Thursday Apr 01, 2004

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Soundtrack: Li'l Jon & the Eastside Boys, "Get Low"
Mood: Task-oriented

Sometimes the chaos washes over my head. I sputter, I sink...and then I manage to gather my wits, trap the chaos squirming in a bag, chop it up into a list. With checkboxes.

Yay, checkboxes!

Check
Check
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Thursday Mar 18, 2004

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Just got back from GTS, a big industry trade show in Vegas for game retailers and manufacturers. Cruising through Mandalay Bay amongst the spring-breakin', Coors Lite drinkin' frat boys and their skinny blonde bunny-clone companions, I noticed the marquee on the House of Blues:

March 1 - Suicide Girls

Missed the show by 2 weeks. mad SG Burlesque in fucking Vegas, how cool would that have...
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Thursday Feb 19, 2004

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Soundtrack: Hooverphonic, "Echo"
Mood: Gaaaaah

Overhaul the Reaper inventory, make flyers for MLB Clix, hey how's the Web site coming?, we need your KublaCon events in the system...

Sleep is for the weak

Wednesday Feb 11, 2004

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My contribution to Journal Poetry Day, written by my good friend Jamie. He teaches high-school English.

Ode: To the Student Not Listening To Me Right Now

My comatose-like student; Ive toiled long
To find the poem, the novel or the song
To wake your snow-flake gaze,
The frozen stare as I speak right at you,
Dispel the haze
That shrouds your droopy face; oh what...
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Monday Feb 09, 2004

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Soundtrack: Big Black, "L Dopa"
Mood: Frazzled

I've been working again, more than full-time, for a full week now.

Wow is it different.

I didn't quite realize how thoroughly unemployment had wormed its way into my psyche. Unemployment allows a host of freedoms that I've come to take for granted - freedoms now disintegrated by a regular work schedule, a long to-do list, keeping retail...
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creamygoodness:
Hehe, you're welcome tongue

Thursday Feb 05, 2004

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Soundtrack: Interpol, "Hands Away"
Mood: Harried

When's the last time you read Neuromancer? A year ago? Three years? Five? Never?

It's been a good seven or eight years for me. I picked it back up again this morning, over breakfast. I'd forgotten how visceral Gibson's writing style used to be. I'd forgotten about his flair for throwaway metaphor and sensual turn of phrase.

If...
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Sunday Feb 01, 2004

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Soundtrack: Anti-Flag, cover of Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love"
Mood: Content

Today, I am not thinking about the Super Bowl and the myriad ways in which it illustrates the fucked up priorities of the American populace.

Today, I am not frothing about chapters 3 and 4 of Fast Food Nation.

Today, I am not worrying about my store or my band or whether I...
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denio:
Man your Sunday sounds like a beautiful one.

I read your comments on Detroit's journal... and to add to your outrage: Many corporations also manage to get their products placed in textbooks. "How many big Macs can Janey buy if she babysits for 6 hours at $4.25 per hour?" I kid you not. In California our textbook commission does not approve books that contain this garbage, though CA is in the minority there. Also, all kinds of corporations make "lesson plans" and classroom materials available to teachers, most of which are transparant plugs for their products. Most kids don't get a chance to be come media-literate before they're bombarded with advertising. So much so that many of them no longer see the ads, merely familiar logos.

ARRR!!!

Thursday Jan 29, 2004

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Soundtrack: Front Line Assembly, "Don't Trust Anyone"
Mood: Bitter

My friend Jake, who is an avid reader, loaned me the planet's most dismal book. "You'll appreciate it," she said. "It fits your politics." The book is entitled Fast Food Nation, and I hate it. More accurately, I hate what it is telling me about my society.

I've finished two chapters now. In one...
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olivia:
crap! no i didn't, i guess we figured it was just that one band with the long haired dude. you know bcm? he used to be my roommate in australia. nice to meet you smile

Tuesday Jan 27, 2004

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Soundtrack: Bad Brains, "Secret 77"
Mood: Bleargh

Coming down off the high of a good gig on Saturday. Entering the trough of drizzly, cold, unemployed winter in San Francisco.

Maybe I'll do some songwriting today instead of burning 6 hours in front of the Xbox. That'd be a change. puke

Friday Jan 23, 2004

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Soundtrack: Strain, "Everything's Impossible"
Mood: Improving

We had an old friend over for dinner last night. Not "old" as in "like 60", "old" as in "haven't seen her for about eight years". She brought her girlfriend - the two of them just bought a house. I made Long Life noodles and fish, cocktails and tea and mochi. Three hours evaporated, just like that.

I get...
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Wednesday Jan 21, 2004

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Soundtrack: Deftones, "My Own Summer"
Mood: Fretful

The Iowa caucus and Bush's SotU address have got me thinking. I live in California - SF Bay Area, a fetid breeding ground of liberal pinko creeps like me. confused Out here, it's easy to be critical of George W. and his cronies. It's easy to demonstrate against the Iraq bullshit. It's easy to have hairsplitting arguments about Dean...
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arachnequarius:
renewed activism!!!!!!!!!!! we survived bush senior and reagan puke , so we have to push past (heaven forbid) another term. of course, we may all be in guantanamo, but hopefully not.

hey - i am in the south and even here i can find compatriots who know that the w is a plague on all of our houses. sure, there are people who believe in bush. obviously we have military believers as well. BUT i come from a military family (of liberals) and my roommate from a conservative military family and BOTH agree that george is totally cracked out. there is hope yet.

we just have to work hard to make sure if the worst - reelection - happens that we keep a keen eye on our individual liberties. i was just saying that i've been way to politically passive lately, and this is an bit of inspiration.

sorry to rant as a new visitor, but you really got me thinking. so other than that, just hi. smile
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