Dylan soothes the troubled soul.

Oh vinyl, how I love thee!

Good finds while record shopping today.


The first to grab my eye was The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by...well you know. The spine is cracked and there is some other cover wear but the record seems to listen just fine. Some of my favorite Dylan songs are on this record such as A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Girl From the North Country, and Don't Think Twice, It's All Right. Score! (Upon further listening Don't Think Twice, It's All Right has some scratches in it which make the song skip and subsequently make me look like an idiot when I'm singing along, but the sheer awesomeness of the song make it okay.)


The next would be Street Legal by Bobby again. This record is mediocre as far as Dylan goes but the opening track, Changing of the Guards, will forever remind me of Luis Morales, 823 Turner Ave., among other things.

The next record I bought was Slowhand by Eric Clapton. It's a timeless album, and one of his first after separating from Derek & the Dominoes I believe. And it was only a dollar!

The only new album I bought was I'm Wide Awake It's Morning by Bright Eyes. It came with a free mp3 download, which is one reason why I have so many new LPs. There are so many I want to get still! Anyways, this album is great, continuing my as-of-late Bright Eyes kick.

I successfully managed to not make brownies tonight, but it isn't my fault. The oven wouldn't heat up. But when it does, those are going to be some delicious brownies! I also succesfully rode my bike to the store today without half killing myself and succesfully paid off one of my credit cards today. Sounds like it was a succesful day, huh?

Vanished from my hand...

Today ended well, much better than it had begun but not nearly as good as last night. All my friends had come up for my birthday party and they are all very, very much appreciated, and even more so is Angel for throwing the whole shindig (even if she made everyone sing me happy birthday.) Everyone was safe and nothing too bad happened so all in all I do believe the party was a success!

And thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday and all that. It was extremely nice of everyone. Birthdays always give you a chance to recount your friends.

Going to work today wasn't fun, and it's going to suck tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after, and after that, and so on and so on...it's making all the days run together and become almost meaningless. But I did draw a picture of Mr. Zimmerman that I believe is the best thing I have ever drawn (which isn't saying much).


His lips make him look he was in KISS and the centering of his face needs work but other than that it isn't bad I don't think.

I need to make time to watch that Woody Guthrie DVD I bought. It's on the floor staring at me.

Oh! I almost forgot! The show at The Nervous Dog went well. I did okay by me, Hayden Calling played a good set, and the rest of the show I spent in the parking lot discussing the current and past trends in the music business. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of Hayden Calling or anyone else, but someone took pictures of me, and here they are:

The girl in the last picture = 100% uninterested.

Oh, how awesome Joan Baez sounds with Dylan on "Mama, You Been On My Mind" from The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964!

Crying like a fire in the sun...

My books came today! Both promise to be a very good read. They are The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen (thanks Steph!)

and the other is Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth


Both promise to be very good reads. However, I have to finish Alice in Wonderland first. Oh man.

I also bought a brand new Hohner harmonica holder (that really is the official name). It does a much better job than the wire hanger I was using before but I'm still sad to see the wire hanger go. I'll probably keep it for a while because I'm a pack rat like that.



I listened to a lot of Rage Against the Machine yesterday, and a lot of Bob Dylan to calm me down today. Now I am at a happy medium. And now I have to go to work.

The words are the same...

and that's the important part." - Robert Zimmerman

Anyways,

Today I got sort of finished on something that I've been working on but can't quite reveal it yet. Oooh mystery! Pictures to come very soon. I did so while severly rocking out to the Simon and Garfunkel and Van Halen LPs I got yesterday.

It's funny, now that I have a blog I thought that I would have more to say, but I've been a bit dry lately.

And I thought I should post this:

Muto - An Ambiguous Animation Painted on Public Walls
http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm