Hey, kids! It's another update from Your Friendly Neighborhood Freak.
For those of you wondering, I continue to rest a little more each day, but that's coming to an end. I go back to work Monday afternoon. While I'm rather bummed to do so, I'm also kinda looking forward to it.
"Why," you ask? Well, Gentle Reader, it's mostly because my time on this here Interweb has been the majority of the social contact I've had during my convalescence. My time outside in the fresh air (aside from going to the store for food or nicotine) has been limited. So, one tends to start craving more personal interaction. Plus, some distraction from some personal stress couldn't hurt (more on that later).
How did I spend my final weekend, you ask? Well, on the positive end, I had a visit last night from a couple friends (a co-worker who's been away on a personal leave, and a former co-worker who recently left ole' VZ) and our time was spent imbibing beer, smoking pot, and watching both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Good times had by all.
Today was spent on an extended leave from my humble abode to hang out w/another good friend, who, after learning I'd never seen Hellboy (and resisting the urge to dome-slap me for this transgression) sat me down, popped in the DVD, then went out and saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Both decent bits of cinematic fare, I must say.
Also, a quick trip to Dick's Sporting Goods to make a little purchase for myself, one to hopefully start using after I heal up fully...
That's right, kids. Your Humble Narrator, lover of monkeys, gory movies, weird music, and general perversion...is a lover of golf. I can actually stand to watch it on TV (I'm in a minority, I know), and I hope to start building my skills so I may enjoy a little R&R on the links every now and then.
Plus, I don't care what anyone says...as far as I'm concerned, this is fashionable as fuck.
For a little more YouTube-y goodness, we go back to the subject of golf, from the mind of one Robin Williams:
Now, before I end this entry, I feel the need to ask you kids for a little advice concerning the aforementioned personal stress, in the form of a question or three...
What do you do when you get into an angry and irrational fight w/a close friend near and dear to your heart? When you have hurt feelings on both sides, do you find it hard to just walk away and let things cool over, because you want nothing more than to make things better? Because that is how I've been feeling these past few days, kids, and I'm kind of @a loss as to what's going on or what's best for me to do. But I said to myself, "Self, those guys and gals seem like a rather smart lot, nothing wrong w/asking them for an opinion or two to nudge you towards self-realization." So, here I sit. What are your thoughts?
Can you tell I've been a little far between counselor appointments?
That's all for now, kids. Someday I'll learn again how to actually keep up w/blog commenting. I swear, this is becoming a process. A little spring cleaning of the ole' Friends and Bookmarked Lists may soon be in order. I'll let you know when this becomes the case.
As always, I hope you are all well.
Stay tuned...
-TM
For those of you wondering, I continue to rest a little more each day, but that's coming to an end. I go back to work Monday afternoon. While I'm rather bummed to do so, I'm also kinda looking forward to it.
"Why," you ask? Well, Gentle Reader, it's mostly because my time on this here Interweb has been the majority of the social contact I've had during my convalescence. My time outside in the fresh air (aside from going to the store for food or nicotine) has been limited. So, one tends to start craving more personal interaction. Plus, some distraction from some personal stress couldn't hurt (more on that later).
How did I spend my final weekend, you ask? Well, on the positive end, I had a visit last night from a couple friends (a co-worker who's been away on a personal leave, and a former co-worker who recently left ole' VZ) and our time was spent imbibing beer, smoking pot, and watching both Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Good times had by all.
Today was spent on an extended leave from my humble abode to hang out w/another good friend, who, after learning I'd never seen Hellboy (and resisting the urge to dome-slap me for this transgression) sat me down, popped in the DVD, then went out and saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Both decent bits of cinematic fare, I must say.
Also, a quick trip to Dick's Sporting Goods to make a little purchase for myself, one to hopefully start using after I heal up fully...
That's right, kids. Your Humble Narrator, lover of monkeys, gory movies, weird music, and general perversion...is a lover of golf. I can actually stand to watch it on TV (I'm in a minority, I know), and I hope to start building my skills so I may enjoy a little R&R on the links every now and then.
Plus, I don't care what anyone says...as far as I'm concerned, this is fashionable as fuck.
For a little more YouTube-y goodness, we go back to the subject of golf, from the mind of one Robin Williams:
Now, before I end this entry, I feel the need to ask you kids for a little advice concerning the aforementioned personal stress, in the form of a question or three...
What do you do when you get into an angry and irrational fight w/a close friend near and dear to your heart? When you have hurt feelings on both sides, do you find it hard to just walk away and let things cool over, because you want nothing more than to make things better? Because that is how I've been feeling these past few days, kids, and I'm kind of @a loss as to what's going on or what's best for me to do. But I said to myself, "Self, those guys and gals seem like a rather smart lot, nothing wrong w/asking them for an opinion or two to nudge you towards self-realization." So, here I sit. What are your thoughts?
Can you tell I've been a little far between counselor appointments?
That's all for now, kids. Someday I'll learn again how to actually keep up w/blog commenting. I swear, this is becoming a process. A little spring cleaning of the ole' Friends and Bookmarked Lists may soon be in order. I'll let you know when this becomes the case.
As always, I hope you are all well.
Stay tuned...
-TM
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As far as Zorn goes, some of his most famous work is also his best. My personal favorite is the Naked City series because of an excellent melding of Kraut Surf-Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz, Folk, and much, much more. The records in this collection are the eponymous Naked City, Torture Garden, Heretic, Leng Tch'e, Grand Guginol, Absinthe and Radio. If you download it, you download it but if you decide to buy it (it came out like 3 or 4 years ago so you can probably find it cheap) it has some really great notes and and a full booklet of great Japanese BDSM artwork and photographs that I think you would like.
Other Zorn albums I would recommend are; The Big Gundown ( I like Western movies and these are covers of Ennio Morricone scores), Spy vs. Spy ( These are Ornette Coleman covers), Bar Kokhba, The Circle Maker, and almost any Masada is worth listening to. I mean I love John Zorn so I think just about everything he's done is at least listenable, but I may be slightly biased. Hope these recommendations help.