7/26/2001 01:10:00 PM

Better late than Pregnant

I rolled into work today around 1030am, after spending hours in traffic and hours waiting to have some recall-work done on my car. Sitting in traffic is a time for introspection, a time for screaming, and a time for making up clever bumper-sticker ideas like "Blinkers: You paid for them, Use 'em!" and "No Blinker No Love" and "You knew that lane was ending, so why should I let you in front of me" which isn't really clever but it sure conveys my point. There's always the temptation to become one of the jerks, one of the hordes of people who ride up in the merge lane to the front of the line and sometimes have the audacity to pretend it's a total shock when their lane ends and they have to butt, cutt, and coconutt their way into the head of the pack. I think they're all jerks, but they're jerks who get to spend an extra 5-10 minutes at home with their loving families and not on the beltway where a single wave can make all the difference in my mood. I'm still good, I don't cut people off and I don't abuse the merge lane, but I've definitely become ruled by the road in far too many ways. I mean, look at how much I just wrote about it.

Anywho, I'll be leaving here later than usual tonight, hopefully long after all the other folk on the road have left and it'll be mine-all-mine.

User: Boney

7/25/2001 11:27:00 AM

Car Stereo

I'm driving my car again, whereas for a long time Erica was driving it to school, I now need it for work and whereas for a long time my car has not had a CD player, I am using a portable, and what this all boils down to is that I am now listening to the CDs that I own with more frequency. When I delivered pizzas my car had an in-dash cd player and I would listen to 4-5 cds a night, rocking, rolling, and singing along for hours on end, getting time to appreciate life and all of the beautiful things attached to it, or some shit like that. ANd so, my voice is now going hoarse from the past couple days' commute.

Black to Basics 4.0

So, the first CD I wanted to put in to commemorate my return to the world of singing in the car was Frank Black's "Teenager of the Year". There are so many things that I really like about this album that it was an obvious first pick. Every song on it is really good, and there are 22 songs so that's no easy feat. It spans a number of different styles, tempos, and all of that business, and I think the vocal range meshes well with my own, or at least in what I like to sing. Sometimes his voice gets a lot more bass than I can muster and I end up sounding like I'm mumbling and strumbling, but I'm just not built for it and I can live with that.

Weezing

After a day or two with that album, I put in Weezer's new Green album, because I haven't really had much of a chance to spend time listening to it. It's pretty much exactly what I thought it was though; not very good. It's got songs that sound good and you can dance to, but it doesn't stand up well compared to the rest of their stuff and that's probably their biggest problem. It doesn't aspire, it just sortof sits there. The solos are uninspired, the vocals don't seem heartfelt and the lyrics seem sortof generic. Still, having said so much against it, I still hear the beginnings of songs and think "Well, this one is pretty good, I sortof forgot about it" and some melodies stick in my head when I'm doing paperwork or trying to write songs of my own. If I made the album I'd be stoked, but Weezer made it and that's the problem.

User: Boney

7/23/2001 12:07:00 PM

daily resolution

I'm concentrating on being a better person. A better Blogging Person anyways. Gotta trim the fat and keep the updates frequent and short instead of doing large data-dumps every week or so.

nevermind

For Dave's birthday over the weekend, Erica, Dave, Adam, Jen, and I went to nirvana, or the Spotsylvania, Virginia equivalent of it. 55 Acres of land, 27 Disc Golf holes, 18 more holes going in, and 9 Tiki-Holes (80-100 foot short putting-practice) all on one man's property. Open to the public with a courtesy call-ahead to let them know you're coming. There's a house, a pool, and a smaller house containing pinball (Bad Girls or something), table-top congo-bongo, a couple of other coin-ops and a drumset and a room filled up with custom-printed new disc-golf discs for sale (printed with various "The Grange" designs, which is the name of the place). There were huge speakers blasting Phish so loud you could hear it on any hole on the course and there were plenty of dudes around playing Disc Golf, Drinking Heineken, and just hanging out. Where the money comes from is a source of speculation for all of us, because the guy who owns it is young and doesn't have a job that we know of. Everyone was super-nice, but we cut out after only 18 holes so we could get down to Panda Garden (in Richmond) for an amazingly delicious vegetarian Buffet. I know it's a hub of the Hardcore scene in Richmond and common knowledge to the whole scene-scene, but it was new to me and the people there were nice too. That's my story!

User: Boney

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