More Weekend, Please
30 May 2000
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More Weekend, Please
30 May 2000
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10:49 PM: Oh, this is just too stupid. It's exactly the same time as the last entry again. "I" "AM" "AN" "INDIVIDUAL" "I" "AM" "NOT" "A" "ROBOT"....
This week's Big Lesson is, you can only have nice things as long as you don't need them. Though specifically brought home by the DSL line conking out Friday - you know, the brand new one that I was going to use to get all kinds of work done this weekend? - it sure seems to be a general principle of life. When I needed a job, I couldn't find anything at all - I ended up typing in transcripts of medical histories for women who had had breast implants, which was not only gross but kind of sad. Now that I have a job, other kinds of work are springing up like demon teeth. And everyone knows the joke about how you can't get a loan unless you don't need the money, but it'd be funnier if it wasn't true. You get the concept.
I got an email telling me that Rebecca's Empire is breaking up, which is a damn shame. I never did get to see them play live. Don't think I'll be making the June 30th gig in Melbourne. Dang it.
More tons of CDs came today. Well OK, 3, but one is a box set: Nuggets, this great collection of 60s garage band songs that I remember very, very vividly from around 1981-82. Pivotal punk music. Also the latest Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx CDs, both bought based on the tracks on that Q magazine greatest hits CD. So we'll kind of have to see about them.
Saw The Insider this weekend - much better than I expected it to be. Russell Crowe sure does tense well. But, you know, come on now - the Big Controversy is that the evil, evil tobacco CEO is deliberately leaving a known carcinogen in the mix of chemicals used to process his company's cigarettes. No! Shocking! The whole damn THING is a known carcinogen, kids. He is evil, it's true, but only in the way that all Rapacious Corporate Landfuckers are. Or the equally, terribly terribly shocking idea that a major corporation might affect the way a story is covered by its "news" division based on its own interests. I've never heard of such a thing, of course. That's why ABC always has that damn Noam Chomsky on after the State of the Union address... *koff*
Willfully blind self-indulgent nebbish or amusingly quirky old coot? And how bout that local sports team? Discuss among yourselves.
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