Work and tomorrow’s move are going to keep me a bit too busy to blog, so how about I point you to Chocolypse Now?
It’s years later, and Charlie Buckett, along with the rest of the
Golden Ticket winners are sent by Slugworth to travel up the river into
Loompaland and find Wonka.
I expect to be extremely busy this week, what with work and moving to
the new place, so posting may be light. Some quick updates:
was a hit — lots of funny stuff, Wolfman and I got to do a little
vaudeville schtick, and the performers put on some really good shows. I
also got a chance to check out the renovations to the Gladstone Hotel
thanks to their using one of the rooms as a changing and makeup room.
Every room is different and was designed by a local artist — ours had
an “autumn leaves” theme. The place is no longer a fleabag; it now
reminds me of the Chelsea in Manhattan — with very fresh renovations.
been so busy that I haven’t been able to finish the apartment-hunting
article (which I will, since there are some interesting stories), but
Wendy and I did find a place right in High Park.
Practically on top of High Park station, even! It’s in a condo building
just a block north of Bloor, and a stone’s throw away from Bloor West Village,
a good balance between “near downtown and thing like cafes and
bookstores” and “near family”. Plus, there’s High Park! I’ve hired Tippet-Richardson to do the move, which takes place Wednesday (my thanks to all those who responded to my question about movers).
The new place is a two-bedroom unit on the sixth floor with
in-apartment laundry, decent-sized rooms and a balcony that looks west
and faces a tree-covered neighbourhood. The balcony is unusually large
for a condo building (almost twice as deep), and I plan to hold outdoor
movie nights there — it’s perfect for renting an LCD projector and
projecting movies against one of its walls!
back the keys to my old place on Thursday, and my lease says that I
have to leave the apartment in the same condition it was in when I
first moved in six years ago, which was pristine. I’m going to need a
little help cleaning it up because it’s a big place and since one of
the tenants, Paul, is in
Europe, while another housemate will have his hands full dismantling
his Murphy bed. If I’ve ever helped you move or if you’ver ever enjoyed
a party here, could you help with the clean-up on Wednesday night? I’ll
provide pizza! Drop me line via email or in the comments.
[3.7 MB, Windows Media] of Patrick “Jean-Luc Picard” Stewart doing an
uncharacteristic soft-shoe number. It’s an “easter egg” from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 5th season DVD set.
[via Waxy] WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has an interesting set of MP3s showing what was probably the only Psychedelic Christian radio show, created and hosted by one Pastor John Rydgren in 1967. Here’s their description:
Radio and Film Department of the American Lutheran Church. Years
before the words “Jesus” and “Freak” became joined at the rib, the
straight-looking Rydgren created a daily radio show called Silhouette in which he became the reassuring, resonant-voiced Hippy for God. Rydgren wrote, announced and programmed Silhouette, taking his musical and cultural cues from The Electric Prunes, Herb Alpert and the cover of Time (Is God Dead?), with a vocal delivery that was straight out of the Tom Donahue / Scott Muni / Ken Nordine
school of breathy baritone radio seduction. Silhouette
dropped
all the counter-cultural codewords of the day into a heady mix of
Peace, Love, Sex, Drugs and Jesus. Not to mention Fuzzy Guitars.
The blog entry has 19 MP3s of segments of the show and has some comic panels illustrating Rydgren’s hippie reinterpretation of Psalm 23.
And yeah, he really does have a Ken Nordine-like delivery!
By the way, for those of you not familiar with the 23rd Psalm, it’s the
one that begins with “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” and
also has the classic bit, “Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me.”
(See, Mom? I was paying attention in Sunday school!)
The King James Bible version:
The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’ sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
[via Media Matters] Brit Hume, Washington Managing Editor for FOX News on the London bombings in conversation with newscaster Shepard Smith:
SMITH: Some of the things you might expect to happen, for instance,
a drop in the stock market and some degree of uncertainty across this
country — none of that really seen today, and I wonder if the timing
of it — that it happened in the middle of the night and we were able
to get a sense of the grander scheme of things — wasn’t helpful in all
this.
HUME: Well, maybe. The other thing is, of course, people have — you
know, the market was down. It was down yesterday, and you know, you may
have had some bargain-hunting going on. I mean, my first thought
when I heard — just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been
this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in
the tank, I thought, “Hmmm, time to buy.”
[Quickly realizes what he’s said]
Uhmmm…others may have thought
that as well. But…uh…you never know about the markets.
I do try to keep the swearing down on this blog, but geez, what a fucking scumbag!
Oh. My. God. This can’t be
real [-link to QuickTime movie]…
The video is safe for work, except for the fact that your co-workers
will think that you’ve gone off your rocker.
The site also has links to a couple of tunes in MP3
format:
Luv
to Mouth”)
At it least it’s nice to see that the “Where’s
Waldo?” guy found some work…
