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Any word on how that job prospect is looking???

It was great to FINALLY get to meet you guys yesterday. We have to do it again sometime. Seriously, you both have no choice. As soon as I get to Philly you're the first ones I'm looking up.

But yes ...

It looks like we just got out like, you know, a mosh pit, never mind we were standing in the middle of a sidewalk in front of an ice cream stand.

Ben text messaged me that you were in Brooklyn. Good show, I take it?

I've messaged you something like a dozen times on myspace. Not enough time to send something back?

What happens in September?

I'm okay....a little nervous about the start of school. I'm not emotionally ready for it - this has been a WAY short summer for me.

Speaking of emotional states - I'm sorry about what you're dealing with. Sometimes I get really down, too, for no apparent reason. Lately, though, one thing that's helped is that when I feel depressed for an extended period of time, I try to think about all the people I know that genuinely care about me. And it helps, a little, to know that I'm not alone in this world.

You do have lots of people who care about you, you know.

I hope that helps a little.

I love carnivals!
I've been knitting toques with 2 holes in the back to pull your pigtails through and some textile art pieces. I just did a piece for Frida Kahlo tribute show and I'm beginning to work on pirate theme piece for the Lowbrow on the High Seas show in September.

Hope you have / had a great time

There are too many morons (aka, stupid people). When the revolution comes they will be the first ones against the wall

I'm going to play devil's advocate here. I like my non-story line Pac-Man games. Me, a not overly bright casual casual gamer, completely of agrees with the article. I still think the most fun games ere those 16 bit Nintendo games. There was two buttons and that was it.

The limitations, I thought, forced game makers to be more creative. You have 16 colors to work with, your soundtrack can only be made using midi, and that's it. You'd better have a good story line and be able to hold people's interest through it. Once technology came in, I really think game makers are relying on it more and more to make up for their creative shortcomings.

Every time I find myself browsing through the new video games to see if something catches my eye, everything looks like the same game but with different characters. Sure there's a handful of shining stars, but nothing really jumps at me. Yes, I can appreciate the hard work that went into building the game, yes I can appreciate that it really takes skill to be able to complete the game, but I kind of feel that a lot of them are using the mind blowing graphics to make up for lack of content.

Guitar Hero and that tennis game I got to play a few weeks ago on the Wii, I thought were brilliant. They're dirt simple games to understand and I don't have to keep referring to the instructions to figure out how to play it, but its challenging to get good at them. And the fun factor is completely there. If I'm playing a video game, I'm usually taking a break from thinking hard. I agree that America, in general, is getting dumbed down in every sense, but not everything has to be mentally challenging.

But yes, I do think its really ironic that the guy from EA games is the person who said that. I'm not into sports, but isn't all the packing on their sports titles identical?

How are you?
What are you knitting?
I love guitar hero, fun times!

yes but at least you don't look 10 years older.

Oh I understand...I covered a shift at this local dive bar (it was a horror) and thought I would shit when I found out I was a decade older than the cretan I was covering for. It was kind of scary b/c she was so gross and obviously in trouble with alcohol & drugs...oh how wiser are the older. Well in that case at least. Oh and better looking but duh.

Retorts to your quiz answers!

1. The Croc Hunter actually died on my birthday, how do you think I felt!? It was the topic of conversation at my little family party last year.

2. Hey, of course I was born in the year of Sanrio as well! How I miss the Twin Stars! They were one of my most favorites too.

3. When is the final SIren? Or at least I heard it's the last. I am not a fan of festival shows. Last Siren I went to I spent all of my time doing the boardwalk.

I'm trying to boycott my dad too who is, well, a dick. As well. When my job laid me off, I asked him to drive me home from work b/c I obviously couldn't get my usual monthly train pass. Well now I am un-laid, and back on at only 2 days buttt...this means I can cheerfully tell him to stick it, so I don't need to deal with his sour b.s. anymore. Neither of us is lucky.



For your Hello Kitty cheer:

Enjoy your time off together

Normally I like just going out driving somewhere, but anymore I give second thought to it simply cause I hate having to buy gas at the insane prices these days.

I've actually put more thought than I should have into Jesu. I've come to the conclusion that they were so terrible when I saw them because they probably just got into the country like 20 minutes before they played, were borrowing everyone else's instruments, and Justin Broadrick never played with his bass player and drummer before that show. Or not. That's what I keep telling myself. I'll see them again in a second when they come around again.

And thank you for posting about High On Fire/Mono. I'm so there. That's a kind of odd bill, but yeah.

Gosh, I feel like such an old scenester posting this. Blarg!

And I'm so jealous of you and your husband's time off. I don't think I've had a day off in close to a month now. So sooo jealous.

No fireworks at all...no family, nothing! What a shit holiday.

It's been me & Law & Order all day & night.

What did you do?

Wait, why were you embarrassed by missing your dad's call? Mine called me early to cancel any supposed holiday plans. For a moment I suspected they only invited me to play-polite, knowing they weren't having anything (thereby canceling was really no big deal). I know I'm sounding crazy, but I've been hung up to dry by them so much lately.

It's coming down here now too...

Definitely. Summer must shine. But I have a prediction, just by how mine is going going thus far, that it's going to be a summer of survival. I think there's going to be a lot of obstacle courses and one challenge will be to make changes, new endeavors for survival.

I'm wacky.

I'm at work so until I can read your post & blog...take this as a token:

Um ohh... Where's a cold dark cave when you need one.

Noo Yawk City...