godthedog

updated lucinda williams: 1. car wheels on a gravel road 2. essence 3. sweet old world 4. west 5. world without tears the drop-off after 3 is staggering. miles davis records i've listened to: 1. my funny valentine 2. bitches brew 3. kind of blue 4. nefertiti 5. in a silent way 6. miles smiles 7. sketches of spain 8. milestones 9. on the corner 11. a tribute to jack johnson 12. miles ahead 13. birth of the cool 14. porgy and bess 1-3 are pretty interchangeable, it depends on my mood. jesus i listened to a lot of him as an undergrad. while i'm at it, i'll do coltrane: 1. ascension 2. a love supreme 3. blue train 4. my favorite things 5. live at birdland 6. first meditations 7. transition 8. meditations 9. interstellar space 10. giant steps and that's as far as my knowledge of jazz goes. it's really pathetic. i tried to get more educated, but it's quite a big commitment.

never had a nathan's, but i love me some gray's papaya. in home cooking, ballpark all-beef are my favorite. i used to buy 5-pound bags of them at sam's club.

i never got the appeal of kix. they taste too much like regular cornmeal. cereals: 1. oatmeal crisp with almonds 2. lucky charms 3. frosted mini-wheats 4. crispix 5. cap'n crunch

what's up with ripper correcting my capitalization for quoting me in his signature. real friends don't do that. there's a [sic] joke in there somewhere, but i don't feel like going for it. this also makes me realize that i can't remember what my last sig actually was.

there's at least 3 or 4 other healthy conversations going on in the food folder, stop acting like it's the downfall of humanity.

you don't catch on too quick, sometimes.

LOL. And the music folder offends me. Bunch of uppity bitches who think their opinions matter more than everyone else's. You're an arrogant, overly cocky asshole who thinks that what you want and what you like is better than everyone else's tastes, and that anyone who doesn't share the same elitist, holier than thou attitude shouldn't be allowed to voice their opinions here. Take your overinflated ego, bullshit banter, and ignorant inside jokes elsewhere.

at the moment: 1. flaming lips - "waiting for a superman" 2. david bowie - "be my wife" 3. ray charles - "drown in my own tears" 4. elastica - "stutter" 5. lucinda williams - "get right with god"

top 5 coffee shops i've been to: 1. blue sky, athens, GA. they had really good coffee, good tables, good atmosphere. the basement was also cool. i really miss that corner of downtown athens where there were 5 coffee shops within 2 blocks of each other. 2. the metro, augusta, GA. i have no idea how such a shitty town i hate so much got a place that nice to drink coffee & hang out in, but it happened. really spacious and casual, lots of overstuffed furniture to lose yourself in. 3. crazy mocha, pittsburgh, PA. mostly because of the day i was there & overheard tom savini having a conversation about his hair plugs. 4. bin 22 at betsy's, richmond, VA. nothing too special, but nice to sit outside and watch people walking down cary street. 5. theeee coffee chamber, new york, NY. coffee shops in new york as a rule sort of suck: crowded, expensive, with uncomfortable furniture that's designed to not let you sit down for more than 20 minutes. this was the only coffee shop in new york i felt like i could actually sit down and get comfortable in. nobody knew about it, so there was always a table i could spread out in. good location as well.

i think there's a pretty big drop-off after the biggest 2 bookstores. except for my hometown, i don't remember seeing a books-a-million in any city i've been in. or maybe there's also one in athens, i'm not sure.

earlier tonight i made a pot of popcorn on the stove with a disgusting amount of butter & salt, and added a couple handfuls of cheddar cheese, which melted and coagulated the buttery salty pieces into wonderful webs of deliciousness. there are very few things in the world better than popcorn made yourself with real salt, real butter and cheese.

i'm pretty sure that all legal agreements like that are very disputable in court, unless they're over company secrets or something. probably just to discourage you from doing it, like the waivers they have on the back of amusement park tickets. what would you have sued them for anyway?

where in florida does inc live--jacksonville? tallahassee? i was a server for two summers at damon's. i'm a terrible multitasker, so i naturally sucked at it. weekend nights, the busser, food runner, and bartender automatically get 1 percent each of all the checks, and the servers have to tip them out at the end of the night; for example, if a party orders 40 dollars worth of food and they tip you 8 dollars, you have to give 40 cents to the bartender, 40 cents to the food runner, 40 cents to the busser. one night i got a couple who ordered 80 dollars worth of food (most of it to take home), and tipped me 2 dollars. so it cost me 40 cents of my own money to do my job and serve them. that restaurant had the worst patrons.

last night i saw a concert film of 'the T.A.M.I. show', this big fest of upcoming 60s music stars all performing on the same night, supposedly the stones' american debut. the stones had to go on after james brown, who just did the show of his life that got the crowd into a frenzy and could not possibly be topped, and the stones had to follow him. and the stones come onstage, and mick jagger is visibly scared shitless. for the first two songs he has this faraway look in his eyes, like "oh, fuck, how do i follow that, what do i do?" and he just sort of mills around looking like a scared puppy, and at a couple of points he tries to dance like james brown, and he fails miserably. words cannot do the moment justice.

you don't seem like the type to take a waiter job in general. cheesecake factory has very good chicken marsala. and i get a kick out of how hard the set-up tries to be las vegas.

i had a knee-jerk hate for harry potter till a friend dragged me to 'goblet of fire' during a cold and lonely thanksgiving holiday. it was good. and then i saw 'order of the phoenix', and it was really good. i eagerly await the rest.

i think andy dick currently holds that place anyway. sort of on that note, it was funny to watch andrew dice clay on 'dice undisputed' and notice that not a single one of his friends was a comedian & that no comedian really wanted anything to do with him.

not even close to the same thing. you could name a hundred great songs where the organ directly contributed to the greatness of the song.

bob dylan - "winterlude"

the organ seems to be a lost art in rock songs, and that's really too bad. sometimes a good organ is just what a song needs. points to the early white stripes for putting one in "one more cup of coffee."

some points about sonic youth: 1. 'washing machine' is not very good. aside from "the diamond sea", it's all either agreeably forgettable or actively bad (i'm looking at YOU, "panty lines"). 2. 'murray street' is this close to being as good as 'daydream nation'. "plastic sun" keeps it from going that extra inch, but god damn is it good.

ukrops in richmond has exceptional stuff. really fresh fish.

when i visited chicago, i thought it was going to be laid out like new york where you can just walk to places & find stuff to do on the street, so i just got a hotel on michigan ave & didn't plan or research anything. that was a terrible mistake.

neil young: heart of gold a dream that can last the needle & the damage done tired eyes my my, hey hey

elliott yamin - "a song for you" it's too bad this guy hasn't had better songwriting & producing talent around him, cause his voice is amazing.