| THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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I'd thought about these carvings a good bit over the years and had tried researching them but never got anywhere. This summer, exactly 20 years later, I'm cataloging Jean Gimpel's "The Cathedral Builders," and while flipping through the pages, I see a full illustration of carved alchemical-looking symbols. It turns out these were both quarrymen's marks (indicating which flagstones had been collected from which quarry) and positioning marks (indicating which flagtones should be laid next to each other when the floor was being pieced together). 20 year mystery solved. 2. When I was in college, I was a big fan of the band Girls Against Boys and my schoolwork-procrastination method of choice was to scour the internet for any new article or piece of news I could find. Probably around 1997, I learned of a very rare single they had released on some obscure compilation, called "Red Bar." This was before ebay and Napster, as you know, and after asking my local record store and the GVSB mailing list for help to no avail, I took matters into my own hands. Somehow, I learned that the guitarist/keyboardist lived around the corner from a family friend in NYC, and I found his home address. (Okay, side note: my high school BFF had been obsessed with the band Sebadoh and had mailed Lou Barlow a blank tape with the request that he tape his rare tracks for her and mail it back to her, and not only did he do this but his girlfriend wrote her a long and friendly letter and of course it was like the highlight of R's life when she got that package in the mail.) So I decided to do this myself, and I mailed the GVSB guitarist/keyboardist a blank tape and begged him to tape "Red Bar" for me because there was no other way I was ever going to hear it, and I had every other single/EP/album/appearance-on-compilation they had ever released, and could he please make my life complete and do this for me and I swear I'm not a stalker. He never answered. :~( He probably knew I was a stalker. (IN FACT, a few years after that, I somehow got ahold of the drummer's AIM name and was amiably chatting with him UNTIL he told me he had gone to Swarthmore College and I was like, "OMG I went to Bryn Mawr!!" --they're sister schools-- and then....he didn't come back. I'm pretty sure I had sent his bandmate that tape from my Bryn Mawr address, so I figure he remembered the Bryn Mawr=stalker connection and was backing away from the computer in fear. Sorry, dudes.) Anyway, roughly 12 years later -- TONIGHT, to be exact -- on a whim (I haven't listened to them in years, really), I search for "Red Bar" on soulseek and there it is. THERE IT IS. I'm listening to it right now. It's pretty dang good. Maybe not pining-for-12-years good, but I'm glad I found it. And it only cost two grown men their peace of mind. What years-long mysteries have you solved? |
in music-related news, i finally found a picture of a corwood industries catalog online. i ordered jandek's first album: ready for the house. i wrote my order down on a piece of notebook paper and mailed it off with a check. i don't know if i'll actually get it. |
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Sadly, they are going to dismantle, purge and gut my chevy. what is the plastic goop they shall pour in it, and how long will the misery for the engine last I wonder. Mystery. I like the outback. CJ bought a black one on Monday last week, and I got mine, a white one, on Saturday. So we have two now. And a Honda CRV to sell. Okay, so it has nothing to do with music or alchemy. But it has a six cd changer and a kickass amp... |
I did some semi-serious research this year -- research libraries and expensive unique books -- into some stuff that has puzzled and/or mystified me since 2002. I'm not gonna say what the research was about because everything about this that I posted to the public Intertubes got scooped up by some other asshat and plugged into their scholarblogship like they heard it from some phantasm on the street. That's how research on the Intertubes work -- it's a public garbage/information network for greedy trash collectors. I should do a service to some abstract region of angst and post nonsense stories about these things, deepening the conspiracies and stoking the stokables. I've learned a lot, though, about that stuff. And it's all so cool. |
Mystery: wtf the rightwingnuts are up to? A precursor for anarchy? A whipped up frenzy before killing off (fill in the blank)??? and where are allof us who used to debate such things? I am not out there making babies like the rest of you (okay, at least someofyou). So I am in a two room suite in NM tonight after eating a tuna sub in the casino downstairs. Lap of luxury. Good thing someone else is paying for it. Intertubes? |
intertwingled = A cross-connected informational state that is neither hierarchal, subject-related nor distinctly separate from multiple contexts; defying simplistic categorization. |
whatever intertwinkling is, it sounds like fun. |
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/topicmaps-comment/200201/msg00035.html I think of intertubical structures as those things that mud daubers make on my porch ceiling |
Anyway mystery solved.Talk among yourselves. |
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j is a woman. hey, dr pepper. how you doing these days in late summer illinois? ain't it confusing how people posting on websites don't show what gender they is? are you really confused? i can see why. did you know there are actually 5 sexes? it's amazing. google it. |
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http://insideindonesia.org/content/view/484/29/ |
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If this doesn't work, suicide is always an option. Just some random thoughts from sunny Arizona where the sun always shines and the people are always beautiful despite the melanomas. |
i never plated a uke before, but i wasn't long before i had it tuned up and was picking out songs. (if you removed the bottom e and a strings on a guitar and capo-ed it at the 5th fret, you'd basically have a uke.) the first two songs i picked out were "cigarettes whiskey and wild wild women" and "nobody knows you when you're down and out". ukuleles are like like musical antidepressants. |
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Droopy,I ditto what Agatha said. Dr.Pepper just a suggestion,I bet if you did some volunteer work it would lift your spirits.Feeding the homeless,bringing Meals on Wheels to the elderly,rocking a preemie at the hospital,mentoring a student,etc. can only bring good karma and when you do good things it makes you feel good. |
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my great grandfather, Munsey, played ukulele. as a young girl this was my favorite song he would play. his wife's name was Charlotte, for whom my eldest is named. i was in my twenties when they died about a year apart, both went to sleep and didn't wake up. they lived well into their nineties as, healthy, spritely, sweet folk. |
Today I went to imdb.com and saw someone who looked very familiar in the right frame -- it was she, Luise Rainer, who turned 100 today. That's her! Mystery solved! I haven't been able to find online the exact photograph I cut out, but it was part of this photoshoot. Isn't she lovely? |
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she is very lovely. she looks a little like a grown up version of Amelie. |
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i'd like to add that she looks just as lovely in her pictures on imdb in the photos dated 1998. |
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