Since Chris is in Cali, I took it upon myself to say some things.
ONE! - If you are not friends with Chris on the facebook, please seek him out. Bug him until he does something silly with it, like having a personality test. Maybe we can turn him into a zombie...
TWO! - Tom Waits. If you don't listen to him, start. This will aid in your hangover recovery. After you get into him, get trashed and wake up in a strange situation. I promise you you'll have the realization that, "God, I just woke up in the middle of a Tom Waits song..."
3 ? - The Nomi Song - a movie about the life and times of Klaus Nomi. I finally got to see it on the Sundance channel. He was a german who sang opera in a new wave band in the East Village in the late 70s and early 80s. He's most famous for singing backup for Bowie when good ol' David was on SNL.
Klaus is the one in the black singing backup. He's pretty amazing.
He was also an early victim of AIDS, or as it was horribly called then, "gay cancer". His friends didn't know if they could catch it by being around him. As a result, this wonderful artist died alone. A sad end to such a great man.
-ccmas
reporting from planet 2
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 16, 2007
Holy Crap, I feel Loved!
I now have like 12 facebook friends. I'm soo popular.
Interesting that among the many facebook messages in my inbox was this email
"See Asian babes get sucked fucked and abusied in our videos!"
Guess which one I opened first. Oh, me and my Scarlet Fever. I hope getting Abusied doesn't hurt.
-cjfer-
Planet 1
Interesting that among the many facebook messages in my inbox was this email
"See Asian babes get sucked fucked and abusied in our videos!"
Guess which one I opened first. Oh, me and my Scarlet Fever. I hope getting Abusied doesn't hurt.
-cjfer-
Planet 1
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Pet Peeve
This week's Pet Peeve is when people mis-use the word "literally." The world Literal, means that something actual happened the way it was described. It is a true statement about facts. I was watching CNN headline news today and a reporter said that boxes of Simpson's themed cereal was literally flying off the shelves [at 7-11's (renamed Kwick-E-Mart for promotional purposes).] Obviously, I shouldn't have to say it - but if the boxes of cereal were literally flying off the shelves, that would mean that, of their own volition, they were actually levitating off the shelves and leaving the store or flying around the store. The boxes of cereal were actually "figuratively flying off the shelves."
-cjfer-
Manning the Planet 1 show.
-cjfer-
Manning the Planet 1 show.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
A brief Treatise on Joining the Facebook
I don't think Josh Posner reads this, so I should be safe.
Yes, after many years, I have reluctantly joined the facebook. I should tell you a bit about what I plan on using it for, as I don't plan on using it like everyone else, and I should also tell you why I didn't join and why I did.
1. I am going to use the facebook as a page for contact information about myself. There will be no wall, no pictures, no frills. An address once I get one, an email address, a phone number, etc. The only people who can see are going to be my friends. There will be no quotes, no movies, no books, interests, etc. I certainly don't have anything new to offer in those departments, nor do I think quotes have any effectiveness. If I used those things, it would only be a way for me to make myself sound cool. But, I'm not cool, so why try. I like all the movies, books, quotes, and activities that you do. Leave it that. if you really want to contact me, email me, call, or show up. Don't think writing on a wall is going to seem real to me.
2. Pictures lie. So there won't be any pictures of me on my page, nor will anyone be able to see me in a tagged photo. It's important for me, as best as I can, to be able to represent my image, my person fairly and accurately. If I feel that is getting out of hand, I will resign the facebook. I think fake friends are meaningless. I think the more that technology mediates relationships, the more we need to question and rethink our lives. I don't want just anyone finding out about me - lest it be a future employer or stalker ready to take me down. If you really want to talk to me, there will be means by which you can do that.
3. I'm joining because so many people use the facebook, that if they need to contact me, or want to, they'll have an easy way of finding out that information. Mass emails of address changes can get lost and buried and deleted. So, it's an easy way of finding information. I'm not going to friend you, or write on your wall. If I need to contact you, I'll use your page as a contact page. Feel free to friend me, and if you're my friend, I'll accept.
Ultimately I'm not invested in this. I'm doing it for you, the public. If I don't get any friend requests, so be it, nothing's changed. If you'd like to keep up with me, you're free to do to so in a fairly easy way. If you just want to ask me, that's cool too. But I feel like people will do their best not to deal with people in a real way.
-cjfer-
Yes, after many years, I have reluctantly joined the facebook. I should tell you a bit about what I plan on using it for, as I don't plan on using it like everyone else, and I should also tell you why I didn't join and why I did.
1. I am going to use the facebook as a page for contact information about myself. There will be no wall, no pictures, no frills. An address once I get one, an email address, a phone number, etc. The only people who can see are going to be my friends. There will be no quotes, no movies, no books, interests, etc. I certainly don't have anything new to offer in those departments, nor do I think quotes have any effectiveness. If I used those things, it would only be a way for me to make myself sound cool. But, I'm not cool, so why try. I like all the movies, books, quotes, and activities that you do. Leave it that. if you really want to contact me, email me, call, or show up. Don't think writing on a wall is going to seem real to me.
2. Pictures lie. So there won't be any pictures of me on my page, nor will anyone be able to see me in a tagged photo. It's important for me, as best as I can, to be able to represent my image, my person fairly and accurately. If I feel that is getting out of hand, I will resign the facebook. I think fake friends are meaningless. I think the more that technology mediates relationships, the more we need to question and rethink our lives. I don't want just anyone finding out about me - lest it be a future employer or stalker ready to take me down. If you really want to talk to me, there will be means by which you can do that.
3. I'm joining because so many people use the facebook, that if they need to contact me, or want to, they'll have an easy way of finding out that information. Mass emails of address changes can get lost and buried and deleted. So, it's an easy way of finding information. I'm not going to friend you, or write on your wall. If I need to contact you, I'll use your page as a contact page. Feel free to friend me, and if you're my friend, I'll accept.
Ultimately I'm not invested in this. I'm doing it for you, the public. If I don't get any friend requests, so be it, nothing's changed. If you'd like to keep up with me, you're free to do to so in a fairly easy way. If you just want to ask me, that's cool too. But I feel like people will do their best not to deal with people in a real way.
-cjfer-
What ever happened to retirement?
I have to say, and I might be in the minority of opinion, that I don't quite understand the devotion to old musicians who have reunited after 20 years, to play the same songs in the same ways as they did when they were first popular. It was cool to go see a band when they were first popular, before they broke up. I was watching the TV coverage of Live Earth yesterday, and all I really wanted was a glimpse of David Gray, which of course I knew I wasn't going to get. Closing some of the shows were Madonna and The Police. (Madonna is probably a different subject for a different time, but suffice it to say that she was once cool, and is no longer cool - let alone a relevant musical artist.) But the Police come on in the medowlands, and everyone cheers. There are a significant number of young people, I'm sure, whose only conception of The Police is the fact that they downloaded Roxanne from mytunes. These people never enjoyed an original relation to the band and the music and their enjoyment is purely retrospective. I have no problem with young people liking older music, it's merely the idea that they present it to you as if it's not something that's come and gone. Old folks can like the police too, and go to their concerts and hear the songs of their youth as well, but it seems weird to see them stuck in the past of their youth and to not pay attention to the wonderful music being created today. If the Police want to play, fine, but make a new record and support it. Otherwise, you're just a Police tribute band. People have come to pay money to see you play the old songs. Don't. Write a new record and support it. But let's be honest, anyone who thinks they or any other group from the past have reunited for anything less than the money are mistaken. It's cool now to dig the music of the past, and these guys are just capitalizing on it.
Don Mclean, writer and singer of "American Pie" was on CBS sunday morning this morning. Here's a guy who has one hit song, that's probably 30 years old. A woman being interviewed said "it's Don Mclean, it's bye bye Ms. American Pie, what else do you need to know?" Well, it seems odd to me to go to a concert to hear one song. To be there not caring while the other songs are being played, lest they be covers. Here's a song you can get anywhere. There's a lot of good music being created today, you just need to know where to look and where to find it. Paul Mccartney keeps making new records and then he supports them on tour. He plays his new songs and his old songs. He's not a Beatles cover band. Let's face it, the Police are just doing really good covers of Police songs.
If you can still play, go for it. Just don't ask me to keep listening to the same songs over and over again. Songs lose their effectiveness and going to see the person who wrote a song 20-40 years ago play it again merely for the money doesn't interest me.
Whatever happened to retirement? What ever happened to working at something for a long time, and then when you're old and financially secure calling it a career? Maybe you work a little on the side to keep active. Whatever happened to golf and traveling?
They say there's no good parts for older actors. That's true. Entertainment, generally, is a young persons game. I don't think anyone should discriminate based on age. But yet, we must look at movies as being, in some sense, a way of a looking at the world through new eyes, of seeing things in a new way and enjoying a new relationship to the world. I think that is why entertainment is a young person's game - also why older musicians don't write and play new songs. The songs of their youth, of the audience's youth, are what are important.
I think there's also a little something to older folks, actors included, who feel the need to be relevant, to be popular, and to experience the limelight of their younger days. We have an aging Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4, we're going to have an aging Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 4. Do we really need sequels of things with older actors playing men who wish to continue to be action stars? It's about money. A brand promises something stable - something known. These guys can capitalize on the branding and the fact that people are going to go see it - because they want something familiar, something easy, that's not new, that's not going to be challenging.
So, you don't have to retire, but at least try to do something new. Don't let ego or money force you to keep doing the same thing year after year. Change it up, do something different. Be original.
-cjfer
Don Mclean, writer and singer of "American Pie" was on CBS sunday morning this morning. Here's a guy who has one hit song, that's probably 30 years old. A woman being interviewed said "it's Don Mclean, it's bye bye Ms. American Pie, what else do you need to know?" Well, it seems odd to me to go to a concert to hear one song. To be there not caring while the other songs are being played, lest they be covers. Here's a song you can get anywhere. There's a lot of good music being created today, you just need to know where to look and where to find it. Paul Mccartney keeps making new records and then he supports them on tour. He plays his new songs and his old songs. He's not a Beatles cover band. Let's face it, the Police are just doing really good covers of Police songs.
If you can still play, go for it. Just don't ask me to keep listening to the same songs over and over again. Songs lose their effectiveness and going to see the person who wrote a song 20-40 years ago play it again merely for the money doesn't interest me.
Whatever happened to retirement? What ever happened to working at something for a long time, and then when you're old and financially secure calling it a career? Maybe you work a little on the side to keep active. Whatever happened to golf and traveling?
They say there's no good parts for older actors. That's true. Entertainment, generally, is a young persons game. I don't think anyone should discriminate based on age. But yet, we must look at movies as being, in some sense, a way of a looking at the world through new eyes, of seeing things in a new way and enjoying a new relationship to the world. I think that is why entertainment is a young person's game - also why older musicians don't write and play new songs. The songs of their youth, of the audience's youth, are what are important.
I think there's also a little something to older folks, actors included, who feel the need to be relevant, to be popular, and to experience the limelight of their younger days. We have an aging Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4, we're going to have an aging Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 4. Do we really need sequels of things with older actors playing men who wish to continue to be action stars? It's about money. A brand promises something stable - something known. These guys can capitalize on the branding and the fact that people are going to go see it - because they want something familiar, something easy, that's not new, that's not going to be challenging.
So, you don't have to retire, but at least try to do something new. Don't let ego or money force you to keep doing the same thing year after year. Change it up, do something different. Be original.
-cjfer
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