I’ve been sleeping my big ass off. And you guys know how I feel about that… It’s a complete waste of time. But, according to my calculations, I was only awake for ten hours during a recent twenty-seven hour period. And that’s just ludicrous.
In fact, I wasn’t able to update yesterday because I didn’t climb off the dormancy platform until noon. I set the alarm for 9:30, and punished the snooze button for two and a half hours. Crazy, man.
But I’ve got to admit… I feel pretty damn good today. For the first time in a long time, I’m rested. If I felt this way every day of my life I’d be more like Milburn Drysdale, and less like Sonny Drysdale. Know what I mean? …Hello?
A few days ago I was perusing the massive Surf Report sound library, and decided to take a Plimsouls album in the car with me. This one, to be exact. It’s a reunion record, released in 1998 — years after their original “Million Miles Away” heyday. And it’s damn good power pop.
I liked it a lot, but it’s even better than I remembered. I’m fairly fixated on it right now. And I want to add all their albums to The Big iPod, for easy access. However… there’s one missing. And it’s causing me great anxiety.
I know I own it, but it’s nowhere to be found. And if there’s one thing that drives me up the freaking wall, it’s not being able to find a CD. I’ll be OBSESSED with it until it’s located. Toney will get tired of hearing about it, we’ll have “words,” the kids will retreat to their bedrooms, and I’ll be running my hands through my hair and moving furniture around in a wild-eyed frenzy.
One of these days I need to get the sound library better organized. I offered to pay the younger Secret to put all the orphaned CDs in alphabetical order this past summer, and integrate them into the giant wall o’ discs. But did he do it? Of course not. Everything looks exactly as it did on the day we had that conversation. Typical.
I’d show you guys some pictures of what I’m talking about, but I’m unable to upload photos to the site for some reason. (Hence the previously-used one above, which makes no real sense.) I can only focus on one hand-whipping problem at a time, though, and I’ve decided to go with the missing compact disc, thank you very much. I’ll obsess about the website issue once the CD is in my boogery fingers again. When it comes to neuroses, there’s always tomorrow.
It snowed here last night, which was kind of cool. It didn’t amount to anything, but I always get excited by the early snows. I’ll be whining a different tune in February, but right now it’s fun. More is on the way, according to the “experts.” We’ll see what happens. Maybe I’ll be out front tomorrow morning, making portly snow angels in a pile of Andy’s flash-frozen yard biscuits?
Beavis and Butthead returned last night, and I’ve got it saved on the DVR. Did any of you see it? Any opinions? Mike Judge can do no wrong in my book, so I know I’ll dig it.
Judge appeared on the Adam Carolla podcast last week, and I’m not sure if I’d ever heard or seen him interviewed before. He’s very laid-back and regular guy-sounding. Check it out. He talks about how he sold the rights to the original Beavis and Butthead program to MTV for $20,000 (whoops!), his underappreciated movie Idiocracy, and a thousand other things. I enjoyed the hell out of it.
I finished reading another self-published book last night on my Kindle, and it was good, and also funny. But what’s the deal with all the typos and errors? Crossroads Road isn’t perfect, but it’s not loaded up with misspellings and missing words and glaring editorial “opportunities.” It just isn’t. I support indie publishing, obviously, and there are a bunch of really talented folks going that route nowadays. But, for the love of god, get a copy editor! Seriously. It causes my molars to grind. Not every book, mind you, but too many of them.
The next selection on the roster is Aaron Starmer’s just-released novel, The Only Ones. It’ll be the first physical book I’ve read since buying my Kindle. I’m looking forward to it, I know it’s going to be great.
Have you read anything extra-special recently? If so, please tell us about it. I have roughly a million unread books here, but there’s always room for a few more. Also, if you have any Kindle deals to tell us about it, please do so. I only have about 40 books saved on mine, and there’s space for, what, 3500? I need to get busy.
And speaking of space, the older Secret told me that some kid at his school has completely filled the memory card in his smartphone with hundreds and hundreds of recordings of his own farts. He’s now in the process of reviewing them, deleting the less-spectacular selections, and making room so his little project can continue. Just thought you should know.
And I don’t really have a Question for you guys. Sorry. I guess we can just go with the tried and true “what are your plans for the weekend?” I know it’s lame, but I’ve been asleep for days on end, practically. I’m still powering-up.
Have a great day, boys and girls.
I’ll see you on Monday.
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Someone who shares the same CD collection as me, and they’ll have to remain unidentified (but I’m married to her), has a habit of putting the WRONG CD back in the case. You have several CDs out, and they get put away in *A* case, just not necessarily the correct case, then put back in the roughly alphabetized library.
Then a year later, you want to listen to that specific Leonard Cohen album, and you find it and… there’s a Metallica CD in there. Of course the Leonard Cohen CD isn’t in the Metallica case, that would be too simple… and we have 1000s of CDs…
I never realized that Idiocracy had the same creator as Beavis & Butthead. Wouldn’t have guessed.
It’ll be a lazy weekend for me… I didn’t bother putting together a Halloween costume this year, and I haven’t heard of any Halloween parties. So I’ll probably just watch a lot of sports this weekend… apparently there’s some minor league baseball game showing tonight. Then college football tomorrow.
The weather’s beautiful here in Atlanta. Normally I’d go running, but my knee’s been F’d up for a month now. I saw a doctor on Monday… he said it’s runner’s knee. I don’t doubt him, but worry that I might have other underlying issues too. Torn meniscus, or partially torn ligament, or something like that.
And that, my friends, is why the internet sucks. You can pull up webmd.com, enter your symptoms, and it’ll tell you 20 different conditions that you might have. It even told me that I might have lupus! Don’t we have vaccinations for that?
Jimbo, I have knee issues as well and I had to switch shoes to the Vibram Five FIngers. You may look like an ape running, but it took all the pain away from my knees and hips.
Eh, I already look like an ape running. This would just make me look more ape-like.
I might actually try the Vibrams in the spring. Right now I’m just waiting for the soreness to go away, and then I’m going to do some swimming and biking at my gym during the winter.
I’ve found a great way to avoid knee injuries. I don’t run.
And Jimbo, starting a few years ago I stopped hearing about Halloween parties, too. Apparently the party-goers have learned how to keep a secret from me.
Maybe I should run.
One name: Steve Prefontaine
No running for me.
Chuck, do you remembeber the day that Pre died. Seriously, out here on the West Coast, it was kinda like Eugene, OR 9/11. That was a really, really weird day. BTW, 11:48 PM in Nome, Alaska…sitting here listening to Slick 6. What a great way to pas a midnight shift. Hope everything is going good for you in Belpre!
Cold and foggy here in Belle Prairie. Won’t be long before the snow flies I’m afraid.
Yeah, I remember the shock wave that ran thru the running community when Steve died. Very odd.
Filling up memory with farts – just as good as anything else!
I wish I would have heard about this sooner. Last night I drank a boatload of beer and then went to White Castle. It was a missed opportunity for some potentially notable entries.
Work, work, work, work, work.
Probably going to the Halloween party at our local drinking establishment tomorrow night. I won first place last year for my “Ho” costume. So I need to come up with something equally as good. I want to win those 12 drink chips again. Oh…the pressure. And since we just got home from being away for a week, I do not have a costume ready. I’m thinking of the two of us going as Trailer Trash Ken and Barbie in the original “boxes”, with accessories..beer cans, babies, and ‘beaters. But I need 2 big ass cardboard boxes to do it.
Sunday is the Steeler game at home with fagboy-Justin Beiber hair do & Ugg wearing Tom Brady and the Patriot”s. So I’ll be glued to the boob tube for that one…unless we’re able to score some tickets.
Bikerchick, can you please me a little more specific in your description of Tom Brady? LMAO! “justin Bieber hair do and Ugg wearing ” – that’s a combination you don’t see too often!
Apparently Rob Thomas and Justin Bieber have the same barber.
You forgot “goat-hugging” and “waterslide-screaming”.
Coincidentaly, on the weekend I was at a party where Office Space was playing in the backround and I watched Extract on Monday night. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I’ll have to check out Idiocracy.
My plan for tonight is beverages and the Pearl Jam Twenty Blu-ray.
Idiocracy is the SHIZ-diggidy-NIT.
I have several thousand cds – but I don’t have them in alphabetical order.
The baseball contest will likely hold my interest tonight, for a little while at least. Two Halloween parties tomorrow; one for kids, another for adults. I think I’ll dress up like Johnny Thunders for Halloween this year. Looks like it’ll be a great fall weekend for a hike and/or a bike ride, too. I gotta start on my fart recording collection as well.
I too have the same problem as Limey said above. Child Bride seems to think any case will do for a CD and I have gotten into my car expecting to listen to Megadeth on the way to work, only to be rudely awakened by Portishead, which, is a fine band, if you are expecting them, but I really don’t want to fall asleep on the interstate at 6 in the morning.
Can’t say I have read anthing of interest lately, but saw a documentary called Burzynski (Sp?) that will really piss a lot of people off. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer several weeks back. Went to church every Sunday, sang in the choir, taught Sunday School, and basically lived the Jesus life all her life. What was her reward?
Anyway, Burzinski (Sp?) is a doctor that has the cure and a thirty % sucess rate, but Big Phamaceuticals has basically put the clamps on it because cancer is a billion dollar a day industry. Prolong someone’s life for four years with chemo and think of the doctor’s kids you can put through college. This documentary is guaranteed to piss you off.
Plan to work 28 hours over the weekend but take my kids to a corn maize (get it, maize) that is out in the sticks near here. And buying a punkin.
Have a good weekend peeps!
Sorry to hear about your mom. Her story reminds me of MJK and his mother, Judith. These lyrics may piss off some too.
“You’re such an inspiration for the ways that I will never ever choose to be
Oh so many ways for me to show you how your savior has abandoned you
Fuck your god
Your lord, your Christ
He did this
Took all you had and
Left you this way
Still you pray, never stray, never
Taste of the fruit
Never thought to question why
It’s not like you killed someone
It’s not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
Praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
He did it all for you
He did it all for you
Oh so many ways for me to show you how your dogma has abandoned you
Pray
To your Christ, to your god
Never taste of the fruit
Never stray, never break, never
Choke on a lie
Even though he’s the one who
Did this to you
Never thought to question why
It’s not like you killed someone
It’s not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if He knows the reasons why
He did it all for you
He did it all for you
Did it all for you
AWG, sorry about your Mother. I wish her a quick recovery.
The medical industry really pisses me off. There’s a pill for everything and a stupid enough population who proudly toss them back.
I never use any of my actual CDs anymore. First thing I did when I got a mp3 player was rip every one of my thousands of CDs. If I buy one now I rip it and add the CD and case to the cabinet I built to hold them all.
I have the ripped version stored on a external hard drive and backed up on another exernal hard drive in my safety deposit box. Since my car’s player has an aux jack, I can take it all with me on my mp3 player.
As for the weekend, I’m heading to Columbus for the OSU-Wisconsin game with some college buddies. I just hope it’s not gonna be as ugly as think it is.
Tonight, I think we’re going out to dinner where I plan to consume a patty melt and onion ring platter.
Tomorrow, our friend who owns a liquor store is hosting his semi-annual wine/liquor tasting extravaganza. He has it catered so it’s free booze and eats for 5 hours. However, the weather is calling for AT LEAST 6 INCHES OF SNOW. Are you fucking kidding me? We could possibly get up to 10 inches. I just spent 1/2 hour frantically yanking peppers out of my garden. I have no idea where my winter gloves are. This friggin blows.
Wednesday I took the day off and we spent a few hours taking a narrated cruise on the Hudson River. Why did someone have to come up with an “M” initialed adjective for the rivers? Mighty Mississippi? Majestic Hudson? What do they call the Rio Grand? The Marlboro Man river? Just a thought.
Finally, is it possible to get an in-grown fingernail? My middle finger (yeah, the “fuck you” finger) is throbbing. Anyone with an extensive medical background can help me? Thanks.
I am a doctor, but not the kind that helps people. I am, however, certain that the patty melt you are planning to have for dinner will ease your fingernail symptoms. That and some codeine.
Thank you, Lee Harvey Ramone. Can you write a ‘script for me? I think a piece of toilet paper and a crayon would suffice.
The wife is a Ranger’s fan and I was forced to watch the game last night. Is there possibly anything more GAY than baseball? Well, UFC fighting of course. But other than that?
RIP George Carlin. You called it.
We’re going to some pumpkin patch thing for the kids tonight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re supposed to do in a field full of pumpkins, but it’s supposed to be a big deal.
On Saturday we have a costume type party to go to. I think I’ll go as my ususal character: Drunker than fuck guy.
I thought about going as a rapist, but I don’t think they really have a specific look, really. No real costumes for sexual predators, is there? Maybe I already look like a rapist. Then I could go as a drunk rapist. That would be the best costume ever!
Pretty sure this is what a rapist looks like…
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7812/daddysgirlhs8.jpg
The Evil Twin owns a boatload of CDs and DVDs. They are all in alphabetical order. He is very uptight about all that stuff, so I’ve learned that the same thing goes in the same case it came out of. DO NOT put your filthy booger hooks on any disc – always lift it out with one finger in the middle or with fingers grasping the side of the disc. All items go back into alphabetical order or …..I don’t want to even know what might happen. :::shudder:::: LOL.
As I haven’t been invited to any Halloween parties, and the weather looks shitty anyway, I plan to watch this non-stop until I go full-on Jack Torrence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xln8tbtHi6Y&feature=player_embedded
Didn’t a surf reporter once say “blame Truman” for things like this? By the way, how soon before someone sticks his dick into one of these things? My money’s on “already happened”.
It Reminded me of an alterboy I once knew
I watched the new Beavis and Butthead “premiere” last night with my husband. We laughed our fool heads off the entire time. Mike Judge is brilliant. I’m glad that he’s back.
Weird awg mentioned portishead. I saw them in denver last night. In denver till sunday.
Oh and go cards!
Good lord t-storm, how can any self respecting former Cincinnatian root for TLR and his miserable bunch of whiners?
I stayed up to watch B+B last night, and was consequently dragging ass all day today. But it was funny, every bit as good as the original.
CDs (and records) MUST be in alphabetical order by artist. And in the correct case, and handled properly. I too have ripped all my CDs as well as digitized a few LPs. They exist as FLAC files on the media server for home use, with MP3s for use on a thumb drive for the car. Car has a USB jack in the armrest; yay!
Books: I’ve been gorging on Neal Stephenson of late. Had just finished rereading the Baroque Cycle, followed by Cryptonomicon, when the new one (REAMDE) came out, so I’m in the middle of that now. Good stuff.
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Working on the new Stephen Hunter, mokin chonk, drinking beers, going full face first into some of the Bikers’ General Tso chicken, my chillun. You wish you were me.
Just reread Catch-22 for perhaps the seventh or eighth time since my first encounter in about 1965. Fucking brilliant book and timeless story.
T. S. Eliot.
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jtb
I re- read the old classics, too. I just read “To Kill A Mockingbird” over the summer. Also, “Travels With Charley”.
I’m toning my calves this weekend. Who knew Seattle was so hilly, it’s worse than San Francisco. Unfortunately our hotel is at the highest point in the city which is great when you venture out but a real workout to get back to after 40 pitchers of beer and multiple shots of jagermeister. The only positive is it makes it easy to find the place back, just keep moving uphill and you’ll eventually find it.
If you’ll excuse me, I need to go work on some new recordings.
Wenn ist das Nunstück git? und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Gesundheit.
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That gave Google translate an aneurysm.
So that’s what killed google yesterday! Eric Idle, your joke works!
A pretty funny Mike Judge interview in which he recalls the inspiration for Hank Hill…
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1397656