Wednesday, January 28, 2004

posted by: copernicus on 1/28/2004 03:59:00 AM
RANDOM QUOTES OF THE DAY (for Molly)

"...but as bad as I am,
I'm proud of the fact
That I'm worse than I seem..."

-Ani Di Franco-Grey-So Much Shouting, So Much laughter

"...she was hungry, so hungry
and she was trying to think clear
but she kept opening the fridge door
and looking at the mustard and the beer
and then finally she went out into the rain
carrying her bicycle chain
and her feet worked the pedals
while her appetite steered
and after that she jut followed her nose
cuz fate is not just whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows..."

-Ani Di Franco-Slide-Evolve

For those interested, http://www.danah.org has a complete lyrics list for Ani. Everything she's written is listed by the album and can be read in poetry form.



I'm the kind of guy with a lot of shit on his walls.

Ever since I was a kid, my walls were covered with the things I loved.

What use to be Dan Marino and George Brett became Ferrari Testarossas and 69 Camaro SS's became Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead became Tawny Kittaen and the girl from The Bangles became pro-Navy and blind patriotism became New York Times front page July 21, 1969 MEN WALK ON MOON and Bob Marley and Greatful Dead and Salvador Dali became Nietzsche and Einstein became Steven Hawking and Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky became quantum physics and quantum mechanics. And all this time still a yellow Coral Springs Elementary School Frisbee from 2nd Grade. And photographs, lots and lots of them, going all the way back to my toddler-hood. I love photographs. You can build a montage of your life with them.

I'm kind of considered the record-keeper in my group of friends because of my collages I made one fall while sick with the flu. I was down for three days and got out all of my pictures, hundreds of them, probably 40 rolls worth of film, my scissors, tape and three 3 foot X 2 foot poster boards. They are hanging over this desk right now. I have enough material for 4 or 5 more poster boards, but haven't found the motivation to tackle that project yet.

Of my 5 fish, I have now decided on the 2nd ones name. Windex.

Windex is a cool little scavenger fish I just got. He is the biggest fish in the tank and loves to just eat and chill. The only time he's in motion he's looking for food. The rest of the time he can be found hanging upside-down from the bottom side of a blue bottle in my fish tank. Before I got Windex my tank accumulated this gunk that dirtied up the glass walls of the aquarium and all the glass stuff I put in for the fish to live in. Well I think you see how he got his name, the tank really is spotless, and it looks really cool.

The other fish with a name is The King of Pop, named before the recent fiasco. He earned his name because he used to be black, and now theres not a speck of black left in him. He's orange now. There's another goldfish who is white & orange. He is King of Pop's buddy. There's two more little guppy-sized fish who are see-thru. Really, you can see their skeletons and internal organs. They don't have much personality though. They stick together and live inside the blue bottle.

That reminded me of those revered genius's of linguistics and comedy Monty Python. The scene in The Meaning of Life where the fish in the restaurant aquarium with the faces of the Python cast are swimming around saying "Morning." to each other. Eric Idle's fish looks out into the restaurant and says: "Oh, look! Howard's being eaten!" The skit where they argue over the definition of the word "argument" is still one of my favorites. Genius.