A Real Situation

You know the drill when you have roommates. The kitchen sink fills up, and then plates spill over on to the counter around it. It just keeps getting worse. Eventually some sort of odor starts in the disposal. However, nobody, especially not the person who made the mess, cleans it up.

It’s the classic kitchen sink standoff.

Miss having a car

“I’m not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won’t add to the beauty of the world or the life of men’s souls. I’m not sure. But automobiles have come. And almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war and they are going to alter peace. And I think men’s minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten or twenty years from now if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn’t be able to defend the gasoline engine but would have to agree with George, that automobiles had no business to be invented.”

Make-A-Wish Foundation

When it rains it pours…the good times kept rolling today. At around 4pm today I got a call from Mark wondering if I wanted to go see Rush. I knew they were coming, but with tickets starting at $65 I had planned to sit this one out. These tickets were better than anything I could afford, center stage, row W. I’d never been that close at Smirnoff before. A week ago I had spent a day listening to my Rush mp3s rating them in iTunes. The music had sort of lost the magic, and I found myself giving most things a 2 out of 5.

Cause and effect

What a weekend…spent saturday and sunday at a lakehouse off Cedar Creek Lake with friends.

Rode my first jet ski. 45 mph feels pretty fast on a jet ski. Very sore crotch today. Ruraidh taught me how to do a spin turn, and a wheelie. Tried doing a spin turn at 35 mph. Thrown off jet ski into the water pretty hard. Ribs sore. Jumped off jet ski to pull it in to the dock. Hit elbow. Two fingers on my right hand still feel numb in the tips.

both hands

I wish Ani Difranco spent more time exploring human relationships and less on girl-power politico stuff. The song Both Hands off the Living in Clip CDs is her using her great song writing skills to explore something that will remain timeless and powerful whereas the struggle for gender equity, while probably eternal, will change from decade to decade and date her material.

The live version features the Buffalo Philharmonic opening and closing the song to great emotional effect. She sings the song with this breathless intensity that is sort of her trademark style. (Although in other songs with lines like “My cunt is built like a wound that will not heal” it would be intense no matter who sang it) “Living in Clip” is great, which is I guess why Rolling Stone named it one of the ten must own CDs of the 90s. This song is the highlight for me though.

Disc Dolls in Hot Skin in 3D

The Angelika is about to show the rare campy erotica known as Disco Dolls in Hot Skin in 3D. Is it worth the embarrassment and potential eye injuries from icon John Holmes to go and see this? I’ll probably never have a chance to see a 3D porno in a movie theater again.

I’ve got till 9/13 to figure this out.

Blood and water

My mother sent me an email last friday asking about Apple hardware. Sunday night she called me since I hadn’t responded to it yet. The conversation grew into an argument. She cried and eventually we parted ways. She feels so clingy. She says she’d call every day but doesn’t since she believes that I would exact some kind of punishment for that. Why can’t she be more like my sister? We go for the better part of a year without talking. I think what really set off the whole thing is when I told her I’d start ignoring her calls if she doesn’t back off.

iTunes Ratings

Okay, iTunes has the cool new ratings thing. You can rank songs on a five star system and it will use that to manage playlists. What occurred to me is that my opinions of songs change over time. It would be nice if kept historical records of my ratings.

I wonder if any software out there tracks your music tastes and tries to note historical trends.

"This is Virgl Brigman back on the air"

I finally have real (not dialup) access to the Internet again. It’s been awkward being without it for about a week and a half. Although I think it was more awkward for other people trying to get in touch with me.

This new house is great. I sat on the back porch the other day shaded by a big tree in our backyard wondering if this is what I’d been working towards. I’m indifferent to the fact that I’m still in Dallas, but this house makes it okay I’m still here. It has set a new bar for housing.

Monsters

I can’t believe it. Two guys cut a 90 year old woman’s finger off to steal her wedding ring. That was after they beat her up and tied her down. This took place up in Irving where my post office box is.

I don’t believe in capital punishment, but can we find these two guys and could they ever be rehabilitated? Maybe people do reach a point of no return and should just be killed. How do two nutcases like that find each other?