89.3 The Current Update
Decemberists followed by Interpol! This can't be real - no commercials to boot!
Get on it!
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
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 /
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Friday, January 21, 2005
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.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
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
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Friday, January 14, 2005
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.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Sunday, January 09, 2005
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Gecko
2. Chromeeyes
3. Erasmus
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. charm
2. good looks
3. modesty
THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. procrastination
2. uncertainty
3. indecision
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Polish
2. Dutch
3. Belgian
THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
1. bees
2. needles
3. other drivers
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. phone
2. deoderant
3. good pants
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Grey Stocking Cap
2. Underwear (strategically an "earth tone color")
3. This great grey turtleneck zip up pullover
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS:
1. Aesop Rock
2. Old 97's
3. Mortal
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. labor days
2. four leaf clover
3. Bullet with butterfly wings
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS.
1. not smoking
2. c2
3. writing significantly daily
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
1. I'm a morning person.
2. I've traveled to russia
3. I blamed the dog for my own flatulence.
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. eat raw beef
2. follow columns of numbers or letters across a page
3. concede to living life in a logical manner
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. snowboardn'
2. music
3. literature
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. take a road trip
2. figure out the rest of my life
3. smoke a cigarette
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. economist
2. ski bum
3. chef
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. new zeland
2. new york city
3. morroco
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. ski in the southern hemisphere
2. travel europe
3. publish a novel
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY:
1. musebomb
2. viciouslamb
3. silver
Ya, so I saw the billy johnson (strip) road show last night with some friends - I'll put up a few picks later on....as they become available - sorry, but the browser I'm using doesn't support all the features I've usually got. Good times, plus we went to chang mai thai ahead of time and I got the thai basil fire noodles with fried tofu - Ummmm! Some of the pictures are from the night before at the Chatterbox.
later,
Erasmus
Friday, January 07, 2005
Sportscenter Complaint
Alright, so I'm an avid football fan and I watch espn, especially sportscenter with my morning coffee. I like it, but lately during the basketball hightlights the announcers have been using the word "facial" to describe someone gettting dunked on. I'm alright with the word facial and all that it implies, but I'm not alright with it being used as such. I remember when I was like ten and cuss words and naughty words came into popularity among my peer, specifically the phrase, "go suck an egg." Now, at the time, I didn't realize that that phrase meant to go suck your momma's tit or some such nonsense, but regardless, using it as a synonymn for "piss off" was a little embarrassing the first time I used it in front of an adult who asked me what it meant. I fear for the children. Bodily fluid deposition should not be synonomous with playground chatter as it will be if the propogation of this "facial" term becomes commonplace. Additionally, I do buy into the objectification of women through porno thing and the facial in terms of pornography is the apex of what I see as the hierarchtical structure between men and women that pornography portrays and proliferates. The metaphore of an agressor soiling a submissive victim is in no way a progressive or healthy movement in the english language or the way in which sexual relations are pursued between men and women. While the term "facial" may intimate an agressor/victim relationship due to its literary history I would have no issue, for example if the term were used in a neutral context such as a jump ball whereas the meaning of the word would change, but to use it in terms of a situation that entails subjegation is both inappropriate and irresponcible.
In other pseudoerotic news, apparently erotic photo hunt has become the new bartime past time, I'll have to check, but I think I've written a "deposition" regarding that bar/coffee place phenom elsewhere (likely lj). Overall a great time killer though...or something.
ttfn,
Erasmus