TTFN

July 11, 2005

OK, fuck this shit. Computer go bye-bye now. See you on the other side, maybe. Or possibly still on the same side, but a step or two along the way back.

They’re turning us into monsters

July 10, 2005

So it’s come to this: in little more than 32 hours I’m scheduled to be on an airplane heading to Warsaw. Tomorrow, I need to do the following:

  • Finalize moving out, which includes

    • …atoning for the fact that I’ve essentially been squatting here for a while, as my lease expired at the end of June
    • …finishing packing
    • …bringing a few hundred empty bottles to the recycling place for the deposits, or letting some homeless guy strike paydirt
    • …probably mopping my floor and stuff because it’s absolutely disgusting
  • Mail some stuff to myself, since everything doesn’t appear to fit in my suitcases
  • Buy last-minute gifts and such for people, including Meie Mees CDs, and leather-bound blank books
  • Get my ass to Tallinn
  • Figure out what I’m going to do until the airport opens in the morning
  • Say goodbye to all the people I managed to put off saying goodbye to
  • Kick myself for leaving absolutely everything to the last possible instant as always
  • EDIT: Return a library book

And here I am, posting on the internet instead of doing anything productive. Go me!

In Existence.

July 10, 2005

Based on glowing recommendations like this one, I recently finagled myself a copy of DJ Z-Trip’s Uneasy Listening, Vol. 1.

I’m not going to lavish quite so much praise on it as some have, but I’ll say that I certainly enjoyed it. It seems to me not so much a masterwork of turntablism as a mix CD with extra drumbeats everywhere, and a very well put together mix (full of awesome juxtapositions and transitions) at that. This is not to disparage Z-Trip’s turntable skills, just to say that his choices of what songs to include and how to arrange them are simply awe-inspiring.

I can’t remember the last time a mix CD made me laugh out loud by being so goddamn clever, but Uneasy Listening accomplished just that a number of times.

Wasted and Complacent

July 10, 2005

I’m never as tired as when I’m waking up.

See you in a few days; or, as the case may be, see you never again after a few days from now.

Need to bring certain things to Arne’s relative’s apartment, put other things in suitcases, put still other things in boxes to mail to myself, buy yet other things from stores and curse out loud when they won’t fit in suitcases, and figure out how I’m getting myself and my shit to the airport.

Wish me luck. Or don’t; things will be much more interesting if I’m unlucky.

Also, every time I listen to LCD Soundsystem’s «Never as Tired as When I’m Waking Up» it just makes me wish I were listening to The Beatles’s «Dear Prudence» instead. (Side note: it’s in fact due to LCD Soundsystem that I even bothered to learn how to play «Dear Prudence» in the first place.)

Trivia

July 7, 2005

Which was invented earlier, the bicycle or the steam locomotive?

Evocacion

July 6, 2005

So I’ve been spending a good deal of the past few days practicing Jose Luis Merlin’s “Evocacion” on guitar, and I’ll say I’ve learned two things (two things other than how to play the piece in question, that is).

  1. If you’re playing classical guitar, playing in the classic classical guitar position is actually a very good, helpful, and comfortable thing. Granted, if I’m drunkenly playing Radiohead songs I don’t really care how I hold my guitar (or whether it’s in tune, for that matter), but when each note played is of vital importance, you have to take certain measures.
  2. Alcohol really fucks with your fine motor skills. Granted, if I’m drunkenly playing Radiohead songs I don’t really care how well I finger/strum my guitar (or whether it’s in tune, for that matter), but when each note played is of vital importance, you have to take certain measures.

Song of the Moment: «Evocacion» — Jose Luis Merlin (performed by Jason Vieaux)

Ubuntu: Brief Note

July 4, 2005

Those Ubuntu people are as good as their word when they say “The Ubuntu team will send you Ubuntu CDs at no charge, for you to install and share. We will cover the cost of shipping the CDs to you as well.”

Today I went to the post office to pick up a package I was absolutely not expecting, and only when I opened it did I suddenly remember drunkenly requesting 10 x86-architecture Ubuntu CDs.

What the hell am I going to do with these now, I wonder — I suppose I should probably give them away to people.

Oh, and happy 16 Messidor to all of you.

Song of the Moment: «It’s Tricky» — Run-DMC

Yeah

July 1, 2005

I see some trees, but they’re all in the same forest.

Greetings from Riga

July 1, 2005

Hey look, I’m in Riga, killing time as I wait for the bus to take me back to Tartu. Lithuania was cool, as evinced by these pictures:

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