night sweats

last night i awoke suddenly at about 3:30am absolutely convinced that both of my legs had violently snapped off at the knee. all logic and physical evidence to the contrary it still took me a full minute to stop freaking out.

then about two hours later i again awoke, this time thinking there was someone in the house. i opened my eyes and was sure i could see a woman standing beside the bed glowing black (i know that doesn’t make sense but it did at the time and i don’t know how to describe it better). again logic tells me there was nothing there but still took a few seconds to stop panicking wildly.

very, very wierd and disturbing.

secret shame

you know how there is always one record in your collection that you would be ashamed for anyone to know you own but you secretly treasure (if you’re a serious record collector you know what i mean). well for me that has always been Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual”, i love that record, (i like listening to it when cooking – which only seems to make the whole thing more embarassing).

anyway today i got her new album “The Body Acoustic” where she essentially revisits some of her hits in new acoustic arrangements with a bunch of guest musicians along to lend a hand. and it is fucking great!! Cyndi’s voice has matured (also worth checking out is her previous album of reworked standards “At Last” which is also very good but does have a couple of moments that don’t quite work) and the arrangements are really nice. Plain and simple i really, really like this album.

hear that whooshing sound…? that’d be any last shred of serious alterna-music street cred i possibly had going down the toilet.

but fuck it i don’t care what anyone else thinks, this is a fine record (and for anyone who is interested it comes as a double sided disc with cd on one side and DVD on the other with videos and stuff).

home ground advantage

just back from my whirlwind tour of downtown Roxby Downs and surrounds and thought i’d share a couple of photos i took while out there

yeah, what he said

Eric over at Something’s Gone Wrong Again! wrote this a while back (see below) and it kinda struck a chord. of course i’ve only been doing this bloggin’ thing for about 3 minutes and usually can’t muster more than 5 words in a row etc etc but you get the idea – a kindred spirit perhaps?? and yes the irony that i have used someone else’s writing about essentially being lazy to explain the statement of purpose of their blog to explain the statement of purpose of my blog which i did already back in the first post about this being an outlet for procrastination which is intimately linked with my general laziness is not lost on me and fuck this getting to be a ridiculously long sentence that is not making a lot of sense so just read Eric’s bit below and i’ll shut up for now.

quoting Eric:

“Closing in on two years of this blog (OK, I’m rounding up by a couple of months) and I realize that it is a directionless piece of crap ( a true reflection on the author). I’ve had two years to create a web alter-ego and what have I done? Nothing. I’m just as fat, boring and generally dislikeable here as I am in real life. This blog is the equivalent of me mumbling something pointless whih no one hears and when I repeat it it’s lost all of it’s zing. That said, I’m toying with some ideas to kick this thing up, like changing my web identity from the bland ‘Eric’ to something the kids can identify with – like ‘Easy E’, ‘DJ Eroc’ or ‘Dr Sausage’. Another idea is to change the name of the blog itself to something that really reflects who I am. “Thick As A Pickle Still Getting Laid’ or “The Fun Machine (took a Shit and Died)” or “Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid”. Better yet, I could radically change the whole bent of this thing, turning it into “Daddy&Me” blog where I write about the cute shit my kids do that keeps me entertained complete with pages and pages of pictures. It’s either that or I turn this into one of those pages that asks their readers annoying questions such as “What’s your secret recipe for sausage gravy” and receives 100 comments.

Just some ideas being tossed around at the diocese.

You know what? Fuck that. Creating clever and insightful content takes too much time and talent, both of which are in short supply here. I’m hoping all 5 SGWA readers will continue to read my pointless ramblings and anecdotes, lists of things I need to get done on the weekend, random inexplicable photos, one-liners stolen from TV and movies, and recipes for venison because this crap is what blogging is all about – people with nothing to say saying stuff. It’s a helluva timekiller at work also.

Sincerely,
Professor Fuck You “

prediction

30 years in the future.

J & M prepare for “the big one” down in their Bunker…