Archive for September, 2003

Five actors and the roles for which I’d like to see them nominated for an Oscar®

Monday, September 22nd, 2003
  1. Jennifer Lopez (Struggling single mother and diner waitress, beset with late-onset acromegaly melts the hearts of her recent-immigrant customers)
  2. John Goodman (Struggling morbidly obese food critic, tragically born without a hypothalamus, devours flatware and crockery of Chicago’s finest eateries)
  3. Jim Carrey (Struggling set of profoundly retarded triplets with intermittent psychic abilities fails to consistently predict important international events)
  4. Brittany Murphy (Struggling double-amputee, 1/4-Cherokee law student with mild IBS teaches a town of old fogies how to dance…and, consequently, to love)
  5. Haley Joel Osment (Struggling child actor faces decreasing cuteness and an intruding urge to kill)

Five disturbing fake names for ejaculate

Sunday, September 21st, 2003
  1. La Salsa Hombre
  2. Onan’s Bearnaise
  3. Love Pollution
  4. Saint Mayo’s Spread of Desperation
  5. Instant Daddy Mix

Five things that make it hard for me to take you seriously

Sunday, September 14th, 2003
  1. Finding ways to mention you don’t own a TV. Repeatedly.
  2. Expecting me to call you “Doctor”
  3. Pronouncing the French film festival “kahn”
  4. That little Garth Brooks headset you use with the cell phone
  5. Using the word “vortal” without a speck of irony

Five wallets I’ve enjoyed

Saturday, September 6th, 2003
  1. Adam & the Ants screen-printed velcro sports wallet (1982)
  2. Levi’s© denim billfold with patch (1978)
  3. Sharper Image™ taxicab driver’s wallet (1999)
  4. (My late father’s) Masonic wallet, featuring enormous creepy “G” (1976)
  5. Two rubberbands (1988)

Five things you just don’t hear much about anymore

Saturday, September 6th, 2003
  1. Bumper pool
  2. est
  3. Macramé
  4. Pogs
  5. T’Pau

Five Records I Listened to on the Way to Work (SF to Menlo Park; February, 2001)

Monday, September 1st, 2003
  1. Belle & Sebastian / Fold your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
  2. Badly Drawn Boy / The Hour of Bewilderbeast
  3. The Zombies / Odessey & Oracle
  4. Oranger / Doorway to Norway
  5. The Posies / Amazing Disgrace

Five Hall & Oates songs I often have in my head

Monday, September 1st, 2003
  1. I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)
  2. Kiss on my List
  3. Private Eyes
  4. When the Morning Comes
  5. You Make My Dreams