July 2011
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Saxual Helium
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about learning to play the saxophone, just so I can lay down the kind of smooth-ass solos you hear in the fade-outs of songs like Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side” (the progenitor of the smooth sax outro solo in American pop music, in my view), Springsteen’s “Dancing In The Dark” (maybe not quite relevant here, since...
Reblog this if you're from Texas.
sincerelyrichard:
I need more fellow Texans in my life here on Tumblr.
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Most hyperbolic album title on my iPod
Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits by John Denver
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Milab Strauss
That name came to me in a dream last night, in which I saw The Tree Of Life a third time and discovered it was actually directed by this Milab Strauss character.
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“I believe God made some valid points about my... →
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Maybe my two least favorite words in pop culture...
“Zombie apocalypse.”
No one thought it was cool back then, no one thinks it’s cool now.
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I heard that!
“i love this watertpark because there’s alot of mexican’s” - a Yahoo! Travel Contributor, 3/3/11
I just laughed at a woman who got off the elevator and said “Hey Jude” - as in actually saying hello to someone named Jude - only to be met with blank stares and silence from everyone else in the elevator. Come on, people! That’s a little funny!
Songs I have listened to roughly 15-20 times in a...
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
more to come, I’m sure
My dad's favorite joke circa 1994:
Dr. Quinn, Mexican Woman.
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Taco Tuesday and the chill of death
Tonight, for the first time in my life, I could not finish the taco plate at Rosa’s. I don’t even recognize myself anymore.
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“Film comedy’s answer to Uncle Kracker.”
- Glenn Kenny, my favorite film critic, gettin real about Kevin James
Just had a sudden memory of being in a grocery store in Tomball, TX, with my mother, after seeing the movie Tom And Huck and being really giddy, hanging onto the side of the cart and jumping around in the aisles.
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Currently working on a Groupon for an Endangered Wolf Center in Missouri whose sales record contains some of the greatest sentences I have ever read. Such as:
“Throw back your head and howl “Ah-WOOOOOOOO!” Do it again. “Ah-WOOOOOOOO!” Doesn’t that feel great?”
and: “If you’re lucky, the wolves and pups will howl right back, ghostly laughter...
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