White Elephant

Monday, February 28, 2005

see eft-teflon

We're going to see what's in his pockets!

Sunday, February 27, 2005

mmmmmm.....

Finally got unstuck in Final Fantasy II - it's amazing how many people see me playing and say "a Gameboy?" yup I guess I'm getting old :)

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Spacey

I just watched LA Confidetial I thoughht that for the most part the actors were all cast based on things that they had done in the past and therefore was a little disapointed in that aspect. The story line was overall good at various times I had 3 different people pinned as the inside guy. well okay maybe only two, but I was curious throughout.

The members of my PRS three-piece punk band were "deeply depressed". Now I've figured out that some items bought from the store effect charactor's moods. So I bought the band a bottle of whiskey and a chainsaw.
And then there was one. Yup I guess maybe deeply depresed doesn't go well with drinking and powertools. On the other hand thier record sales went up:)

In the real world I've called my celular company 3 times recently, each time I'm givin basic information - then when I refuse that information, I'm given different information. things that make you go "mmmmm... READ THE FUCKING INFORMATION FIRST IDIOT!"
Just like C&C ttold us :)

Sunday, February 20, 2005

she's back

so after my mom was MIA for a week she's come home from the hospital with a severe broncial infection.
I was actually worried for a couple of days there - I ended up calling her work "do you know where my mommy is?"
yesterday was B-U-T ful so we out for a ride to the park. Sarah was far more interested in watching birds and flowers wheras I wanted to push on - but something resebling a comprimise happened and we enjoyed the day.
if only I wasn't so prone to despondency these days....

Thursday, February 17, 2005

What do ya need?

Ah a last minute post diverted by explaining a balance sheet to a co-worker....
Project rockstar account may go banckrupt by Sunday.

Monday, February 14, 2005

PRS Lyrics

Europe Against Eutopia\ D'you also hate your job?

Na na na, you went to school,
And all you've got is this diploma,
You embaress yourself,
You might as well be in a coma.
Your boss smiles in sarcasm,
He's only there to show ya,
Living in a cubicle,
Is this your definition of euphoria?


You really are a bargain,
You have no way of fighting,
The 3rd world is so near now,
You can almost see it looming.
And they say:
Globalization is inevitable,
Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah
Lateness is untolerable
Nah-Nah-Nah
You don't like your working place, and not particuarly fond of you boss,
Well, you're not making Nike trainers in the Peoples Rebuplic of China,
But you're getting damn well close

Na na na, here comes your lunch break,
And all you do is moan,
You think that it's a 'way of life'
You could'nt be more wrong
Feeling bad all over,
You head off to the bar,
And on your way you see the 'man in Charge'
He's driving a brand new car !
He's only there to show ya,
Living in a cubicle,
Is this your definition of euphoria?

And just as you think it's getting better, fake sunshine in your eyes
You realized you're stuck in a doorway with nowhere left to run
So you quit this for the other,
You find they're all same,
Another boss in a three piece suit,
A different employee card,
It still has the same name.

Sunday, February 13, 2005

test 2 3

pjbendavid

wants this to work....

Thursday, February 10, 2005

sing a long

I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless,but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on


Yeah... Ha Ha!
Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing cos I'm counting no age
Now I couldn't be there
Now you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs
And I'm under each snare
Intangible
Bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view
Look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose
Sit and lose
All you different crews
Chicks and dudes
Who you think is really kickin' tunes?
Picture you gettin' down in a picture tube
Like you lit the fuse
You think it's fictional
Mystical? Maybe
Spiritual
Hearable
What appears in you is a clearer view cos you're too crazy
Lifeless
To know the definition for what life is
Priceless
For you because I put you on the hype shit
You like it?
Gunsmokin' righteous with one token
Psychic among those
Possess you with one go

I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless,but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on

The essence the basics
Without it you make it
Allow me to make this
Childlike in nature
Rhythm
You have it or you don't that's a fallacy
I'm in them
Every sprouting tree
Every child apiece
Every cloud you see
You see with your eyes
I see destruction and demise
Corruption in disguise
From this fuckin' enterprise
Now I'm sucking to your lies
Through Russ, though not his muscles but the percussion he provides
with me as a guide
But y'all can see me now cos you don't see with your eye
You perceive with your mind
That's the inner
So I'm gonna stick around with Russ and be a mentor
Bust a few rhymes so mother fuckers
Remember where the thought is
I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless
Feelings, sensations that you thought were dead
No squealing, remember
(that it's all in your head)

I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
My future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
My future is coming on

GGRRRRrrrrrrr.....

Once upon a time I read a book called "death: the high cost of living". I liked it. It made me think. Jump ahead 10 years....
I borrow preludes and nocturnes - the first sandman book from a coworker. I WAS AMAZED! Todd Kliens lettering was yet another (and to date the best) argument for a friend of mine who draws comics and wants to letter them with some adobe font (YUCH) Neil gaimans story is great and Sam Keith BLOWS UP THE FUCKING PAGE! panels are broken bend and twisted in ways I've never seen and I'm in love!
Sam Kieth left the project - "I feel like Jimmy Hendrix playing with the beatles"
Well I keep borrowing the books-I follow the story I appreciate many of the other artists until...
Book nine:The Kindly ones.
I'm drooling when the book is handed to me. It's twice the size of the others!
So I start reading it. The art in the prelude is blocky the colors are cartoonish, and the backgrounds look like they came from a stencil.
In the eighth book there was a different artist for each chapter so I didn't worry much but half way through the first real chapter I flip through the book and see that the whole thing is done in the same SHITTY_ASS art that makes the Warner brothers Batman (which I like) look like Salvador Dali.
Fuck.

Sunday, February 06, 2005

so I don't forget

(a href = "linkplace") linkword(/a)
because I'm just that silly 8)
let's also throw in (img src="link place")
lets try that shall we?


a little knowledge is truly a dangerous thing...

look

I just found this site.
and learned my first bit of html-

So tomorrow...

Makes 3 years since I moved here. That means three years ago today I was smoking like a chimeny-packing like a maniac-and repeatedly walking into rooms with no idea why I walked in there?
My last two goodbye were D and S (look I write like a real Blogger now!) that were coming at the airport. But this the post isn't about nostalgia - this post is about extortion and driving.

I had three years from the time I moved here to transfer my drivers license without having to take 28 classes (at 45$ a pop). So I started the process 32 months ago-then realized that I would still have to pay cash that I didn't have so let it go for a while. Finally I got to the point where it didn't matter that I didn't have any cash-now or never. So I go with my form and they tell me I need a new one, can't get the new one-there's a strike. O.k. get the new one, bring it to three more offices before I'm told that I need a letter faxed from the DMV in Chicago saying that I had my license before moving here (the current one was issued in '03) so I get my mom to shlep down to the DMV to get the form that said How long I've been driving. 18 years! Damn I must be gettin' old. Well the form I got only said that my current record was clear of tickets and gave the same issue date. Fuck. wait-did they say Fax? how about scanned emailed (ahem) "taken care of" and then printed.

Who accepts faxes of official documents?

So I took the test today and was with two other people who also took the test-I was the only one who the tester didn't hold onto the "oh Shit" bar while I was driving. Let alone grabbing the wheel or using his petals.

Now here they don't tell you if you passed or failed right after the test - something about too many acts of violence against the testers. When I started writing this I didn't know if I had passed or not - now I know that after I jump through two more hoops, paying two more fee I will be legal to drive! oh yeah! now I just need a car......

Thursday, February 03, 2005

So Phil has been hoarding his own weblog.

I think it's funny that my stupidity (not knowing how to tell people where this is) can be confused for hording - I married now I'm not allowed to hoarde. Now my collection of interesting pieces of metal that I've found on the ground is considered clutter 8)

This reminds me of when I walked into the library at Gaston college and found a yahoo page open - I signed up for email thinking hey this is great!
So the next- I go the library look at the computer- and the page is different-so my e-male's gone? Was it really only 8 years ago that I didn't know what a URL is?

So my other reason for whoring my blog?
because I want to do something like
http://www.thenarrative.net/archive/000200.php
but I don't have it together enough yet.
Well Shabbat Shalom to all,
and to all a good weekend!

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

So what's that mean?

So yesterday I told two friends where this blog is-neither of them commented on anything I wrote.
Does that mean:
1. my ramblings are pointless
2. my friends are lazy like myself
3. um, ah those are the options that come to mind

so I'm racing down the hill on my way to work
I'm running tight on time-yeah ok I couldv'e left a few minutes earlier.
This is the part of the ride where I'm off-road
I'm going down a long hill "dodging" pedestrians (in quotes because I have plenty of time and space-it's not like "dodging" cars- or people on a side walk. - but I digress.)
the second half, divided by a road, of my off-road section, is rockier than the first.
Consequently there is a more set route, between the rocks on the right, over to the left, sharp right to avoid the pile of rpcks-rubble-rubbish, sharp left on the far right side of the slope...
So today there was a silver van in the biggening, the guys were behind it with the lid of sewer line(?) open.
I wanted to take a picture but I was running too late- I decided it would give me something to write about any way...


I'm going to try my IQ at tickle...

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

whoa

so is this actully something more than talking to myself...
stupid customers making me work

well so much for everyday...

I started playing "project rockstar"
so far it's slow moving-you do 1-2 things per day, then wait for tommorow.
In other news i take my driving test on Sunday to tranfer my Il licence, and I think it's time to tell someone else that this blog exists-
Hi Timm8)