16 Aug 10
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i have today and tomorrow off.
where should i go?
(inb4 funkytown, treatment facility, crazy, west young man, etc.)
16 Aug 10
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i have become a sucker for the heady and drowning reek of bloomed white lilies and have reconvened my ikebana pursuits. only the very rare may touch my sound and fury.
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16 Aug 10
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One day you might be resourceful enough to track something like this down and hang it in YOUR kontor.
that’s my c-6 equipped speedball pokin’ up from the bottom
16 Aug 10
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i’m so mid-century it could gag you on a bakelite-handled spoon.
or: i’m currently negotiating the purchase of this mikasa tableware and ecko silverware.
16 Aug 10
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i blame the current state of rock and roll music on the smashing pumpkins.
hatin’ ‘em like i hate the pig-friggin’ beatles ovah heah.
10 Aug 10
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t.b. sheets ~van morrison -1967
as your attorney i advise you to listen to this song with your best speakers cranked to the point wherein they annoy your neighbors at this hour; this song falls under the category of available transcendence for everyone of every make and background.
this song is no joke and if you don’t shiver … well hell, i ain’t met a person yet what hasn’t been moved to awe and a new place whilst listening to this here.
t.b. is short for tuberculosis, listen to it knowing that much
this recording is off the old bang records master tape, recorded when van was just 21 years old. boy howdy.
now dig this:
There is a longstanding, but perhaps apocryphal story of Morrison’s emotional state during the song’s recording. Michael Ochs, in the liner notes for the 1973 album T.B. Sheets, wrote that “after ‘T.B. Sheets’ was recorded, the rest of the session had to be cancelled because Van broke down in tears.” Likewise, according to John Collis,
Morrison could later joke about this song. “I’m writing ‘T.B. Sheets Part II’ now,” he said in 1972. “Keeping the same riff, the same groove.” However, it’s on record – though the story could be exaggerated – that after laying down this track he broke down in tears, unable to continue the session.
go, listen. do it now child.
9 Aug 10
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Stay.app
I’ve been waiting for something like this for years. The single worst part of using a MacBook Pro as your primary computer, and going from using a Cinema Display to the laptop alone, is that windows in OS X are absolutely terrible about retaining their locations and sizes. Windows will frequently jump to random places, half off the screen, it’s horrible.
For many years I have been complaining to anyone who will listen that Apple should be solving this problem directly in OS X, especially since a majority of Apple’s customers are laptop users. This issue continues to be ignored, however.
Enter Stay.app, which allows you to store desired locations of windows for all applications in multiple states (laptop screen only, plus external display, external display only) and the app can automatically switch between them when the display setup changes. In addition, you can use Stay.app to restore window positions even without changing your display arrangement.
I couldn’t get my credit card out fast enough for this purchase.
OH SNAP!
