Jelly Roll Morton - Creole performer. Plays with the Red Hot Peppers (studio band). Brings New Orleans sound to Chicago. See "Dead Man Blues". Uses skits and prologue/epilogue to convey a sense of true authenticity of the NO sound. The song itself is deeply rooted in the NO tradition of holding a festive, merry funeral musical set ( Read more... )

( GHOSTS IN WINTER by Top Hat )

( A HUNGER ARTIST by Top Hat )

( PLAGUE DOCTOR by Top Hat )

( FORGOTTEN ALTARS by Top Hat )

Last night I went on a date to Cheers. We wound up cuddled in an awning talking to a homeless fellow who'd gotten into a scrap and another fellow who'd been kicked out of a neighbouring bar twice for being too coked out.

I love this town.

I'm packing up my stuff, and under my bed - buried in a pile of old notes and papers - I found a sheet of looseleaf; blank, except for the words "I'm sorry for hurting so many people." written on the top line. I think it's in my handwriting, but I don't remember writing it.

It's gonna be one of those nights.

So a few nights ago Sarah and I went biking around at the school - at 2 in the morning. And I sorta went angle-wise off a skate jump and wound up fracturing my left elbow.

I'm feeling about 27 shades of dumb right now.

Here's an old meme that I thoroughly enjoyed last time around ( Read more... )

Judging by how the computer's been behaving as of late, I get the sense that it's going to die again very soon. It's about a decade old now, so I can't blame it.

I'll likely just take it in to Digital World; salvage the parts I want, trade in the rest.

EDIT: Compy died on May 7th. Resquiat et pacem, good buddy.

( Comp Stats, for my own benefit )