The Great Defector

Blogging ebbs, blogging flows. Mostly ebbing lately.

Because I've been busy. Mucho time spent helping Chris Isaak and David Byrne file stolen identity complaints.

I don't know enough to argue

Really interesting essay with one dude's take on the future of the entertainment industry.

Good Times

Here's a first-hand, inside, way too accurate look into the current "profession" of screenwriting. For the complete picture, crawl through the comments, as well. Especially CP's.

Check out the post from The Artful Writer.

It was the music

Everyone alive in 1985 knows that John Hughes shaped the middle part of the decade for a lot of people.

But it was his spot-on knack for new music -- alternative or college radio that was only available via MTV's 120 Minutes -- that was the foundation of it all.

Pretty in Pink used this (so did Ferris, I think).


Sixteen Candles benefited immensely from this.


This defined Ferris.


Even Planes Trains and Automobiles pulled great music out of it's ass. Remember Book Of Love?


This single handedly saved She's Having A Baby.


Pretty in Pink may have set the gold standard.




And the obvious anthem.

New Rancid

Picks right up where Indestructible left off. Which is a very good thing.

Nice to know I wasn't being paranoid simply because I was certain Dick Cheney had designs on martial law.


Also, Mr. Greenwald gets points for consistency:

"All of this underscores why it is so important to vigorously oppose the efforts of the Obama administration (a) to continue many of the radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism programs and even to implement new ones (preventive detention, military commissions, extreme secrecy policies, warrantless surveillance, denial of habeas corpus) and (b) to endorse the core Orwellian premise that enables all of that (i.e., the "battlefield" is anywhere and everywhere; the battle against Terrorism is a "War" like the Civil War or World War II and justifies the same powers)."

Cabin Fever

Apparently this is what happens when you spend an entire winter in Minnesota.