{"id":194,"date":"2000-07-11T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2000-07-11T23:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/11\/the_midsummer_r\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:58:50","slug":"the_midsummer_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/11\/the_midsummer_r\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midsummer Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Woo Hoo! 11 days into July<\/strong> and I finally post! Yes, it&#8217;s true. I&#8217;m not dead. Hell, I haven&#8217;t even been assuming that anyone would notice. If I were really desperate for attention, I might pull a stunt like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benbrown.com\/is\/arockstar\/rockstardick.jpg\"  title=\"Caution: Ben Brown's dick\">this,<\/a> but thankfully I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had friends in town for the last couple of weeks, keeping me entertained as I finished up a huge project or two, so there&#8217;s been plenty of fun. And plenty of media consumption. some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120630\" ><i>Chicken Run<\/i><\/a> saw it, liked it an awful lot, have sworn once again that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Horrocks,+Jane\" >Jane Horrocks<\/a> will always make me happy and that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?staunton,+Imelda\" >Imelda staunton<\/a> will never get all the respect that she deserves in this country.<\/li>\n<li>Eddie agreed with me that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?shalhoub,+Tony\" >Tony Shalhoub<\/a> is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood today. I can&#8217;t think of a single performance of his I haven&#8217;t loved.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmmag.com\/filmmaker\/winter98\/nofuture.html\" ><i>Decline of Western Civilization, Part III<\/i><\/a> saw it, thought it was great, realized once again that I was never angry enough to make a good punk. Of course, the kids interviewed in it seem more lost and apathetic than angry, but that made for a lot of interesting moments, believe it or not. The bands seemed angry, but the kids seemed like they were too beaten down to be that angry anymore. It was a nice take on the scene, focusing on the kids more than the music this time around. Very sad, and also very funny. It remended me, though, of how sexy I find those punk rock guys, even the crusty ones.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps1.org\/\" >P.S. 1<\/a> is my new favorite place on earth. seriously. Great artwork, incredible building, no crowds. I want to live there. If you come to visit New York, <a href=\"mailto:Sparky@ultrasparky.org?subject=Sparky, I&#8217;m a-coming!\">let me know<\/a> and I will drag you out to Long Island City so you can see it for yourself. If you come before september we can even try out the outdoor sauna.<\/li>\n<li>I read the new issue of Paul Baker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dollsoup.co.uk\/handbag\/handbag6\/home.htm\" ><i>Handbag!<\/i><\/a> Completely hilarious and brilliant, as ever. Paul, I still want to spend the rest of my life with you. Being best friends is fine, if that&#8217;s all I can get.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh yeah, I also managed to knock out a complete and total redesign of <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\"  title=\"The NEW UltraSparky\">UltraSparky<\/a> in a few moments of spare time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo Hoo! 11 days into July and I finally post! Yes, it&#8217;s true. I&#8217;m not dead. Hell, I haven&#8217;t even been assuming that anyone would notice. If I were really desperate for attention, I might pull a stunt like this, but thankfully I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;ve had friends in town for the last couple of weeks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/11\/the_midsummer_r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Midsummer Round-Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70871,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/70871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}