Salo Wrote a couple hard rock songs this weekend. One has lyrics, and one doesn't yet. I think they're both pretty good insofar as they're both departures from my normal style. Detroit just keeps haunting me. I love that town. I've been watching a lot of The Simpsons lately. Older episodes from better seasons than the current few. I went looking around on eBay, and some joker on there is selling every episode up to season 15 for 65 dollars. Here's the catch: he sends it to you on a CD-ROM in RealPlayer format. Now I don't know about you, but I'm not all about sitting at my computer to watch some small grainy piece of video that someone probably ripped off a VHS recorded in EP mode. I emailed this guy for details and he went into a lengthy response about the cost of him producing this high quality CD-ROM. Jerk.

I did, however, make a purchase today. While I was in film school, I had the fortune of taking an Italian Cinema class that was taught by one of my two favorite professors, Angelo Restivo. This guy was brilliant. One of the first films he showed us was called Accatone, by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini became my favorite Italian director (Sergio Leone is a close second). Restivo mentioned in class that Pasolini's last film was reputed to be the most disgusting film ever made, but was something we should all see. Naturally, I was intrigued by this and immediately went down to the school's film library with a couple friends. After watching it, all I could say was that it's reputation was fairly accurate. Until now, my only copy of this film was a copy of a VHS rental. But today I bought a DVD of it on eBay. I'm sure that the quality isn't great, because it's been out of print forever and I know this is a bootleg. The real DVDs routinely go for over 500 dollars on eBay. Ridiculous. So anyway, we'll see how the deal goes. It was only 15 bucks. I can handle that.

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