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May 15, 2004
Stockgirl, G-d and Peter Lorre be messing with my brain
I was just digging on the very erudite and sophisticated looking list of best movie picks by Blogcritic John Lars Ericson. I say "sophisticated" largely on the basis that I hadn't seen most of these movies, nor had I even HEARD of about half the titles.
I do however definitely dig M, and I have a little imprinted associated memory that made a perhaps unduly large impression on me. I saw the movie for the first time a couple of years ago (2001?) with Annie Oakley, best friend and future mother of my godson.
Next day we were in Bloomington wandering around a health food store, and I'm teasing with her by wandering around the store whistling the Peer Gynt theme. This was the obsessive theme of Lorre's pedophile killer, and the thread whereby he was eventually caught.
Then I heard the theme.  I looked up, and there's this just perfect cute, slightly plump totally delectable stock clerk whistling the damned Peer Gynt theme while she stocked the shelves.
I about fell over. I could hardly choose between being sexually aroused versus having an orgasm of laughter.
Most likely the girl just innocently picked up the familiar theme without even being conscious of it. She was just innocently swinging that pricing gun and whistling away, pretty much oblivious to me or anyone else. God, but I felt like buying her a pretty balloon.
Imagine what kind of conversation we'd have had if I'd tried to explain my great amusement to her, though.
Probably the mace or pepper spray would wear off about the time the police were showing up. Then I'd have gotten to spend the rest of the day on their Group W bench, being checked against their master list of father rapers and such.
It was just as well that Annie was there to shuffle me out the door without talking to the poor innocent child.
She probably just wasn't ready for the Al Barger Experience.
posted by Al at 5/15/2004 01:01:00 AM
May 13, 2004
Stevie Wonder's birthday
Born May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, MI, Steveland Judkins Hardaway aka Stevie Wonder turns 54 today. Happy birthday!
The "8th wonder of the world" (as promoters used to describe him) had his first #1 hit with "Fingertips (Part 2)" in 1963 at the age of 12.
He continued writing and performing big hits and high art for the next twenty years. The hits have slowed down, but it's always a good day to whip out Talking Book. He could have retired there, but we'd have missed out on Songs in the Key of Life, and "Sir Duke."
We'd have also missed out on a big favorite of mine from Characters. "Skeletons" was only a modest hit, but it's definitely in my Stevie top 10. That rubbery bass line kicks much ass, and he really taps into some hard emotions there.
Happy birthday, Stevie, and thanks for all the great work.
posted by Al at 5/13/2004 01:12:00 PM
May 12, 2004
Barger beats Sharpton!
My name is Al Barger, and I approve of this message.
Having been associated with third party partisan politics for many years, and just on general grounds of being disagreeable and antisocial, I'm used to being on the wrong end of polls, electoral or popularity. Therefore, I take my wins where I can get them.
Accordingly, I'm proud to point out that according to The Waypath Weblog Buzz-o-Meter, Al Barger has more scientifically measured buzz than Al Sharpton.
This is strictly scientific- it has a chart and everything. See for yourself:
So here's the scenario: Already, there is Anybody But Kerry buzz amongst the Democrats, buyer's remorse cause they know they've saddled themselves with a loser. Sharpton was pretty much the last guy standing in opposition, but he's got no juice at this point.
What they need is somebody sharper than Sharpton, a real dark horse candidate with more... more buzz than Sharpton to swoop in at the convention and seize the day.
Hmm. Boston could be interesting.
Of course, on the other hand, al Jazeera had more than twice the buzz of Al Barger and Al Sharpton combined, so I suppose a UBL candidacy must be considered a possibility as well.
posted by Al at 5/12/2004 10:46:00 PM
Dennis Miller dumbs it right down
"I wish there was a country called al Qaeda and we could have started the war there, but there wasn't. And Hussein and his punk sons were just unlucky enough to draw the Wonka ticket in the asshole lottery."
-Dennis Miller
posted by Al at 5/12/2004 02:44:00 PM
May 11, 2004
New album releases, week of 5-11-2004
The most promising item in this weeks new CD releases looks like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Funeral for a Friend. It's a religiously oriented lineup, including such classics as "Jesus on the Mainline."
Judas Priest has a FIVE DISC set out. Why?
Notice the Rhino Handmade compilations. I recognized only one of the titles from the Hallucinations set, and NONE from the soft pop nuggets set- not even the Monkees title. Coming from Rhino, collections with a high content of unknown songs certainly light my interest.
CLICK HERE to check out the whole list.Labels: new_album_releases
posted by Al at 5/11/2004 01:56:00 PM
May 10, 2004
Anniversary of Mandela's ascension
Ten years ago today, May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first black president in post-apartheid South Africa.
It seems little less than miraculous to me that apartheid was ended without a full fledged civil war and massacres of white folk. That situation looked pretty grim.
Much of the credit for this seems to go to Nelson Mandela's personal leadership. He could have come out of that prison and called for a big uprising. If he had called on his people to go kill whitey, pretty likely they would have.
Mandela has certainly talked a lot of foolishness in the last several years, particularly statements in some support of Saddam Hussein, or at least opposition to US involvement in toppling him. I'd like to think that this stuff was some kind of intention of loyalty for whatever support Hussein gave him in time.
In any case, when it counted, Mandela was the voice of reason and reconciliation rather than retribution- even though that would have been pretty understandable. I'm not sure I would have been quite so noble had it been me in his shoes.
posted by Al at 5/10/2004 11:54:00 PM
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