eric burnt me the newest Thursday cd and i spent all day listening to it. coupla songs on there that make me want to flail around in my office, air drumming and shouting. sometimes i do that. i’ve had a bunch of mp3s of theirs for a while and dug ‘em. but there’s something about an actual cd of music. i just get so much more out of a cd than mp3 files. why is that? has the riaa brainwashed me? is there just something mystical about the .cda file?


give me a crappy album on vinyl and i’ll like it, is that the progression?

• records
• cds
• tapes
• mp3

records are so freakin’ big, it makes sense to hear something huge like rollins’ hard volume on a big slab of vinyl… how can that same size come thru on a silly little file on my HD? maybe it’s because i’ve invested nothing in the mp3. i’ve dropped over a hundred dollars on furniture alone to house my cds and records. this silly little file doesn’t even take up .05% of my 80 gig hard drive. and it was free. i must hate free things, that’s it…


you can’t beat the format for introducing yourself to new music, tho… pulled down a bunch of the fucking champs and the selby tigers over the last week. rock.

how long have you had your hairstyle?


me: the same thinning, flat, partless non-style for 6 years. how drab.


[except for that horrible experiment with the clippers and a #3 tip that one winter. who knew i had such a large, misshapen, fuzzy head? ]

a twofold post:


a) happy birthday kristy!

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b) i’ve had a dilbert calendar on my desk here at work for the past couple of months. just one of those little desktop dealios. my only previous exposure to the cartoon was in the sunday washington post magazine. i’d look forward to reading it once a week and thought it was pretty funny. now i think it lies on the slightly funnier side of such riots as Cathy, or Blondie.


my co-workers come in to the office every morning and ask, “is it funny?”. invariably, the answer is “no”. sometimes i give it the prestigious rating of half a “ha”. i’m not sure if my calendar is defective, maybe i should return it for a funnier one? too bad there’s only a month left.


warning: daily exposure to dilbert is not a positive thing.

kristy, goggled, fredericksburg, va parking garage, nightwalks with jack.

i, too, am a BlogSnob. we’ll see how it works out. i hope they don’t mind that i stuck it waaay down there at the bottom, but i don’t want anything cluttering my layout up top here. see, i truly am a blogsnob.

finally, fantasy football for music geeks: PopEx gives you a virtual 5000 pounds to invest in various bands. then the prices change according to the virtual ‘worth’ of the artist. they claim 80000 ‘players’, but they’re british so i wouldn’t take their word on anything.


i just invested in 5 shares of busta rhymes.

0(zero)format:

Also, persons considered black are being encouraged to move to the nearby cities of Baltimore and Washington D.C., as their presence in the home or on the street causes unhealthy allergic reactions to many Montgomery County residents and their property values.

SatireWire:

“You could, quite literally, be driving on the outskirts of Houston and not know if you were actually in Atlanta or Minneapolis,” said Wanamung.

A List Apart:

“I bite my lip when I hear a young designer say something like “Helvetica sucks;” while it’s true that Helvetica indeed does suck in many and varied contexts, those situations inevitably involve the work of one who’d make such an airless declaration.”

snopes:

WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 ARABS THAN WITH ONE JEW

the loudest blog: Next Motherfucker Gonna Get My Metal

Black Cat, Washington DC — Monday, Dec. 17 · 9:00 pm


sissy|space|sex and feckless beast! it’s our official FIRST show!! kinda scary… always wanted to play there in previous bands but didn’t know the right people. now stacey’s got the hook up.


just got off the phone with dieselfuelprints, trying to get some stickas made up b4 we hit the stage. sent in an order a coupla weeks ago, but never heard back, so i thought i’d call and check on the one i placed today…


yeah, too bad the black cat ad in the city paper listed us as “sissy space specks”… bastards.


probably gotta stay late at work. sucky ducky.

nick’s got a great interview with the amazing young director Richard Kelly of donnie darko fame right here. asked a lot of questions i had myself.


he’s got his own very sweet new redesign, as does melissa. must be something in the air…