"What are you going to do?"

"I'm gonna strut!"

written, directed, and produced by sylvester stallone with music by frank stallone...magic.

i feel like los angeles really does have the off balance/trying to be balanced feeling that david lynch's films posses. or maybe i've had too many hot dogs wrapped in bacon from the sidewalk vendor.

i use to play a drinking game to this movie with my old house mates. during the height of our fondness for this movie, on a weekend morning donut run, who did we happen to see sitting on the curb in front of the donut shop? sid haig, it was totally surreal and amazing.

damn, i just noticed this is missing the awesome ending. but it's still good.

one of my all time favorite movies! dolly parton is completely amazing.

those guys are enormous! maybe they can open my mayo jar for me...

am i allowed to vote for my own video? if not, i jumped the gun a bit.

gretsch makes the sweetest guitars ever to grace the earth. they are worth every expensive as hell penny.

i want to arm wrassle with it!

when i saw them they covered lil kim. it was fantastic. dunno if this is in the sift, but here's the video for "noah's ark."

i live in this neighborhood. i live a block and a half away to be exact on 7th st. which runs on the west side of macarthur park (i'm horrible with east and west so i may be off base with that one). but this brings me to tears. this is beyond horrible. it was a peaceful gathering that did not get out of hand. they had every right to be there. la has had riots in the past, but it is not a violent city. macarthur park and rampart (which runs very close to there) have horrible reputations as very dangerous areas, but they are not. that community is an immigrant community mostly made up of salvadorians and koreans. i love my neighborhood and the people who live there. i ride the metro every single day (i don't own a car) in la, and i have to say it totally makes me feel like it's a police state. the cops are there, but they are not there to keep the peace and you feel it. they harass, intimidate, and try to coerce you to incriminate yourself so they can meet their quota for tickets. the illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in this country and in the united states. they are hard working, great people, and hey guess what, they ARE PEOPLE. they do not take jobs away from "americans" or drive down wages. the dirty local businessmen and corporations drive down the wages and then blame it on the illegal immigrants. all they want is a piece of the "american dream." they want better educations for their children, the money to raise them, and opportunities. the cops had zero right to do what they did including committing acts of violence against the press whom were there. we are strong and will continue to resist the police state and the government that is attempting to oppress the people. i refuse to rest as long as this continues and am thankful for the large activist community that exists in los angeles. this is just sick.

i could go on and on about la and everything that is right and wrong about it, but i'll shut up. macarthur park is beautiful and so are the people who live in the neighborhood, but man this shit blows. my mother called me scared to death wondering if i was caught up in what happened. nobody upsets my mother but me! the LAPD will pay for upsetting my mah!

he played a show in my backyard with kimya dawson a few years ago. it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

most of those are located in the mission i believe. there is a great alley full of amazing stencils/murals located in the mission near valencia i think it is (it may be near 19th though). i remember it's near this great shoe store and good vibrations. also the castro and the haight have sweet murals as well. my favorite city. oh, and when you visit don't forget to pop into 826 valencia to check out the pirate store/writing workshop and taqueria cancun on 19th and mission (best burritos EVER).

quantumushroom - "American Jews?" do you kiss your mother with your disgusting mouth?

the narrator sounds like ira glass.