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time

teh

Merkins

wake

up??!?

seee? Clearly i'm making an effort.

marmite lover.

i accidentally toasted an aphid

i pulled my vogel's extra grainy toast out of the toaster and there was a greeny brown thing on it

it was an aphid

you should email me some more songs btw

oops that came out wrong

i meant to say 'it would be really lovely of you to email me some more songs, since i so liked the other ones you sent me'

aphids are good for you. so i hear have just made up.

was that supposed to be a strikethrough cuz i think you just fucked that up

haha good timing: 'girl with a dirty mouth' just started up on my itunes

woops, that italic was meant to be a strikethrough. i are a spazzer.

that's a choon bruv.

actually the correct title is 'dirty girl'

when i get home i will email you some songs by some bands on my friend's record label. there's a new one on goosesmoke at the moment that is quite Nick Drake-esque. that might do for now.

Can't get a word in edgeways!

There was a moth in my microwave yesterday. I couldn't bring myself to turn it on.

my house is experiencing a moth invasion at the moment. you should totally nuke 'em, nuke the bastards.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uQ37PLFLx5k

Fucking moths. I am killing half a dozen a day but it's making no difference. I am not looking forward to the larval stage of the cycle - it was really rank last time (low point - when the grubs pop as you squish them with a paper towel, ugh ugh ugh).

you should take up smoking. that gets rid of moths.

i'm feeling ambivalent about this song.

if you mean the one on my site, then i'm not surprised. if you mean the Will Smith one, then you are RONG.

no i mean the one on your site

now would probably be a good time to namedrop www.goosesmoke.com

this is funner: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OuiYpifxqZE

and shhhhhush

gooooosesmoke

ok that video was kind of awesome

fo' shiz. the band, My Device rather than the Iranians, are good pals of mine and deserve good successes.

So, to continue rambling nonsense in a completely futile effort to make it to 12000, I went to see the Scorsese/Rolling Stones film at the Imax on Saturday. My reactions were:

1. Imax is a big let-down. It's just a BIG screen with speakers in it. I did feel quite like I had just been to a Rolling Stones concert but I think that would have been the case at a standard cinema too.

2. I don't think Scorsese did anything that any other director couldn't have done. It's not like he had to actually direct anything during the concert, just set up a load of cameras in the right places, tell the cameramen to shoot everything and edit into something nice later. I think tv directors/vision mixers at concerts that are broadcast live have a much harder job and, on the whole, do it better.

3. I HATE this big band bollocks that seems to accompany acts like the stones when they play big venues. Too much brass, bells and whistles completely overwhelms the guitars and the result is revoltingly Jamie Cullum-esque.

okay i'm going to try at get to sleep at a reasonable hour, since i'm bored and have nothing better to do. i leave the next 767 posts in your capable hands.

night!

this morning is painful.

There could be any number of reasons why, but why? Existentially, physically or emotionally? And can you make things better?

Seattle on British Airways, from £369 return...

That's cheapio. Do it.

Seattle is lovely. I was there for a fortnight a couple of years ago and would dearly love to go back but I think I have to go to Portland first.

Portland is excellent but I would say just fly into Seattle first, then take the train down to Portland for a bit (and similarly up to Vancouver). All three cities are great, but Portland is the least of the three in terms of immediate impact; as I tell folks, it's not so much a place people go and visit as it is a great place to live. Which it is -- I've any number of friends and family there and you can see why they're at where they're at.

Well that's me convinced. I have some really vivid memories of Seattle, especially of driving over the bridge to, I think, Mercer Island. It always reminded me of Grand Theft Auto for some reason.

Hope y'all don't mind if I self-indulgently share my Puget Sound picture:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7938/934/1600/IMG_2087.jpg

Sorry it's big.

mark c and nick: poor, poor effort. i woke up to talk to jordan and i checked in here expecting to see at least a few hundred contributions to our 12000 goal!

i'm disappointed in you both ;_;

WE are disappointed in YOU

I'm not

Nick, maybe we should do a trip to Seattle together :)

where is large picture of puget sound please?

hmm, apparently Mark is good cop, I am bad cop. Not sure why either of us need to be cops actually.

A trip up the West Coast from SF to Seattle (possibly Vancouver as well) is rather appealing.

Dunno why thee cannot see my Puget Sound pic. Can also be found here: http://eastcoastsound.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html

Wow you guys were chatty last night. I feel lazy now!

btw, I DO NOT iron and WILL NOT iron. If something needs ironing, I don't buy it. I'd rather buy clothes that have to go to the dry cleaner.

Instead of moths or aphids, my house tends to attract boxelder bugs. It hasn't been bad at all lately - very few of them around - possibly because it is so cold STILL that it has snowed a bit every day for the past three days. And it might do so again today.

Hi dere from the sitzprobe! Our lead soprano is fucking awesome

I don't know what a sitzprobe is, but hello!

Have I met that lead soprano...?

No, not unless you've met c3l3st3 schr03d3r's sister-in-law.

God this whole cast is awesome

Nope, just wondered if it was J031!

It sounds like you are enjoying your day. I am trying to shepherd J through getting ready for school. It is kind of like herding cats.