i'm so happy that september is coming to an end. talk about a crappy month... a month where it seemed like nothing was going my way. highlights of the month include a huge rock hitting my windshield causing a hideous crack to grow. very nice, i tell you. also, who could forget the ruptured disk in my back that i had last week? haha.. oh man, what a blast. i feel much much better right now and the pain is pretty nonexistant. that doesn't mean i'm healed, though. tomorrow i have a doctor's appointment at 8am and then physical therapy at 11:30. it's going to be fun at the hospital! maybe i'll bring my camera.

to top it all off, last night my iBook decided to act crazy and not start up. after a year of perfection, it is now acting up. it would not boot up and it would get hung on the loading screen and just sit there. i could boot up in to OS 9 and everything looked fine so i decided to reinstall OS X Jaguar and everything appears to be working now. no data was lost and i still love her but i can't help but be paranoid. i think my hard drive is acting up. *backs up all his data*

anyone want to buy me one of those purty powerbooks?

:)

bring it on october!

some good news that's needed in this boy's back-hurtin' life... i've been asked to work on redesigning the new http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk, which is the band's official news and information website. i'm very excited cause their music is so awesome and anytime you do something official, it's great. i've seen the artwork for the new album and it's pretty cool... i think this is going to be one of the best albums of this year. :)

more on this later. got to go pop some pills...

It's great (or creepy?) that this guy is banging out tunes on his ipod while dead bodies are on his screen. Pretty funny...

it's been raining all day as isidore slowly works her way up north. my back is still bothering me and i've been on the phone with my doctor a couple of times today and he pretty much agrees that it's a ruptured disk. he's prescribed skelaxin, which is a muscle relaxer and so far, it doesn't seem to be doing much. i'm going to start physical therapy next week as well. craziness. i don't even know what i did?! all i remember was that i was sitting on the couch and i got up and boom, my back was killing me. i thought at first that i had just pulled it but 5 days later, it hasn't gone away. after doing some research on the interweb, it seems that you may not start suffering from a ruptured disk for up to like 10 years after a traumatic injury or car wreck. in 1999, i totaled my car by hitting a median wall at 60 mph (trying to dodge a chair in the middle of the interstate) and walked away unhurt... maybe this is from that?

Anyway, it's not that i'm in HUGE pain. it's just really uncomfortable, especially if i get up and walk around or sit down for a long period of time. so that pretty much means i'm in bed which is not very fun when you're not tired.

all i have to say is thank god i picked up the new Beck album on tuesday... i've been listening to that today and really like it. it's grows on you and definitely helps when the only thing on tv is "texas justice"... yuck.

that and i've been enjoying this site a lot. :)

well, here i am laying in bed, bored as can be. my little TV with only 2 channels keeps me company and npr is playing classical music right now. thank god for my iBook and wireless internet, huh? It appears that I have ruptured a disc in my lower back so I'm pretty much staying in bed because if I get up, it hurts like a sick bastard. Don't know how this happened and my doctor is out of town and his nurse still hasn't returned my call. Can I please have some codeine?

It's crazy what you could of had,

crazy what you could of had,

I need this,

I need this.

REM's Out of Time is really good, despite "Shiny Happy People". Ahhhh...

I decided to submit my to the mirror project. dig.

I had tender feelings that you made hard

but it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred

so when I go home I'll be happy to go

you're just somebody that I used to know

you don't need my help anymore

it's all now to you, there ain't no before

now that you're big enough to run your own show

you're just somebody that I used to know

I watched you deal in a dying day

and throw a living past away

so you can be sure that you're in control

you're just somebody that I used to know

I know you don't think you did me wrong

and I can't stay this mad for long

keeping ahold of what you just let go

you're just somebody that I used to know

elliott smith rawks

Have you ever gotten one of those "Nigerian money scam" emails? I sure have and I wonder who would actually fall for something like that. For a funny "log" of one guy conning the con artists, check out this site.

Argh. I hate Sunday nights.

Haha.. another mirror pic. :)

Apologies to anyone on my AIM buddylist. I've been using Apple's iChat and apparently there is a bug that after sometime, you stop getting messages from people so it looks like you are ignoring them. I've switched back to AIM for now. Too bad.... I actually kind of liked iChat's cool "bubble" cloud format!

Anyone care for a drink?

I love OS X.2's new "junk" filter in the mail application but sometimes it doesn't catch everything. Here's some funny spam I just got:

Hallo,



I found yours Email ID in Directoric.

I have been from Russian and for a man like you have I been lookink.

I saw this link at Yewknee about Epic's plans to send out the new Tori Amos and Pearl Jam albums to press outlets for review in CD players glued shut and with the headphones glued in. Their hope is that this will prevent the tracks from being leaked on to the Internet. This is getting crazy. This quote from the above article kind of intrigued me:

"New albums have appeared early on file sharing networks such as KaZaA, Morpheus and Grokster with a frequency which is alarming record companies. Eminem's The Eminem Show suffered this fate prior to release in May 2002."

Tour dates for North America have been announced and as expected, Sigur Ros is not coming to Nashville. So, it looks like I'll be planning to go to either the St. Louis or Atlanta shows... or maybe BOTH! Hehe... Who's going to join me? There's no way I'm going to miss them this time.

Speaking of Sigur Ros, I was doing some work the other night while CSI was on and during an autopsy scene, they played Sigur Ros and boy, did it fit! Pretty crazy stuff.

As you can see, things are different around these parts. Gone are the green grid blocks and the tiny pixelated fonts. I thought I would change things around for the Fall season. :) I haven't really tested the new design on a PC so please let me know if things look really wack. Also, some of the pages (photos, about, etc...) will be changing soon to better fit in with the overall "wood and good nature" feel of the site. I've been so busy with other things and projects that I don't have time right now to do it.

Not really much to report right now other than the fact that I want this camera!

Ciao!

Uhm, yeah.

Dates for the first leg of the Beck/Flaming Lips tour have been announced! Not only are the Flaming Lips opening up for Beck, they are also going to be his backing band! How cool is that? Here are the dates:

10.17.02 - Minneapolis, MN (Orpheum Theater)

10.18.02 - Chicago, IL (Chicago Theater)

10.20.02 - Toronto, ON (Massy Hall)

10.21.02 - Detroit, MI (Detroit Opera House)

10.22.02 - Indianapolis, IN (Murat Center)

10.24.02 - Columbus, OH (Mershon Auditorium)

10.25.02 - Cleveland, OH (The Palace Theater)

10.26.02 - Syracuse, NY (Landmark Theater)

10.28.02 - Boston, MA (Orpheum)

10.30.02 - New York, NY (Beacon Theater)

10.31.02 - New York, NY (Beacon Theater)

I've been thinking about what to write all day about what happened one year ago today. Sometimes it's best not to say anything at all. It was a horrible day for us all.

Somehow I ended up in Kentucky today. Don't you just hate when that happens?

When I was in 11th grade (seems so long ago now... heh), I was introduced to Jack Kerouac's On the Road and it changed my life in a way that nothing else had ever done. I've talked a lot about Kerouac before and I cannot express enough how great I think his work is. NPR had a great special on him yesterday which you can catch online if you want. I recommend it.

It was time for us to move on. We took a bus to Detroit. Our money was now running quite low. We lugged our wretched baggage through the station. By now Dean's thumb bandage was almost as black as coal and all unrolled. We were both as miserable-looking as anybody could be after all the things we'd done. Exhausted, Dean fell asleep in the bus that roared across the state of Michigan. I took up a conversation with a gorgeous country girl wearing a low-cut cotton blouse that displayed the beautiful sun-tan on her breast tops. She was dull. She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do. "And what else do you do for fun?" I tried to bring up boy friends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done -- whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was. "What do you want out of life?" I wanted to take her and wring it out of her. She didn't have the slightest idea what she wanted. She mumbled of jobs, movies, going to her grandmother's for the summer, wishing she could go to New York and visit the Roxy, what kind of outfit she would wear -- something like the one she wore last Easter, white bonnet, roses, rose pumps, and lavender gabardine coat. "What do you do on Sunday afternoons?" I asked. She sat on her porch. The boys went by on bicycles and stopped to chat. She read the funny papers, she reclined on the hammock. "What do you do on a warm summer's night?" She sat on the porch, she watched the cars in the road. She and her mother made popcorn. "What does your father do on a summer's night?" He works, he has an all-night shift at the boiler factory, he's spent his whole life supporting a woman and her outpoppings and no credit or adoration. "What does your brother do on a summer's night?" He rides around on his bicycle, he hangs out in front of the soda fountain. "What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?" She didn't know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.

Man I love Air. You really can't beat putting on one of their CDs late at night and just spacing out. I've never gotten tired of those two crazy French guys.

goodnight..

I was watching Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon the other day and I really began to think about what it would feel like to live in the 60s or 70s and be my age. Can you imagine life without cell phones, pagers, pda's, the internet, digital TV, 24 hour McDonalds, etc...? If you were transported through time right now to 1975 would you adjust to life without these things? I think I probably could. Technology is supposed to help us to make life easier, but it really gives us more to do and makes our lives more hectic. I can only imagine what life will be like 10 years from now.

The above was taken today and I have to say that it came out pretty well, I think. I've become quite the -taker while driving a car at 80 mph on the interstate. Don't try that kids...

I picked up two CDs today while at Tower. First up is Do Make Say Think's & Yet & Yet. If you're a fan of this Canadian band, you won't be disappointed with this album. I also got Her Space Holiday's Manic Expressive, which really had me bobbing my head. Great stuff.

Speaking of great stuff, Godspeed You Black Emperor's new album, yanqui u.x.o, will be released on November 4th in Europe and November 11th in North America! It'll be interesting to hear this album, especially since Steve Albini produced it.

Currently I am listening to 91 Cashmere on WRVU here in Nashville. Courtney, your taste in music is impressive. I need to go music shopping with you. :)

Been really busy with things so there hasn't been much time to update this past week. It's hard to believe that it's September already! I'm looking forward to Fall here in Nashville, it can get really pretty with all the colors. I really missed Fall when I was in California.

Speaking of California, how about those A's? I'm not the biggest sports nut, but I've been a fan of Oakland since 1989. It was nice living a couple of Bart stations away from the Oakland Coliseum. :)

Ciao!