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WARREN
Dude, Portishead is coming out with a new album. Weird, huh?

ME
That's awesome! That means we're all going to get laid!

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Wow. Lot of emails about this one.

Okay, to answer your questions:

1. Yes, I’m still writing comics. I should have at least two books out this year and I’m still actively pitching projects. (Hey, Michael Crichton wrote THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN in med school — and it barely sucked at all!)

2. Yes, I’m still programming. I’ll be doing less freelance work while school is in session, but I’m keeping my day job.

3. No, I don’t want to say what my major is just yet. Not until I’m accepted into the program and the financial aid is all squared away. Call it superstition.

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Sent in my application form, requested my embarrassing transcripts from UNLV, and made an appointment to take the entrance exam and meet with an adviser about financial aid.

A few short months from now (barring catastrophe), I’ll be a science student.

Unexpected, no?

Thornton Mellon: academic role model

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Always good for a quick laugh.

This year’s nominees for Worst Movie are:

Bratz
Daddy Day Camp
I Know Who Killed Me
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Norbit

I Know Who Killed Me, a thriller about a murdered stripper who has a psychic twin or something, leads the pack with nine nominations, including Worst Actress (Lindsay Lohan), Worst Screenplay, and — my personal favorite — Worst Excuse For A Horror Movie.

Complete 2007 nominations here.

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Whenever I’m in a really good mood, I listen to old Metallica — particularly MASTER OF PUPPETS or RIDE THE LIGHTNING.

What’s weird is, I never made that connection until now.

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Anyone else see the premiere of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES last night?

Anyone else really, really like it?

‘Cause I really, really liked it.

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At MTV’s insistence (read: the most annoyingly pushy marketing campaign I’ve ever seen), I have listened to the Kate Nash album.

“Merry Happy” is a good song. “Birds” is almost a good song. The rest of it? Crap.

Total crap.

Update: Gave it another selective listen. “Birds” actually is a good song. And the hidden track after “Merry Happy” is excellent (didn’t hear it the first time through).

I still hated that ad push. (Although when they spliced her into the CLOVERFIELD commercial, it did prompt me to say, “Approximately one hour ago, a coquettish singer-songwriter attacked the city…” And that was kind of funny.)

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I’m a big HOUSE MD fan, and the “It’s not Lupus!” thing has become something of a running joke around the, er, house. Friend of mine told me he saw a compilation video somebody made of all the “It’s not Lupus!” scenes from the show, edited together in rapid succession. Sounded funny. I went hunting for it.

Unfortunately, if you search YouTube for House, you’ll find videos from a hundred kids who all had the same idea to do a badly written, poorly acted House spoof for their high school health class presentations.

I hate the Internet.

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Via Blogtown PDX:

If you are anything like me, you are SO FREAKING SICK of buying the 12 oz. size of Jimmy Dean Sausage and trying to feed your family of five (or is it six?). Well, FINALLY someone has called Jimmy Dean on their bullshit, and left this hilarious, but oh-so-true message on their corporate voice mail. (Note to people leaving voice mails: Make sure your phone is OFF after you’ve left your message. Thank you.) Some language NSFW!

This really, really made me laugh.

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So… we all agree that goth is dead, right?

Sometime in the late 90s, it morphed and diluted, became less morbidly epic and more self-involved, and the disenfranchised youth who almost certainly would have become goths all became emo kids (or Juggalos), instead. And that’s fine. Times change and subcultures have a tendency to wear out their welcome. But even though the damaged girls of the 21st century would rather look like Joan Jett than Siouxsie Sioux, and even though I look back at my own short-lived goth period with more than a little embarrassment, I think we have to admit that some pretty kick-ass stuff came out of it. Everyone with a heart likes The Cure, and everyone with a dark sense of humor (and a bookshelf full of dogeared classics) likes Nick Cave.

But I have to say, my vote for best goth song (and video!) of all time goes to “Nemesis” by Shriekback. [embedding disabled]

So epic! So evil! So Apocalyp-tastic! It’s what Sir Miles has on his iPod and the goddamn thing makes me giddy.

Embrace the darkness! It’s fun!

(Also worth mentioning: TOWARD THE WITHIN by Dead Can Dance — the sexiest sex-music album ever recorded.)

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