grooverider

yup I will be at NYC new years eve sg gathering, can't wait

yeah, you ARE prying, but curiosity is a good thing.

let's just say that from November of '99 through June of '01 I went through a series of events that no publisher would ever run with because it would be too unbelievable. dead parents, lost jobs, a DUI arrest, and being the sole eyewitness to a botched robbery that turned to murder. truth truly is stranger than fiction.

anyway, three years ago this week, in a nutshell:
12/13/99 dad has nasty sore throat so sees doctor
12/15/99 dad goes to another doctor for biopsy
12/16/99 dad diagnosed with throat cancer, admitted to hospital
12/17/99 dad has tumor removed from his throat
12/18/99 mom gets "flu" ... refuses to go to doctor
12/20/99 mom just up and dies out of nowhere
12/20-12/22 i stay up for two days straight and clean my parents house from top to bottom ... including the paramedics' debris from the attempt to save her.
12/24/99 we bury mom ... dad (and his fresh tracheotomy) is the hit of the funeral

after that it got strange ...

anyway, you asked ... there you go.

[Edited on Dec 19, 2002]

Monkey is available on vhs and region 2 dvd from amazon.co.uk. I dont think theres a release in the US. Theres about 36 episodes in all split over the tapes/discs. The stories are based on a chinese book, I cant remember the name of it or the writer, I'll check when I finish work. The book itself was based on the true voyage of a priest from china to india to collect buddhist scriptures.

Translations and linguistic changes in languages have always been problems over the centuries. But still the church insists the bible is the unchanged word of god, hehe. It can awkward enough to get the correct meaning of english documents from 400 years ago, let alone shifting from hebrew, aramaic, greek, latin and so on.
Hmm, doom. In what way I wonder. Sometimes a word has different usages in different cultures and languages. I quite like way it can be used in Norse and Saxon mythology.

hey no problem! You should join our SG D&D thing on the boards, its not too late. Just post the character you want and his stats and we are about to begin. 1st level, any race or classes, start with 100GP equipment.

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia

Hey, welcome back! Damn internet cafes can't tell the difference between porn and "community-based erotic photography," huh? How's the squat? I see you have a new photo and a new locale, lovely. We had a little SG get-together to see "Bowling for Columbine" here in Toronto. 3 people showed up, including myself. But it was fun.

I'll probably be in NYC for a week towards the end of the month. Anything interesting happening? What's with the strike?

a mission like tom cruise and gang in Losin' It?

this shitbomb of a movie with that kid that was a rebel child in bad news bears and tom cruise as the jock guy, shelly long the fed up waitress they pick up as they go to tijuana to lose some virginity. loads of dismal laughs.

mutha fuk I just wrote out a lovely little entry, switched windows for a sec and then BAM all my copy is gone.

anywho, i won't try to recreate that last one. i'll simplify and summarize ...like eddie says, i'm still alive ....no new animal friend --think the reduction in responsibility is good for now... not sure where i've been or what i've been doing (that's oregon's willamette valley winters for ya ...so grey ya don't know what the hell is going on and yer melatonin is always floating around even in the middle of the day)

I'm heading back home to colorado in a few weeks for a short run through my ol' stomping grounds. should be cool.

how's life in el squato?

stuart copeland is a cool ass drummer ...i'm no drummer expert, but he always had some deep groove going in his style ...fascinating to watch.

im not a master painter or anything, but id say im good at it. im not asking for million dollar artworks, just something small and simple just for the hell of it.

you choose fairly wisely though i would have to say that leonard cohen, thom yorke, chris de burgh and chris isaak should really be there somewhere...

don't you think that dia looks like laura in the movie in the right light? especially in her pic with blonde hair on the boards! it's spooky!

Fucking 'A' - Barry White!!

groove! ...give those lungs a rest. So is that cold what yer health Q is/was about? My advice: no dairy, no grains except whole grain rice, no sweets, no citrus, no alcohol, light on the protein ...eat veggies, lightly steamed (but no potato or tomato) ..make a clear broth veggie soup. Pound the vitamin C. Drink lots of water, and do yer yoga. OK, I'm done being the asshole doc now. Seriously, take care of yourself, being sick sux.

Thanks for the condolences on the loss of my dear buddha-cat, spencer darby magoo. He was often a neurotic little pain in the arse, but he rocked.

Something cool... I got an e-mail outta the blue from my MIA soulsister, who is trapsing through Italy and had found herself stuck on an island in the mediterranean with a black sand beach all to herself AND (to her disappointment) a 40:1 ratio of women to men.

Now where did I put that damn magic lamp...

So where is this place? I have bad memories of salsa music blasting at 3 am from the streets of Washington Heights..

can't place the quote, but it sounds very familiar..

you are quoting the most excellent high fidelity! what a top-notch movie!

hmm... the illegal thing sounds terrific... may not be a bad option, but if you want a safe choice, definitely go for the $450. That is really a steal anyways. How far out of NYC? I assume it is north, above the Bronx? I am up near Mount Kisco, about 45 mins from the city. I assume you are closer than that.

Hmm... you play drums eh? I play guitar and drummers are rare where I am from. Probably because everyone plays guitar, oh well. I hope you are a kick-ass samurai.

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate your advice.

hoo hoo! I gots a fan ...that's cool!

yah 2 kids, it's a trip, I know.

I got it now "...without lamps, there'd ne no light"

see, the "chicks can't hold their smoke" line threw me off ...is also in weird science. Well we're both talking movies with Anthony Michael Hall. Top five flicks, eh? Wow, I gotta set you up with some video suggestions ...of course many of them do better with something to stretch the mind, ya know whut I mean? Hmmmm.... Roadside Prophets, director's cut of Blade Runner, Gadjo Dilo, Baraka, Dead Man, Night on Earth, Ghost Dog, Fresh ...that should do for now. I'm down with old school John Hughes, but there is a world of sublime scenery and stories out there that'll blow yer mind ...'course, I'm being overly presumptuous here ...you may very well know about flicks that will knock my socks off.

anywho, g'nite.