[bob]

http://www.releaseharrisonbergeron.com/
looks like a new indie short was made for harrison bergeron. There was a made for TV movie too a few years ago but I haven’t seen either.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6303801919/qid%3D1006920157/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/002-6459032-9532035″>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ … 32-9532035

I bet the movie is pretty bad since the story was only like 6 pages long.

[bob]

<blockquote><font>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by rosa:
<strong>There’s this story that Kurt Vonnegut wrote, a futursitic tale where all the ordinary citizens wear special headsets that keep their brains at a steady, mediocre level of intelligence. They are controlled by a small group of people who live, headset-free, in a big compound, having forfeited their former lives so that they could be in charge. Whorehouses are replaced by Thought houses; instead of paying for sex, you pay a girl to play chess with you and read great texts on philosophy.

Anyone remember the name of that? It escapes me at the moment.
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I just borrowed "Welcome to the Monkey House" from the library and The first story in it "Harrison Bergeron" is a lot like the on eyou mentioned but not exactly the same (There was no though houses). It’s the year 2081 and the 211, 212, and 213 amendments have been passed so no one can be more attractive, more strong/quick, or smarter than anyone else. Smart people have to wear devices on their ears that give a blast of noise every 20 seconds to interupt their train of though. Strong people have to wear a bag of weight around their necks and goodlooking people have to wear masks or rubber noses, shave their eyebrows, and wear black tooth caps. It’s really ridicoulous, disturbing, and funny.

[bob]

c’mon people this could be the most popular thread ever. over 1000 replies. maybe I should have made a poll.

[bob]

Rosa,
I’m not sure which Vonnegut story that is but is it from Welcome to the Monkey House? because I’m going to pick up that book tommorow, If you figure out the story tell me.

[bob]

I’ve 1 or 2 J dreams in the past but I can’t remember them too well and there not that interesting. However I always have dreams about shopping for CDs or comic books and I find a bunch of titles that I want and that don’t actually exists and I flip the rack around and they aren’t there anymore and there is so much stuff and then I wake up and I try to pull all the stuff I acquired in my dream through to the real world with me but I can’t, It incredibly frustrating and I have these dreams all the time.

[bob]

How do you get all of those interesting things in the bottom of your post (like gay: and celebrity crush: ).

[bob]

I think the reason that crap music and movies are popular is because people want something they can ignore. People don’t want to be driving to work and hear complex introspective original music they just want something to fill the space so they don’t have to think. As music fans we take for granted that there are people who don’t really care about music and just listen to the radio.

People just want to go see movies that they don’t have to think about so they can make out with their date or whatever.

[bob]

does anyone have the nerve to email hilken and ask her if she’s dating J?

[bob]

yeah on the right of the picture.

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[bob]

J’s guitar isn’t plugged in! someone should be put to death for thinking of that.

[bob]

J playing a strat! that’s a first.

[bob]

Article in Maxim:Blender

"1-2-3-4…
…pogo!" Boston punks give Richard Simmons’s Sweating to the Oldies a DIY makeover. J. Mascis gives it a thumbs-up

TWO AGING PUNKS have started a punk-rock aerobics class held in Boston-area nightclubs. The class, aptly, is called "Punk Rock Aerobics."

The class encouarges attendees to throw themselves around to songs by the Sex Pistols and the Stooges. But pint glasses are filled with water, cigarettes are temporarily stashed, and people lying on the floor are totally conscious.

Since August, Hilken Mancini, 31, of the Boston band Fuzzy, and Maura Jasper, 35, a visual artist, have led growing numbers of tattooed clubgoers through a one-hour regiment of Pete Townshend air-guitar windmills, quad-building pogoing, and muscle toning lat pumps using cinder block bricks as weights.

"I used to go to the Y, and people stared at me like I was a freak," Mancini explains. "I’d much rather dance around to a Dinosaur Jr. song than some techno shit."

To that end, while Mancini uses the music of blondie as a cool-down, Dinosaur Jr.’s "Freak Scene" comes at the class’s sweaty climax.

"They’ll probably equate the song with the pain they felt after the aerobics class," groans Dinosaur Jr. honcho J. Mascis. Still, the veteran guitar hero, who is also dating Mancini, is amused by the track’s new use. "I’ll have to consider the aerobic possibilities of my other songs." – Nina Willdorf

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there is also a picture of J and Maura (for those of you not in the know Maura did the artwork for lots of the early dino stuff) with punk rock aerobics shirts and a picture of Hilken with cinderblocks in her hands.
and what’s with this other stuff are J and Hilken really dating?

[bob]

that article was filled with speculations and untruths (does J live in amsterdam?) I’m sure he lives in an apartment in New York.

[bob]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jeremiah:
<STRONG>

I also nominate Bob’s cover of Daydream Believer.</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

*blushing* If I ever would blush

Thanks. I’ve been to lazy to remaster this and put it on my computer again. There is one background vocal that I want to edit out. but otherwise this is one of the best recordings I ever did. somehow I deleted these songs off my computer.

[bob]

haven’t heard any of it yet. I like the second album quite a bit.

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