Author: nolageek

Thank God It’s Wednesday

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My eyelids said four-thirty and the radio clock said six
and I was thinking up a reasonable excuse
I might?ve slept till yesterday but in the shape I?m in
what’s 24 hours more or less to lose
–Paul Sanchez “Louisiana Lowdown”

More appropriate words have never been typed. The past few weeks have left me exhausted. I’m usually up till 1am or so, but somehow being out of the house and “working” until midnight has me drained the following morning.

Tomorrow is the 4th, and I took Friday off … so no work for me until Monday! Yay! I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing tomorrow. My sister hasn’t said anything about BBQing, and Marshall and the gang are going by Debbies (they didn’t ask us to go.. hmpth! hehehe) So I think Dan and I are just going sit on the couch and vegitate a bit. I remember seeing some interesting marathons advertised on TV. (Sci-Fi? TLC?)

bwahahah!Crap. I missed American Idol. I watched it last night and much to my horror I found it entertaining in a car-crash kind of way. Lots of pretentious vocal masturbation combined with a rude judge make for odd television. The only ones I liked were Christina and Nikki.

Mark (left) was dressed like the illegitimate son of Corey Feldman and Peter Pan. (Those gloves!?!), E J was a total Cheeseball. (Not to mention his name is E. J. DAY!) RJ (RJ?) gets a few extra points just for admitting his hometown is named Cummings. The rest wern’t even worth mentioning – then again, who am I to judge?

I’m posting some more recent pictures in the photoblog, the newest ones being a couple from the myshkin show, and one of Norman. Norman is a guy I work with. Norman is kinda crazy, but he’s cool in a weird sort of way. In a if-I-don’t-say-he’s-cool-he’ll-kill-me sort of way. :) The image quality is really bad, I’m going to re-scan them when I get home. Hope you enjoy!

Reading Salmon of Doubt

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“It has always struck me as being bizarre that the idea of God as a creator was considered sufficient explanation for the complexity we see around us, because it simply doesn’t explain where he came from. If we imagine a designer, that implies a design, and that therefore each thing he designs or causes to be designed is a level simpler than him -or herself, then you have to ask, “What is the level above the designer?” There is one peculliar model of the universe that has turtles all the way down, but here we have gods all the way up. It isn’t really a good answer — but a bottom-up solution, on the other hand, that rests on the incredibly powerful tautology that “anything that happens, happens” clearly gives you a very simple and powerful answer that needs no other explanation whatsoever.”

Douglas Adams goes on to break the evolution of man into “ages of sand.” The first being man’s recognition of the world around him. Man next fashions sand into glass, and later lenses and is able to see that at our very basic components, we are all made of nothing. In the grand scope of an infinate universe, we are basically nothing. The third age of sand is silicon. Before wires and electrity and computers, the only news we heard was that which directly effected us. Now, the world is able to effect us, but we do not effect the world. What effect does this have on us? Are we being addicted to information which, a hundred years ago, would not – could not effect us? What’s the fourth age of sand? The internet? Some interesting reading.

I don’t think I’m going to read the last part… I havn’t read any of the previous Dirk Gently books. Although, check out this description from Adams himself:

“Dirk Gently, hired by someone he never meets to do a job that is never specified, starts following people at random. His investigations lead him to Los Angeles, though the nasal membranes of a rhinoceros, to a distant future dominated by estate agents and heavily armed kangaroos. Jokes, lightly poached fish, and the emergent properties of complex systems form the background to Dirk Gently’s most baffling in imprehensible case.”

Maybe I will.

We’re off to see the wizard…

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Let’s see, a quick recap of the past three days:

Friday:
I was supposed to meet Julie at 6:30 to see Some Like It Hot at the Saenger Theater. (The Saenger is showing three classic movies this weekend; Some Like it Hot on Friday, The Wizard of Oz on Saturday and Gone With The Wind today.)

I was trying to decide whether or not I had time to rush home, take a shower, change clothes and make it back downtown in time to meet her. My decision was made for me when I went to the ATM to get money and realised I had left my ATM card at home. In my wallet. With my ID. Since I was going to be meeting Dan and Kasey at 360 after the movie, I’d need my ID to get in – oh yeah, I’d also be driving to Algiers that night to see Stanton Moore at Old Point Bar. To make a long story short (too late) I ended up driving through a Brake Tag Road Block and made it through the other side with two tickets. One of which for no brake tag, the other for driving without a license. It’s just so hard being me sometimes. :)

So anyway, after the movie (it was so funny! I forgot how much I like Jack Lemmon – even in drag.) Julie brought me home and I came back downtown just in time to leave from 360 to make our way across the ferry to Algiers.

Dan bailed on us because he had work Saturday morning.

So now Kasey, her friends Byron and Matthew and I all pile in my poor little CRX and truck our little selves on over to the ferry. It was pretty uneventful throughout the show. Stanton was awesome – a fun time was had by all. After the show we decided to cut through the neighborhood instead of following the levee all the way back to he car. As it turned out, this was a mistake. We wandered around Algiers pretty aimlessly until a nice policeman stopped us, asked us where we were going and promptly gave us a lift back to the car. He mentioned in passing that:

“This is a nice neighborhood, but there’s a dangerous element that comes out at night. One more block and y’all would have been in the belly of the beast.”

So that was the first time I had ever been in the back of a police car, and it was actually a welcome experience.

That was it for Friday. I’m sure there’s more but it’s all kind of foggy now. I have to stop mixing vodka with cider, it’s just not good for me.

Saturday:
I finally woke up for good at 2pm. I had made several failed attempts beforehand, but the vodka and cider wasn’t about to let me off that easy. I scrambled for phone calls throughout the day, trying to figure out who was going to Wizard of Oz, how I was getting there and who had my tickets. (Did I mention the tickets for these movies were only 75 cents? Cool, eh?)

The Wizard of Oz was much cooler on the big screen than on the TVs on which I had seen it in the past. It’s not every day I get the change to see the Lollypop Guild guys 4 feet tall and in all their freaky glory. It was also kind of cool to have an entire packed house cheer for Toto when he escaped Mrs. Gulch’s basket in the first half of the movie. Afterward the show we all went to Deja Vu for grub. I ate entirely too much and forgot my cell phone in the theater. Yay!

Today:
I’ve only been awake for an hour and a half – so I’ll have to get back to you on this. Dan and Kasey went to Gone With The Wind and I stayed home since I’ve seen it a few times already and I’m just too tired.

Photos added

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I’m working on adding some photos to the site. I don’t proclaim to be an artsy photographer or anything, but I’ve taken some pictures that I’d like to share – for one reason or another. Click here to see the Beta Version. Please, e-mail me and let me know if it looks bad. It’s completely set up using Style Sheets, and I don’t know how it renders in all browsers yet. It’s looks fine at work, but it was kind of weird looking at home. Thanks!

Stanton Moore Tonight?

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Ok. Luckily for me, there’s a Stanton Moore show tonight at Old Point Bar in Algiers that other people just happen to be interested in seeing as well. I know.. Algiers… but it’s worth it, I promise. I think the show starts at 11. Like Dan said, everyone is invited… so come on down.

Stanton (besides being dreamy) is just about the best drummer I’ve ever seen, plus he has really cool glasses. What more could you ask for? :) He’s got this way of playing – it’s like zen drumming. (He drums by not drumming? *grin*) No matter how complex or simple the beat, he always looks like he’s having the time of his life – I love that. It’s been a while since I’ve seen him, even longer since I’ve seen him outside of Galactic, so I’m pretty excited. If I’m not careful I may find myself dancing (if you can call it that.) I’d love to see some friends out there (blog or otherwise,) let me know if you’re interested.

back to work…