HOWdeeeeeeee!

<- Bex n' I at Scenic saturday night. There to see DEVA, the female-led DEVO tribute band. I'd thought they were *all* female, but it turns out I was confusing them with the opening band: VIOLATOR, the all-girl Depeche Mode tribute band. Bex and I dressed as cowboys - old-school, Come Back Jonny style - and stood right up front blocking everyone's view with our giant ten-gallon chapeaux. DEVA rocked with their matching quasi-Clockwork-Orangesque getups and synchronized 80's dancing, even though their set-list consisted of few hits. Still they managed to crank out an hour or so of DEVO's more interesting and dancable tunes: Mongoloid, Freedom of Choice, and Secret Agent Man among them. But alas no Satisfaction, Gates of Steel or Whip-It. Still.. so f'in FUN.

thoughts on recent media while grooving on a cookie

24: This show is like crack cocaine. Watching the 2-hour season premiere at her place last night, rev and I were comparing notes on how Jack Bauer never has to recharge his cell phone or pee. Neither did 007. Jack Bauer is the new James Bond. Racist? Sure. oh, and Bond wasn't? I still think all Russians are evil.

Brokeback Mountain: YipeeayooK-Y Muthafuckas. I liked it. Best Picture? No way (of course my saying that means it will sweep... what do I know - I didn't like that MDB that won last year either. ) There wasn't enough of a story. If it had been a man/woman love story it would have bored the shit out of me in 20 minutes, and a woman/woman tale would have busted my chick-flick-ometer and sent me fleeing in horror.

King Kong: WWWWay too fuckin long. We don't need an hour of giant bugs and chases and yeah, we-get-it-youre-really-good-at-special-effects. Or bland ingenues for that matter. Beautiful photography but, duh, it's Peter Jackson.

The Corporation:

The O.C:

[to be continued.... i took a break to watch 24]

From Friday's Times

Why is this bugging me so much? I even had nightmares about it last night.

From Friday's NY Times Op-Ed: While You Were Sleeping, by William Falk

FORBIDDEN IDEAS With more than 100 million users, the Internet is booming in China. The American Web giants Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have all grabbed a piece of the lucrative Chinese market - but only after agreeing to help the government censor speech on the Web. In providing portals or search engines, all three companies are abiding by the government's censorship of certain ideas and keywords, like "Tiananmen massacre," "Taiwanese independence," "corruption" and "democracy." Most foreign news sites are blocked. This year, Yahoo even supplied information that helped the government track and convict a political dissident who sent an e-mail message with forbidden thoughts from a Yahoo account; he was sentenced to 10 years in jail. "Business is business," said Jack Ma, Yahoo's chief in China. "It's not politics."