Month: June 2010

Chevy no va

What the hell is wrong with people?  Chevy is no longer an acceptable nickname for a product? Who writes this shiz?

I went on a coffee date last night.  You know, you try to let guys know that you aren’t up for a booty call, and they just run away.  Not much of an advertisement for the boys in the world.  I was nice enough to give him a ride home, anyway.  Not exactly what I had in mind when I purchased a vehicle.

I’ve been listening to the On Spec album, and to my astonishment, I’m really enjoying it.  I’d add a link for the album, but the On Spec website pushes poo with its nose, and the R Cat site is even worse, so, not so much.  Anyway, it’s called “Because we hear voices” and if somebody had told me there were no vocals on the album I probably would have listened to it sooner.  It’s very mellow – or cinematic – or game play – electronica.

I canNOT get the Lords of Acid’s “I Like It (Hey Hey Hey)” from their Farstucker album out of my head.  It is ludicrously catchy, worse than the Tapioca Song.

Prior to the coffee date, supper with Jeff and Mike at the Twist.  The dry ribs there are amazing.

Lookout

I stood at the lookout up on Cypress with the affable and intelligent Katie K today.  She had given me the excuse that I should take her for a spin in Ziva, and it was lovely to get the commuting within 15 K of your home stink blown off the car.

First we stayed at Ajax Baldwin, her house, for tea and bagels, and then, a ride.  I can feel that I got some sun…..

I think I finally have the ‘listening to myself in the car’ phase knocked out of me.

Breakfast accomplished, oven being cleaned, laundry on

A small shop done, and it’s only 9:40.  I am feeling accomplished. But there’s a but hiding in that smug statement.

Honestly, I think I need a twelve step program for my relationship with my room.  It’s a sty.  How can a 51 year old nominally sane woman (there are different views….) come to such a pass?  Cazart!

I do have a large enough garbage bag…. I think.  Time to winnow, hoe, and likewise shovel cruft.

In other news, another good rehearsal.  I was scowling at the drummer, Abby, (who has a cajon, woot!) because she wants me to play the guitar the Same Way Every Time.  What, like a professional?  Blurk….  Gig is tomorrow at two, thirteen hundred block of Commercial, see you there!  Oh, and that’s two-ish, because, like, it’s the Drive, and like, it’s Italian Day.

Good practice last night

So I have a gig with Orange You Glad on Sunday at 2, and we practiced (involved me covering my eyes while attempting to remember all the words and chords of Orphan Girl, but I still am nowhere near having Bird on a Wire down).

Finally caught up with NCIS; Ho lee cow.

Something really weird happened on the computer last night.  For reasons best known to science, but completely obscure to me, my computer made the youtube video for the Lords of Acid’s “I like it” start playing. Not only did I not click on it… IT DIDN’T APPEAR IN MY HISTORY.  When it stopped playing it dropped off the screen and it took me until this morning to figure out what the hell it was and where I could find it.  No link…. NSFW lyrics as it involves bisexuality, crossdressing and promiscuity.  It’s also hella catchy.

Oh gosh, look at the time.  I actually got a good night’s sleep last night!

Briefly

Ziva is running on six but hesitating.  Fuel filter?  Spark plugs?  Check engine light comes on within about a two block stretch of 10th Ave and goes off about halfway up Gaglardi hill.

I had a lovely long talk with my mum last night.

Jeff sent me flowers at work, by which one might infer what a joy to be around I’ve been over the last little while.  I don’t care, and my coworkers sure appreciated it, and Jeff is defending his title of World’s Most Awesome Roommate with considerable aplomb.

Tom M at work photoshopped his two tortie cats into Borg costumes.  Unbelievably cute and I’ll post the link to his flickr stream if I can find it.

Betelgeuse ISN’T going to blow up.  Sad face.

I’ve been playing “Mama Got Skills”, my 6 song EP, in the car, and I’m enjoying it past the point that makes sense.  Oh, to have such a very loud sound system!

Briefly

Saw Paul briefly last night as I wanted him to listen to the engine and help with diagnosis.  While I was there his sister Ruth called and I got to talk to her, which was lovely.  Her houseful of girls is doing great and the news (apart from work, and I’ll spare the details) was all very good to hear.  Also saw Keith when he came over.  Although we started out thinking we wanted an action movie we ended up watching McLintock! A great film, although the public display of deshabille and domestic abuse / BDSM at the end is a bit of a corker.  I laughed my ass off about half a dozen times. OMG, Maureen O’Hara’s costumes.  John Wayne as a comedic lead, who knew.

Sad face, to have missed the last two episodes of NCIS.  I’ll have to wait for reruns.