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Last Tuesday felt the scratching in my throat and by next morning full blown sore. Called in sick busiest day of the year. Actually felt somewhat better on Thanksgiving, so went to dinner, potluck at friends, but that overextended me maybe, cuz I felt blown away Friday morning, with the crud down in my lungs [...]
Just got home from work, gave Greenies(tm) to the kitties who showed up for them. The Tiny Kittens missed their cue–too involved with the little tweeting birdies in the sunshiny backyard. I’m eating a harvarti, pickle & romaine-lettuce sandwich (whole wheat brot & canola mayo) and listening to the Christian Marclay cd I just bought [...]
PART ONE
First of all, as a favor to Mr. Howard Libes, here’s an announcement!!!
FRIDAY, November 27…John Henry’s…The Quick & Easy Boys, The Visible Men (reunion show), Heavenly Oceans and Scrambled Ape. $5 without Mustache. $3 with Mustache. Ty Connor is MCing. 9:30pm start time.
PART TWO
So the other night I made pizza, two pizzas in fact. [...]
I’m showing faith by hitting the “new post” button. Confidence in my ability and willingness to string together some keyboarded characters, possibly even words and sentences, perhaps even semigrammatically connected. I just tossed out a bunch of little bottles containing the drying dregs of tempera paint. I decided I was done trying to ooze out [...]
Morning blahs, hard to get moving after going to WOW Hall for Mission of Burma last night. Embarrassingly light crowd for such a legendary band. Also, what’s up with your sound crew WOW Hall?… first band Explode Into Colors (Portland) was forced to do sound check from 8:20 to 8:40 and we all were subjected [...]
While the oatmeal cooks, I sip the coffee. My face feels relatively normal the morning after getting a temporary crown on a lower left molar (#19 for you dental fans). Over two hours in the chair. I seem to take longer than normal to “numb up” as I get older. And my gums stay “moist” [...]
That was a long hiatus. No blogging in October, and now approaching middle of November. Mrs. Random said yesterday she’d like to see me blog more, hence this post. Twitter–and to some extent Facebook–have taken over “net presence” activities for me. But they aren’t really substitutes for blogging. However, I think I’ve probably covered this [...]
Painted space money this morning, early. Dubbed LaunchPad 9/27 Swarm to DVDRs. Yesterday dubbed from cassette to wav file & then emailed mp3 of last Some New Thing jam. I really think there is a new song there. Listened to a bunch of Human League last night at home, and Mrs. R liked them. I [...]
Walking to work, 9/15/09
The past few days have been eventful, with ups and downs. My heart goes out to the ones who lost their old cat friends. My mom lost her kitty Lady on Saturday. Old and very sick. And my friend Stardust lost her Oscar yesterday. Our cats are like a combination of friends and children because [...]
Some New Thing skipped practice tonight because Stardust needed the evening to prepare for Pony Prance’s gig in Medford Friday night. So I practiced my bass and painted space money and read more of the Lovink book (ref’d in earlier blogging) and took a nap. We’re planning a Sunday afternoon practice instead.
Mrs. Random is nearly [...]
Friends just bought a house and are going to paint over the current colors. Here’s a sample. It’s being called the M&M theme:
I decided I wanted to blog more, nihilistic though it may be (see Geert Lovink book summary in previous blog entry). Mrs. Random blogs almost daily. I used to, long ago. Now I tweet and facebook almost daily. So do a lot of you, I suspect! Right at the moment I’m on the netbook at [...]
I am sitting at the dining room table, oatmeal cooking on the stove over in the kitchen. Mrs. R has a later work schedule this week, covering for her assistant who’s on vacation, so I’ll likely be leaving for work before she gets up. The cats are up, though. I’ve got the gas stove in [...]
Pony Prance plays at Sam Bond’s on Saturday (8/22), opening for Yeltsin and Wow & Flutter. Very much looking forward to that show. On Friday my duo band with tHE bOY plans to get together and make sonic mayhem. First time Frantic has done anything since April. On Sunday our normal Apollo space capsule of [...]
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- The Vatican joins the search for alien life - Telegraph
- Animated story of how Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD (via...
- Bruce Mau Design: INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH. Good stuff!
- 2012: The End Of The World? | Information Is Beautiful
- Post Tech - Chat with Michael Geist on secret copyright rules
- "Our response to Y2K is remembered as an overreaction—and there’s probably a good case to be..."
- Everything you want to know about the scary, secret copyright treaty - Boing Boing
- Today is Exploding Whale Day! « Shafe Shifter
- 2012: Carnival of Bunkum | h+ Magazine
- Allison Kilkenny: Catholic Church Threatens To Stop Feeding Homeless Over Gay Marriage
- mr_random on Twitter:
- Especially liking the feature where you can transfer wav files from computer to keyboard and map them across the keys as pitched sounds.
- Mrs. R bugged me last night again abt what I want 4 xmas. I'm thinking Casio WK-3800 keyboard. My inner musical mad scientist bwahahahas!
- Last night I watched part of the Flaming Lips "Fearless Freaks" documentary. Funny & inspiring!
- Had learned a simplified bass part but wanted to get more accurate. Peter Hook plays chords&stuff. Not complicated but I'm a newbie on bass.
- I'm learning bass part to "Ceremony" but New Order mp3 is 1/4-step flat, so I dubbed to my 4track so I could pitch it up. Good solution.
- Watched Princess Mononoke last night. Loved it.
- k. nuff Bat talk. ;P
- Looking at what I tweeted last week, seems I liked Batman Begins ok... maybe if 2nd movie had gone a diff direction...instead of downhill.
- I miss the campier Batman from earlier movies and even the 60's tv series. I thought I wouldn't but I do.
- I need something quirky & beautiful & inspiring in the science-fictional realms to get that bad Bat taste outta my soul.
- I don't think I was expecting anything that great from rebooted Batman. I do like gadgets/FX, &some fun stuff there, but overall ugly &dumb.
- Best characters were Albert, Fox, and Gordon.
- Batman Begins & espec Dark Knight: kind of just UGH. Not care abt B.Wayne &dislike his superhero alterego. Joker makes me yawn. Ugly movies.
- My Most Recently Created Pandora Stations:
- The Jesus Lizard Radio September 25, 2009
- N.W.A. Radio August 4, 2009
- Cursive Radio July 14, 2009
- Black Grape Radio July 6, 2009
- Siouxsie And The Banshees Radio May 6, 2009
- The Durutti Column Radio April 6, 2009
- The Transmitters Radio April 3, 2009
- Mary's Danish Radio April 3, 2009
- Dash Rip Rock Radio April 3, 2009
- The Funeral Party Radio April 3, 2009
- Metric Radio March 16, 2009
- Sound Tribe Sector 9 Radio February 25, 2009
- Meat Puppets Radio January 20, 2009
- Isis Radio January 7, 2009
- Stiffed Radio December 18, 2008
- Salt-N-Pepa Radio November 28, 2008
- Yob Radio October 29, 2008
- A New Kind Of Army Radio October 29, 2008
- Melt-Banana Radio August 27, 2008
- Don't Say(I Told You So) Radio August 1, 2008
