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Hi honey. This is the longest time I have gone without ever speaking to you over the phone. God I miss you. I wish someone, anyone could make sure you see this and let you know that I still love you and am in love with you and always will be. Your also a great dental hygenist and friend.

Brains

The increased Lexapro dose seems to be a win so far. I think I do have more reserves of “I don’t give a damn”. Unfortunately I’m also sweaty and a bit sleepy, but that should be less of a problem in a week or so.

The increased stability is welcome. I still get tipped over into various bad mental states by the usual triggers, but the level of discomfort is about at “mild stomach ache”, rather than “severe nausea”. I’ll take it.

As an example, I’m having my usual Sunday night depressive crash but it’s more of a thump than a crash.

One thing I’ve noticed on the current regimen is that I am more annoying. I’m louder and I talk a lot more, and I write a lot more, and I’m more opinionated and authoritative. Being less depressed and more focused is part of it, and I’m sure that the other effects of the stimulant also contribute. I assume that this is a transitional thing, but maybe I’m headed back towards being the all-knowing blowhard I was at 21 before the Big Crisis. Hmm. Maybe I should become a rock critic again?

Punk Rock Tom

Punk Rock Tom on the patio

He has MISFIT tattooed on one leg, and MENTOR on the other. “Back in the day” when things were crazier and Tom was drinking, G.G. Allin crashed on his couch. He has a ’33 flathead Ford truck and a variety of impractical motorcycles. He can make metal do whatever he wants it to. Tom rides a dirt bike at night in the desert, and broke his leg doing it. He skateboards when he can, too.

Tom lays tile for a living. He’s not happy when he has to work weekends, because he’s not going to get any retirement. He’ll work until the day he dies. Until then, there’s the weekend and the thrill of speed and danger.

Tom walks stiffly and sits down with a grunt, but he’s quick to smile and loves swapping stories about punk rock, motorcycling, hot rods, and the fuckin’ mess the world’s in.

aquarius order!

I’m a fanboy for a record store! I just realized this. That hasn’t been true for me since Rhino Records Westwood in about 1986, so this is new and fun. I’ve been shopping at Aquarius online and in person for years now. Yes, I ordered a Jack Palance record, a pipe organ record, and tibetan monks. Also a re-release of a 1981 compilation of crazy-ass artpunk music, which makes more sense for me.

You ordered:
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1 cd V/A Keats Rides A Harley
1 cd MONTALBA, GEORGES Pipe Organ Favorites / Fantasy In Pipe Organ And Percussion
1 cd PALANCE, JACK s/t
1 2cd V/A Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Vol. 1

comments: Hey! If you by any chance have the new Jello/Melvins record “Sieg Howdy”, could you add it to this order and let me know? http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=1164 if you haven’t seen it yet. If not, I’ll either get it from A.T. or wait until you get it.

Also, you guys are so amazing that I want to move to San Francisco. Actually, I want to move to San Francisco and live right near your store and then just go there and hang around all the time. You better hope I don’t win the lottery because that’s what I’ll do. That, and two chicks at once.

I love the Aquarius Records new releases email.

And I love Aquarius Records. Why? They put it best themselves.

And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we’ll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni’s, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html

Technical victories

First, I finally got my Powerbook to stop miscellaneously slowing to a crawl several times an hour, and also got it to stop hanging on “Open” dialogs. The solutions were 1) completely and utterly disable Spotlight and 2) turn off syncing the iDisk. So I had to disable two useful features of my operating system because they were buggy and painful, but at least I’m not swearing at top volume every 15 minutes.

Second, Jeff Eaton was kind enough to post on his blog the solution to a horrible Photoshop problem I’d been having. All my pictures would look lovely in Photoshop and then get washed out and crappy as soon as I saved them as web-optimized jpegs to put on Flickr, etc. I couldn’t figure out what the hell was happening, and it was making me something something. Turns out there was a bad preference in the “view” menu in Photoshop under “proofing”. End of problem.

Man, it’s like taking a rock out of each shoe.