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Description: Objects which interest Geoffrey Litwack.
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Last Updated: 00:32:40 05/26/2006
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My new mixtape is done! I'm proud of it this time - I dug through a ton of stuff to arrive at a tracklist of (mostly) good ol' indie rock. Here's a Yousendit link which expires seven days from now or after 25 downloads bladhy blah blah. Cherry Coke 01: Akron Family - Awake: I always start mixtapes off with a song about waking up and this time is no exception. 02: Deerhoof - Twin Killers: The new Deerhoof record is more pop-y and I like it a lot, although not as much as I LOVED Milk Man. 03: Art Brut - These Animal Menswear: Non-LP b-side. I think Art Brut are pretty great and doubtless next to get the MTV2 treatment after Franz. 04: Karate - Cherry Coke: Slint punctures his liver and Nirvana drives him to the emergency room and then afterwards they make friends. 05: Malcom Middleton - No Modest Bear: MM is the guy who writes the music in Arab Strap and he sings, too. This is my favorite song from his new LP. 06: The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - Jailhouse Rock: The new JYPU album is good. ...
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| 23:32:14 August 14, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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The ugly pictures of you are what you really look like, like, in action. I'm looking to my right because a photographer is screaming 'get out of the frame!' at me.
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| 09:14:16 August 12, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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Movies Last night I saw The 40 Year Old Virgin and am here to testify: it is VERY VERY FUNNY. Tell your friends and see it when it opens wide on the 19th. Serious. You owe it to yourself. Don't you wanna don't you wanna laugh? Music So I bought (yeah that's right BOUGHT) Controller 7 Bumps mixtape and it's fantastic. Everything I want my own oldschool mixes to be one day, basically. Includes MC Serch - Back To The Grill, which I've never heard - feat. Nas! - so good. Speaking of mixtapes, my R&B tape (really) is done, and I'm putting the finishing touches on a traditional indie mix for fall not to brag but PACKED full of gems. Don't sleep!
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| 12:58:59 August 11, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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Magnolia Electric Co. Werewolves of London is such a weird cover! Weird!
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| 02:52:33 August 9, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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a member of A Small World? I don't want to join, but I am curious about the phenomenon.
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| 16:13:28 August 4, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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! = ? !! = . !!! = !
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| 16:09:02 August 4, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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Here's my downstairs neighbor Marino with Titan, the miniture pommeranian he was dog-sitting for a while. I don't like small dogs, but Titan was an exception. So cute and QUIET. Quiet as a mouse. Good show.
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| 17:01:23 August 2, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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How many people feel exhausted in their souls? Everyone? Yeah. I'm trying to think of it as a kind of breath-drawing. Anyway, onto the trivia. Pictures they don't want you to see I've seen three pieces of media slightly in advance of their US release dates: the Family Guy direct-to-video movie, Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) and the pilot of Fox's Kitchen Confidential. All sort of ehh plus plus. The Family Guy movie thankfully isn't too movie-esque; no great plot hinders the snaps. Two jokes in particular have stuck with me (the Kool-Aid man and the Brian-catches-Stewie-in-the-bathroom moments), but it's less funny than some of the best episodes of this new season. Night Watch was fun visually but sort of incomprehensible/meaningless (it's based on a series of Russian horror novels, so maybe if you've read them there's healthier resonance). Kitchen Confidential I liked more than I expected; it's a glossy Darren Star Sex-In-The-City-For-Dudes type deal starring two former male ...
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| 14:16:12 August 1, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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Tonight a Chinese Buddhist (we were just chatting; I didn't catch her name) told me she liked to go back East for winter because because because due to all the Jews in Beverly Hills it just doesn't feel Christmas-y in December. I sort of like to just chat, you know? I'm chatty lately. Golden yoked, babes
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| 23:03:46 July 25, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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Because seal spawning and breeding grounds are very far apart - days, to the seal mother - and because the seal mother effectively fasts on the round trip between them, seal females have developed a milk for their young which imparts the maximum amount of energy in the smallest dose, so they can get back to their own food source as soon as possible. So if you're sensitive to fatty foods, like me, and some smartass offers you some seal milk, turn that shit down. Sorry about the downtime, if anyone noticed. Everything's fixed, thanks to my wonderful (seriously) hosting company support. Thanks American Internet, Sean!
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| 10:07:15 July 23, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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Last night I went down to Santa Monica to meet James Jarvis, who was signing at Kid Robot. Turns out that not only was he signing, he was doing detailed sketches for every fan who turned up. What a lovely, lovely guy. I had a chance to talk with him and gleamed a couple of interesting facts: he thinks of himself as an illustrator or a cartoonist as opposed to a true fine artist, and drew a further distinction between theory-based art and (not his words here) 'true art,' a concept I whole-heartedly agree with. He brought up Doré as an example of an illustrator who made good with beautiful paintings. I complimented him on his Beach Boys cover for Relax Magazine and asked if he still had it and he said that he's kept all of his originals(!) and wants to put out a big sketchbook with reproductions. Bring it on! As for the toys, he told me he thought of them as total mass produced fun items, anyone who wanted them should have them, and that limited editions flew in the face of that - ...
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| 09:58:25 July 20, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
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Just back from the dentist. Some tenderness on the back molar gum; otherwise everything's fine. Carrie polished the hell out of my teeth and now they shine like brand new porcelain. Update: went to Sprinkles Cupcakes in Beverly Hills and it's true: the cupcakes are awesome. Awesome. I'll take you there.
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| 11:58:34 July 12, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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I bought Red Delicious apples today...anyone remember those? Yeah, they're lousy. Anyway, back to the back to the plucots. Or hascap. Whatever.
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| 20:39:19 July 11, 2005, Monday (PDT) |
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Some of the content will be familiar to you, blog readers. Sorry. Here's the link.
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| 14:18:36 July 10, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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London hit by four pipe bombs. At least 33 dead, over 1000 wounded. Presumably Al Qaeda is responsible; presumably the motive is to remind the G8 that they're still capible of pushing around the civilized world. This is where the blogs really shine: according to Joi, post-explosion London is calm, and George says that everyone is okay. I'd like to get word from Chloe - is she still there? Wikipedia's page seems to be the best source of information as it develops. From Flickr, photos of central London, empty. This will never stop. Imagine a game of chess where the pieces regenerate.
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| 10:14:24 July 7, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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House of Wax/Cannes films getting leaaaaaaked a future where girls are made of flesh honey gummi bears Atlanta without Atlanta, in europe that Lexus 600h - gimme power strictures Blueprint 1989 explore pap / and tell me geoff ain't all that!
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| 21:54:54 April 21, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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The broken window theory in action. George, welcome!
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| 20:18:09 April 20, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
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So last night I was in the alley behind my mansion shooting skee-lo with The Game and Courtney Peldon and there's this smell like plastic on fire and then this dude in a green hoodie comes out of nowhere. "It's me," he says, drawing back his hood, "you." And sure enough, it's me, with my stubble out. Game and C-dub take off, and it's just me and myself in the alley. "I come from May first," he says. "How's National Geoffrey Month going?" I interrupt. "Fine," he says. "I decided to go with cupcakes for the first day." "Pink frosting?" "Pink, white. Chocolate. Anyway, take this." He gives me a 12" iBook. "I thought you might like to review 10.4 for injection. And as you know, it comes out on April 29th, so there's no way anyone could possibly, ever get their hands on it early. Except Paul Thurrott." "Hot," I say. "Dude, nobody says that in the future," he says, and vanishes in a shower of tiny but brilliant stars. ---- This isn't a full review, just some impressions. Speed: The first ...
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| 20:06:41 April 20, 2005, Wednesday (PDT) |
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1. The new pope (I've only seen him on TV) was a Hitler youth? What's the word?...oy. 2. Some casting agent hit a home run with the Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper girl. 3. Andreaa might get this one: bloom to fit!? 4. My faith is restored in Rory...on Gilmore Girls, remember how I said she's turning into a sexual omnivore? it's not her - Logan hasn't called, and at the end of the episode, instead of hooking up with newly returned Dean (who she hasn't been allowed to perceive yet), gets drunk off spinster punch and winds up with her head in her mom's lap in the bathroom, sobbing, crying "why doesn't he like me?" So worth suffering through the stupid B-story, so sweet. 5. Not TV-related: what's the psychological analogue of noticing that you have bruises and not knowing where they're from? Find the Spear of Destiny!
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| 22:46:58 April 19, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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1. Sometimes I think: everything tech I write on this blog has people like "bluh?" except Louis, who's laughing at how stupid I am. So along those lines, I'm still not running 8A428. Apple has errbody shook like halfway crooks - read: the graphics card people who usually leak GMs. I anticipate using Dashboard hard - the inevitable Tetris widget will cut my productivity in half. 2. Are there any recent novels that are hi-test, hard to read, but with a payoff? Because what I've been reading recently has been really well written and pleasurable (Amy Hempel, Haruki Murakami), almost too much so. Novels with more than one theme? I think what I want is a book by Gary Lutz' schizoid brother who can nonetheless task hard. 3. All I can say is that the Cobalt Treo Palm is working on better be good, because I'm waiting on it. 4. I went to the Os Gemeos thing at Undefeated last night, which was okay - I saw a friend, but didn't meet the artists because they were milling around and I was parked ...
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| 11:09:17 April 17, 2005, Sunday (PDT) |
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Download it in mp3. Totally hot!
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| 22:22:49 April 16, 2005, Saturday (PDT) |
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The topic is record stores that don't price the albums. SonicReducer: "Or what about shop owners who look that shit up on eBay right in front of you. That makes me wanna break the record in two and slit their throats with the jagged vinyl."
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| 02:39:05 April 15, 2005, Friday (PDT) |
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Boston I was in Beantown from Friday to Monday for a wedding. Saw new and old friends, did a little slowdancing, got sauced at the Enormous Room and Spire, rode the T all over the place, bought a hoodie from H&M for the cold and just generally had a great time. Thanks Meg, Jenny, Louis, Avi, Jess! Music The Fucking Ocean's EP is mixed!!!! Tom Vek! Tom Vek!! I'm basically this dude's one-man street team in LA and have been listening to the record non-stop. Black Lipstick. Sam Prekop: I like the new one in the sense that I wouldn't actually put it on and listen to it but if I walked into a room and was like "what's this" and son is like "the new Sam Prekop" I'd be like huh, cool. And the Notwist/Themselves folk/hiphop album is excellent, too. Television Veronica Mars: Picked up for a second season! That Jetta ad: The one where the two kids get yelled at for listening to loud music and then buy a house? True 2005 hipster fantasy; VW totally nailed it. Cars The Maserati Quattroponte. ...
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| 21:09:45 April 14, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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If you direct your eyes to the left, you will see that a new peep has joined my [bird joke]: Dr. Luis Ripoll. He's been keeping a blog for a while on MySpace and I convinced him to transition it to a more public forum where his writing will get an audience that isn't all scared freshman girls.
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| 09:07:19 April 14, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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That's the charge of David Galbraith - that "the bad guy [the Yellow Bastard] looked like the depiction of the bad guys in shots I've seen from a Nazi propaganda film." Because: "Sin City creates baddies that nobody will defend...and demonizes them to the extent that we are supposed to be entertained by the revenge that is coming to them." Reprehensible? Isn't virtually every action movie ever made organized around this principle? What puzzles me about David's criticism is that in the first sentence of his review he calls Sin City "a well made adaptation" - which to me implies a degree of familiarity with the adapted subject matter; how else would you know if it is well? It's an excellent adaptation in the sense that it's true to the comic, and if you know the comic, you know that it's about bad, bad men and psychotic anti-heroes. Surprise about the content, then, seems disingenuous. I don't mean to attack David, not at all. I didn't particularly like the film, don't relish filmic ...
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| 22:43:55 April 7, 2005, Thursday (PDT) |
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| 20:02:54 April 5, 2005, Tuesday (PDT) |
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| 09:34:25 April 1, 2005, Friday (PST) |
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Look what daddy got in the mail: Big thanks fly out to Linker4u.com. I ordered and paid via Paypal on Sunday and they got this to me today - EMS shipping from Taiwan. Five stars. UPDATE: Oh, how technopride goeth before the driverly, or perhaps pin-connecterly fall!
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| 14:55:00 March 31, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
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He was 37. Mitch was one of my favorite comedians. It's basically impossible to be unhappy when you're listening to one of his performances. Rest in peace.
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| 13:15:08 March 31, 2005, Thursday (PST) |
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Geoffrey-Litwacks-Computer:~ gsl$ ioreg -l -w0 | grep -i IOBatteryInfo "IOBatteryInfo" = "Capacity"=639,"Amperage"=1200,"Current"=616,"Voltage"=12215,"Flags"=4 Kids: get AppleCare on your laptops.
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| 09:29:59 March 30, 2005, Wednesday (PST) |
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