May 13, 2004
I just tried to BLOG that it is Wednesday. No it’s not.
I worked twelve hours today. The closer I get to just going to bed, the less chance it there will be that I did anything with my day but work.
There is big news in the Assholier than Thou Good Times Happy Friends Monday Morning Radio Show Starring Baby Fea (yea!) Universe but I will leave it up to Baby Fea to give it up. Let me just give my congratulations and leave it at that.
posted by Thea at 9:53 PM
May 12, 2004
I took a Dale Carnegie training course on customer service today.
"In the world of William Gaddis’s novel, man has substituted Dale Carnegie’s How To Make Friends and Influence People for the Bible (p. 531). Mr. Pivner, who often feels "a sense of something lost," turns to such a book for advice. He reads: "I am talking about a real smile . . . a smile that comes from within, the kind of smile that will bring a good price in the market place (pp. 531–32). Carnegie’s crass materialism replaces the beauty of the esoteric, mystical works in Reverend Gwyon’s parish library once the new preacher, "Dick," arrives. People interested in this new Bible range from the monks in the Spanish monastery in Estremadura to the inhabitants of crowded tenements in New York City. In Estremadura, a monk enthusiastically peruses the books of a visiting religious novelist with the hope of finding a copy of Como Ganar Amigos y Vencer Todos los Otros (p. 916). In Manhattan, Mr. Pivner avidly reads Dale Carnegie’s explanation "about a new way of life," an alchemical "elixir" (our narrator interjects) that purifies things. Carnegie emphasizes: "You owe it to yourself, to your happiness, to your future, and to your income!" (pp. 531–33).- from “The Allusive Mode, The Absurd and Black Humor in William Gaddis’ The Recognitions” by Elaine B. Safer.
I think, at a $1.25 per bag, that the bag of ice is a great deal.
posted by Thea at 9:44 PM
May 11, 2004
My situation is such that now I have very little contact with the outside world. Ten hours pass sitting in the office like nothing. Each day just disappears. With that in mind, it seems like most of my interaction with the human race happens on the bus. My commute is social interaction for me. Although I don’t interact. I just get to see people that I don’t work with. That is why I dwell (and BLOG) about my commute.
Bus ride in:
A fat guy who looked like the golfer John Daly (although not as fat) got on the bus. He was on his cell phone the entire trip. He was wearing flashy Sunglass Depot styled sunglasses. At one point towards the end of the commute, he yelled “Oh, snap!” to whoever he was talking to on his cell phone. Strange – coming out of a fat hillbilly.
Bus ride home:
I watched a hippie read “Religion for Dummies” with his legs crossed Indian style (is that PC?) on the bus seat. No further commentary necessary.
Laurie and I just walked in the rain to He Who Can Not Be BLOGGED About on This Website Ever Again – Ever’s record store where I picked up a homemade copy of the rough mixes of the 1st New Salem Witch Hunters record. Minus two songs. Plus two songs. Now one of my prized possessions. Thank you Dave Atkins for the CD. Thank you He Who Can Not Be BLOGGED About on This Website Ever Again – Ever for the ride home. Thank you for caring.
posted by Thea at 9:21 PM
May 10, 2004
Setlist for the Rock and Roll Radio Show – 05/10/04 - 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Phobia – Means of Existence – Means of Existence (Relapse, 1998)
Grand Funk Railroad – Get this Thing on the Move - Grand Funk – (Capitol, 1969)
Rolling Stones – Sway – Sticky Fingers (ABKCO, 1971)
Uriah Heep - Real Turned On – Very ‘eavy Very ‘umble (Vertigo, 1970)
Small Faces – Afterglow – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (Immediate, 1968)
Canned Heat – One Kind of Favor – Livin’ the Blues (Liberty, 1968)
Blue Cheer – Just a Little Bit – Outsideinside (Mercury, 1968)
Deep Purple – The Painter – Deep Purple (Harvest, 1969)
Free – Heartbreaker – Heartbreaker (Island, 1972)
Pentagram – Forever My Queen – First Daze Here (Relapse, 2001)
Kinks – Brainwashed – Arthur… (Pye, 1969)
Scorpions – It All Depends – Lonesome Crow (Mercury, 1972)
Faces – Miss Judy’s Farm – A Nod is as Good as a Wink… (Warner Bros., 1971)
Yardbirds – Think About – Little Games (reissue) (EMI, 2003)
James Gang – The Bomber – Rides Again (ABC, 1970)
posted by Thea at 9:16 PM
May 9, 2004
The two-day Mother’s Day Extravaganza is over. Big ups to both of my Moms! Yesterday, we went out to breakfast in honor of my Mother. Today, we had Laurie’s side of the family over for dinner. Festive celebratory eating? You bet. Fat and lazy? The fattest. The laziest. I am now ready for bed. I am ready to sleep. I tried relaxing for a couple of hours yesterday and was quickly bored by the lack of everything. I worked all day today. Before getting my eat on. It felt natural. It felt like what I was supposed to be doing. I don’t have to be at the office all of the time but I do need to have things to do when I am not at the office. I feel like I have reached the end of what I want to say for the time being. I look back at these BLOGS and it is all the same thing day after day. I think that I need to do some living free from comment. Life. Not art. Not even close to art. I look forward to answering the question: “What have you been up to?”
Tomorrow. I am going to be doing that Ultimate Rock Set on the Rock and Roll Radio Show from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. No Led Zeppelin. No Who. But still the hardest rocking hour that I could come up with without relying on my two favorites.
I am listening to the Allman Brothers Band right now. It is safe to say that Duane Allman was an above average guitar player.
Smoking Steve will be joining us tomorrow on the Assholier than Thou Good Times Happy Friends Monday Morning Radio Show Starring Baby Fea (yea!).
posted by Thea at 9:16 PM 