Do you know who you look like??!!?!?

I'm one of those dudes whom everyone must inform of any perceived resemblance to famous people. Usually it's whoever the most famous person with long hair is at that particular point in time: Jon Bon Jovi, "A Vampire" (when Interview with a Vampire came out- they were all longhairs, you know). I even had a guy try to get an autograph because he thought I was Steven Segal. I said don't you think I'd have a smaller gut a nicer truck? But he was persistent. I suppose by having long hair I incur special attention and therefore deserve it. One consistent comparison is Adrian Paul (TV's Highlander). I got that one twice a week for 5 years. Moving to Louisiana didn't stop that, either.

OK, I don't mind that. Adrian Paul's a good-looking guy. I see minor resemblance, but hey, enough people calling a dog a horse eventually makes a dog a horse. But once I gained a little weight and if my hair became a little unruly, there was another consistent one:

Yep. Latka.

This also followed be across the country. A little distraught I was, once I received the third one of these. I can only console myself by knowing for a fact that this Rolling Stone cover got me sex in college:

Hey, Like I said, Whatever works! If I did a kilo of Heroin a week I'd have one of those Iggy Pop physiques, too.

I heard about myheritage.com, a site that scans a picture of you and tries to match you up with famous people based on your facial construct. I tried a picture from 2004. Here's what I got:

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Art Garfunkel? I'll KILL ya! I'll kill all your dogs! I'll Shave your Cats! The only thing I see consistent here is truckloads of forehead. Except Prince Harry, who is just a waddling nightmare mass of recessive traits since the Royals are more inbred than your average Golden Retriever. Dominic Who? Who is this guy and what is wrong with his features?


How about a 1995 picture?

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I give up. This is clearly just a shotgun approach. They just pick 6-8 disparate people that all have, oh I don't know, two eyes a nose and a mouth, hoping that you'll think one of them is cool.
OK, I'll bite. F. Murray Abraham is cool. Hank Mancini, all right but I don't know about insinuating a family resemblance. I wouldn't mind being associated with the "Pink Panther Theme". "Baby Elephant Walk" is right out! Once again, I don't even know who some of these people are.

So I tried Janine.

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Being, if nothing else a wise husband, I will not comment at all here. But I will add that Janine had the Uma Thurman thing follow her around for a few years. I just don't understand the thing in society that compels friends and strangers alike walk up to people and say "Do you know who you look like...well lemmie tell ya...".


So uh, who do you look like?

~Jimm

The Birds and the Bugs

Click any photo to enlargeThis guy is like, "I'm totally not here".
Yes, you clearly are. And that's a fire pit I don't recommend you hang out too long.
"These are not the boids you're looking for".
Your simple Jedi mind tricks don't work on me!
Anyone know what this is?
Is there a birder in the house?
26Jul06: it's a juvenile robinThis guy is like, "I'm totally not here".
Yes, yes you are rather quite there.
Now get out of the house. I have nothing you can eat.This guy is like, "I'm totally not ..."-Oh Come On!
You're not even trying!I know you're cool and all with your neon pinstripes and green chasis underglow.
But you're eating my basil and therefore must be squished like a bug.

I whipped up a temporary Turtle run today. Something just to get them out of the basement for a few hours a day until I can set up the permanent one.

I'm blessed with very photogenic turtles.
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Swimming back against the River But I'm Rising with the Tide

I'm going to call this little foray into cyberworld a success.

I've already re-established contact with friends I haven't talked to in 10 years.
That's really cool.

Also, Myspace really is a pretty fair network for off-the-beaten-path music. My original suspicion told me that every one on Myspace was this. Oh and there's plenty of that.

But I have been exposed to lots of new music.

This dude is cool but gives me nightmares myspace.com/twoliter Watch the embedded Youtube movie.

These guys are cool but not nearly as cool as their graphic artist http://www.99namesofgod.com/

Like the above band, this band features a Warr guitar myspace.com/quodia
As much as I love Trey Gunn, Warr guitar and Chapman stick music can't help but all sound the same after a while. Quodia is terribly cool with the added theatrics and multimedia.

myspace.com/twoshirleys Is terribly interesting.

myspace.com/marceloradulovich This guy, however, kills me! I'm obsessed with the song 'Nohayquepreocuparse...' that loads on this page. For the life of me can I find out how to buy the recorded version of that song anywhere on this or his website? Hell no. Great. He's just like every other idiot I listen to that makes amazing music but I still can't get money into his hand.

And that's only about half of what I've found just this week.

And of course the Greatest band in the world, Nomeansno, are too punk rock to give a shit about updating a website, or even knowing what a publicist is, yet they have like a dozen myspace sites for the band, members and side projects.
http://www.myspace.com/myspaceiswrong
http://www.myspace.com/nomeansno1
http://www.myspace.com/tomholliston
http://www.myspace.com/hansonbrotherscanada
http://www.myspace.com/showbusinessgiants

The list goes on.


I'm sure myspace is better for these people because they can get info up quickly and don't have to learn HTML or track down the guy they pay to keep a website up. Or even pay to keep a website up for that matter. The real question is, why can't any website do what Myspace does? It should only be a short matter of time before someone comes up with a nifty software package to integrate with Myspace and be built entirely from templates. At least they should.
We might have to see Rupert Murdoch mud wrestle Bill Gates for that to happen. But hey, what are my ad banners paying for?


~Jimm

Shoes, Ships, Sealing Wax, Catalpa Trees and Kings

I'm outstanding in my field.
I mean,
I'm Out...Standing...In my field.

Wow! I have to be honest with you. I don't know a thing about Catalpa trees. This was already our favorite thing in the yard. Who knew it bloomed? We are floored. Wow.

Kind of like taking pictures of the Grand Canyon or Victoria Falls- you really can't take it all in from a picture. This thing is absolutely carpeted with flowers.

Though the plan is to take all summer to prep the garden for next year, I had to plant something. So I planted a couple dozen tomato and pepper plants in one of the garden squares with a makeshift fence. It's basically chicken wire and pie pans. I cut each of the top rings in the wire so that sharp metal points upward. I also ringed the bottom with the same. Unfortuantely, it is having a greater effect on me than the nuisance animals. I...I'm afraid to go near it now. The Noise! The sharp, poking metal! I can't talk about this.
I'm going inside now.



~Jimm