Ab Queck Zenick Fesi

Should've thought to post this yesterday, but it turned out to be a busy May The 4th Be With You...

You're welcome, Jake.

Might As Well Go For A Soda, Nobody Hurts And Nobody Cries

There's a cool quiz on Buzzfeed on 200 classic movies from the past 100 years right now - basically a 'how-many-have-you-seen' type thing. I've seen 36, but A) I saw a number that I'd like to see eventually and B) I'm glad to see some of my favorites on the list.

I've seen:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard Of Oz
Fantasia
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca*
It's A Wonderful Life
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre*
Singin' In The Rain
Rear Window*
The Ten Commandments
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Ben-Hur
West Side Story
Goldfinger
The Sound Of Music
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly*
Patton*
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
The first Star Wars trilogy * (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi, as one option; technically this brings my total to 38)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Terminator
Back To The Future*
Die Hard
Beauty And The Beast
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption*
The Lion King
The Toy Story trilogy (again, this adds two to the technical total, making 40)
Saving Private Ryan
The Big Lebowski*
The Lord Of The Rings trilogy * (42!)
The Dark Knight

*These movies are my all-time favorites, hands down.

I Swore I'd Never Ever Do It Again, 'Til This Day

Passed Out On A Public Complex Lawn

Pittsburgh's Southside neighborhood, March 9th 2014.

So You Say You're Leaving Home 'Cause You Want To Be Alone

Thanks to my mom for showing me this and YouTube user ItsJustSkating for creating the film.

Sugar Mountain by Neil Young.

He's Got A Future In British Steel

Keep searchin'.

Current:
Shulamith - Poliça
Up From Below - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Mechanical Bull - Kings Of Leon
Port Of Morrow - The Shins
New Moon - The Men
Heartthrob - Tegan & Sara
Hummingbird - Local Natives*
The Suburbs - The Arcade Fire*
Reflektor - The Arcade Fire
Vapor Trails Remixed - Rush

Classics:
3 - Gamma
Lights Out - UFO
Drums & Wires - XTC
Crystal Logic - Manilla Road*

Loved His Gun And His Sweet Cocaine

The ironic right to keep and bear arms? Or the right to keep and bear ironic arms?

Uh... Don't you mean...the police?

Also - you fail gun safety forever.

What's The Agenda, What Were You Thinking?

Just learned that Guided By Voices drummer Kevin Fennel was fired from the band before their fifth LP since the reunion. Apparently, Fennel put the drums he used on the landmark album Alien Lanes up for sale for about $55,000. Ok, nothing wrong with that, right?

Apparently not if you're Robert Pollard. The GBV lead fired Fennel from the band and derided him for using the GBV name and the use of the set on Alien Lanes as his key selling point. He also had a few choice words to say about Fennel's drumming skills, none of then supportive. Bob, I love the music but seriously, take a chill pill.

It's kind of silly for Pollard to be pissed at Fennel over this as firstly, they're Fennel's drums. He can do whatever he wants with them. Secondly, it's as though Pollard is trying to make the point that he and he alone is GBV, which he's said in the past (something that I find kind of big-headed, but ok he's the key songwriter, I can let it slide), but here it doesn't make much sense. Fennel is credited with the drum work on Alien Lanes, whatever Pollard might have to say about it.

If Pollard is unhappy about his bandmates riding on his coattails, I don't feel he's chosen a good battlefield this time. I think he's off base.