live from manhattan

rmg @ 2009-10-01T18:58:00

2009-10-01T22:58:36Z

i finally found a song better than ghost house

rmg @ 2009-09-10T16:26:00

2009-09-10T20:27:21Z

Holy fuck, the images from the refurbished Hubble are gorgeous.

Look at that shit! Space is fucking beautiful.

rmg @ 2009-09-07T20:23:00

2009-09-08T00:23:23Z

FINALLY

rmg @ 2009-09-02T22:02:00

2009-09-03T02:03:11Z

So they're canceling Reading Rainbow I guess. :(

rmg @ 2009-08-23T00:41:00

2009-08-23T04:42:55Z

CHALLENGE THE ROCK

rmg @ 2009-07-09T03:08:00

2009-07-09T07:08:28Z

the greatest song IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

i swear

no really

oh god it's so horrible

rmg @ 2009-06-17T17:59:00

2009-06-17T22:00:27Z

On the last season of DS9, now. What do I do with myself when I run out of episodes? D:

rmg @ 2009-05-18T20:18:00

2009-05-19T00:19:35Z

ooioo rules

yeah remember when this journal was all random youtubes

welcome back to those halcyon days i guess

rmg @ 2009-05-06T18:15:00

2009-05-06T22:17:34Z

petition to rename new england "THE OWN ZONE"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/us/07marriage.html?hp

once we take care of rhode island we will have succeeded in gaying up the entire region!

so take that, california

rmg @ 2009-03-20T23:55:00

2009-03-21T03:55:20Z

The internet, collectively, seems more satisfied than enraged by Battlestar Galactica's conclusion.

I guess I'll start watching it once I've made my way through Deep Space: Nine.

(DS9 owns by the way-- I never thought I'd enjoy a Star Trek series so much, having been raised on a solid diet of Jedi and bounty hunters, but there you go.)

rmg @ 2009-03-15T02:34:00

2009-03-15T06:34:55Z

I'm in Boston now. Arriving in Boston was quite dramatic. I think certain cities look their best at different times of day. Tokyo looks best at night, when the darkness transforms all of those clunky postwar high-rises into an ocean of lights. New York in the morning, when the rising sun shines through the canyons of the street grid. Boston's time is the sunset. Since Boston's streets are all twisty and windy, each and every building catches the sunlight from a different angle. Most of the tall buildings in the skyline-- the Hancock Building, the Prudential Building, 111 Huntington-- are dominated by glass, and they reflect the oranges and pinks of sunset prettily. Anyway Boston

rmg @ 2009-02-02T05:43:00

2009-02-02T10:43:40Z

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

Questions from zeecoldwater

1. What's the worst meal you've ever had?
Once-- from a pizza place I liked and trusted up until this point-- I got a piece of pizza so desiccated that the cheese was lined with a network of tiny cracks– it looked like the canvas of a Renaissance oil painting. Somehow, bad food is worse when you're expecting it to be good.

2. Have you ever hallucinated?
Once... god, I think it was way back in eight grade-- I was so deliriously sick that I hallucinated that some unseen person was holding me down in bed, among other things. Wasn't very fun!

3. If I threw an orange at you, would you dodge it?
I would flinch and then probably get hit anyway, since I have the coordination of a sea slug.

4. Under what circumstances would you ever be compelled to take to the streets in a Regency dress and bonnet?
Attempting to infiltrate Jane Austen fan gathering, agency all out of Mr. Darcy outfits.

5. If you could have one anachronistic thing from the Victorian era, what would it be? Can be an event, actual item or even a person, if you're that way inclined.

This is a hard question because it is hard to pick just one. Perhaps a conversation with Charlotte Brontë, so I could ask her what's up with all the phrenology references in Jane Eyre.

rmg @ 2009-02-01T18:26:00

2009-02-01T23:26:58Z

ustreaming RIGHT NOW!! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heliothaumic

rmg @ 2009-01-28T21:47:00

2009-01-29T02:47:11Z

rmg @ 2009-01-20T19:21:00

2009-01-21T00:21:41Z

rmg @ 2009-01-20T13:06:00

2009-01-20T18:06:13Z

Bush had been President since I was thirteen years old. I was still in eighth grade in Driscoll School in that bleak November of 2000 when Bush stole the election. All through high school, and all through college, Bush was President.

Not anymore, though,

rmg @ 2009-01-01T01:42:00

2009-01-01T06:42:14Z

It is 2009 why do we not have a name for this decade yet

rmg @ 2008-12-31T14:50:00

2008-12-31T19:50:24Z

Ah, so I'll be spending the New Year cowering from the snow. Thank you, Boston.

rmg @ 2008-12-22T12:50:00

2008-12-22T17:50:32Z

haha wow

fuck the pope

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKTRE4BL2FE20081222

rmg @ 2008-12-18T21:38:00

2008-12-19T02:38:57Z

I'm back in Boston now.

Bolt Bus conclusions:

Pros:
Internet! On the bus!
Comfortable seats
Not overbooked

Cons:
My bus arrived in Boston two hours late what the fuck what the fuck

rmg @ 2008-12-18T16:50:00

2008-12-18T21:50:26Z

Ahahahaah, all of those stupid Mainichi Daily News "WaiWai" columns that people passed around as evidence that everyone in Japan is a bunch of weirdoes were completely made up and everyone responsible for them got their asses fired.

This owns.

(I am posting this from a bus, we live in the future)

rmg @ 2008-12-18T11:51:00

2008-12-18T16:51:48Z

About to leave to catch a bus to Boston.

It's a Bolt Bus instead of Greyhound or the Chinatown bus or whatever so I'll post a trip report.

rmg @ 2008-12-12T22:17:00

2008-12-13T03:17:10Z

the :unsmith:est video

(thanks zeecoldwater)

rmg @ 2008-12-10T01:15:00

2008-12-10T06:15:27Z

along similar lines (i am having fun shuffling through my library i guess), stolen from setsuled:

Put your media player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title

(rmg: omitted are instrumentals and songs in non-english languages because i want this poem to make at least a little sense- i also cut out one that was in the last meme since it would have given away an answer)

Here she comes on her palanquin on the back of an elephant

You're a tornado
I wanted to be with you alone
When apple leaves fall
When lava pours out near the sea surface
The light blue flickering of the neighbor's big console TV
Words are flowing out like like endless rain into a paper cup
Johnny! Johnny! Open up!
You and me were meant to be
Hello! Hello? Is anybody there? Hello!
Oh blast I drank the wrong draft down
For the benefit of Mr. Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline!
Sweet Anabel was seen reclining on an ocean swell
Good Caiaphas, the council waits for you,
What do you feel when you let go of the wheel
Forty seven is a magical number
I was feeling sad and lonely and my heart was torn in two
You are the latest contender
Each night I lie awake completely alone
Working for vacation
Well, it was me, you, and Jacko, and your new buddy Tacco

1.) Kahimi Karie - Tornado (inside)
2.) Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels
3.) Cibo Matto - Apple
4.) Boards of Canada - Dandelion
5.) Ani AniFranco - the true story of what was
6.) The Beatles - Across the Universe
7.) The Avalanches - Radio
8.) Morcheeba - Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
9.) Gorillaz - M1A1
10.) The New Pornographers - Execution Day
11.) The Beatles - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
12.) The Decemberists - Oceanside
13.) Andrew Lloyd Webber - This Jesus Must Die
14.) Morcheeba - Wonders Never Cease
15.) Takako Minekawa - kangaroo pocket calculator
16.) freezepop - duct tape my heart
17.) Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure
18.) They Might Be Giants - Reprehensible
19.) Cibo Matto - Working For Vacation
20.) Moxy Früvous - Your New Boyfriend
21.) (title) The Decemberists - The Infanta

rmg @ 2008-12-10T00:50:00

2008-12-10T05:50:25Z

stolen from tsukikokoro

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post a line or two from the first 22 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own

(note: numerous instrumentals were skipped here, as were some of those OOIOO songs that are just chanting since who knows)

1.) and if a double-decker bus kills the both of us
2.) i know you work across the street in the indie record store i'm thinking that we'll someday meet i'm thinking we'll do something more
3.) i asked around but you could not be seen i was desperate
4.) fake out fake in fake it to me what is fake fake tv land of a thousand fake-outs fake worse than death
5.) let it all go at once not piece by piece but like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe
6.) i was alone i took a ride i didn't know what i would find there
7.) i need someone to take some joy in something i do
8.) martin van buren a former president and and abolitionist james buchanan a moderate lewis cass a general and expansionist
9.) bearer of the flag from the beginning now who would've believed this riot grrrl's a cynic
10.) lately all her neighbours' cats have disappeared have to hand it to her wot i calls enterprise poppin' pussies into pies
11.) i've got to to take my family and find a quiet place
12.) a paper doll of superior boyness clinging to your clubs to mask your own shyness
13.) where's that silhouette i'm trying to trace who's putting sponge in the bells i once rung
14.) the king of marigolds is in the kitchen cooking for the queen the queen is in the parlor playing piano for the children of the king
15.) as he echoes mother's words he hears the cheers cut the welfare and public housing listen up mike it's the right thing chop the healthcare you'll get your wish
16.) you know that what you eat you are but what is sweet now turns so sour we all know ob-la-di ob-la-da but can you show me where you are
17.) 14th street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone three o'clock in the afternoon and i'm going home f train's full of high school students so much shouting so much laughter
18.) now days we have all kinds of complicated so no one person ever has to have blood on their hands
19.) i'll give you neither hand nor glove with a hey ho a bonny o unless you give me your own true love
20.) i will keep my station wagon stationary and I will learn to juggle all the things we carry must be hard on your bodyguards
21.) ah destroy them crush them torg do as i say now destroy them crush them torg do as i say now destroy them crush them torg do as i say
22.) make a hole with a gun perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe exit wound in a foreign nation showing the home of the one this was written for