August 2007
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Using MSN Chat (I'm not sure why its funny, it...
Marcia: using msn is like watching movies in black and white
louisyunghoi: darn tooting! its like playing alex kidd on your sega genesis
louisyunghoi: its like popping and locking in front of a hobo
Marcia: is popping and locking mean?
or is it because its in front of the hobo?
louisyunghoi: it is if its done in a mocking and confrontational fashion like Electric Boogaloo in Breakin'. Turbo, Ozone and Special K didnt like it, why would a homeless?
I hate Andrew W.K.
I hate him and for no apparent reason. I might have heard one song once, a long time ago, but I don’t remember it enough to know whether it was any good or bad. Maybe it was because all of the people I knew in high school who were into him were LAME. Or that stupid picture of him with the bloody nose, which I think is ridiculous. Whenever I seem him I’m just overwhelmed with a feeling of...
My Big, Big Project for My Friend
I’m working on a big, big project right now for my friend which has me completely enthused. I’m at work. I should leave, but right now getting this together is keeping me here and making me wish that I could stay up all night for the next two days to complete it as soon as possible. It’s the type of thing that makes you feel excited and nervous and ready to fast forward to the end results. I...
Beatle Mania -Day 3
Well I wasn’t really listening as much between yesterday and today as I had been the first two days. Mostly due to going out last night, but whenever I have an opportunity the head phones are on and “Blackbird” is playing. I have to say I’ve definitely begun to appreciate them much more than I had previously; which is to say that I loved a few of their songs but without much familiarity to their...
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Beatle Mania- Day 2
There are some obvious problems to my plan to over saturate myself with Beatles music. One being that Ajana might very likely stab me in my sleep, two being that I might end up hating the Beatles by the time the week is over if I don’t change it up and intersperse it with a little of whatever I’m feeling at the moment, and three its very difficult to transition between the albums when they’re...
Bits of Poetry
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. (T.S. Elliot) LET us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead...
The week of the Beatles
So, I’ve finally given to Beatle mania thirty years too late. Coming from a young mother who was a teenager during the late seventies, early eighties I wasn’t really exposed to the Beatles much as a child. While the Beatles are the kind of phenomenon that’s hard to avoid hearing at some point I didn’t gain a more extensive knowledge until college. While almost everyone I knew who was big into...
New Music Monday →
All the things you don’t know but should, thats what Ornette Coleman stands for. He’s a jazz saxophonist/composer and an innovator of the free jazz movement of the sixties (I know because I looked all of this up). When I listen to Virgin Beauty it sounds like two songs being played at once, in a way that works. I wonder how I could have gone 24 years and never heard this, or heard...
New York Walk
I started out today on a walk, which is usually what I do to mediate or clear my head. To be or to be outside of myself. Today it was to not think about the things that I said (which was true) and the things I wanted to say (which were not true) and the similar and dissimilar outcomes of both. Originally I thought of grabbing my camera, but as I stood at the mouth of the Brooklyn Bridge seeing...
10 (or 20) Awesomely Awesome Summer Joints
Okay so here is my list, in no certain order (the numbers are just there for reference) of songs that are making the end of the 2007 summer worth while. J*Davey- LazyDaze There is something funky and fun about this song, its upbeat and pop-y and maybe there is something that gets to me about the fact that the tempo of the song is so opposed to the lyrics. But then I listen and it completely...
“I think thats a fake Bentley.” “How can that be a fake Bentley, they...”
– Overheard in the car on the way to a meeting.
“I don’t think New York City is like other cities. It does not have...”
– John Steinbeck
mm-hmmm, New York!
Yesterday I was completely inspired by Mari’s Chelsea photograph set on flickr. This city inspires you in mysterious ways. Its accidental beauty is overwhelming. And then there are the days like today that make you ask why you do it. The whole city was practically shut down from a storm that happened overnight and you realize how fragile our existence is, in this little place called New York....
