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damn dirk mancuso tagged me and cb for the smut meme created by one isabella snow (pleased to meet you).  the rules are to link to her, to link to the person who tagged you and to tag two others.  i’m a rebel, i’m taggin’ 4.

as for who i’m gonna tag the lucky rat bastards are alexander over at voenix rising and mr. innocent aka jason at let’s say your right.  ooh, and for a more feminine perspective, i’m tagging landry at pissy rabbits and sally at the tomato diaries.

get to it boys & girls.  let’s see some smut. 

1. chocolate or whipped cream: do i have to pick?  hmmm ok, whipped cream.

2. leather or pvc: hmmm, one the one hand the smell of leather is something awesome, but pvc has that wonderful “slick-ness”.  then there are the eco concerns with pvc and the animal concerns with leather.  ugg… decisions.  ok.  leather.3. outdoor sex or indoor sex: in..err..out… fuck.  damn.  umm… it’s really a seasonal decision for me.  what about stairwells?

4. in the jacuzzi or in bed? bed (tho’ jacuzzi’s are a great appetizer)

5. bad sex or no sex: this one’s easy.  no sex.

6. dominate or be dominated: isn’t there really an argument to be made for both? 

7. thigh highs or bodystocking: well my killer new frye boots are mid calf high… so i guess i’m going with that.

8. fast or slow: there’s something to be said for both. 

9. rough or gentle: depends on if it’s love making or fucking.

10. bite or suck: nibble

11. role play or reality: easy one, reality

12. dirty talking or dirty talking to: apparently i’m incapable of making a decision tonight.  i say both.

13. edible panties or no panties: ummm panties?  really?  how about jocks’?

14. spanking paddle or bare-handed: hehehehe…

15. landing strip or kojak: if were talking the family jewels, gotta be something down there - kojak in that area freaks me out

16. multiple sessions or one good fuck: multiple’s baby17. moaning or screaming: moaning.

18. older men or young men: older, but not too old. 19. threeway or no way: no way, i’ve never been particularly good at sharing my toys.20. swing or so swinging: if we’re talkin’ key swap parties, then no swinging.  if we are talking about a real swing, sign me up.  jungle gym’s too.

you know, someday’s you just need a little dolly to brighten your day:

unrelated, i just found out that i’m getting this as my new work computer:

mmm pretty.  and it’s not an hp piece of shite.  (jonathan ives, call me - i’m gonna need a private tutorial).

jonathan ives

senior vice president of industrial design at apple.  

aka the guy that gave us the imac, ipod and iphone.

damn sexy guy.  he’s british too.  i heart the brit’s.  and his design aesthetic is sexy as hell. 

p.s., 6 days until i’m in ny!

well it all comes down to this eh?  no big shock or surprise there right?

if ya look over there to the right, you’ll see a nice obama banner hanging out, so not a big surprise who i’m supporting during the primary/caucus season (plus i already talked about it here).

this race is so important to me; it’s on my mind frequently… we need someone in the white house that is intelligent and restores america’s world image.  someone that’s not a complete and total embarrassment. 

we all know the pro’s and con’s (but of course there are very few actual differences between these two powerhouses) - but there’s one thing i’ve not heard many people talk about so far. 

dynasty.

since 1980 we have essentially had two families in control of american politics - the bush’s and the clinton’s.  yea, yea, yea, king george the senior was not in total power during 80-88, but he was still in the mix.  and buddha knows i love me some bill clinton, but seriously -it’s time for new leadership.

i go back to what i said in my post from jan 3,  i really do like hillary - i think she’s smart (yes, ray - i said she’s smart), passionate and truly cares about the people of the country (and will have no problem voting for her should she get the nomination)… but i just really think the country needs a radical change and obama is the man to bring it (oh yes, i said bring it). 

hillary has done some great things, but at the end of the day it would be 4 or 8 years of the her being in power. 

best case scenario, let’s say 8 years.  that means we will have had family dynasties in power for 36 years. 

36 years of the same two families runnin’ the show.

now more than ever, the country needs a change.  and the face of that change is barack obama (hopefully with the good senator from indiana, evan byeh by his side as veep, or maybe even bill richardson).

on a related note, the last couple of days i’ve been watching a lot of the west wing repeats on bravo.  is it completely sad that i wish jed bartlet was real and that i could actually vote for him? 

::sigh::

he’s ever so presidentially dreamy.

gotta say bravo to this”

the above was from author christopher moore’s myspace blog post.  if you don’t know christopher moore and you like wickedly funny satire, check him out.  meanwhile, what he said up above, i couldn’t agree more.

things you should know that have direct bearing on my mood today:

sometime between saturday evening and sunday morning, my work-laptop’s hard drive decided to commit suicide in a most bloody and gory manner (ok, not really, but i’m imagining a battle of epic 300 proportions happening on my hard drive).  it’s fried crispier than the colonel ever thought possible.

my companies mis team has thus far been unable to salvage anything.

what this means?  it means that i’ve lost:

• all current documents related to the 4 shows i’m currently in production on
• photographs of the last 2 years worth of shows and events
• banner idea’s folder for this lil’ blog
• 30 gig’s of music in my itunes folder

now, before you so politely ask me “why, oh why didn’t you backup your files” - well, yes - that would have been a good idea.  but you must realize i’m on the road about 70% of the year… i need access to my files and music on a fairly consistent basis.  thankfully, just in december, i moved most of my historical 2007 files onto our network so i have those in my back pocket. 

but still - fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck!

unrelated:

so last night, james and i went to see the new punk-rock musical/play “god save gertrude” (a modern take on hamlet). 

i had zero expectation for this (hell, until i walked in i had no idea what play we were seeing - we were there to support some of his co-workers who were doing makeup and playing in the band).  very much in a “hedwig and the angry inch” mode of modern musical theater - the story (let’s use that word loosely) is that of an aging punk rock poet-ess (think pattie smith) who is, as it turns out the queen of some country (assuming central europe/post soviet union, tho’ it’s never spelled out) on the verge of civil war.  she rehashes her punk past while juggling a second husband dictator and a son (wannabe rock star in the vein of his long gone father).  

the story and performances were quite good - as was the music.  it needs some fixing in the book department… like how did she become queen?  what happened to daddy #1?  how did dictator/daddy #2 come into the picture?  but all in all an fun night of experimental theater.

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10.5 days until i’m in new york city.

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star trek xi: 

as brought to life by jj abrams.  i’m beyond giddy-excited for this.  the cast looks spectacular & this trailer gave me chills.  time to get my sci-fi geek on.

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paula abdul has a new song (written and produced by randy jackson).

come to your own conclusion.

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i’m off to spend some time with mom - still no word on the job situation.. but she does have an interview on tuesday - so do me a favor, send some good karma my mom’s way on tuesday.

i love this title sequence (i’m kinda a geek for interesting/original title sequences).  bask in the brilliant funk of too hot to stop by the bar-kays and killer f’ing graphic’s. 

oh and the movies pretty good too. 

psst… see that lil’ green box over there to the right?  the one that says “add this blog to my technorati favorites” - if you love me (and i know you do), you’ll click it.

go ahead and click baby.

i promise i’ll still love you in the morning.

“i’m not concerned about the voters” - mitt romney 1.24.08

even with the full context of the quote he’s a fucktard. 

hat tip to voenix as well

there is a video making the rounds across the ’net - this year’s macarena if you will - extolling the virtue’s of gummi bears. 

to put it mildly, it’s a hideous piece of dreck that’s taking the world by storm.  i won’t post it (stop the madness people), but if you really want to experience it - go see jason, he seems to love it (no accounting for taste).

suffice to say, the only gummi bear song i’m interested in, is one that ends in auto-cannibalism:

from imdb.com:

Hewlett-Packard has signed a deal with Sony Pictures to turn out DVDs from the studio’s library whenever customers request them, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Thursday). The deal will allow consumers to order movies that ordinarily would not be stocked by dealers because they are too obscure or too old. HP indicated that it expects to sign similar deals with other studios. “We’re hoping this provides another option to make available products that wouldn’t necessarily garner widespread retail shelf space,”

this the harley davidson night rod vrscd.

this is sex on two wheels.

i want this bike so much i can taste it.

all matte black on black with just the slightest hint of chrome. 

that said, let me illustrate why i will never have such a work of beauty.

i would kill myself on a bike.

seriously.

but boy do i want one.

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as a follow up to my post about my day from hell yesterday, things went better today.  thank you for your private email’s and well wishes.  but none of you bitches commented on my day or my oscar pick’s in comments.  what up with that?  boo hiss. 

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as a follow up to my post about needing a copy of prince’s horny pony (which until this point was only released on vinyl and cassette), jeff over at jeff’s fancy blog came through with flying colors with a killer copy.  yay jeff.

fucking formatting isn’t doing what i fucking want it to fucking do.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  fuck.

i want nothing more than for this day to end.  it was an absolute bear of a day, one that makes me question the company i work for (which, trust me - does.not.happen.very.often.).  honest to god, all i want to do is crawl under my blanket and block out the world.

then to find out that heath ledger died.  fuck what a day.

so instead, i’m gonna concentrate on the only good thing that happened today.  the oscar nominations came out.

best picture - there is no question on this for me - i’m all about no country for old men. 

best actress - hard one for me ’cause i’ve only seen 2 of these films.  i loved ellen page in juno, but it’s not her year yet.  i’m going sentimental (for me) and giving it to cate in elizabeth 2.  yes, the movie sucked, and no she won’t win (see below for the reason), but i love my cate.  i hear amazing things about julie cristie & la vie en rose is on my netflix so i might change my mind.

best actor - no question at all.  daniel in there will be blood.  brilliant performance,

supporting actor - again, no question.  javier all the way.  (hal holbrook could be a dark horse/sentimental win, but i think it’s javier all the way.

supporting actress - i’ve not seen gone baby gone or michael clayton, but all signs are pointing to cate(plus the reason she won’t win above is ’cause she’ll win here).  i have a glimmer of home for saoirse as well. 

in the coming weeks i’ll cover off some of the other categories. 

but now i’m going to make my self a massivebowl of ice cream then hide under my blanky.

sure he’s hot. (tho’ to use ray’s vernacular, he looks a little smelly here)

and yea, he can dance.

but did we really need to see this?  (the least he could have been was shirtless):

not to discount my other favorite blogs (i love you all equally) - but i just feel in love with jason in paris.  it’s a very cool blog.  check it out.

i was tagged by voenix risingin taking a lil’ trip down memory lane and re-visiting the car’s i’ve owned.  i should state most of these pics are not of the actual cars i owned - rather, they’re internet grabs.

#1. my first car, a 1972 dodge dart.  yellow.  not a bad starter car eh?  i only had her for a short time tho’ - the town i grew up in was doing a bit of road construction - the kind where they remove the pavement leaving the manhole covers sticking up a few inches.  i drove over one of the manholes and it ripped my axel off the car (apparently i had a bit of a rust issue).

#2. 1976 buick skylark.  nothin’ special about this ride, other than the fact it had a fast oil leak.  i went through so much oil the year i had her.  the engine finally blew a couple blocks from my house.  i left her there.

#3. 1980 plymouth champ.  again, my version of this car was yellow.  i loved this car.  it was quite the party car for me and my friends.  it had a moon roof and a killer cassette deck stereo.  unfortunately i drove her into the back of some massive truck that was stopped in the middle of the road over a blind hill.  bad bad bad day. 

#4. 1976 ford f-150.  this one was falling apart before i got her.  parts of the floorboard was rusted through (fun in winter time).  there was no radio in the truck.  i had a lil’ cassette boombox velcroed to the dash.  pure class.

#5. 1989 chevy s10 tahoe pickup.  the first brand new vehicle i ever owned.  i wish i could have found a better pic of the truck.  it was white with maroon interior.  it was awesome.  it also had a cool as fuck steering wheel.  i loved that steering wheel.

#6. 1992 mitsubishi eclipse.  what a fun car this was.  pure fun to drive.

#7. 2001 chevy malibu.  what do i say about this car?  hmmm… well i bought it very spur of the moment.  you see i had just quit my job and got rid of the eclipse in prep for a new job i had in hawai’i.  but then 9/11 happened and hawai’i’s economy tanked and the job got put on hold indefinitely.  after 3 months of being on hold, i asked for my job back and had to get a new apartment and car fast.  hence the malibu.  it was perfectly fine as a car.  just boring as hell.

#8. 2005 mazda 3.  my current car. i love love love love this car.  of course i’ve written about it here.  it really is a sweet little car. 

robbie

needed.

a mp3/cd version of the rare prince b-side “horny pony”

if anyone can help me out, shoot me an email; atomicpop2007@gmail.com

james and i intended to catch the last day of the frida kahlo exhibit at the walker art center today.  luckily, we had both already saw it earlier in its run, so the 2.5 hour lines were not a big deal. 

instead we caught an amazing documentary film “a walk into the sea; danny williams and the warhol factory“ by filmmaker esther robinson. 

the film is about robinson’s uncle, danny williams - andy warhol’s boyfriend, collaborator and filmmaker during the heyday of the warhol factory era. 

 danny williams

williams disappeared at at age 27.  the film exlpores his disappearance through interviews many of the people that inhabited the factory world (including a rare insightful, interview with brigid berlin) along with his family.

what i find fascinating and really powerful is the way robinson allows each of the interview subjects to relate their memories so truthfully and honest.  she doesn’t (as happens in so many documentaries) do a voiceover or lead the view to come to her conclusions.  rather she allows the film to represent, as she said during the q&a following the film today, the slippery nature of history. 

this was such a powerful concept to hear verbalized and acknowledged.  history is after all the memories of those that lived it.  and memory is often colored by experience and hearsay and rumour and shadow.  nobody ever really knows what happened.  only their understanding of what happened.

the tragedy of this film of course is that whatever happened to danny williams, (murdered?  suicide? just walked off the radar?) is that he was a very promising experimental film maker.  the film clips shown in the movie were really interesting.  it would have been cool to see what happened / how his life & talent progressed.

the below clip shows a bit of the film, along with a small snippet of an interview with the director.  check out this movie if you can - really interesting stuff.

just home from seeing “cloverfield” with cb - wow… dark fuckin’ film.

i feel a bit anxious/aggressive/nihilistic.  so i suppose it was a good flick.

things i liked:

• the actors; they really made you feel for/care for them
• the concept; shot from the characters perspective, it was a really nice twist on the monster film
• the effects were spot on.

but at the end of the day, i still feel really “off” after watchin’ the movie.  i think i need something a bit more light to close my evening.  perhaps some “wonder woman” or maybe “stardust”.

if you like monster flicks; you’ll dig this one.  unlike any monster flick i’ve ever seen.

shoot me now.

i watched e!’s sexiest vegas jobs.  then i watched e!’s top 25 earners under 25 (like i need to feel even more depressed that i’m decidedly over 25 and haven’t figured out how to make $30m a year yet?!).  currently, i’m watching snoop dogg’s ‘father hood’ reality show (also on e!).

i’m calling an intervention on myself.

question - why on earth do i want to see this:

with the possible exception of the amazingly hot/hunky/sexy paul rudd, there is absolutely no reason to see this.  ugg.

ok, just talked with CB, we’re going to target & then a movie.  the plan is to warm my car up for the next 20 minutes so it get’s warm and toasty while i take a shower and get dressed.  then i’ll park in one of the heated ramp’s downtown whilst we attend to our target and movie errands.

it’s either cloverfield or 27 dresses.  its a toss up.

cheers..

god my life is boring.

ok, it’s cold.  not really news around here.  it’s winter.  it gets cold (not nearly as cold as it did in the 70’s, but cold just the same).

here’s minneapolis; -25:

here’s bemidji (where i went to college): -32

and here’s new york (where i’ll be in a mere 18 days!): 29

wind chill is one nasty lil’ bitch.

in other news this happened outside my apartment this morning:

it appears that gray car ran a stop sign slamming into red car.  driver of said gray car, a 20-something chick was consoled by a hot, hunky blue collar dude.  couldn’t get a pic of him.  dammit.  red car guy was takin’ to the hospital in an ambulance.  stupid girl running a stop sign walked away from the accident. 

i’m thinking about bundling up and heading out into the cold to catch a movie (or two) - there’s so many to pick from:

the trashy: 

cloverfield, mad money, 27 dresses

or maybe the award fodder:

the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford, before the devil knows your dead, into the wild, persepolis.

it’s either brave the cold and see a movie, or stay at home and watch e!’s “sexist jobs in vegas”.  

ugg.

robbie williams - break america

ignore the images, they’re just placeholder images for the audio track.  this is a brand new studio track from mr. williams (see cb, if you wish hard enough, i’ll talk about other stuff besides siouxsie). 

the tune is a big piece of disco bravado from my future husband.  i dig it.  i can’t wait to play this loud in my car whilst driving down the freeway at excessive speeds.

there’s a comment from my friend jeremy on the “you didn’t know i was a big homo?” post (you can read it here).  he points out that you can see what appears to be a belly button piercing showing under keira’s stunning green dress.  (by the way, is there anything more silly than a belly button piercing?).  

here’s the offending bulge:

as a big fan of movie and television acting (people who slag on tv, just aren’t watching the right stuff), things like the piercing annoy me.  simply put they pull my focus out of the show or film and distract me from the performance.    i’ll never be able to watch atonement again without looking for the bulge above the “coochieknot”.

the reason i found this interesting is i was just watching the new show “the sarah connor chronicles” (which by the way is terrific - the producers of the re-booted “bionic woman” should be taking notes on how to do it right), which features one of my favorite character actors; dean winters, as a love interest for the title character. 

dean, for those of you not-in-the-know, was on hbo’s “oz“ as bad boy ryan o’reilly.  and i really really loved him (and that show).

if you know “oz”, you’ll know that there was ton’s of really hot prison sex, along with the inmates generally walking around in various forms of undress (gay fantasy 101).  dean’s character was fond of tight muscle shirts, or shirtless (must have been awfully hot inside oz… everyone was shirtless all the time). 

as such, you could always see a tattoo of a steer skull on his shoulder.

i always thought it was a fake hollywood tat go give the o’reilly character some street-cred.

until he showed up on sarah connor the other night (again, shirtless… yum).  the exact same ink is on his shoulder - which means, that steer skull is all dean’s and wasn’t o’reilly’s at all. 

fuck.

now i can’t get past this and when he appeared on the second episode, i just kept wondering to myself “i wonder when o’reilly got released from prison, and isn’t it nice that he’s found a good woman and wants to settle down”. 

uggg.  fuckity-fuck.

someone call the makeup artist and just cover that fucker up with some nice concealer.  it’s not that big, wouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes.  easy-peasy.

memo to hollywood:  “stop pulling focus”.

p.s., jeremey get’s extra points for the use of the word: “coochieknot”

25 days till i’m at the fillmore in new york city for siouxsie sioux.  can’t f’ing wait!

mojo:

…displays a passion and conviction that shows an artist unhappy to rest on her numerous laurels…

stylus:

…it not only leaves us wanting more, but once again guessing fruitlessly at what the next step might be…

observer music monthly:

…no one does sex and mayhem like siouxsie…

…i do have some good news; just found the gutter twins (i’ve posted about them here and here) are coming to minneapolis on march 8!  this is tremendous news…. 2008 is shaping up to be a fun year for me musically…. siouxsie live in february and now the gutter twins in my home town.  happy happy kyle.

ooh, and they’re playing first ave.  one of my most favorite venue’s for live music.  it doesn’t get much better than first ave.

tuesday humor.  i got nothin’ today - but i figure starting out the day with a laugh is better than nothin…

so may i present ”fuck your mom” - it’s brilliant.  wrong.  but oh so brilliant.

yea, right - as if you needed the proof. 

well, if ther was any lingering doubt, this should change your mind.  when i was watching atonement yesterday i was reminded of something that happened a few years ago. 

it was the new years holiday and ray and jeremy were up from chicago.  it was their last night in town so we vegged and saw a movie (me and a movie, your shocked right?!) - ‘house of flying daggers’.

if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know the scene i’m talkin’ about here - the one in the bamboo forest, an ocean of green. 

apparently the moment that the luminous ziyi zhang made her entrance in that green forest, i audibly sighed.  to which ray (or was it jeremy?) laughed and whispered “fag” in my general direction. 

in my defense, it was just so bloody beautiful.  scenes like this are why movies exist in the first place.

well, when watching atonement, there is a moment where keira is wearing the most incredible green dress.

oh my god beautiful.  i’m pretty sure i audibly gasped here as well.  this dress would look incredible on a (hair show) runway.

so either i’m the biggest fag in the world, or i just have a really big thing for green. 

or maybe both.

so as you know from reading yesterday’s 12 of 12, i saw ‘there will be blood’, the new paul thomas anderson (boogie nights, magnolia) film.  and today i saw ‘atonement’.  i love awards season!

‘there will be blood’ is a harrowing, dramatic film - with a capitol “f”.  and while daniel day-lewis is deservedly receiving his share of the praise for what can only be called on of the best performances of this (or any) year, my love of this film lies solely in the hands of paul dano playing the preacher eli sunday.  i saw dano years ago in a little indy called l.i.e. (short for long island expressway) and didn’t really think much of him.  then he popped up in last years darkly comic ‘little miss sunshine’ and, while i liked his sullen mute teenage performance, i still didn’t think much.  until now that is.  dano not only holds his own against day-lewis, but raises the bar so high, it’ll be interesting to see what he does next.

special note should be given to jonny greenwood who re-invents what movie music can be with his electrifying, atonal “wrong noted” score.  appearing in only 33 minutes of the film, the music (and silence) here becomes another character - one that advances (and holds back) the brutality of the film.  brilliant!

‘atonement’, of course is the romantic war epic based on ian mcewan’s novel of the same name.  i’ve not read it (historical romantic war epic’s seem to play better on the screen for me; see ‘the english patient’) - but i hear it was quite the bear of a read. 

the film is lush, harrowing (in a completely different way than ‘blood’) stunningly acted.  spanning the better part of the 20th century (1935 - current) and the great war, the film feels grand and intimate all at the same time.   of course there’s ton’s of oscar buzz here, and some of it justified - james mcavoy is simply impeccable in his portrayal of a lover falsely accused of rape while keira knightly gives the performance of her career here.   but the film belongs to saoirse ronan as the 13 year old accuser and vanessa redgrave (the adult version of accuser).  both performances are simply seamless and stunning. 

end of the day for me, the film was wonderful but forgettable.  i don’t know that this will stick with me long term, but it was certainly a wonderful film ‘in the moment’.  though you should see it for the performances.   it will remind you that past those pirate movies, keira can actually act, and ronan & mcavoy are faces to watch.

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‘no country for old men’ is still my choice of best picture. 

welcome to the january installment of the 12 of 12 project started by chad darnell. 

this was a hard one as it’s a saturday, and i don’t do a whole helluva lot of interesting things on saturday.  so welcome to an amazingly boring look into my life:

01. 10:00am.  self portrait just out of bed.

02. 10:30am.  makin’ breakfast.  scrambled egg’s with “ring of fire” red pepper flakes. 

03. 10:40am.  breakfast tv; molly from bravo’s ‘make me a supermodel’.

04. 2:30pm.  afternoon snack.

05. 3:00pm. dusting of snow on my lil’ blue machine.

06. 3:05pm.  heaven in a bottle.

07. 3:20pm.  arriving at the uptown theater for the 3:30 showing of ‘there will be blood’.

08. 6:30pm.  driving to tar-ghetto after the movie.  remember kid’s, safety first.

09. 6:45pm.  the tar-ghetto in south minneapolis.

10. 6:50pm. the target assets protection vehicle.  go go speed racer!

11. 7:30pm. my weekend project, organizing the media/luggage/junk closet.  note the beer, and stack of cd’s yet to be organized.

12. 8:00pm.  the bedside reading pile.  yea, yea, that’s book 7.  i read part’s of it at least weekly.

oohhh… you find the best stuff when your sleep deprived.  in my best oprah fashion, here are a few of my favorite things.  however, none of you are getting cars.  just deal.

the gutter twins myspace page.

yup, it’s like herpes, but you can’t argue with the power of myspace when it comes to new music.  my boy greg (and his boy mark) are finally ready to drop ‘saturnalia‘ - their debut as the gutter twins and as such they have two spankin’ new killer tracks on their myspace…. ‘the station’ (featuring my current favorite lyric: “i hear the rapture’s coming, they say he’ll be here soon, right now there’s demons crawling all over my room”) and ‘idle hands’ which is also available for download (thanks boy’s).

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i’m completely addicted to the website ‘overheard in minneapolis’ - i check it like a hundred times a day.  it’s pure brilliance.  i’ve already posted one or two things and will continue to do so to prove the stupidity of people around me

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a. i love eddie izzard

b. i love star wars

c. i love lego’s

put them together and you get one very happy kyle:

been in the middle of an event this week; hence the dirth of posts (coupled with the lil’ fact that i haven’t slept in 4 days - serious! so my mind is not working very well)…

anyway the other day at work madonna’s ‘everybody’ came on the xfm satellite radio we were using to provide music for the event & one-by-one everyone at the table i was sitting at began to slowly groove to tune.  head’s bobbing, fingers tapping - it was surreal, but oh so cool. 

what amazed me was how fresh the song still sounds today - 25 years later.  some of this sort of production can still be heard on the radio; justin, britney - pop & hip hop in general - all of them are using beats and production similar to this song & owe a debt to the tune…. these sounds are standing up to the test of time.

killer tune!

“bridge re-construction”

just back from seeing avenue q with cb.

all i gotta do is saw this show is fucking brilliant.  i’ve known the score for some time, but seeing the show finally just made it all ‘gel’ for me. 

oh, and the puppet sex in avenue q, makes the puppet sex in team america; world police look rated g.    even past the songs about puppet sex and porn - the show is actually amazingly touching and heartfelt. 

i wanna see it again.  right now!!!

so on friday after going up to my mom’s and helping her through the whole job thing, cb called and thought i could use a drink.  which i needed bad.  so we went to the eagle.  it was a fairly quiet night at the bar, not a lot of eye candy - but a nice night to hang out with cb for a bit.

until ::drum roll:: james walked in. 

now, i haven’t spent a lot of time talking about james since the first time we split last summer (and most don’t know that we tried it again this fall), cause i don’t like to admit i failed at something - but it is what it is… we tried. and it didn’t work.

but then seeing him brought up to the surface all sorts of feelings i’d been trying to supress.  well, no - that’s not quite accurate - the truth of it is, the last few weeks (month), he’s been in my mind a lot.  seeing him only forced me to deal with it.

at the end of the day i miss him ton’s - i know he still has feelings for me and it’s pretty obvious i still have feelings for him.  i can’t deny them.

he and i spoke again today - it was so good to hear his voice.  but at the same time, i could hear all the unspoken stuff between us - the subtext was huge.  lol.

i really need to figure out what i wanna do about this. 

ok, now i’m re-thinking my future husband… here’s nick beyeler - world arobics champion and model and woofing-hot

he’s bi too so i at least have a tiny chance

nick - call me!

karl urban:

dead.fucking.sexy.

he’s playing dr. bones in the new star trek movie.  he may look familiar to you as he’s also been in:

the bourne supremacy & the lord of the rings movies. 

woof.

the company my mom works for (as controller) has been in the process of being sold for the last couple of months - throughout the entire process she had been repeatedly assured that her job was safe with the new company.

the sale became final today and at 4:30pm the new owner came into her office and informed her that they would not be keeping her on their staff and since they had not accepted or processed her w-2 information she wasn’t actually an employee of their company and wouldn’t be getting a severance.

this after my mom worked for the original company for nearly 7 years and spent the last few months working with the new company to ensure a smooth transition.

nice.

so now, she’s 60 years old, unemployed and scared about her future.

there’s a special place in hell for assholes like the new companies owner.  

now, i don’t talk a lot of politics here - there are others in the blog-o-sphere who can (and do) do it better, but i wanted to weigh in a bit on this.

i’ve been struggling with who i wanted to support for president (not that it matters all that much, minnesota’s caucus happens on super-duper tuesday - i doubt we will get much play here); but still, it’s important to consider the options.  the problem is, on paper, the three front runners; clinton, obama & edwards, are all pretty much the same.

but off the paper, there is more to the story. 

i really respect hilary, she’s smart, she’s experienced, she’s strong.  but i’ve been wondering if she isn’t too divisive to unify america.   i was saying to a friend the other day that as much as i want a democrat in the office, i really firmly believe we need a president that can unify the country and restore some of our honor.  i’m not sure that hilary is the person to do that.

i think that obama is much more of a uniter.  i think he’s someone that conservatives can support - just as i would be ok if john mccain were to win (i wouldn’t immediately want to start packing and moving to canada like i did when king george ‘won‘).

obama seems to be a visionary, hopeful and energetic - much like the then governor clinton, sounded back in ‘92.  it’s also interesting that a black man could so overwhelmingly win in a white conservative state.

certainly this is far from over - a lot can happen between now and the the convention.  it’s gonna be an interesting ride. 

but i think that i’m solidly behind obama. 

so i was eating my dinner of tasty fishsticks (yea, i know - ghetto.  deal with it), and i was enjoying the tarter sauce when i thought to myself; “hmmm, i like tarter sauce - i wonder what’s in it that makes it so durn tasty” grabbed the bottle and didn’t make it past the high fructose corn syrup.  why does tarter sauce need to have high fructose corn syrup?

also, did you know ketchup has high fructose corn syrup too?

hmmm…

wishing you and yours, a very happy new year.  cheers to 2008.