Dusty Chalk

A short Afghan Whigs bender

Seriously. My mother is getting out of the hospital today and I can't be bothered to step foot outdoors.

He looks familiar, like the bastard offspring of the distant cousins of Thomas Dolby and Christoph Waltz. Or something.

Absolutely not! By all means, obtain yourself a second opinion.

Stricly speaking, it's not safe for me to walk around in public after that. There's just something about hot women in hot steamy showers...

Oh, and can't believe I forgot Stomacher! I actually helped to fund Clara -- go listen to it on streaming, at the very least. Male-voiced alternative/Indie poprock is the genre. Nice diverse album, listen to the whole thing before you render judgment.

In the car been listening to Black Heart Procession and Skinny Puppy, alternatively. I need to find a stack of blank CD-R's so I can listen to other stuff in the car until I can afford an iPod FM modulator. At home, been going around bandcamp -- Diary of Dreams, Unwoman, Majeure, Lo-Fi Resistance -- and Spotify -- Make Good Your Escape, Maccabees, iLikeTrains, et al.

No, just vacuum yourself before every listen, then keep the headphones in a vacuum sealed bag when not in use.

How often is it that the 3rd is the best instalment in a trilogy?

He really should have different images on the displays to prove his point.

Thank you, thank you. Returned license plates. Sat in hot-as-fuck traffic for hours. Fuck! (<-- See? The heat made me say that.)

I just listened to a friend of mine's recently -- I had forgotten how comfy those things are!

Man, that's like my short term wish list.

Yeah, absolutely, I want a job I can keep.

Foxy might be my favorite character in a book that I want need to see in a movie, evar. I misplaced my copy of Redemption Ark. Argh!

I got an email from one of my recruiters saying that the phone interview I had on Friday wants to follow up with a real one in person. Yay! Then he called and said that the recruiter on the company side misread, and they don't want me in for an interview. Drat! I'm having a tough time being angry at either one of them, but man, couldn't they have just gotten it right from the get go, rather than raising my hopes first then dashing them down? (I threw a temper tantrum in the car like Detective Matthew Sikes at the beginning of Alien Nation the TV series at the end of the opening credits as soon as I hung up the phone.) ... (calmer) Also, I still want to work for them. I'm going to brush up on my Java tomorrow, that's the main reason I didn't get the interview, I answered honestly during the phone interview that I haven't done Java in like 15 years. But I was so good 15 years ago, it should be just a matter of getting back into the (ahem) swing of things. It's just a matter of catching up with the tools and libraries! I tried to convince them of that, but ... well, I've been told before that my honesty will be my demise.

Happy Birthday! (party favor noise)

Sort of. Someone did it in a non-Miyazaki style. Also: seriously? You are asking me?

I am so posterizing that.

Oh, my, that's pretty funny, but they forgot The Icehole (pees with lid down). Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, multiple monster stories, etc.) posted this today:

Aw, man, condolences.

Save travels, Dan.

Happy Father's Day to all the pop casers and pops of casers! Woo!

Huzzah!