C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas Windows Genuine Advantage

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1. I apologize for barely reading any of you lately. A new job and shoulder problems aren't conducive to plowing through LJ posts and RSS feeds. If you've announced something to the world via LJ that you assume I know, I don't!
   
   
2. Shoulder. Ow, still, I had to get forceful with the internal medicine guy about the fact that the pace of investigation is glacial and I hurt so damn much that I spend a fair amount of time writhing. He tightened up the appointment schedule and gave me some Vicodin, which is unpleasantly doping but does give me a couple of hours taking the edge off.
   
   
3. I think I might go to Bar Camp L.A. ( http://barcamp.org/BarcampLA-3 ) tomorrow. It looks pleasantly nerdy, and a least a couple of people I know are going. I hope the nerds can deal with 12th & Long Beach in the warehouse district!
   
   
4. I heard a My Chemical Romance song and liked it. Yow.
   
   
5. On more definite musical ground, I enjoy this band The Early Years tremendously. ( http://www.theearlyyears.org.uk/ ). They sound a bit like the Chameleons and earlier Joy Division, or even Television. But not imitators either, I think. Let me know what you think. obnoxicant in particular!
   
   
6. I am reading a history of the Algerian war. What a horrible mess.
   
   
7. I enjoy my new job.

Comments

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

Come tonight. It's been a while.

Enjoying a job

[la-lisa.livejournal.com]

Congrats. I just had a job. Note use of past tense. I was doing research for a documentary film, but actually I was calling people and faxing them interview request. Which um, isn't really what I'm best at. So the film went "on hiatus." Which I think means when they unhiatatize, I won't be there, but I did get two weeks of stress, I mean pay out of it. I had whinged to a friend that the job, combined with school and old-people parents stuff, was making me a little tenser than I like--and *poof* job gone!

Relieved, actually...

[nebris.livejournal.com]

1) I'm growing a second head out of my left shoulder. Seems a pleasant enough chap so far. =)

6) Indeed. Ever see "Lost Command" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060637/)? Very politically tough film...especially for Hollywood.

7) Good.

~M~

Another movie

[mrhinelander.livejournal.com]

_The Battle of Algiers_, not "about" the Algerian revolution the way _Apocalypse Now_ isn't "about" the Vietnam war.

[icariancypher.livejournal.com]

Man, a lot of the best nerds I know live blocks from Little Radio. I think they can hang.

Hope to see you 'round BarCamp!

[hotelsamurai.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to hear you enjoy your new job! Sucks about your shoulder...

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

1. My shoulder still keeps going "clonk" & "crunk".

4. I saw McFly on the telly and was surprised how good they were.

6. I'm still ploughing through Guyotat's Eden Eden Eden. It's about a horrible mess.

Glad to hear you like your new job

[biamethyst.livejournal.com]

That alone should eliminate some of the stress in your life, thus improving your mental and physical health. Bad jobs can tear us down.