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Isn't it weird how much can change in a year? Sometimes I have a year where I'm like "wow, that was a year already?" and everything seems almost exactly the same. Other times it's like a world of difference.
Just a year ago I had just moved to a new area I didn't really know that well, I was finding a job, meeting new people....
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jena:
A shark for your hard on:



That's crazy that you had a similar work experience and ordeal. I thought of of course, "getting a new job" as well but I'm not ready to bail just yet. The money is SO good and this exactly the job that I want, it's where I want to be. So it's a real aneurysm right now.

Anyway, I saw 3:10 To Yuma today. Have you? I think you'd like it. Is it ever a man's man's flick. I felt manly afterwards...I think. I mean it's no Brokeback Mountain, but still. I think I like westerns...it was really good.

Do you like Cat Power? Why do I think that?

I was briefly obsessed with that Nico song...I love her but woof, that one, wow. The last lines are so crushing, seriously. I think some of the greatest ever. Reduces me...to something, humble I think.

I'll leave you with this...I won't explain it but I took this outside my job. Morons had this taped to their car.

jena:
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Ok, well... I had my day of bellyaching and I feel slightly better now. Things always tend to work out somehow, it just seems totally out of control sometimes.
And whatever, even if I don't get to go to school, big deal. Tons of people who don't get to go to school do just fine.

On the upside this has given me some time to...
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meta:
oh please, you haven't done the dishes in a week. I'M TELLING THE INTERNET on you.

the thing about school is, yes, a lot of people who don't go end up doing well in life anyway.. and a lot of people who DO go end up working at shitty desk jobs forever because said desk jobs provide health insurance and a steady paycheck.

(cue another panic attack about how my life is going nowhere)
jena:
So is there even a CBGB anymore? I thought it closed down or got turned into a virgin megastore or something like that...

Well I'm sure you've heard that Hilly Crystal (father of CBGB) passed away today (or yesterday by now?). Carumba. Well now I have to dig up that shirt and wear it to work tomorrow...and my CB's bracelet too. tongue Son of a whore. I'm sure that shop was mobbed today. blackeyed

Oh anyway...CB's closed I believe late last year. The last show was Patti Smith & I believe tickets were $900. I'm not kidding.

Anyhooo. Sorry for being lame-I work 6 days now AND in New Jersey (I live in NY) so, I don't have much air-time.

My bday is next week! You have my address, please make me a card? I would like that.
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How low can you go?

It's just so fucking stupid. (And as boring as it is I think I'm going to vent about it here)
I can't go to school unless I get my transcript from the school I previously attended. I only attended it for a year because of funding (or lack thereof) issues. So I got a short term loan to pay my...
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zarth:
Application process in general, believe it or not. It's pretty crippling.
freckle:
fuck that's a lot!

i am still paying off my student loans and i have a good job. if i had a "regular" job i don't think i would ever pay it off. i really should have gone to school for a year and then worked for a year or something like that. since i could just borrow money it was like wheeeeeee free money, i'll just work for the student newspaper for $8 an hour, 10 hours a week. students are too ignorant to be allowed to borrow so much money.
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A small bit of advice to anyone who intends to tour the Schell's brewery last Friday: get there the fuck when they open cause that shit sells out like, right away.

Anyhow, the drive to and from Schell's was very nice and being able to hang out and walk around the grounds there were well worth the drive. It's gorgeous. And, even better, for some...
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meta:
that's fuckin' America for you right there: peacocks, flags, and missed fucking chances. someday, my baby, we will see how Schell's Dark is made.

also, I got dibs on Michael Cera, so stfu.

meta:
I was scrolling through My SG and reading the journals of people I don't have anything to say to anymore, and then I got to yours. and I was like, wow, DrStinkypants updated, and my heart was all like KABLOOMIES (in time with the fireworks that are going on outside, CONSIDER THE SYMBOLISM) and it felt like it did just before I met you, or just after I met you, when all we had was the internet and you were just this guy with a cartoon avatar who wrote me adorable drunken nervous emails all the time and I loved you so hard, and I still do, and you're the best thing in the world to me, you're the softest sweetest sexiest thing that ever lived and I can't believe I has you.

I love you. I can't believe how inadequate the words are. I love you.
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A brief update:

-We are all fine despite the bridge collapse.

-I quit my job. Sweet, sweet satisfaction (for the time being). It was actually not nearly as satisfying as some past quits but the free time will be well used

-We decided not to move into the ultra swanky loft apartment. Rent here is too cheap and, goddamnit, I've spent my whole life being...
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starfior:
"I've spent my whole life being "fine" with not having "nice" things and I'll be fucked if I'll throw that valuble defense mechanism away just yet."

I believe the line from The Departed was something like "I'm Irish. I can put up with something being not right for the rest of my life."
tritone:
Really late in responding, but good to meet you too.
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zarth:
Hey. I hope you and everyone you care about are alright.

I gather fatalities are low, but still, that's a big fucking deal.
snakeplissken:
Well I'm glad you're alive and well. I was wondering a bit if everything was cool.

Sadly I won't be anywhere close but I appreciate the invite. I'm pretty much headed straight west from Missouri to Oregon, and as such the Twin Cities are pretty far out of the way. Maybe we can do a beer exchange via UPS or something.
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Well, things are ever changing.


As luck would have it, through a series of almost totally random and lucky events we may be scoring a swanky subsidized loft in the warehouse district (see also: douche bag; yuppie scum). The application is still pending but it was such a weird sequence of pieces falling exactly where they should, that I have to think we'll get...
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jena:
Ooohh...so are you unemployed? And it's good? I'm jealous.

2. You're in a hospital?

3. Take the couch. I took all this furniture from my landlords, on loan but spent a lot of money having it cleaned and it was so worth it.

Me,

1. Of course you're right in using Brooklyn as adjective.

2. I am not currently enjoying bartending. I went in for my friday shift & was told I was replaced for the evening, with no other info & have not been successful in getting the boss on the phone, which REALLY sucks to be disreguarded like so & days from rent due. I'm taking it as I'm unemployed. The bar/restaurant business is totally like that, I'm used to this but doesn't make it suck less. Had to take a loan from a friend to insure my rent while I continue to audition for work. Does it blow? Yes.

3. You know I always loved Roky but didn't know he was in 13th Floor, so we're the opposite. The film is AMAZING. I was shocked. It's very important. I like films like that. It makes you feel good & it takes on subject content that just hasn't been displayed before. I loved it so much & can't get it out of my head!

I thought of you over the weekend, in Brooklyn actually, b/c I was in a cute shop that had a whole section of old fashioned style stickers that included...puffy Police stickers. As in, Copeland, Sting, yes. I was spellbound. The shop was amazing! Some time to be bankrupt. frown

Hope you are good. miao!!
jena:


Move over Hello Kitty, introducing Hospice Kitty.
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Things have been pretty stable lately. Work seems to be gradually swallowing more and more non-work related aspects of my life as expectations of me working saturdays and nights (on top of already being expected to work 12-14 hour days every day with no real idea of when I will ever get to go home) become sort of ludicrous. That's relatively normal work-bitching though. My...
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snakeplissken:
Thanks for the nomination in the Brewpub group, but an SG will always win in a popularity contest.

Also for the hefe I used 3056 Bavarian Wheat Yeast. I racked today and I'd say it's very similar to Paulener. Lots of that banana/vanilla/clove thing but in a muted sense. Pretty good stuff.
jena:
Oh puffy stickers. Of course I remember them. I hated when you tried to move them (peel/restick) and the top layer would come off. You know what I saw last week? Oily stickers! Remember them? With the swirled oily colored liquid inside? It was a total flashback to decades before.....with much bliss. Wow.

Well the new Interpol is totally f-ing amazing. I loved it instantly, if you think you should check it out. It's totally rad. eeek I bought a ticket to see them promptly.

I agree that not knowing Burroughs equals being totally braindead. I thought the guy was a cockweirdo in the end. Gee what a loss.

I don't think I ever heard that LIRS could be about Edie!! I keep this picture of her right over my desk...wow....(I just stuck a scan of it in one of my folders here)...I think it would totally apply to her. Wow!

So Brooklyn, ha! We were actually in his hometown of Jersey City, actually. tongue tongue He loves me so much.
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Internet service is back!

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jena:
Yay for mail! I am good at sending it too. I have many stickers and such.

The deceased was a lady, who was my grandmother's best friend and I knew her my whole life. It was heartbreaking for me to have to know how sad Nanny was, mainly. The service was strange (in a good way)-the son wouldn't discuss her for the eulogy-he said "You all knew my mother" and like 2 sentences more. It was very honorable. Interesting.

What was the story with your dad? Father's day vacation?
jena:
I agree, it was a great eulogy. He added "You all ate her house, you knew." It was proper & even the flowers (you know I have to remark) were different and wowzers-classy. None of that dreary funeral shit. I even told my family "I'm putting in my request now-do that for me." They were not amused.

Your folks staying with you=SO FUNNY! eeek I can't even imagine. Is your dad a missionary?! Did they drink your homebrew?

Wow, nobody ever noticed any of my "headlines"-thanks! blush Yes, the Sicko trailer is fresh in my head. I plan on being very fanatical and judgemental in a few months, when it really gets down to making sure people register & vote. I told my own father he elected Bush by not fucking voting, thanks. He was horrified! But I am strict! I'll eventually start repeating my last-election horror story...I took it really hard that Kerry lost, like it was personal. I was really upset, on par with my first pet dying on Christmas (awful). Call me a pansy.



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An open letter to David Chase:

You are an asshole.

-DrStinkypants
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snakeplissken:
Don't forget that Minnesota has mosquitos the size of airplanes. That adds to the suckage of summer.
meta:
we has a internet.