Archive for August 2004

I can’t stop laughing about what happened last night / this morning with Cellphone Guy.  It’s so funny how I’ll tolerate bad behavior from other people for a real long time, then one day I’ll just go off and tell them what I really think!  No fear, and by that time I’m not really driven primarily by anger either; it’s more a case of "enough is enough". I just open my mouth and tell the person straight-up what the problem is, and walk away.

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This is rich.  You know my downstairs neighbor that I keep talking about who stands outside and talks on his cellphone incessantly?  I think he might stop now.  HA HA HA.  He was doing it off and on it all day long, yak-yak-yakking, and he just woke me up half an hour ago (2:30 AM) with his loudass voice bidding a visitor goodbye, right?  Well that’s fine, people leave the building and it can be noisy, I went back to sleep.  But ten minutes later the guy’s back on his cellphone under my window.  I say fuck it, that’s it!!  I pull on some clothes and shoes and march downstairs.  I can’t find the guy though, what the fuck?  Where is he?  Well, I follow the voice and it’s coming from a window on the first floor garden apartment.  The guy is standing there NAKED, with his face up against the open window-screen blabbing so the whole building could hear. Yeah.

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I feel like SUCH a new woman today!  I’m having allergies like crazy but that’s the worst I can come up with to complain about.  Couple a little twinges of ciggie-desire, but it’s nothing compared to yesterday, that’s really amazing to me.  A real novelty.  I know I still need to stay vigilant, I am still a cigarette-a-holic and always will be, right?  I can deal with it though, with a little help from my friends.  Not the kind of help I needed yesterday thank god!  Just a little help here and there, i.e. maybe the first time I go to a club, the first tour etc. I will ask my friends/bandmates to keep an eye on me, no biggie.  I’m already halfway there and before I know it I’ll get to where I don’t even have to think about it at all, it’ll just come naturally, the good habit of not wanting to smoke anymore.

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Awww… :-(

Soren Davis: Child

Here are my observances for today.  I’m a person who self-medicates: I formerly relied on three things to keep my moods from swinging too wildly in any direction.  Cigarettes (nicotine), coffee & soda (caffeine) and pot (THC).  Now I’ve removed #1 and #3 of those elements and well, you can see the results below.  It ain’t pretty.  Right now however, I don’t feel half bad, and I think that’s because I’m slightly sleepy and ready for bed; the caffeine has worn off.  So I think one thing to keep in mind for tomorrow is: lay off the coffee and Diet Cokes if I can.  Drink enough in the morning to keep myself from getting a migraine, but after that, drink juice, water, lemonade, herbal tea or whatever.  Because without the pot and ciggies to tamp down the coffee crazies, I will go fuckin’ bonkers and want to smash stuff, it’s as simple as that.  I know, it prolly seems obvious to any outsider, but I just realized this two minutes ago.  DUHHH…!!!

Could this day get any worse? I think not.

MetaFilter: Licenses Revoked

Stay away, boys!!  Run for your lives!!  I’m just filled with rage and hatred and venom today, especially towards MEN WHO HAVE BUGGED ME TO STOP SMOKING for the past 20 years.  It’s the withdrawal talkin’ so forgive me in advance for what I am about to say: I’m super pissed at y’all, you’ve tried to control me in so many ways, ESPECIALLY when it came to the smoking.  I’d like to blame YOU (y’all know very well who you are) for every bit of my discomfort right now, so I think I will.  Why not?  If that’s what it takes to get me through it, oh the fuck well.  Better just back the hell up right now, y’hear?  BAAAHHAHAHAHA!!!!

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I’ve been practicing a lot this afternoon, it’s going quite well.  Also, today is Day One of a project I’ve been easing myself into for the past week or so, psyching myself out for it, and today’s the day I’m attempting to turn the project into a real reality.  I’m not going to say what the project is because it involves a HUGE amount of self-control for a person like me.  I will most likely fail, but… for once, that’s not what I have in mind, failing. If it works out then I’ll spill the beans later, if not, I’ll come back with my tail between my legs and prolly never mention it again until the next time.  Y’all just better… stay away from me for the next few days, that’s all I’m sayin’.  Far, far away.  Heh.

MetaFilter: Would you like that thought wrapped up? No thanks, I’ll think it here

I don’t believe this is a part of any official ferry policy against carrying books with robo-babes on the cover, but still… hopefully this’ll cause enough of a stink that one power trippin’ asshole might just set an example for others not to follow.

I went to Pakistan last night!  Heheh.  Never been there but I sure dreamed about it.  I don’t know why I was there, it wasn’t to play music but more as an observer, and/or to visit a sister of mine who was living there (not Lucie or Lilly but a new one, ha ha). I was dropped off dreamwise into a street market in a remote town, sparsely populated, very few houses.  There weren’t too many people shopping, but some.  Mostly what I saw was just the one short and narrow market-street sloping down to meet another street, a long one that ran perpendicular to the market. On the longer street there were a few extra booths on one side, and then a few houses; the opposite side just had a guard-rail with a panoramic view of a giant plain with a few mountains in the distance.  The fields close to the road were tilled, so I assume that was farmland, but beyond that it was just dusty plains with a bit of scrub-brush here and there.  (Don’t ask me if that bears any relation to the real Pakistan.)

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HA HA HA!! Beautiful. Payback’s a bitch, baby…

MetaFilter: BugMeNot Registration

The Oracle’s word of the day is arcanum, meaning a secret or a mystery.  I know lots of secrets, about myself and just about everyone around me.  And you’d think I’d be the last person on earth who’d be able to keep my mouth shut about anything, right?  Heh.  You’d be surprised.

Boing Boing: Warners ask MP3 blog to post their music

I just finished trying to practice but now it’s too late, I feel like I can’t do it this late at night.  The idea I had in mind was that I’d run through a bunch of tunes and record ‘em onto a cassette for Via to practice with — he’s gonna be my 2nd guitarist on the me & Manishevitz tour (he’s the Manishevitz lead guitarist as well).  That way it’d be more similar to playing along with just me and my guitar, as it will be on the tour, instead of trying to practice using the demos with all the double-tracking, thick harmonies, keyboard, drum machine etc. But I ended up spending the whole entire hour just trying to get the stupid cassette recorder to work.  ARGH!!

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I just discovered through MeFi that the radio show I did on KEXP in Seattle on 4/17/02 is still archived on their website.  They had told me even before the show that it would go on their site, but I didn’t realize what a long-term huge gathering-of-bands it would be.  Pretty cool!  I haven’t heard my show yet though, half because I’m scared shitless to hear my mistakes and stupid comments, and also because I just don’t have time right now.  Today is Meeting of the Minds day, where I get together with Ryan and Adam to hash out a few important business-related details of the upcoming tour.  I have a lot to do before then, so… gotta run!!  If any of y’all listen to the show, please let me know if it’s really really horrible or if it’s not too bad.  Heheh.