Starting these posts at the beginning of the week from now on and adding as I go.

• But it didn’t help

  Have to do a better job. I had a BBQ today. Wasn’t thinking about it before today that I commited to finishing a review and one these. Now I got like five minutes to midnight.

• Maryland Deathfest

  Didn’t go. Just been listening to Grim Kim’s MDF playlist. One day.

• Eclipse

  Forgot to mention this last week. We don’t get solar eclipses in New Jersey. Some links: Eclipse in tokyo. Hikosaemon got some great pics

• Whoops

  I just messed up the formatting of this whole post in a rush to publish and have to finish it after the fact. Also, I forgot to mention Donna Summer and Andy Gibb, but I’ve never really thought that much about them as people to honest. I mean literally. Disco is just like where samples come from. I was only technically born in the 70s, I don’t remember it.

• Speaking of remembering

  If anyone in the future wants to discuss actual events that actually occurred at my high school, during the years I attended it…sure, why not. I’ll try, maybe. But if it’s about something someone I don’t know said to someone else that I don’t know, I can’t really help you. That’s not talking about high school, it’s like still being in it. N-ope.

• Racism

  I’m not f’r it, I’m again’ it.

• More next week!

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Sometimes you just can’t tell how bad things have gotten until they start to get better.

• Nothing major this week

  I got nothing.

• Friends vs. navel-gazing, endless rumination on painful unfixibilities

  Yeah, you know, last week I was thinking about life in general, the weirdly close friends I used to have that are all nuts. And some of them might have become junkies, they’re not all presently accounted for. Senior year of high school I started hearing some bad stories, I always stayed away from hard drugs and after that I lost touch with most of those people. Some guy at a bar the other day tried to tell me some shit he was still mad about from high school…I do not remember or want to remember most of high school. I got friends now, ok? We don’t talk a whole lot anymore. Not everything has to be like 3 Musketeers, all-or-nothing anymore. I’m feeling a lot of sympathy now for like, Henry Rollins, when he gets a little mad at people asking him questions about old shit.

• Backlog mostly under control

  Keeping unread articles under a week and the total number under a hundred. This time last year it was over 1000 and about 100 days behind on average. This doesn’t mean that much in itself, but it means I’m getting better at managing a constant work flow. I just need to turn it into more output. Gotta a bunch of stuff in Google Reader…gonna add some links. I have been cutting back on facebook and twitter subs and putting more into RSS, it’s easier to manage overload. These sites are not designed to optimize your time, have you noticed?

• Japanese

  I finished the Tofugu book, I guess I’m going through it again because I’ve skipped some steps, but there’s some great advice for like, time management, stuff like that. Now I’m started on WaniKani as a tester. It looks pretty good, not sure I need to stick with it as a whole program, I’m sticking to my boring Anki decks, but it’s nice. Esp. if you’ve got an iPhone, and are starting out, that would be the way to go. I don’t and I’m not, but I still kinda wanna spend money on the thing. I need to get into some online Japanese teaching teaching racket like this. Something.

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What up.

Crazy week.

• RIP MCA

  I was feeling pretty good when this came out of nowhere. We knew he was sick and all but wow. Ruined that whole day, I just had to lay down for while. Would be a great excuse to kill a six-pick or two but I just took a nap instead. Seriously have no friends right now, but occasionally my health concerns are vindicated in the most depressing of ways. I’m talking like I knew him personally when I never met him, (saw them at Lollapalooza) but he was a guy you felt like you knew. Some people are getting nostalgic over the early stuff…I always thought it was garbage, it’s a joke. Got into them with Check Your Head and those next few albums after that were huge for me, I thought they really did great stuff musically and actually had a message but had a sense of humor about everything. I eventually went back to Paul’s Boutique, and the recent stuff was still good, but it was mostly about Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty for me. Haven’t pulled any of them out yet, it just feels like a bummer. There’s nothing sad about their music and I don’t feel like twisting it around to fit the mood now.

• Acid Mother’s Temple@Johnny Brenda’s

  Should have it’s own post but I didn’t get to work on it. Got some pics I haven’t even looked at yet. Need to get the flickr back in order. Yeah, I don’t have time to sum it up now, so that will be a post this next week.

• UBUWEB

  I didn’t get to any of these movie links this week but I couple things I did get to that have cheered me up a bit. One was these Henry Miller interviews. Besides the content, which although I am linking to them are not my exact thoughts, the way he interjects so much with “do you see?” “don’t you know?” are really like Japanese “ne”s in a way. (They’re good alternative translations for it, or other interjections.) The other is this Radio Web Macba post which is a great intro to the high weirdness of Ubu, including the classic Cake and what should be mandatory listening for all art students The Man Within. Be sure to get the PDF liner notes, but the tracklisting is out of order:

  00:00 Benjamino Gigi
  03:45 1-100
  09:52 Diddlage
  10:26 Edges
  16:54 Diddlage (reprise)
  17:27 Bubble Blower
  22:40 I Really Should
  27:37 I’m Not In a Hurry
  30:34 Missing Dog
  33:25 Why Am I Always So Depressed?
  34:55 The Mud Kids
  38:42 The Man Within
  57:04 Sometimes When I’m Low
  58:06 Cake
  59:00 Lend Me Your Ears
  59:52 The Sonance Project

  Also Charles Bernstein’s 1-100 might have inspired the crazy counting guy from this Tofugu post on Japanese comedians:
  

• Free Music Archive

  Have to talk to some people if I should even apply for the job or not. Even thinking about the possibility is some major lifechange shit. Have been planning to get back into podcasting with some FMA stuff anyway. I’m going to be doing something with it whatever my employment status.

• Being a dick

  Yes, I’m being a dick when I talk about certain past blog stuff. But I think I’m being too nice in some respects. There’s some creepy shit out there and you can’t really parody it while you’re part of it at the same time. But almost on another topic, it’s kinda bullshit to delete whole blogs about bands with almost no other write-ups in English.

• Decibel Tour

  Leaving write now to see Nergal of Behemoth, who has recently beaten cancer, and crew. Can’t think of a moral there, but that’s life. I’ll end with this clip of Brad Warner’s Hardcore Zen audiobook:
  

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