I want to listen to "Waltz #2" over and over. Some days I feel like I've gone back to being sixteen and achey, but with a novel twist of bitterness.
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01:14:12 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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Elliott Smith songs give me butterflies in my stomach.
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12:55:27 PM,
Friday 9 May 2003
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You renounce something at night, not because you want to gain something by losing it, just because you don't want it anymore, and then in the morning you want it all over again.
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07:41:38 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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I just spent ten minutes explaining various aspects of Buffy to one of the project engineers. The thing I hate about telling non-Buffy viewers about the show is that it sounds really really stupid, and I feel like I have to justify my viewing of it by mentioning how Jungian and metaphorical and shit it is.
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07:05:00 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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glossomania: argh, deep burrito coma
glossomania: i feel like a burrito zombie
trickseyJump: what would a burrito zombie eat?
glossomania: burritos!
trickseyJump: but aren't zombies supposed to eat people? to serve man again?
glossomania: see, that's why it's called a burrito zombie
glossomania: to distinguish it from your run-of-the-mill people eating zombies.
glossomania: see, it takes a single bite of the voodoo burrito and then it craves burritos and will stop at nothing to get them!
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05:38:36 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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Last night I went to café in order to get out of the house, and was privy to an interesting conversation. At the next table there were two guys on a date (I'm guessing it was their first or second) who were talking about what movies they liked. Both of them seemed pretty intelligent, but whereas one said, "I love it when a movie pushes the boundaries of the cinematic form, even if it fails as a whole, I still enjoy it," the other was all, "Um, I liked Unzipped." The first guy listed a lot of the movies he liked, and the second guy said, "nope, nope, nope." He thought that the formal experimentation in movies like Memento was "schtick." He said, "I only like dramas and comedies. What I like in a movie is good acting." "But drama is schtick too," said the first guy.
To me this conversation typifies two opposing viewpoints and clarifies their differences in way I'd been unable to do before. This is a horrible generalization, but maybe a good starting point: some people watch movies so that they can enjoy a familiar experience, and other people watch movies so that they can enjoy a novel experience. I think this probably can be expanded to other forms of art. Obviously I'm on the side of novelty, so I'd like to hear anything that will take me down a peg, perhaps by suggesting that novelty is not so novel, nor so good in itself, and that formal experimentation is empty, or something.
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12:12:19 PM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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Precious coffee. Precious, precious coffee.
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11:24:25 AM,
Thursday 8 May 2003
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It gets kind of annoying to play "Would I hit that?" when you already know the answer because it's always the same.
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06:12:17 PM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Hmmmm... should I go home and jog and clean up my room and draw, or should I louse around the Mission and go to the benefit show?
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06:10:18 PM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Hello, pickled ginger. I couldn't stand to be away from you any longer.
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02:10:55 PM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Shall I part my hair to the side? Do I dare to eat pickled ginger?
I shall sit before my monitor, and write a bad pastiche.
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02:06:31 PM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Yesterday was free admission day at the SFMOMA. I went there with my family for Easter, so I went back to look at a few things in particular: the Andreas Gursky retrospective, which was sweet (I especially liked his depopulated photographs), and the Phyllis Wattis collection, which was chock-full of Rauschenbergs. And a few International Klein Blue pieces. Every time I go into that museum I get all excited about its architecture -- the interior spaces open onto each other in surprising ways.
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01:08:47 PM,
Wednesday 7 May 2003
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Today's Fresh Air looked at the "revolving door" between the military industry and government. I don't know that there was a clear demonstration of conflict of interest, but I was distinctly unimpressed by the corporate spokesperson's appeal to the integrity of the people who might be involved as a counter-argument. 'Cause, you know, the current administration just wants what's best for the nation.
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07:02:29 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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There's this shoeshine dude on Market (at the Powell Street Plaza) who advertises four degrees of shoeshining excellence. In order of ascending price: Good, Cool, 2Cool, Cool as HELL.
I rode the carousel during my lunch break and then ate an avocado ice cream cone.
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04:39:42 PM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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There's this jerk in my office. Not my boss or anyone who works for my company, but he's high up enough that everyone has to be polite to him. Everytime he speaks he sounds angry and condescending, and he has a habit of talking to people at length about nothing of interest. He cusses all the time, which wouldn't bother me except that the overall tone of his speech is so emtionally charged that it makes the cussing sound hostile. Now, he never antagonizes me (although sometimes he speaks to me in a condescending manner), but when I have to hear him doing his thing to other people it makes me want to kick him in his wee napoleon-complex ass.
The sad part is, I don't think he has any idea what kind of impression he creates and how much we dislike him.
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11:42:51 AM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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One of my new neighbors came by to invite us over for s'mores. I guess I should go. I'm supposed to be sociable, right? (Right?)
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12:08:14 AM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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Now that I have your attention: I just saw My Neighbor Totoro and it was utterly enchanting. And did Miyazaki put wind spirits in Nausicaa? I don't remember.
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12:00:41 AM,
Tuesday 6 May 2003
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Have you ever wondered, "Is there any Wolverine/Cyclops slash out there?" The answer is yes.
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06:22:20 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Deerhoof has a song whose only words are "bunnybunnybunny."
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06:01:11 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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How delightful. Apparently a newly installed version of RealPlayer is well-behaved. Let's see how long this lasts.
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05:49:58 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Wow. Just as I finally had enough time to start burning blogswap cds, RealPlayer mysteriously lost all of my playlists. Well, I guess I've been played.
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05:17:23 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Last week's Lulu Eightball rules.
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04:55:57 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Wow, I just heard "Rich" from the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. I think I need to buy it now.
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02:25:07 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Funny thing about target audiences -- two examples:
On Saturday night I went with my friend and future housemate Melissa to Spanganga for the Tammy Rae Carland solo show opening party. (My favorites were her "Lesbian Beds" series and her "photobacks" series. If you listen to Kathleen Hanna's music, you should already be familiar with Tammy Rae -- she got shoutouts in a Bikini Kill song and in a Le Tigre song and runs Mr. Lady Records and Videos.) So yeah, predictably enough, the joint was packed with queer ladies under 30. I said to Melissa as we left, "How much do you wanna bet that the entire party moves down the street to the Lex within two hours?" Sure enough, on the way back to our car, we saw the art show ladies standing outside dyke central.
Example two: This morning I heard a bit of a morning radio show of the stupid white guys yammering with token chick making appreciative noises variety. When I first heard it they were trashing Bill Clinton (can we get over this yet?) and then they move on to "hot chicks of television past." (Best quote: "Donna Reed -- did you see her in It's a Wonderful Life? Highly doable!") People started calling in to suggest other doable women of yore, and whaddya know, it was all white-sounding men calling from the Central Valley or those scattered Bay Area pockets of Republicanism, like Danville.
People sure can be predictable, but I suppose that, as someone who listens to NPR and voted for Nader, I should just shut up.
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02:19:42 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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I love it when the radio plays Clash songs.
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01:59:10 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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I discovered a new word while sifting through documents today: manlift. Ewwwwwww...
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12:38:25 PM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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Super Memetic Dance Party! I've been reading The Meme Machine (you can see the first chapter here) by Susan Blackmore. It' pretty boss so far. Right now I'm in the bit where she's wrangling the genotype/phenotype metaphor, seeing if and how it can work for memes.
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11:34:35 AM,
Monday 5 May 2003
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I-I-I wanna rock an roll all niiiiiiiight/And party every day!
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08:46:12 PM,
Sunday 4 May 2003
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I hung out with Nandini last night. We made dinner and watched Pretty in Pink -- and does anyone else think the Molly Ringwald's outfits in that movie are hideous? Damn, that prom dress she wears at the end is a tentlike monstrosity.
So Nandini realized last night that the two main topics of our conversations are sex and how white people suck. Funny.
I think Nirvana cribbed some of their guitar hooks from CCR. I also think Kirk Kirkwood from the Meat Puppets must have listened to a lot of CCR when he was young.
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11:16:10 PM,
Saturday 3 May 2003
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Raaaaaaarrrrgghh.
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11:04:58 PM,
Saturday 3 May 2003
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There are so many banal things about myself that I just can't understand.
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07:48:34 PM,
Friday 2 May 2003
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Apparently the cute girl who works at my corporation's main SF office "really likes me."
She's from Canada. Maybe I can marry her and flee the country. Yesssssss...
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04:54:15 PM,
Friday 2 May 2003
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I want one of these.
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04:09:51 PM,
Friday 2 May 2003
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glossomania: i know
glossomania: you were just fucking with me
trickseyJump: basically
glossomania: AS PER USUAL.
trickseyJump: yup
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01:57:28 PM,
Friday 2 May 2003
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Overheard outside the art school yesterday: "Yeah, but I'd still do her -- she's got that skateboard."
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11:57:10 AM,
Friday 2 May 2003
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Damn, my life is easy.
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06:36:50 PM,
Thursday 1 May 2003
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