesn't show up? What the fuck, man? What the fucking fuck? You can't just leave like that, at least leave your blog up like C. Franz so I can check it once in a while in the vain hope that someday you'll repair the hole in my heart...come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
You can't leave! NOOOOOOOO!
09 October 2006
Nevsky's Top Ten!
Just fer giggles, here are the top ten rated songs currently on my Launchcast station:
10. "Kerosene," Big Black
9. "Whitey on The Moon," Gil Scott-Heron
8. "A Night Like This," The Cure
7. "If Your Poison Gets You," Frank Black
6. "Let Down," Radiohead
5. "Leave Them All Behind," Ride
4. "Jim's 'The Fall'," The Fall
3. "Velvet," A-ha
2. "Sugared Almond," Blue Aeroplanes
1. "Vapour Trail," Ride
Stay tuned for more top tens whenever I can be bothered to make enough changes so that I can delude myself into thinking this is interesting...
Just fer giggles, here are the top ten rated songs currently on my Launchcast station:
10. "Kerosene," Big Black
9. "Whitey on The Moon," Gil Scott-Heron
8. "A Night Like This," The Cure
7. "If Your Poison Gets You," Frank Black
6. "Let Down," Radiohead
5. "Leave Them All Behind," Ride
4. "Jim's 'The Fall'," The Fall
3. "Velvet," A-ha
2. "Sugared Almond," Blue Aeroplanes
1. "Vapour Trail," Ride
Stay tuned for more top tens whenever I can be bothered to make enough changes so that I can delude myself into thinking this is interesting...
06 October 2006
"Appetite For Destruction"? Please. "Use Your Illusion"? Utter crap.
Axl had to get these juvenile recordings out of his way in preparation for his masterpiece. It's taken fourteen years, the firing of Slash and Daffy...Doof...whatever his name is, the quick rise and spectacular fall of Buckethead, but it's finally here.
Certain works always come up when great music is discussed, Beethoven's 9th, the Ring Cycle, Sgt. Pepper, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, but Chinese Democracy may, just may, mind you, be a hundred times better than all of those works put together.
Hope the first track's an instrumental...
Axl had to get these juvenile recordings out of his way in preparation for his masterpiece. It's taken fourteen years, the firing of Slash and Daffy...Doof...whatever his name is, the quick rise and spectacular fall of Buckethead, but it's finally here.
Certain works always come up when great music is discussed, Beethoven's 9th, the Ring Cycle, Sgt. Pepper, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, but Chinese Democracy may, just may, mind you, be a hundred times better than all of those works put together.
Hope the first track's an instrumental...
02 October 2006
You...bastards.
On behalf of gambling degenerates everywhere, I say go to hell, Congress. I just cleaned out my PartyPoker account before cashing out became a crime.
Hope all you libertarians who vote Republican because you don't want the government interfering in your life and think this South Park ep is funny are watching...
Well, at least with the priorities of this Congress we know our children are safe.
On behalf of gambling degenerates everywhere, I say go to hell, Congress. I just cleaned out my PartyPoker account before cashing out became a crime.
Hope all you libertarians who vote Republican because you don't want the government interfering in your life and think this South Park ep is funny are watching...
Well, at least with the priorities of this Congress we know our children are safe.
24 September 2006
It was a cloudy day in C-Ville...
...but it didn't stop people coming out to welcome Jim Webb as he stopped by the new Charlottesville office.
After pressing the flesh, he rallied the troops with Creigh Deeds by his side...
After going over his three campaign themes: redeployment of our troops in the Middle East, social justice, and a check on the executive power grab, it was off to the Paramount Theater for a fundraiser w/special guests John Grisham and Stephen King.
As for me, I got to meet Lowell from Daily Kos and Raising Kaine fame. A fun way to spend a Sunday evening, all in all. (More photos on the way...)
...but it didn't stop people coming out to welcome Jim Webb as he stopped by the new Charlottesville office.
After pressing the flesh, he rallied the troops with Creigh Deeds by his side...
After going over his three campaign themes: redeployment of our troops in the Middle East, social justice, and a check on the executive power grab, it was off to the Paramount Theater for a fundraiser w/special guests John Grisham and Stephen King.
As for me, I got to meet Lowell from Daily Kos and Raising Kaine fame. A fun way to spend a Sunday evening, all in all. (More photos on the way...)
23 September 2006
Feeling old yet?
The Simpsons are almost twenty, and South Park just turned ten...
And what better way to celebrate than to play the climax of the greatest South Park episode ever (featuring the best South Park cameo ever)...
The Simpsons are almost twenty, and South Park just turned ten...
And what better way to celebrate than to play the climax of the greatest South Park episode ever (featuring the best South Park cameo ever)...
22 September 2006
10 September 2006
Finally, something we can agree on...
In a country where political discourse has become increasingly partisan and shrill, and on a subject where it is perhaps the most shrill, gay marriage, it's nice to see that both sides can come together and agree on the referendum before the Virginia voters in November.
That is, that it's bad law.
And as a gay marriage supporter, I'll readily concede that I live in a state where the Bills will win the Super Bowl before it becomes recognized here. I'd hope Virginians will recognize this referendum for what it is, a cynical waste of taxpayers' time and money that's going to be easily subject to legal challenges while not changing the fundamental laws in the state one bit.
In a country where political discourse has become increasingly partisan and shrill, and on a subject where it is perhaps the most shrill, gay marriage, it's nice to see that both sides can come together and agree on the referendum before the Virginia voters in November.
That is, that it's bad law.
And as a gay marriage supporter, I'll readily concede that I live in a state where the Bills will win the Super Bowl before it becomes recognized here. I'd hope Virginians will recognize this referendum for what it is, a cynical waste of taxpayers' time and money that's going to be easily subject to legal challenges while not changing the fundamental laws in the state one bit.
07 September 2006
05 September 2006
"Yousa ears are pointy...."
I'm sure nerds everywhere have their wallets on yellow alert now that the original Star Trek series is going to get Lucas-ized.
The sample pic they have on the link is pretty interesting, actually. What else can they do, give Shatner a better hairpiece? Get rid of McCoy's wrinkles? Make Spock's Brain not suck?
I'm sure nerds everywhere have their wallets on yellow alert now that the original Star Trek series is going to get Lucas-ized.
The sample pic they have on the link is pretty interesting, actually. What else can they do, give Shatner a better hairpiece? Get rid of McCoy's wrinkles? Make Spock's Brain not suck?
04 September 2006
Thank you, John!
For reminding us who stymied Clinton's efforts to fight terrorism.
For all the talk about Bush-haters, I don't see how anyone can argue how incredibly kind America has been towards him, since it's a pretty easy argument to make that with a President Clinton, Gore, or McCain, 9/11 may not have happened in the first place...
For reminding us who stymied Clinton's efforts to fight terrorism.
For all the talk about Bush-haters, I don't see how anyone can argue how incredibly kind America has been towards him, since it's a pretty easy argument to make that with a President Clinton, Gore, or McCain, 9/11 may not have happened in the first place...
03 September 2006
Wow, what an asshole.
I was looking a bit more at some of the comments President Bush made in Tennessee, and I thought I'd share them w/you. The statements in bold are straight off his transcript.
You know, right after September the 11th, I knew that one of my challenges would be to remind the American people about the dangers of the world.
Funny how these reminders tend to occur near the end of an election cycle. Don't forget to remind them the man who perpetuated these attacks is still free (as is the anthrax killer, for that matter).
I knew that the natural tendency for our country would be to hope that the lessons of September the 11th would be faded memory.
I'd like to see him try this line when he visits New York next week, I have a feeling it would go over as well as Daffy Duck with his trained pigeons. Perhaps his memory is fading, since his government cut homeland security funding to NYC because, according to them, there weren't any potential targets in the city.
I think it makes sense to send somebody up to Washington who's not a lawyer.
You'd think he'd want someone who knew how to get a warrant.
[Regarding No Child Left Behind]And I understand people say, well, we don't like that, we don't like to be measured, we don't want there to be accountability.
Oh, for Pete's sake, NO ONE SAYS THIS. Can't you dream up better strawmen? How hard is it to say, "Parents are tired of bumping up against bureaucracy when they want to know who are teaching their children?" At least that bullshit doesn't insult their intelligence. Lucretius, you're a teacher, do you guys stand around in the lounge during break saying "Phew, I'm glad I wasn't held accountable today!"
You know, recently I was just right down the road here with the Prime Minister of Japan, and he and I went to Graceland. (Laughter.) It was an interesting moment. (Laughter.) I chose to take my friend, Prime Minister Koizumi, there -- one, I had never been there. (Laughter.) So it was a little selfish. Secondly, he's an Elvis fan, he loved Elvis. And I thought it would be fun to take him there. Thirdly, I wanted to send a message to the American people. Imagine somebody in the late '40s saying, one of these days an American President will be taking a Prime Minister from Japan to the home of a famous singer. You know, right after that war, you can imagine what the reaction would have been -- the guy is off his rocker. (Laughter.)
I'll be kind and assume not all that laughter was with him...
The leader of the free world, everyone! That's not even halfway through the transcript, btw, but I can't take it anymore...
I was looking a bit more at some of the comments President Bush made in Tennessee, and I thought I'd share them w/you. The statements in bold are straight off his transcript.
You know, right after September the 11th, I knew that one of my challenges would be to remind the American people about the dangers of the world.
Funny how these reminders tend to occur near the end of an election cycle. Don't forget to remind them the man who perpetuated these attacks is still free (as is the anthrax killer, for that matter).
I knew that the natural tendency for our country would be to hope that the lessons of September the 11th would be faded memory.
I'd like to see him try this line when he visits New York next week, I have a feeling it would go over as well as Daffy Duck with his trained pigeons. Perhaps his memory is fading, since his government cut homeland security funding to NYC because, according to them, there weren't any potential targets in the city.
I think it makes sense to send somebody up to Washington who's not a lawyer.
You'd think he'd want someone who knew how to get a warrant.
[Regarding No Child Left Behind]And I understand people say, well, we don't like that, we don't like to be measured, we don't want there to be accountability.
Oh, for Pete's sake, NO ONE SAYS THIS. Can't you dream up better strawmen? How hard is it to say, "Parents are tired of bumping up against bureaucracy when they want to know who are teaching their children?" At least that bullshit doesn't insult their intelligence. Lucretius, you're a teacher, do you guys stand around in the lounge during break saying "Phew, I'm glad I wasn't held accountable today!"
You know, recently I was just right down the road here with the Prime Minister of Japan, and he and I went to Graceland. (Laughter.) It was an interesting moment. (Laughter.) I chose to take my friend, Prime Minister Koizumi, there -- one, I had never been there. (Laughter.) So it was a little selfish. Secondly, he's an Elvis fan, he loved Elvis. And I thought it would be fun to take him there. Thirdly, I wanted to send a message to the American people. Imagine somebody in the late '40s saying, one of these days an American President will be taking a Prime Minister from Japan to the home of a famous singer. You know, right after that war, you can imagine what the reaction would have been -- the guy is off his rocker. (Laughter.)
I'll be kind and assume not all that laughter was with him...
The leader of the free world, everyone! That's not even halfway through the transcript, btw, but I can't take it anymore...
Christ, what an idiot.
Please read Rude Pundit's take on Bush's blithering idiocies, that I hope were uttered under the influence of backslid-drunk booze...
And it's not about Bush being stupid, it never bothered me that ("if", if you prefer) he was an idiot. It's that he insists on speaking to others as if THEY'RE idiots. And in doing so, he utilizes language that resembles an eighth-grader trying to stretch his one-paragraph synopsis of "The Wind in The Willows" into a five-page book report.
So read the latest wisdom of the leader in the free world, and try not to weep...
Please read Rude Pundit's take on Bush's blithering idiocies, that I hope were uttered under the influence of backslid-drunk booze...
And it's not about Bush being stupid, it never bothered me that ("if", if you prefer) he was an idiot. It's that he insists on speaking to others as if THEY'RE idiots. And in doing so, he utilizes language that resembles an eighth-grader trying to stretch his one-paragraph synopsis of "The Wind in The Willows" into a five-page book report.
So read the latest wisdom of the leader in the free world, and try not to weep...
01 September 2006
Looks like my McDonald's boycott paid off...
...thus saving the lives of thousands of adorable vermin...er, I mean hedgehogs.
...thus saving the lives of thousands of adorable vermin...er, I mean hedgehogs.
31 August 2006
"Mommy, Mommy, I wanna ride on Nevsky's Musical Journey!"
"No, sweetheart, you know after you ride on Nevsky's Musical Journey you puke your fucking guts up just like Daddy after one of his self-loathing benders..."
Strap 'em in, kids. Fasten your seat belts, too, and turn on my Launchcast station...
The Fall, "Jim's 'The Fall'", rating: 98
A ramshackle song from an incredibly shitty album (even the liner-note writer for the Greatest Hits album calls this one "difficult"). Recorded at the height of Mark E. Smith's "too drunk to give a shit" phase, this song's the only really good one. An incredibly fuzzy straight-out-of-Mel-Bay's-Guitar-Book lick and lyrics, when you can decipher them, devoted to the Spinal-Tap-esque recruitment of new band members.
By the way, those guys singing "We are the new Fall" in the background? They aren't.
Cocteau Twins, "Ella Megalast Burls Forever", unrated
I loved Blue Bell Knoll when I was a high school student; hell, I still love it now, but I don't have a cassette player. But how can you tell other people about how great the songs are when they're called "The Itchy Glowbo Blow" and "Suckling The Mender"? Frickin' precious bastards...
Ultra Vivid Scene, "Mercy Seat", rating: 70
I love how this song tricks you into thinking your earphones aren't working and then blows out your fucking eardrums. This song takes me back to a time when MTV would actually play a good song but you had to wake up at 3 in the morning to hear it...
Orgy, "Fiction (Dreams In Digital)", rating: 60
I like this song because it reminds of Rush. It's the perfect song to paint Warhammer miniatures to...
Ride, "Vapour Trail", rating: 100
If I like a song, I'll play it over and over and over again. And over. I'll stick the CD player on "repeat" and keep it going for about hour a day or so until I get sick of it. Usually that'll take three or four days; George Harrison's "What Is Life" lasted about three weeks. I don't know how many times I've heard this song in the last six months, but I'm not tired of it yet...
I'm guessing y'all are tired of riding NMJ, though...
"No, sweetheart, you know after you ride on Nevsky's Musical Journey you puke your fucking guts up just like Daddy after one of his self-loathing benders..."
Strap 'em in, kids. Fasten your seat belts, too, and turn on my Launchcast station...
The Fall, "Jim's 'The Fall'", rating: 98
A ramshackle song from an incredibly shitty album (even the liner-note writer for the Greatest Hits album calls this one "difficult"). Recorded at the height of Mark E. Smith's "too drunk to give a shit" phase, this song's the only really good one. An incredibly fuzzy straight-out-of-Mel-Bay's-Guitar-Book lick and lyrics, when you can decipher them, devoted to the Spinal-Tap-esque recruitment of new band members.
By the way, those guys singing "We are the new Fall" in the background? They aren't.
Cocteau Twins, "Ella Megalast Burls Forever", unrated
I loved Blue Bell Knoll when I was a high school student; hell, I still love it now, but I don't have a cassette player. But how can you tell other people about how great the songs are when they're called "The Itchy Glowbo Blow" and "Suckling The Mender"? Frickin' precious bastards...
Ultra Vivid Scene, "Mercy Seat", rating: 70
I love how this song tricks you into thinking your earphones aren't working and then blows out your fucking eardrums. This song takes me back to a time when MTV would actually play a good song but you had to wake up at 3 in the morning to hear it...
Orgy, "Fiction (Dreams In Digital)", rating: 60
I like this song because it reminds of Rush. It's the perfect song to paint Warhammer miniatures to...
Ride, "Vapour Trail", rating: 100
If I like a song, I'll play it over and over and over again. And over. I'll stick the CD player on "repeat" and keep it going for about hour a day or so until I get sick of it. Usually that'll take three or four days; George Harrison's "What Is Life" lasted about three weeks. I don't know how many times I've heard this song in the last six months, but I'm not tired of it yet...
I'm guessing y'all are tired of riding NMJ, though...
27 August 2006
My buddy Samuel L. Jackson just called me and said "Nev, forget motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane, this is something fucking unbelievable."
Jim Webb is beating George Allen. Click on the state of Virginia to see the poll.
Then contribute to Webb's campaign.
Jim Webb is beating George Allen. Click on the state of Virginia to see the poll.
Then contribute to Webb's campaign.
FUCKING SNAKE GET OFF MY DICK!
If you see one movie this year with snakes on a plane, make it Snakes on a Plane. It's THAT GOOD...
If you see one movie this year with snakes on a plane, make it Snakes on a Plane. It's THAT GOOD...
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