Thursday, August 07, 2003

Ween I know there are some other Ween fans who read the Pipeline.  Ween's a hard band to describe, because over the course of their careers, they have made just about every kind of music you can imagine.  Some of it's great, and some of it's really hard to listen to.  But there's nobody else like Ween. Check out this week's Onion interview with Gene and Dean Ween.  It's a good read.  They have an interesting take on record labels and the MP3 download issue. And Ween's website is pretty dang sweet, too. If you are a fan of Ween, you might be interested in going here to hear their jingle for a Pizza Hut ad touting the Stuffed Crust pizza, called "Where'd the Cheese Go?".  This was the pizza where the cheese was put into the crust.  The jingle never made it to the commercial, though, as Pizza Hut was not impressed and fired the ad agency that had hired Ween.  And so, Ween is letting people hear the song on on the website.  There are actually two songs.  The second one never had a chance.  It was too Ween, which means I laughed my ass off when I heard it.  I strongly urge Ween fans to check that second song out. I had a chance to see Ween last month, and didn't do it.  Tickets went fast.  I suspect that'll be one of those shows I regret seeing as I get older. 10:56:53 AM    Say what?[]

Guns Linus has declared that that the following states look like guns: Idaho, Oklahoma, New York (?), and Florida.  We still don't know where the gun fascination comes from, entirely, but in our efforts to minimize their influence on him, we have removed those states from his maps.  We have also removed all hair dryers, sticks, shoes, pretzels, cell phones, actual guns, caulk guns, drills, and pastry mixers from the house for this same purpose.  That ought to do it. Beards But guns aren't even his greatest fixation these days.  For some reason, his has been obsessed for months with beards.  Anything he comes in contact with, be it a piece of cheese, or a book, or a Stormtrooper, anything at all, becomes a beard. He'll put it up to his chin and say "Look, I've got a beard!".  And it's just the dumbest thing you've ever seen.  I mean, it's cute in a way, or at least it was cute.  But now it's just strange and weird.  He never bothers to point out when real people have beards-he seems not to care at all about that.  He's only interested in the mythical beards of his own creation. And nobody's laughing about it.  You want to say "Dude.  Get over the beards, OK?  You need new material."  But instead you just sit there and watch this odd little person with no inhibitions or filters go through these phases, and you wonder how it came to this.  Were we ever this strange?  Seriously, I'm posing this question to my mother right now: His behavior is a genetic mutation, or at least is directly traceable to Jane's side of the family, right? Linus would freak if he ever saw ZZ Top 9:42:58 AM    Say what?[]

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