Inland Empire, now in production. I am dreaming of Twin Peaks in Rubidoux, or a Rancho Cucamonga Blue Velvet. Eraserhead in the scrap yards of Fontana…

Thanks to jtemperance for the tip.

Today’s menu of tunes in the overhead music inside at D’s is mostly from the column labeled “Soulless, anesthetized, ProTools versions of songer more than 20 years old that were pretty good as originals.”

What is it about Marvin Gaye’s music that makes these evil robots want to skullfuck it? I ask you.

We had a lot of slang terms for it in college but I never heard this one.

Let me hold your hair back, Sly (50k .png screenshot)

Apparently the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where my country’s nuclear weapons are made, isn’t above a little film noir beatdown action if you squeal about the problems at the office.

His coworkers think he deserved it, and it looks like they got away with worse five years ago at the Livermore lab.

This is because the poor deluded innocent children at LJ gave me 50 more icons.

Also. Today at the market I looked idly at the Appenzeller cheese and thought “who would want horse cheese?” And then I realized that I had conflated this (non-horse) cheese with the Lippizaner Stallions.

And then I went home before anything else like that happened.

Seen just now in a mall parking lot: a late model Mercedes-Benz sedan, immaculate and gleaming white, with the license plate SNG BLUZ.

I don’t think so.

This is neat. The BBC is giving away MP3s of their orchestra performing all of Beethoven’s symphonies, each the day after they are broadcast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml

I have one Kraftwerk ticket for tonight that I am not going to use. Anyone in the area who wants to go let me know, come by and get it, it’s free.

LOL I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS CHICKS THAT COULDN’T DRIVE BUT MABEY ITS TEH FAGS 2???

Proving that we’re not the only modern country that’s insane lately, the Italians brought us this gem today, via Reuters. Kids! Count the number of fucked-up wrong things in this article!

Italian court says gay man can drive

A Sicilian court condemned road authorities on Monday for suspending the driving licence of a man after finding out he was gay.

The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely “a personality disturbance” which had no bearing on a person’s ability to drive, Ansa news agency reported.

The 23-year-old man, who was identified as Danilo G., got into trouble with the road licence authorities in the city of Catania after they discovered he had been exempted from military service because he was gay.

The authorities suspended his driving licence ahead of further checks on his “suitability” to take the wheel.

The man’s lawyer, Giuseppe Lipera, denounced the move as “utterly scandalous and offensive” and has demanded 500,000 euros in damages.

“Danilo … is deeply perturbed by what has happened. He has lost his hair and is suffering shock,” Lipera was quoted as saying by Ansa.

In a written ruling released on Monday, the Sicilian court said: “It is clear that sexual preferences do not in any way influence a person’s ability to drive motor cars safely.”

The judges added that homosexuality “cannot be considered a true and proper psychiatric illness, being a mere personality disturbance”.

Homosexuality is legal in Italy, but openly anti-gay comments from politicians and officials rarely cause a stir.

Let’s all learn about NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE

Also, I think this is the only state website I’ve ever seen link to a Dr. Seuss parody about nuclear waste.