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I bet you're learning a ton. I find situations like that, where I feel like I'm out in deep water, I tend to look back later and realize how alive I felt.

I forgot to ask you before I left, who does that cover of "Can't Get You Out of My Head", which you played tonight? I don't know why, but it struck me as rather interesting.

The first week at work turned out to be no sweat, pretty mundane actually. They just had me doing boring, archival stuff, basically logging old footage. This week will hopefully be a bit more exciting, I may be directly involved in an actual shoot Tuesday. Suffice it to say, I did overeact a little, only b/cuz this is my first "real" job within the media industry since I finished school in July, and was really paranoid about a making a bad impression on the first day. It'll take me a little while to get completely comfortable yet, but at least I'm not walking into work on pins and needles anymore.

Fall fairs are the best, I always look forward to travelling to nearby small towns to check out at least one every year.

I'm glad to hear you're still plugging away at the music, any chance of you posting sound bites of your work over the internet?

Thanks again for your support!

Ok,

Shit yeah....

I am going to the club this weds....

I want you to play something....

I will bring a CD and tell you what track it is exactly....

it's a sweet track that I forgot to have you play long ago.

YOU WILL!!!

8 D

it's the best.

You also gotta play Goneja by SP cuz it's been so long since I heard it.

8 )

See you weds.

Great seeing you as well! I saw you earlier in the evening getting a drink from the front bar, but it looked like you were in a rush, so I didn't bother.

Dood, what up? Hope you're still attending concerts, making music, and living the good life.

You almost got me in trouble!!!

She doesn't know anything about this site and gets terribly freaked out when she knows I talk to my friends about her... when you mentioned the car race I thought I was gonna panic! All is well, I side-stepped the few times she's brought it up since.

You are right, she does ROCK and she is really cool and very much fun, but as always there are snags that have caused uncertainty and doubt. I'm just moving slow and learning more, getting comfortable with her, etc...

We'll see.

By the by, she's had nothing but good things to say about you and dancing to whatever you play. I think your Wednesday and Saturday nights play a very big part causing her happiness throughout the week. (She was also at the NY show, although I'm not sure which night).

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Thats awesome about the Gaiman blog; he's been a favorite of mine for a very long time. Your new project sounds really interesting, I can't wait until you are finished.

Man...damn that closing shift on Wednesday night that killed any desire for me to do anything.

Still need any bagpiping on the cd?

We'll have a drink in your honor tomorrow night, since you won't be able to spin for our housewarming.

yeah, I was thinking about they tyrany of geography too! Hope you enjoy siousie!!
It's pretty cool how many neat people we've met through this site.

p.s. I sent you an e-mail through the site-- but I said i was alienprincess in the subject, so you'll know I'm not a spammer!

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You were greatly missed at Bound, i thought you might be comming and that was one of the determining factors of me going. I think i will just have to find a way to Come up to boston and meet you in your own turf i heard manray was a blast and would love to be able to hear you spin

air conditioner, barbecued chicken...

and you say your "taken" right...

man, i'll have to make do with being stuck to my chair with this fan blowing hot air on my chest and night two of nasty-ass TV dinners for dinner...

Actually I think I finally hit my wall Wed. night. Or course since leaving Manray at midnight I have gotten a grand total of 5 hours of sleep. One 3 hour block and one 2. This should make NYC this weekend very intresting.

I have started disliking myself when I get crabby, I tend to say mean things. And apparently I'm pretty good at it. Mean and funny i'm all about no matter the state of my candle, but mean just to be mean I'd like to avoid.

-PT

Publicity for Garbage???

Must... refrain from... delving... deeper

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thanks.

so, anyway, MAHI MAHI is this really good dance-music-creating duo from Providence. one guy plays drums (live and electronic/synth? whatever they are called) and the other sings, plays keyboards, and uses some electronic equipment to play samples, make sounds, distort his voice, and distort the sounds the drummer is making.

i saw them twice opening for other bands and they rocked me into oblivion, it was the first time i'd ever lost myself completely dancing to live music.

i don't really like bands interrupting dance night, but they seem like they were tailor-made to play at the club. i'd really love to see them play a room full of people who WANT to dance as opposed to the room full of punks and indie rock kids who are too busy trying to look cool...

this is their website i think it has mp3s on it, but from what i've been told, they sound much better live than on recording. still, check it out if you get a chance. they're really cool/nice guys to talk to. they just seem to love playing.

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congrats on the meeting of the parents. i'm historically really good with moms, but really bad with dads, i don't know what it is...

it sounds like you did just fine though.

Just remember to refuse the lie detector test.

Those things aren't admissible in court, I don't care how much Maury Povich and Montel Williams swear by them

-PT

The one ability I've always been thankful for is some gift to win over parents. If at the very least, they enjoy good manners, clean fingernails and um, some third thing.

no, i've never heard ... but i must look for that on video, methinks. i do enjoy the vicar of dibly, though - v. much so. and the dinner party will happen one day, so be sure to have spiffy shoes on hand.

i am currently toying with the tail tale in my head - i must write it proper and true. the short version is that my tail bone is a bit long for my spine - pilates is extra challenging in that respect - and i ALWAYS since i was little assumed i was like a lizard and had a tail, and someone clipped it. my eternal sadness was that it did not grow back. perhaps it was living in the p.i., but i was really into lizards and so wanted to be one. plus, it was a nickname for awhile (which, if you know my real name, which i think you do, makes sense). anyway, so yes - tail tail tail. i wish.

I have yet to read Buckminster Fuller's Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth My ex says it was really influential in his life. I should really make the effort.

Edit: yeah I screwed up the title of the book

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i've never been to Niagara, but i lived about an hour away from Bushkill Falls when i lived in pennsylvania. my teenage-first-love-sweetheart took me on a long hike through the Falls for an anniversary and it was one of the best times we ever had. that area isn't very touristy, but i'm sure the natural beauty of the Falls themselves outshine even the most garish of attractions.

last night was one of the most fun times i've had at the club since i've been going there. i really got lost in a couple of songs that you played and ended up dancing long after i thought i should've been too tired to continue. i had forgotten about the request for "After the Flesh" and i got so genuinely excited when you played it that i just had to run onto the dance floor like the giant ass that i am . thanks!

i'm gonna have to dip out on you next week though to see The Kings of Nuthin' as they are one of the best bands I've seen around these parts and last time I saw them I danced myself into stupidity and had a wonderful time (also, a certain dancing girl has expressed her interest in joining me as well)... don't fret though, i'll be back soon enough, maybe i'll even pick up a Saturday to make up for it... i'm dying to dance to some punk AND to some 80's...

From the daily show sometime back:
The last time I found a ring in the dark I chipped a tooth on it!

I'm doing Curiosa tomorrow. I can't wait!!!

Enjoy the spinning and music making!

thanks so much for your comment the other day, it was very thoughtful.

i am very much all about setting myself into a routine with my work and trying to get some manageable easy deadlines. i am of the belief that major victories are built on the backs of small successes. i've layed out my first major comic story this summer, i have no time at all to work on it, so i did most of the layouts on the 66 bus to and from work. if i can manage to get far enough ahead on my income-providing-projects, i can clear two or three days every two weeks or so to have marathon drawing sessions and try to pump the whole thing out.

i have a lot of faith in the story, its one of the closest-to-heart things i've put-together, so its just a matter of finding the time to draw the panels and picking the write words to express the thoughts, then i just gotta ink it and publish it...

piece-a-cake!

do you have any of your music online, i'd like to hear some of it. i looked at the pics of your studio a few weeks ago and i thought it was pretty rad. back when i lived in PA i was able to afford to have an extra room that i converted into an art studio. i spent all of my time in there.

anyways...

wednesday night, i'm thinking Thrill Kill Kult... "after the flesh" or "fangs of love" maybe...

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oh, and as per my journal entry today, thanks for playing Joy Division most of the times i was dancing... i had never listened to them before, but a certain dancing lady told me that "love will tear us apart" was a joy division song. I have gradually fallen in love with their stuff.

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oh my, that sounds like a devlishly good time. with good fashion. and no fashion.

A work party isn't a work party w/o the gratuitous nudity. Granted, all of the people I work with are as attractive as a wet sock from the dryer. As someone who had a splitting headache when I woke up this morning, migraine-less thoughts to you, my friend.