Sophie Says Sooth (2003.02.24): "Every apartment inhabited by a young college graduate contains one, too. Usually they originate in someone's parents' basement, but even that isn't always the case. Somewhere in the 70's when all of those drugs were floating around, someone spilled some on the couches, who soaked it up and achieved sentience. Now they breed."
Matriculation Reloaded (2003.02.23): "The Doctor uses scrap to sculpt, though he says he doesn't really sculpt, he's a 'time-binder.' Everything he's got gets put together like Tinker Toys. Furthermore, he prefers curves and arches to straight lines. It's hard to manuever straight lines into an energy force."
Sophie Says Sooth (2003.02.10): "Basically, what I am getting out of this whole thing is that the tobacco companies know that women have an oral fixation, especially in social situations, and they made longer cigarettes just to keep something in women's mouths for as long as possible. Maybe they figure we'll be quiet that way."
Matriculation Reloaded (2003.02.09): "We've got a month of rehearsal time before performances. As a writer I want to rewrite the script so much I could scream, or at least ad lib a lot. It's never strictly bad, it just doesn't quite have a voice of its own. You've already seen it if you've seen five randomly selected Parker Posey movies."
Flick Chick - "The Hours" & "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind": "I'm sure it was more fun to participate in than to watch. I guess I could stretch and say that the concept of tying the three storylines together was clever, but the movie is just a flat-out adaptation of the book, which means the book is clever, not the screenplay."
Flick Chick - "Undercover Brother" & "Blood Work": "He aids the sister of the girl from whom he received his heart. She wants to find the man who murdered her sister. Clint takes the case out of guilt and probably because he leads a boring life with nothing better to do."
Phantasy Star Collection: "The third installment of the Phantasy Star series, 'Generations of Doom' is the classic example of an installment of a popular game series that is so horrible that it kills off any momentum the franchise had going for it and permanently hobbles it."
Flick Chick - "About Schmidt," "The Two Towers" & "Adaptation": "Not only does it have a plot, it has a plot within a plot, and it is based on true life adaptation of itself from a book that it has nothing the majority of the movie. Sound confusing?"
Music in 2002: And So On: "This is music about the inside of a 16-year-old girl's head, soaked in peers and suffocating in small town Canada. How dare we ask it to be not-16 when it's 16-ness is so vital and crisp? Were we never 16? Did we never invest ourselves in crushes and warn the world we were coming so watch the fuck out?"
Music in 2002: Top 15 Albums: "I don't think more than two of these records would have made last year's top ten. In a year crowded with good records, 2002 had little greatness to offer. It was a time in which disposable music dominated -- I can't remember why I bought some of the records I bought this year."
San Diego Comic-con 2002: Part 1: "A lot of it sounded like standard conspiracy theory bullshit; I would like to believe him about the income taxes, though. Apparently it has something to do with the improper ratification of the 16th Amendment and taxing our privilege of earning money."
"Glamour Hose": A 14-piece photographic series from Natalie Meyer
"Pixel Worship": A new short narrative work from Aaron Veenstra
2003/02/24
Those of you who've been to Baraboo, WI, prepare to be shocked. You must submit to the Forevertron. posted at 17:10
You may have noticed a rash of stray couches in your area lately -- Sophie's got the lowdown. Please, people, have your couches spayed or neutered. posted at 15:39
