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here's 19 for 29. all pertinent specifically to this very afternoon.

1. today is ten29. for people know me well, that's some heavy shit. but it doesn't mean anything, so it can never be "profound" shit. just heavy shit. like black hash.

2. jody nelson shaved his beard, and he dressed up as the RKO dog on saturday. he is my fucking hero. the nelson-slamen-halloween conglomerate was in full effect. halloween village? are you kidding me? brilliant. they went so far as to replace their exterior flood lights with black flood lights.

3. [scene missing]

4. the spots played 2 shows on friday. almost 3 hours at the museum and almost 2 hours at speakeasy. that means we invented, (not counting the stuff we usually play) at least 3 1/2 hours of new stuff. try it sometime.

5. my magazine should be here today.

6. the synth bassline in the song "everything she wants" by wham... when combined with george michael's "ah huh uh do do do ba da da da da..." vocals...it's pretty sexy. 80's sexy, yeah, but still. i know this makes me a gay, but i don't care. jesus likes the gays, its the jews that make him flinch up now and then.

7. i'm downloading classic era van halen ring tones. i'mma have the synth intro to 1984 blow up every time brian t. murphy calls. this is a big deal. because brian t. murphy is a big deal. his keyboard is red. and red means death. his keyboard actually has a criminal record.

8. planet terror should get the academy award for it's fantastic effects and characters. and if it doesn't win the "best killing of bio-mutant-zombies" award, then i'm probably never going to watch that awards show again.

9. i deleted some people who suck. they know who they are. if you see them, tell them i told them they suck.

10. duquette might have a future in modeling. i dunno. i'm just sayin'.

11. john strohm is a POTENT man. seriously. he's a baby daddy AGAIN.

12. thanks to alison, purple is now the new black. purple also retains full rights to the color purple. this probably extends to the book, the color purple.
drop it like its hot? yeah, it was hot.

13. we get 12 days of hunnukhuhhuhaakka and a few days for xmas... we even get 2 days off to stuff our fat pathetic american faces, so we can end up face-down-butt up in front of some completely NOT important football game... YET halloween get's a few isles in walgreens and NO holiday. please. explain to me why halloween doesn't get its own day off.

14. i mastered i-movie in about 8 hours. get to know me.

15. apparently if you are poor and/or brown, you don't get to run around asking for candy as much as whitey.

16. [scene missing]

17. if you know any great female singers who are up to the task of being in a real band, send them my way.

18. anyone convicted of armed robbery of any kind, on the first offense, should be given two options. - 1. shoot yourself in the head at any time within a 30 day period while incarcerated. 2. someone else, without notice, will shoot you in the head within a 30 day period while incarcerated.

19. to the douchy attorney guys on friday... thanks for stealing the cd's. hopefully my momma can get them back when she comes over to clean your house.



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