Blog Archive for July 2005
Muppets Do Ebert & Roeper
Disney recently took control of Jim Henson's Muppet empire, so of course they're gonna milk it as much as they can. But this new thing I don't mind: Watch Statler & Waldorf From The Balcony. The two old guys that make fun of everything from the balcony are back and weekly make fun of the movies coming out this week. They do a pretty good job of making fun of almost every single movie and include some failry intelligent moive jokes. (I especially like the nod to A.I. with the comment about Dakota Fanning's character in War of the Worlds being very good for an entirely animated character.)
The Live 8 Problem
I agree with Andy's thoughts. We shouldn't be so worried about insulating ourselves from society, we should be interested in helping others. It was nice to have Jars of Clay representin' in Philly, even though they only did two songs.
New Music
I picked up a couple new CDs and they gave me one of those summer samplers from EMI. About half of it is new music, so it's pretty cool to hear some fresh stuff. Plus, it was free.
Manafest sounds like another Eminem ripoff with a lot of Thousand Foot Krutch thrown in. Oh wait, maybe that's because Trevor from TFK was guest spotting on the track. ;-)
iPod Train
Recently to get to work I've been taking the Hiawatha Light Rail tran to work. It's a lot of fun.
Recently a couple trains were wrapped in iPod ads. They look great:
As far as I can tell, there's that train and one that's in yellow and green. Only two trains are covered in the ads. And don't worry, they're not permanent or anything. They're just a vinyl wrapping.