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Archives for August 2004

Note to Self, Apparently Unread

August 30, 2004 by krisis

Note to Self: Stop having sex dreams about other bloggers; it’s kindof creepy.

PS: Definitely don’t post about this.

PPS: Well, if you have to post about it, definitely don’t allude to which one. Better not to post about it at all, though.

PPPS: If this should occur again in the future, definitely don’t get drunk with your girlfriend and tell her which one.

PPPPS: Furthermore, if this should occur again in the future and you get drunk with your girlfriend, subsequently telling her which one don’t answer any of her prying questions about the details, but do not phrase said reply as “Get your own sex dreams!”

PPPPPS: Re: Details – You whore!

PPPPPPS: Revise the margueritas ratio; it should not be 2:1 … Yes, you’re a boy, but she holds her tequila better than you do.

PPPPPPPS: You know, if you feel the need to be more risque you could just go back to posting webcam shots of your ass.

PPPPPPPPS: Fine, make the damn post, see if I give you any more advice.

Filed Under: bloggish, sex, thoughts, Year 05

Silence That Speaks

August 28, 2004 by krisis

“We need to learn to live as well as we sing, or to sing as we write, or to trade some of the small things we’ve practiced for larger things we fear.”

Glenn McDonald, my favorite music reviewer, ends his weekly column with issue #500, after a 12 year run of unbroken excellence.

Filed Under: music, weblinks

A Trio of Rejects

August 27, 2004 by krisis

In and effort to get more Trios done (rather than just started), i’m going to start posting my aborted attempts and outtakes rather than hording them for months, all the while wondering what i could’ve done better. Here’s a trio of them (ironic, no?).

Just This Once (Original Demo)

Across The Universe (Live Take)

No Proof (Unfinished Demo)

Tomorrow i’ll be attempting my new Trio policy of recording and mixing all three songs in one day and posting outtakes if i fail; if Glenn can do a fucking album in one day, i should be able to do a damn Trio. We’ll see how that goes.

Filed Under: demos

Happy Birthday To This

August 26, 2004 by krisis

I am not a huge birthday fan.

Yes, birthdays make a good day to sit back and say “wow, was that a year that just happened?,” but they’ve otherwise been turned into the same materialistic nonsense Hallmark holiday as all of those other holidays that I habitually ignore. By this point, my friends and limited members of my family have discerned my general distaste for typical birthday fare, and have compensated accordingly with a recent avalanche of off-kilter gifts, unusual cakes, and the now-annual beer-tasting festival.

Today marks the fourth birthday of my blog. You’d think I’d remember it, or have it marked down on my calendar, or buy myself a gift, but year after year it blindsides me just like the birthdays of my friends and aunts, all of which I typically remember just as they are upon me. I didn’t remember this one at all. Instead, I happened to be at Rabi’s, reading about this year’s Howl festival, and I was thinking about how it’s been exactly a year since I last saw Rabi, and then I looked at my posts from the New York trip and realized that it almost coincided with CrushingKrisis’s birthday, and then I realized that meant that CK’s b-day was once again upon us.

Four years is not the longest time to do something. High school only took four years, thank god. For most people, college only takes four. There are marriages that don’t last as long, and beloved children who are younger. It has been enough time, though, for over 2,500 posts, and for over four hundred thousand words.

CK’s birthday is a good point to look back across that lifetime of posts and words, but it’s also useful for gauging what can actually happen in a year. In a way, this past year’s posts represent even less of my life than they ever did before; they depict fewer moments, impulses, and sudden fixations. At the same time, these few posts reveal more – in my increasing impulse to let thoughts percolate through multiple passes of writing and editing I find a more robust view of my life as I look back over a sparser number of posts. Not as many thousands of words to depict the pictures; less polariods, more portraits.

I sometimes miss “the old” version of this page, but I know that’s it’s unrealistic to expect anything to stay the same. Television shows grow stale. Musicians evolve. Life goes on. For me to decry the state of this page, lamenting that it no longer portrays my minute-to-minute fascination with the minutia of my existence, would be ignoring the growth not of my writing, but of myself. I might still look (mostly) the same and think (mostly) the same, but each post I write has an effect on the outcome of the next one.

I have given myself the gift of four years of identity, thoughts realized and jotted down for me to re-live, re-think, and re-assess. You have given me the privilege of airing that identity, forcing me to repeat, repent, and resolve again and again in an attempt to find something truer, funnier, and realer the next time.

I want to promise you that this year will bring hundreds of interesting links, scores of engaging reads, dozens of awesome new recordings of my song. I can’t. I want to promise that I will be on the cutting edge of blogging, finding new resources and fresh writing to day daily. I won’t.

For all that I cannot promise you, I will promise you this: you will always be privy to a unique view of my life. Sometimes that is represented by a sprawling journal-like entry, sometimes by a new song, sometimes by a brief by-line to a link, and often by lengthy self-assessment, but every time it’s a topic I bring to this page, to you, because it is a key part of this identity. It’s something I’m crushing on, or that’s crushing me.

Thank You, and Happy Birthday to This.

Filed Under: august 26th, Year 04 Tagged With: rabi

August 22, 2004 by krisis

I’m happy to report that the ever-popular summer West Philly guessing game “Gunshots or Fireworks” (and it’s inevitable winter counterpart “Guns Firing or Cars Backfiring”) has now inhereted a new plausible answer: Elise sneaking out of the bedroom to make popcorn.

You’d think that i’d eventually get better at a game i’ve been playing since age four.

https://www.crushingkrisis.com/2004/08/109316161958426496/

Filed Under: Philly

Errata

August 22, 2004 by krisis

Some random stuff.

Boy, does this site render weird in FireFox. Not bad-weird, just weird. Gotta look into that now that i’ve finally ditched IE in my mad retreat from the neverending CoolWeb inhabitation of my computer.

So, cast-iron stomach aside, i got sick. Sick to the tune of using a SEL day and lying on the tiled bathroom floor at 4am vaguely twitching as to try to distract myself from being sick. It was not a good scene. Luckily, mom is just a numeric page away, and she generally arrives bearing legal narcotics. I swear, it’s worth sending a member of your family to nursing school just so you know you won’t kill yourself over a stomach flu.

Note that this ended my Seinfeldian abstanation from fever-induced nausea. Damnit. By the way, did you know that fear of vomiting is called emetophobia? [cue “The More You Know” theme].

If you’re a LiveJournal user, you can now subscribe my RSS-feed to your Friends list. As Blogger doesn’t allow formatting of our RSS feeds, i don’t think there’s a way to make the permalinks in my RSS feed point to the real homes of my posts, rather than the bastardized version they currently lead to. Click through to see what i mean. Advice, as always, is appreciated. b2Evolution, a fantastic and easily installed MoveableType alternative, is looking more attractive EVERY DAY (but i’ve always been a fan of having the place i post and the place my posts post be two difference places, for redundancies sake. Did that make any sense?).

Shafted is still alive. Approximately three of my known readers understand the relevance of this fact. It has nothing to do with “Shaft, The Drexel.”

I have bought eight new CDs in the last 10 days. I am still formulating opinions on them, but here’s quick rundown, from best to worst (with comments, if you care):
Lisa Loeb, The Way It Really Is //

Butterfly Boucher, Flutterby //

Mike Kovacs, Writing On Water (Part II) //

Scissor Sisters //

Heart, Dreamboat Annie / Little Queen //

The Honorary Title, Anything Else But The Truth //

Rilo Kiley, More Adventurous.

There you have it: errata.

Filed Under: day in the life, meta, music

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