listmaking: notes and observations, regular Travie edition, 9/05/09

We can has puppy! Well, Travie does, anyway, a male French Bulldog he has named Stitch, as in Lilo and Stitch. He took the puppy on something of a road trip to San Diego this week, and they listened to De La Soul, Digable Planets and Phil Collins in the car. (Travie's iPod must also be an amazing place to visit.)

He also mentioned the video for Danny Diablo's cover of "Don't You Want Me" by the Human League, and, ladies and gentlemen, this video is a masterpiece. It is Danny Diablo growling out the lyrics over the top of a re-telling of True Romance. It reminded me of The Sisters of Mercy cover of Jolene, kind of: bizarre but beautiful, totally something I'd crank up while driving. (If you have not had the pleasure of that last one: hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bpm-ahi2ns)

Finally, he mentioned the DJ IV sampler, which as far as I can tell is a music-creation-related machine. He has one, or access to one, and he likes it.

Pictures this week were, unsurprisingly, almost all of the dog. (The dog is really cute.)

listmaking: notes and observations, regular Panic!/The Young Veins edition, 9/05/09

This week was Happy Birthday to Ryan and Spencer! week. There was an adorable video featuring puppies and terrible nicknames, which may refer to yet more Internet "humor" and also be a kind of gentle self-mockery (the "Brenny" is canon, after all). Also I think Brendon & co. may have given Spencer a bike as a present.
( It was also a good week for the solving of puzzles. )

Ryan: Birthday shenanigans (mostly thanking people for birthday wishes, though possibly some drunken rollerblading in the pool), a missing peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and some commentary about progress on the new record. (New songs soon, he pinky swears!) The one non-birthday, non-recording comment was about Nancy Drew, which, I really hate Nancy Drew. A lot.

( tangent about Nancy Drew )

Brendon: Watched a lot of Family Guy and YouTube videos (a Bollywood-esque dance clip, the 10th dimension stuff which I don't know how to classify (earnest performance art?), and a snippet of Born on the 4th of July; went to a baseball game with Pete (and Larry King!); watched some movies; hung out with Shane; and rode his new bike around Venice Beach. Musical selections included a first appearance by The Beatles (I think the Birthday song is required on birthday occasions) as well as selections from fun. and Sublime. I've been seeing fun.'s name everywhere but never listened to them; they're pretty catchy, as it turns out. Also he shared a mind-boggling adorable picture of himself sleep-cuddling his dog, and had an interview with Diablo Cody which was no doubt Jennifer's Body related.

Spencer: This week was All Birthday, All the Time, including a tweet that featured a Lars Ulrich quote that may or may not be from Some Kind of Monster (it's not in the on-line script), which was in reply to a friend's comment that did specifically reference SKOM.

( tangent about Metallica )

Other activity: Spencer and Jon had some joking back-and-forth centered around Jon planning a apparently stereotypical Vegas night out. (I followed them up until the bit about LAX, which I only knew of as an airport. Reading ONTD/Keltie's blog: Apparently good for something!) The one non-birthday related moment was Spencer posting a picture of one of his boxers (dogs, not underpants). It is also a really cute dog.

Jon: The Beatles are back! Also he might be teasing us about looking for meaning in lyrics (or tweets) where there is none. Some birthday business, as noted above, as well as wishing Ryan the returns of his day (and setting up a shiny banner in the studio, awwwww). The rest is, I think, commentary on working on the Young Veins record, though he did seem to possibly be getting in on the overall wedding-theme action with the "From this day forth" comment. I included two songs that he may, possibly have referenced, but I'm not 100% sure I'm interpreting correctly. And, too, see above, re: finding meaning where there is none.

Special note: The Beatles song contains legions of references, but one of the lines Jon picked echoes the title of a ground-breaking photobook by Jacob Riis that spotlighted the terrible conditions and poverty in New York City tenements in 1890, so I put that in his visual art section.

Spotlight on: Puppies!

It feels like everyone got a new dog recently. While not making cooing noises at my screen, I've been noting choices of names, and they are diverse! So here is a mini-picspam of puppies, both recently arrived and familiar.

( movie stars, crooners, cities, oh my! )

fic snippet: tentacles

i broke off a tiny bit of my block, and 1564 words came out. This bit takes place post-funeral, and so is somewhat sad. But there are brighter things coming! (Very bright. Shiny. Fiery, even.)

( tentacles snippet; g, but angsty )