dilluns, de gener 29, 2007

I am now gainfully employed; I am a telefundraiser for the University of Texas. I'm not really too sure what to expect, I'm just glad that I will have more money coming in. I haven't had a job since I was in high school.
I bought three DVDs over the weekend: Videodrome, Blue Velvet, and Donnie Darko. The first two are fucking insane, the former more so than the latter, and Donnie Darko is good. I just realized that I was cheap in the store and bought the regular version of Donnie Darko as opposed to the director's cut, but oh well. Hopefully the difference isn't sufficient to cause too much despair.
Videodrome in particular is a movie that I will never forget, you should see it. Fuck that, just buy it. There is a short film included that was created for, i think, the re-release of the DVD in the criterion collection that is very good. It's called Camera and stars Les Carlson.
Cronenberg is amazing, though i have only seen a little bit of his oeuvre. It takes quite a director to make Naked Lunch, the so-called "unfilmable book," into a movie.
Anyway, I'm slowly getting used to my schedule, and life is bearable.









Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin to the top
The sheik he drove his cadillac
He went a cruisnin down the ville
The muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound
But the bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

Now over at the temple
Oh! they really pack em in
The in crowd say its cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

He thinks its not kosher
Fundamentally he cant take it.
You know he really hates it.