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[19 Aug 2008|12:08pm] |
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So I was supposed to have my interview at Macy's today. I got up early, steamed my clothes, threw my respectable shoes in my bag, blah blah blah. I had to drag Chris out of bed to look up the bus schedule for me because I am no good at that stuff. So I went to the bus stop and...the bus he told me to take wasn't listed as being one of the ones that stops there. And I tried to figure out the map and the closest I can see it stopping is like 30 blocks from here. And I spent so much time trying to figure out the map that it got to where I wouldn't have time to get there on time anyway. So I had to come back home. And now Chris says he's sure it stops there cos it's the one we took to a concert before. So why the fuck would they not list it on the map or the sign? RAR. RAR, I say. I rescheduled it for Thursday but they probably won't want me anyway, how could I be any good at the kind of thing where you're on commission so you have to go up to people you don't know at all and try to make them buy stuff? I would be no good at that. All the bookstores are e-mailing me back and saying they're not hiring at all. I'm never going to find a job. The bagger at the grocery store the other day said they're hiring there but jesus christ 16-year-old pothead dropout kids work at the grocery store. I went to college, I went to a fucking good college, I got 4 questions away from a perfect score on the SAT verbal! This was not exactly how I envisioned making it.
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| New Kids On The Rock #3 |
[19 Aug 2008|12:32pm] |
Webisode 3: Bulky Treble!! Starring Niel Ciciada, Brian Marphy, and Kenan James. With special guest star Mac Pachadams!
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[19 Aug 2008|02:23am] |
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Now my computer is not getting Internet at all, so ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kotra is letting me use his computer; yay for kotra. Actually, since I'm the only one awake, I could try signing on to the network, but... I don't feel like messing with it. Computer problems are exhausting. Also, I think I'm too tired to really do anything, but not tired enough to sleep. I slept a whole damn lot today/yesterday/whenever. I had a dream where I met a blonde woman who used to be famous and Jesse Jackson ran away from me. I was thinking I should write about this in my LiveJournal. Then as I slowly woke up I realized it was just a dream, so I should write about the dream in my LiveJournal. Then I realized it wasn't worth writing about at all. Then I wrote about it anyway.
Lately I've been watching Werner Herzog's 1979 adaptation of Dracula a whole lot, even though I thought it was kind of bad. The performances were good and... other things were good, but at times it was so corny I had to laugh. There were two versions, English and German, both filmed at the same time. First I watched the English version and then the German, and then I listened to the commentary. Commentaries interest me even when I don't like the movie they're about. This has Klaus Kinski looking a lot like Billy Corgan, as well as Bruno Ganz, who later played an angel in Wings of Desire and Hitler in The Downfall. (It's funny how Firefox's spell check recognizes their first names but not their last names.) I had reserved this from the library a while ago and totally forgot why, but it's probably because I keep wanting to watch German movies so that I get better at understanding German, and also Herzog and Kinski are interesting. It's amazing how many Dracula movies there have been.
I should finish that alphabet thing. First I will have to be in the right frame of mind to talk about utopias.
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[19 Aug 2008|12:39am] |
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In other "maybe I was overestimating how much people want to pay for my stupid crap" news, I've lowered the price on all my prints on Etsy to $6, which is a deal. I mean, there are people selling prints for $30-40. So, check it out.
I have a group interview at Macy's tomorrow. I talked to Borders and Barnes and Noble and they both said they're reviewing applications and will get back to me soon. I also e-mailed like 25 local independent bookstores seeing if anyone is hiring. So hopefully something will come of all this. *fingers crossed*
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| This kind of made my night |
[18 Aug 2008|11:27pm] |
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(from this article about Obama and McCain's top 10 songs.)
(also omgomgomg "I'm on Fire" AND "City of Blinding Lights"? omgomgomg.)
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| Job stuff |
[18 Aug 2008|03:34pm] |
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Well, I have my first interview on Wednesday, at some insurance company. Totally not the kind of thing I'm interested in, but they contacted me, and I figure I should take what I can get right now. Just so long as it's some kind of administrative thing and not actually selling insurance cos I don't wanna do that at all. Called Borders and Barnes and Noble about my applications there and waiting to hear back from them.
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[18 Aug 2008|03:18am] |
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Computers are stupid. Also, here's me eating an artichoke because people were curious:
I should have used a light that wasn't so bright. Oh well.
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| Kitchiri |
[17 Aug 2008|08:52pm] |
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Made this for dinner tonight. Chris seems to say dinner is "ok" no matter what I make, which is, argh, frustrating, but anyway, I thought it was good. Takes awhile to make though (mostly just leaving things on the stove), so start early.
( recipe )
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| Writer's Block: Your Username |
[17 Aug 2008|04:10am] |
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It's a truncated version of "A Self Called Nowhere," my favourite TMBG song. When I started getting really into TMBG/made my journal I was still in my high school angsty/self-loathing mode which is why I felt like the song and the title fit me so well. (Yeh, you might think I'm self-loathing now, but we're talking serious self-loathing.) I don't feel like that so much anymore, most of the time, but it's still a damn good song.
Happy birthday to dealeonessa today!
Party tonight at saracowgirl's. It was fun, we met some cool people and I didn't feel too shy talking to people which is good, except this one girl who made me really nervous. I'm not even sure why, she seemed nice and everything, but she just had some weird energy that was very unsettling. Anyway. There was accordion. saracowgirl just bought one and there were something like 5 other people who knew how to play, it was kind of amazing. If there was any doubt in my mind that this was the place for us that erased it, definitely. So, between that and hanging out with carvinkeeper12 & kilobites, (both of whom were very cool and fun to talk to, incidentally) I think I'm doing reasonably well on my "work on being social in Seattle" goal on 43 Things.
Ok, so since nobody (really, not a single person) has bought any of the books yet, I edged the prices down a bit. The novel is now $12 and the poetry books are $9. Please, please take a look and consider buying something. It would mean a lot to me. Really. A lot.
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[17 Aug 2008|03:58am] |
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Bethlehem - Aphel, Die Schwarze Schlange |
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Hi, I can't sleep and this is wonderful.
Today I learned how to play the solo at the end of this. It was enjoyable. I became aware of the end of this song from the version by Edmund Welles. At first I thought this was just a bunch of crazy nonsense with a cool part at the end but after repeated listens I think it's pretty good.
I wish I could lean back and type and see what I'm typing. Glasses sound like nice things. Come to me, universal health care!
It has been determined that when I connect to the wireless network, it often kicks everyone else off. What a thing that is stupid. I reverted the driver to an old version, and it won't let me connect to this network, but it lets me connect to another unprotected one nearby, which didn't do anything at all when I connected to it earlier but now it's performing well. Computers are weird.
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| I can be publeshid nao? |
[15 Aug 2008|06:22pm] |
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MY NOVEL CAME TODAY. SO SO SO EXCITING. :D :D :D
You can buy a copy of it and the two poetry chapbooks over @ Where Your Eyes Don't Go Bookshop (yes, everything in my life is a TMBG reference, why do you ask?). DO IT. They're a little bit more expensive than I was hoping they would be but Lulu has to take their cut plus the production cost and everything, and while I'm not doing this to make money obviously, it would be nice to make a little money, especially right now when we're totally!broke. Anyway, I'm sure you've paid more for a book at a bookstore, and this way you're supporting a starving writer and all that.
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| Feeling a little more confident today |
[15 Aug 2008|05:15pm] |
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Don't tell me that I can't do this
As if you knew.
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[15 Aug 2008|05:15pm] |
Things to do: e-mail the guy who seemed to be interested in possibly employing me (I was not awake the one time he called, and then I was distracted by everything, and then it took a while for the Internet to be working, and also there is often no cell phone reception in this basement, which is weird, because I've only rarely been out of the city since I got this phone and I haven't experienced a lack of cell phone coverage before, so I wasn't sure how to react to this); ask kotra's mom where the mail box is so that I can return There Will Be Blood (yet another movie that I thought was done really well but I have no idea how much I liked it) to Netflix and put my subscription on hold; find my laundry basket and take my dirty clothes off the floor and put them in it; find my trash basket and take trash of my desk and put it in it; catch up on friends page; write a really long and hard to read sentence in my journal.
I'm feeling more light-headed than usual after a plasma thing, so I don't want to move, even more than I usually don't want to move. There is also exhaustion to take into consideration, as I have been doing actual physical labor lately. Did you know that I am lazy?
Internet keeps disconnecting. We wonder if maybe it's the heat, because the router feels very hot. It's been stupidly hot here. The basement is good for avoiding the heat. Living in your friend's mom's basement must be a step below living in your mom's basement. (My mom doesn't have a basement; I'm just being hypothetically shallow.)
My shoes smell absolutely terrible.
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| Friday Five + quiz |
[15 Aug 2008|02:47pm] |
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1. What is your favorite song right now? Why? Uh, well, since I still can't get over listening to John last week, I guess I'll say "Montana." Why? Because it's fucking awesome, duh. I used to play it on repeat for hours...
2. What genre of music makes you the happiest? The John kind.
3. What would you name your band and what kind of music would you play? Oh man I would love to start a band. Um. I don't have a good idea for a name right now though. Come back to me. We would play overly emotional and melodramatic but bright and happy sounding stuff. And TMBG covers duh.
4. What is your favorite lyric of all time? Why? SO MANY. Um. I think all-time is still "Nobody in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful / Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful," but right now I am all about "This could lead to excellence or serious injury / Only one way to know / Go, go, go / Go ahead and wreck your life / That might be good / Who can say what's wrong or right? / Nobody can" because, um, it just feels really really appropriate lately.
5. What band/artist could you never live without? Why? Well, gee, They Might Be Giants obviously, because of that whole "being completely obsessed" thing (as evidenced by the fact that they're the answer to EVERY QUESTION). AND YET I'M SUPPOSED TO DO IT SOMEHOW ANYWAY GOOD TIMES.
( Perception Personality Image Test )
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[15 Aug 2008|12:39am] |
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kotra's sister-in-law gave him a stuffed chameleon and he gave it to me and I named it Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. He asked why and I couldn't think of an answer. It's disturbingly lifelike yet amusing. I took some pictures of it... him... as we moved. I will post them here (there are a lot of them!) along with pseudo-humorous captions where I guess what he's saying. ( Read more... )
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[14 Aug 2008|01:46pm] |
Huzzah, I have an internet! It turns out that kotra has a PCI wireless adapter that he forgot about and wasn't using, so this is yet another thing that I'm leeching from him. Yay.
Last night I watched There Will Be Blood. There was... but not nearly as much as in most movies that are rated R for violence. Irony!
Vijay and Janet are awesome because they sent me some awesome clothing and they're awesome.
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