Here I was, thinking I was gonna have nothing to say on a bored, rainy day...and then I saw Bowling for Columbine. I've liked some of Moore's work in the past, and I know the movie was officially endorsed by SG...yet something about my perception of it, Moore's self-righteousness in an interview here or there, annoyed me.
...BUT I was sorta convinced by my friends...
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...BUT I was sorta convinced by my friends...
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What now?....hmm, I didn't read anything really interesting at work today.
Listening to the Smiths' Louder Than Bombs again. How did I NOT like this album as a teen? I mean, I liked The Queen is Dead a LOT, and totally passed on LTB.
The place is filling with the aroma of chicken/cheese taquitos. 8 o clock and I'm just making dinner...bad SG addiction keeping...
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Listening to the Smiths' Louder Than Bombs again. How did I NOT like this album as a teen? I mean, I liked The Queen is Dead a LOT, and totally passed on LTB.
The place is filling with the aroma of chicken/cheese taquitos. 8 o clock and I'm just making dinner...bad SG addiction keeping...
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tunnelslats:
Is that McGruff the crime dog? Last I heard he was recovering from an addiction to huffing spraypaint, and was trying to get out of a life of prostitution...
Thanks for the snippet. I'm sure you noticed that my error was corrected immediately...
Thanks for the snippet. I'm sure you noticed that my error was corrected immediately...
avanttard:
Oh thank you.
The weird thing is that I used to have all my paintings hanging, facing the wall. I'd never heard of Titian doing it.
The weird thing is that I used to have all my paintings hanging, facing the wall. I'd never heard of Titian doing it.
I Love Artists Part 2:
First off, someone I have BOUGHT ART FROM, both a framed print and compilation books, was written up in this week's Washington City Paper. Rosemary Feit Covey. She does woodcut prints that are, at the risk of sounding very 1983, awesome. Check her out at www.rosemaryfeitcovey.com
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Second, a good night at work is one where I read 90% of...
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First off, someone I have BOUGHT ART FROM, both a framed print and compilation books, was written up in this week's Washington City Paper. Rosemary Feit Covey. She does woodcut prints that are, at the risk of sounding very 1983, awesome. Check her out at www.rosemaryfeitcovey.com
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Second, a good night at work is one where I read 90% of...
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ninjatuner:
Maybe I'm jujst a sucker, but Natasha Lyonne can do no wrong. Switching gears, do yhou know if Laurie Colwin is still alive?
estrada:
Klaatu is kind of like Sgt. Pepper Beatles, from what people tell me, but I've listened to that stuff and didn't like it.
However, I love Klaatu.
I just make mixes when I'm feeling blue, because it is something borrowed, but together it is something new.
However, I love Klaatu.
I just make mixes when I'm feeling blue, because it is something borrowed, but together it is something new.
Stray dogs are baying at the edge of the roof.
For every vacant lot there is a blue streetlight.
In the razor wind two men in steel helmets
are welding the iron steps of the fire escape.
The snow swirls through the sparks of their torches.
Then it swallows the men.
Baring icy teeth, the dogs race down the fire escape,
single file for six...
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For every vacant lot there is a blue streetlight.
In the razor wind two men in steel helmets
are welding the iron steps of the fire escape.
The snow swirls through the sparks of their torches.
Then it swallows the men.
Baring icy teeth, the dogs race down the fire escape,
single file for six...
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tunnelslats:
Sick of your picture already?
Just don't overuse the word "like" and I won't mind.
Just don't overuse the word "like" and I won't mind.
anonymouse:
So you'd buy me furniture that costs $200-$300?
Hee.
Hee.
....okay... 
....not that I was afraid to post a pic before. I just wish I had a cooler pic. I want to put together some costumed pics...fact is, this is the ONLY pic I have of myself on the computer. I was hoping to wait for something more representative. This one has to be 5 years old. I have (let's be real) less hair now,...
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....not that I was afraid to post a pic before. I just wish I had a cooler pic. I want to put together some costumed pics...fact is, this is the ONLY pic I have of myself on the computer. I was hoping to wait for something more representative. This one has to be 5 years old. I have (let's be real) less hair now,... Read More
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plasticfangs:
Hey Cheech, my friend! I hope your Valentine's Day went alright.
I'm glad to hear that the site is helping you feel more confident! I think I know what you're talking about, as well...something about people judging you for who you are, and all the positive reinforcement around here...it's quite intoxicating, isn't it?
Anyways, congratulations on the burgeoning self-confidence! You get out there and break some hearts!
I'm glad to hear that the site is helping you feel more confident! I think I know what you're talking about, as well...something about people judging you for who you are, and all the positive reinforcement around here...it's quite intoxicating, isn't it?
Anyways, congratulations on the burgeoning self-confidence! You get out there and break some hearts!
tunnelslats:
Wow, you look an awful lot like a guy I worked with in college. I agree with the empowerment sentiment; I've gone through the same thing basically.
Alice is indeed a great flick, as is Conspirators of Pleasure. This one tonight was merely good.
Alice is indeed a great flick, as is Conspirators of Pleasure. This one tonight was merely good.
It's funny, you can really tell if you've spent all your life afraid of a bunch of dumb stuff, particularly if you had a complex where you're worried if everybody hates you....wait a minute, switch to first-person...I'm so insecure, I wonder if like everybody on SG thinks my posts are long and stupid...but then I take a reality check, look how many people I have...
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djdarlek:
i 
those flowers.. and the tune! da dadad dada d da ahh.. i spent at least 30 mins playing with the petals.. hmmm.. maybe i'm jsut sad.. lol
those flowers.. and the tune! da dadad dada d da ahh.. i spent at least 30 mins playing with the petals.. hmmm.. maybe i'm jsut sad.. lol
anonymouse:
I suck at taking a compliment, so... thanks. Just. Um. Thanks.
Whew, I've been on here all day...I've been waiting for a couple years for snow so heavy it would trap my ass indoors. Well, it's here.
I went out for about 15 minutes today. I walked out front to the apartment parking lot to my car. WAY to much snow behind the car to even think about going out. Plus the visibility was bad. Then...
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I went out for about 15 minutes today. I walked out front to the apartment parking lot to my car. WAY to much snow behind the car to even think about going out. Plus the visibility was bad. Then...
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_sarah_:
Spring classes don't start until the first week of May.
crazydasaint:
Mission of Burma were a great post-punk band that came out of Boston in the early eighties. If you have any file-sharing software, I'd recommend searching out "That's When I Reach for my Revolver" (their best known-- half the bands on earth cover it) "Red" "Learn How" "Progress" and maybe "Trem Two"
Tickets are $20, though, which I wouldn't pay if I had ever before in my life imagined I'd get the chance to see them live. And it doesn't look like that many members will be showing up after all.
I'm enjoying going out and seeing all the shocked people dealing with the extreme weather. So few people are out, so few cars are on the streets, it's just eerie. There's an odd sense of kinship you get from anybody you pass: "I'm out in this, you're out in this!"
And all the snow-covered cars look like dinosaur heads-- bulbous and streamlined, but with random ridges and protuberances.
Tickets are $20, though, which I wouldn't pay if I had ever before in my life imagined I'd get the chance to see them live. And it doesn't look like that many members will be showing up after all.
I'm enjoying going out and seeing all the shocked people dealing with the extreme weather. So few people are out, so few cars are on the streets, it's just eerie. There's an odd sense of kinship you get from anybody you pass: "I'm out in this, you're out in this!"
And all the snow-covered cars look like dinosaur heads-- bulbous and streamlined, but with random ridges and protuberances.
Van Gogh wrote to Theo from Arles:
"I must also have a starry night with cypresses,
or perhaps surmounting a field of ripe corn..."
Over which meteors would streak--
past Mercury, golden as a corn kernel,
and the Dog Star, haloed in blue--
to set the farm dogs barking.
The cypress, as he knew, is the oldest
variety of graveyard tree, cultivated
in Hell by...
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"I must also have a starry night with cypresses,
or perhaps surmounting a field of ripe corn..."
Over which meteors would streak--
past Mercury, golden as a corn kernel,
and the Dog Star, haloed in blue--
to set the farm dogs barking.
The cypress, as he knew, is the oldest
variety of graveyard tree, cultivated
in Hell by...
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tunnelslats:
Dick!
tunnelslats:
Okay, I removed the offending apostrophe. That's actually one of my top pet peeves, so now I must cleanse myself of evil.
My other grammatical pet peeve is when people say "whom" when they mean "who." Not coincidentally, I think they do that because they're trying to sound smart!
My other grammatical pet peeve is when people say "whom" when they mean "who." Not coincidentally, I think they do that because they're trying to sound smart!
...but you don't wanna spend Valentine's Day bummed, right?
So here's a fun, INterACtive site for you with relatively advanced Flash on your comepoter:
www.infinitewheel.com
Play around with the freakyneaky dub ragga cartoons, mon.
So here's a fun, INterACtive site for you with relatively advanced Flash on your comepoter:
www.infinitewheel.com
Play around with the freakyneaky dub ragga cartoons, mon.
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_sarah_:
The two peninsulas get along okay, but it's pretty much the entire northern part of the state (including the U.P.) against Detroit. Anytime we have a statewide election. ONE COUNTY in the Detroit area can outvote the entire northern and U.P. parts of Michigan due to population. This has totally fucked over budgets for the school systems and such.
The two peninsulas have drastically different cultures, and even the two "halves" of the lower peninsula are wildly different. I love this state for its variety. I'm not going to expand on the differences because I've already taken over your journal. 
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The two peninsulas have drastically different cultures, and even the two "halves" of the lower peninsula are wildly different. I love this state for its variety.
I'm not going to expand on the differences because I've already taken over your journal. [Edited on Feb 14, 2003]
estrada:
I'm just pissy because I'm stuck writing a paper this weekend for International Advocacy.
Stupid school.
Stupid school.
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all...
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Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all...
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plasticfangs:
Happy Valentine's Day, my friend!
May Cupid bring you true happiness...or at least one night's worth of sweet nookie.
May Cupid bring you true happiness...or at least one night's worth of sweet nookie.
I like the way artists are intense about things, about defining how indefinable there art is. I was looking at a book on Renoir's art, and it had quotes by him:
"I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn't turn...
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"I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child. I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn't turn...
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vaj:
that was an idea i had earlier, but thought it might be a little childish - sounds fun though, no?
rosalyn:
Cheese and spices and MUSTARD on toast! Niiice! Maybe I'll try some of that tonight.. heh only with salsa too (my other food-love) and soy cheese.
One area where I'm incredibly lacking in culture is visual art. I can stand around a painting listening to others rant and rave about it's meaning and what the artist was trying to convey.. and I'm thinking.: "Dude, that's a few lines and a circle, get over it." Found art is an exception though.. I'm all for that. Always more interesting than a few circles
One area where I'm incredibly lacking in culture is visual art. I can stand around a painting listening to others rant and rave about it's meaning and what the artist was trying to convey.. and I'm thinking.: "Dude, that's a few lines and a circle, get over it." Found art is an exception though.. I'm all for that. Always more interesting than a few circles
When the going gets weird, the weird write short journal entries...
plasticfangs:
weird, eh...? Sounds interesting...
To my defense, I've had a crush on Allison Hannigan since season 2 of Buffy (when I started watching)...and she still isn't exactly a typical Hollywood beauty..but point well-received.
Usually when I'm posting during the day, I'm at work. So I try and be as economical in my writing as possible...do forgive me
And still no luck with The Girl..but I'll take your words as encouragement, thanks!
To my defense, I've had a crush on Allison Hannigan since season 2 of Buffy (when I started watching)...and she still isn't exactly a typical Hollywood beauty..but point well-received.
Usually when I'm posting during the day, I'm at work. So I try and be as economical in my writing as possible...do forgive me
And still no luck with The Girl..but I'll take your words as encouragement, thanks!
Anyhow, 4:35 EST, what is known as Klaatu in the United States, was their debut album and the part where the morse code supposedly proclaims that Klaatu is the Beatles is on the track "Sub Rosa Subway".
I just cannot listen to Klaatu enough, to be honest. Sometimes I forget just how, well, good their music makes me feel. Especially John Woloschuk's tracks.
To my surprise Bullseye Records Canada is rereleasing Klaatu's albums, remastered of course.
I am going to buy those and track down the LPs. If you are even remotely interested in their sound, I'd suggest staying with their first three albums: 4:35 EST, Hope, and Sir Army Suit.
While Magenta Lane is alright, Endangered Species really sucks.