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Happy June 2013 Thoughts

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Here are some of today’s numbers (for those of you scoring at home):

5 Interview calls today. Only 2 spoke discernible English.
Of those 2, one (1) seemed very good. I have some work to do, but once again here’s another Whoppertunity.

3 Calls today asking for “Sean” or “Shawn” “Gabreel”. These were phone scams known as the “free government grant” phone scams. I never got calls like this when I was working. It is amazing how this world preys on the desperate. Just makes me really mad at humanity. Here’s a youtube AUDIO of a guy who has them stomped.

Listen from the 5 minute mark forward.  These are foul mouthed sick predator people.  This guy is wise, and these phone scammers are horrifically manipulative. It’s nice to hear them get what they deserve.  Keep in mind I had 3 of these god damned calls today. I would love to keep these people on the phone and mess with them, but I have a minutes allowance on my verizon wireless contract, of which I’ve been in good standing for 12 years (bastards!).

1 Computer diagnosed. Billy D’s car shop across the street wasn’t getting video on their PC (related to our transformer explosion last month). I lugged his tower PC upstairs, broke it open and fiddled with it. Isolated that one of his memory cards was bad. TA DAAAAAAAAAA!

11 more days left in this apartment. (I want to be vacated by June 15 … hopefully).

11 is Gladys’ approximate age on her approximate birthday. Since daddy is getting an unemployment check tomorrow, Gladys’ birthday will be June 5, 2013. I know I’ve always said (and agreed with her vet) that she was born in June. No one is really sure. She’s a street kitty at heart.

Gladys is the big 11
Gladys is the big 11

gladys on porch june 2013

 

 

gladys thanksgiving 2012

It’s going to be interesting to see how she takes to the new digs… (Insert ponderous thought here).

2 is the amount of annoying ice cream trucks that have gone by my house in the past 1 hour. Sign of the economy? I think so…

THANK GOD IT’S SUMMER BUT… there aint no “hissing of summer lawns” going on here. (Right Denise? I put this cheezee Joni Mitchell song up for you)

so… In summary,

Sometimes I Dont Know What To Feel

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Late ABC Voice Over Talent Ernie Anderson!

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I never did voice over work, but I’ve sat at the controls and produced it.

You can see how frustrating this crap can be.  I’m amazed at how his personality and tone totally changes when the mic is live.  This is hilarious.

 

Here’s a clip of Ernie from the Mike O’meara Show (TMOS) bonus show (which explains how they get away with all the swearing).

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I Love Buster Bluth

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Buster Bluth

I am moving through the new season of arrested development.  Each episode tells the same story from a different character’s perspective.  It’s rather unique for a TV series structure.

So far, the greatly over publicized, new season has been interesting, but I got to the 14th of the 15 episodes today and it was a Buster “Mother Boy” Bluth episode.

I had to steal this audio quote of Buster talking to Lucille 2 (Liza Manelli).  He’s attempting to move in with her (much like my life is in transition right now) and what he says here had me laughing so hard, I think I almost shit myself.

Listen closely… and if you get a chance to see this or have seen it, from my experience, I backed up the slider on my computer 12 times to re-watch this segment.

HILARIOUS…

Had to share!

Humpday Hero

Humpday Heroes

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Who doesn’t need a hero to hump? And why does Wednesday never appear in any popular song lyrics? So starting today, this day is for the unsung heroes of this world.  Fuck all the other days of the week, cause on Wednesday you’re a hero!

Today’s hero came to me over this weekend.  Charles Nelson Reilly.

Yes, Charles was a hero on so many levels that if I have to explain it to you, it would cause dizziness, severe cramping, nausea, heat stroke, bloating, premature age spotting, blindness, and dry mouth.

charles

So let’s all raise, whatever it is you raise, one up high tonight for Mr. Reilly.  A tribute to a true American Hero:

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Harmonia Remix That’s Really Cool

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For those who don’t know Harmonia, they were part of that early German electronic collective that consisted of Kraftwerk, Neu!, and Cluster(aka Kluster and Qluster).

Harmonia consisted of Hans Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, and Michael Rother.  All of these people affected or played in the big electronic German three above.

Roedelius + Rother + Moebius = Harmonia
Roedelius + Rother + Moebius = Harmonia
I want a living room like this.
I want a living room like this.

For my want, I was always on the lighter side of the German electronic stuff, obviously connected somehow to Brian Eno (of  course).  I leaned more on the Cluster, Moebius, Roedelius stuff.  More atmosphere and shit.  I later listened to Neu! and learned how the stuff can rock with teeth.  And thanks to MsNeeBo and others, Kraftwerk became the smooth cross over of all of this music.  This is how my taste sits.  (I’m not going to even start a dissertation on how none of this would exist without the German band Can, but that’s another blog).

So…

I found this Harmonia discography on the web that contained the following track.  It is a re-do of a Harmonia song called Deluxe (Immer Wieder).  The mix is credited to something called “Post Love Crackers”.  I like it. If you are impatient and have the musical attention span of a gnat and wanna groove, bump it up to about 4:20 and crank it.

and because you can never get enough of German men droning, here’s the original. I like it just as much.

Here’s the lyrics if you want to sing along:

Immer wieder rauf und runter,
Einmal drauf und einmal drunter,
Immer wieder hin und her,
Kreuz und quer, mal leicht, mal schwer.
Immer wieder rauf und runter,
Einmal drauf und einmal drunter.

Here’s the translation:

Up and down again and again,
Once on top and once underneath,
Back and forth again and again,
Crisscross, once easy, once hard.
Up and down again and again,
Once on top and once underneath.

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A Todd Rundgren Fix! Some New, Some Old.

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toddpic

Just because I can’t get enough of Todd Rundgren, and these sort of represent my frenetic mood lately with job hunting and everything…

This song is called “In My Mouth” From the new album titled “State”. Bob and I cant get enough of this one. It seems to be stuck on infinite loop in my head:

This song is called “The Wheel”. This was done in the 70’s with Todd’s band Utopia. I just like the lyric:

Some people say life’s like a merry-go-round
I think it’s more like a ferris wheel
’cause sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down
Sometimes you just don’t know what to feel

And just when you think you’ve got the game figured out
And you say you’ve had enough
The mysterious mad man with his hand on the lever
Don’t seem to never ever want to let you off

You can’t get off this wheel of karma
You can’t stop the hands of time

I tell ya folks, the swings of mood and spirit right now are killing me, DAILY.  My friends, I ask you to please just tolerate me.  I’m worse than a woman on menopause right now, and it is showing no signs of stopping…. AND I HATE IT!