If you're listening, sing it back...

 I'm got a couple (2) boxes of wine
a date with some demon
Moh Grout on my ass and Jon to my side.
Rowing to Shoreline, lights in the sky
Something about Franzia and I'm already drunk.

i put the wood cups that i just finished on the grados today, along with the dynamat dollop. i haven't put the grillz on yet (or applied stain/finish) so the soundstage is god damned massive. i had one cup on for a while listening to the beatles mono box set to compare, much faster in the bass, although that may be due to the dynamat dollop. the antlers 'slyvia' sounds massive, crisp but not fatiguing, and the mids and on album reverb reflections made noticeable jumps. radical stereo panning like the flaming lips 'feeling yourself desintigrate' and björk's 'immature' are more forward in presentation than i've ever heard. that also may be an increase in speed due to the dynamat dollop.

on a less happy/satisfying note: i was so close to perfection and at the last moment i slipped while cutting the hole for the cable and chipped the bottom. its difficult to see and impossible to see while they're being worn but it still bothers me. pictures on the way in the next few days.

headphone love,

p.s. mahoney can't hear the bottom shoulder of a flac - v0 comparison lol~!

there are no good people sometimes because i am a selfish bastard.


and...i don't know this is probably another one of those things that is inappropriate. fuhfuhfuh

SUP BOI?!

i gotta get an arm hawk. not just for looks, for practical uses.
march of the zapotec is my favorite beirutian work.
my lj posts generally seem to be loose, noncohesive mixtures of thought, observation, ideal and niggas trippin'

my stack of books is two feet tall, including the 5 inches i already have down aka read.
hawkspar-down
galapagos-down
ilium-down
olympos-up (started)
a cruel wind-up (started)
argentina-up
look at the birdie-up (started)
mother night-up
final fantasy and philosophy-up (started)
heart of veridon-up
mainspring-up
falling sideways-up
thus spoke zarathustra-up
consider phlebas-up
armageddon in retrospect-up

Toured Denise's hometown Örebro today. Tomorrow we are going to go shopping in Stockholm. New Year's Eve should be very interesting... I don't think I have ever seen this much snow outside of the mountains. Not even really in Fairbanks that one time.

On Friday I fly back to Hamburg and we are going to spend Saturday night with Inga and on the Reperbahn (sp?), an area known for the nightlife and legal prostitution. I look forward to being pushed off the corner merely because I am female.

Monday we leave for Berlin. My new desire is to go ice skating outside, and Berlin might be my one hope. It's too freaking cold in Sweden to ice skate outside. -15C was the coldest we were out in today, that is... I dunno in F. Tomorrow the high is about 9. Woo.

Neruda is my new Kant.

Also, a fundraiser is taking place to pay for Moh Grout's face to be tattooed on my left butt-cheek. It will also consist of the text "Mohammed"

Edit: The only stipulation is that if I die before Moh you must dig me up when he dies and tattoo his date of birth and death underneath his name. Then shoot me into space.

Next tattoo.

 Or 

I pretty much live my life by this video:

Main dans la main on se promène,
Les gens se moquent car ça les gêne,
C'est évident que toi tu m'aimes,
Tous ces gens, moi je m'en fous.
Viens dans un coin, oublions tout,
Tous ces regards qui te rendent fou
Me laissent de glace, embrassons-nous

T'es mon amoureux,
Les gens rigolent, se croient odieux,
Nous on laisse faire, on est heureux



Moi, quand je t'embrasse,
De rouge à lèvres il n'y a pas de trace,
Ma marque au cœur, rien ne l'efface,
Ils disent que c'est de la provoc,
Ils nous regardent et ils se moquent.
On vit vraiment une drôle d'époque,
Tous ces gens, moi je m'en fous,
Viens dans un coin, oublions tout,
Tous ces regards qui te rendent fou
Me laissent de glace, embrassons-nous

[x2:]
Et moi je m'en fous,
Viens dans un coin, oublions tout,
Tous ces regards qui te rendent fou
Me laissent de glace, embrassons-nous

P.s. I'm learning enough French to write my poetry in it. If you want me to sing in a French New-wave band I'd be totally into that.

Can't you take a joke, ha ha ha he he.
Can't you take a joke, this ones very funny.
Can't you take a joke my friend
can't you see were watching the end.
Who cares what the actress
Ha ha ha he he, hmm funny fun.

Don't want your tea to go cold,
bloody sorry I've been cold
see when the balloon goes up.
There be no more jokes to catch

Oh yeah
Can't take it from under the grass.
Oh yeah
Feel like this life will come down on us.
Oh yeah
Feel like this life will come down on us.

Can't you take a joke,
Ha ha ha he he.
Can't you take a joke
Donuts on t.v.

There is something in the end
I feel dizzier from this fare
feel itchy i've got the curse
keep scratching in spite of the nurse
oh he he I feel worse
mmmmmm got the curse


Don't want no big surprise
want the lashes for my eyes
see when no balloon goes up
there will be no balloon on us.
can't take it from under the grass
feel like this life come down us.
oh yeah
feel like this life come down us.
oh yeah
feel like this life come down us.
oh yeah
cant take it from under the grass.
feel like this life come down us.
oh yeah
feel like this life come down us.
oh yeah
feel like this life come down us.
oh yeah.
feel like this life come down us.

BABYROSES4LYFE

Got a fat haul this year. Best part was I wasn't expecting to get anything.

oh my fucking god
okay
so
okay
this really isn't that big a deal
but there is this one band called the flaming lips and they have this song called: approaching pavonis mons by balloon. pavonis mons is a mountain on mars. in the book i am reading, 'illium' by dan simmons, two guys just approached pavonis mons.... by balloon.

It was a good day and the monkeys would be in fair moods so I stopped by their area for a bit. We chatted about things for awhile. They asked me how freedom was, I asked them how throwing their own shit was treating them. Both our answers were "totally awesome".

Hi. I'm here. The keyboard is funky. We celebrated Christmas on the Eve. I liked it. More later, loves to all. Especially CV. I'm going to Sweden on Monday.

Okaz, now more. And Iäm tired of editing the tzpos so zouäll just get the idea of what a German kezboard is like. Mostlz just the z and y are switched.

Maria picked me up from the airport... I dunno how manz dazs ago. I think Iäve been here for three dazs. Just chilled for awhile until jetlag hit me. (And it still hasnät left.) Next daz we went to the Weihnactsmarkt in Lübeck and I saw Mariaäs apartment in Kiel where I will staz at the end of next month. It was actuallz a house, like 3 stories, but it was verz close to the next house and verz apartmentßlike. At the Christmas market we walked around and drank Glühwein and ate a bunch of sweet stuff. From mz view it was a cross between a craft bayaar and a state fair. Tons of vendors with different stuff and also fried sweets and drinks.

Next daz was Christmas Eve, which is the daz Germans traditionallz celebrate Christmas as Americans do on the 25th. I... canät remember what we did. Hmm. We had a freaking amaying sort of fondue, I guess itäs like the Swiss version of fondue, or at least in mz mind thatäs what itäs like. I am trzing to think of what else we did... Oh, brunch also, in the tzpical German breakfast stzle with brotchen and cheese and spreads and meats and stuff. Mariaäs bofriend Fabian came over. He is reallz cool, and verz nice. OH. Duh, then we went to church. Mariaäs familz is not religious in anz waz, and Fabianäs familz goes to church onlz on Christmas, but it was nice to be able to go still. It was an Evangelical Lutheran church and the service was similar to home. I recogniyed scripture verses and hzmns but did not understand much.

Todaz, the 25th, we woke reallz late and went to Fabianäs house for Christmas dinner (so I suppose thez celebrate on both dazs, reallz). It was a lot of fun. His 14 zear old brothers started off verz shz and wouldnät speak English in front of me, but thez warmed up when we plazed good olä Settlers of Catan. I am thankful for mz nerdz swim team guz friends for introducing me to it, and I won. Haha. Which is funnz because I have little to no strategz.

Okaz, hmm. Tomorrow we are going bowling with Fabianäs familz and then getting schlossed on Sekt (cheap champagne) and going to a disko. Funnz. I learned the German word for prefunk = vorsafen. Awesome. I knew it had to exist in anz culture. Maria got me a slang term German to English-British-Italian-French dictionarz and itäs prettz 'bäm'. Bomb. Zeah. Okaz. Tschuss.

Tonight i ended up not drinking and so I accidentally offended my family by not being interested in what they were saying.
I'm in my room now, and i can hear my dad, my sister, and i guess my brother-in-law having one of those super serious drunken heart to hearts.
I hope nobody notices that the light in my room is on.
and yeah i know that the door is still open but I don't feel like getting out of bed to close it.
i hope they don't smell the weed i smoked in the bathroom just now.

livejournal now angers me more than any other website which is saying something.
there were uh times last night
as james once said 'sports brothersports-" etc etc

gang gang dance, washed out, neon indian, black moth, mika, flying lotus

dream wave is my favorite genre of music

most of my favorite words are adjectives
sticky
molten
golden
radiant.

just saying.

i specifically asked for nothing this christmas. not that i asked for nothing in particular, but rather particularly for nothing. i'm materially fulfilled at this time, and i am only becoming more discerning about the objects that i own.