Remembering why I left London in the first place, mainly the weather which is always always dreary, little British hearts raised when we wake up and see sunshine, which is quickly crushed by low flying cloud and dreary rain.
Why oh why did I move back from NY, you know what....I'm coming back....

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So jammed.

Just bought a car on ebay. No, my ebay shopping spree did not cause this. Rather, this caused my ebay shopping spree. I didn't behave TOO badly. I only won a couple auctions.

I really wanted a VW Rabbit Diesel. I found a great one with less than 100k miles on it.

Also, the car's in Portland. Road Trip!

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when I have more time I'll download an mp3 of one of their songs and that will tell me if they're worth pursuing. Can you recommend a few good songs I can look for, Semillama?

listening to mental music.

Dia Dhuit.

Celtic inspired rock? Capercaille hands down.

Delirium
Secret People
Sidewaulk

Karen Matheson has a voice like a dream. Her solo CD is called The Dreaming Sea and worth the effort to get hold of.

Slan Beo.

Gee:

Sunny side of the Street
was their biggest hit. Try The Broad Majestic Shannon, If I should Fall from Grace With God, Ghost of a Smile,Blue Heaven, Lorelei, Fairytale of New York, Thousands are Sailing, The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn, Streams of Whiskey, A Pair of Brown Eyes, and Transmetropolitan.

trying to remember that christmas song that the pogues used to sing.

used to own that cd, but now it's MIA. probably somebody else's mystery disk.

as far as irish rock goes, i remember listening to a bunch of new model army in high school.

if i can summon enough energy to actually get up off my ass and go back to the archives, i may just burn myself a copy of "thunder and consolation" for nostalgia's sake.

realizing, once again, that NMA are british, not irish.

oliver cromwell, thomas fairfax, civil war between the royalists and parliamentarians, etc, etc...

anyway, to hell with it.


those people aint got no funk.

So much music, not enough paydays.

Pict/celt + bagpipes + rock = Wolfstone

an eclectic mix, best use of screeching bagpipes I ever heard, worth a listen, I think, but then again, what do I know?

amazed that swine would pay those british new wavers any attention....that is the best album they ever did though......

http://members.nerve.com/waffleboy/main.html

amazed that swine would pay those british new wavers any attention....that is the best album they ever did though......

http://members.nerve.com/waffleboy/main.html

Gottfluch es!!!!!!!!!!

Fairytale of New York, swine. I heard the most godawful "punk" version of that tune on the radio, by a bunch of losers who should be stood up against a wall and shot for that travesty.

listening to streaming audio from the house of blues' web presence.

live groove collective, funky meters, maceo parker...

not bad for the price.
ya just gotta weed through the crap.

be careful out there, and try not to step into any vanilla ice.

good luck.

http://www.hob.com/live/concerts/

hatin' junk mail. applying to the Register of Professional Archaeologists, which will make me a lot more hirable.

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loathing this squeeze play i am put into her at work. Take the new position or risk being let go. Shifts going on, all over the place with our merge with planetout.com and our purchase of Out magazine. New job would mean I am strictly a porn pusher. As it stands now I am a that in addition to the prestige that comes with the Advocate and Alyson Pub. which are not porn

The money is not important.......what to do what to do

if the money is not important, send it to me. that goes for all of you. you know how to find me.

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wearing a beautiful, fragrant, bright yellow and white lei. given to me by my boss, who took me out to lunch.

tomorrow is my last day of measley pay doing philanthropic work. monday i start work for a big money-grubbing company.

actually, cancer research is just a big money-grubbing company too. they just hide it better.


the girls from work are taking me out in a few hours to a few swank pau hana bars. i won't feel guilty about drinking, even though i was going to try to lose ten more pounds before regatta season starts in may, since i think i'm going to be chosen to race for the outrigger paddling club. might even get moved up from Novice B to Novice A. well, that's what the coach said when he pulled me aside after practice last night. stolis and tonic could be a good strategy for losing 10 lbs.


the yellow flowers are the perfect accent today. i'm wearing a simple but great short black skirt from Banana Republic, a white v-neck long sleeved shirt, a frilly girly bra, and simple black leather mules. no big deal. yet i don't think i've ever looked better in my life, and certainly i've never felt better.


i hit a hundred today. did you hear that sheila? one fucking hundred.

does anyone taste dust on their tongue?


here's the trick. it bears repeating: talk nicely to yourself... smile a lot... and surrender... just let shit happen. it will. that's all.

finding a motel in Madison with a fitness center - early morning meeting there.

Got things to do: laundry, post office, workout.

then it's of to Madison, where I think I may treat my self to a movie.

phasing out the static.

picked up common's new joint last night.
"like water for chocolate".
sugah.
produced by ?uestlove, featuring femi kuti, black thought, roy hargrove, d'angelo, jill scott, mos def, slum village, cee-lo, jay dee, and dj premier.
the first track is a tribute to fela which should easily be 20 minutes long instead of just 6. in any case, it's good to see the seeds of a new renaissance sprouting up in the genre.

the soulquarians picked up the torch that the native tongues originally lit and are running like mad with that shit.

it's a beautiful day in manhattan.
this city is gonna be bumpin' lovely this summer.

got high bandwidth?

check out spearhead's 5/10/99 show in la la land.

http://www.hob.com/live/concerts/990510spearhead/

it's a beautiful day in LA< nice and warm, breezy. Taking the new position, as any good sales dude should, I angled for more cash......i am happy here, if they are gonna send me there, wheere i don't neceissarily want to be, they better step up the anty........then i start actively looking for new work......maybe it;s time to start thinking of freelancing....

jesusfrigginchrist......gotta slow down, regreting that last hurried mispelled post

trying to get into BMG's site...stupid slow thing...damn the internet! blasted monkeys!!!

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Reading up about Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. Stranded's been in my car stereo for 2 weeks and from years ago it had been on my records-listened-to-more-than-25-times list. It sounds even more like this perfect evocative whole planet unto itself now, and songs I paid less attention to back then, like "Sunset," are working their magic.

Sometimes one record grabs you but you just sample others or pass them by, figuring they could never be as perfect... or you just have to stop listening for awhile... and then later...

Good morning! Just a little reminder that we have you down for eleven this morning at the Uptown salon. Your nail technician today will be L'CHELLE.
Spring is here, so why not have a cuticle wake-up debrading and turnover? Only a few moments of pain for nearly a year's worth of matchless thumb and digit beauty? Regularly $79.95, now through April 20th only $59.95!! Just mention it to your technician TODAY!

Looking lovely, looking sharp, our mission for you at Del Marmol Nailtique, Uptown, Lakeside, and Oakwood

hundred fucking yay!

I just picked up the Muse album - pretty good but nothing like them live. I
just read a review of the concert too, and as usual, the critic had his head
shoved far up his ass. I fucking hate critics. There is no joy in their
lives.

So I was in Madison today, attending the WAS (Wisconsin Archaeology Survey)
meeting. Ate some good Indian food for lunch, then hit the bookstores and
record shops, like the fool I am. Picked up Jerry Mander's In The Absence of
the Sacred, which I look foward to reading and "A Short History of
Technology" which as an Industrial Archaeologist, i couldn't pass up. I
held my impulses on cds pretty good until I hit the EXclusive Company, where
I promptly picked up Stiff Little Finger's Greatest hits Live, Killing
Joke's Outside the Gate (supposed to be the weirdest of their albums) and
Toots and the Maytals'"Knock Out!" I stopped at Border's to use the
bathroom (sure I did) and managed to escape with only the Muse cd, the
latest issue of Punk Planent and another music mag I picked up for the cd
inside, whcich looked good. I held off on buying any more cheesy fantasy
novels. I need to stay away from Madison.


So, Sarah, a hundred what? situps? pullups? BP?

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just read about how a DJ with KXLU is playing the hell out of my favortie band, man Ray 19, whom I know fairly well and have played shows with. Encouraging all sorabjiites in th elistening area of thestation to check out the show (i don't know the show name, but they DJ is named tony)

Man, I hope these guys make it, they are very deserving.

Im waiting and watching as others go by, endlessly lonely despite how I try

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I'm in my room...alone at last.

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advising sem that the rang for KXLU is limited...for a city this size, it's a pretty crappy college radio, but i like it. Never heard man ray 19 and i listen daily....

New Job

Day One

The HR 'Ho tried to stiff me on our salary agreement and I almost walked.

Parking garage card didn't work.

New PIII compter. But 15" monitor.

Hearing the phrase "fully functional" spoken roughly 7,338 times in the course of two meetings.


jeeez. it's time for lunch.

Finally going to turn my
computer off (3am BST)
and enjoy for a few
seconds the eerie silence
which falls as the fan
stops spinning.

Then I'm going to

witnessing the return of N.W.A. while kissing microsoft goodnight.

bill gates is on c-span looking very confident, clean, safe and secure.
he's got a fixed politician's smile on his face and is speaking in measured tones.

smart boy.

he obviously knows he's in the deepest shit he'll probably ever see in this lifetime.

stock is down $15 per share at closing and expected to plummet when wall street opens up in the morning.

welcome to the sad reality of being declared a monopoly by the united states' justice department.

see ya in hell, bill.

better bring change for bus fare.

i wanna see the look on his face when win2k becomes open source.

thinking Bill may have a lot of company from sorabji there. I'm back from three days of eyebrow-raising bohdran-ning in a convent in Minneapolis, speaking of hell within a flower bowered paradise. What a beautiful place, gargoyled and on the National Registry of Historical Places, but all the young women with cherubic faces of the novitiate in whose rooms we whispered and walked and slept and ate and drummed and held each other softly in the darkness, all thirty of us from across the globe, all drummers we...the ghosts were by day a remaining few ancient little nun-women in grey and blue plaid suits with black plastic heavy glasses. All they needed was the modem and keyboard: they could fit in as geek as anyone here. Hip old chicks who looked suspiciously and knowingly aloof (and ever so acceptingly) at the silence my long braid engendered, as conspicuous as the lack of rosary or crucifix, or the presence of the little leather bag around my neck... and though they appeared just withered women of spirit and blessing and truth living in community at the edge of an aery cathedral, they could have been gargoyles themselves too. Their mission comprised of "being good neighbors" and my presence an intrusion into their sacred space. They smiled and arranged for four of us to enter the Provincial Chapel I wanted to visit, a place off limits, a place not open to outsiders, a space of oldwomansmells and dogma and strict obediance, of some of the most beautiful quartersawn oak walls and mosaics, which dear Sister Elizabeth, our escort, knew nothing about, they were just there beauty incarnate, though she prays with this art daily for over sixty years. A moment of grace in my life, athreshold, a passing through and into a rarified atmosphere. And now I am back so many hours downriver from that sanctuary, having survived the bubblerumping of the past three or four days. Or at least, well, I'm back on the planet (and not in Iowa either), but I learned alot about invisibility and distance and crossing over into a heavenspace this past weekend. And so have decided to ask for at least another week off or maybe two...to allow me time to digest the sabbatical...and catch up with email. And write the chapter that haunts me.

thinking that something is in the air

people doing things they shouldn't all over the place

me too

I'm cupid.


I'm also an archangel and a redtop.


I'm something good, something bad, and something goodANDbad.

BUY LOW! SELL HIGH!

NASDAQ,I,ve invested alot in it,you can make all the jokes about Bill Gates if you want to, but truth be told if I could ever get near her I,d kick the fucking shit out of Janet Reno.He made a better product,capatalism isn,t a fucking crime.Janet is big bro,does anyone here see what I mean?Do you see where this is going?

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Windows is hardly a spectacular product. How many days can you go without a crash?

Capitalism isn't a crime. Bill took a few steps beyond that, though. He used his position to squash competitors with money and momentum, not by having a better product.

That's what capitalism is about. If you have a better product, you beat your competitors.

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last day of work before going to Philly. I am looking forward to this, get to see old friends and new friends, forget about work for a few blissful days.

I can't wait to get this albatross of a report off my neck.

That,s why he,s so fucking rich,so what next is toyota going to sue Mercedes for making a better car?WTF? And while I,m at it,is Nate okay?I know he just bought a house and when I got back and checked the boards I think I saw he was out of work and I haven,t seen anything posted by him in a while.I hope he,s okay.If you see this Nate,or anyone knows he,s alright please let me know,I worry,one of my hobbies.

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hey J.

read the verdict.

it's not about product superiority.

it's about business practices.

anyway, big bill will probably walk away unscathed.

nate, on the other hand, is rotting in a ditch by the green river. but don't worry. he'll have company soon.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/04/ruling.no.change.idg/ms-conclusions.pdf

windows NT works fine.

windows 98 is utter crap.

It's the worst windows program I've ever used.

NT is crap too.

try Linux.

wondering if Bill is going straight to hell,or stopping off at Barbados to check out what's left of the software giant now @ $2/share that rose from $10 to $26 and then saw whathisname iforgotallready the ceo get canned after an eighteen month meteoric ride??? Or maybe Goofy is diddling Minnie behind Mickie's little tail??? ?Puede excavar? Excave con cuidado. Read the verdict indeed.

......hmph thinking about Bill Gates for approx. 12 sec.
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poop

otherwise school is in....

the school of Otis Redding......

the church that heals......

the REAL "Show Me State"...........

the one I have been skipping.........

TRUANT!

you know?

http://www.hell.com

just listening to "buffalo soldier" on the radio.

what makes people think that Happiness is the meaning of life?

Right-on, Nate.

I completely ditched Windows a year ago.

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wondering...

who the hell are you people and why hasn't natural selection run its course???

the green river needs to start doing much, much more business.

why wait for natural selection. i just learned that, as of friday night, my cousin has officially drunk himself to death. he was 38.

sorry to hear another soldier gone, Droopy. Booze isn't a very efficient way to go. There's a good long rant on www.fray.org (under drugs then drunk driving)that caught my eye and voice some time ago.

Last Thursday while I was packing for Mnpls drumming trip one of my clients tied one on and shot himself, a young priest in his thirties. I knw that Stoli is as deadly as the White Lady, as the bullets that we've been arguing about in New York... and more socially acceptable, unfortunately, as a way out. Life's got to suck pretty badly to make drugs appealing, to make suicide appealing, to make us do the things we do in order to forget what we ought to learn from. Or something like that. Gee, you a carrot? I didn't know that. Email me sometime and I'll send you those flowers.

Some magic elixir, booze.

Yeah, Patrick, too bad about Bill. 12 seconds may have been too long to mourn his fall. I met a woman once who insisted she WAS the Green River, by the way. I think she was right. No flowers for her.

Sunny, warm, windy here in StLouis and I've seen 31 clients last week without going near the hospital...and my bp dropped ten points each number...

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...hating Hollywood with evil distain. Working across from the Chinese theater lends itself to this. The premire of Ready to Rumble has the whole block shut down. A wrestling ring amongst the other media garb has been set up and traffic is being diverted to the side street, that I will have to fight my way out of. It will take me an hour just to clear the garage...fuck!.....thank god for the cheeba i do have on hand......i'm gonna need it.

Although I wouldn't mind sticking around to get a glimpse of Rose McGowan....

Otherwise planning the return of my wife sat am.....getting my haircut friday, shaved off my first attempt at growing a goatee Canceling darkroom time sat. going to buy a dozen daisies and get up early to meet her at the airport. She is not expecting me to pick her up. After a 14 hour flight, she needs to see me. I love the way she smells ater a long flight, to her she feels rank, but to me........yummy.....the smell of perfume and other fragrences have worn off. The hot towels have her nice and clean enough to let her natural scents pour out.......her hair soft from resting on it so long....her eyes dainty and tired.....The look on her face as she has cleared customs and is gearing up to wait in the cab line for that 30 min drive back to silverlake.....that look when she sees me.....THAT'S priceless.......

oh yeah, one more reason I hate hollywood. As if my otherwise, eclectic, energetic, and talented neighborhood wasn't commercialized enough, i found out a pilot is being filmed called "Silverlake"... a hip new drama with hipsters.....and it's being filmed in Vancouver........they don't have palm trees, i hope for utter failure. But much like the success of Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210..i expect it will do well, for those neighborhoods are no longer "hip".....great......thanks.....thanks for commercializing my neighborhood. As if we didn't pay enough already.

HOOKERS IN THE LOBBY!

HOOKERS IN THE LOBBY!

HOOKERS IN THE LOBBY!

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I'm a carrot? Where did that come from?


I'm cupid, an archangel and a redtop. Let's get this straight, people.

okay okay OKAY! Is not a redtop a carrot-top? Sometimes referred to as a "carrot-head"? from the family "sorabjus-legumis-carrotus"? I get the Cupid part, umm, yes, and I can see you in wings, or at least enveloped in that white frothyfluffy stuff, but the "redtop" = ? Ah virtual thoughts reduced to vegetative states!! This is what happens when you leave me alone too long...so I apparently miss the meaning of redtop, or it means something I do not know, or I am an idiot, or needing breakfast. So what's it mean?

carrot tops are green. gee, i just got back from canada.

canadians seem pretty nice, on the whole.

I'm almost graduated.

I talked to Nate once.
He had stomach surgery and then I didn't hear from him after that.

I live in North Portland Oregon. My house is old and drafty. I have ugly brown carpet. I live across the street from a "nudiebar" and we get lots of dirtbags that park nearby.

I take walks late at
night around the neighborhood and pet fat kitties. That is because fat kitties are nicer than skinny kitties. I've already mentioned this somewhere before.

When I graduate, I am actually starting a business. I hope it succeeds. I hope the
girl I like still likes
me. I don't know, her
grandma died and she's
been gone for a week.

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halfway through spring vacation. Since Friday I have played two gigs, built a fence, landscaped the fish pond, watched a ton of movies and knocked a guy out cold with one punch. It's all downhill from here.

Can u teach me how to hit like that?

I didnt even bruise the Grump when I hit him.

dammit.

he doesn't deserve an affectionate nickname anymore.


where in canada where you, Agatha? and when did you have time to go?

plugging out.

shiver
quiver
deliver

(here we go)

flipmode.

picking eye boogers. just woke up, it's 5:22pm and i feel...hungry actually. have a craving for some deep-fried processed chicken.

naw

not understanding anything.

First you must snatch the pebble from my hand.

toasting bubbles in a dutch oven and wandering through again

Learning there is no message in that bottle,waiting for my s/o to bring me breakfast from the golden arches.

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Reading Sorabji when I
should be doing math.

Damn you Sorabji, it's
all your fault if I flunk
out.

fucking your mom.

in the ass.

that's right.

YOUR mom.

she was in the lobby.

is that toothpaste on the strategy board?

Is Swine passing my mom around for free? What kind of pimp is that?

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