No. Rain.

I have a few odds and ends I want to post and some notes to add about a book I read and movie I watched. Tonight, however, is not the night. There's rumbling and a little thunder and a lot of rain that passed through. The power even went out for a while. Sadly, it sounds like round two is right on the horizon, so I'm going to have to call it an early night.

Updates coming.


(Notes on scary aging: While you probably think "didn't that guy die a while back," Shannon Hoon died in 1995. Yes. Those of us still here who remember that are getting old. He was one of those "oh... really?" people. When they die, you say that and move on because after all the drug stories it was kind of expected. Kristen Pfaff of "Hole" and Layne Stayley from "Alice in Chains" got the same reaction*. So will Amy Winehouse if she doesn't put the breaks on. This is the girl who's publicist denied she had early signs of emphysema without denying the crack smoking and cigarettes that were said to lead to it.)

(* did you know Layne Stayley only weighed 86 pounds when he died? That's scary thin.)

I smell an Emmy

Isabella Rossellini and the Sundance Channel have hooked up for the creepy-cum-educational series, Green Porno .

In a series of short films, she plays a series of insects to -and I'm only guessing here- help teach people how the animal kingdom reproduces in some scary ways. It's more Nickelodeon than Wild Kingdom, filled with bright colors and playful imagery... it almost feels like a cute, educational bit from "Sesame Street" except for the subject matter and the truly odd narration Ms. Rossellini provides. Her unique accent and willingness to dress up as a snail and talk about her anus being on top of her head (and poo on her face then mutter "unfortunately")... her breathy comparison of snail sex to sadomasochism... truly disturbs me. Truly.

I don't know which line is better:

"If I were a firefly, I would light up my ass at night"

or

"She will twist her body to get to my genital pouch but first I will clean her vagina so she will only have my babies"

You MUST check this out.

Go.

Now!

or, at least check out the trailer:

Crass even for me

Awww, ain't that sweet. Probably means wedding bells in Jayden James' future...