slow-dog.conscienceasscience?

26 April 2000
Whew! Just got back from what can unofficially be described as the Dayton Monsters of Experimental Rock show at Florentina's with Swearing at Motorists and Enon. Well, the show was slightly tainted by the loud people at the bar during the SaM set, and a messed up microphone, but it was fantastic nonetheless. Anyway, you should go check out Enon if only to admire all of the equipment they haul up on stage. More later, but lets just say that this show almost made me glad to be living in Ohio.

24 April 2000
Top 3 Stephin Merritt side projects:
1. The 6ths
2. Future Bible Heroes
3. The Gothic Archies

In other news, I worried briefly about marriage on my sojourn to California, as I waited on the streets of San Francisco for a high school friend I was meeting for lunch. No, I didn't want to marry her. No, I don't want to marry anyone else that I know. I was worried in the abstract way that one worries about things that are too abstract as a class to worry about any particular possible instance. What I worried about was that I would end up meeting someone and then getting married and then I would ignore all of my friends and just spend time with my wife and then one day I'd realize that I was extremely unhappy, but that it was all I had since everything else had slid away.

Pretty selfish daydream, eh? Well, two minutes later my friend from high school showed up, and she's cool, and we had lunch, and then went and looked at the Pacific Ocean, which as I told her, is so much more optimistic than the Atlantic Ocean, and I felt all better and ready for a night of drinking and partying.

23 April 2000
Returned from California. More later.

20 April 2000
Dear Stalker,
So you thought I was an easy mark? Well, I have decided to show you how wrong you are by escaping from right under your nose. I am in California now, and you will not succeed in touching me from here. I look forward to eating sushi, seeing friends, attending a party, and laughing at your inept attempts to track me. Ha! I say.

Sean

P.S. Please don't break into my apartment and steal my stuff.

17 April 2000
An open letter to web-loggers and indie scenesters:
I have read a fair amount of what you folks have written, and looked at lots of neato group pictures of cabal-members at sxsw, and the one question I'm left with is, where, among all of the single, well-educated, web-loving indie-logging folk, was the love? I don't mean the feeling--I mean the hot, sweaty, ecstasy-induced orgies that was everyone's real subconscious reason for going. Well? What do you folks have to say for yourselves? I thought so.

17 April 2000
Funniest thing heard on the radio in a long time:
Today Noah Adams on All Things Considered interviews one of the head activist's at the IMF/World Bank Protests in D.C. He asked her what kind of organization she would set up in place of the World Bank if given the opportunity. She responded with some pap about "a participatory body", and he shot back, "So it sounds like you really haven't given it much thought." HA!

13 April 2000
Well, I stumbled across this today, and since my pita is down for maintenance, I had to put it here. After a long torturous day at work and then an annoying class tonight, it made me just want to book a plane ticket and get the hell out of here. It also reminded me I should get the rest of my Thailand pictures developed and scan them in to bore the online crowd. Anyway, I probably won't do either of these things soon, but that doesn't mean you can't seize upon my daydreams and make them your own. Hate your job? Quit! Hate school? Quit! Sell your car and your computer and you've probably got enough money to live like a king while backpacking through Asia for a good chunk of time. What are you waiting for!?!

11 April 2000
Too lazy to do anything of substance, but I will say that one problem with the internet is the increased incidences of shopping while drunk. This happened to me this weekend, and I now await a couple of CD. Here's a song off an album I may regret having purchased. I do like this song, though--for now.

6 April 2000
Returned to the world of grey skies and wide hips. Very angry.

4 April 2000
The bargain conscious shopper can pick up Supergrass's s/t for $6.99 at Best Buy--or at least at the Best Buy I went to. The weather today has been quirky and varied, but it's chilly, and that's not good. I'm actually making a quick run out of town this week, which should restore my faith in humanity.

3 April 2000
GbV review is up. Eventually I'll get around to reading it for syntax and semantics. All other news on hold for a few days. Patience grasshopper.