October 2010
2 posts
A fairly rough demo of a new song I’ve been...
“This country is not the country it was before World War II, and we have to find...”
– Larry Hembree, publisher of the Loogootee Tribune, speaking at a September 12th Tea Party rally on the square
How the country was before World War II:
We were in the Great Depression.
The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 had yet to be passed, meaning African Americans and other minorities still...
September 2010
3 posts
Onward to Iowa (well two-thirds of us) will be on... →
Click the link and stream on the site, or, if you’re in the Bloomington, Indiana, area, just tune into 91.3 FM.
Wow.
Just got my first assignment back for Narrative Journalism.
I got an F on it. I’ve never gotten anything lower than a B before on a jouranlism class assignment. I think this class is going to be kind of tough.
Wow! →
My brother Mathew’s entry for a Scott Pilgrim “Create the 8th Evil Ex-Boyfriend” contest. Check it out, because its awesome! (though slightly spoilery, as it takes place after the final volume and/or the movie)
August 2010
20 posts
Dear Jess Sparks
Regarding House: I’m glad I’m not in physical therapy school, as House’s cane usage would probably bug me now too now that I know. c: Though, I haven’t even watched House in more than a season.
If you watch the Colbert Report tonight, you’ll get to see one of my professors here at IU. Tom French will be the guest tonight, promoting his new book Zoo Story. He’ll be teaching me about narrative journalism every Wednesday night this semester.
Because nobody asked for it, here are all the...
…in the order in which I saw them: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Death Cab for Cutie My Brightest Diamond The Decemberists Sea Wolf Nada Surf The Flaming Lips (their New Year’s Eve bash in Oklahoma City!) Radiohead Brand New Wilco Fallout Boy (see two below) Panic! At the Disco (see directly below) Blink-182 Sufjan Stevens Girl Talk/Cobra Starship (it was as bad as it sounds) John Nolan...
July 2010
24 posts
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"Lethal Inspection"
Anybody see the new Futurama on Thursday?
Ever since it came back, the show’s been a little… well uneven.
But last night’s episode was pretty great. What a sweet ending! The show seems to have re-found both its groove and its heart, and I hope the writers can keep it up.
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Scott Pilgrim!
Well I’m done reading Scott Pilgrim. Now I just have the movie to look forward to. :O
If any of you out there want to start reading Scott Pilgrim but are hesitant because you’ve heard people say things like “it’s for hipster douches”, “it’s for hardcore gamers” or “it’s pretty much manga and I don’t like manga”— just...
“I thought there was a hole in “Memento:” How does a man with...”
– Rober Ebert on Inception.
Who just posted a new lesson, is starting his new... →
This dude!
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About to go see "Inception"! Here's a new song I...
I can feel the sun going down around me.
And you can feel it too.
We’ve got time for one game of hide and seek.
All of them against just me and you.
And while I am counting.
I cheat and look out on
The street and see they’re already gone.
They’re all gone, gone, gone.
And I say
Why do we always lose? We always lose.
Why do we always lose? We always lose.
The cancer’s the bastard son of jetplane...
Movie crowd groans when Shymalan's name pops up on... →
I find this more sad than anything.
Say what you want about his last five films. I know they range from okay to downright terrible, but there was a time when it was thought M. Night Shyamalan was going to join the ranks of Spielberg and Zemeckis in the world of great, but joyfully mainstream, directors.
And people we’re not dumb to think this.
The Sixth Sense is not just a great, subdued,...
Detroit resident plans on coverting the city's... →
warrennotg:
John Hantz Farms won’t be a typical farm with sprawling fields. Hantz has consulted with agricultural experts at the Michigan State University and the Kellogg Foundation and plans on using all the agricultural ingenuity the modern world can afford to make his endeavor work. His 250 to 280 acres will be split up into “pods” throughout the city and will grow vertically. He eventually...
Wonderful Tribute to Harvey Pekar written by... →
Places I want to intern at next summer...
… and links to these internships so I can remember to apply to them later. Alot of these are long shots, but I figure I should at least try.
Paste http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/01/paste-media-group-internships-main.html
Spin http://www.spin.com/jobs-spin
St. Petersburg Times http://www.tampabay.com/company/join-us/internships San Francisco Chronicle...
Jake New Tumblr Classics!
Originally posted the summer of 2008.
Leakathon 2008
We had some rain come through the area the night before last and we awoke yesterday morning to find that my parent’s closet and the little room that has all the water junk in it was flooding. Apparently something was clogging the pipes and causing the water to come back through the drain in the floor. This happens every now and then and it...
Some Trivial Thoughts on the Emmy Nominations
Ya’ll see the Emmy nominations? There’s a couple of head scratchers this year, but I am happy to see the Lost recognition, what with Mathew Fox, Terry O’Quinn, Michael Emmerson and Elizabeth Mitchell nominated, as well as Jack Bender for directing “The End”. Say what you want about how that episode succeeded writing wise and as a logical series finale, it was a great...
Hey all! "New Things I've Learned!" →
Smirnoff Ice Mango! tastes way too good. As in...
As in I could easily drink three bottles of it within the hour.
June 2010
8 posts
Trying to keep my enthusiasm for seeing Toy Story...
because at this point I am expecting it to be the greatest film ever made.