Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Ultimate Top 10 Stoner Drug movie list of all time

I would be remiss on this list of lists to not qualifty some of the requirements to put a movie on this list. First rule. It has to be quotable. Second. the sound track needs to rock. third rule. see first rule. Ok so cliche as this might be this really is a subjective list and really the only way to check it's validity is too see some of the flims for yourself. There are probably some obvious things not included here and for all intent and purposes this could be my top 10 list all times. Go figure.

10)Spinal Tap - Got to love Rob Reiner's Rockmentary classic. This one goes to 11. Released 1984

9)The Trip - The distorted and non-lsd word are explained here in a movie by Peter Fonda. Good place to start and stop the drug thing. Bizare stuff. If you ever wanted to do some hard stuff. Check this out first and turn up the volume and pretend you can't stop it. that is what LSD is like. Released 1967

8) Easy Rider - Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson have this great pot smoking scene where where Jack goes off on Minutians before contemplating that smoking the reffers will lead to other things. Also starring Dennis Hopper. Get your motor riding. Released in 1969.

7)Suburbia - There is poker posse movie which is not this one. The one you need to check out really goes into the depths of the punk subculture with a dramatic big wheel scene directed Penelope Spheeris. Released in 1983

6)Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Sean Penns break-out movie wether he likes it or not he will always be Jeff Spicoli. He made checkered vans famous and you gotta love Mr. Hands conversation about time and Phoebe Cates assets. Released 1982

5)The Jerk - Either you love Steve Martin or you hate him. This is one of the funniest 70's movies ever where the mother of invention lets us all live in the big house. The music are alll little tunes written by Steve and extreme on the stupid scale. Released 1979

4)Trainspotting - If it is not for the rave music (or whatever it is) the toilet scene alone defines what it means to be small(That is slang for being high).

3)Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams Sort of an obvious choice. These guys are the pothead gurus.

2)Apocalypse Now it's dark, it has the Rolling Stones and The doors intro sequence with "The End" are just the set-up of some of the best dialog ever in a film; Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando's diatribe about the morality of war is briliant and very relevant considering the wrongness of IRAQ. Very heavy, heavy film. Release 1979.

1)Repo man - It has it all. Amazing punk sound track complete with the circle jerks, suicidal tendancies and others. If this movie trailer, clocking in at 2 minutes, does anything for the un-iniciatd. You will check it out in full. In highschool we used to play this flick over and over during parties. Released 1984

EPIC 2015 movie about the past and future of your internet

What does it all mean? How did we get here? This is not my beautiful house. Ok the big four (GOOOOGLE, MICROSOFT, APPLE AND .GOV) are all in on the dissecting of your social network and purchasing habits. We really shound't be affraid until they start to pre-judge you on these habits. However, the wheels are already in motion for social comformity but what can you do? Get off the grid? When the grid is so much fun. Coming soon: Social network survival kit beta by Ronko

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Mountain bike video for 6 mile run in NJ


It's been awhile since i've been on the mountain since little kido Zgirl made it into my world six months ago. Although i've been riding my hybrid for an hour every weekend, it's just not enougth. So just to make me miss the mountain; rider Ryan sent the NJ weekend warrior mountain bikers this video of Six mile run in NJ. Now i can pretend to ride at work from this pov video. soon enough I'll get there and not just gab smartly about riding every once in awhile.

Friday, November 02, 2007

Everbody loves to hate social networking: the anti-trend


I've been giggling all morning at my find on a Buzz feed search on all the anti-social networking sites out there. Natural Search Blog has a good review on hatebook.org points out a Antisocial Media and optmiziation phenomenom where bad press is a good thing and if you are into SEO(search engine optimization) all the haters will flock and give you web traffic [join I love to hate Britney Spears Clan]. Ironic Yes, proof is in the pudin' here. People love a good car crash. Hatebook is extremely transparent to the level where there is no privacy policy, people can see who is stalking who and all "junkmail” is open to members. Hilarious. isolatr.com is another good one, where you can't even login and claims to help 'you be where people aren't', third on the list nosoproject.com, which is similar to happening, except you aren't allowed to engage although you are converging with other like minded folks and disconnect from the world. So literally tune-out you freaking network hippies and get off my space.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

How to watch tv all day and pretend to work



The tv fridge at work in the cubicle next to me has taken on a life of it's own. I honestly have a hard time working at home if there is anybody around. CNN on background is ok, blasting music is ok unless the phone rings, and then there is the damn dog barking and the mailman. So having the tv mini fridge lounge area at work is making me feel at home without actually being at home. The other problem is that the internet is the new tv. Check out the Eastern Anchors live at the Court Tavern, currently pumping up to record a studio album

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

I am tv not fridge



I don’t know this Maytag guy you speak about,
I should have been something else
Yet you fill my belly with things
Whos’ content should be waste
You gussied up my plastic sides
Without looking inside
It’s like calling me names
That you can’t spell, you’re a bad consumer,
The evil son with all that was the jar
Euro trumps uncle
Vacant and hungry

Thursday, October 25, 2007

New fascination with Nascar

Might of had a lot to do with the fact I helped think some of the IA through for a recent community site development project for Nascar fans. Check out all NASCAR fan news skuttlebutt you can shake a stick at over at Rowdy.com Coming is deeper forum experience with categories and taging. Friend me on my rowdy profile and join in on the speed. These car driver are freakin so fast and I can't believe how close they are to the walls and each-other. It's addictive and now wonder it's the number one sport in America. You know the middle part between California and New Yawk.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Alternadad rocks thee Court Tavern w/ the Eastern Anchors


oh, me bones and ear-drums on Guitar stage left. Here are few snips from the Eastern Anchors show at the Court Tavern a few weeks ago. A local show and recordings coming your way soon. See hi-ya on the myspace page. thanks.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Eastern Anchors Maxwells Sat Aug 4th 2007


If you are looking for a good rock guide, the show to be at this weekend is the Eastern Anchors debut at Maxwells. It's been a long time coming for these veteran of new jersey rock history to meet their destiny where the likes of built to spill, archers of loaf, sonic youth, and a zillion other great indie bands have played. Also, on the bill are The Groucho Marxist with Chris from Doc Hopper and Austin from the Boss Jim Gettys. The opener is band from nyc called the Shondes. There is a full garauntee that there will be some loud axe playing. No wussy emo to be had.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

cnn 2.0 redesign vs news delivery

Although, this blog is in agreement that g0000oogle will eventually own the world or at least we'll all be working for them in the very near future. One of the obvious kingships is in the physical act of inter site search. The new cnn is clearly monetized by googlesearch bar which will make some dough. What is very interesting to see, and no surprise, is that Blogs are now more obviously part of the news from their perspective. Does it give their outlet more credibility? A little more than foxnews.com for sure. However, Tthese are their blogs and not some wild wild web news slingers, so the delivery mechanism is hopefully open for public to comment on at least. Other cool features include, predominance of rss feeds up in header and bottom of page for delivery, more editorialized as articles are tagged by hot topics, and their most recent stories are tagged with just time. The Date is left-off. The Media elements have their own sections specifically targeted toward Entertainment consumption – see their TV module. Has local weather module like the one that is on netvibes.com default setting.


If it wasn’t obvious before… this is where the web is now.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Urban mt bikes for dads


While in my 5 fifth week of fatherhood while I watch my friend's emails go by about their latest mountain bike rides; I’ve been looking for some way to get around even for an hour, around town or in the park, I’m considering getting a "urban/hybrid" bike I can eventually put a baby seat on.



Cannondale Road warrior 500 series

Trek 7.3 FX Disc Cross Hyrbrid

Gary Fisher Chronus

HELP!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The algorythm that killed jeeves


The Goooooogle revolution is underway. The giant form field is on the attack and the potential competative advertising space with their purchase of Double Click they are eating the internet away for base user. Can Ask.com be our search engine saviours? They seem to be taunting the big one. At this rate we are all doomed and we will all probably end -up working for them in some for or another. Who can save us? Topix.net? What are our othersearch engine alternatives?

Sunday, March 11, 2007

WFMU pranksters and 2007 drive by fund drivers

I love WFMU for their independence. Once a year they hold out their tin cups so they don't have to take any advertising from the MAN so they can play, prank, sing, scrape, blast and rock the airwaves with their no-format radio. Otherwise known as Free-form radio WFMU has takes great pride in allowing a bunch of wayward DJs do their thing. A recent glorious prank Ken Friedman and Andy Breckman played on the NYTs, is an example of their sense of all things around them. They are the cavemen of airwaves. They are not smut peddlers and really care about the state of things in these times of greed and corporate warfare and believe just about all ilk should get their chance to spin(except for the man) what they are passionate about. WFMU belongs to the people. So get your wallets out now. You have one week left to donate a little lunch money, blood money, beer money, or whatever you can afford.