“ now i know what jail is really like
afghan whigs “what jail’s like”
friday night is killing me
Current Listening To:
Neil Young
"Harvest"
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
"Playback: The Box Set"
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The Replacements
"Tim"
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Minus 5
"Killingsworth"
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Chamberlain
"The Moon My Saddle"
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Lucero
"1372 Overton Park"
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Eels
"Hombre Lobo"
Currently Reading:
Rob Kirkpatrick
"Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen"
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Cormac McCarthy
"Blood Meridian -or- The Evening Redness In The West"
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question: if i dressed as greg dulli (twilight singers, afghan whigs, gutter twins) for halloween next year, would anyone get the costume? i mean he is a creepy fuck - as is evidenced by the attatched picture - and its made worse by how much creepier he looks as he is juxtaposed with the less/possibley non-creepy touring members of the twilight singers also in this picture. i’m seriously thinking about is. i mean, LOOK at this muthafucka…
my lady and my dog sound asleep next to me. sometimes life just looks you in the face and says “damn its good to be here”. i couldnt agree more.
it's the little triumphs in life
i have tried very unsuccessfully since dan and i started dating to get him to watch horror films. he always seems to have an excuse: “they have terrible dialogue” (true); “i don’t like the story”; “you NEVER watch what I want to watch”; etc., etc. i have always suspected he was just too totally creeped out to watch them. when we have watched them together he always manages to make light of the situation. i mean, it’s not hard to find the ridiculous aspects of a horror film… i get furious when he does this because it really detracts from the potential to feel terror. everything from vampires to werewolves to zombies are subject to his nit-picking and ridicule. he just refuses to actually be a participant in the story that’s unfolding in the film. it’s because he KNOWS he’ll actually get scared of something completely irrational, like, say a zombie.
he rolls his eyes when i tell him i was scared to go into the garage because i thought a zombie would jump out at me.
or that every time i drive home at night i am convinced i’ll see some sort of nightmarish beast in the woods.
or that time i thought someone was knocking on the door and then there was no one there but i was still freaked out because i had seen some vultures in the trees at the foot of my driveway earlier and were convinced they were an omen and stood outside my house until he got there… but i’m getting off track here.
basically, i figured he was too mr. cool guy to actually watch a horror film and get scared. i have 28 days later to thank for the change in his behavior. after watching it last night, i received this little gem of a text message in the morning:
Maxwell, Dan: Also last night leaving your house in the pitch black in that utter silence after watching that movie i was TOTALLY spooked haha i ran a little bit to my car haha.
yeah… i bet you were laughing.
however i did watch the exorcist unscathed…
feeling dejected by the internet...
how is my “tumbularity” so damn low? i dont understand haha. i’m not worried about not being in the to 500,000 blogs or anything but i would think i’m worth more than a popularity score of “1”.
yeah…
“ I don’t need a birthday, ‘couse I buy myself all the presents I need. And because of my drinking, they’re often a surprise.
tracy jordan
i watch too many crime dramas on tv. my favorite by a long shot is law and order: ci - specifically the episodes with vincent dinofrio as detective bobby goren. what a bad ass. but i also love law and order: svu and criminal minds (which i’ve newly fallen for. i prefer joe mantegna to mandy patinkin though. jus sayin). a third tier option (like if the others aren’t on and i’m desperate) is either CSI: NY or CSI: Miami. Preferably NY cause i hate david caruso’s character and his lame one-liners (and quite honestly i’d probably his actual person in real life too). anyway i am so enthralled by these shows that last night poor ali wanted to watch a movie and i couldn’t draw myself away form an episode of criminal minds to watch it. i had to wait til it was over. pathetic. granted she also loves criminal minds (especially the shot of “the night stalker” in the opening credits) and was not upset by this, but i should exhibit more self control, i feel.
but a real example of my madness is the following. on my drive to work i take the service road next to a highway. on the shoulder of this road is an overgrown grass patch that shields a snooty country club form being looked upon by passers by. on the grass was a larger-than-normal garbage bag and instead of thinking “someone left garbage there” i assumed “oh god, there is probably a body in there”… but my fabrication didn’t stop there. i continued… “should i call it in? no. no, because if i call it in then i’ll be a suspect and i clearly didn’t do that. and i don’t really need a hassle. someone else will obviously notice that and take care of it. i don’t need to be a hero.” etc etc for another few minutes until i pulled into work and realized “wow, i’m a loser. i just fabricated a murder investigation in my head for a bag of garbage that was probably left there when the local inmates did their outside work on the chain gang”. i was - needless to say - shocked at my imagination and childishness and i knew that the only way to make it okay was to blog about it. so, here it is.
my name is dan and i’m addicted to one-hour crime dramas on Bravo, A&E, TNT, and USA.
also this comic made me laugh. christopher meloni (aka det elliot stabler) looks so much less intimidating in “crayola”.
i googled “creepy russians” because i just went on a job interview that thoroughly creeped me out and i wanted to post about it with a silly picture of some russian dude. but, after i googled it, this popped up and i decided it was even funnier… so cheers to you google. you made me laugh again.
i have neil young madness today.
