Saturday, April 4, 2009

I was Born a Ramblin' Man

"There will be ladies present, and ladies, you know, are aesthetically inclined." --- David Lindsay - from A Voyage to Arcturus

I started reading A Voyage to Arcturus. I'm leaving town tomorrow for Iraan, TX to work on some video shoot, and then Mike wants me to go to Mexico when I get back Wednesday. I am a ramblin' man after all. I was born to ramble, duh.
Ramblin' Man - Hank Williams


Taking a page from Leah's playbook, here is a feature article from Time about the amazing redneck-hero Forest Ray Colson. (you can tell by his name that he was probably hillbilly-ish) If I was a crazy redneck, this is how I'd hope to be. I'm pretty sure he was my hillbilly Soul Brother #1. Motherfucker made a space-man costume you son of a bitch, so show some respect.
"The Man From Mars" costume is on permanent display at the San Gabriel Police Department.
Here is a song about him:
Forest Ray Colson - The Hex Dispensers


"Adventureland"--- Sort of boring and stupid, full of cliches. A final love scene in the rainy streets of New York, virginity losing, lots of barf jokes, and hitting in the nuts. There were like 3 or 4 funny jokes, but that's not anywhere close to making a good movie. The serious parts were awful and that main guy is a just a poor man's Michael Cera, who is himself becoming a poor man's Michael Cera. It tries to make you care about this love story, but neither of the main characters is particularly interesting or likable. There is one funny Jew-nerd-guy, he's the Jew-nerd-guy from Freaks and Geeks. Pretty forgettable.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room --- Pretty straightforward documentary about sleazy business guys getting really rich. Documentaries about business are relatively boring because business really is boring after all. I was watching this movie at Vulcan, and this UT frat business guy was watching it from the counter for a really long time. He was totally mesmerized. You could tell he was thinking that the Enron guys were the coolest ever. Every time they mentioned some guy who was guilty of terrible financial crimes, the guy would go, " oh, that guy is the third biggest land owner in Colorado," or , "that guy makes really good eggplant Parmesan." Things like that. He was like taking notes on how to be a sleazy as possible and steal money from everyone. It was gayz.

2 comments:

teeney said...

You're being deployed to Iraan? We were just getting chummy!

Alex Daboub said...

don't worry: there's tons of AAAAAAAAAAAAAA's.