Press For Cheese

a poem

2011-06-09T22:16:00.001-04:00

we were two of six in the audience
and two were this chinese old lady
and her daughter who talked loudly
a lot
but did know the music very well
then i came home to put life
together, particularly the san fran
hotelling
i found a burnt pepperoni in the
oven. a perfect pepperoni shape,
just black.
many colors of black
but still a round pepperoni.
and that's why my smoke detector
went off earlier today when i was
cooking dinner.

"Part of dressing, particularly for men..."

2011-04-19T17:32:00.001-04:00

"Part of dressing, particularly for men, is to humble yourself, even if you are a Prince, by asserting that the custom of the whole is as important as your personal choices. This is why we wear business dress"..."it is an assertion that we’re all in the same boat, all respect the importance of the situation, and we’ve chosen ceremonial clothing to reflect that fact."

(via Putthison)

Rachel Kiel! Yes!

2011-04-11T09:09:00.004-04:00

This face is all "I diiid that"

The Kickstarter page says: "THIS PROJECT WILL BE FUNDED ON FRIDAY APR 15, 12:01AM EDT."

Ohhh yessss

Rachel Kickstarter Update: Almost $9K!

2011-04-05T15:53:00.005-04:00

The last days of hustle are coming--just one more grand to raise. We're excited 'cause it's so close but the whole thing is nerve-racking too.

To get you excited about it too, here she is with an animal

So go pledge!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/532510090/rachel-kiel-makes-a-great-studio-album
Get a copy of the first album, and the new to-be=recorded second album, or pledge more and get SO MUCH MORE oh GOODNESS YES

A Musical Opinion I've Turned Back On: Tom Waits

2011-04-05T10:49:00.003-04:00

"Tom Waits has several great albums."

No...he is an inconsistent artist capable of great highs on a song-by-song basis. In the past fifteen years or so, he's seemed to write about five of every song and releases all of them. For every "Take It With Me" there are three to four songs like it, most of them on "Orphans," that I surprise me when they pop up on shuffle because I don't remember them at all but they sound just like some other song of his that I like more. That, or they sound like three other songs I kind of remember also being somewhere but I'm not sure where and I don't want to go finding out.

If he or Kathleen Brennan are actually choosing the best songs for the albums, I shudder to think how much more of the same stuff is out there. Listening to his records, you get numbed by the Tom Waits Melody Zone where nothing moves too much, nothing surprises too much, and you get the vague sense this is the same as the last one but God, let's not go back and make sure.

Cat Power

2011-04-01T13:39:00.003-04:00

Yep OK I get it it only took me like seven years or something.
She's good. Really good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTIxgpF3RE

Rachel's Kickstarter Update

2011-03-20T17:35:00.003-04:00

This has been kind of a thrill ride and it's only five days in. It turns out that Rachel has lot of shockingly generous friends, and a few of these pledges have just made her day. But the project has a long way to go.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/532510090/rachel-kiel-makes-a-great-studio-album

Rachel Kiel Is Making Another Album

2011-03-15T10:37:00.005-04:00

Rachel Kiel, very dear to my heart, is getting the funding together for her next album, which will be her second. She's using Kickstarter, a crowdsourcing website, to fund it because she's gotta pay session musicians and pay for studio time and pay her producer, Jerry Brown, who I hear is an expert, and pay for mixing and mastering and production and all that stuff. She's gonna be working in the Rubber Room in Chapel Hill, which I hear Bland Simpson loves, and Bland Simpson is also dear to our hearts just like Rachel, isn't he?

Anyway, I'm really excited about the songs Rachel's got for this cd, and I've already made a pledge over on her Kickstarter page, which you can visit below. I urge you to consider doing the same; you don't have to pledge much to get both of her albums as a reward for funding this one. You give money, you get stuff, you fulfill her dream.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/532510090/rachel-kiel-makes-a-great-studio-album?ref=live

http://www.rachelkiel.com/

Things I Found Out About in 2010 I Should Have Loved Years Ago

2011-01-05T12:01:00.003-05:00

This goes Artist, Title (year of creation): year I should have found out about it

Joanna Newsom, "Milk Eyed Mender"(2004): 2004

If I'd heard this in 2004, it could have gone hand in hand with "Rejoicing in the Hands" as one of those lo-fi records I couldn't stop listening to then. Some tried to tell me to listen, and I heard bits, but nobody handed me the whole thing, so I never heard the whole. Now, being the third record of hers I've gotten to know, it sounds like a lesser work. She still was trying to figure out what she could be doing, though stretches of it are wonderful.

Faust, "Faust IV" (1973): 2003

I would have loved to roam campus to this as a freshman. It's way better than the "Sea Change" slump I was in fact roaming about in. A brilliant record that goes hand in hand with what Frank Zappa was doing in the early '70s, that whole jazz fusion in 11/8 thing with titles like "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus," as well as the ambient Eno stuff and all the usual Krautrock suspects.

Fugazi, "13 Songs," "Repeater" (1989, 1990): 1997

I don't love this stuff. I probably would have in 1997, in that "finding out about hard rock" middle school music phase a lot of boys have, and it could have done well in my collection. Now it just feels too late.

Hall & Oates (1973-): 2003

This stuff, on the other hand, I love. Again, happy music is what my life needed around 2003, and "Kiss on my List" would have changed my world. And my karaoke world. I spent too long ignoring these white poppers.

Paul Verhoeven, "Total Recall"(1990): 1996

A batshit insane, disfunctional sci-fi action thriller with Schwarzenegger, you know, "acting" when he isn't beating up Sharon Stone. This would have ruled in middle school and could have been watched as much as we watched Face/Off.

Ken Russell, "Altered States" (1980): 2003

This one should have gone in with "2001: A Space Odyssey" in that early-college bug-out movie space. Having now seen it, I am way into it. If you like weird science exploration fantasy freak outs like I do, go seek this out.

Fashion: 2002

While I've been gradually improving my fashion sense since around 2006, it was only this year that I think I really "got it." I didn't even know what size I was. I have this regret about this discovery only happening now: I could have been breaking in nice jeans and nice bags all this time, as well as collecting well-fitting--or just wearable--garments. Or at least I could have looked weird in college, where it's socially acceptable to look weird.

"Orishiki Suitcase" by Naoki Kawamoto

2010-11-02T12:31:00.003-04:00

Sure, that's a suitcase.

Oh, yeah, I'll fold that right up.

(pics via Designboom)

In defense of “Let It Be...Naked”

2010-07-30T19:04:00.002-04:00

I was asked about the critics response to The Beatles' “Let It Be...Naked.” I didn't realize people were bothered at all with its “tampering with a classic” deal, since the original is still out there for the having. I just say: “...Naked” has great things. I like it a lot. It's valuable and enjoyable.

It has that great Motowny “Long and Winding Road.” Now it's like a small club performance of the song. The piano becomes the resonant instrument, not the strings, and it fills in quite well. For me, a big selling point is the timbre of the fill hits after "the long and winding road" lyric and other places. The combo of the guitar sound and the piano and the bass being the instruments doing them instead of a whole orchestra is a surprisingly full and emotional sound.

Those reviewers, compiled on the Wikipedia page, are a bunch of McCartney haters. "Too much Paul," “Not enough Lennon humor," etc. Yeah, I just love when Lennon wants to syndicate my boat. I would let him do that all day. Oh baby.

I don't mind the album not really working as an album, which it doesn't. It's a compilation of the material from the other album's period, really, as an alternative. That they didn't make an album is somewhat of a failing, but hey, the content is pretty awesome.

The album's Wikipedia page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be..._Naked

Harvey Fuqua

2010-07-07T13:23:00.001-04:00

He died today, so I figured I'd find out who he is. It turns out that Fuqua, the guy Marvin Gaye thanks at the end of the Midnight Love album, lived just north of Charlotte for much of his life, gave Marvin his career, and was in The Moonglows, which you will recall at least from Paul Simon's "Rene and Georgette Margritte With Their Dog After the War." Good job, Mr. Fuqua.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Fuqua

Favorite Rap Skits #02 Dr. Octagon "General Hospital"

2010-06-10T10:27:00.002-04:00

I will admit that I had no idea this was called "General Hospital" until right now, but this is the best 26 seconds on the Dr. Octagon album except maybe the other skit I don't know the name of where he tells you to "get in the water and touch the electric wires; here's some bread." OK, I guess I'm lying--"I'm Destructive" and "Girl Let Me Touch You There" are unstoppable. I mean, he's your orthopedic gynecologist. Kool Keith has very little understanding of how the medical industry, or medicine in general, works.

The skit comes in at track six or seven, and in listening through the album, by then you already don't quite know if he's an evil plastic surgeon, a space alien, or a malpracticing gynecologist, but now he's in a hospital, and people are dying of "cirrhosis of the eye," and I'm pretty sure Kool Keith, paging himself, just said "OH FUCK" on the hospital intercom, and then there's a horse in the hospital. Everything you thought you knew was wrong; Kool Keith is introducing you to his own reality.

I'd link to it on youtube, but the one there is missing that horse line, and what's the point if you can't hear the horse line.

Favorite Rap Skits #01 Tupac's "What'z Ya Phone #"

2010-05-31T11:51:00.002-04:00

Maybe this'll be a recurring feature, so I'll give this a number.

With "What'z Ya Phone #, we get a rare end-of-song skit of such inconsistency and comical failure that I actually want to listen to it. I just listened to it twice, and I skipped the "song" part of the song the second time around.

Anyway, there at the end of disk 1 of "All Eyez on Me," Tupac has a three-minute conversation with some girl who calls him while a sample of "777-9311" loops in the background. Right off the bat, he can't hear her properly. Then he doesn't know who she is and doesn't remember the sex they had. Then, Pac answers a question about if he's sexually interested in her with what might be the least attractive "yes" answer possible, "Does a bear shit in the woods and wipe its ass with a rabbit?" Now, if he didn't remember the sex, well...is he sure he wants to do it again? Think on it, Pac.

So he doesn't know her name, but he somehow, by the end of the conversation, knows where she lives. When she asks if she can "shift his gears," it sounds like he doesn't know what that means based on his response: "You can shift all this shit." Oh, right, he just revealed to us he's actually been in a car this whole time. And then she wants to "shift it from the back." I'm pretty sure that's his job, but anyway, he answers that with the "bear" line again, except now, the must-be-furious rabbit is "fluffy" and "white." Not so white now, are you, my furry friend. And then the disk ends.

Good job, Tupac.

Mail Fail--America Has Let Me Down.

2009-06-20T16:33:00.005-04:00

Today, America has failed me. Our ingenuity and our freedom combine in wonderful ways, and that includes the mail. I've always heard "you can put just about anything in the mail if it's got the right postage on it." Once upon a time you could mail Wired Magazine strange things and they'd put it in the magazine. Well, the postal service let me down today, and I didn't even try to mail anything bizarre.

Apparently, mailing memory sticks (flash drives) and other objects in standard letter envelopes is a bad deal, though my situation isn't just that.

I mailed my buddy at Complicated System of Pulleys his memory stick that he lent to me. I put it in an envelop, with a random piece of paper folded like a letter, with the stick inside the paper's folds. There are various places on the internet that tell you not to do this, but I read those today, not last week when I mailed this. I read those today because today, my envelope showed up in my mailbox.

The envelope was returned to me without the flash drive, and with a hole in the side of the envelope. Could a sorter machine have compressed the envelope and forced the stick to pop out the side of the envelope? Hmm. But also, I got the envelope back. Why, you ask? Well, I'm not sure.

So guys, use padded envelopes to mail memory sticks, flash drives, or engagement rings. They are, apparently, sorted by hand and not subject to crushing machinery. But dammit, I just can't trust the mail like I want to.

Science! Does putting APC Jeans in the Freezer Make them Smell Better?

2009-05-30T14:14:00.003-04:00

If you know about the whole raw denim thing, just skip down to the spot that says $$$.

I've got this pair of APC jeans that you can't wash.

I mean, like, not "it will break the washer" but "you're not supposed to wash them." They're raw denim, meaning they were never washed after being dyed. They look damn good in part because they're really dark and not that lame light blue dad-jeans color:

*shudder*

Anyway, the idea is that as you wear them, they will naturally wear in a more intense way than normal jeans will. Washing them removes a lot of dye and softens the jeans, making them less prone to creasing and fading. And you want that creasing and fading it you're a weird jeans fetishizer person like me. So...you don't wash them.

Of course, this means they smell a bit eventually. I'm at about 3 months of steady, at-least-five-days-a-week wear, and they have a smell. Sometimes they feel funny too. Let's not get into it.

$$$

So people have all these ways of dealing with the smell--hanging them out, Febreeze, and the freezer trick. The idea is you put them in a ziplock bag in the freezer and leave them there for a night or something, and the smell is somehow magically reduced. I did it--I didn't think my jeans would fold up to fit into a gallon ziplock, but they did. I folded and had to shove them in to fit, though.

Well, it works! The jeans now have a substantially reduced smell and they haven't felt weird in the past two days of wearing. Also, when you first pull them out, they're awesome to touch. Cold, cold denim is cooler to feel than I expected. So I recommend the method...in some circumstances.

My jeans didn't smell that bad anyway--no one was complaining but me. So for more serious cases, I don't know how the freezer trick will go. Also, I think it softened the jeans some, and as explained above, you don't want that. However, if you already have washed them, or if you have gone through your 6 or 12 months or whatever of breaking them in and you think the changes made by wearing them longer are going to be pretty minimal, then you don't have to worry about the softening thing.

Science! Do Plates of Pine Sol Cut Weird Odors?

2009-05-30T14:07:00.003-04:00

I had read that just leaving plates with Pine Sol poured onto them in a smelly room will cause the odors in the room to be removed by some magic smell-absorbing property of the Pine Sol. Well, don't bother...maybe.

Well, as I now possess one extra-smelly room, I figured I'd give it a go. Previously, I vacuumed; I Febreezed; I lit candles and burned incense. None of these things made much difference except maybe the Febreeze. It's hard to tell, really, since the source of the odors--a roommate--had been removed, so the place naturally should start smelling better as it airs out.

But I wanted to beat the crap out of the smell in this room, so I threw all the Pine Sol I could onto plates and left them out in the room for about 24 hours. I had about 3 plates and 3 bowls of Pine Sol laying around the room in a spread-out pattern. Afterwards, I removed them and sniffed away.

Well, it doesn't seem to work. I still smelled all the roommate funk, but now I smelled Pine Sol too. As the Pine Sol smell faded, I still smelled funk. However, a fresh nose came over and told me that the place didn't smell that much anyway, and that it was my room that actually smelled. So maybe I'm crazy. And smelly.

DOOM pt. 2

2009-05-20T20:03:00.002-04:00

I realized I wasn't done. I forgot the worst song ("Supervillainz") and some various other bits.

The end of the album is a disaster, with the worst song on the album, "Supervillainz," as the last real song, which is followed by a phone-message skit and an outro interlude type deal. Could all three of these things been on the album? Sure, but when your album goes "terrible song you want to skip-->skippable skit-->outro that's the same as the intro," it sounds a lot like you ran out of ideas right before you started the terrible song.

That terrible song, "Supervillainz." The song, along with radio hit "Pop Champagne" by Ron Browz, proves that autotune cannot fix everything--autotune cannot fix an inability to set up autotune properly. Someone should have probably told DOOM, historically earless, that his singing track was out of key--I assume he did not set autotune to tune to the same key as the beat. Also, there should probably be a melody...or lyrics...before you start mumbling words that rhyme with "villain" into the mic because, well, "schmillin" is not a word at all.

Upon revisiting, I realize that the people yelling "villain!" that I complained about last time and the amateur comic book voice stuff are closely related, and that the voice stuff, particularly "TIME TO GET THE FETA" or whatever that is, is way worse than all the "villain!" yelling. It's like the "hydroponic" guy from Vaudville Villain's "Open Mic Night" skit, except it wasn't intended to be mockable, unless I'm missing something.

Now, where I did miss something, I now realize, is "Batty Boys." I had noticed the song was full of superhero references, but I did not realize that the point of the song is the superheroes and how they look, well, gay. Leave it to DOOM to flip hip hop's standard homophobia to point toward "underwear perverts," who, in hip hop, only DOOM cares about anyway. It's homophobia, but it's homophobia with a concept.

Yeah, when the album is just DOOM or his fellow MCs rapping, the album is great. Most everything else...

Why MF Doom's New Album Needs Fixing

2009-05-19T19:16:00.003-04:00

The people yelling "Villain." No, stop it.

The sound effects pastiche parts. Last time, on "Mmm Food," he compressed all the obnoxious sound effects tracks into one three track string you could skip so easily. This time they're all over, and they're on the same tracks as songs. Songs I care about.

Except "Batty Boys." This is 2009. I didn't know anybody in the world except dance hall reggae singers were still making songs with such strong anti-gay sentiment. In fact, I thought they were busy making songs about wild, penis-shattering sex. "Batty Boys" is surprising, too, seeing as this gay hate seems to come out of the blue for DOOM.

DOOM, which is my next point. Mr. DOOM, with his recent "all caps, no metal face" rename effectively makes it so that I forget the album exists by forcing it into the DOOM section of my ipod, not in the MF Doom section. Though I'm sure Dan Dumile wouldn't mind being between Donny Hathaway and Dr. Dooom. Of course, I bet Kool Keith is off somewhere being angry at yet another person biting his shit.

Oh yeah, and that girl he had rapping on Vaudville Villain? She still sucks, except now she sucks more.

The superhero voiceovers, unlike back on Operation: Doomsday, sound like in-studio amateur fakeries. No, stop it.

I find all this disappointing because underneath all this is a nice album that I do like. But I guess we're supposed to be happy he's alive and releasing anything at all. Or something.

Why Frank Zappa Wins

2009-04-26T11:21:00.002-04:00

A key to having long-lasting fans can be a deep discography. While one or two great albums can be ridden on for a while, you can keep people listening to your music (and buying your music) forever if your discography is forever long. Well, FZ has that locked up.

Bird Takes Down Deer

2009-04-12T17:45:00.001-04:00

WHAT

hot shoes

2009-04-10T14:03:00.004-04:00

Shoes I want.

Vael site

Sam Donaldson: So Good

2009-04-02T18:24:00.003-04:00

Sam Donaldson may be one of the great talkers of our age. With any question, he finds something to say, instantly, and eventually routes what he's saying around to the point he means to make, or just the answer to the question.
Also, somewhere in here, the first accidental-cell-phone-going-off I've ever heard on radio happens.

Talk of the Nation, April 1st, 2009
Newsman Sam Donaldson Reflects on His Career
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A Pizza You Will Never Eat

2009-03-31T22:27:00.005-04:00

I ate this pizza today at some place in Elon today--Sparks? Spitz? Sputz? Schlitz? (Skids--ed.)

It, as the only vegetarian option clearly listed on the menu other than a grilled cheese sandwich, seemed to be my only real option.

Skids is basically a southern diner, complete with the smoke-skinned 50-something woman working there, and so I was not hopeful about this pizza. But dude. It came and not only was it larger than its menu-listed 10-inch size, but was on crust they made there, that didn't taste awful. You can do a lot wrong on a pizza, but if it's on good crust, your broken pizza will go a long way. These two elements really surprised me in this southern world of just any yokel thinking he or she can make pizza.

The vegetables seemed of the canned sort, but that's what we can expect of cheap North Carolina pizza (Gumby's, I've got my eye on you...while you undercook my pizza.)

But this pizza was thin, cooked thoroughly, unpretentious, and hey, that crust.

Grade: B.

P.S. With the way the benches are in Skids, if a dude sits in the bench behind you and farts, it shakes your bench. That guy farted a lot.

Tracy Morgan vs. Kool Keith

2009-03-31T22:07:00.003-04:00

At trivia someone guessed that Dr. Octagon's "Earth People" was by Tracy Morgan. The thing is, I even thought someone might think this making the trivia round.

Kool Keith: not just crazy.

Chewy Lemonhead...and Friends

2009-01-12T18:17:00.002-05:00

Apparently Ferrara Pan got bored of their products and decided to turn Lemonheads into, basically, candybeans, or maybe like really old, stale Lemonheads. That product is Chewy Lemonhead & Friends candy, and in each box is one unappetizing flavor, three passable flavors, and one enjoyable flavor--the original Lemonhead flavor one. The grape flavor is that preposterous tastes-nothing-like it deal that grape candy has. Purple is a fruit.

But hey, at least the lemon flavor one tastes and feels a little like the old Lemonheads.

p.s. Airhead Xtreme Sour & Sweet Bullshit (bka Airhead Xtremes Sweetly Sour Belts): fuck off, you nasty shit. You aren't sour. You aren't sweet. You don't even taste like Airheads.

Fuck Entertainment Weekly

2009-01-11T23:43:00.002-05:00

Now that I have a subscription to Entertainment Weekly again--it cost me 2 dollars--I can see that this magazine blows. The bizarre mainstream-trying-to-be-cool attitude, in its transparent, crashes and burns. There are a lot of people doing better writing on the internet that I'd rather read. I've never wanted to shoot a pull quote before, but now I do.

Oh wait, I just read that this article was written by Diablo Cody. I didn't even know I didn't like her writing until now.

Grapefruit, November 24th, 2008

2008-11-24T23:36:00.002-05:00

Brand: unknown
Variety: Rio Star
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Fresh Market

Hidden amidst the Sunkist bullshit grapefruits was a gem, waiting to be recognized. Just as large as the many flavorless, unexciting fruits it sat upon, this indistinct baby was waiting for the right man to recognize her potential, tear the slices off, and nibble upon her. I wouldn't have known she was different except her label, a simple "Texas Rio Star" with a bar code below. My curiosity piqued, I pounced. Under the firm skin, the pink layer peeled away to reveal sweet, glistening fruit. It tasted like candy. Good job, Fresh Market. This enormous grapefruit offered "More Bounce to the Ounce."

Grade: B+

Grapefruit, October 21st, 2008

2008-10-21T18:51:00.002-04:00

Brand: unknown
Variety: red something
Growth location: Florida
Bought in: Trader Joe's

I had to come back and talk about this unique one. The peel was skinnier than everything I've dealt with lately, one of the tightest peels I've ever experienced. The white between the fruit and the skin, was, well, not white. It was pink. Peeling the grapefruit brought out wonderful smells, sharp and citrusy.

And the fruit itself was the firmest, most muscular grapefruit I've ever had. It did not give to pressure. Slices held together like a champ and were deep, deep pink. The flavor fell short of the rest of the wonderful experience, but the fruit was not untasty. Sharp tangyness stuck out, with a vague citrus flavor somewhere beneath that. The fruit was not sweet at all. I'd almost expect it to be a white with the flavor it had.

Grade: B

Grapefruit, August 16th, 2008

2008-08-25T18:31:00.002-04:00

Brand: Eco-Farms
Variety: "Star"
Growth location: California
Bought in: organic store in Mount Pleasant, Michigan

I picked the second-ugliest in the store, and boy, the reputation of ugly grapefruits to be the tastiest was upheld. This was the best grapefruit I've had in a long, long time.

Red, juicy, and entirely uninterested in the concept of slices, this mass of fruit shocked me with its copious sweet, tart, and citrus flavors. It was like a turbo grapefruit; I had almost forgotten that a grapefruit could contain such intense quantities of sweetness and citrus flavor while still offering plenty of sourness. What a winning grapefruit. I want more.

Grade: A

Grapefruit, August 15th, 2008

2008-08-15T17:53:00.005-04:00

Brand: Sunkist
Variety: Star Ruby
Growth location: ?
Bought in: Harris Teeter

This was one of those enormous non-organic fruits you pay way too much for. I didn't even buy it for myself; a friend wanted it and then abandoned it. It's been a long time since I had one of these--May at the latest. Perhaps my grapefruit situation has improved greatly since then, or maybe this was just not a winner, but man, this one was subpar.

It peeled OK. The removal of the white stuff was one of the smoothest processes I've had with a grapefruit ever. It even pulled into slices fine. But lord, this fruit was old. Seeds were sprouting into the slices; one of the seeds had a two-inch sprout in it. This left the slices with such seeds smelling earthy--not an appealing smell for a fruit. Other slices smelled better, so I left the sprouting-seed slices to air out before eating them. That plan worked, and I didn't realize I'd eaten one of the slices that had had a funky seed in it until I'd already swallowed it. It, like the rest of the slices in the fruit, was usually boring. Every slice had very little citrus flavor, very little acid, and very little sweetness. Some slices had turned that earthy smell into actual flavor: earthiness displeased my mouth in about a fourth of the slices. All the slices were soft, but not overly juicy. Lately, my fruits have been firm and juicy. I'll stick with that, thanks.

The bottom line is, forget these grapefruits. I'm having better luck with organics and better luck with whites.

[Sorry there's no picture; I'll upload a picture of this one when I get home.]
--UPDATE, August 25th: Picture added!--

Grade: D-

Grapefruit, August 4th, 2008

2008-08-05T09:20:00.003-04:00

Brand: Sundance Natural Foods (Grateful Harvest Organic)
Variety: White
Growth location: ?
Bought in: Trader Joe's

I thought there was trouble. I had opened this grapefruit; it peeled nicely; I popped a slice in my mouth, and it assaulted me with the sourest, most acidic flavor I've ever found in a grapefruit. This slice was pure assault.

But the fruit did not keep up the defenses. Every other slice of the grapefruit was a joy, full of citrus flavor while holding a nice balance of sweet and sour. There was plenty of life in this grapefruit.

Grade: A-

Grapefruit, July 31st, 2008

2008-07-31T22:48:00.003-04:00

Brand: Sundance Natural Foods (Grateful Harvest Organic)
Variety: White
Growth location: ?
Bought in: Trader Joe's

After weeks of bitter--sometimes standoffish--grapefruits, we strike upon a beauty. My transition from red rubies and such red and pink grapefruits to whites (how I shall miss you, lycopene) brought little flavor change; all have been bitter.

But today, I stood before a fruit that was different. A subtle, almost orange-like fruit. It peeled reasonably. Though it was not bitter, it was not particularly sweet, except one surprising slice. Making up for these seeming inefficiencies, it tasted of citrus, a flavor that apparently has been so bred out of grapefruits today that it's rarely found. This grapefruit made me happy. This grapefruit was a winner.

Grade: A-

Grapefruit, July 12th, 2008

2008-07-20T17:43:00.002-04:00

Brand: Unknown
Variety: Unknown
Growth location: Florida
Bought in: some extracheap supermarket in Apex, NC, or something

You see before you the mystery fruit. My coworker gave it to me, and it was fairly tasty, but jeez, what was it doing? As you can see, the fruit had a large black splotch. Beneath that splotch there was no discoloration, no bad spot. Mystery.

In another spot, the peel was proving hard to remove. It turned out that beneath the skin, amidst the white stuff, was a...clot? This hard spot stuck firmly to both skin and meat. It was about the size of a dime. It was the color of a ruby red grapefruit. I did not dare putting it in my mouth. But again, beneath it, once i had scraped it away, the fruit was unaffected. Mystery.

But on to the meat and, perhaps, the point. I believe it to have been a white grapefruit, for its color was pale, but also somewhat dim or faded looking. It was not a particularly appetizing color. Thankfully, it had no strange taste issues, with a reasonable level of sourness but, unfortunately, no sweetness. Nothing special, but my coworker reports these are very cheap out there in the mysterymart. I'll give it a small grade boost for its unique experience.

Grade: C+

Grapefruit, July 6th, 2008

2008-07-07T00:54:00.003-04:00

Brand: Sundance Natural Foods
Variety: Red Ruby
Growth location: California
Bought in: Trader Joe's

Dear lord, this grapefruit was obdurate.

Its somewhat-wrinkly skin peeled terribly. The skin would just not pull off. Thus, additional force was necessary. Well, I apparently punctured the fruit, causing juice to leak all over my plate and table.
What that effort yielded was a very small fruit. In opening it up for eating it in slices, a procedure in which I stick my thumb into the middle of the fruit and pull out to the side, causing it to hopefully break at a reasonable slice division, it disintegrated. I held in my hands two hunks of mangled grapefruit flesh.
What was I to do but gnash wildly at these bits? I consumed the grapefruit in the course of perhaps two minutes. In protest, it stung. Its surprise attack of acidic flavor surprised me... but delighted.
If only every grapefruit could be so dedicated. To what? Anything, really. A grapefruit that does only one thing, so consistently maintains an apparent viewpoint, is to be rewarded. Thank you, July 6th grapefruit.

Grade: B+

Grapefruit, July 1st, 2008

2008-07-01T18:11:00.003-04:00

Brand: Sundance Natural Foods
Variety: Red Ruby
Growth location: California
Bought in: Trader Joe's

This fruit wins the Ugliness Award. I have never seen such a strange deformity in a grapefruit before, but nature does strange things if given the chance. Perhaps it being "organic" is somehow responsible for this. Also note its dirty looking texture.

Despite the reputation of ugly grapefruits to taste excellent, I was not hopeful with this one. It was hard to peel and rendered a small fruit within full of worrisome color gradations. The slices collapsed in my hands as I tried to peel them free. But perhaps that did the fruit good--I had more direct contact with the juicy flesh of the fruit and less with the pith.

And I should not have doubted that such an ugly fruit would turn out tasting fine. It was on the sweet side and had an intensity of flavor that, again, I should have expected, given its size.

This one came from a bag of Sundance grapefruit, unlike the previous Sundances reviewed here. The whole bag looks to be small fruit, but all of the skins (excepting this one) look nice. Too bad.

Grade: B-

Grapefruit, June 25th, 2008

2008-07-01T18:04:00.002-04:00

Brand: Sundance Natural Foods
Variety: Deep Red (possibly a kind of Star Ruby)
Growth location: California
Bought in: Weaver Street Market

Ain't she an ugly one? The by-far worst looking one of this batch of fruit turned out to be not unenjoyable, though. It was seriously sour, but had just enough sweet to go along, adding up to an experience that held my interest and was far from same-old. As a plus, none of the slices had that funkiness problem. My common recommendation for grapefruit holds: aim ugly.

Grade: B

Grapefruit, June 23rd, 2008

2008-06-23T17:39:00.004-04:00

Brand: Sundance Natural Foods
Variety: Deep Red (possibly a kind of Star Ruby)
Growth location: California
Bought in: Weaver Street Market

Finally, a nice grapefruit from this bunch I bought at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro. On the whole, these Sundance Deep Reds have been quite sour and little else. While that does make them some of the most consistent grapefruits I've ever eaten, they have not been that enjoyable.

This grapefruit separated itself from its brothers in flavor. Like all the other Sundance Deep Reds, it failed to hold up in any semblance of slices, instead demanding to be eaten in chunks or single granules left on my fingers, and with plenty of exposed flesh, but it had a fine, subtle, even flavor. The fruit maintained a subdued balance of light sweetness and vague tart for the full duration of being eaten. A fine job and a welcome change to the weeks' grapefruits.

Grade: B

I must point out that one from this batch, eaten on Saturday, June 21st, had beautiful skin--unique white mottling and otherwise a rich, attractive tone. Behold:

Grapefruit, June 4th, 2008

2008-06-10T22:12:00.003-04:00

Brand: Rainbow Valley Orchards
Variety: Star Ruby
Growth location: Rainbow, California
Bought in: Trader Joe's

I know a man who says he hates grapefruits. He says they taste like "someone threw up on an orange." I didn't quite understand what he meant when he said it. Now I do.

I've got nothing against sour grapefruits, but this was shockingly sour in comparison to many of the grapefruits I've been eating. I got a feeling of citric acid overload on my tongue upon completing the fruit. Of course, shocking surprise is, to me, a positive fruit experience. A few slices of this one were lacking the sourness and ended up being neutral in flavor, which were also a pleasant surprise.

Sounds good, right? Well, no. Remember the vomit part?

The enjoyability of the majority of the fruit was overridden by that darned earthiness that plagues so many grapefruits. The combination of intense sour and earthiness added up to quite a unique, but ultimately unpleasant, grapefruit. Indeed, I saw in this fruit how someone could interpret a grapefruit to taste like an orange, plus vomit.

Rating: D-

Grapefruit, May 28th, 2008

2008-05-28T18:55:00.002-04:00

Brand: Texas Sweet (Healds Valley Farms)
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

Sorry, I did not snap a picture of this one before consuming it.

The bag's fifth and final grapefruit had little going for it, but not too much going against it. It did a passable job of being sweet and sour. Except to note what wasn't wrong with it, a pastime not worth exploring, I can't say much in favor of this grapefruit.

One slice was partially overtaken by that wretched firmness I've discussed before, but this time, only a single bite of fruit was such a loss. A slight sourness that did not seem to be the pleasant, citric acid type permeated throughout. The skin of each slice almost never stayed together when pulling a slice away, but it did not get too messy in the process of eating.

These various issues did not add up to a seriously unpleasant grapefruit, however, just a generally disappointing one.

Rating: D+

In summary, I can't really say good things about Healds Valley Farms this time of year. They gave me one great grapefruit out of five, but that seems to be a pretty reasonable ratio these days. I'll look elsewhere for my grapefruits when I go shopping this evening.

Grapefruit, May 26th, 2008

2008-05-28T18:44:00.002-04:00

Brand: Texas Sweet (Healds Valley Farms)
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

File this one under "plain grapefruit." Nothing noteworthy came to me in this grapefruit, just a general citrus flavor and no real problems. It had an average quantity of seeds, did not taste of unpalatable earthiness, and held together reasonably well.

If a grapefruit is going to land somewhere between "good" and "bad," I would at least hope for something intense in its flavor, but no, this one was balanced in sweetness and tart, with both flavors mellow. A great grapefruit should be both intensely sweet and intensely tart; this was as average as they come.

Grade: C

Grapefruit, May 22th, 2008

2008-05-28T18:30:00.003-04:00

Brand: Texas Sweet (Healds Valley Farms)
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

I spoke too soon about the Red Star variety-- The bag has delivered me a great grapefruit. Tender, juicy, sweet, and tart all at once, the fruit provided a beautiful experience. But not every die-hard hater would be converted. Lesser slices made up perhaps 1/5th of the grapefruit. These slices did not taste bad; they were acceptable, above-average slices, but lacking the harmonious combination of the above traits. The rest of this fruit, however, was all I could ask for.

Rating: A-

Grapefruit, May 20th, 2008

2008-05-22T17:40:00.003-04:00

Brand: Texas Sweet (Healds Valley Farms)
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

This bag is not going well. While the first grapefruit was tasty, the second proved displeasing. Some slices were bland, some hard and chunky, and, most damningly, one was so strangely firm that I was scared away from eating the whole slice. However, I enjoyed some of the slices. They were, like the previous fruit from this bag, sweet and juicy, though lacking any real zest or joy.

There is no life in these grapefruits, but they are better than last week's fruit. I wonder if Texas's obsession with the reddest fruit possible has bred out any real greatness from the Red Star type.

Rating: C-

Grapefruit, May 18th, 2008

2008-05-22T17:29:00.003-04:00

Brand: Texas Sweet (Healds Valley Farms)
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

I dared to buy a bag of grapefruit. It should be a terrible idea because choice basically goes out the window, but having choice hasn't served me well lately-- My grapefruits have, lately, been poor. Since none of the fruit in this particular bag looked bad, I went ahead with it.

And, surprisingly, it was not a failure! Well, at least not a complete failure. The first grapefruit from the bag was sweet and juicy. Nothing amazing, but nothing terrible either. A nice, moderate grapefruit. The rest of the bag, well...we shall see.

Rating: B-

Grapefruit, May 16, 2008

2008-05-16T17:05:00.004-04:00

Brand: Red Star
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

Another day brings another sub par grapefruit from Red Star. Much like the last, this one failed to hold together in slices when pulled apart, but at least it had an OK flavor to it. The fruit was on the sweet side, but the flavor was, overall, a bit muted. A slight earthiness was occasionally discernible. The inexplicable oiliness and awful odor of yesterday's experience were thankfully not present. It could have been much worse, but I've had much better grapefruits.

This has been a disappointing two days, following the wonderful Trader Joe's organic one I ate on Wednesday. Maybe it's time to give Red Star a rest.

Rating: C

Grapefruit, May 15th, 2008

2008-05-15T17:33:00.003-04:00

Brand: Red Star
Growth location: Texas
Bought in: Food Lion

Unpeeling this grapefruit brought out the unpleasant and sharp odor of the juice in the peel. The texture of the juice on my hand was unlike any grapefruit I'd previously experienced. Between my fingers it felt oily and did not leave any residue upon drying--most unusual. This was a sign of things to come.
The fruit, which failed to hold together in slices when I pulled it apart, had barely any taste. A few slices had an occasional hint of earthiness, which is good for whiskey, not for grapefruits. All this is a pity; Red Star usually delivers quality grapefruits. At least it wasn't full of seeds.

Rating: D.

True Gangstas

2008-05-09T08:46:00.002-04:00

Dressing like a gangsta is easy. Timbos! Fresh Nikes! Hoodie!

Picture from the NYT article "Shiite Militias Seize Beirut Neighborhoods."

what a terrible desktop

2008-05-08T21:05:00.002-04:00

It was a picture of everything Craftsman makes. Now it's my desktop.
I only have one folder on my desktop and I have to find it by memory.

Ghostface vs. Catwoman

2008-05-06T20:28:00.003-04:00

As time goes by, we get farther and farther from the time that Ghostface felt he was ready to "fuck Catwoman." Nothing in this passage of time has offered insight into what that feeling is.

Porn Goes Local

2008-04-26T13:07:00.002-04:00

Phil Harvey got a masters degree in family planning administration at UNC in the early 70s. Perhaps it seems unlikely that he went on to create Adam & Eve.

"Every day, employees ship more than 15,000 boxes of sexually oriented merchandise across the country. Adam & Eve and its parent company, Phil Harvey Enterprises, Inc. (PHE) have grown to include Internet sales, a wholesale branch, three retail stores and at-home parties a la Tupperware. PHE doesn't sell Tupperware, though. It sells X-rated videos, lingerie, vibrators and other merchandise that people don't generally discuss in public."

Phil Harvey and his business operate out of...Hillsborough. This means that there are thousands and thousands of dildos in a warehouse in Hillsborough. And his film division, Adam & Eve Pictures, has Carrboro contact info. Is there porn being shot in Carrboro?! Well, maybe not. I can't find any evidence of that. But porn is being produced in Carrboro or Hillsborough, it seems. Just not shot there.

The Independent has a good article about Phil and his legal battles over obscenity charges--including government raids on his old warehouse west of Carrboro.

My, the rich history and culture of our area.

--contact info links to prove I'm not making shit up--
http://www.adameve.com/t-company_info.aspx
http://adamevewholesale.com/contact.php

how did i get here

2008-04-26T05:51:00.003-04:00

Wtf comedy central plays censored girls gone wild videos at 6 am? The only ad is for the uncensored version of what i'm already watching. America what have you done.

Dude I told you Wu-Tang was for the children.

2008-04-24T22:11:00.002-04:00

I was pointed toward this story about how shoes are wrong and barefoot is real, healthy, and natural. Ok nice I like that. But the real nut here is:

"Galahad Clark never intended to get into the shoe business, let alone the anti-shoe business. And he likely never would have, if it weren’t for the Wu-Tang Clan. Clark went to the University of North Carolina, where he studied Chinese and anthropology. He started listening to the Wu-Tang, the Staten Island rap collective with a fetish for martial-arts films and, oddly, Wallabee shoes. As it happens, Clark’s father had invented the Wallabee shoe. 'I figured this was my chance to go hang out with them,' Clark says. 'One thing led to another, and we developed a line of shoes together. That’s what sucked me back into the industry.'"

fuck yes.

Places

2008-04-19T13:29:00.002-04:00

Someone lives in the places our heroes lived. Someone lives in the places where something happened that had huge impact.

People hang out in the community room where Grandmaster Flash decided to put his hands on the records.

Someone lives in the dorm room where Shawn Fanning invented Napster.

Do they know it? Do they brag about it?

I have no idea what occurred in the many that years people lived in the houses and dorms I've lived in before I lived there.

Someone lives in those places I've lived now, and they have no idea what I did in those places. The songs I recorded. The sex I had.

2008-04-16T17:35:00.000-04:00

Famous Naked People Picture ID. Too intense for a trivia round?

Kool Keith has been up to things

2008-04-13T16:55:00.002-04:00

and I have been ignoring these things. Perhaps my actions have been a mistake.

Wikipedia sourcelessly reports:

"In 2004, Kool Keith gained national attention for rapping 'doo doo' for 70 minutes at a show in Memphis, Tennessee."

and...

"In early spring 2007, Kool Keith was ejected from a tribute concert dedicated to himself, in Cleveland, Ohio."

How does a song titled "Women Turn On Your TV" wait until the album "Lost Masters Vol. 2" to be released? Geez.

Shit one of his new aliases is MC Robocop

album thoughts

2008-01-27T12:35:00.000-05:00

1. Bee Thousand is the shit.
2. Hot Buttered Soul is the shit.
3. Change of the Century is weirder than The Shape of Things to Come. In its own way it is awesome.
4. "You, Baby" by the Ronettes is the shit.

A quick year in review

2007-12-08T15:46:00.000-05:00

No recorded music rocked me this year like Dan Deacon's Spiderman of the Rings and Daft Punk's Alive 2007.

Oh, and I just finished watching Dan Deacon/Jimmy Joe Roche's Ultimate Reality, and I must say, I am exhausted.

Casu Marzu

2007-11-23T18:08:00.000-05:00

it means "Rotten Cheese." It has the larvae of the Piophila casei, aka "cheese fly," in it.

"Some people clear the larvae from the cheese before consuming; others do not."

"Larvae can pass through the stomach alive (human stomach acids do not usually kill them) and take up residency for some period of time in the intestines, where they can cause serious lesions as they attempt to bore through the intestinal walls."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

Non-Turkey Turkeys

2007-11-20T20:35:00.000-05:00

Agh! The writing--it wins.

"Is there such a thing as true identity, or is it just a culinary construct?
We leave puzzled, yet full of mousse."

http://www.daniellespencer.com/graphics/projects/various/jello_turkey/2007.htm

The First Season of Sesame Street

2007-11-20T20:12:00.000-05:00

It just came out on DVD, I read. Well, it turns out the old Sesame Street could be like a news story, in slow motion, with original music. Mmm, hypnotizing, as shown.

I'm Still Not There

2007-11-03T17:24:00.000-04:00

Uh so that Sufjan version of "Ring Them Bells" off the I'm Not There soundtrack sure does go all Zappa toward the end there.

Hm, Charlotte Gainsbourg is just too cool for school. Somehow I'd rather have her unshaven, cigarette-breathed father whispering in my ear.

so that dylan movie

2007-11-03T14:32:00.000-04:00

you know, the one with 6 people playing dylan.

Why did no one tell me until yesterday that the director is the guy who made Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, acted entirely by barbie dolls?

Also, the soundtrack, where you've got 33 dylan covers and one 1967 dylan b-side, is fascinating for its producers and randomly-appearing "session musicians": members of sonic youth, wilco, television (well, just Tom Verlaine,) and my favorite so far, George Drakoulias. Who? "Sat across from my man reading El Diario, riding the train down from the El Barrio. Went from the station, to Orange Julius, I brought a hot dog from who? George Drakoulias." Thank you, Wikipedia. No really, he's not just that.

Oh, and some of the music's good too. Thanks, Malkmus.

Billboard Top 10 Songs - 2007-10-20

2007-10-15T19:40:00.000-04:00

(Date in title is the "Issue Date" from billboard.com.)

I guess these songs being primarily terrible is standard. But dear god, actually listening to most of them in a row...

Soulja Boy: Crank Dat. I'm okay with this. It's fun. let's move on.

Kanye - Stronger: Kanye's just... a bad vocalist. and a bad lyricist. He really needs to leave his beats for others. I actually don't like what he did here, productionwise, except the chorus. I do like his drum programming in this song, I just wish it wasn't over Daft Punk.

Britney Spears - Gimme More: Do I need to point out how bad this makes her look?

Timbaland - Apologize: I hope this song disappears.

Timbaland - The Way I Are: I hope this song disappears.

J Holiday - Bed: Finally, a successful chorus. I roll for this one.

Colbie Caillat - Bubbly: At first I said "no get it away" and then I sort of tuned out and ignored it for a few.

Alicia Keys - No One: This whole video reminds me of when shoots on America's Top Model suck huge balls. Nothing in this whole list is as awkward as Keys in that shiny dress-thing, standing next to that keyboard, rocking back and forth and occasionally hitting one note.

Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry: that countoff... doesn't actually count off to the song... unless the song were in, approximately, 10/8. Parts of these verses sound like "Silent Treatment." Chorus comes in... ok I'm done here.

Kanye - The Good Life: man, this album must have been expensive.

One Last Charlotte Thought

2007-09-29T17:12:00.001-04:00

Watching the city in the afternoon, focusing on no particular car but paying attention to their grouped motion, done while listening to Gaucho, approximates Sim City rather well.

Good job, Danny Clinch

2007-09-22T13:51:00.000-04:00

You have created my favorite picture of the day.

Moooresville

2007-09-20T13:51:00.000-04:00

I found sweet things in Mooresville! And I found unsweet things.

Pictures when I have a camera cable.

One of the dudes out here tells me that 5 years ago, this whole town was boarded up. Annnd now it's all strip malls. But sometimes there's leftovers...

Like the Abandoned house across from a boat dealership. It's on the main strip of town? Why not.
Explore it? Why not. I parked at the end of a nearby dead end road (the road just... stopped. had a big barrier.) I walked through the long grass and walked over the fence where it had fallen/been pushed over. The roof of this house was uh... not there. just the frame. so the ceiling's on the floor, there's "a skylight" in the kitchen,
and, as it always somehow happens in abandoned houses, there's a tumult of debris in random areas (the front hallway was particularly bad.)
I couldn't resist climbing the stairs to the second floor, which was only 2 little rooms. There was surprisingly little destruction there. The floor there felt strong, in opposition to the bathroom floor, which... wasn't there. I was looking at support beams and dirt from the bathroom doorway.
The property had various other farm-looking buildings which were not too destroyed. A lot of corn was in one corner of one hutch though.

I'm frankly surprised that there were no signs of vagrancy in it. Maybe there's no homeless here. With the love of meat in this town, I'm not surprised...

I drove out to the big, industrial-looking, steam-spewing pillar I saw when I drove into town yesterday. It turns out to be a "Steam Plant." The buildings/structures around it were way better than the steam stack itself. Lots of lattice, modules, ladders, and fences. The four-or-so giant tubes feeding into the steamstack were my favorite features.

Then I found the Goodwill. You know... a record called "He Touched Me"... yeah Jebus is a little strong out here. Also I found a copy of Nilsson's "The Point," but it didn't have a sleeve. I did find a forty dollar upright organ with an internal "drum machine." Not that I have space for it; I did not buy. But I did buy Aqua's Aquarium. Woo 3 dollars.

A final point: They have a Saladworks. I'd not heard of this before. Saladworks is like... everything bad about fast food salads... but they only serve salads. Apparently Mooresville has enough of an elderly community to support it. for now.

Fuck you widescreen TV stretch mode

2007-09-19T22:26:00.000-04:00

You can't give me a widescreen tv and not give me a display button. This shit is stuck in stretch. there's no button on the bullshit hotel remote and the menu button on the tv is... deactivated? I dunno, but it doesn't do anything when I press it. stretched people is not how to watch tv. people look uglier this way. celebs should be pissed about this.

The world doesn't care about aspect ratio.

Mooresville

2007-09-19T20:16:00.000-04:00

Mooresville, you are not a town. You are a travesty.

The NASCAR. The meat. Joel's... Sushi ("In the same shopping center as Xtreme Tans.") Big Daddy's (with NASCAR vehicles on the roof.) The strip mall with the chinese place and the japanese place, and the subway, with the quizno's across the street.

At least your Marriott-run Spring Hill Suites is pleasing. Not as good as that Sheraton though.
Go Marriott go:

Free cookies in the lobby in a fairly sanitary container!
Free wireless internet (setup can be a bit kooky though.)
Free Chupa-Chups! (oh man it's like high school spanish class all over again.)
Room with a big wall half-dividing the bed area from the "living area."
Two TVs (living area, bed area,) microwave, empty fridge, cabinet, two sinks in the room!
I'm tired of exclamation points.

I hear new TV shows are debuting tonight. And I'm in a hotel with cable in a shite town. It's TV time.

Hey scammers.

2007-09-08T16:36:00.000-04:00

Do better.

email at 1:44:

"Hi there,

I'm Lisa i saw your posting on craigslist.com that you have a place for rent, I really do
appreciate the breakdown details of the house due to what you have on your posting but i
will love to know more about the room and the neighbours expecially you.....

Anyway,i will like to let you know little about me, My name is Lisa, i'm a british,am 25years
of age,i don't drink and smoke,am a cool,quiet and easy going person to live with,am cool
living with people.I swim for fun and sometimes play video games.. I lost my dad in an auto
accident 4years ago...i live with mum and my elder brother here in London,I love going out
and like clubbing once in a blue moon,i Studied the medical and surgical treatment of
animal(veterinary) here in Royal Veterinary College . I hope to end my current assignment
by 20th of September 2007....I'm planning to work on my medical course and to get a job as
soon as i arrive in the state.

However, i will want you to get back to me with the details about the room,the total moving
in cost,and the all the utilities included as well as the pictures,if available....

I will be awaiting your reply soon....
Lisa ........"

----------------------

Ok. This could be real. Weird, but real. Well...

Email at 3:07:

"Hi there,

I saw your posting on craigslist.com that you have a place for rent, I really do appreciate the breakdown details of the house due to what you have on your posting but i will love to know more about the room and the neighbours expecially you.....

Anyway,i will like to let you know little about me,My name is marissa,i'm a british,am 25years of age,i don't drink and smoke,am a cool,quiet and easy going person to live with,am cool living with people.I swim for fun and sometimes play video games.. I lost my dad in an auto accident 4years ago...i live with mum and my elder brother here in London,I love going out and like clubbing once in a blue moon,i Studied BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology(Unisex) here in London College of Fashion . I hope to end my current assignment by 10th of September 2007....I'm planning to work on my area of specialization,to establish a fashion centre over there in the states.

However, i will want you to get back to me with the details about the room,the total moving in cost,and the all the utilities included as well as the pictures,if available....

I will be awaiting your reply soon..

marissa!"

Yeah ok. If you're gonna scam, this is not how to do it. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with the "how do I know this isn't a scam" issue later on, because this is just... so poor.

Hotels: good for internet

2007-09-06T21:45:00.000-04:00

You can do a lot of maintenance on your online presence when you're stuck in a hotel with free wireless internet and you don't know anybody in town.

Thanks, Sheraton, for doing hotel internet right.

the business

2007-09-02T12:43:00.000-04:00

In response to the NYT article about Rick Rubin and the music industry: I don't care if the labels collapse. Music isn't going anywhere. Systems change/things fall apart. The rather-flawed music industry could probably stand to have a reboot, and we may be looking at that chance.

edit:
upon finishing the article, i see that rick rubin agrees with me: "Too many people make and love music for it to ever die. It will never be over. The music will outlast us all."

Thoughts Dump

2007-09-01T11:01:00.001-04:00

They cut down the trees behind my apartment a few days after I moved in. Now there's construction all day. Good thing I work all day.

Time Warner cable: why u gotta not be available by phone in non-working hours? u wrong for that.

Fuck the frail shit. Cuz when my coke come in they gotta use the scales that they weigh the whales with.

Sometimes I think I look like someone I don't want to associate with. I don't know how to feel about that.

2007-07-22T23:12:00.000-04:00

I just realized that Prince has gone from "relevant artist" to "one of those old guys who has released so many albums." Relevance has kind of stopped being the point with him.

I guess there were periods of "relevant artist who's falling off" and "previously relevant artist who fell off," but i didn't realize this was the next step.

I guess this happened, by the 1980s, to Miles.

... did it ever happen to Bob Dylan?

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It is illogical to expect any creature in those circumstances to find anything but the most fleeting sense of pleasure. Somewhat out of character, the sad notes contain a distant echo of hope.

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happiness) is pleasurable enough to allow us to endure what might otherwise be unendurable. The United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Canada declared war on Japan the same day.

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The song first appeared in a British revue, New Faces. in other words, yes, you heard me right: my grandfather was a newspaper troll, so in a way, i'm just keeping up the family tradition heh, how come all this k5 crap i write doesn't get me any snatch?

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And a whole lotta death threats have been made on the Internet. Italy had declared war on Britain and France that same day. One aspect that would not be forgotten would be World War Two. What is needed is a middle ground. Like Survivalism, the lyrics are targeted at us evil Neocon bastards and yes, we get a kick out of it too.

Of course the opposite situation, with no focus on details, can be just as bad.

" On August 18th 1944, a contingent of Canadians was assigned to cut off a key corridor being used by enemy soldiers to escape the Allied advance in Normandy.

Paper Doll was written just a few years after the First World War and was virtually unknown until it became a hit during the Second World War. I propose that life itself is such a situation - we are all in constant, mortal danger.

The tune was used as a warning by the partisans and, as a result, only a few bars were heard at a time. This music, a waltz, is rarely heard because simultaneously another German composer, Norbert Schultze, found the poem and gave it a marching tune. I'm not sure she meant to, but maybe she did.

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Howard played more of Artie's interview where he was talking about how people love and hate him so they'll make fun of him out on the street and then ask to have their picture taken with them.

Jason has lost 21 pounds in two weeks so he's doing very well. He was talking about the fat thing and how he had this chick out in Vegas and how he couldn't see her face as she was blowing him. He said there's always shit under his gut no matter how he finishes. Eric said that he voted against Governor Schwarzenegger in the last election. Robin said Emily Proctor went up to him and asked if Jabba was a bad guy.

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She said she saw guys walking past the car looking at them too.

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Artie said he sees that guy at a lot of games and shows and he's very supportive of him and the show.

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She said she's had to use an enema to make that happen.

He said you could see him doing the fist pump thing in just about every clip they showed last night.

They got into the back seat of the car and started messing around. Howard said that both of the girls did a good job but Isabella was a little more physical with her part. Artie said he'd like to complain about it but legally he's not sure what he can say on the air.

Artie and Elliot Offen are at 3-7 and Big foot Mark is at 3-5-2.

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Stephanie had some ravioli for dinner. He told Howard that his full name is Fred Eric Norris and that's that. he said he never reported this to anyone but he never saw those two guys again either. Howard kept asking him over and over again about that stuff but he wasn't talking so Howard told him that he's such a girl.

Isabella was a little thrown off by Tabitha being so forward.

Reichen said he didn't remember but Howard said he's remembered every time a woman has swallowed his.

Howard said it just showed that he could go out and have some fun after working a serious job like he had.

She also said she's been told she looks like Mandy Moore.

Howard asked who likes to put it in the other guy more. She ran down the list of things that have happened to her and said it's time for her to make a change. He said that she's very ''normal'' today and she's not acting as crazy as usual.

Artie said she knew just what she was doing and went right in to do it. Howard asked the woman who her friend looks like.

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12 Rods? Walt Mink? What ARE these records?

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2006-12-12T11:34:00.000-05:00

Thoughts from the past months:

The Hold Steady is such a high school band. Would have gone really well in my 10th grade life. Weird that their live show is full of 20/30 yr olds. I see blow-up potential here.

Yo La Tengo is coming in February! fuck yea. Hopefully they won't bring their "and friends" bullshit along this time.

Tom Waits' Orphans is excellent. I have been oversaturated with Waits lately though. I must take care to not burn out on him. I have much more to absorb and it will be tasty.

I can't decide if La Monte Terry's 'The Well Tuned Piano' is improved by its five hour run-time. If it was a single disk, would I think it sucked? Is its length part of the point? There's not a lot of variety in it. Does its epic length trick me into not evaluating it as good or bad music?

Listening to:

Tom Waits - Orphans (Bastards)

Indie Labels Finding Talent

2006-06-19T10:33:00.000-04:00

I suspect, having listened to lots of indie rock that no one will hear or care about, that labels simply cannot find good enough talent. These albums I've been listening to have two or three good songs, and a bunch of stuff that I just can't care about. Labels must look around for solid material, and discover that none of these bands in any given place have more than a few good songs. The label, of course, must put records out, so they go with those bands. Better artists just aren't getting any public exposure (maybe they can't do live shows.)

Gee, that's almost inspiring.

Listening to:
Elevator Action
Society, Secret

Ambient Music

2006-05-09T21:31:00.000-04:00

Have I turned to ambient music only because I can't stand silence?

Hot Sauce Reviews - Devil Drops

2006-05-04T11:52:00.000-04:00

Dat'l Do-It Devil Drops

heat rating: 4 (a little hot.)
Here's one to be commended. Despite its low heat rating, it gets winning marks from me for its great flavor and hey, there is a little heat here. Carrot puree is its no. 1 ingredient. Mango juice concentrate is third on the list, and while I can't find the mango in a straight taste of the sauce, I can't complain: it tastes great. First the carrots hit, and then an instant later you taste what I will assume is a combination of the vinegar, datil peppers and lime juice. The burn arrives during this phase, lingering for some time after, with a garlic taste emerging. I like it so much that I've done three straight drops of it while writing this review. I didn't know there was sugar in it until I looked at the ingredients list; it doesn't show at all. A note on its heat: its a rather watery sauce (low viscosity), so I end up using more of it per use than I do with thicker sauces. It packs a little punch with three or four spurts of it on a bowl of spaghetti. I use it primarily for spaghetti and pizza; in fact I got my hands on this bottle explicitly for the purpose of using it on pizza. Devil Drops is one of my favorite hot sauces, one I'd buy again. I recommend it to everyone: newbies will get some heat out of it, veterans will dig its flavor.

Convention vs. Effect

2006-04-15T19:36:00.000-04:00

Don't do shit because you're supposed to. Do shit because it works.

Choreographed dances don't hit a lot of people. Doesn't work on me. Choreography on stage is something some are supposed to do. But it doesn't work.

Intense flailing will probably work better to draw people in. Bruce Springsteen did it. Look at the Hammerstein Odeon '75 footage. How can you deny the effect?

Flail cuz you feel it, flail cuz it works. Distrust convention.

Violence

2006-03-25T13:54:00.000-05:00

"Gee, I Like Your Pants." "Frownland." This jabbersome violence is most satsifying.

Hot Sauce Reviews - Trinidad Habanero

2006-03-10T13:21:00.000-05:00

Trinidad Habanero pepper sauce, Extra Hot

heat rating: 2. (Not hot.)
Labeled "extra hot," this one is not, which makes me wonder what the version just labeled "hot" is like. Its unobtrusive flavor and low heat level have enabled me to finish almost half the bottle in 2 weeks. However, if you use enough, things do heat up. But "enough" is teaspoon-loads.
Trini's exciting ingredients list includes ginger, mustard and various herbs, which are well blended, but don't add up to anything exciting flavorwise. The flavor is pleasant. I recommend this sauce for newbies or for people who want the satisfaction of finishing a bottle of hot sauce in record time. This one's kind of disappointing, but at least it doesn't taste crazy (I'm looking at you, Dat Sauce.)

young vs. old songwriters

2006-03-04T09:55:00.000-05:00

some young songwriters aren't writing climaxes. they'd prefer to sit along the river prettily for 4 minutes and fade out at that point. The best of the young songwriters know to bust out with a big triumphant, cathartic finale.

but the old songwriters know that sometimes things die ugly. songs aren't worth finishing out with a big thumping whoop. things turn evil and fester, leaving you with only the choice of running away or watching the horror.

the work of the young songwriters will not stay with us as we get older.