the elegant faker

Portland, Seattle, & BC friends: It is your duty to all that is holy and good to go see Cut Copy this week.

I haven't seen a crowd go nuts like that since Daft Punk. Get there early and catch the opening bands: The Presets and Heartbreak. You will dance, you will smile, you will sweat, it will be great.

I also finally realized who the lead singer's voice reminds me of.

GO!

I also saw Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine this past week... which I enjoyed, but wasn't compelled enough to write about... another clue as to the greatness of the Cut Copy show. Tonight, David Byrne (which brings the recent string of concert madness to a much needed conclusion).

Zeth Lundy makes the case for Creedence worship at Popmatters. As though a case needed to be made.

(Most days, unless I'm feeling particularly idiosyncratic, I'll tell you if you ask that Creedence Clearwater Revival is the best rock band ever made in America)

sidney looper - mixx10-08
just some bassline/90s rave-ival

tracklist:
duke dumont - hoy
bugati force - juke this dirty mother
rico tubbs - bmore dominator
meat katie and d. ramirez ft odissi - stop the revolution (bassbin twins remix)
clp - ready or not (diplo vs dj sega remix)
killaqueenz - bitches (sidney looper remix)
surkin - kid gloves (bobmo remix)
hot chip - hold on (switch la remix)
bingo players - get up (diplo remix)
lukes anger - 24hr freshness
alter ego - fuckingham palace (modeselektors swiaiaa remix)
ebola - painkillers
tc - wheres my money (caspa remix)
nasty boi - bangorz
ts7 ft t dot - raise ur glasses
moby - alice (drop the lime heavy bass remix)
yves deruyter - animals
bowa ft mala - different story

• 21:20 @aphelant surely not? no one delivers the lousy pseudo-medicine like sga! #
• 21:35 @chr0me @aphelant i trust y'all, but that defies all reason. #

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yesterday:

- worked. at work. on work things.

- worked on otw stuff.

- worked on archive stuff: posted a survey with an eye toward an overhaul of some categories. caught up on entries. then realized, later, that since the only podfic community i don't have notifications set up for is the one i actually run and have on my flist, i totally missed a bunch that had only been posted there. whoops.

- was extremely cranky. like whoa, extremely.

- met up with babble_phish and zengargoyle and their no-longer-so-new baby for dinner and beer. the beer helped with the crankiness situation. a little.

- fell asleep on top of my computer wearing my contact lenses. (usually when i get sleepy i put the computer on the floor next to the bed. last night i was too cold to stick my arm out of the covers that far. and way too cold to walk to the bathroom to take my lenses out.)

today:

- decided i would go see panic at the disco! when they are here 10/23! got mildly excited about it for about five minutes, then realized we'll be out of town. oh well.

- went for a walk with matt in the woods at matthaei botanical gardens.

- posted some podfic. for which i made covers! which came out okay, seeing how ( the flickr creative commons 2.0 filter is totally my source image search boyfriend. )

- made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. well. i made the biscuits, matt made the gravy. i ate both, though.

- bought new shoes. looked at a new winter coat. felt ill over the idea that said coat may cost in the neighborhood of $250. but then, that's the reason i just went without last year. hmmm.

- updated the archive some more.

- otw work, duh.

- revised the dvd_commentary masterlist and completed list. again. thought about the upcoming amplificathon mini-challenge, and the fact that i have got to get my file permissions worked out before then. thought, guiltily, about the appellathon wiki, and how i really need to data load if we're going to be in good shape for *that* challenge.

Hope it's OK to post something I've drawn! 
 

Last week, I told someone new my irrational fear of eating ostrich--namely, I'm scared of the animal itself and somehow fear that they'll, like, know and have it out for me even more. She said it wasn't so irrational when she was irrationally (to both of us, if not everyone) scared of eating beef because of Mad Cow Disease.

Our bet, if we can find each in the Central Coast of California at the same time, is that if I can live through and get to the other side of my fear in the midst of an ostrich petting zoo she knows, she'll have a steak. Then we'll have wine. Alot of that.

Watch and learn, McCain campaign:


Grooovy...

in the front yard

Mellow Saturday.
Some good use of minutes on the phone.
A trip to Yellow Springs to meet up for dinner.
An acoustic playlist and a book in the evening.

Some hot cider sounds really good right about now.

So I have this friend. I'm not kidding. She's my friend and she's a graduate student at a school of art and design and things like that. And she's a graduate student, AND she's working on her senior thesis. The thesis, to me, sounds awesome: she wants to program an Internet-based application for writers. Something for writers to write in, both solo and collaboratively. With features. There are things out there right now that are like, you know, online word processors and Google Docs and whatnot, but this will turn up the creative a little bit, and appeal to anyone who likes to share drafts with friends or write round-robin style or I don't know just writers who like shiny things.

As she pulls together her proposal, she wants to be in touch with Actual People who Actually Write. And that's a lot of you. You! YOU! She has a list of questions to help her develop this project and I think a lot of you would be a great help to her. And in the long run, who knows. It might be the beginning of the most awesome thing you've ever used.

So if you're interested in participating (I believe the questions will be emailed and you'll just have a chance to write your long and detailed answers back), comment with your name and email address (name/email comments will be screened so the info won't be public). I promise this info will only go to her and that she won't use it for any sort of nefarious purpose; if she does I promise to go after her and drop her out of a window. I do this for you. I am that kind of person.

Also feel free to pass this on to any writerly friends of yours (non-lj folks can post as anonymous commenters, their info will still be screened). The wider the survey the more awesome the application, amirite?

tagged by mystickeeper:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.

However, I wasn't able to move straight into the room I wanted. There were other applicants and these politicos were democrats, from time to time. I was to be interviewed, though I knew the lefties would offer me the room as soon as I asked whether there were any black people in the house. The guilt shuddered through them like a bout of food poisoning and I was in, despite my pale skin and the queue of whites outside.
It wasn't exactly a commune; people had their own rooms and the cooking and chores weren't shared, though some tasks were. There were a lot of meetings and mad talk, cycling and recycling. New posters - 'Protest and Survive!', or a picture of a monkey being experimented on - along with leaflets advertising meetings appeared in the hall every day, along with piles of wood for 're-use'.

Something to tell you, by Hanif Kureishi (advanced uncorrected proof)

and there's a false and misleading meme result for you. but it's the only book on my bedside table. because it's been a while since i read any tree-based literature (not for want of trying). though i find i have increasingly mixed feelings about books as physical objects. more on that, perhaps, later.

not tagging anyone.

The editor of National Review watches the vice presidential debate.

• 13:33 dear cron: why you gotta not run half the time? seriously, what the fuck. kisses, me. #
• 00:36 making fic covers. weirdly impressed with the result. go me, i guess. #

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i am so fucking cranky today i can barely stand it. i stopped at the grocery store and two people actually walked into me. i wasn't standing still, i wasn't walking in a non-standard pathway. i actually wondered for a minute, after the second one, if i had actually become invisible. since he walked into me straight on, in an otherwise empty aisle, while his eyes were open and pointed in my direction. and he was a store employee. and he failed to acknowledge me even after the collision (yes, i tried to move out of his way. i chose the side of the aisle i was closer to (to my left), and further sideways movement was hindered by the shelves of pickles.)

in the first guy's defense, he was easily 6'6", and coming around a corner. at close range, i am not tall enough to be in his line of sight. kind of.

anyway.

today:
- caught up the masterlist and claims/finished post for dvd_commentary, and posted to close this year's challenge.

- created a preliminary languages category for the archive, and added the first non-english contributions. yay geopolitical diversity! (finnish). created a custom 404 page; worked on a php template until the damn 404 showed menu blocks. created a lot of redirects, will be doing more tonight. am only two files away from caught up on archive entries. i think.

- worked on otw work

- finally renewed my plates.

- aforementioned grocery stop.

- potted a plant.

- about to try my hand at a podfic cover. do not have high hopes.

- haven't finished editing my last in-progress file. hopefully will get to that tonight.

- totally forgot to buy a new clock for inside the shower.

yesterday:
- worked at work work. impressed a small crowd with my vending machine repair skills. for serious. they were all, "miss? how did you fix that? wow." (the door was jammed with a coke bottle, and the kid who wanted the coke had then tried for juice instead. which also got jammed. i wormed my hand in, shoved the juice back into the machine, and threw it at the coke bottle. my hand and wrist were just a hair overlarge for the opening, so: painful. but it was worth it, for the glory.)

- worked on otw stuff

- had bi bim bop with chr0me_kitten

- had beer and dinner with deus_x and missadroit. and mattcallow, if that doesn't go without saying.

- had to stop home while en route between work locations as i was so fucking cold i had to change my clothes.

before that:
- i have no idea, i don't remember. i was pretty sick thursday-tuesday, which meant i stayed inside all of friday and slept almost all of sunday. but i think i can say with confidence that i worked on work work all eligible days, and worked on otw work all days. i only know i've been busy, and within that period, i wrote the most boring wiki article ever. (i need to put some stats in. everyone loves stats, right?) oh, and i took the car in for repairs. new left axle, $222.

riveting. yes.

In March, National Review's Rich Lowry wrote that the will.i.am Obama video was "sad, scary and hilarious all at once."

Today, Rich Lowry wrote this:

A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it.

Oh-Sarah,
Oh-Sarah,
Oh-Sarah...
fap-fap-fap-fap-fap-fap-fap-fap

You know how when you don't post for a long time on livejournal, it gets harder and harder to come up with a reason to post on livejournal? And even then, you feel like you've got to come back with something really inspired and provocative and "worth it?"

Eff that. I haven't posted in about four weeks. And now I have.

Hi ev'rybody!

so i did, in fact, mean to post about this weeks and weeks ago. but i have two speeds: way too fast off the mark, and oh, damn, i knew i was forgetting something.

mrdankelly is planning an obama fundraiser that i only wish i had thought of first (or, you know, thought of echoing. thought of echoing earlier than just now.)

his letter, explaining the scheme:

Hi all,

On October 18, 2008, starting at noon, I will commence to watch 24 hours of horror films in order to raise money for the Obama campaign. My tortured analogy? Nothing I'll watch during those 24 hours will be as horrifying as what's happened over the past eight years of the Bush administration. Will you sponsor me? It's easy. I'm off to a good start. A few of my blog readers have already contributed a total of $415 via the Obama fundraiser doohickey found below:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/mrdankellyshorrorshow

My goal is $1,000.

Calculate what you're willing to pay to keep me glued to that couch for a full day, rotting my brains out with monster, vampire, zombie, ghost, alien, and other spooky flicks, and then donate it to the campaign in a lump sum. You have my word that I'll only leave the couch to use the facilities, pay the pizza dude, and look after my son Nate's little emergencies. During the course of the marathon I'll also be blogging away happily (and no doubt blearily by 3 a.m.) at http://mrdankelly.livejournal.com.

Thanks! Please contribute! And remember to vote for Barack Obama!

Yrs:
Dan

dan has already topped his goal. but wouldn't it be nice to double it? triple it?

obama is not my perfect candidate. my perfect candidate, however, would be jean-luc picard. after i puched him in the face a couple of times over what happened to ro laren, and he thought about it for a while. no, wait. my perfect candidate would be benjamin sisko. since no face-punching would be required, there. but we might need to have a long talk about capitalism first. damn. okay, looks like i don't have a perfect candidate. even a fictional one. i don't think obama is evil or stupid or thinking only of himself and the welfare of his own class/race/economic group/religious affiliation/political cronies, and that's going to have to be enough.

anyway, i think this is genius. i can't watch horror movies (not as a rule, but usually - actually, the less cheesy ones i can usually get through), and dan is going to make the sacrifice to watch them for me! so i don't have to! it only saddens me that it only just occurs to me that i could have done the same, spending 24 hours glued to a screen, objectifying men with faceblood the whole time! it could have been awesome! i would have watched army of darkness (or possibly evil dead 2) and sg:a - grace under pressure and btvs - lover's walk and...other stuff. pity.

anyway. hi. been busy. have day off. might post a lot, but also need to go to the sec state office. after my coffee.

Williamsburg All-Pro
(when I saw it on the street I thought to myself "biiiiiiike bell (pause), rusted")

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