weekend update

This was a very relaxing day. Most of my time was spent reading at home in the morning. Then I went to D's and read alternating with conversation for the afternoon and evening. Saw lots of nice people I like.

The musical entertainment was odd. A gigantic tall round black man with an earring showed up looking like Ving Rhames about to kill us all. Instead, he threw a small diva fit about the tables and chairs and made the employees sweep the floor. Having annoyed everyone, he then sat down and very competently played soft sweet folky music. He was kind of an Indigo Guy.

17th Street is blocked between Tustin & Santa Ana Aves., apparently because some drunk from Pierce Street Annex lost control and wiped out a series of utility poles. That place needs to get shut down. They obviously don't care about the mounting body count there.

The always useful Adjab reports that Juicy Fruit Gum has a "blog", and that sooner than you think we'll all be able to have Jim Beam sandwiches. I think I'm a teensy bit ill already thinking about it.

In better news, the Null Device informs me of the second Eurovision video from Molvania's own Zladko: "I am the Anti-Pope".

Finally, are the mad scientists really trying to build a fusion power installation in France? Do those even work yet?

Proof I heard on the radio yesterday.

Suppose that: You know what you were born to be.

Consider also that you are a:

1. Heart breaker.

2. Dream maker.

3. Love taker.

Conclusion:

Don't you mess around with me.

Technical victories

First, I finally got my Powerbook to stop miscellaneously slowing to a crawl several times an hour, and also got it to stop hanging on "Open" dialogs. The solutions were 1) completely and utterly disable Spotlight and 2) turn off syncing the iDisk. So I had to disable two useful features of my operating system because they were buggy and painful, but at least I'm not swearing at top volume every 15 minutes.

Second, Jeff Eaton was kind enough to post on his blog the solution to a horrible Photoshop problem I'd been having. All my pictures would look lovely in Photoshop and then get washed out and crappy as soon as I saved them as web-optimized jpegs to put on Flickr, etc. I couldn't figure out what the hell was happening, and it was making me something something. Turns out there was a bad preference in the "view" menu in Photoshop under "proofing". End of problem.

Man, it's like taking a rock out of each shoe.

I love the Aquarius Records new releases email.

And I love Aquarius Records. Why? They put it best themselves.

And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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aquarius order!

I'm a fanboy for a record store! I just realized this. That hasn't been true for me since Rhino Records Westwood in about 1986, so this is new and fun. I've been shopping at Aquarius online and in person for years now. Yes, I ordered a Jack Palance record, a pipe organ record, and tibetan monks. Also a re-release of a 1981 compilation of crazy-ass artpunk music, which makes more sense for me.

You ordered:
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1 cd V/A Keats Rides A Harley
1 cd MONTALBA, GEORGES Pipe Organ Favorites / Fantasy In Pipe Organ And Percussion
1 cd PALANCE, JACK s/t
1 2cd V/A Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Vol. 1

comments: Hey! If you by any chance have the new Jello/Melvins record "Sieg Howdy", could you add it to this order and let me know? http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=1164 if you haven't seen it yet. If not, I'll either get it from A.T. or wait until you get it.

Also, you guys are so amazing that I want to move to San Francisco. Actually, I want to move to San Francisco and live right near your store and then just go there and hang around all the time. You better hope I don't win the lottery because that's what I'll do. That, and two chicks at once.