Nearly six months after taking the exam, today I got a call from the HR person at my office to appear for an interview for Income Maintenance Caseworker (IMC hereafter) on December 2 at 2pm. The Elephant in the Room (EITR hereafter) had alluded to this sometime last week (merely in passing), which all but cued the Ominous Stormclouds gathering ( Read more... )

Wear the paper bag like an oxygen mask
Till your mind starts to chill

Without a doubt, I am the tool in this scenario. Hands down.

[*=in memory of Mike Stone]

As a brief aside: Psyclon Nine put on a fantastic show last night. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I could have wrung the sweat from my clothing into a barrel by the time it was over ( Read more... )

Update: the following titles from the previous list have been sold (and noted as such ( Read more... )

At a time when even the most pristine DVDs in my collection are netting a pithy trade-in value at local second-hand merchants, I have decided to take my housecleaning (replacing said DVDs with their Blu-ray counterparts) to the World Wide Web. Here is what I am releasing at the moment ( Read more... )

Video footage (of varying quality) from Festival Kinetik here ( Read more... )

Sunday, May 17 : Phase.04.EBM

It begins with an amusing anecdote: I slip inside the shower, landing on my left knee and slamming the elbow-side of my left forearm on the porcelain partition that divides the stall from the bathroom's tile floor. Surge of pain shoots straight to my head. Ah, fuck! I exclaim. Immediately thinking the bone's broken. ( Read more... )

Aesthetic tidbits forgotten in previous entry:

During the walk back to the hotel, a short hispanic man began yelling at Lizard and I for no reason. We hadn't provoked him in any way. Yet he insisted on berating us in Spanish (or a mix of Spanish and French? I couldn't tell), calling us puntas repeatedly. Also, in keeping with the vomit theme ( Read more... )

Lizard was his usual underdressed self. There are times when we probably resemble some kind of gay S&M couple. The afternoon had cleared into mildness and sunshine. Walked down the main drag for many blocks before left-turning down our street. Early, we staked out the eateries on a parallel strip one block down. Glanced over menus in the windows. ( Read more... )

[inspired by the "Victor" montage from The Rules of Attraction movie ( Read more... )