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I thought when I moved to Austin in an apartment complex
that was supposed to have a lot of students, my biggest noise
problem would be a lot of rap and hip-hop (whatever the hell
it is) being played loud. My first problem was my upstairs
neighbor (who has tons of "Jesus" bumperstickers
on her Saturn) playing her electric piano at full volume at
4am - after I complained to the manager, she moved her recital
time to 10am Saturday mornings. Last night, one of my psycho
neighbors was playing the new "Cher" cassette at
full volume on a lousy jam box at 1am!
Cher for christfuckingsakes. If your going to get the cops
called to your house or evicted, would you want it to be for
playing Cher at full volume? The Cassette was pretty good
tho - I just might buy it...
We got the poster for the new Martin Scorsese film in at
Tinseltown. It's called "Bringing
Out the Dead." Stars include Nick Cage and Patricia
Arequette. Written by Paul Schrader. Poster is just red pix
of Cage's face.
If you haven't seen "The
6th Sense" yet, kick yourself in the ass!
I had quiche today for the first time ever. It was at a little
place in "the Village." It was old and re-heated;
The center was ice cold. I think I might like quiche if it
was fresh and hot. After lunch I went to the Village Arts
Cinema and saw "Book 1" of "2000
Seen By" which included 2 short films, one by Hal
Hartley. The second was a French film. I liked it quite a
bit.
Then I went to Cheapos and bought $50 worth of used CD's.
Got Neil Young's "Decade" for $19. Also Roxy Music's
"Avalon" (out of print), Eno's "Discreet Music"
and then new CD by Ben Lee. Not sure who he is. Looks like
a young Dylan. I saw him on Craig Kilborne. He plays guitar
to a drum machine and sings. Unfortunately, his album is "overproduced"
with much too much insturmentation. Bet he kicks ass live
tho... Also got the CDSingle of Sophie B. Hawkins, "Damn
I Wish I Was Your Lover," which used to be Me and Mike
song, kinda...
Things I wanted but didn't get: A Victoria Williams CD, The
new Manic Street Preachers, that "Standing Ouside a Phone
Booth" song on the CD by Primative Radio Gods.
Ween is playing Stubbs Bar-B-Q this week but it sold out
:( ("Ween is eating Jell-O in my bedroom") Quote
from "SquirtTV," 1996
I wish I could meet a guy who was thin and young and frail
- but in every other way exactly like me... then I could fall
in love.
"The Sixth Sense" makes "The
Blair Witch Project" look like PUSSY DAY at Kindergarten
school.
Hitchcock Film Fest at Paramount Theater
8/20 & 21 - Psycho
8/23 & 24 - Sabotuer/Shadow of a Doubt
8/25 & 26 - Marnie/The Birds
8/28 & 29 - Vertigo/The Man Who Knew Too Much
8/30 - The Trouble with Harry/Rope
8/31 & 9/1 - Topaz/Torn Curtain
9/2 & 3 - Frenzy/Family Plot
Admission is generally $5.50 and that is for both films on
Double Features. I assume this includes the Hitch Fest.
BTW on 9/4 they're showing "Gone With The Wind."
Well... guessMusic coming to Austin (plan a road trip!)
8/19 - The Melvins - Emos
8/19 - Edwin McCain - Stubbs
8/20 - Moby - Lazona Rosa
8/24 - Julian Lennon - Stubbs
8/28 - The Scabbs - Stubbs
9/10 - Merle Haggard - Stubbs
9/11 - Jerry Jeff Walker - Stubbs
9/15 - Bob Dylan and Paul Simon - Frank Erwin Center
9/16 - Little Feat and Dr. John - Lazona Rosa
9/23 - They Might Be Giants - Lazona Rosa
I heard "Head Like A Hole" by NIN on the radio
today and wondered what all the fuss was about. I never did
like that song, but now after the passage of time, it sounds
like a cheap rip-off of New Order. Except the chorus began
this horrible, overused fad of distorted vocals... a purely,
male, egotistical, testosterone pumped fad which substitutes
for sexual prowess and getting laid... what else would you
expect in the "safe sex" 90's... Anyway - I kinda
liked "HLAH" but I still wonder why kids connected
with that song so much... It's no Sex Pistols. It's barely
Bauhaus.
I've seen 14 movies since I got to Austin exactly 1 month
ago.
Last night I went to Oil Can Harry's, the only gay bar I've
ever been to in Austin. I got there at about 9:45 and it was
dead. It reminded me a lot of Evo's in Galveston. Cause it
was slow at first and everyone there knew each other and were
saying hi and and bullshitting and stuff and then as the night
progressed, it got busier and busier. They also play crappy
90's dance music. So I got drunk and danced my ass off and
by the time I left at 1:30, I was drunk and sweaty and tired.
(90's version of sex). when I left, the place was packed.
When I got home, I turned on Austin Music Channel and there
was a show called "Raw Time" on and they played
videos and then took calls. They didn't censor anything. It
reminded me of the old talk shows on KPFT when I was younger
where they didn't have 7 second delay, so they'd open the
phones in the middle of the night and you'd call up and say
something obscene and hang up or get hung up on. "Raw
Time" had a male and female host, so I called up and
told the guy I thought his hair was cute. I taped it on the
VCR. It was fun... for me anyway. They played a new video
of Fear Factory and a very old Gary Numan doing a new version
of "Cars."
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