Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

with lots of booze

Hugo Drax 4-eva

I just realized Drax looks like Billy Mitchell from King of Kong

how have you never seen a Bond movie

The longest period between Bond movies (1989 to 1995) was also probably the time in my life when I would've been most likely to have seen one.

I just realized Judi Dench wasn't on my radar until Goldeneye

xp (i.e., I was a sheltered child and a pretentious teenager)

xpost not a merchant-ivory fan, I take it

never too late to start, Jaymc!

lol Judi Dench gives her best performance in Casino Royale but I doubt anyone will agree

no way she pwnd in pitch black 2

@ VG nope, never seen literally one

A gentle jest, sir :)

that entire thing might as well say:

I had strained peas for dinner. I never thought about growing old when I was younger and the indignities aging would visit upon my body; the infirmity visited upon my limbs, the rapid deterioration of my eyesight, the unpredictable and embarrassing episodes of incontinence. Even now I don't know that I can trust that my mind is formulating coherent thoughts and that the words I am using to express myself are lucid once they have been written down. And yet, amidst all of this, the largest indignity I suffer is eating. That, and I like an extraordinarily crappy Madonna album. A MINUS

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 23:28 (Yesterday)

haha

That's kind of like what I imagine my writing is like in my nightmares.

Like, you know that dream everyone apparently has where they suddenly and belatedly realise they're naked in a public place? My equiv is a computer screen flashing up:

Julia Holter - Ekstasis
9/10
You don’t give yourself over to Ekstasis so much as inexorably lose yourself within its glistening contours and fleeting visions of potentially misremembered moments of interpersonal, emotional, and spiritual enlightenment. Forget about “finding yourself”; everything, it seems, is all around us, yet each grasp at concrete experience inevitably yields a recession into the shadows from whence these feelings came. But then we remember, as if awakening from a dream: this is not ekstasis, this is ecstasy. This is not the shackle of an ontological reality, but euphoric possibility perpetually drawing us on toward its horizon, like a lost memory that lives on as desire. With Julia Holter, with this profound and inexhaustibly gorgeous album, we can transcend our own transcendence and find the greatest bliss in the joyful renunciation of what makes us us. And all we have to do is go outside.
Review by Tim Finney

― Tim F, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ysi?

I'd like a ysi of Tim reading that blurb.

naah, I disagree with that - there are early TMBG demos that have the same sound as The Pod. it's more than "they're silly", because B&B is the only band I'd describe as "silly". Ween & TMBG - both have a 2-man core, both started very young, both recorded with drum machines, both hopped all over the place genre-wise, both later got a full band and "normalized" a bit, etc.

― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, March 26, 2012 5:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://mrsgrapevine.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/krisskross2.jpg

― future worm food (n/a), Monday, March 26, 2012 5:17 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xp i'm afraid that's what my writing is like irl :(

ilx: transcending its own transcendence

jaymc has to see silent films before 007s, btw

sometimes i call 911 when the cosby show comes on

― bnw, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahaha

omg bnw

"they always get away"

"it happened so fast, all i saw was a sweater"

300m americans moving to europe would be an amazing sitcom

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:44 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all 300m of us would hang out in a cafe in paris, that'd be the main set

― iatee, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:46 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thered be a frazzled french waitress throwing her arms up like 300 MILLION LATTES!

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:48 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sacré bleu!

― dayo, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:50 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Perc Centrale.

antipodean climatebraggin strong itt

― less of the same (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:50 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hardly! :) I have to dry all my gear inside in winter it rains so much.

― zooey bechamel (Trayce), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:50 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pshaw in winter we should beg for rain, huddled as we are in caves as the land is scoured by seasonal dragons

― less of the same (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:56 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

take me to yr seasonal dragons

glad our national seasonal draconian tragedies amuse u so

huddled as we are alee of achillhenge

^ gets it

^ needs to sleep

you two write the mmorpg tonight & I'll sign up in the morning

http://i.imgur.com/lMLvn.jpg

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:58 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Modern Cinderella story. They just have to measure the glass dildo.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also does that guy have "dong" written on his tee shirt?

Ha yeah I was just about to say

there is one of those quasi-apple store reseller places near me named St0rmfr0nt which bugs the shit out of me. Would you open a store without googling the name to see if, oh I dunno, if might have some bad connotations first?

― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:30 PM (3 hours ago)

Maybe they only sell white Power Macs?

― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:32 PM (3 hours ago)

oof

Awesome.

a1

edited for continuity

thx for the pleasant words, jjjusten, esp since in my pre-senility or general drunkenness I don't remember the FAP we met. At.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 30, 2012 12:49 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was at some patio in NYC w laurel and ally and vic? Plus others and there were vague attempts made to make it to a boredoms show but instead my (future) wife and I got shithoused and ended up walking back to park slope for like 5 hours totally lost. Either that or some other nice dude in NYC is prob still confused as to why some hammered asshole kept referring to him as dr. Morbius every so often in a bar, which is more possible than I would like to admit.

― torture prom (jjjusten), Friday, March 30, 2012 1:03 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahahahahaha

Morbs's response is probably worth noting:

jjj, the infamous outdoor line to nowhere at 7/7/07? I might've met you there, but as soon as none of us (except JonW) got in, I lost everybody and went home, no bars. So it was probably someone else.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 30, 2012 11:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for the record, jon/tza/me got in iirc

its like when mario balotelli gave £3000 of his winnings to a vagrant outside a casino and ppl were like oh god that dude just went and overdosed in a dumpster

turns out he never did give the money but the moral of the story was thought to stand nonetheless -- england likes morality tales about the fecklessness of the indigent and damned

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, March 30, 2012 4:15 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is like my new favorite post of all time

lol

brilliant