Archive for July 2004

Okay guys and gals.  I feel bad for everybody who missed that show, ‘cuz it was incredible. To you, and you, and you, and you and you and you and you and you, and all of y’all (y’all know who you are), I am sorry y’all couldn’t go but now I’m kinda glad I didn’t take you.  Because I wasn’t there to chit-chat or to make time with anybody, I had no agenda but to sit there and hear every single note with no distractions.  I didn’t know a soul and nobody knew me — except Bruce, the owner of the Empty Bottle who sponsored the show, and this one nice kid who said hi.  But as it turned out it was a real good thing I went by myself ‘cuz I had ‘er all to myself, heheh.  Well, me and about I’d say maybe 100, 150 other people at most.  They didn’t sell out, it was comfortable. Nobody talked, everybody listened, it was a beautiful thing.

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The Court and Spark and Manishevitz at their show last night at Gunther Murphy’s.  Best I could photo-wise.  ::shrug::

Last night was fun.  I wanted to go see Brother Danielson ‘cuz he’s my friend, but I couldn’t face the clusterfuck at the Bottle so I went to the Court & Spark / Manishevitz show instead.  Got all dolled up for it too, just for the hell of it… wore a dress and did my hair different, I looked hot.  Oo-wee baby!!  See, I don’t usually make the effort unless there’s just nothing better to do, heheh. Doing it to impress somebody would be pointless since I’d never be able to keep up the charade more than 24 hours.

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Adam gave me a copy of this the last time I saw ‘em play.  It’s great of course.  His voice is a little bit Pere Ubu-ey I think; I bet I’m not the first one to make that comparison.  Go visit their website, and go see ‘em play tonight at Gunther Murphy’s.

I don’t usually go for quizzes, but for this one I yielded to temptation. Based on my answers, it recommends the following religious labels for me (I’m just including the top ten for brevity’s sake). Interesting that the religion I was raised in (Episcopal, more or less) only comes in at #3… unless you count Episcopalians as "conservative" in which case it’d be #21. The church we went to (occasionally) seemed to me to be more about socializing than anything else, so I’m counting it as Liberal. My dad would be happy that I haven’t strayed too far from the fold. :-)

1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)
3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (96%)
4. Mahayana Buddhism (92%)
5. Neo-Pagan (89%)
6. Orthodox Quaker (89%)
7. Theravada Buddhism (86%)
8. New Age (84%)
9. Taoism (76%)
10. Reform Judaism (76%)

(via Metafilter)

Tee hee…

MetaFilter: John Doe, 29, and Jane Smith, same, are pleased to announce that they are SO TOTALLY OVER!

I don’t think any non-Midwesterners will know what I’m talking about, but for years I’ve been seeing these commercials on TV by a bankruptcy lawyer named Peter Francis Geraci.  Now, I’m not nearly as much of a princess as I claim to be; I’m broke all the time like everybody else I know.  So when I hear those gloom’n'doom ads it really gets me in the pit of my stomach.  "Need Bankruptcy Relief? Afraid of Losing Your House or Car? Then Listen to my Chapter 13 Info Tapes!!"

Well I finally figured out how to defeat that fscker.  He won’t be scaring me anymore, because, drumroll please…

THE GUY IS WEARING EYELINER.

Swear to god.  Look at him!!  HA HA HA!!

Also, I don’t think it’s even possible to create a website any more eye-poppingly horrible than that.  He obviously can’t even afford to get his kid to do it.

Oh Boing Boing, what would I do without you?

URL: EFF defending creators of This Land is Your Land parody

Whoo-hoo!! And don’t miss the link to the info about how Woody got the melody from the Carter Family… that is *rich*. I love it.

Oh, this is hilarious… another Boing Boing find.

URL: Target… for all your Kabbalah needs

Boing Boing: Music blogs under the BPI gun

Ugh. Don’t ask me to get in the middle of that shitstorm again, been there, done that. I love mp3 blogs but as long as it’s illegal to do that, I’ll be worrying about the site owners getting in trouble.  I’ve done it myself so I can’t even exclude myself from that group of webmasters, even though I stopped a long time ago.

Microsoft intern has dinner with Bill Gates, blogs about it and doesn’t even get around to mentioning the food…!!

URL: More on My Dinner with #1 on the Forbes

(via Adam Curry)

Just a few things I want to always remember and never forget. In no particular order.

• File away all paperwork instead of leaving it laying around in piles.


• Enjoy things that amuse me, even if it means I might look foolish to others.


• Sing the praises of wonderful people.


• Check the van every day lest I be ticketed for street-cleaning.


• Be funnier.


• Treasure my family.


• Do something every day to further my own physical health.

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Slashdot: Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab

(I agree with the poster who said Woody would be rolling in his grave over this lawsuit crap.)

This is hilarious. Read the transcripts, that is one dumb-blonde cybersexbot.

Boing Boing: Elizabot passes sex-chat Turing test

My mom sent me a video clip of a guy juggling balls onto a piano keyboard, playing all kinds of complicated melodies with chords and everything.  I found a copy of the clip on the web over here if you want to check it out.  As a musician and a juggler (former juggler?  non-practicing juggler I guess) this was driving me crazy, I had to know if it was for real or not.  I asked Harper but he wasn’t sure.  My verdict is NO.  He’s a great juggler but there’s no way on earth that the notes you hear out the speakers are corresponding to the same notes he’s hitting on the keyboard.  Gotta be using a sequencer, and the balls must be just triggering the notes.  Still… pretty amazing showmanship there, you gotta give him that much.