Notes From a Day

There is a quote on the wall in the music department, where I work nearly every day. It says "People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven quartet."

I can't help but reflect on the irony as I try and tune out the shitty in-store play music it's my responsibility to keep running. Even though I think the quote is full of it.

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Things that piss me off about the Christmas Holiday Season, much as I enjoy Christmas:

1: Decorations up at the beginning of October. FUCKING OCTOBER.

2: "A Christmas Story". I hate this movie. It's not funny. At all. But it's a "Christmas classic." Sure. It's about a whole family being dicks to each other back in the 40s, in a setting and era that has very little in common with my anything I have to deal with. Every character in the movie is mean and none of them are likable, not even the narrating kid. Hate.

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If most people think everybody else is having more sex than them, then there's some extreme over-estimation of the amount of getting it on going on. Admittedly, at least half of a group is going to be below average, on average, but a few sluts and porn stars can REALLY skew the results, even with large sample sizes.

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Yay for biofeedback. I've noticed being hungry makes most of my emotions exaggerated. Well, the negative ones, anyway. Amazing how much better having food can make me feel. Or maybe most of my problems are but small ones, they're just so close they seem huge.

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When did Sesame Street turn into The Elmo Show?

An Essence, Not an Example.

A flute all alone in the dark, repeating a simple melody until there is enough to loop on its own. Drums creep in and settle down into a spiral with the strength to build on. When the rhythm is secure, the horns bounce in, with chimes darting around their blares. They all play out the pattern until it connects to itself; then hand it off. Machina and musician blend seamlessly, not so they cannot be told apart, but so none can tell where their boundaries lie. Above it all, variations crafted so carefully they cannot be told from the spontaneous.

(I completely don't understand what makes some of these comment-worthy and others not. Aside from it seeming the ones I toss off in fifteen minutes do better than the ones I labor over.)

Indictments

Much as I'd like to watch Patrick Fitzgerald indict the corrupt bunch running DC right now, I can't see it happening. I mean, these guys were happy to lie us into a war, lie about their budgets, tax cuts, opponents, and their own policies. They've continually put their own power and their party ahead of the interests of the nation. So of COURSE Bush is going to end up pardoning everybody involved, just like his daddy pardoned all the Iran-Contra people before they could testify about his involvement in selling weapons to terrorists. And there's no way in hell the Republicans in Congress would impeach Bush Jr.

It's really pretty depressing.

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Notes From a Day

Saw protesters again today, this time maybe a dozen people holding posters saying either "Abortion Hurts Women" or "Abortion Kills Children". Standing by the side of the road, teenagers up to an older guy. Looked like a church group, or maybe a family.

Though with this, and the other guy I saw a couple weeks ago, it makes me wonder. What exactly does standing by the road with a sign do? It doesn't seem like it'd sway many people, but I'm not a good source to extrapolate anything from. Maybe it's like advertising, just repeat it over and over to get people used to hearing it?

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In a mythic sense, New York IS America. Which is why supervillians, aliens, and natural disasters always target it.

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I was wondering if the FBI still does "Public Enemy #1" things, but it turns out to have been subsumed by the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives." And the term "Public enemy" isn't used any more, and wasn't ever really official. Now you know, thanks to Google and The FBI's FAQ.

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I hate when people ask me what I think of the music we have on in-store play. There's very few CDs I can stand to listen to day after day after day without any variety, and they're not ones we've played. And since I'm a bad salesperson, I tell them the truth, that I can't really judge, since it's been playing constantly. Makes life simpler.

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Tomorrow, for work, I'm going dressed as a low-budget ninja.

Okay, so it's twenty minutes early.

I looked down at the street full of demons and princesses and all sorts of other unnatural beasties. Lots of ghosts. Probably because they're so easy to make. "I love Halloween," I said.

"Which part," Erin asked, "Dressing up goofy, the tricks, or the treats?"

"You can't separate something into its parts like that," I said, "Not when they all work together so well. It's all kinds of nifty things, squeezed into one day and stuffed with candy."

"How's that any different than how you normally act?"

"That's the point, isn't it? Everybody gets to be me for a day!"

NaNoWriMo - A Quiz

Nano starts Tuesday. I have yet to decide what I'm going to write. I have many options.

One) a long Forsyth story, or multiple stories. Somewhat inclined toward this.

2) The Mech/Cthulhu thing I've pestered a few of you about over the past year+.

3) Star Trek Fanfic. Not about the Enterprise, just set in the Star Trek universe. Because I'm a nerd.

4) A romance novel between a pirate and a ninja. Unlikely, as I don't know how to write romance.

5) Musketeers in Space, vaguely based off a short story I wrote a couple years back.

6) A wanktastic "literary" novel about a wannabe writer.

7) Death in High Places

8) Something entirely random. With like monkeys and stuff. I never did finish that one from last year, and it wasn't entirely bad. Except for the chapters that kept having the characters argue while traveling. Most of those could go.

9) A Generic Fantasy Novel

A) Porn. Already covered by romance novel. Also, the only audience it wouldn't be creepy to write porn for would be somebody I was sleeping with, at which point LARPing would be much more interesting than writing it.

B) Something else.

C) ... Damn. Out of ideas. I wanted to use all the hex numbers, too.

Well, since I'm too cheap to buy an LJ account, there's your quiz. Post your choices in the comments, where I'll probably ignore them and do something else anyway.