A few things

1. Chuck Klosterman? i dont pay much attention to most things going on around me (one may argue that i dont pay attention to anything - coasting through life blissfully unawares aint a bad way to go...), so despite the fact that i had seen his books everywhere, i really never knew who he was, or what the yarn was with him. I found a used copy of his book Fargo rock city for really cheap so i picked it up. I got 34 pages into it, and came to the realization that i did not give a fuck what this guy had to say about anything. Anyone who is going to pass themselves off as a cool/intellectual rock critic (lester bangs??) who sites Def Leppard as one of the best bands ever needs a slap in the balls. i dont fault the guy for growing up in the rural heartland, thereby limiting his exposure to the much cooler shit that was going on when he was a teenager, but fuck. im not reading another page of that, unless someone can convince me that its worthwhile. its not so much that i disagree with his taste in music as much as he kind of shittalks anyone who disagrees with him. i dont like that kind of shit in any format (elitism is one thing i dont tolerate).

2. which show should i go see this Thursday?

a) Jay Reatard, TV Smith (!), and Screaming Females at Music hall o' wlmsbrg

or

b) Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets, and German Measles at glasslands

3. i officially started diet # 137 of hendo's eating career today. hmmmm. we'll see. by my guess i need to lose 50 pounds before i can consider entering the contests that occur during the annual JO festival.

Top Ten Best things that could happen on draft day 2009

1. David Stern is replaced as the host of the draft by a tag team of Walt Clyde Frazier and Charles Barkley
2. The Suns trade Steve Nash to the knicks for 3 tacos
3. Charles Oakley comes out of retirement and declares his eligibility for the draft
4. The Clippers trade in the number one pick for a dannon frusion smoothie
5. Shaq gets traded to cleveland, and then LBJ demands a trade to either Milwaukee or NY
6. i get traded for anderson varejao (my contract expires next year...)
7. the albany patroons got absorbed by the NBA
8. Bill russell drops a couple F bombs on live tv
9. the knicks draft a 7'5" 19 year old kid from Greenland who learned how to play basketball last month
10. The Clippers trade the #1 pick to the Nets for Yi, and declare their intentions to sign Iverson

please donny dont do it

Someone tell donny walsh not to trade up to get the number 5 pick in the draft. As far as i'm concerned, as long as lee and nate still aren't signed, the knicks player i want to see go the least is wilson chandler. please, please don't trade him for the # 5 pick. there is no way that thabeet is gonna drop that far. unless someone wants curry, jeffries, or larry hughes, dont do it.

Ali Akbar Khan

Ali Akbar Khan passed away last week. He was a master of the sarode, and played 18 + hours a day for many years (this apparently is nothing compared to what his father - who lived to be 110 yrs old - did - playing "sometimes 23 hours a day"). I enjoy the music because it is so mesmerizing, although I don't know enough about the form to tell very much of it apart. Kind of like a person hearing jazz for the first time. As crazy as it sounds, I can see how playing this music non-stop is possible.


He presided over this school in California, which offers intensive 3 day beginner master classes...

Back from the grave

I haven't posted in a while. I was just inspired by No Name after he sent me this email:


"I think i saw multiplicity in the theasters like 5 times. Andie
McDowell gets no credit for the work she has done on behalf of MILFs
everywhere. She could be in MILF HOF. Maybe it's because she's not in
movies really anymore. But the southern accent and shit? It's like
putting Albert Pujols on a shitty baseball team. A few times a game
their is a bright spot and every once in a while the game's outcome
will change. We should start a Andie fanclub."




I'll be back soon...