June 4, 2010

RIP Dennis Hopper

By Bjorn Schey

looks like owen wilson

you were a cool dude.

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May 7, 2010

Bill Simmons, I’m breaking up with you

By Bjorn Schey

I remember discovering you. It was junior year of college and my friend Kiran and I bonded hard core over your obsession with the NBA, pop culture and good music. Those were back in the days when you’d write columns at least once every week and a half, with mailbags peppered in to keep things interesting. Before you, to use your own phrase, began mailing it in, by not mailing anything in, but instead just talking on the fucking phone everyday for an hour like a teenage girl with a crush on themselves.

The Sports Guy

It’s over man, I’m sorry.

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April 23, 2010

James Franco, Rebounding Machine

By Bjorn Schey

1. he is grabbing 1/4 of all rebounds when he is on the floor in the bucks – hawks series, but you aren’t watching that series so…yea. the bucks are getting owned btw.

LOL, my name is bjorn, and I love the NBA.

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April 13, 2010

Wonderful Wednesday: The If Clause

By Peter Lewis

Ahh…the peanut gallery.

If someone is confined to a chair, can they still dominate a stage? Yes, Solomon Burke can.

I periodically get a kindly suggestion from a friend about thematic possibilities for a Wonderful Wednesday post.  At some point in the dark reaches of February I was propositioned about whether such requests were honored (they are).  Though no outside suggestion was given, I struck upon The If Clause because of its lawyerly associations (my old man and my step-mom are both practicing attorneys).  It seemed a ripe subject.

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April 7, 2010

Wonderful Wednesday: Happy Birthday, Heather

By Peter Lewis

High Fidelity is one of my favorite movies, hands down.

Disregard the idiot in the back, Heather is on the right.

It’s just a perfect little cinematic creation and features one of the best, not to mention surprising (for non-Tenacious D fans), endings ever. When Jack Black takes the stage as “Barry Jive and the Uptown Five,” you don’t really know what to expect. You certainly don’t expect this arrogant twat to hit those notes, but he does. And watching the utterly shocked faces of Cusack and Iben Hjejle is just priceless every time. Lost in that shuffle of greatness are the closing lines from Cusack talking about making a mix-tape for Laura, “Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.” This Wonderful Wednesday is sort of like that, but shorter and for my friend, Heather.  Her birthday is tomorrow (Thursday) and she’ll probably be pissed I didn’t get her a real present, but those cost cash money.

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March 31, 2010

Wonderful Wednesday: Grace Land

By Peter Lewis

Easter Sunday is just over the horizon. Sadly, the holiday doesn’t really resonate with me quite like it once did.

An Easter Past

For one, I’m not quite the churchgoer I once was. Further, I’ve outgrown my mother’s traditional gift of a pastel polo to mark the event. Easter wasn’t Easter without something overly preppy to don for the Sunday sermon. Obviously it is a bit unfair to link a “fall from grace” to no longer receiving aqua colored shirts, but it was always how I marked the event. Its cessation happened to coincide with my growing distance from the “church” and thus they are saddled together in my mind.

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March 26, 2010

The Truck Who Died of a Broken Heart

By Bjorn Schey

A chapter has come to a close in my family’s history. My dad’s 1996 Ford Ranger, forcibly known to everyone as ‘Rango’, has come to a halt after 335,000 miles. I say forcibly because my Dad is a very insistent man, and this in combination with his unique sense of humor/reality results in routine anthropomorphisms. 335,000 miles and no major repairs, only tires, windshield wipers, brakes, and a clutch or two. If my dad didn’t shift in his own weird way, the clutches may have lasted a little longer too.

Kramer in the back of Rango when they were both young and shiny

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March 24, 2010

Wonderful Wednesday: An SXSW Autopsy

By Peter Lewis

SXSW officially ended on Sunday evening at Emo’s.

Ben Nichols of Lucero

As many are no doubt aware, SXSW is a horrifyingly large affair.  True participants in the event can expect long days filled with countless stimuli.   It is simply the norm and something loved by many, myself included.   In the past, my participation in the event was always as a passionate observer.  This year, however, I was actively engaged in helping put on the event.

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March 11, 2010

Osck3rz

By Bjorn Schey

Note: I owe my friend terry some madddd props for showing me both the vidz i embedded in my last post.

Mad Props T, Mad Props

Mad Props T, Mad Props

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March 9, 2010

Wonderful Wednesday: SXSW Preview

By Peter Lewis

Now that SXSW is officially on our doorstep, I’ve concocted a very compact Wonderful Wednesday to highlight just a few of my favorite groups playing the festival this year.  I tried to avoid obvious acts (i.e. Band of Horses) and, since I’m an Austinite, acts that are local staples and/or natives (i.e. Black Joe Lewis). It’s by no means a great list, nor an all encompassing one…Just some of the flavor I dig. Hope it’s enjoyable, folks.

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