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almost home

2009-10-23T07:56:00.000-07:00

so last night kind of felt like the first night in the new apartment. i mean it sucks that rusty hid in his room all night - i think he had a less than optimal experience with the new man, and just doesn't want to socialize. that's just a theory. of course, so is gravity. but it was nice to be surrounded by good friends and america's new top runway designers. seems like kind of an easy job, really. long, flat surface, raise it up about three feet, extend it out into the audience. whatever, it must be nice to make money.

speaking of money. so bill checked his account and he is short for rent. i gave him all my money (which wasn't much), and with his tips on monday, we should be covered. i only have a tiny check coming from the convenience store, and it has to feed me for at least two weeks. that means i need to take a trip to salvation army downtown and pick up some food. my luck it will be beets and wheat flour. so if anyone wants any beetbread in the next few weeks, i've got it on lock.

i hope the birthday celebration goes well. i should be available all day on sunday, but i'd be kind of uncomfortable doing the birthday meal thing (again, completely broke, and you'd have to pick me up on your birthday, which sucks a whole lot). but i'd love to see you if the opportunity arises. perhaps in a moment of escaping from whatever else is going on, you can escape to my place. or i can meet you somewhere - it's really going to depend on how your day is going. you know i love you with all my heart, so if i don't get to see you on the day, it's no worries. i'm here for the long haul.

where is my mind?

2009-10-21T17:11:00.000-07:00

I picked a bad day to promise you a blog post. I just spent the last ten minutes staring at the computer screen, trying to think of something interesting to say. I've got nothing though. Once again, I should be doing the shitload of homework that's due tomorrow...but I'm way too burnt out on school right now. Mostly burnt out on teachers that don't teach. What exactly is my tuition paying for if they read straight out of the textbook, or worse yet, expect us to just read the book and teach ourselves, then grade us on problems we've never seen examples of? I'll be so happy if I make even halfway decent grades this semester. Ugggggghhhhh. I'm sorry, like I said, probably shouldn't have started blogging tonight. Perhaps I'll try again tomorrow. For now, I think I'll switch to doing dishes as my anti-school alternative. I love you though, I hope today is a little better than yesterday for you, and I hope tomorrow is a little better than today. Etc.

it really is about time

2009-10-09T17:36:00.000-07:00

i, too, thought a lot of video prospects the last few days (it's been kind of long and sordid), and i can't wait to get a camera and get going with that shit. i looked at several stores and just couldn't find a machine that i wanted for the money (or could afford the payments on), so i'll probably just set a few bucks asside and then end up getting something from alan's down the road in a week or two. either way, we'll be up and running soon.

i also decided that just straight reportage and strange pytonesque roleplaying wasn't going to sate either of us, so i bought a few stuffed animals (a bulldog and a koala bear, to be exact) from the goodwill and am currently converting them into hand puppets. oh, yeah, i'm doing that. we'll probably make other strange films as well, but we'll figure all that out in a minute.

no, i haven't seen the movie yet, yes, we need to see the movie, absolutely, it should be first on our list, no, it can't be just with anybody, it's gotta be with you.

i'm so tired. bill's battery died at the big goodwill way down patton, so we had to walk back to haywood and then i had to carry a new battery back to the car. my arms HURT. but that's okay. you know why? 'cause when the music's over, and the light's have gone down, there's always and forever, each moment with you, is just like a dream to me, that somehow came true, and i know tomorrow will still be the same, 'cause we've got a life of love that won't ever change.

al fucking green, baby.

manic depression's a frustrating mess

2009-10-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

Okay, so here we go again. Take two. Or whatever take this is. This is why I'm not directing this movie. Speaking of movies, I was driving down that road where we saw all that cool shit we need to film today, and I noticed the biggest MOMS graffiti I've seen so far. We should do a special segment on MOMS and TRIDE, hopefully with interviews with gang members. Maybe I could join a gang. I've also seen a couple of STEPHEN HAWKING tags, but those are less common and I don't know who does them...but I think they're my favorite.

Really didn't mean to focus on local graffiti in this post. Perhaps I'm beating around the bush a bit because I don't feel like dealing with any real emotions or issues right now. At least I'm not drinking to avoid things at the moment. That's progress, right? I think so. I also just remembered we still haven't seen Inglourious Basterds. Or at least I haven't. Is it still out? If it is, that should be at the top of our "getting out and doing shit" list.

I feel like having my new crazy phone will be beneficial, at least in the sense that it has a pretty decent camera on it. It even has a black and white setting, which makes pretty much any picture look good. So maybe I'll actually start taking lots of pictures for once. I'll be the next Annie Leibovitz in no time...ha!

It feels good to blog again. I hope we can keep this up, I think it's healthy. And it's a hell of a lot cheaper than therapy. For now, I think I'm gonna leave it at this and go watch Sin City again. I just need to say one more thing: fuck the fucking fuckers.

I feel better....ish. Hope the job nonsense is going okay for you. And thank you.

without my meredith

2009-02-09T11:33:00.000-08:00

goddamn it actually sucks here. i mean, it's better than living in the aftermath of a tsunami, or in the asshole of a giant vole, or in iowa, but it still sucks more than it should suck. a lot of it is that i just want to get fucking started on the next part of my thing here, you know? did this part, didn't like most of it, want to move forward. get on. raleigh, hyaa, me, nyaa. fuck you guys ... i'm going home. which is the other big part. i can't see my meredith, like, ever. and that sucks on any planet. miss you. can't wait to be like "whatchu doin'" and you be like "nuttin'" and i be like "scool, let's do sumpin'" and you be like "aiight.". then we actually could. that will be neat. anyway, i said i'd blog, now i have to go back to work. but i love you.

they mostly come out at night...mostly

2008-12-30T18:15:00.000-08:00

I guess this is sort of my post-Christmas update. I suppose that means I should fill you in on Christmas events. Well, as I was driving to Greensboro after I got off work on Xmas Eve, my mom told me that they had to put our cat Pandora to sleep that morning. We had her for 12 years. Apparently she had some sort of thyroid problem, and eventually she couldn't really breathe anymore. So that was sad, but I'm glad she doesn't have to suffer now. And I've still got Ralph, although he still doesn't live with me.

Anyway, then I got to briefly hang out with Emily M., and we got appropriately drunk for the occasion. Hence my Xmas morning hangover. Although strangely, even though my parents knew I went to the bar, and they knew I didn't feel good, they never put two and two together to equal drunk. But I digress. The visit with my grandma and great aunt in VA wasn't nearly as unpleasant as usual. In fact, it was almost enjoyable...nobody complained about their aches or impending deaths, and we actually carried on a conversation that didn't involve much bitchiness.

I also saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with my parents. It truly deserves all the hype it's gotten. Brad Pitt, you son of a bitch, you've done it again.

Alright, enough about Xmas shit. Let's talk about hiking. I have been focused hardcorestyle on my Appalachian Trail goal as of late. I can't remember if I told you this already, but I decided to do about two weeks on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail this summer, probably from Asheville to Gboro so I'd have someone to drive me back here when I was done hiking. I think I just talked my friend Adam into doing that with me, so now I'm super excited. I knew it wouldn't be a good idea to do it alone. Two weeks should be a pretty good practice run for the AT, at least in these preliminary stages of planning. I think my ultimate goal is to thru-hike from Georgia to Maine before I turn 26. That gives me three years to graduate and get my shit together and do it. I don't think I've ever been more serious about anything in my life; I'm not even sure why, but I feel like this is something I have to do. And I know it's going to be the hardest fucking thing I ever do, but it will be so worth it.

Well, I'm tired and smelly from a hike I did earlier today, so I'm going to stop writing and go shower. I don't think I'll have trouble falling asleep tonight. I hope you don't either, my friend. Feel better.

if i were i life coach, i'd be horse drawn

2008-12-23T17:03:00.000-08:00

not that most horses can draw very well. it's a hooves thing. thanks for the thoughts, and yes, you're right. i try to think as positive as possible and about relationships as little as i can. but i still have a fucked up attitude and am just about as lonely as i've been in a decade or two. but that's all just bullshit. my life is actually great. i have lots of great friends (like you), and a great future in making art and music (with people like you). so it's all good.

the time has come, the walrus said...

2008-12-20T17:02:00.000-08:00

Shit, I'm sorry about your horrible night and your horrible day at work. I suggest homicide rather than suicide, you'd get no satisfaction from suicide. Or at least not if we're right about the afterlife. But seriously, can I help in any way?

I also had a lot of trouble sleeping last night. And I think at some point while I was laying there, I thought to myself, "You know, you really should change your attitude. I bet you'd be a lot happier if you'd just stop dwelling on how miserable you are. And maybe stop thinking about relationships so much." Somehow it made me feel better momentarily...until this morning, when I woke up pissed because I had to work and I was still alone and sad. Oh well. At least I didn't have to listen to such stupidity while I was attempting to sleep....that sucks big time. I suggest ear plugs for that particular problem.

I think that's all the suggestions I have for today. This is why I'm not a life coach, I'd be horrible at it.

Love.

today, so far

2008-12-20T09:19:00.000-08:00

12:00 am glad i went to bed early. can lay here and listen to roommate argue on phone with boyfriend about meaningless, child things

1:00 am well, i don't have to work in the morning (day off - yippie!), so i should start working on that new story idea

2:00 am roommate arguing with play boyfriend on phone. still. remember to kill them

3:00 am okay, okay, fine - to bed

3:45 am shit, can't sleep

4:30 am still can't sleep

*?* sleeping

7:30 am meagin calls. had a bad night, needs me to work for her. say shit. then say okay

10:00 am working

12:20 pm adding to blog, contemplating suicide. or homicide. or both

unfortunately, you took the good stories with you

2008-12-15T10:37:00.001-08:00

i'm afraid that this town and 99% of it's inhabitants are as lame and boring as they've always been, except that most of my favorite exceptions have moved on to higher ground, leaving only a hideous, destiute wasteland of mindless idiocy, drooling masses of ignorant filth, many with cars and expensive clothing. very few rays of light left, love. dark and cold here, like a pile of near-dead fish during a blackout at night. some of which still have knives and have reached the level of delirium. hence the pinching. have i mentioned that i'm fuckin' sick of this place? i'll tell you a story. one day, i woke up and i wasn't here anymore. and i know that the smouldering crater i left behind was a better place now. oh yes. a better place. i have to run, i think a fish is poking me.

don't give away apples to apples!

2008-12-14T09:48:00.000-08:00

I've been really wanting to play that game lately. Such an excellent invention. As long as you keep the ninjas away from it, that is. They really are some destructive bastards sometimes. How's the captivity going? True to your belief, I have not yet made a pie. But I fully intend to at some point before you're released, seriously.

Holy shit, I can't believe I only have one more exam tomorrow and then I'm on a month-long hiatus from school. Hooray! I wish I could somehow manage to get a hiatus from work at the same time and then I'd try to stow myself away on a plane going someplace warm, sunny, and tropical. Where all the drinks have umbrellas. But on second thought, I don't want those girlie drinks. Maybe I'll stow away at a brewery instead. Delicious.

So tell me some stories. Anything interesting going on in the 919 area? I retract the question. I'm being too optimistic about Raleigh's entertainment value. I guess I'm just going on the hope that in terms of odds, SOMETHING has to happen EVENTUALLY. But maybe not...

what did you do with all the ninja droppings?

2008-12-08T09:39:00.000-08:00

so my captivity is pretty much equally as believable as your whiskey-imbibing, theologically minded ninjas, but you really expect me to believe that you're going to make me a pie? although i can see the file part. sorry about the ninjas. i figured that they'd leave you alone after you moved, but the way of the dark warrior is mysterious. i, too, need to apologize for my lack of bloggingness, though i cannot blame such an intrusion. it is all me, my bad, i suck, i need to be punished for this thing. my preferred form of punishment would be either money or pizza. i would take a cheeseburger. scotch would be fine. or cigarettes. the guards smoked all mine. i shall have the gogol to you in a day or two, i found out that bill has a copy, so i'll send it along. what else? i set out all my games to be given away. that means it's close, mon ami. close.

don't drop the soap

2008-12-02T10:41:00.000-08:00

I wasn't even aware that you were being held captive. Is there anything I can do? I could bake a cake with a file in it if you want. Can they see this blog? They'd probably suspect a cake anyway. Maybe a pie then. They'd never see that one coming. Guess I'd better start baking. I'm impressed that you're even blogging from jail, I have no excuse from my long absence from the blog...I could make up a cool excuse though. I think I will. You see, what happened was....I was just sitting here minding my own business, when all of a sudden these ninjas burst into my living room, ninja-like. So I didn't even see them for an hour or two. But then finally I looked up and thought it was a little odd that I had ninjas hanging from my ceiling. By that time, there was nothing I could do. I was scared. I offered them some whiskey, which they politely accepted, and we sat down and had a few drinks and talked about current events and whatnot. Then the conversation moved on to religion. I'm here to tell you, never talk to ninjas about religion. You'll never hear the end of it. They got to my house six or seven days ago, and they finally shut up just now. I'm glad they left. Now I've got all these dishes to do before anyone else comes over. So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Fuck ninjas.

i must blog quietly, or they may hear

2008-12-02T09:04:00.000-08:00

at least my cell is clean. the food has been the same, a rusty plate spotted with an assortment of either crunchy or runny, otherwise unidentifiable morsels - i believe at least a few of them are poop. besides the light of the barred window in the door, i receive no real energy in here - though i am occassionally taunted with bizarre dangling objects just beyond the periphery of my sight, probably to sap what little strength i may still have. everything is either hard, sharp, cold, or glazed in a hideous mossy film - or some combination of the same. i must escape. i must be free. i will try to come up with a plan the next time my mind works ... wait ... i think someone's coming ...

oh, yeah - like the boat times ...

2008-11-21T07:36:00.000-08:00

no, you're awesome, i just haven't had the time or energy to keep up lately. things will improve, however. most of the real work we can actually get going on will have to wait until spring anyway, when we can really sit down and work together for a few hours once in a while. the site will just be a place to store all of the pertinent business information for quick access - it may even evolve into the radio station (or part of it might, anyway), but that's way down the road.

joshua is bringing his laptop over to my apart ... er ... my superhero technolair this weekend, and we'll see if it's still a hot spot. if so, i'm buying a wireless card hopefully next week. then if nothing else, i can start up the virtual art studio and give us some kind of underpinning for all of this. but no, i definately don't want to replace the blog. it's one of the few happy places i have to go to right now.

i put recording studio equipment on my computer this week - it has a twelve band mix board for each of a few hundred channels, so there shouldn't be much we can't edit into it's component parts (should be able to isolate any given track out of any given music so long as the orginal was recorded post 4 track - but the program does have some audio tools, too - so ...). this all means, of course, that we need to think about what kind of beck-level home studio album we might want to work on over the next few years. obviously, i'm willing to think about anything. the other point of having the recording software is so that we can bundle our radio programs into single elements to move around easier. we can record all our own vocal tracks for intros, ads, comments, skits, bunny deaths, whatever.

what else? i need to blog more often so i have less to remember. oh, yeah, you're a towel.

i heard about that thing with the stuff at the place

2008-11-19T06:39:00.000-08:00

Okay, I really don't have an excuse for how much I've sucked at blogging lately. I apologize. I hope you're completely recovered now and everything is back to normal. Or better than normal. Wouldn't it be cool if you got sick and then came away from it with super powers?

So let's talk about this website idea of yours. What exactly do you have in mind? How would it be very different from this? Would it just be more about the radio station and records and whatnot, and less of our bullshit? My html skills are pretty rusty, but I could probably remember. I do think it's a good idea to have everything in a more accessible form. It would be neat if we had links to mp3s as well. But one step at a time.

I can't believe the end of November is sneaking up on me so quickly. Thanksgiving is almost here, that dreaded anti-turkey holiday. Shit. At least I'll get to see my kitten, who is apparently getting less kitten-ish every day. How's Dinah?

There's only about 3 weeks left of the semester, and then I get a nice long break. Not from work, of course, but not being in school for a while will help immensely. I'd like to make another trip to Raleigh at some point in December, hopefully for more than a day. I'll let you know when I figure that out.

Well, that's all I've got for now. I'll try to step up my A-game from now on.

okay, i do feel better

2008-11-15T10:21:00.000-08:00

sorry. i have not been so much under the weather as under a big, hairy, dead ogre which was under a broken dinette set, under a collapsed soup kitchen, under a pile of dead babies, which was, as it happens, under the weather. i was in the weather's armpit. it was an unusually shitty experience, and i still have a fairly ugly cough. whatever bug got into my body was like a shit ninja. finally, i feel very nearly better. i am at the library waiting for bill to get awake enough to come do laundry with me. thanks for the words of kindness over this last week. made the armpit much easier to deal with. i think we need to think about a webpage, so that we can see what the hell we're collectively doing here. not that i don't love the blog, it would just be nice to see what's going on since i never get online on my own workspace. it was too bad about that last one ... what was it, uber? i can't remember. maybe i'm still sick. i wish i had the internet at home and then it wouldn't matter. well, once i move i'll get us on a network. anway, i have to go launder. i mean, really now. for shame.

a little something to make you feel better

2008-11-09T08:47:00.000-08:00

http://punditkitchen.com/2008/09/05/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this/

Hope you're resting and getting well!

you want me to use a carrier pigeon.

2008-11-05T10:31:00.000-08:00

i mean really. in this age of enlightened democracy (excepting the treatment of our beleaguered franken), we should think long and hard before using our fowl. you can still use commie fowl if you want, of course, and it's still open season on any bird from kentucky. well, any chicken, really. mmm. chicken. but pigeon? i'd hate to be munching along and accidently choke on a communique (i don't like eating my words - but i may eat some of yours). i've forgotten what i'm saying. oh, yeah - president obama. i bet it will be neat to talk to people who are younger than say eight or ten right now in ten years. i mean, for them, it just always will have been this way. maybe it's by way of cultural enhancement that we forget our past mistakes. hmm. but the pigeons will remember. and if i know christians, the cardinals won't forget too soon, either. those sluts. hooray change!

this is not a blog about the election

2008-11-05T05:37:00.000-08:00

Although I am excited. That's all I'm going to say. Except that I'm pretty upset about Al Franken losing the Minnesota Senate race.

Now, as to the matter of the next album: Sticky Fingers. Also, the updated spreadsheet is in the mail. In the email, I mean. That just doesn't sound as good. Fuck computers, let's just go back to using carrier pigeons.

sounds horrible and interesting - like identifying roadkill

2008-11-03T08:24:00.000-08:00

hmm. well i certainly hope you don't have any riot-type situations at the museum. unless they're like actual artwork riots, where all the subjects come to life and freak out because the contrast and color is so much less intense out here. that'd be okay. i've never been in a room full of klan paraphanalia, though i honestly don't regret this. still - now i want to see it.

beyond that, i started the first set of pages for high way. as soon as i have a few more in a state of near completion (which is difficult, because every page bleeds into the ones before and after it), i'll copy them at the library (11x14s, can't do it at home) and send some out to you and linds. i think you'll like where i'm going with this, though remember, it will probably take ten to twenty pages of do-overs until i get a rhythm and start locking them. anyway, i miss you, i love you, and patti's horses is the next album.

do me a favor and send me your new list. i'm lost.

fine then, i'm a towel

2008-11-01T18:24:00.000-07:00

Ok, try to imagine that you work at an art museum. Imagine that you walk into a big gallery where they're installing an exhibition of an artist you weren't previously familiar with. So you look around and everything seems to be perfectly normal, just some drawings and paintings. And then there's a little room off to one side of the gallery that's closed off by curtains. So, naturally, you want to know what's in there. But I guarantee you aren't expecting to see a dark room, hung floor to ceiling and wall to wall with various artwork and paraphernalia related to the KKK. We're talking hundreds of dolls with hoods, drawings of Klan members with glowing red eyes, ceremonial shrouds, and so on. Creepy as fuck. I've never seen a more intense collection of art. I got goosebumps and I couldn't stay in that room for more than a minute or two. I had no idea....I wish someone had prepared me for that. Seriously though, look up William Christenberry. I think you might be right about him taking photographs, but this particular exhibition doesn't focus on that at all. Looking at his work, you're not sure if he's the most racist guy on earth, or if he's trying to speak out against that sort of thing. I was relieved to find out that he's actually quite the activist. But I'm nervous about having that show in our museum, I don't know what I'm going to say when it pisses people off (which it most certainly will, on both ends of the spectrum). I guess that's a good sign that it's effective as art.

Anyway...sorry for the long spiel. All I wanted to say was Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part 1 by The Kinks.

my towelness is not at issue

2008-10-31T09:22:00.000-07:00

yours however, is.

considering that it's halloween and all that.

congrats on the accounting. see, i told you you rock. for a towel, i mean.

i have to stop only doing this on my lunch, as i don't have time to think properly. So let's just make this easy: fresh fruit for rotting vegetables by the kennedys. ok, now where are we again?

new york's alright if you like saxophones

2008-10-31T05:22:00.000-07:00

Sorry I'm lagging a little with the blogs. The last month and a half of school is always the worst. But on the plus side, I got the only A in my accounting class on the midterm! Go me go!

I think I did the Velvet Underground & Nico about a week ago. Well I didn't DO them, although that would make a much better story. But I did select that album, in any case. And although I feel bad for doing two in a row, I don't feel bad enough not to do it. You can do two next if you want. My proposal is: Dinosaur jr, either You're Living All Over Me or Dinosaur. Both are really solid albums, but I think the former has a more diverse track listing than the latter. So sure, I'll just go with that.

Happy Halloween! You're a towel!

yeah, you stick to being stuck on stickers

2008-10-29T12:04:00.001-07:00

i did as many sketches of the one's that i thought i needed to borrow style from - but i have a lot to learn about character design ... well, i've got another decade to figure it out. so okay, that's ten albums, a hundred songs, and i think one or two classical recordings. i thought about breaking our music up into styles, but then it occurred to me that it's really all one style, pretty much. i mean, where the artistry of folk meets the violence of punk is rock. without r&b there would be no beat. without classical compositions, no structure. without jazz, no expansion. i'd love to basically exclude country, except that it doesn't all suck (although that which doesn't suck is certainly not radio country and western). the same thing holds true for pop. disco, however, can die and no one will miss it.

so wait, i haven't been paying attention ... did we do the velvet underground and nico yet? if not i totally want that to be next album. if we've already done that, then you go and i'll get back with another tomorrow.

you know what's neat? we're about to elect a black man president of the united states. now maybe people can start to get the fuck over it.

i've been stickering my stuff all afternoon

2008-10-27T12:14:00.000-07:00

Good birthday album. I finally got on my A-game and made an album spreadsheet for us. Looks like we've got 9 so far, unless I missed one. I guess that means it's time for #10...which will be Sonic Youth's Dirty. Which reminds me: I think someone, perhaps Seth Rogen, was wearing a shirt with that album cover in a movie. But I don't think that shirt actually exists! Way lame. There's one that's sort of like it, except it has a pink bunny instead of that little orange hacky-sack-looking-guy, and the bunny just isn't as cool. Well now I've just gone and made myself all mad. I need to go play with some more stickers.

now that you're older than me and all

2008-10-25T09:10:00.000-07:00

i feel like i have to do london calling now. and, like yourself, i think i've basically forgotten where we're at. i think that's near a week. my current project is collecting music i either need to hear again or haven't heard but is talked about a lot - i'm hoping to start sending you a few sample programs soon. i still haven't figured out exactly how this is supposed to work, but my guess is that it doesn't matter, it's what you make of it. although there are some rules it looks like. i'm looking into all of that as we speak. i'll also hopefully send of a first draft business plan before december. there's still a lot of things i haven't made up my mind about. like barnacles. and birthdays. although i'm pretty sure i know where i stand on birthday barnacles. probably cleveland. wait, there's no ocean in cleveland ...

... happy birthday, my friend.

well, i hear nanook rubs it

2008-10-24T13:28:00.000-07:00

nevertheless, i haven't the foggiest what's going on. nor should i. i mean, look at me. sheesh. and i would very much like to eat a pizza. but - alas - i have to go back to work - late lunch and all, plus i haven't brought my brains with me today. which will come in handy if i get asked any questions. i'll have to come up with my next album tomorrow. it'll be like a birthday album. but not really. have you ever tried to play a cake on a turntable?

i'm the only gay eskimo in my tribe

2008-10-24T10:29:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm putting my 10-hour workday to good use, catching up on my internet activities and whatnot. If I really wanted to get off task, I could probably get away with working on the order of the playlist. But I'll probably just save that for another day. I'm not as organized with the album list as I was with the songs, so I'm not even sure which day we're on by now. But my proposal for the next album is The Velvet Underground & Nico (Andy Warhol). And with that, unfortunately I've gotta get back to work. Hope your week is going well!

well, nothing called a "bono" can be good for you

2008-10-22T11:32:00.000-07:00

no, no, black dots is fine. it's weird that you should bring it up because i was just thinking about HR this morning (for the Valhalla Ensemble, which you'll see probably before you see this post). and while i love where the brains took the reggae thing, i hate to say it but the faster the better. but wait, that puts the next lp on me, doesn't it? fuck. okay, i was thinking about this earlier too ... and it's a toss up. i'm afaid i have to go with blonde on blonde. i wrestled with that or london calling for a while, but dylan probably is the songsmith, so he'd better get props. god, there's so many great albums! one of the nice things about the programming format we'll be using is that we can play as many as we want. in fact, the more the better, as it's less taxing than actually assembling sets. and it looks like the old bmi b-sides rules don't apply to the kind of thing we're doing, so we can play whatever we want as long as we pay the licensing fees. yippee!

i hate bono

2008-10-22T06:16:00.000-07:00

I keep thinking of more songs I want to add to our 1st 24 hour playlist. But I know we need to figure out the order of that list before we can add anything. I guess this will just be the never-ending project, and I'm okay with that. It's fun.

So how do you feel about Bad Brains' Black Dots as the next album? I know one time when we were talking about them, you said Black Dots was kind of a weird choice. But I think it's a good selection of songs, and their speed on this album is incredible. And it's more punk, less reggae than some of their others, so I like that.

Apparently it's 52 degrees in my apartment right now. It just makes me want to curl up in bed all day, but I have to "get shit done" or something. Way lame.

A Retreat from High Bread Tomatoes

2008-10-21T07:27:00.000-07:00

yeah, i remember the towlie idea, and i think it's awesome. seems like all you really need is two used beach towels and a wire frame. i totally think you should go for it. okay, i think stop making sense is the way to go. i mean we are talking about albums here. and if we get too much farther in without hitting either revolver or abbey road, we'd be doing some kind of injustice somehow, to that's what i have to say about record #4. it's easy to argue for either one (i mean, abbeys's so patched up and self-sampled it's almost a hip hop record there at the end, so ...) but, well - i'd probably lean towards abbey road. sgt. peppers a great album. maybe too great. it's like the stairway to heaven of lps.

to add yet another blip to our musical radar, i thought i'd go ahead and start off our list of the first ten or so classical pieces - i figure the straight up jazz bits are going to be harder to find and sort out (and isn't truly where you or i are coming from) but i definately know how i feel about most of the composers. And i think if you have to start somewhere - our radio station is, at it's heart, a punk station - you go with stravinsky's rite of spring.

it will be interesting to see how all this evolves. i feel like right now we're laying groundwork so that in a year or so we'll both have this strangely expanded musical vocabulary - specifically in that we've had to really think about what comes before what, who's related to who ... it should make for really unique programming.

stay tuned.

lumberjacks

2008-10-19T14:37:00.000-07:00

I highly approve of your choice for album 2. For #3, I know it's going to have to be Talking Heads...the problem is, which one? I was thinking either Stop Making Sense, Speaking In Tongues, or Remain In Light. This is tough. I'll probably just go ahead and say Stop Making Sense, unless you think otherwise.

As far as the naming concerns go: I agree with you about w.e.e.d. It just seemed like a good idea at the time. But you're absolutely right, it's gotta change. To what? I don't know. And I like Studio Delirium well enough, I mean I probably wouldn't have come up with that myself, but like you said, it's your thing so it's entirely up to you. I'm not going to try to tell you how to live your life. Except for that one time.

Did I mention already that I think I'm going to be Towelie for Halloween? That should be fun, if I actually go through with it. I'm pretty lazy when it comes to costumes, but it shouldn't be that difficult. I don't know why I get so excited about Halloween, it might be the only holiday I actually care about. Well, that and Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. I'm pretty hardcore about that one.

more double blogging

2008-10-19T10:07:00.001-07:00

i wonder if this is like double dipping. anyway, it'll be brief. i think Unknown Pleasures should be the second album. thanks.

Like Chocolate Covered Christians, Love Not

2008-10-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

well, let's see. i suppose i can think of a thousand was to argue against ziggy, only because i can think of a thousand ways to defend the choice - which is probably where i would have landed as well had it been mine to make. but, you probably know that. so fuck yeah, i think that's a perfect first album. i haven't really thought about what the second should be, but in utero comes to mind. i'll put a little more effort into the idea when i get a minute - i need to settle down and figure out exactly what's on my plate.

awesome to hear that the baxter is well. i'm sure he thinks about you too, in his bizarre little kitty brain way. and it's nice to hear that anne is still reachable. i miss her. i did get to see katrina for a few minutes, but we were both on the run, so.

okay, so one minor point of seriousness - how do you really feel about the "Studio Delirium" title? i know it's my decision in the end what to call my production company, but it would be good to hear some feedback. i love updog if we can pull it off for recording purposes, and - i know this sucks - we should rethink the w.e.e.d. thing - not for any of the reasons that others might think we should, but because we might need to find a title for the station that keeps us on message with the music and stands up to more than cursory criticism. but that last bit is kinda your department now, so let me know if you have any thoughts in that arena.

did you ever see that white chocolate crucifix the geoff had in my fridge forever? i was thinking about that this morning. could you market a chocolate guillotine? a chocolate iron maiden? maybe we should. i'd buy one. maybe cookies in the shapes of a rack or wheel. i don't know how we'd do the stakes, though. meringue?

time to get down to brass tacks (ouch)

2008-10-16T12:40:00.000-07:00

As my attorney, you advised me to come up with the album we play on day one...so I've given it a good deal of thought, and I think I reached a conclusion. Really, it wasn't that hard to narrow it down to a handful of albums I thought were worthy. But picking from that few was where it got tricky. In the end, I went with Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Am I right? Feel free to suggest otherwise.

Side note, but one that made me very happy: Anne called me earlier today and said she was at Katrina's house and she saw Baxter! Apparently Katrina has been taking care of him and he's doing well. I've missed the shit out of that cat....glad he's alive and loved. Although if she decided she didn't want him I'd drive to Raleigh and scoop him up in a heartbeat.

I'll try to get to work on that set list soon.

Welcome to Tarnation

2008-10-16T10:31:00.000-07:00

young people of today, heed the words of the mighty weed ...

okay, so that's 100 songs into the machine. obviously, there will be thousands and thousands more, involving a vast database utilizing huge storage facilities, resource hubs, trained marmosets, and a vending machine. we must employ the masses (i respectfully suggest that we employ them to fuckin' mars). we must repress the elite (by means of foil). we must be the change we want to see in the world (... ah, hell he was right there ...). what we do here today will ring in the conciousness of future generations like an anthem of creative freedom and daring - weed will overcome! thanks for having us.

say ... why is everyone wearing pasta?

i can see around corners

2008-10-15T11:08:00.000-07:00

Willie Nelson I like...it's Buffalo Springfield I have issues with. But I suppose that's what this upcoming board meeting is all about. I think it's going to be fun to argue over the songs. I wish I were drunk. There will be other board meetings for that, I'm sure. According to my spreadsheet (wow, I'm a nerd), these will be the last of the first 100 songs. Let's have a moment of silence.

Fake Palindromes - Andrew Bird
Molly's Lips - The Vaselines
That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission Of Burma
Gin And Juice - Snoop Dogg
Dear God - XTC

And now, let the arguments begin!

Dang and Fuck Mean the Same Thing

2008-10-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

in that context, so does shit. but shit ass means something else. fuck shit ass shit. thing is i don't know anymore how many songs we really get to post, so until this mythical board meeting really takes place i say we stick to the original 100 (we may have to add another 50 - 100 later, but that'll be another list). besides, i want to get on with the debating of songs, and we can't do that until we've got at least one list done. you realize that we only have four more posts to get there, right? shit ass.

Close to Me - the Cure
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
I Wanna Be Sedated - the Ramones
Hot Seat - Vic Chesnutt
Blue Skies - Willie Nelson

i know, i know. nelson? in my defense, have you ever heard his version of blue skies? you really should. and i got stuck on which of robert's songs to use. boys don't cry is probably my favorite, but i love killing and arab, too.

(insert title here)

2008-10-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

I can't believe you beat me to Cypress Hill. But I'm glad it's on the list, regardless. I don't have much time to dilly-dally today, I have a midterm in less than an hour and I should probably get some studying in...

God Is Dad - Arab On Radar
Territorial Pissings - Nirvana
Problems - Sex Pistols
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Highway Star - Thunderlip

And before you say anything: yes, I know Highway Star is by Deep Purple. I know. And I even thought about using that version instead. But listen to the Thunderlip cover. It's dead on, except a little more metal. We could all use a little more metal in our lives.

If Wildebeast Ruled the World, Cheetah would be Illegal

2008-10-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

course, it's illegal to be a cheatah in maine. but that's not the point. the point is that this breaks the unspoken rules we've been following of "back and forth" posting. but rules suck ass anyway. and besides, i kinda fucked up that last entry by not doing my part in the five song exchange. so let me use this time to right a terrible wrong, and hopefully the whole "double-blog-gate" scandal can just be a thing of the past. i don't know what kind of press this is getting, but i'm sure it's negative. well, i'll bet the cheetah lobby's pissed, anyway.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis (when they didn't suck)
Caravan - Chet Atkins and Les Paul
To Be Young (Is to be Sad, Is to be High) - Ryan Adams
Stormy Monday - Allman Brothers Band
Hits from the Bong - Cypress Hill

i know some of the stuff i've been going after is a little old school (thanks for getting miles davis for me), and i'm trying to avoid anything that's lived on the radio for too long, but we'll correct a lot of that when we edit the first day's tracks i'm sure. also, if you don't have caravan, you need to hear it. the men are gods. and if it wasn't for you i would never have heard adams. we'll need to play the whole first record at some point, it's all over the fuckin' map. oh, the blog entry's over isn't it? shit. uhm, okay ... then ... ah ... Hey! There's Jesus! Look! ... (sneak, sneak, sneak)

nothing is more useless than a gummy chainsaw

2008-10-12T13:17:00.000-07:00

i'm happy to debate the under pressure situation (i mean, i had originally intended to use the opening theme to metropolis as my queen song, but hey), and i am one day going to do an all bowie all day radio day - i know this in my heart - so there's no such thing as too much ... but i think we should nail down the first 100 songs before replacing any. then we can move on to however many more songs we will need for day one (obviously, 100 is too small even if we play mulitiple featured albums). also, you are too psychic. i mean, you knew i was going to go with tommy the cat. and you knew i'd say this. and this. and this (insert theme music here, run end credits). well, last time i did a board meeting it involved lots of beer guzzling and some asshole getting screwed by the whole board. so let's not do it like that. i think we ought to just open a private chat room. but that may have more to do with me just wanting to get you into a private chat room. it's hard to say. and the food titles stopped when you said "how long can the food titles continue". well, i mean food is food, but it's not food, referencially. hence the chainsaw title. why are those things related? ask a zealot. they have an answer to fucking everything. okay, and now the library is closing down the computers (i had to run over here after work - which i left early to get computer time), and i haven't even thought about 71 - 75 yet. so i'll get back to you on the next post (in the meantime, think happy thoughts, eat bacon or a ready substitute, look cute in jeans, and follow a moose should you find one in the wild. thank you.

how long can the food titles continue?

2008-10-10T14:46:00.000-07:00

Okay, so a couple of things:
1. How exactly are we going to hold these board meetings? I haven't perfected my psychic abilities yet, so don't even ask.
2. To make things more interesting, and to stretch out the day 1 planning a little bit longer, I think we should start making counteroffers on artists that have already been mentioned, if we think a different song would be better. Muahaha. Which leads me to my first suggestion...what about Under Pressure instead of Killer Queen? Or can we do that since David Bowie is already on the list? Decisions, decisions.

Tommy the Cat - Primus
Lone Wolf - Eels
Burn No Bridges - Gray Matter
Last Caress - The Misfits
Car - Built To Spill

Salmon Luster sounds like a Fish Polish.

2008-10-10T11:29:00.000-07:00

i don't propose to polish fish ... besides, there's already fish oil, so i don't see what you're even talking about. okay, so board meeting ... we need to think about a time, and i'd say that the best times for me are anytime tuesdays or wednesdays - for now, my schedule's gonna change soon. so text me and say "hey, i wanna board meeting in an hour" and i'll say "lemme put my llama away and i'll run right over to the library" and you'll say "what llama" and i'll say "don't worry about it."

Good music, by the way ... the first day is going by so fast ...

And You and I - Yes
Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
Killer Queen - Queen
Final Solution - Pere Ubu
Kitty - Presidents of the United States of America

now, if you want to develop a llama polish, i'm okay with that. maybe we could polish a llama with fish oil ... i mean we'll have that bass you'll be too busy drumming to play with ...

(the preceeding grammatical pun was brought to you by Salmon Luster, the polish that makes your fish shine as though it were emmersed in water. thank you.)

i feel a powerful lust for red salmon...

2008-10-09T18:20:00.000-07:00

These are all very good ideas. The board meeting is essential. Have you ever met with a board? I hear they're all stiffs. Enough puns! I have another diverse group of songs. We've certainly been productive today, I really think we're both motivated enough on this project to actually make it happen. That's gotta be a first for me. Anyhow:

Kid A - Radiohead
Assassins - Lightning Bolt
Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat
Pepper - Butthole Surfers
It Never Entered My Mind - Miles Davis

Oh, and also I decided that although I still want to learn how to play bass, I think I'd rather be a drummer. I'm always drumming on something. I should put that energy to good use. Now, I just need some drums. And some rhythm. I still can't get over how weirdly rhythm is spelled. The English language is so mean.

i smell merit, or is that my sandwich?

2008-10-09T14:26:00.000-07:00

merit, i says, says i. in fact, it's kind of been on my mind lately that the music "production" end of things probably ought to be directly related to the "promotion" - read: radio station - end. like ... couldn't we run a radio station and use the booth as a recording studio? i mean ... since i've always wanted to do any advertisement stuff live and old-timey (but not all garrison keillor, just that we get a house band up and running and go for it), it makes sense to just record live and on the air. of course, we'll need to have some "closed" session work if we want to play "capitalist house", but fuck it. asheville, huh? well, since you've already talked me into going we might as well try to change the world while we're at it. okay, i'll play.

oh, right ... since i'm obviously the designated emissary from the sixties and before, not that i have a problem with this, since i don't even know who won album of the year in this decade, i have a few more fossils for us.

The Weight - The Band

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Crying - Roy Orbison

Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan

Ride On - AC/DC

okay, day two we need to cover a lot of ground we're going to miss. also, which albums get full play first? and if a band gets an album day one, then they don't get a song, right? All i'm saying, is ... we need a board meeting. i suggest a chat date. you supply the time and i'll supply the weasel weenie spread. luckily, i won't really. but you'll never know, 'cause you're just chatting. bring punch and pie.

kick out the jams, motherfuckers!

2008-10-09T12:01:00.000-07:00

So I was trying to listen to music in my room earlier, which does not contain my computer, and therefore I must rely on a shitty radio/CD player...well, Asheville has very few stations that are not country music or Christian. (I can't even get NPR in most places!) And so that led me to thinking, "Hey, we want to start a radio station, and this place is in desperate need of a good one..." Who's to say that we couldn't get our shit together and jump on that opportunity sooner than originally planned? Just keep that in mind...

Straight to Hell - The Clash
Atomic - Blondie
Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets
Girls and Boys - Blur
Looking for a Kiss - New York Dolls

there's just something about a hertz doughnut

2008-10-09T10:08:00.000-07:00

sorry i didn't get down to blog on my day off. had to get off my knees. i know how that sounds, and really, i needed to get off my feet - except that my feet don't hurt, my knees do. i'm not acually on my knees as much these days. except for that last week moving the store. whoo-ie. just read armageddon in retrospect (twice). His son Mark relays Kurt's favorite joke as that of a customs agent who searches a man's wheelbarrow every day for many years, but can't anything the man might be smuggling. when the agent is old and about to retire, he says to the man, "i've been searching your wheelbarrow for many years now, and we have become friends. tell me, what are you smuggling?" and the man says "friend, i am smuggling wheelbarrows." i also have to apologize for not getting work done on the journal. since this is probably the first reference to the journal in this blog, if you don't know what i mean than neither do you. snooch to the nooch, nugga-nooch!

i had conceeded fugazi, but you beat me to husker du, damn it.

however,

What a Good Boy - Barenaked Ladies
Telegram Sam - Bauhaus
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
Start Wearing Purple - Gogol Bordello
Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds Five

i remember now! the beat to funky town!

2008-10-06T12:36:00.000-07:00

I'm starting to get major tattoo fever again. It sucks. There's too many things I want.
Also, I really don't want to go to class tonight. I mean, I'm going to, I just don't want to. Fuck school. I hate it. I can't wait til I'm done. In the meantime, I'm going to keep coming up with more ideas for the radio station and record label and all that. And more songs for this playlist.

Ocean Man - Ween
Jesus, Etc. - Wilco
Waiting Room - Fugazi
Let's Have A War - Fear
Pink Turns To Blue - Husker Du

I don't know the answer to your question because I don't have access to that song. I'll have to listen to it at some point, but I'm probably going to say it's fine. Because why have rules? We do what we want!

Recently Titled Lunch Variant 2b

2008-10-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

okay, i've only got a minute here on my lunch - not that i'm ON my lunch. i'm just on my lunch. don't look at me like that. i think i need to come to the library on my day off and really soak in what we've done here so far. i'll try not to be on my lunch then.

lunch.

Step Right Up - Tommy Waits
Tennessee Jed - The Grateful Dead
Tombstone - Pogue Mahon
Redemption Song - The Wailers
Don't Eat Yellow Snow/Nanook Rubs It/St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast - The Mothers of Invention

btw, that Mother's tune is totally a single composition, not a medley. can we do that? i mean it's not the whole half of the lp or anything. maybe you should listen to it and tell me how right this is. at least i didn't do Billy the Mountain.

i don't want a large farva, i want a liter of cola

2008-10-05T13:33:00.000-07:00

Before I commence with the list (we're still not halfway done, if we're going with 100 songs), I need to talk about Flight of the Conchords. If you haven't seen that show, go rent it now. Fucking hilarious. I wish I could hang out with those guys. Anyway... this is perhaps my most diverse set of songs.

Raining Blood - Slayer
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Chapel Hill - Sonic Youth
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone - The Walkmen

We're definitely going to need to do long sets from some artists. I had some trouble picking a Talking Heads song, so they should be included in that group....
Ok, well I just actually talked to you, so never mind this whole paragraph, you already know. Way to be on your A-game. And have it on lock. I miss Xtine.

Then What Didn't the Snozberries Taste Like?

2008-10-04T09:11:00.001-07:00

good to hear that the universe is aligning in better order. this song list is more fun than a barrel of wet squirrels, and if i had any worries it's that we're gonna be done too quick (can you say premature encapsulation?) - but that's okay 'cause there's many more games to play. and music is a big fuckin' sandbox. speaking of which, hand me the plastic shovel, please ... might as well make it an old rusty one come to think of it ...

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

A Day in the Life - Beatles

Fuck Tha Police - NWA

The Traitor - Leonard Cohen

but this one goes to 11...it's one louder...

2008-10-03T12:00:00.000-07:00

Today has been good so far. It's really nice out, and I'm in a pleasant mood, and I got free Jersey Mike's for lunch, and I have five more songs for the list.
*Ahem* Here we go:

Age of Consent - New Order
Range Life - Pavement
Broken Face - Pixies
Can't Hardly Wait - The Replacements
Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids

Damn good list so far. I'm being a little OCD about mine being alphabetical for now...I'm not even sure why...so if you can do me a favor and save a certain band for me that starts with a T and ends with alkingHeads...

Follow Those Huns, Mrs. Sparrow!

2008-10-03T09:49:00.000-07:00

okay, so for the first 20 songs we have an awesome album. we will have to burn some comemmorative cds to give out at the awards cermonies. there will be awards, right? and smoky treats, and pillaging ... i don't even want to do this if there won't be any pillaging. man, i'd love a pizza right now. or a cheeseburger. with bacon. mmm. bacon. who? oh, yeah ... five more tunes:

Fairies Wear Boots – Black Sabbath
Girl Anachronism – Dresden Dolls
Rise Above – Black Flag
She - Elvis Costello
What’d I Say? – Ray Charles

no kitty, that's my pot pie!

2008-10-02T17:48:00.000-07:00

No shenanigans this time, here's my next segment of songs:
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - The Minutemen
Cure for Pain - Morphine
Suedehead - Morrissey
Heart of Gold - Neil Young

Man, I'm so glad this week is almost over. Just one more homework assignment to do, work in the morning tomorrow, and then the rest of my weekend is free. My parents are coming to visit me, so that should be fun. Now I must mentally prepare myself for the vice presidential debates....I think it's going to be pretty interesting...

There Are Not Enough Oyster Crackers in the World

2008-10-02T10:33:00.000-07:00

awesome start this stations going to have ... it's funny ... in some ways, it's a race, in others a guessing game ... i have several songs set aside that i don't want to use specifically 'cause i expect them from your side ... the moral downside is that if i just use them then you get more room to add different stuff ... i so almost put pay to cum on my first list. and it's going to be hard to get very far without repeating bands ... we'll have to do a few full albums as special programs, obviously ... but in an effort to keep up, i offer another humble selection:

Add It Up (Femmes)
Kashmir (Zeppelin)
Watching the Wheels (Lennon)
Stone Free (Hendrix)
I'm Waiting for the Man (Reed)

mmm...people noodle soup

2008-10-01T17:12:00.000-07:00

I have a ridiculous paper due tomorrow (that I of course have not yet started), so naturally I decided that the best use of my time would be to work on that list. Which means that I'm going through my iTunes and making a giant playlist. How am I supposed to just pick five? That's harder than 500. So I will stress the fact that this is not my absolute top 5 of all time, these are just songs that need to be in the first 24 hours of radio play. Probably has more to do with where they are in the alphabet. And I'm just picking a random representative from each artist, mostly. And I'm trying not to pick any of the same artists you did. Anyway, without further ado:

Well, maybe a little further ado...

No, I kid, here it is:
Pay to Cum - Bad Brains
MTV Get off the Air - Dead Kennedys
Little Fury Things - Dinosaur jr
Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

I already want to start changing that list, but since it doesn't actually mean anything, I'm leaving it. But this is going to be a hella fun project. I wish I could send you the playlist I'm making, but I think it is more exciting to do it a few at a time. Okay, this has taken me longer than I anticipated, so I'm off to try to "do something with my life."

I will leave you with this thought:
We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. - Jack Handey

Fucking People, and the Fucking People who love them

2008-10-01T09:12:00.000-07:00

i spew at the couples in the street. walking along all happy and hormonally gratified ... they need to be less walking and more soup. or furniture. you could just make them into fucking loveseats and then laugh and laugh. goddamn stupid ugly hog-swilling becoupled peoples. there must be someway that we can use these motherfuckers to shore up the polar ice caps. or use them to stop up that big ozone hole. or as probes to other planets. or as a place to store all that fucking nuclear waste. i am not bitter. be soup, bitches! be end table!

anyway ...

more of a silver lining now...

2008-09-29T18:36:00.000-07:00

Oh Czonia, you've really gone and done it this time, haven't you? Now, looking at things, with the light playing off the seaweed and all that, everything looks better. I was finally able to find gas today, so I made it to school and took my test, which ended up being open book and I think I did really well. Hooray! And now you've given me something to give a great deal of thought...which could be bad, since I should of course give school my undivided attention. But if I know myself (and I think I do), I'll be finding ways to distract myself from that regardless. I'd be lying if I tried to blame my lack of focus on you. I'm excited about your song choices. I agree with them. And in the next episode, I shall be adding some selections of my own...tune in next time.

What a stupid planet this is.

2008-09-29T12:36:00.000-07:00

in an effort to make the world a better place and make my beloved butters a happier camper (without actually killing any proffessorial or coupled fellow campers), i here forward the following memo that i don't think was meant to land on my desk.

Internal Memorandum

To: the other As-yet Untitled Department (the Department which up until recently said "Nee!")

From: A random Commission concerned with Pathogens from the Forestry Department (the Department that only ineffectually said "Nee!" once at a party and didn't do it properly)

RE: the first twenty-four hours of W.E.E.D.

So presuming (‘cause we’re presumers) that you get two or three songs every ten minutes, and some are longer so let’s say a dozen an hour (144 songs), and that at least one tenth of our time needs to be spent on other business (so 130), less a few hours of special programming, we’ll need around 100 songs for opening day’s operations. We in the Forestry Department propose (‘cause we’re proposers) to pick 50, have your Department pick 50, and then haggle (‘cause we’re hagglers). Because it seems like it will be more fun that way, we further propose that we do this back and forth in five song increments, so each department gets 10 posts. Obviously we won’t be proposing them in any order – although we imagine that things will get kind of sticky near the end. Presuming our proposal will be picked by your people, we hereby proceed.

We suggest Sister Morphine (Stones); Hymn 43 (Tull); Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (Bowie); Sunday Morning Coming Down (Cash); and Search and Destroy (Stooges).

Signed with devotion to the Great Cause,
Alistair Green,
Flunkie, W.E.E.D Department of Forestry Contagion Commission

i hope this helps. in case it does not, for the love of god kill something. but i want to watch. if it's a couple, i want to help. if it's an edible couple, i want to take you out to dinner after. and if this is still not making things better, i shall now further fail by throwing another bad cartoon at you.

current shitlist

2008-09-28T18:03:00.000-07:00

Rather than bitching endlessly, I'm going to make a very concise list of things that are angering and/or aggravating me at the moment. Enjoy.

Gas, or lack thereof, or the need for it in the first place.
Couples. Ok ok, there are exceptions, I just hate the whole concept right now.
School. Especially my intro to business class, which has met a total of two times, even though classes have been in session six weeks. Normally I would consider this a good thing, but he still expects us to know all the material and be able to be tested on it extensively...including a chapter that isn't even in our textbooks. What?
Did I mention school?
I'm being eaten alive by bugs I can't see. Just don't ask.
I need money.

I swear I'll try to stop being so negative. I'm just not very good at being a glass-half-full kind of person. Unless, of course, the glass is empty to begin with and then you put liquid in it. I would have to concede at that point that the glass is half full. I hope it's beer.

... and then the silliness began ...

2008-09-28T12:45:00.000-07:00

no really though, i think it does smell like updog in here

2008-09-27T19:18:00.000-07:00

So, I finally decided to sit down and try to do this whole "blogging" thing. I apologize in advance to anyone who does happen to come across this, I can't guarantee that I will be worth reading. Generally the only sort of blog posts I make are lyrics to songs I think are worth checking out. I might do some of that here as well, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum. I am kind of a music snob and I might occasionally get on a soap box about all that. I'm also prone to obsessing over Kurt Vonnegut, and books in general really. Who knows, I'm not quite sure what direction I want this blog to take. My attention is waning for now. I'll try again later.
Until next time...
thankyouverymuchpleasedrivethrough

What's Updog?

2008-09-27T10:05:00.000-07:00

nietzche talked about the advantages of having a bad memory. he said people with bad memories get to enjoy several times the same good things for the first time. i have a terrible memory, and i do seem to enjoy some pretty repetitious shit. like the sound of my own mental voice. man, if i was told i could sit in front of a computer and just write down all my thoughts for a living i'd be happy as a cat in a mouse factory. do they have mouse factories? they should. anyway, i could do this all the time, is what i'm getting at. and since butters here seems to think she can enjoy willingly reading and writing with me, we have designed to produce this blog. if you have come upon this writing by accident, then you should probably go. i'm not sure, but i'm pretty sure i heard a funky ball of tits from outer space around here a minute ago ...