Note: This entry totally blows, it's SO garbage, but I just got on a typing jag and couldn't stop, and we all know the www is more about quantity than quality, so you'll read it and you'll like it, maggots! Haha, why did I just put in that part about maggots, what's wrong with me? Actually really, what's wrong with me that I don't call everyone maggots more often? That's an awesome gimmick. Anyhow:
I just bought a pair of velcro shoes at Zellers, so if you were going to buy me some for xmas, sorry sucker! I paid 9.99 (plus GST, no PST on garbage shoes! Possibly vice versa, PST not GST) for them, and know what the greatest part about 9.99 shoes is? They will never wear out ever. I got them especially to only wear indoors, and that helps, but I swear anytime I've owned sub-$15 shoes, they have lasted forever. That's because they're usually made of the same material they make gas barbecue covers or porch canopies with, some sort of weird material that can not be harmed by anything except maybe fire. I love crappy shoes! Except the part where they make your feet sore and ruin your circulation. Anyhow, am I the only person who can walk a whole lot easier in shoes? I totally am 100 times faster and more nimble walking around inside in shoes, I hate being in socks. AM I RIGHT LADIES? WHO IS WITH ME?
You know how diaries often have things where they say what they're listening to as they write? I was thinking of adding that to mine, but I usually listen to a bunch of songs cause I'm such a slow typer, so I've decided to just add a thing like this: [now playing: chocolate city - parliament] as I write, and then whenever a new song hits I'll change it (I am on random play), starting right now. I think [now playing: Dead Milkmen - When I get to Heaven] that is probably [now playing: ballad of the opening band - Slim Dunlap] the best way for me [now playing: candle - sonic youth] to do that. [now playing: grateful dead - truckin' (live)] Holy crap I type slow, I just had to put on a Grateful Dead song so that as long as I don't keep writing for more than 45 minutes I won't have to write another song name in. This whole paragraph is just really a lame joke to make an excuse for why I don't update that often. And it's not just a pointless joke, it's a huge sham, because while I did begin by listing the last few songs I had listened to, I don't even have any Grateful Dead albums (brag), and even worse, I totally fast-forwarded through the Pina Colada song so I wouldn't have to list it and look lame. And believe me, I never skip by the Pina Colada song under normal circumstances. Shameful.
Okay, so shoe tangent: I got an email yesterday from Adbusters, and they're selling shoes now, they have their own brand of shoes. The shoe looks good too, it's designed by Fluevog, complete with a stylish logo (oops, "anti-logo"), a pretty catchy name (Blackspot), online ordering (with crazy inflated shipping charges), a list of where to buy them, the whole deal. So hilarious. How do people take them seriously, I don't get it. The main thing though I should add is, I never signed up for any email list from Adbusters, because I am not 13 and I don't think markering a pair of devil ears on the monkey in a Pepsi billboard or whatever is as cutting edge as they do. I keep getting emails from them though, to an address that is listed publicly on one of my websites but that I have never used. I remember the first time I saw Adbusters I thought "those fake ads are sort of funny", but I never actually thought "Those fake ads are funny, and I bet this company starts email spamming me with ads for their sneaker line one day when I have a computer and know what email is".
Related tangent, I mentioned the Dead Milkmen earlier, and I have been listening to them like crazy the past few months. The other day I found out they had a live DVD out of all their old videos and maybe some live stuff I guess. I was really excited, because I have been having an impossible time making an xmas list this year, I can't think of anything I want. Anyhow, I immediately opened a computer file, called it xmaslist and listed that DVD. Then for some stupid, stupid reason I decided to look for them on the www. I usually do not read about music stuff online a ton, and this is why:
1. Hey look, there's an official Dead Milkmen site.
2. Wow, one of the members maintains it.
3. Hmm, he's writing about email viruses.
4. Did he just say "blog"?
5. There goes months of listening to old albums and building up an image of the band as being super cool.
6. I'll just delete this here xmas list.
I don't mind current musicians running websites and stuff, but I am a huge puss and it totally ruined my impression of the band to realize that they're aging dudes with computer jobs now, or at least one of them is. I have to remember never to visit music websites. And by the way, I should add that I know this is all my own issue, and I am the idiot and for me to imply that someone isn't cool is ludicrous. Me saying someone isn't cool is like an obese guy saying that someone eats too much. More accurately, me saying someone isn't cool is like an obese guy saying someone isn't cool. Exactly like it.
Damn, I know I forget at least one tangent I was going to go on here. But does anyone have any ideas for xmas gifts I should ask for? I can't think of anything, if anyone wants to comment on a good gift they asked for or whatever, please do, maybe it'll give me ideas, which I can then tell people 5 days before the actual day, to annoy them. So far I only have the Dead Milkmen DVD (I really did know at the time I'd realize I'm a huge idiot and put it on my list a few days later, which I did), and the Criterion disc of Slacker (because there is no way I'd pay $50 for a DVD, but I'll surely tell someone else to).
12:05 a.m. - Dec. 21, 2004