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fuck it all, i'm so defeated. jesus help me.

my new suicide record is pretty good. still spending myself into oblivion, even today i fork over $99 plus tax in credit for a wireless adapter for my 360. my toys are staring at me from their glass display. i'm really not doing very well right now, but i'll keep pretending i am and i'll keep pretending everything is ok. yeah and i keep praying too, it helps.

many things to update about

i went to the mountain goats w/ kaki king show on saturday for travis' birthday. i went with travis of course and chaz and his girlfriend, melody. it was such a satisfying show, highly entertaining and travis and i were plenty drunk, good times. kaki king is amazing, i fell in love with another female singer/guitarist. i also bought a mountain goats tshirt, the satanic messiah ep limited to a pressing of 666, there were only like seven left, and the split 12" ep, black pear tree with kaki king, also limited but i'm not sure how many, both are really good.

almost all of my toys have come in the mail now, except the six peecols from the special halloween grab bag sale at kidrobot.com. still no ariel pink record, i'm sure it will be here soon though. my debt is through the roof, around 3,500, i'm a little stressed about it. i've been spending myself seriously into oblivion lately, to name a few of the things i got recently, two of the kidrobot kidreapers by andrew bell, i bought two because the first one i bought was the chase, know what that means? i get to sell it and basically get the regular version for free! i bought and have been playing dead space for the 360, it's way sick, everything i thought it would be really. i also bought snuff the new novel by chuck palahniuk, i'm not really much of a reader unless you count comic books, but i have read some of chucks earlier novels and liked them alot, so i'm gonna give this one a go.

i finished watching moonphase, it was so cute and the story is still with me, great characters, nice blend of action, romance, and comedy, and it's an interesting and new take on vampires and vampire lore, very well done i thought. the last bonus episode after the real last episode was ok, not great though, spoiler: they end up getting swallowed by a whale. i'm watching dexter season two now, i'm three episodes in and as expected i'm totally digging it. i started watching el topo, a 1970's surreal chilean western directed by alejandro jodorowsky, it was late when i started it so i fell asleep part way through, what i saw though was awesome. there are two other movies by jodorowsky on netflix i'm going to watch as well.

and thats about that, can't wait to get off work and play more dead space. oh and we sold three cars now this month, thats bad, but not as bad as no cars at all.

arrrrrrgh!!

did i mention how much i love moonphase? i found the complete series used at fye yesterday and couldnt resist buying it. i also picked up the fx bootleg version of the please teacher! complete series and frisky dingo season 1 also used.

and today what did i do? i made my first purchase at kidrobot.com, the regular brown version of el chupacabra by sara antoinette limited to 500, sucklord 600 by suckadelic, and some various blindboxes. now my shit just needs to come in the mail and we need to stay in business long enough for everything to arrive or just stay in business, i don't want to lose my job.

i get my kicks with vinyl and flix

vinyl toys. i recently started a collection, it's small right now and probably foolish to be spending my money on such things with the economy the way it is but whatever i like them. the hellboy was my first, a custom munny by me that i did back in february, then i got the larger munny and never did anything with it, and until recently didn't buy any toys. i've bought several dunny series 5 blind boxes, a couple dunny french series blind boxes, the hugh hefner peecol, a quee keychain, and a kidrobot simpsons figure blind box, and i did a custom of one of the french series dunnys i didn't like. next time i do a custom i'm gonna user paint markers and a matte finish rather than gloss.

i got some new vinyl records as well recently, danzig 4 by danzig, tiger army III: ghost tigers rise by tiger army, nebraska by bruce springsteen, controversy by prince, tri-danielson (alpha/omega) by danielson and reckless burning by jesse sykes and the sweet hereafter. i'm still waiting after three weeks on my ebay wins for ariel pink and deep sea creature cassette, also i have sunn o)))'s new live album, domkirk, on the way + the tshirt.

i've been watching the anime series moonphase through netflix and all the dvd's alex let me borrow, like the two tetsuo movies and a snake of june and and two of the vengence trilogy movies, sympathy for mr. vengence and lady vengence. so alot of asian entertainment lately. and i forgot how much i like japanese animation. moonphase is deliciously good, i can't wait to see the next volume so long as netflix doesn't send another dvd out of queue order, i was sent instead of vol. 3, holy mountain which was in the slot right after the last vol. of moonphase in my queue. i hope thats not a regular mistake.

thats all for now folks. oh i never mentioned that my sister and her family moved in with me and my parents in our condo a little while back two weeks or so now. it's going fine though a little cramped and i'm sharing my bathroom prviously private bathroom now with 6 more people, i sometimes have a problem with remembering which towell is mine. oh and some bad news, business is so shitty, we haven't sold a car yet this month, pray for us. and that is all for now. i'm going to update less regular like this from now on since there is not enough going on in my life to warrant daily updates.

netflix is a great service

i'm nearly finished watching the movies i rented they all have to be returned by next wednesday in one week. i just watched mr. lonely, and i loved it. best movie i've seen so far from all the movies i rented and the soundtrack of which i purchased on vinyl is really good too. and to add to the so many movies i need to watch i got myself a netflix account, the first couple came today including forgetting sarah marshall, it took forever to be released to dvd and i'm excited to see it, i regretted never seeing it it the theatres.

and i ordered two records today, cost me $150 for the both of them. the eluvium boxset titled, life through bombardment and the new sunn o))) album, dømkirke with the tshirt.

and new well behaved tapes website is up. and! and! and my ep, glitter on your cheekbones limited in an edition of 30 on a blue or pink spray painted cd-r is very close to being ready for sale through the well behaved tapes myspace profile and website.

i don't even know how many records i own

lately i don't feel like updating constantly so much, so expect posts fewer and farther between maybe every five days at the most.

last thursday i went to salt lake to hang out with alex after work. we bought some records and had dinner at squatters. the records i got were the mister lonely soundtrack by j. spaceman and the sun city girls, darkness on the edge of town by bruce springsteen, and two king khan records. at squatters we had this pumpkin spice beer that was so good, like pumpkin pie as a drink. alex also let me borrow a shitload of movies, mostly asian foreign films. and the other day i rented a shitload of movies from blockbuster, i have so many movies to watch it almost feels like homework.

on saturday travis and i went to salt lake again to see alex, shop for records and see choke. we originally planned to see choke today, but thought it would be better to not do anything with our sunday and see it on saturday instead. i spent so much money on food, records, movie, beers, and to close the evening we went to the hookah bar, which was really lame. the records i got on saturday were original pressings of surfin' usa by the beach boys and danzig by danzig, songs in a&e by spiritualized, tnt, standards, and it's all around you by tortoise, music tapes for clouds and tornadoes by the music tapes, and burn, piano island, burn by the blood brothers. lots of good stuff, i'm close to filling three whole shelves, i don't even know how many records i own.

it will cost $4.99

i've completed my song for the split with and so on.... it's called "woolly mammoth's common cold defense". my longest song yet, nearly twenty min. of plugged in electric acoustic guitar and sweet soothing noise. chaz is finishing up his songs and then we're going to do one together.

i'm also putting out my ep titled glitter on your cheekbones very soon, before the weekend. it's three songs i did this last spring and one new one called "computer death blues". the ep will be in an edition of 30 on cd-r, it will cost $4.99.

i love my boss rc-2 loop station

i won the ariel pink record, and paid probably too much money for it, but i'm glad to have won it anyway. grats to me. i also bought a real expensive boss loop effects pedal yesterday and again glad to have it despite the price tag. i made a song with it today called "lay with me goddess" it's my newest single that's backed with another song i made the other day called "milk and honey bath", these songs along with another single, my ep, and my 90 min. cassette will be available soon through my newly created illegitimate label, well behaved tapes. the only wb tapes release available thus far is my "in dark tunnels" single. also coming soon is a split i'm putting out with my friend chaz' project, and so on... called, elephant bones.

and for the movies update, last week i watched terminator 2. i'm on my way to being ready for terminator salvation's theatrical release. before the weekend i watched right at your door. and last night i watched teeth.

trying out this ebay thing

so i've only bid on and won one record through ebay with the account i have now, so far i've done mucho watching, very little bidding. the record i won recently was mount eerie by the microphones. i had an account a long time ago that i no longer have access to and used it to buy some rare videogames, that was years ago. anyway now it's the present and i just clicked the buy it now on a still sealed copy of love you by the beach boys. and i'm bidding on a still sealed copy of underground by ariel pink's haunted graffiti, hope i win it, it's limited to 300 copies.

i've been banned from last.fm

so i signed onto last.fm recently, it's been a long time since i've used that website and let me tell you fuck that website. first off i registered don't make me with last.fm a while ago but stopped using it because i got fed up with the music manager that i'm supposed to manage don't make me's details with and deleted don't make me from their stats or so i thought, glitchy broken shit.

so anyway i came back to just be a regular user recently and i was listening to my songs, don't make me songs and to my surprise it never got deleted don't make me was still filed away with all their music stats and the old picture i uploaded was the still the default, i remembered the old login information and went on with that account to change the picture and i just figured oh well. i continued to use my new account and tried to claim don't make me as mine with the new account, didnt work they wanted me to email them and give them reason why i should claim it, gay.

now the thing to get me banned, i was listening to rob crow's lactose adept. when i looked at my top artists there he was and as crow, rob because thats how i tag my shit, unfortunately it had this annoying and unsightly picture of the last.fm rules stating that i should retag and keep the stats clean, because thats not how your supposed to tag if your gonna be a part of last.fm, super gay. and it was posted by some ugly brazilian chick who goes by the username 'Tchuly' on some crusade to keep the stats clean, fuck her. some people look through the d's in their record collections to find bob dylan and some people look through the b's thats just how it is, who's last.fm and Tchuly to try and change that? seriously fuck them hard.

so i shoutboxed Tchuly and harrassed her a bit demanding that she take down the keep stats clean image so that the real picture of rob crow that i uploaded would become the default. i attempt to log in about and hour ago to find that i've been banned from last.fm and i bet don't make me along with a photo of my face is still on their stupid fucking website, super fucking gay.

wb tapes

ok i decided on a name for my label, well behaved tapes. i like that it's the same initials of another record label that could probably sue me for it.

audio cassettes on the brain

here is an article on the subject of noise called noise techniques from the cassette mythos written by some guy named robin james in 1990. interesting read.

so i want to start my own tape/cd-r label to put out my new album and other things i've done, don't make me and others. i don't really give a shit about it being legitimate, to me you're a label if your putting music into the world all you need to do other than that is christen it with a name. i'm just not sure what that name should be yet. i was thinking make it happen tapes or recordings or whatever after the mariah carey song from the album, emotions. but i think the name is taken and i'd rather not use a name thats already claimed. i'm going to keep brainstorming on that one.

i'm going to call it 100% cotton

i think i'm going to make an album full of up with people songs and take care of our planet songs and christian songs and some syrupy love songs. probably the best album i'll ever record.

successful vegas

vegas was successful, we got 7 cars at both auctions. we ended up flying there and driving back because it was about the same cost and we got to bring one more car back with us. we stayed at sam's town hotel and casino, nice place. it had a century theatre, bowling alley, multiple restaurants and a fake outdoor that was really indoor park with a water and laser light show. we also had some time to shop on the strip, i got a pull over hoodie from h&m in the miracle mile mall. we got back around 5pm yesterday. that evening i called up travis and we went to see burn after reading with my sister, jaime and nick. burn after reading is fargo 2 in spirit, funny movie.

here today i woke up around twelve and have been listening to some records, brian wilson presents smile and smile by boris, i'm going to the mall now to buy some shoes.

it's been a good one

there many good things about today and i've been in generally good spirits too. the weather was perfectly cloudy with a smattering of rain. i got to work late this morning due to a late night playing spore but my dad was cool with it because it was in fact my birthday, and you're allowed to be late to work on your birthday, his words.

dinner was great, sushi, edamame, fuji chicken, half of a sapporo and a squatters india pale ale at the happy sumo. so filling, so good. and pie and presents, my brother jeff gave me a miley cyrus tshirt from when he went with his girls to see her at the fourth of july, stadium of fire where she performed, they all think it's real funny that i lke her music. my sister julie unaware of jeff's gift also gave me a gag gift of hannah montannna pens with a discount double feature dvd, the tell-tale heart and a wes craven's chiller, in a hannah montanna gift bag no less. jaime and nick gave me 23 dollars for my twenty third birthday and i got to open those beach boys records my mom bought for me. i cant wait to listen to all of them but it will have to wait till morning since it's late and i'm tired.

my parents and i also watched the premier of fringe tonight, i've been anticipating it since i heard about it during lost season 4, it's going to be the next best tv show after lost i'm sure.

tomorrow i'm leaving for vegas with my parents to get some cars from two of the auto auctions down there. should be fun, i'm gonna play spore the whole way there and driving cars back nets me a little extra on my next paycheck. we do the vegas thing pretty often, it's nice to get out of town once in a while.

so all in all it's been a good one, another year older.

ictoadnftl 2

another best of list.

1. beach boys/brian wilson/dennis wilson and mount eerie records came in the mail today.
2. my new computer.
3. playing spore on my new computer.
4. my birthday is tomorrow.
5. i completed recording my new album, coronal transient.
6. discovering tape.com where i can order blank cassettes, any length, multiple colors, for cheap.
7. reading alan moore's run on swamp thing, it's so good.

mountain goat

mountain goats are coming. and they and when i say they i mean he's bringing tour exclusive vinyl with him. satanic messiah, a 2x7" limited to 666 copies and a split/collaborative ep with kaki king called black pear tree, it's about the mushroom kingdom. i really hope i can get both of these releases, and pray that the satanic messiah 2x7" doesn't sell out in the four shows before the salt lake one. theres an article on pitchfork about it here.

saga of the swamp thing, part III

so i've been reading alan moore's run on swamp thing, i really like it the writing and art style are just perfect. i haven't gotten too far into it yet, it's pretty long with six volumes total. i'm at the part where swamp thing just found out that he's not alec holland but a plant creature infected with alec's consciousness, needles to say he's having a hard time dealing with it and almost gives up trying to be human. i know i said i was going to start reading swamp thing around when i started this blog, but other forms of entertainment got in the way. i'm glad i'm reading it now though, like every other alan moore comic i've read, it's really good.

ready for the house, part II

my jandek record, ready for the house came in the mail today, i'm listening to it now.

mount eerie

we attended the mount eerie show at kilby court in salt lake last night after having dinner and beers at squatters and getting free tickets for buying records at slowtrain. the show was generally uncomfortable pre phil taking the stage due to the kind of environment present at his shows, ugly clothing and the air of pretense, i hate phil elverum's fans. also speaking to a person who sings to you through your speakers all the time is always a little awkward, i asked him if he had the fog movies with him and he didn't, said said he forgot and theres a big box of them at home and that i should buy one online. instead i bought rope or guillotine by another band on his label, the spectacle and a tshirt after the show was over, i think it is the first shirt he has made available as mount eerie and is a tour exclusive.

i started enjoying the show more after phil began his set, though there was this couple who thought it was ok to stand in the middle of a room full of people sitting. anyone behind them couldn't see the show and it didn't help that this girls ass was huge, this blocked the view for a number of people there including me. after a few songs i moved out of the way. he played some songs off his friends band, thanksgiving's record, welcome nowhere. he called that part of the show the thanksgiving tribute band, funny guy. then he went on to play his own material shrouded in fog, most of the songs were new and are presumably going to end up on his "colossal sounding new album" in 2009, wind's poem.

i hope the new records that i ordered from his website arrive soon, my jesu split with battles of mice finally came yesterday, so that was cool.