Scorpions

The Scorpions were my favourite band for quite a long period of time in my life. I would say from about 13 till 18, 19. I liked them. They had their annoying "love" songs that got chicks to go to their concerts but they also had mad music ability that got the rock guys to go as well. I loved them alot. I lost touch with them, as most of us did, in the great grunge transition years of 91-94. Scorpions who? we all asked. they were gone. They gave me my first glimse of San Fran:


They also gave me my first tranny song "He's a Woman and She's a Man!" (warning! this video is hella old and rather poorly transfered to digital) oh, and the narration is in German:


But now they have this song and video which I find odd and yet extremely attractive and disturbing if only for the fact that John Corbett is killed by a vampire. sadly a woman vampire. and the fact that Klause Meine is bald with a scalp tattoo. when the fuck did that happen? What the fuck is wrong with German people?


I don't know but I'd move to Berlin in a mutha-fuckin heartbeat.
Bitches.

VD and More

Here are some recently posted clips of 300.

I stand by my advocacy of this film.
oh and happy VD day.
I offer up this email exchange between my friend Cat and myself today as evidence of how much this "holiday" resonated in my psyche.

CAT: So, did you figure out your VD plan?

ME: first off: penicillin for that VD.

CAT: It's all 1952 in here and shit.

this was preceded by the following exchange will also serves as an example of our mutual disdain for this day. Read and be enlightened.

CAT: Valentines Day sucks on the train. This afternoon a bunch of skinny bitches will be toting giant things of flowers.

ME: Seriously annoying. One of the admins got a large thing of roses from her husband. I accused her of sending them to herself just to make the rest of us feel like losers.

CAT: Nice.

and so it goes...

names out.

300

Two words: Fuckin awesome!
I can't wait to see this film. The early word is that it truly kicks ass.
This movie has several things going for it.
1. Frank Miller created the graphic novel on which it is based.
2. Created by the same peeps who made Sin City
3. Ninjas
4. lots 'o male nudity...



Finally! A film that I cannot wait to see!

TMI about me.

Now it seems I can't stay away from this friggin blogger thing. I feel obliged to continue with this meme. Topher has thrown down the gauntlet and who am I to not rise to the challenge?
Here we go:
A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Fry Cook

2. Bartender

3. Electronics salesman

4. Mac tech

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

1. Brazil

2. The Seventh Seal

3. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie

4. Office Space

C) Four books I have loved:

1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

2. A Brief History of Time

3. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

4. Kitchen Confidential

D) Four places I have lived:

1. Exmouth, Western Australia

2. Manila, the Philippines

3. Guam

4. Newport, RI

E) Four TV shows I love:

1. LOST

2. No Reservations

3. Futurama

4. Venture Brothers

F) Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Hawaii

2. France

3. Germany

4. Singapore

G) Four of my favorite foods are:

1. Steak au poivre

2. Mom's beef stew (my own is pretty tasty too!)

3. Tuna sashimi

4. Australian/British fish and chips

H) Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Back in bed

2. On a beach somewhere warm with a cabana boy bringing me cocktails

3. NYC

4. Berlin for the film fest

I) Four friends I think will respond first:
Skipping this one as I am the last in line!

names out...

I'm twenty years shy of handsome.

okay, I realise it has been a while since I posted here. I had gotten disillusioned to the whole "blogging" thing. It felt so tied to my graduate experience that once I had finished I no longer had anything to write about. Looking for jobs and slaving away at my temp job somehow didn't seem interesting enough to deserve a blog post.
I'm going to try this again. Granted, I can no longer blog from work. Access to this site is now blocked.

Short story of the week.
I met up with C and some friends at Davio's last night. This is a big fancy restaurant in the Park Plaza part of town. It is too expensive to eat there but not too bad for cocktails. We probably go there too often and spend too much money. But it is a fun place and the people watching can't be beat. It attracts lots of suits and B&Ts. Something we like to do when sitting at the bar is count the face lifts and Russian hookers.
Anyway, back to last night. I get there first, order my cocktail and get stuck into my book. I notice a couple of older gay men sitting a few seats down from me. They are "bear-ish" types and are having dinner at the bar. I overhear one of them saying how he likes Davio's cause it "reminds him of Vegas." This I found to be an odd reason for liking a restaurant but whatever.
A few moments pass and I am just about finished with my book when one of the gentlemen approaches me. He proceeds to tell me that he was looking over and me and had this startling realisation which he felt compelled to come over and tell me, "You will be a very attractive man in twenty years" he says. I was kinda stunned. I don't think he realised that this statement, while phrased as a compliment, really wasn't! Lucky me! In twenty years my ugliness will fade and lo and behold I will be considered attractive. I smile and nod to him and say "only time will tell" and return to my book. He smiles back at me and returns to his seat.
WTF?