last night was an awesome night. It was Mark's friend Jessie's birthday party, held in her friend's super-swanky downtown Denver apartment. He and I ate vegan chocolate cake, smoked pot, and chatted people up, returning periodically to one another for cuddles and music conversation. the vibe was relaxed and comfortable. at the end, the birthday ( Read more... )

my grandmother posed nude for a photographer doing a project documenting women's attitudes towards their bodies. it's on the Seattle Pi's website. interesting ( Read more... )

you know what would be awesome? a Pixies cover of "I Want Candy." they'd alter the drumbeat rhythm to give it a halting, weird effect, and the guitars would toot the chords in that trademark hollow, industrial sound. Kim Deal would play the bass riff and yell the verses semi-sarcastically. or maybe she'd trade off with Frank Black. in any case it ( Read more... )

i'm not leaving my job yet. For like the third time, my supervisor told me I could pick up more tasks around the office and thus work more hours. I suppose I'll have to ask around if there's anything to do at a given time besides scan papers ( Read more... )

they finally (for sure this time) replaced my fired coworker with someone else. A pretty, eager-faced blond girl whose name I didn't catch when she was briefly, wordlessly introduced to me. I spent nine fucking months as their scanner bitch. Tomorrow will be my last day. I don't know why they wouldn't promote me- maybe I don't learn fast enough, ( Read more... )

why am I not writing in this thing? seriously, I've gone like a week without any words here ( Read more... )

why, in God's name, has Sonia Manzano (best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street) not recorded more music? her raspy draggish deadpan vocals on "Turn Back O Man" (from the Jesus musical Godspell, which I know about because my church group put on a performance when I was 14) make me want to have sex with myself. if she's this hot singing in ( Read more... )

i saw Across the Universe last night with Cara's friends in Northglenn. it's actually rather amusing if you don't take American history or Beatles songs seriously and disregard the flimsy "show as many 1960s stereotypes as possible" plot. consider: naked women in white body paint dancing on top of a water surface singing "Jah Guru Deva", ( Read more... )

S-K's "The Woods" album on vinyl is the best seduction method ever. every note sounded somehow cleaner; clearer, the album no longer sounded so dark and fuzzy. it was insane. Carrie's voice sounded so different. at the beginning of "Let's Call It Love" the two of us were sitting somewhat awkwardly side by side on the couch, with the cat between us ( Read more... )

the majority of suburban Colorado is not designed for those who don't have cars. living in Boulder I tend to forget this...therefore, I end up on the top of a hill gazing down over a manicured park to the distant group of buildings where, somewhere, there is a temp agency where I was supposed to have been half an hour ago.