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i got this one from my fabulous friend, skippy, on another site.  this is actually a pretty good one:

set your mp3 player on shuffle. use each title that comes up to fill in the answers.

i swear i did not cheat.  i'll admit i was tempted once, because the result made no sense, but i stood firm.  the weirdest thing is that my itunes mostly kicked out  ( Read more... )

i've started learning a bit of finnish.  at this point i only know enough to get myself in very deep trouble (should i ever dare to try and use it).  anyway, here are my favorite false cognates so far.  may there be many more.

1) maailman - a form of the noun that means "world" (finnish has 9 noun cases--ack!)
2) porkkana - carrot
3) appelsiini - ( Read more... )

save for some nice times spent with friends in san francisco (and a little bit in austin), june of 2006 was one of the bleakest, blackest months for me.  ever.  july has to be better, right?

when i was little i had a cheap little cassette recorder that i played with almost every day.  (would that i were that prolifically creative now!)  i would sing songs, read riddle books out loud, perform skits with my next-door-neighbor, etc.  but one of my favorite things to do was create imaginary radio shows for the imaginary radio station WNAN ( Read more... )

because i've been remiss in posting about our travels lately...

gains:
• 4 shattering live experiences (though some shattered more than others): shudder (kyle bruckmann, lance grabmiller, phillip greenlief) @ the luggage store gallery; thomas brinkmann @ recombinant media labs; nurse with wound + guests @ great american music hall; and pink mountain ( Read more... )

just got the new issue of the wire in the mail today.  initially jumped for joy when i found out richard youngs had been added to the lineup of the thurston moore-curated all tomorrows parties in early december, the "nightmare before christmas."  then i went online to get tickets, and though tickets are theoretically £115 per person, the smallest s ( Read more... )

this year had been pretty craptastic for me already, but in the last month or so it has taken a turn for the worse--a combination of seriously bad things and ultimately-inconsequential-but-still-pretty-freakin'-depressing things.  i just don't have the heart to journal or do much of anything these days.  all i do is sit here and listen to music and ( Read more... )

10 pm - 1 am, 12 june 2006, ktru rice radio, houston, tex-ass

i did the first couple hours or so.  hk covered the bulk of the last hour.  he really likes cold meat industries.  i don't eat meat.

here's the not-exactly-linear track listing:

• monos / moon environment [nightfall sunshine] on the die stadt label.
• paul metzger / august [split w/ ( Read more... )

we took a drive around houston's east end today, specifically to take pictures of unusual buildings, unusual signage...anything that struck our fancy, really. taking pictures is kind of my new addiction. gas is expensive, yes, but at least my new hobby keeps me out of loehmann's. we ended up at highway 45, so we headed up north to vinal edge to ( Read more... )