the next mix cd has to be the emotional one, followed by the burning man one.
this song by blue states "what we have won" (really the only good song on "man mountain") just hits me square in the chest. especially when i'm wearing pants.

no really, it fits the description of songs that hit me emotionally.

a nerve, if you will.

james hardway's "can't show love" is giving me strength of late, as well.
this album, damn, has had staying power with me.
why?
hmmm.
so strange.

i just got reprimanded by my cubicle neighbor to stop tapping my foot.
hmmm.
so my idea is this - write a book that incorporates music.
to be played at specific points in the book.
getting the rights to that would be hard though.
i could just tell people to do it.

pop up ads are the bane of my existence. i fucking hate that gator shit. i just mistakenly clicked on something for fucking gator.
dammit.

people in america are truly blind
this iraq thing is preposterous. and that's a good word to say a lot out loud with a lisper.

i just don't see how this is so important.

so fucking dumb. i wanted to say something else, but of course, as always, i forgot.

shit.

me and yoko ono...that dumb song on the new tosca. it's like that song "honey" on their last one. couldn't avoid it if you tried, especially when they release an entire cd consisting only of remixes of that track, 16 different ones, as i recall.

donnie darko.
bp for me.

oh, i know what i was going to say, watching the news last night, seeing the photos of these random arabic men, looking all ragtag, barely alive, almost as if they're being propped up by a small stick.
we're creating this racism. it's so weird...it's like nobody is asking any questions, nobody is saying "hey, what the fuck is going on here??" it's getting scary.

nothing is secret or sacred. not like that's a big surprise but still.
ok donnie darko, then that folder, then, programming, to meet billy sirr .

padget.

luminous.

shoovoo

longer letter later.!

what was up the that confederate guy walking down the montgomery a few minutes ago?
i think he was confederate.
gray, that's confederates, right? he looked mean too, and he had a big chain around his neck. shit man.

when you walk downtown, you do the scan. the super quick sizing up of one another. split second, yesh. for sure. but you have to always be on your toes.

i notice that when i wear my detroit jacket, i catch more people's eyes. not surprising considering it's like bright orange stripe down the left side of my chest, alternated with white on a black denim jacket.

in downtown SF, people walk fairly fast (definitely not breakneck NYC pace).
but faster than your average San Francisco lolly gagger.
stompede - that's a fine new word.
i must tell you.
oh yeah, donnie darko.
that movie was soooo fucked up.
damman.

i need to find out more about that fine feature film.

i swear, i included my top picks in music so far in the year sometime in 2002 but i can't fucking find them.
dammit to hell and then some.

here's my final top 10 of the year, from my votes in the village voice pazz & jop poll.

1. Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day - Ninja Tune (15 points)
2. Streets - Original Pirate Material - Vice (15 points)
3. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi - Warp (11 points)
4. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Warner Bros. (10 points)
5. Royksopp - Melody A.M. - Astralwerks (10 points)
6. Jazzanova - In Between - JCR (10 points)
7. Koop - Waltz For Koop - JCR (9 points)
8. James Hardway - Straight From The Fridge - Hydrogen Dukebox (8 points)
9. Roots - Phrenology - MCA (6 points)
10. Metro Area - Metro Area - Environ (6 points)

Your Pazz & Jop singles ballot was submitted as follows:
1. Shaun Escoffrey - "Days Like This" - Sony
2. Osunlade presents Erro - "Change For Me"
3. Streets - "Weak Become Heroes" - Vice
4. X-Press 2 - "Lazy" - Columbia
5. Koop - "Summer Sun" - JCR
6. Missy Elliott - "Work It" - Elektra
7. DJ Shadow - "Six Days" - MCA
8. Ladytron - "Seventeen" - Emporer Norton
9. Goldenboy w/ Miss Kittin - "Rippin Kitten" - Emporer Norton
10. Dirty Vegas - "Days Go By" - Capitol


today, i stopped traffic. people should stop for me more.
that's what i think.
my bobblehead is no longer as good as yours.

don't you like my meter?

also, regarding that dirty vegas pick.
sure, i know it was used in a fucking commercial, but i still think it's a good song. i don't think the album is good (if it was, maybe it would have made my top 10 album chart).
also, the pick of the Roots is based on just a couple of listens to my girlfriend's copy.
but it's good.
damn.
i could right away how eclectic (a fave word of music critics, right up there with "aural" "recalcitrent" and "enfant terrible").
yeah, at least i am alive and feeling free.

freedom
freedom.
and i mean the george michael song, not the paul mccartney song.

don't you know anything?

paper

can you imagine the outrage if i was declared president?
i mean, sure, it'll never happen, unless my presidential longing comes calling and me, being the 666th person in line for the throne (and i do mean THRONE, bitchwax), after the president pro tempore.
dammit and hell

do you like to can your belongings?
do you like to go spelunking?
well, now you can.
because this is all for you.
you see, we want to create an environment that's rich in ovaltine for your good health.

everybody loves that.

do you know where you're going to?
do you like the things in life you're looking to?
do you know?

i have just eaten soup.
you can imagine the outrage on the circuit.

yes.

stuff taken for one evening by unknown soldier of partydom A.D. (courtesy timelife books):

marijuana (smoked and eaten, via chocolate chip cookie)
cocaine (snorted)
ketamine (snorted)
alcohol (drank, including champagne, vodka, beer and wine)
ecstasy (3 pills, taken intermittently throughout the evening - last one, split and taken half at a time)

good work soldier.

love,
america