*******check out flip flop the psycho!!!

i had this poster when i lived in texas. it gives me pleasant flashbacks...

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going to check out open mic at benders tonight. 
starts at 9 pm on mondays.

tickles the passive aggressive funny bone, don't it?
thanks to socialglare11.

my favourite page from
THE Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

The Rutherford sign was rusted out on the bottom left corner. sign still  boasts bait and tackle, local cheese and honey. It says it was established in 1942 and it's true, too. it's been the staple of that town for upwards of 60 years and change. there the wind blows backwards. the mice know and the rodents point it out to each other and their offspring.  the accents make the word "hallow" sound like "hollow". 

the cars are dinosaurs and the teenagers, as soon as they became so, would leave town with the closest kindest stranger. In some cases they didn't have to be kind.  the few others tied themselves to vows for comfort.  my momma did just that very thing with a best friend of her cousin.  she lasted as long as she could.  

what i gathered was she stopped writing poetry sometime around the time she had children. she says it like it was like the plague to lose the yearning.

The skeleton of her who once wished to travel was as talked out and worn out as a pair of slippers knitted by my grandmother as their wedding present.

Sure, I got out.  I live in the city among all these people but what they never tell you is that it takes many ghosts to help make up one of the living and many places to create the internal landscape of one being.

1201 Happy Birthday
1202 Fur Elise
1203 Pink Panther
1205 Imagine
1206 Love Me Tender
1207 What A Wonderful World
1215 If I Only Had A Brain
1216 Over The Rainbow
1221 Yesterday
1223 Hey Jude
1224 Here Comes The Sun
1225 Let It Be
1226 Yellow Submarine
1227 Memory
1228 Twinkle TwinkleLittle Star
1229 Love Story
1231 You Are My Sunshine
1232 Moon River
1233 La Vie En Rose
1234 Singing In The Rain
1235 Sound Of Music
1236 Stairway To Heaven
1237 My Funny Valentine
1238 That’s What Friends Are For
1239 Romeo & Juliet
1240 My Way
1241 Michelle
1242 Amazing Grace

****** i found stairway to heaven for Anne and my sister at twist and shout.  the website says they have them at meininger's, too.
there's a lot of cool stuff on the website.

i was reading today!! lots of interruptions but i feel better.  the book was compared to Douglas Copeland's "generation X'. it's a dark humourous book taking a look at a culture that likes to look at ourselves looking at ourselves.  so far there was good observations about John Cusack and fantasy computer gaming.  very fun and intelligent.  i do laugh that in twenty years my daughter might read it and have a very different outlook by then on this period of time.  we'll see.

only time will tell. 

The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare

'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:-
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

 Old Gangsters Never Die
This story originally appeared in 1983 as the inner sleeve for The Sinister Ducks 7” single record released by Moore and his band. The sleeve folds out into an 8-page comic, “Old Gangsters Never Die” with Lloyd Thatcher art. This was recently redone in Alan Moore’s Another Suburban Romance with all new art, here is your chance to see the original.

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 working extra has me draggin' ass today.  must get more sleep.  TONIGHT is Sarah's last night to host open mic at the lion's lair and rumour has it KYLE PERSON a.k.a TROLL will be there playing some ditties on his keyboard.  if you're there between 7:30 and 10:30pm you'll catch his act.  if i can wake up i'll be there.  

he said he might play my personal favourite "FLIP FLOP THE PSYCHO"!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Top Shelf Productions is proud to present Alan Moore's all-new performance CD from the Steven Severin's RE: label. Following on from the critical acclaim of THE HIGHBURY WORKING & ANGEL PASSAGE, Alan Moore turns his psychogeographic eye to the history of the earth, the moon, the universe, Oliver Cromwell, and the Pre-Raphaelites. English revolutionary Cromwell was dug up three years after his death in order to be executed. The Pre-Raphaelite beauty Lizzie Siddal was exhumed eleven years after hers so that Rossetti could retrieve his manuscript book of poems, given to her in her death as a token of his eternal love. These were not our promised resurrections. Alan Moore fans won't want to miss the opportunity to pick up this perfect companion piece to the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. (on Steven Severin's RE: label)

 

 

 

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