Monday Morning Commute: Cloudgatherer’s Trial

July 30th, 2012 by Rendar Frankenstein

Welcome to the Monday Morning Commute!

This is the storage compartment of Spaceship OL dedicated to all the various bits of entertainment we’ll be using to get through the workweek. Think of it as an anti-boredom armory. After I show you the wares I’ll be using to fend off the ennui-goblins, hit up the comments section and do the same.

Let’s rock!

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Rockin’ in Concert/Aesop Rock


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Laughin’ With/The Kids in the Hall

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Finally Readin’/The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.”

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So that’s my week – hip-hop, sketch comedy, and terse fiction.

What’s your week look like?

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    I found Old Man and the Sea to be painful masculine bullshit even by Hemingway standards, but he can cut a terse sentence like no other.

    DOING:
    Rocking at the Aesop Rock concert with your fuzzy ass.

    ALSO DOING:
    Heading to Mrs. Caffeine Powered’s family in central New York. Six hour+ car ride a-go-go.

    FINISHED:
    Max Payne 3. Best action game of the generation? Possibly.

    HILARIOUS SHIT:
    Manhattan Projects. I’m in love.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Rendar Frankenstein

    Just say it — you hate Ernie.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

  • MORS

    We have become Death, Destroyers of worlds.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Hell yeah.

  • MORS

    DOING:
    nothing. sick in bed. eventually have to play catch up at work.

    LISTENING:
    Hot Chip – In our Heads. Just picked up the vinyl so its on heavy rotation

    WATCHING:
    Louie, netflix, usual nonsense

    READING:
    Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwin Cooke. love this

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    I need to investigate this Hot Chip everyone is talking about. Where do I start?

  • MORS

    you know, I can’t suggest one particular album. I love them all but they are not for everyone. i can suggest some songs to start with and if you like, pick up the albums.
    “Motion Sickness” is off the new album and i think it is a great introduction to their style. if you like it, check out some of my other favorites below

    “the warning”
    “no fit state”
    “Touch too much”
    “one Pure thought”
    “Wrestlers”
    “Thieves in the night”
    “Alley Cats”

  • http://www.omega-level.net/ Eduardo Pluto

    Unfortunately, I have been laid up with a severe ankle sprain for the past week. Not a lot of fun. But if there is a bright side to it; it has given me the chance to catch up on some shows and some reading (and a tiny bit of writing as well for good measure).

    Watching: Breaking Bad. I am notoriously awful with watching TV shows, but I have plowed through the first two seasons in the last 2-3 days, It keeps getting better and better. I hope to be all caught up with the show in a week or two. Also watching some Olympics. Although, truth be told, all i am really invested in is Team USA Men’s Basketball. Seeing all those absurdly good players on one team is a pleasure, especially since it may be the last time we see a team like this one.

    Reading: About to dive into some Saga. Wish me luck!

  • seth

    I have read some of the new richard stark parker books and they have been pretty good. I,m about to start reading breakout. I have yet to read any of the early parker books.

  • seth

    This friday is the yearly golf touranment we have in honor of my brother. I,ll be watching black books. I,ll be reading richard starks parker books. I,m still playing metroid and damn I forgot how hard that first game could be.

  • TomDanks

    Doing: Recovering. Spent the weekend +friday up in Oneonta on a farm for my cousins wedding getting seriously sloshed in some pimp threads. No cell service no interwebs nothing to do but smoke and drink.

    Watching: confession … i havent watched season 2 of Thrones yet so Im going to spend some time putting in work on that bad boy. Ill be happy when i dont have to avoid the requisite blog post/conversations like i have been.

    Listening: Still rockin out to Japandroids – Celebration Rock. Gotta pick up the new Gaslight Anthem album Handwritten.

    Playing: Dyad, gotta see what all the hypes about.

    Reading: Hitting up the local comic store and trying to get as many back issues of Prophet as they got.

    Its good to be back.

  • http://www.omega-level.net Rendar Frankenstein

    Just watched the first episode of Game of Thrones S2 myself.

    Pretty promising stuff!

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    Reading:
    The Walking DEAD. Shit gets RAW! I’m addicted. The show is still mentally unsound, but the comic is incredible by my pathetic standards. Side note: on my frequent trips to the comic store to get more zombie drugs, I stopped to plug Omni to my local comic dude. Next time, I’m going to see if he will stock them on the shelves. Spread the love.

    Anticipating:
    Going to NYC for 10 days in August. Excited for that trip. Maybe can swing down to Beantown, and visit some of you chumps while I’m there.

    Celebrating:
    My kickstarter project was funded. Now the pressure is on to produce a quality product people will enjoy. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slfsh/s-l-f-s-h

  • http://www.omega-level.net/ Eduardo Pluto

    Congrats on the kickstarter, man. That’s great news. Looking forward to some quality; God knows we need it.

  • JohnnyHotsauce

    Do I need to play the other Max Paynes to fully enjoy #3?

  • MORS

    Darwin Cooke’s version of these books is amazing. gorgeous. makes me want to read the entire series

  • MORS

    dude, did you read #100? all i have to say is “damn.”

    also, congrats on the funding man. keep us updated

  • https://twitter.com/#!/pdensborn Peter Densborn

    NO! I’m not there yet. I’ve been picking up the thickbooks 3 or 4 at a time every couple days. Honestly, it’s getting to be an expensive habit. Right now they are cruising around with the dude who looks like Paul Sr. from American Chopper.
    http://www.freewebs.com/cruizingcomet/paul_sr.jpg

  • MORS
  • KingGoldenArms

    I would say no, I didn’t and I’m enjoying MP3

  • http://www.omega-level.net Caffeine Powered

    Yeah, MP3 will fill you in. I only played MP1 and felt like I missed *nothing*