The most excellent news from the galaxy rumor mill is that Zaphod Beeblebrox will be played by Sam Rockwell. He was great in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Galaxy Quest. So far, I’m liking all of the casting choices for the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
A nice news bulletin site is at Magrathea.
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OK, I supposed it’s time I put up my CD choices.
Now that I’ve seen all the other suggestions, it should be relatively easy to pick off 20 of the best ones and claim them as mine own. Mwah. Hah. Hah. So, that’s why I’m going to try to pick 20 that aren’t on anyone else’s list, yet are still favorites of mine and still fit the category.
What was really cool is that I was thinking about this very subject as I left work this evening. I got into the car, and what came wafting through my car radio speakers? Blue Oyster Cult, of course.
These are my picks for a rock’n’roll party CD:
1. “E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” – Blue Oyster Cult
2. “Bitch” – Rolling Stones
3. “Paperback Writer” – Beatles
4. “Good Golly Miss Molly” – Little Richard
5. “Maybelline” – Chuck Berry
6. “The House is Rockin'” – Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. “Mystery Train” – Elvis Presley
8. “All Day and All of the Night” – Kinks
9. “Crossroads” – Cream
10. “Smoke On the Water” – Deep Purple
11. “Heartbreaker” – Led Zeppelin
12. “Fire” – Jimi Hendrix
13. “Rockaway Beach” – Ramones
14. “My Generation” – The Who
15. “London’s Burning” – The Clash
16. “Jungle Love” – Steve Miller Band
17. “Saturday Night’s All Right For Fighting” – Elton John
18. “Babylon” – New York Dolls
19. “Radio Free Europe” – R.E.M.
20. “Dream Police” – Cheap Trick
Gah! Even with everyone’s picks to read, that was hard. And I still probably duplicated one somewhere.
Since we’re limited in our appeal to the broader blog-reading public (too many monkeys, and we haven’t used the words “Janet’s boobs” lately), we rely on our more popular cousins to spread the word.
So, if you need help coming up with your list of 20 rock songs for Domino’s Party CD, there’s a whole buttload of suggestions at Michele’s blog.
She’s got mono, and is required to refrain from original content. So what’s my excuse?
Apparently, the President and others of his persuasion are not well-pleased with the Massachusetts supreme court approving gay marriages. In fact, the calls for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage are growing more and more frantic, as those evil homosexuals continue to gain power. Soon we’ll all be forced to be gay, if we don’t watch out!
There’s just one fly in the ointment (besides the fact that most Americans don’t want any such amendment): They have to make up their minds on whether marriage is a civil or a religious act.
If it’s a civil union, then it needs to be treated like any other contract or state-licensed activity, and your sexual preference should not have any bearing. Stripped of any mystical power, getting married is like forming a business partnership. Try “homosexuals are banned from owning their own business” or “gays can’t sign contracts” and see how far that flies.
If it’s a religious thing, then changing the constitution is the only way to go, because the one that I’m reading has this pesky spot in it that says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Which specific religious tradition concerning marriage are we going to follow after we tear up the First Amendment? Probably ought to include that in the new one, don’t you think?
I’m a relatively religious person. I take offense at getting lumped in with the “Bible thumpers” class. But it’s people who insist that their own understanding of God transcends all others’ that created such a category in the first place.
As usual, Mac is both more eloquent (and more pissed off) than me. One of the best lines I’ve heard on the subject was in her comments:
“You argue about it ruining the sanctity of marriage… have you seen Bachelorette and Joe Millionaire?”
There’s nothing like a good girlie show to wake you up. Go take a listen.
I love the smell of insanity in the morning.
In honor of the birthday of one of my wife’s online stalkers (the only things she ever goes online for are games, movie times and to buy me Red Green stuff cheap, yet she’s got more online fans than Whiny and me combined), it’s Minnesota Day at Solonor’s Ink Well.
We’re going to talk with a dumb accent (not our usually intelligent Maine one, which I really don’t have), eat tons of ludefisk, listen to Prairie Home all day and crank the a/c down to -15 degrees. You betcha.
Actually, our choir director bought us all tickets to see the St. Olaf Choir tonight, so I thought I’d tie it into Natalie’s birthday instead of getting her a present. Smooth, eh?
In case you didn’t notice, my tagboard’s turned into Hockey Central USA.
From the wilds of Oregon this fight-starting note showed up in my electronic mailbox today:
Hey Solonor-
I’m trying to come up with the Ultimate Rock CD. The criteria is as follows:
-The songs have to be relatively short (so no Rosalita or Stairway to Heaven, for example).
-The songs must be upbeat in tempo.
-The songs must ROCK (yes, in capital letters).
-The songs must be inclusive of all rock “eras” (so in theory it would appeal to a teenager and to old farts like us).
-Only one song from each artist (try picking one Green Day or Ramones song).
-And I was thinking it would have to fit on one CD, but that
This terribly insightful article is for all you “latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living, tertiary-industry-working WASPs”: Why your Movable Type blog must die.
Go for the article. Stay for the precocious banter.
My favorites:
“I’m sick of seeing some pretentious moron post their boring opinions of some subject nobody cares about, and do it badly at that. There’s never anything I haven’t seen before, and they always seem to think they know what’s best for everyone. An that’s just this article. Blogs are pretty bad too.”
“…most MT users are, themselves, goths.”
“…the sheer stupidity level of someone writing a giant rant about people that write things and post them on the Internet and then posting it on the Internet has got to have created some sort of space-time hole that will eventually devour us all whole.”
“Democratization of the internet must be opposed at all costs. The infestation ecommerce was bad enough, but to allow regular people to post their diaries online — well, that’s simply intolerable.”
I realize that I’m adding to the rift in the space-time continuum by even mentioning this thing. But you know, lil’ ole me don’t have nothin’ else to write about until the next Harry Potter movie comes out.
Oh, and to gauge its relative importance, go ask all your friends and family who the hell’s ever heard of kuro5hin.org. I’m sure the response will be overwhelming, and you’ll be forced to shut down your blog immediately. Mine will be going off the air as soon as I get home from Starbucks.
[ via one of those latte-swilling morons ]
Word on the street is that the newest Sooner fan has arrived.
Guess he didn’t see his shadow and want to go back in!
