May 2010
47 posts
The First of Many & More Frequent Text Posts
I spent this past weekend in Denton, and I couldn’t have escaped from the daily drudgery at a better time. History has yet again repeated itself: my day job has frustrated me almost immediately after the first anniversary of my getting hired. My workload has increased – I’m now my company’s webmaster as well as its assistant accountant – which wouldn’t bother me if I...
A 12 Year Old Responds To Aiyana Jones' Death →
m0n3d4:
Dr. King, Malcolm X, and Huey Newton are all gone. They’ve been gone for forty years now, so stop waiting on the next black leader to just pop up. The next black leader should be the head of your house, the bus driver, the insurance man, the CPA or whoever. Our next great leader is not one, but a nation of people that realizes the importance of life and knows how to protect and...
2010 PUBLICITY #5: Houston's Top Tweeting... →
LMAO @ me being the very first musician mentioned, even though I don’t live in Houston
Sun Ra - Space Is the Place (1974) [Full Video] →
You have no idea how many of my inside jokes come directly from this weird-ass movie.
so-treu:
thecentaur:
Avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra stars in the movie version of his concept album Space Is the Place. Not following a linear plot line, this experimental film is a bizarre combination of social commentary, blaxploitation, science fiction, and concert performance. The opening scene is set...
My Thoughts on the "Ayegul Skewme" Syndrome
Last week, while riding a bus home from work, I was having a conversation with my mother on my cell phone, when a group of women got on the bus and started cat-calling me: “Hey, four-eyes with the ‘fro!” I don’t know whether they were being pejorative (most likely) or flirtatious (not impossible, as I’ve received my share of backhanded compliments), but it doesn’t matter. ...
I Remind Myself of This Every Time I Use Twitter
secretarysbreakroom:
Listening to my Donald Fagen station. U2 and the Beatles keep popping up in the playlists. Perhaps this makes me a horrible bad whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-classify-my-politics-as, but I can’t stand either band.
But I solve this by not ranting as to why I think they suck, but simply clicking on “I don’t like this song” every time they show up.
This is the internet:...
“Don’t depend on the instruments to make something beautiful for you– make it...”
– “It’s the violinist, not the violin.” » cynosure (via daniellescruggs)
I have never recorded a Cocker Spaniels song in a professional studio.
alexandriatarver:
“Eureka Signs” by Guided by...
“How many health problems (of both body and mind) in this country stem from the...”
– What Does Health Care Reform Really Mean to American Fatasses? Part 2: Working Us To Death
This makes me want to cry, it is so true.
(via notemily)
(via so-treu)
I have a “relatively cushy job,” yet I’m thankful that, for the most part, I’m allowed to work @ MY OWN PACE...
2010 PUBLICITY #4 →
This interview took place so long ago that I didn’t even remember participating in it until I read this post. I’m glad I didn’t say anything stupid in it.
Full disclosure: I met the interviewer in person during a show in Houston last June. My mother attended the show as well, and later suggested that I “holla” at the interviewer.
It's Possible to Lose a Game of Solitaire
This past Wednesday was my 29th birthday, and although it wasn’t as much of a personal milestone as my 28th, it was a lot more pleasant. When I turned 28, I was in a full-blown depression due to heartache, bereavement and unemployment. I was narcissistically paranoid about dying before my 28th birthday, and thus joining the “Forever 27” club with so many other rock and roll legends. (Some...
