IM Bits...

The following IM conversation took place between 10:00 and 10:45 Wednesday morning between me and my friend Sussanah. Why? No one knows.

Suss -- Let me tell you what I DON'T like about "You're Beautiful."

Me -- haha, everything

Suss -- No. I don't like the first "My life is brilliant. Because it always just sounds like he messed up and started the song too early. why did he include that part?

Me -- i think he probs thought it makes a stupid song that much grittier.

Suss -- Mabes he just really wanted to emphasize how brilliant his life is.

Me -- Mabes he just really wanted to emphasize how brilliant his life is.

Suss -- Or maybe, since Brits often say something is "brilliant" when they mean it's "great," maybe he is trying to say his life is still great even without her. An assertion which, as we all know, rings quite hollow.

Me -- that could possibly be it, but at the same time, the song seams to be about his struggle with the fact that he sees a woman he thinks he is in love with, but can never have, so the term brilliant in this case may be used in a sarcastic tone, to denote how truly horrible it is living without sed woman.

Suss -- Exactly. I think, though, that his struggle is with the fact that he is seeing his EX-girlfriend as she travels on the subway with "another man." He realizes how much he misses her and how UN-brilliant his life is and how UN-pure his love is.
Also, she can see from his face that he's "fucking high" (or "flying high" in the radio edit), so there is his guilt over her seeing him in such a state.

Me -- maybe so, maybe so... to me though, the way he talks of the situation, as a standard day in a modern city, to me it seems to be one of those situations, where you see someone and you make great eye contact, and it seems as if your in love, sadly there with someone else, and in a situation where you would never be able to truly talk, and its gone. Though this situation is lower stakes this way, making it much harder to write a love song this way. I agree with your theory, only i thing the "fucking high" and "Double brilliant" are used in a sarcastic manor to truly get across how miserable he is without her.

Suss -- Interesting interpretation. However, I saw the artist himself on the Oprah program explaining that his motivation for the song came from seeing a former lover on the subway and exchanging a glance with her. In that glance, he explained, "a lifetime passed between us." He is a true poet.

Me -- A real master of the language, and the meaning behind words themselves. Alas, I didnt see this Oprah program, so in truth I could be projecting my own sagas onto a song; however, isnt that the greatest measure of a song, when it fits every humans own struggles while remaining cathartic for the writer?

Suss -- Indeed. Indeed.

Me -- hogwash... i just dropped my pipe into my tea...

Suss -- Blast!

Me -- Uch... its running down the table onto my leg, and burning me, and my houndstooth trousers

Suss -- Ring for your manservant Octavius!

Me -- I rang, I rang... he is so slow, he has completely "checked out" since he qualified for the national bochi ball team. Its like his head is someplace else.

Suss -- It's so hard to find good help in Beresfordshire these days.

Me -- good help, please, i would settle for any help at all, hold on octavios just got here... so nice for him to show... uch hes carrying his bachi balls with him, how does he expect to clean me and the table with those bacci balls in his hands... anyway, how is your manor.

Suss -- Exquisite! We just had all the chandeliers polished! It took an ARMY of Chinese toddlers (they're the only ones whose hands are small enough to reach into the crevices between all the sharp pieces of glass) to get it all done, but they look magnificent! Although Consuela told me a severed pinky fell out of one of them the other day as she was changing out the lamp oil...

Me -- casualties of having a job is what i would say to those tiny chinese child babys

Suss -- Oh, the babies are back on a boat to Shanghai, having gotten their fill of our country's pre-educational and cultural opportunities. Exchange programs are magnificent, aren't they?

Me -- Exchange programs are brilliant.

A Hipster Day (hipster, really? More like an old man)

I found myself having a little bit of a Hipster day yesterday.

I went out to Jersey because I had an appointment with the eye Dr. (hipster for optometrist)

On the Coach (hipster for bus) ride out to Ltown (hipster for Livingston) I listened to the Gnarls Barkley album on my Ipizzles, its pretty good.

From the bus stop on Hillside Ave to my house (hipster sentence construction to que reader on to fact that I walked from sed location to another) I listened to the My Morning Jacket live at Maxwell's cut Mahgeteeh.

Jumped in the car and drove to the eye Dr. On the way down Northfield, into WO (hipster for West Orange) I listened to the new Raceuntors album. That's Jack White from the White Stripes, and Brendan Benson, from some other hipster bands new album on my Ipizzles Adaptizzles. It's just ok.

After being assessed a way stronger prescription than I thought I would need (hipster tude) and refusing to wear contacts cause I have a thing about stuff close to my eyes (more of a Jewish neurosis), I drove to my parents office to catch a bite (very unhipster). Listening to Matisyahu's Live at Stubb's (hipster from two years ago).

After lunch, I set out with My Girlfriend who is "redoing" our bathroom (less and less hipster). I waited while Daniella and her mother shopped for handles for sinks as I played on my PDA (whatever hipster there was, is now gone).

Went from bathroom place to funky glasses store in the Mont (not even hipster, just shortened word Montclair). Picked out the trendiest pair of glasses I have ever owned, almost in an attempt to make the bathroom store never happen.

Drove back to NYC (New York City) with Daniella, listening to new Pearl Jam record. The hipster in me is dead, regardless of what music I am listening to, or the funky glasses I will now be wearing. I am slowly becoming an old man.

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Could it get any worse

Could this get any worse


Knicks buying out Larry?

Dolan may be mulling move

BY FRANK ISOLA
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Larry Brown
Garden chairman James Dolan apparently has started the process of ending Larry Brown's dream job after one season.
According to sources, Dolan, upset over Brown's record and the coach's public criticism of his players, is considering buying out the final four years of Brown's contract, worth at least $40 million.

Apparently Yes, it can


The Knicks declined to comment, and would neither confirm nor deny one published report that already is naming Knicks president Isiah Thomas as Brown's successor. Brown has indicated that he will not resign, but if Thomas takes over, the Knicks would avoid having to pay another coach upwards of $5 million annually.
Thomas, who coached the Pacers from 2000-2003 but never got them out of the first round of the playoffs, is said to be amenable to coaching the Knicks, one source told the Daily News.

Kurt Cobain's Widow

Shes just a sad, sad clown.

Audition Horror Story 3

Callback for UGA.

3 guys putting at Beth Page golfcourse in Long Island.

I read the lines as guy 1.

Director -- Uhm, Adam, could you read it with a little more energy, less of the stonery vibe.

Me -- Yeah, I'm sorry, people always think I'm stoned cause of the way I talk.

Director -- Yeah, but your not stoned are you?

Me -- No?

Director -- You sure?

Me -- Yeah, (jokingly) why are you a cop?

Director -- Ok, I think weve seen enough of Adam.

Oh Moms

My mom reads my blog.

This is an email I recieved this morning in response to it.

Hilarious.

scare33@aol.com
to me
More options 8:59 am (2 hours ago)
So - you're never too old for your mother to give you advice - even if it is about something as mundane as your spelling - Where is different than we're and were - same thing with they're and their and there - each very different - But when used interchangeably - it is confusing for the reader to figure out what exactly you mean - it takes you out of the cadence of the funny stuff - and lord knows there is some funny stuff being written -
It's like wearing clean underwear incase you get in an accident - when you write in public - try to clean it up - !!!
Love you very much -
Miss you very much -
Mommy

Pearl Jammily anecdote from Summer tour 1

I went to see Pearl Jam this weekend at Irving Plaza. First show of the tour, I plan to see at least 3. Anecdotes hear to follow.

I've seen them ten times, this being my tenth, and though for me the set list was sort of ordinary, the concert itself was amazing. Seeing a band like that in a small club is a once in a lifetime event.

Theres a great article on Pearl Jam in this past weeks Entertainment Weekly about how the band went from Top 40 worldly rockstar fame, to the heir apparent to The Greatful Dead as far as cult following and top touring band.

http://www.entertainment-news.org/images/thumbnails/pearl-jam-feeling-aggressive-on-new-album.jpg

Anecdote 1

They opened the lines for the show at 8, me and my buddy Doug booked inside, bypassing the idea for more drinks, and going straight to the front of the stage, where we found a nitch, stage left (Mcready side for the Pearl Jammies) and where maybe second row, it was nuts. The vibe inside was great, because the differance between Pearl Jam and other bands with excessive cult followings, is that their fans for the most part, are unapologetically well off in life. Most of them work hard at some job or another, and gather there money when they can to catch a PJ show. So, everyone inside was getting out there Treo's and Sidekicks positioning themselves for a great show. There are however some leftovers from the early nineties, whose goatess have now become salt and peppered, and whose mosh pit attitude have been fazed out by a sing along and jump up and down crowd. We where fortunate enough to be standing right next to one of these dudes. He was wearing a buffalo Bills jersey, classy guy. Anyway, we start talking about what songs we want to hear, I know right away what kind of fan I'm dealing with when he tells me his dream encore is Daughter followed by Jeremy. Anyway, he then starts telling me about the speaker stack right next to us, which is at least fifteen feet in the air. He says if they play Evenflow man, he's gonna climb up on that thing and jump off, just like the video. I looked at Doug and we shared that moment of, "are we gonna be able to catch this dude if he does jump".

Doug tells me he has to take a piss before the show, bad idea. As he runs off, I become totally surrounded by fans, who are now pushing as hard as they can to get to the front of the place. Doug gets back, and is now fifteen people behind me. So we move, to stage right (Stone's side Jammies). Concert is amazing, vibe is insane, were right underneath a celebrity clad balconey, and in particular right underneath Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and their kids who apparently know Eddie Vedder pretty well, making me hate them instantly. Anyway about six songs in, Evenflow comes on. Im so wrapped up in the excitment of the show, and singing along to the joyish jibberish that is that song, I barely notice Vedders gaze shift stage left, where a look of sheer concern comes across his face. I follow his eyes to the stack of speakers where Mr. Buffalo Bill leaps off the stack and into the crowd. Only, remember how before I told you that the mosh pit vibe has been replaced, well know one saw him jumping, no one caught him, and he fell, right to the floor. When he got up, he was snatched and escorted out, only to miss the rest of the show, he probably woudl have hated it, no daughter or jeremy thank god.

Another friend of mine was later getting into the show and was stage left. He was so into the show that he told me about someone throwing something from the back that hit him in the head, knocking his glasses and hat off in the middle of Evenflow. I broke the news that what hit him, was a human body. Anyway, moral of the story, dont jump off shit at a Pearl Jam show, learn the words to the song, drink some wine, jump up and down, but no ones gonna catch you, there Treo's might break. And thats the kinda crowd I love.

Lost list

Yeah I dig on Lost...

But as the show goes on, I get more and more frustrated by the unanswered questions. I do feel like some shit has to be explaiend, but I havent jumped on that too cool for school Lost sucks now bandwagon.

So, here is a list of all the things, I can remember, big issue or small, that have yet to be explained on Lost.
If I missed any, thats what the comments section is for motherfuckers.

(Possible Spoiler alert...)

LOST LIST
Why can locke walk?
Jack found his fathers casket and the body was gone, where is it?
Whats the deal with the monster/black smoke?
Why is everyone connected?
Whats Dharma?
Disease?
Why do the others want kids?
Whats the deal with the others?
If they have a boat, why are they still there?
Wheres the food coming from?
Both woman that we have seen openly have sex are dead, why, and does that mean, Suns next, cause that bitch is preggars?
Desmond the scottish dude?
Theres a radio tower on the island?
The Seven Hatches and that crazy black light map on the inside of the walls.
Reasseau, her shipmates, and her daughter that helped save claire?
Claires baby, is it sick?
The balloon, why is it there, who was on it, whose the real Henry Gale?
The numbers, whats the deal with the fucking numbers?
The magnet in the hatch?
The symbols?
Whats gonna happen if you dont enter the numbers, and i thought the computer was only supposed to be used for entering them, but Michael and Walt are Iming, whats with that?
Whats up with people surviving that crash right?
Did I ask about the Polar Bears?
Lockes father flew Oceanic airlines, is he on the island, whats up with that?
What is Sayid digging that hole for?
Why didnt Rose tell Bernard that she knows Locke couldnt walk before?
Whose Goodwin, Henry Gale mentioned Goodwin?
Quarantine?
Why was Walt showing up all over the place, if he was kidnapped by the others?
Ethan seemed kinda nice when he was dealign with claire right, but he almost killed charlie, whats the whole deal there?
Why was Jacks dad at the suburban house in Sydney screaming he wanted to see his baby?
Is Michael brainwashed?
How come the dog is so well taken care of and whose doing it now that shannon is deadsville?
Where exactly is the island?
Is it of any significance that the Anna Lucia told her mother what flight number she was on?
Kates dad was one of the army generals that met with Sayid, whats with that?
WHATS WITH THIS FUCKING ISLAND, AND WHY IS EVERYBODY THERE, AND WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

CT

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