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Meanwhile, on Twitter....

2008-04-14T03:25:53Z

22:40 @tpau Any easier? #
22:47 @tpau No, but it marks it as a reply to my message, so I can filter it. To address me privately, use "d jadasc blahblahblah." #
22:56 @tpau On your twitter.com web page, you can see all replies to you in one place. I can click on a link to see which post a reply references. #

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2008-04-13T03:27:19Z

12:14 Brunch at the B-Side with M-E, Nathan, and Rachel. #

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Meanwhile, on Twitter....

2008-04-12T03:28:13Z

00:08 Note: the abbreviation is for "Step It Up and Dance," not "Suck it up and deal." Not unlike when FTW became "For The Win" all of a sudden. #
14:01 @jducoeur So: is a member of your service a commyou-nist? #
17:31 @jducoeur Really? kah-MYU? #
17:37 @jducoeur Makes sense. It's only on the page that it looks like "calm you." #

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2008-04-11T03:26:57Z

13:03 @UmbralEchoes At this point, I think I want to randomly link someone to a Rick *Springfield* video. "Bop 'Til You Drop," maybe. #
13:07 @LeDiva Point. :) #
21:34 Watching the Bravo Top Chef/SIUAD marathon with Cate while noshing on Chinese food. Life tends not to suck. #
22:15 They're using "Cum On Feel The Noize" to sell frozen french fries now. This is not acceptable. #
22:24 @LeDiva Well, my associations with Meat Loaf differ from those with Quiet Riot. Thank you for that, regardless. #

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2008-04-10T17:17:49Z

21:45 @rstevens I still use one of those iPods. Runs just fine. #

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Pre-emptive joke analysis.

2008-04-05T18:54:56Z

Could a Rick Astley parody called "Never Should've Clicked That Link" be funny, or would the self-referential nature neuter all the humor?

Repo! The Genetic Opera

2008-04-03T15:20:48Z

(Found through gmskarka.) How news of this movie has not flooded my friends-list, I'll never know. Dystopian future rock musical featuring Anthony Stewart Head. Coming in August.

Change your body, change your mind; heaven fell that night -- let me go.

2008-01-28T21:51:11Z

As stolen from sassette726: WLIR (aka WDRE) is now off the air. Not only do I remember listening to it constantly at Adelphi, but I have memories of Elayne attaching tin foil to the radio antenna in our apartment in the Bronx so that she could tune it in when she was a teenager and I was... somewhat younger than that.

jadasc @ 2008-01-24T20:25:00

2008-01-25T01:25:59Z

Today would have been Warren Zevon's 61st birthday. Coverville, the all-covers podcast, is commemorating this with a themed show which you can download here.

[comics] Random Spider-Man OMD thought.

2008-01-11T21:03:16Z

This may be a brand new crackpot theory. (At least I haven't seen it anywhere else.)

Is there any evidence to counter the idea that "Jackpot" is actually the unborn child of Mary Jane Watson-Parker and Peter Parker, stolen by Mephisto and rapid-aged the way that Illyana Rasputin was in Limbo, under Belasco's care? It seems like a pretty good swerve to me, and no one's put it out there yet.

Not quite the iPod war. Not quite a meme.

2008-01-10T05:17:42Z

Went into Minstrel's iTunes and pulled up a list of all the songs (as opposed to podcasts) that I added to my mp3 collection in 2007.

"Areeb il Shar," Stormtrap. (Ramallah Underground. Middle Eastern flavored techno.)
"Mess Around," Ray Charles. (From gmskarka's Friday Music LJ series.)
"Killing Boombastic," DJ Zebra. (Rage Against the Machine vs. Shaggy. Awesome.)
"Battle Without Honor or Humanity," Tomoyasu Hotel. (Power walk music.)
"Captain Kidd," Great Big Sea.
"Dead Mongoloid Loser," Illuminoids (Bauhaus vs. DEVO vs. Beck. Another mash-up.)
"Cold Sweat," James Brown. (The extended version; I used to have this on tape, and play it on a particular mix every time I went into New York.)
"The Wait," The Pretenders. (I was looking for this song for years without knowing it.)
"It Ain't Me Babe," Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. (From Walk The Line, naturally.)
"O Buddy Roy," Phillip Engdahl. (Yes, from Order of the Stick. Someone recorded it.)
"Go Insane," Lindsay Buckingham.
"Lick It Wild Thing,' DJ Schmolli. (KISS vs. Tone Löc [which, in this case, means Van Halen] vs. 20 Fingers.
"A Love Bizarre," Sheila E.
"Lips Like Sugar," Echo and the Bunnymen
"Ebay I Need Your Lovin'," djBC. (Four Tops vs. Weird Al)
"Get Your Gunn," Marilyn Manson. (Don't judge. I was having a college retro moment. I always wanted to combine this with those stuffed animal ads. Manson cuddling a teddy bear with GET YOUR GUND in big letters.)
"Hey Dance It Up Cosmic Ya," unknown. (T. Rex vs. Outkast vs. The Damned. Possibly the most obscure combo this year.)
"Ray of Gob," Mark Vidler/Go Home Productions. (Sex Pistols vs. Madonna. You've probably heard this one.)
"Code Monkey," Jonathan Coulton.
"St. Vitus' Dance," Bauhaus. (My first download from the Armagideon Time music blog. Which is unremittingly awesome.)
"American Fast Food," Randy Stonehill.
"MackFloyd," Ping Pong. (Mark Morrison vs. Pink Floyd. So should have been called "Learning To Mack.")
"Who Listens To The Radio?," The Sports. (Another Armagideon track. Elvis Costello-y.)
"Eminence Front," The Who.
"Cities In Dust," Siouxsie & The Banshees.
"80s Chords," Rob Balder. (From The FuMP -- The Funny Music Project. Along with Manic Mondays and The Mad Music Show, my source for dementia, parody, and funny music this past year.)
"Take Off," Bob & Doug McKenzie.
"Lights Out," Peter Wolf.
"Gimme Vision," unknown. (Sisters of Mercy vs. Britney Spears. Yeah.)
"She's A Beauty," The Tubes.
"They Tried To Kill Us (We Survived, Let's Eat)," Jewmongous. (Sean Altman side project.)
"Prince Charming," Adam & The Ants. (Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. Apparently.)
"So Long," Fischer-Z.
"Passenger Fever," Mark Vidler/Go Home Productions. (Peggy Lee vs. Iggy Pop.)

Today's bit of surreal trivia.

2007-12-19T02:02:13Z

Courtesy of Nathan Rabin's "My Year of Flops" on the Onion AV Club: The female lead role in "Howard the Duck" (which eventually got played by Lea Thompson) was initially offered to a "Y Kant" era Tori Amos.

jadasc @ 2007-05-05T13:49:00

2007-05-05T17:52:40Z

Though the company was fine, Spider-Man 3 was probably the worst movie I've paid money to see in a very long time. I was more satisfied with both Daredevil and the first FF movie than I was with this one. Just full of stilted dialogue, "idiot plot" moments, and performances that elicited awkward, inappropriate laughter.

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2007-04-11T14:44:38Z

Did you know that DADO in HSQ has chrysanthemum tea available? not just a dim sum treat anymore.

That staircase riff.

2007-04-02T19:11:30Z

This will probably interest about three of you, if I'm lucky.

For some reason, I'm inordinately fond of this one guitar riff that I've been calling "the staircase riff." It's the one that sounds like the music is bouncing down a flight of stairs. ("da-dahn-dahn-dah-dahn"). You'd probably recognize it from "Pretty In Pink" by the Psychedelic Furs, and I'd also found it in "Stuck With Me" by Green Day. And, for some reason, I could have sworn I'd heard it in a Pretenders song — but that's the only part I remembered.

Finally came across it on iTunes: "The Wait." That's three, which means it's enough for a playlist, if not a real mix. If you know of other songs where it pops up, let me know.

(This is clearly not a real update. There'd be content otherwise.)

Semi-regular, nearly quarterly, filters and links post.

2007-03-27T13:53:02Z

I have a number of opt-in filters for certain kinds of posts. Some are gaming related; others are of a personal nature. If you're not on the filters, and you would like to be, fill out the poll. (This only needs to be done once, unless you wish to leave or enter a filter.)

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If you'd like me to have your contact information, you can leave it with this screened post.

I'm trying to keep my schedule accessible; you can find the link to it on the right-hand side of the page.

Today's nitpick.

2007-03-22T17:43:13Z

If you're talking about prestige acquired from an accomplishment (say, from an Oscar nomination) or a mark of distinction, that's cachet. With a "t." Two syllables; rhymes with "sashay." A cache is a secret hiding place. One syllable; rhymes with "stash."

Creating an anti-monument.

2007-02-20T02:23:33Z

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases toward a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

Excerpts from the report of a team trying to create a marker for a nuclear waste disposal site that will still be comprehensible thousands of years hence. Fascinating, creepy, and ironically beautiful -- or at least poetic.

Birdlike noises.

2007-02-13T12:50:44Z

You can find me on twitter (which is like LJ with a shorter attention span) as Jadasc. I'll be adding a link to the list on the side of the page.

jadasc @ 2007-01-30T10:58:00

2007-01-30T15:58:51Z

Last night's Stump! outing was wonderful fun: thanks to lediva and on_reserve (and their respective companions) for composing the rest of team VESTAL and making hermitgeecko and I feel welcome. Next time there's a fifth Monday, I'm definitely returning.

jadasc @ 2006-12-31T12:00:00

2006-12-31T17:00:40Z

Dear 2006,

Looks like this is goodbye, huh? I have to commend you on being a gracious loser; despite doing your best to defeat me in the spring, what with stealing my lover away, wracking me with sickness, flooding my apartment twice (once with water, once with filth), and throwing my entire career and financial path into chaos... you were just as willing to reward me once I'd worked my way through it all. Thank you for returning what you have taken. Thank you for the gifts you have chosen to bestow. Now go into the halls of memory, and tell your replacement to be kind to those I love.

Testing out the new "update" screen, and a brief review of the Jonathan Coulton/Paul & Storm show.

2006-12-14T17:05:14Z

I tend to post via Deepest Sender (a Firefox plug-in) or the Phoenix MacOS LiveJournal client, so the change in the update page doesn't affect me a whole lot. On the other hand, I'm using it now, and I kinda like it. (The "table" widget has the potential to be really neat.)
After the concert at Johnny D's, I've decided that Jonathan Coulton is better musically than Paul and Storm (formerly of Da Vinci's Notebook), but that P&S are better performers, and put on a more enjoyable show. I'd certainly see the two of them again, but I don't know if I'd go to see Coulton solo. He reminds me of Stuart Davis in a lot of ways, which I think is a good thing.

jadasc @ 2006-12-07T07:59:00

2006-12-07T12:59:54Z

Just a placeholder post to let people know that, although I haven't said much in detail lately, it's because I've been busy with successes and pleasures rather than struggling with setbacks and pain. A few updates will follow, but things are good. Quite.

jadasc @ 2006-10-30T06:55:00

2006-10-30T11:55:44Z

1. Thanks to pancua and derspatchel for the link to Peanuts vs Marvel.
2. Yesterday's World of Warcraft CCG release event went off quite well, but it's left me with about one spoon for today, and it's a demitasse spoon. Patience, please, while I recharge.

Coda to the Strange Tasty Animals party

2006-10-24T13:05:04Z

According to this article, robots think we're made of bacon.

But sommeliers need not fear for their jobs just yet.
Of the thousands of wines on the market, the robot can be programmed to accurately identify only a few dozen at most. It also has more trouble with the task after the bottle has been opened and the wine begins to breathe and thus transform chemically.
"Wines are notoriously similar in their spectral fingerprints," Shimazu said. "The variation this robot detects is very subtle."
Some of the mistakes it makes would get a human sommelier fired — or worse.
When a reporter's hand was placed against the robot's taste sensor, it was identified as prosciutto. A cameraman was mistaken for bacon.