B-Movies

At three years old, my aunt would bring me on a date to the drive-in movie every once in a while. The logic was that I would get bored and go to sleep in the back seat, but that never happened due to the giant screen in front of us that kept showing space creatures, giant monsters and all kinds of fantastic things you never saw in everyday life.

A couple of friends started doing a podcast about these shows that I loved as a kid. My mind is usually blank when they mention the titles, but once the conversation starts and they go over the storyline, all the images I saw from the back seat of my future uncle's car unfolds in my mind.

And then they go over some movies that I'm thankful
I never saw. Give them a listen at Slow Robot A Go Go.

It's All Subjective Anyway

Finally got to see the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 

last week, and even though I thought it would be good,

it surpassed all of my expectations.

It was a very organized and well designed history

that displayed instruments, outfits, hand written lyrics and some of the band's cars and stage props. My favorites were some drawings by Jimi Hendrix and touch screens that featured certain bands and showed their influences, including brief interviews and live performances.

Leaving the first floor, I was surprised that Yes, one of my favorite bands wasn't there. Later that evening, I realized that Grand Funk Railroad didn't seem to be included as well.

These were bands I listened to so many times that each
note and lyric is deeply imbedded in my mind, and defined
the reality that I was living in at the time. So the fact
that they weren't there doesn't really matter.

Besides, rock music was always a fluid underground
thing that seems strange to put into a museum.

But what was in there was awesome!

Extra Day

As the day went on, I realized that it was still

February. Like any other day I went on to work.

But if this is an extra day that only comes around every four

years, why doesn't everyone take advantage of it? Shut the

whole world down on the 29th. Just disconnect everything for

a day, hang out, rest, and get yourself back into balance.

Everyone could have prepared ready made food the day

before, do nothing, then go back to business as usual

the next day. I mean, why not? It's an extra day.

Think about it.

2012

Around 1981, people watched The Man Who Saw Tomorrow and got very uncomfortable with all the things that were to come in 1984. In a lecture, a very dour English professor stated that 1984 was only two years away, giving everyone in the class a sense of foreboding.

When 1984 did come, we started it off telling George Orwell jokes, and ended it listening to Duran Duran and wearing big hair. I look back on that year as a really great party.

Each year has it's own character, but you
never really see it until it is over.

 
Happy 2012 to everyone.