1) Harakiri dir. Kobayashi--Criterion Collection, www.criterionco.com. Movies can be such a wasted medium. When do you get the general public to sit down for two hours and really pay attention to anything. Harakiri is up there with old Shakespeare a meditation on death and culture. I won't ruin it for you but really the best movie I've seen in awhile. Makes you wish the cineplex folks made just a little better movies.
2) Giant Pumpkins, www.giantpumpkins.com/. I am really working hard this year to learn to garden with my wife-- who is like the best gardener in the world. However, I am set on going full bore and growing a giant freakin' pumpkin. At the end of the Summer I want a semi with a crane to come over to my house and move the thing down the County Fair. I'd like to block up traffic for a couple of hours. At the Fair I will proceed to have the crane lower my giant pumpkin down on all its competitors and crush the competition--literally and figuratively, but mostly literally.
3) The Comics Curmudgeon--joshreads.com/
Newspaper comics generally stink...well it's okay to say so. 
4) The Thomas Jefferson Hour, www.jeffersonhour.org/ , I am radio junkie. Like-I-bought-a-shortwave-radio-in-the-90's-and-listen-to-it-after-my-wife-goes-to-sleep junkie. So I love this modern world and all those podcasts. The Thomas Jefferson Hour at first blush seems all too very dorky. Premise: Clay Jenkins pretends he is Thomas Jefferson and he talks about stuff. Once you get over the whole historical reenactment thing it is very interesting.
5) The Vaselines. I think bought this album in college because Kurt Cobain really liked them. Anyway I've been listen to it again you should as well.
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Welcome to the site. You are off and running! Sweet!
Haven't seen Harakiri but it's on my library request list now!
When I lived in Alaska, they would grow these ginormous cabbages. I want to grow a one andhave it go up against your huge pumpkin in a Battle of the Produce. The loser gets eaten by the audience. That would rock.
I haven't listened to performance radio since 2nd grade when they aired all three Star Wars movies as radio plays. It was awful, but I thought it was the Best Thing Ever while I was listening to it. O.K., that's a lie. I did listen to the BBC Radio production of The Lord of the Rings and that really DID rock. I just wanted to reference the Star Wars radio shows because really, how many chances does one get in a lifetime?
I've been a Comics Curmudgeon for a few months now. I like watching his political cartoon rants on Wonkette http://www.wonkette.com/politics/cartoon-violence/
Fucking thanks a lot, man. Now I've got that frigging "Molly's Lips" song stuck in my head. I seriously can't listen to this album anymore because the songs get burned into my brain. Same thing with The Magnetic Fields.
1) Growing giant vegetables is the ultimate contact sport.
2) She said blah--blah...kiss kiss molly lips.
3) I have a whole list of albums that are complete ruined because they are burned into my brain. Most were the big alternative albums of the late eighties/early nineties: pixies surfa rosa, nirvana nevermind, most pre automatic for the people REM except for Life's Rich Pageant which I think hands down is their best album. Swan Swan Hummingbird Swan...Hooraw we are all free now.
That is interesting they retitled the movie "Harakiri" as Japanese don't really say that. The original was called "Seppuku". Okay, another movie I gotta see.
Hey, and I lived in Alaska when I was very small and have a picture of me with one of them giant cabbages on my lap. But pumpkins are cooler.
And I agree, Life's Rich Pageant is REMs best.
Welcome to the site you pumpkin growing maniac.
I'll punch you in the eye the next time I see you, it's sort of an initiation thing sorry.
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