This place is dead, yo! Time for a quick fix. Like when sitcoms add a cute blonde kid in the waning years of an already tired show just to squeeze out six more episodes before they get cancelled. Or when the child star who used to be the cute blonde kid is now a teenager but partying like he is in his mid-twenties with a liver that looks like its forty and a death wish to match that of a bed ridden eighty year old. So the writers bring in a newer, younger, cuter version of the first child star to help boost ratings and take attention away from Druggy McBinge Alot but that just sends him over the edge and they find his rotting, bloated body in a dumpster somewhere on the Strip, full of drugs and riddled with STDs. That scenario is a bit extreme and it probably won't happen at eLarceny (right C$?) but I am here to introduce you to some new blood. So put your hand together and welcome Slue Foot Jon, eLarceny's new sports blogger. Slue Foot will take up residence over at the Tang Sports Report.I hope that all six of our readers will show him all the love and respect he deserves (i.e. “Yo Momma” jokes and vague innuendo).Go get ‘em Slue Foot.
May 2007 Archives
I spent a good deal of my Memorial Day laying on the couch, trying to digest several pounds of grilled meat products and watching five or six hours of Band of Brothers. And that got me thinking about war. War, it seems, is a necessity of being human. Some wars are more noble then others, but in the grand scheme, war is hell. I started to wonder if I could do it. Iraq is out of the question and Vietnam and Korea were ill advised as well, but World War II was a different monster.In the next decade or so, everyone who fought in World War II will pass away and so another piece of history will fade further from our collective memory. I found myself trying unsuccessfully to find some kind of connection to the past, some thread to bring that piece of history closer. No one in my immediate family had been called upon to fight in World War II, nor any other war (just good timing on their part) but then I remembered that the man who used to own the house I now call home was a war veteran. His name was Albert Flick. He served in the Air Force and spent time in Italy and North Africa. He passed away earlier this year but before he made the long journey home he sat down for an interview with the Library of Congress Veterans History Program.Mr. Flick did mostly what he calls “pencil work” for his group, writing reports and doing statistics. But he was still witness to the horror of war, losing comrades and close friends, watching talented pilots and young men give their lives for the lives of others and for their country.He spoke of the war, his friends and over all experience with mixture of fondness, nostalgia and sadness and helped bring me a little closer to history.The interview is here. It’s about half an hour long so it might take a minute or two to download.
It’s been a bit of a struggle to stay awake today. Pixels and word processing makes me sleepy. But I did wake up long enough to see that Adult Swim is giving away more music. They may never top Danger Doom but with a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks called Warm & Scratchy, they have gotten close.
It’s just a mixtape, really. And probably a promotion for some new show but when the mixtape contains songs by TV On The Radio, Raveonettes, Les Savvy Fav, The Rapture, Broken Social Scene, The Good, The Bad and The Queen and Fennesz, to name exactly half of them, its hard to say no.
In fact I can’t come up with any good reason to say “no†to this. Unless you’re a douche bag. Don’t be a douche – I guess.
Go get it.
Stuff to Steal: Adult Swim's Warm & Scratchy
OK, enough fooling around. I’ve been away awhile. Y’all know the drill. Excuse. Excuse. Apology. Moving on.
One of the very first posts to grace the pages of eLarceny concerned a Brooklyn guitar duo called Ratatat. Ratatat released a stellar self-titled debut (which I knocked for reminding me of Daft Punk’s less then stellar recent works [i.e. everything they’ve done since Homework]).
Anyway. Ratatat scored well enough with me to commit their name to memory. The group’s second album Classics didn’t quite measure up but it wasn’t the only thing the band had been working on. No, it seems the boys in Ratatat like the hip-hop and enjoy remixing songs.
Ratatat’s Remixes Vol. 1 dropped in 2004 after their debut LP and Remixes Vol. 2 will be out this year. Both albums were self released. And like Vol. 1, Vol. 2 will probably only be available at Ratatat shows as if you need another reason to go see a Ratatat show.
Web Site: Here
Stuff to Sample: From Ratatat’s Remixes Vol. 2 Notorious B.IG. “Party & Bullshit†and from Vol. 1 Kanye West “Get Em Highâ€
Let's pretend the past month never happened. I'm going back in time myself. Back to the way things used to be. Or atleast back to to the last time I made a back up, which was apparently last year.
Anyway, I've learned a lot about this blog and myself over the past thirty days or so while I've been trying to fix the mess I made. Things I've learned:
- Always make a back up
- Don't drink and compute
- Code is not your friend
That's about it. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Unless you broke and then tried to fix it but ended up making things much worse and then unintentionally deleted someone elses blog (Sorry OpAmp) while you were drinking and computing in an attempt to fix what you broke in the first place, even if it wasn't broken to begin with.
