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    Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
    sinfestfeed 1:00p
    linksward
         		8:01a
    Contemporary music I'm listening to right now.
    This is a post mostly for Joey who was telling me she only listens to "olds" besides of course the almighty Gogol.

    Then you ought to check out the following I think are pretty cool:
    The Grates (jumpy chick rock, but I think gets better with listenings)

    Magic Dirt (also girl, more rock)

    Spiderbait (a fun high energy hard rock couple)

    Arctic Monkeys (perky britpop, you would have prolly heard of and rejected these guys)

    Babyshambles (pete doherty)

    Dirty Pretty things (Karl Barat)

    Graham Coxon (from blur but I'm honestly liking his solo career better than blur, also of course the gorillaz)

    International Noise Consipiracy (modern punk these guys rock my world.

    The Gossip (80's esque big vocals, I think you'd like these)

    Supergrass (or are they too old to go here?)

    And ones I'm not as into but are a bit fun:
    Hill top hoods (hilarious middle class Ozzie rap)

    Franz Ferdinand

    Nightwatchman (Interesting project by guitarist from RATM doing folk)

    Modest Mouse
     
    Wombats (more britpop)

    And this is not counting stuff like Frank Black/White Stripes/Hives/Vines/Strokes/Sonic Youth/Radiohead/Breeders/Green Day who are contemprorary but you associate more with another era. 

    Look the reason I've put so much energy into this is because I live with a bunch of people who have decided the damn mid 90's is when all music was good, ooh incidentally when they were teenagers.  Now I listen to plenty of old stuff, from the classical collection to the punk collection to the stuff from when I was a kid to the stuff I grew up on like beatles. But I think if you don't keep growing as you age your musical sensibilities die because everyone in them is dead. So you ahve to stay open to what's happening, not only because you'd miss out on the really exciting stuff like Gogol, but because wanting to listen in the past is like wanting to live in the past, and the past was just never as great as the people living in it remember it to be. So that's my contemporary music rant and the money where my mouth is.
    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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    Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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    greymentality
         		4:59a
    Batgirl

    I believe that I am now nocturnal. The sun rises, and I go to bed. Eh, I'll get that reversed someday. Just...for now...I am the bat in the night.  One more day of off work, and then...zing! More work all the way through the weekend. Woot. Ok, that was a sarcastic woot. It's going to be busy and people are going to be angry that we're going to run out of hot dog buns and slaw. Sorry. You shoulda gotten here earlier. Eat that wienner sans bread and be a rebel. Can't help you with the slaw. Maybe you should make your own. Cabbage...mayo...and I'm sure other stuff. Figure it out! 

    Yeah...they have me working till midnight most this week and then...poof! I have to be there 8am Saturday. To others 8am isn't such a bad wrap. To me...well, it's not all sorts of bad, just, *sigh* I'll be a zombie.  I usually go to bed at 5 or 6 am nowadays. 8am is my sleepytime. Perhaps Friday night I'll do some sort of marathon through the neighborhood and clean everything I can find...*sigh* 

    I mowed the lawn today. Mom keeps thinking I've never done it before. It's like she blocks it out so she can say next time I mow "Wow, how does it feel mowing for the first time ever?" *chuckle* It's not too far off point. I don't mow the lawn often. But, I imagined I was combing the sand in a zen garden and the trees/shrubs/natural areas were the rocks while the grass was the sand. Very nice. Nice because the weather was only 82 degrees and mostly cloudy. Perfect weather. Oh, and we had a breeze and a drizzling of rain. This time next month...*chuckles again* I'll be baked and broiled sitting on that wonderfully non-push mower. I love it really. It's a fast moving, drivable mower that has headlights if I so choose to mow at night. Not a bad idea seeing as I'm awake this late. Well...maybe not a good idea concerning the neighbors.

    Ok, I'll stop. I'm about to start rambling about inch worms and blackberries. So, I should go to bed. :P Goodnight/morning!



    Current Mood: goofy
    Monday, June 30th, 2008
    jessamyn19
         		2:26p
    Today mark's work told him that they loved him, couldn't live with out him, and gave him a raise. When mark told them he was bored with his job and wanted to leave to get education as an artist, they said “no, don't leave, we will educate you here for free and let you move to what ever job you want, we want you here!” it must be hard for mark, being adored by such a cool company.

    In other news, mark suggested taking me to Scotland for Christmas as my Christmas present. I am a very happy girl.

    This news is much more exciting than my daily life. Today's time was spent riding the train once again to Stroud to pick up my art work from the show there. One of my prints have been damaged and i'm not looking forward to having to call and yell at them. Fucking people. Gurrr.

    Tomorrow I really have to start on the hard core ARTZ! Because I know the time till my show will slip by very quickly. show in september, you all have to come.
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    Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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    greymentality
         		3:05a
    :)

    Just wanted to say I'm thankful. Ok, done! Yay! :D



    Current Mood: content
    Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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    Friday, June 27th, 2008
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    Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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    linksward
         		3:45p
    I guess I should say anything that's been going on lately. It's the last week of school before holidays. I'm only working one more actual day and then I'm going on activity day to the science centre and rocking out. Jeremy and I are going to the Gold Coast this weekend and having a Chaser, dinner at Cafe Meze and maybe pool afterwards thursday.

    Jeremy and I have taken out what amounts to a penthouse suite at the gold coast. I mean this place has a jacuzzi with views of the hinterland, not counting the ocean views everywhere else. Its a hundred metres from the beach and the further awesomeness is that it's quite cheap since its the death of off season for them.

    I have been working miricles at work lately. I got two things to happen which my HOD had tried and failed to do with my students, which I'm hoping will be like a clue to her to please have me in the loop in the future which she hadn't hence how it got to the point where I had to create a miricle. The one today was really good cause I got this kid who was going to get no credit for the course for nonsubmitted assessment and forced him to do enough so that now I think he might pass. This was mostly through sheer bullying.

    Work has been weird. I'm getting a lot more satisfaction from it lately but I'm also getting visions of my arms being carved up every morning when I walk into the place. But I have happy stories like today a lot from it too. Funny.

    I weighed myself this afternoon and the only thing which could have discouraged me more has happened--I've gained weight through the regimen of 4x per week exercising.
    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
    jessamyn19
         		4:04p
    moving studios
    there are 87 stairs between my old studio on the fourth floor of one building and the second floor of the other. for a round trip journey that is 174 stairs. today i was moving the bulk of my stuff. there were some trips yesterday but that was mostly furniture. i made 6 round trip journeys today for no less than 1044 stairs. now of course that is not counting the stairs i took on the tube, to get to lunch, to get to the computer lab on the fourth floor of another building, and so forth. there are a lot of stairs in england and very few elevators. also my stuff is very heavy and my arms feel something like jelly. i have drunk 3 bottles of water today and most likely sweated the all out by now. it's quit hot and sunny, beautiful weather for sitting under a tree but sort of sucks for the moving of lots of dirty boxes.

    there is a lot of moving in my life in general but this summer seems to be a big one for lots of moving. this studio move is relatively small seeing as both places are on the same lot. then there is a house move at the end of july where me and mark move every thing to where ever we are going. then finally there will be a big studio move happening before september when i have to have all my art and art supplies out of the school before graduating. in a perfect world i would have a studio to move all that stuff into, but it might just be to my new living room. we will see. you can rent a studio for as little at 140 pounds a month, but could i afford that with out having to work so much that i never go there?

    in related news me and mark are seeing our first perspective house. i don't hold out too much hope because it far out, not near a tube and i think too small for the asking price. but hopefully it will be every thing one could ever want in a house and we can stop looking right away. wish us luck, mark hates house hunting.

    Current Mood: so so exhausted
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    greymentality
         		2:14a
    Photos
     I put more pictures up in my Galleries here in LJ. Just a few, but I liked em. :) Anyway, that's it!
    Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
    arshes_nei_2005
         		11:35p
    Hi, all --

    I'd normally go on about how sorry I am to have missed a couple of days, and I really am sorry that I haven't posted much, but let's just say that this weekend hasn't exactly gone as I'd envisioned.  I lost my wits completely yesterday because I couldn't write a single line of poetry -- whatever I touched came out terrible, whether it was something I was trying to compose as a new piece or something I'd been working on revising.  I finally called someone in tears, hands shaking, etc., and ended up taking an Ativan to calm myself down, and didn't touch a pen or the laptop for the remainder of the day. 

    Today went slightly more according to plan as regards writing.  I posted a revision of an old work that ended up getting a pretty harsh criticism on the PFFA site, but I needed a new perspective to get the revision going.  I didn't mind the admonitions it received; actually, I agree with them.  I'd only chosen that piece in particular because it's one of the ones I see as having the most potential for growth and eventual publication;  it should be able to stand very nicely as a testament to my own voice when it  finally matures into a full-fledged composition.

    I also started working on something new today.  It's not done -- may not be for a while, in fact -- but it's not bad, and I think it could really go somewhere if I take my time and allow myself to give it a logical structure.  I think I'd like to give it a subtle double meaning as well -- presently it is understood by writers as concerning the experience of writer's block.  I'd like the connection to go farther than that, though -- I'm rather tired of composing about not being able to compose and have my audience automatically limited.  If possible, I'd like it to mean something to more than just writers -- I'd like non-writers to be able to come away from their reading of the work with an understanding of their own.  For me, writer's block is essentially a lack of communication with the source of my inspiration.  Yesterday, it was awful -- as though I'd had my tongue cut out before being imprisoned in a glass sphere.  While I could certainly see everything around me, I was detached and devoid of any rational, coherent thought.  After I took the Ativan I was pretty much a zombie.

    It still rather bothers me that I got to that point.  It's because I'm being impatient, I think; since I'm learning so much, I find myself wanting to use that knowledge, to combine what I know with what I have recently learned to create something I've never been able to write before.  Yesterday that wish felt very much like a need -- I felt as though I had to write, had to create, and nothing was forthcoming.

    In any event, the crowning touch for today was the fact that one of the drains in front of the house overflowed and, in so doing, essentially reversed course to my apartment in the basement.  I ended up with water from the kitchen all the way back to the bedroom.  My comforter and three towels are waterlogged -- some more, some less -- and I'll have to go over the whole place with a mop again tomorrow.  In the meantime,  I can't do laundry, can't do dishes, can't do anything that involves water until tomorrow morning.  (Of course, I'll be at work tomorrow, so that means tomorrow evening.)

    I hope everyone had a good Solstice... mine was certainly ... well... memorable.

    Oh, and one more lolcat pic before I go.



    Blessings to all... more later.

    Current Mood: aggravated
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    Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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    greymentality
         		1:27a
    Untitled
    Death is only a window to a new life some say.
    Perhaps in death, we'll find it true
    Until that day or night falls down
    Upon me like a solid crown
    I will live. I will laugh. I will cry.

    ~K

    Happy Summer Solstice. Peace be.

    Current Mood: creative
    Friday, June 20th, 2008
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