All My Music is Haram Oh the things you can learn on the “internet”. It’s astounding. Today, I learned that pretty much all the music I listen to is Haram. Which is to say that under the Islamic code – Allah ain’t down with it. I got wise to this when researching something on the …
Monthly Archives: April 2003
Revisiting Planet TRONRecently I re-watched the movie TRON on cable. What a dope flick. I love watching these early eighties sci-fi movies on cable. I’ve probably watched Logan’s Run like twelve times this year already. That movie tops the charts. But goddamn TRON…I can’t believe its been 20 years since my brother and I first …
Art CrawlingGrumpy’s bar on Washington Avenue has officially organized OX-OP and will play host to a number of great traveling street/folk/pop artists this summer. Check out their online calendar here. Get into the wonderful world of panoramic illustrations as produced by the NY team of Kozyndan. Their use of bunnies is hypnotic. Check out this …
Ten Strange Minutes in the Life ofI sat down to read Davy Rothbart’s, The Lone Surfer of Montana Kansas, and noticed my arm was bleeding. It didn’t hurt, but it was making a mess. If I wasn’t careful and didn’t act quickly I was going to bleed on a lot of things. Which was annoying …
While You Were OutStill giddy from the sunny weather of the west coast, I prematurely broke out the bike Wednesday and took my inaugural bike commute of 2003. The first one is always the hardest. Your ass hurts for a day and your heart feels like it’s going to explode. I was also faced with …
Vacation PicturesMy new snap photography philosophy is as follows: take as many vacation snaps as you can and eventually you’ll hit the target and get some good ones. So here are some of the good ones. Check out the wide style Oregon snaps and then don’t miss the tall style snaps. To get the full …
Shock and Awe: Spring Break ’03 Pour the coffee, wince twice, and try to remember how to work this damn machine again. I’ve just returned from a jam packed ten day dance all over the great state of Oregon. Sorry to have been out of the blogsphere for so long but I was on vacation …