heather and thor 2.0

In the next few weeks I will be launching HEATHER & THOR 2.0, an updated YOUTUBE friendly edition of the popular cat film website favorite.

All classic films, plus a few new surprises will be there.

Stay tuned for updates on that, but in the meantime, PAWS...

twenty years later and i still don't know...

Aunt Jeanette fans rejoice!

Back in 1986, my video-camera was permanently attached to my right hand. Kind of like Tarnation, but a little happier.

Witness my first surrealist masterpiece entitled I Don't Know below, which has memorable cameo appearances from my Aunt Jeanette, not to mention my wacky extended family in Boston.

it's official...

...life immatates art.

Read the email I just got at work and tell me I didn't just enter a real-life episode of The Office?

run don't walk...

You'll be hard pressed to find another film this Fall as incredibly captivating and fascinating as A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, let alone one that Rachel and I actually agreed on.

Dito Montiel's directorial debut is stunning in a major way, bringing to mind the early Martin Scorsese, and even Saturday Night Fever at times, while remaining a really fresh voice nevertheless.

And then, just when you thought this film couldn't possibly get any better, he finishes you off with an amazing cameo from my good friend Eric Roberts.

Run don't walk to it, or as Rachel would say Saints > Devil Wears Prada.

i was a teenage jackass...

In honor of the upcoming release of Jackass Number Two I've dug up the following video gem from my Freshman year of college, made years before Johnny Knoxville or College Humor.com


Here's the set-up:

That's me in the Happy Mondays haircut about to attempt to flip a chair over by standing on it in the dark with a slow pulsing strobe light. Higher education indeed.

I now present from the archives:

STROBE CHAIR

anapestic tetrameter for beginners...

Never underestimate the educational value of Seuss.

This is some lady on the subway tonight teaching her friend how to better speak English though the linguistic miracles of Yertle the Turtle.


Why the good doctor's attempt to explain the infinite regression belief about the nature of the universe. or "turtle stacking," as it's more commonly known to children, was necessary as a basic vocabulary building lesson on the 'E' train is beyond me, but even more fanastic was the non-English speaking guy's Larry the Cable Guy shirt. Git R Done!

you always said we'd meet again someday


I've waited twenty years for Duckie to end up with Andie and I really thought the new PRETTY IN PINK EVERYTHING'S DUCKIE EDITION DVD would deliver on that.

Looks like I'm still waiting as this new Paramount DVD is a big, fat Steff of a rip-off.

Don't be fooled by the back of the box claiming "the original ending" as a cool new special feature. What you get is another unnecessary DVD "documentary" in which the cast members (all looking pretty much the same, but older) tell us that originally the ending was that Duckie gets Andie.

Uh, duh. We know that. In fact we knew so bad we even paid money to see the freakin' remake the next year called Some Kind of Wonderful staring Eric Stoltz as Molly Ringwald.

SCARS ARE BLIND - Beware of the Babylon



This week on BEWARE OF THE BABYLON we are reviewing our scars and explaining their orgins.

Also find out...

• The truth about Suri's fringe on top.

• Why Rachel's mother is so afraid of Madame.

• The hottest new haircut, the hottest new fashions.

• How In N' Out Burger may just drive you to drink and drive.

• MySpace break-up etiquette.


play the podcast here


As always, this, and EVERY, BEWARE OF THE BABYLON podcast can be automatically downloaded to your computer and transferred to your iPod through iTunes.




doppelganger alert...

Suri Cruise and me at the same age...





But unlike Suri, my dark n' lovely afro was 100% natural.

spam in the place where you work
part two

Yesterday I was waiting for about a half-hour for an email from my company's president, when I happened to check my "junk mail" folder and discovered it there.

Naturally, the e-mail below had no problem going straight to my in-box this morning...



For the record, it's above "5 incches long."

hip to be square...

Williamsburg is just about the most hip place on the planet, next to Ann Arbor. Where else could you possibly find a big painted on advert for Thom Yorke's solo project?
Speaking of hip, Craig pulled a High Fidelityat the local record shop. At the counter he asked for a Warsaw button, and the dude behind the counter just knew that the one on the left pictured below is the Warsaw album cover, not to be confused with Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures on the right.
My hipness factor was finding vinyl editions of Psych Furs' Forever Now, Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair, Jackson 5's Destiny, and Sparks' In Outer Space.

Also, there was another doppelganger sighting out there, this time of my cat Thor. His double works at the Surf Bar on North 6...

podcasting can be sexy!

What's better than making Page Six in the New York Post?

Being named one of the top 25 sexiest New Yorkers by the Post!

Click the thumnail at the left to see what Rachel and I gone done and did.

bad news...

This guy is so EMO...