tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36926537932517348052024-03-12T20:17:21.055-05:00I Hate Rock 'n' Roll"Everyone wants to be a DJ but nobody wants to carry the records."¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692653793251734805.post-70328042460491346322013-12-16T19:28:00.001-06:002013-12-16T19:41:28.809-06:00Using a Random Deepak Chopra Wisdom Generator to Predict the Last Two Dallas Cowboys Regular Season Games, 2013<div class="MsoNormal">
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If the Dallas Cowboys win their final two games, against NFC
East rivals Philadelphia and Washington, they will win the division with a 9 -7
record.* They are currently 4 – 0 in the division, owning the first tiebreaker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For all the ways they have found to lose in the 2013 season,
for the ways they would most likely find to lose a Wild Card round playoff
game, their 2013 campaign lurches up against these Stalingrads: a
self-consuming, ectoplasm-owned, racist-denominated Washington team, and a rebounding
(on average) Philly, lead by a QB-who-is-not-Vick and the Offense of the Future
(Wait Until Next Year When You See It In Austin).<o:p></o:p></div>
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I used the first two quotes gurgitated by the Deepak Chopra
Wisdom Generator as a more “quantumly-enabled” I Ching to predict the outcomes
of these “win or go home” games—a category in which Tony Romo is statistically
proven to be cursed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Week 16, Sunday, Dec
22<sup>nd</sup>-- Dallas at Washington</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"The
unexplainable is the path to the doorway to silence"<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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This is clearly about Shanahan. OK, I choose to make it
about him, and by making the choice, I have most likely created a new universe
in which it is true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dallas 27, Washington 17<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dallas: 8 - 7, 5- 0 NFC East</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Week 17, Sunday, Dec.
29<sup>th--</sup> Philadelphia at Dallas</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"The universe embraces subjective mortality" <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Woah, Deepak Chopra Wisdom Generator, just whoa.
This is heavy, heavy stuff. Probably. I believe what you’re saying here is that
Jerry Jones is going to come face-to-face with…nah, not going to happen.
However, I do sense the thrust of your argument here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dallas 24 Philadelphia 21<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dallas wins the NFC East, 9 -7 overall, perfect 6 - 0 in the division.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How will they fare in the first playoff round? That's up to you, my friends. Cast your intention into the Universe.</div>
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*As I predicted before the season started<o:p></o:p></div>
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who want to have sex with you after a gig or because you're in a band
might not (or <i>might</i>, but let's face it, usually not the
best basis for a relationship) make the best girlfriends, but there's
nothing wrong with letting someone <i>consensually </i>thank
you for a good performance or song.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Always
carry extra 9 v batteries and 1/4” cords. And
a flashlight. And duct tape. Be the person that <i>has </i>the
spares, not the person <i>needing </i>them.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Be
kind to the soundbro/lady. They've probably heard hundreds of bands
and are probably doing the best they can, often in less than ideal
circumstances. Plus, they can put a goofy harmonizer on your voice if
you're an asshole. If they are setting up the mics they will use to
try to make you sound good with and you try to "<b>get your
guitar tone</b>" in their ears, you deserve an ass whipping.
And <i>never </i>say to the audience "how does it
sound out there?." Ass whipping plus a punch in the back of the
head.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those
who tell you what religion they follow are almost never following the
best teachings of that particular dogma.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm
far braver than I give myself credit for and at least twice as stupid
as I think I am.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If I
learn how to be happy when I've got nothing, being happy when things
are better should be easy.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Taking
out the some of the 3<sup>rd</sup>s from an arrangement or
chord can reduce sludge by one-third. Removing 5<sup>th</sup>s can
take out another 33% But sometimes, all that Thick can have a
Purpose.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Non-root
bass lines can increase musical interestingness by a vast amount, and
also make landing on the root or resolving there that much more
powerful when you do. You don't have to be all Sir Paul or Bruce
Thomas about it, but strive for variety, tension, release, and not
always for the obvious and easy resolution.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Needless
ornamentation in art and music is a symptom of a decadent society. It
requires luxury and exploitation to exult in it. Not all
ornamentation is needless.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am
a kind, moral, and ethical person. When not addicted to drugs.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When
I left the ranch at 17 to go to college, I had been the smartest kid
in my tiny hometown. It was a long time before the idea of being
around a group of people smarter than me became my idea of perfect
company.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
best and most fulfilling work I've ever done has been when pushed or
pushing to work the hardest and think the longest.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes
leaving untidy edges is not only a good thing aesthetically but for
my sanity, too.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Put a
little bit of milk, cream, or in a pinch, even less water in your
eggs for perfect fluffy scrambled. Thanks mom, I miss you. And thanks
for teaching me to read when I was two.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Support
the art of your friends, even when it feels like a chore sometimes.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There
is nothing in the world like a dad who'll drive two hours to see your
band. Don't ever be embarrassed to have your family's support. I miss
you too, dad.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes
art or music that I don't like has the most to teach me.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That
thing I missed because I didn't feel like going out that night? It
might have been my last chance to do, see, or hear it.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Failed
systems of thought eventually become literature and as such can still
be mined for great ideas.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When
people are rude, angry, jaded, cynical, or generally toxic, it's
better for me not to react but rather to realize they might be
hurting or afraid in some way.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If
someone you know was always a good person before and suddenly they
seem to have gone all wrong, try to find out why and if they need
help. It's not very likely their true nature has changed.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cherish
and nurture your friendships. You may not know who your true friends
are unless you have bad times, but you will then for sure. If you're
lucky enough to never have bad times, then you've still got the
entire spectrum of friendships you nurtured.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If
I'm in the <i>middle </i>of a revolution, I might not know
it until after it's over.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone
I know will be dust in 500 years. Love them now.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If I
mourn the past and worry about the future, I'm not present for my
life. <i>Contemplating</i> the past or the future is a
different matter.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every
revolutionary idea is part of a dialectic, containing their own
counter-revolutionary or reactionary seeds.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Some
ways of trying to be cool can kill you, but <i>trying</i> to
be cool always ensures that you aren't.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
tend to learn or get ideas either through “eureka!” moments or
completely misinterpreting the ideas of others, or piling up
knowledge like a snowplow in a Brooklyn winter until things become
either clear or muddy in an interesting way. The discipline required
by the latter method is often the harder row to hoe for me but can
yield the best insights.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
beautiful snow that makes the city clean in winter is still beautiful
the next day.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What
I normally think of as 'reality' is not even close to what is Real if
I truly look closely.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Merely
utilitarian public or civic architecture is a wasted opportunity; the
truly ugly or oppressive is a kind of criminal act.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My
parents, who grew up in the First Great Depression, were right when
they told me, “You can get used to anything.” That doesn't mean I
have to accept mistreatment or dangerous circumstances. Or Muzak. Or
get boiled slowly like a frog, for that matter.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">True
beauty comes from within, but I can't feel guilty about having
aesthetic preferences as long as I examine them to see what's
evolutionary or culturally-determined bullshit vs. personal taste,
and that's not always easy. My idea of 'beautiful' is pretty wide
open, though.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All
pornography carries a heavy burden, and quite often a tax, of sadness
and despair.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everyone
jacks off in their own way. (apparently a Russian colloquialism, told
me by a lovely Russian professor the one semester I tried it and only
learned Cyrillic but not speaking it)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">People
who are intoxicated to the point of stupidity are usually
excruciating for me to be around if I'm not also intoxicated. It
doesn't make me want to get fucked up, it makes me hurt for them.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
things I don't like about other people are often things I need to
examine about myself. <i>Duh</i>.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm
pretty good at picking equities when I put my mind to it and it's not
my money on the line. For example, I have done massive due diligence
on Inovia Pharmaceuticals and it is up over 140% since I picked it
for a friend. INO is the symbol. They have the technology to cure
'uncurable' diseases. It's amazing. Ebola? <i>They've got you
covered</i>. Not joking. <b>You can thank me with 100 shares
while it's still under 3 bucks/share.</b> This item may have
forward-looking statements and is not a guarantee of future success.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
should never make a bet on sports when I'm a fan of one of the teams.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Selfless
acts without intention of reward are ideal but small acts of kindness
done for any reason can reverberate with great power. Which is
probably something Deepak Chopra has said but what the hell he's
gotta be right once or twice a decade, yeah?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When
it comes to thinking about art qua art, ad hominem criticisms are
worse than useless, they are noise.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Correlation
is not causation, except when it is.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Microsoft
should be charged with crimes against humanity for the millions of
man-hours lost to horrible operating systems and designs.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When
mixing music, be in a great room with a killer board and engineer:
then, if you truly listen deeply, the music will “tell you” every
move you need to make.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Prosumer”
monitors with bass ports are a huge waste of your money.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
have to think of music both vertically (harmonically) and
horizontally (structure, time). Varying
tensions/dynamics/structures/durations/tones/power/calm etc. This is
probably obvious to other people.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All
binaries are false binaries.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've
probably never met a significant other until I was completely happy
being alone with myself.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
alphas in any group may be where the “action” is, but often not
where the really interesting things happen. Listen to the 'quiet'
ones, too.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
have the High-Pitched Southern Male Variant Voice which means: please
don't make me yell, it will be unseemly for both of us.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Words
matter and so do their meaning; learn what they really mean and use
them accordingly or at least use them to play with the language while
properly armed. They also have power, though sadly it's fading
quickly because too many don't think about what they do mean.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Solipsism
is not only ignorance, but can be lethal.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Editors
value on-time and to-length far more than they do perfect copy.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because
I often find great humor in things that aren't “funny,” people
could already have a hard enough time knowing when I was joking
sometimes, then came the internet and made it even worse. It might
help if you know that whenever Kafka read his stories aloud, he
thought they were hilarious. <i>Because they are</i>.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Taste
is valid for a radius of one brain. Whenever I read or write
criticism, I try to keep this in mind.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A
critic with whom you consistently disagree with can be just as
valuable as one you agree with. It's the wishy-washy kind without
discernible and committed aesthetic criteria who are usually a waste
of your time.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Critics,
or anyone for that matter, who can explain to you WHY they think
something is good or bad or flawed but valuable instead of just
asserting it to be so, are worth paying attention to. Tell me about
the line, the modeling, the ideas, the production, the textures, the
tones; bring some honor to the craft in writing about the arts.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
game is rigged but in the long run, we can hope and live as if the
design may have accidentally left autonomy for the players.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Drunk
drivers kill people-- and drive drunk far more often than they get
caught; junkies usually just lie, steal, connive, and overdose, but
the former are far more respectable to most people and get the most
breaks in court.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Don't
use a recording studio as your practice room.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
once smirked about the headliners not being hiphop or something when
my fam the Jungle Brothers were touring with N'Sync and I've never
forgotten Mike G's reply: “Aww man, it's ALL entertainment.” It's
often useful to think about.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
don't always try my best, but I can always try to be aware of when I
haven't.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps
because I grew up in the country, when I'm living in a city I miss
the stars and have to seek them out whenever possible. Without the
sense of place I get from them, I run the risk of thinking I'm
significant.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
best way to experience the heavens without a telescope is to throw a
mattress in the back of a pickup truck and drive to the middle of a
pasture with someone you love and stay up all night together. When
the arms of the galaxy rise, you'll know right where you are.
Entheogens optional.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No
music I've ever done sounded as good as it did in my head, but the
music in my head, no matter how grandiose, was what yielded the
actual music and so was an utterly necessary step.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stage
fright is usually a symptom of ego. Or knowing in my heart that I'm
not properly prepared. Why am I doing this art again?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There
are also times when just putting yourself out there, on the stage, is
the best. <i>Let it blurt. </i>And if you enjoy
performing, show it; if you get power from the stage, share it.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Any
time I can get out of the frame of being white, male, American, my
age, living when or where I live, any of the above and learn about
other ways of living and seeing the world, I'm richer for it.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Human
beings are hairless apes, but “nature red in tooth in claw” is a
distorted view of Darwinian Evolution perpetrated by Huxley and
seized onto by Capitalism to justify everything that's wrong about
it. Altruism or symbiosis are just as common, if not more, in nature.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Until
digital can sample everything about music that is psychoacousticallly
and emotionally important, analog over digital, duh. But FAR more
important is to get the ideas out of you and Out There. The work of
art is NEVER completed until perceived by another, that's when it
actually 'comes to life.'</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Music
can be an honorable trade or grasping at success. I have a feeling
the first approach works out better in the long term for both life
and aesthetic success.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Reality”
is largely a consensual hallucination, and much of what is fucked up
about the world only needs enough people to stop believing it has to
be that way because that's “just the way it is” or has always
been.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pretty
much everything beautiful or worthwhile that humanity has ever done
has been by or because of women.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A
large canvas is more likely to help a mediocre painting than
excessive volume is to help a mediocre band.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Trust
your soundbro/lady; what choice do you have? Don't make them fight
your stage volume to try to make you sound good.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Listening
to someone read a Powerpoint presentation that you're holding in your
hand while it's also displayed behind them is a good simulation of
the death of the soul, if such a thing existed.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Standing
near cymbals will ruin your hearing faster than loud amps but loud
amps will ruin more frequencies.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
best reason to play a cover is as a bridge from the familiar to your
way of doing things, but sometimes a song is just so good you do it
anyway.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
have to constantly remind myself not to say “I can do that”
because I want to help people and see them happy when I may not be
able to do “that” in time or the way they need it done.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I
don't really know anything.</span></li>
</ol>
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¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692653793251734805.post-20710290540190595962008-09-23T10:00:00.000-05:002008-09-23T10:45:11.639-05:00Yet Another Exercise In Excruciatingly Good Taste That You Will Most Likely Avoid<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiosQFl-qd0jqEcy8KEEJXrQRegF9ftH8Tg29vSju0P2P_xztqOduI5kK87BuELyKe-Vyys0KcUySy4x33nYdED5X-ysnz0MbQaXdb0F7FlbYy7pYAY3F3-LaWU-dbnfwL_GV86mjLQC-g/s1600-h/dw:gc+9:23.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiosQFl-qd0jqEcy8KEEJXrQRegF9ftH8Tg29vSju0P2P_xztqOduI5kK87BuELyKe-Vyys0KcUySy4x33nYdED5X-ysnz0MbQaXdb0F7FlbYy7pYAY3F3-LaWU-dbnfwL_GV86mjLQC-g/s320/dw:gc+9:23.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248530908300099442" border="0" /></a><br />Though you probably should be there. To learn things. And stuff. And drink. And support local djs who eschew the charisma-free laptop zone. And who are so, so lovable, warm, fuzzy, and whatnot. And who do not participate in the Irish Music, Mod, or other revival Movements. And who are fully divested of South African equities. Fuck, let's face it: we are awesome. Please come and stare in awe, elbows crossed, at our magnificence. And humility.¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692653793251734805.post-68409507931186761372008-09-07T19:24:00.006-05:002008-09-10T12:33:02.738-05:00The Tom Landry Shrine<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFncgl2VAyY-gkwaE8WwgXQ152YoqsdPsuUGC0UUkwF1Zv4twDWhtZ1mo4eAzaghtR4HRIZGfDZn8DXQ6__4qaSTy3agNWLdlOmzrsax4_QyGgO4QQd0klBk15sNk3lNO1q1cc5d2jpkY/s1600-h/2837424787_639446d549.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFncgl2VAyY-gkwaE8WwgXQ152YoqsdPsuUGC0UUkwF1Zv4twDWhtZ1mo4eAzaghtR4HRIZGfDZn8DXQ6__4qaSTy3agNWLdlOmzrsax4_QyGgO4QQd0klBk15sNk3lNO1q1cc5d2jpkY/s320/2837424787_639446d549.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243440038273464930" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I've started trying, when I've gotten enough sleep to wake up before it gets hot, to take a thirty minute walk around the neighborhood. I listen to instrumentals of the songs I'm working on, walk, and smoke. It feels like exercise.<br /><br />Two blocks away is the Texas State Cemetery, and in the area reserved for the leading heroes of our Republic, there among John Connally, some other dead white guys and one person I actually respect (Barbara Jordan), lies Tom Landry.<br /><br />On opening day of this critical season, I visited the shrine.<br /><br />Dallas 28, Cleveland 10. A tradition is born. (Let's take care of those silly penalties)<br /><br />UPDATE: For the 3 people who read this and thought I was serious: please. I had no idea the guy was buried two blocks from my house. And Texas is a state, not a Republic.¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692653793251734805.post-71702010956404999362008-09-05T23:13:00.005-05:002008-09-09T00:08:57.212-05:00Am I Hallucinating?From the NYT:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Ms. Palin took the extraordinary step Tuesday of filing an ethics complaint against herself, making the matter fall within the bailiwick of the personnel board. Mr. Van Flein then asked the Legislature to drop its inquiry.<br /><br />The three members of the personnel board are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Legislature. The proceedings of the board are conducted in secret, in contrast with the public deliberations of the Legislature.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06trooper.html"></a>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06trooper.html¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692653793251734805.post-75478281785669155982008-09-05T10:18:00.000-05:002008-09-05T11:45:03.769-05:00DJ Brodown at the Mohawk<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZVCBV2jTEhjooGwt2CwKPIWIx3nc_N-_o2T8Srlz0gIF5ohu3HXW13gw6NHZpsOpfjyWfjjQb8he6mV0u8SMK8lA6BY2xWgvm6LUc1iGW-ACc6On-oLxeSJ8gvU57sCp7wyjoYeIph0/s1600-h/dwgcmohawk91608.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKZVCBV2jTEhjooGwt2CwKPIWIx3nc_N-_o2T8Srlz0gIF5ohu3HXW13gw6NHZpsOpfjyWfjjQb8he6mV0u8SMK8lA6BY2xWgvm6LUc1iGW-ACc6On-oLxeSJ8gvU57sCp7wyjoYeIph0/s320/dwgcmohawk91608.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242562511774897618" border="0" /></a><br />Tuesday, September 16th at the Mohawk, down in the Red River Entertainment-Industrial Complex, me and Gerard C. will set the night on fire. GC will be fresh off his East Side residency at the Scoot Inn (another great show there on 9/12) and promises to "bring it" to the Mohawk no matter what the Mets may accomplish between now and then.¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692653793251734805.post-91661476811867219142008-09-05T10:15:00.001-05:002008-09-05T11:28:48.805-05:00Personal message to Jessica S.Yes, Jessica, those nights were special for me, too. But the regular season is upon us, and much as I admire your 'special talent show,' I just can't bring myself to add to Tony's distractions.<br /><br />So until our boys wash out again this year, it's over. I promise I'll think of you from time to time, but please: leave me alone.¥our$lave£aborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17843780032162291023noreply@blogger.com0