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this microcomputer applications class i'm in RIGHT NOW is the equivalent of shooting up with nyQuil. seriously. i understand that not everyone on the planet knows how to work WINDOWS, but there should be some sort of entrance exam to separate the n00bs from the WARRIORS.
apparently, the big huge assignment is gonna be a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION! FUCK YES! lame-ass high school shit FTW.
the instructor is a real winner too. he created the entier faulkner tech department! HOLY SHIT! that's impressive, apparently, and we are to me IMPRESSED.
new apartment in less than two weeks! cannot wait. living with parents = a slow mind-draining disaster. in the future you will be hearing about a much happier will and katie, i assume.
anyway. just checking in because i cannot think of anything else to do.
SMOKE CRACK!
-wil
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hi. i'm a live.
i look like jesus, so they say. but mister jesus is very far away.
work, class, sleep, death. oh. and cigarettes and weed. and sometimes food. and maybe the occasional videogame.
i still love katie. that's crazy, right?
that's all. must... play... shining force neo... must hack and slash...
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| totally geeking out |
[15 Sep 2005|11:40pm] |
holy shit.
the nintendo revolution is going to be so amazing.
the first real innovative turn for console gaming ever. the controller is visually basically an ipod mixed with a wireless remote control, with built in tilt sensors, so you control by actually moving the fucking thing. you can zoom in and out just by pushing the controller towards the screen.
the possibilities for potential gaming opportunities are limitless.
and damn, that shit looks sexy.
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[14 Sep 2005|09:17pm] |
"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more.
 There's no more money to spend -- you used up all of that.  You can't start
another war because you used up the army. Â And now, darn the luck, the rest of
your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Â Listen to
your Mom. Â The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. Â No one's speaking
to you. Â Mission accomplished.
"Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest
and walk away. Â Like you did with your military service and the oil company and
the baseball team. Â It's time. Â Time to move on and try the next fantasy job.
How about cowboy or space man? Â Now I know what you're saying: Â there's so many
other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. Â I
know, I know. Â There's a lot left to do. Â There's a war with Venezuela.
 Eliminating the sales tax on yachts.  Turning the space program over to the
church. Â And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Â Giving embryos the vote.
"But, Sir, none of that is going to happen
now. Â Why? Â Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. Â You've performed so
poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. Â You're a
catastrophe that walks like a man. Â Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but
even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.
"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our
allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon
and the City of New Orleans [plus the entire federal treasury -ef]. Â Maybe
you're just not lucky. Â I'm not saying you don't love this country. Â I'm just
wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.
"So, yes, God does speak to you. Â What he is
saying is: 'Take a hint.' "
-- Bill Maher
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[12 Sep 2005|01:00am] |
Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals
White House connections attract renewed attention from watchdog groups
REUTERS - Updated: 4:04 p.m. ET Sept. 10, 2005
Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.
One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.
Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Experts say it has been common practice in both Republican and Democratic administrations for policy makers to take lobbying jobs once they leave office, and many of the same companies seeking contracts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have already received billions of dollars for work in Iraq.
Halliburton alone has earned more than $9 billion. Pentagon audits released by Democrats in June showed $1.03 billion in "questioned" costs and $422 million in "unsupported" costs for Halliburton's work in Iraq.
But the web of Bush administration connections is attracting renewed attention from watchdog groups in the post-Katrina reconstruction rush. Congress has already appropriated more than $60 billion in emergency funding as a down payment on recovery efforts projected to cost well over $100 billion.
"The government has got to stop stacking senior positions with people who are repeatedly cashing in on the public trust in order to further private commercial interests," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight.
( blah blah money for power )
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[05 Sep 2005|06:26pm] |
Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?
Matt Wells
BBC News, Los Angeles
As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
Then as now, good reporting lies at the heart of what is changing.
But unlike Watergate, "Katrinagate" was public service journalism ruthlessly exposing the truth on a live and continuous basis.
Instead of secretive "Deep Throat" meetings in car-parks, cameras captured the immediate reality of what was happening at the New Orleans Convention Center, making a mockery of the stalling and excuses being put forward by those in power.
Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina.
National politics reporters and anchors here come largely from the same race and class as the people they are supposed to be holding to account.
They live in the same suburbs, go to the same parties, and they are in debt to the same huge business interests.
Giant corporations own the networks, and Washington politicians rely on them and their executives to fund their re-election campaigns across the 50 states.
It is a perfect recipe for a timid and self-censoring journalistic culture that is no match for the masterfully aggressive spin-surgeons of the Bush administration.
'Lies or ignorance'
But last week the complacency stopped, and the moral indignation against inadequate government began to flow, from slick anchors who spend most of their time glued to desks in New York and Washington.
The most spectacular example came last Friday night on Fox News, the cable network that has become the darling of the Republican heartland.
This highly successful Murdoch-owned station sets itself up in opposition to the "mainstream liberal media elite".
But with the sick and the dying forced to sit in their own excrement behind him in New Orleans, its early-evening anchor Shepard Smith declared civil war against the studio-driven notion that the biggest problem was still stopping the looters.
On other networks like NBC, CNN and ABC it was the authority figures, who are so used to an easy ride at press conferences, that felt the full force of reporters finally determined to ditch the deference.
As the heads of the Homeland Security department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) appeared for network interviews, their defensive remarks about where aid was arriving to, and when, were exposed immediately as either downright lies or breath-taking ignorance.
And you did not need a degree in journalism to know it either. Just watching TV for the previous few hours would have sufficed.
Iraq concern
When the back-slapping president told the Fema boss on Friday morning that he was doing "a heck of a job" and spent most of his first live news conference in the stricken area praising all the politicians and chiefs who had failed so clearly, it beggared belief.
The president looked affronted when a reporter covering his Mississippi walkabout had the temerity to suggest that having a third of the National Guard from the affected states on duty in Iraq might be a factor.
Beyond the immediate challenge of re-housing the evacuees and getting 200,000-plus children into new schools, there will have to be a Katrina Commission, that a newly-emboldened media will scrutinise obsessively.
It is something I suspect he is going to have to get used to from now on: the list of follow-up questions is too long to ignore or bury.
And it is not only on TV and radio where the gloves have come off.
The most artful supporter of the administration on the staff of the New York Times, columnist David Brooks, has also had enough.
He and others are calling the debacle the "anti 9-11": "The first rule of the social fabric - that in times of crisis you protect the vulnerable - was trampled," he wrote on Sunday.
"Leaving the poor in New Orleans was the moral equivalent of leaving the injured on the battlefield."
Media emboldened
It is way too early to tell whether this really will become "Katrinagate" for President Bush, but how he and his huge retinue of politically-appointed bureaucrats react in the weeks ahead will be decisive.
Government has been thrown into disrepute, and many Americans have realised, for the first time, that the collapsed, rotten flood defences of New Orleans are a symbol of failed infrastructure across the nation.
Blaming the state and city officials, as the president is already trying to do over Katrina, will not wash.
The dithering and incompetence that will be exposed will not spare the commander-in-chief, or the sunny, faith-based propaganda that he was still spouting as he left New Orleans airport last Friday, saying it was all going to turn out fine.
People were still trapped, hungry and dying on his watch, less than a mile away.
Black America will not forget the government failures, nor will the Gulf Coast region.
Tens of thousands of voters whose lives have been so devastated will cast their mid-term ballots in Texas next year - the president's adopted home state.
The final word belongs to the historic newspaper at the centre of the hurricane - The New Orleans Times-Picayune. At the weekend, this now-homeless institution published an open letter: "We're angry, Mr President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry.
"Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been, were not. That's to the government's shame."
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[05 Sep 2005|06:17pm] |
i believe that this moment in time is a collective wake up call from the world of complacency the mass majority of americans have been dwelling in for the past decade. the infrastructure of the new orleans levee system is a small-scale representation of our entire country's defenses. in other words, we're fucked and we're all finally waking up and seeing it.
this is all something that should have happened after 9-11, but fear was the medicine instead of the motivation in that particular event. the psy-ops of the bush administration won. they fed us fear and anger and pointed at those responsible, and we all stared as the military dropped bombs on the already apocolyptic landscapes of afghanistan in retaliation. afghanistan really had as little to do with 9-11 as iraq has to do with weapons of mass destruction. it is all just distraction and misdirection.
then katrina rolls through, destroys an entire metropolis, and nobody does anything for days. instead, we sat glued, in our normal routine, staring at the screen feeding on the images of the poor and black starving and crying for help from a government and administration who does nothing to help the black and poor. they didn't even count their votes in the first election (or the second for that matter). and still, the federal government is trying to cast blame on the city and state officials, which is absolutely ludicrous.
and then there's those two empty seats on the supreme court. it's complete bullshit that bush is nominating john roberts for CHIEF JUSTICE of the supreme court, when all of this madness is still going on. again, they're taking advantage of tragedy to promote their own agenda via distraction and misdirection.
nobody will forget this. black america will never forget this. the poor who couldn't evacuate will never forget this. the families of those who have lost loved ones will never forget this.
bush has dug his own grave, and it's time we the people get him out of office.
www.votetoimpeach.org all they need is 1,000,000 signatures and then the impeachment process can begin. last i checked it was well over 500,000. that's more than halfway there. all you have to do sign. that's all.
i'm going to continue posting articles i find, so if you don't want to read them, don't. but they're for me so i can look back at this timecapsule we call livejournal and remember the time where things started to change for the better. there's one coming up next about how the american media is finally reporting the truth, as opposed to the official word from the government.
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[05 Sep 2005|12:54am] |
September 4, 2005
The Bursting Point
By DAVID BROOKS
As Ross Douthat observed on his blog, The American Scene, Katrina
was the anti-9/11.</p>
On Sept. 11, Rudy Giuliani took control. The government response was quick
and decisive. The rich and poor suffered alike. Americans had been hit, but felt
united and strong. Public confidence in institutions surged.
Last week in New Orleans, by contrast, nobody took control. Authority was
diffuse and action was ineffective. The rich escaped while the poor were
abandoned. Leaders spun while looters rampaged. Partisans squabbled while the
nation was ashamed.
The first rule of the social fabric - that in times of crisis you protect the
vulnerable - was trampled. Leaving the poor in New Orleans was the moral
equivalent of leaving the injured on the battlefield. No wonder confidence in
civic institutions is plummeting.
And the key fact to understanding why this is such a huge cultural moment is
this: Last week's national humiliation comes at the end of a string of
confidence-shaking institutional failures that have cumulatively changed the
nation's psyche.
Over the past few years, we have seen intelligence failures in the inability
to prevent Sept. 11 and find W.M.D.'s in Iraq. We have seen incompetent postwar
planning. We have seen the collapse of Enron and corruption scandals on Wall
Street. We have seen scandals at our leading magazines and newspapers, steroids
in baseball, the horror of Abu Ghraib.
Public confidence has been shaken too by the steady rain of suicide bombings,
the grisly horror of Beslan and the world's inability to do anything about
rising oil prices.
Each institutional failure and sign of helplessness is another blow to
national morale. The sour mood builds on itself, the outraged and defensive
reaction to one event serving as the emotional groundwork for the next.
The scrapbook of history accords but a few pages to each decade, and it is
already clear that the pages devoted to this one will be grisly. There will be
pictures of bodies falling from the twin towers, beheaded kidnapping victims in
Iraq and corpses still floating in the waterways of New Orleans five days after
the disaster that caused them.
It's already clear this will be known as the grueling decade, the Hobbesian
decade. Americans have had to acknowledge dark realities that it is not in our
nature to readily acknowledge: the thin veneer of civilization, the elemental
violence in human nature, the lurking ferocity of the environment, the
limitations on what we can plan and know, the cumbersome reactions of
bureaucracies, the uncertain progress good makes over evil.
As a result, it is beginning to feel a bit like the 1970's, another decade in
which people lost faith in their institutions and lost a sense of confidence
about the future.
"Rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown/What a mess! This town's in
tatters/I've been shattered," Mick Jagger sang in 1978.
Midge Decter woke up the morning after the night of looting during the New
York blackout of 1977 feeling as if she had "been given a sudden glimpse into
the foundations of one's house and seen, with horror, that it was utterly
infested and rotting away."
Americans in 2005 are not quite in that bad a shape, since the fundamental
realities of everyday life are good. The economy and the moral culture are
strong. But there is a loss of confidence in institutions. In case after case
there has been a failure of administration, of sheer competence. Hence, polls
show a widespread feeling the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Katrina means that the political culture, already sour and bloody-minded in
many quarters, will shift. There will be a reaction. There will be more
impatience for something new. There is going to be some sort of big bang as
people respond to the cumulative blows of bad events and try to fundamentally
change the way things are.
Reaganite conservatism was the response to the pessimism and feebleness of
the 1970's. Maybe this time there will be a progressive resurgence. Maybe we are
entering an age of hardheaded law and order. (Rudy Giuliani, an unlikely G.O.P.
nominee a few months ago, could now win in a walk.) Maybe there will be call for
McCainist patriotism and nonpartisan independence. All we can be sure of is that
the political culture is about to undergo some big change.
We're not really at a tipping point as much as a bursting point. People are
mad as hell, unwilling to take it anymore.
E-mail: dabrooks@nytimes.com </div>
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[02 Sep 2005|07:02pm] |
Katrina, the
Awakener
by Eric Francis
ONE IMAGE keeps haunting me from this week's journalism,
spun by William Rivers Pitt at truthout.org -- that of presidential advisor Karl
Rove standing on the roof of the White House in a magician's hat and cape, with
a big staff, conjuring Hurricane Katrina. Given the witch-hunt against climate
change scientists reported in The Guardian earlier this week, that may
not be far from the truth (links below, in blue).
On its face, this storm
happened at a brilliantly convenient time for world managers who thrive on chaos
and distraction, right in the midst of the first meaningful protests against the
catastrophic Iraq war gaining momentum -- and with George Bush's approval
ratings lower than any president since Nixon at the height of Watergate. If you
recall, moments before Katrina arrived, we were in a reflective, concerned
moment as the situation in Iraq descended into worse condition than even staunch
pessimists predicted.</font></p>
The US military death toll is near 2,000, and the number
of journalists killed in the 30-month conflict has exceeded that of two decades
in Vietnam. New, uncontrolled violence takes more Iraqi lives by the day, and
sometimes by the hour.
Public attention has now been swayed to a domestic
emergency the like of which we have not seen since Sept. 11, 2001. But New
Orleans makes what happened four years ago in New York City seem rather dim by
comparison, in terms of the number of lives devastated, loss of life, and the
destruction of homes. An entire major city has been taken out, not 16 acres of
one and the surrounding buildings.
The difference now is, there's no one
to blame, no emotions of hatred and enmity of some alien outsider to whip up and
use to dial in the team spirit -- and the disaster happened to a poor,
predominantly black city instead of at the heart of the world's financial and
banking operations. Deprived of our prerogative to get revenge, we may actually
have to pay attention.
News channels are reporting a state of urban warfare, and
troops have consent to shoot and kill American citizens. Police officers are
turning in their badges. Scanning the news reports reveals that people are still
trapped in the city, on rooftops and in high-rises, and thousands are starving.
The condition is deteriorating to the point where
vigilante sniper fire at recovery personnel has been reported. Is this even
vaguely possible? Who, stranded in their own city, would shoot at rescue workers
just for the hell of it?
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hello journal. time for vitriol.
first off, FUCK SOME GODDAMN HURRICANES.
second? fuck this racist conservative conspiracy to destroy the poor black residents of new orleans; a city where art, culture, sex, drugs, vampires and voodoo are all celebrated near shallow graves much older than our country.
World stunned as US struggles with Katrina
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.
World leaders and ordinary citizens have expressed sympathy with the people of the southern United States whose lives were devastated by the hurricane and the flooding that followed.
But many have also been shocked by the images of disorder beamed around the world -- looters roaming the debris-strewn streets and thousands of people gathered in New Orleans waiting for the authorities to provide food, water and other aid.
"Anarchy in the USA" declared Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun.
"Apocalypse Now" headlined Germany's Handelsblatt daily.
The pictures of the catastrophe -- which has killed hundreds and possibly thousands -- have evoked memories of crises in the world's poorest nations such as last year's tsunami in Asia, which left more than 230,000 people dead or missing.
But some view the response to those disasters more favorably than the lawless aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."
( nice to know the rest of the world is thinking on my wavelength. )
and the truth is there is a gas scare, regardless of what some news outlets might be saying. the shit is fucking ridiculous. people are lined up for miles during the day, and they wait for hours. the entire station will be drained of all gas in four or five hours, so if you miss out on that little window of opportunity, GOOD FUCKING LUCK! i drove around for two days on fumes, wondering if i could get to work or not. all public schools are cancelled until further notice because busses can't get the gas to pick up children. even the colleges have suspended classes due to instructors not being able to make it, let alone the poor students.
and now we're under curfew as of nine pm, because apparently there have been hundreds of cars that have had their tanks siphoned by desperate people. if i go out past nine pm, i am to be arrested. it's almost martial law. it's completely ridiculous.
and i'm sure you've all seen the footage from new orleans where thousands upon thousands have been pretty much abandoned, and have since begun losing their minds after days of hunger and no medical care. people are looting and rioting just to find food. the dead, who are estimated to be around 10,000 by the time this is all over, are strewn across the flooded streets. apparently now the truly desperate have begun eating the dead bodies for nourishment.
everyone is losing their minds and the hysteria is spreading (seriously, you can feel it in the air around you), and the saddest part is that about ten percent of jack shit have been done to stop it.
WHY?
just fucking tell me why.
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"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
by sidney blumenthal
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was
one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration
cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq
war.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to
scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With
its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the
Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the
result of an act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic
hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be
undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the
Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers
strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane
striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S.,
including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding
for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the
Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New
Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters
of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning
of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001)
forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The
Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too
late.
( it gets crazier, i promise. )
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respect your elders... listen to swervedriver.
show last night was everything i always hated about playing free shows at mayday. nobody really showed up, though granted i guess it was a little spontaneous. three days notice doesn't exactly mean the same thing it meant in high school. back then three days seemed like forever. now it's more like three hours, and you've probably already got plans anyway, so you know, sorry for bothering you.
okay. i lied. i guess that was really the only thing i hated about playing free shows at mayday. it was fun, really.
actually, it was tons of fun. everyone envied my highly prized "pipe camp" shirt. and if you don't know why that's awesome, you need to watch tom goes to the mayor, and you need to realize that it's the greatest show ever created with the help of bob odenkirk. i mean really, and in a really precise and polite manner... recognize dat shit.
completely random (or is it?): you know what? you should listen to geoff farina too.
back to the show. after countless delays for food runs, we finally got started. mossman regalled the sparse audience to a treat in story form, involving a werewolf and love gone wrong. oh yeah, did i mention the soundtrack was pretty fucking killer? mossman's guitar skills have improved considerably, and his knack for witty banter makes him all the more a natural entertainer. i honestly felt a bit intimidated having to play after him. my only criticism is that when playing without a mic, he should project his voice a bit more. there were quite a few points where i couldn't hear the lyrics, but i'm sure they were lovely, as mossman's always had a smooth firm grasp of the literary side of things.
i was up next, and as usual, i scared everyone off. i mean, for real. maybe i just plain suck. i wasn't all that proud of the performance. i mean, granted, i haven't played live in at least a year, and that wasn't even really a planned thing. that was me getting drunk on red wine too early in the day, and crashing a show. which incidentally, was also a show with mossman and the difference engine. and the show before that was at satori and that gap was even greater than the gap between this show and the last. so, yeah. bit rusty, i'd say.
my brother, the danimal jumped in on improvised percussion, using the variety of strange stuff yacob brought. with only a fire alarm, a snare drum, and an empty guitar case, he did the best he could to add beats to songs we've worked on, and songs we've never even jammed yet. so naturally, i was off rhythm for a few songs, cause i was just getting so lost in keeping it all flowing together. and i obviously don't practice, cause i botched the lyrics to a few songs, and did a few restarts and generally made an ass of myself.
midway through the show, i realized it was already a disaster so i just started to have fun. i tried doing things vocally that i've never really tried. i mean, they didn't pay off very well. the higher register is still a bit out of reach, but i tried. trainwreck or not.
i think mossman actually moshed to the breakdown in one of the new songs, "cutthroat calligraphy". that was awesome and absolutely absurd. course, i made a mosh call, so i'm glad someone did something. haha.
i think i recall yacob even singing along with a few songs in a backup harmony manner. shit sounded good. i heard sean singing along too. it's hard to say what all was really going on, cause i have cat power syndrome, and i can't seem to perform with my eyes open. that's how i know i scared everyone off. cause i looked up after the end of a song, and nobody was there.
so. really, sorry about that, yacob. i scared everyone away.
but yacob didn't care. the show must go on, damnit! so he borrowed my guitar, and started playing. it all turned into this really wonderful musical playtime. i alternated between all of the instruments lying around. as did mossman and sean, and the other scragglers that remained. i never got to jam on the mandolin, but that's cool. there's always next time.
and we all just improvised over yacob's songs. and it might not have always made sense, but i'll be damned if that wasn't the best show ever played by kids in the park. i'm really interested in hearing the tape.
so thanks to everyone who showed up. thanks to yacob and mossman for being really neat people, and um... i'll try harder next time.
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so this was basically what prsean and yacob requested, but modified, and with additions of newer songs that i haven't really ever played live, so that should be tons of fun for those that care, and also for those there only for a good laugh at my unprepared expense.
suckerpunch
the benefits of playing for the losing team
cutthroat calligraphy
judas ninety-seven
montclaire
bruises and benefits
juliet's last breath
crying wolf
final draft of a dear jane letter
struggling with a noose that doesn't fit
my best friends are namedropping rockstars
a plague on both your houses
contempt and grace
is that too many songs? for real. i don't know. it's been forever since i've played, and honestly, i really miss playing in mayday. so i might be being a bit overzealous. so if anyone thinks that might be too much to put up with, let me know, cause i'd be more than happy to shorten it.
actually, fuck that. i wouldn't be happy about it. BUT, i am a slave for the audience, so whatever you say goes.
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[20 Jul 2005|12:02am] |
SAVE-THE-DOX-PEP-RALLY-SHOW!!!!!
TOMORROW!!!!!!!
8PM
MAYDAY
PARK
YACOB!!!
COLQUITT!!! (deathrockboy/ will brett)
THE
DICTIONARIES!!! (jonathan mosman)
SLOMO SIGTRIGGA AND THE BIG BAND SWING
COUNTRY DEATH INDUSTRIAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE BANDITS BAND!!!!
& maybe THE
DEBUTANTES!!!
& OTHERS!!
copy and paste this in your livejournal
and tell all of your friends and bring them and rebirth the daphne acoustic
scene and spread awareness of the dox board meeting tomorrow. we can make our
own fun, bring instruments if you got em.
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