I'm sorry, did I break your concentration with my sweet tunes?

For some strange reason my lady and I haven't gotten to the movie theater as much as we should have this year. I know, it's depressing. So we're watching Django Unchained that we rented from the local video store. Nah, just kidding, we got it from a Redbox by a gas station. We did not need any human interaction with this transaction.

I've talked about this before, and will probably talk about it again, but dammit, Tarantino knows how to select music for his movies. I also love that he mixes genres and uses lots of songs that are basically unknown or were popular decades ago. He and Wes Anderson are just on a different level.

You look like a fan of K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies. Okay, maybe not.

Stuck in the middle with you.

- Dapper

I love Diwali too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!

Tonight we are heading to Diwali Night at the University. As you probably know, Diwali is a five day Hindu festival - the "festival of lights." There is also food. Actually, it's a lot of fun and very entertaining. There are lots of talented Indian students who participate.

One of my favorite Indian actors is Kumar Pallana. Wait, who is that you ask? Why didn't I say Mindy Kaling or Aziz Ansari? Well, they are both great, but as I've said before, I have an unhealthy love for Wes Anderson movies. And Kumar has been in four of them. Unfortunately, he died last month at the age of 94. It's sad, but that's a long life and I'm sure he had many stories to tell (you can read more here). 

Here he is in Rushmore (start at about the 50 second mark).




"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi

- Dapper

Sounds like someone has a case of the Hipsters.

It seems like the label "hipster" has been used quite heavily in recent years. Little did I know that I had been surrounded by hipsters since high school...which has been...um...a few years.  I'll say more than ten. I even spent too much energy trying to seek their approval back in the day. If I were to associate myself with any group, it would be as a reluctant member of the "Intellectuals."  Sounds terrible just typing it. So it's clear why I had to convince everyone that I was something else.

But that's garbage.

The thing is, hipsters really haven't changed in 10 years. Hell, maybe longer. Why anyone would want to be one is beyond me. Being different just for the sake of being different, not because it's what you want to be. Letting you know that everything you like is terrible, and you should feel bad that you have never heard of some underground folk punk band from Joliet.

So when I was out the other day in my truck trying to pull onto a major road, I was selfishly blocking the sidewalk. This was much to the dismay of a hipster on a bike. Bikester?  Let's table that and move on. This hipster pulled no punches.  Beard. Old man clothes. Bicycle from the Prohibition era. So it was no surprise to me when I got the disgusted head shake as he had to drive behind me. I'm sorry that you cannot drive on the sidewalk next to this busy road at 40 miles an hour on your bike with reckless abandon.  I'm sorry that society hasn't reformed itself to yield to the mighty bicycle at all costs. I wanted to yell something about how bikes belonged on the road with the other traffic, but he was already gone. His ironic scarf flapping in the wind. Probably late for his banjo lessons. Or had some chai tea getting cold. Or maybe Red Dwarf was on.

Okay, so let's get to some sort of point here. Here are some fabulous hipster movies and tv shows.


Dr. Who

The old one too.  Not the new one, you sellout.


Red Dwarf




Anything by Wes Anderson

I think he's some sort of hipster godfather. But I don't hold that against him.