I love Sef
Happy bday aa!
Dinner in NYC
The Major at rest
In high school, when I was younger and blonder, people used to tell me I looked like Elizabeth Montgomery.
Yeah, not so much anymore.
* Photo by Jay.
I had no idea you could get spammed over IM:
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(17:43:22) 171179446: Hi! Gene is here. Can I tell you about the Samson Blinded, a book on antiterrorism banned by Google and Amazon? Please authorize me. Thanks!
[I deny authorization, of course.]
(17:43:44) 171179446: Hi,
You can download Obadiah Shoher's book, Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict, from www.samsonblinded.info/aol.htmYahoo and Google banned Shohers site for unacceptable content, and Amazon deleted all reviews, but the book is very honest and rational. Please link to us and tell the friends about the site.
Bye,
Gene Hershman
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I'm going to take my contact info off of Vox until I can set it to friends-only, like you can do on LJ.
May 9th
Events
- 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "New World".
- 1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
- 1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
Birthdays
- 1949 - Billy Joel, American musician
- 1970 - Ghostface Killah, American rapper
1903 - Paul Gauguin , French painter (b. 1848 )
Holiday
Roman Empire
– Feast of the Lemures
; In Roman religion, the Feast of the Lemures was a feast during which the ancient Romans performed rites to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes. The unwholesome and malevolent specters of the restless dead (lemures) were propitiated with offerings of beans
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In preparation for going see The Constantines tonight, I'm having a listen-athon of Shine A Light and Tournament of Hearts while I work. If my iTunes share were working, those of you who work in my office could listen too. But ever since I moved desks my iTunes share doesn't work; I can't listen to anyone else's music, and I don't know why. Where did I go wrong? Is the latest version of iTunes not compatible with the older ones? I wish I could figure this out. (Thanks ydnar for helping me fix this!)
In case you haven't seen me blog about The Cons before, I love them. Love love them. I would marry them if I could. Change my last name to The Constantines. I'm giving away 2 copies of their record on SFist this week if you're feeling lucky.
There's really not a point to this post, other than me wanting to talk about The Constantines and how much I love them.
An acquaintance of mine, Mark Duplass of The Duplass Brothers , has a new movie out called The Puffy Chair . The folks from Sundance and SXSW Film dug it and even Ebert & Roeper gave it two thumbs up.
You should watch the trailer.
I might have first met Mark from back when I lived in Austin, but I remember (re)meeting him in NYC, maybe at a Chocolate Genius show in Brookyn? I for sure saw him when his band Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! toured through San Francisco a few years ago back when my friend Sef was managing the band.
I really loved Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! It's weird, manic, keyboardy and somehow manages to make really good sense to me. Here's a funny/frightening song about stalking your ex after a breakup.
A song that makes me genuinely hopeful and happy is "Anything Can Happen" by the Finn Brothers.
"It doesn't matter
What we did wrong
Makes no difference
To me
I see the light in your eyes
And you're dancing free
And I'm coming down today
To gather in the pieces
Give in to the mystery
And I will take my chances
'Cause anything can happen
Don't believe it's over
'Cause anything can happen "
