“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”

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We had sand in the eyes and the ears and the nose, and sand in the hair, and sand-between-the-toes.

A little reminder of my long weekend. Thank you Gary, Kathy, Kate and Max. I had a blast.

He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

Isis has called it a day.

From Isis myspace page:

"ISIS has reached an end. It's hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn't something that occurred over night and it hasn't been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band. Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say."

They plan on finishing this tour though so go out and see them at the Doug Fir on Wednesday.

Rest In Piece Ronnie James

Oh the places I could go...

West Germany, summer of 1977

What are you doing this summer?

April, 21 PIL (Crystal Ballroom)
This was an amazing show. Johnny Lydon is very entertaining. The new band is fantastic. Their rendition of Flowers of Romance left me pert near speechless. Thank you J.
April, 22 Lori Goldstone/Earth/Wolves in the Throne Room (Rotture)
Lori's set was good. Solo effected cello. Earth was great and played a few new songs. Looking forward to a new record in the winter. Wolves were great. Split a little early because I was wiped and a bit sick. Rotture is a cool venue.
May, 14 Brian Posehn Mission Theater
Haven't laughed so hard in a long time. The opener from Salem Ron Funches was also very funny and if you get a chance to see him go. Mission Theater is pretty cool place to see comedy. Not a bad seat in the place.
June, 20 Psychedelic Furs Crystal Ballroom
This show blew me away. This band is still great and Richard Butler's youthful energy and strong vocals makes you forget he is 54 years old. The opening act She Wants Revenge could learn a few things about entertaining an audience. Fingers crossed for a new record.
July 8 The Coup Doug Fir
July 9 Brothers of the Sonic Cloth/Subarachnoid Space Berbati's Pan
July 10 Ninja Mt Tabor Theater
July 14th My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Dante's
July, 15 Colin Hay Crystal Ballroom
July 16 Built To Spill Wonder Ballroom
August 7 Reverend Horton Heat Wonder Ballroom
August 7 Rush White River Amphitheatre
August 7 Scorpions Amphitheatre at Clark County
August, 9 Slayer/Megadeth Washington County Fairplex
August 12th Michael Schenker Group Dante's
August 17 Rasputina Hawthorne Theater
August 20 Red Fang Plan B
August 20 Hold Steady Crystal Ballroom
August 24 Boris Hawthorne Theater
August, 26 Crowded House Edgefield

Spending money I don't have, to buy parts I don't need, to impress people I don't know!

Saw this cool ride in Bingen, WA this last weekend.

IMPRESSED!

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Cat Ballou


"Some gang! An Indian ranch hand, a drunken gunfighter, a sex maniac, and an uncle!"











Barbarella


"My name isn't pretty-pretty, it's Barbarella."








Judy Bernly


"Oh, this is terrible. It's so improper. It's so disrespectful!"

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

When I stopped for coffee this morning at Cartola I was reminded of one of my new favorite tags. I realize it is primitive at best but the cool thing is it is back lit so when you drive by at night there is an otherworldly creature hanging out in front of the Knott St Market.

This sticker on the sign in front of Cartola caught my eye as well. I feel sorta dirty though.

You Say Potato I Say #*@! You!

Stumbled upon this blog today. I have always been fascinated by this type of anthropomorphic (?) advertisement. Cartoon strawberries selling milkshakes in drive-ins and hip-hop string cheese hanging in supermarket dairy coolers.

Inline Skating adolescent string cheese.

Cheese Heads.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

Ellen Ripley


"Micro changes in air density, my ass."













Dana Barrett


"There is no Dana, there is only Zhul."



Gwen DeMarco


"I remember that sound. That's a bad sound."

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Travis Bickle


"I got some bad ideas in my head."




Max Cady


"Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking."

Jake LaMotta


"They called me an animal. I'm not an animal."

In space no one can hear you scream "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!".

Hal wearing his foil covered power dome to avoid having his brain microwaved by neutrinos.

Gigantor's cousin Enormo and his friend plod across the birthday cake landscape looking for something to destroy.

After stumbling upon the baron wasteland of cake-lessness proves to much for Enormo, he and his metal behemoth friend choose to leave this ceramic dystopia in search of new environs in which to wreak their brand of galactic havoc on.

Thank you Kate, Max and Gary for making my birthday special.

Robocop, it was my contribution to cinema.

Buckaroo Banzai


“No matter where you go, there you are.”













Alex Murphy


"Dead or alive, you're coming with me! "













Bill Lee


"Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to."

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

Snake Plissken


"I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president."





R.J. MacReady

"I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk..."






Jack Burton


"Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it"."

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Blondie


"When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol's a dead man. Let's see if that's true. Go ahead, load up and shoot."


'Dirty' Harry Callahan


"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

Philo Beddoe


"I'm not afraid of any man, but when it comes to sharing my feelings with a woman, my stomach turns to royal gelatin."

Noodles? Forget it! Try my fist!

NINJA

...and so the story goes. One night a young Flying V Amputee ninja, fresh from his training, had a dream of big city ninjas melting faces in a rose thorned garden. After two days of meditation upon its meaning he decided it was his destiny to bring forth a ninja metal band as a vessel for epic heavy music in Portland, OR. He sought out other urban ninjas to join his adventure with only his guitar and keen sense of musical discrimination to guide him. He found Explorer Ninja in a cave, under a waterfall meditating upon hard rock. Rudysan had been on a quest for Vengance but was persuaded to defer this quest in the name of Metal. Christo Bas Ninja had hung up the sword in favor of a quiet contemplative life, but the call of pumping beats were too strong to resist. Throat Rot Ninja was found knee deep in a bourbon induced madness, yelling incoherently for anyone who would listen. When the others heard the dulcet tones of his harangue, they knew then that he was the right ninja to lead them into battle.

Thus, NINJA was born!

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

SE Milport @ McLoughlin Blvd

The little treat that came my way via M. Duvall. Arigatou gozaimasu.

Simple pleasures via You Drive What? Blog. Described as kind if like "People Of Wal-Mart" for the highways and byways.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses

Evolved...

...Created

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

Rick Deckard

"I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming. "





Han Solo

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. "












Indiana Jones

“You want to talk to God? Let’s go see him together, I’ve got nothing better to do.”