Picture post: July 2005 Archives

While driving home tonight, I noticed some low hanging clouds. Made me wonder if it was a precursor to a tornado...

I went to Alamo Drafthouse's road show of Zaireeka by the Flaming Lips. It was pretty cool. I went with Jeff Shaevel and Mike. It was located pretty close to my house in Old Settlers' Park. There were four huge inflatible movie screens and speakers that were on the outside of the viewing area in the middle.

While we waited, Mike tried playing Go with Jeff.

Once the sun had set, we listened to a couple of groups. The first group was the Austin Theremonic Orchestra. After them, Pong played for us. I liked them. They sounded like the B-52s.

And then, of course, the main show started. 4 CDs, 4 sound systems, 4 movie screens. People got up from their chairs and moved into the middle. You could only watch one screen at a time and keep track of the two in your peripheral vision. So, you had to rotate occasionally to see what the screen behind you was up to.

So I watched 30 Days yesterday. This is a new series by, Morgan Spurlock, creator of SuperSize Me. It was about people living outside their comfort zones. In this show, two people spend 30 days off the power-grid at Dancing Rabbit. One of the people was a man and DR only served a Vegan or Vegetarian menu. He was Jonesing for meat real bad. Bad enough to go rabbit hunting. Bad enough to drive into town and try to buy meat. Bad enough, after being repeatedly sabotaged by the DR folks and being mocked by the other person of this show, to continue attempting to buying meat.

The other show was a P.B.S. series about living the frontier life. And there was one man who needed meat. Bad enough to talk to the local Indian tribe and get them to shoot a deer for him.

I think that I would be one of those folks. I am an omnivore and I am trying to eat more veggies. But I would miss meat...

I'd prefer to leave it to professionals to kill the cow, but if it were
a condition for eating burgers that I kill a cow every now and agin,
I guess I'd borrow a nice sharp shinken and practise full shomen cuts
with somewhat more of a focus than I do now.

  -- Graham Wills

So I am driving into work and stop at Parmer and Metric. I see what I think is a homeless man begging for money. I think that he is more creative than most. But then he turns around and I see that he is advertising for a Laundry Store.

Damn Advertisers!

...and talking on the cell phone!

Damn Cellphones!

I noticed that someone had placed a pair of fuzzy dice on the gravestone marker by the side of the road. So I stopped and investigated further. It seems that a person's name was written on the marker in a blue pen: Beah Hamaker -- March 28 RIP.

I wonder if that truck is going to a tailgate party...