Here at write.click.cook.listen, we’ve been watching the “sound movies” that Shannon Curtis’ sensational pop tunes have created for some time. It started when she lured us in with a wedding scene in “Brightest Light in the Room.” It was an ode to the love of two women who found each other in the army (it just happened that the track went great with corn and shrimp [...]
I’m a cheap bastard. My normal practice when driving across the bay to concerts is to park my car in one of the two hour parking slots, head into the show to catch the opening band, leave the venue and move my car to another two hour spot and return to finish the concert. On Thursday night that actually saved me from missing a pretty [...]
J-Fur and I barely, and I mean barely, squeezed into a packed screening of This is the End last night. It is one of like 837 apocalypse movies that are due out this summer. This particular version features six friends (all dudes, all actors playing themselves) who are trapped in James Franco’s house as catastrophic events begin happening outside. As the food dwindles and fever [...]
Back in December J-Fur was conducting the largest nausea symphony this world has ever seen. Take half a step, dry heave thirteen and a half times, repeat vigorously. She was willing to try anything to get rid of it. There were books upon books littering our living room with all kind of natural herbal remedies. These ranged from lozenges to tinctures to teas to everything [...]
A super hero rises from the depths of the sewers, masks himself and flies around eating hot sauce covered hot dogs. That same hot sauce is used to stop a criminal cold in his tracks when it winds up in his eye. Later an innocent bystander catches a glimpse of the superhero while licking a colorful ice cream cone. Moments later the superhero crawls down [...]
It has been rumored in certain social circles that bacon makes everything better. In my circle, nothing could be further from the truth. I heard the other day about a situation that involved a friend of mine. Let’s call this friend Tenderina. Tenderina is a vegan. He/she walked into a steakhouse the other night looking for something to eat. They weren’t their by choice, it [...]
Almost 20 years ago the Offspring put out their only full length album worth owning (that would be Smash). At the time I thought Smash (and to an even greater extent Out Come the Wolves by Rancid) were like nothing I had ever heard before. They were magical. So much so that when my American History teacher asked me to make him a mixtape (and [...]
Years ago J-Fur and I went on one of those first date thingees to a now defunct (for obvious reasons) pizza place. She asked that we forego a pizza slathered in tomato sauce (sacrilege) for one in pesto. I wanted to seem worldly, foodie like and agreeable so I went along with it. The pizza was disgusting. It was a disgrace to all dough, sauce [...]
I was walking the streets of downtown the other week and I happened by a packed pizza place. I caught a glimpse of an older lady reaching into her purse to pop some pills. She placed not one, not two, not three but four different pills on her tongue and washed them down with a soda. I can’t say that I’m surprised. There is a [...]
