- Go to the Wikipedia home page and click Random Article. That is your band's name.
- Click Random Article again; that is your album name.
- Click Random Article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
Mar Ukba, by Subterraneans (band).
Tracklisting:
- Tettenhall (which like my home town is between Warwick and Worcester)
- Ulrich Roth
- 高知ファイティングドッグス [Kochi Fighting Dogs]
- Col. Thomas Dent
- Henry Hastings Sibley (first governor of Minnesota!)
- Beacon Hill (Gloucester) (Tom Green and Tom Cruise both have ties here)
- list of sportspeople by nickname (This one writes itself)
- 大本 [Ōmoto] ('The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, is [...] considered a kami.')
- Gamm Theatre (a small theatre in Pawtucket, RI)
- Scandinavian Bunkering
- Episcopal Diocese of Newark
- Conservatory Garden
- R. D. Hinshelwood
- Hüttikon
- Henri Meige
I like the idea of a band named "Subterraneans (band)," especially as it's pretty clear that name is already taken.
So Rock Band is a lot of fun, though the five songs we could choose to perform while being taped due to rights concerns were all kind of butt. We settled on Bon Jovi, which proved hilarious when they told us to 'jump around' for the video as it's difficult to rock out that hard to any Bon Jovi song. I tried, though—check the mad whammying on my bass for proof that I was trying very hard to make 2 notes per measure look interesting!
Hello, it's been a while. I won't spend any time addressing that as I will just lose the will to compose if I do. I have had little to say and less desire to say it, and that's about the long and short of it.
Around Thursday or Friday of last week I contracted what certainly felt like a sinus infection from Amanda, after making it a week or so and figuring I was in the clear. I went to the German beer fest on Saturday, which helped to ignore the symptoms that day, and by Monday I was feeling fine. Tuesday I slipped back into sickness and was feeling like a TB patient with my hacking coughs in 80 degree weather.
Tuesday night I had a dream where I could fly. Like, by flapping my arms I could slow my descent and then eventually fly around- not Superman flying, but more what it would be to have Avian Bone Syndrome. This is the kind of dream that makes you incapable or at least highly unwilling to go to work, and I clearly needed the rest as I slept through to the early afternoon without interruption after a quick call to my team voicemail at work to let them know I wouldn't be in.
I did some tidying of wires, sweeping, and other maintenance on the apartment yesterday as an inspector is coming by today, due to the fire in Mike's room early this year. He will surely cite us on some insignificant nonsense, and I will be scolded by the Sohs for something which will not be in any way my fault. They've already given Amanda and I shit for 'losing a fire extinguisher,' which I believe is just as ridiculous an accusation as it sounds— they do not walk off on their own, and we would not throw out a fire extinguisher.
I get back in to work today and learn that the VP of my department (VP of Customer Relations) is gone, as of yesterday. Also, the latest full-time hire is no longer here as it seems something went amiss in her hiring process (drug test, education verification, or something.) My immediate manager is away on vacation and will soon be leaving/replaced anyway to my understanding. Anarchy is sure to ensue, and I expect I will need to prepare myself mentally for the clusterfuckery which is surely coming down on our asses between, say, now and Christmas. Did I mention we're replacing our Order Entry system with a piece of software in Belgium which we'll be accessing remotely
via Citrix a month from now? This is after our Global Head of Operations and Software or whatever resigned last month. I really want to make an animated org chart to show what has happened since I arrived in July.
OK, that's about all I've got to dump out of my head for now. I apologize as reading back through this post I don't think it contains a single thing of interest to anyone who might read it- but that's the difference between blogging and talking, you can skim or ignore my blog posts and it's not rude. On a totally unrelated note, here is a list of songs I like practicing on my bass:
Earthbound - Winters White (melody line, octave down)
Earthbound - Paula
Radiohead - Bones
Nina Simone - My Baby Don't Care About Me (octave down, solo notes only- not playing the base of guitar chords)
Super Mario Brothers 2 - Overworld (on the higher octave of the bass, as it involves an occasional Low D)
CREAM - Sunshine of Your Love
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
and most recently added:
Pixies - Gigantic
Now that I've made this shitty dump post, I will feel more comfortable creating smaller more consumable posts in the near future. This is assuming I have anything to share, which I may or may not. In the meantime, enjoy this excellent song.
To excavate the depths of tragedy in Iraq, try this on for size: the attempted arrest of a minister accused of murdering another parliamentarian's sons is sparking the latest deterioration in sectarian relations. And the parliamentarian fears the Bush administration is helping the minister escape arrest in order to prevent the Maliki government from imploding.
I have had this song stuck in my head all day, which isn't such a big problem except that I imagine my co-workers are getting sick of hearing me tap out the intro bass line.
dun dun dum dun--dun duh dumm--dum dahhhh dum
My ordered list of the (first) 11 BBUK 8 housemates. I don't think anyone cares except for Mike, Kristen and Bryan—but that's enough for me!
Laura, Carol, Nikki, Chanelle, Tracy, Leslie, Emily, Sam / Amanda, Charlie, Shabnam
If you have an hour of free time a day (give or take) and want to know how you can best fill it for the next three months, you should give this show a watch. If you want my advice, start with the first non-live episode [BB-torrents.net free registration required] which aired tonight in Britain, and don't watch the live "bringing in the housemates" episode with casting interviews/crowd reactions until a week or two into the show and realize the awesome power of analytic chronodistortion™.
Included in the cast of characters above are:
- Catholic Indian girl adopted at 1-yo from Mother Teresa's orphanage
- A Victoria Beckham (US translation: Posh Spice) wannabe
- Frighteningly vapid/deranged 18-yo loli twins
- Superhead
- AND MORE!
So please—watch this show. You don't need to watch every episode. You don't even have to watch an episode! I will try to periodically triple-distill this potato juice into a refreshing and potent preparation fit to ingest in small but effective doses regularly for longer life and lower blood-pressure. You don't even have to take my word for it, ask any doctor* and he'll tell you—I'm not really a doctor, I'm just wearing this coat to get laid.
I'll provide these low/highlight video clips on Vox, hopefully with some regularity. Maybe I should change the potato stuff to prunes....no, not worth it.
*Dr. Billy Chen
If you have access (Showtime, Showtime on Demand, Torrents, etc.) to This American Life, do yourself a favor and watch the two episodes that have aired so far. It's awesome. I've never really listened to the radio program, but I may seek some out now.
What are some charitable causes that you support or would like to support?
I give homeless/faux-homeless people change all the damn time, and cigarettes flow from me like water. I cut out the middle man.
So quick jorrrrrrb update: assuming my math's right (which it almost certainly isn't- though I couldn't say in which direction it's wrong) I'll be taking home about $300 for Wednesday-Friday of this week. Not only do I feel like a have a decent handle on my job, but I feel I have a pretty good stance on most other people in the company's jobs as well- it's always helpful to know how the sausage is made. On top of that my boss/guy who hired me is not only pretty cool, but also seems to think pretty highly of me which is always a welcome bonus in the work environment.
Despite telling myself "the first or second day, you'll want to quit/kill yourself" (as has been the case with every other job I've worked so far) this has been an overwhelmingly pleasant experience. Even going to bed at 2-3AM the past two nights to be up and out of the house by around 8AM and not getting lunch today because the in-house caf doesn't accept cards hasn't been a problem in any meaningful way. All in all, I feel pretty good about this. Making money, the order system is so slow I read Salon.com and the New Republic while waiting for queries to return, great salami+cheese on wheat in the caf, and it's right on the boardwalk so when it's breaking 60 consistently it will be the nicest lunch breaks possible. And I haven't even seen the gym yet! <3333 Thomson
Plus I could ideally leverage this experience into a position helping with copyright/trademark issues as a paralegal or assistant in the future— ding! Now maybe this sounds a bit too optimistic considering how early in the game it is, but this is a world apart from how I felt a week or so ago and I'm going to bask in it. I've got three tiny bits of Bill coding I want to get done and sent off tomorrow after work, then I'll have a bit more in the coming week but I should be switching off the 9:30AM start time eventually and on to the more manageable 10:30-11 area.
Oh, and lost was a pretty sweet episode this week so that helps too. I hated Nikki and Paulo until they had their episode, and now I forgive how dumb and irrelevant they were previously. Also, Sun gets hotter every episode- I hope they don't give her a preggers belly :(
