february 27th, 2005

what is that gif from? i've seen it before! a video by lachappelle?

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i made a soup today although i overcooked it because i forgot about it.
thankfully, i like my soup to be overcooked at the 1st stage.
so it is beef, potatoes, and onion salt, pepper, and cheap curry that doesn't do crap.
the curry is just called "curry" and smells good in the jar but is tasteless otherwise.
i need to get the REAL curry from penzey's spices. nothing can compare.
still, it tasted really good :)

deiter is freaking out having crazy wild time with one of sebastian's stuffed toys (and now a kong) and it's cracking me up! i think he has spring fever bad! sometimes he loses it like a wind up toy gone bezerk.

i better go play with him :)

11:24pm

your shoes and what they say about you.
i believe you can tell a lot about a person by the shoes they wear.
if i met you on the street, what shoes would you be wearing?

btw, the theme for photocontest this week is:
"my favourite pair of shoes"
so take a photo and enter!

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i'd be wearing my black boy's engineer boots that i have worn in for about a decade.
there is till some glitter on them from art projects long gone.
but i need another pair soon cause the heels are getting all worn down finally.
what is a women's size 6 in a boy's size? i've forgotten.

but these are not the ULTIMATE shoes for me. i wish i could design my own ultimate pair of boots.
someday i will....

if you could design your ultimate shoes, what would they be?

10:07pm

prince on the oscars:
does he ever AGE?

i will love the oscars so much more when they do not separate between men and women anymore.
i think it's bullshit there is an actor and actress separation.
there is no reason for it to be like that. men should go up against women and vice versa.

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spam_poetry

this is not a love song:

Available meds unavailable waiting seltzer
izdajnik sidhott U2 farmagud I can almost feel you lying next to me,

Brilliant No waiting rx refill neanderthal
cilju hnikar U2 dawoods And when you take me in your arms And hold me tight

Tired of waiting for rx peggy
Bop bop bah da bah daBop bop bop boodha bah
Please take my hand, you are a womanI am a man
How can we do that? asked the girl
prijenos skeggjold
'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you

7:16pm

a writing assignment for you

6:26pm

things i wrote in my LJ:

new favourite song:

"amazon" by M.I.A.

http://www.miauk.com/

red red RED!
i dyed my hair 1/2 special effects nuclear red and 1/2 special effects cherry bomb.
and my hair is now BRIGHT red, which is the colour i have been wanting it to be for so long!
i had my hair this colour long ago for years and it's good to be back here :)
the nuclear red is a tiny bit more orangey and the cherry bomb is a tiny bit more pink. but you can only tell this subtle difference in the sunlight.
it will be interesting to see what colours they fade out to be.
i think , in the future, i will combine the 2 completely because what i want is a mixture of the 2.
photos forthcoming :)
i look so decadent and feel so glamourous and carnivorous in bright red hair.
and with red lipstick it's da bomb.
i'm all ready to kick coke cans by the railroad tracks in my big red boots to match and roar for spring :)

listening to roxy music's "for your pleasure" and "country life" albums.

i'm might sort of 1/2 assedly watch the oscars. as usual, i haven't seen any of the films up for nomination.
i always end up seeing them later.

today i watched "garden state", and it was REALLY REALLY GREAT! i give it 4 stars.

1:50pm

the current
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/thecurrent/

i love the new station here, "the current"

they will play marianne faithful, patsy cline, talking heads, m83, johnny cash, ella fitzgerald, my bloody valentine, new order...etc, all in a row!
(and they even play the blue up? once in awhile!)
plus real live djs who actually take your requests and actually are knowledgable and love the music they are playing (which is picked by them, not some computer).

pretty darn cool! the cd quality dtream doesn't work (at least for me), but the mono one works and sounds just fine :)

12:16pm

i dreamed that the blue up? played live and nothing went wrong. usually in dreams regarding live shows there is always something that goes wrong, like all the amps are unplugged, or i don't know any of my lyrics. but this time we did really well and every thhing was fine. and it was an afternoon show so we got done with it all at 4:15pm.
and i think it was on a monday. we got asked back to always do monday shows at that time and we accepted.
and i told the woman booking the show that i had a good time and that i think it was because i didn't have any goal with the music other thna just to play it (instead of having the goal to get on a major label or something) that made it more enjoyable to me.
weird. kind of left in in a bit better of mood as i woke up today.

and i read bill nelson's diary he said he is playing at this show in brighton with all these amazing people a LOVE, one of them being JOHN FOXX! and so i am beside myself with frustration at living all the weay across the ocean from this!!!

from his diary:

"Which brings me to a very special event: I've now been given permission to write about a concert that I'm to be involved in on the 21st of May this year. It is (for want of a better term), a tribute concert to my long-time and very dear friend Harold Budd. Harold announced his retirement from performance and recording last year, his latest album, 'Avalon Sutra' purporting to be his last. He played a farewell concert in Los Angeles towards the end of 2004 but there is now going to be a similar event here in the UK as part of this year's Brighton Arts Festival. A number of artists are to take part in this and a band is being put together around Harold for the final segment of the concert. The artists involved in this are myself, Michael Nyman, Jah Wobble, John Foxx (of Ultravox), Steve Cobby (of Fila Brasilia), Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins), Steve Jansen (of Japan), The Balanescu Quartet and others still to be confirmed. Channel Light Vessel was once given the title 'ambient supergroup' by the music media but this event promises to take that term somewhere else entirely. Harold has been dropping me letters and emails over the last couple of months or so about the project and I'm pleased to see that it is finally coming to fruition. Harold naturally had some personal reservations about the project, unsure of what stresses and strains might be involved but I think these have been overcome. Everyone taking part in this event has a personal respect and love for Harold and his work and it will be a privelege and sheer thrill for me to take part and honour Harold alongside everyone else. And of course, I will be absolutely terrified too. Neverthless, when all's said and done, it will be an absolutely unique, one-off event that anyone who gives a damn about the possibility of art within music should not miss. Booking details can be found at:
http://www.brighton-festival.org.uk/index.asp?id=1563

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i would freak the flip out to be able to go to that show!!
i didn't even know john foxx played live anymore! *cry*
but to see and hear so many of my new romantic idols all in one night would be sensory overload!
i mean, i even made a pastel drawing of steve jansen from japan and had it in my high school locker!
and john foxx and bill nelson just arrrgh! i cannot even tell you how much they mean to me!
and then a member of the cocteau twins!! and jah wobble!
and i'll bet you anything david sylvian will show up to this!
pretty much every beautiful person who exists on this planet right now will be there. aaaaaaaaaa!!
i rrrreeeaaallly want to be there!!!

if i sold my piano or something....

 

Daydreaming
This influence stimulates your creative imagination and makes you much more sensitive than usual to aspects of the world around you. While you may be tempted to spend the day daydreaming, you will probably be more satisfied if you read romantic literature and poetry or listen to music. This is a good day for leaving the humdrum, everyday world and traveling in your mind to a fanciful and pleasantly unreal world. Don't worry about wasting time. Everyone needs to fantasize like this from time to time, and you are not likely to get so caught up in it that you cannot return to reality. On the other hand, you are much more sensitive to subtleties and can catch other people's moods effortlessly. Your attitude is very sympathetic, and you genuinely want to aid anyone who needs your help today.