Rachael is Love

So I was getting ready for the She Wants Revenge concert tomorrow night, and I watched one of their two latest videos on YouTube:

WATCH IT HERE
(Damned Universal and their foiling my embedding!!)

Aside from the fact that I LOVE videos by She Wants Revenge, I have a special place in my heart for this one, because I think it's a darkly stylized version of one of my favorite episodes from Tales From the Crypt, Loved to Death. Fuck, Tales From the Crypt was awesome, even when it was cheesy as hell. Check it out:

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Part 3:


Oh, CryptKeeper, where would I be without you in my life?

And for dessert...
Another SWR video straight out of the same genre, which teaches another important lesson: Don't start an orgy you can't keep control of.

Kenny and I Had the Same Dream Last Night

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Damn, I have to stop drinking so much. Vacation's over.

New Posts

Hey, kids. Just a quick note - I've got three new posts undeneath this one.

I've been quiet for a few weeks, but a vacation this week has me back on a roll with a lot of things: golfing again, climbing again, writing again.

Still drinking too much, though. It's a vacation; what do you expect? Enjoy!

Adding to the Lexicon

Friends, wherever you are right now, be it your living room, your office, or your DungeonMaster Lair (you know who you are), I'd like you to stand up and start clapping.

Why, you ask? To what do owe collectively applaud? Why, to ourselves, of course. I just saw on urbandictionary.com that the term douchebottle has made it into the lexicon!

It seems only yesterday (though it was August 2004) that I was sipping margaritas in L.A. with my good friend Eve and my lovely lady, where we had a discussion about the overuse of the term douchebag. To which, I pondered, "Does a douche even come with a bag?"

No, it does not, we discussed. It comes with a bottle. As such, I realized that I needed to change the world by updating this outdated term to douchebottle. Well, friends, with your support, it has caught on, and you can see the Urban Dictionary page that proves it (created on June 9, 2005).

[NOTE - yes, there's an earlier definition of it on there, but that references crackheads. I think only a crackhead could have written the entry and I refuse to acknowledge it, as it makes no sense.]

This is a great accomplisment, my friends, and soon the term douchebag will be forever retired. Keep up the good work!

In the spirit of this momentous occasion, I'd like to introduce a couple more terms we should begin using. These are original from me, regardless of whether they can already be found on the internet. (I mean, seriously, you can probably find pictures of Buddha taking a dump on the internet, so it doesn't much count - unless I say it does.)

Starbucksian, adjective: a manner in which one is mocked for supposedly incorrect participation in a process, immediately prior to suffering the mistakes of the mocking party, such as when a Starbucks employee rolls his/her eyes at you for slightly mispronouncing "venti mochacaffefrappAmerispresso," only to then serve you a grande hot tea. Suggested use: "Man, my boss bitched me out about my report, but then couldn't even explain our project to the customer. He's so Starbucksian."


feck, intransitive verb, noun; (akin to fuck): to engage in coitus with—sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust. This word is somewhat interchangeable with "fuck," except that it to be used solely in the inquisitve, as in, "What the feck?" The purpose of this word is, essentially, to refresh the phrase, "What the fuck?", which is vastly overused, but still so damned useful.

Go, my friends, and spread the word(s). Together, we can modernize cynical commentary on the world, one tortured vulgarity at a time.

Thank You FIFA 2008

So, I'm addicted to FIFA 2008. More than any video game in a long time, I could play this thing for hours.

Also, I could rifle through the extensive menus for hours, just to listen to its kickass soundtrack of tunes from around the world.

My current favorite is Monster by The Automatic. Have a listen (from their website, http://www.theautomatic.co.uk/):

~MONSTER - THE AUTOMATIC~

Open to Interpretation

Well, I heard from a number of you about the Nick Cave song, Hold On To Yourself, in my previous post. Interestingly no one thought of the same meaning that I did. Also interestingly, I haven't heard the same interpretation twice.

Here are some of my favorites, (as in, I think it is a reasonable interpretation):
--A dead man determined to come back to life
--A woman masturbating while her man is far away
--A man being tormented by a witch or evil female spirit

Nonetheless, my interpretation was totally different. Refer to the lyrics, below:

VERSE 1: He's alone and upset, questioning God's motives, and thinking that other perceptions of misery have nothing on his.

VERSE 2: He remembers making love with his woman. She was beautiful and she loved him.

VERSE 3: In a seedy town (or part of town), late at night, some guys drinking and driving around come upon her, hitting her and killing her before she can react. Pople lay flowers at the secene.

VERSE 4: He's haunted by the loss of her. He can barely sleep, and even then he dreams of her being whisked to the afterlife.

VERSE 5: He feels totally alone, and he has become angry at God. He's disillusioned at the meaning of anything.

CHORUS: Someday, he'll "come back" to her. He wishes he could now, but eventually, he will, and as soon as he enters the afterlife, he'll find her and hold her again.

Just my take. Like I said, it hit me as soon as I heard it. To me, this song is full of a terrible beauty - the strength of wonderful love in he most horrendous circumstances.

Some people tell me I'm no softie.