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picture me and then you start watching
kids' drawings replicated as photographs. via drawn. *** *** *** *** *** i'm not really sure why i haven't been feeling terribly chatty on livejournal lately. it seems like a lot of people have been comparatively quiet. |
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because you guys really need to know
there was a giant roach in my room. i did the patented karen grab & smoosh. i hate it, but it works. thinking about losing track of that thing in my tremendously cluttered room was pretty sobering, so i did a little straightening up. |
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motor city
well, i'm back from michigan. i just slept about eight hours and i'm mildly annoyed i woke up after such a minimal period - i slept okay on the trip, but getting up extra early and on eastern time did wear on me a little and i wouldn't mind some catch-up. some random thoughts:
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different sort of same
i like the "sex, drugs, helvetica bold" shirt. via i love typography. *** *** |
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out by the boxcar waiting
well, i'm pretty sure now that my mysterious music is just random tonal sounds coming from this slightly old little g4 i'm using temporarily. now when it starts i usually start giggling, or me and my officemates compare notes about who heard it. i think it's kind of weirdly fun that it does this, but i'm glad it's not staying for a long time. *** i'm almost certainly not going to be able to see the old haunts tonight, and this makes the second time i've missed them. that's the version of the old haunts that includes tobi vail, people. maybe i'll make it there against all odds (probably not, though). *** *** |
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one mouthful and you want more
there's incredibly quiet music filtering into my office somehow. my officemates can hear it too. at first i thought i was insane, but even now that it's been confirmed as part of reality it's still pretty weird since there's no sign of its source. well, it may be some kind of incredibly tonal noise coming out of my loaner computer, but if so somebody should set up a mic for this thing. *** *** *** |
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they tell us you have to do what you're told
video of karlheinz stockhausen talking about making sounds. was via expanded cinema, but their entry referring to it seems to have disappeared. anyway, i don't mean to posture myself as knowing thing one about stockhausen and his whole deal, but i just enjoyed watching this. *** *** speaking of work, i've finally nailed down most of the important details of a work trip i'm taking next week. this coming tuesday through friday i'll be in ann arbor to visit printing and shipping vendors and to take a seminar with one printer. hopefully i'll learn a lot. and my first night there i'll get to see my family in detroit: an uncle, an aunt, three cousins and four kids-of-cousins. my actual free time while i'm there will probably be limited to one wednesday evening, but if anybody has any ann arbor thoughts they'd like to share i'd be happy to hear them. my one worry is that i may get kind of insane from hanging out with strangers for three solid days. but then i console myself with the fact that i get to have a rental car. i really do kind of need it, but i feel almost guilty because i'm so happy i get to drive myself around. |
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we make up the haircuts, straight outta the past
current musical obsession: "i can't make up my mind" by the zombies. it popped in my head friday afternoon after not having heard it for probably a couple of years and i listened to it driving yesterday. *** the one kind of insane thing that happened was running into scott, my first boyfriend's brother who lived with us for a while when we were together. i haven't seen scott in at least 4-5 years, and i haven't spoken to chris in about as long. it would have been kind of nice but also weird anyway, but to add to the weirdness scott told me that about six weeks ago their dad had a terrible car accident (in a hot rod - he always was really into that sort of thing), was thrown from the car, and now has a pretty terrible brain injury. scott showed me a camera-phone picture of glenn with his head clearly sewn back together. yikes. though i have to admit that when scott started prefacing i was thinking he would say that their dad was dead, so i was actually kind of relieved. and of course there was driving. that was really nice - the country north of austin is pretty, especially now that it's all springy. i really like driving so i was pretty happy, except for the moment when an eighteen wheeler's tire shredded as i was trying to pass it. i couldn't help but run over part of it, but i checked my car over and it looked fine. meanwhile, the trucker kept going and when i caught up with him later his whole wheel was sparking. maybe that's not as weird as it looks to me, but jeez. *** |
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beer with the foam afloat
nice bit of writing about "blink" from series 3 of doctor who, via joannou de luxe. *** *** *** |
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they made sounds just like drums
susan scarf. i think she looks super cute. sometimes having a cute twin sister is a nice boost to the ego. *** *** *** *** *** the best part is that miami herald piece in which one of the state senators is quoted as saying that trucknutz are "a statement of truckyness." |
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it happens
![]() this weekend included scifi friday, eggy sandwich, susan time, laundry, bsg with snacks at brandi's, taco xpress, thrifting, forbidden kingdom for the hair fighting, knitting, casino, and super-smoky pool hall. sometimes with april and jason, hooray! oh, we saw stephen malkmus at curra's on saturday night. *** *** looking at that list reminded me that they used the ultra-ubiquitous israel kamakawiwo'ole "over the rainbow" in the series finale. *** |
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almost forgot
the macaroni & cheese at maiko is really good. kind of weird to get mac & cheese at a sushi place, and it's definitely not conventional, but it's not even that wacky and it was pretty delicious. |
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i'll settle down with some old story
typeforyou entry on fontstruct, a simple program you can use to make fonts. oh, and there are fonts people have made with it that you can download under creative commons licenses. could be a nice way to find a neat display font. *** *** |
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it moves, but does it swing
i must stop looking at ebay when bored. not that i've done anything especially regrettable; it's just that it's a pretty ambivalent-feeling, conflicted activity. i want to find stuff but i don't want to find stuff. *** *** *** |
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you will not miss me
i like katarine, but i completely forgot now where i saw it. *** oh, and for part of the dream i was looking in the mirror trying to make my lips look normal, but they were gone and instead my mouth was a slit. that's what i get for rereading pkd books before bed. *** *** |
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someday i might be cured, but right now i'm not so sure
i don't suppose anybody out there has got a copy of the first velocity girl ep? something reminded me of "i don't care if you go" last night and i'd like to hear it. i hate to admit it, but i got rid of that cd years ago. if you can help you will have my gratitude and anything else i can offer in return. *** my old phone didn't have a sim card, so i couldn't transfer my numbers en masse to the new phone. actually entering all of them wasn't too bad; i don't have all that many numbers in my phone. but it was a little weird deciding which ones to edit out. there were a few i moved over for sentimental reasons even though they're old as hell, and there were a few that i didn't reenter that made me a little sad. oh, well. after having the same super-basic phone for nearly three years, this new one's pretty slick and has a camera. and that's kind of novel even though i don't intend to really use it except to make wallpaper for my phone. *** related to the alamo, i kind of like this shirt. *** *** *** |
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sunday night wonderings
why am i always drawn to livejournal icons of people being exasperated and/or grumpy? maybe it's related to my love of angrily jealous songs and ultra-paranoid crime and science fiction books. i am normally very diplomatic so i guess i have a need to channel my grumpiness. what kind of people have a loud party on a sunday night? my back neighbors, apparently. at least it's not the next door neighbors, who had their own party last night (nothing wrong with that, of course). |
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trying to make the best of my time
nice cow piece from wooster collective. *** *** *** *** |
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loyal honnete et droit
the popsongs entry on we walk randomly made me start missing athens today. mostly it reminds me of my old romantic notions about athens, but somewhat of athens itself. i need to make it to georgia for a mid-year visit this year. i've got a family reunion in chattanooga in june and that's right by georgia. maybe i can tack on a few extra days. *** *** *** |
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