Stupid item (and subsequent crazed rant) of the day... I noticed while eating my bowl of Banana Nut Cheerios (which is one of the best cereals ever) that on the front cover of the box it advertises the product as being flavored with REAL Banana AND Natural Banana flavor. I'll let you ponder that for a second...
What in blazes is the difference between real bananas and natural banana flavor? So wouldn't natural banana flavor come from an actual banana which they already just told us is in the cereal? I hate the commercial food industry with its high fructose corn syrup, mass doses of sodium and blue no. 2. I love food but I hate stupid B.S. and this is clearly stupid B.S. Wow - real bananas, and as if that weren't enough, natural banana flavor added just in case the bananas they used didn't happen to have banana flavor of their own! AMAZING!!! Wait - there's more if you act now etc. etc. etc..... Did I mention I love the cereal? I'm ranting about a cereal I love and a relatively healthy one at that. Yes I need a life I suppose...
On another note I got a glimpse of what my summer will sound like with some new stuff. The new Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know and the new Church - Untitled #23. At first listen they both sound incredible. I've also picked up the new self-titled Secret Machines album and Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet. They both sound pretty good, and lastly the Raconteurs album Consolers of the Lonely is climbing back into my frequent play list as it's turning out to be more of a grower than I anticipated. What an album.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Discovering more Porcupine Tree, Mr. Hand gets rattled
Not much music to comment on today - I usually like to discuss what I'm currently listening to and work was pretty busy the last couple of days so I didn't listen to much. I'm into my second listen of Stupid Dream by Porcupine Tree from 1999. It sounds awesome but I haven't digested it fully yet, and this is clearly a band whose complex works can take a while to digest. I suspect the rewards will be immense as they have been with In Absentia on this one though.
Meanwhile Fast Times was on cable tonight and I just noticed an underrated yet priceless detail - one of those you notice and appreciate after many repeated viewings. Kind of like the wasted dude way in the background at the moon tower party in Dazed and Confused who you see during the conversation between Mitch Kramer and his sister, or when it dawns on you that three major things that happen to Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction all happen while he's in the bathroom - for those who never picked up on that think about it for a second before you read on............ The robbery in the diner goes down while he's in the bathroom, Mia Wallace OD's snorting the heroin she finds in his coat pocket while he's in the bathroom contemplating the importance of loyalty, and Vince himself gets blown away by Butch as he's coming out of the bathroom at Butch's apartment. But I digress...only because the one I just saw that made me laugh tonight is the minor detail I picked up on in Fast Times. Everyone remembers the scene where Spiccoli orders a pizza to Mr. Hand's class - priceless. The detail that had me cracking up tonight which I never gave much thought to was how Mr. Hand gets so rattled and temporarily thrown off his game by the mere fact that Spiccoli is sitting in the front row with a huge grin on his face before the pizza delivery guy arrives. It's a minor detail but it's awesome...
Meanwhile Fast Times was on cable tonight and I just noticed an underrated yet priceless detail - one of those you notice and appreciate after many repeated viewings. Kind of like the wasted dude way in the background at the moon tower party in Dazed and Confused who you see during the conversation between Mitch Kramer and his sister, or when it dawns on you that three major things that happen to Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction all happen while he's in the bathroom - for those who never picked up on that think about it for a second before you read on............ The robbery in the diner goes down while he's in the bathroom, Mia Wallace OD's snorting the heroin she finds in his coat pocket while he's in the bathroom contemplating the importance of loyalty, and Vince himself gets blown away by Butch as he's coming out of the bathroom at Butch's apartment. But I digress...only because the one I just saw that made me laugh tonight is the minor detail I picked up on in Fast Times. Everyone remembers the scene where Spiccoli orders a pizza to Mr. Hand's class - priceless. The detail that had me cracking up tonight which I never gave much thought to was how Mr. Hand gets so rattled and temporarily thrown off his game by the mere fact that Spiccoli is sitting in the front row with a huge grin on his face before the pizza delivery guy arrives. It's a minor detail but it's awesome...
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