Is anyone here using Flickr that I haven’t already friended over there?
Music music music: Todd Snider – Lookin’ for a Job and Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears (click to download)
January 2007
Monthly Archive
January 30, 2007
January 30, 2007
Why have we, on the internet, not adopted usage of all the punctuation marks proposed by Hervé Bazin here? The irony mark for sure, but doubt and the others as well.
January 30, 2007
Okay, instead of leaving a link here every time I update 50 Books, I’ve created a feed: cjh_books. So you can add it of you’re interested and ignore it if you aren’t. Perfect.
I spent half the morning laying on my bed in the WARM SUNSHINE reading. God, seriously, spring can not get here fast enough. It was leisurely, lovely and perfect. Though ruined slightly by going outside into the cold after I finished the book.
January 29, 2007
I unapologetically love Bill Gates. You know, not Windows or Microsoft or anything, just Bill himself. Nerdy, ridiculous Bill G. Did you see how he was fanboying Jon Stewart on the Daily Show tonight? So much love. Seriously.
It’s cold in Nashville. Shitty-ass cold. Yeah, I’m even tired of hearing myself talk about it now. But it’s supposed to stay that way for a couple weeks. Arg. I was already done with winter before it showed up and then it had to go a show up all late.
Today I finished a necklace I made for MYSELF. I know, crazy, right? It’s awesome though. Though I do usually make myself really fancy stuff that I don’t really have any place to wear. This one is oval sterling links and green garnets and pearls. Um, and an old locket I’ve been wearing since high school. Yeah, I like to dress up my grubby sentimental things.
Y’all are wantin’ a song, huh? Here it is: Lisa Hayes – Hey, Mr. Morning (click to download) If Melissa Etheridge was totally Texas and completely awesome, she’d be Lisa Hayes.
January 27, 2007
The next book post is up. Should I keep posting links to these here?
Hmm, I pretty sure I was thinking earlier about something I should post, but now I am braindead and unable to think at all, so you get another mostly hollow post in a long line of them. Instead I will do the iPod Meme that’s going around and perhaps give you a few songs with it.
January 25, 2007
Brezny-scope:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your web of allies is a crucial part of your pursuit of happiness. The stimulation and support you ask them for are vivid evidence that you love life and have a strong sense of what’s good for you. Every now and then, however, you need to remember that it’s important to avoid falling completely under their influence. You’ve got to resist peer pressure, and declare your independence from the crowd’s power to shape you. Now is such a time, Taurus.
Hmm, does this mean I can disregard anything anyone says to me? HAHAHAH! Actually it’s probably more like time to remember how and who I am when I’m completely independent. HURRAH for bogus horoscapes that I can shape any way I like.
It’s stupid cold here and yet, I swear to god I can feel impending spring the air the last couple days. Maybe it’s the Just Noticeable Difference in the angle of the sunlight. I’m not sure exactly. As I said it’s cold here and supposed to stay that way for bit and yet I still feel like we’ve turned a corner on the dead of winter. Or perhaps I’m just exercising the power of positive thinking.
In that vein, today’s song: Josh Rouse – Winter in the Hamptons (click to download). I can’t pin why, but this song is making me so happy right now. I must have listened to it six times today.
January 24, 2007
Mike: So how long do I wait to call?
Trent: A day.
Mike: Tomorrow.
Sue: Tomorrow, then a day.
Trent: Yeah.
Mike: So two days?
Trent: Yeah, I guess you could call it that, two days.
Sue: Definitely, two days is like industry standard.
Trent: You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it’s like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think?
Sue: Yeah, but two’s enough not to look anxious.
Trent: But I think three days is kind of money. You know because you…
Mike: Yeah, but you know what, mabey I’ll wait 3 weeks. How’s that? And tell her I was cleaning out my wallet and I just happened to run into her number.
Charles: Then ask her where you met her.
Mike: Yeah, I’ll ask her where I met her. I don’t remember. What does she look like? And then I’ll asked if we fucked. Is that… would that be… T, would that be the money?
Trent: You know what. Ha ha ha, Mike, laugh all you want but if you call too soon you might scare off a nice baby who’s ready to party.
Mike: Well how long are you guys gonna wait to call your babies?
Trent, Sue: Six days.
Lucinda Williams – Lonely Girls (click to download)
January 24, 2007
“sir, it’s not a crime to tell me you do drugs, as long as you don’t have any on you.”
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We’re watching COPS and it’s Seattle/Tacoma!! Which you know means mostly Lakewood, Kent and South Hill. It’s actually making me a little homesick. The way the cops talk, no accent, but slang like home and so polite to the point of hilarity. Oh PNW cops, I never thought I’d miss you.
January 23, 2007
How to Make a Jail Break (best tips and warnings ever)
How to Date a Taurus (i.e., me)
How to Get Someone to Buy You a Drink (terrible advice)
How to Drink Beer with the Chinese in China
How to Score Poon Like Nikki Sixx
How to Write a Book (are you kidding me?)
How to Identify the Early Warning Signs of a Disastrous Relationship
How to Order Custom-made Cowboy Boots
How to Be Mistaken for a Celebrity
How to Prepare Kai Marukka for a Hindu Dowry
January 22, 2007
In lieu of a real entry I offer you a random sampling of recent pictures taken with my phone.
January 21, 2007
You know your friends love you when they go to with you to see the guy you are dating play amateur beer league hockey. It’s the sitting on a bench in the freezing cold that’s about the love. I mean does watching grown men on skates falling on their asses ever get old? No, no it does not.
In other news, well, there really isn’t other news. I finished another book. Went with said boy to see Josh Rouse, which was complete awesomecakes. Other than that, mostly just scheming on how I can win the lottery without buying a ticket, or get rich without marrying for it. You know, the usual stuff.
January 17, 2007
I think a good example for the state of the world is the spam I just got from resume writing company which is riddled with errors, even in the subject line. Perfect.
Today some old musician guy asked me out. Well, he told me I was pretty, told me to compliment my parents on their good genetic work, asked if I was married and then asked me out. I politely declined. Then later wondered if he was someone who might have connections I want professionally. Oh Nashville, you’ve clearly broken me.
And finally the most amusing part of my day, in email from my 14-year-old sister:
why i hate being around 13 year olds:
Boy1- Why are you wearing flip flops (it’s Punk day, why else would i be wearing flip flops?)
[l'il Sis]- Cuz I’m the bionic woman
stares and silence follows
Boy1- and a polo? (again, punk day, had to be preppy)
[l'il Sis]- My wonder twin powers have already been activated
again, stares and silence
the only person that got that was one of my guy friends and my TEACHER i was like good lord people what do you DO on saturday morning?
Yeah, it’s hard to be cooler than everyone else. Sadly she has years of it ahead of her.
January 16, 2007
Conversation in my house that began with much more ridiculous rambling and babbling on my part and ended with:
me: yep, I think he likes me.
K: (incredulous) How do you find men so opaque? If he actually calls you on the phone then he likes you.
January 16, 2007
You wouldn’t love me anymore if I ever stopped complaining about the weather
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The current temp in Nashville is fuck-ass cold. The future forecast is making me cry. (Seriously check those temps on the 25th.) And while my high-ceilinged house full of big windows is lovely in general, today heating it feels a bit like trying to warm up the inside of the refrigerator by lighting a match. *shivers*
January 11, 2007
Because of their nifty little book tracking thingy and because I’m not really using it for anything else, I’ve decided to transfer my 50 Books for 2007 posts over to my Vox account.
January 11, 2007
Robert Anton Wilson died today. I have only given him a passing thought here and there in recent years, though I know he’s been ill for a while. His books changed my life in a way your life can only be changed when you are not yet 16. I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere: I mourn RAW’s passing like one would a distant relative of whom you have fond memories of being one the greatest storytellers of your childhood but with whom you lost touch as you grew older. I’m sad to see him go and yet glad that he left behind so many words for future generations.
January 9, 2007
I wish I had chocolate pudding. Why is there no one in my life who anticipates when I will want such things and just shows up with them? I guess I could go to the store. But that would involve going outside and it’s cold.
January 7, 2007
January 5, 2007
January 4, 2007
I must have some good auto karma leftover from the fiasco of getting my driver’s license in TN, because I just went to (finally) register my car here and it took like 5 minutes. Hooray! The subject line is my mnemonic device for rembering my new license plate letters (the old one was ‘lettuce with tomato’ heeee!). I also bought food so that even though K isn’t here to feed me, I can still eat. Now it’s raining and I’m safely in the house, outside errands done, stocked up on supplies and listening to good music. Wheee!
