Saturday, April 19, 2003

I played at the protest at the Liberty Pole yesterday. Here's the Roch. IMC article about the rally. I couldn't remember the names of the songs I played yesterday, but I do now so here they are:
- shock and awe
- pour paint on the fire
- brockport to islamabad

Then it was fun fun fun at the RCAN benefit show. Kinda disappointing more people didn't show up though.
Support the people, not the "troops": http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0418-01.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0415-12.htm

Thursday, April 17, 2003

http://www.regulareverydaypeople.com/
The person that just IM'd me, please IM me back. I don't know who you are and I accidentally clicked out of the little message thingy.
people that i didn't formerly think were cool but now do...
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
The Pope
the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks
Martin Sheen
... there's more I'm sure, but that's all I can think of for now (note: Jeneanne Garafolo does not appear on this list because she was already cool)
oh man oh man oh man, i need some sleep.

Monday, April 14, 2003

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
My interesting night Saturday...
i got out of work and i was like, 'well what am i going to do now'
and so i looked in the paper and bowling for columbine was playing at the little at 7 so i was like, 'i'll just go to the movie alone'
so i did and then i went to java's after
and so i'm getting coffee and i look in the smoking room and there's this girl that i recognized from a civil disobedience meeting on friday
and so she waves at me so i go in there and i'm like, what's up, can i have a cigarette
so she's there alone too it turns out so we're talking and then a couple of other people come in and we're all talking
and then someone's like, 'hey we should go back to my house and watch this movie harold and maude'
so i'm like, ok cool
so i'm at this person's house that i don't know watching this movie with three people that i don't know
it was just crazy because it started out being a lonely evening and then by pure serendipity i ended up making new friends
it was going to be a really lonely night and i was going to go home all lonely and shit and it ended up being a great night
Rochester is the best city ever!
So the show in two weeks (Sat. the 26th) featuring me and Forgotten Figures Falling Together Between Two Twigs (and other less important acts) is aparently a benefit for the Tibetan Children's Fund or something like that. At least that's what I got from the Roch. ARA website. Here's a poem for all you romantic bohemians...

*Beautifully Inebriated*


Well I guess you pu ta big picturesque mirror over the sink to kill me
Let my own reflection drive me to paranoia or even suicide
A monster lurking in the shadows under my eyes and around my lips
I forgot to drink the tea that makes the spiders stop crawling on my face
Sometimes they let go a bundle of silk and let the wind carry them to where they want to go
But what would mother say?
Where is th epiety in getting high or low?
A good Christian is always right down the center
The ball hits the center pin at the gates of paradise and Strike! Yr in!
The shoes of magnificence donned with all the grace and elegance due
A snobbish look from the velociraptor in a three-piece suit
His teeth smuggly dripping with the carnage of a bowling match
Boy do we ever love guns
Fill the room with potatoes
Everything's going to be alright
But that's not it at all
The world is a pot of gumbo cooking in a caldron over a piece of hellfire
Take a taste too soon and it's too damn cold
Take a taste too late and it's burning up
But if yo umake sure to slurp the universe through yr teeth right now you won't regret having tasted the savory stew largely undiscovered cooking in a cave somewhere
Eve took a bite of the world
So did Snow White
We all have snakes and witches offering us pieces of wonderfully shiny fruit
But where is the sticker that says USDA Certified Organically Grown
The phone rang and the noises began in patterns
You were speaking
But I lost you at hello
So I hung up in mid-sentence and went back to reading Timothy Leary
And i guess I never understood why you got so mad
So the show in two weeks (Sat. the 26th) featuring me and Forgotten Figures Falling Together Between Two Twigs (and other less important acts) is aparently a benefit for the Tibetan Children's Fund or something like that. At least that's what I got from the Roch. ARA website. Here's a poem for all you romantic bohemians...

*Beautifully Inebriated*


Well I guess you pu ta big picturesque mirror over the sink to kill me
Let my own reflection drive me to paranoia or even suicide
A monster lurking in the shadows under my eyes and around my lips
I forgot to drink the tea that makes the spiders stop crawling on my face
Sometimes they let go a bundle of silk and let the wind carry them to where they want to go
But what would mother say?
Where is th epiety in getting high or low?
A good Christian is always right down the center
The ball hits the center pin at the gates of paradise and Strike! Yr in!
The shoes of magnificence donned with all the grace and elegance due
A snobbish look from the velociraptor in a three-piece suit
His teeth smuggly dripping with the carnage of a bowling match
Boy do we ever love guns
Fill the room with potatoes
Everything's going to be alright
But that's not it at all
The world is a pot of gumbo cooking in a caldron over a piece of hellfire
Take a taste too soon and it's too damn cold
Take a taste too late and it's burning up
But if yo umake sure to slurp the universe through yr teeth right now you won't regret having tasted the savory stew largely undiscovered cooking in a cave somewhere
Eve took a bite of the world
So did Snow White
We all have snakes and witches offering us pieces of wonderfully shiny fruit
But where is the sticker that says USDA Certified Organically Grown
The phone rang and the noises began in patterns
You were speaking
But I lost you at hello
So I hung up in mid-sentence and went back to reading Timothy Leary
And i guess I never understood why you got so mad