As I mentioned I've been watching a lot of Simon and Simon as uh "research" and stuff for Victory Chimp. My feeling about it is basically that it was better than Dynasty. Here's the opening with the Barry De Vorzon theme song:
My relationship with my own brother isn't really bad, we just don't talk or see each other very much...of course I wish we were as tight as these guys. Hey, he lives in Southern California (so that's a start.) I suppose I'd be the "Rick" since mother likes "AJ" best, mister preppie-- (although she is actually pretty cold to him too on his own terms.) Truly, though, I might have passed for AJ back in my childhood days, being then no stranger to the hair dryer or khaki pant.
One thing I have noticed is that the cases that made it into the show were predominately the ones they didn't get paid for. They must have done a lot of boring stuff to pay the bills but those jobs were not shown on TV.
Fact: Ernest Borgnine wrote the scripts of a number of Harvey brand comic books during the late 1970s. He strongest themes were self-deprecating race car drivers and the barbed wisecracks of a tiny cherub-like devil who constantly got in the way.
Fact: During the baseball game, I turned to look closely into my sister's morphing, fluid face and said, "You're like a third parent to me. I try to please you; I try and I can't."
Fact: My niece and nephew had filled up an entire notebook full of drawings of sideways horses and ponies, rendered in a balloon-like, bulging style.
These and other facts originate in dreams I had in the year 2010 AD. The truths they reveal will be made manifest in the air among people to come circulating on the internet and in televisions across the globe. Be prepared for the Celestial Change circa 2014 AD not 2012 as the Mayans erroneously predicted. Never trust a Mayan.
The Kardiac Kosar bad magusaean shadow could be lifting. Nets fall to Cleveland by 19 points. The spread was 9 1/2. I did not bet this game. I had a feeling. And then...
Several former Cleveland teammates visited Zydrunas Ilgauskas in New York on Tuesday, hoping to persuade him to re-sign with the Cavs and help them make a run at an NBA title. Ilgauskas was traded last month to Washington in the deal for forward Antawn Jamison. Ilgauskas bought out his own contract with the Wizards, freeing him to sign with any team after 30 days.
Look Out, Cleveland, the storm is comin' through, and it's runnin' right up on you-- but in a good way...
Two months ago I had a complete A-Z rough mix of VC, every word. Then I went into each Chapter (there are 48, dividing one of the chapters into 3 parts) and worked on each individually (but not consecutively) to get them to a level that I enjoyed listening to as a self-contained piece of music. Then I put them all back in line and listened to how they worked as a whole. Then I started to make changes to each piece to reflect how they worked as part of the whole.
Then repeat the process: rewrite, record, get other hex members to contribute, take it apart, put it back together. And I'm finishing up that cycle.
Very influenced by sports radio, I'm even making some changes to reflect the ways it will all be misunderstood, that actually matters a lot in terms of $$.
Conceptually, I somehow have moved from Dark Shadows & Toto to Simon and Simon & Miami Sound Machine. I'm haunted by the melancholy image of Dick York guest starring on Simon and Simon in 1983 after battling back from his addiction to prescription pain killers. 9 years later he would be dead.
My soft deadline is late March. Once I get back to having another A-Z rough mix in the next week or so I'm going to take everything into someone else's studio for final recording or re-recording, mixing etc-- polishing, I guess...or Irishing. That's when I put the subliminal/masked stuff under it all (as required by the law...)
Also, reading this new bio of Louis Armstrong (entitled "Pops")-- just to stay in touch with reality (and out of the 80s.)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)-The NBA's worst team was getting one easy basket after another in transition, hitting outside shots, getting key defensive stops and celebrating a rare victory.
Simultaneously, this article appeared:
Tulsa, OK (Sports Network)- The Arena Football League has planned to announce its relaunch for the 2010 season on Wednesday, guests will include a few of the league's high-profile names, including Cleveland Gladiators co-owner Bernie Kosar.
Now, the Florida Panthers' next home game is March 3rd (Kosar is/was part owner of the Panthers) and that day the Nets just happen to be playing the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Given the possible adjustments Cleveland will still be making after whatever trades they get into, and given the likelihood of a big spread in that game. I might take the Nets that day. Of course, you can't really pick until the night before but I'd say the signs are auspicious, to say the least.
Manchester, UK...in fact, Greater Manchester... is to me like New Orleans or Seattle or Miami or Memphis might be to somebody from an other country: a phantasmic universe, a holy wellspring:
Headquarters of the World Chop Socky League
Chetham's Library (where Marx met with Engels)
John Cassidy, Irish expat sculptor
10cc
The Fall
The Hollies
Joy Division
Van der Graaf Generator
The Smiths
The Mindbenders
Happy Mondays
Buzzcocks
I could go on. I think there was a great comic book store downtown.
At any rate, to intensify my longing for this magickal place I follow the exploits of the football team Manchester City (which I gather is like "Mets" of Man U.) Therefore I constantly read: King of the Kippax-- C'mon you Blues, the City is ours...
I know it is in English but I don't know what Kippax means, or most of this:
I thought our three stars stood for 1) us giving the rags our players so they could win a trophy 2) For giving them Busby 3) loaning them our ground (cheers Tony) 4) Our lights so they could play in Europe - oh that's four, and still counting.
Now then Keith, take your songs about Shankly, the 96, Russian submarines etc, and your missiles and you can stick your fuckin flares up your arse.
Loved this game SPY vs. SPY-- I played it on Nintendo.
The black crow and the white crow are out to beat each other before the time bell rings. Find the needed objects by digging through drawers, closets and furniture in the house. Foil your opponent by setting creative booby traps in the various rooms.
I'm to the point now where I am WATCHING the espn webcast of their radio hosts doing the shows. It's bad, people. But it is helping me to work on the VC project-- in fact, i keep the radio feed on while I mix or record; and I have 2 CD players going in the other room (each randomly playing thru a different disc.)
So, yes, things are going OK. Not that there haven't been some little bumps in the road. A "great" college QB who clearly isn't good enough to play in the NFL is going to be in some weird religious ad that will air during the Super Bowl. I guess it makes sense to capitalize on the peak of his popularity outside the Post-Bellum theocratic states. Although he resembles Kurt Warner in the respect that he thinks "science" is optional, it doesn't sound like he'll make the pros-- so why not go out with a boom (much like the dynamite)?
It's been a topic on the shows lately but I think it'll go away soon. I did panic & send a couple emails begging the hosts not to talk about politics-- BEGGING... it's one of the reasons I'm so hooked on sports now, no "politics" (in that special very stupid American sense) just sports and games-- for the most part.
I worried about that bald eagle they released during the national anthem on Sunday, afraid it was gonna land on Manning's head and jab his face. What a disaster that would have been. Do we really need vicious birds of prey flying around before these games?
Later, I thought about Joe Montana, and how I don't remember him EVER saying anything religiously creepy or political even though he went to Notre Dame. And to me he was the greatest QB ever. The new coach at that school, by the way, is a pro-choice Catholic.
