August 28, 2003
Just got back from getting some night air. For some reason, it felt important to be outside moving around. Breathing. Moving. Very critical. I have been feeling lethargic from the job. Talked to Mike on the phone this morning. Always a pleasure. Talked to Thea. It felt like we were almost getting somewhere. Talked to Joel this afternoon. What a dude. I wish that everybody I knew had a job where they could sit on the phone all day. I wish that none of it was long distance. I wrote something that I cannot mention for He Who Cannot be BLOGGED About on this Website Ever Again this afternoon. I have been clearing the writing plate this week. The weekend, I have to get some writing done for this website. I have so many show notes to type. I know that I am going to be typing all day Saturday. It will be worth it. This website needs some new content really bad. I just got my Shawn Kemp Growth Chart from the Rock and Roll Butler via Laurie while I type this. Kick ass. Let’s pray for little to no work tomorrow.
posted by Thea at 9:47 PM
August 27, 2003
Thinking about life in a circular fashion. Thinking that it all just keeps spinning round and round. Thinking that I keep stopping myself in mid spin – trying to figure out a way to break the boredom. Thinking that life is mostly maintenance functions. It is all mostly a matter of processing. The debate on if I am the only one who notices this continues. Of course, I want to feel like I am the only one without my head up my ass. Of course, I want to feel superior. Maybe it is not that I am super perceptive. The fear is that maybe I am just a complainer. It is a fact that nobody likes a whiner.
posted by Thea at 11:12 PM
August 26, 2003
I was real happy today at work when I was able to put two stamps on some bills and stick them in the Out Box. Not go buy stamps. Not stick them in the mailbox. Just put stamps (which I already bought) on two envelopes that were addressed and ready to go. I considered this an accomplishment. This is how busy I was at work. After work, Laurie and I went out to eat and then came home to continue to hang pictures and shelves in the apartment. This is the first time that we have ever lived anywhere in nine years that I thought the place was looking like I wanted it to look. I have an apartment where a framed Neurosis poster hangs in my living room. This is what I have always wanted. To get things you have always wanted, even if it takes a while, kicks the ass. I am on a hot streak for getting everything that I want. Let’s hope the streak goes on for a while. As a music geek, I sometimes have music moments. Actually, I have them all the time. I am always getting in the zone while listening to records. Last night, I had the most amazing experience listening to “Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ” by Bruce Springsteen. And I am not even that big of a Bruce Springsteen fan. The problem (if there is one) with these lost in the jam moments is that they cannot, under any circumstance, be replicated. Moment. Gone. That’s how it goes. In the showing my age department: No Tommy Stinson/Figgs show for me tonight. All of my boys (and Thea) bagged on the show and even an invite to a Smokin’ Steve hosted pre-show rager could not get me out of the house. I am getting old. I am beyond starting to stuck. This is the story of a 31 year old fat guy who does not go out on Tuesday nights anymore. It is a bittersweet story filled with eating, sadness and the occasional triumph over fear. The end.
posted by Thea at 10:01 PM
August 25, 2003
Rock and Roll Radio Show – WCSB 89.3 FM – 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – SET LIST
Phobia - Means of Existence - Means of Existence (Relapse, 1998)
Humble Pie - Up Your Sleeves - Greatest Hits Live (King Biscuit, 2003)
The Smoke - It’s Getting Closer - High in a Room: The Smoke Anthology (Castle, 2002)
The Action - I’ll Keep Holding On - Action Packed (Edsel, 2001)
Eric Burdon & the Animals - Sky Pilot – Winds of Change/The Twain Shall Meet (BGO, 2002)
The Zombies - Care of Cell 44 - Odyssey and Oracle (reissue) (Repertoire, 2001)
The Zombies - Tell Her No - The Decca Stereo Anthology (Ace, 2002)
The Sonics - He’s Waiting - Boom (reissue) (Norton, 1999)
Wailers -Tomorrow’s Another Day – Wailers Wailers Evrywhere/Out of Our Tree (Ace, 2003)
Guided By Voices – Useless Inventions – Earthquake Glue (Matador, 2003)
The Yardbirds - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Little Games (reissue) (EMI, 2003)
The Bellrays - Tie Me Down - Raw Collection (Uppercut, 2003)
The Seeds - A Thousand Shadows - Future/A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues (Edsel, 2001)
The Seeds - The Wind Blows Your Hair – Raw & Alive/Rare Seeds (Edsel, 2001)
The Cynics - What You Get - Rock ‘n’ Roll (Get Hip, 1989)
Love - I’m With You - Four Sail (reissue) (Warner, 2002)
The Mummies – The Frisko Freeze - Never Been Caught (CD reissue) (Telstar, 2002)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Falling from Above – Greendale – (Reprise, 2003)
posted by Thea at 10:56 PM
August 24, 2003
It has been awhile since my last BLOG. Not for lack of wanting to share, it is just that I have been too damned busy. Work. Writing. Radiohead. My fifth Wedding Anniversary. Mother-in-law’s birthday. Grandma’s birthday. What a weekend. I have been tired the whole time but have totally enjoyed myself. It was fun. It was nice. We got the apartment unpacked finally and it is almost fully decorated. It will be a first for any place that I have lived. I am sitting here thinking that there is so much more that I want to get to but I am going to bed. It is going to have to wait for tomorrow’s Assholier than Thou Good Times Happy Friends Monday Morning Radio Show.
posted by Thea at 9:58 PM 