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So my printer is dead. Or more accurately, the ink cartridge is dead. AGAIN. I don’t use the thing much, but when I do, it’d be nice if it’d pep right up, maybe a little salute and an enthusiastic ‘yes sir, what can I do for you today!’. Instead I get mockery – it feeds the paper, moves the cartridge back and forth but it spits out a sheet of paper as clean as when it went it. Sonofabitch. I don’t suppose I really need a printer, I can use the laser at work, but still. It’s the principle. I should have listened to those who said an inkjet was a waste of money. Two years and I’ve already spent as much on cartridges as I did on the damned printer in the first place. I believe I will buy a new cartridge and give the damn thing to Dad, I’m sure he’d get more use out of it than me, anyway. I’ll be thankful to have the desk real estate back, anyway.

np – The Delgados / Hate

Western Swing

After long last, Tim Sandlin has a new book coming out. It’s called ‘Honey Don’t’ and is due out in May of next year. When it comes out, it’ll close an 8-year span of no new material from Tim Sandlin. Far too long.

I keep trying to finish ‘Closing Time’ but I think I left it too long and I’m now fairly lost as to what’s happening. there’s not too much left so I’ll plug along till I’m done, but like it’s predecessor, ‘Catch 22’, I will have to go back to it to fully appreciate it. Or maybe I won’t – Patrick’s analogy of it being like unto the ‘Godfather 3’ sort of haunts me. It may simply not be worth the effort. I’m going to revisit Paul Auster and Douglas Coupland when I’m done, anyway. Maybe find some Bukowski.

You know those times when you have something you have to do and you really want to do it but you just can’t quite bring yourself to do it? Well it goes without saying that it’s best to just bear down and do it, but if still merits a pat on the back sometimes.

That probably meant nothing to anyone but me and even I’m a little hazy, but that’s okay.

Sigur Ros tomorrow!

np – Superchunk / Incidental Music 1991-95

Six Degrees Of Me

My six degrees from Kevin Bacon:

Family friend George Ling (family friend) (1) who is uncle to Garrett Wong (Harry Kim) from Star Trek : Voyager (2) who co-starred with Jeri Ryan (3) who was in Dracula 2000 with Christopher Plummer (4) who was in Wolf with Jack Nicholson (5) who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon (6).

Boo-yah.

np – The Electric Soft Parade / Holes In The Wall

Hootenany

So this afternoon was spent playing Oompa Loompa, filling 454 48-oz jars with jelly beans. Yes, this was for work. Whee. There’s so much candy in the office that… that I am at a loss for metaphor. Even a bad one.

Band practice was marginally useful, I’ve identified three or four songs I’m going to work out parts for. I’m pushing to establish some sort of schedule of goals or milestones for us to try and achieve over the next few months. Without something to bite our asses we just flounder and lose time. Probably no more shows this year, but we’re gunning for early next year. Which is fine, since we still have no permanent drummer.

Finally got a call from Ross who has decided to come out of hiding. His girlfriend was up visiting around Thanksgiving when I initially tried to get a hold of him, hence the incommunicado. He’s going down to Colombia to visit her next month. They have more dedication to the idea of long-distance relationships than I do.

‘You send me postcards from paradise’ – Paul Westerberg

np – Paul Westerberg / Stereo

Some Candy Talking

There are approximately 1200 lbs of jellybeans sitting in the office as I type.

There is also talk of getting an office dog.

I like it here.

np – Travis / The Man Who