you think you really know me : the gary wilson story
Just saw the director's cut of Alien, now in theatres. And I just realized I've never seen the film before. I guess I've seen the others in the franchise, but somehow skipped the original.

It stands up quite well, some 24 years later. The film is a bit grainy by current standards. But by the time the full-grown Alien is roaming the ship, what film grain? Some of the computer screens are a bit dated -- in the future they have vector graphics displays for terrain mapping? That is like so retro.

Yes, DVD's are cool, but even HD DVD's (coming later this decade) don't match the visual richness of film. Check it out.
mo eating:

Mix was my first and prob last Ducasse dining experience, not good to me.....

A fantastic lunch at La Loconda, really good....

Alais new menu was tasty, and I am sure it will get better....
CF C-S
baby snakes

nanoguitar
finds:
like learning that nyc is full of schist, giant garnets can and are found, as they move it around

me top 3:
one was amsterdam in 1981, would have been nice kabul 1975, but this city was so amazing to me, like the crossroads of the crossroads, the jacket i bought there ruined by touring could be today a museaum piece, but i still have a burial piece from a low caste egyptian, cool, and the memory of that town, grateful dead playing in a hash bar, milk trucks del'n herion to adicts, shops that sold stuff that make ABC look like pottery barn.....

two was 1983 living on this island on lake atitlan funny site to me this atitlan.com, hotels on atitlan?? long before tourism, i was there when the first "road" was built, everyone was "excited" this machine was coming, a boat droped off a "steam roller" that made a road, it cut a strata into the island's maya civalization, i only kept a quetal head and a spear-tip, we could have opened a store in amsterdam on what was available

three was atlantic ave 2003, linda and i found a piece that inho s/b returned somewhere, i have never seen a piece like this, a real temple object, maybe linda, ryley and i will drop it somewhere?? would it not be correct that every object be returned to its original spot, lets start all over, try our best to re-create the begining..... find life!! love it!! its goes away to be re-found by fools like me/us....:>)
What EPA?
Interesting NYT article says Iraq may have tried to cut last minute deal with US (Perle) to avoid war.
woo hoo donnie baseball is back. and fwiw, he should definitely grow back the mustache.
this is the weekend of the wfmu record fair : note the man behind the super karaoke fun band is part time dog-walker, full time rocker and once apon a time work dog sitter-inner OTIS BALL. also note kraut rock, Beefheart and But Hole Surfers film clips
Letter From Dad


Steve, After I made my proposal to the Portland School Board regarding irradiated meat in the school lunch program, they asked the Physicians for Social Responsibility for their opinion and this is a draft of what they will send to Oregon School Districts. I feel tremendously validated as they added the probable social effects to the scientific background that I had told them of. The sigma represent bullets in the original doc.
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being good and bad waiting for the results of test two....
good: eating lots of fruit fiber and little dessert
bad: no exersize, few richer meals

360: AWESOME meal, a chicken and pasta dish was off the charts, classic and simple, fresh fisher island oysters, twisted good.....
Cambodian Cuisine: i like this stuff, tasty and spicey and cheap

lots to come this week, praying to the cholesteral goddess
Ok, it's 5:30 pm and it's pretty much dark here. This is one of those east coast jokes, right?
Suppose that over the next decade or two the forecasts of global warming start to come true. Color has drained from New England's autumns as maple trees die, and the Baltimore oriole can no longer be found south of Buffalo. The Dust Bowl has returned to the Great Plains, and Arctic ice is melting into open water. Upheavals in weather, the environment and life are accelerating around the world.

Then what?
a friend and member of my book club, maud, gets her blog talked up in nymag. way to go maud!
Sacramento Bee's 4 part series on The Patriot Act.
Via Editor & Publisher
guston
hey Gerry, whats the story ? : THE VOLUPTUOUS HORROR OF KAREN BLACK at BB Kings in nyc on October 29th. © B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 West 42 St (212) 997-4144 Headed by founder Kembra Pfahler. New players are Adam Cardone, Dave Weston and Buz. The girls of karen black will be in the show with special guest Antony. - I guess, thats the story Gerry

ps: if anyone saw this show pls advise how it was w/o guitar rockgod samoa in line up

Mmmmmm Clones.
hooray for bollywood
He became last week the public face of the practice, which originated in India with the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. At a press conference in New York's plush Plaza hotel, Lynch launched a $1 billion fundraising campaign to build 100 'peace palaces' across America, part of a plan for 3,000 buildings across the globe, one in each major city. Inside the palaces up to 300 devotees will spend their time meditating and 'yogic flying', which practitioners say is a form of levitation. Once the peace palaces are up and running - the theory goes - war, violence and crime will come to an end.
steve Dibenedetto
i have been not so good lately after by pit bull attack, leg is healing, the antibiotics flushed my system but I have been eating more and not riding my bike, yummy meal at tasting room followed by snacks at shillers (after many wines at wd~50).....bao noodles nite was delish again....finally went to Grand Sichuan East (uptown) VERY HOT but taste-E and different, worth the trek but my heart stays with 51st......had the best lunch this year at Wash Park, roasted Capon!!!
"The wounded get dumped at home and soon forgotten. But you're right about the antiseptic nature of coverage. There was a story by Dana Milbank recently in the Washington Post that the Pentagon is not going to allow news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecoming on military bases. Show 'em marching off to war but make damned sure we don't see 'em coming back in pieces. It's the Barbara Bush syndrome as official policy. Remember what she told Diane Sawyer earlier this year. "Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths … Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …" No wonder her son is the only president in our time who has not attended any memorials or funerals for soldiers killed in action on his watch."

Buzzflash interview with Bill Moyers on media and media reform.


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