4.25.2005

lackadaisical

no idea. don't think it's helping. that prozac crap, i mean. or maybe i caught mono... i've been getting more sleepy and less concerned with getting stuff done then i used to be! what's up with that? is it me?

this is worrisome. i still have pprs to write! and prjx to do! horribles!


i seem to be having headaches more often too... but can't really tell if they have anything to do w/ prozac or maybe i should just be drinking more fluids...



frustrated.

4.11.2005

aagh...



worth a try, eh? starting tomorrow. i think i shall try and keep this updated just to keep track in any changes in how i am feeling. should be interesting.

or should i just start smoking more pot?

well, i gots my brand new prescription in my pocket so i guess it's on.

yippy drugs. sigh. we'll see.

4.05.2005

my eye itches and i can barely breathe.

i'm sick. this sucks. i have important skoolworks due this very week, in 2 days even. i have barely if even at all began these assignments. this is not good. however if i live through this week, i have rowdy loud fun weekend to look forward too. yes indeed. thursday will be bringing a concert in st. paul featuring long standing Mpls. punk rock legends the ed gein fan club. friday i shall spend at the uptown bar in uptown minneapolis with Kontrol Panel and the Belles of Skin City. Saturday gets even more fabulous as I shall attend a TC Punk special bookclub meeting which will feature scrabble playing and barbecue! and after that, the STNNNG @ favorite local joint the 7th St. Entry (Entry and First Avenue being my favorite Mpls. club). They shall be performing in celebration of the release of a new album!

so all i have to do is not choke on my phlegm, finish a 15 page ppr, and a complicated interactive art project, and, woo!, then i can 'totes' party.
wish me luck!

oh, somebody buy this kid a puppy, it's her birthday. ;)

3.28.2005

look i had such an exciting f*ckn' weekend!

i have a headache and a fair amount of irritation with well... stuff... people, they are frustrating.
i was going to have a very short post saying i'm too busy for this stuff, but now i have the urge to tell all you netizens salivating in anticipation of my next blog update that i saw motorhead on wednesday and they were really good. what else..., um, i did something thursday i think but i don't remember what. friday saw me getting much too intoxicated at a really fun house party where despite said intoxication i didn't socialize nearly enough because even when drunk i'm often too self conscious... i could wax on this melancholy point but i shan't... saturday i saw the fuck yeahs, the international playboys, gee as in jesus, the mighty mofos, and the midnight evils for whom it was their cd release show. that was pretty awesome, i am esp. fond of gee as in jesus. easter sunday i hung out w/ friends. played battleship, watched the brady bunch, ate pizza, watched carnivale season finale, and some other television programs that i don't usually get to see 'cuz i don't gots cable/satellite...

interesting, eh? now i have to go do important school related things. or just get drunk. or some combination of those, somehow combined w/ enjoying the lovely weather we are having here in Minneapolis today. it's Spring. i could almost feel better about life, what with the aide of sunshine and perhaps soon some dandelions. we'll see.

3.22.2005

me head pains me so

this isn't the first time i have posted whining about head pains. nor needing to empty bladder, nor being hungry.
oh well, all those things happen to be true. as well as, once again, being thirsty also.

but anyway, i was in Duluth over spring break. visited Mom, had awesome time. highlights included visiting Uncle and watching him do woodworking(amd Mom built a birdhouse w/ him), hanging with my younger cousins that are moving soon(and have spent most of their lives in places other then MN), playing scrabble with Mom and nearly hitting 500 points... and i guess that's hit for the special highlights. there was other stuff too.

3.12.2005

things forgotten in the earlier post...

yes another post today. a couple things i meant to include earlier, but they can have their own post.

after Surdyk's, I went to Bibelot shop. good and bad, there. they carry a some stuff from a product line called "Miso Pretty" featuring wonky "cute" Asian stereotype wonky English and imagery in their packaging. Kinda bugged me. I mean, I'll go to Asian groceries and often enjoy fractured English when I see it(I am also know to peruse Engrish.com, though it annoys me when they try and make up Engrish-y sounding stuff themselves for products or just to try and be humorous), purposely making up fractured cutesy English to sell a product(and to make it appear trendy/hip) turns me off.

I also discovered the artist Brian Andreas, they carry his Storypeople greeting cards there. I am not sure I like the art itself so much, but I really like his little "stories". Click here and explore his site and you'll see what I mean.

Another recent discovery that has brought me enjoyment is the Japanese poet, Shuntarou Tanikawa. I happened upon a book of his work entitled, At Midnight in the Kitchen I Just Wanted to Talk to You, while I was trying to find some Japanese fiction to base a paper for my Japanese Minority Literature class on.
Here's a poem of his from that book:

"My Favorite Things"

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings-
These are a few of my favorite things."
Oskar Hammerstein II

No matter how much
I like a thing
actually owning it
somewhat bores me.

And no matter how much
I like that thing
notowning it
makes me somewhat resentful of it.

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
..."

Poor Oskar.
Your forced rhymes
sound just awful.
Sometimes even the soul is flatulent.

I want a drink of water;
I'm very thirsty.
Half a cup isn't enough; a hundred would drown me.
I like water.

cheese is good!

hi! it's saturday, it's spring break, woo!
i bought cheeses today at Surdyk's! it is a liquor store w/ a cheese shop. it rocks! the staff are helpful, patient, and nice and let you taste test cheeses! this poor young women put up with having to unwrap at least 6 different types of cheese for me to try. i wish i had more money. i ended up with mini-slabs of sottonocere w/ truffle, cave aged gruyere, aged prima donna gouda, red leicester w/ wasabi and french onion, and 1/2 lb of cheap dill havarti for sandwiches. the rest will be for snacking.

last night i went to see the Belles of Skin City, Mel Gibson and the Pants, and the Blind Shake (also the Drama Club, but I missed their set) in the 7th St. Entry. Awesome! esp. B. of S.C.! I am not so good at describing musics, but they kinda remind me of Tom Waits... I've heard at least one of them used to be in a band called Kentucky Gag Order(found mp3 here!), unfortunately I never saw/heard them while they were around. Planning on finding out more about 'em though. MG&P have a song about Ed Gein that I really like... can't recall alot of lyric offhand but a line of the chorus that sticks in my head is "Wisconsin'll make you feel fear, boy". They didn't play it last night though :( . They have a c.d. avbl... I guess they're kind of hip hop/electronica, the mc has a really good style/flow in my opinion.

thursday night was the aseverawesome Flogging Molly show @ First Ave. sweat covered mosh pit mania. My Mom wasn't able to come though, she was too worn out from the four days of chemo treatments. :( My bro and his housemate ended up coming from WI and a friend joined me, so all tix still got used. we made a video tape for mom, getting all the band members to say hi. I got to get on transferring the video(it's actually on mini dv tape) to the computer so I can put in a format she can watch, and mail it to her. and Flogging Molly will be back in August to play a free Irish festival in St. Paul!!! Mom'll definitely be feeling better by then! :) I enjoyed Hot Water Music too, and the little bit I caught of the Riverboat Gamblers set.

there are a fair amt. of shows coming up i'm excited about, i think i'll post a lil' list one of these days. i been listening to Deerhoof a lot over the last couple days and they are coming, nxt month I think.

3.08.2005

gothiepantz

jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam



i'm the jackass eating spicy pumpkin seeds in the computer lab



    hungry all i ever talk about is food.
    my lips are tingling from the spicy stuff on the spicy seeds.
    i could really use a beer.
    i need to see a dentist.

i am very excited for flogging molly on thursday, did i say that yet?


i have too much skoolwwerk. ack...


jesus fuck.




this has been somewhat of an html formatting experiment. my apologies most sincerely for the lack of content.
if you want to read somehing truly interesting try this
thnx have nice day homefries

3.07.2005

sun, sundaes, colddays, sunshine, and miscellaneous unpleasant whirlwinds of confused emotional states. and teevee shootings.

rar. last night i taped(do note, there were many others more involved that put together this show, i was just a monkey behind a camera) a drinking with ian show. 3 of them... with a video camera... had good time. ankle tired from standing in front of camera. remained sober throughout despite many free shots, for fear such things would affect my camera skills. which kinda blow anyway... woo. it's on public access, i ain't but watched it on tv maybe once, cuz i don't gots the cable teevee. but channel 6 thursday nights 12:30 is what i believe to be the correct infos. do check out website, tis on there, and also a couple of episodes are downloadable to watch on yer computer machine, if you've a fancy enough computer machine to handle.

so now i have this anticlimactic depression thing... cuz did something supercool and fun last night, that won't happen again for likely at least 3 months. and am mourning the passing of the event, i guess... like, that was cool, what do i do now? also just analyzing all that i did or didn't do/ how i did or didn't do it, etc, and thinking, gee, shoulda done this, shoulda done that better, this/that/the other thing was dumb of me, etc... what's my damned problem? ;)

i'll feel this way again after flogging molly show thursday i bet. Mom's coming down for it, on toppa four days of chemotherapy. Looking forward, most intensely. btw, Mom had ct scan and stuff last week and things are lookin' good. lesions on liver goin', tumors shrinkin'. :)

--
mood: wavering, bipolar, strange daze
listening: swans
eating: spicy pumpkin dry roasted seeds, sea salt and vinegar natural gourmet potato chips
craving: pork chops
drinking: water
craving: liquors, undecided what sort...
--

skool, what of it? i don't know!? pprz, argh. prjcts, argh... well half-argh.
need study video things better, cuz video things iz fun. teevee and art. yippee.
finally got the hang of properly wrapping cable last night! that's a good thing, yes.
finally met fellow blogger Maria/Traz- here's a shoutout to ya homie! even hotter in person then in yer pic! ;)

2.26.2005

this is a test. and practice.






this is a cow!








this is not a cow!

what da fuck?

agh. aaagh. i forgot what i wanted to post. i had a sense of purpose, like i was gonna post something important. but i forgot! shit. maybe it's the brain damage from all the liquor i imbibed last night. and thursday night too. i gots lotsa drunk this past week. shit. i'm hungover. i'm drinking ginseng cola and eating sushi. that's nice. it is helping me to feel better.
i still ain't sent instructor that ppr outline i was supposed to do by yesterday. i'm a horrible person. horribles.
i need to learn me some more of html language. then i could, like, have indentations and shit. fancy.
well...maybe i'll think of the super duper incredible thing i was gonna post after i go empty my bladder. we'll see. keep your eyes on this webpage folks!

hell is a breaking loose...

"walls start closing in around you my twins of evil they shake you by the collarbone then snap your ribcage and broken bodies in a death rock dance hall please be my partner eyeballs pop, accellerated blood beat veins `a' shaking and all hell breaks loose yea, evil is as evil does and who yea, who but me could write this book of cruel i send my murdergram to all these monster kids it comes right back to me and it's signed in there parents' blood and all hell breaks loose yea, my heart is a-breaking loose yea, my whole world's breaking loose yea, and evil is as does and who yea, but who but me could write this book of cruel i send my mudergram to all these monster kids it comes right back to me and it's signed in there parents blood and broken bodies in a death rock dance hall please be my partner and eyeballs pop, accellerated blood beat veins a-shaking and all hell breaks loose yea, my heart is a-breaking loose yea, my whole world's breaking loose yea, evil is as evil does and who yea, but who but me could write this book of cruel i said my whole world's breaking loose yea, my whole world's breaking loose yea, my whole world's breaking loose yea, my whole world's breaking all hell breaks loose"




"i hack the heads off little girls and put'em on my wall.
i want your skull!
i need your skull!"

2.25.2005

gosh damn shit fuck dude.

yes, i am still fucking about on this bloody machine... just perusing past posts and realizing that, indeed, all i really do here is whine. and waste time. blah blah, got project/skoolwerk due, don't feel like doing it, rather be drinking, i have a headache, i'm hungry.
holy facking shite. i gots to find something else to do here. heh. another common thread... should be doing more productive things! doomed, i am. yeah.

boring bored boredom

la la la lightbulb. eh eh eh eh eskimos. i want buttery baked potatoes. i want whiskey. now. dammit.

i should be working on my
paper.

actually it's only at outline. that's it. i had a week to write up a shitty frickin' intro and outline for a paper naught due till the third damned week of march. and i didn't get it done. and i've been sitting in front of this gol'darned 'puter machine mucking about in photoshop, which is fun after all, and still ain't done the damned intro and outline. which was due at four p.m. That was about three hours ago, folks. should i quit skool yet?

bombing the fuck out of this semester. sort of. i mean it's still early, it can be saved. been drinking and carousing too much. spending money in unnecessarry ways and time also. wasting it shamelessly. okay, i'm ashamed, actually. giving myself hangovers that have made difficulties with class attendence. that ain't good, right? still, i can see i been having some fun. just gotta slow down and smell, erm, do the homework. yes.
my throat hurts. did i mention i have also been smoking far too many cigarettes far too often? need do quit soon. march will make me anyway-- smoking ban, and i do most of my hardcore smoking at da club, thusly this will force me to stop. b/c freezing outside for a cigarette is silly. yep.

okay. so i should stop fucking about on this here interweb and do do do my damn-ed damned skool shite. alrighty. later, kids.

2.14.2005

who cares?

i don't know why i'm posting. i'm thinking i need dinner, and have to pee, and am thirsty, and have a headache... and i'm supposed to be making something for a class, which is due tomorrow and has barely been started. yay. so all the above and i feel angry and depressed and lonely too. not because it's valentine's day... just cuz i don't have a lot of friends and i'm pissed about the project i'm supposed to be doing. and that hungry thing. sigh. i should go now. i think i am going to get food at nearby cooperative grocery or hard times mayhaps, and then stop at bar thereabouts and try some liquid therapy... yeah... and that'll just make me wanna sleep and i'll get pissed more about all this and give up and go home. yawn. maybe post more later. still as ever pissed that i have little to no readership. but other peeps got cooler shit to say then i... i'm just whining all the damn time.

2.11.2005

headachehaveitoo,andothermyriadproblems...

morning. i'm tired. i ain't gone to bed yet since yesterday afternoon. see, i slept most of yesterday. weren't feeling so good. don't feel too great now. that's because i been up all night though. and i could use me some delicious breakfast of some kind or other. i should soon go home from this computer lab where i have been sitting for far too long, surfing and downloading music from emusic. i am too tired to make link.
i have issues i have to try and concern myself harder with thinking regarding... like homework and getting to my classes- preferably on-time as well as of course actually making it there at all. sleeping during yesterday, missed three classes! this is not so good. and i have papers to think about, and interactive art prjkt that needs creating-prototype due tuesday, and lotsa reading i am not caught up with, and finding collaboration prtnr for nxt collaboration in my interdisciplinary collaborations class. this will be hard. i am not good at such a thing as approaching ppl to do this, and also do not know who i want to work with. first collaboration assigned partners by random, went well. was happy with what we made, which was a video involving a cellphone, paint, fire, and a hatchet. it was hella cool, dude. yup.
so yeah. i need to homeward head, yes. to sleepward head, yup. that's the plan. mayhap... or i might just stay up. but either way first thing i need to do before doing other things is go home and hop into my shower and scrub myself well with good smelling soap. then i shall decide how i would like to proceed with the rest of my friday. tomorrow is saturday. tomorrow i am going to First Avenue to see the band Low. they are from duluth and i am too... sort of. actually, i am from superior, wi which is just a coupla minutes over lake superior from duluth, mn. good enough. i was at, i think, their very first show. still have flyer someplace, i think. cool.
i have to go now. thank you for your time. have pleasant day and following weekend and life in general. talk to you again soon, hope. be well.

2.01.2005

too busy for internet.... argh

the fun will begin again here soon, i promise... just got to get into the swing of things with this new semester and all. benefit for Mom over the weekend went great, she got some moneys which will help greatly as her disability benefits run out in a couple of weeks.
i have been mysteriously depressed for a few days or so... well it's not too much of a mystery- i gots a lot of stuff i need to take care of that i have been dropping the ball on, i'm lonely, there's a guy i really have a serious crush on who is not interested in me, and there's a history of cancer in my family. argh. not to mention i'm thousands of dollars in debt, have bad cavities, and even if i manage to graduate from my college my gpa's shite and it's not likely i am studying stuff that will get me a job. sigh. oh, and i have heartburn right now. and a headache. to be honest, i'm a little hung-over. and i have class in five minutes so i have to go now. thanx for listening... erm... reading, yeah.

1.21.2005

four minute post

my bus will be here at nine oh three to take me to illustrious first avenue where i'll be checking out some bands in the 7th st. entry and drinking 2-4-1 drinks in the mainroom to the strains of hip-hop and dancehall reggae...
note on my previous mention of 1/29, the other reason we decided to have christmas that weekend is because my mom's main hangout, J.T.'s Bar and Grill in Superior, WI is having a benefit for her to help with medical expenses and such 1/29. although i doubt there's anyone looking at this blog who could actually consider going, it's sure to be a fun time. there will be games w/ prizes, a raffle, a silent auction; plus all you can eat sloppy joes and coney dogs for five bux! i am pretty sure it is from five pm to seven pm. yay! possibly more fund raising efforts to follow, to be determined... :)

1.20.2005

back2skool

been back for a few days now, ain't had time fer postin'. don't got much now neither. will post more soon...
last few weeks were good, spent pleasant time with Mom and my brother. we moved x-mas to the weekend of 1/29 cuz we were all pretty broke. My Mom's health is way better. The new chemo regimen they have put her on had been working amazingly well. Her CA-125 levels have come down considerably. After her chemo treatments next week(she gets treatments 4 days in a row, every two weeks right now) her doc will have a ct scan done and that'll show how much the tumours have actually shrunk. She was here in Mpls. yesterday after seeing a specialist in Edina for a second opinion. The doctor she saw was really impressed with how well she is doing! After her appt. I met up with her and her buddy who drove her down at O'Donovan's(a great pub downtown by First Ave, excellent food!) and we hung out and talked for an hour or so. In March a favorite band of ours, Flogging Molly will be playing at First Ave and she'll be coming down for the show! We just saw them a couple of months ago there and had a hell of a good time, can't believe they are coming back so soon. I'll post the "Flogging Molly" story when I am not twenty minutes from a class...
School's going reasonably well so far, except for me needing to get serious about things- I've got more advanced electronic art classes but really don't feel I've accomplished much as an artist and, um, need to crack down and take it seriously I guess. Figure out what my goals are, what the heck I want to do and then actually follow through on doing things.
That's all for today, gots to get to my Contemporary Moral Problems class and it's on the other side of the Mississippi in fourteen minutes.