My mom and sis are off to see the wiz. They left me behind in the sun to die!
I feel a strong communication going on here...am i wrong? I think I'm wrong...no, seriously, I have THREE Swagstakes I'm vying for. I GOTTA WIN AT LEAST ONE OF 'EM FOR CYRING OUT LOUD! All together I've invested at least real close to 1,000 Swagbucks on these stupid Swagstakes. And for what? Nuthin'! SPHITZ! You hear that? SPHITZ! that's a pellet gun spat-spat-spat, kirk yer in the err.
grrraaaa...
godde, I gotta take my pills. My teeth are trying to escape. WEEEOOOOYAHAHA! O gosh, and my voice...
bwahahaha!
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
It was NOTHING LIKE THAT, P. Bread!
Had a wonderful morning so far. Downstairs, alone, basking in the afterglow of it, as I type this. My computer isn't getting the hang of streaming my music 2 meee, but it's a nice morning. My sis arrived Saturday evening, this day we went to Starbucks and got a drink for her myself and Mumsy, and on the way back dropped by Panera Bread and got each of ourselves a soufle. Came back, and talked a bit. Just found out my cousin Barbie is 1 month pregnant. I hope its childhood is better than Barbie's was. Barbie seemed to be in disgust of her mother up until she died of liver failure, and for whatever reason doesn't feel the need to keep from making the bad choices that led to her mother's demise. I know things happen, but how is this child going to stay alive? I guess it'll be an accumulative effort. Our grandmother, Barbie's would-be mother in-law, and Barbie's long-term(?) boyfriend hopefully will collectively be able to afford to feed clothe and shelter it and maybe even buy it some nicities (toys or whatever). I'm sure Barbie will apply for food stamps for the child, which isn't a huge deal from what I can tell. A life on welfare is no picknik and I hope it doesn't come to that. My home state - Missouri - is on good financial track, so welfare or no welfare, we got it covered. The state of California does need to gets its shitt together, 'cause the fed gov' has no business bailing all the individual states out of their bull on top of paying for its own b.s.
But anyway.
Sun is shining, cold as all hellk, but all in all, so far, (only 10:09 AM, so there's still time to kill and/or be killed), a very nice day.
But anyway.
Sun is shining, cold as all hellk, but all in all, so far, (only 10:09 AM, so there's still time to kill and/or be killed), a very nice day.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Music & Me: A Legacy Of Self Involvement
& here's my music "shelf":
- All Time Low - Put Up Or Shut Up
- American Football - s/t
- Blink 182 - s/t
- Jackson Browne - The Next Voice You Hear: The Best Of
- Phil Collins - Both Sides
- The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
- Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
- The Cure - Pornography
- Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
- The Fray - How To Save A Life
- Peter Gabriel - Security
- Genesis - s/t
- Genesis - Invisible Touch
- The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
- Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
- Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
- Idlewild - The Remote Part
- Michael Jackson - Bad
- Last Winter - The Heart And The Broken Compass
- Avril Lavigne - Let Go
- Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
- A Moment's Worth - Start Where You Are
- Number One Fan - Compromises
- Oingo Boingo - Dark At The End Of The Tunnel
- Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear
- Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of
- R.E.M. - Murmur
- Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
- The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
- Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
- Toto - Toto IV
- Trespassers William - Having
- We Are The In Crowd - Guaranteed To Disagree
If my bookshelf were 6" tall x wide, it'd be full!
- God - The Holy Bible
- J.G. Ballard - Crash
- Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
- J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
- Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road
- Patrick McGrath - Dr. Haggard's Disease
- Elliot Perlman - Seven Types Of Ambiguity
- Don Shay - Making of Ghostbusters
- Benjamin Weissman - Dear Dead Person
Haven't read most of these, and there's probably a bunch of others I may add if I ever finish these...
A few that come to mind are MAY WE BE FORGIVEN (A.M. Homes) (currently reading, sorta; it's the last thing i picked up, almost a week ago), COWS (Matthew Stokoe) (out of print and ludicriously expensive...)
My movie shelf, on the other hand:
- A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- BEING THERE
- BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
- CANDYMAN
- CARRIE (1976)
- CLOCKERS
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
- THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY
- END OF DAYS
- (500) DAYS OF SUMMER
- FORREST GUMP
- FROM HELL (2000)
- GHOSTBUSTERS
- GHOSTBUSTERS II
- THE GOLDEN CHILD
- THE GREEN MILE
- GROUNDHOG DAY
- HEATHERS
- HELLRAISER
- HELLRAISER II (HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II)
- THE LAST UNICORN
- NOWHERE
- PANIC
- QUILLS
- REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
- SHORT CIRCUIT
- SINGLES (1992)
- TAXI DRIVER (1976)
- THE TERMINATOR
- TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
- THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
- THREE TO TANGO
- 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
- WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE?
Yep. I's illiterate.
Headlines of Headliners
THE BEST OF THE UNTITLED DECADE (2000-2009)
TAKING BACK SUNDAY - TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - THE PLACES YOU HAVE COME TO FEAR THE MOST
AVRIL LAVIGNE - LET GO
AIMEE MANN - THE FORGOTTEN ARM
THE FRAY - HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
PARAMORE - RIOT!
OWL CITY - OCEAN EYES
Boo-yah!
THE BEST OF THE CURRENT ONE (SO FAR)
Um...? I'm drawing a blank...don't know if that's b/c this decade is so spread out between so many fragments or b/c all the "big names" in music are all new incarnations of Madonna/NKOTB...my mom was channel surfing and I heard some talk show people saying something about Lorde having a questionably large qty of nominations, and I don't think too much of the song "Tennis Court", which opens up her PURE HEROINE album. Lana Del Ray BORN TO DIE seems to be a staple of the current decade, and the first two songs in the album's presented sequence are so-so, the 3rd song just kinda drolls on, while its lyrics strike me as being a re-hash of track 2. Guess the modern music scene is just too flowery for my ear-buds. Mumford & Sons, who are pretty big these days, are basically folk-rock and I don't like folk music, although some folk-rock bands/artists have had an appealing [imo] song or two here and there (i.e.: Suzanne Vega's "Luka", although the album that song came off of was kinda synth heavy if the other two songs I've heard from it are any indication [never listened to, or tried to listen to, the whole thing]). I've kinda given up on today's pop music. Miley Cyrus' BANGERZ has too many dull moments, the new Avril Lavigne CD is probably the most refreshing thing she's done since 2004's UNDER MY SKIN, but the emotional substance of her debut, and to a lesser extent her aforementioned follow-up (2004's UNDER MY SKIN), is almost vanished. It feels more like a synth-heavy version of 2007's THE BEST DAMN THING, which is cool, since i prefer synth(s) over guitar(s), but the "airhead" factor is still problematic. I did enjoy THE BONES OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE by alt-synthpop band CHVRCHES, albeit briefly...COM TRUISE made/makes similar music, without the discernable structure that makes such sweetly-toned music stick out in the listener's consciousness. A lot of music that came out in 2009 and shortly after is still being found by me. I just found out that metalcore band We Came As Romans are not all demonic-vocals and repetitive guitar-chunks. Their 2011 album (follow-up to 2009's TO PLANT A SEED) UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'VE GROWN TO BE is filled with actual singing, and little splashes of synth. I guess you could count that as "current decade" music, but you know if I put that on a list of modern-day "best", 99/100 people will be like "wtf?". And 999/1000 will just nod their head to say "I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but I hear you and there's no point in arguing", while the other 1/1000 people will either pump their fists in virtual victory or tell me I'm nuts for having closed my mind off to the possibilities of music. And for what it's worth, I did not fully enjoy UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'VE GROWN TO BE; the last 4 or 5 songs had my mind wandering to the point where i would check in every 5-10 minutes, and I still don't remember anything about over half the album. The only songs I remember are the opening track, #2 and "Cast The First Stone". Beyond that, the album was little more than white noise. I do remember track #3 being sorta similar to the one that came before it.
I came across We Came As Romans 'cause I somehow found out of A Skylit Drive before they had released a full string of albums, and was hoping to find a band, or at least a good long string of songs, that captured the feeling of hearing A Skylit Drive back when they were a fairly new band with 2008's WIRES...AND THE CONCEPT OF BREATHING, which i find to be a very tedious listen most of the time lately. I don't know what to make of A Day To Remember. I liked HOMESICK and WHAT SEPARATES ME FROM YOU, I haven't had enough time with their current release (and Grooveshark has the songs uploaded all wonky) to make a decision regarding it. But their first two albums from almost a decade ago sound like almost a different band. What the heck?!
Here's my best attempt for the time being:
EMAROSA - EMAROSA
WE CAME AS ROMANS - UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'VE GROWN TO BE
A SKYLIT DRIVE - IDENTITY ON FIRE
A DAY TO REMEMBER - WHAT SEPARATES ME FROM YOU
CHVRCHES - THE BONES OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE
Please be advised that not a single album on this "current decade" list means anything to me personally, which I cannot say of the 1990's or the decade that came after it.
BEST OF THE 1990'S (IMO)
R.E.M. - AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
LIVE - THROWING COPPER
MARILYN MANSON - ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR
PHIL COLLINS - BOTH SIDES
THE CRANBERRIES - NO NEED TO ARGUE
BEST OF THE BEST
TAKING BACK SUNDAY - TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - THE PLACES YOU HAVE COME TO FEAR THE MOST
AVRIL LAVIGNE - LET GO
AIMEE MANN - THE FORGOTTEN ARM
THE FRAY - HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
PARAMORE - RIOT!
OWL CITY - OCEAN EYES
Boo-yah!
THE BEST OF THE CURRENT ONE (SO FAR)
Um...? I'm drawing a blank...don't know if that's b/c this decade is so spread out between so many fragments or b/c all the "big names" in music are all new incarnations of Madonna/NKOTB...my mom was channel surfing and I heard some talk show people saying something about Lorde having a questionably large qty of nominations, and I don't think too much of the song "Tennis Court", which opens up her PURE HEROINE album. Lana Del Ray BORN TO DIE seems to be a staple of the current decade, and the first two songs in the album's presented sequence are so-so, the 3rd song just kinda drolls on, while its lyrics strike me as being a re-hash of track 2. Guess the modern music scene is just too flowery for my ear-buds. Mumford & Sons, who are pretty big these days, are basically folk-rock and I don't like folk music, although some folk-rock bands/artists have had an appealing [imo] song or two here and there (i.e.: Suzanne Vega's "Luka", although the album that song came off of was kinda synth heavy if the other two songs I've heard from it are any indication [never listened to, or tried to listen to, the whole thing]). I've kinda given up on today's pop music. Miley Cyrus' BANGERZ has too many dull moments, the new Avril Lavigne CD is probably the most refreshing thing she's done since 2004's UNDER MY SKIN, but the emotional substance of her debut, and to a lesser extent her aforementioned follow-up (2004's UNDER MY SKIN), is almost vanished. It feels more like a synth-heavy version of 2007's THE BEST DAMN THING, which is cool, since i prefer synth(s) over guitar(s), but the "airhead" factor is still problematic. I did enjoy THE BONES OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE by alt-synthpop band CHVRCHES, albeit briefly...COM TRUISE made/makes similar music, without the discernable structure that makes such sweetly-toned music stick out in the listener's consciousness. A lot of music that came out in 2009 and shortly after is still being found by me. I just found out that metalcore band We Came As Romans are not all demonic-vocals and repetitive guitar-chunks. Their 2011 album (follow-up to 2009's TO PLANT A SEED) UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'VE GROWN TO BE is filled with actual singing, and little splashes of synth. I guess you could count that as "current decade" music, but you know if I put that on a list of modern-day "best", 99/100 people will be like "wtf?". And 999/1000 will just nod their head to say "I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but I hear you and there's no point in arguing", while the other 1/1000 people will either pump their fists in virtual victory or tell me I'm nuts for having closed my mind off to the possibilities of music. And for what it's worth, I did not fully enjoy UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'VE GROWN TO BE; the last 4 or 5 songs had my mind wandering to the point where i would check in every 5-10 minutes, and I still don't remember anything about over half the album. The only songs I remember are the opening track, #2 and "Cast The First Stone". Beyond that, the album was little more than white noise. I do remember track #3 being sorta similar to the one that came before it.
I came across We Came As Romans 'cause I somehow found out of A Skylit Drive before they had released a full string of albums, and was hoping to find a band, or at least a good long string of songs, that captured the feeling of hearing A Skylit Drive back when they were a fairly new band with 2008's WIRES...AND THE CONCEPT OF BREATHING, which i find to be a very tedious listen most of the time lately. I don't know what to make of A Day To Remember. I liked HOMESICK and WHAT SEPARATES ME FROM YOU, I haven't had enough time with their current release (and Grooveshark has the songs uploaded all wonky) to make a decision regarding it. But their first two albums from almost a decade ago sound like almost a different band. What the heck?!
Here's my best attempt for the time being:
EMAROSA - EMAROSA
WE CAME AS ROMANS - UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE'VE GROWN TO BE
A SKYLIT DRIVE - IDENTITY ON FIRE
A DAY TO REMEMBER - WHAT SEPARATES ME FROM YOU
CHVRCHES - THE BONES OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE
Please be advised that not a single album on this "current decade" list means anything to me personally, which I cannot say of the 1990's or the decade that came after it.
BEST OF THE 1990'S (IMO)
R.E.M. - AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
LIVE - THROWING COPPER
MARILYN MANSON - ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR
PHIL COLLINS - BOTH SIDES
THE CRANBERRIES - NO NEED TO ARGUE
BEST OF THE BEST
- American Football - American Football
- Phil Collins - Both Sides
- The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
- Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
- The Fray - How To Save A Life
- Patty Griffin - 1,000 Kisses
- Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
- Avril Lavigne - Let Go
- Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear
- Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
- Trespassers William - Having
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
woa's bark
It's the 11th, and my sister will be leaving to visit for the 5th(?) time this year in 9 days. Tomorrow my mother gets food stamps, which is good news considering the cubboards have little in them.
My Inbox Dollars check totalling $31.27 is to be mailed today or soon. I finally completed the post-sign up portion of their iBid2Save offer, by winning a $20 Amazon gift card that totals $13.08 w/ S&H + auction fee. The gift card itself should be shipping soon too, but there's not much telling. They say it could take 14 days to ship, but there could be delays (how is taking 14 days to get something into the hands of the postal service not a delay N&of itself??? I'd REALLY LIKE TO KNOW!!! Out of curiosity, if nothing else...trying to get "behind the scenes" information from these people is like pulling teeth a lot of the time...)
But if they both arrive at or around the same 2 business day span (my gramma, who I rely on for transportation most of the time, volunteers her time mostly on Mon-Fri), then I will have a mini-shop'n spree on my hands. As if $51.27 isn't awesome enough to die from excitement over (?), I just got a $5 Amazon gift card from OpinionSquare less than 1hr ago. It's the 3rd one I got from them and I **THINK** I signed up to their site less than a year ago.
I'm hoping I'll get all this while the Philips Fidelio DS7550 remains at its current price of $50 @ Amazon. My bank lets me OD my acct by up to $3 before they block a charge, and without any OD fee(s), and I currently owe them $2.88, which means the $31.27 IDB check will amount to a net spendable total of $28.39, which, when combined with the $20 Amazon GC from iBid2save, totals $48.39, and then you add the $5 from OpinionSquare, I still will have $3.39 cash(!!!!!!). The downside to this is I owe my gramma $10. Thankfully I haven't had the patience and enough of her undivided attn to feel comfortable explaining how I'm rolling in dough, so I don't need permission to repay her later...she's almost 70 years old and never felt comfortable around computers. She has a hard enough time using cordless landline telephones. So the idea of some internet based company offering incentives for being me might seem like "whaa?" I've told her about Swagbucks and MyPoints, but I don't know if she really gets what I'm saying. And I myself am no authority on the logistics of the thing. I looked up Swagbucks on wikipedia and I'm still confused as to how the dang thing makes me $10 in Amazon GC funds richer almost every month. Granted, I didn't read the whole article 'cause it basically just described the different methods of winning points, which I can find out first hand by taking a gander at the site, which I have, several times a day on most days, although granted I don't investigate the different "doors" of each site that carefully when I visit 99.9% of the time...
I wrote a flaming-red email to my mom a few days ago, and she was flaming-red more so than I was, almost killed herself, although she may have been mostly bluffing, it's hard to say. But we (mostly I) talked, and then she laid down, cried, slept, cried some more, woke up and faced up to the facts, to me, and agreed that Danielle & we need to work on a st8 forward budget that shan't be tampered with.
So I'm not sure how much money I'll have to spend on obligatorily unnecessary spurts of lalahappy, but hopefully it'll be **AT LEAST** the same amount I've been getting or very close to it. Assuming this is the case, the Philips Fidelio thing **COULD** go up by $20 and still be within reach. But I'm not sure I want to do that. I would like to get the PCA-1 mini-amplifier and see if that works with my speakers, since my speakers are currently just bookending my DVD and book collection, which each sit on either side of my CD rack, which is holding 20 CDs, with room for 10 more (?), and getting a pair of "Real" bookends would cost more, or AT LEAST as much, as I spent on the speakers (got 'em at a yardsale for $5!). The PCA-1 is on sale @ Amazon too, but it usually retails for no more than $10 beyond its current sale price, which is $20.
But I just assume the Fidelio will have better sound quality and for $30 more -- $30 that I can, for now, actually afford (almost) -- I figure why not? I just really hope I actually ***CAN*** acquire it for that price.
But if the price does go up, there will probably still be sellers offering refurbs for the same amount or less than the current price of a brand new 1 from Amazon.
My Inbox Dollars check totalling $31.27 is to be mailed today or soon. I finally completed the post-sign up portion of their iBid2Save offer, by winning a $20 Amazon gift card that totals $13.08 w/ S&H + auction fee. The gift card itself should be shipping soon too, but there's not much telling. They say it could take 14 days to ship, but there could be delays (how is taking 14 days to get something into the hands of the postal service not a delay N&of itself??? I'd REALLY LIKE TO KNOW!!! Out of curiosity, if nothing else...trying to get "behind the scenes" information from these people is like pulling teeth a lot of the time...)
But if they both arrive at or around the same 2 business day span (my gramma, who I rely on for transportation most of the time, volunteers her time mostly on Mon-Fri), then I will have a mini-shop'n spree on my hands. As if $51.27 isn't awesome enough to die from excitement over (?), I just got a $5 Amazon gift card from OpinionSquare less than 1hr ago. It's the 3rd one I got from them and I **THINK** I signed up to their site less than a year ago.
I'm hoping I'll get all this while the Philips Fidelio DS7550 remains at its current price of $50 @ Amazon. My bank lets me OD my acct by up to $3 before they block a charge, and without any OD fee(s), and I currently owe them $2.88, which means the $31.27 IDB check will amount to a net spendable total of $28.39, which, when combined with the $20 Amazon GC from iBid2save, totals $48.39, and then you add the $5 from OpinionSquare, I still will have $3.39 cash(!!!!!!). The downside to this is I owe my gramma $10. Thankfully I haven't had the patience and enough of her undivided attn to feel comfortable explaining how I'm rolling in dough, so I don't need permission to repay her later...she's almost 70 years old and never felt comfortable around computers. She has a hard enough time using cordless landline telephones. So the idea of some internet based company offering incentives for being me might seem like "whaa?" I've told her about Swagbucks and MyPoints, but I don't know if she really gets what I'm saying. And I myself am no authority on the logistics of the thing. I looked up Swagbucks on wikipedia and I'm still confused as to how the dang thing makes me $10 in Amazon GC funds richer almost every month. Granted, I didn't read the whole article 'cause it basically just described the different methods of winning points, which I can find out first hand by taking a gander at the site, which I have, several times a day on most days, although granted I don't investigate the different "doors" of each site that carefully when I visit 99.9% of the time...
I wrote a flaming-red email to my mom a few days ago, and she was flaming-red more so than I was, almost killed herself, although she may have been mostly bluffing, it's hard to say. But we (mostly I) talked, and then she laid down, cried, slept, cried some more, woke up and faced up to the facts, to me, and agreed that Danielle & we need to work on a st8 forward budget that shan't be tampered with.
So I'm not sure how much money I'll have to spend on obligatorily unnecessary spurts of lalahappy, but hopefully it'll be **AT LEAST** the same amount I've been getting or very close to it. Assuming this is the case, the Philips Fidelio thing **COULD** go up by $20 and still be within reach. But I'm not sure I want to do that. I would like to get the PCA-1 mini-amplifier and see if that works with my speakers, since my speakers are currently just bookending my DVD and book collection, which each sit on either side of my CD rack, which is holding 20 CDs, with room for 10 more (?), and getting a pair of "Real" bookends would cost more, or AT LEAST as much, as I spent on the speakers (got 'em at a yardsale for $5!). The PCA-1 is on sale @ Amazon too, but it usually retails for no more than $10 beyond its current sale price, which is $20.
But I just assume the Fidelio will have better sound quality and for $30 more -- $30 that I can, for now, actually afford (almost) -- I figure why not? I just really hope I actually ***CAN*** acquire it for that price.
But if the price does go up, there will probably still be sellers offering refurbs for the same amount or less than the current price of a brand new 1 from Amazon.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Ok, just burn me - at the STEAK!
Oops...I did it again. I played with your heart...I know better than to ask for forgiveness...it's too blatantly hypocritical...I'll just do it again...and again...
Ok, so what's new? Uh...thanksgiving? I went to church the Sunday b4 today. It was boring. Really boring. I didn't learn anything, except little details pertaining to individual people's gratitude. Not sure why the pastor wanted everyone to tell the congregation what they were thankful for. I guess the congregation was curious?
My mom gave me a Bible for my birthday. I'm so buried in my habits, I've barely even opened it. I was planning on being bored on T-day, so I brought it with me, thinking my uncle Eddie wasn't going to be there to give me a ride. My other uncle, John, had two movies for us to select, and somehow it was concluded that WE'RE THE MILLERS was more worth watching than THE HEAT. Maybe it was, idk...it would have been distracting. Eddie wasn't supposed to leave until later that day or the next, so he showed up and gave me a ride home on his way home; he's kind of anti-social, kind of like me...heh...
So, um...what else?...Hmm...can't think of anything.
toodles?
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