my Rushmore

Weekend= RUINED!

2008-09-27T14:57:03Z

Paul Newman died yesterday.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10576339

Dear Sarah Palin

2008-09-26T15:14:52Z

take a speech class. Watch one on the TV sometime. How is this lady even close to possibly walking in the White House front door, much less being VP?

copied from a friends LJ because i said i would

2008-09-26T15:04:16Z

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?.
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?-!
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favorite and least favorite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you re-post this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

It is dark, you are likely to be eaten by a grue!

2008-08-14T19:43:34Z

change or die!

2008-08-13T22:55:37Z

that movie quote dealie

2008-08-05T01:30:45Z

Here are the rules:
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. (or just remember them.)
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1. Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. I'm looking for, like, an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or you out?

2. Wouldn't he? Lizzy, how can you put your faith in a man you spectacularly binned for being unreliable? A man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and an impenetrable fortress are the same thing? It's... This is a pub! We are in a pub! What are we going to do? Shaun of the Dead- superleezard

3. How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those to be fallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses?

4. Frank, how many of these guys have been with you long enough to be disgruntled, huh? Think about it. You don't pay much, you know. It's almost a fuckin' feudal enterprise. The question is, and this is the only question, who thinks that they can do what you do better than you? the Departed- kidbacon

5. Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks

6. ~~She's not my special lady, she's my fucking lady friend. I'm just helping her conceive, man!~~ the Big Lebowski bigdpimpin

7. ~~1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.~~ No Country For Old Men bigdpimpin

8. Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? Well, I've been listening to my gut since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

9. What are you talking about? Look at yourself. You're nothing. You're nobody. You're wanted in connection with a violent crime. You're cleaning the floor of a diner. She is an intelligent, passionate, beautiful, rich woman. The issue of whether or not she's your type is not one that you're likely to have to resolve in this world... or, indeed, the next, since she will be going to some heaven for glamorous pussy, and you will be cleaning the floor of a diner in hell.

10. ~~Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now.~~ Kill Bill- mjtheanarchist

11. ~~In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants.~~ the Karate Kid bigdpimpin

12. ~~I'm talking about the gas chamber, and you haven't even asked me what this is about. You've got a big "Guilty" sign around your neck.~~ L.A. Confidential- superleezard

13. Man, you'd bury yourself alive just to prove you could handle the shovel.

14. I tried it with the hens: it didn't work. So I turned to crowing, and lo! I discover my gift. But no sooner do I become indispensable than they bring in a machine to do the job. Ohhhh-oh-oh, the treachery of it - a mechanical rooster! Babe- superleezard

15. ~~Hey, I don't know if I can do this. I got a family. If I'm gonna shit in a bag for the rest of my life because I got shot after the war was over, that would pretty fucking stupid wouldn't it, Major?~~ Three Kings- superleezard

ok, #'s 2, 6, 8 and 11 are a lay up drill. #3 should be damn near impossible. if you get it you're a cheater. #13 was a last minute replacement for the Proposition, which doesn't really have any good quotes on IMDB and i didn't think i could get any right from my (feeble) memory.

GO!

Tom Waits!

2008-05-16T16:49:49Z

ticket is mine. June 23 @ the Palladium Ballroom.
$105. pretty steep, better be worth it.

It's what plants crave

2007-12-11T03:44:29Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/12/for_editors_the_view_why_fox_w.html

well, this is how it all begins.

here

2007-09-26T04:01:01Z

the following is totally true

2007-09-13T18:49:46Z

long time no post. in the intervening months, i have been at sea. i found myself without employ and realizing that my mid-life was quickly settling upon me i decided to run away to sea before the time when such thing would become more of a childish act. go away while i'm still young enough to get away with it. also, it should be noted, i lie about my age regularly. so i stowed away on a large wooden whale boat. who knew such things still existed and are in regular use? they're in much demand on the high seas, let me tell you. i know, i was there. anyway, after several months at sea, fairly uneventful as it was we were attacked by what i had previously thought to be an extinct sea-beast. one of the serpentine variety. looked like a giant catfish that had birthed the unholy scion of a python. only bigger that the Empire State Building. and angry as George C. Scott. well, a creature of that size you can well imagine caused quite a stir upon emerging from the briny deep. our boat was tossed fore and aft. we managed to escape with our lives intact (except fot the ones killed in the conflict- God rest them). oh, and there was one of the crew who was washed away overboard, but he was seen clinging to the overboard washed coffin of one of our previously deceased crew members. we're all praying for his safety.

onward- with our boat gratuitously wrecked we were victim of the trade winds that blew us along a path that was well out of our predetermined course. set upon by pirates we were. barnacles all. i found comfort by hiding in the storage hall, among the casks of exotic, spiced rum. when i was discovered by the salty dogs i feigned foreign a foreign origin, claimed i spoke no english and plied them with rum. while they were passed out drunk, i escaped in one of their tag-a-long boats and sailed away to the remote islands i could soon find. after landing there i built structures inland from the surf, and upon being discovered by the local natives i was declared their god. that suited me fine for a short while, but after tiring of that i accidentally (in my laziness) offended my constituency. maybe it was that, or the jealous ex husbands of my concubines. no one really seems to know. well, after fleeing for my life to the other side of the island i discovered i had been on civilized ground all along- i was in Peru! i soon found a hotel resort, stayed until my tales would no longer earn my stay from entertaining tourists at the resort and then called my mom and dad to come pick me up.

and that's why i haven't posted in so long

truer words...

2007-02-20T01:59:23Z

never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat
never drive a car when you're dead

joshsapien @ 2007-01-27T13:19:00

2007-01-27T19:43:52Z

looking at the paper just now i saw there's a screening of Gone With the Wind. made me think. mostly that i've never actually seen Gone With the Wind. which made me think; there are quite a few popular movies that i've never seen that i probably should have at this point (keeping in mind that i worked at a movie store for 7 years)
some examples
Terminator, The
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Wizard of Oz, The
Citizen Kane (never seen it all, at least not in one sitting)
12 Angry Men
the Verdict
Ghandi
Lawrence of Arabia
Great Escape, The
JFK
Ben-Hur
Bridge on the River Kwai
Last Boyscout, The
Bad Boys (I or II)
Rashomon
Monty Python's the Life of Brian
Sabrina
Wild Bunch, The
Omen, The
Psycho
North By Northwest
Rear Window
Superman II
Revenge of the Nerds
Porky's
Giant
any musicals
most Disney
never seen an episode of the original Star Trek series.

i could do the same thing with books. i've never read many that are considered classics.
1984
Great Gatsby, The
On the Road (didn't finish it)
all Dickens (save Great Expectations, which i liked quite a bit)
Les Miserables
Mark Twain
East of Eden
Jane Austen
the Bronte Sisters
Don Quixote
Red Badge of Courage, The
Scarlet Letter, The (read most of it, hated it)
Jack London
Hemmingway (aside from a book of short stories)
Faulkner (well, i read most of As I Lay Dying)
Moby Dick (i actually read it in 8th grade, at least i think i did, but don't remember a thing about it)
Ayn Rand
Thomas Pynchon
Don DeLillo
Thomas Wolfe (either one)
Norman Mailer
Martin Amis
Ian McEwan
John Updike

i'm sure there's more there, too.

no point to any of this. just putting it out there.
anyone else?

end of best ofs... 2006 edition

2007-01-25T00:44:53Z

thought i'd already done this. guess not.

Movies

5) Casino Royale/ Departed (tie)
4) Brick- great. i love crime stories (especially pulp stories) and i love High School Drama (V. Mars) best of both
3) Stranger Than Fiction- likewise, i love meta fiction. didn't want this one to end. don't think too many people saw it, though
2) the Proposition- dark as hell. nice revenge/ loyalty movie. everything about this was so well done. acting, direction, screenplay (of course). one of the best made movies i've ever seen
1) Pan's Labyrinth- i started to leave this for '07 but didn't because 1) i thought i'd forget and 2) Spider-Man 3 comes out in March. if you haven't seen it, go. if you have you know why it's #1.

annnnnddd...

Rekkids

8) Aimee Mann- One More Drifter In The Snow: holiday record, but an Aimee Mann holiday record
7) Jolie Holland- Springtime Can Kill You
6) Decemberists- the Crane Wife
5) Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
4) Johnny Cash- American V: Hundred Highways- probably the last from him. great way to go out. his voice is really shot and still sounds amazing.
3) the Paper Chase- Now You Are One Of Us: more great paranoid indie rock from Denton. playing 2/3 @ Rubber Gloves!! and on 4/2 (my birthday) @ Granada in Dallas! let's all go!
2) Thom Yorke- the Eraser
1) Peeping Tom- Mike Patton has said this is what radio would sdound like if he was program director. someone buy him a station and let him go to work. also, Norah Jones says motherfucker and it's sexier than anything

Pagemaster

2007-01-24T02:05:22Z

i think i read too much. i've already gone through 5 books this year with no signs of slowing down. in your opinion can a person read too much? like too much tv? i'm becoming a recluse. but maybe in a really good way. i was thinking of writing about what i read. maybe those guys at Stumblebum could post it, or link to it or whatever. i'd make it reasonably entertaining. and maybe i'd do more beer columns for Dave and Melissa. they seemed to like the previous one. i'd ask the guys at Stumblebum if they're interested, but they never reply to any posts. all because Paul got a job drawing comics. if you can make any sense out of all that up there, what do you think? interested in a column from me about books?

year end best of - the Revenge

2007-01-11T22:56:15Z

digression: 2007 can kiss my ass. Sunday i woke up (at 4:30 am, no less) sick as hell. sat around the house all day doped to the gills. 7:30 pm my boss calls and lays me off- again! then i talk to the insurance company and the woman who totaled my truck had no insurance. i talk to my lawyer and he tells me i'm almost certainly "fucked". then i locked my keys in my car. all this by the 10th of the new year. i'm kind of bummed, but also kind of excited to se just how bad it can get before it's all over. i through being depressed, i'm now looking on with a morbid curiosity.

on with the show. also, click on my LJ link to see my other list for the best of '06. i posted over a weekend and i think everyone missed it. or just didn't care.

BEST BOOKS:
5) Sputnik Sweetheart- Haruki Murakami: it's a post modern love story/ detective story. well worth reading, like all Murakami books, but not as engaging as most of his other work. if it was a different book it would probably be #1 on any given year (although #2 this year). there is a sequence in here that really twisted my head around and i knew where it was going from the start. and it still threw me for a loop.

4) Killing Yourself to Live- Chuck Klosterman: a book that started as a series of essays for Spin magazine about a writer's cross country trip to visit sites of famous musician's deaths. Starts at the Chelsea Hotel (Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen there) and ending at Kurt Cobain's house in seattle. and many stops in between. it turns into a memoir about the author's past, especially his love life. So good i read it in one sitting. And then went out and bought Klosterman's other books. Then drove to Austin to see him at a reading/ signing/ Q&A.

3) How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers: collection of short stories from the author of A Heartbreaking Work of staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity!. one of my favorite writers, seemingly can write about anything, including a story from the perspective of a dog who goes into the woods to race other dogs, and one titled "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust." a story where the title is alomst as long as the story and pretty much sums up the following page and a half in a way i never thought possible.

2) Under the Banner of Heaven- John Krakauer: began as an investigatve report of a book about the murder of a woman and her 18 month old baby girl. by her brother's in law. it's a story about religious zealotry, which is used as a point of examination of zealots in general, and violent faith taken too far. it spends more time examining the foundations and history of the murders and their faith than it does on the actual case itself, but there's never a feeling of digression, boredom or missing the point. does a great job of juggling multiple storylines and people without being confusing or partisan. Even though i'm not a fan of true crime stories, i couldn't put this down.

1) Never Let Me Go- Kazou Ishiguro: it's rare that while reading a book it immediately shoots to the top of my favorite ever book list. usually i don't at first like the books that go on to become what i think of as my favorites. i though the Catcher in the Rye was whiny when i first read it, All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers was trying too hard to be a more literate Catcher in the Rye, Frankenstein was too dry and detached, and To Kill A Mockingbird was too preachy. i can find fault with anything.
similarly i thought Never Let Me Go was a bit too cleverly sci-fi without trying to be sci-fi, somewhat too cute in it's structuring what with all the "oh, yeah, now let me tell you about what led to the events that i just described" and a bit too in love with keeping the central conceit of the story a secret, even though i was sure i'd already figured it all out. and like a great novel, it still surprised me.
since reading it, i've recommended it to everyone i've talked to and they all have the same reaction: "What's it about"?
that's the real trick, though, isn't it? it's kind of like asking what life's about. you can be either too vague, too explicit or just make a generalization tha would apply to anything at all really. well, so far my response to the question "What's it about"? has been: it's about free will, it's about doing what you were born to do versus what you have to do, it's about the past, the future and the present. it's a story of loyalty and friendship. it's a love story and it's about where you're at, not where you're from. it's science fiction, it's romance, drama and it's the most modern book on Time Magazine's 100 best books of the Century. it's the latest story from the author of Remains of the Day and the writer of the original story for the movie The Saddest Music in the World.
it's the best book you've never read, and it's available at your local bookstore, so what are you waiting for? go get it, read it, love it and talk to me about it.

year end best of begins... NOW!!!!

2006-12-22T02:09:22Z

i try to do one of these every year, and i like it when other people do them, too because it's a great way to learn about new things, maybe check out a new book or record you probably wouldn't have otherwise. i usually do movies, records, books and comics, with a few random notes thrown in and maybe a few other categories, too. so, here we go

Best Meal: smoked salmon enchiladas w/ avacado cream sauce, steamed spanish rice, black beans and a mojito @ El Sol Y La Luna, Austin Tx. so good i had to go back and have it again a month later

Best Stranger: the girl who works the cafe at Borders I-20 & Hulen. i just wanted tea, but got a pretty cool conversation with it. she was into Aimee Mann, Mark Danielewski, Chuck Klosterman, Cormac McCarthy, all kinds of cool things. it's fun talking to strangers! (kids, don't talk to strangers)

Best Cat: Harley. she's going for an all time record.

Best Day: Ted's Birthday 7/7/06. took the day off work, went and bought (too much) alcohol, party favors (the party was a beach party and Ted had brought in sand, made a pit for it all and we had a beach dance party) all of my friends showed up (not true, Matt, Smy, Dave, Chris, you guys were missed) danced all night (which is rare and will hopefully never happen again) and spent the night talking to the most amazing woman i've ever known. and most of the next morning, too. all parties should be this fun

Best Beer: Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. a lot of people don't like fruit flavored beer. i'm not a person like that.

Best Event: Aimee Mann @ the Lakewood Theater. got to finally see her perform live and it was worth every penny and more. she played an acoustic set (and all except 2 of my favorite songs) accompanied by only a bass player and another guitar/ piano player. i'm a sucker for smart, catch literate pop and especially when it's done by a pretty woman. perfect length show (1hr. 45 mins.) great venue (Lakewood Theater seats aorund 900 people) and we got to move up to the 5th row. not a bad moment in the whole thing and it got better afterward when we went outside, preparing to leave. my friend was smoking in front of the building when i spotted Aimee walking to her bus. i think i was the only one to really see her so i waved and said hi. she waved back and asked how we liked the show. so we hung around and talked to her for a bit, got some cd's signed and took a few pictures. she's really sweet and we got to side hug her. she needs to come back around soon

Best Comics:
1) Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness- one of the few books that i have recommended to most everyone i know, and most of them have read it and love it. good pop fun. video games, youth drama and comedy. battles of the bands and evil ex- boyfriends. it's all things to all people

2) the Escapists- Brian K. Vaughaun's mini series based on the Michael Chabon novel the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. it's a well done series (at first it was set up to disappoint me whit Philip Bond (one of my favorites) illustrating the first issue and Steve Rolston finishing the other 5, but Rolston either came into his own in a new way, or copied the style of Bond well enough to make me not miss him) about family ties, the creative drive and making comic books about costumed adventurers.

3) Mike Allred's the Vault- collection of all sorts of Allred miscellania. Allred could put out a book of blank pages and i'd probably think it was genius

4) American Virgin: Steve Seagle & Becky Cloonan's new Vertigo series about acceptance and tolerance. the story of a youthful evangelist and what happens when his fiancee is killed on a mission trip. he's exposed to the whole wide world and realizes that he might have to expand his narrow world view. bonus points because i know/ knew quite a few people like the main character and it's pretty accurate in it's portrayal of him. also, i've loaned it to a few non comic readers and they loved it and wnat to read more every month. always a good sign

5) Loveless/ Criminal (tie): to be honest if Criminal had produced more than 3 issues it would have probably beaten out Loveless, but there it is. Criminal is a great noir book based on a main character that is basically a coward. or he's too smart to be a criminal. or both. Loveless is western noir. reads better in one sitting than broken up in monthly installmants, like most things. dark, realistic, revivalist western. fans of Deadwood take note

black ice... not a drug like i once thought

2006-12-01T03:04:40Z

more like a life ruining blight on mankind. i was traveling home tonight, after going to the local grocery store, a mere 3 miles away when what should appear before my wondering eyes! Black Ice you say? the very same!
so, speeding along at a neck breaking 45 miles per hour, i see the treacherous path ahead and let off the gas pedal, but no good, i still end up going round and round- your love will find a way, just give it time. so, i slide all the way across the freeway (no other cars were anywhere to be seen. it was 6pm after all) into the guardrail, ice from my truck flying about everywhere. ice that i first thought was all the glass from my truck. so anyhow, there i am, facing the wrong way on the shoulder of a major highway, sitting against a guardrail. i look around and realize that it's really not so bad, so i start my truck and try to get the rock outta there. no luck, thtires just spin. seems the wintry mix has turned the grass and mud of the side of the road into a pudding like substance. my tires could find no purchase in the sludgy muck. i get out asnd discover that it's not actually the tires in the mud preventing me from moving along, but that the rear bumper is on top of the guardrail. yes, i have in fact hopped the guardrail. lacking the strength to move my truck from atop it's perch, i do what any grown man would do. i sit and wait for someone to come along and pull my ass outta the ditch.
well, sitting there a truck full of what i'm going to call migrant workers comes along and stops to help me out. God bless them. freezing ass cold, a guy they don't know, obviously uninjured, and they stop to render aid. well, as we walk over to inspect how exactly we're going to go about the task at hand, we hear the old familiar soind of tires trying to grip the road. then we look up to see a little sports car heading RIGHT THE FUCK FOR US!!! no lie, it's careening out of control and heading right our way. we run behind the guy's work truck and the lady in the Nissan slams right square into the front of my truck, spinning her in a 360o spin and lands her directly in front (or behind, depends on how you look at it) of my truck along the guardrail. she missed us by about 10 feet. but we were all too busy gettin the hell outta the way to really be scared.
so yeah, anyway, we both got tickets for failure to control spped to avoid a colision. what thehell? i got a ticket for hitting an ice patch and running into a guardrail. and that damned guardrail didn't even have insurance!
so that's my second major wreck in 5 months, which is also my second major wreck in 31 1/2 years. and i have yet to be injured, so i guess we all know what this means. i'm impervious to car wreck injuries!

and if all that wasn't bad enough, the damned spinach dip is soupy. i just can't win

-josh

oh, yeah- road trip x2

2006-09-27T01:13:33Z

just remembered i haven't posted about the Austin trip that multiplied right before my very eyes. we went- we are myself (duh) Meagan (my best friends little (21y.o.) sister (which?? huh?) and some other guy. this all seems like one of those lame fantasy novels, or like, maybe Star Wars where complete strangers join forces to go do some shit and succeed, but with some difficulties (death?) along the way then we win and all get medals and go home. all set to Nazi imagery. yeah it was a lot like that, only more modern times and also, you know, earthbound. also, NOTHING blew up. which i have mixed feelings about. like i saw some things that would look cool in fragments and also on fire, but unfortunately if anything did blow up it probably would have been my truck, so... anyhow, we went not for ACL (not the knee muscle, but the Austin City Limits festival, yeah, not that) but just to see the Shins @ Stubb's Austin. a place that was built years ago specifically for me. the best BBQ and live music. i'd work therre for free. but i am a male model, not a male prostitute!!!! so we got there early, like 4 pm and the doors were at 8. soooooo... WATERLOO. for the Silversun Pickups record which is, uhmm... ok? not bad, but i'd read "it's a mix between Smashing Pumpkins (who i just got back into after about 4-5 years, and they were really good.) and My Bloody Valentine, which i just love. now, it's not bad, i jut need to listen to it more i guess. but i have other things to listen to first, like the new TV On The Radio, the new Cursive, the Ex- Models (who're coming to the Metrognome soon!!!!!!!) and some other things that this drink is making me not remember so well. so after that we went to the Book People (independently owner book store, which- i don't know theit books are somehow better? no i know it's all about keeping money in the community and supporting local artists and whatnot, i was just kidding. but they seem really proud of the indy bookstore label.)

broke that up so it doesn't look like so much reading all at once. so anyway, we went to the book store whwere i notice that Chuck Klosterman is going to be there. i love this guy. well, i love his books. but he's not going to be there until the next thursday, and it's friday. so i call my friend who's also into Klosterman and tell him. we blow it off. i bet you know where this is going. so we go to a shitty bar that played Eddie Money and the "Fabulous" Thunderbirds. whicjh made me think. as i sit there and sip my $4 vodka drink, if he works 24 hours, 7 days a week, when will he have time to come home, baby, and kiss her cheek? that's sloppy writing Mr. Vaughn. just lazy. a 23 would have fixed it. or maybe have a buddy look over your lyrics for obvious oversights like this. so, we go back to Stubbs where ii saw a girl i used to know and she was in front of me in line. i tried to get back cuts, but she said no. then i (think) i asked her if she knew Chuck Klosterman was going to be in town next week. she either didn't say anything, or i don't remember what she said. but it probably rhymed with dumbass. then i asked her if she likes the Shins.?
so, we got in and were in the second row. that was cool. also, Ted and Tiffany showed up like right at 10, right when the shins were going on. they saw the whole show and then drove right back home. troopers. wish we could have hung out more.
oh, so anyway, thursday around 3 my buddy (the one i called in the story above) called to ask if i wanted to go to Austin. so we left around 4 got to the store around 7:30 and listened to Klosterman for about a half hour or so. maybe an hour. he read then had a Q+A. my buddy asked if he'd let a gorilla with a 90 IQ play for the Raiders. that makes my buddy sound insane, but it makes sense, really. so the guy answered and we all laughed HAHASHAHAHAHA. then we lined up and handed him our books to sign. i have a collection of essays (a book collection, not like, newspaper clippings or whatever) that he has an essay in and he looks at the title page, then looks at the cover to see what it actually is. i said something really cool and suave like "do you sign a lot of those?" sometimes i'm like butter. he says it's the first time he's EVER signed one. so i made him put it in writing in the book. he signed his name and put "No.1 First Edition" so i asked him to put To;Ebay. whicjh he laughed at and then did. then we had smoked salmon enchiladas and honey brandy ice cream.
on the drive home i stopped for gas and there was a girl working at the service station (at like, midnight) whose friend she had just found out had died (that sentence might need to be rewritten) and was kind of bummed out. she talked to us for around 10 minutes or so. we felt sorry for her. then she asked if we liked how her hair looked. she'd just gotten a new hair-do where it was all braided or something. anyway, we told her, yes, she looked pretty. we were pretty convinced she was looking for a hook up (i'm not being an asshole here, there was a whole sympathetic/ desperation vibe she was giving off). then we drove home.
oh, i also got a speeding ticket. 83 (???!!!?) in a 65. it's almost $200 so i have PayPal account, you know, if you feel like it...

there's a magazine called sunset

2006-08-26T19:39:15Z

and a tape machine that won't let
me ever forget this impossible longing for you

in the last 2 days i've been:
asked to help tutor/ acclimate an african to america. just hanging out with the guy and teaching him english and all
asked to be in a play a friends boyfriend is putting on.
asked if i'd like to meet (for a potential date) a friend's roommate.
also, laid off from job.

what's one of those things that goes up and down a lot really fast? it's like i'm on something sorta like one of those things

i am trying to buy tickets

2006-08-26T15:21:39Z

Wilco= all systems go! so that's two shows down (well, the ticket buying part, not the actual show part). now things get expensive. i gotta buy merch. and drinks. and drive to austin for that one show in a few weeks. why am i such an easy mark for the merch?
also, saw R. Crumb Comix play @ Hip Pocket Theatre last night. was really good. i recommend it. also, there's a puppet seminar coming soon, and after that it's the Little Prince, but done as a puppet show. then after even all that there's an adaptation of a buddy's favorite book, In Watermelon Sugar. josh hinkle = patron of the arts.

step right up!

2006-08-18T21:31:52Z

lotsa shows coming your way soon. here are just a few that i'll be attending (well, as many as possible that is)

9/15 the Shins @ Stubb's - Austin $25
9/15 TV on the Radio @ Gypsy Tea Room- Dallas $15 (it's my safety show if the Shins fall through)
9/16 Cat Power @ Gypsy Tea Room - Dallas $20
9/17 Aimee Mann @ Lakewood Theater - Dallas $24
10/3 Mastodon @ Gypsy Tea Room - Dalls $16
10/7 Ex-models @ Metrognome - Ft Worth $10 (?)
10/12 Wilco @ Will Rogers - Ft Worth TBA
10/25 Decemberists @ Gypsy Tea Room - Dallas $20

also, Built to Spill and Ladytron @ the Gypsy 10/19 & 10/20 respectively.

i think i'm just going to have to rent space 2 the gypsy. it would b cheaper i think.
so, who's going with me?

good news!

2006-08-18T02:50:13Z

the ex-models at Metrognome 10/7. it's a saturday, so no excuses for not showing up.
and there's a road trip brewing for 9/15 to see the Shins in Austin. good times.
in other news, the last 2 shows i've attended i've gotten to hang with the bands afterward -Norma Jean (on the bus and listening to their killer new record, not in stores just yet) and later, Spoon (VIP area- free drinks, no big deal but those guys were really great and super nice, too)
let's all cross whatever we can think of to hope this trend continues
thanks for your support in this matter.

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2006-07-01T23:42:31Z

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Local Idiot (almost) Killed by 18 Wheeler!

2006-06-28T16:15:26Z

i got my shit blowed up real good by an 18 wheeler yesterday coming home from work. we're on the freeway, and he tried to merge right on top of me. i took the shoulder, but there wasn't one because it's a construction zone, so i almost slammed into the guardrail, but managed to avoid it (temporarily), and instead lost control of my car on the rocks and dirt along the side of the road where the shoulder should be. this put me heading directly perpendicular to traffic and right into the truck that just ran me off the road. so i slammed into the side of the truck, spun and got slammed into his back tire, shattered my windshield and spun back into the very guardrail i barely managed to avoid a few seconds earlier. Totaled my car, and i'm kinda pretty sore and stiff this morning. but i think the trucking company should pay for everything. film at 11.

BLARGH!

2006-06-11T20:19:59Z

show update:

Zao & Demon Hunter 6/21 @ the Door in Dallas
Walkmen also that night. i might try to make both

Mastadon, Lamb of God & Slayer - Unholy Alliance Tour 6/24 @ Nokia Theater

Paper Chase 7/1 @ Hailey's in Denton

also, you missed a great show Friday night- Lomita, 100 Damned Guns and Pine Hill Haints at Rubber Gloves. missed the Can Kickers, but heard good things. also, you missed the Hank 3 show at the Ridglea. i got the greatest concert t-shirt at that show. i'll let you see me wearing it one day. you lucky devil you.

also, the world is fucked. really truly fucked. that is all