Friday, December 6th, 2002
So the New Jersey edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties is going to be in September of 2003. That’s later than I thought – my plans to use that as an excuse for a vacation next year will need to be revised, I’m going to need to get the hell out of the 416 sooner than ten months from now! The lineup for the Los Angeles Matt Groening edition is due to be announced next week, maybe there’ll be enough compelling in that one to get me on a plane.
Nursing an understated but definite hangover today. Not the head-pounding, room-spinning sort, but the general lack of energy that accompanies a less-successful night of drinking. Good thing it’s a work day!
I am getting obsessed with big clean delayed guitar tones. I am going to have to sit down and practice playing with a delay properly. This is what happens when you listen to too much House Of Love at once.
np – Superdrag / Last Call For Vitriol
Thursday, December 5th, 2002
Ah the office Christmas party. My workplace is small – there’s a dozen of us – so it’s not like there’s much opportunity for embaressing hijinks at the social functions. No secretarial pool or temps in accounting or anything. Just as well, because this was not one of my finer evenings.
Something about the combination of alcohol and very heavy (though tasty) meal did a number on me… I’m hit-or-miss with drinking. Sometimes I can drink a fair amount and be fine, other times… it’s like tonight. I don’t think I’ll elaborate.
But the dinner at Urban on King St was good, and we went to a pool hall on Queen whose name eludes me at the moment afterwards, and I played my first games of pool in several years. I used to stink, and now I was worse. Huzzah.
So I sit here with a glass of water, plate of toast and the knowledge that I still have to go to work tomorrow. I think I should bring a pillow…
Oh yeah, won Longwave’s Day Sleeper EP off of eBay. $10 after exchange and shipping, reasonable I think. Now I just need to find a copy of Endsongs.
Thursday, December 5th, 2002
The new Spike Jonze film, Adaptation, opens tomorrow!
Other good news – the new issue of The Big Takeover should be out next week. It’s trying having one’s favorite magazine being a semi-annual publication, let me tell you.
I am trying to install the GD Graphics Library on the NT server at work, and all it’s giving me to download is a set of uncompiled C files. What the hell am I supposed to do with those?
The office Christmas party is tonight. I have been given permission to pencil in 8 hours of hangover on tomorrow’s timesheet, though I don’t know how much festive joy I’ll be partaking in – there’s a cold a-brewing in the back of my throat.
“She’s got cheekbones like geometry
and eyes like sin
and she’s sexually enlightened
by Cosmopolitan”
— Lloyd Cole, “Perfect Skin”
np – Lloyd Cole & The Commotions / 1984-1989
Wednesday, December 4th, 2002
Swung by Soundscapes after work, hoping to feed my Longwave jones, alas the response to ‘Do you have any Longwave?’ was, ‘What’s Longwave?’. Erkk. It’s rare that Soundscapes disappoints me, but this was one of those times. Also disappointed that they had every Joe Pernice release except the Big Tobacco record. I may grab the Scud Mountain Boys’ last album Massachussets eventually, I keep forgetting it’s still in print.
There was some consolation that I snagged a copy of the new TapeOp – though it looks like I have totally missed the last issue and am going to have to be placing another order for the three issues I am without.
This Mountain Goats record is really growing on me. According to the 75 Words Or Less review, it’s a concept record about “a married alcoholic couple who move across the U.S. desperately trying to save their gin-soaked relationship by buying a house in Florida”. Sounds good to me.
np – The Mountain Goats / Tallahassee
Wednesday, December 4th, 2002
Doing a little trivia research this morning, and was surprised to find out that Lloyd Cole produced Ivy’s Apartment Life as well as played on Matthew Sweet’s seminal Girlfriend. The man gets around.
This is topical because I’ve had “Rattlesnakes” in my head all day (well, for about an hour and a half now).
“Jodie wears a hat although it hasn’t rained for six days
she says a girl needs a gun these days
hey on account of all the rattlesnakes”
— Lloyd Cole, “Rattlesnakes”
np – Suede / Suede
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