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Friday, March 01, 2002 :::

Well, well, well, speaking of crazy lives (were we?) I started my new job at the vet hospital this week...the crystal ball shows 11 hour days well into my future. I love the work I'm doing, this week I've seen ducks, rabbits, snakes, iguanas (including a really angry 4-footer), guinea pigs and turtles. Unfortunately, the doctor is a total bitch and the hospital is *so* not in legal compliance for various things (including tracking their controlled drugs...anyone need horse tranquilizers?)...right now I'm enjoying getting the experience but it is all very hard and tiring. And, my house is a zoo...my LA friends Fabia and Luis and their 18 month old son Alex and their dog have moved to Indpls and are staying with me and Chris and our other roommate Mike...in a way it's really cool to have so much activity and so many cool people in my house all the time, but on the other hand it makes downtime a little hard to get. Not to mention the late night screaming of the kiddie. All in all I feel like there is a very generous dose of chaos swirling around me right now, but it's the good kind, like the oil in avocado.

Way to go Elissa! I've always wondered what was in those exclusive lounges. Now I have to figure out how to get my ass in one without buying a $3000 ticket. I want to hear many more travelogues from Thailand!!

I think I'm off to take a nap. I'm "on call" for the hospital today but I want to take advantage of this time off now that I have it. Ta Ta all!

::: posted by Grezmiralda . at 9:49 AM

Thursday, February 28, 2002 :::

a list of songs used in commercials... interesting.

this from our world-travelling friend, elissarita: "this is crazy!!! guess where i am! i sat next to a nice irish girl who lives in sidney, also 26, for twenty-something hours on the initial flight to hong kong, and because she is part of some sort of first class flier group, she invited me to be her guest in thiscrazy-luxurious airport lounge to wait for our flights to thailand, and it is SWANK! i mean, it has its own SPA!!! plus showers (really needed one of those!), a library, all the free food and drink you want (haagen daas and dim sum to start!), internet, great people watching... a spa... ha! this is so funny. i thought i'd be all smelly, sleeping on the floor near my gate, but here i am, showered up, and with 7 hours to eat and await my hour and a half "aromastone massage"! olivia, my irish friend, just had to take off to catch her flight, and when i said thank you to her, she said, "nice things happen to nice people." what a way to begin...and my adventure hasn't even really begun! :) more coming soon from thailand...unless i decide to stay here! love to you,
*elis"

::: posted by kevin seal at 8:14 PM

the Corporate Grammies ended up being whiskey-free, and since my awards-show-phobic brother was in the room as well, we switched between Timecop (yes, ladies and gents, JC Van Damme) and the show. Outkast, Dylan, and India.Arie all gave great performances, though.

Why were the three kids that NARAS hired to be villains all Asian-American? Some weird throwback to the '80s? "Those loony Japanese are destroying our all-American record industry!" The shot where they showed the kids in the Grammy audience -- sheepishly acknowledging that they had pirated over 6,000 songs in only a few days -- was very amusing.

The new Cincinnati Citybeat ad line: "We've ridden this city's ass for so long, our sexuality's in question."

::: posted by kevin seal at 6:08 PM

So how were the Corporate Grammies, whiskey-boy? Rodrigo says that their prez gave a big speech about the evils of online music. As for capitalist punk, I didn't send it to my bro, but I will. As for why no intellectual property rights news in the media (it IS mentioned online a lot, though...catering to the already-educated, civil-rights-sensitive community), maybe it's just because the word "intellectual" immediately turns off the vast majority of media consumers. ;)

Go ahead, put a chip in my neck, I'm escaping this hellhole anyway!!! (btw, "function creep" is a good band/song name, I think) Tomorrow afternoon I will be sitting on a beach in Santa Barbara, working on the LSAT training manual while Eve studies. Tomorrow night, Celia may take me down to L.A. with her friend who's craving to go to some club that has what she requires – Middle Eastern music and hot Arab men. Maybe I'll find a use for bellydancing moves after all. Steve, who is broke and carless in L.A., at least finished his website.

I entered this contest today, with much trepidation. Well, if I really want to be a roving writer, better make some preliminary moves. (good goddess, I have SO many ideas, I wish I could get journalism grants to support me in constant exploration) (and, in general, stuff like ID chips and erosion of civil rights is re-sparking my desire to find somewhere to live more reasonable than here) Really am trying to get my life in order. Wrote out my calendar for March (including digital video class, whoo-hoo! we'll create a documentary!) and saw that I'll have, um, NO free time. But feeling more charged in general, even while exhausted.

::: posted by alura allumeuse at 5:07 PM

wow. companies may make their employees swallow microchips that track their locations and actions. reminds me of that scene in naked when the main character's describing subcutaneous bar-code implants.

::: posted by kevin seal at 2:55 PM

today's joke, courtesy of curran:
Q: if eve wore a fig leaf, what did adam wear?
A: a hole in it.

that punk-as-capitalism article was interesting. i don't think i've heard anyone refer to the US as "socialist statism." what was neal's take on it?

::: posted by kevin seal at 2:18 PM

Wednesday, February 27, 2002 :::

the nation wrote about the future of music coalition* this month... just in time for hearings to begin on the SSSCA, which would certify that all digital media must be "authorized" before playback.

i'm going to spend tonight labeling postcards, sipping whiskey, and watching the Grammies -- the Grammies are a corporate sham, i know, but entertainment is entertainment.

why isn't the war over intellectual property rights being covered more in the press?

::: posted by kevin seal at 1:47 PM

Much as I whine about the weather and lack of a potential career for me here, SF is still pretty rad. Take, for example, The Go Game. Or Euphor!um, which a bunch of us are headed to next week. Zarbet saw it at Burning Man. He also saw the noise show with the orgasmic pinball machine last week. His girlfriend's daughter declared "I'm bored!" and went to sleep in the car. Apparently there was a guy carrying around an actual horse's head, blood and all. Gag me. Anyway, of course the Bay Area has its predictable other elements too. Makes me want to go out for drinks.

A link for the boy who has been known to use the phrase "punk as fuck" – really, it's punk as capitalism.

okay, looks like i'm babbling in a vacuum for a while, since nobody else is posting...

distractions of the moment:
a) fun loop-making site
b) why haven't there been any weekly TV dramas about journalists? think about the concept of the "franchise" show -- i.e. a show that centers around a workplace (i think that's the tele-writing parlance for it). all lawyers, doctors, FBI agents, and cops. the reason those franchises work is that there are different guests each week, and new mini-dramas (trials, horrible disfiguring accidents, murder investigations, etc). wouldn't an investigative journalist's job have similar character demands? each new story is a mystery of sorts. anyway... some budding young scriptwriter should write a pilot.
c) just noticed how odd my "olly olly oxen free" song is. it's about religious zealots "coming to my door," and includes this odd, out-of-place line about "just stay away from new york city." recorded in march 2000. hmm.

::: posted by kevin seal at 7:38 AM

Tuesday, February 26, 2002 :::

new nasoftware homepage! btw, mr. rogue designer did a fucking brilliant job designing the company's new postcard.

::: posted by kevin seal at 3:21 PM

refreshing to see a non-journalist defending the honor of journalists -- i like this band even more now.

::: posted by kevin seal at 11:14 AM

Monday, February 25, 2002 :::

random goodies: what do ninjas, buddha's finger, bart, and ken lay have in common?

::: posted by kevin seal at 5:56 PM

The war on terrorism goes reality TV. Meanwhile, journalists are kept out as much as possible, yet more of them have died than soldiers in the past few months. Is a robot journalist the answer?

The Smoking Gun has published correspondence between Kenny Boy and Bush.

::: posted by alura allumeuse at 10:07 AM

Sunday, February 24, 2002 :::

Hope everyone's weekend was good.

::: posted by Kurt Kistler at 10:10 PM