top 10

in a celebration of this linear algebra hw i woke up early (4-something, i went to bed before 8pm...) to do yet, after hours of trying haven't been able to get one single question (and class starts in an hour and 3 min...) i was thinking of Jacques talking about sending his top 10 album list to brainwashed, i started thinking what mine would be...so here it is, at least the hour's version:
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Wire - Chairs Missing
3. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
4. Unwound - Fake Train
5. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
6. Joan of Arc - How Memory Works
7. Television - Marquee Moon
8. Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
9. Pere Ubu - Datapanik in the Year Zero EP
10. No New York

***footnote: looking back at this, i noticed that while i was listening to Eno, 3 of those albums up there were produced by him...also, 3 were from '78, the year i was born...2 of them being Eno-produced...how wacky is that? ...not at all, i guess...

a band of assholes

around midnight on wednesday, i went up to Neil's...i did "Jeremy" in my best mock-Eddie Vedder...this really annoying asian girl was all trying to hi-five me for my song choice (never mind the fact that it was parody...) and when the song started she started dancing all on me...but Donna made her get off the stage 'cuz she made the cd skip...she was annoying...but i did the song, including the extended "ah-huh"s at the end...afterwards Christiana (one of the hottest chicks ever, though doubtlessly sucky...she's always singing some crap song "perfectly" and she's in some band called Industrial Ghetto Music or something...) was thanking me for doing the song...i told her i don't like Pearl Jam, but she said she didn't care and was just glad i sang the song...i'm guessing she missed out on heavy mocking overtones...

a little after 1 i was telling Keith we should prob'ly be leaving soon...he looked very surprised and asked why..."ummm...practice" i said...then he says Brad says we weren't practicing (even though Brad agreed earlier that day...Keith had agreed the day before...) then a barrage of excuses comes from the both of them..."i'm too drunk, i don't feel like it" "i have to be up in 7 hrs" "Brad's too drunk" "i told Pixie i'd hang out w/ her tonight" fuckers...i got pissed and left...on the way out i ran into Chris and he went back in to try to talk 'em into practicing, but w/ no luck...i appreciate his efforts for trying though...but i went over to the space to inform Jacques who arrived exactly the same time as i did...he was pissed too, of course...then i went home and slept and stuff...bastards...
oh fuck, and i forgot to mention that on the way home, in Germantown almost to my house, Brad calls me and i answer the phone "yes?" and he's giggling and says "so i guess i'm out of the band now" i hung up on him...the fucker has the audacity to make a joke out of the fact that he only cares about the band when it suits his whim...needless to say, i was REALLY pissed off about that...

Love Day (...it's a Simpsons reference, people...)

leaving for class thursday morning i noticed this giant box sitting next to the garage...i hopped out of my car and sure enough it was for me! so i moved it into the garage and hopped back into my car to continue being late for class...when i got back i opened it up and, of course, it was my amp!!! woohoo!!! (thanks to Brian...) i set it up and managed to find a cord and played w/ it until i had to go to my next class...after that i just went home and went to bed early...i already posted about early this morning and i never got anything done w/ my linear algebra hw, but jah has smiled upon me today...i went to class and once again the hw was postponed 'til monday...now THIS time i'd better actually take advantage of that and actually fucking do it...over and out...

from the Summer of Youth's pics page...

me and Paul before the Knoxville SY show, 2000...(even though they wrote it as the Atlanta show at the top...of course, i was there as well...but this isn't from then...yea...)