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My name is Tony Ballinger, and I'm a web designer living in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Archive for August, 2005

History: Unabridged with a Vengeance

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I’m sure I posted about this a while back – but I’m back on my history kick again. To recap – I didn’t pay much attention in my high school history classes. Actually, being a teenager, I didn’t pay much attention in any of my high school classes. But now, over a decade later, I [...]

Hotel: A Study in Sucking

Monday, August 8th, 2005

I challenge you to find a worse movie than Hotel by Mike Figgis. Just give up now. You can’t do it. Not with Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, not with Leprechaun 5: in the Hood. Nope – when it comes to terrible films, those two gems have nothing on Hotel. Where Hotel succeeds in sucking, where [...]

22-20s @ Schubas

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

They rocked. No question about it. Solid blues set with a UK flavor to it. They played my favorite too – a b-side called "Cut You Down". It has lyrics that remind me a lot of John Lee Hookers "Bad Like Jesse James". The lyrics go something like this: Well when I get big enough [...]