space-oddity's Diaryland Diary
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flat tire
i should just now be arriving at work, but instead i walked out to my car about thirty minutes ago and realized that i had a flat tire, so i'm sitting here waiting for the mister to come help with my car troubles. no, i've never changed a flat tire before. never ever before in my entire life. whooptie-doo!
i guess i could look at the positive side and rejoice in the fact that i'm not actually working right now, that instead, i'm sitting, messing around with the internet, in the comfort of my own home. it's a fucking dirty, rainy day anyways. glad i'm not driving in it.
well, actually, i'll be out in my muddy parking lot in a bit changing a tire. so. yeah.
i meant to post this link earlier in the week, but i've been lazy with this thing. apparently, i even had my diary locked for a little while without meaning to do so, so i apologize for that as well. anywho, back to the link. it's william shatner doing pulp's common people, courtesy of stereogum, who got it from someone else, but eh. it's creepy. i think. i dunno.
i've been reading a laurie notaro book, which i borrowed from tiffany. it's entertaining. i took it with me to the park yesterday.
yeah, so i was really upset about the tire for a few minutes, right after i first saw it, but i've since calmed down. it's just a tire. at least my life hasn't gone completely flat. things can always be worse.
2:25 pm - 07.27.04
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guitar faces
i woke up to the smell of popcorn around 8 a.m. who makes burnt popcorn for breakfast? my neighbors.
so show me your best guitar face! this seems pretty neat. contestants can send in a photo of their best guitar face and win a les paul "black beauty" from epiphone. if you're interested, visit mag rack. this kind of reminds me of that asian chick i saw doing the air guitar on conan. she won the 2004 us air guitar championships. check out the link, the vid of her on conan is on the front page. goshdamn, she can rock. actually, looks like some of these air guitarists should try out for the guitar face promo. i see a few winners. ooo.
i want one of these bags. zippers are neat.
also, in maryville, right outside of knoxville, on his 23rd birthday, a nude man was found drunk and covered in nacho cheese outside a public pool. damn. haha. here is a link to the story. scroll down for it. (i don't think you'll have to sign up with the news sentinel, but maybe you will. if that's the case, nevermind.)
10:43 am - 07.20.04
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urban exploration
the other day mark forwarded an email to me concerning urban exploration, or UE. these expeditions consist of a bunch of people, equipped with flashlights and boots, who scamper through abandoned buildings, looking for mysterious, old, dirty stuff. yeah, it's called breaking and entering, but it sounds like fun and, maybe, a little stupid, too. i mean, what if you were walking through some crazy old mansion, and you fell through a floor and really messed yourself up? i'm talking bloody-can't-walk messed up. that's not very cool. anywho, sounds like some kids in knoxville are really getting into this. it would be fun to join them, but i think mark and i are either too chicken, or too smart, to go along with it.
i'm listening to goldfrapp on mp3. you know why? because i left all of my goldfrapp cd's on a plane, as well as just about all of my belle & sebastian cd's. not very bright, no.
and why? and why do this on a public beach of all places? i guess hanging youself from a meat hook in the privacy of your own home just isn't sufficient? damn crazies. maybe they were making an audition tape for ripley's. ooo.
i'm working to finally make a design for tiffany's diary. tomorrow is her birthday, so it would be good timing if i could get this finished and be able to finally hand over the goods. she's given me an image to work with, but i'm finding it difficult to use. i'm thinking of just blowing up the tit and using it as a background. i think it'd look very space-like. like saturn and its rings. hahaha. umm. yeah. also, i'm not so sure i'm liking the colors of this new design. the ping! and the pong! is great, but the colors are a bit drab. no? i'm thinking of making some changes.
and so it was nice to have a four-day weekend, but i'm off to shower and get ready for the jobbyjobjob. boo! and hiss!
11:41 am - 07.19.04
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frozen head
i was looking at back issues of paper magazine and found that regina spektor is one of their beautiful people of 2004. that's fabulous. i thought she was beautiful when i first saw her at the strokes show. the quote about the stethoscope is just too sweet.
we saw anchorman last night. it was funny, though not as much of a laugh riot as i had hoped. a lot of the scenes just seemed like they were trying way too hard, and during some parts, i kind of went to sleep. yes, i was very tired at the time, but still. one thing though - is it just me, or does christina applegate's lips look like candy in this movie? just like soft, shiny, chewy red candy lips. cherry starburst lips. i guess i was just thinking that because i was high. dunno. wish i could find a picture.
so we drove to frozen head state park yesterday. by the time we had driven through the valleys and had gotten lost a couple of times, we found it, just in time for the rain to start. we ended up eating our lunch underneath a picnic pavilion with two soaked-to-the-bone teenage girls and their drenched horses. they had gone down a trail and didn't decide to turn around until two hours out when it had started to sprinkle. yikes. these are the girls that begged for ponies when they were little. one cell-phoned her mom to come pick them up with the horse trailer. anywho, even through the rain, it was clear that this area is absolutely beautiful, untouched and green. that's why it is so shocking to see a prison nestled in a valley next to the park. brushy mountain state prison. crazy. yep. with the rain, we couldn't do much, so we just drove home and took a nap.
it's a good thing - to unsuspectedly have the day off.
2:34 pm - 07.18.04
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movies and water coolers
umm... okay. i don't think you're supposed to make instant banana pudding with soy milk. something's not right, i.e. it's been 30 minutes, and it's still at its liquid form. this is an utter disappointment. i should have known better. hmmph. all those nilla waffers floating in confusion. damn. should have known better. just a little f.y.i.
we watched city of god last night. mercy! gripping. pulsating. a beautiful disaster. i don't know why i hadn't seen it sooner. most of those kids were just amateur actors they picked up from the brazillian streets. check out the imdb trivia if you've seen the movie. there are interesting things to be read. the guy who plays knockout ned in the film (seu jorge) will also be in wes anderson's the life aquatic. i can't believe i have to wait until december to see that movie. o! and since i'm talking about movies here, i'm also very exxxcited about zach braff's garden state. that should be coming to a theatre near you real soon.
so i've often wanted to write in here about how i hate that all water coolers are about three feet tall, give or take, and one has to bend over, bend way over just to get a glass of water. i've complained about this time after time, and people are always quick to quip with the fact that someone has to lift the big platic jugs of water to the top of the cooler, and this is why they have to be short, so peeps are able to do the lifting. but, ha! the water coolers at my place of employment are just filters. there is a tube that runs tap water into the back of the case, and inside, little elves or gnomes or whathaveyou filter and purify, and then you bend over, and you press the button, and nice, cool water comes out. i don't have a problem with the elves and/or the gnomes. i don't have a problem with filtered water, but i do have a problem with bending over and sticking my ass out into the middle of the hallway everytime i need to hydrate. why can't the designers of this fine product make something with a little more stature, so that someone who isn't five-years-old or in a wheelchair is able to get water without having to contort into doggy-style? anyway, i guess someone got my memo about wanting to jack the coolers up with books because this week i went into work, and the damn things were propped up on plastic cases. yay, team!
also, i've been reading stereogum religiously. funny stuff, kids.
o! what do you think? does this look like me? i put the hand in front of the face for mark. hehe. you should try making your own portrait here. pretty nifty. i think.
3:14 pm - 07.16.04
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my friday afternoons
okay, so i re-signed up for a gold membership, and i paid for three months through paypal. i got the paypal receipt in my email, and i was even able to join the gold member notifylist, but for some reason, my account is not showing up as a gold account, and i emailed those lovelies at help@diaryland, and no response. i'm a little pissed that i paid for this stuff earlier this morning, and i'm still not able to go in and add images, whathaveyou. bleh. and i'm very, very, very very very, very hungry.
some weird shit happened at the vid today. this lady yelled at me because i let some kid rent the last finding nemo dvd, and she, instead, had to rent the vhs copy. she was like, "i hadn't intended on watching this movie upstairs! i guess i'll just have to watch this upstairs then! i guess it's more important for some kid to have the dvd!!!" ... umm. yeah. it is. why don't you move your vcr downstairs, bitch, and get a fucking life while yer at it. also, i stood outside the porn room with this guy while he asked me if i knew of anything really "raunchy" he could rent as a gag-gift for a friend. i pointed over to the room, and was like, "it's in there, man," and he looked at me and said that he'd never been in a room like that before, and i said that he'd either have to grin and bear it or rent some soft porn playboy flick, and then he just stared at me, and i said, "well, i'm not going in there for you." and so off he went, to fend for himself, in the smelly, o-so-smelly, adult gallery. that place smells like sex. dirty, dirty sex.
we're going shopping tonight, and then it's off to catch fahrenheit 9/11. we're excited.
5:54 pm - 06.25.04
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finally
well, goddamn. i hadn't ever really encountered the traffic jam that occurs on this thing when one doesn't have a gold account. i really haven't updated much since i stopped the membership, so's i wasn't to know. o. well.
i had a lot to say, but after having a double shot of espresso about five hours ago, i'm starting to crash, so this is it for now. wow. piss poor, ain't it?
so what have i been about lately? skirts. being outside when possible. the libs. asking crazy questions to the new african guy that sits next to me at work. getting motivated. umm. text messaging. really, not much. garlic bagel chips. uno. getting better. in general.
that's some of it. but not quite all. sleep. yes.
4:10 am - 06.25.04
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slumping
sometimes happiness comes in the shape of a 10 mg pill, taken once a day, before bedtime.
slumping slumping slumping. was in a slump slump slump.
for quite some time.
5:42 pm - 05.12.04
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