Jimmy Stewart watched his dear Madeleine fall to her death twice from this mission-San Juan de Bautista- a weird place to visit between Monterey and S.F.

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Tom, Michelle, the suspense is killing me! Good luck (you too Tom, don't pass out on us).
Allicia is 9 weeks along now and yesterday we went to her first pre-natal doctor visit. The ultrasound was amazing! We could see his (or her of course) little racing heart and he was actually wiggling and kicking his nubby legs. He's only an inch and half long! In the image, his head is to the right.

Social Insect, I'm being social.

TO grumpybearmusic.com . . . .

Howdy kind bear-folk,

My friend Adam, in Richmond, VA, told me about y'all and your musical predilection. I didn't realize anyone in Arizona dug (and still digs) the Magnetic Fields, Nick Drake, etc. The stuff you have on your site sounds a lot like The Kings Of Convenience, but with better lyrics and some nice dissonance.

Anyway. I'm wondering two things:

1) I've had a longstanding inspiration/aspiration to be a bear for Halloween. Not a Care-bear, or Pooh (which I think I'm going to be for part of Saturday . . . another story . . . and not a fulfilling one), but a REAL bear. A bear with claws and fangs, and fur standing straight up on my back. A grumpy bear, if you will. I thought, given your band name, you may have insight where one might comandeer such a costume on short notice.

If not, that's cool. Me either. I'm starting to get used to the idea of being a Sit n' Spin, instead (will people get that?). So . . .

2) I've lived in Phoenix for over a year, and have had too many people look at me like I'm insane for passing up a free ticket to a Bon Jovi concert or something of the like. Adam mentioned that y'all get together and play in what sounded like an open kind of setting. If so, could I make plans to connect and bring my guitar, or at least come listen in?

Hope all is well with the band. Like what your doing from what i've heard. Looking forward to hearing from y'all.

Thanks,

- Rubble-rubble

One of my favorite pictures from California

More Excitement

One more way 3hive will blow your mind: take a ride on the Navotron at the right.

What I've been up to

1.Tom - killed at Knoxville Nov 1863
2.The Earl's new wife had wanted Tom killed so her own child could be heir. ...
3.Tom killed an Indian man at Big Meadows; and if we find Tom we shall kill him.That is Indian fashion."
4.That night while they walked home together Tom killed Mary with a hedge stake.It was not long before the murder was discovered and Tom Otter was arrested
5.Tom killed his wife with a gun, and then appeared to knock out Lorna in front ofbodyguard - and only witness - Hal.
6.The long and the short of it was that Tom killed two of the rogues and grieviouslywounded the other two, and took all their money

from the Monterey Bay Aquarium (7/3/05)

And We're Paying For It

Here's an interesting note. . .more to follow.

For You Today

Mountain - The Harvey Girls

Go to 3hive to find some more from The Harvey Girls or to svcrecords

Also, check out Yo La Tengo and Daniel Johnston in Speeding Motorcycle over at Said the Gramophone

The Ravens

Every year scores of ravens flock to the trees of B-more, just in time for Halloween. There's a tree a block from my place which has been filled with ravens every morning this week, calling while I smoke my first cigarette of the day.

Voodoo!

uh-huh! that's good right now.

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Crap

Howdy friends.

A man walked below my balcony a few days ago, all the while saying into his phone, "Hello? . . . [long pause] . . . . Helllo ? [long pause] . . . hello?!" He finally yelled, "HELLO!" and looked behind him, which I thought was pretty sensible, yet strange - like, where was the person that was trying to get in touch with him?

He watched for a while.

Sorry, Kev, to use the blog as a vehicle, but i chucked my cell onto the sidewalk today, accidentally, and in so doing, lost everyone's numbers. Please give me a call on the new phone, same number, everyone, when you get a chance.

Plus, it'll be nice to hear your voices.

Thanks, y'all.

Robble Robble

All in a Day's Work

1. Attorney General Bill Lockyer Is Trying To Get Kevin Killed Tonight!!
2. Last time, we went hunting and Kevin killed a 2 pound squirrel. Our supples may
be in danger, but we probably could also use some rest. ...
3. Kevin killed them with one stroke. Chaos erupted in the palace. Kevin’s followers.
swarmed in, raping, pillaging, and destroying for all. that was worth. ...
4. In another case, a patient called Kevin killed himself by jumping off a high
building while in the care of the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. ...
5. Penguin Sex Killed Kevin
6. Two days after Kevin's death the taipan which killed him took the long journey
south to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne, Victoria. ...
7. Iron Mike butted in saying, "You're gonna get Kevin killed. Go sit down...
I'm gonna gut him like a fish." The entire exchange was hilarious, ...
8. Daniel went to buy new ones and when he came back Vincent and kevin killed the
airmax. The other airmax was covered with oil so Daniel could make a burnout ...
9. Goldie found out about Kevin, so Kevin killed her, and Roark sent in the police
to kill Marv, frame him, and cover up Kevin's crimes. ...
10. ... General Bill Lockyer who went to the Supreme Court to demand that Kevin be
killed. But the growing pressure--mounted by Kevin’s lawyers in the courtroom ...

Gloamin'

Turns out this is a gloaming. quite right.

Adam needs....

1. an Eve
2. a shower
3. very firm rules, expectations, limits, and consequences
4. to become less robotic and more creative
5. somebody to put their arm around him and try to steer himout of a rut.
6. extensive counseling for his anger
7. more help than all of us combined could ever give him
8. some "shut the hell up."
9. a reason to get up and get dressed
10. 8 volunteers for caveman responsibilities

For those past Fountain Bookstore employees among you, this is not unlike the "oracle."
By the way, I've been unable to log onto the web for the past week (problem solved). So much I've missed!

Kevin hungers

1. Manny’s Friend Speaks Up, Kevin wants the Mohawk.
2. Kevin [ I don't my love to go to waste, I want you and your beautiful soul ]says: well u didnt give me a reason
3. Kevin wants to get people to take notice.
4. Kevin wants to make you understand
5. Kevin wants something cooler
6. Kevin wants to do 43 things.
7. Kevin wants to name the baby after him. "Kevin loves the idea of calling the child Kevin Jr
8. Kevin wants to visit 21 places.
9. Apparently, Kevin wants to be well prepared for becoming a father for the third
time.
10. Ah, Kevin wants to return to his "Dirtman" trilogy.

Good Right Now #1

I'm going to post links to blogs that have good music on them one at a time at the time I find them.

Good Right Now
and
Good Right Now

What I Want...

1. Tom wants to modernize the seriously outdated Mr. Mom
2. Tom wants to make waves for Robyn
3. Tom wants ex at wedding
4. Tom wants some fucking cash for all his hard goddam work
5. Tom wants to further development
6. Tom wants power tax
7. Tom wants to convince supervisors to send employees to his class
8. Tom wants action on gay unions
9. Tom wants a machine that loves him truly
10. Tom wants to tie Jim up for fun

Note to readers: Number ten comes from a summary of Huckleberry Finn-I'm not really like that. Number 4 is my favorite.

Steve-O

Steve will make the necessary searches to determine if
your ... that is satisfactory to your needs

STEVE NEEDS YOU! STEVE NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!

Steve-O needs help again... lol...

Steve Needs to Chill.

everyone needs a Steve!

Steve needs u guys support ... whoever knows Steve's
bro in person are welcome...

Steve needs a two parent family

Steve needs to talk to his people, but no one brought
him a camera to do ...

Steve needs a doctor.

Steve needs the cleaned up versions emailed to him by
June 5 ...

geoff needs so much...

1. geoff needs people to own the various sections
2. geoff needs mandatory integrity, but not everyone does
3. geoff needs to be able to make sense of W-X-Y-Z
4. geoff needs more e-hugs
5. geoff needs about five hours of rehearsal for every minute of stage fighting
6. geoff needs rescuing from side of Marum Volcano
7. geoff needs no introduction
8. geoff needs help from the lab technician with some of the equipment which he thinks might be a health hazard
9 geoff needs to know sufficient "science" to argue for minimal medical care for his mother. geoff also believes that her tremor can be the result of stress
10. geoff needs to leave as many plot lines as he can dangling for the new book

The coming months

needy

1. Jeremiah needs none.
2. Jeremiah needs to come up with policy
3. Jeremiah needs an adoptive family who can understand his special needs and set firm, consistent limits.
4. He needs to transfer, and has A’s in all of his classes, except one, ethics.
5. Jeremiah and the poor girl are going to need all the help we can provide them
6. Jeremiah needs a microphone
7. Needs · No-Gods · Oaths · Pardon · Pleasure · Possible · Propitious · Prostitutes · Satiated · Satisfied · Satisfy · Supplied.
8. need something to put it in perspective for them as well.
9. needs to be said.
10. Jeremiah needs a hug, not by me, but by himself.

Ryan needs . . .

In particular order . . .

1) Ryan needs to call a meeting with all of the Death Row 10 attorneys if he's planning to review all of the death row cases in Illinois.
2) Baby Ryan needs your prayer.
3) Ryan needs a bar mitzvah.
4) Ryan needs to be redeemed through his actions, not through words of others.
5) Ryan needs to be supervised because he can be physcially aggressive with his . . .
6) Ryan needs special care.
7) Ryan needs a break from walking.
8) Ryan needs to do some tweaking, I think.
9) Ryan needs your advice.
10) Ryan needs to go to anger . . . [management classes?].

What I need

Tom Needs:
1. A cure for homophobia
2. A hat, Mitchell
3. to find a good, reputable boxer breeder
4. boosted
5. Let's see how many lines Tom needs
6. It's obvious that Tom needs to be back in a school setting
7. to make the most of these cycles
8.a shrink
9.help!
10. to get Roger to do most of the talking

Gimme your Top 10 needs.

This one actually got a pretty good laugh outta me. Go to google and type in your name and add "needs" and hit the search button. I want to know what you REALLY need. Here are my top 10 demands:

Kevin Needs Your Help!
Kevin needs your money Yup.
Kevin needs to be locked up Im betting he will go on a rampage again
Kevin needs our help.
Kevin needs to get Martin Sargent set up before he moves back to SF so we can
here what the Sarge is up to these days.
Kevin needs expert witnesses, research, and other things that the court is…
Kevin needs to go to he11
Kevin needs therapy and Mac is the person to help Kev get thru it.
Kevin needs all the thoughts, prayers, and love he can get right now.
Kevin needs a VCR or CD computer disk with projection screen or large TV screen so people in the audience ...

I met a young girl
She gave me a rainbow
---Dylan

It just doesn't get much better

If you are bored with your music and need a little variety AND you've been hiding under a rock for the past few years then you should check this out. A true enthusiast and music lover, and the hub to a whole new world of things you've never heard. Or even things you have already heard but lost to your roommates. Check out the links along the right hand side, there are too many good ones to list here.

October in the Railroad Earth

Millions More Movement

Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Farakahn, Erica Badu, Wyclef Jean. . .

buh bye bon jon

;)

Served 10/4/05

peru post

since i swore to God...here's a picture from macchu picchu

Arriving at West Point for the beginning of my four year tenure I find the cadets are a lot nicer than I'd thought. One gives me a couple hits while others are equally helpful. I look in the fridge and see food items belonging to various dorm members. Realize tomorrow is Sunday and I'll have to go to church, but I don't have a tie. Ryan is reading a story to the class about the dissolution of a relationship between some guy and a girl named Linda. He told us how it was only three weeks. Then later she comes to me. We talk. I put my arms around her and she kisses me on the cheek. As we're walking into the hallway she asks "What did you say to my dad last night?'. "I didn't call. I'm afraid to after what a nice guy he said I was for leaving the rose stem on your porch." We walk along the tracks of a roller coaster....

These two are always fighting.

Is this a ballhog or someone in the research field?

Our friendly "diaspora"

Kevin, I feel the same way. On many days I get mopy that my closest friends are so far flung, but it's weekends like this that remind me the love is still there. Those of you who weren't with us were greatly missed and unmercilessly discussed. This is the drawing I had to go home early on Sunday to do. Sorry Tom and Michelle.

. . . And they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awwww!" . . . Jack Kerouac, On the Road 

More truths

I sold my soul to the devil for the 8th grade affection of Charity Triplett.

My last days of glass bottles- Mr. Pibb rolled down the aisle during "Chaplin" at Springfield Mall. I would've been nonchalant, but it was too dark to even have to be.

Taco Burgers were a mystery then.

I Wonder where Sukhdeep Kaisth is now???

The west shares its beauty with easterners come sunset.

At Richmond city hall while paying my car tax in 1997 I saw a woman with the following on her tshirt: "The blacker the college, the better the knowledge".

"Honorary Boss" you said.

Life seems to be a cycle of little or big births-deaths-and-rebirths. There are half-births. I died again this friday and spent this weekend being born. I went to centerville virginia. On the way down from Baltimore I was listening to some music and there was a line in a song that mentioned coming home. "I'm going home" or "I'm coming home", those statements have never meant so much to me as they have this past year, a year, and a little more, of being homeless. I like to be home when I can but it's difficult when you have no home (which is why sentences about coming home or going home have taken on a new meaning). When you're homeless it seems you find home in the most peculiar places, unexpected. Home becomes a state, an awareness, a position in time effected (and I mean that in the sense that it's spelled) by the people surrounding you, the circumstances, the words said, the looks given, and most of all, your willingness to accept it. I've found in the past year that you can be home, in the proper sense, without feeling like you're at home at all. In fact, at times being home, in the proper sense, can feel like a visit to such a foreign country where the rules have all changed and there is no love and no care taken with anything and the physical space of home is merely an empty shell of a space where you can't even call what you're doing there living. Subsisting, maybe. And so home becomes something else, not that apartment or that house, not that box, but something more transient. The emotional and spiritual space created by family (and I use that word very cautiously)is home, whether it's in Richmond Virginia, Chicago Illinois, Peoria Arizona, Fairfax Virginia, Centerville Virginia, Baltimore Maryland, Johnstown Tennessee. . .
It was good to come home this weekend, it's been so long. Thanks guys.

 

Las Islas Cies 6/27/97

Jeremiah and I as drawn by an eight year old girl named Virginia on a cool and gentle island evening.

journal portraits

Tom, you got me looking in old journals too. I found some drawings of some of you.
I drew Kevin in his bedroom in 1625 1/2, the arrows marked "love" pointing in and out of his mouth. I'm not sure what that was about. Ryan was drawn at 1625 1/2 too under the word "psychostasia". Remember that, Ryan? I drew Jeremiah in a restaurant in Braga, Portugal.
The one of Tom was drawn the morning after an acid-soaked night and was captioned "Tom's taut face in fiery edges turns to me bent on the couch, "You look like a fat girl in a school yard!"

Some facts

Some Chinese kid when I was six said I was dumb to be a democrat. 'You didn't have a VCR when Carter was president, didja?" he said on the corner of Fathom Ct. and shipwright Drive on that grey day. The sleeveless, shirt wearing kid named Nacho (before the snacking rage hit) was there leaning on his bike's handlebars.

I picked pumpkins when I was a kid on nursery school field trips to Cox's Farm-little, dumbass gourdish things I wasn't allowed to carve.

My Dad did all my science projects

I stole money to take Maria Macaluso on a date that never happened in second grade. Her friend Carrie had peed on her preemie Cabbage Patch Kid.

Pete nodded when I got sentimental about Oliver Cromwell.

Ryan and I wore out our arms throwing rocks at a CSX trestle in the woods of Clifton.

In my Buick on Grandfather Mt. we fell asleep arguing over the spelling of "geez". I was vainly trying to convince him saying it was blasphemy.

I saw nitrous balloons floating in sludge.

Can Chilly Willy digest bones?

Food is conversation when you're all alone
when you eat with friends talk about
the meal.

telegraph hill

From Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: oeu·vre
Pronunciation: [oe]vr&
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural oeuvres /same/
Etymology: French [oe]uvre, literally, work, from Latin opera -- more at OPERA
: a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer

 

 

Today, I realized an elderly couple slowed their car in concern as I yanked June�s leash, as he was pulling me all over the place in response to some dog barking in a nearby yard. I think they saw me as Salamano - I read the following hours later in Camus� The Stranger - which is yet another �double� - I recently bought it, after finding it on a list on one of the links here, Things Found, and learned days later that it�s one of Tom�s favorite books.

�As for the dog, he�s sort of taken on his master�s stooped look, muzzle down, neck straining. They look as if they belong to the same species, and yet they hate each other. Twice a day, at eleven and six, the old man takes the dog out for a walk. They haven�t changed their route in eight years. You can see them in the rue de Lyon, the dog pulling the man along until old Salamano stumbles. Then he beats the dog and swears at it. The dog cowers and trails behind. Then it�s the old man who pulls the dog. Once the dog has forgotten, it starts dragging its master along again, and again gets beaten and sworn at. Then they both stand there on the sidewalk and stare at each other, the dog in terror, the man in hatred. It�s the same thing every day. When the dog wants to urinate, the old man won�t give him enough time and yanks at him, so that the little spaniel leaves behind a trail of little drops. If the dog has an accident in the room, it gets beaten again. This has been going on for eight years.�
 

Two of Chicago's finest discuss the intricacies of training simians to overthrow elected governments.