Tear You Apart

She Wants Revenge is a band that I don’t know very much about. But this song grabbed my attention when I first heard it a couple of years ago. I even like the narrative of the video.

Too Drunk To . . .

Once upon a time in America there was a band called the Dead Kennedys. “Too Drunk to Fuck” was the first record I ever bought by them. Much more recently, Nouvelle Vague (not from America) did a bossa nova cover. I think technically this is Camille’s a capella cover of the Nouvelle Vague cover. Did I mention that Camille has performed with Nouvelle Vague?

GHP Goes Bananas

Go Home Productions - GHP Goes Bananas

I’ve been a big fan of Mark Vidler and
Go Home Productions for years. I think I think he is my favie mash-up artist. Here is one of his latest efforts. Enjoy it before it’s gone

‘Round Midnight

I think I would feel a joyous insanity if I lived in Iceland and saw the sun ’round mdnight

Hero of War

One of the advantages of living in Buffalo is that we are in sthe reception area for Toronto’s 102.1 radio station. It is/was the Lovely Lettuce’s favie station. And I think it is pretty good in an psuedo-alternative sort of way.
Any old way, I digress. A few days ago, I heard a song by Rise Against that I loved. Although to be accurate, I loved the song before I knew it was Rise Against.

Embedding is disabled for this video so you will have to go to youtube to watch it.

I think it is a great anti-war song that shows compassion and understanding for the soldiers fighting in the name of our flag. It doesn’t accuse or judge.

He said
“Son…Have you seen the world?
Well, what would you say
If I said that you could.”

Just carry this gun.
You’ll even get paid.”
I said
“That sounds pretty good.

Black leather boots
Spit shined so bright
They cut off my hair
But it looks alright
We marched and we sang
We all became friends
As we learned how to fight

A hero of war
Yeah that’s what I’ll be
And when I come home
They’ll be damn proud of me

I’ll carry this flag
To the grave if I must
Because it’s a flag that I love
And a flag that I trust

I kicked in the door
I yelled my commands
The children they cried
But I got my man
We took him away
A bag over his face
From his family and his friends

They tookoff his clothes
They pissed in his hands
I told them to stop
But then I joined in
We beat him with guns
And batons not just once
But again and again

A hero of war
Yeah that’s what I’ll be
And when I come home
They’ll be damn proud of me

I’ll carry this flag
To the grave if I must
Because it’s a flag that I love
And a flag that I trust

She walked
Through bullets and haze
I asked her to stop
I begged her to stay
But she pressed on
So i lifted my gun
And i fired away

And the shells jumped
Through the smoke
And into the sand
That the blood now had soaked
She collapsed
With a flag in her hand
A flag white as snow

A hero of war
Is that what they see
Just medals and scars
So damn proud of me

And I brought home that flag
Now it gathers dust
But it’s a flag that I love
It’s the only flag I trust

He said
“Son…Have you seen the world?
Well, what would you say
If I said that you could

Halifax Harbor in the Fog

Halifax, Nova Scotia on a foggy June afternoon

We’re RGIS and You Will Suck Again

Last week, I got an email from the RGIS corporate gods that included this tidbit of information:

On June 27, 2009 the Average Per Hour (APH) Standards will be raised in several of our accounts. More than half of our teams are already operating at levels that meet or exceed the “New” APH Standards, so raising the Standard may have little effect on you.

In other words, if you were a good little RGIS inventory counter, worked your ass off and met your aph goal -TOO FUCKING BAD! Starting June 27, it’s probably not good enough anymore.

Apparently, not enough of us sucked at meeting our aph goals; so instead thanking us for making the company even more profitable by meeting or exceeding productivity goals, we are being set up for failure again. If aph goals are a moving target, it doesn’t really matter how fast we count. We will never be fast enough. We will suck again.

Apparently, the corporate gods have realized that they need to give lip service to accuracy:

As we strive to execute at higher levels, we must never jeopardize accuracy or customerservice in the name of productivity!

“Oh, gosh, store manager, I can’t image why our inventory counters didn’t give you a good count. We told them never to jeopardize accuracy.”

I tell myself that I am lucky to still have a job. But some days, I’m not sure I really believe that.

Born Yesterday

I was washing dishes this evening after channel-surfing to find something suitable to wash dishes by. I blundlered into Born Yesterday with Judy Holliday. Years ago, I had a girlfriend that looked nothing like Judy Holliday but smiled like her according to one of my friends who was a film buff.

Like many actors who effectively play “dumb”, Judy Holliday was very intelligent. She had a genius level I.Q.

The Best Veggie Burger in the World

I wrote about Motor City Withdrawal a while ago. Because I thought it was the Lovely Lettuce’s story to tell to tell, I held off blogging more about the best Veggie Burger in the World at Sweet Lorraines. We only ate at the original location on Greenfield in Southfield and we loved it every time.

I concur that it is the best veggie burger in the world that I have ever tasted. They also have the best veggie meat loaf in the world in my opinion. But, of course, the statistical sample on that is much smaller.

New Yorker Cover Created on An iPhone

This New Yorker cover was created on an iPhone using the Brushes app

I’m not a big fan of the iPhone, but I have to say that this impressed me. You can find all the gory details here There is a video of the creation of the cover as well.

This just goes to show that a talented artist like Jorge Columbo doesn’t need a system that costs thouands of dollars to create digital art. An iPhone with the right app will serve just fine.