So ... what's up?

Life's quite sweet at the moment truth be told.

Am coughing up plenty of strange things -ack!- and think there might be a diamond at the bottom of my lungs when it's all over.

In other news I got a new car with my brother and am now completely and utterly broke. Still it was worth it. I spent all weekend trying to find Sarahs Old Skool rave thread and failed. Just so you all know.

I was having some of what I will euphemistically call "relational issues" when I got back from vacation a couple weeks ago. But those have worked out really really well: after a few days of fretting one gets to that couldn't-care-less stage where things seem untroubling and ladies find one appealing.

how about you?

(Like I said in NYC, I didn't come out of my poetic study very well.)

All the tests came back negative, but they gave me azithromycin just in case there was some trace of chlamydial bacteria they hadn't detected. I ran away before they could do the syphilis test, because nobody's had that since Nietzsche (simply too passe an STD for me, dahling!).

Songtitle of the year, so far.

Spent the weekend babysitting, oh isn't it wild. Went to Amoeba and bought a Turkish garage comp and a Hawkwind record. And the Miss Kittin and the Hacker record. I think I'm over their sound. I wish Nina Hagen would jump on this electro-sleaze bandwagon, it needs someone genuinely freaky and free to just let loose. Saw Donovan (adorable hippy grandpa!) and Johnny Knoxville (even sexier in person!) out record shopping. Are the clerks at Amoeba insanely nice, or is it just me?

However, I'm not actually too down. It just feels like a lot of heavy weights at the moment.

nitsuh - i am speaking at interactive, covering music for the philadelphia city paper. it will be a busy week, but fun, i hope. i'm very excited to see holly golightly, especially since i just realized i'm missing her philly show on 23 march.

freelancing is going semi-ok, although i am still living off my severance. we'll see how things go in a month, heh. my interview just now went ok, i think. now to transcribe!

And why is Samantha so down, hmm?

On the upside, well I have tomorrow and Monday off since Hank and I are heading down to Austin on Friday for that horrid little thing called SXSW. Actually it won't be too horrid since we'll get to see friends and lots of good bands. We're sticking mostly to the non-SXSW sanctioned shows since everyone knows that's where the best stuff happens. Bands I'm looking forward to seeing: Baseball Furies, Immortal Lee County Killers and Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee. Oh, and Hank's playing. I always enjoying watching him play and then beating up on girls who stare too much or offer to start his fan club. (this actually happened at his last show. the fan club part, not the beating up part. grr.)

things are defintely up more as 4pm approaches. yay. going to our fave bar tonight since it's our favorite bartender's b-day. as a present I'm going to kick her ass on Tai Play. yay. Then going to see The Dishes. maybe. yay.

HOWEVER........I am joining the clubbing soc and some other stuff with my best dance music loving fwend and we should meet some new people that way.

And the flipside is..........I am going to see Jon Carter this Sunday, Dave Clarke this Monday, and possibly having a party on Saturday. Also I got that free CD voucher for getting star letter in crappy Irish mag Hot Press, which is very welcome cos I haven't bought a CD in ages. Thirdly I got a mail back from this really popular free magazine I'd been trying to write for and I'm now on their regular dance music contributor roster thing. The email said "I like your style alot", so writing wise I'm feeling very smug today. It's a cool mag too, cos it's kind of like the Onion for most of it and it's always getting on the cover of the Mirror for making up quotes from Irish celebs. Only problem is it doesn't show anyones name, for legal reasons I guess.

Today, I just listened to Reign in Blood, now I'm listening to G'N'R: Illusion 2. Catalagoued a few books. Dreading the interview I have on Tuesday, don't want the job, but feel I should go. It's complicated. Scraped my arm. My hair is annoying me. Yesterday, I got a Jeff Magnum live album and comic about Zombies.

Recently, a girl told me that I shouldn't worry that I'm not so pretty, and that it's personality that counts. She said that I shouldn't think it was all fun and games looking the way she does. I did not know what to say.

I have been asked out by two boys, but I had to say thank you but no, I am still too sad from breaking up with my boyfriend.

I have had a lot of functions and exhibition openings to go to lately, on Friday I am invited to three things, they are all on at the same time, what to do?

Last weekend I went out to bars by myself, it was horrible. There were three guys who looked like Vampires following me everywhere I went.

I said, "Are you guys Vampires?"
and they said "Will you let us bite you?"
I said, "Yuck, no."
Then I spilled a drink on the bar and then I went home. I stopped in at Arc on the way home and tried to look at ILE, because I felt so goddamn lonely, but I was too drunk and I couldn't read anything properly.

hahah i originally typo'd *big hogs*. rainy can have those too if she likes!

apparently we are getting a new computer installed w. a cd burner which WORKS (at last), so there is nowhere much to sit => i can work on my tolkien piece hurrah

"The Gothic Revival began, really, when owners of houses with extensive estates began building fake ruins in them, as part of the decor — the very first of these appeared as early as the late 17th century. Alongside this taste for forging physical relics of the deep past, out of the emerging increasing scholarly interest in ancient non-classical languages — Gothic itself, but also Norse, Anglo-Saxon and so on — arose a gleeful sideline in the invention of old documents, fragments of poetic epics composed wholecloth as cunning pastiche by minor contemporaries, amd ascribed to such legendary (in fact made-up) poets as Ossian." Like this, only more mark s...

Also Walpole's pet poodle was eaten by a warg when he was on holiday in the alps. I want to put this in, but I feel it strays too far from Tolkien.

hey no one has any PETS in LotR!! (except that legendary numenorean queen who gets mentioned once that JRRT talks abt as being a character w/o backstory like the blue wizards: she had cats)

Come to think of it, Pippin is a bit like a pet in Fellowship.

work animals aren't pets tho, so scratch beorn and also farmer maggot

does denethor have a raven?

Pets in Tolkien -- the cat story is the one about Queen Beruthiel, who was actually a Gondorian queen who supposedly trained her cats to spy out things and in general was a bit of a bad egg by all accounts. She was bundled onto a ship and sent to sea with her cats, and was last seen floating away into the Sundering Seas with a cat at the prow of her ship.

That can be found in Unfinished Tales, along with the story of Aldarion and Erendis, who were in fact Numenorean and who were gifted a pair of birds by the Elves from Tol Eressea, but when the marriage went sour Erendis dismissed them, and...*continues wibbling*

this is ridiculous. rainy is very pretty. i bet the girl who said that to you is a real mutt. (me being the objective authority on taste and all).

The girl who said that is pretty though, I guess, in a very neat and tidy way, y'understand. But maybe not so smart.

What happened was, I said to her: "You have nice teeth" and I think she interpreted that as, "you're pretty, I'm ugly".

When I told Korin about it, she said: "WHAT!? But you're glorious, you're like a glorious glory manufacturer who gives me free stuff!".

lol! that made me think of that strange looking woman on that ad, you know the one who complains "i'm not just beautiful teeth!!"

more hugglez for anthonyeaston!! *HUGGLEZ*.

Genereally it is found that people who dislike Dunedin are dismayed that they get criticized here for acting like twats. Terrible!