August 2004 Archives
My good San Antonian friend wrote me this:
Here's how it works. You select ten CDs you'd take with you to a desert island. You can take them and no others. The only stipulation is that they must come from your current CD library. Modest anthologies (two, maybe three discs) are permitted, but, say, the dozen plus discs in the complete series of the late Isaac Stern, A Life in Music, would not be.
I'm assuming self-made mixes are out, even if they are single artist compilations made across albums - which is a lot of my collection. This holds even for many of my favorite artists, because I don't tend to like everything on any of their albums. So Gomez, Dar Williams, Tom Waits, Pete Yorn, the Be Good Tanyas, Sarah Slean, Adam Ant, Ben Folds Five, Jonathan Richman, Luscious Jackson, Poe, They Might Be Giants, Solas, Greg Brown, and Ashley MacIsaac lose out because I bought their stuff, ripped it, and burned greatest hits collections for myself.
Boy does that narrow it down. Very efficient.
My 10 that could actually be purchased in stores:
- Soul Coughing - El Oso
- Cake - Comfort Eagle
- Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
- Moxy Früvous - You Will Go To The Moon (or Live Noise?)
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
- Battlefield Band - Home Is Where The Van Is
- Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
- PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
- Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
- Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg
If I could wait to leave for the desert island until after Katell Keineg's new one came out, I would replace the PJ Harvey with that.
Church Says Girl's Communion Not Valid
bq..An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Roman Catholic doctrine.
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"This is not an issue to be determined at the diocesan or parish level, but has already been decided for the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world by Vatican authority," Trenton Bishop John M. Smith said in a statement last week.
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The church has similar rules for Communion wine. For alcoholics, the church allows a substitute for wine under some circumstances, however the drink must still be fermented from grapes and contain some alcohol. Grape juice is not a valid substitute.
I think I won't be posting much until September - after I upgrade to MT 3.1. ...or do the unthinkable and switch to something else. RSIs are out of control, I'm behind on everything non-blog, and my brain is just worn out.
See y'all when I'm 30. ;)
So I used my new bread machine, which was a gift from my mother's cousin, for the first time and it was SO COOL because it made the entire apartment smell like baking bread, which wasn't hard because the apartment is the size of two shoeboxes (I can vacuum all but three square feet of it without moving the plug) and then in the end there was actual bread that I get to eat which is quite lovely and it's just like when I was five and my mom took me to the garden center and we bought strawberry plants and planted and watered them and talked all about how food is grown and still when I saw the first strawberry I yelled "They're just like the ones at the store!" Just like that, except with electricity and bread and I'm not five, and I didn't have to go outside except to walk The Dog five million times.
Then I got to be in the behind-the-scenes room of The Show With No Name and it was fun, but I shouldn't have touched any of the keyboards but I did because it was about time for my next "dumbass thing you wouldn't have done if you thought about it first for even half a second" stunt but they didn't kick me out and I even got a shirt, which I'm not sure I was supposed to get but by the time anyone noticed except B., who gave it to me, I was already holding it.
Now I'm going to bed, because quite obviously it's been a long and productive day.
If you ever find yourself feeling all alone, like no one loves you and you will never have a boyfriend/girlfriend/partner/spouse, or a house, or kids, here are some things you should not do:
Go to a party ALONE where YOU DON'T KNOW ANYONE...
...especially if over half the woman there have YOUNG CHILDREN or are PREGNANT...
...and the CUTE GUY and his GORGEOUS WIFE who are hosting the party have a BEAUTIFUL HOUSE and a VERY CUTE BABY.
Not that you would do such a thing, because WHAT KIND OF F&%ING IDIOT WOULD THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA?!
...and I'm not even going to check first to see if one of the two other people in the conversation or the other witness blogged it first. So there.
The Princess: Hey, you should check out this thing that B. sent me, it's a series of recorded science fiction lectures from some online university thing. I'll send you a link.
I-ROCK: Yeah, I think I saw something about that on BoingBoing.
The Princess: That may very well be where he got it.
D: OK, I
Conversation was then impossible for a couple of minutes due to the uncontrollable fits of laughter.
(This happened on Friday during dinner. I kept fighting the impulse to blog it, but my willpower finally collapsed.)
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