. : entry: #854 . : subject: DVDs are GO!

ok, i'm officially opening pre-orders for see colin slash / control theory / black snake moan DVDs.... right about.... NOW! price is $12. paypal me at eric-at-seecolinslash.com to reserve a copy. you can pick it up at meat on wednesday, from me some other time if i'm gonna see you, or we'll ship it to you for another $5. no, it probably won't cost all of $5 to ship, but since we're not dealing with a lot of these, if i ship it i will probably have to go buy shipping materials, package it up, and go to the post office JUST FOR YOUR INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT, so don't be selfish :D there's a bit over 2 hours of music on the disc in total, including two separate see colin slash sets (1 all acoustic.) there are several songs on the DVD that we have never released, and at least two that were only ever played at that show. video was taken from 3 different cameras, and audio was mixed from the DNA's stream and moving camera sources to provide a more complete and generally better-sounding show than what you probably heard if you were actually there. lots and lots of work has gone in to this, especially on baconmonkey's part, and we're very proud of it. sometimes concert videos are things you really only watch once, but we think this is something you'll be happy to watch until you've found all the little things we screwed up :D the rerelease of the see colin slash CDs will take place in a few months. we're putting a lot of little extras on them and we figured people would rather get a better product later on. *a note about recordable DVDs: not all DVD players will play all burned DVDs, and unfortunately we were doing too short a run to have these pressed. MOST DVD players, especially newer models, will be fine with anything, but if you're unsure, check here for your player. we have both +R and -R DVDs available, so request your preference if you have one. if you wind up with a DVD you can't play, we'll gladly give you an exchange for the alternate format, or if that doesn't work, a refund.

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scratch that. logistics collided with insanity and now we're back to all leaving together friday morning again.

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. : entry: #852 . : subject: anyone wanna maybe go to la?

ok, insanity has struck the psyclon nine posse (for a change) and there's now a chance that i'll be driving to LA's show @ das bunker in my car, separate from the van. anybody wanna come? off_ocus, this would include you if it happens. we'd leave earlyish friday morning, come back some time saturday.

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. : entry: #851 . : subject: STAB . : mood: SALAD FORK . : music: TONGS

KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY pathogen IF YOU WERE HERE MY FINGERS WOULD HAVE BEEN UP YOUR NOSE TEN MINUTES AGO AND YOU WOULD HAVE SAID "GIMME SOME MORE" ONLY YOU'D BE IN A REAL AWKWARD POSITION SO IT'D BE MORE LIKE "GUH MUH SUH MUH" KINDA LIKE WHEN ARSEFACE FROM THE PREACHER TALKS. I LIVE INSIDE A GIANT CEMENT TROUT NAMED RALPH AND I LIKE TO DRIVE THROUGH DONUT SHOPS IN MY PAPAYA UTILITY VEHICLE

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. : entry: #850 . : mood: DELERIOUS . : music: THE SAME SNARE SOUND. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OV

WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF RECORDING AND MANAGING SAMPLES ON AN AKAI S900 SAMPLER WITH NO SELECT KNOB, NO BACKLIGHT, AND A BROKEN MIDI OUT PORT PREVENTING THE SAMPLER FROM TAKING ANY SAMPLES OVER MIDI, FORCING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF REWIRING SO AUDIO CAN BE SENT TO IT DIRECT FROM THE COMPUTER'S SOUND CARD. POPULATION? ME. oh yeah, did i mention it's after 3am?

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. : entry: #849 . : subject: apparently it's "learn things about eric you didn't have any particular desire to know" day

GO GO GADGET fahrvergnugen: 1) Fill in the blank: Wake me up before you go go, _________________________. either "cuz i don't plan on going solo" or "don't leave me hanging like a yo yo." i can't remember if the latter is actually in the song, or if it's just a commonly misheard lyric. apparently, after his next album, george michael is planning on producing nothing but singles which he'll release for free, ostensibly because he "doesn't need any more money from the public" (yes, he actually said that) and is tired of dealing with the record industry. huh. pretty cool. 2) So it is common wisdom that the first year living together is always the hardest. As you are now near the end of this period of time, what particular achievements / deepening moments in your relationship with Shannon do you consider most significant, are you most proud of? Any unexpected compromises that you find notable? actually, although we've encountered the odd relationship-related conflict in the last few months, we've had almost no significant problems directly related to living together. well, at least she hasn't done anything that's bothered me. i'm messy, and i leave stuff lying around more often than i should, but that's caused very little actual conflict. the rest of the question is complex, and don't think i've really got a good answer, and if i did i probably wouldn't answer in a public livejournal entry :D ...but, i think i've done a pretty good job with special occassions and getting her good presents so far. perhaps an impressively good job. this is not the sort of thing that would normally warrant comment, but i've been pretty pleased with my performance for two valentine's days, a birthday, and an anniversary. *pats self on back.* 3) Why do you keep the couch that smells like cat piss? I thought it was just me for ages, until the last party, when other people confirmed that it was indeed your couch. first of all, that couch was supposed to have been reupholstered by now, but the person doing it has been unbelievably flaky. she took the measurements, and has $100 or so in materials we bought for her to do it, and she hasn't done it yet. meh. anyhow, the primary reason i've kept that couch is that it is the most fucking comfortable couch EVER. serious. i sit down on that thing and i can instantly fall asleep. it's actually problematic. it's like the comfiest chair in the world from the tick. the secondary reason, which may be tied to the first, or not, is nostalgia. that couch used to live at sashiegirl and joannevicious's place in berkeley, and i lived on it for a month or two. it was a weird time in my life, but i have a lot of great memories of hanging out with puck, aka little cat, on that couch right after they'd acquired him. 4) How do you think your musical style has evolved or matured? Where do you see yourself going with your artistic expression? Have you had any solo projects you found satisfying, or are you more into collaborative work? Of which works are you most proud, or ashamed? well, in high school i was in a cheezy pop-punk band that turned in to a disgusting mix of london after midnight and the mission UK, and after that i was doing cheezy synthpop solo for a while. i didn't like working solo, but i needed to do it to learn songwriting fundamentals and just basically figure myself out. i tried during that year or so to find collaborators, but it was tough. i barely knew anybody outside of my former bandmates that was in to goth or industrial or even synthpop, nobody who wanted to do electronic music, etc. it was very frustrating. i hadn't had an even remotely successful collaboration with anybody for something like two years when i met greg, and we spent like two hours playing kraftwerkian improv bullshit on his jx-305 like ten minutes later. working with greg was really difficult at times because when we started, i really wanted to be in a super-cool, hard industrial band. i was listening to a lot of leaetherstrip, and i'd just discovered wumpscut. and i wanted to do all these crazy things to get famous fast. i kept wanting to get on all these compilations that were coming out before we even really knew what kind of music we were going to make and hadn't written anything, and he was just like, "no, i just want to write music that sounds however it sounds." our musical tastes kept diverging farther and farther, but we managed to put out stuff that found common ground. and lemme tell you, when you're listening to powernoise and your bandmate is listening to indie-rock, it's not easy. it's also not easy when you want to be famous and your bandmate doesn't want anybody to even hear your music. i'd come up with all these crazy ideas, and he'd shoot them all down. i'd want to play all these shows, and i'd have to keep pressuring him in to playing, which was a huge pain. towards the end it was difficult to do any work at all. when i wrote the morrissey song, he was very resistant to doing production stuff on it, and it was tough. this is not to say it was always this hard. i think we managed to do great things when writing together, and the acoustic stuff was always lots of fun and basically low pressure. our skills complemented each other very well. of course, there's also the issue of our other collaborators, including lemniscate (who eventually became the 'actual' third member) and desl. it was difficult to find people we were both happy with, who we could get along with and could actually play. thank god we got steve from deathline to play with us at our second and third shows. he really helped us get it together. but trading people in and out and not knowing who was going to play what the next time made things really tricky. ...so when the end was near, i thought, "great! now i can finally do all that stuff that greg didn't want to!" but i've found that i'd been doing see colin slash for so long it was difficult to figure out how to do anything else. doing see colin slash stuff is easy for me. or at least, it seems that way now. be ironic, self referential, and allude to a lot of outside sources. write whatever you want, leave it half done and your bandmate picks it up and steers it back to where it needs to be. etc., etc. frankly we were pretty formulaic at times, in ways that maybe aren't so obvious to other people (the obvious things were less formulaic, if that makes any sense) and it's been hard to get away from that formula. but i think i'm starting to get it down. as for deathline and psyclon... i get a lot out of them, but it's a totally different kind of thing than see colin slash was, or than a solo project is. i'm not explicitly in control of the aesthetics or artistic direction, i hold no veto power in those sorts of decisions, etc. so it's like helping somebody else express their thoughts rather than expressing my own. like acting i guess. you can get a lot out of it, and it can be a great form of self expression, but not in the same way that directing the feature would be. 5) What's the most perfect moment you've experienced in the last three months? you know, you ask very personal questions considering the context. not that that's a bad thing. individual moments are difficult. there are lots of random fleeting moments spent with shannon that would qualify but either can not or would not be described here. i had a moment of sheer genius at marshall's house while writing a string line for a new psyclon song a couple of weeks ago, that was pretty great. various shindigs that have taken place at our house lately have been pretty great too. incidentally, SEVERAL OF YOU seem have missed the initial "rules of the meme" post, wherein it is stated that you respond to an interview with "interview me," and then that is responded to with questions, then you post the answer in your journal. so that's them.

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i think this is already like, my third of the day. from dream_logic: 1. you, like myself, are somewhat of a collector of older industrial memorabilia. what's your favorite cd/flyer/scrap of paper/whatever? why? hmm, good question. there's a few. one is the classic COP diatribe/battery screwup CD case. the pressing plant had mislabeled an entire batch of diatribe - therapy CDs as battery - meatmarket, and vice versa. christian decided they were "collector's items" and made cardboard cases for them describing them as such. i found one about a year before i started working there. business cards i've acquired from people i like and have had some sort of "professional" contact with are always nice, although martin atkins' doesn't seem so special anymore :D i have steven seibold's, michael smith's, and jared from chemlab gave me a pseudo-business card from his radio company with his email address on it. i have a collection of posters and flyers from shows i've actually played, which i include in this collection. i like the color poster from deathline's last SLC show, and the portland see colin slash / cleaner / noxious emotion show the best out of thos. my thrill kill kult confessions of the knife poster signed by groovie mann is a favorite. it's not up because i want to get it framed. my killing joke - america poster is pretty great too. and my trifold wax-trax poster. my zoth ommog keychain. 2. what's your favorite place to just chill out and not have to think about things? my living room. seriously. dunno where else i ever feel that way. 3. in a movie about your meteoric rise to rock stardom, who would play you? nerozero, obviously! er. no. actually... maybe tim roth? i like him a lot. charleton heston. 4. given all the things that your tummy dislikes having inside of it, what do you most wish you could eat anyway? well, at this point i'm back on to eating -almost- anything. i miss coffee though, and i'm still hesitant to start drinking it again. 5. if you could pick an existing movie to re-score, what would it be and how would you treat it? this is an easy one: transformers the movie. yeah, obvious i guess, but like, seriously. at this point, nobody cries when optimus prime dies anymore because they're too busy screaming "YOU GOT THE TOUCH!!! YOU GOT THE POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYEAH!" it clearly needs a millenium/hardwired era FLA reworking. i would also like to rework the passion of christ, which i have not yet seen, with a peewee's big adventure-style flair.

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day, i challenge you to get any duller. i'm expecting to go to fark.com (i haven't been yet today) and see it completely blank since friday.

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. : entry: #846 . : subject: gottesman family joke time

A Jewish doctor makes a great medical discovery for which the Queen has decided to grant him knighthood. At the ceremony, as she touches his shoulders with the sword, he is supposed to recite an ancient Celtic blessing. However, for all his medical genius, the doctor cannot seem to memorize the required Celtic words. On the day of his investiture, the nervous doctor waits his turn as several others are being knighted before him. As he listens to one after another correctly recite the Celtic blessing, he grows more and more nervous. Finally, when he kneels before the Queen of England and she taps his shoulders with the sword, the good doctor completely forgets the Celtic words, and substitutes the first foreign words that popinto his head: "Ma Nishtahnah Ha Lailah Ha Zeh." The Queen, clearly confused, looked to the gathered crowd, and says, "Why is this Knight different from all the other Knights?" Happy Early Passover to everyone!! (couldn't resist sending this early so you will have ample time to memorize it) -janie (for the non-jews in the audience: on passover, at the seder [aka everyone claim they're getting together for dinner but take two hours before they actually get to fucking eat] the youngest person there is supposed to ask four traditional questions, the first of which is "why is this night different from all other nights," or, in hebrew, "mah nishtanah ha lilah hazeh." GET IT? FUNNY. HAHA!)

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. : entry: #845 . : subject: I FILL YOUR MORNING WITH MEME

gothkitty is GO FOR MEME: 1. what did and didn't you like about living in LA? i like being close to my family. i like that the freeways go everywhere and driving 20 miles takes 20 minutes, whereas in the bay area driving 20 miles takes 45 minutes. i like that it's so big that you can never really run out of places to explore. i like that disneyland, magic mountain, and universal studios are all right there, as are a million other tourist traps, and you can walk out your door and be a tourist for a day whenever you want, with unending possibility. i dislike the heat, sometimes. but i'm tired of the rain and cold up here too, so i dunno. i'm not very fond of the club scene down there. it's confusing and political and just generally frustrating. the city's so big you get lost in a mass of people and it's nearly impossible to stand out, or to walk in to a club and just know everyone. it's ugly. people have nasty, unfriendly attitudes. it's hard to escape. 2. what qualities about shannon made you fall for her? uh oh, this may be cheezy. mainly it's just about the way we interact with each other. the way she communicates works well with the way i communicate. this goes beyond speech, into issues of body language and whatnot. we have almost perfectly matching aesthetic principles, which is really nice. she's super absorbent, quilted, and picks up twice as much as the leading paper towel brand. she's super ambitious, and actually pursues her ambitions, even if they seem unrealistic or impossible when she starts. she expends tons of energy on moviemaking, and i identify well with that. in some weird way, i feel like she's the ideal girl i made up in my head and fantasized about, but always figured didn't really exist. and sometimes she makes me tasty crepes. 3. do you have any huge fears and if so what are they? well, most people know about my major phobia, polydactylism. i think i've actually talked about this in a previous version of this meme. can't explain it, but things with the wrong number of appendages (or other external body parts, like eyes) scare the shit out of me. i'm also extremely scared of losing appendages myself, although other things that are missing limbs from amputation or whathaveyou don't scare me. other than that, i really can't think of anything. hmm. 4. what are your ultimate pet peeves in life? professional sports. hate hate hate hate hate. i get really bitchy about bad grammar and spelling. it drives me nuts when my friends comment that they need to lose weight, in part because i always think they look fine. people who spend all their time bitching about their underclass status, ie my life is so hard because i'm black, because i'm gay, because i'm a woman (moltar: and you're a woman. zorak: and i'm a woman!), because i'm a freak, because i'm jewish, whatever. i believe that focusing too much on that sort of thing propogates it; by all means, work to improve the lot of your people, but don't be unrealisticly down on it, don't hold it against people outside of your group, and don't let that be your only topic of conversation. oh yeah, and "mystchief" on sfrh. 5. i'm going on a camping trip and i'm gonna bring kumquats, a kmfdm cd, and a krenshaw melon. what would you bring? lemons, a laibach CD, and some lamb-stuffed naan.

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my favorite meme is back on a mission. aaah yeah. with this version you comment if you want to be interviewed, then i comment back with questions, then you answer in your journal. maybe that's how it was with the other one too, i ferget. anyhow, from psychomorbidity: we can't deny that you're a very small guy; have you ever gotten into a fight and beat anyone's ass? i don't think so. i hit the guy who eventually became my arch-nemesis in high school pretty hard once. i also kicked karina so hard she cried at a birthday party in third grade. but that wasn't nearly as bad as the time she hit me over the head with her lunch bag (with full soda can) the prior year. what are you like at a funeral? well, it depends on whose funeral i guess. the last i went to was for my maternal grandfather. he was a mason. the services were very weird, and i was mostly just quiet and reflective. i cried a lot at my paternal grandfather's funeral years ago. where did you get your coffee table? my parents made it in the 60s! i love that table. my mom has this story about it where they had it in their living room (with no glass on top, that's my addition) and somebody came over and said, "wow, your place is beautiful! it's too bad about the plumbing running through the middle of the room." at what point in your life did you stop, drop everything, and said to yourself, "i'm going to be a musician!"? well, that's not exactly how it happened. when i was growing up, i used to draw. that was my thing. i was okay at it i suppose, but my repertoire was extremely limited, and at some point when i was 14, i grew very frustrated with my inability to actually express anything through drawing. for my birthday that year my parents offered to get me guitar lessons, which i took to immediately, then there was my first band... ...so first i should say that i've always been a singer. i used to sing along to oldies in the car with my parents when i was a little kid, and i was in the boy's glee and then the show choir (ie, choir, but with only show tunes, and dorky choreography, and ridiculous outfits) in junior high. in ninth grade, i attended a birthday party for a guy whose band played at the party, and afterwards some friends and i were standing around with him saying how his band would be pretty good, but they needed a new singer. somebody says "hey! eric can sing!" and i got drafted. these things were all pretty key, but i guess the thing that really did it for me was hearing psalm 69 by ministry and nihil by kmfdm for the first time. it was the first time i'd heard music that really sounded like what i wanted music to sound like i guess. did you remember to pick everything back up and continue what you were doing after that realization? no, my bedroom, desk, studio, and car have all been horribly messy ever since. well, not so much my bedroom now that ilovezombies is living in it.

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. : entry: #843 . : subject: you people . : music: new p9 that i can't mix n'more.

abridged for your bemusement: 18:40 <AIM-Ner0reZ> i swear to god 18:40 <AIM-Ner0reZ> people need to leave me alone 18:41 <AIM-Ner0reZ> im not the god of industrial i SWEAR 18:41 <structurefall> people need to understand 18:41 <structurefall> you're a police officer 18:41 <structurefall> not the god of industrial 18:41 <AIM-Ner0reZ> exactly 18:41 <structurefall> who is it that now belives you're the god of industrial? 18:41 <AIM-Ner0reZ> everyone

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oh yeah. so this weekend, we're going to LA, mostly because we feel like seeing babyland yet again. and they're playing with not breathing, which is a bonus. this is slightly inconvenient because there's hella shit going on this weekend and i have hella p9 and scs work to do, but as i just told error853, i am a jar of saltines. so there. as you may have seen in her journal, humanerr0r is taking pictures of ilovezombies and me tonight. and apparently my hair will not be up for the occassion. i always feel kinda weird about this sort of thing. it seems ridiculously vain and silly to want people to take your picture, and i never ask (except for band business related purposes of course,) although i do like having nice pictures of myself. this will actually be the third time in the last several months that i will have been involved in such an exercise, which i suppose is a function of the fact that i presently know a whole bunch of professional photographers, semi-pro photographers, amateur photographers, and aspiring photographers. a whole bunch of you have nice pictures of yourselves up on your respective websites. as in, not just snapshots, pictures of just you and not you-with-such-and-such-friend-or-relation, which is totally normal and a logical thing to have on a personal website... but then... if you'd had those pictures taken in pre-intarweb days, what would you have done with them? why exactly were they taken? people don't generally put pictures of themselves up around the house, or at least not decontextualized artsy pictures. maybe pictures of one's self in the midst of some accomplishment, like graduating or with a giant fish or whatnot. zurt.

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the dvd looks awesome. i'm pleased. the changes that baconmonkey has implemented in the last couple of days made all the difference, and i'm now confident that we're putting out something people will really enjoy, and devon and i hope that people will want to watch numerous times. the problems that happened at the show are still there of course, but they've been minimized and the things that were really good exposited. the DVDs are going to sell for $12. i wanted to charge less, but 1. they're expensive to make, 2. the amount of work that has gone in to this thing is ungodly and 3. there are three bands and four performances in total. it's a LOT of stuff. quitcher whining. some of you have been asking about cds lately, and yes, we are making more, soon. hopefully by the 24th, but i don't know that we'll make it. they'll be "special edition" versions of the original two with either two or three new tracks (yes, that's right, new tracks*) each. i might make them in to one double CD set instead. haven't decided yet. kinda depends on financial stuff. now the big question: who wants what? will you buy a DVD? would you be willing to preorder? would you be more inclined to buy the CDs as a double disc, which might result in you buying the same album twice but you'd get all the new material for less money in total, or would you rather have them separate, which would make buying both more expensive but allow you to pick what stuff you want? should i make a "third disc" that's an EP with the bonus tracks available to people who have bought an album from us previously? why am i making this so complicated? *okay, they're new tracks yes, but there's a caveat, which is that the band is broken up, and greg and i haven't actually recorded any new music together. the new material will consist of one or more of the following: new solo material from me, new solo material from greg, new remixes from other people (and if you'd like to be one of those people let me know) who may or may not be musicians that you've heard of, and selected live tracks from the DVD in audio form. i'm also going to do some minor "cleaning up" of the errors you didn't know existed on the old CDs. i'll admit that i feel a bit silly putting this much effort in to a project that's been over for a full year (the last show was march 2, 2003,) but... well, i guess i just had a very strong emotional investment in the project and i don't feel like we left people with enough of a physical closure or something. i dunno. but after this, i think, we are -really- done.

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you know, i really hate listening to inarticulate buffoons trying to argue for something i agree with. i was just graced with a 15 minute diatribe about how great gay marriage is from somebody whose best reference about the topic came from "oprah." the highlight was when she told me that her gay friends always have "the husband and the wife." uh... daniel, dave, chase, correct me if i'm wrong, but you guys would all probably clock somebody for referring to you as their "wife," right?

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. : entry: #838 . : subject: oh yeah, and in case you haven't heard:

also, i think some of you misunderstood my tracking issue: i already have MIDI that marshall generated and has supplied to me, and now i'm recording audio from each track. i could theoretically look at the velocity and figure out where changes occur and just record those parts separately, but between doing that and making sure everything fades in to everything else correctly, it's faster to just do what i've been doing.

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. : entry: #837 . : subject: i don't have enough time to justify the amount that i waste. . : mood: (i love your movies) . : music: many different things in my head.

my new project that doesn't exist yet has a web page now, or at least 80% of one. this is despite the fact that it doesn't have a single finished song yet. ah, independent musicianship in the 21st century. well, i have 3 almost-written songs, so i guess that's not too bad. you can release a single with 3 songs. started tracking the new psyclon_nine songs last night. tracking is the most fucking irritating thing ever. serious. five straight minutes of "ch ch ch ch" then another five of "skree skree skree skree." i'm tempted to just record each drum once and then copy'n' paste, but nerozero has all these weird fills and subtle velocity variations. feh! at least they're good songs. very good songs in fact; at least two of them are now my favorite psyclon tracks. oh yeah, and they're actually -difficult- to play, which makes me happy, because i always enjoy making things harder for myself at live shows. we may have backing tracks, but my meager keyboarding skills are certainly put to the test. speaking of which, does anybody have some reasonably nice monitor headphones i could borrow for a few days? i realize that mixing on headphones is in some respects a bad idea, but at this point i think mixing on my speakers may be worse. their lack of low end is more and more disturbing daily. ilovezombies and i had a somewhat distressing conversation about the whole LA thing last night. i dunno. i like it here quite a lot. she does too, although it's too cold for her most of the time.

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oh god so bored so bored so BORED. i've actually been doing data entry with the express purpose of PASSING THE TIME. jesus. at least the live365 industrial oldies station is good today. maybe i'll go to the bathroom to break the monotony.

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. : entry: #835 . : subject: aaah, fark. i don't even need real news any more.

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. : entry: #834 . : subject: WHAT THE

arright, so i posted about a traffic ticket that i got in oak-town a couple of weeks ago. well, i actually got TWO tickets; another for speeding in alameda the next week. suck. i was coming out of the tube at tube-speed, and didn't slow down to 25 fast enough. whatever. anyhow i never got the notice in the mail for the oakland ticket. i called the alameda court (oakland's phone system, as always, is broken. you ge a busy signal whenever you try to dial a human) and they told me that they ONLY show the alameda ticket. apparently the oakland one was never entered in to the computer. what the hell? the clerk says sometimes it takes a while, but it's been a month. i don't want to act on the alameda ticket until i know what's up with the oakland one (ie, do i go to traffic school for one or the other, contest one, try for level 2 traffic school, etc.) so i got an extension on the alameda one, but like... what the hell?? at this point, i think i'm gonna take traffic school for the alameda one (it's only like $150 in total, which isn't that bad really) and contest the oakland one. i figure contesting something in alameda is pointless because the cop will have nothing better to do than show up, plus i've got a pretty good case to contest the oakland one i think (badly marked signs, i didn't actually complete the turn, etc.) oh, ALSO. my front brakes are costing $265 to fix. two bad rotors. i went ahead with it because the other place quoted me the same thing, but still hell frustrating. anybody have any similar traffic ticket experiences? if i have like, no points on my license and i get a speeding ticket, how much will my insurance be adversely affected? i pay like $75/month now.

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. : entry: #833 . : subject: the dvd . : music: the sound of my own voice. aaah. TASTE MY MODESTY. TASTE IT.

so i'm listening to an audio CD that baconmonkey made me from the forthcoming see colin slash DVD (don't forget about the release at MEAT!) and i'm actually happier with it so far than i thought that i was. well, with the acoustic set at least, cuz that's all i've listened to so far. except headhunter. headhunter is completely broken with audio problems, unfortunately, but we've already got a great live recording of that, so i'm not that concerned with it. it's just that it makes it harder to watch the set straight through. i'm almost tempted to just remove it entirely and put the video that yoshio took of it back in the day on the DVD instead (that's actually the recording the old live version is from,) but we wanted the complete farewell show. meh.

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oo, look, new userpic! baconmonkey gave me this screengrab; hopefully you can make out the ridiculous expression on my face at 100^2px. and i made two for shannon too: and

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. : entry: #829 . : subject: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh . : mood: uncomfortable

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

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. : entry: #828 . : subject: oh also

fellow uc berkeley alumni, look at the shit coming out of our illustrious institution. it's fucking pathetic. i got some email asking me to fill out a survey about it, and i did so. i'm somewhat confident that most alumni filling it out will agree with me. which doesn't necessarily mean they won't ignore the survey anyhow.

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. : entry: #827 . : subject: buzzwords

somebody taught my, um, "special" coworker the word "portal" (as in web portal) and she won't stop using it. it hurts me in here *points to heart.* i had a nightmare about work last night, which is making it even less pleasant than normal.

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. : entry: #826 . : subject: the only really cool thing to happen so far this morning...

is that i found this site, where they're doing VGA-style updates of old sierra games. kick ass. it's totally about time i played king's quest 1 all the way through again.

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. : entry: #825 . : subject: oh also

come rosh hashonah, i am officially a cantor. craziness. if anybody's seriously interested in attending high holiday services in LA at which i will be making noises, lemme know. i don't know if i'll be able to guest you or anything, and tickets are expensive, but i'll see what i can do.

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. : entry: #824 . : subject: god dammit, missing CDs again. . : mood: sad

okay, at some point, probably before new years, i seem to have misplaced a case of CDs. it's either a 25 or 50 case, 1 CD width and breadth. carries just the CDs, no jewel cases. it has an hp logo on it, and it's two different shades of grey. i'm fairly certain this case contains at least the following: faith no more - angel dust they might be giants - john henry oingo boingo - boi-ngo and possibly: diatribe - diatribe chemlab - east side militia if anybody has any info as to its whereabouts, PLEASE TELL ME. this is driving me nuts. i won't be mad at you if you've had it for months and forgot to tell me, or didn't know it was mine, or even if you were just listening to the stuff and didn't want to give it back because i didn't seem to be missing it. places i think it may have landed: in the psyclon nine van on either one of our trips up north. coatcheckgirl, alexianervosa, catyanna, wrenchmonkey, [Bad username in LJ tag], please to be checking around to see if it wound up in your stuff. rivetheather or mozbot and snogmonkey's place. rabbit, michael, yuko, lemme know. romijordanna's place, from the halloween party, and this would be what, the third year in a row i've left CDs there if that's where it is? anybody's car or house i've spent a serious amount of time in during the last few months, or anyplace to which i was asked explicitly to bring music. if this is you, please, for the love of god, check. k. thanks. that's it.

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oh yeah. so ilovezombies and i watched buffy the vampire slayer (the film, which to the best of my knowledge bears no relationship to the television show of the same name,) and the closing credits had a cover of "we close our eyes" by boingo being played by susanna hoffs, aka the lead singer of the bangles. i had heard that such an animal existed, but hadn't heard it until then. it made my head hurt, badly.

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. : entry: #820 . : subject: obvious meme time

following captain obvious, aka yoshio's lead, a list of 10 albums to take to a desert island, in no particular order: babyland - outlive your enemies KMFDM - nihil ministry - psalm 69 boingo - boingo magnetic fields - 69 love songs (yeah, i guess this should technically be 3.) killing joke - pandemonium front line assembly - ressurection morrissey - bona drag my life with the thrill kill kult - confessions of a knife chemlab - east side militia i think that's a pretty good mix of stuff. it was interesting to think about, anyhow. uh. i think i had stories to tell or something. i kinda ferget. i need to start getting to death guild WAY earlier and leaving way earlier. stuff would work out much better that way.

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