Another Day, Another Urge to Find Something New
What a relatively uninspiring day. Not to sound terribly pessimistic, but nothing significant has happened, aside from going through the motions and waiting out the summer doldrums. I did go shopping at Borders, a mortal sin in and of it self, but I purchased a single CD: Mira Calix - Oneonone. I must say I'm relatively unimpressed with this Warp Records release. It's the wife of Autechre member Sean Booth, apparently, and I'm not the world's greatest fan of Autechre. There are times, however, when nothing else will do but Autechre. But on the whole, I don't spin their discs on a regular basis like I do Boards of Canada and a handful of Magnatune artists.
The first two volumes of Neon Genesis Evangelion arrived today fron Netflix, as well as the first disc of RahXephon. I have been away from anime for so long, so I don't know if I will be able to appreciate it like I once did. Once upon a time, the world wasn't completely and utterly saturated with anime girls with huge eyes and annoying, squeaky voices. Now every major television network in the US has an anime title on Saturday mornings, and the thrill and the exotic nature of the medium has lost its charm to the mass marketing and artistic butchering of american consumerism. Of course, all things go this path eventually, and what is left is recycled a decade later for the fasion police.
We have a mutant horde of fleas in the front yard. We sprayed yesterday, but they aren't dead and now I'm afraid to walk to the car. There's nothing I hate more than pestilence. Not rats (love em), spiders, roaches, nothing's as bad as fleas, ticks and mosquitos. I simply cannot exist along side these creatures, so they will be eradicated or I will simply go insane! We're picking up some stronger poison tomorrow, and I can only hope that our pregnant outside cat (a wild cat we sort of adopted) will stay away from our yard.
Well, it's getting late and the living room is an oven. I still don't have a replacement AC unit for this room, so it's no wonder my journal isn't getting the attention I really would like to give. Plus I've been on a rather nihilistic kick the past few weeks, and I don't really feel like documenting the bulk of my thoughts. They simply aren't worth the effort lately. I'm very tempted to check out the poetry open mic at Gypsy Coffee house next Tuesday at 8 PM. I haven't read poetry to an audience in several years, and I'm starting to feel the need to tap into that outlet one more time. Between that and my eternal quest to release my second album, I'm just about to pop! Really, I was hoping that some pre-orders would come in so I could afford to shop out a small print of the album, say 100 copies. But no pre-orders have come, so it will probably be awhile before I can raise the money to print the damn thing. I may just go with the homemade thing again, but this time I want properly cut inserts and a tray insert. And I don't want to use paper labels for the discs, because once they start peeling the whole readable media can come off with it.
I suppose if anybody out there has about 350 bucks they don't mind parting with, I can go ahead and have the CD printed and begin selling it! lol
posted by novachild @ Thursday, September 02, 2004,
