words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
My car cd player is in the shop, injured in the accident a month and some ago. i'm forced to listen to the radio since I don't have many tapes left. The radio feels so tyrannical. I know, there are lots of stations out there, so there's an illusion of choice. but there's no skip mechanism, there's no individual programming. Is this the way most people live, with radio and television controlling their lives? I've never been a radio listener (a prisoner as R.E.M. would have it) and haven't watched television for nine years. And I don't mean that I only watch a few of my favorite shows or that the television isn't on very often. I mean that I actually don't watch television. ever. I emphasize that because so many people I tell that to respond with, "oh, yeah, i don't want it much either. I just watch this and that," or "it's on when I'm cooking," etc. People don't seem to understand that I mean I never even turn the television on. I waffle between thinking the television is actually evil and just knowing that I have way too many things to do and can't imagine including television as one of them, regardless of whether seinfeld or the simpsons are actually worthwhile. The issue for me is still that I don't have control, over radio or television. And I hate it. I want to listen to what I want to listen to, not what somebody with a lot more money than I have and who seems to be pushing things wants me to listen to. This is my quiet revolt.
8:17 AM
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