Video Archives
Soul Weekenders
9:14 am | 1 | Video | Listening, Watching
Northern Soul in the UK.
Summertime
Summertime from Brittanie on Vimeo.
John McCain is a misogynist
2:25 pm | 0 | Blog, Internerd, Video | Girly, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
There are a million reasons* not to vote for John McCain but here are two that have my blood boiling lately.
First, McCain calls his wife a make-up smeared cunt ** and then he offers her up to a pack of bikers in an event that equals little more than a debaucherous wet t-shirt contest.
Other ways in which McCain shows little to no regard for women: he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, limit access to contraception and and doesn’t believe in fair pay.***
* Next time I get a blanket email from my grandmother about how Obama is the Muslim antichrist I’m going to reply with this video.
** Here is an interesting follow-up to that story.
*** I know most of these videos and links are old news but I still think they’re important.
Indulging myself in narcicism
2:38 am | 7 | Blog, Video | Girly, Places, Two Wheels
Here’s the video from Chattanooga Channel 12. That’s me in the first montage, kick-starting my scooter in one shot and then revving the throttle a few shots later. That’s also me at the end of the video, rambling about helmet hair. For the record, I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about when I say I can ride “for weeks” on one tank. For those thinking of buying a scooter, that’s not true. She just asked me a mindless question and I responded in kind.
The current *spin* on scooter stories is about how people sick of high gas prices are turning to two wheels to ease their economic woes. It’s the only way the news can come up with to relate to the scooterist community. But I’ve been riding scooters for 5+ years, way before gas prices reached unreasonable levels, and even before then I was raised by a father who raced and was obsessed with moto-cycling. There are so many people out there now who have bought their first 2-wheeled vehicle and who have no idea on how to ride safely (flip-flops? no helmet? tank tops? lane sharing?) and in my opinion they are not the bulk of the scooterist community, nor are they representative of what AmeriVespa is about. I mean, my bike is a greasy 30-year-old 2-stroke highly-pollutive inefficient engine. If I was in it for gas prices, surely I’d be driving a hyrbid. I’m in it for the scooters themselves.
Okay. End rant. Enjoy the video. Sunday Punchers REPRESENT!
Needing your lovin’
4:57 pm | 1 | Video | Listening
Johnny “Secret Agent Man” Rivers is playing in Stafford, TX the night before C goes offshore again. You better believe I already have my tickets, and my outfit picked out. I’m working on the dance.
While we’re on the topic of music, I’ve started (another) list — Shows I Have Seen, 2008.
(Crossposted at Houstonist, where I’m now a contributor.)
Waiting for the War on Bastille Day
1:31 pm | 0 | Video | Listening
French late 70s glam-psych rock band Soggy, via Beware of the Blog, who has more delicious info.
Gonzo
10:48 pm | 1 | Video | Watching
I saw this movie last week. Serendipitously, as I didn’t know it was coming out until the day before it opened and I am currently finishing “Hell’s Angels.” Overall the movie is pretty good, although plagued by “Unsolved Mysteries”-style dramatic re-enactments. There are a lot of video interviews and photographs with Thompson and the best part is the last half hour during which they touch on the author’s suicide and self-planned memorial service, which looked pretty great. If you’ve read all of his books you won’t learn anything new but the value of the movie is hearing from Thompson the author as opposed to Thompson the character (Raoul Duke).
Make You Say Wow
3:39 pm | 0 | Video | Listening
Bob Log III is playing tonight at Rudyard’s. I’m going. You should too.
There is more video awesomeness here.
The Death and Life of Ice Cream
8:57 am | 0 | Video | Watching
Hope you have a hot, sticky, wonderful July 4th.
Little yellow buzzing
2:23 pm | 2 | Video | Two Wheels
I only wish I’d learned this kind of stuff in my motorcycle safety classes.
Oh, I have another video for you too, but it’s in very, very poor taste.