Monochromatic Outlook

Accord­ing to iTunes, these are my top 10 played songs:

Hot baths should be fol­lowed up with a large cup of ice water (crushed, not cubed) con­sumed on the front deck look­ing out over the lights of the city, seen bare­foot and only in one’s bathrobe as the cloud cov­er zooms past quick­ly, so low that one would con­sid­er whether it were low clouds or high fog.

Then sleep, accom­pa­nied by a grey stripey friend, fresh­ly brushed and purring softly.

That’s my sto­ry, and I’m stick­ing to it.

Kin­ca­jou (Duck! Aster­oid)—… Read the rest

Just had my first prop­er bath in prob­a­bly half a decade. Bath fizz with flow­er­petals in it and all. Now my skin is all silky-smooth and I smell flo­ral fresh. I kid you not.

New apart­ments are nice. Every­one should have one.

Kin­ca­jou—Ban­co de Gaia… Read the rest

I’m very very attached to my old RS/6000 Mod­el 250. It’s the first ever pro­duc­tion machine to run on a Pow­er­PC chip, a 601 scream­ing at 66 mega­hertz. IBM beat Apple to mar­ket with these work­sta­tions by about four months. I have the orig­i­nal press release from when they announced the roll­out, and at the time I want­ed one very bad­ly. At the time I was 23 years old, and a ten-to-twen­ty thou­sand dol­lar work­sta­tion was a bit … Read the rest

(apolo­gies for tak­ing so long to fin­ish this and get it online)

First, I had a great time.

Sec­ond, to all of you who wrin­kled your noses and declined my invi­ta­tion, it’s just as well. You prob­a­bly would­n’t have been into the show. I hate to write that out, but AdM is prob­a­bly com­ing back into town in Sep­tem­ber or Octo­ber, accord­ing to MAdM. That’s like­ly to be a bet­ter show.

Before I get into the rea­sons why, let me tell you … Read the rest

And here are my Run Hit Won­der results:

Nike Run Hit Won­der 10K
Year: 2004
Dis­tance: 6.2 Miles, 10.0 Kilometers
Date/Time: July 22, 2004, 7:00 pm
Spon­sor: Nike
Loca­tion: Cen­tral Park, NYC
Weath­er: 84 deg., 71% humid­i­ty, wind 9 mph.

Over­all Place: 3073 (of 4805)
Gen­der Place: 1740 (of 2254)
Age Place: 820 (of 1049 men 30 – 39 years old)
Fin­ish Time: 1:03:42
Net Time: 58… Read the rest

A won­der­ful week­end in New York and Con­necti­cut. There’s a lot about the East Coast that I miss, most­ly peo­ple. I’m hav­ing to remind myself that there are peo­ple and places back in Cal­i­for­nia that I would miss if I moved away, too.

One of the best parts of the trip was get­ting to talk with Xris about our careers. By that I mean both our jobs and our cre­ative endeav­ors as well as the endeav­ors we haven’t got­ten very far … Read the rest

I went in to Sum­mer­stage feel­ing pret­ty bad. For what­ev­er rea­son, my stom­ach has been upset since I land­ed on Thurs­day, and Fri­day night was about the worst of it. I felt like some­one had kicked me in the gut. It was get­ting so bad that the thought had crossed my mind that I should seek med­ical attention.

After watch­ing the first band, whose name I for­get and whose best fea­ture was the bass play­er’s rack, I sat down in … Read the rest

I know that wil­hem­i­na will rub my nose in this one, but I have to admit that NYC is one cool town.

Not quite will­ing to trade SF in, mind you, but I’ve had two real­ly great days among you N’yawkahs. Even though it poured down rain on me, I dug hang­ing out in Chelsea and the Vil­lage, and Cen­tral Park was great for running.

So, yeah. NYC thumbs up.… Read the rest

The boys looked old, but they played hard and rocked my world. Here’s what you missed:

• good thing
• girl U want
• whip it
• sat­is­fac­tion (gui­tar sound­ing eeri­ly like Snakefin­ger’s licks on the Res­i­dents’ ren­di­tion of same. Extra points for “how white my shit could be.”)
• uncon­trol­lable urge
• mon­goloid
• block­head
• jocko homo (includ­ing the “I’ve got a rhyme that comes in a rid­dle” inter­lude found on the ver­sion of the song on B Stiff)
• spud patrol/mister dna
• gut feeling/slap yo mammy
• gates of steel (Mark’s voice