song of the heart

so the skinny mother fucker with the high voice won a golden globe award (best original song for the song of the heart) and was running late so he wasn't even there to accept it. sometimes i wonder where the fuck his mind is - the boy seriously lives in his own little purple world. who shows up late for an award ceremony? as a huge fan of the man, i gotta say - it's nice to see him back on the scene, but the song wasn't that strong was it?

oh, and seriously - what the fuck was cameron diaz wearing? i'll try and find a pic...

plum tuckered out

ventured out of the house for the first time today and boy did it tire me out... had lunch with my friend christopher today (tasty burger and fries at the longfellow grill).

still ambling about on crutches (especially for more than just walking from the bed to the couch) but it felt great to finally get out. things i've learned:

• it's difficult (but not impossible) to shave while supporting oneself on crutches.
• putting a sock and a shoe on when you can't fully bend (or extend for that matter) your leg can fuckin' hurt.
• walking through four inches of snow on crutches is fun.
• daytime tv sucks ass (and not in that good ass to mouth sort of way way).
• judi dench is a god.
• brian from cheapblueguitarspan> does not spend enough time entertaining me.

i think it's nap time. i'm a tired boy. but before that - tonight is the golden globes - the second greatest night of tv, so without further adu; my pics (truth be told i've not seen many of the flicks nominated - but i really do love the below performances...):

best picture – drama
-the departed

best picture – musical or comedy
-little miss sunshine

animated film
-cars

lead actor – drama
-leonardo dicaprio in the departed

lead actor – musical or comded
-chiwetel ejiofor in kinky boots (should win; sacha baron cohen in borat will win)

lead actress – drama
-helen mirren – the queen

lead actress – comedy or musical
-meryl streep – the devil wears prada

actor in a supporting role
- ben affleck in hollywoodland

actress in a supporting role
- emily blunt in the devil wears prada

director
- martin scorsese for the departed

tv series – drama
- heroes

tv series – musical or comedy
- ugly betty (would be happy with entourage as well)

actor in a leading role – drama
- patrick dempsey in grey’s anatomy (he’s dreamy you know)

actor in a leading role – musical or comedy
- jason lee in my name is earl

actress in a leading role – drama
- ellen pompeo – grey’s anatomy

actress in a leading role – comedy or musical
- america ferrera – ugly betty

i life less ordinary

sshhhh..., don't tell anyone, but i'm kinda a romantic - a sappy, romantic.

today, after the 867th film (serenity, for those keeping score) i've seen in the last few days, i was flipping through channels and i came across the last 20 minutes of a life less ordinary, one of the greatest flicks in the known universe if you ask me.

this 1997 flick, from the director of trainspotting and shallow grave was nothing short of revolutionary to me. i love danny boyle's (the aforementioned director) eye, sense of rhythm and frenetic directing style; a style that was perfect in the gritty trainspotting - but i would have never thought he could do a romantic comedy (albeit with a fair bit of tragedy thrown in) as well as he pulled off this flick.

i love everything about this movie - cameron diaz and ewan mcgregor are awesome, while delroy lindo and holly hunter (playing a brilliant pair of murdersome, meddling angels) are a pure delight.

from imdb: "ewan mcgregor stars as a cleaning man in l.a. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. the "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor."

i forgot about how much i love this movie and how much i love feeling happy about the possibility of love. i've already ordered a copy for my library.

can't wait to watch it from the start!!

celine: so your telling me that successful relationships are made in heaven? Not founded on the daily practicality of two people being prepared to tolerate the imperfections of one another?
robert: it’s not successful relationships celine, it’s love. and it comes from a strange and wonderful place that we don’t know about.
celine: so then, you also reject the idea that love is merely an emotional adaptation of a physical necessity?
robert: completely.
celeine: are you serious?
robert: fate intervenes in people’s lives.
celine: in ours for instance?
robert: fate brought us together, it kept us together. we were destined for one another.
celine: fate had a pretty strange way of making it’s point
robert: but that’s part of the beauty of it, it’s inexplicable, unpredictable and absolutely beyond control or understanding.
celine: but you nearly got killed…
robert: but i didn’t. and here we are.
celine: do you have any substantial evidence to back up all of this?
robert: none at all.
celine: and you realize that it’s absurd and irrational?
robert: i know that.
celine: then why do you believe it?
robert: because celine, i’m a dreamer
celine: i guess that makes two of us.
robert: are you ready?
celine: as i’ll ever be.
robert: then lets go….

brilliant! simply brilliant :-)

and for those up for a knee update (don't worry, no more pictures) - i'm doin' more or less ok. woke up this morning and could actually walk on the full pad of my foot - 'course that went away as the day progressed and i'm back to crutches. it's an evolution right? the swelling is down by about 50%, but i am still going fuckin' stir crazy. hopefully tomorrow i'll be without the crutches.

picture of the day

snapped this pic a couple of weeks ago (dec 31 actually) with cb in the car..... this is the world famous club "first avenue"; featured in the movie purple rain and home to about the best damn rock-n-roll experience in all of minneapolis.

i have always wished that as a young music afficiando, i would have kept all the ticket stubs to the various concerts i've been too - i think it would have been cool to be able to sit and reflect on what was once done... alas, i never kept ticket stubs for more than a couple of weeks so my recollection of who i've seen in this humble building is less than complete. but suffice to say, some of the greatest moments of music i've ever seen live, have been in first ave.

from the top of my head:

concrete blonde / siouxsie and the banshees / the creatures / lloyd cole / johnette napolitano / paul weller / soul asylum / the rembrandts / the jayhawks / ben folds five / pil / new order / youssou n'dour / ana voog / sounds of blackness / spiritulized / brother sun sister moon / me'shell n'degeo'cello / the afghan whigs / morphine / trip shakespeare / violent femmes / interpol / tori amos

ahh the memories :-)

christmas recap

christmas is always a mixed bag for me.... i mean, who doesn't love prezzies, right? i mean, hell ya, i love gettin' prezzies (i also particularly love to give them - search for eons for that perfect gift), but at the end of the day it's rare that i am ever given something truly personal - something that says as much about the person gifting me as it does me. i don't mean to sound ungrateful, but sometimes i feel like people just don't get me. and that saddens me a little. i will say this, it's fairly easy to buy for me on the surface (itunes gift cards, dvd's etc - that all works just fine), but the surface stuff isn't really me right?

this year, i got a very surprising prezzies

eon's ago i told a good friend about two treasured items from my childhood. two stuffed animals in fact. one stuffed animal i still own (a bear that's pushing 100 years old - he belonged to my grandmother, then my mom and now i have him), and a stuffed bunny that disappeared sometime in childhood. by the way their names were 'bear bear' and 'bungy rabbit' respectively - what can i say, i was never the most original child.

i told him this story well over a year ago (if not longer) and when i opened my christmas prezzies this guy was staring up at me out of the mylared bag:

there was a card under his butt: "kyle - my name is marty. i know i'm not like bearbear or bungy rabbit, and i know parker usually sleeps with you. but i hope that when you are alone or just need someone to hug, you'll think of me... because i'll be there waiting. (see? some bears are nice.) - marty"

and boys and girls, i gotta tell you, curling up with this big furry lug the last couple of nights with my knee propped up on 3 pillows has been mighty comforting.

picture of the day

cool ass pic from a church in boston - i have no idea what church, just saw it when i was walkin' around boston last november.

another view:

doesn't even look like a knee....

does it?

day 2.... i'm so over being cooped up in the house.... i'm sick of watching tv, movies and naps.... in the past two day's i've seen 'date movie', 'an evening with kevin smith 2; evening harder', 'clerks 2', 'failure to launch' and '24 hours on craigslist'!

other than that, today i've been on a ton of conference calls for work in between cleaning up after my cat. i switched her food on tuesday morning and she's done nothing but puke for the last two days.... emergency trip to the pet food store (ooh driving and vicodin a fun combo) to get her old food. this better work - i'm honestly more freaked out about her belly than my knee.

ugg, i need to be able to walk and to get out of the house - i'm going completely stir crazy.

....

knee surgery...

....went well.... was at the hospital at about noon, in my "gown" by 1.... sat around in the pre-op room watching tv till about 2:45. wheeled into the operating room then - on a side note, why do operating rooms in real life look nothing like they do in hollywood? i mean in hollywood movies & tv shows - o.r.'s are all sexy and dark and intimate. in real life, they are bright and cluttered and not sexy at all.

don't remember a thing after wheeling into the o.r.

woke up around 4:15 in post-op - very very very out of it.... i hate coming out of anesthesia. it sucks. all the fun of sleeping without the cool dreams or the restful waking. and then home by 6:30.

I personally haven’t talked to the surgeon, but my mom did, apparently there was a lot of "junk" that they carved out of from under my knee cap - including something that actually attached itself to my knee cap. can't imagine that was a good thing. i'll have pictures next week to share with all of you (and if your really curious, i have pics of my spleen i can show you - but that's another story).

knee feels "ok" today - just a numb feeling - it's pretty dramatically swollen and wrapped from mid thigh to ankle.

i've got crutches, vicodin & a big ol' stack of movies to watch. life is pretty good. doing a bit of work here and there too (mainly conference calls).

i've been horrible at updating sr.sl over the past month - the knee thing + a good dose of insane work has been keeping me distracted, but i've got a couple of fun posts in the pipeline and more than enough time to get off my ass and post something.

thank you for all the well wishes - they mean a lot to me. really :-)

medial meniscus and "other bodies"

wow - so much to update you all on - the holidays, my complete and utter total addiction to sports night, and my new years weekend with cb (by the way, ignore whatever he says about my "gameplay" - it's not my fault he can't draw worth a shit and his family is cruel and makes people "act out" shit) - and i will update you all, i promise... but

i got me some big fuckin' news for ya'll.

that there picture, that's a knee cap (well specifically it's showing you a medial meniscus). that there picture, that's my future. specifically my very near future.

next tuesday i will be going under the knife...

18 years ago i took a fairly dramatic fall that resulted in 3 tiny bone chips floating around under my knee cap roughing up my medial meniscus. the doctor then (and the 2 subsequent doctor's that have had the pleasure of poking and prodding my knee) essentially said "yup, you got some bone chips in there; you'll want to have those removed someday - in the mean time, here's a knee brace; off you go".

to which i generally responded with "why don't you fucking cut me open and remove the "other bodies" so i don't live with pain for the next 18 years". (they call bone chips "other bodies" - sounds vaugly alien doesn't it?)

interestingly enough, they ignored that question.

so there i was living off and on with sometimes marginal pain to sometimes blazingly intense pain - until this past november.

november was the beginning of the end.... my knee has progressively gotten worse and worse (tears may have been involved a time or two, i'm not ashamed to admit it). so i've finally found a lovely doctor who agreed to remove said "other bodies" in order to improve the quality of my life.

so this coming tuesday at 2:00pm my knee will be filleted and fixed.

i'm very happy about this.

in other non-meniscus news i just want to give a shout out to the original "nasty girl" who turned 48 today.

happy birthday vanity!

r.i.p. james brown

james 'the godfather of soul' brown, 1933 - 2006

a wish for wings that work

admittedly, you loose something of the context when you have not seen the previous 28 minutes, but this is a small snippet of the greatest animated holiday special ever. opus n' bill's 'a wish for wings that work'.

Opus the Penguin has one aspiration in life: to be able to fly. Unfortunately, destiny--or evolution--has cruelly left his species flightless... until his friend Bill the Cat coughs up a wild idea. Can a Christmas miracle get Opus off the ground? This heartwarming and hilarious holiday romp--based on Berkeley Breathed's comic strip BLOOM COUNTY--features a fine cast of comedic actors, including an uncredited cameo by Dustin Hoffman, as a cross-dressing cockroach.

woefully, it only played once, back in 1991 - but with the power of vhs it lives to this day (if i can find a vcr)... oh, and the power of you tube.... to see it all (of course, you'll want to see it all), go here.

'tis the season

(double click image for larger view)

here's wishing you all a wonderful holiday season. may the season bring you peace, joy and happiness.

-kyle

has it really come to this?

i'm a firm believer that:

is just like:

you can only take so many precautions before the pesky bug is under your skin. as such, at approx. 9:30pm today, i jumped in the toxic lake that is myspace.com and created my own page.

what the fuck you may be asking yourself (i'm still in shock my self) - would you do something like that for?


well boys and girls in blogger-ville, it's pretty simple. every band, ever singer, ever musician around has a myspace page - and those pages are frequently updated a helluva lot more often than their own proper websites. as such, if i want to stay abreast (hehehe, i said breast) [sorry, just trying to get in the typical myspacer headspace] of their goings-on and prevent missing one of my favorite singers (see: bad-fan for an example of what i'm talking about), i needed to dive into the cesspool (you see many of these pages are "locked" to outside viewers; meaning you gotta join to see the goods).


check me out: sr_sl


if you happen to be on myspace; hit me up, send me a note - it looks kinda lame that i only have one "friend" there. [my how low i've gotten, begging for friends... i need a beer now]

"satanic everly brothers"

as referenced here: sr...sl/twilight2 and here: sr...sl/twilight1 i love me some greg dulli and the twilight singers.

(photo by me taken 5.18.06 of greg dulli live in minneapolis)

on wednesday, december 20th's episode of national public radio's world cafe, greg & his latest co-conspiritor mark lanegan (formerlly of screaming trees). it's a very lovely interview with some musical bits throwin in - i highly recommend you check it out.

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fyi

i hate topiary's.

especially christmas topiary's.

dilemma

this is truly a hypothetical question as i've not be asked to do anything special (nor is there a great chance of ever being asked), but as i was watching hgtv's "the white house christmas 2006" a thought popped into my head....

lets say you were asked to supply the christmas tree for the white house, or paint the annual white house family christmas card and you were diametrically opposed to the administration in control. would you still give them the tree or paint the card?

what if the president wanted to honor you for something terribly important - would you go, or send your regrets?

lets say you were a composer and the president wanted you to perform your excellent new composition in the blue room. would you do it?

does the office of the presidency transcend any political partisanship?

please stand by

i'm in a bit of a bah humbug/scrooge mindset....

your regularily scheduled sr...sl goodness will be back after a complete and total immersion in my holiday favorites to try and get perky about the whole fucking thing.

on deck:

some bill murrey/carol ane goodness in "scrooged"

snoopy should be able to crack my mood. he always rocks my world.

and if that doesn't work, there's always my all-time-favorite christmas story:

opus is the shit. seriously - the shit.

sick bastards

actual conversation from this morning - names have been changed to protect the gulity.

her: how you doing baby?
me: i'm good - you?
her: better
me: did you kill <name removed to protect the guilty; lesbian lover>
her: ha, no
its fine
me: are you better cause your soon to have a new prison girlfriend because you killed her??
oh good
her: she was pms
and annoying the hell out of me
me: bitch
her: hahahahahaahah
i told her all the reasons that she was acting crazy
and she listened
me: maybe she just needs a big man penis?
her: HAHAHAHA
that would make her LESS crazy?!?!?
please.
me: you know all you lesbo’s - it's just a phase
her: hahahahaha
ts true
:p
yuck
you know you have Britneys vag as your wallpaper on you computer
me: her meat curtains are everywhere these days
her: ugh
me: that's courtesy of my friend lobo.
lol
her: i could have lived my entire existence in blissful ignorance
now i am soiled
me: you know you'd tap that ass if given a choice.
her: and have nightmares
me: you & brit - true love
its' a new reality series on fox
her: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
omg
it WOULD be hysterical
me and britany
me: you petition the court for parental rights for SPF & JJ (the missing one you never see in pics)
you and brit on holiday on fire island
her: hmmm
me: you and brit shopping at whole foods for your organic body-butter
me: brit complaining about brunch (for the uninitiated; brunch is the name of a great dane) drool all over the baby
her: ha
PLEASE
the baby would DROWN in drool and she wouldn't notice
me: <lesbian ex-gf> killing brit in a desperate jealous ploy to win you back
her: me complaining about paris leaving her shit all over the house
me: but you would be too distraught in taking care of "your kids" to notice
at least you know Paris would never leave her underwear around
or Brit for that matter
her: hahahahahahah
me: Meat curtains all over the joint
her: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
me: you know you'd want Paris to join for your annual 3 way
just on your anniversary
her: i wouldn't be able to FIND her
me: why not?
her: she needs a few sandwiches
me: you'd think she'd have more bounce in the trunk being from cali... how's that song go...? "we've got more bounce in california...?
her: hahahah
yeah not so much
me: you and nicky could go in business together in a nice sub-plot
her: hahahahahahahhahahaahahahah
me: Parker/Hilton Design Group, LLC
her: ah nicky
me: at least she tries
her: the 'good' one

world aids day 2006

there are 39.5 million people living with hiv/aids in the world today

2.9 million adults died from aids in 2006

more than 25 million people have died from aids since 1981

there are 12 million aids orphans in africa

click here for more information and to find out what you can do to stop aids:

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