I just have this craving…

Posted on: June 26, 2004
to create. And it's hard right now because I've been taking it easy for the last few days, not really being able to do too much because of my ears. So I'm in a slackin' sort of phase right now. I've been thinking of doing some more visual art, but something tells me that this is going to overlap too much with what my brother Merritt is doing and?I don't want to step on his proverbial toes (his real ones are a different story) :). I think I've gotten in enough trouble with him for calling him Daniel Jackson, as in the Stargate SG-1 character, primarily because of his haircut but also because of the way he adjusts his glasses. I think he will be getting a haircut soon at this new shop that opened. I cut my own hair, I do it looking into a mirror.
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I'm going for a hearing appointment soon and I'm getting anxious, so I hope something can be done about it. It's been a few weeks now and it has not improved :(
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The other day, I had lunch with my friends, the Linemayrs. They are a wonderful, generous?family and longtime source of support of various kinds to my own family. My late Dad and Mom knew them since all us children were little, and now Karen is all grown up and married and Steven is even more enthused and punchy when it comes to a good joke than before. I like the guy, he's forthright and doesn't bullshit — tells it like it is, but at the same time, he's a really considerate, polite person. I guess that's what I aspire to be and I know sometimes I struggle, because I want to speak my mind but?I'm not terribly fond of hurting people's feelings, even inadvertently. I believe there's enough pain and suffering in the world as it stands (as I've said redundantly several times. If I hurt you, and I don't know about it, please let me know.
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Tomorrow (which will soon become today), I'll be having dinner with Phil and Christine and their children. They just had a new baby boy. They?are very good friends of mine too, very uplifting. I like uplifting people.
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Oh hey-o . . . Dan and Alex have launched Wrong Planet, which is "The online resource and community for those with Asperger's Syndrome". It's good stuff, I like the interface, CHECK IT OUT *excited smile*… I can't wait to see how things unfold and expand here.
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I wonder what my next obsession will be. My ideas are stacking up too high in my head, this always happens — I wouldn't say I have a lot of ideas, which I do,?but I do know that it's like this mental tree I'm growing and I can visualize the roots and all the branches, like the many styles of electronic music. It's hard to explain, especially given my inadequacy with the written word, but I guess that's why I got into music in the first place, so I could elucidate some bits 'n' pieces of it in my own unique way. And that, I am grateful for.
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I saw an ad banner on Yahoo! for Avril Lavigne's new video, "My Happy Ending". I don't know if she actually plays piano as shown in the vid, but if so, +1 for her. She is sexilicious, and I adore that flexible feline look she has about her, all cats-eye makeup and the toothy grrr face. I wonder if she drinks much milk? I am not as much into her music as I was in the great Lavigne phase of '01 (credit goes to Terry for getting me hooked…), but it's a great, catchy single. It seems to confuse some people that I like not only Avril AND Britney, but Hillary Duff and umpteenthloads of experimental electronic music too. Why not? I like what I like :D
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I read new news about Prodigy's forthcoming album. Finally. Looks like this is mainly a one-Liam talent show with collaborators, I'm excited. It's been like 7-8 years since Fat of the Land, which will always remain seminal in my book. I remember hearing the opening beats of "Smack My Bitch Up" through the headphones at Tower Records, and when the beat really kicked in after the first?round o' bars, I was like… WHOA!
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Today I was looking at the end of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Book VI. Heck that man can spool a good yarn. I also appreciate his anti-snob attitude.
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Got a glittery pack of notepads to put in the breast pockets of my silk shirts so I can write stuff down. I'm really absent-minded nowadays, even moreso than a few years ago, so please pardon me if you told me something REALLY important and I don't remember it. Today I wrote down:
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StriVectin-SD
Heather Hattaway
Tom Harper - The Pagan Christ
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In that order.
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I think I am going to be increasingly inspired by Brian Eno circa '75 after his car accident, from which he emerged triumphant (as Stephen King?has after his run-in with?a?van)?with the word "AMBIENT" being whispered confidently over the meadows worldwide. So inspiring, a real conceptualist.
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We'll see… hear? Or see. I may get into writing again, as I have lots of business unfinished and a lot I want to say. Art, in its myriad forms, makes me go WOW.
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