| four feet away from a derelict altar |
[21 Nov 2008|02:25am] |
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125 miles and many years past, we played in the lifeless ruins of the piano factory, and of its neighbor the etcher-in-wax, buried and overgrown under a city in [r/d]ecline. Three-quarters-way-nearer, I wrote things about things upon my mind's/time's/culture's horizon before I could perceive them any other way. What if I was never any sort of musician at all, but simply a very elaborate transceiver? BUT THAT'S THE SEKRAT OCCULTIST IN ME TALKING RATHER THAN THE RAGING EXISTENTIALIST, MAN, RRRIDIC.
...in any case, there are new signals to be processed; perhaps even some yet-nameless!
More vitamins. More vitamins. No time to be sick, not now. Fucking job, interfering with everything. Everything!
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| Back in the land of cat hair and steady Internet access. |
[21 Nov 2008|12:35am] |
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Yeah, Wyoming. It's weird to say, but it's great to see ya. One of the cats really missed me. So he's helping me get over the whole missing St. Louis thing. Installing Intrepid on my laptop while I listen to the Mac and drift. Wish you were here?
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[20 Nov 2008|10:54pm] |
O_O
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| http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/mis/ |
[20 Nov 2008|10:53pm] |
My mother, when she was young, had a son, and
It was pouring rain..and we both found ourselves standing outside
you even cite the James Blunt tune
tune
you even
tune
Is it that you are you afraid that they will snub you?
and flashed a huge goofy smile
and flashed a huge goofy smile
and flashed a huge goofy smile
and flashed a huge goofy smile
Hume and Locke will make you feel better.
Trust me
me
TTTTTTTTTRR
My friend interrupted our brief encounter,
caught your eye and tugged
What harm is there in that?
What harm is there in that?
What harm is there in that?
What harm is there in that? to your to your computer to post your feelings on Craigslist
I am her daughter, and tonight, I found out about it.
the times we spent together, the together the the times You were ahead of me in the line
(Bloor West), approx 2:30 on Thurs, Nov 20
Maybe I’ll donate next time :-P.
Would YOU be offended?
Or is this a cruel joke?
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| So, I am walking through Wal-Mart with my girl on my arm, |
[20 Nov 2008|10:36pm] |
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And I hear this heavenly sound, though I can't quite tell what it is. I round the corner to the PS3 kiosk, and see that they have an awesome Mostorstorm: Pacific Rift, and BAM, It hits me: Justice's remix of Blood on our Hands by Death from Above 1979. Upon further investigation, not one but TWO DFA 1979 songs are on the soundtrack (The only band with two songs on the soundtrack I might add!), meaning the instant I get a PS3, that will probably be one of my first games (after MGS4). Someone at Evolution Studios must like them some DFA 1979.
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[20 Nov 2008|10:42pm] |
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/20/world/main4622166.shtml
"There'll be challenges on all fronts. Climate changes from global warming will lead to shortages of food and water in dozens of countries. That, coupled with a projected population spike of 1.2 billion people worldwide could lead to wars over increasingly scarce resources."
Note that this isn't some conspiracy theory report, but a US intelligence estimate saying this. It also says the US will lose dominance by 2025, whereas I predicted 2035, but close enough.
It's crazy that the comments are focused on blaming Bush or blaming Obama for this. The two aren't very different, Obama isn't even in office yet anyway, and the presidency, while a powerful office, has very little to do with long-term trends like this. Think systematically, people!
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| Twitter posts of the day!! |
[20 Nov 2008|10:42pm] |
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[20 Nov 2008|07:31pm] |
I was reading a BBC article on a particular reality show and a phrase caught my eye:
Saturday tea-time viewing public
How odd!
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| Eagle Bleeds |
[20 Nov 2008|07:17pm] |
http://media.xfamily.org/audio/DC_Band/03/03%20Eagle%20Bleeds.mp3
"Eagle Bleeds", a production of the Children of God cult. Totally sweet.I have seen enough to know there's nothing there
Lies and vanity over the bound land of despair
I have chosen to take the path of higher ground
Ohhhhh, can't you see America's goin' down
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It looks so good from the outside, our #1 system
But while you lavish the security you become a slave, a victim
of credit cards and payments due, chained to great illusions
but Jesus can and will for you, save you from delusion!
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| A $500 book I want for My Birthday |
[20 Nov 2008|10:05pm] |
AMERICA SWINGS
photos by Naomi Harris. with contributions of text and interview from Richard Prince.
The secret life of America's Bible Belt
Swinging sex lives of everyday Americans
Naomi Harris's subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives; this book explores a rarely-seen side of sex in America. This edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by both Naomi Harris and Richard Prince. The cover features a four-color, silk screened, 3-dimensional stamped metal reproduction of a classic American motel sign, specially conceived and created for this edition.
Stunningly photographed and surprisingly sexy, Richard Prince describes Harris's America Swings as "something that's gloriously alternative, that isn't rentable, that can't be downloaded, that's uninhibited and filled with a sense of strange joy. Almost like a J.G. Ballard theme park for sex.”
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| Can someone please explain to me what is happening on Smallville?!? |
[20 Nov 2008|09:00pm] |
Seriously???!
What the hell is happening on SMALLVILLE?!? That shit was so confusing!
I was loving this season. This episode though was just really weird. Weirder than weird. I won't spoil it for folks who didn't see it. It was just... they're going places, weird places.
and we don't get the next episode till next year??!? NEXT YEAR!!?!?!!?!?!?!? WTF!!?!?!?
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[20 Nov 2008|05:35pm] |
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I'm writing an article on them for Askew, but I couldn't resist sharing this little gem from last night at the Dragonfly that wouldn't fit into a magazine...
I'd agreed to write a review for the show through email, and Alan, bless his heart, got me and Jen onto the guest list. [And then we managed to spend fifty bucks on drinks...] The band was awesome enough to let me ask them questions before and after the show. I tried to be creative, but most of what I needed to know was cliche and dull, i.e., where the band name came from. Luckily the guys have a good sense of humour. The conversations digressed into the territory of unicorns and porn - albeit not simultaneously.
Seeing as Askew is geared towards Japanese rock fans, I wanted to ask Taka if there were any Japanese bands he was influenced by or listening to right now.
"So Taka," I began, "Your being Japanese..."
"He's not Japanese," said Martin, with as straight a face as he could muster. "He's black. Taka is short for Takeesha."
Words cannot describe how badly I lost it, then.
You rock, boys.
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[20 Nov 2008|11:44pm] |
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Mwahaha! Yes, I am still alive. I was merely in a half suspended animation state; I still am, in part - since it's turned crunch time now for this remaining work in the first semester. However, I feel kind of confident; the film review is pretty much finished, just needs a little polish...the video is going ok too; we're starting the shoot tomorrow, and I've been assigned the job of editor too ^^; As for the 3d module, meh, don't get me started. My tutors want me to have the first assignment for next week; Maya fucking sucks, and the sooner I'm done with it, the better.
I got Fallout 3 though, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) morganskye's game of the hour *heehee* X3 Not that I've barely had the time to play it with college and all. It's just one great big mammoth that totally consumes human souls *eheheh* I've already had several "WTF IS THAT?!" moments when in the middle of the wastelands...well, I won't say anymore. If you want to disappear from your family this christmas, go buy Fallout 3. If not, then go back to that consuming family Wii game of yours; yes, that one that's constantly advertised on tv.
Can't wait for Animal Crossing: City Folk though. Comes out in December here in the UK, and as I loved the original on the Gamecube, and still love Wild World on the DS, I'm hoping for good things with this.
Also (*haha* now I've emerged from my cocoon, you can't shut me up!!), I've turned into the downloading anime monkey again. Started Allison and Lillia, and it looks pretty neat. There are others on the list; Toradora!, Ashita no Nadja, Soul Eater, people give me good suggestions of recent animes that I ought to watch! :3
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| Sick, pre-job bitching: |
[20 Nov 2008|03:53pm] |
So, I've been sick at my parents' house trying to get final job things worked out... and it's pissing me off.
First off all, I can't sleep at night... so I'm bitchy and wanting to sleep always.
Second, I awake from lulls in waking during odd moments of the day/evening to hear my dad's republican views on life; here's what I heard when trying to connect to my cell service:
Paraphrased - The government lied > Oil companies profited > Enron ruined the economy > Trickle down effect > Obama can't save us from the evils of unions.
I was even there, and eavesdropping on that conversation and didn't know how in the hell such leaps were managed.
Lastly, when I send you official e-mail like shit and note under my signature that "e-mail is preffered" as a mode of return contact... of course I'm going to be terse and bitchy when I get a phone call from people I've contacted wanting to know why I contacted them.
What!?
You apparently read the e-mail before getting to my signature with my number included!
You must've gotten confused with how I'll summarize the reason I've contacted said person in the subject.
You must've gotten similarly lost when I front load my e-mails with a sentence basically of what I want to accomplish in my e-mail, and a second sentence of how they can help me get what I want.
It must then get more confusing when I have bulleted lists of information about circumstance regarding the matter, and details as to what I already know to speed along the process.
It must also be very difficult to see that I conclude a message with "here's my additional contact information if you have any questions."
IT DOES NOT, ANYWHERE, SAY THAT YOU MAY CALL ME UP AND ASK ME "UMMMMM.... WHAT DID YOU WANT?"
THAT IS NOT A QUESTION I WAS HOPING THAT YOU'D GIVE TO ME. A QUESTION I'D LIKE TO SEE IS "WHEN DO YOU NEED THIS BY?" OR "I'M UNCLEAR WHERE YOU GOT YOUR INFORMATION FROM PARAGRAPH THREE, BULLET POINT 2."
Shit... I'm turning into such an angry misanthrope it's not even productive anymore.
P.S. - Is there an illness that has symptoms of constant headache, irritability and a complete disconnect from people? Inquiring minds want to punish... I mean know.
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IOh man last Friday I went to see "The Winter's Tale" performed by five British actors at UPenn, and the dude who played Leontes was super-hot:
First one on the left. Middle dude was pretty hot, too, and by far the most talented person in the cast.
Anyway so after the show I met my Shakespeare teacher for the first time (I was wearing my IW JSK whooo) and she was awesome. She uses random capslock all the time and she said she saw David Bowie in a production of the Elephant Man.
We were chatting and she noticed Hot Leontes walk past us and go inside and she was like, "He's cute, right?" And I was like, "He sure is." So she told me to go up and talk to him. "That's how I met my husband! They're such lonely people, Mary. You have no idea." I almost got a chance when all the actors came outside with their luggage and I held the door for them and told them what a great job they did, but then the actress second from the left in the picture started talking to my teacher and the rest of the actors left. My teacher asked her if Leontes wanted a nice girl to go out with for the night and the actress was like, "Um, both of the young actors are married." Burn. :(
OH THE PLAY WAS PRETTY GOOD TOO I GUESS
Here are some memes.
( this first meme will shed some light on why I have the icons I have )
I was going to do the holiday wishlist meme but I felt bad because I really can't do anything for anyone else except write crappy songs or make icons or bake. If I see those things on anyone's wishlist I'll try to oblige! People are even skimping on presents for family members this year so it's difficult to allocate resources for internet people, right?
I don't want anything big for Christmas for once. I really want cute socks, cute underwear, cute hats and/or fascinators, and tacky leggings/belts/etc. The only big thing I really want is white or blue lolita shoes. I also want red and gold eye shadow! And Momus's new album, Joemus. And I always want tea and makeup. So I'm still ridiculously greedy but on a much smaller scale.
We watch a lot of movies in my geography class and i keep having those moments every idealistic young person has where they see a bad situation and feel like they have to change their life goals immediately. We watched a movie about Zimbabwe and how each village has their own birth control educator and provider, and I thought "I could do that! I should major in African Studies and use my affinity for languages to learn something useful!" I am such a princess and I can't even suffer mild discomfort, but it'd be amazing if I had some capacity for change in myself that could lead to doing something helpful. Even if I couldn't stay in Africa for very long I could come back to the United States and educate people in some way, considering that in schools here no one learns African history or geography at any point in their educational career unless they really seek it out. It's pathetic that I'm proud that I can finally point to Lesotho or Burundi on a map. I didn't even know Eritrea was a country until two weeks ago.
The sad thing is I know how stupid and idealistic that sounds, but I hate being so cynical about it. I think these thoughts inspire the really aimless people the most. I give up at simple things and expect outrageous levels of accomodation. It takes more courage, intelligence, and drive than I feel like I'll ever have to go out and give up everything you know. Even though I know I'll have to have a major personality transplant before attempting something like that, I don't want to forget that there are jobs and options out there that aren't just about making money.
I like that my paragraphs about disgusting materialism and wanting to give up everything to go to Africa are right next to each other. I'm a walking (more like ass-sitting) stereotype.
I am going to Portland in three days and it'll be the first time I get on a plane without someone competent beside me to handle all the airport stuff. I'm terrified!
I made a post in orlolipops about a Voodoo Doughnut/downtown meetup. It's gonna be loltastic.
Everyone in the contemode community is wetting themselves over the new Capsule album but I think it's boring as fuck. The stuff Nakata is doing for Ami Suzuki is way more fun.
The heater broke and I am a frozen bun!
I found these albums called "The World's Rarest Funk 45s" and they are pretty much out of control.
I don't care, I really want these:
I'm pretty sure I'd look ridiculously hot in them.
EDIT:
ROLLING IN LULZ!! Just received this facebook messagE:
Brendan ~~~~~~~~
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hey mary,
i know this is probably very random, but i was wondering if you could do me a favor. there's something on your xanga site that says "brendan ~~~~~~~~ = loser" from Tuesday, May 27, 2003.
looking back on what i said, i probably deserved it. but that was 5 years ago, and an employeer informed me that it came up during my background check. if you wouldn't mind, could you please edit my full name out? using my last name could hurt my chances at an internship and full-time job this year. i'm sorry for whatever the immature comments were that i made to make you write that.
thank you, and sorry it's so random haha
-brendan"
Oh my god I wish I were enough of a cunt not to edit it because fuck that is fucking funny. Especially funny because I know his internal monologue was probably more like "THAT FAT FUCKING BITCH I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'D KEEP ME FROM GETTING A JOB" and yet he still had to suck up to me to get me to change something i wrote 5 years ago.
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| Oh Lordy |
[20 Nov 2008|05:35pm] |
Work overtook LJ today (which I guess is a good thing). I'm still at the office of course though. I'm tired, but I need to get some gym work in...so... yeah.
I got the TASCHEN catalog in the mail. That is PORN for book lovers... PORN... expensive porn too. Like High Class Elliot Spitzer like Porn. Like The Cat House in Nevada porn.
Got the new Playboy too. Carol Alt is smoking. Their twins in there too...with NORMAL sized boobs (YAY!) and an interview with Hugh Jackman.
I edited my LJ Idol entry a bit, reworking it to read better.
There's this meme going around about Holiday Wishes. Before it started I was considering a Wish List post myself. Stuff I'd like for my Birthday that I probably won't get, but really really want. In lucks maybe a rich person would read it and ignore that my Birthday is during the holidays and help me out. I'll probably still do the list... if I remember.
Photos? PHOTOS!
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| so yeah i lost all my musics |
[20 Nov 2008|05:34pm] |
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and ive been slowly rebuilding it all lately. any suggestions on what i should download?
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