Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Michael Hanscom For Rebecca, for comparison purposes, and for Jonas, because he made fun of me for dancing to Strangelove at the Vogue a few months ago. ;)
My final Depeche Mode song count:
And here’s the full list, in .pdf format, printed straight out of iTunes:
iTunes: “Judas” by Depeche Mode from the album Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993, 5:14).
Weird night last night — no matter what, I just couldn’t sleep solidly. Tossed and turned all night long, until I finally gave up trying to get back to sleep a little while ago. It’s Saturday and I’ve been up since just before 8am. Ah, well — hopefully a nap later in the day will happen, and I’ll knock myself back onto my usual schedule before too long.
I do remember having a long, very involved dream revolving around discovering that Lloyd Alexander had written a series of companion novels to his Prydain Chronicles: two collections of short stories, and a full trilogy of three almost Harry Potter-length novels set about sixteen years or so after the end of the Prydain Chronicles. I was really excited about this, found some beautiful leather-bound editions, but the bookstore I was at was missing the first book of the trilogy, so after flipping through the ones that were there and admiring the maps of Prydain in the front leaf, I started going to another book store to find the first of the new books.
Then I woke up, realized that it was all just a dream, and was very disappointed.
I’ve had a couple people notice that I’ve just been reading the (real) Prydain Chronicles after seeing them pop up in the sidebar and ask about them. I’m planning on writing about them, but at the moment Prairie’s borrowing my copies, and I’m waiting to put up a full post until I have the books back in my hands to quote from. So no smackings and crackings of my poor tender head, please — I’m getting there!
I’m also just a few CDs short of finally having every CD I own imported into my computer. It’s almost frightening how much music I have. Almost, but not quite. ;) More details on that once I’m actually done.
And, as long as I’m up and (apparently) functioning early enough, I’ll be catching the 10:40 ferry over to Bainbridge Island for today’s blogger picnic. Should be fun!
And the day begins…
iTunes: “All I Really Need” by Machines of Loving Grace from the album Rite of Shiva (1991, 5:07).
The Bumbershoot 2004 lineup has been announced. Sweet. Quite a few big names catch my eye and will be fun to see, but I’m also looking forward to discovering a few new acts that I might not have heard of otherwise (I find at least one or two more each year).
Just calling out a few that catch my interest…
Friday: The Clumsy Lovers
Saturday: Seal, Nancy Sinatra, Robyn Hitchcock
Sunday: Public Enemy
Monday: The Pixies, Toots and the Maytals (Kevin just played some of their stuff for me on his way through last weekend), Critters Buggin’
Not as many “must see” acts as there have been in the past few years for me, all in all. In fact, the only one to really make me sit up and get excited was Public Enemy. Still, it’s certainly not a bad initial list of possibilities, and as I said before, it’s the unexpected discoveries that can be the most fun.
iTunes: “Pine Effect” by µ-Ziq from the album In Pine Effect (1995, 4:51).
Many, many congratulations to Kevin, Emily — and Noah Avery Hanscom!
Noah Avery Hanscom was born this morning, the Feast of Sts. Helier, Plechtelm, and/or Steven Harding Tenenan, at 3:56 AM (Memphis time), weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. Emily and Noah are doing well, and Noah, so far, in his less than a day outside of his mother, seems to have his father’s laid back attitude toward life.
Yay!
iTunes: “Happy Birthday” by Concrete Blonde from the album Free (1989, 2:22).
While I’m sure it wouldn’t be that bad if I did this every day, when I’m used to closing the store down at 9pm and going to bed around 2am, getting up at 5am to open the store in the morning — especially after working the usual closing shift the night before — is not very fun.
What kind of hyperactive overachiever needs to make copies at 7 in the verschluggin morning anyway? Don’t you people sleep?
Okay. Just had to get that out of my system. On the bright side, I’ll be bustin’ out of here at 3 in the afternoon today, which isn’t entirely bad, even if all I’m going to want to do when I get home is take a nap.
I just wanted to toss out a quick congratulations to Phil, who with the release of O’Reilly’s Mac OS X Panther Hacks, is now officially a published (co-)author!
I haven’t even managed to wrangle my infamy into that particular accolade. ;)
iTunes: “Life In Ecstacy (Long Dong)” by Trust in 6 from the album Techno-Trax Vol. 1 (1991, 6:37).
One sunny day in 2005 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Ave, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the US Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.”
The old man said, “Okay” and walked away.
The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.” The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same US Marine, saying “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I’ve told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don’t you understand?”
The old man looked at the Marine and said, “Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it,”
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, “See you tomorrow, Sir.”
(via amberglow)
Last weekend I got to hang out with by brother on his way down to Oregon, where he’s looking for job and housing possibilities for an upcoming move to Corvallis, where his wife will be going to school. The plan was for us to hang out this weekend too, on his way back to Mississippi — but all that just changed.
Emily started labor last night, and so Kevin just called to let me know that he’s flying back to Mississippi to be there for the birth of his baby! Apparently things are still early in the process — the hospital sent Em home last night after she went in — so chances are good that Kev will be able to be there for the birth.
I’m about to be an uncle. Pretty cool, huh?
iTunes: “Block Rockin’ Beats” by Chemical Brothers, The from the album MTV’s Amp (1997, 5:00).
How wonderful. I can’t claim total inspiration for this, as all I did was point to the article regarding Ian Spiers’ run-in with Homeland Security while photographing the Ballard Locks, which brought it to the attention of Myk O’Leary of Life, it is a Travesty. After reading that article, however, Myk is organizing a peaceful protest at the Ballard Locks.
In response, I will be trying to organize a photo shoot at the Locks as a means of protest. Anyone else who cares about our rights as Americans to photograph interseting PUBLIC subjects are welcome to join me. If you are a photographer in Seattle, please consider coming.
If you are hesitant (and this is fair given what already happened) at least pass this on to others you know who may want to come along. Feel free to post the link to any and all boards that may have folks who would come (I’ll be posting to dpchallenge in just a few minutes after this post goes live.)
DETAILS: Sunday August 1st, 2004 1PM – 4PM We’ll meet at the front gates at just before 1PM, if you’re late, just look for the gaggle of tripods inside the property by the locks.
I’ll do my best to be there. Thanks, Myk.
iTunes: “Ya Mama” by Fatboy Slim from the album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (2000, 5:38).
From Dr. Joyce Brothers — how much do you know about men and sex?
True or False: