Hey, Stupido Shop: I think

January 31, 2004

Hey, Stupido Shop:

I think I love you. For serious. Not only do you actually stock albums by CMX and Kashmir, unlike any store in the USA, but you evidently ship worldwide, and promptly too. I’ve had to wait longer for merchants from the Amazon.com Marketplace to send me textbooks from one state over than I did for you guys to send those CDs I ordered halfway around the world. They got here less than a week after I ordered them! I seriously hadn’t even started waiting for them to arrive yet, since I figured they couldn’t arrive for another week at least.

My one regret is that I decided to place my order when the dollar was at an all-time low against the euro. Ah well, such is life, and this regret is in no way even remotely the fault of the good people at Stupido.

Thanks again, guys.

While I’m thanking people and entities, I’ll thank internet filesharing on behalf of myself and the artists mentioned above. There is no way in hell I’d have ever heard of these undeniably awesome Danish and Finnish bands if some Danes and Finns hadn’t put mp3s of their work up on the intarweb for other people to download. And if I hadn’t heard of them, I obviously couldn’t very well buy their music.

For the sake of completeness, I’m also thanking CMX and Kashmir for their work.

Song of the Moment: «Tämän Runon Tahtoisin Unohtaa» — CMX

Today’s update comes to you

January 29, 2004

Today’s update comes to you fresh from the slush-covered streets of the Big Apple in the form of a big ‘thank ye kindly, sirrah’ to P-Mack (Ed: P-Mack — Thank ye kindly, sirrah!) and then some pictures I’ve taken over the course of the past week.

Song of the Moment: «El Salvador» — Athlete

“Hang in there,” indeed. The

January 25, 2004

“Hang in there,” indeed. The NY Eesti Haridusseltsi koosolek ja hääletused, which was just as boring as it sounds, had been scheduled to take 2 hours. Three and a half hours later, I’d had enough and decided to just go downstairs and get some dinner. That’s where I met two au pairs and an illegal immigrant, cool people all around.

In other news, Webster Hall is actually a pretty decent place; it’s just too bad that drinks cost $8. Eight bucks for a beer! Cheesus, that’s worse than at a baseball game.

In other other news, it turns out the Esto population of Allentown, PA is at least double what I thought it was previously. Maybe even triple. Who knows?

Song of the Moment: «Snakedriver» — The Jesus and Mary Chain

Well, if I can manage

January 22, 2004

Well, if I can manage to not fuck this semester up like the last one, and if I forget about Dublin this summer and take some make-up humanities classes instead, then I can actually graduate as an ME this year. Thanks, Prof. Wei, for the registrational and 12-creditive judo you had to perform. Assuming all goes well, soon I’ll never bother you again.

Song of the Moment: «My Favourite Game» — The Cardigans

I can unhesitatingly state that

January 22, 2004

I can unhesitatingly state that The House of Sand and Fog is a very good movie, and I can hesitatingly state that this semester will go well.

When I stepped off the

January 17, 2004

When I stepped off the bus in New York a few hours ago, the temperature was something like 15°F. Sound cold? It felt like t-shirt weather compared to Mont Sutton a few days ago, where it was a balmy -30°C. “New York’s got nothing,” I said to myself. That was before I realized the heat was off in my building for some reason and my apartment was really fucking cold inside. Curse you, fate.

In other news, snowboarding is a fairly painful and difficult endeavour. Having learned my lesson, I will endeavour to stick with skiing in the future.

In yet other news, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Bob Barrett.

Having a keg (!) of

January 11, 2004

Having a keg (!) of Guinness somewhere means you end up leaving much later than you expected to. I’ll have to keep that in mind, for future reference. Also for future reference: the White Rose diner in Highland Park seems to do awful things to my digestive tract.

And now it’s time for me to go on a ski trip. Wheo. After patiently explaining to my mother that I know how to pack for this trip, what with this being my fourth time on it and everything, I very cleverly packed in what may be the worst possible fashion. I won’t need anything besides jellybeans this week, will I? For my sake, I sure hope not.

Catch you suckers on the flip side.

Wow, this was a very

January 9, 2004

Wow, this was a very strange set of interactions just now:

  1. 1/9 12:12am
    MESSAGE from 26-5060
    REDACTED: (using AOL IM)
    not much, im watchin the ring in my room, ive been throwing up and shittin all day-feel better now-just weak
    (You can reply)

    Ok, I say to myself, just a random text message via AIM somebody mistakenly sent to my phone. Kind of funny, but I’ll just ignore it.

  2. 1/9 12:15am
    MESSAGE from 26-5060
    REDACTED: (using AOL IM)
    what you doin tonight?
    (You can reply)

    Ok, I say to myself, now I have to IM my new friend REDACTED and inform him of this mistaken identity, so he stops sending me updates on his influenza or whatever.

  3. narrator: hey, i just got a text message from you - sorry to hear about the throwing up and shitting, but i have no idea who you are
    narrator: you must have sent it to the wrong phone number
    REDACTED: yeah i just realized it..haha sorry
    narrator: haha, it’s no problem
    narrator: take it easy
    REDACTED: you too
    narrator: feel better
    REDACTED: thanks

    Slightly funny, I thought. Maybe you’re different. Also, note that while ‘narrator’ and ‘REDACTED’ may, in fact, be actual AIM usernames, they’re simply being used as pseudonyms above.

Cynthia Hartling, thank you. I

January 7, 2004

Cynthia Hartling, thank you. I may just make it through this.

Song of the Moment: «Woke From Dreaming» — The Delgados

Every chance I’ve ever had,

January 5, 2004

Every chance I’ve ever had, I’ve blown.

All my wounds are self-inflicted.

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