Turkey in Houston (and other assorted videos)

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Texas

We are in Texas. I am getting ready to do some writing in the hotel lobby; Robyn is putting Jack to sleep. We hung out with Alan and Xio for a couple days. It was very fun. Alan and I went to a cool bar and saw a good country band. Tomorrow we will go to San Antonio and visit the Alamo with the Pools. Wednesday we will head to Houston for Thanksgiving. We might also go to Galveston. I might put pictures up.

I guess it could be preconceived as premature, but Shotgun Stories is the best movie I've seen in a couple years.

Last Night

We ate dinner at Dupar's. It was quite delicious and radical. I got a Reuben.

Rambleland

Between the ramble and a trip to Disneyland, this has been quite the eventful evening. The ramble was quite fun. We had an amazing assortment of cool musical peoples, fun-filled singalongs, and an awkward late-night moment of me busting through a wall and yelling at Andy to stop playing the drums (followed by Andy playing the drums louder).

Yesterday was nice. We cleaned-up a bit. Jack napped; I went to LA Live! to catch a movie. Missed the movie, came home, made Jack lunch and drove to Disneyland to give Robyn some time to study for the GRE. Disneyland was fun (I'm trying to go with Jack some before my luck runs out with the pass).

Today we will keep it mellow. I need to clean-up under the house and write some.

Live Blogging: The Postman

8:48. A girl narrates. Kevin Costner is wearing Oakleys. They look like they have coral growing on them.

He is yelling at his horse and testing the water. It is purple. He says to his horse, "You ain't picky Bill. That's what I like about you."

8:50. Kevin Costner hallucinates. He thinks he sees sorority girls in a a convertible.

8:51. Still talking to his horse. He has found a broken TV. He is pretending that it works. He wants Bill to watch.

A deer scares him. Bill is a mule actually.

8:53. This is just like The Road right?

Still talking to the mule.

Now Kevin Costner is Macbeth. He is sword fighting his mule. The mule has a sword in his mouth. Somehow the future is filled with the cast of Newsies.

8:57. Kevin Costner just told someone named Larry, "Bite me."

Bad men have just shown up. General Bethlehem! He is smelling his new soldiers to see if they are acceptable or not. He just turned away a "Mongloyd." The Mongloyd was unacceptable.

9:05. Giovanni Ribisi! (playing his character from The Other Sister).

All of the soldiers are kind of wearing Oakleys.

9:08. Ribisi is giving Kevin something to sip from a tin cup. It's nice to see that everything to survive the veiled nebulous apocalypse is tin and from the 1860s.

9:09. It's weird that the future apocalypse looks like City of Industry. Maybe the future is now?

9:10. Dinner time. Suprise! They are eating Kevin's mule Bill. Bill in food form looks like a leftover from the Hook food fight scene.

Maybe this is just how Giovanni Ribisi is?

9:12. General Thinly Veiled Christ Metaphor is treating the soldiers to a screening of a Dolf Lundgren film.

9:14. Mercy is for the weak. Terror will defeat reason!

9:17. Some just accused Kevin Costner as having some (derogatory term for an African American) in him.

9:18. General (sort of) Jesus sold copy machines before the nebulous war!

General J.C. has my hairline.

9:22. This is getting better. Kevin Costner is now known as Shakespeare.

9:23. Rope Bridge!!!!!!! Running!!!! To kill a lion!!!!

9:30. The lion just ate a racist.

9:34. Kevin is cold and rainy wet.

Ryan Patterson is going to come by and we're going to do this live now.

Morning.

My morning routine:

-wake up. begin downloading podcasts, press start on the already prepped coffee maker, turn on the shower, brush teeth, shower, walk to the living room, on clothes in the living room, take out the ipod, pour the coffee in the stanley, kiss robyn adios, leave.

-drive up the 2->134->210 listening to a podcast. exit hill. make my way to allen. park. unlock the gate. unlock the room. pour coffee. check email. make powerpoints. change the date on the board. clean my desk. the end. every day.

JSF

Jonathan Safran Foer came to my school this morning. He was punctual, very cool, and very nice. He even bought a student a copy of his own book. I was quite impressed with his coolness.

Charlie Poppins!

After going for a walk around the lake with Jack this morning, I put on Mary Poppins. As we were watching, I got this cool idea to model the Charlie Patton movie after Mary Poppins. One could easily see Harry Smith in the Bert role, narrating in some sort of psychedelic haze with Charlie popping in and out of rural African American art made from found objects like broken glass and barbed wire. Robert Johnson and Son House could be the kids. His dad could be the banker dad. Charlie could even come floating in on a cloud playing his guitar and drinking bourbon.

Time to go play drums in the garage. Jonathan Safran Foer is coming to my school tomorrow, so I may watch Everything is Illuminated before I go to bed.

Dick Justice's, "Cocaine" (as a cartoon for children)

Ramble. Friday night. My house.

New Thang

I'm going to start writing on some thing about Charlie Patton. Hopefully rad other info to follow (this rad info having to do with one R. Crumb possibly, hopefully).

Check this link for cool Patton info and some free music too: 14 songs from Patton and 60 songs about boll weevils. That's some serious boll weevil homage my friends. Serious.

When movie characters say the titles of the movies they are in.

We had a fun family time weekend in Big Bear. Kids were running around. They were a little sick and they were coughing some. It was very nice though. I'd do it again tomorrow if I could.

I went to a screening of the new Terry Gilliam movie tonight. He was speaking after and I was excited. 330 people were more excited, though and I wasn't able to get in. Tim and Brandon were there too though, so it was nice catching up.

When I got home, Robyn suggested I go see a movie anyway. I chose A Serious Man. It was really good. Neighbor Jim came too. The ending was one of the best I think I may have ever seen maybe.

Cool. Halloween photos to follow some time.

Listening to some Blind Joe Death via Drew's post made me quite cognizant of my own sensory deficiencies. I'm really a loud pop or a bright burst from being both blind and deaf. I believe my mom (before laser eye magik) was legally blind without her glasses, and the loud rock and sax that I blast seem to be evening my ears out in a very not good way. If I do go blind and deaf I will make a promise to myself to sit in one place and touch interesting things as much as possible.

A few things on the life agenda:

Ramble on November 13.

I spent many hours trying to unclog a pipe only to finally pull out an old rag and a chunk of concrete. I am quite confused as to where the concrete came from... same with the rag.

Tonight we will practice some rock and roll.

It is cold. I think it's throwing Jack off a bit. We went to Disneyland on Sunday. It was a gas. I fell asleep like a hobo on a bench for an hour. Jack and Maya had a fun time in Bug's Life land.

Today we have electives at school. I've my Writers' Workshop next. We're listening to Reunion and talking us some sensory language. I may have them go outside and smell weird things and describe them.

the sopranos is so good. watching it for the first time i can't help but think of the time darren made a funny at the mirmax party and an early sopranos gandolfini leaned over from the next stall over and laughed at him.

i also went and saw where the wild things are... boooooring. at least it looked cool. i still fell asleep. i should have seen Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion at the new beverly instead.

we also have a weird clog.

Since I am no longer a baseball fan, I have decided to pour the extra hours in to other endeavors. These endeavors include: sitting, hanging out, and not worrying about the baseball team for whom I used to enjoy rooting.

Cool things as of late: more good jazz music (Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Wes Montgomery, Anatomy of a Murder, Several good Gillespie, Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russel, some more Bunk Johnson), and I booked (with the help of Vroman's) Jonathan Safran Foer to come speak at my school on November 9th (let me know if you want to come, there might be some room), it will be rad as he'll be at the Skirball, Vroman's, and my school.

I am also going to eat something with shrimp in a little while.

Good Time Weekend

I had a good time this weekend. Thursday, Robyn went up to Big Bear to study for the GRE with Amber. Jack went up to Ventura with my mom, so I had the night to myself. I ended up going to Long Beach to watch two short movies. I also ate some fish and chips.

Friday I rode the train to Ventura. It tool a lot longer than it should have because I missed the train. I ended up eating at Fuddruckers to kill time.

Saturday, I hung out with the folks and Jack. We played some at the beach and I worked out a little. We played in the pool at Poppo's and then went to dinner. I ate a tr-tip sandwich; Jack had noodles.

Sunday I took Jack to Disneyland for a father-son outing. It was fun; he liked the Tiki-Room. When we got home, I went for a jog. All-in-all, I succeeded in having a good time.

i'm watching falling down. it rules the roost. i took jack to chuck e cheese's tonight in eagle rock. he wasn't able to get out much because of the rain. i then went to the weird asain market and bought a bunch of noodles to make some time.

i am also planning on going to the world series.

i bought a bunch of really good jazz records the other day too: sonn rollins' the bridge, charlie parker's best of the complete savoy & dial studio recordings, dexter gordon's go, oscar peterson- night train (hymn to freedom be my fave), lester young with the oscar peterson trio, side by side- johnny hodges and duke ellington.

they all make me smile. that is all. how are you doing?