“Xid, you look like you’re wasting away!”
“in Margarittaville?” I replied with confusion.
“no, here at work”
Seems like a strange thing to say to someone.
Archive for the ‘stuff’ Category
hrm
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Waiting stage two
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Confirmation and consequences, no clue how long it will take to find out what comes next.
You know it’s not good
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010You know it’s not good news, when the doctor calls you at home to tell you about a test result.
24 hours too slow
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Nothing like finding a release stopping bug 24 hours after you burnt the final CD’s to send to manufacturing.
ARGH.
Le Faux at Julia’s on Broadway
Saturday, August 14th, 2010If you get there, and the seats right by the stage are still open…know that you’ll be craning your neck a lot, and missing whatever they put on the video screen. But you get a really close view of the action that you can see.
Their Cher was really impressive. They all were pretty good, really. When they do the picture-with-the-whole-cast thing at the end of the show, you realize how many people they put on stage through the evening. The guy who does the hanging cloth acrobatic stuff must work out like crazy, he makes climbing up that stuff look so easy. They do a lot of comedy talking bits, working with the crowd, including at least one bit that included a plant in the audience, I think. Or else they just improvised around him really well.
I was entertained.
Needs More ‘oke
Friday, August 13th, 2010Why don’t smaller artists release their stuff in Karaoke form?
It seems like a significant source of word-of-mouth advertising, if a fan of yours can take a karaoke disc of your songs with them to any karaoke night they perform at.
For that matter, why don’t big artists release more of their stuff in Karaoke form? Is it really that hard to make a second edit without the primary vocals?
Oh for the days when you could just turn your stereo all the way to one side and get a sing-a-long version that was built into the regular version.
UPDATE: Out of curiosity, I emailed Michelle Shocked’s contact page, to see what they had to say about the lack of Michelle-oke. She asked me for a top 10 list…that sounds hopeful =)
Trek in the Park
Friday, July 30th, 2010Last weekend’s watching of the Pirates at Princess Island was cool, but a little young for my tastes. This weekend, I think I will check out Outdoor Trek‘s production of the OST episode “The Naked Time”. Sounds like it could be entertaining.
Poor Jennifer
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Poor Jennifer had a heck of a night last night. I hope she’s sobered up, somewhere safe, and turns out to be a bit more sane in the morning. Last night she was at Changes in full on paranoid frenzy. Unable to sit still, rambling about how Ashley Simpson stole songs she sings in the shower, and uses the footage, airbrushed of course, in the videos. Several times she asked me if I was real, or a spy for the government. After I left, I hear she got kicked out because she started accusing one of the regulars of trying to kill her.
I can’t imagine what it’s like trying to establish a new persona under a new gender; I can certainly understand the feeling that being wasted might help with nervousness, if only it didn’t detract from effectiveness and quality of conversations. Here’s hoping I see you again, under better circumstances.
Metafilter Meetup Wrapup
Monday, July 19th, 2010Took the train down to Portland Saturday, for the Metafilter.com 11tth anniversary meetup. Saw some well done graffiti, memories of when I lived in PDX, saw some street art I am pretty sure is new since I left. Saw one person I’ve known for a long time, met several other new folk. Took the train back up Sunday. Saw quite a few of the Seattle to Portland bikers.
While in Portland, saw a guy making and giving away balloon animals/flowers/swords on the MAX. Said old-friend suggested it was just portland “keeping it weird”, but when I got back to Seattle, had a woman on the bus (who I’m pretty sure I’ve run into on the streets of downtown before) who asked me:
1. If you win at penny slots, do they pay you out in pennies?
I replied that these days, they give you a ticket to redeem for cash, but yes, in the old days, they did pay out in pennies.
2. She asked, how much is 10,000 pennies. She was quite disapointed when I said $100.
3. She then asked, how many pennies in $10,000. (1,000,000 said I)
Then it was my stop to get off. I think there are just a lot of crazy people in the world.
Shirley Loftis – a terrible person?
Thursday, July 15th, 2010What kind of person who claims to care about children can be so selfish as to deliberately leach money out of the paychecks of teachers actually teaching? I’d like to think that poor incompetent loser Shirley is just being taken advantage of by a crooked lawyer and some greedy children, but it sounds like she’s just another selfish sleaze feeding at the public trough, right alongside her friend-in-evil Roque Burio.
You have to be a special kind of cold-hearted to be able to live with yourself, stealing from children.