Tag: selfindulgent

41st

Birthday:

Nice presents including a small friendly wide angle lens for my camera and a good book. Really good dinner at Onotria, a newish high class italian restaurant. The pasta sauce had WILD BOAR in it. I somehow imagined the chef taking the boat over to Catalina and chasing one around with a spear, then bringing it back in a suspiciously lumpy duffel bag and scaring the other customers.

The cannoli was good but not quite as good as the home made stuff redmaenad fed me once. The owner was wandering about and occasionally singing. There were lots of people there having wine events of some kind where they had those balloon glasses the size of their heads, which was comic.

My brother gave me a Skype phone but it’s windows only, so back to Amazon it goes.

Today, I got the spam below, which pleased me to no end:

From: Bugger C. Displeasing (Williams@vflock.com)
Subject: popular programs for everyday use.

http://www.2qqn89qipp86lkkx722xp2kk.catodonnf.com

Benedict Arnold Slept Here

Current list of things broken in my house:

  • Water pipe inside slab (repaired)
  • Drywall and paint damaged by flood (repaired)
  • Vanity in bathroom destroyed
  • Carpet in hallway, living room, one bedroom destroyed
  • Thermostat for heater working only intermittently status post handyman “looking at it”. (new one just installed)
  • Forced-air natural gas heater dead even when started manually; fan motor broken; entire heater needs replacement. (Heater may be as much as 40 years old.) (installed as of this moment)
  • Front door deadbolt won’t close status post handyman “fixing” doorknob/lock issues.
  • Toilet flush mechanism does not stop unless you “do it right”.
  • Cover on fluorescent light over kitchen counter falls off periodically with a loud bang.
  • Slab under house is “efflorescing”, which will inevitably require slab replacement at some future date.

it’s just the motion

Had a good dinner with A, sushi and catching up. As usual she’s pursuing two careers at once and, and this time she was was down here taking fitness instructor classes. Apparently to become a fitness instructor you go through fitness classes with extra yelling, as far as I can tell.

The yellowtail and toro at Sushi Wave were really good.

Jeremy Ed showed us his small, red, wrinkly new infant. The hat was larger than the baby.

I made the mistake of blathering about my problems and made people uncomfortable. Oops. I felt disapproved of and shut up.

Stopped by Tower on the way home and got some discount crap. I’ll only buy CDs if they’re cheapass on sale. Got an odd import Marianne Faithful folk record I’d never heard of for $10, coupla greatest hits records for $8, Dresden Dolls for $10.

I don’t feel lately like I have anyone in my corner. Like, if I do “get better” I should leave town. It’s not how I want to feel, and I’m not sure what’s up with it. My view of other people is blurry and dark, and I don’t know who likes me and who’s sick of me. Nor do I know really how to be a friend to half the people I know and like. Lately I always seem to be doing or saying the wrong thing. It’s the social equivalent of motion sickness.

Something that has not changed since last night is that Balvenie Port Wood 21yo is still really smooth and lovely stuff.

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.