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Friday, October 26, 2001 :::

bwah ha ha...Agent Allumeuse has a suspicion, and tracks the boys down... ;)

Have lost steam for the evening. (speaking of steam, a peter gabriel-related art-link for artlissa) Think I'm going to crawl into bed with a book and try to ignore my raging premenstrual sex drive.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 7:42 PM

Due to something silly on Alura's 'puter - I post this in her name.

Work has some inane keyword filtering program on our browsers now...I can no longer get to mediawhoresonline.com, or my own pic of Amsterdam canalhouses.jpg and just now I tried to follow a link to "christian alternatives to halloween" at christianalternatives.com...took me a minute to figure that one out. Idiots. Of course there's plenty of porn sites without the words whores or anal in the domain name...I'm not sure what exactly this is preventing.

[note] The program won't even let her post this blog, or hit the "post to weblog" button on this very page. And seems to have cut her access to blogger altogether. In her words: "I can't even blog right now because it's become mysteriously offensive in the last hour."

Butch Kawasiki went to Hell Ay for a conference and is only online about once a month anyway, so I'm blogging this for her (she e-mailed it to me and Eve and then vanished)...sexy pics from her birthday. She labels them thusly: 1) me w/ my ladies smoking 2) me + kim w/ our saucy b-day cake 3) my fave pic of me from my real b-day night (which shows how much fun i was having)

Bay Bridge tollbooth was fun this morning...this (African? Jamaican?) toll taker exclaimed "How are you today, my most beautiful woman? I love you too much!"

Thursday, October 25, 2001 :::

Col K went on a group outing to see the prog-rock supergroup Oysterhead last night. Group consensus: Copeland is a God among men; Claypool should go back to Pinole.

In other news, POPsmear magazine is back from the dead, and Lydia is their newest columnist, writing under the nom de plume of POPular Girl.

A quick foray onto Carrie's site led me to Bekkah's art installation: set up speakers in the desert to play spaghetti-western music. (excerpt: Each plant was equipped with a stethoscope so that participants could investigate the various sounds transmitted to the plant.)

::: posted by kevin seal at 12:18 PM

Hrmmm... Laura vs. Coral

Wednesday, October 24, 2001 :::

Elissa, your favored place to move, Tonga, is having problems...the court jester lost $20M of the fat king's money. Speaking of warm islands, my mom told me that my Halloween costume made me look like these tub toys I played with when I was little -- Sea Wees. Sea Wees! Yeah! :)

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 1:05 PM

Tuesday, October 23, 2001 :::

more derrick images, courtesy of the aforementioned "aforementioned tisha":

* I'm here in the Chicago Public Library so I need to keep this short (great library by the way, not as good as New York's but perfectly good for most purposes): A.) US #1, I was there with Molly yesterday, she couldn't find a coat that she liked or that she could afford. I already have several ratty leather jackets, I'll try back in Spring, or possibly for sweaters. B.) The Chive cover, yes I still have that illustration. However, if you want to reuse it, please don't - I'll make you something better, I saw it while I was packing and repacking and it made me cringe. C.) Thanks, Rogue Designer, I'll be sure to contact you, after all, I'm looking for work and an apartment (that would be the self-interest factor), that you have Laura's approval accounts for the rest. D.) Col. Knowlege doesn't have a publicist, as far as I know. Dave's label does.

Now I'm going to mosey on out of here and have a hotdog.

::: posted by the boot at 3:51 PM

Another quote from the, uh, art world, by Alicia Keys, covergirl for this week's Rolling Stone: "I love Chopin. His preludes! He has these songs that are so deep and have so much passion you say, 'What was he possibly thinking? What was he feeling?' Chopin is my dawg."

bwah ha ha! I liked Chopin too (I remember a Polonaise that I played, which Katie called the Mayonnaise), more the end-product, not the process...although I guess I could say that about all my piano lessons. Esp. Gershwin. Anyway, Chopin was George Sand's dawg too. ;)

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 2:06 PM

i went to indian hill high school, a mile or two down the road -- also known as "i-can't-believe-it's-not-private."

the aforementioned tisha went to ccds, as did the much-reviewed dessner twins from the national. you went to park tudor, yes?

col knowledge had good press kits to send to clubs for gigs, but we don't have them for the album yet. this weekend, we'll work on that if we have time.

hey, boot... you don't still have the illustration you did for the chive cassette cover, do you?

::: posted by kevin seal at 1:56 PM

Lovely article - unfortunately touches on a nasty subject with me and the art world. To quote: "Heidi Reitmaier, head of special projects for the gallery, put its sales value at "six figures" or hundreds of thousands of dollars. "It's an original Damien Hirst," she explained."

It was thrown out because it was a collection of trash (essentially). The value was placed on it because it had Hirst's name attached. Not because of any inherent artistic value. It seems M. Hirst has taken a lesson from Dada - for which I applaud him. Now if only that was my joke on the consumer/collector art market (and worth that amount)...helas.

BTW - get out those press kits - no one will buy the album if they don't know it exists.

what, eight posts monday and none today? i'll break the ice. (we haven't pitched pitchfork yet, laura, but we're trying; i don't know really how to do it, or what they need. we'll make up some ersatz press kits for both the griddle and c.k. releases.)

Monday, October 22, 2001 :::

For those of you who missed Kevin's blogging and unblogging of this page earlier today, here it is, in finished form: Halloweenies

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 8:17 PM

So if pitchfork will review your friends, do you think they'll review you when the Col.Knowledge album comes out this week? How do you get them to pay attention to you? Have you thrown the Griddle EPs at them? (speaking of which, the Paris page is still waiting for Brian to upload it to Tunesmith...was waiting to blog it til then, but who cares)

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 5:15 PM

A. Shots from the wedding of Tisha and Jonathan. (Tisha, IU alumna whom I've known since high school... she lived in Read, dated my friend Rob Neel in high school, dated Davie-poo Fischoff for years in Bloomington, and obsessed over Tori Amos. Tisha's cool.)

B. To the new Chicago transplant, I was about to recommend the thrift store I went to last time, U.S. #1. Where, according to citysearch, Justin and I were two of the "artist wannabes trying their best to seem uninterested." (sniff)

C. D.ispatch from the Unknown Musician, Waving His Arms At Passing Cars Trying To Get Someone To Review His F&*$ing Album Already: so I used to be in this band called Equinox (ignore the onanistic self-shots; they're merely placeholders). When I left for college, the other three guys moved to NYC and formed another band. Now they have a new project called the National, and they just got reviewed by Pitchforkmedia. Not the most glowing review, but it's encouraging news that they at least got their platter listened to.

Since elissarita is always too busy to blog, I'm appointing myself as her PR director. Here's a photo of her and her Collins friends at their Chicago reunion, and the paragraph she wrote about it.

Alex is "installed" in Chicago, huh? Like a veritable work of art. Mayhaps Kevin, lover of road trips, and I, despiser of long drives, can visit up there around the holidays, seeing as we'll be trapped in our respective midwestern abodes?

re: Halloweenies -- I only object (Groucho: "He sits there alone, an abject figger..." Chico: "I abject!") because the page ain't done, Devo-head. I was gonna blog it when I heard back from those in the know and finished labelling everyone. (yeah, I know, it's not nice to label people!)

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 12:59 PM

Congratulations on your safe arrival, boot. Give Dave and Justin and Felix grins and waves from the Westies.

Stumbled upon an old college page of our friend Sue, newly married but always hipper than hell and punk as fuck. She and her hubby, Kat, have just returned from their Fiji honeymoon. Rock on Fiji.

I'm surprised Alura has not yet blogged her page of party thumbnails (collected in a tin by the front door). Fine maiden mermaid, doth ye object?

::: posted by kevin seal at 11:35 AM

Welcome to Chi-town (my town) Boot.

Feel free to give us a ring (or an email).

::: posted by Rogue Designer at 10:36 AM

I like the Urban Tribe thing. On Friday night, having stopped at a trucker joint in rural Pennsylvania, looked around and realized that I am an Urban-American. The people around me, while physically resembling folk that I grew up with, just didn't seem to be part of my tribe. Molly and I sat there feeling kind of smug and kind of guilty about feeling kind of smug - in our urban-american costumes, thinking our urban-american thoughts, and using our urban-american vocabulary. Sheesh.

If you're interested, I am now installed in Chicago. Had a wonderful party last night, have reconnected with all sorts of IU folk, etc. AM HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME. I'm thinking back to all those little blog conversations we've had about place and friendship, etc. and I'm sure that I've done well for myself by coming here.

::: posted by the boot at 9:37 AM