What a pretty day in western Washington; I wish I had brought a camera to show it off. About 80 degrees and not a cloud in the sky ( Read more... )

So I wrote my first Seattle "missed connection" on craigslist:

oh god, why am I doing this ( Read more... )

this little 2-month jaunt to washington state has been far from perfect. at best, it's yielded me little more than reprieve from prescription and illegal drugs and has afforded me the chance to realize that i'm lacking in goals and aspirations ( Read more... )

If I ever need cheering up, I just look at this segment of Kenny Everett's Video Show with Squeeze doing "Cool for Cats".

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Kenny Everett is a comic genius - "And reveals the secret of why Mrs. Kenworthy left her pants in the vestry and her vest in the pantry!" He died of AIDS in 1995 though, which I didn't even know about until recently. I also ( Read more... )

Since I don't have a really good internet collection OR access to my Mac hard drive with its 15,000 MP3's, I've mostly been relistening to old favorites ( Read more... )

Robert Palmer doing Gary Numan's "I Dream of Wires" has to be one of the most awesome ideas ever. He does a better job than Gary himself. I definitely want to start DJing in Seattle and I think this will be a banner song to play.

It is foolish to verge into strange, enchanted places if they aren't the places you want to be.

Even though yes, I have a job offer and yes, things will likely work out for me, I was so stressed out last night that I couldn't even eat dinner and was in some kind of low-level physical pain. My grandmother is pressuring me to get all this web work done and trying to make that a higher priority than finding an apartment. Finally, my grandpa ( Read more... )

I am sure Farah will appreciate this: My favorite song of the past few weeks has become "Six Months in a Leaky Boat". It used to come on the Muzak all the time at Kerbey Lane. Once I figured what the song was actually about I finally realized how great the song is ( Read more... )

Against all evidence that perhaps I shouldn't take this job or live in this city, I have decided to take that job and live in that city. Seattle ( Read more... )