Yeti Menace

Stanley Kubrick’s classic film The Shining has a firm place in my Vers-Top 10 Movies of All Time, and the online exhibit “Artwork and No Play,” running through Oct. 31 at the Phone Booth Gallery, is a truly delightful tribute to some of the most memorable moments from the film.

Pictured: Kevin Tong’s “Wave of Mutilation” + David Owen’s “Corrective Action”

My favorite moment in last night’s second presidential debate between Obama and McCain was at the end when McCain bumbled into the middle of the stage directly in front of Brokaw, obscuring his teleprompter and forcing Brokaw to ask him to move.

Arianna Huffington commented on this so eloquently in her morning post:

Brokaw might as well have been speaking on behalf of the future: Senator McCain can you please get out of the way so we can get on with it?

I could not agree more.

Design for Obama

The strangest feeling as one stood in the audience for their final U.S. show: this was not about the band; this was about the audience. How the audience reacted to hearing the music as if it was played underwater or in the next room really loud. How it was not necessary to actually see the musicians playing since the light show obliterated the view. How every smug, self-satisfied person in the audience stood in awe, not of the band, but of how they were able to withstand the barrage of noise when the final song with its 15 minute sonic explosion was performed. Pity…the Holy Grail remained so because few, if any, actually saw the bloody thing. Nostalgia sux.