Archive for October 2008

Horror Movies Kim and I Watched in October ‘08

Night of The Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of The Dead (1978)

Two classics that have inspired hundreds of remakes, spoofs, rip-offs and homages. My favorite part about George Romero’s zombies is how they act as a metaphor for some social statement, whether the topic be the civil rights movement (as in “Night”) or the advent of American [...]

Happy Halloween

It pains me to say this: AFI would have blown even the original Misfits off the stage.
Halloween – The Misfits

Halloween – AFI

A Lifestyle Reboot

When I set my weight loss goal to reach 215lbs., it was with the thought that I probably wouldn’t reach it for awhile. That was in August. Since then I have lost an estimated 30 pounds (I really wish I had weighed myself at the beginning of this thing, I think I was about 268lbs). [...]

Just Two Kids In Our Underwear

via our kitchen bulletin board

Wisdom from “Dawn of The Dead (1978)”

Peter: Ain’t it a crime.
Stephen: What?
Peter: The only person who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.
Oh, how many times I’ve said something similar while taking a test drive on some incredible top-of-line piece of gear at a music store. I think more premium guitars and amps get [...]

AIM with Davis

(11:34:21 AM) Justin:
(11:34:41 AM) Davis: BOOSH
11:35
(11:35:33 AM) Davis: that’s so awful.
(11:35:40 AM) Justin: you mean awesome
(11:35:45 AM) Justin: you typed it wrong
(11:35:50 AM) Davis: oh, my bad
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Anti-Wonka

I am developing a kind of nasty “ex-smoker” attitude towards people eating sweets. Everyone’s got giant slices of cake for dessert and I’m thinking “I guess if you think you really need that to be happy, go ahead.” Giving them guilt trips and stuff. I make jokes about wanting it but I really don’t. I [...]

243lbs

Probably less since I just weighed myself with my jeans on (which I normally don’t do).
One weird thing I’ve been catching myself doing is looking at my weight loss as a kind of time machine. I find myself thinking, “when was the last time I weighed this much?” quite often. 243lbs probably would put me [...]

Musicians Are Smarter Than You

http://www.physorg.com/news142185056.html
“Musicians may be particularly good at efficiently accessing and integrating competing information from both hemispheres,” Folley said. “Instrumental musicians often integrate different melodic lines with both hands into a single musical piece, and they have to be very good at simultaneously reading the musical symbols, which are like left-hemisphere-based language, and integrating the written music [...]