if Dave Letterman played with Spinal Tap

You'd have this show, but different music. "Balls To the Wall" is really a good song, especially considering the age.

plinks, links, clinks

I found Bango-Tango (interesting 1993 speed bass) after researching Faster Pussycat.
I had been looking for the name of the band Bango-Tango for quite some time.

And you thought Tammy Faye Baker wore a lot of makeup, check out these bands!

and I was egged for my comments

Despite being a Hoosier and regardless whether I want Colts to win, I predict the following result: Chicago Bears win over Indy Colts by 12 points.

splat, splat, TP, splat, flaming bag of poo, burning horseshoe in lawn ... boy are these hicks crazy!

I expect "Blue Sunday" to be followed by Blue (as in sorrowful and quite unproductive) Monday. The Colts just squeeze by, pull a win by a moment only. For this reason, I predict that they won't win. Chicago has been making a mess of the challengers and quite frankly the Colts have valuable players with injuries. I cannot honestly expect a win for the Colts.

sparse

Posted outside the dorm entry. Very likely, he left college on his own accord.
Wade, missing from Purdue University.

small bit of furniture in the breezeway access to the female dorm.

traveling back to the 70s for fast food

I went to Purdue, West Lafayette, today. On my way there I had essentially Rap that I didn't like, country to which I don't listen or 70s. I chose '70s music and near Lafayette (not West), there was a 10-mile fast food oil smell that was unavoidable. Now, I didn't see any fast food in the area where I smelled it. It was quite odd.

I heard around 75 minutes of 70s music .. feeling like I went back in time. I turned it to another station that mentioned DVDs, so I know I kept in this time period. Near Logansport I smelled the most wicked batch of sulfer ammonia -- undiscovered 2006 Easter eggs or the wonder of industry and farms -- as speculated by my niece, whom I picked up at Purdue. There are both pig and cattle farms there, as well as a wide section of river and industries. 25 miles East of that are quarries and a US-24 Mount Stinky, aka landfill about .4 miles off the highway.

Delphi had a neat dedication that I shot while stopped at a light.

Here is an ammo, gunshop on the highway. Was there thinking involved here?

oh, and I drove ... I drove so far away

I left early afternoon to pick up niece at Purdue. She is good and ready to leave for the weekend. This semester appears to be more challenging and she doesn't much care for all of that. She also had to switch her majors. The good news for the both of us is that I am not taking old clunker aka my car. I borrowed "the van" which is much more comfortable. It'll be 7 before I see this laptop again.

This sucks!

Super vampires. Holy bad cartooning!

done in

My father got a call yesterday from a fellow church member. He doesn't know the family much at all, still the call was distressing. The family's 41 year old son committed suicide.

Damn ... may God have him.

God in Heaven ... my only friend

"Badlands",
Metal Church

.........
I ride alone, the wasteland that I cross
Will take another life, we'll take another loss
I feel a dry wind, dust is in my eyes
The artic cold at night, the earth, it tells me lies

God in heaven, my only friend
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands, somehow I'll find my way

No more paradise, no more soothing rain
All the sacrifice, the pain is all the same
Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies

Will these lonely nights ever end?
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands, somehow I'll find my way

The vultures that circle, cloud the empty sky,
Patiently waiting, they wait for me to die
Tortured and beaten, blistered by the sun
Forceful and heartless, have the badlands won?

Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies
As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands, somehow I'll find my way

What, huh?

By far the most bizarre, seemingly real video.

Sperm driver.

Poseidon 06

Unlike the "Adventure", this one is 90 minutes. I think the new version did a nice job of reminding you of the terror and mess involved with the moments after the ship flips. There was a scene where the survivors heard hundreds of screams, then they were silenced. The pace of the movie was quick, but the characters were all expendable. There was a messload of fire all thing considered. I have to submit the following criiques that bugged me.

Overall I think it was around 50-50, so you could watch it in the background doing something else. If you watch it hoping for a good-great movie, you'll be sorry.

[WARNING: SPOILER]

The small band of people were traveling up. They actived a pump that was manual. At the rate of filling, the person in a ship, rightsize up would drown almost instantly. There also isn't a real application regarding daisy chain effect. If the ship is upside-down and is taking on ballast ... where is it drawing ballast, the top?

I liked seeing Andre Braugher as the Captain, though he was used little in the film. Richard Dreyfuss, an old distraught gay man replaces (vibrant old guy who finds a seventeen year old quite attractive -- from Posseidon Adventure). Kevin Dillon as the ass who I thought was going to boink or rape one of the ladies.

The ship was completely sunk, with a ridiculous action scene with propellers moving. There wasn't as much story as flash here.

The survivors basically setting up the ship to sink did provide them with incentive to leave the dead where they were, no matter who they were. The raft with beacon sitting nicely near the ship regardless of explosions -- huh?

Further evidence of my own personal Tyler Durden

I felt a scratch and dried blood on my head. I don't remember injuring myself. I guess Tyler had an interesting time last night. He doesn't keep a journal, darn him!

K-Pax reference

Okay ... I thought about it and realized that few readers, as if I had many, would understand the K-Pax reference. Here is the story:

MR asked me one time for A movie that I liked ... just any, just name one. The exclusions were bigger known older movies like Star Wars and the like. "Now I heard the old man say the word at least 40 times a day. By in a flash I blurted out, 'Schwartz'"+. In my case, I blurted out K-Pax. While it was okay, it wasn't a good movie. Upon a preliminary review -- difficult as it was bad enough that no channel plays it, it was choppy, sloppy and unworthy of fanfare.

So, now if you see the reference to K-Pax, you may laugh along with us, as it was a bad word association. Name the first thing that comes to your mind ... K-Pax. okay ... [jots down note: either crazy, likes every movie he watches, or doesn't descriminate. check mark next to crazy]

+ dialogue from Christmas Story, while Ralphie sat on the toilet with Lifeboy soap in his mouth for the use of F - - - word.

I wound up not getting superpowers

I wasn't actually bitten. Spiders tend not to bite me. Venom tends to have little effect on me, so that in that case I am fortunate. This is a very common spider here, whitish or yellowish abdomen with red body. I don't think that this is very dangerous.

Huskies' return?

I remember in the 70s ... yes, I'm THAT old, the term "huskies". In The Ref, they refreshed my memeory of this ancient term for fatkid. "Husky", yeah. That makes the boy think, Alaska, Iditarod and his wide -- blubber eating butt trailing behind him like a somewhat manned sled.

Why don't they just say, odd circumstantially, "junk in the trunk boy" or "bubble butt", "wide end receiver"? "Husky" is well known, but "Maximal Gluteous Maximus (MGM)" pants have a certain Hollywood flair. Now, adults don't have to worry about husky this or that. It's 65" waist size and are you really worried about how fat your butt is?

Tougher than a toy

Dodge Ram ... when you want a truck that is tougher than a toy. Bam, bam, bam ... robot loses. Not the most convincing ad. Also ... what if people don't know what a rock 'em sock 'em robot is? They returned to production after Toy Story 2, of course.

Fight Club

I rewatched it. It is interesting, clever, and odd. In watching it, I always wonder if somehow, somewhere there isn't a Tyler who visited other places wearing my face. It would account for the number of people who supposedly recognize me, whom barely register a blip, let alone a flash or sold memory. I remember lots of faces, lots of names ... put generally can't put them together, with only one meeting and years/decades between the visits.

Worse still ... I think my Tyler would be starting Fart Clubs rather than fight clubs.

going Berserk

Berserk was an odd combination of graphic violence and timidity. It had your typical ridiculous violence. The protagonist Guts weilds his 200 pound sword as ably as others would a dagger. He goes berserk during his campaign to bring justice. In episdoe one, four vile men kick in the door to a bar. The occupants don't stir, not even to save the poor girl -- their captive.

I thought that they'd imply or worse have a rape scene, but thankfully no. No one in the bar came to her rescue as her face is planted into the table. The men want her to clean the table with her tongue. Then the killing begins.

I liken it a bit between two lesser scenes from American movies: Heavy Metal, the last story the barely clothed woman walks into the bar and slays three would-be gang-rapists. She wiped the blade on their newly decapitated bodies. Blood went much of everywhere making quite a mess.

The big evil guy in Berserk changed into his "real" appearance as a monster. He was twenty feet tall, but very similar to the lizard-like creature in Dreamscape. Berserk fell into one of the blunders so well discussed in Incredibles, monologuing.

At the end of this show, it did entice me to wonder ... what now? There was a scene from earlier in his life, before branding, where he was a more typical swordsman.

funny act

My mom came back from shopping and with her she had, earplugs. It seemed like an odd purchase until she told me they were for my sister. My sister's husband snores ... how shall I put it, as loud as thermonuclear devices. He was up one Christmas and with the door closed it was loud. Within the room itself -- painful. He was assigned a room with me. I left in favor of sleeping on some other furniture. I was not going get sleep with the loud snoring.

For this reason my mom bought the earplugs. I merely laughed loud, but it was about the first real laugh of my day.

Family here will be clowning around

My sister purchased tickets and so, they shall see, hear, listen ... perhaps enjoy! I expect they are still selling tickets.