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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
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Friday, August 19th, 2005
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One roll of film in chronological order. One photo deleted due to really bad quality. The rest of the crappy ones remain.
Extremely Image Heavy
( this is the cut )
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
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the Wit
(60% dark, 39% spontaneous, 22% vulgar) | your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK
You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're
probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're
pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that 'the
Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor
and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I
guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the
perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor
takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my
opinion.
Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.
PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais |  |
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 69% on dark | | You scored higher than 54% on spontaneous | | You scored higher than 18% on vulgar |
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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Scotty died.
Of all the geeky things about me, the one that is most pure and geek-like is my everlasting love of the original star trek series, star trek: the next generation, and star trek: deep space nine.
This day, I mourn.
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
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Saturday, February 14th, 2004
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2003
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10:21
Yesterday sucked. it was my first eight hour work day in "for like, ever." The actual time spent wasn't as bad as the work I had to do. I had to unload 3 big crates of pumpkins by myself and move about 20 40-50 pound plants. I also swept the whole garden center. What did my co-worker do? She watered and goofed around with her friend. Next time I'm gonna do the easy stuff while she does the hard stuff, because I just worked way too hard yesterday. I could tell the boss was surprised how much stuff I was getting done, so I guess that means I can stop working so hard and take it easy.
Even though i'm complaining, I really like having a job where I do physical stuff. Right now I'm sore but my body also feels happy and I'm in a good mood. Time also passes alot faster when you're sweeping than it does when you're standing/sitting around (which I could have been doing much of that time) or working a front lanes cash register (which is what i used to do at target).
This weekend is something called NorCal Noisefest. It's 3 nights and 30 noise bands in 2 venues. If i'm not able to go with Meghan to Long Beach (which is most likely), then i'll try to make it to a couple nights of noisefest (particularly sunday night, which features a few bands i've actually heard of and like). We lost the keys to the escort last week. We need to find them before Meghan goes to L.B. so I'll have a car to drive.
Today I mail cds to St. Louis, Washington, and Australia (postage on that is going to kill me).
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1:42
Went to goodwill, where they had just put out a buncha records. There were 3 containers full of them. I piked out about 25 that i wanted (and left some others that i wanted, but not as much, sitting in the containers), and then went and sat on a couch so that i could sift through and pick out which ones i would buy. They're a dollar a piece, so i couldn't really buy all of them because i'm too poor.
Here are the records I bought:
1. Brownie McGee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry, Joe Williams- Southern Meetin'
My favorite part of any recording that has Sonny Terry on it is when he sing/whoops like a harmonica. I'm listening to this record right now and its just great. I don't know how somebody like me can stand listening to some dudes play the same song ever and over again, but these guys make it so fun. You can tell they really enjoy making music, and the instrumental interplay (between 3 guitars a harmonica and a bass [which is barely audible and is just there for rhythmic support) is just awesome.
2. Pete Seeger - Children's Concert at Town Hall
3. Pete Seeger - The Bitter and The Sweet -- Recorded in Person at The Bitter End
4. The Folksinger's Guitar Guide -- An Instructional Record by Pete Seeger
5. Odetta - The Tin Angel
6. Odetta - My Eyes Have Seen
7. Frank Sinatra - Adventures of The Heart
8. Dianna Ross and Marvin Gaye - Diana & Marvin
9. Marvin Gaye - Lets Get It On
10. Aretha Franklin - Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of The Sky)
11. Aretha Franklin - Soul '69
Records I left: A Buffalo Springfield restrospective double LP set, the beatles' white album, 3 Aretha records, 2 association records, the animals greatest hits, and quite a few others. I wish i had the money to buy them all.
I'm still listening to the McGee/Hopkins record, and i think one of the great things about it is that it doesn't sound like 3 guitars, it sounds like 2. Usually people are awestruck if one guitarist sounds like 2 guitarists, or if 2 sound like 3, but in this case, its best to sound like fewer guitars than you have, because 3 guitars all playing interesting stuff would just be overpowering. I love these old blues records because the playing is so intuitive. These guys didn't take lessons, yet they're all brilliant. HOW can they play the same song ever and over again without getting boring?
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Friday, September 26th, 2003
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hell yes, and internet quiz that doesn't suck
[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<img [...] video.">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] hell yes, and internet quiz that doesn't suck <img src="http://images.quizilla.com/T/theophile/1045942626_slashsolo.jpg" border="0" alt="You are Slash's guitar solo in the desert, from the "November Rain" video."><br>You are perfect and absolute, the sunflare haiku to<br>which all guitarists aspire. The elegant<br>simplicity of a haiku. The pure, uncloudy<br>translation from thought to form. Strike a G,<br>and feel and feel a sandstorm rise around you.<br>Move to a minor chord, and let the wind caress<br>you, tousling your unkempt hair. You are<br>playing your guitar, or you are playing the<br>world-- the distinction is no longer important.<br>And if you are full of fear at the moment, do<br>not worry: when you learn to laugh again, the<br>world will laugh with you. <br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/theophile/quizzes/which%20clip%20from%20a%20Guns%20'N%20Roses%20video%20are%20you%3F/"> <font size="-1">which clip from a Guns 'N Roses video are you?</font></a><BR> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- meghan is outside talking to the fat girls. the girl in the apt across from us is fat and the girl above here is fat and they're having a fatty congress. they've been out there for over a half-hour. god knows what they're talking about. how do people talk so much? one of those girls wants to let clyde have sex with her cat so they can have fury grey kittens. i don' t think its a good idea, but i'd like to see cats hump, since i've never seen that. i'm not going to write about the d-hoof show, because 1) nobody cares, and 2) i can't write about stuff like that the next day; i have to do it the same night. we got the camry tonight and took the stickers off of it (it had a camp kill yourself and a papa roach sticker and some other dumb stickers). I'm going to put the guided by voices sticker that came with their new cd on the car. meghan doesn't want me to, but eff her. meghan and i went to thrift stores today so she could look for stuff to wear to andi's eighties dance party. she got an old coat from the forties or fifties for like 7 bucks. its really nice. can't wear it to the dance party but oh well. i think the only dance party thing she got was a pair of pink hoop earings. i got a tiny casio keyboard that meghan says is exactly like the one that tawnt had when they were kids. its cool. it has a few good beats and one good tone (fantasy). i like it cos its tiny and cute. i think i'll re-record "there are only two chords in the world and i know them both" with it tonight, but i might wait until i get the octave pedal i bought from ebay. that would be sweet. ok time to go. byeeeeee. |
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2003
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Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
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Monday, September 15th, 2003
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axulonly: u gay man
small_scale_anarchy: very
small_scale_anarchy: very
small_scale_anarchy: gay
axulonly: hehe
axulonly: what fem gay
axulonly: or male gay
small_scale_anarchy: both
axulonly: really
small_scale_anarchy: yes
axulonly: well, sorry dude but im into male gays, not fem ones....sorry
small_scale_anarchy:
axulonly: its cool man
axulonly: not a prob
axulonly: just my attraction is not obviously yours
axulonly: but hey, where do you live anyway
axulonly: what country
axulonly: you not talking now
axulonly: ok then
axulonly: bye man
axulonly: what did you just type something
axulonly: you still on the search man
axulonly: what country r u from
axulonly: r u just going to ignore me now man
axulonly: well, i hope you find your man, man, i mean, ignorance wont get you a guy, it may get you just a casual one, but a relationship is not what your going to find with that sort of fucked up ignorance....but hey, sorry got judging you....
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Saturday, August 30th, 2003
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2003
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i just bought 19 records at various thrift stores. total price for all records: $5.50. first i went to sac's, where i got 10 records for a dollar, and a t-shirt. none of the records was anything i'm too excited about, but come on, ten cents each. next i went to W.E.A.V.E. and got 6 records at a quarter each. i thought i was going to get stevie wonder's innervisions but i looked at the record inside and it was an average white band record. i was angry. i broke the awb record and spit on the cashier. some person had donated a killer eighties metal collection to that store. they had what must have been the entire discography of judas priest, a shitload of nugent (wait hes seventies huh) a buncha scorpions (wait are they seventies too? as a matter of fact aren't judas priest mainly a seventies band? my bad). therre was a buncha other stuff i'd never heard of but all the records had guys on the covers looking all spooky and people climbing rocky cliffs and shit. i got a couple of rush and yes record which i think must have belonged to the same person (as all the metal records [i like fantasizing about these things when i'm looking for records]). i also got the cars self titled cd cos it had like all of their hits. after W.E.A.V.E. i went to goodwill and got frosty the snowman, some hawaaian dude, and the best find of the day: the soundtrack from willy wonka and the chocolate factory.
now i'm going to pick meghan up from work and then we have to go to ceramics class but i don't want to because i'm tired and i don't really like that class.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2003
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:03:18 -0700
To: jamesbgraf@yahoo.com
yesterday i mailed a cd to a critic for a local music/arts publication. today i got this e-mail.
From: "Jackson Griffith" | This is spam | Add to Address Book
Subject: a dead cat
James:
Thanks! I just got your CD (bonus points for the packaging) and it is
wonderful. What do you plan to do with it? Very very nice.
Cheers,
Jackson
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HOLY SHIT! i know its not like he called me the the world's greatest songwriter, but i REALLY respect this guy's opinion. I agree with every record review he ever writes. the man's taste is impeccable, and he LIKES MY SHIT. proof positive that i am a decent musician. halle-mother-fuckin-luljah.
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