dazed and confused

[matthew]

I suck at drawing bicycles and birds...though I often draw birds or give people birdheads.

I'm not bad at birdheads.

[matthew]

Cool.

Can a label make you tour?

[matthew]

Some strangeness on Soulseek last night...I hear the SLSK klaxon start ringing off the hook and walk in the room and I see I've got like four messages from the same guy (I had downloaded The Black Angels from him the other week...I can't remember how I ended up talking to him - I probably forgot to add him to my list when I started downloading from him and got banned and then ended up apologizing - that's how I end up speaking to most people on there - but the point is I had spoken to him before) and he's telling me that some guy he just banned is telling him he is "Scott the Grifters" (I assume he meant "from") and is trying to download the Grifters 7"s I talked him into downloading from me (that he says he really likes, btw) and, well, I have no idea what went on on their side of the conversation, because I could not see Scott's account or see him, but he relayed messages from Scott to me like:

"he says he knows you"

"he called you Miche"

"he asked where Crappity went?"

"stickyickyicky"

"he says he's a friend from myspace"

and then he started copying and pasting the urls of Chopper Girl and Sticky and Memphis Babylon...

then he said Scott was cool and...well, I had actually been on my way to bed at the time and the fact that I could find no "StickyIckyIcky" account kind of worsened the confusion...and I went to sleep.

I thought Scott had been here since we switched over? I mean signed in, I realize he hasn't posted since September.

[Doctor Rock]

I've seen him lurking on occasion.  

[matthew]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/P_1d--yrujU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/P_1d--yrujU</a>


The people are Muppets.

[matthew]

Speaking of race relations...my crackeriest "relative" (not part of my gene pool, married in to a cousin of my father's), Blair, a former janitor turned security guard (you should see his belt buckle - well, you probably can, as I believe it is visible from the Mir), and he told a story about how he went to two black orderlies at the hospital (the cousin Katherine is always sick) and asked them, "Do you like black jokes?"and they said "Sure" (probably curious what this redneck thinks is funny), and so he asks them, "How do you babysit black kids?" ..."You lick their lips and stick them to the wall!"



He then told them how you get them down ("You slide them along the wall until you reach a doorway")

Hi-larious.

I am so glad I stay away from my family as much as possible.

[matthew]

It's not even that it's "racist", it's that it is not at all funny.

[bebopbalogna]

I don't wanna sound glib, but I wish something else would happen so they'd quit doing these V.T. stories.

GW and co. are eating this shit up.  takes attention off of them.  they've probably gained a couple percentage points since this news hit..

[bebopbalogna]

I almost shot the tv last night. I was watching part of Scarboro country and they were arguing about the media backlash. One guy was making the case for common dignity and this other fuckhead was saying 'hey, these decisions come form the executive level. are we suppose to exact a higher moral standard from all our executives?"
the other guys sat there blank-faced.

But yeah, it's not like they couldn't be covering the Gonzales case.

joe scarborough is from pensacola.  i know him quite well.  he's actually a fun guy (not fungi) to talk to, and i get the feeling his political leanings are not near as far to the right as he appears on his show.  which may be why he quit congress. kind of a personality/expectations crisis. that and the fact that he got his secretary pregnant, divorced his wife , married his secretary. this all happened conveniently during the period of time he announced quitting congress to be closer to his "family".  nobody wants a scandal.  anyways, i ain't saying i approve of the guy, (i don't, for the most part) just that he's pretty good company when out drinking.  he also stole my affection for striped socks.  we had a conversation about my socks once,  and before you know it, he's wearing multicolored striped socks on a regular basis.  i no longer do so.  while he was still a congressman, he once shared a story with me of how his former best friend, jim (my boss at the time)  stood outside his window,  calling the name of his(jim's) girlfriend, crying his eyes out, while said girlfriend is occupied with a mouthful of scarborough.  i remember thinking, "dude, i can ruin you with this information".  but we were both talking about what a loser/jerk  jim (former boss/scarborough's bf) was,  so it didn't register what a total tool he was being for sharing the story. it was actually quite funny.  anyway, joe has been asking for years for me to make a painting for him.  i haven't gotten around to it yet, but i will when i finish the current commission i'm working on. (3 more paintings till i'm done).  

[matthew]

Tryin' to decide whether or not to go to xbxrx...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

shit


a big ass ant just bit me real hard on my arm


what the hell, ants can draw blood? Seriously, there is a there is a tiny gash where the fucker grabbed on and it actually bled when I squeezed the mark.

Perhaps it is too hostile here and I should go?

I don't think they will play long...most songs being a minute or less (although the new album is said to have some epic 3+mins songs...

...it's more the travel and the being alone.

[matthew]

It's either gonna be:

a) the show I missed because of _____

or

b) the show that I couldn't enjoy because of _____

I guess what would have been best, if I intended to skip it, would have been to arrange to be doing something else in its place.

Staying home and sitting on my ass is just too miserable to contemplate at this moment...I suppose I will go.

I just hope the show is short.

[matthew]

WOW, was that ever awful.

I want my $8 back. If anything xbxrx were fun to watch and I got out of my head for a bit.

Hamborghinni (with members of AIDSwhothefuckcaresWolf - that's about as attractive a line as "Featuring members of A Simple Plan!") for making fun of music and doing so without any sense of humour whatsoever. Goddamned hilarious. No one is impressed, Chloe! I know SOME people in the crowd are cowards and feel the need to pretend to "get it" or "dig it", but I laughed through your entire little display of "hardcore antics" - WHAT A FUCKING POSEUR! I was just waiting for her to "be so into it" that she "knocked over" something "accidentally" and then "in passion" for her "art" she would "fall" to her knees and wail and "accidentally" roll into the drums and "accidentally" knock over the floor tom and the shitty drummer would "keep playing" without it because that is "so natural" when you are "that into it" and that "punk rock" ...oh man, was it PATHETIC scene...wow. I swear I could get a gig solo at Zoo Bizarre by plugging in an amp turned to full and jamming the keyboard under my the ridge of my bass drum so that every time I hit it a random selection of keys depressed to release a random BBBBBBWAAUURGGGGGGGHHHHHH noise and then I could drum like I did the first day I say behind my kit... I wish I had it on video...I realize their "intention", but it just an excuse to be pretentious and their stated goal is PHONEY BULLSHIT - They do take themselves seriously - therefore they are not liberating shit all - they are simply a different form of fakery.

The other opening band TTTTTTTTetc.  sucked at even making noise and kept fucking up what they intended to do. That was sad to see...and they were older dudes, too.  

The Emperor Has No Clothes, meanwhile Chloe and friends have fooled themselves into believing they lept from the crowd and tore his skin from his bones.

What crap.

 

[bebopbalogna]

 I swear I could get a gig solo at Zoo Bizarre by plugging in an amp turned to full and jamming the keyboard under my the ridge of my bass drum so that every time I hit it a random selection of keys depressed to release a random BBBBBBWAAUURGGGGGGGHHHHHH noise and then I could drum like I did the first day I say behind my kit...

 

i'm so there dude.  just let me know when.

[bebopbalogna]

also,  digging the new avatar.   is that krypton?

[Doctor Rock]

also,  digging the new avatar.   is that krypton?

No, it's the Sun as seen on the what?  X-ray or gamma-ray band?