post 15

By anders pearson 06 Jul 2000

it’s the little things that have been bugging me.

will someone please explain to me the reason that about half the time, if there is a set of double doors, one of them is open and the other is locked? why lock one door? i think at least once a day, i see someone ahead of me walk through a door so i go crashing straight into the other door assuming that it’s also open. i can really think of no reason that you would keep one half of a set of doors locked except to provide free entertainment from people like me breaking our skulls open.

post 14

By anders pearson 05 Jul 2000

watched Galaxy Quest at mimi’s. amusing little movie.

one word: piglizard.

just keep saying it to yourself. piglizard. piglizard. piglizard piglizard piglizard piglizard…

post 12

By Matthias Dittgen 05 Jul 2000

Is it possible, and is it allowed to earn money
by sharing my computer “power” with someone else?
And do you believe, they will pay for?

”The ProcessTree Network was created to bring two
groups together: those who have huge computing jobs
to do; and millions of folks like you and me whose
computers just sit idle much of the time.”

post 10

By anders pearson 04 Jul 2000

while looking around for a wally warren link for that last post, i managed to finally track down some of Alan Bray’s stuff online. Alan was the teacher for the regional gifted and talented art program that i was in in high school. every other tuesday about 20 of us from the various high schools in my county would get out of class for the whole day to go paint and draw under alan’s supervision. he’s an amazing artist and an excellent teacher.

post 9

By anders pearson 04 Jul 2000

most years for the fourth of july, i go out to the little town of West Athens, Maine to celebrate. it’s way out in the middle of nowhere; main street just got paved a few years ago. most of the houses are constructed of plywood and tar paper; rusty old automobile chassis on the lawns with plants growing out of them.

for unknown reasons, this location was chosen to host the most bizarre fourth of july celebration in existance. every year, all the aging hippies and bikers in the state converge for a parade and a play. the parade consists mostly of old beater cars that they’ve managed to get running for a few hours spray painted bright colors with lots of drunk stoned people riding on top of them and hanging out the windows and trunk. then there are all the bikers and a few perrenial floats from the various pro-marijuana organizations in the state (NORML, Maine Vocals, etc) and a bunch of people just walking down the street with them.

the parade ends in the local gravel pit where there is a huge brightly painted stage (local artist wally warren is responsible for set construction). after awards are handed out for the most creative floats, the play starts. it’s always about 110 degrees out with no shade and no where to sit. there is no sound system (it’s a gravel pit for god’s sake), so you can barely hear what’s going on onstage. nevertheless, the play is why people come to west athens. it’s totally unprofessional, incoherent and none of them can really act, but it’s brilliant and hilariously irreverent political satire at its finest. it usually features cheese doodles prominently. what more could you ask for.

it’s about the weirdest way possible to experience independence day in the US, but for me, it’s tradition. alas, i’m stuck in NYC this summer so i guess i’ll have to find something else to do. fourth of july usually flags and stuff burning or exploding, right? so i figure i should go burn a flag tonight to get in the holiday spirit…

post 8

By anders pearson 04 Jul 2000

may thanks to tuck for recommending the kidney thieves to me. nice industrial rock a la nin/filter/garbage with female vocals and the occasional hint of portishead. the vocalist sounds a little bit like alanis morissette on a few tracks but don’t let that scare you away.

lately at work i’ve also been listening to the Organizer Public Radio shoutcast feed from degentech. industrial, ebm, and goth at a crystal clear 128bps. they play a lot of stuff that even i haven’t heard before. i’ve gotten in the habit of keeping a pad of paper and a pen next to me at work and making a note of any bands i hear that i really like so i can look for them later. the list is starting to get fairly long.

post 7

By anders pearson 03 Jul 2000

an excerpt from last night’s dream:

he walked up the stairs and out out of Tony’s salad and soup kitchen straight into 8 tentacles of a giant poisonous squid.

*** blinding pain and darkness ***

“you know what poisonous squid are for?” asked the large dirty man through his haze of pain. “they’re for cracking open tough shellfish and getting at the juicy meat inside. you just let them hold on and give a few
corrosive licks and pretty soon, the shell just melts away…”

he lapses back into unconscious agony, the smell of his chromosomes burning.


post 6

By anders pearson 02 Jul 2000

spent the day wandering around with mimi and her friend frank. her friend’s band was giving a free sidewalk concert down in east village so we went down and watched them for a while. they sounded pretty good but seemed really shy, almost like they were trying to hide from the audience. i never did catch what the band’s name was.

then we wandered a bit more and eventually went to watch some movie called Burlesk King which was about filipino gogo boys. i’m still not quite sure what to make of it. it was really corny. whenever something really sad happened in the movie and it would get all dramatic, this cheesy music would come on and the audience would just crack up. so i’m still not sure if it was intended to be funny in a corny sort of way or if it was just so bad that it was funny.