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October 8th, 2009
09:18 pm - crossed fingers
*fingers_crossed*, *fingers_crossed*, *fingers_crossed*, *fingers_crossed*, *fingers_crossed*, *fingers_crossed*, . . <.> . . *fingers_crossed*, *fingers_crossed*, . . . .
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/happy.gif) hopeful
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August 11th, 2009
August 6th, 2009
10:48 pm - frowny face
Top Five Songs from John Hughes Movies That Aren't Pretty In Pink
5. Bad [from Ferris Bueller's Day Off] (Big Audio Dynamite)
4. Tenderness [from Weird Science] (General Public)
3. Don't You (Forget About Me) [from The Breakfast Club] (Simple Minds)
2. Weird Science [from Weird Science] (Oingo Boingo)
1. Holiday Road [from National Lampoon's Vacation] (Lindsay Buckingham)
Top Five Songs from Pretty in Pink
5. Shellshock (New Order)
4. Bring On the Dancing Horses (Echo & the Bunnymen)
3. If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
2. Pretty in Pink (The Psychedelic Furs)
1. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
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July 18th, 2009
06:33 pm - now trying not to: throw up
For those late to the party: the most famous murder in Tennessee between 1906 (Sen. Carmack) and 2009 (QB McNair) took place half a mile from my house, and wrecked my neighborhood, and the victim was a former schoolmate of mine. The crime was unsolved for 34 years.
"Jerome Barrett Found Guilty In Marcia Trimble Case
9-Year-Old Girl Scout Killed In 1975
POSTED: 10:15 am CDT July 15, 2009
UPDATED: 6:13 pm CDT July 18, 2009"
read: http://www.wsmv.com/news/20060921/detail.html
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/sad.gif) restless
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June 26th, 2009
June 12th, 2009
10:56 am - Top Ten Moments in Analog TV (RIP) History
10. the first "Wonderful World Of Disney" in color
9. Lucy at the candy factory
8. the Heidi game
7. Elvis Presley has no hips
6. the MegaPowers unite
5. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense
of decency?"
4. The Beatles's "All You Need Is Love" broadcast
3. a marmoset pees on Johnny Carson's head
2. the moon landing
1. Hawkeye Pierce v. the chicken/baby
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/scared.gif) nervous
Current Music: "Natural Blues" (Moby)
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June 10th, 2009
06:10 pm - my current headache:
so far it has survived 2 aspirin, 2 ibufrofen, 1 muscle relaxant, and 2 short naps.
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June 1st, 2009
12:19 pm - Happy Hurricane Season!
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meh.
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Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/indescribable.gif) meh.
Current Music: "Why Do I Cry" (Barry & the Remains)
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May 23rd, 2009
12:39 pm - it's like Minnie Pearl's Unlce Nabob used to say:
"Just because I'm on a diet don't mean I cain't look at the menu."
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May 22nd, 2009
10:03 am - car trouble--staccato version
Saturday afternoon, car wouldn't start in a parking lot. Dinner time, so called mom to come get me. Ate, looked up the address, got my AAA card and cellaphone. Went back and called AAA. Embarassing part: telling the operator "it's right in front of the Big Lots."
Jumper man charged the battery, but it still wouldn't start. Has a Passive Security System kicked in? Didn't know I had one.
Called a tow truck. Waited. Chatted. Was blocked in by an SUV. Went into Big Lots; got the cashier to make an announcement. Exiting customer tells me "the speaker wasn't on--no one heard that." Went back in. Using fuzzy memory, managed to find the woman from the SUV. She spoke no English. She called her husband Luis from the next aisle. Got him to understand. He moved their Tahoe.
Towed (actually carried) my car to PepBoys. It was now 8 p.m. on a Saturday, so everything was closed. Talked to the night manager who was sweeping up.
Sunday morning, PepBoys called. They'll need $200 to do a complete Electrical Diagnostic. Sunday evening they called again--Ignition Cylinder has gone bad.
Car still under warranty. Left a message with CarMax, which isn't open on Sundays for service. Monday morning exchanged three phone calls with AAA about moving the car. Also two calls with PepBoys and three with CarMax. Went by PepBoys to pay them off; chatted with the service manager. Monday suppertime, CarMax calls. It's done.
Tuesday morning, Dad drops me off at CarMax at dawn. New Ignition Cylinder is in. Got them to check for Passive Security--there is none. Also, could they make me a Remote for unlocking it? Nope, car doesn't have that package installed. Total damage, circa $300.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/angry.gif) aggravated
Current Music: "South Nashville Blues" [live] (Steve Earle and Del McCoury)
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May 16th, 2009
09:40 pm - tons of memorable things have happened in the last few days.
remind me to blog about them when it's safe to do so.
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May 15th, 2009
09:36 am - Tuesday Night's Wacky Dream
exterior, a restored Roman piazza, night.
I, intrepid movie director Bruce Somethingorother, thank the crowd of thousands for coming out to watch. Chaotic preparations for the shoot continue. Technical glitches are solved, and I give a long-winded speech to the crew. "Action!"
Filming begins outside, then moves through the interior of the piazza (illogical, yes, I know), a series of huge rectangular chambers. The complex was left intact from the age of the Ceasars, then rebuilt as a medieval cathedral, then rebuilt again as a shopping mall. This leads to architectural juxtapositions: Roman columns with modern windows in them, Sunglasses Hut kiosks in front of Renassiance fountains, etc.
That makes it the appropriate place to film the movie, a retelling of The Passion Of The Christ as a rock opera. Think 'Jesus Christ Superstar' with better lyrics, a shorter focus, more Strindbergian Expressionism, and much less heresy.
The Sanhedrin meets. This is just an excuse for the real action, a series of musical vingettes demonstrating the (stereo)types of Christian believers through the centuries. Clothing and behavior are a mishmash of anachronistic styles. Pieces of the sets fly in and out as the action whirls. It's all one continuing Action, captured with multiple cameras.
Jesus is brought to trial (etc etc, look up the sequence yourself). The biblical story is a framework for dozens of song-and-dance numbers. SHOWTUNES~! explicate the text.
The Devil has several big solos, during which he writhes around on the walls. The thespianism continues in the tunnels between the main chambers, during transitions from Scene to Scene. The shoot takes all night. Scores of crewmembers stand around desultorily, eating fruit and keeping cool. At the climax, many of the characters apotheosize. I return to my hotel.
fin
Subplots:
"What is THAT doing in the shot?!" "We can pixelate it out later."
My wife is throwing me a surprise party afterward, which is why there's people on the set I can't account for.
The actor playing Judas wants more screentime.
My feet get badly blistered.
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May 14th, 2009
06:36 pm - well, well, well.
well well WELLY well!
*waving*
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May 5th, 2009
10:06 pm - events?!
**mom & dad spent a week in the mountains, then almost had a wreck driving back. I cleaned.
**the river near me was at Flood Stage this weekend, but it's down in a ravine so no danger.
**lunch with Tom; goodbye dinner for A & J
**sent an email which seems to have died on the vine, which makes me sad.
**RenFest trip? Chicago trip? New York trip? hmmmmm...
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/hot.gif) sweaty
Current Music: "Let My Love Open the Door" (Pete Townshend)
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April 30th, 2009
01:57 am - GRRRRR
I hate it when Person X treats me badly in Way #1 and then I treat Person Y the same way. It's textbook disfunction.
And I REALLY hate it when Person X treats me badly in Way #1 and that causes me to realize that I've already treated Person Y the same way.
Current Mood: why no "Disgruntled" icon?
Current Music: "Headstrong" (10,000 Maniacs)
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April 21st, 2009
04:01 pm - in which I tell you how I accidently ripped off a store.
Went shopping for new seatcovers. Saw a pair I liked @ Target, and @ only $19.99, which is cheap. Took them to the cashier, who rang them up @ $39.99. Objected. He, instead of doing a Price Check, axed his supervisor. She okayed using the lower price. Paid.
Whilst leaving, I realized that someone had probably just put the box on the wrong shelf, so I was looking at the single-seatcover price. Oops. Thus at one stroke I have made up for a lifetime of accidental overcharges at stores.
Current Mood: guilty
Current Music: "No You Girls Never Know" (Franz Ferdinand)
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April 14th, 2009
01:26 am - my long-threatened update
Sometimes it is good to take six weeks off. Easter was lovely, as were several other holidays before it.
other recent happenings:
Was, through a long chain of circumstances, given a free ticket to go see Doc Severinson with the Nashville Symphony. (Why is it that every time I go downtown the whole place is overrun with a different group of loutish hillbillies than last time?) It was interesting, tho not the Hot Club du Paris.
Willow got a skin fungus. Imagine an ear infection and a urinary-tract infection that are the same thing and are all over your skin and under your hair. Yes, gross. Had to give her pills and whatnot. She's much better, but the vet thinks there's an underlying allergy that causes it and wants us to switch her to a special diet, which means no scraps or treats either. I can't do it.
Went with Mom and Dad to a singing in North Carolina. Memorable mainly for its literary associations, as we spent a morning at Carl Sandburg's house. He collected books and goats.
Twice went drinkin' with old high-school buddy Tom. Even met some NEW people! More to come.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/working.gif) productive
Current Music: "My Back Pages" (Bob Dylan)
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March 16th, 2009
February 27th, 2009
06:45 pm - A version of a Movie Soundtrack Of My Life meme~!
1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the title song that's playing. (You could cheat and go on to the next, but that would be morally wrong.)
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
note: I only used the songs in my Show Tunes folder. YMMV.
Opening Credits:
Everybody Wants to Rule the World [from Real Genius] (Tears for Fears)
Waking Up:
I'm Just a Vagabond Lover [from The Vagabond Lover] (Rudy Vallee)
First Day At School:
Tea for Two (Doris Day)
Falling In Love:
'Raiders of the Lost Ark' theme (John Williams)
Fight!:
I Love to Laugh [from Mary Poppins] (cast)
Breaking Up:
Save Me [from Magnolia] (Aimee Mann)
Prom:
Kiss [from Under the Cherry Moon] (Prince)
Life is Good:
The Morning After [from The Poseidon Adventure] (Maureen McGovern)
Mental Breakdown:
This Woman's Work [from She's Having a Baby] (Kate Bush)
Driving Aimlessly:
Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) [from Heavy Metal] (Don Felder)
Childhood Flashback:
Hedwig's Theme [from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] (John Williams)
Getting Back Together:
Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
Wedding:
Some Day My Prince Will Come [from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs] (Adriana Caselotti)
Paying Your/My Dues:
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning [from This Is the Army] (Irving Berlin)
The Night Before The War:
Moon River [from Breakfast at Tiffany's] (Henry Mancini)
Final Battle:
Nobody Does It Better [from The Spy Who Loved Me] (Carly Simon)
Sex Flashback:
Girls and Boys [from Under the Cherry Moon] (Prince & the Revolution)
Moment of Triumph:
Da Butt [from School Daze] (E.U.)
Death Scene:
Oklahoma (Gordon McRae)
Funeral Song:
A Kind of Magic [from Highlander] (Queen)
End Credits:
Toot, Toot, Tootsie [from The Jazz Singer] (Al Jolson)
That Extra Song They Always Tack On To The Very End:
Yellow Submarine (The Beatles)
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February 23rd, 2009
10:53 am - collected Churchy notes
Got many many compliments on my Mardi Gras tie yesterday; didn't tell anyone it was $6 at Accent Annex.
Between funerals, errand-running, and oh yeah actual worship, I was in the church building 8 days out of an 11-day stretch, probably for the first time since Vacation Bible School a thousand years ago.
I don't know what to do about the H + E situation, or the very different M + B situation, or the F/B problem.
Alan is leaving a year sooner than I expected, but that's alright.
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in re Zoosk: I don't mind that the spammers from Ghana are after me; they're so inept it's funny. The Russians are an actual worry.
Current Location: not los angeles
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Los Angeles" (Frank Black)
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