As my brother and I stepped up to the window to buy our tickets to see Ray, we were informed it was sold out. We opted for Sideways instead. It is about two passionate guys on a week-long excursion prior to a wedding. One guy is passionate about wine and the other about sex.
In other news, Froogle now offers a wish list service in which you can place just about any product being sold on the web.
Steve from Barenaked Ladies talks about his band’s appearance at the Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade and mentions a movie I want to see, Sideways.
Gotta go, looks like it’s time for Thanksgiving dinner. For some reason, being with people is “bumming me out” (that’s a California thing, I think) today.
Had it been continuously running, Doctor Who would be celebrating the show’s 41st anniversary today.
Next possibly good movie to see: Kinsey. It’s already getting interesting notice in the news.
It’s possible you’ve heard of NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. A group of people have decided that it would be fun for each of them to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the 30 days of November. Now someone has thought of NaSoAlMo, National Solo Album Month. The idea would be to write, perform, and record a complete solo album throughout the same month. I should do this. I really should. I have enough equipment to do it. I just don’t know if I have enough time.
By the way, I voted this morning. This is how CNN plans on analyzing poll results and early vote counts in order to project a winner.
When Leah was in town, she told me about a band called, bleakly, The Darkness. I think the conversation stemmed from Spinal Tap (unicode should have a character for an “n” with an umlaut). Someone should remind me to try to find a recording.
At 8:30 pm Eastern Time tonight I will be streaming, in its entirety, William Shatner and Ben Folds‘ new album, Has Been.
Listen here or here! (Click on the first link to open WinAmp (should work with iTunes, too, but no one has verified for me) or copy the second link to the clipboard and open that URL in Windows Media Player.)
Remember The Last Starfighter, the movie? Now we have The Last Starfighter, the musical. It sounds like a lot of fun, for those who remember the movie.
Also, I really like the new William Shatner/Ben Folds collaboration album, Has Been. Here’s Ben Folds talking about the recording—something I won’t be able to read until I’m home due to my company’s firewall.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. It’s great to come home to a new CD in the mail. I will have to spread the goodness.
In celebration of the collection of music on my hard drive, I’m now streaming everything randomly. Check the link on my sidebar for My SHOUTcast Station. The link should work until my IP changes, anyway. You may have to load this link directly into your MP3 player (WinAMP, Windows Media Player, iTunes, etc.) if the program is not associated with your browser. I should have enough music to provide hours of entertainment, so I’ll just leave it online twenty-four hours a day. Maybe I’ll be able to listen from work.
UPDATE: I changed the link to use my web server as a repeater, so now I don’t have to worry so much about connecting to my home computer which didn’t seem to work from my office.
The first debate is not going to be between the actual presidential candidates, but between puppets and people in Avenue Q. Apparently there will be cadidate puppets joining the cast of the Broadway show… I’m not quite sure exactly what’s going on, but it sounds interesting… for now…