-Jesus comes back to life and demands “More Brains!”
-Cedric the Entertainer is sued for false advertising
-I can do 40 push-ups.
-My roommate claims “Lord of the Rings” is an excellent film and “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas” is not, thereby adding yet another question to my growing list of things I should ask potential roommates.
-Jay, I meant to ask you this earlier, but if Seth McFarland curates an All Tomorrows Parties would you then give him some respect? You show your age by claiming the Family Guy is a cheap imitation of The Simpsons. You might as well claim that Ani DeFranco is just riding the coattails of Charo (“Cootchie, cootchie!”) or that Tim Conway should get a percentage of every paycheck that Adam Sandler pulls in because of that whole Dorf on Golf/Happy Gilmore thing. Geezer.
-Someone hates me.
-Someone doesn’t.
-Others straddle the border betwixt the two.
-Used CD scores late last night at Everyday Music (open ‘til midnight every night, bitches!): Pocket Symphonies by Air, Houdini by the Melvins, Enemy of the Sun by Neurosis, and Summer Make Good by Mum. All fine purchases so far. I went in looking for the Neurosis album, specifically because the apocalyptic sounds have been doing a lot for me these days. The others were just blessings from the Zombie Christ.
-With this new found and sporadic warm weather the really fucked up people are coming out at night. The tweekers, the doomed, the hookers that were in hibernation for the rain and cold are out in public again. Walking down Interstate at night is awesome. It’s a row of hotels and motels that are there for no other reason other than to house hookers, drug dealers, drug addicts, and that one poor family who actually has fallen on hard times and are trying to make it through a bad patch by staying in a shit hole to save money. Good luck to them and their children. Uncle Jesse, you should come and bring your sketch pad. Very Eureka-like.
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I liked Ani DeFranco better when she was recording 70s cheese with her family. Her bootleg recordings with Charo (and hubby Tito Puente) are indispensible as well. And Adam Sandler should be groveling at Tim Conway's fake midget shoes if he knows what's good for him.
Last week in Arcata Harry Shearer said that The Family Guy was initially ordered into production by Fox when a possible strike by the Simpsons voice talent was threatened. McFarland did most of his own voices, so it'd be a cheaper show to produce.
The gags on The Family Guy are occasionally amusing, but there's not the breadth of reference, and the characters aren't the comic archetypes that the Simpsons have become (partly through marketing overkill to be sure). They are a getting more than a little tired after 18 years.
It's funny--back in the eighties, Gary Panter (designer of Pee Wee's Playhouse, and the creator of one of my favorite magazine cover images of all time) with his then best friend Matt Groening wrote a rant called the Rozz-Tox Manifesto, detailing how the avant garde was obsolete, and pushing the idea of subverting commercial media.
Panter interviewed Philip K. Dick shortly before his death for the punk zine Slash.
This has been another episode of "Semi-Bohemian Aesthetics and Commercial Entertainment" presented by Dr. Geezer.
I'd like to see you do 40 pushups...
-OK Jay, I give you that there are elements to the Family Guy that were more than a little lifted from the Simpsons (the fat drunk idiot father, the caring sexy (?) mom who has a tendency to snap, the devil kid, the Lenny and Carl= Quagmire and... shit, I forgot his name.
Regardless, i still believe it stands on its own. OK, it may have been ordered in the face of a strike but that seems irrelevant at this point. It has taken on a life of its own. Fox cancelled it, the fans brought it back. Seth McFarland, to me, and only in the case of the Family Guy (the other shows are balls for sure), has proven himself as a writer. And he modelled a baby after Rick from the Young Ones. Can't go wrong there.
-Prizant, come on over and we'll have a push-up contest. That would be hilarious, a couple of flabby pussies like us, more than likely drunk, trying out hand at something man-like. I'll wear a tu-tu. You get the leg warmers.
i heard portland was like a big version of eureka. maybe i just said that. well, i'll have to get up there soon. or not.
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