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 

Yeah, so this is what saturday after a night with a dog with a bleu telephone loks like. 

The aftermath of a dog with a bow. 

It's a dog......with a bow or two.......with a bleu telephone - compliments of art for sale at the chatterbox. 

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

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

Lunch before the snow. 

Additional stuff - just trying out this new ap. 

Yeah, so yesterday I got a camera and went snowboarding. Here's the start to a whole new reconstitution chapter. Enjoy. 

Aught Five

Yah!

So, the new years scrambled by - rushed by the year to come.

...it started with Mtt reminding me to "touch Cleopatra's spleen", which is of course a mnemonic from the night before that I can only recount making sense in light of the stage lights and furry pants of wookie foot - I'm sure I'll be able to decipher it with time, but for the love of God, just give me a bit of it, time that is. Something to behold truely.

Anyway, I spent the days surrounding the passing of the new year moving my girl in and looking for a digital camera, I think I'm going to invest in a cannon sd200 due to it's compact size and action pact(sic) features. If anyone knows about a better value out there let me know.

My heart was with y'alls in Madison; wish I could have celebrated with all y'all, but had I, I'd have said the same about the celebrations I missed here in the TC, so I'll just wax a little vicarious bit in the picture post a-ron set up and toast my latte to the corkboard in the foreground.


Olay!

In Touch


First off sorry for being tough to get a hold of. Second, hey to all y'all who are trying to get in touch with me via the internet with which I'd been so out of contact with during the Stuff Yo Face Stupid holiday weekend (a little pre and post as well). Anyway, I'm working the details out, but looking fo some mo. I'll be getting in touch after work today, so give a ring or I'll do the same.


Best Regards,
Chromeeyes.

The Horrors of "The Patriot"Yesterday I had some driving to do. Had a job interview for some holiday work at a catering company and then met my father for dinner in Eau Claire. Anyway, I probably put in about five hours of drive time and prompted by some interpersonal election night discussion thought that I'd check out some talk radio so I could listen to Kerry and then Bush talk about election results. First off, I think Kerry may have won the election if he'd managed to give a speach that conveyed his humanity and deep rooted concern for the country as well as his concession did. Maybe I just didn't tune in enough, but I thought I saw something genuine that I hadn't before. Regardless, the conservative talk radio was frightening. The narrow margin of victory in this election for either candidate should be a cause for concern, not jubilation. I believe the differences between the two candidates were not marginal, but the victory was marginal. The two points of discussion were: 1) relief the the president will still be in power for four more years and 2) How the election results are a sign that the left has isolated itself from anyone, but itself and that the american people want a president who is not afraid to let his personal moral convictions reflect his policy. The latter is a dangerous conclusions considering the results. The discussion should be not what the split means, but ways in which we can reconsile and mend the division. The gloating, while denied as such, is unwarrented considering the margin and genuine concern is needed at this point in time. Anyway, my foray into the blantenly conservative press has presidence, for years I've kept and eye on the weekly standard, just to make sure I know how far off the far off is, maybe it's time to be afraid; I'm afraid of both sides if my perceptions on the backlash are correct.out,Erasmus

Election Results Les Etats-Unis

I have decide that it is clearly time to consider seceding from the union; I think the lines are quite clear enough now. It's time to stop embracing our differences because shortly they're going to tear the country apart and my risque / benifit analysis shows that removing the northeaster seaboard, the western seaboard and the upper midwest from the rest of the so-called free states, is far less destructive sooner than later - so join with me patriots! The time is ripe - organize and when the time comes you will know.

-Erasmus

Average

I am the average american man.

Lates,
Erasmus

post script: notes on the Old 97s live show

Seriously, how can a band imbue the intensity of Timebomb into every song in their set - including Adelade. Additionally, they played 4 leaf clover with the same death metal vibe that A-ron and I serenaded angie with some years ago. HOO-HA!

DEBATE - VICE

Allright, I watched and listened to the vicepresidental debates last night and seriously.

1 - The Democrats "new" Iraq Plan
a. Train the Iraqi forces faster
b. Rebuild faster
c. Charter a bus (ie Iraq is not safe enough for the Iraqi military to train in so we'll train them elsewhere.)

notes: This plan is not a plan, while I understand that John Edwards did not want to get caught up in the logistics, I want to know how they plan to do things differently other than faster. Also, I'm not fully informed on the Iraq situation, but the statement that all of Iraq is so unstable that there is no where suitable to train is real difficult for me to believe when generally I think at least, the consensus of military and gov't leaders is that there are places where it's bad and places where it's good.

2-I'm really quite angry that John Edwards insinuated that the downturn in the economy that was spurred by the 9-11 attacks and other factors was a function of the current leadership's leadership. While I'm not formally trained enough to be an expert in the field of economics, but to attribute this latest decline to the current regime is symptomatic of a lack of forsight. The economy is a problem right now, job losses are a problem right now, but it's time that politicians started speaking honestly about the economic situation and stop scapegoating the short term. I don't need to be insulted by politicians using ignorance on a subject as a vehicle to misrepresent information. Same goes for the republicans on Iraq.

Vote Nader!


Outs,
Erasmus

G-Mail,

Hey, anybody who still hasn't got a gmail account that wants one let me know - apparently I've got 6 gmail invites to pass out, so send an email to chromeeyes@gmail.com and I'll send an invite.

Lates,
Erasmsus

AR.


So my morning thoughts are as follows:

1) Is a keg stand also wheezing the juice?
2) I think assroll is a way better word for tp.


Additionally, I hit this Irish pub called the dubliner last night and had three pints of Guiness with my roomate and his gal. Mtt and I played some darts against these chicagoians in town to see the game. Whupped them soundly the first game, but the second game was tight (forgive me I don't usually play the part of the sports hero, so let me revel in my small feat and yeah.) and my last dart in a round in which both teams had opportunity to take the game was a doozy. Score: 54-45 the cleveland avenue X2obcessed up against the chicago omnivor lovers, Erasmus has two darts thrown skirting the fring of the bulls-eye, one bulls-eye left to finish it. I stepped outside to the next line over and whizzed it in sidelong to seal the game. Nothing like calling a shot and then making it to put a cap on a night; next I'll just have to try out that same brand of baud with that brunette talking to her friends at the end of the bar, but alas.

Speaking of little helpless babies (as the ebot was) I saw a 5 gallon bucket with a warning lable the other day with a picture of a toddler head-over-teakettles exclaiming, "Avisio" drowning hazard for small children. Shit, if my kid was dumb enough to drown in a five gallon pail, said child doesn't deserve to swim in the gene pool anymore. But seriously, enough of the warning lables...............I should have one too - any ideas?


Out,
Chromeeyes

Yo,

So, this morning I picked up - upon the recommendation of two reliable sources both the new dillinger escape plan and the detatchment kit's disk (my head still hurts again). Also, I got the ben harper collaboration with the blind boys of alabama - I highly recommend it if you're into that kind of thing - gospel psychodelic rock fusion that is. Anyway, I'm doing some coffee shop chillin' (and they asked me if I wanted three shots or four in my large latte, seriously what kind of 10am saturday morning question is that - but I'll let it slide today) and then I'm working this afternoon into the night, but a saturday morning off feels refreshing like november skinny dipping.

Out,
Erasmus

post script: Yo musebomb, I haven't yet dug into that escape plan stuff, but it's qued up next - I'll let you know my thoughts upon completion. Rad.

Today

Today, I woke up at like 6 laid in bed for an hour contemplating my day and then got up drank coffee and showered. That's the way the good ones start. I'm all for it. Unamused by the TV I read the city pages, taken in an uncracked (knowledge gleaned by way of the flyer that fell out of the paper) by my roommate, with my coffee. Got to work, helped a co-worker out with some stuff and here I am. And that's ok by me. I'm going to cook tonight and that should be fine. We'll see how the weekend works out, but I'm aiming to hit the town some night, plus I've got sunday off so, It'll likely be saturday night. Anyway, Y'alls have a cool, crisp weekend and I'll try and get in touch as best I can.

Out,
Erasmus

I hate the online quizes, so I like this one

- brought to my attention by vicious lamb. I've got more to say, but I might not right now. Anyway, just chillin' today, got a big one tomorrow (y'all know the drill prayers and such). Also, I think I'm starting to go invisible - got cut off twice on the way to work today - I'd like to drive without getting cut off sometime soon, but unfortunately I'm not sure that's going to happen.

etched in the glass of a broken wine bottle,
Erasmus

Calling the clan,


Old 97's playing here

22 Fri Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue w/ Sarah Lee and Johnny
23 Sat Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theatre w/ Sarah Lee and Johnny
24 Sun Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave NEW! w/ Sarah Lee and Johnny

I say we follow them like those f-ing hippies follow the dead, but maybe without all the psychotropics and such.

Who's in? I've got digs here in the TCs all are welcome to crash, plus I'll cook for anybody who's in...or something

plus, rah, I totally forgot the date the pixies are playing, if you read this give me a call whenever, otherwise I'll give you a call whenever.

Lates,
Erasmus

....it seems so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex.....
& also introducing....


OK, so I ran across a couple of new blogs this week, friends of mine who I haven't run into for a while, hence not connecting with their journals.

First there's musebomb who with the writer of "this is not a fugazi tee-shirt" are responsible dualy for my appreciation of secular independent musicians and lables....music that does not necessarily reflect either my social or moral values.

Second there's Lucy Electric - a friend who I hung with back a couple of years ago when I was really wandering who was wandering a little - I'm real excited to see if she's as grounded as I may or may not be right now.......so keep an eye there too.

For those of you not familiar with the lyrics by the postal service in the subject line it means that I'm sans gf now and again...keep me in your prayers and such.


So that's about all for now, until the next (I hope not monthly) installment.



post script: I'm heading to the Turf tonight to check out some local alt-country stuff - show's at 10 - y'alls invited.

I was born in the back of a mustang............I guess you could call it superpowers


Right, so I picked up the new old 97's disk and change by the dismemeberment plan this weekend. Real happy with both.

Last week was a long one worked in excess of 80 hours between my two jobs and had to deal with probably the most rude person I've ever met. This week is all about taking it easier. That said I'm likely going to have a second interview with a prospective employer this week and I'm looking forward to a new source of primary employment, even if I don't get this one, I'm optomistic that I'll be able, now with a year of sales experience, be able to find a position that'll fit my needs. It kind of feels like I'm starting over again, but in a good, back to school way, not in a fuel-air bomb exploded over my house yesterday way.

out,
Erasmus

Lately I've been seeing some good stuff on metafilter here's a couple of links that I found real amusing today: first there's this no circles game, the point of which is to figure out how to play it and second is this dancing eyball/plant thing.

Out,
Erasmus

post script: I saw Jack Edwards, the son of John, held upside down on the tv today - surely an election clinching moment. That and those Kerry sisters (anybody see the Canes festival pic) being all cute with their bros the heinz boys.

Bought some disk, saw some explosions

Ya, so this weekend I bought the new wilco cd. The wilco cd's tough for me to get a grasp of, but it's one of those peices that I'm not fond of now, but likely will be fond of in a month after I've let it soak for a bit. Right, so I went back home to the county with more cows than people and as many stoplights as county seats with my girl and watched the fireworks there - they didn't disappoint - 15 blissful minutes and maybe thrice as many fire works shot into the dark dark sky, good times all around, much deck sitting and sun soaking, pleasent, relaxing. Anyway, here back in the cities after all that is just fine with me as well.

Yo,

I'm not really much for the online quiz thing, but I found this one on metafilter and I like it.

A couple of years ago I read the first in the harry potter series and thought that it was unpalletable, but in the last couple weeks following the release of the latest movie I've read the books that follow "The Prisoner of Askaban" in the series and I honestly enjoyed them. Anyway, right now I'm reading two books, well three really: "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme which was a gift from my youngest sister about 11 months ago (my last b-day), "Memoir from Antproof Case" by Mark Helprin , and "East of Eden" by my beloved John Stienbeck. Anyway, I'm a real fan of Steinbeck's short works - Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row in particular, but after starting EOE I had a breakthough; I've found the key fault in Steinbeck's writing and it's....well deplorable - there's no wizard, witches or any real majic in them at all. Seriously, how can you really write a book or read on for that matter without the necessary presence of a wizard, a good wizard battle or anything of the like. I'm quite dissappointed in this bloke Stienbeck and would contend that he's not a real author at all, just some kind of possuer who pretended to write and was lauded by fradulent critics who through arcaic devices somehow saw past the essential wizards.

Aaaugh!
Erasmus

For a good time check this out; if only for the concluding paragraph:


"The good news is: Liberals' anti-war hysteria seems to have run its course. I base this conclusion on Al Gore (news - web sites)'s lunatic anti-war speech last week. Gore always comes out swinging just as an issue is about to go south. He's the stereotypical white guy always clapping on the wrong beat. Gore switched from being a pro-defense Democrat to a lefty peacenik -- just before the 9/11 attack. He grew a beard -- just in time for an attack on the nation by fundamentalist Muslims. He endorsed Howard Dean (news - web sites) -- just as the orange-capped Deaniacs were punching themselves out. Gore even went out and got really fat -- just before America officially gave up carbs. This guy is always leaping into the mosh pit at the precise moment the crowd parts. Mark my words: Now that good old Al has come lunging in, the anti-war movement is dead. "

Yee Ha!

Reminder


Hey, don't be afraid to check chromewords . I'm making a concerted effort to try to get two new posts per day up there to force my creativity into renewal. Maybe it's just all shit, but I'll let you throw it at me next time we come face to face.


Later,
Chromeeyes

ps On Chromewords I'm limiting my links to other fiction, but if you've got a suggestion let me know.

Two questions: What was missing, missed.


It's a strange sensation, missing something so terribly that nothing seems right. For me the sensation is made more unnerving because of the oscillation that it induces emotionally. A division between holding the light from one star in your hand, a single strand precisely focused from the span of millions; the incredible invigoration and the acute anguish lined with relief of knowing that when you let go that it must not be yours. Angish and relief in the knowledge that that single strand cannot be held in focus for any longer with at its present clarity and that if again you are able to elucidate its true brillance, a new perspective must be established first.


-Erasmus

Looking Backwards (but not by edward bellamy)

I was looking over this thing today and it looks like I took a solid month break in writing this thing. That's good and bad, but I like this outlet and will likely keep it up for some time to come, you know for the sake of the children and all. But, really, I've got to figure out how to motivate myself this way for the rest of my life - some days last forever, some days are timeless, and some days I've got time and time again to do everything that I set out to.

Distasteful


I usually don't get a kick out of those folks who think ripping christians for their prudishness and other beliefs is cool, in fact I think it's probably one of my biggest gripes with the left, but anyway this I really got a kick out of.

Later,
Erasmus

I went out last night to this little basement joint call the artists quarter. Not a bad ride really, did ok considering. Regardless it was quite right to see some crusters rocking out hard to the music that they're passionate about - I respect that. Anyway..............

Out,
Erasmus

Songs that come to mind today:

In Amsterdam - Guster
Burning Photographs - Ryan Adams

-Chromeeyes

Lately I've been taking back routes to get where I'm going. There's something in the redundency of taking the same route to the same place time and time again that irks me. It's enough to break the bordom of travel for me to take a 5 minute detour on my 15 minute drive to work daily. I like to make new connections, connect the city through ways and roads that, while backwards do go places and someday if I need to find one of those places I'll be going by familiar territory in the stead of traveling blindly into an unknown sector. Furthermore, I like to fill in the holes of my understanding of what's around me; the scope of the scape is best understood thuroughly.

I'm not angry anymore.

Short Fiction

After some consideration, I've decided to split my blog. The new site will be comprised of my putrid attempts at short fiction, that way, my life can't be confused with my writing, additionally, those of you who read this to see where I'm at won't have to be innundated by the trash that I try to compose creatively.

Anyway, let me know if there's anything that doesn't work and I'll fix it. Blogger has started putting up new features (I think they support the comments directly now) so I'll see what I can do with that there before I make any additional changes here.

OUT,
Erasmus

Tomorrow I'm going to post a short story that conceptually I've stewed on for some time. It'll be pretty green, but it's something that I've been meaning to put up since I've started this insane art of blogging. Issue being that I want to be held to my deadline here and elsewhere.

pieced out,
Erasmus

News..........focus

This morning on my standby headline news I saw a report on the ooh scary gmos. The report focused on how to avoid eating these demon products. The problem with the report wasn't the information given, but the assumption that a gmo is "bad". This is the kind of thing that makes me go wild mad. Instead of information I got a shopping guide - "buy certified organic." This is precisely the kind of reporting that all the folks concerned with liberal and conservative bias have issue with, though not with this kind of article. Furthurmore it's not only not informative, but not interesting. More pertinent to the topic would be how, if we as consumers deem that we don't want gmos (the real danger is not to the consumer in the short run (ie medical reasons) but danger to the food supply, loss of diversity in the organisms that produce food for us) then we as consumers have the power to show our choice by not buying products that contain those components. The writing assumes too much and the premise is biased; these people are supposed to be professionals(or maybe I'm asking too much from a cable news networt?).

Over,
Erasmus

Weekend notes:

Car Washed
Hair Cut
Oil Changed
Insides torn
Outsides tanned and bloodied(slightly)
Resolve resolved

Out,
Chromeeyes

I've been meaning to touch on this one for a while, but haven't had the words........

It's like this, vivid dreams have left, which is good see my livejounal piece from months ago. Sometimes it take a bit to get right.

.........that's not what I meant to write about for a while, lost the words again.

Search is on. Yo, I'm searching for new work, serious like as of today. Interest rates are disasterously high and I'm not sticking around this mortgage industry to see what the fallout comes to, I've been floundering quite long enough as it is. Anybody got a line in on something that I'm looking for please let me know. That's the hard and fast and long and short of it.

somehow calm, but quite disheveled,
Chromeeyes, aka erasmus

Support

Here's the digs, in these TCs there's some art going down this weekend: check it out http://art-a-whirl.org/ . Anyway, I've never been, but missed the opportunity due to identity issues last go around here and I'll be damned....well anyway, from what I've heard it's a good way to see what's out there, here. Maybe I'll check out a couple of the bands too. Anyway, if there's anyone in the tc who reads this and wants company, let me know, via email, mobile, or otherwise.

Check it at the door,
Chromeeyes

Yeah, so I just got the new This is not a Fugazi T-Shirt - CD1. I'm on track 3 and I just might need to take a ro-ad trip to take full advantage of the music selection. Y'alls should check it out and seriously, the price is right. Thanks, TINAFTS.

"My word is born like siamese triplettes with doctor, lawer, rocket scientist promise." - Aesop rock

Ghettoisms

The other night my room-mate, his girl and I were discussing the dynamics of slang. The word "ghettoer" came into play and there was disagreement in the ranks about the proper grammer to use for the root word ghetto. My call is that one should use the most atrocious varient possible when using slang. The "most ghetto" just doesn't have the ring that "ghettoest" does.

-Chromeeyes

Ban


I had a late meeting last night and I've got one tonight, so I took the start of the morning off and got into work at about 10am. I had a leisurely morning of coffee, headline news, and some dishes that wanted cleaning and drying. Anyway, first thing on the news was an ABC fluff report about how the republicans were ripping Kerry for his "frenchness" - he can speak nearly perfect French and he's got a cousin who's a mayor of some city there. This pisses me off: 1) that any republican would be so stupid as to try and exploit that & 2) that apparently Kerry is going to some measures to elude people to the connection (ABC said that he'd done a q&a there in french and the French network would not release the footage. So I turned ABC off and watched good old cnn headline news. Headline news had an interview with Don King the boxing promoter giving his loquatious speel about how the Republicans were his choice............my brain kinda turned off. How can there be so much bad election press, why does anyone care what Don King thinks and who's really going to be dissuaded to vote Kerry because he can speak French - he's let his views on the whole Iraque thing be well known from the start, what kind of rational conclusion can one possibly draw from the further knowledge that he speaks french.

-Erasmus

I saw the Tripplettes of Bellville last night and it was a cool fresh foray back into the world of the indie film. There's this Isralie(sp?) film coming out (can't rember the name) that looks pretty incredible. As was discussed last night with m, it's cool when you enter the independent film arena and then are tempted by the previews to see more of it.

-Chromeeyes

I wish I'd have thought about whipping the easter bunny first.

Paraphrased Paradox

Watched the final entry in the Matix trilogy last night; some.......some of the dialogue was striking here's a few bits that I was engaged by. Pardon the paraphrases, but I'm just going to write it the way I remember it.

On Gifts: I must do what I must do to honor them.

On language: It it just a word, but what matters is the connection that the word implies.

On Love: It is amazing how close the condition of love is to insanity.


-Chromeeyes

Catcrap

Anybody got solutions for a cat who thinks it's a good idea to unload on your bed first thing in the morning?

I've seen the sunlight this morning and it is glorious. Lately I've wanted to see the sunlight more often, I'm going to take a road trip soon and set my schedule by the sun; a schedule that entitles me to see it rise and set each day for a week. I've seen the sun set too many times and not seen it's emergence often enough. Somedaysoon.

-Chromeeyes

old song lyrics
(vicious, this isn't really a guessing game, but you'll guess for sure)

Don't let your heart be hardened
Don't let your love grow cold
Keep it broken..........

-Chromeeyes

tear

as per your request


"I think you need to map out the possible effects of drinking and talking to people. Also, the effects of not starting a magazine/bar." -a_ron

We'll see where this goes, Here's the first installment. I promise thought that I'll try to continue this one and the last one (mary part 1) because they've both got points to them that I'd like to try to impliment.


Reckless abandon, I said that once. I never really lived it though.

10:30 pm, song on the juke box "song #3" blur. Venue: the blue ingot lounge, kindofa swank cigar bar

Hey, Jessica. How're your summer plans going, the mediteranian and all?

Well......that's a good story, did my taxes and well, you remember when I work that stint at Venus Deli? Yeah, they didn't take taxes out and so I owe uncle sam, like, a g.

So, no go on the your hopes to bring the conquistador back to spain huh?

Nice......but yeah, not likely. So anyway, we're gonna hit Eden, you know, that tavern off 2nd and Park after we finish up here, you game?

Yeah, that'd be cool, but I'm waiting for Mit and then we're meeting up with some folks at the Grand, just a couple blocks from here, old friends I haven't seen or wanted to see for a while, you know the ones right? Anyway, they're not good much past 11, so if you're still there I'll totally see ya.

Oh, there the ones that you met through that girl Vanessa you cheated on Lindsey with right?

OK, first of all I didn't cheat on her, our relationship was in limbo, Van and I didn't even sleep together, besides it was Lindsey who took opportunity and then called crying wanting to get back together afterwards, probably good she never met Van........yeah, it's them.`

Why don't you just ditch out and hit Eden with us? I promise it'll be better than that........

Naw, I told Mit that we'd hang and he wants to see the band there and he's tighter with them anyway, so I'm kinda stuck with what I got. Hey Mit what's up man?

You guys have a good time I'm heading - seriously though, consider my offer.

Mit, you wanna stay here or just head over to the Grand, I didn't get a chance to get that martini I was so intent on earlier and this place is creeping me out, wha'ya say we make our way over.

Yeah, cool.



-Erasmus

Sun


Today, I'm feeling gritty and disheveled. A crazier weekend than most, I woke up this morning with a real suspicion that today I was going to be dragging it seriously. The start of the day was tough, but by about 10 after a caffine infusion and most importantly taking a break to sit outside and soak some sun I'm quite right. Yeah, so I had some hopes lost, concerns raised, met some fine folks, made some potentially interesting connections, chilled, confered and rocked out. That's about the whole of it for me. Let's see where this all goes and hope I can sleep on it, instead of not sleeping as things go.

Over and Out,
Erasmus aka Chromeeyes