[demented] musings
4/02/03
My computer has been down for a little while, thus there have been no updates,
but its back and, for better or worse, so am I (and yes, that is why I am
just now posting my entries from the end of March)...Saw some great shows
recently, including Sahara
Hotnights, Elliot
Smith, the
Arrogants, and (Hed)
Planet Earth (I know, and you're right--they're not really my thing,
but they put on a great show!)...Other highlights include (but are not limited
to) SoCal
weather (and all
that comes with perpetual summer), thebendies, and too many shows
to list this late at night...Boa noite...
3/19/03
Yes, I was intrigued by her license plate: 1UKGIRL, and so, when she passed
me, I had no choice but to catch up with her...Appropriately enough, I had
just acquired a copy of the new
Stone Roses "Best of," and, thus, it became my soundtrack
as I raced down La Brea...Finally, a red light and a glimpse, and I decided
that she may be perfect--cute, British (complete with accent), and with all
of that going for her, I'm sure that she had great taste in music--these were
the thoughts going through my head as "Sally
Cinnamon" blared in the background and became the soundtrack
to our future life together...Visions of summers in London and nights on the
beaches at Brighton
sustained me throughout the long drive home, where, upon arriving, I finally
accepted/realized that "Made
of Stone" was the more appropriate selection for my daydream...Some
days I live on nothing but empty calories...
3/18/03
(no comment)
3/17/03
I'm officially an uncle...Well, I guess I've been an uncle for several months
now, but only physically, meaning that yes, the baby was my brother's son,
but I hadn't met him properly, so there was no bond other than the blood,
which is thick, but nothing compared to the blood-emotional bond...So, this
past weekend, I officially became an uncle to Porter Zachary...Give him a
few years, and then he'll be browsing the archives of thebendies.com,
reading my demented musings and thinking to himself, "Man, my uncle is
strange..."...
3/11/03
So I just had a crumpet
for the first time in my sheltered life, and I'm officially a fan... As soon
as you get a chance, have one...(insert Homer Simpson sound
here)
3/04/03
If I could have a super-power,
it would be the ability to transport myself to any place in the world in seconds...No
traffic, Rio on the weekends...It would be beautiful...
3/01/03
The fenders twisted every which way; the headlights were crushed and melted
into a million
pieces; the concrete was cracked and violently disfigured; the
hood raised itself upwards, reaching for some invisible hand, its fingers
outstretched...Whether or not they had intended to, a work of modern
art had been created...We
all drove with a little more caution for the next few miles...
2/27/03
When describing myself,
I don't know that I would ever think to use the word "optimist"--not
that it is a bad personality trait to have or anything, but optimism is also
not a trait that I would ever consider one of the stronger parts of my personality--until
tonight, that is...I was discussing life,
the universe, and everything with a friend, and I realized that,
to my utter shock (and slight dismay--I am, after all, the closet-goth
of thebendies.com), I was seeing the glass "half-full" in every
one of the situations that we discussed...I'm not sure what happened or what
this all means, so I'm accepting analyses from all of you amateur
psychologists out there who are reading this (submit them here)...Bonus
points go to the person who I decide is correct...
2/25/03
February is, without doubt, the cruelest month...Part of my lack
of updates has been laziness--I
don't deny that--but part of it I have to attribute to the dense cloud that
settles over me throughout these particular twenty-eight
days--I HATE THIS MONTH...Its too short; its too cold; and it contains
the most vile of all holidays (no--I'm not alluding to President's Day, though,
with "W"
as president, I'm not a big fan of that day either, but at least I get a three-day-weekend
out of it)...I know that some of you are saying that it is because I'm single
right now, but even when I've been dating someone around the middle of the
month, its been miserable, so I've given up on it, period. You're
more than welcome to try & convince me otherwise,
but it is really not going to be an easy task...Of course, seeing Interpol,
Burning
Brides, The
Catheters, Kings
of Leon, Ben
Kweller, Johnny
Marr, Melowdrone,
and The
Division of Laura Lee helped, but...
2/01/03
Today, it seems that my endless routine of running around from appointment-to-
appointment and activity-to-activity finally caught up with me, and my body
said, "No more!"...I had a nice day of naps
and mindless nonsense in between the necessary errands that I had to run...Bring
on the night...
1/30/03
Lately, I've felt as if all that I've been doing at my job is writing
reports, reports about what I would be doing if I didn't have to
spend time writing reports about what I'm doing...Welcome to corporate
America, circa 2003...
1/24/03
(flarey's disclaimer: this is not directed at anyone specifically,
but over the last few months he and some friends (not the other bendies, though
he suspects that they have probably dealt with this recently as well) have
encountered this a lot lately from various sources, and Flarey needed to vent
about it...Send comments
here?)
1/15/03
Tired? Bored? Long conference call at the office? Try
this to pass the time...(I think that I may have
wasted way more time than I can justify playing with the different parts of
this site, but, whatever--numbers 7 and 8 are my personal favorites)...
Lonely? Want
someone to pay attention to you? Try this one...
I've also a strange fascination with this one...
1/04/03
Thanks to KEXP,
I discovered an amazing new band today called Le
Nombre...Mix some NYC garage punk with some of the dirty new rock
thing (think Burning
Brides, Queens...,
etc), throw in some organ and sparse horns for good measure, and you can begin
to imagine their sound (or you can click here
so you don't have to imagine it)...These guys ooze attitude, exemplified in
songs such as "Carve
Up the World"...I haven't been able to find their CD in CA
yet, but you can stream an entire concert here...Oh,
and by the way, its all in French...
1/02/03
I found myself driving down PCH
this afternoon, the sun setting, the sky on fire, the
tide beginning to come back in, and one of
the Cure's
most over-looked
songs blaring through my speakers...This, kids, was almost perfection...
