http://www.djpretzel.com/blog pretzel logic Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:02:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You know, I need to blog on why I too now think that Vista sucks, because it's for totally different reasons than most others. I don't have major beef with the interface, the DRM didn't prevent me from doing anything I wanted, I loved the media center, ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=163 2006 was the best year in my life-to-date in terms of concert attendance; I caught Steely Dan, Aerosmith, The Strokes, and NIN, among others. Since I didn't blog about it then, I'll describe each quickly: Steely Dan - $10 tickets for lawn tix at Nissan Pavilion, AWESOME show, amazing musicianship. ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=162 I recently attended my first Passover Seder, and can think of no better way of doing it full honor & justice than by paraphrasing the great A. Lavigne, who - while gentile - sings and gestures with the heart & soul of one who has escaped Egyptian persecution. I ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=161 A quick update on multiple goings-on in the world, some recent, some... not so much: Another sad year for the Oscars. I speak not of the presentation itself, which was interestingly muted and low-key relative to years past, and featured some interesting performance art-ish attempts at classing things up, but ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=160 Nothing cures insomnia like a bit of late-night Photoshopping... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=159 Every car is the Car of the Year; they try to sneak this by you, hoping the enthusiasm of their punctuation obscures the memory. I try to tell them this is hopeless – I may not have been raised with Jesus, or strong heterosexual role models, but we knew our mutual exclusivity cold, what you weren’t ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=155 While I wish to refrain from becoming one of those sorts who spends more time cycling out different site designs than actually, say, adding new content, I want to move this site into a more professional direction and use it to focus on some of the stuff I do outside ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=154 The best argument that America has more celluloid taste than the rest of the world gives us credit for is the consistently embarrassing discrepancy between what the Hollywood Foreign Press thinks, and what I think. Granted, as a single person, I hardly represent America, or more specifically the United States Of, ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=153 I'll confess to not watching the entirety of the supposed film classic Breathless; in the end it was a bit too slow and a bit too French, I suppose. Perhaps the film's title suggests the audience should not hold their own waiting for something to happen - a guarantor ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=152 EW have repeatedly dubbed HBO's series The Wire "The Best Drama on Television", citing its recently concluded fourth season as the pinnacle of the Baltimore crime drama's excellence. EW's a mixed bag for me; I got a free subscription somehow a couple years ago, and have been receiving it ... http://www.djpretzel.com/blog/?p=151