sweet sixteen...

I've lately felt like the oldest guy at the concert, but tonight was downright ridiculous.

Upon entering the Gramercy Theatre tonight to see Mika, I hear some girl behind me exclaim, "I just turned 16 today," followed by, "whooooooo, MIKA!!!!!"

Clearly not in the right demographic for this show I proceed to the stage where I seem to be the only one, outside of my friends, downing pints of beer.

Then things start to resemble a TGIFridays birthday party, complete with clowns, balloons, and face paintings.

At least the show rocked, and Mika proved to be just as amazing live as he sounds on the CD, which by the way just came out finally here in the states on Tuesday.

Thanks to YouTube, you can experience the weirdest part of the show. Make that ANY show I've ever seen.

why did it have to be snakes...

I am very proud to present this year's MAGIC OF MOVIES film project, which we called "Story Board!"

Multiply the screaming kids by about 3 hours and you have my experience with this particular group.

break like the wind...

Crazy Swayze's one-hit wonder She's Like the Wind is back on the charts, but this time done up in an amazingly bad hip-hop rendition, proving once again my theory that that song was, is, and never will be good.

I wish I could find my old pal Swayze's SNL skit where even he lampooned the tune. It was classic.

I did find this though, which is kind of as good...

word!

Those of you in, around, or visiting Brooklyn will want to get your asses over to the coolest new bookstore in town--WORD.

Best of all, the coolest shirts in town (Modern Planet) have a new retail home.

How to get there:
1. L train to Lorimer Street (second stop in Brooklyn)
2. Transfer to the G (get on the one going towards Queens)
3. Take the G two stops, get off at Greenpoint Ave.
4. There will be a McDonalds on the corner of Greenpoint Ave. & Manhattan
Ave., walk AWAY from it down Greenpoint Ave. one block to Franklin St.
5. Make a left on Franklin, WORD is one block down on the corner of
Franklin & Milton
6. Stop complaining.....it's really not that big of a deal....you need to
get out more

music analogy of the day...

ACCORDION : MODERN ROCK : : SAXOPHONE : EARLY 80s ROCK


i.e.

the playing doctor podcast...

On this very special episode of BEWARE OF THE BABYLON, we've got a doctor in the house.

Playing Doctor's Erik joins us to discuss...

• Rachel's last will and testament

• the Triangle of Death - not a nice way to die

• more vagina monologues from Rachel

• Technosexuals are the new black

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

OR, just listen right here and now with the audio player below...

c is for cookiethat's good enough for meunless c is for cookie doughthen you could die...

I teach filmmaking on Fridays to grade-schoolers using someone else's classroom.

I get to live vicariously through the real teacher's surroundings, even though at the end of the class, everything must be put back where we found it or, as I tell my kids, Ms. Freedman will kill me.

I haven't met Ms. Freedman yet, but she definately has a pretty wacky curriculum .

My favorite lately is this wall devoted to an arts 'n' crafts project called SAY NO TO COOKIE DOUGH. Apparently, this is an addiction running rampant in the grade-school set, and Ms. Freedman is out to stop it dead.

Each kid was apparently told to draw their interpretation of the message, but in my opinion the best of the bunch was the drawing of WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH followed by the image of a dead child (who you could tell was dead because of the 'X' over each eye).

Giving me a glimpse into what Craig must have been like as a kid was the overexplained poster featuring COOKIE DOUGH CONTAINS RAW EGGS, WHICH CONTAIN PATHOGENS THAT COULD BE VERY HARMFUL TO YOUR BODY AND YOU COULD DIE.

When I was a kid, all my mom had to say was "don't eat that or you'll get worms" and I would drop the wooden spoon right then and there. I have not eaten raw cookie dough to this day.

wham bam no thank you ma'am...

Nobody's going to mistake the Music and Lyrics plot as being too dead-on with Wham, now that the Daily Mail brings us this photo of the 44-year-old Andrew Ridgeley.

Yikes goes my heart.

bad rap...

Possibly the worst commercial ever. Yes this is real...

depression is the new black...

When did it become so damn in to be so damn depressed?

Every week another celeb "coming out" as depressed (thanks Rosie, but you depress us more) and even Newsweek had depressed men as their cover story.

Rosy Grier said it best in '72...

Sad and grumpy, down in the dumpy, it's all right to cry...



Now pass the Zoloft.

the mika shall inherit...

Back in January, BBC picked out Mika as one of the new music acts of 2007 to keep an eye on.

Now he's top of the pops with his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion in the UK, while meanwhile nobody across the pond has heard of him.

Being a complete and utter Angliophile, I can't stop the Mika.

DOWNLOAD SOME MIKA FOR YOURSELF HERE ----> Grace Kelly and Lollipop.

I dare you not to dance around the house naked while singing along at the top of your lungs to your cats.

Did I just share too much?

humpday mutants...

it's all relative...

I have a co-worker who often repeats out loud his office mantra: "there just aren't enough hours in the day."

While there is not enough time to do the level of work being dished out lately at my job, I am getting really close to adopting an Office Space mantra where enough really is enough.

In my book, there just are not enough hours in the day lately for me to do what I want to do.

Ce soir par example...

I barely made it to the screening of 300 in time to find out that Leonidas is more than just a really good Belgian chocolate.

I just about lost my chance to pick up the new Arcade Fire CD before the local record shop closed their doors on me (as I write this I am multitasking by listening to its brilliance, by the way).

I totally missed the fact that the domain for BewareoftheBabylon.com almost just expired on me this weekend.

I have no point, other than work sucks. Me wanna play.

Speaking of 300, it's nice to see this guy getting work after last year's Hills Have Eyes remake...

save the date...

The rumors are true, BEWARE OF THE BABYLON is going from world renowned podcast to DJ gig in New York City's hottest new lounge, LUV 24/7.

Join Rachel and me for our first DJ gig on Saturday the 31st starting at 10pm. No cover before 11pm.



See ya there.

the film...

My friend's 10 year old son came up to her after school yesterday and embarrisngly asked to put something in her purse. Apparently, he had been shown "the film" today, and the boys and girls were given separate little care packages to go along with "the film."

Mysteriously, I never got to find out what exactly was in the package, but I can say that I never got any packages when I was in 5th grade.

All we got was "the film," and OMG it's on YouTube...

condomania...

Our generous city has launched its free NYC CONDOM campaign throughout the boroughs to help stop the spread of disease, and help get your freak on without the embarrassing hassle of Duane Reade's right-in-front-of-the-register campaign.

The ads all over town got me a little excited though. How cool would that be if the condoms inside the packaging came in an assortment of Subway colors?

Imagine the sexy thrill of whispering to your loved one...
baby, get ready to take the A train all the way to Harlem.

Not recommended - shouting out to your loved one...
due to an earlier incident downtown, the A train has been suspended until further notice.