Sleater-Kinney

Thank you Carrie, Corin and Janet with yr wonderful songs. No one can replace you.

pink

Yesterday was Pride 2006. It felt a bit more low key than the past couple of years but that may have been because I was watching the parade from the end of the route. Most of the floats with a sound system wasn't playing any music like they usually do towards the middle of the route. And a very old juice drink or something exploded near me which sounded like a small bomb (my eardrums were ringing). I say very old because the next five minutes after it smelled like sulfur, ugh.

After the parade I eased on over to the festival area where I was determined to find some meat on a stick, the staple of all outdoor events. Sure enough there were at least a half dozen vendors offering this. I ended up getting bbq chicken on a stick. I am never eating meat on a stick again.

I heard Jennifer Beals speak. She was treated like a goddess with bodyguards and people surrounding her but she gave a brief and feel good speech about what it means to be on the L-Word. ok good enough, on to the dance areas.

I found the only one I would like way off about two blocks from the main area. "Trance Tantra" stage. uh huh. But I do like dancing to trance. It was hot and I was feeling pretty tired, maybe that's why I only danced for 20 minutes or so. or maybe trance is becoming more predictable to me, or maybe it was the djs.

Overall, it was fun but I have to admit I wasn't quite in the mood that day.

summer + music

This usually goes under my myspace blog since it's music related but,

I suppose band shows are everywhere and that I just started obsessing about music but this is going to be an amazing summer for live music.

ERASE ERRATA JUN 29th @ THE EAGLE
THE BLOW JUN 30th @ THE HEMLOCK
TUSSLE JUL 4th @ THE HEMLOCK
SONIC YOUTH JUL 14th (F) @ FILLMORE
THE GOSSIP SEPT 30th (S) @ BOTTOM
THE GOSSIP OCT 1st (S) @ BOTTOM
MATMOS OCT 18th (W) @ GAMH

I'm pretty sure local bands Tussle and Erase Errata have more dates in the city so hopefully there will be a show at least every other week.

The only semi-regret I have is not going to Sleater-Kinney's east coast tour. I know I shouldn't miss it and I still can go if I really wanted to but crazy as this may sound if I fly out to the east I might take the Gossip/Erase Errata tour instead! Blasphemy!

333

yup, I've gotten superstitious and now when I want to make sure of something, I check it THR33 times. I'll rinse out Lindsay's bowl 3 times, I'll splash my face 3 times after a shave, I'll double-click on a mouse 3 times. yup. Trivial things mostly.

It just feels complete and it's some kind of extra insurance. It's stupid but true.

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Still off to a sluggish start on this thing.

The statement of intent:

This is a blog about everything else in my life without much focus. Completely random like this:


I gotta get my life back in order. I'm all over the map but even when I am able to get some sense of prioritization, the binding slowly dissolves and next thing I know I have 10 projects going.

I think a habit I need to develop more than anything is jumping into a project with both feet. I have to jump instead of looking at it conceptually and studying it to death. Many things have died while I watched it from a distance simply to walk away only existing in my perfect world in my mind. yeah.

A while back my friend and I speculated that I have a fear, and it's either a fear of success or a fear of failure. Either way, fear=bad. I do get cocky at times and actually believe that I have a fear of success that I don't want to suceed at a certain thing because well, then I'm committed to that thing. or something like that. argh.

well it's a start. NOW GET BACK TO WORK!

new start #1024

I guess I'll give this blog another shot.

This blog is for personal stories and goings on in my life. I am keeping it seperate from my music blog and my San Francisco blog but there will probably be some crossover.