Astrojanitor

man, i am a vinyl fiend. I buy probably 2-3 a week, and have for years. It always comes down to preference, but I love analog. Digital gets too clean, I like the warm tones. if you want to invest in a serious set up vinyl can sound better and clearer than digital--but that gets expensive. Personally I love the fuzz. As an added benefit indie labels tend to include free download codes, or even a free cd, with vinyl. you get the cooler listening experience plus the convenience of digital for free.

And Bioshock!

man I've been there. i was engaged to a chick about 7 years ago who was actually impregnated by the bass player of a christian hardcore band. Which felt about as surreal as it sounds. Although I felt she was tomcatting around, I am sort of glad i didn't confront her until I had proof (and what proof!). So yeah man, i feel for you. I don't want to steal your thunder, but I can totally empathize about the whole depressed and alone thing. Yesterday I learned the girl I am marrying in may is being deployed to Afghanistan for a year in June. I've found drinking heavily helps

I watched it last night (streaming through my ps3). In order to resist all spoilers until later let me just say I loved every second of the film.

Jaws is considered the film that ended the American New Wave and began the age of the blockbuster....so us film snob types tend to hold a grudge. What really bugs me is his sentimentality. I find his films very manipulative. The very last shot of Schindler's List is, to me, the ultimate Spielberg moment in that it is both meaningless and exists only to make you cry. I find him too clean, too edgeless, too consistently old fashioned. I love Duel and am endlessly amused by Jurassic Park 2 and that's about it for me. Although my Close Encounters problem is 100% Richard Dreyfuss (I cannot stand that guy) and I never saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film people I know hate his manipulation. There's a suspicion of filmmakers doing the thinking for the viewer (by that I mean something like Spielberg's tendency to use swelling music over shots of sad children in order to push the sad button). That heavy handedness is the problem with the people that take these kinds of things far too seriously.

If you're in the market for games make sure you pick up "Bioshock." easily the best game I have ever played. "resident Evil 5" is pretty fresh too.

If you have netflix you can get a disc that allows you to stream movies and tv shows. there is also a great Madden arcade game you can download off the playstation network for like $10 that is insanely fun (though the Bills are terrible on it)

Minnesota Vikings. My father bought me a Vikings pencil and football in the mid 80s and they have been by number two ever since. Also root for the Cardinals and Orioles even though the lack of a salary cap has made baseball irrelevant.

Warner Brothers discontinued its animation studio (and sold off all the 7 minute shorts) before the whole saturday morning cartoon thing hit. The dumb stuff you may be thinking about are crass cash ins produced in the late 80s-mid 90s. though "Box Office Bunny from 1990 isn't half bad. But most were produced after the death of all the original directors and Mel Blanc, which make them Looney Toons in name only. Duck Dodgers was produced in 1953. Space Jam in 1996

mine is astrojanitor.....but since my fiancee is in the army I have difficulty enjoying the call of duty games. luckily I have several others

it's the cover for a single by this amazing awesome and weird Psych band called Sylvester Anfang (I am a big record collector/geek)

Overly simplistic spazzed out glammy garage punk....it makes the world go round. I loved how he would shout slogans instead of creating the illusion of actually having anything to add. he was angry and kind of dumb and knew it and did not try to mask his goofiness under a cover of presumed intelligence. No super earnest heartfelt love songs, no political posturing, no double necked guitars. Fun dumb and simple

I would inject it directly into my veins if I could

1 hour 23 minutes for me. Luckily the girl and I are weekending in Pittsburgh. She wants me to take her to the mall from Dawn of the Dead....think I'll be able to test this whole theory out. Or get an orange julius.

meh, who knows. he was in a band called The Reatards--one of those Ramones situations where everyone in the band shares the same last name. he was a goofball and a troublemaker; changing his name to "Reatard" kind of fit his personality. Dumb and kind of offensive, plus it's a barrier that kept the mainstream away. But who really knows. he was a real weird dude.

If i could vote for any old school cartoon character it would be Droopy. Those first 12 or so Tex Avery Droopy shorts are uncontrollably insane/brilliant/insane again.

The dialog was completely ad libbed by Jack Mercer--meaning there are no scripts or script notes in existence. Mercer swears (pun!) up and down that he never once uttered a blue word. because of all the mumbling, listening to Popeye is like an aural Rorschach test. The only "naughty" word anyone can really agree on being present is "sex." The one thing we do know is Popeye talks about sex all of the time. he talks about his own sex appeal and he describes what body parts arouse him. there are a lot of visual metaphors that allude to Popeye getting it on. Lots of erections in Popeye. the Fleischer's other big cartoon, Betty Boop, was also sexual as hell. They eventually got censored out of production, but Popeye seems to skate mostly because them mumbling makes his thought process difficult to nail down. To resist going on a whole rant, long babble short: sex and hell, Popeye says a lot of sex and hell

http://pitchfork.com/news/37575-rip-jay-reatard/ Don't know if anyone on here is a fan, but Jay Reatard died this morning at age 29. Reatard was a brilliant impassioned and borderline manic performer. He, along with Jack Oblivion and Lucero, were putting Memphis rock and roll back on the map. Reatard recently released a couple albums on Matador--both worth checking out. His music and antics will be missed

I'm writing my thesis on Popeye cartoons. I spend all day reading animation history and that story pops up from time to time. I know I did read it in Stefan Kanfer's "Serious Business" which is a pretty good pop history of animation.

that's unnecessarily dickish

I'm on your side. I hate godzilla! I hate him, he destroys cities!

god that's depressing. makes me glad I switched to film studies from production my junior year. I have so little patience for weasels. Quite possibly the one thing that I enjoy less than Jay Leno

gots to be Daffy. have you seen "Duck Amuck"? holy hell that's good stuff. Plus the entire concept of the character was a giant in joke against Leon Schlesinger (the guy in charge of WB animation at the time--he was spastic and spoke with a lisp). Character is just one big giant subversive injoke...got to love it

I bought a lenovo ideapad over the summer and love it. Easily the best laptop I have ever owned. weirdly though, they initially have a problem that prevents the user from using wifi. there's a program on there that gets in the way somehow--you have to call support and they walk you through getting rid of it. besides that? near perfect

bah, chose the wrong auto correct. unconscious, freud's concept of the unconscious. That's what I meant.