| | Tonight I saw one of my former students in a Girls Gone Wild commercial. Never thought I'd see the day. I wonder how most college professors deal with seeing their students on Girls Gone Wild. Maybe I should start a support group. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| | Current Music: | "Mr. Brightside" - Zach Stone | | Subject: | This is CNN | | Time: | 11:11 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/glasses.gif) geeky |
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| | You know its a sad state of affairs in my head when I'm watching CNN and they show a report on Cindy Sheehan and her memorial to fallen soldiers, and the only thing I can think of is "Whoa, there's no Jewish soldiers" | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | That stupid walking with a ghost song on 91X | | Subject: | Double you tee eff | | Time: | 04:42 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/mad.gif) annoyed |
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| | Am I the only one who hates that "Walkin' with a Ghost" song by Tegan and Sarah? WTF?! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So for the first time in a long long time I watched the Grammys. Mostly because some of the bands I liked were nominated like Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, etc.
Queen Latifah sucked, Maroon 5 winning Best New Album sucked, some of the acts sucked.
I know I'm gonna get flak for this but I'll come out and say it:
The cover of "Across the Universe" was THE WORST EVER! The singers totally butchered the song. WTF was Stevie Wonder (overrated) and Alicia Keyes (overrated) doing there? When they screwed up their parts it ruined it for me. What is it with soul and R&B singers adding more notes than there should be? "Across the Universe" is one of my favorite Beatles songs and in no way should more notes be added during this complex song. Fuckers. I ain't gonna download it, fuck the tsunami victims...they'd probably won't see a damn dime of any donation anyways. Bono, Brian Wilson, Billy Armstrong, Tim McGraw, and David Bowie...er excuse me Scott Weiland did an awesome job. Everyone else sucked and what the hell was Alison Krauss playing a fiddle? I couldn't even hear the damn thing!
OK enough of my rant. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - The Ramones | | Subject: | HAPPY BIRTHDAY <3 | | Time: | 08:57 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/smilec.gif) happy |
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| | alles Gute zum Geburtstag meine Liebe! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Tainted Love" - Gloria Jones | | Subject: | And the winner is.... | | Time: | 12:03 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/artistic.gif) accomplished |
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| The Committee submitted their recommendations to me on who should be the next APD. My radio friends also did the same thing.
Candidate E is the winner. But who was Candidate E? Find out at the KKSM staff meeting :-D | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Pop Pop Beat" - The Diskettes | | Subject: | Zeb's Top 10 of 2004 | | Time: | 11:52 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/straight.gif) apathetic |
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| Since aborting the 366 Movies, 366 Days projects, I have seen a couple of films afterwards. Since most critics and awards groups are releasing their Top 10 film lists, here are mine...coming from a guy who spent the first 8 months of last year watching a movie every damn day:
Top 10 Best Films of 2004:
1. Napoleon Dynamite
2. Ray
3. Sideways
4. Hotel Rwanda
5. House of Flying Daggers
6. Fahrenheit 9/11
7. Coffee and Cigarettes
8. Garden State
9. The Passion of the Christ
10. Shaun of the Dead
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Team America, Anchorman, The Incredibles, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Vera Drake, Control Room, The Aviator, Spiderman 2, The Life Aquatic, Moolaade, End of the Century, Kinsey, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, A Very Long Engagement, The Mechanist, My Flesh and Blood, Crying Ladies, SpongeBob Squarepants
Top 10 Films I Didn't Care/Worst of 2004:
1. Catwoman
2. The Girl Next Door
3. Johnson Family Vacation
4. The Stepford Wives
5. The Chronicles of Riddick
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Twisted
8. The Phantom of the Opera
9. Alien vs Predator
10. Alexander
DIS-HONORABLE MENTIONS: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls, A Cinderella Story, Resident Evil, King Arthur, Garfield the Movie, Latter Days, A Day Without a Mexican, Breaking All the Rules, My Baby's Daddy, New York Minute, Laws of Attraction, The Prince & I, Envy, 13 Going on 30, Connie and Carla, The Whole Ten Yards, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Mona Lisa Smile, Catch That Kid, Agent Cody Banks 2, Welcome to Mooseport. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Cuz I'm bored and have nothing better to do.....
OBJECTIVE: Put music program on random. Write down a line from the first twenty generated songs. Have visitors try to guess what song these lines came from. Ready? Go!
1. The freckles in our eyes are mirror images, and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned.
2. oh so while your growing old, under the gun gun gun, and i will leave them all
3. Deputy sheriff said to me: Tell me what you come here for, boy. You better get your bags and flee. You’re in trouble boy, And you’re heading into more.
4. Didn’t know what time it was the lights were low oh,how
I leaned back on my radio oh oh.Some cat was layin’ down some rock ’n’ roll ’lotta soul, he said
5. Cab driver, better take me home. I guess that I was meant to be alone.
6. Jealousy, turning saints into the sea. Swimming through sick lullabies. Choking on your alibis.
7. And she knew the gun was empty, and she knew she couldn't win. Her final prayer was answered, when the rifles fired again.
8. No matter what the odds are this time, nothing's gonna stand in my way. This flame in my heart, and a long lost friend. Gives every dark street a light at the end.
9. I know I'm alone if I'm with or without you but just bein' around you offers me another form of relief. When the lonliness leads to bad dreams, and the bad dreams lead me to callin' you
10. I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky, like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
11. The scene was rocking, all were digging the sound. Igor on chains backed by his baying hounds. The coffin bangers were about to arrive, with their vocal group: The Crypt Kicker Five
12. I need some help from a little love, I need some help from a little above, And you were there I'm still in love.
13. Now the gods grew quite scared of our strength and defiance. And Thor said: "I'm gonna kill em all with my hammer, like I killed the giants"
14. We fought him hard, we fought him well. Out on the plains we gave them hell, But many came too much for cree, Oh will we ever be set free?
15. After years of research I have figured out: it's the little things that get you down, it's the bigger things that you can't get around
16. Hell says hello, well it's time I should go. To pastures green, that I have yet to see.
17. They performed with great virtuosity, and soon they were all the rage, but political animosity prevailed upon the stage.
18. What would you do? If someone told you to fight for freedom? Would you answer the call, or run away like a little pussy?
19. I've been told and I believe that life was meant for livin', And even though my chips are low, there's still some left for givin'
20. You can talk about cha-cha. Tango, waltz, or the rhumba. Senora's dance has more title, you jump in the saddle, hold onto the bridle
Some are easier than others, have fun!
For the person who can guess all 20, will received something special....maybe a trophy. :-) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| A few LJ posts ago, I stated that if a candidate wishes to win he must avoid pandering to the youth for votes as young people do not vote. On Election 2004, the youth of America opted to die instead of vote. John Kerry was counting on the youth vote to put him over and it cost him the election. Bush stayed with his power base of rural middle American voters to gain another four years and not once fell into the whole "Choose or Lose" scene. It's one thing registering people to vote, it's another thing getting their asses to the polls. The only organization that is benefiting from the whole "Vote or Die"/"Choose or Lose"/Rock the Vote campaigns are jury pools.
In more LJ posts a while back, I predicted Bush will win re-election. And he did. Kerry needed to be more aggressive in his campaigning. He was too afraid to attack Bush on anything and gave long winded speeches on different plans. In the film All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford's country bumpkin political novice character bombed on his first campaign by giving specifics on taxes and other issues (after being coached by covert operatives from his opposition)...when he realizes that he was losing his audience he tore up his speech and spoke from his heart. Kerry should have done the same thing, screw specifics...speak from your heart!
Kerry was not the strongest Democratic Presidential candidate. In fact the whole Democratic Party needs a complete overhaul if they still wish to be in existence a couple of years down the line (can anyone say the Whig Party?). If I were in charge of the Democratic Party, I would ask all those in power to resign from their posts and replace them with officials who are more in tuned with reality and America. Which is why I'm glad that Senator Henry Reid (D-Nv.) will be the new Senator Minority leader.
In other news:
JIM WOOD WON! ESTHER SANCHEZ RE-ELECTED! SHARI MACKIN IN THIRD! It was a rough campaign but the three that I was backing won. But Shari Mackin came in third? you might be saying. Well since Jim got elected Mayor, this leaves his council seat open which means the council will have to appoint someone to that seat...that someone will be Shari Mackin due to her third place finish.
Stick with the kid, folks. John Kerry didn't need a mircle...he needed me! I'm thinking about volunteering for a Presidential campaign in 2008 for either the Republicans or the Democrats. That's the good thing about being an independent...it's like being bisexual...I can swing either way! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "District Sleeps Alone Tonight" - The Postal Service | | Subject: | One week..... | | Time: | 10:49 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/yawn.gif) bored |
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| This Election has become pretty gruesome but not as bad as I'd expected it to be. Thank God that the police and firefighters are backing us 100% and are helping us with fundage.
Nothing sweeter or more refreshing has ever touched these lips than Cricket Cola! That stuff is the bomb!!!!!
Yeah I'm bored. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Final Countdown" - Europe | | Subject: | I'm sick :-( | | Time: | 12:49 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/sick.gif) sick |
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| Folks, you haven't lived until you played Super Marios Bros. 3 with the sound off and Europe's "Final Countdown" playing off of the stereo while you're hopped up on medication.
Also my least favorite Ramone died today. So I'm not crying....cuz we still have Tommy and Markey! Look on the bright side people! But it was a damn shame that our favorites died first (joey and Dee Dee).
Note to everyone: KOCT is the most corrupted public access station ever. From some news I received today about the upcoming candidates forum, I am highly suspicious that they are not looking out for the community's needs. I never liked KOCT, I use to work for them ages ago before they screwed me outta a 500 dollar scholarship (the bastards). But now they've become very corrupted and the dopes they have working there lemme just ask one thing: What the fuck are you guys thinking?! Your political coverage sucks this year, I mean c'mon!
OK, well I'm gonna go rest now as I am on my medication right now.
Happy Roshashannah and Happy Mexican Independence Day! Damn I'd like to be a Jewish Mexican right now. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "I Wanna Be Like You" - Louis Prima | | Subject: | Neverending Math | | Time: | 11:57 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/worried.gif) sore throat |
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| So kiddies, it's time for Zeb's LJ Math tutorial...
From my voice subtract the following:
1. Giving a tour to RTV 130 students where 98% of them are cinema majors who don't give a fuck about radio but are in the class only for a degree requirement. And as natural with film students...you have to talk very slowly yet loudly or else they will get confused...or suicidal....hopefully both. So a majority of the tour was "ME...ZEB.....MEEEE.....ZEB......ME......ZEB" and pratically reenacting the water pump scene from "The Miracle Worker"..."WATER!"
2. Giving another tour to RTV 100 students AFTER talking non-stop for four hours to idiot film majors.
3. Working the phone banks campaigning for two hours straight.
4. Speaking at a rally where I went Deancore to work up the crowd.
5. Going out with one of my chain smoking friends after all this for coffee and in turn me chain smoking more than usual.
and the end result?
My voice sounding like a combination of a NYC taxi driver, a chainsaw, the demon from The Exorcist, and Bea Arthur. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Be the Rain" - Neil Young | | Subject: | Bush vs. Kerry | | Time: | 12:16 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/unsure.gif) thoughtful |
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| As promised kids, how Bush or Kerry can win the 2004 Presidential election from a registered Independent.
How Bush Can Win
After seeing both the Democratic and Republican conventions all I have to say is that Republicans won hands down. I have no idea who thought up of the stage design for the DNC but they ought to be fired. The Republicans knew that image is everything; you don't need to win over the people at the convention, you need to win over people at home watching on TV. The stage design was perfect for TV, except Zell Miller's speech which scared the bejesus outta me. It was like watching an old bastard at Hometown Buffet complaining about how they ran outta chicken dumplings again. But other than the psycho ramblings of Miller, the rest of the convention was like a well executed TV production culminating in Bush's speech. Note to future convention planners: plasma screens as a background displaying something other than a 40 foot John Kerry makes for great presentation.
If Bush wants to get a sure fire way to get elected he will need to do a couple of things. A big mistake he did was still pick Dick Cheney as his running mate. Cheney was in charge of finding Bush a running mate but instead chose himself. If Bush really wants to trample Kerry he should have picked John McCain or Rudy Guiliani as his running mate. This would have won over several Americans like myself who switched parties to vote for McCain during the primaries. He should also get rid of Rumsfeld and Ashcroft from his cabinet and replace them with people that everyone likes! Guiliani would make a great Attorney General and Tommy Frank would be a good Secretary of Defense. Two icons that generate a positive image. Plus remember something Bush: all politicians that both Rumsfeld and Cheney have worked for lost their re-election bid or resigned (read: Nixon, Ford, and Bush I...Reagan had the balls to kick both of them outta the White House). Once Bush does this he'll be a runaway train that no one can stop.
How Kerry Can Win
Good going JFK2, you went from heavyweight to lightweight in the shortest amount of time I've ever seen any candidate drop. Don't be afraid to be aggressive against an incumbent. In politics there is no such thing as "fair" or "playing by the rules". You should have seen the Smearboat Vets ads from a mile away and yet you did nothing. In fact you didn't even come out against the ads, which just fueled them even more. When the news that the Bush memos might be forgeries came out, Team Bush wasted no time in attacking the forgeries....it was if someone was advocating killing kids. There was no such anger coming from the Kerry camp when the Smearboat Vets ads came out. No one really attacked the group and pointed out that none of them served with Kerry. Don't be afraid to attack veterans, question them and see if they even deserved their medals...I'm pretty sure you might find something.
Be careful who manages your campaign, John. You have to fire Donna Brazile, Susan Estrich, and Bob Shrum. Their track records for winning campaigns reads like an obiturary section in the newspaper. And what the hell are you doing getting the people who worked on the Dukakis campaign work for you?? Didn't you know that Dukakis LOST an election? Campaign managers are only good as their last campaign. Brazile lost Gore (she spent too much time making sure minorities were part of the campaign instead of getting the candidate elected), Estrich lost Mondale and Dukakis (when you're campaign slogan is "Where's the Beef?" you know you're in trouble), and Shrum...well Shrum just about lost every election he ever managed. Get the people who got Clinton elected, get the people who got Carter elected (they're still around), and get people who got any Democrat running against a big Republican elected. Don't pick people who lose campaigns to run your election. Get some backbone, man! Don't be afraid to say you were wrong in voting for the war, don't be afraid to aim for the jugular vein on Bush, don't be afraid to get nasty and negative, how else are you gonna win? And never say "Bush is a good debater, he beat Ann Richards and Al Gore"....you should say something like "Bush is a pussy" or something like that.
Zeb's Prediction: As much as I know a lot of you don't like me saying it...at this point in the game Bush will be re-elected. The Democrats have turned into a party of whimps (believe me, this is why I left the party) and look like they will be defeated again unless somoene bitch slaps them into reality. And I'm embarassed by the so-called "demonstrations" that happened at the Republican convention. That was it?! Just a couple of bike rides and streakers? Dammit, I wanted to see bricks flying and buildings on fire. Pussies.
Well there you have it folks, from a registered independent and a professional campaign manager. Now we'll have to see what goes on during the debates, I can already predict that Edwards will bodyslam Cheney because he's more easier on the eyes....like his hair...and the way he smiles.........er uhm...i think I have a....food in oven.........I g2g | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Hold Me Now" - The Polyphonic Spree | | Subject: | Today's lesson... | | Time: | 10:36 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/grr.gif) cynical |
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| Being retired from television and film is great. I have lots of free time now, which usually translates into me overthinking more and acting like a cynical bastard (which some folks say I have turned into).
I decided to watch the closing ceremonies of the Olympics even though I only watched bits and pieces here and there while flipping the channels. But the closing ceremonies were on at the same time the MTV Video Music Awards were on. Well after three minutes of the "VMAs" (who was the fucken genius that came up with that shitty acronym?) I flipped it over to the Olympics to see some little Chinese girl looking like she was gonna fall off a giant inflatable Chinese latern. You know the VMAs were bad when the only highlight was watching the Polyphonic Spree scare the shit out of all the trust fund living hipsters and freeloading rich kids.
MTV died back in 1990 when it put a gun to its head and blew its brains out in the parking lot of a Safeway in suburban Astoria.
Zeb's Political Campaign Lesson for Today
OK folks, young people 18-26 years old don't vote. Rock the Vote is a bullshit organization that wastes money into pipe dream that young people actually care enough to vote. Believe me, young people are only interested in their own self centered life of picture cell phones, iPods, cars, and getting laid. The last thing on their mind is politics and voting. Do you think a skateboarder will roll his scrawny pot smoking ass to the polling place? I think not. If you're running for political office, don't waste your time on the youth vote or registering young people to vote. Hit up the 35-90 crowd that gives a flying fuck about voting. Then once you're in office screw the younger crowds by banning skateboarding and giving more precedent to senior communities. Then this way you can hit up the seniors for donations to your re-election bid.
And that has been your campaigning lesson for today.
Tomorrow: How Bush or Kerry can win the election.
- Zeb,
The Andy Rooney of LJ | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Police Academy Theme | | Subject: | LIVE AT BUDOKAN | | Time: | 11:41 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/annoy.gif) aggravated |
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| So life has been really busy since quitting the 366 Days, 366 Movies thingamerjigger. And getting all the hate e-mail that comes along with it is also fun, mostly "WTF?! 'Goodbye' and that's it?" well what the hell am I suppose to write? You fuckers can figure it out, jesus!
So I haven't gone to any movie since quitting and I find my sense of well being coming back. Even when my friends try to bug me to go the movies I yell at them. Even going to my beloved favorite movie theatre the Ken has been nixed. For some reason I no longer find it worthwhile to go to any movie theatre.
So my life has been devote primarily towards politics and being a lobbyist for public safety associations (and advocating cuts in public spending for the arts, NPR, film societies, and other stuff). I also support the kick in tuition for community colleges, these students should quit moaning because we still pay cheap tuition compared to other parts of the state and don't act like your rich mom or dad can bail you out....fucken moochers. That's what you get when Democrats control both houses of the Legislature and don't know how to balance a friggin budget....and everyone wonders why Schwarzenegger got elected. (ed. note- Zeb is a registered Independent and voted for Arnie YES TO ZE GROPING AND YES TO ZE HITLA!!!)
Someone said I have become angry as of late and I've turned into a pissy curmudgeon (cuz I like to smoke cigars and pipes), well maybe I am turning into a grumpy old man...it's better than being a happy go lucky 23-year old...which I no longer am. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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