End of Silence

Abe Vigoda’s birthday last week prompted me to install the Abe Vigoda Status plugin for Firefox. I didn’t know that my actions would set off a chain reaction of star deaths over the weekend. Darrin McGavin was my favorite of the bunch. His roles in Christmas Story and Night Stalker make him a much loved actor from my childhood. Jon already posted a remembrance and mentioned his digital cameo in the disappointing attempt at reviving (or is that re-imagining?) Night Stalker last fall. Abe Vigoda was on a flight I took from NYC to Dallas when I was living there in the mid-90’s. I said a brief hello. He was showing his age a bit then, but he was still flirting with the flight attendants and calling them “sweetheart”. Looks like he’ll outlast them all.

This guy is seriously confused.

First, posing naked is great and will help me reinvent myself. Later, being voted the best at posing naked makes me feel dirty. I’ll console myself by quitting and opening a wine bar, which will be much more virtuous and easier to explain to my daughter.

Right.

This is just wrong. I’m assuming some or all of the members of Devo had to agree to this? Why?

Just saw this on BoingBoing, Link Wray passed away over the weekend. I was first introduced to him in college when I was working at Sound Warehouse and many of his songs have shown up in films over the past 20 years. “Rumble” is featured during the “uncomfortable silence” scene in Pulp Fiction. Don’t know how true it all is, but this site details the legendary way that Wray got a distorted tone way back in 1958. How’s that for DIY?

The Wife, The Boy and I got babysitting for The Girl and headed out to the big Weezer and Foo Fighters Rawk show last night at Erwin Center. I blogged it at Metroblogging (it’s also in the Austin Metblog sidebar over there on the left) which links pictures (they allowed cameras). I’ll have some crappy digital camera video up tonight along with a picture of the week update with a photo from last night’s festivities. The Boy was definitely dragging on the way to school this morning. I warned one of his teachers who said she was jealous that he got to go and she didn’t. We’ll see what reports we get when The Wife picks him up later today.

I could see people commenting on The Boy’s presence at the show. Since we were on the floor, we had to hold him up so that he could see. My arms, legs and back are paying the price today. Luckily, Andy was there to hold him part of the time and The Wife pitched in as well. Weezer kept it pretty clean. Dave Grohl, on the other hand, had me wanting to cover The Boy’s ears a few times (Earmuffs!) even though he was already wearing ear plugs. Thankfully, I think most of the comments went straight over his head. I think he really liked the Weezer show. He’s a little more familiar with them and they went on first. By halfway through the Foo Fighters, you could see that he was getting tired and a little overloaded.