January 2003

The Return of the Bastard Writer

So I haven't really written much at you all people in a few months, and I have no good reason for that. I've just been engaging in too much maximum kicking back, and not enough anything else. Plus, Futurama being on teevee five nights a week keeps me pretty busy. I felt dirty just throwing on my undersized evilrobots.com staff shirt. I wish I could regale you all with stories of 'Hobo Justy' and his trips along the rails of America's heartland, but that just can't happen. Unfortunately, 'Hobo Justy' has forgotten just about everything he's done over the past three or four months, so I'm just gonna have to stick with tales of 'Regular Justy'.

Justy just had his car stereo ripped off last night while making a stop in at the now defunct evilrobots.com Boston offices. While I'm pissed off about losing the stereo, my discman, and a Stereolab CD, I'm really pissed off that the bastard(s) got away with my 'Wowee Zowee' CD by Pavement. There has never been a recording made as complete as this one, and I can only hope that the bandit(s) is(are) going to enjoy that CD as much as I did. That shit was The One Disc, man. I wrote every paper over my last three years of university listening to it. It's got all these magical fucking powers. Now I gotta buy another. Fuck that. It just won't be the same.

Long story short, Justy had a loooong fucking ride home to the New York offices because he had no music to cruise to while riding home through Western Massachusetts. There is no place more god-forsaken than Western Massachusetts, nuff said.

I haven't been buying much music lately (which is good, cause I don't have any portable CD players), but I have a recommendation for everyone. I have been watching 'Zatoichi' movies every week on the Independent Film Channel. Zatoichi is the greatest swordsman in the world, and also very blind. The Janus Company made something like 25 Zatoichi films between 1960 and 1977, all starring the same guy in the Zatoichi role - Shintaro Katsu. Anyway, I've watched about eight of them now, and it's the same thing just about every time: Ichi goes to a town, gangsters want him dead, he gets some hot chick, then he kills everybody and moves on. Dude is some kind of badass, even against guys with guns. It's my obsession of the moment.

Umm…drink more gin.