Reconstitution

2007-12-22T23:34:00.000-05:00

Christmas thoughts,

Last weekend I met a man, worked with a man hard up on his luck; how do they say that anyway, is hard up right? Picked him up for work and he was still drunk, in his fifties and seemingly charismatic, overtly outgoing at the least. I worked the day with him from our giddy meeting to his mellow coming down, while I was ferocious with energy and his crash whilst I was drunk with appreciation for the end of the day. Anyway, I choose to temper any evaluation with my mood and he wasn't matching it in anyway and I wasn't feeling bad for him for his hangover - mostly 'cause if I got shit to do I don't choose to put myself in that position......stupid growing up. Regardless, I came to think he was an alright bloke, a raving drunk as I had been forewarned, but still alright. So it came down the pipe this week byway of the chap who'd recommended his services that he'd written a letter to his steady employer, not me or my associates, pasted with magazine photos (you know men in the white coats takin' you away style) and would no longer be allowed on the premises. It struck me that he's a throwaway. Someone who's family reportedly has also received letters of the like and is not loath to him, but wary. He's a guy who if he was in a shelter we'd be happy to make dinner for, but not take home. He's somebody I'd like to help out, but in no way would I stake my professional reputation on. Rough business and it makes me sad in this holiday season that I'm as calloused as the rest of my problematic culture in regards to such individuals........there's some who emulate the late JC's actions better than I do........actions I'll definitely ponder and meditate upon.

Happy Holidays,
Chromeeyes

post script: Jesse if you've found this I'd be pleased to know and I won't change content as a result, plus props(do the kids say that anymore) on the intelligent use of a pseudonym

2007-10-04T10:23:00.000-04:00

Currently digging on Deerhunter's Cryptograms and the aught six release from good 'ol Grandaddy - "Just like the fambly cat". Fambly - nice.

Right now I'm dealing with and resolving some past problems, so keep me in your prayers folks - not a big deal really an extension of my February resolutions coming to fruition - which is nice.

I'm working my ideal hours right now, if not just on the ideal days - three thirteens in a row and four straight days off - anyone with anykindofgoodsuggestions about what to fill those days with will be greatly appreciated......today (not to be confused with todash) is organization day. I'm roasting roma tomatoes that have been in my fridge for the better part of two weeks and cleaning brussel sprouts of the same era. I've got a closet too that needs some attention, bought the plastic lidded containers to do the job when I moved in, but never took initiative.

confidential to s_z_h I'll get you the sub forms - your shindig is in the top ten on my priority list.

Peace my friends,
Chromeeyes

2007-09-30T02:07:00.000-04:00

Seriously,

All of Chicago goes to bed too early, or is all growed up or.............

peace,
Chromeeyes

2007-09-08T23:30:00.000-04:00

Wisconsin AC

Tonight was the first night of the summer for WIAC (driving with the windows down and the heat on full blast-my fav). Anyway, also a first - I called in my first radio station request and got it played - snowden's black eyes on the 89.3 the current compliments of Mrs. Riley.

Rock,
Chromeeyes

2007-09-05T11:21:00.000-04:00

Hometown Heros

Here's an article about a couple of folks from my hometown - classic and safe for work.

Bought some new cds - here's the digs:

two weeks ago

Art Brut, It's Complicated - a chap talking over music - not recommended, but it's growing on me

Snowden, Anti-Anti - I'm totally into what they're calling psychedelic rock these days and this disk is epiphantic.

Wolfmother, wolfmother - maybe I'm trying to make up for lost time back in the 80's early 90's, but the stoner rock they put out kinda reminds me of the BOC, and I'm a big fan.

Last Week

Talib Kweli, Eardrum - The disk is almost completely unlistenable and they put the single at the end of the disk - I just can't deal with pop hip hop

MIA, Kala - another installment of MIA's loose definition of music; it's trippy fun if you liked the first one Kala will impress, if not don't bother - I'm of the former persuasion

Aesop Rock, None Shall pass - Since a year after the K-rel introduced me to Aesop Rock I've been a huge fan - nobody, besides maybe Solman Rushdie has a bigger active vocabulary - I'm not yet entertained by the disk, but it'll take months to digest, cure, marinate - so I can't say yet what I think about it.

Yeah, so the K-rel got into town last week and it's been good to have another friendly face in the area. I'm job hunting right now and hopefully I'll find what I'm looking for - we'll see.

OUT,
Chromeeyes

2007-08-20T11:35:00.000-04:00

Have you guys heard Snowden's anti-anti? I think its my recent fav followed closely by wolfmother's self-titled disk( a nice throwback that one).

Just coffeein' and such, drop me a line when you get the time.

Later,
Chromeeyes

2007-08-10T11:42:00.000-04:00

KITTY!

Check this out. I think it's coo.

outs,
Chromeeyes

2007-07-03T10:59:00.000-04:00

This is why I've got to start writing again.

2007-05-26T13:20:00.000-04:00

Updated weekend..........

Well, this a-one started with a bloody bang - yo. First my work schedule is real chill - gotta find something to do Monday afternoon and Tuesday night - since the folks I normally chill with are outta town....which leads me to my next issue - I've kinda been flirtin' with this front desk woman at the hotel I work at and HOOHA - she gave me her number whilst I was there last night to check my schedule for the upcoming last weekend I'll be there. Sometimes that wistful shyness I exhibit in awkward social situations pays off. Gotta give her a call today.

For the E-beth's inquiring mind:

I've finally started the art project that I've been jabbering about intermittently for years. There's two stages to it. First I'm working on a series of studies of flame painted on mirrored glass. The idea is to let the "canvas" be part of flame so that the observer is in the midst of the painting. The second bit is kindofalongthesamelines. I've got this idea to start with a human form, maybe a bust in a window sized mirror in which there is a greyed out opaque bust of a person with face portion unpainted..or maybe just the eyes - we'll see how it turns out, but again the mirror will reflect the observer. So, we've got the hollow human form and along with it I want to paint several, several separate portraits in which the form is in a state of decay (think worms, bugs, grubs eating flesh), self-immolating (hence the study of flame before it), in tears, bleeding, covered in greengrowthandvines, etc.....you get the idea. The best part of the whole project is that really the catalyst for it's initiation from mind to constitution is my home decorating shopping excursions in which I've found an outlet for totally affordable framed mirrors which is totally cool because for like $20 or $30 I can buy a canvas and a frame that entirely erasable if I so choose to scrap a project that's not working out. Anyway, that's the gist.

OUTS,
Chromeeyes

2007-05-24T10:28:00.000-04:00

Hey,

I watched the season finale of lost last night and shared a bottle of Newton Napa Valley Claret '04 with a friend. Review.

The Claret was terrible; the body was full enough, but too full of the wrong stuff. This overly acidic wine's rich flowery undertones were overwhelmed by it's heavy earthy tanic base. That's what you get with a smut wine though - a highish end blend of melot cabernet savignon, peti verdot, syrah and cabernet franc......conclusively, there's probably some good wine in the mix, but the poor quality ones overpower them for the better part and you feel like you're drinking a real find of a $10 bottle when you bought the bottle for about$15.

Lost was a real kick - one of the best parts of the show is the newness the writers bring to the plot every episode. That aside, I much prefer the pace of the one hour episode to the plodding course of the two hour format. I figure that the material could have been dealt with in an hour and fifteen minutes in the normal flow of the show. Thumbs down to the pace, thumbs up to the twists.

This upcoming weekend is the last weekend I'll be working two jobs - goodbye hotel:hurrah social life. It'll be nice to be able to go out on Saturday night if the opportunity avails me. I'm real sad to leave some of the good folks at the hotel, but last weekend was the epitomy of why I'm leaving, as I'd foreseen two weeks before. Last weekend's schedule: Friday (golf club 10am-11pm), Saturday(golf club 7am-11pmdoozy), Sunday(hotel 7-2, golf club 2:30-11), Monday(hotel 7-1, golf club 1:30-9). Yeah, so by my count that's like 55.5 hours in four days, which I guess is mucho dinero, but just try to find time for a chill, a drink or a date in all that and you'll see my conundrum, hereto resolved(grammer?).

Anyway, yesterday morning I went shopping for home decor (I think I'm pretty much done with that) and art materials (just getting started, but I'm super hyped about that.) I worked a little bit in the afternoon, but the golf event I was putting out got rained out, which is a bummer 'cause what do you do with 60 nystrip steaks you've marked off to oven finish? I'm sure we'll find a way to burn them off on a bbq or someshit, but in retrospect next time I'll push hard to nix prepping protein until it's down to the wire, although it wasn't my call anyway.

Lates,
Chromeeyes

2007-05-16T08:46:00.000-04:00

.....of the summer

Last night I decided these things.

1. The whiskey sour is the drink of the summer
2. Sushi rolls are the new uptown cookie - for example neighborly housewarming gifts.
3. I'm not getting a cat
3.1. I really want a cat......or two
4. I need a girlfriend for the summer
5. My new apartment kicks ass because I made it that way.
6. I need to blog more.

Out,
Chromeeyes

2007-05-01T21:56:00.000-04:00

I'm totally eating bananna chips right now.

2007-04-26T09:59:00.000-04:00

Highly Recommended

1. Mother nature's sense of irony - I threw a cigarette butt out the window yesterday and it blew back in the window and landed on and burned my neck

2. Setting up a new apartment; not once, or twice, but thrice while checking out at various home stores I was complimented by other customers on my taste in decore. My favorite compliment was from a woman my mother's age who asked me, "do you have good taste or watch too much hgtv?" My first thought was what the hell is hgtv - which is good. After further reflection I figured out it was home and garden television, but I ain't got no cable and don't dig the home improvement shows so there ya go.

3. Yankee candle company's sunwashed linen scented candles - nothing covers up stale food and tobacco smells from previous tenants like putting your whole apartment in the clothes dryer with a whole box of dryer sheets.

4. Regis and Kelly while blogging - 'nuff said.

5. Warm weather, open windows and ergo sandles - especially the chaco sandles that I sprang for which have been highly recommended (endlessly in some cases) by my sisters as well as the e-bot/beth/beff/biff.

6. Panzer Dragoon Orta (those of you who play video games will understand)

7. Warm weather and all the pretty girls - seriously every spring...........and the worst part is there's nothing that can really prepare a guy for that first pair of shorts or a halter top in the spring - almost embarassing (guys you know what I mean)

8. The Exile Kiss by G A Effinger - weird peice of sci-fi given to me by k-rel cool stuff

9. Bell's Two Hearted Ale

10. A pot of french press coffee first thing in the morning

11. "New Magnetic Wonder" by The Apples in Stereo

That's about all I've got for now.

Best Regards,
Erasmus

post script: My warmest regards go out to Betsy Grace and her husband to be as of friday.

post post script: Congradulations to Dance Band for their City Pages' Best of the Twin Cities award for best Live Performance

post post post script: I've purchased the necessary postage hardware for care packages for y'alls out of towners - send me your address and I'll send you a cool package. (Rah-Z I know I promised you one already and yours'll be the first to post with aforementioned "lost" articles.

2007-03-08T12:30:00.001-05:00

Apartment searching sucks - for real

I'm in the process (right now) of finding a new place - totally nonplussed.

Later,
Chromeeyes

2007-03-08T12:26:00.000-05:00

CDs

So yesterday I picked up some new cds.

Neon Bible by the Arcade Fire
Four Winds EP by Bright Eyes
Wincing the Night Away by the Shins

Needless to say the winey angsty music is permeating my skull as we speak. Fortuneately all of it it totally listenable as well.

out,
Chromeeyes

2007-03-08T12:25:00.001-05:00

Dude, seriously,

I've got to wear a suit to work tomorrow.

out,
Chromeeyes

2007-03-08T12:24:00.001-05:00

Yo,

Tonight at the turf club - Call Me Lightening - bethereorbesquare and shit.

out,
Chromeeyes

2007-02-14T14:47:00.000-05:00

Grey Haze

Hey, been a little while, but I've been working through some stuff; mostly it's got to do with shutting folks out and realizing about a week ago that the last six months has been clouded - it's unsettling and I'm getting to the bottom of it. Thanks chicago, portland and portedward crew for your insight.

In other news I've been called a "production machine" by the chef at the hotel and I'm working on a brunch menu for the golf club I work at. The menu isn't hard on it's own; the hard part is veiling really good food so that the customers who just want the normal stuff get something way beyond that.......

I'm still on my excercise regiment and I think I'm getting better and seeing improvement - I took a couple of days of rest and yesterday my usual workout was a far easier thing than I am used to.

I went home to see my folks a couple of days ago and got to see my father's new toy a '67 impala 327 supersport - red, black leather interior. It is really cool to see that my father after sacrificing so much to raise my sisters and I is able, now, to indulge himself.

Anyway - y'all have a great valentine's and I'll talk to ya sooner than later.

Cheers,
Chromeeyes

2007-02-06T19:05:00.000-05:00

out of context

yeah....so today at work I was organizing walkinthree and my coworker walks in the door and says, "hey...........oh.........I thought you were tit-job number one" and then he walks out; I didn't havacloo.

and so it goes.......

I just got back from working out again today and it felt good and bad. Work was weird and fine - still getting cudos on my fifteen minute fruit displays - gotta get my camera in there and take some pics for y'all the f&b director there thinks they're bomb to which I say, "well they damnwell betterbee." - the reasons are obvious - I'm working as a garmanger (cold food) banquet cook and my skills are a tad beyond what the hotel normally hires for that position - that being said I've learned much in my stay there - more than I thought I would and in totally different ways; ya know, just stuff about how a hotel runs and food quality expectations and the lack thereof( see a runon word that's totally legit).

I've got two days off in a row the next couple of days - I'm not sure what I'm doing with myself, but I'm going to get breakfast somewhere tomorrow in the am- likely, I'll stop by any number of places with a waitress I've got a secret crush on(I never hit on waitresses, but it's cool to have a pretty one attend to ya anyway) - anybody in?

over and out,
Chromeeyes

2007-02-05T19:12:00.001-05:00

Oh yeah and I'm changing my color scheme to supplicate y'all.

over,
Chromeeyes

2007-02-05T19:06:00.000-05:00

pumping iron

A high school friend and I have started a regular workout regiment at the y we both belong to. Lifting weights isn't so bad except that there's a strand of muscle like a quarter inch in diameter that apparently has atrophied during my tenure as a cook - a couple of days ago I was pretty sore and didn't warm up until about two in the afternoon:( (dude, I'm such a winy winy sombit)

Anyway, life is much the same as it has been for a while.

Oh yeah and all hail to the orangutan marketing dudes! That's awesome and sad bomb scares from a light bright - sign me up.

OUT,
Chromeeyes

2007-01-30T14:42:00.000-05:00

obsession with unconscionable acts of violence involving public transport

Work man........well this hotel job I've got right now temporarily some of my co-workers have this "everybody's out to get me personally" attitude and their expression is "throwing (me/you/us) under the wheels of the bus." Funny - I think it might have started as a kinda funny expression, but these guys are jaded at this point. I like the expression - my addendum to them is to hum the kids song, "the wheels of the bus go round and round."..........and then later.........."the babies on the bus go whah, whah, whah!" - that's the funny part.

Right now I'm chilling just listening to some mpr and typing.

A friend of mine just got one of those Wiis - pretty cool when bowling is fun virtually. I may have to pick one of those up someday.

I've got to get back to chicago sometime soon - unfortuneately a_ron, this upcoming weekend is booked, but as I've found during the course of the last couple of years planning is essential.

Anyway ttfn,
Chromeeyes

2007-01-28T21:38:00.001-05:00

..and I like the burger king commercial where they throw the minivan into the dump truck....kule

2007-01-28T21:08:00.001-05:00

....and then he says,"Am I Bo Bice? Yes, I am. Well played worthy adversary..........."

nice

2007-01-28T20:49:00.000-05:00

Dudes,

So, I'm really into cereal lately - especially the special k with red berries - no pun intended.

Right now I'm watching the new king of the hill - I'm not usually into these sunday night car-toons, but apparently it's transvestite night - first the cop on the simpson's shoots one three times and there's a transvestite loaded king of the hill now too - good shows though tonight. Multitaskin though typing and tv not too bad.

If you haven't seen lady in the water I highly recommend it - usually Mr. Shamalan's into building the mystery up until the end, but this time he gave it away at the start and still managed to craft a real story in a mean way.

I worked a couple of doubles this weekend, which was alright - I can't believe I did that almost every weekend for the better part of a year - not this year - that much I can say for sure; I don't mind working a lot or hard but doing both those things whilst missing the best part of the weekend is kinda dragging - so {kitty just jumped on me and my computer - kitty needs a lesson in personal space}more perogative to find something different.

outs,
Chromeeyes

2007-01-11T21:42:00.000-05:00

coming to blows,

K_rel was in town earlier this week and we hit up the triple rock social club for happy hour - burger basket and a pint for $6 - right on. We also almost came to blows outside a record shoppe on accout of me buying both Elliot Smith's self titled and The Pixies' Surfer Rosa..........I think I kept the relative peace by not also picking up Natalie Merchant's Tigerlilly.

over and out,
Erasmus

2007-01-11T20:46:00.000-05:00

So , like,

Keeping up to date w/ y'all internet connected persons. Here's the scoop, I got back from new year's festivities to find out that my ex-girl/current roommate is not moving to timbucktoo or where-ever she was getting out of my life to, but instead staying and planning on renting the apartment we share after I move out herself (weird, wierd construction man). Anyway, kinda boo. Got my hair cut - that was right on - the shaggy 70's thing was cool, but no longer. In quazi-related matters I went to the employee christmas party at the hotel I'm employed at and a co-worker and boss who I work with daily didn't recognize me dressed in a suit and with short hair. The one dude, a fellow cook thought I was some corporate guy grilling him for the first five minutes of the conversation, needless to say the discussion lightened up a bit afterward. I've got a policy of not hanging out too long or drinking too hard with co-workers - there's a too-laid-back, a little bit too scattered side of me that comes out in those situations that I just don't need to share with folks who's respect ties into my wage earning capacity; apparently I should have stayed though - apparently as is par for the course too good a time was had by some.

I gota get new comments and stuff up on my blog and I'm really not into editing "the code" right now - so if you've got a comment - well, we'll see if I break down and copy and paste tonight.

On gross and not twelve dozen:
The coffee shop I frequent has a broken paper towel dispenser and has a roll of like kitchen paper towel on the shelf - with other people's fingerprints displayed on the cross-section - ick!

I'm starting the double job mambo this weekend again - not sure how I'm going to hold with the three turn and burns this weekend, but hopefully I can power through it and check out some live music saturday night as well, we'll see.

So that's good for now.

Cordially,
Erasmus

post script - thanks go out again to my beloved chicago crew for the gracious hospitality over the holiday.

2007-01-03T20:22:00.001-05:00

Hey,

I'm getting a haircut, I think - the grungy and unkempt look is tired now; any suggestions from the field?

later my friends,
Chromeeyes

2005-12-27T23:13:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-12-06T03:00:00.000-04:00

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

2005-12-06T02:13:00.000-04:00

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

2005-12-01T00:02:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-29T21:38:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-27T21:18:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-27T20:49:00.000-04:00

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).

2005-09-27T20:27:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-23T00:03:00.000-04:00

Feeks Hurled

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

2005-09-22T21:48:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-22T21:27:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-21T22:50:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-20T22:41:00.001-04:00

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

Lates,
Erasmus

2005-09-20T22:41:00.000-04:00

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

out,
Erasmus

2005-09-20T20:48:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-12T22:37:00.000-04:00

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

2005-09-06T09:49:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-08-31T23:41:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-30T21:49:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-30T09:47:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-25T07:50:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-23T10:30:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-23T09:38:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-23T09:24:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-22T22:40:00.000-04:00

..no seriously...

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

bye.

2005-08-22T22:38:00.000-04:00

Holy hell,

Bloody magnificado!

'nuf said.

out,
Chromeeyes

2005-08-22T22:11:00.000-04:00

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

2005-08-08T08:37:00.000-04:00

Just, fucking, you know, log on.

2005-06-30T12:42:00.000-04:00

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

2005-06-27T21:46:00.000-04:00

short notes

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

over,
Chromeeyes

2005-06-24T11:37:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-05-13T14:00:00.000-04:00

off mefi nsfw rofl

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

I shouldn't have posted this - ever.

2005-05-13T11:10:00.000-04:00

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

2005-05-11T17:37:00.000-04:00

Tasty treat

2005-05-11T17:36:00.000-04:00

Drink the monkey blood

2005-05-11T13:35:00.000-04:00

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

2005-05-04T12:02:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-27T21:58:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-04-25T15:02:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-23T09:48:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-19T22:21:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-19T15:18:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-15T13:45:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-15T11:12:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-12T15:41:00.000-04:00

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

2005-04-12T11:09:00.001-04:00

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.

2005-04-08T11:13:00.000-04:00

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

2005-03-31T22:12:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-03-31T17:37:00.000-04:00

Chromeeyes in translation - Awsome.

2005-03-23T12:37:00.000-04:00

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

2005-03-16T12:16:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-23T16:33:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-22T17:51:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-15T16:48:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-09T17:09:00.000-04:00

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?

2005-02-09T15:59:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-09T15:47:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-08T17:59:00.000-04:00

How I long for the days of the automat.

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

2005-02-08T15:20:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-08T15:14:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-08T15:11:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-08T15:10:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-02-07T14:21:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-02-07T14:03:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-06T21:31:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-06T21:26:00.000-04:00

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

2005-02-06T21:22:00.000-04:00

beep beep,

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

Lates

2005-01-26T13:08:00.000-04:00

89.3 The Current Update

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

Get on it!

2005-01-26T11:59:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-01-26T11:53:00.000-04:00

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 /

2005-01-26T11:42:00.000-04:00

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

2005-01-26T11:41:00.000-04:00

And where would the rock be w/out red bull