Z'EV

just found the wikipedia link to a music/performance artist that i listened to in high school while editing together footage/taking bullshit studio art classes. Z'EV is the name of the artist. he is awesome-desu.

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QOTSA Acoustic Set in Amsterdam, NL

1) I'm Designer



2) Suture Up Your Future



3) Into The Hollow



4) 3's and 7's



5) River In The Road



6) Make It Wit Chu

i like how you can tell that throughout the performance, homme is sobering up; apparently thats what happens when radio stations treat you before a promo gig in amsterdam...i wish i were a pro-musician...

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Good and Bad Choices When Travelling Long Periods of Time in A Car:

bad album choices:
interpol: our love to admire
arcade fire: neon bible
feist: the reminder

these are "bad" choices because when one is travelling at 80+ mph, these albums are so mellowing and seductive that one is likely to fall asleep/dose off whilst driving at said speed on cruise control.

good album choices:
black keys: magic potion
rasputina: frustration plantation
noisettes: what's the time, mr. wolf?

these are "good" choices because they are either so abrasively loud/head-bob-able-to that one will not nod off while driving fast. also give the listener a sense that someone is watching you in the backseat and disappears at the moment that the listener looks at them.

other things...

i found out that when given the choice of being lad off (with two weeks severance) and transferring, that when one too many people choose transferring, the district manager chooses to not do the paperwork and instead lays everyone off, except the manager. also the manager will not return my phone calls. either of them. so now i am jobless, but luckily have an interview with the manager at a buckhead location to finagle my way into a position of part time variety there. that meeting is on tuesday at 12. cant forget this. may luck out and get it, may luck out and not. ambivalent at this point, only ambivalence is not the right word, cos im not pulled strongly in either direction to be honest.

got the entirety of neon genesis evangelion, one of my favorite anime on dvd for christmas.

have slight sinus infection, for which i now have medication.

brother contracted mersa (staph infection) from locker room/swimming with the swim team for school credit. parents making him swim,, despite the over-all bad idea of doing so, but im not his parent.

drunk driver drove through my grandmother's kitchen after tearing up/spinning out on her neighbors lawn across the street. she was awoken by the stuff in her closet being thrown onto the bed where the truck hit the back of her closet in the bedroom. the driver then tried reversing but had sunk the truck up to the wheel wells so he just tore the shit out of the flooring and the counters and such in the kitchen. after someone this fucking drunk got out and got away on foot, the police could not find anyone. the guys that showed up that knew him from a party they were having gave some "bullshit story" according to my dad who was helping my grandmother fill out police reports, cos apparently she broke into half english half japanese and at one point entirely japanese so my dad acted as a rough translator. shes okay, just rattled. there is a big hole in her house, apparently, that is covered in plastic and sealed this way to keep people out.

new years obviously has a new prank in which you take off the caps to tires facing the street on parked cars and then breaking the stems so the tires go flat nigh immediately. we left a party at one and then got home at 6.30 (thanks to robbie and jen for refilling the tires and patching them!). changing a tire at 3-ish to 6-ish while stone drunk and pissed is an interesting experience, especially when you are the only one willing to lay on your back in the road to position the jack under a rivet in the car, when the jack is the only thing keeping your head from being squashed like a grape. made me feel more manly than i am/possibly was though.

miss fiancee.

tired.

z out