Bookmole’s Neighborhood

Here's what's been going on with me:

• 05:40 Airport. Starbucks. Flying to BDL, #thissucks . #
• 06:01 How come I can't get the free Google wi-fi??!?! GOOGLE! #attheleastpopularairportterminal #
• 06:18 Had to elbow a nun in the face to get a seat. #thankssouthwestopenboarding . #
• 06:20 Well, technically I didn't HAVE TO, but it was well worth doing. #
• 07:41 On a layover for an hour at MDW, headed to BDL. Reading, and maybe some plants vs zombies... #
• 10:47 Landed. On the way to baggage claim. #
• 10:53 Why do all shut tle bus windows rattle? #
• 11:57 I'm pretty sure the place I'm eating lunch is a money laundering front. If the food is good, it won't matter. #
• 18:22 Cutover going well as can be expected. T1 in/out working, no 911 access yet. Need CO lines for that, apparently. Tomorrow- PAGING!! Wooo! #

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Loathe
~ Lack of home internet
~ Doubting dsl repair will really happen tomorrow
~ Allergy symptoms returned when I returned to work
~ I have an extremely low tolerance for humans lately
~ The tamale fest I planned to attend this weekend has been moved to Dec

Love
~ Skritches just climbed into bed
~ Realizing wireless broadband is a service option
~ Coughing is greatly reduced
~ Physical therapist admitted that therapy might not help my knees or be worth the time/effort/money. Yay for honesty!
~ My knees have worked for 6 of the last 7 days
~ I did not 'prep' the house for the housekeepers
~ Having a web enabled phone

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Walt Kelly and his friends Pogo and Porkypine still say it best:

"Y'know, it seems to be me this is all backwards....

We, Ever'body, ought to keep our big mouths shut all the

whole year long so's we'd have time to think of two minutes worth of

somethin' to say on the eleventh day of November."

Pogo1111

 to all veterans and their families, thank you.

Art Brut - Alcoholics Unanimous Art Brut Tour Dates 11/11/09 Oberlin College IL 11/12/09 North Star Bar Phila, PA 11/13/09 Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY 11/14/09 Ottobar Baltimore, MD 11/15/09 Bowery Ballroom NY 12/08/09 Mono Pescara 12/09/09 Circolo degli Artisti Rome 12/10/09 Live Forum Milan 12/11/09 Spazio 211 Turin 12/12/09 Bronson Ravenna Read More Art Brut http://weheartmus... It was quite a few years ago I first heard Art Brut. I do believe I was not overly impressed with...

I arrived late to the Triple Rock, in Minneapolis, so I had already missed some of Blood Surfer (myspace / twitter). However, I did get the gist of the band, who seems like they are going to be a hot new buzz band - like Vampire Weekend. Highlight of their set was the last song, in which the guitarist brought the solo drum into the audience as everyone on stage went monkeys. (Sort of feels orchestrated to me, like they didn't really put much effort in trashing their equipments). The audience seem to welcome Blood Surfer, so it's all good.

Art Brut

Loads of Art Brut fans were in the audience that night. You can tell by all the t-shirt and their eagerness of being in front and center. When the band came on, doing "Formed a Band", which singer Eddie Argos turns to the audience and said, "you ought to try it, it's brilliant!"

Eddie looks like a guy that doesn't take himself too seriously. He seems to like to drink a lot and talk a lot (but with his thick British accent, it's not like we could understand half what was said). He seems to swagger on stage a lot, often using his left arm to illustrate the songs.

There wasn't enough room on stage for Argos to do his infamous microphone skip, but he did manage to sing half of "DC Comics" by the bar section. Speaking of which, I think it's cool that Argos is a huge DC fan - since UK comics are usually, you know, 2000 AD/Judge Dredd sort. During the song, Argos spouted out what I hear as "Christian Bale", "Booster Gold" (if I can remember, I think he was basically a janitor from the future with future tech and a Legionaires flight ring), and something about "Metropolis".

Setlist

As you can see from the setlist, they did a mix of new and old songs. The setlist also doesn't reflect what was played, for instance, I know "The Passenger" was played well after "DC Comics". I suppose the setlist was more of a rough guideline than actual instructions.... which actually fits the way Art Brut operate.

The thing about "The Passenger", from their latest album Art Brut vs Satan, is that it got this great introduction. Eddie explained how he thought the Iggy Pop song was about taking the subway, "Iggy doesn't seem to me to be the driving sort." It wasn't until later did he discovered that Iggy's song was about taking heroin in back of a limo with David Bowie. Too funny.

Oh the other thing, the way Eddie sings, if you can call it singing, is quite interesting. It's more like rambling, it definitely feels at time like The Fall - only with a lot heavier backing band.

The band left and came back with three encores. I thought I heard Eddie saying "we don't normally do this", which may have been said in an ironic kind of way. I really couldn't tell, all I know is that the encores were met by the fans' demands.

Art Brut's funk sole brother

PS, They only had T-Shirts and CDs for sale at the merch table. I was hoping to see some of their awesome shoes. It's £20 online, which is about $40 USD, but totally worth it if you are a massive Art Brut fan. Get those shoes, and also their latest album, Art Brut vs Satan, at the usual online stores.

 11/11/2009 00:00:22 ♥ vu () ♥ artbrut.org.uk ♥ myspace.com/artbrut 

07:17 RT @CupCate: RT @PBizzle This new Tweet notification feature annoys the hell out of me. If I wanted to know, I'd have hit refresh!

09:33 Damn you, teacher workdays! *shakes fist* My kids are home trashing the house when they should be learning some shit!

09:35 Exactly. RT @bitterepiphany: - or at the very least trashing their classroom.

09:49 Husband posted on facebook "working in Hawaii is not so bad." I hate him.

10:00 Things you can't say to site members when you're an admin: Fuck you, bitch. I have two more degrees than you do, do NOT talk down to me.

10:41 Really? I haven't bought one in years. RT @psullivan85: 64% of people still buy CDs! (TheNextWeb) bit.ly/3frRaH

19:42 I don 't watch any NBC shows. Hmm... RT @fuggirls: NY Mag's piece on NBC's dire straits is a must-read. bit.ly/2fHYLj

21:04 OMG LL Cool J drinking from a tiny floral teacup is HILARIOUS. #NCISLA

21:44 What is up with Kenzie's right eye? Was it always like that and I didn't notice? #NCISLA

21:57 Another episode of #NCISLA and LL didn't take his shirt off. Why, God, why?

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It's been around since 2002 (I think) but it never gets old.....

After looking through old photos of myself and my sibs when we were kids, I have come to the conclusion that we must have worn the most ridiculous, daggy swimmers you could ever hope (not) to see.

Now I myself only saw my mother sew once, when she sewed my bridesmaid doll a dress and cape. But these definitely have a home sewn look to them. And we seemed to wear them for years.

Take me here for instance. Determined to get to the beach. And nothin', not even those baggy daggy swimmers is going to stop me. I mean mother, you could've taken in the legs a little. I bet if I keep looking I'll see one of my sisters wearing these before I got them. Probably both of them.

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And one of my favourite photos. Emjay, the oldest, with our brother and sister. Sporting a very unfashionable blue suit with a matching home done fringe trim.

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And here she is again, what maybe a couple of years later, still wearing it.

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Move forward another couple of years and my other sister is now wearing it and Emjay has a much nicer, yet still loose fitting pair of swimmers on. As you can see I'm still wearing the same pair I had on in the beginning. Because I had penty of room to grow into.

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OMFG. And I was right. Even though I was only half joking. Here is Min, wearing my baggy pink swimmers. I wonder if I ever owned a new pair.

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I have this vision of my mother, searching through her wardrobe every year the day before we went on our summer holidays, pulling out a bag full of atrocious old faded swimmers and handing us each a pair. Mind you it wouldn't have been a very full bag. We seemed to last through our childhoods with three of four pairs between us.