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I'm kind of surprised at what I listen to over and over again. I'm assuming these play counts started about two years ago when I got my laptop, but some of the top songs I've only had for a few months. So here they are, my sonorous obsessions. More for my documentation than anything, but some of these songs you should really hear. ( Read more... )
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[04 Feb 2009|01:14am] |
I spend most of my days dealing with dickhead customers. Really, I should not be in customer service. I have taught myself restraint, but I really do loathe a lot of people who walk through my door. I can pretend as much as I need to. But I shouldn't need to pretend, and I know this.
I was in line at the bank to day with a HUGE wad of money. I probably had at least a hundred bills that I needed to put into my bank account (Matt pays some of his rent in ones). I walked from the right and got into line about half a second behind a woman who walked from the left. She offered - with a smile - that I go first. That was pretty nice. I would normally do the same, and I did. She reluctantly agreed to step ahead of me, and said all she needed was to buy two rolls of quarters, and she'd be quick. So we exchanged some small talk about doing laundry and the weather, and then it took her all of ten seconds at the counter to get her change. It took me five minutes for the teller to count my shit. Just the simple fact that this woman was willing to let me go first, EVEN THOUGH she'd be super quick, was refreshing.
I want to be the 'that woman' in my dickhead customers' lives. I usually don't have the energy though.
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| You send shivers runnin' down my spine. |
[02 Feb 2009|11:43pm] |
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I turned 27 at 8:16 this morning. A few minutes before that, I got into my car to go to work, and I heard the perfect song. I don't think I've ever been this cheerful scraping my car windows. It's a Red Hot Valentines song, and I can't find it which is making me sad, but anyway, it got me to thinking how young I was when I was listening to that. Not that long ago really, but the start of my adult life. And as we all trudge forward into that, I have some other songs that make me ponder my age.( Read more... )
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| where the fuck are my pickles? |
[26 Jan 2009|11:55pm] |
11:46pmLindsay
so get this...weirdest thing to ever happen to me
11:47pmTim
yeah?
11:47pmLindsay
someone came into our house
and stole food from the fridge
11:47pmTim
oh!
11:47pmLindsay
some pickles and some lunchmeat
not the booze
not the soda
not our dvds or games
11:47pmTim
weird
11:47pmLindsay
i feel like soneone has to be fucking with me
but i cant figure anything out
they left a wadded up giant best buy bag in the fridge
empty
in place of my pickles
11:47pmTim
took pickles and lunchmeat and nothing else
11:47pmLindsay
for real
its fucking bizarre
i came home and matt had the door locked and he was inside
and i was like 'why'
and he said he thought he heard someone open the door
so yeah, we deadbolt the door all the time now
so weird
11:49pmTim
always a good idea
you should see the security i have now
might be a wise decision for many
three words
home
defense
shotgun
11:50pmLindsay
haha yeah but do you keep it loaded?
11:50pmTim
its like a prop, you dont even have to keep it loaded....just the rap sound would scare anyone off.....its like a dog whistle of sorts
I dont have it yet, for many extenuating circumstances...but i can always attack with the sham wow if necessary
11:52pmLindsay
suck the moisture right out of their faces!
sham WOW bitch
ive got this really scary knife
its not big
but its a good size for stabbing and hella sharp
the only problem is, and yes, ive considered it
is that i would cut my hand on the back end of the blade
but i could, i think, get ten good stabs in, in a matter of seconds
at least
dude wouldnt even know he was stabbed right away, its so sharp
it would be in like that one video game movie, with the laser room
you know what i mean?
guys head is sliced and falls sideways?
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| It's not like she's enslaved, it's more like she's enthralled. |
[16 Jan 2009|11:39am] |
I was thinking about restringing my electric guitar just now( Read more... )
I saw Tom Morello and the Hold Steady with Jeff, Walter, James, Sean, Emily, and Val. Morello really should not sing. He really should not write music either. It all felt so borrowed. I swear every melody and every bass line was familiar. I spent the night trying to guess what song he borrowed from (if it wasn't an indirect cover a la Dirty Deeds by AC/DC but the words changed to bash Bush). I suppose that's the point of folk music (he kind of said so himself) and I suppose I was supposed to care more about the lyrics. But eh. He really didn't even show off his true chops that often. He played a few measures of some Audioslave and Rage songs as outtros to his shitty songs, but then didn't play them. Teaser.
THS was pretty awesome. They played all my favorite songs, but right at the very end so I was worried I wasn't going to hear them. They'll be at the Courtyard Cafe (what what?) in April. We will mos def need to get tickets to that.
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| Don't say we saw angels - they'd take us straight to the church. |
[15 Jan 2009|01:54pm] |
I started reading the Mystery Method. And I'm sure that once I make it past the prefaces and bloated intro to the system, and get into the psychology of it, I'll really like it.
But the first part is downright ridiculous. Why are we talking about martial arts? The demographic for this is pure man, I suppose. You can NEVER use logic with a woman? Ouch. Do you really need to explain yourself over and over, Mystery, or did you just need to hit a reasonable number of pages? Thanks for the sweet diagrams to further expound your delightfully simple point. I suppose if we're talking to men we better engage the spatial part of the brain, eh?
I think it's funny that he says he's loved all the women he's been with. Maybe in his own way. I think that as humans, we are emotional beings. And as women, we are more efficient at dealing with other humans. Especially after last night's shenanigans, I'm pretty sure that men are just as capable if not more capable of being illogical as women, and far more likely to be cruel. It's never enough to just get laid. In fact, with low enough standards, that part is very easy. Where's the book for real connections? For the things that make us men and not animals?
I do love to watch the game. I love to analyze and criticise it, and, occasionally, I like to bare my own vulnerability and play a hand or two. If I was sure what I wanted, I'd be damn good at it. It's always easy for me to decode, not that it doesn't hurt sometimes.
And a little Hold Steady, for thematic effect:
We are the theatre
They are the people dressed up to be seated
Looking upwards and dreaming
We're the projectors
We're hosting the screening
We're dust in the spotlights, we're just kind of floating.
Sometimes actresses get slapped.
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| You are my life now. |
[06 Jan 2009|08:24pm] |
Tonight Matt said "Edward's an asshole."
And I said "What?!? No Bella hating?"
And he said "I'm done with book 3. I gotta stop reading Twilight because it's making me giddy like a little girl."
And then I squealed like a little girl.
Twilight is so good, it reduces grown men to romantic little girls
Also, Team Edward for LIFE.
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| The results are in. |
[31 Dec 2008|01:39pm] |
My abridged list for 08:
( Read more... )
Abridged list for 09:
Keep my room clean.
Turn things off/unplug them when not in use.
Work less! (which will require working a lot smarter, if possible, and serious planning).
Keep saving for a house so I don't have to sign another lease.
Get that passport paperwork in by my birthday. (maybe a date will help)
Paintball - for real this time. As soon as the weather gets nice.
Bonnaro.
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[13 Dec 2008|02:49am] |
So I'm kind of way drunk because we just got home from Jups but I think this might make for an interseting LJ post so here we go.
I have a major crush on this barback whose name is apparently Brian. WE know this because he apparently hasw a thing for Jeff, So one day the gay barback introduced himself to Jeff and it was reallly awkward. tonight I was talking to pat who is the mailman and the regular that is at the bar like every night we are at the bar which pretty much means like every night, and i told him i have a crush on the barback whose name is brian. so, pat got invited to the bar christmas partyy next weekend and he invited me as a date because he thinks i can have a hcance with teh barback that likes jeff, BUT pat is a kind of creepy like sixty year old mail man dude. but. img gonna go anyways I think.
so tonight matt threw his burrito above the counter bcause he didnt want it amymore but he made a mess all over the fllor and he pretends that he wont clean it but is his burito mess so he WILL clean it. jeff says im z dirty cunt but thats not fair im not so a dirty cunt. I think that we're all wasted and retarded right now. tonigtt was a GOOD night at the jups and the pig. we drank toooooo much., maybe more later.
jkeff says we iused to do this like every night, get this drunmk but thats silly wer'\e adults now and good drunks. oi think. kefvin is crying becasue he wants soome attention. i have to work tomorrow so I hope I'm not too hung over. vampires are awesome.
,k\
\\love
Me.
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| Rob's getting hitched. |
[08 Dec 2008|05:34pm] |
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And I was wondering if anyone out there wants to make the trip to the east a serious road trip. I've been meaning to get back to the NYC for a weekend and eat some GOOD sushi. I wouldn't mind seeing Atlantic City again. No doubt there will be some good rock shows going on around then, too. No large fiberglass statues will be involved.
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| Hang on, spider monkey. |
[06 Dec 2008|10:55am] |
Jeff, Sarah, and I went and saw Twilight again last night. We convinced Sean, James, and Matt to come along again. Yes, we're definitely doing our part to make it a box office smash. In fact, it's second only to Dark Knight for opening weekend. And that was with no post mortem actors. Post mortem characters, god yes. And also like no budget. Does that say something about how awesome this story is? Part two is out in 2010. The only thing that will keep me sane enough to wait is Harry Potter six out this summer.
Last night I got about twenty pages in to the Twilight author's new book (for adults). It's pretty weird so far, being about aliens and all.
I did some Christmas shopping yesterday, too. I was in Borders, and I overheard two heartwrenchingly adorable things. One was a kid talking to a mom about some toy. "Mom I don't think you should get that for us. I think Santa should. That way it will be elf made, so it will be better." She was at least 10, so at least that part of childhood isn't being ended as early as some others. And then there was an older husband and wife pair. Everything she said she wanted to do, he echoed. "Let's go look at travel books." "Yeah lets, so we can see where we want to go next." "And then let's check out the art books." "Good idea, I want a new coffee table book." It was not sarcastic at all, and adorable. I may have been slightly primed by picking up a book that said Porn For Women. It was a collection of pictures of hot (clothed) men doing things like cleaning and cooking, or saying sentimental things. Quite ridiculous. It's shit like that that make men secretly loathe women and make feminists look stupid. There's an entire line of these books at Borders.
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| Well I've been down now, like I never got started. |
[25 Nov 2008|09:40pm] |
So the world is in love with Edward Cullen, and through the wonder of transitivity, Robert Pattinson. Or Bobby Dupea if you like his secretive musical identity. No doubt this man is talented. And hot. And the sad thing is, I thought he was too unattractive to play Edward when I first looked him up. CLEARLY I've been brainwashed. It might be his eyes.
There was a movie review in Jeff's Entertainment Weekly (I think it got a B-) about Twilight. And the first entire paragraph of the maybe fifteen paragraph review was about Robert's eyes. "Sanpaku" eyes. I'd never heard that word in my life, but apparently it's a big deal to be able to see the whites of your eyes under your irises. Check out this weird wiki article. According to the Japanese, it's rare, significant, and might make him violent and disordered. I can say that every interview I've seen or read of him (and it's been a lot, as its all over myspace and the web and the TV for god sakes he bit Tyra Banks on her show...it was hot) - he is one severely weird dude. I realized that way before I heard of this eye business. But what a weird thing with which to start a movie review.
Eh it's not his eyes. I'm in love with his hair. It's such a weakness.
Turkeys. How hard is it to get twenty turkeys at a good price to donate to the needy as part of my dedicated unpaid time at work? Hard. I've been on the phone on and off for a week about these stupid turkeys. How much, can we get a special deal, to whom am I giving them, etc. And I'm working with Sergio McClain who is donating 100 more turkeys. We're giving them away at his church in the ghetto over on 4th and Bradley. And god bless his generous soul...the man has the brainpower of an athlete. Late planning and Wal-Mart screwing us over has left a huge mess. So tomorrow I have to hope I can get my turkeys and still have needy people to give them to, and he's barely got a plan going for himself, so it's going to be a turkey fiasco. Anybody willing to help me load approximately 400 pounds of turkey into my car tomorrow around 1? And to top it off, these damn Wal-Mart turkeys are frozen. And I'm picking them up tomorrow. How long does it take a turkey to thaw? These people probably won't be cooking them for Thanksgiving. And I get to do this again at Christmas. All because the people who own Family Video believe that taxes are bullshit (this is out of their own severely right wing mouths) and would rather get their hands dirty with the needy than the government giving their money away as handouts. And by their hands, they of course mean my hands. End rant.
The new Dandy Warhols album is garbage. One good song. The single - the one that's in the same minor key sadness and is lyrically a lot like the song I love from their first album. I've been duped. I got that first DW album from my very first real boyfriend. I was going to buy it one day when I was with him, but he already had it for me as a going away present to college. And then I broke his heart. I should call him.
Tonight I'm starting to read The Host. Hopefully I'll have something new to talk about, other than vampires.
Well I could sleep forever/but it's of him I dream/if I could sleep forever/I could forget about everything.
Well I've been down now/like I never got started/cause you want your world just a certain way.
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| In the right place, suddenly I will play my ace. |
[18 Nov 2008|06:04pm] |
So I finished Twilight. I felt the ending coming, but I was still pretty anxious to get to there. Best book I've read in a long time, like I said a million times. Here's what totally got me last night (after bawling for a solid hour, I needed a laugh). The author spent half a page thanking the bands that influenced her writing of the series, especially Muse. Who does THAT sound like?
Matt told me I wasn't allowed to listen to Blue Foundation music at night because it sounded too freaky and tribal. I say poo on him. I'm listening right now.
Today I worked all day on my day off. But I've lined up four solid people to take our employment test, and I'm hoping at least three will make it. I really need at least that many people to avoid working seventy plus hour the next eight to twelve weeks. And one of my peons changed our sign outside without my asking. It takes at least half an hour. And it has to be done twice a week. No one wants to be outside in this weather dealing with that shit. So that was a nice surprise. Now it's time to go eat pizza. What will I do tonight instead of read Twilight? Maybe I'll start the first book again.
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| I won't soothe your pain. I won't ease your strain. |
[17 Nov 2008|09:14pm] |
Before my real post: I have a request. Can we all get back to posting on LJ all the time? Remember the good old days when we could waste time on the internet reading about each others lives and quips and other mundane shit? I mean seriously, I spend more time on wwtdd.com. And I care about you all more than Amy Winehouse. Nothing against Val, but I want to see more names on my friends page. Please.
Now.
Lately I've been having dreams that feel like memories that haven't happened yet. And then flashes of the same reverse deja vu while awake. It tends to be normal things, too, like a customer saying something to me, and I get a very weird and intense feeling that I've seen it all before. Or looking at a scene of Kevin in the kitchen. I'm starting to believe that time is an illusion, or maybe the fold of time I'm in right now is really close to another one. And I'm wondering if I can influence it at all. But I'm also sleeping little and reading a very sci-fi book, so who knows. Today I was thinking I'd like to deprive myself of sleep for a few days and really get into what I'm feeling. Might be heady. Might be stupid. I couldn't do it and have to work, anyway. Everyone should read Twilight. It's been the most entertaining thing I've enjoyed in a long long time, and the reason I've been sleeping so little. You know how much I like to sleep. This is better than dreaming. 100 pages to the end of the series. Then the movie on Thursday. It's going to be EPIC.
And this wouldn't be a Lindsay post without a music update. There's a song from the Twilight soundtrack that I'm OBSESSED with... and I promise that it's not because it's related to the book. I found it because I was wondering how it was possible that the soundtrack was number one in album sales, tip top of the charts, and the movie isn't out yet. It's just awesome in an eerie mesmerizing way. Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation. It's their only slow song on myspace, and I'm not really into the techno shit. But I'll tell you what gets me going. Slow, deliberate and sad electric guitar. Ethereal voice. Strings in the background. It has a nice build. It resonates just right with me. And so do the lyrics. You can listen to it on my myspace page. Also Brad Sucks is awesome, but I've been talking about that for a long time. Really good dance/rock. I've got the new Dandy Warhols on my ipod, but it died on me and made me miss my alarm for work, so I didn't get to listen to it as planned. Stupid computer phone. But I'm pretty sure that it's gonna have a lot of the qualities I love about music, only more drug influenced.
See, that was a stellar waste of time while I'm postponing going back to work (to round out a fourteen hour day). You all should do the same. Entertain me. Please. Bring back old LJ.
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| Doesn't mean I'm lost. |
[09 Oct 2008|10:52pm] |
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Matt and I just got back from four days and some driving in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We went there several times for family vacation, the last time being approximately 15 years ago. The town's pretty much the same, save maybe a few more chain restaurants. You go there for the Smoky Mountains National Park. Somehow, though, the surrounding towns have become the worst kind of tourist trap.( Read more... ) We were talking, and I said we should go back in another fifteen years. And then I realized that in fifteen years, I'll be 42. Wrap your brain around that. That's some freaky shit.
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| You're made of my rib or baby you're made of my sin. |
[28 Aug 2008|12:18pm] |
I spent the morning perusing old LJ postings from the New York era. I came across this quote from Walter:
I played through a Final Fantasy game where I was naming all the elemental/god/deity things normal people names instead of mystical, epic things like Ifrit and Leviathan. There was a goddess of cold so I named her Lindsay.
Makes me smile/makes me realize the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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[05 Aug 2008|07:37pm] |
Lollapalooza 08 was pretty good. It was hot but tolerable, and the ground was dry, which was convenient for sitting on it, which was done a good deal. We piled up into a room at the Congress, which was fun. I miss having Emily around. Overall this year was very dance/dj/electronica based, which was a neat change. The headliners were too big for the festival, though, which I think fucked with the general feeling of the place. Maybe not in a bad way, but there were a lot of people there just to see the big acts. This lead to talking over other acts, which was annoying when the sound wasn't loud enough, and ridiculous amounts of people at the very last shows making it hard to get close enough to enjoy.
( Read more... )
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| Yeah what did you say girl? I'm not the only one. |
[02 Jul 2008|01:01am] |
I don't know how I feel about a band being judged by how many friends it has on myspace. I do rather enjoy the ease of discovering a new band via myspace, and I guess it's slightly more accurate than album sales these days, and far less biased than radio play. Still, it makes me feel like an old lady but it all seems to be a bastardization of the real deal. And I hate when bands solicite me on there. Panic at the Disco got their record deal from a few songs on myspace, so I get why they do it. Welcome in the new era, I guess.
Lolla's coming up. Big excitement there. Tally Hall is the band that made this post come to fruition. There's a song they play on the Parkland station down here, and its sort of They Might Be Giantish meets barbershop quintet. So I cruised on over to myspace, to discover fans are SHOCKED they have less than 40000 friends. Whatever. It's good shit, myspace or not.
I saw Filter again a few weeks ago. By Filter, I mean Richard Patrick playing diva with a new band of guys I've never seen before. For once, I really like the new album. For once, I was like hey, I want to hear all the new songs. And for once, the band played all their old songs. Sure, I wanted to hear some of the big ones, but definitely not a pussy version of Trip Like I Do sans, well, the Crystal Method. I'd call that irony. Worth thirty bucks, not as big a let down as the tour for Amalgamut, but still fairly lame.
One time Geno Lenardo, the old guitarist for Filter, ran me over in a hallway at a Twisted XMas show. I didn't know what happened until a billion people started taking pictures of me and this dude on the floor. I'd love to see a picture of that. I miss that Filter. The new one can't sell out the Canopy.
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| Warm sun, feed me up, and I'm leery, loaded up. |
[03 May 2008|01:05am] |
Tonight I got a phone call from a customer. He said he wanted to exchange his adult title...because he could not get off to it. He said he hoped I didn't look down on him, but he just broke up with his girl, and needed to get off in a bad way. What he had wasn't doing it for him. He was dead serious. I was fighting laughing so hard that currently my throat hurts.
There are at least five lies he could have told me to get a new porn. But instead, he went with the cold, hard truth. I have got to respect that. I feel bad for him a little. I hope he comes in tomorrow with the same story - in person - for my assistant manager. She'll recommend something good.
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[10 Apr 2008|01:11am] |
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There's a word for "vlogging" now? This world is seriously retarded.
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