Down for the count, but back up before the bell rings........or somethinlikethat

Yeah, so my X-mas holiday weekend turned into a sleepfest, but not on purpose. Got sick tried to sleep it off and failed, woke up and went to work this morning, still no good went to the doctor. Four hours and three perscriptions later things are looking up, conciderably really, just in time too - if you know, well, none of all y'all do, but if you did.........

Anyway, I here there's new years plans in the works and I'm going to have to be a bloody bum and fool again and have to work, but if y'all do happen to trip up to minneapolisvillehood, I'll make some time, I've just got to work until ten on the 31st and be raring and ready to roll by like 7.......so, shit who needs sleep, surely not this guy since I've caught up on that by the bunches over the last four days and nights. Additionally, there's some fantastic folks that you'd all get to meet if you do, otherwise I'll just have to plan a rendez-vous at a later date, but sooner than later, by which I mean weeks, not months and too many months it has been - far too many.

Observations:
1. Tonight I saw a clip of a pregnant suisidal woman on some itteration of CSI and I guess the trick to figure out if there serious or not is to see wether they'll risk harm to the fetus via caffine.

2. I hung out with a bunch of folk I normally would not in the waiting room at the medical center today and I really appreciate the open conversation - like everybody's invited to speak share and laugh - this one dude with a wicked bad toothache was all like why so solomn in here doesn't anyone smile in a hospital? Point taken. Helluva fine time, plus the doctor gave me a really great big pill to chill on whilst I wait for the perscription paperwork to get filled out.


Anyway, I'll be calling around in the next couple of days just to se where y'alls at 'n such.

Until then,
Chromeeyes


post script: My regards go out to a Mr. Th_w for hitting me up with the full firefly series - in my illin' I watched the whole series (only one season) in two days and it was a fine fine time. Apparently, I get to watch the conclusion with another proponent of the series tomorrow night after work and transit, work for me.

Lately I'm really into,

1) growing my hair out
2) dark haired girls
3) brushing my teeth
4) the arcade fire
5) these long sleaved tee-shirts that I bought at the limited for men from a woman who grew up in marshfield
6) sleeping until 7am

latish,
Chromeeyes

New Stuff,

I took a new cooking job and am paring one down and sluffing one off. I'm excited, it'll be a supervisor position. Really, it's the first job that's not entirely entry level that I've ever had, neat. Additionally, I need to go christmas shopping and I'm not sure what to get anyone this christmas...or even how much money to spend......that's one thing that's better with a girl, having someone to go christmas shopping with, maybe I'll get one and then go shopping, shit maybe I'll just get a reasonable faximile and go shopping with it or them or whatever. Oh yeah, I need to go christmas shopping because I'm likely going to not spend this christmas with my family - pa-rents are heading a little too far east to accomidate my schedule. That'll be a first, but I'm really kinda looking forward to that, I might head to greenbay, kidnap my grandfather and go christmas party crashing with our extended relatives, we'll see if that works out. Otherwise I just may hang here - thanksgiving was wasted really, I should have just stayed here and done the orphan buisness, which I partook in to some extent anyway.

In other news..........yeah I really don't have much for other news, just living working and trying to figure exactly what I'm doing on this planet - all I know for sure right now is that I'm endeavoring to be a good man, that is the one thing I value above all else.

There's this Twin Cities' artist named Michael Birawer who.......well let me get the link for ya - here- anyway, I really want a turf club print. The stuff's a little goofy, but funashell. (fun as hell, not fun a shell - MONKEY!)

I saw an acquaintence's profile on a site I used to frequent today........funny stuff that.

I'm going to be sad to leave my job at the golf club I worked at for better than two years, I'm aspiring to not loose touch with a good friend there, we'll see, not loosing touch isn't really my forte, but last time it worked so maybe again it will too......effort though, effort.

I really should be sleeping right about now, but I was up late last night(went to the triple rock to see some local girl band rock out and have some drinks with a friend - good times were had by all, except the kitchen was closed by 11 and I was wicked hungry and then that cuban samich place on lake, just west of 55 was closed when we tripped by a 2, yeah that sucked, so I ate two chipoltle burritos for lunch at one to make up for it - then I took a nap) and just don't have the sleep in me and it's not because of caffine or......well, it could be then nap I took, but really...I just want to sleep and can't seem to actualize the concept, so as usual I'm avoiding, typing, wasting time.

I wish i new..................


Outish,
Chromeeyes

....plant the seed, let it grow into a plant and then fuck the plant........that's bloody good stuff

Yeah,

I was starting to sour on the whole hip hop thing having not heard anything good lately, but seriously, sage francis is a lot of fun. Additionally, The Boards of CAnada are treating me just fine as well.

Yesterday after work, well during work, fillipe en vert, stopped by and we hit a movie and then zeno for a coffee and such. Anyway, Baxter is a real funny film; it's been a while since I've laughed so hard out loud.

I worked today, that was alright.

My second job is slowing down - I'm mulling some options, one of which is just taking some time off from second jobs.

out,
Chromeeyes

dylan

I think the best thing about bob dylan's voice is that he sounds like he may break into laughter at any moment on any bridge, chorus or verse.

-Chromeeyes

Disturbing,

So I stumbled on a site detailing "parasomnias" and yeah I'm like there, man. I've got nightmares, confusion arousals, sleep walking, sleep talking, and I think I've got sleep paralysis to a real limited degree (I can't wake up from dreams while I'm having them, but aware of the dream - most disturbing).

What parasomnia do you have?
brought to you by quizzwebmd

Anyway, I woke up at like four this morning after going to sleep at eleven pm and took like an hour to get back to sleep until like seven-thirty at which time I got my shit together, took a shower, and decided to stop by the birchwood and see filipe en vert, but after further examination it seems he had the morning off, but I did get to flirt with the cute dark haired server girl, so that was worth while. I'll have to stop by again when I can really check things out.

After that little jaunt, pastry (excelent cherry cardomon thing), I went to IKEa to look for a little table or something for my laptop, like a desk, but smaller. I found what I wanted, but they were out of stock and I'm not the ordering type, especially when it's something that I don't need and probably worn't really use.

Anyway, I got back home and chilled a little bit, took a nap and here I am.

Over,
Chromeeyes

post script: I hate and love shopping for spring jacket(I also did that on my way back from IKEa).

The World Isn't Quite Real Yet

So I just woke up from a four hour nap....my brain's kinda funny right now, real restless four hours I probably woke up half a dozen times during the course of it. I'm again at the urban bean blogging and there's a group of theater people doing an interview talking about objective theater and some such bullshit..........sigh

Anyway, I'm so foggy right now that when I walked into the shop they were playing the new Gorillas CD and I had to ask what cd they were playing - I love that disk. I should seriously check out if there's a sleep disorder match for me........brb

to be continued,
Chromeeyes

Feeks Hurled

This is real cool, a monkey blog....man.
zzzzzzzzzout,
Erasmus

conspiracy?

Why are all the blogs disappearing, first plastic passion goes off-line and now This is not a Fugazi tee-shirt................are you all ok out there?

out there,
Chromeeyes

ani's superhero

Well, after much stumbling, I found out that the reason I couldn't network with my room-mate's computer was because I had not one, but two software firewalls running on my computer I got ahold of his extensive collection, which includes ani difranco's dilate and the song superhero, damn......that shit brings me back to monica, mosh pits, a summer in an apartment with three of my best friends and one random girl ann who kicked ass and bought us beer which we drank on the tar roof outside musebomb's window - the window that brought hot air and garbage truck sounds in at six am, a tequila bottle filled with listerine and a pint jar filled and subsequently emptied into the wakogeko's gullet of tequila, talking about chickbugs and their thirst for grape soda with the poor, poor cashier at that grocery on mifflin street, really big pants that could fit one of us in each let, a mattress in a room with a fire-escape smoking lounge, running along with my biking friends down to picnic point and back again at nine pm and then chaining three cigarettes upon returning home, cross-country skiing lessons in an eighty degree living room...........Wow that shit's flashing....and back

Today was a good day, I'm taking on a bit of extra responsibility at my day job; the chef is finally taking some much, much needed hours off of his schedule and I'll get to run solo for a good bit of the breakfast/lunch/brunch show and even get some help when it's needed, technically, we're all on the level there, but it's like I said to the sucker who questioned my authority a week and a half ago, "you can follow my lead or you can do what you're doing and deal with the consequences later"....or some such shit. I'm having a good time, for the time being, making up my own fun food lunch specials and plodding through the less than scintillating breakfast/lunch/brunch stuff - I figure, as I have for some time that work is work, it's not what the work is that matters, it's how you do it....yeah, chromeeyes, wax fucking poetic some more and you'll have issues........

Anyway, I'm coffee shop blogging right now, which is cool and I'm a little sad to see that there aren't any shows that are catching my fancy the next couple of days, but I've been off from my second job and will be until saturday all week and it feels good to drink a glass of wine after work, shoot some breeze with my co-workers, grab some sushi (did that tonight) from the grocery store and be up to my own devices for the remainder of the evening.

I hope I don't get sick off that grocery store sushi. I've done it before and haven't, but I always hope the same thing. They're some bloody moron definition of insanity that goes as follows: Insanity is repeating the same function expecting different results.

Lates,
Chromeeyes

Hurrican aftermath sensitivity warning,

Alright, I watched the premier of the second season of Lost tonight although I’d never seen the first season. Notable - the tv station decided that warning me of the impending rain was more important than letting me watch Lost in a timely manner, so I watched and surfed through like fourty-five minutes of it’s raining, so if you don’t want to get wet go inside “public service” coverage of the “storm” until which time the tv station decided to rebroadcast the premier of lost on an affiliate station. The coverage was god-awful, at one point, having nothing better to discuss an anchor was talking about how busy the insurance adjusters were going to be tomorrow……..really bad stuff. Anyway, I think I may keep up with Lost for a while while it’s convenient or not but it was an alright show for a slow night. Anyway, afterwards there is this aliens show that was premiering and there was some shitty warning regarding the depiction of hurrican aftermath and those sensitive to such things should be advised..............wow.

My allergies were terrible tonight and I’m not sure, but everyone around me seems to be sick, from my boss to the barista who’s got some serious undergarment disfunction ;). Yeah, I’m beaning it again ( I’m not sure how I like the sound of that, but it might grow on me - I’m not sure I’m cool necessarily with folks being able to google where I hang out and find me, but beaning is at the Urban Bean, so that’s that forever in google land I guess.)

Anyway, work was cool today, I found out that the rest of the kitchen staff is getting their hours cut, but the chef told the general manager that under no circumstances would he cut my hours. My call is that that cuts two ways: 1) the chef knows that the hours that I put in are worth more than my wage and he knows he’s getting his money’s worth and 2) he knows that if he cuts my hours I’ll just go get another job cooking because of item one. I feel bad for the rest of the staff though, I mean, money’s ok in the chrome eyes world, not overly abundant, but it’s ok, I work two jobs and have like 75% more income than they do, so a hundred bucks a week might not suck too bad for me, but for them it really sucks and that sucks, but I guess they could get another job too so that’s that.

OH, SHIT YEAH. My Claritin just kicked in - BADASS!

Over and out for now,
Chromeeyes

Yeah, the Old 97's Alive & Wired is essential listening - bloody awe inspiring, but that's just me.

Lates,
Erasmus

Yeah, the Old 97s Alive & Wired is seriously essential listening........bloody good stuff.

out,
Erasmus

Offshoots

I saw a good friend off today on his way to Portland, Oregon today. Kinda sad, funny too, how after living with and sharing personal battles for the past couple of years he'll be a day and night's drive away now. Hopefully, we'll say in touch better than I stay in touch generally.........

I had a whole day off today and really was just a homebody - did laundry, listened to music, wasted time. Someday I'll get motivated on my days off, but today wasn't the one for that.

My shoulder hurts like I cracked my collar bone when I reach toward my toes; I think I've got to start stretching my new-found muscles (new found from working 65-70 hours/week in a kitchen).

I've considered starting a running regiment lately, I'm gaining weight again, finally, which is a relief because for a while I could eat as much as I had time to and was losing weight (again I'm pretty sure it was an occupational hazard in july and august - see above). I think instead I'm going to buy a bicycle and find the city trails.

Work is slowing down I'm only working like four days a week at my second job, which is alright. I've got mixed emotions about that job now, but I think mostly I need to take a chill and let thme ride because it'll get better and it's not bad to start with.

There's this unfairly amazing red haired, clog wearing thing sitting across from me at the urban bean.

I've thought quite a lot about serenity in my life lately and I endeavor to reach the plateau I've seen before(ie I need to chill out so I can reflect and introspect and such (can you say introspect?).

I got an airplane ticket for my birthday and I need to figure out what to do with it. I'm thinking one of two west coasts.......we'll see where that goes.

Sometimes I feel watched.

I was wicked congested this morning, shit for like a week, anyway I took the little red crack pills and that did the trick, but after the first set wore off I felt real shitty so I took another set - I only hope it won't keep me up the better part of the night.

Who thinks it's a good idea to make my sitemeter public? OK bad idea 'cause then y'all will know how blooming lame this blog's become....oh wait, if you're reading this you already do know....hmmm............

I've decided I really like the new The Hold Steady, which for those of you not in the know is the new Lifter Puller. I've decided I decidedly do not care for the new Aqualung.

Is there a new Old 97s disk out yet?.......I'll check...........yeah.............Alive and Wired [LIVE]....I was hoping it'd be new new, but I think I'll go get it once this chai latte is in my gut....that and MIA...and maybe another white stripes disk.........unhealthy late obscession(sp?). Yeah, I'm going to cheapo and then home and then to......well I'm not sure where to then, but as I've intemated before hopefully to sleep before 2am (I slept so well last night, why can't I sleep when I've got to work then next day?).

Yeah that's about it,
Chromeeyes

A day of rest

Yeah, so today I've got the day off and tomorrow I'll have the day off. My working weekend turned out allright, but the end of it put me in a pretty foul mood. I worked both jobs (burl and barbette) friday and saturday, but saturday night the sous-chef at burl said he wouldn't be needing me on sunday night which was fine with me because well I'd be working from like 7am to 4pm on sunday anyway - it'd be cool to have an unexpected night off. Anyway, I got home from work sunday and the line cook who was supposed to be on at burl was a nocallnoshow and so the sous-chef gave me a call and asked me to come in. I was really pretty pissed at the bugger who didn't figure he should show up, but the sous' father had had a heart attack the day before, so I made the trip so he could have the night off. Regardless of that when I got to work I was pretty pissed and it was real slow so I rounded up the troop and set the to a cleaning regiment (confidential to fillipe - bottom altosham, eighth inch of congealed turkey a/o pork fat coating the bottom - eew!). The dishwasher took his fine time getting the dishes done and then avoided the kitchen by talking on the phone in the banquet kitchen and the line cook was like, "are you in charge of me?," and I was like,"no, I'm not in charge of you, but it's like this, you can choose to follow my lead or you can slack around - it's your choice. Anyway the two of us cleaned for a while, cooked for a while and then bashed knuckles(friendly) at the end of the night, so I left in a much better mood than when I started and as a result stopped by the SA on my way home and picked up a jumbo candy bar and gatorade care package for the night crew at barbette, who were appreciative on account of having been slammed just before I got there. Anyway, that was my sunday, so I got home hung out and watched Hildalgo with Vigo Mortensen, real quality stuff.

Lately I've been pretty into the arcade fire and the shins, mixed with a fair amount of "Get Behind me Satan" by the White stripes. I've fairly cooled a bit on atmosphere, but that's likely becase this dude at work I introduced to atmosphere doesn't listen to anything else...........side note: I'm watching the eagles and falcons right now and they had some bloody country and western song playing highlights of the first half - not happy.........anyway back to the music, now I know how musebomb jerry feels about the voodoo glow skulls now.

I've not been sleeping so well lately, but I'm getting over that sooner than later - slept in this morning until like eight, so that's nice and then I ate two Chipoltle burritos for lunch, that was good, but I'm getting hungry again, so I may make myself a little pasta, I've got some canned whole pear tomatos, pasta, kalamata olives, and some cream in the fridge, so I'll likely whip something up on that end, but I really want to eat like three brats, so I may head to the store and do that too, we'll see what transpires.

over,
Chromeeyes

Yeah.

So a friend and I hit the Liffey Irish Pub with his sister last night. Pretty cool time, kinda just what I needed after a seemingly longish weekend. I've lately been working with a few of the cranky at work folks...not really sure where that comes from or how you go about that. The rest of the weekend was pretty fine really. Saturday I had some drinks (read too many) with some of my compadres from barbette and that was a good time all around; plenty of shop talk and those two hearted ales, some things will be forgiven in time....some day I'll learn, really. Not sure what I'm going to do with my day off today, but I'm sure I'll relax and then take a nap at some point...guess it doesn't matter...that's the best part about a day off, you get to make all your own rules, within your own means. I think I'm going to check out a bike shop to two today as well, I've been meaning to look at and potentially purchase one of these new-fangled contraptions and I guess I will someday soon. I'm thinking that with gas prices where they are any time on a bike will be better than time in a car, plus I'm looking for a way to exercise that doesn't give my shins the pains. Yeah so that's my tuesday the sixth update from the UBean.

Over and Out,
Chromeeyes.

I think I just bought an insurance policy


Just now I helped the thug types who live in my building jumpstart their full-sized dodge van. They were trying to use a lighter and cables with a short to get the van jumped and first I pulled out my maglight and then troubleshot their cables and substituted mine subsequently. Plus, I gave them a talking to about the dangers of batteries and hydrogen gas, hopefully they'll get a flashlight next time. I'm guessing that my car won't get broken into anytime soon. I worked both jobs today, the golf club thing was a sinch, except for well....a fair amount of disorganization that led to some uncharacteristic cussing on my part, but hey that's senioritice for yah....half the help at the club is on the way out and some of the college kids are slacking and there's a change in management to boot, so we'll see where that goes, they're not hiring a sous-chef until spring, so the story goes and I'm not sure I'd be interested at all anyway, but they should be interested
'cause I've got a feeling shit's gonna go real sour real quick.......well so it goes.

I'm going to check out my possible future employment - the birchwood cafe - tomorrow night and see what it's like, plus I've heard that both the staff and clientel are hot.....barbette hot?...we'll have to see.

Anyway that's about all I've got for tonight seeing as how I'm tired.

lates,
Chromeeyes

post script: Happy belated birthday to K_rel of this is not a fugazi tee shirt dot blogspot dot com

Yeah, so I'm working up a new template for my blog and it's here for public viewing. I'm not sure I like it at all, but It's taking me a while to customize it because I've been off the internets for quite some time and haven't been keeping up on my small small amount of html cut/paste skillz.

So, I ran around a little this afternoon took a nap made lunch and dinner, pretty much a normal lazy saturday, except that it's tuesday.

Anyway, I think I'm going to have a conversation about my new job prospects with the chef at my full time cooking job, hopefully, well really I haven't really figured out the right way to approach that one yet, but we'll see what he's got to say about it...kinda thinking it doesn't matter, but that's that.

Additionally, I think I'm getting motivation to see this state fair buisness, but I'm not sure when I'm going, maybe this weekend; the golf club buisness is slowing down and I'm only working there three days this week, so maybe something less than twenty hours, which is nice for a change, but I've got to get better at not getting bored with my free time, even today it seemed like too much to have a whole day off - probably just shell shock from not just hanging out for a day for a while without anything pressing to get done, I'm sure it's good for me somehow.

later y'all

Chromeeyes

Stuff, stuff and more stuff,

As I was virtually discussing with a_ron and cheffillipe last night in separate converasations I'm fairly certain I missed the bus twice in one week and two euphamistically separate buses (the euphamisism are the same the buses were different and yes sexy). So, all I've got to say about that is, stupid f-ing working at 7am saturday and sunday......shit maybe I'll catch a bus sooner than later, but I've got to get better at knowing when the bus is leaving 'cause both times it was a flat whif, shit I didn't even really see it coming on one occasion and on the other I really just should have been more assertive, shit I don't know maybe I didn't want to catch either bus anyway......regardless there'll be more buses and such, like the fish.

In occupational news, apparently hard work pays off. I got a job offer at an organic cafe last night. It felt real good to find out that sometimes you don't just get used for working concienciously and efficiently. I'm starting to think that the country club thing is about as much as I can take and I'm fairly certain that if a position opened up there I wouldn't be offered it anyway as a result of needs which is straight up fucking bullshit, but that's the way the world is sometimes and that world can stay in sub-suburbia with its fucking driving ranges and monkeys wearing short pants who'd rather eat a burger and fries than a fresh made pasta with a made to order sauce or whatever.....who am I to argue with the eating habits of bloody suv wielders.

So, today I'm off of work entirely and I've just kicked through my long forgotten Oranger cd (highly recommended) - the cd was inside my clock radio and woke me up the other morning because I had the switch moved to cd instead of alarm; I'm just glad I didn't have the volume turned all the way down 'cause this fool wouldn't have woke up for shit otherwise or not....this morning my eyes opened to the new day at like seven and then I drank coffee, washed the feeks off my body (long story), and drank some of the beautiful french pressed shade grown organic sludge I've been getting so accustomed to and made my way to the coffee shop to type and internet, alas I still don't have my home internet connection hooked up and feel guilty scamming it off various unsecured weefee networks in the area, albeit with a shitty connection from my home. Right now I've got Bright Eyes blaring in my headphones . Later today I think I'm going shopping I'm going to get a chair from IKEA and some new brown shoes.


over and out,
Chromeeyes

Songs on the Radio

What's it mean when the only song on the radio that rings true is "Let it be" by the Beatles.....oh yeah, and personally, I perfer the one that they did on sesame street better anyway, but that's neither here nor there. So last night at work one of my coworkers put the soft hits station on the radio and I heard both Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith; brought me back to some strange days - that's fo sho. over.

Chromeeyes

Over the last couple of weeks I've acquired a couple of new vices. The first is San Pellegrino Limonata - may the lord have mercy on my poor decrepit soul. Sour, bubbly and citrusy sweet, bloody ambrosia that's what it is. The second is alone time in my new apartment in the mornings that I'm not working. It's real just to hang out and enjoy the world I've built around myself. Oh yeah, these things don't coincide. In other vice news I've been drinking more and smoking less, although I think I may drink less again for a while now that summer festivities are all over as far as my eyes can see at least.

Anyway, it's about time for me to take back the pair of cooking shoes that I bought a week ago they're dangerous slippery in a commercial kitchen setting so fyi don't go and get yourself a pair of Santia by Emeril anytime soon 'cause you might as well wear ice skates around the kitchen - there I said it - BLAH!

over and out,
Chromeeyes

I just may have to puchase one of the "I support foreign car magnet manufacturers" shirts. These'll be classic in a few months mark my words..or not.

lates,
Chromeeyes

Sharing..I learned that in preschool, but not like this.

What's it mean to share a cigarette? Well total revulsion is likely out of the question in the very least that's alright I guess.

over,
Chromeeyes

..no seriously...

If that's the display model I'm right there.

bye.

Holy hell,

Bloody magnificado!

'nuf said.

out,
Chromeeyes

That's it!

Righto, so I bought a sweet laptop today, I've lately figured that I work hard, so I should reap some of the benefits of the labor.....and such.

Other than that I've been just mostly working a lot and having a bit of fun at some company summer parties. Last night I hung out at this place on lake independence - my golf club outing; we drank and talked and chilled mostly, but it was cool as always to hang with the folks that I stress with while they're not stressing. The better of the two (no offence to y'alls b.o. folk) was at the bryant lake bowl, the owner of the restaurant I cook at owns that bowling alley too, so she threw a party for us - free bowling, open bar.....all on a Monday night and well within walking distance to my new apartment - hoo ha!

I'll be back for more sooner than later, hopefully we get the internets hook-ed to my apartment this week or then next...it's kinda requisite anyway, 'cause ya gotta have cable tv to watch american football Sunday nights and that, I've heard, starts fairly soon as well.

Best Regards and warm wishes,

Chromeeyes aka Erasmus

Just, fucking, you know, log on.

As per usual during my mornings off or so it seems lately I caught a bit of Regis and Kelly; today they were interviewing Dakota Fanning - that's one scary little girl yikes! Anyway, I saw that batman movie last night and seriously, let's just call it spiderman MK2 - same formulaic crap in a can. Unfortunately I was pretty spellbound by the looking through the eyes of an acid trip special effects and did like the move away from the matrix-esque supaslowmo action sequences in favor of a comic bookish quick, indiscernible limbs smashing face in a blur thing. I think I'm waiting to see war of the worlds until it comes out on broadcast television.....looks horrible, plus I'm not sure I can watch with out wretching that scientologist pseudo-pedophile character for the better or worse part of two hours. This week I'm on pace to work about fifty hours and damn, this whole concept of relaxation and sleep is quite all right really. In reading news I'm finishing my second Bukowski book I've read Hot Water Music and am almost finished with Tales of Ordinary Madness. I'm also toiling into this book On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee - it's not a recipe book, basically it's a practical food science text book with a light feel that includes history and epithets and the like a good time spent in non-fiction if you're interested in food at all. I also just finished Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card - don't bother with it unless you've made your way through the rest of the series and like the other series I've read by this funny Mormon allegorist I'd have been better off not following the story though six volumes, but I'll never learn and always follow cool ideas into oblivion. This all brings me to my last issue. What should I read next - vote or some shit and I'll get back to ya...otherwise I'm going to read the copy of Half Asleep in Frog Pagamas by Tom Robbins that I bought used about a year ago and have neglected since - I think I got a martini that day at Tonic(now defunkt) at two in the afternoon.

Keeping it fake,
Erasmus

short notes


I followed a rainbow into minneapolis this evening on my way back from work - it was cool.

over,
Chromeeyes

Quite Right.....

It's been too long my friends, too long since posting and much too long since any content's been set down. Anyway, I got a new cooking job the other day at this pretty hip joint in uptown called Cafe Barbette. Most of the reviews I've seen on the food are negative, but I'll be working for a new chef there who doesn't yet know the blessing he's recieved employing yours truely; new management and chrs on the scene should be a good time. The cool thing about it is there giving me guarenteed hours, a set schedule and bennys (and I mean insurance) which is rare in the cooking gig. Hurrah!

The last few weeks I've been working a ghastly number of hours between the golf club thing and the catering company (I've given these bloody morons notice) and any of you who've seen me in person or talked or not talked to me on the phone might have noticed the fatigue seeping across the rf wave lines. This week on the other hand has been a lot more chill and I'm finally getting back to my groove (this post is a case in point). After finding a suitable apartment in uptown tuesday I took a nap wednesday afternoon for like four and a half hours after work - went to sleep at two-thirty and woke up a little before seven - nice. I've had the last couple of mornings off as well and I'm feeling good except that I slept funny and pulled this muscle in my neck/shoulder/back that only hurts when I check my left blind spot. In other injury news I filletted my left ring fingernail off with my chef's knife about a week ago and it's healing nicely; most of the skin that came off was under the nail so that'll heal without any visible scarring (I'd post a pic, but I'm at the coffee shop so that'll have to wait.

more later and such,
Chromeeyes

post script: anybody got any leads on a good low-end new laptop computer(wireless card ready)? I think I'm going to buy one soon.

off mefi nsfw rofl


Geek fantasies is a funny time I personally dig #5.....oh the humanity.

I shouldn't have posted this - ever.

Bright Eyes : Concert in Review

First off, Mars Black was pretty amusing - real good work on the turntables and the rhymes were real tolerable. While I didn't really hear much of what The Faint had to say, their presentation was boffo and they sounded pretty cool as well - at the time I was conversing in the upper deck of first ave. The show was all ages, but they let you drink the swill up there if you're at or over 21. Finally Bright Eyes was real impressive. A lot of years ago A_ron took me to see a Sheryl Crow concert and it was a good time, but poor Sheryl was at the end of the tour and pretty much every song was the equivalent of listening to the cd, which was a little disappointing, but after a long tour, I can see how artistic expression is hard to come by. Not so with the bright eyes show, which was advertised as, " Bright Eyes Performing songs from 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.'" They only played only like two or three songs not on that album, but the presentation was rad - no less than seven to ten band members, two drum sets, a couple of string pieces...etc. An absolutely deafening sonic incursion into my brain and a move away from playing the songs to wrote off the cd. Really it was what I go to live shows to see - bands I like playing music with an artistic edge that lables them performers and not just recording artists. That's all I've got for now.

Lates,
Chromeeyes

Tasty treat 

Drink the monkey blood 

rejustification

A couple of days ago I saw a Dodge Ram pickup truck with two greatful dead stickers, one on the tailgate and one on the back window. Additionally the truck had one of those christian fishies with a cross where the eyes are supposed to be. How does one place that market segment? Overtly stoner christians - that's some strange strange stuff - not to mention the juxtoposition of two flaming skulls and a fishie(that reminds me of a song I used to sing).

I've got K_rel's charger in a padded envelope on my desk and god willing it'll be in the f-ing mail today yet. Hurrah!

For all y'alls musical snobs out there I'm going to see brighteyes at the first avenue venue in minneapolis (side note: they don't let you smoke there anymore). There will be a forthcoming review of said concert.

Last night I went out to a bar with the executive chef at the country club that I work at after work. Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge is a real find; I've started to like NE Minneapolis better and better the more I see of it. Anyway that was a little weird in that a social engagement with a superior is always a little stressed until you get the gist of the sitch. I met his wife and a friend of his as well - it was a pretty cool time overall.

over and out,
Chromeeyes

quite right,

I saw "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" a couple of nights ago and it was really quite the clever sci-fi thing, not really compelling, but if you're in the mood for an entertaining light hearted flick about a guy running around in his bath-robe spouting a UK accent then it'll fit the bill. Did some pricing at IKEA this weekend and found that when I move out I might just get my place all pimped and such. I'm going to get my hair cut tonight. I predict that Bo is going to win the american idol shit and the San Diego Chargers are going to win the superbowl shit. I've been working too much to blog much lately and well...this might be as good as it gets for a while or until I figure out the rest of my life, we'll see which comes first.

Lates,
chromeeyes

binary fusion - damn fine group - from detroit....maybe after google-ing it's binary star either way it's mine as soon as I pick it up and such - rock.

Locusts - "we are the swarm"

Last night I watched this made for tv movie locusts after a couple of weeks ago having seen tlc's "Super Volcano". Both are fictional accounts of natural disasters of apocolyptic scale. Super Volcano was pretty bad and while the artificial plot line was terrible, there was absolutely no way that it could have prepared me for "locusts" starring Xena the warrior princess, and the swarm of flesh eating locusts (spoiler warning) that were in the end electrocuted after the entire US turned their lights out for a day in the stead of gassing them w/ a nerve agent. It was real bad, even offensive - at one point Xena's husband was talking to some foreigners and he was on the phone with Xena who was giving him hell - in the subtitles the translater said, "these Americans know much about farming, but little about women." I think that was supposed to be funny, but how would these foreigners have delt with the situation - I'm thinking likely with violence - not cool. Anyway, I didn't finish it and I miss Xena w/out her sword and armor.

bye

First Draft

1. braylon edward wr San Francisco 49ers
2. alx smith Miami qb Dolphins
3. aaron rodgers qb Cleveland Browns
4. derrick johnson lb Chicago Bears
5. carnell williams rb Tampa Bay Bccaneers
6. atrell rolle cb Tennessee Titans
7. mike williams wr Minnesota Vikings
8. cedrick benson rb Arizona Cardinals
9. adam jones cb Washington Redskins
10. shawn merriman de/lb Detroit Lions
11. demarcus ware de/lb dallas cowboys
12. markus spears de San Diego Chargers
13. ronnie brown rb Houston Texans
14. alex barron ot Carolina Panthers
15. troy williamson wr Kansas City Chiefs
16. thomas davis s New Orleans Saints
17. travis johnson dt Cincinati Bengals
18. david pollock de Minnesota Vikings
19. jamal brown ot Saint Louis Rams
20. dan cody de dallas cowboys
21. carlos rodgers cb Jacksonville Jaguars
22. mark clayton wr Baltimore Ravens
23. shawn cody de Seattle Seahawks
24. brodney poole s Green Bay packers
25. jason campbell qb Washington Redskins
26. heath miller te Oakland Raiders
27. khalif barnes ot Atlanta Falcons
28. roddy white wr San Diego Chargers
29. erasmus james de Indianapolis Colts
30. marcus johnson g Pittsburg Steelers
31. matt jones wr Philadelphia Eagles
32. marlin jackson cb New England Patiots

Hey, that's just my prediction, we'll see where that one goes. Luckily I'm working from 11am to like 9:30 today, so I'll be otherwise involved because if I wasn't my eyes would be glued to the tv watching espn from like noon to 7 or 8 and that's just no good, bordering on unhealthy obcession. I'm a football fan, but moreso than being a fan of the regular season, I'm a fan of the draft. Somehow a game of variables built on inumberous veriables spins me just right. Yeah, that's my call for the day and I'll likely pour over the boards when my day's done, which is fine with me.

Later on,
Chromeeyes

Greetings From the Fine Grind (clean; publicly safe edition)

First off, yeah, I'm still ranting about that smoking ban, but I'm sure it'll be forgiven as soon as forgotten or some such shit. The shins show was the start to a great smoke free metro - hurah (murmers in the background disapprove).

Righto then, it looks like I missed an opportunity to see fire and wine (that sounds right, but it just doesn't ring true, somebody help me out with that one. Bright eyes is coming up though and after furthur review, honestly, I've been waiting for an album like Digital Ash in a Digital Urn for a while, the new ('04) streets didn't do it, although that was pretty cool and RJD2 really didn't do it for me. Frome time to time there's an album that just get stuck in my brain and DAIDU really did - so that's that and I'm much ashamed to say so.

My roommate and his girl are big into that american idol thing - me not so much, but there's this show on afterwards that I thought was good for that last few weeks - this hospital drama called House. I don't usually tolerate hospital drama, but this is an internal medicine hospital drama, which deals much less with blood and much more with differential diagnosis, which byway of the logic involved is fairly cerebral. You see Fineas and you're like well we'd better take that railroad spike outta urr 'ead. In contrast internal medicine is the figurative interpretation of the body's goings on - I kinda digit(s.i.c.). Today, I got sick of the formula revolving around it's this, but wait, no it's not it's this, no it's not it's actually that, maybe it only seemed good because after american idol I'd likely watch M.A.S.H or Friday Night Videos or even the Golden Girls and feel good about it. Too much tv, not enough books read - lesson learned.

lates,
Chromeeyes

Weekend update,

So, none of my three expectations came true, but I did hit the new walker for a spell, that was mighty fine.

Cruisin'
chromeeyes

In anticipation of not being internet concious this weekend

These are the things I anticipate:

1) retribution from k)(rel for a comment regarding a "U.S." senator and bodily excretions

2) a visit from "la policier contentia"

3) breakfast at the triple rock (ROCK!)

4) redemption

5) goons, insane asyulms and morgues

OVer,
Chromeeyes

Seriously "out of context" quotes

Oh lord have mercy on my soul. I'm listening to thursday's edition of The Majority Report and so speaketh David Cross,"I would take exception to that, because what benifits Paris Hilton in turn benifits America." Thanks to a()ron I've been listening to the last few of these Majority reports. It's alot of fun and I think Mr. Cross needs his own talk show.

Anyway, this weekend is looking to be some work and some play, I need another live show or something, but we'll see.

later,
Chromeeyes

Mourning Highlights

Checkitout, I woke up a little late this morn apres hitting the aforementioned 1stave last night for a pretty kicking shins and brunettes(not sure where they were going or where they were last night, but hey) show last night. Anyway I got to catch part of Regis and Kelly's opening discussion wherein Kelly was recounting her trip to the ballgame and she discussed the dynamics of squatting. Apparenty the girls make quite a mess in the privy as a result of the squatting and Kelly was complaining that at public places she had no choice, but to mop up others' refuse or the subsequent patrons who saw her exiting such mess would suppose that she was the slob that caused it and would call her a "bitch"(she said bitch at like 9:15am on brodcast televison). Amusing, the thought of a celebrity whiping up a pool of piss to avoid criticism.

Lates,
Erasmus

Concert Review in the form of an appology letter or "I perfer the sur-up"

Dear Shins,

I ardently appologise for the show you played at first avenue last night. I appologise for the minnesotans who bodysurfed, held lighters in the air, clapped, and did the fist in the air thing. Furthermore, I appologise that you could see all the way across the first avenue dance floor - there's lately been a ban on smoking and I personally neglected to organize a civil disobedience protest last night, next time I will.

Sincerely,
Desiderius Erasmus

post script: I'm not one to get all hairy about being irritated by patrons at a good show, but a guy in a brown, yellow and mauvre vertical striped shirt hit me in the balls one too many times while slapping his girl's ass in time to the music; I'm not sure I've been more irritated.

Praying on Assasins

I watched "Meet the Press" in brief last sunday and they were interviewing a bishop or and arch-bishop or something. Anyway, when asked how hard it was for the pope to sit down and pray with the man who tried to assasinate him, the bishop responded - "not hard at all for a man as spiritually grounded as the pope." Of all the commentary that's been mushed around regarding the late leader of the catholic church this piece is my favorite. In day to day life most of us struggle against an enemy more akin to Dr.Jeckle/Mr.Hyde than spiderman struggling against the joker. While public figures are more prone to aquiring an nemesis than the rest of our poor souls - the image of a man forgiving and reconsiling with a nemesis in real life, taking initiative to seek understanding with an opponent who he had never intentionally harmed, speaks poigniently to my sense of self and future self. We all would do well to aspire to such a level of intensity empathetically.

On a softer note: I've just acquired a couple of bright eyes' latest disks and bought a ticket to the May 12 show; let's call it an experiment in reconstitution. I saw bright eyes with grandaddy a few years ago at the 400 bar and then bright eyes again at the electric fetus the next day. I got a kick out of it and upon first review the new disks are pretty good - the music's got a rhett miller (not to be confused with the Old 97s) attraction to it. We'll see how it sticks, but for now I'm gonna say I'm enjoying the foray into bright eyes for the better part.

I filled out one of those lately popular mad libs things on a-ron's blog the other day and having shunned the whole concept before I think it's alot of fun, but I'm not sure I quite get the whole thing yet. Are you suppose to fill in the blanks putting yourself in the author's shoes trying your best to replicate the author's response, therein gauging how well you know the author by interpolaing the language for the spaces? Alternatively, is the object to remake the pasage as whittily as possible or with as much continuity as possible? These are the things, sometimes, that I question, possibly.

later,
Chromeeyes

Yeah so OMG WTF - I'm posting this from the fine grind.

The fine grind - it used to be characterized by a the fine mist that trickled out the door after you when you left. No smoking section indeed. The whole city's caught up in the racket. Word on the street is that you won't even be able to smoke in the turf club anymore, the turf club; shit you expected to whipe the grime off your glasses after heading there for a pint and now crystal clear air, nothing to cover up the stank of urine and spilled swill. Oh yeah, and it's good for public health - piss on it.

out,
Erasmus

post script: I've started reading that bukowski guy, just because he's got a "ski" name not a bit of bad stuff really. Lates.

Chromeeyes in translation - Awsome.

In response to, tangentially at least, My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter

Fist off, K_rel's post is super funny, but it does bring up an interesting issue.

I speak for only myself and my views only, here, now. The aformentioned bumper sticker is very much a reason why I have not participated in organized religion for quite some time. Somewhere out there there's a myth or story about the fish that looks like an infinty symbol with half a circle lopped off, wherein the symbol was place outside residences to let persons know where safe havens for christians were. A large part of christianity is based in tradition and the safe haven tradition is part of the experience. I have no problem with the safe haven bit, but the bumper sticker is more than that, right; it's a very obvious declaration of faith and that too I am not opposed to. The problem for me is the tone in which the message invokes to the non-christian reader. The message is a "I'm a Christian and you're not so there" a negatively prideful message - unbiblical for all of you literalists out there. Even less appealing to the non-christian is the "in event of rapture this car will be unmanned." The problem with the bumperstickers is that from inside certain american christian cultures they are seen as funny and true and outside of that culture the stickers are associated with a negatively prideful message - problematic communication between contexts. I personally denounce that portion of christian culture today. I do think, though that if you're going to have a bumper sticker that's a declaration of your christianity, the one m_g's got is about right.

God Bless Everyone. No Exceptions.

as you were,
Chromeeyes

Yeah, so I've been perusing the anti-drug websites; as some of you will recieve notification from......ha ha (I'm laughing out loud as I'm writing this - suckas! - ha ha)

Anyway, there's also this site that I think is pretty funny stuff 911 in plane site. I mean seriously folks, as they say, "conspiracy theory is the new muti-colored toejam".

On a more or less serous note, a couple of new disks I've laid my hands on are well worth the buck if, that is, you're down with some kick-ass new hip hop. The first is Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives a product of that Aesop Rock thing I've been fanatic about lately. In addition the new offering from Atmosphere, Headshots: Se7en is an interesting movement between Overcast and Lucy Ford for which I'm quite grateful.

Yeah, it's like that y'all,
Chromeeyes

For every cigarette that's trying to crawl out of my ashtray and other atmosphere metaphores, like, "You better find a way, you'd better do it soon, it's like the middle of may and you only got till june, if I'm forced to watch you touch that torch to that spoon even one more time, I swear to God I'm gonna implode"

yeah, like that y'all - dig it! So, I've delved deep into the depths of atmosphere's lucy ford too far again. Having a good week, hope y'all's do too.

A shout out to 'rah who's b-day was yesterday - happy 30th 'rah! (like the sign says)

over,
Chromeeyes

Is new post

is recent obscession with garden state
is listening at soundtrack
is invested in watching said film soon
is impressed upon being spoken to as such by media, both aural and visual
is


lates,
Chromeeyes

The Last Dance Party?

yeah, so musebomb changed himself around, I think he had an online poker website spamming his comment section. Let'r rip.

Check it out.

-Chromeeyes

Tech notes,

Anybody out there know if there's a instant messenger program out there that'll let you know when you've got new gmail, like yahoo im does with yahoo mail?

Yeah, so I just pulled this off google, I thought I'd be able to censor myself, but apparently not...........

Reconstitution
Reconstitution. Sunday, February 06, 2005. yeah, so fuck the beatles too,
fucking bullshit. Hey Jude, finger fuck yourself. ¶ 5:31 ...
chromeeyes.blogspot.com/ - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

Tombstone Bleus

Well, John the Baptist after torturing a theif
Looks up at his hero the commander and chief
Saying, "tell me great hero, but please make it brief
Is there a hole for me to get sick in?

The commander and cheif answers him while chasing a fly
Saying death to all those who would whimper and cry
And dropping a barbell he points to the sky
saying the sun's not yellow it's chicken

-bob dylan

Seriously folk, take it all in.

Over and out,
Erasmus

How I long for the days of the automat.




I plan to resurrect this institution. The time has again come for good, fast hot....

Today

Yo, so I threw up some ribaldry pic from the other weekend; enjoy.

Additionally this week's started out quite right. I kinda felt like garbage all last week, but didn't know it until I woke up monday morning feeling great. Colds have a way with that with me - I can't really tell that I'm sick until I'm well.

It's tuesday and I've foregone the whole hump day thing and am looking toward the weekend; I think I've got to get myself out and see some live music this weekend because I've had a bit of a drought of seeing anything of note lately. Hopefully they're'll be something worth-while.

Speaking of worth-while, yesterday I realized that somehow I've gone this long without reading or listening to the state of the union address, guess it's probably the usual drivel and cliche, but it seems like the kind of thing an informed citizen would do - I usually make a point of it.

Late,
Chromeeyes

Yeah, and here's chromeeyes, let the foreground take you where you need to go with this. 

Happy not your birthday yet rah! (also from the aformentioned trip - somewhere between 2 and 5 am sunday morn) 

Way back, chicago, a_ron & rah setting up the balls in the "blair witch" confuguration. Note: pink hat girl not willing to hit the blair witch ball config in the balls.
 

Ardvark Proud!

That - a classic.


Right on, so my weekend consisted of cooking for a bunch of pomps, dinner with friends (I finally got to use my le crusset cookware and it was a joy) and suffering through a football game in which my favorite team (since #7 was running crazy - and by seven I mean the annointed one r.cunningham)got runned over by my new favorite team to root against. All in all, pretty routine.

Anyway, the week is new and I've decided after a week of furlough to blog again.

Thanks go out to the crew that showed me the best of Chicago - that's you k-rel, rah, aa_ron,b_n and also the self proclaimed "queen of the internets" who since I've now met for the first and likely last time.

Yeah,

So, sorry about the previous three posts, out of character by way of the discolor that is so vividly strewn about the text, but that superbowl show may have ruined football for me forever - paul's gastly sillouette is still burned into the back of my retinas - yick.

Lates

yeah, so fuck the beatles too, fucking bullshit. Hey Jude, &*()&*()&* &*()&*()yourself.

Live and let die.....featuring the wild, fucking wild PIANO solo - whoo!, let me catch my breath motherfuckers!

beep beep,

yeah, fuck paul mc, seriously folks that shit's sour.

Lates

89.3 The Current Update

Decemberists followed by Interpol! This can't be real - no commercials to boot!

Get on it!

89.3 The Current - a service of minnesota public radio!


On the radio a couple of days ago I was sifting around through my presets and was pretty unhappy, so I went surfing. I stopped at a white stripes song and deathcab for cutie followed, what the hell is this? And then, there's like Mary Lucia telling me I'd just heard the White Stripes and Deathcab For Cutie. Well, it's stupendous and fantastic. Anyway, yesterday was like fourty, so I skipped out of work early and bummed around uptown and there were these people (pictured above) - so I was like,"how long y'all been around" and they're like " two days" and I'm like, "I've been listening for two days!" and they're like "cool, have a bumper sticker." So there you have it, so if you're in the twin cities or know someone who is let'em know because any public radio station that plays actual good tunes is actual cool. 

post script Don't be afraid to listen on-line either. Quite a good thing this 89.3 The current.

Went to this cat shelter the other day. I seriously wanted to take half a dozen home with me. It was really and incredible lesson in humanity. There were half a dozen voulenteers taking care of the about fifty cats each and every one with a care remeniscient of a mother with her children. I'm thinking I may voulenteer there.

Lates,
Erasmus / 

This, in fact, is a bird house constructed by m_g's grandfather, note the baby, moose. 

And where would the rock be w/out red bull 

...still more triple rock. ROCK! (that's a shout out to Mr. Peter Lake) 

News flash! The Triple Rock Social Club - still intact. Beautiful, wonderous saturday morning coffee after a ribaldrous night - hoo ha! 

Fun-fun. Yah, so at my favorite laundry shop they's got those bouncy balls for sale in an actual vending machine. Anyone want to start a petition to require all cities to have an automat? Lates, Chromeeyes 

Catch-up Blogging. Here's what we all really need; more orange county chopper stuff. As I see notable merchandise in this line I'll be sure to let you all know so that you too can get your grubby paws on a piece of the action-pact action;) 

Yeah, so I'm posting from a mac, you'll have to copy and paste the fing link, but seriously people this is kicking.

http://dollmaker.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cat/dark1.html


lates

De-Vile Herns

Hey, a little friday fun,

First, here's a couple of my favorite comics - ever.

penny-arcade
inaguration

Anyway, I'm looking forward to another weekend that I don't work which well, I hadn't had for like six months until january. I think I'll let that sink in and just make the best of it.

Anyone up for lyle's and the country bar on saturday better let me know pronto!

lates,
Erasmus

post script: Did anyone get a free ipod? I just started another one of those things for a motoraszor phone - I'm not even sure it's compadibe w/my service, but cool as hell.

New Hotness

Yeah, so first, thanks go out to a_ron for the flashy new header, which was really wanting revision anyway.

Right, so, as the e_beth said I really need to change the color of my links, if nothing else, just so I can; anyone got any pointers? I can't seem to find where the link color is specified in the template.

Anyway, after heading back from madison I'm alright here back in the tc - all escapist fantasies aside, because as silver pointed out they are nothing but trouble in the real world and my assertion that escapist fantasies are a mechanism by which we visualize and then actualize real change is a theory that tends to lose all relevance when juxtaposed with being where you are; that is if you get my drift.

Lates,
Erasmus

......and here's the shorts - seamless 

messerschmidt couching it 

Nothing pretty to wake up to 

A_ron 

Los 

Here's out and the short shorts 

Enroute 

Coffee and chess.... 

Yo,

I'm migrating there's like a high here of like two below - that's cold, even for a northwoods boy like myself. So, for the weekend, I'm heading to madison city in sconnie, which has a forcast high of like seven above - better but not balmy. Have a swell weekend my pretties and I'll check back as I can.

Lates,
Chromeeyes

ps em kt is in the know now.

chatterbox, chromeeyes, and briliant death 

chatterbox chromeeyes with a furry lamp 

more billy J. 

the billy johnson road (strip) show