Failed Pilot

….the need to stay prolific with my postings. Today, I’m not feeling it. I do want to post some fractured ideas. Maybe one day I’ll expand them into full pieces, large or small, but today is not that day.

1. Uncle Buck holds up. Uncle Buck holds up tight and solid. If David Mamet wrote and directed a medium-hearted, 80’s, wide age range comedy, it would have come out like Uncle Buck.

2. The 70’s/early 80’s output of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.

3. Working in Alaska.

4. My distaste for the intensely yoga-fied female body. I do not like women that resemble Iggy Pop. I do not like women that resemble a male long distance runner. It’s a loose version of what the New York Press referred to as The Sarah Jessica Parker Syndrome: Women talk at length about how beautiful she is, but men know the truth, and men keep quiet about the truth.

5. I so wanted a fifth idea. I did. Er…ok, Eugene Mirman is not funny. Esquire magazine referred to him as a cross between Andy Kaufman and Andy Warhol. That… is fucking hilarious.

My “Failed Fast Food Mascots” piece is up at www.cracked.com. I’d link it, but the Safari browser app does not pop that option. How adventurous. This piece went through several incarnations, but here I am for a new readership that doesn’t include visitors to this blog, 75 out of my 535 MySpace friends, or those that peruse mid-level music magazines.

Self Promotion: The Overrated Book

Buy This Book….

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0867196572/qid=1147837973/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-1243199-5989548?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

It contains three unpublished essays by ME (on, respectively, free jazz, a certain type of metal, and teen vandalism) but more importantly….

Book Description (from Amazon.com)
The Overrated book is brought to you by the staff of Chunklet Magazine, a paragon of satire for the holy cows of underground music and culture. Since the early 90s, the magazine has mercilessly lampooned the music industry, and is one of the most loved reads for the hippest bands and music aficionados. In recent issues, the magazine has an official guide of what music not to buy and made extensive charts of a Pay Not To Play system, offering bands large amounts of money to breakup, and Adopt a Gutter Punk program to make the world smell just a tiny bit better. The magazine has a highly graphicstyle and combines the work of political cartoonist Ted Rall with many talented, young artists from the Cartoon network. The musings of David Cross (Mr. Show, Arrested Development), Sarah Silverman (Saturday Night Live, School of Rock, Crank Yankers, Jesus Is Magic), Patton Oswalt (King of Queens, Comedians of Comedy), Janeane Garofalo (Saturday Night Live, Air America Radio) Brian Posehn (Mr. Show, Just Shoot Me,), and Zach Galifianakis (Late Night With Zach, Bubble Boy).