Smiley’s Neighbors

P.S. This one goes out to all my peeps in CA

nobody@vox.com(W. B. Mook) — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:08:11 +0900

The Somerville courthouse was a total blast the first night that same sex marriages were made legal in MA. I don't even entirely know why we decided to show up, but we did. I hope you guys have the same kind of good time. (Though I suppose San Fransisco already got a head start. Anyway, congrats to everyone who wants to getmarried but couldn't up until now.)

I Want To Hold Your Hand

T.V. Carpio

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Get To Know My Town

nobody@vox.com(W. B. Mook) — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:46:48 +0900

Scottsdale Douche Remix

Derek Seidensticker

Handlebars

Flobots

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Edgy

nobody@vox.com(my coffee-name is sally) — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:28:14 +0900

Today, my feathers are ruffled and I feel a bit on edge because the same old topic, my old ghosts, continue to wrack me. Making psychological, sociologically and religious shifts in life's paradigm does not come without uprooting the foundation entirely. My mental house creeks. There was rot and mold that had to be ousted. There were roots which had entwined the pipes of this organism and I hacked them away. I speak in metaphor because speaking literally hurts my mouth (pride?), then later, the people who've always known me. But, inveriably, I'll write more and more till it trickles out of me. I've written this a million times, and erased it, clicked delete. So, I say this the best way I can. Now it has been years since I've moved away from a conservative and religiously closed-off life and I continue to find areas of detritus I have to shake loose. I've seen too much and done too much to know, we aren't evil. We're not born bad. We all make our choices. There is no one who has the one simple truth. There are billions and billions of years to have added up to this moment right now, and it can't be summed up with a glib sermon or the pointed finger of a white man who has only known his comfortable, christian bed, the one he was born in. Having heard from pentacostal and baptist pulpits a religion of isolationism and racism (yes, racism), the one that sends entire countries and cultures to a elected and prescribed hell, I reel inside. It's a shame it wasn't sooner that I saw reality. It's hard to see past one's own ethnocentrism. It is the same ethnocentrism within a self-serving system which reduces homosexuals to comic book characters or shapes them into monsters; I can not and will not sit in another conversation and say nothing when I hear such atrocious sentiments. I can not be divided into two camps of thinking. I must say what is right and stand up honestly for what I know is real. We are all equal in the eyes of God. All. Equal. There are billions of people whose hearts beat and blood flows just like my own. There are women round our world holding their own babies in their arms, feeling the love I feel and aching for it never to end. These people are not doomed to any hell, any more than I am. There are problems which pious prayers will never answer... but love will. The eyes of my heart were jaded once. Now I see, always so imperfectly, but I see how the language of love is the substance which is GOD. Any more than that, I can't say for certain. I've stopped claiming that I know the one truth. I'm human like you.

wake up....

I've heard people call themselves recovering fundies... and I've thought about that a lot. But, you know me and how much I hate labels. Still, I do feel often that I am recovering from something. Today my brain hurts a little. And it should.

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Change by chance

nobody@vox.com(Groove Neuter) — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:28:28 +0900

Feeling out of sorts that my memories are not staying put in their hermetically sealed mental compartments.

How dare people live, evolve, and generally move on with their lives.

Why aren't you all where I left you?

I thought I finally had you organized, somewhat figured out, a semblance of order,
and here you are surprising me with all this growing up nonsense.

The nerve.

The gall; continuing to live after the time we knew each other.

Least you could do is not leave clues where I might stumble, unawares, upon your updated info.

Now I have to revisit/reorder how I feel about everything all over again.

I think it's going to be a good thing,
or rather it is already a good thing, and I will come to that realization eventually.

Going to need a bigger brain, and a bigger bottle of tequila.

Excuse me, I must intoxicate, inebriate, and otherwise imbibe.

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QotD: Top 5 Break-Up Songs

nobody@vox.com(Bookmole) — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:26:08 +0900

What are your top five break-up songs?
Submitted by gt.

A sub-genre of the break up song, the Wow. Found out just in time you were not the one.
And Dido does these songs so, so well.

See You When You're 40

Dido

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It's Ma Birthday, Bitches!

nobody@vox.com(W. B. Mook) — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:22:22 +0900

Kiss Me, Son Of God

They Might Be Giants

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The Atlas Detector @ Cern

nobody@vox.com(Bookmole) — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:40:49 +0900

ATLAS - Episode 1 - A New Hope

My inner nerd is now very, very happy.

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DZg - Cat Cluster el

nobody@vox.com(DZgunrock) — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:06:58 +0900

DZg - Cat Cluster el

DZgunrock

DZgunrock - Cat Cluster
16th MAY 2008, No.242

cat meowing QUARTET + elebits

MEMO
・笑い声のMIX
・のっけから最後まで笑いが止まらない小説があれば読んでみたい
・どこを開いても笑える写真集とか
・車内で様々な国の言葉が飛び交うラッシュアワーの山手線
・明日は雑誌を切り貼りして遊ぶことに決めた

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Jason Yudoff - Tragic Hero

nobody@vox.com(W♥M) — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:50:10 +0900

05/16/2008 08:46:34 ♥ written by vu ()

Jason Yudoff - Personal Addict

Jason Yudoff

Discography

[2003] Smoke Sex Water

[2006] LIVE at The Cutting Room

[2008] Tragic Hero

Jason Yudoff just released his second studio album, Tragic Hero last Tuesday, May 13^th. Apparently this album's been hitting the music industry rounds for a while now, because, despite just officially released to the general public, it's already been nominated in the 2008 Grammy Ballot in four categories: "Best New Artist", "Album of the Year", "Record of the Year" (for the song "Personal Addict") and "Producer of the Year" (Ron Thaler).

Since the song "Personal Addict" is nominated for "Record of the Year", I thought it that would best represent him: a little funk and jam. Even his funky voice on this song sounds a little like Jamiroquai, doesn't it?

I also really liked the frantic piano-driven song, "Locked in a Box", which really shows off Yudoff's piano-playing skill.

Jason Yudoff & The New Hotness-Too Late Janie

There's also a studio version of "Too Late Janie", which originally appeared on his live album, LIVE at The Cutting Room, which sounds a little more controlled. It even sounds better in the studio, but I did missed the improvised piano in the middle of the live version.

Tragic Hero is out now, you can find his music on amazon and itunes as well as cd baby. He's playing one show in New York at the Make Music at the Waterside Plaza on June 21^st.

Links: jasonyudoff.com myspace.com/jasonyudoffandthenewhotness

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Dear Guardian of Hostesses...

nobody@vox.com(Workaholic Hostess) — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:42:56 +0900

Lotus

Dear Guardian of Hostesses,
Please keep away frightening, obnoxious, or otherwise undesirable customers.
Please keep my customers healthy and happy.
Please take away the sadness that I see in their eyes sometimes.
Please keep all of us girls from losing our way in a cloud of hangovers and rejection.
How wonderful would it be if you could make all our dreams come true?
Could you make Mia a successful actress? She's already 37 and she hasn't given up yet. Don't you think she deserves a break?
Could you give Dancer Girl a career as a singer/dancer? She's not as focused as she could be, but she works really hard.
And how about giving Chiba Girl a nice man to love that would love her back so she can rest her tired 42 year old bones for once in her life.
I would ask you to please make my boss less lazy and cheap, but I know that I would be asking for too much.
I would also ask you to teach mama to speak politely, but that would really be asking for too much.
And for me, could you please give me some peace and calmness so that I can quit without running back, and so that I can pursue my dreams too?

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