Sunday, August 19, 2001
5173311:: 1:50 AM

finally arrived back in the mid-atlantic region after a drowsy and disorientating drive back. while packing up the car in austin i got bit by a pesky spider, so by the 2nd day i was taking benedryl and completely out of sorts. the last bit of packing was terribly rushed, as is always the case with me, and car got soooo pakced that there wasn't enough room to take my art even. we had to tie things to the roof sans one of those convenient boat things. no... instead everything just got piled out and looped with 130 feet of rope (and eventually 2 tarps). So only an hour out from austin, we are caught in a gigantic thunderstorm. "soon" by my bloody valentine was starting, and just when the wall of guitars started, the thundercloud broke, and the visibility went down to about 10 feet. part of the tarp was caught in the doorframe, and water started pouring in along the tarp at faucet pressure. it seeped and drenched my entire left side, but there wasn't anytime to open the door and lock the dripping bit out since i was concentrated on not sliding off the road. so miserable a state, yet the scene was beautiful ... the music so thunderous and momentous, echoed in a stormcloud of a similar ilk... its drops coming down so fast that they were hardly drops anymore... more like a shimmering haze ... that is, until the hail started. a couple hours later when we stopped to catch dinner, we examined the tarp, and found it tattered: its skin torn open from the eyeholes, rubbed raw from course ropeburns, and generally not doing a thing to help keep the cargo safe. Later that night on a dark arkansas road, i ran over a large rock and almost swung off the road. :( eventually we stopped for the night in hope, arkansas.
ah. and that was only day one.

Wednesday, August 15, 2001
5119287:: 10:53 PM

byebye austin, tx.
:(

5108057:: 11:17 AM

doggeral!

Tuesday, August 14, 2001
5097886:: 9:46 PM

looking back on these past 2 years, i feel like i've lived through an entire lifetime. from the glimmer and uncertainty of the first day, through a time of hope and vision (and some disillution), hard work, sucess, failure, sucess, recognition, market slide... and then back to school. i just came back from the roof of origin where we set up a basketball hoop, and used to play during TU. from there i could see into the empty 4th floor of origin, once a jungle of ethernet chords and chairs: now just an empty building with overly-colorful walls. i saw the red signal towers blinking in the distance... the ones nearly swallow by thunderclouds on the day we were putting up the hoop. in the distance over the lake was downtown; sparkling. i remember staring out the origin windows at the tremendous sky, with buzzards circling endlessly in them. up the hill was HQ, where dave thompson and i would sometimes DJ POP, and from where i'd stare out over the red and white line of cars going home on 360 and listened to sweet triphop, deep house, and funky house/breaks while munching on yummy free artichoke and peppers. this time was worth something

Sunday, August 12, 2001
5044349:: 2:07 AM

i spent my last saturday night on 6th street tonight. Well maybe not the very last, but at least the last one for a couple years or so :: It was a nice night; a bit humid, but not hot. I started at club deville, where i sat near a flat metal flower and contemplated what like as an extrovert would be like. :) Club DeVille was the same as always, but Its amazing how quickly these clubs come and go. 2 of my old favorites: Caucus and Velvet are gone; Caucus having been transformed into a jazz club (le privledge), and Velvet now just dusty and condemned-looking. Upstairs at the Ritz, where I used to perform, has been converted to an extension of downstairs at the Ritz, and the spot on stage where I set up my keyboard is now crowded in by 2 foozball tables. I stood between those tables for a couple minutes remembering what it was like dragging my heavy heavy keyboard up the uneven steps into the unA/C'd space... In the corner some soft porn was playing on a TV over the bar. What a change in format(!)
Much of the night was spent people watching on 6th:: the best thing is just walking and seeing which girls look at you as you pass ... every once in a while you get a smile from a cute one, and that makes the whole evening. Then again a lot of people are drunk, so you also get some odd stuff, like a girl called me a "Kool Moe Dee-looking motherf*cker" (in a positive way, i think) ... i mean what's not to like about Kool Moe Dee? Anyway, I couldn't exactly picture what he looked like, but now i know i looked like * this * tonight.
Actually earlier tonight, at dinner, Wes mentioned that piper perabo had a picture of nick, wes and me, and she referred to us as "those asians i hung out with" (alas, ever interchangable are us hapless black-haired brown-eyed peoples)... so being likened to a member of the Threacherous 3 is something of an accomplishment!

Saturday, August 11, 2001
5030418:: 12:37 AM

damn i used up the evening working on 2 new songs and listening to a lot of old ones. Its amazing how many unfinished 2 minute songs i have ... :p ... I was a little sad at some of the beats with mislinked samples, especially the "propa" beat. It was one of my favorites, but i've lost the key sample (recorded randomly during a 2 hour layover in O'Hare). I mean, there is still some chance that its is on a defunct harddrive ... somewhere. blah. Its sorta funny that while cleaning, i've stumbled upon papers, sketches, etc. some well over 4 years old, while hardly any of my computer data survives that long. huh.

Friday, August 10, 2001
5012292:: 1:08 AM

i'm not sure whether the blogger.com gods will be pleased or dismayed that i've used blogger as my content management system... regardless, its done, and i'm too sleepy to think about it much more. just to leave one more link before before bed: the beer pager.

5011943:: 12:36 AM

After 12 hours of continuous coding and designing, i've gotten to a point where i'm pretty satisfied with the poetic alchemy (my hiphop band) site template. Its funny that while i was in europe i was so impressed by how much the europeans biked, and walked, and generally kept fit through simple activities ... only to return to the states and be utterly inactive by the third day. Seriously, i've walked about 200 feet today tops :: mostly covered in listless visits to the fridge. ah... america.

Wednesday, August 08, 2001
4988394:: 7:59 PM

jane found out she was 40K more valuable with blond hair and blue eyes... huh. why the man gotta put the asian man down? :p

4984594:: 3:42 PM

ah. www.humanforsale.com i'm apparently "worth" 2.5 mil. not bad...

4979765:: 10:58 AM

there are deer that meander about outside my window. they are especially interesting today, since they are just slightly more interesting than packing. outside my window is a dense tangle of sienna branches, or at least at the density where you can hardly see the sky ... little finches and squirrels (oh, and a cardinal now) are darting about and rattling branches. seeing them reminds of when i dumped a bag of bird seed out back: first some birds came, only to be promptly chased off by squirrels, briefly the possum from the room, then some deer arrived to scatter the squirrels away... who knew that birdseed was so palatable?

4978693:: 9:59 AM

the battle against entropy :: cleaning / organizing / packing. when a mess just wants to be, it really feels like you're fighting the forces of nature. there are advantages though: like re-discovering books fallen behind the shelf and doodads galore :: course that also makes me feel like i have way too much stuff. :p

Tuesday, August 07, 2001
4970251:: 9:59 PM

fixed it, sorta. need to include a target="_top" in the tag

4970210:: 9:57 PM

BLOGGER - How to use includes in a blog

4970098:: 9:47 PM

ah. just customized the scrollbars.. now i need to fix the link problem ..

4969943:: 9:30 PM

testing

4969848:: 9:22 PM

just testing out the link posting ability... looks like it works... whoops, but it just fills the iframe and doesn't replace the whole page. hm.

4969767:: 9:17 PM

Salon.com News | Reading, writing and propaganda

4969747:: 9:15 PM

4969598:: 9:05 PM

alright. i think everything is together now. after half an evening of work, i've put together a functional blog for my page. not bad. though i was supposed to be cleaning and packing. ah, the joys of procrastination.

4968878:: 8:25 PM

yes you are working!

4968857:: 8:23 PM

are you working?

4967354:: 6:45 PM

here is a longer entry to test what a longer entry will look like. lets try to make it at least 50 words long or so. lets see... what else can be said?

4965941:: 5:03 PM

it is me again

4965310:: 4:18 PM

what will happen?

4965032:: 3:58 PM

test
again

4965004:: 3:55 PM

test
test