SO U MOVING TO HSTNGS! PACK A AMPULE OF ANTIVENOM AND A FACK FULL OF EMINEM

That story hits my fear buttons so damn hard - giant bugs/dinosaurs/spiders, things eating people alive, and a child in danger. It's scientifically designed to freak me the hell out.

Not sure I'm ever going to be able to watch it. Which is sort of sad, because it's one of my favorite SK stories!

ok am i now bummed that le blob is not on instant. tbh empty b3irstub3 was probably the best bar of the night bcz 1)drunkest, and 2)we talked to the bartender abt m4nk4to for a time. actually the best part was 3) KG checking her phone to see nine missed calls from her sister who had just rolled into town from chicago. she felt pretty bad, i lolled.

If you have Amazon Prime you can watch _The Blob_ on instant there for free. It's not good, but it is a classic in its way... and it offers a lot of unintended lolz. (There's a line about wasting "my 80 cents" to see a movie, for instance...).

Sounds like you had fun of a sort in HSTNGS anyway...???

oh, yeah. we were pretty happy just to have ppl visiting, really. we downed a few bottles of wine before heading out so some uncomfortable stares from ppl who appeared to be having zero fun didn't impact our momentum too badly. just an oddly listless friday night crowd.

Ah, HSTNGS... zero fun for all! Okay, for many. Glad you had some yourselves anyway. :)

We put our new land line phone on speaker so we could sing happy birthday to J's grandmother. We then couldn't figure out how to take it off of speaker, which led me to overhear a mammogram conversation where J's g complained about how much she hates them because of her dense tit flesh.

Ah, technology.

A+++++!

i mean because it happened to you and not me

Well, that is... entertaining.

Now *really* looking forward to being 40 next year. I'm sure I will go to my first mammogram with the phrase "dense tit flesh" circling in my mind. Thank you!

I came this close to changing my display name to "Grandmother! What dense tit flesh you have!"

A++++++

lol my folks have decided to drive to Chicago to catch this concert

I read that at first as "my folks have decided to move to Chicago to catch this concert" and I was VERY confused, lol

If they weren't I. The throes of making wine I wouldn't put it past them

Also I hate my phone

I love your iPhone. It brings poetry.

We were the BOMB tonight in Chicago (if I do say so myself)

So close... and yet so far. :(

Anybody alive out there?

Me: giving flu shots 24-7 it seems like... still fun! Saturday clinic (all vaccinations in the clinic, all day) is great. Except that it sounds like the Child Torture Chamber sometimes in the hallways.

A group of folks went out to western MA yesterday for a really odd, poignant event; the father of a friend of ours from college has terminal cancer and has requested a bunch of music be sung at his impending memorial, so we went out to his house to rehearse it while he and his family watched. It was really touching and kind of a "makes you think" moment; here is a guy staring at the end of his life and he's decided to go out in a certain way, and we got to perform the music he wants sung at his service for him before he actually died. I'm still kind of emotional about it.

That's lovely, actually. I'm glad you got to be part of that... as tough as it sounds in some ways.

oh fyi, here's what we sang

Barber - "Agnus Dei" (choral setting of "Adagio for Strings")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJ4hN7vxWo&feature=related

Faure - "Cantique de Jean Racine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twi73k_9E00&feature=related

Lauridsen - "O magnum mysterium"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xlUkpqvHWw

Brueckner - "Locus iste"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fT9V8jEas

Bruckener - "Os justi meditabitur"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPDztmWamA0

Trad - "Deep River" (can't find our arrangement so here's the Hogan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8p-WYUpUJ8

Bach - "Komm, Suesser Tod" (only we're doing it in German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZu-bkdrBY

Looking forward to listening to those and also feeling like, jeez, if I were dying would I have any notion of what funeral music to even think about...!?

I decided years ago that I wanted the Martin Mass for Double Choir performed at my wake/funeral

first 5 tracks here:

http://open.spotify.com/album/3TAzIeZbQhi1vtNo4fCm4b

If I have to pick only one, it's the Agnus Dei:

http://open.spotify.com/track/7h0xs9OY1XQt59gKWFxToe

fyi, the most beautiful moment in the piece may be the part of the "Gloria" starting around 2:58

i would like the soundtrack to my funeral to be the screams of my enemies as they are pushed into the gaping maw of my open grave

barring that "Independent Women" by Destinys child i guess

i would like the soundtrack to my funeral to be the screams of my enemies as they are pushed into the gaping maw of my open grave

it's always Ligeti with you

I love you guys <3 <3 <3

Going to the dentist, so my funeral may be sooner than we think. (god I freaking hate dentists)

well then the dentists funeral may be sooner than we think is what you mean

misread that as "god I hate freaking dentists" and was about to be all "well I'm sure if you stopped freak-dancing with them they would be more professional" ;_;

I don't know what that even is, but I'm sure it would be more enjoyable than having my teeth scraped at for decades or however long I sat there...

http://mybuddhanature.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/freakdancing1.jpg

^^^ ha ha that would never happen with a DENTIST. They are the antisexy.

man, hanging out with TOMBOT until 2 AM is exhausting

i wanna do that

by the time I met up with him (~11:00 PM) he had a 5 beer head start on me

and I couldn't catch up because I eventually had to drive

otoh the Westin in Waltham is v.v. nice

JEALOUS

Baller = HRC Gala dinner

STOP ALWAYS HAVING MORE FUN THAN ME, DAMMIT

Also the roads suck tonight, I hate winter driving...

Oh, hello For Realz ILX, nice to see you again...

HAPPY NEW YEAR ITR

in case you were wondering, "Fack" by Eminem is still fucking horrible

i maed a thread title for you

loooooooool

btw in a shocking development, I have found new hip-hop artists whom I actually like: Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bsJ7oGokg&feature=player_embedded

Happy New Year!

I totally confused someone (okay, my therapist) by referring to Nine Inch Nails in conversation a few weeks ago. She isn't that old (fortysomething?), but had never heard of them and thought I might be talking about some kind of manicure.

Um, what?