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painful. think you might need surgery? my head's been in a fog all day. this is the first day in quite a while that i haven't had a least a bottle of wine. yesterday i was at the library, and i found myself unable to remember the names of authors. names i've known for years. in fact, i had written them down on a piece of paper so i'd remember, but i forgot it. today i was reading about a book about a guy who lives in a house with the rotting corpse of his dead mother. he decides to rob the fireworks store across the street from him and enlists two guys to help him. the robbery goes wrong and they end up killing the store owner. when they make their getaway, they blow a tire and one of the guys dies by impaling himself in the eye with a roman candle. the remaining two speed off and eventually crash into a swamp, where they are found by a deputy who shoots at them and calls the "cocksucker" repeatedly. they both run into the swamp. one of them is attacked by a small fleet of water moccasins. as he lay dying, he is shot by the deputy. this leaves bill, the "mastermind", who makes his way deeper into the swamp. he has run-ins with more water moccasins and and an angry 'possum, but he survives and falls asleep on a small island. the next morning he finds the deputy dead. apparently he had fallen in the night and blown his own head off with his shotgun. bill is weak and hungry and staggers off to a field where he runs into a traveling freak show camped there. he makes his way towards them, hands outstretched, then collapses. he wakes up surrounded by freaks chanting "one of us, one of us...." just wanted to see if i could remember what i read so far. the guy who wrote this is from east texas. i think it might be a true story. |
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My dreams have been very strange lately too. I'd rather not go into them because I have no idea what they mean, if anything. |
I'm sending you good vibes. |
I've been listening to his "Folkways" album today. If you listen closely, you can hear "Please See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" in the background of my video of my big sick cat chewing on his fingernails. http://youtu.be/TyyQ6baIaU4 |
do drink more enjoyable. i am familiar with dave van ronk. i first heard him doing versions of reverend gary davis tunes. never heard his version of "...grave...", which is a (texas blues legend) blind lemon jefferson tune. interesting note: his arrangement of "house of the rising sun" was stolen by bob dylan for his first album. then that version was stolen by the animals and became the most widely known version. cute cat. i think pets make you a better person. currently, i have a spider. sort of. |
I can't find Dave Van Ronk's version of "Please See that My Grave.." online, but it's good. There's this website called http://8tracks.com/, where people create playlists and share them with others, and I've been listening to a lot of playlists with tags like "Southern Gothic" or "Old Time Religion" -- that's where I learned about him. I just listened to a Blind Lemon Jefferson song this afternoon, "Struck Sorrow Blues" Maltese Cat Blues http://youtu.be/QgVgpE RzaKM |
couldn't care for her properly. i tried to be cold- blooded about it, but i found i could still feel her presence in my apartment for weeks afterword. still, it was for the best. for her, if not for me. i'm glad you have the cat. i mainly listen to jazz these days. but i dig up lots of old time songs to learn on ukulele. i've been playing "cocaine blues" a lot, lately. |
They are members of my family. |
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of the city" i normally do in the evening, i found a spot where homeless people spend the night. it's the north end (back end) of the criminal courts building, overlooking the river. some people sort of camp out on blankets, others just lie face down on the concrete. i took some pictures, but i didn't want to get too close. |
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zafu pillow. I had vivid, tactile, full color dreams of riding a bicycle throuh the buildings of a college campus, in and out of various surreal gatherings. |
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complex must have been crackin' smoke, though, because they blasted through at least six feet of granite to build the basements. |
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I do wonder though where in the world do people without them put their stuff? |
I do wonder though where in the world do people without them put their stuff? |
died, his garage was filled to the rafters with stuff. you could barely get a human in it, let alone a car. it's not that texans dislike basements. the soil here is either a clay that expands and contracts over the seasons or else limestone you'd have to dynamite a basement out of. it's just expensive and impractical to build a basement. |
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tell us is to sit in a ground floor bathtub. then you can watch as the rest of your house is carried away to oklahoma. so, ms. pepper...road trip? |
no.. a strange dream that I had last night. The truth in reality: I never liked my family. |
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poles flipped. i was in downtown fort worth in 2000 when a tornado ripped it up. didn't touch me. i am a cockroach. |
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my lifetime. i've never noticed. |
Every so often our poles shift too. I've heard a lot of gloom and doom predictions about what will happen when that occurs. My prediction about it is no one will notice it either. It will be one big nothing. The only thing that will happen is our compasses will be pointing in the reverse. |
I am up real late study the college homework. It is baffling me and I am middle aged person and my personality is confusing me. |
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shift, it won't happen all at once. it will take years. in that time, we will lose most if not all of the magnetic field that protects the earth - and our asses - from the constant bombardment of radiation that comes from our own sun and the rest of the universe. noticeably. |
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We've been to the moon. We just didn't stay there. And the radiation issue is one of the reasons. I'm pleased at the recent robotic mission, though, and hope for more. Automated u underground construction would make mood habitation possible. |
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day the earth stood still" all the way through. klaatu barada nikto, fellow babies. |
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i meant the original 1951 version with michael rennie and patricia "i'm a fighter" neal. |
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do you remember the tv show "bosom buddies"? tom hanks. the two cross-dressing characters--buffy and hildy i think were their names as women--always claimed to be from saskatchewan. |
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sassss-KATCH-ooo-wan that has stuck in my head all these years. that's what i hear in every time i see it in print. |
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i don't get the wookie language thing. as far as i can remember, wookie language was just that one sound. if you slowed it down, i think it could be written as: ugugugugUGUGUGUGugugugug! |
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worth. peter mayhew - the actor who played chewbacca - is recovering from knee surgery in a fort worth hospital. apparently, he lives in boyd, texas. about his surgery, he is quoted as saying: "ugugugugUGUGUGUGugugugug!" |
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franchise that i need to pester this 69 year old man while he's recovering. though it was pointed out to me that i probably had a good chance, since i'm in a wheelchair. found the fucking key fob to my door. i hate those things. went to a jazz concert on thursday - paul unger doing the entire mingus "ah um" album. the next day i couldn't find the fob. finally, three days later, i checked the pocket of the shirt i wore to the concert (in a pile of dirty clothes) and there it was. |
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My house is occasionally visited by spirits. I live next to a cemetery. Several weeks ago I lost my house key. I went crazy looking for it. I checked everywhere it could be. I finally took the one out of the key safe I have at the front door and had another copy made. Then one night after I took out the trash there it was. It was on the garage floor right in front of the garage door. I had constantly been looking for it where it had turned up. And I could not have possibly have missed it. I had even just walked over that spot taking the trash out. I figure one of our "guests" decided to play a trick on me and finally put it where I would see it. But, only when I would know it was one of them. |
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http://67.69.104.76:84/rcaf-atc/photos/moosejaw/moose-17.jpg Here is the one that my Canadian dad flew during the 80's. http://wikimapia.org/154558/15-Wing-Moose-Jaw#/photo/4294986 This aircraft is CT-114 |