This morning my hypochondria was having a conversation with my bathroom
scale. "Scale," it said, "Why do your numbers keep
climbing even though we've been exercising so much and cutting back
our caloric intake?" The scale, always obnoxious and on the
lookout for fun, said, "Wah-ha! Maybe you have an endocrine
dilemma! Maybe no matter what you do you'll always gain weight!"
Of course this sent hypochondria into a tailspin, which scale is
still in the bathroom laughing about.
It's
so much dang fun to start exercising like crazy and start gaining
weight like crazy at the same time! And I'm not pregnant.
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So.
The new Nine Inch Nails album. I realized something while listening
to it, and that's that there's no other band I hold to the standard
of its first album as much as I do NIN. If Tears For Fears releases
a new one, GREAT. I judge it solely on its own merit. Depeche Mode,
even the lousy new New Order CD, same thing. But I think it's because
Pretty Hate Machine was so good, and we're talking SO good, that
everything else just pales. Right now I'm tryinig to find one good
song to cling to, which I think is "Only".
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I'm
thinking about starting a documentary blog, but I'm not sure that
anyone would be interested. I had a meeting the other day with the
woman whose story I want to tell (and she paid for lunch, by the
way. No house-mortgaging necessary) and it went really well, although
she's still hesitant because she wants to make sure her organization
gets something out of it. I tried to pin her down about what that
meant, exactly, like if it meant money, if it meant recognition,
if it meant more clients, and I think it means money. It's getting
expensive to run things, and she wants funding. I did tell her that
I don't have any, but that I'd look into grants and she should look
into grants and that maybe we can work something out. So I think
she's on board, but it's not 100% yet. I'm going to send her an
outline for the film and see if that sways her any.
And
the documentary blog would just be an account of everything from
start to finish and all the filmmaking detail stuff, but again,
don't know how interesting it would be. Maybe I'll just do it, not
publish the URL at first, and then if it's interesting (to me) I'll
let the cat out of the bag. It would also give me a chance to experiment
with blogger or typepad or moveable type or one of those immediate
gratification softwares, which would get me out of this Dreamweaver
system 9 hellhole I'm in.
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Today
is 05/05/05. Is that exciting to you statistical nerds and astrology
nerds? It's also Cinco De Mayo, which means there will probably
be a Mexican uprising in the streets at some point in Los Angeles
today. I'll now continue my thinly-veiled racism to comment also
on the fact that the Dodgers had $2 day at Dodger Stadium yesterday,
and it was sheer chaos. In the photo on the front page of this morning's
newspaper were about 100 people, some taunting the security guards,
all Mexican, with many reports of shouted obscenities, men leering
and catcalling young girls, craps being played in the aisles, food
fights, and people running out onto the field. In ten (five? three?)
years southern California will be Mexico, and it will be chaos.
Now
I have to go thump my bible and start some wars. (I'm trying to
be an equal opportunity racist.) I never said I wasn't a cracker
honky.
