back to work

wilson pickett- mojo mama

"Timbit"

Experience suggests that I'm a good luck charm for FPH.
(hockey-game-wise, at least)

It's All Too Beautiful sampler:
American Breed - Bend me, shape me
(Bend me, shape me 7″ / 1967)
The Association - Never my love
(Insight Out / 1967)
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
(There are but four small faces / 1968)

I heard myself as if you

Had heard me

Before reflection I heard

You outside only inside

Sometimes only a word

So in a particular world

As in a spiritual world

Face the window I had

To know what ought to be

-from Souls of the Labadie Trust, Susan Howe

I went to hear Susan read at UB tonight.

I remember believing that writing would impose order on feeling and civilize it out of violence into expression at least, if not understanding.

Writing is evidence of a discomfiture of mind seeking composure, with a gift (more or less) for picking adjectives.

When I got home, I found King Kong in my inbox. Perfect timing

what I'm listening to:
Sam Beam – Free Until They Cut Me Down; Freedom Hangs Like Heaven
I can’t get enough of him
I will breathe free as any Word of God

Bound up tight like lips around a whimper

"dick specimens"

[I have no idea why this is funny.]

for virgo today: A midweek break will perhaps be help let off a little steam, as right now all you really want to do is to have some fun. Unfortunately, a number of urgent work or school matters need to be completed before you can start to let your hair down. Stay focused; don’t cut corners!

Unions. Ugh. Can’t live with em, can’t live without em, for real. Update: AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I hate us, I hate them, I am quitting this stupid union bullshit.

Erma Franklin – Piece of My Heart

spring break

nice dinner, ham, laughs - I like them more now, actually - I can't be doing it right/wrong cz there is no it, logically speaking, so I'm happy enough for the laughs and ham - I don't cook, I don't stay, I walk home alone and don't even mind the cold so much

The Weepies - Hideaway
The Weepies - All That I Want [lalala]
The Weepies -Gotta Have You [repost]
Wilco - More Like The Moon

hit pick5
I'm a wood slut

self help reading + music

doormat

We recently reported the rise of bullshit studies, first exposited by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch in their book Bullshit and Philosophy, in which thinkers “respond to bullshit”. The editors acknowledged a debt to Harry G. Frankfurt, author of On Bullshit, and the book received the recommendation of Laura Penny, who pioneered the genre in Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth about Bullshit.

Colin McGinn, author of The Making of a Philosopher, has steered the mode of thinking into new realms with his latest book, Mindfucking. A reading of On Bullshit motivated McGinn to “investigate the concept more thoroughly. It now seems to me a concept with a future.”

If you feel inhibited about asking for Mindfucking in a bookshop, you could try ordering it from Amazon, though even there you might encounter difficulty. We were first offered Ocean of Lard: Choose your own Mindfuck fest, together with the information that “Customers who bought this item also bought The Baby Jesus Butt Plug, The Menstruating Mall, War Slut and The Haunted Vagina.”
---“Literary Revival”, Times Literary Supplement, 3.14.08



Peter Malick Group w/ Norah Jones, Heart of Mine
Feist, Secret Heart

Kris Delmhorst, Love and Everything
KT Tunstall, Get Your Freak On

went to see the sabres play last night w kids and we/they all got on camera once, an odd thrill - every single seat was filled seemed like, and unlike all the other games I've gone to, there were no fans from the other team (ie Tampa is much farther away than the Canadian foes) - the happiness was deafening and absolute, the whole arena shaking with the pounding and the glee - plus (this never occured to me before) since I wasn't on a date and didn't have split loyalties (half hoping for FPH's team to win) my sense of decorum went right out the window and I jumped up and down like a kid myself, yelling my head off - the adrenalin lasted for hours! I kind of like Gaustad particularly, it's like watching a brick wall play hockey, he bangs into people and they go splat. sports-happiness is a nice buzz, gotta say.

I love stuff like that, when for decades you go along living your life and then suddenly there is a new pleasure in the world that you hadn't really known before, and now you have that.

one problem: math. I hate math. TJ keeps asking me, are we 8th place yet? how do you we get into 8th place? why is that points number still 81 when we scored 7 times? and I have noooooooooooo idea. hrrmph

ugh. bad night.
cat power - she's got you (patsy cline)

iron & wine w calexico - history of lovers

Jose Gonzalez - Ache (instrumental acoustic)
Bishop Allen - Little Black Ache

beck - go it alone

"I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty cover)," Dawn Landes

It turns out that what you get for 5k a pop you probably could never get with a sweet song, so I take that back. Eeek.

But nothing compares to this. If only she had kept a blog, eh?

I clearly have a limited imagination because I can't think of a sex act that'd be worth 5k a pop nor 80k for a multiple orgasm.

Hey Eliot, try just sending a pretty woman a sweet song, you might be surprised how that could change things up. Here's one:

"I Need You," Lionel Neykov

In other news, while at the "International" Charity Luncheon (i.e. the Latina secretaries donate rice salads) today, I got asked on a date to go to Casino Niagara (finally) - punchline: by the campus Reverend. She is a hoot.

Wow, you’ll be sizzling today Virgo, thanks primarily to Venus, but it won’t be all passion to begin with! A serious heart to heart with either someone special or someone who could become special will lead to more intimate moments later; just be patient today and your rewards will come!

"Jesu Joy Of Man Desiring (Bach)," Romero

One of them has a cold he got yesterday sledding with his father all day in sopping wet clothes (I wrang out the socks) and was dropped off mute, and X says “I think he’s got something in his throat.” Ya think? He takes them for 24 hours and fucks it up, how is that possible? It’s like speed-fuckingup, a sport of some kind. And the schools are closed (snow, more snow) today again. But not mine. Again. I’ve had to find childcare or work from home piecemeal or take them with me at least once per week every week this semester. Meanwhile, X is a month behind on the “help with babysitters” cash, which is a fraction of what actual child support would be in the first place. And I’ll do it, meet both classes, hand back all the midterms I graded in one weekend, go to the union meeting and deal with our contract STILL unpaid since August, and more, with kids in tow.

Just noting it: that not needing anybody for anything this much is a lot of not-needing, so much that I might need help not-needing since I have so much of it to do.

Ironically, today is National Napping Day playlist:

Dixi Chicks – Lullaby
Graham Weber – Italian Lullaby
Jack Johnson – Lullaby

Joshua Radin – Everything Will be Alright

Sarah Vaughn & Clifford Brown – Lullaby of Birdland
Neko Case – Furnace Room Lullaby

not good enough

(tell me again, I dare you)

R.I.P.

ebay hangover

wa

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Cowgirl

Cave Singers “Dancing On Our Graves”mp3
web

"The moon asked me to meet her in a field tonight," wrote mystic poet Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky). "I think she has amorous ideas." You might soon feel a similar suspicion, Virgo. According to my reading of the astrological omens, seductive offers will be coming your way, and not just from the moon. Secret suitors may emerge from the shadows. Temptations could lure you toward the far ends of your imagination. The sheer profusion of invitations you'll receive might make you giddily agitated.

sam beam - resurrection fern (live, Wheatly Illinois 2/15/08)

Once again, your horoscope will fail to mention your car breaking down [again] Virgo!

buddy guy w/ tracy chapman - ain't no sunshine

Matthew Barber - "Easily Bruised"