mike browne’s blog

Carol and I scooted out for a little day trip to Banyen Books and Carol discovered a copy of David Lynch’s book Catching the Big Fish for me to read.

Kind of perfect. A book about filmmaking and meditation from someone who’s art and vision I respect very much. I couldn’t put it down last night. Each little blurb on everything from notes on specific films of Lynch’s to consciousness itself are presented in neat little easy to digest chapters of no more than two pages.

Below is David Lynch talking about his very first experience with meditation:

I’m so grateful that someone of his stature is willing to share these experiences with people like me who are trying to grow in the right direction. Thank you David.

More about David Lynch:

davidlynch.com – official website for artist David Lynch with daily weather report

dlf.tv – more fascinating video from the David Lynch Foundation

twitter.com/david_Lynch – David Lynch on twitter

Evil lurks on the bedroom floor. Awaiting the perfect moment to consume the souls of the living to feed the demons within.

This picture speaks for itself…

World of Warcraft fans (myself included) are chomping at the bit to get onto our realms and see what World of Warcraft patch 3.1 plays like. We’ve seen the 3.1 patch notes and there are some awesome new features, quests and raiding to sink our teeth into. Usually extended maintenance takes until 11:00 am PST but with this being a specially day, as of this writing it has been extended 2 more hours! Yargh!

I’ve been following @WoWinsider on Twitter for news as it happens and refreshing a Twitter search for #WoW using TweetDeck as well. The gaming world is abuzz with anticipation. Can’t wait to get into Ulduar.

I’ve spent some time patting myself on the back today. I have finally been able to combine my old NucleusCMS blog and a sexy and fresh install of Wordpress. Now I have all of my posts in one place.

One irritating thing however. All of the old photos with the NucleusCMS image display system are broken. In other words thousands of pictures. I have to go through all of the old posts (4000+) and manually convert the url’s for the images to something that wordpress can understand. Not a huge deal really. I’ll probably convert the ones I think are important right away and chip away at the others over time.

Anyway, I’m back blogging at blog.mikebrowne.com, but you don’t have to update any bookmarks because I’ve set up a redirect from mikebrowne.com. It works seemlessly. Nice!

Why did I do this? I needed a guinea pig. Carol’s blog is also NucleusCMS and I would liek to be able to offer her what Wordpress has to offer in the way of support, a slicker interface and larger theme and plugin selection. I did not want to just blow up her blog without having done it before. It only took me a few hours to get to this point.

Here’s where I got the instruction and tools to complete this mission:

jamaipanese.com

Thanks Jamaipanese! You rock!

Here’s a couple of pics I took at the Rude Boy offices today of a signed Kiss pinball machine:

Patrick said, “Gene Simmons is such a whore he’d sign anything for five bucks.”

Can’t say I disagree.

Have you seen the Kiss casket?

Nice one Gene. Sigh.

Metallica’s back to their roots and in a big way. I was discounting all the positive reviews I was getting about the most recent Metallica album. I was practicing contempt prior to investigation due to a Napster related resentment. Well this is music I can get into. I’m sorry I doubted you Metallica.

Soviet zombies? Hell yeah.

A haunting tune sung by Björk with an amazing video by director Chris Cunningham. Whatever happened to him? He’s dropped off the face of the Earth. Perhaps Rubber Johnny was too much for some folks.

Learn more about Cunningham at WarpFilms.com.

I have seen events like this transpire in person. It’s never pretty and always leaves a mark:

Office Apocalypse: When The Internet Goes Down at Work — powered by Cracked.com

Too far? Maybe. Funny anyway.

Thanks Dan.