Day: January 15, 2010

Friday night arrived without a suitcase

I kept forgetting we had a three-day weekend coming up, even after our office manager sent around an e-mail reminding us the office would be closed on Monday. It was a pleasant surprise every time I remembered, and I’m looking forward to it. I’m not in desperate need of the time off — those two weeks around the holidays did me a world of good — but it’s always to have the extra day.

Other than that, not much to say. I started reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies this morning, and I really liked the first story in it. I hope to do a little more writing myself over the long weekend.

That’s one way of putting it

Zach Handlen on G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra

Sommers’ action sequences have been degrading rapidly since his remake of The Mummy, becoming so disconnected from anything even remotely resembling real-world physics and cause and effect that it’s like watching drunken balloon animals fuck.

I haven’t seen the movie, but the clips Handlen provides make me nostalgic for the comparatively gritty and realistic original cartoon.

Random 10 1/15

A surprisingly low turnout last week. Were the songs really that obscure? Is nobody but me really enjoying this? Oh well, here are this week’s puzzling song lyrics:

  1. “Elephants” by Rachael Yamagata
    And I am dreaming of them on the plains, dirtying up their beds
  2. “My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    But what is even better is his noise for Mickey Mouse
  3. “We’ll Be Free” by BLAMMOS
    We spent so much time neglecting what’s before our eyes
  4. “Awaiting on You All” by George Harrison, guessed by Eric B.
    You don’t need to designate or to emigrate before you can see Jesus
  5. “Since I’ve Been Loving You” by Led Zeppelin, guessed by Kim
    I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn’t want me no more, yeah
  6. “Broad Daylight” by Gabriel Rios
    Lloyd’s still got them Polaroids
  7. “Apeman” by the Kinks, guessed by Generik
    I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
  8. “When Will I Be Loved?” by Linda Ronstadt, guessed by Clayton
    He always breaks my heart in two
  9. “Suck on the Jugular” by the Rolling Stones
    Let’s live lasciviously down in the muck
  10. “Got to Get You Into My Life” by the Beatles, guessed by Generik
    And had you run, you knew in time we’d meet again for I had told you

Good luck!