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| 04:25pm 23/09/2010 |
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smooooth.
even smoother.
not posting for any reason except i want to post something and these fucking songs are rotting my brain. we're in the post-hip world now, so it doesn't matter if these are clearly lame musical selections. |
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| notes: irony |
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| 09:43am 15/09/2010 |
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A terrible thing happened to the IM system at work: it stopped working. A work-around was created, but that quickly stopped working as well. an e-mail was sent out anyway telling them that all should be well. This e-mail, sent to thousands of people through the entire corporation, was quickly responded to by payroll specialists and secretaries worldwide. "it's not working for me," "still broken over here" and etc.This, of course, was followed with even more e-mails asking people to please stop using Reply All. THIS, in turn, was followed by others using Reply All to agree with those who asked everyone to not use Reply All.
For reasons that seemed obvious at the time, I responded, using Reply All, with this:
Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. Three kinds of irony:
1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else. 2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. 3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.
This was followed by an urgent plea for me to Recall this message under threat of HR reprisal. Naturally, I did.
I am currently unable to use my work e-mail because the box has been flooded with no fewer than 2000 Message Recall responses. This is the real "office" humor. |
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| 03:22pm 23/07/2009 |
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"*Speaking of Facebook, I got a friend request yesterday from a guy I didn't know, and the message he attached was, "Hi, this is _____, but everyone calls me ____. I am a customer at your bank, and I am in a band with your brother." Um... okay? That wouldn't be SO weird (it's kind of sweet, in a creepy sort of way), except that I'm not friends with my brother on Facebook. We have no friends in common at all. Which means he must have searched for me. Even though we've never had a conversation. CREEPY. Has this happened to y'all? What's the protocol for these types of situations?"
My response is on another journal; I'll paste that later. I'm curious as to your reaction to this though. What do you think about this guy? |
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| animal collective |
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| 10:14am 19/05/2009 |
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Would anyone here want to buy an Animal Collective ticket off of me? The show is tomorrow and very sold out. I'm not looking for a profit, though if I don't hear from someone within the next couple hours I'll throw it up on CL and try to bleed what I can out of it. The first $15 gets it. |
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| it's cute that you can send livejournal nudges |
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| 02:24am 15/05/2009 |
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Anyone wanna fess up as to who did that?
Anyway, I was gonna come to you guys with a moral quandry, but it involves calling out friends who read this and, believe it or not, I don't want to start an internet war with my close friends. That's very 2002.
Facebooking and Twittering have made the art of LiveJournalling feel so antiquated, like a hand-written letter or an actual newspaper. It feels lazy to have slacked on it for so long, but then a lot of things make me feel lazy these days. |
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| 03:07am 27/03/2009 |
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(2:54:01 AM) energy hills: i had a dream where slugs came out of my belly
(2:54:09 AM) energy hills: like if you squeezed it, they would ooze out
(2:54:16 AM) babyland 6: are you in bed right now
(2:54:24 AM) energy hills: no. i should be.
(2:54:28 AM) energy hills: but i am not.
(2:54:34 AM) babyland 6: why
(2:54:37 AM) babyland 6: and slugs = grody
(2:54:52 AM) energy hills: i dunno. i had a cd to burn.
(2:55:02 AM) energy hills: in the dream, i couldn't figure out what they were
(2:55:15 AM) energy hills: they were on my wall and it took me a long time to realize what they were
(2:55:39 AM) energy hills: then i realized i had what looked like a gross pimple above my belly button
(2:55:57 AM) energy hills: so for some reason i squeezed it and gross stuff came out with these slugs
(2:56:13 AM) energy hills: big ones too, more like giant snails without shells
(2:56:28 AM) babyland 6: ew omg shut up
(2:57:33 AM) energy hills: alright.
(2:57:41 AM) energy hills: i just wanted to get it written down
(2:57:45 AM) energy hills: so now i can post it.
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| only women bleed |
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| 04:13pm 26/02/2009 |
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So they yanked my busted wisdom tooth this morning. I didn't expect the guy to, but he said it's really the easiest one ("just pops right out") so we may as well get it out of the way. So here I sit, screwed on pain pills (Tylenol 3, pfft... had to resort to other relief sources), $120 poorer even with insurance and only half-sorry I didn't go to work because goddamn there's a lot of snow out there.
Beyond that, I'm going to eventually need a crown and root canal for my tooth with the big ol' hole in it. Does anyone have dentist recommendations? I'm being told $1100 for the root canal and $800 for the crown, which seems only slightly higher than I expected. Insurance will cover 80% of the canal and 50% of the crown (since apparently that's cosmetic) and having to spend my tax return on the ability to chew for a few more years kinda bums me out.
So anyway... Numero Group Eccentric Soul Revue!
Amy and I are going. Who else wants to? It would be fine for us to go alone but more fun and cost-effective to pile people into a (possibly rented) car and do it up right. |
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| 02:40pm 20/02/2009 |
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Sorry if I worried anyone. I am alive and almost well. If I hadn't received so many crowded reports, I would've showed up to Grumpy's after the ER, but Amy wouldn't let me because she's smarter than me in a lot of ways.
I have an open tooth. It's been open for a while, but I've been able to avoid it. It's a broken wisdom tooth, which I guess is kind of poetic. I've just sort of avoided it, tried to keep my mouth clean, etc. I've talked to other people with the same probably who dodged it for months or years. In the last week though, I've had a weird jaw tightness that I chalked up to everything from sinus trouble to manifested physical anxiety to lyme disease the early onset of MS. (By the way, don't even visit www.wrongdiagnosis.com)
So last night I had the same pain, which I was still attributing to anxiety (and haven't TOTALLY ruled out), but just tried to relax and chill out until Amy showed up to go to Grumpy's. At around 8:30, I started experiencing pain around a few of my teeth that I can only describe as "raw". It didn't hurt to touch them or chew things with them, but anytime I breathed or moved my head in the wrong way, it would come in intense waves. I was still determinded to just tough it out until I felt like I would probably pass out, so I asked her to take me to the ER instead of someplace fun.
That experience was relatively quick and painless compared to any past Fairview ER visits. I was sent away with about 15 Ultram, a new round of antibiotics and a recommendation for Orajel. Have you tried this stuff? It is ridiculously effective at making your mouth feel like it doesn't exist or is taking a long nap.
That, in fact, is all I've been able to do today: take a long nap. I'm not sure how I will function at work on Monday since I kinda need pain meds but the ones they gave me don't really give me the option of being a sentient being. I'm sure my boss is reading this right now, so if you see me drooling or staring into space on Monday, cut a guy some slack. |
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| To those who have suggested pulling it out: y'all crazy |
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| 04:35pm 17/02/2009 |
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What time is the best time to go to the dentist?
Tooth-Hurty (2:30)
Aspirin is dulling it to a low throb, but I won't be able to avoid getting this fixed for much longer. The body's resilience is an amazing thing. I think the only thing keeping me from taking my own head off is the weird stigma about pain instilled on me by my pill-popping parents IRT dealing with minor aches by going overboard with drugs. I have no doubt that Valium would probably sort me out for a good while, but the stubborn addict-avoidant side in me is keeping me from seeking it out (though if you do happen to have such things lying around and would like to exchange for goods or services, you know where to find me.)
I will admit, I did not take the pledge of allegiance to Lucifer at the V-Day Satan Party on Saturday. Why? Considering myself more Agnostic than Athiest (just in case), it sure would suck ass to go to Hell for sacrificing a Garfield cake to the Dark Lord in the middle of an unfinished painter's tape pentagram. Also I'm not big on pledges anyway. |
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| Short notice: Black Mass members needed |
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| 01:45pm 13/02/2009 |
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Jaco has pulled out of the Powerstallion Satanic Valentine's Black Mass happening at La Maison D'arbre (ArborHouse/MattLucyAna) TOMORROW. Does anyone wanna form a coldwave synth band in the next 30 hours?
Actually, fuckit. Maybe I will go to Dre Day instead. Now that I typed all that up there, I'm kind of relieved to not have the pressure of conjuring demons tomorrow. I will be at the party nonetheless, but now I don't feel like I have to DO anything. Maybe I'll bring some silly 80's metal mixes for people that want to thrash around and chalk pentagrams all over the place, but I don't have to be Anton LaVey this year. |
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| a disappointing development |
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| 12:55pm 11/02/2009 |
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Turns out the storefront space for rent across from the Schooner is strictly for commercial use only. The landlord won't let anyone rent it out for anything like a gallery space or just a place to hang out. Business only! Dreams, once again, are dashed. |
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| 05:02pm 04/02/2009 |
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Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known as his stage name Lux Interior was born on October 21st, 1948 in Stow, Ohio. He grew up enamored with the culture of the 1950s. In particular he loved Rockabilly music, EC Horror comic books and B-movies. As a child he was drawn to the antics of the early 60s Cleveland horror host Goulardi, whose rebellious act and off-color jokes would earn him much scorn from the local PTA. Purkhiser later joked that Goulardi was so popular the crime rate went down when he was on because everyone was watching his show. In 1972 in Sacramento he met his soul mate; a fellow fan of Alice Cooper, LSD, record collecting and B-movies known as Kristy Wallace, better known as Poison Ivy. According to legend he picked her up while she was hitch-hiking. After discovering just how similar they were the two moved back to Ohio in 1973 and later to New York City in 1975. Influenced by the burgeoning punk scene in New York with bands like The New York Dolls and The Ramones setting the standard the two decided they would start their own punk rock band, The Cramps. In contrast to other punk bands at the time however, they also mixed a heavy dose of Rockabilly and B-movie imagery to form their own unique image. It was during this time that Purkhiser took the stage name Lux Interior, taking his name from a car advert. He also created a unique stage personia, one of a complete honky tonky punk wild man, or as one reviewer put it “the psychosexual werewolf/ Elvis hybrid from hell”. The genre they helped create was later known as “Psychobilly” even though Interior denies that that is what their music really is. In 1978 The Cramps showed the world just how deep their love for the weird and the off beat went when they gave a free concert to the patients at the Nappa Valley State Mental Institution. The next year The Cramps released their first official EP, “Gravest Hits”. That same year they released their first LP, “Songs the Lord Taught Us”. In 1985 The Cramps were able to perform one original song for Dan O’Bannon’s classic horror-comedy zombie flick The Return of the Living Dead with the song “Surfin’ Dead”. Although he and Ivy are the only two constant members of The Cramps line up the band still continues to tour to this day, giving fans much joy and fun, reminding them of the power of rock and roll.
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| make it for me |
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| 09:42pm 25/01/2009 |
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i've been doing a lot of things with a lot of people. if i've done something cool with you in the last week or so, post it here so everyone can keep up. |
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| Alright, quick, who's on board with this? |
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| 02:20pm 16/01/2009 |
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Welcome to the 14th Reloaded. JOKE BANDS. It all started with this email:
"always do drunk what'd you say you'd do drunk"
joke bands. these are bands that you never thought anyone would call you on. You were standing somewhere. You were trying to impress your friends, or a girl, or your girlfriend, or your boyfriend or yourself. you were drinking and you may have said:
"let's have a band called dude-wop where men with beards sing doo-wop tunes."
"we should start an all-female country trio called poon-twang".
"i should actually write down some of these raps and have martin devaney back me up in falsetto under the rap moniker MCTC"
"i should run an all female r&b band called deVon's Angels"
"we should do a whole band in pig latin."
Well Reloaded Wednesdays is here to call bullshit on you.
Wednesday January 21st is Joke Band Day.
You only have to play a ten minute set. You can only play up to a twenty minute set. You have to use house gear for drums, bass, keyboard and guitar and if it's over tracks you have to bring an Ipod or a CD to play. We will split all the money. I will rap and beg the boys from Big Quarters to make beats for me. We will follow through and do some dumb shit in the middle of the winter, in the middle of week, in the middle of america.
joke bands: stand up.
send me your proposal by december 20 and I'll start making some press releases and announcements. A photo of either your band or a graphic representation of what you're going to do would be appreciated.
So that brings us to the line up:
SYNPHIL aka Synthetic Philistines. A German Electro-Pop Duo just off touring the Autobahn.
DUDE-WOP Chuck Terhark, Martin Devaney, Rob Skoro (I don’t know if Rob has confirmed) keep it real barbershop but they leave the beards on.
POONTWANG the ever inventive Ladies of Como Ave Jug Band Auxilary Society create an all-girl country band for a one off joke band (Steve McPherson will be dressed up as the Colonel and pretending to be their manager since he thought up PoonTwang but then put it in the ladies control Destiny’s Child style)
TWINKIE JIGGLES AND MCTC after years of bad freestyling twinkie jiggles will be making bad rap songs with MCTC (a thinly disguised Martin Devaney). Beats by Brandon AllDay of Big Quarters.
JUS FRIENDZ – Jared Thiele and Alison Stoopla are holiday cheer and Twin Cities weird.
DVRG’s ANGELS deVon Gray (dVRG) of Heiruspecs will be curating a performance from an all-female R&B band. I am under the impression deVon will also be playing, but will not be getting a sex change
You might think that only problem is that the absolutely amazing TV show Lost has its 5th season premier episode that night. Well, the Turf Club will be showing Lost loud as hell starting at 7PM. I will enforce a no talking rule using the technique of cutting people who talk. The real show will start after Lost is done blowing our mind. We also won’t be having loud soundchecks or anything like that. It will all happen before or after Lost!
In addition to these joke ass bands DJ Anton will be spinning to keep it all decent and drinking Jenga will be in full effect. JOKE BAND INITIATIVE. |
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| 02:32pm 14/01/2009 |
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old news: my brother has lieukemia
new news: my father has prostate cancer. he previously had some kind of cancerous thing on his nose, but now he has prostate cancer.
i don't like these odds one bit. i've had intestinal drama all day and now i'm half-convinced that it's my own cancer manifesting itself. i had previously been blaming the pizza hut pan pizza, but now it's for sure cancer. or ulcers. you get those from worrying about dying too.
i tried to tell my mom about my fears and all she could say was "don't you have it too! don't! i couldn't handle that. so please, don't."
i will try real hard to not have cancer, mom. |
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| a quick one before bed |
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| 01:39am 13/01/2009 |
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Found this while researching Les Rockets, who you should probably also see.
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| 10:05pm 30/12/2008 |
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Created on 2002-12-30 18:27:44 (#832209)
This means I have had this outlet for SIX YEARS
My LiveJournal is a kindergartner
It's about time I put him on meds. He seems depressed.
Give him gifts, like Tonka Trucks. |
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| 05:21pm 24/12/2008 |
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i think i just melted my car battery trying to jump it. you'd think i could get something simple right.
but that's not the point of the post.
YOU HAVE MERE HOURS
I LET THE DEADLINE SLIP HOPING SOME OF YOU WOULD TRY TO SNEAK THINGS IN AT THE LAST LAST MINUTE
AND THAT SORT OF WORKED, BUT IT"S NOT TOTALLY DONE DONE AND OVER
YOU HAVE TIL TOMORROW MORNING TO GRACE MY INBOX WITH YOUR SUBMISSIONS
COMP GOES LIVE EITHER ON HERE OR PORKCHOPS IN THE AFTERNOON
BARELY IN TIME FOR XMAS, ONE DAY EARLY FOR KWANZAA
i'm going to go spend the night in blaine, i guess.
i am happy overall but don't feel very holiday-spirited. it's almost self-reflection time and, boy, could i get reflective if i really wanted to. |
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