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-I fucked up at my job recently.  It was one of those situations where I knew just enough to be dangerous, and I should have been more thorough with my planning, or I should have been respectfully less ambitious with my execution. It was honestly still seems like a simple mistake, but it freaked out a client and he sent some really spiteful e-mail to way too many people for me not to feel pretty embarrassed.

+up until that moment I was getting all kinds of compliments for how well I have been handling all the stuff that has been thrown at me.

I had no idea that that shit version of The Misfits ever existed. . .  I wish I never would have looked at that dig up her bones video.

Also, Song for a Future Generation and 52 Girls are probably the best B-52 things ever.  Rock Lobster is ok, I guess... I don't hate it, but I feel like it's always go-to B-52s at parties, so it's kinda meh.

Mesopotamia is pretty good, too.  I guess my point is that Rock Lobster sucks comparatively.  lol.

(also, I feel like Daun from the Door-Keys would be awesome in a B-52s tribute band for Rock-n-Roll Prom or whatever.)

I would exponentially clone RankResistance, Jer, and Nate, setting in motion a perpetual machine of Nate drawing Jer paying Nate to live Nate's own dream of farting more, until humanity is brought to the brink of extinction by a world overpopulated with farting Nate clones and anthropomorphic penis drawings, leaving the world dreaming of the simpler times of when we were all living paycheck to paycheck.

Daylight saving time.

It always fucks up my sleep schedule, especially now that my phone and computers automatically adjust.

I have zero advice, but I'll say hi at your bloomington show.

I watched an adult vehemently deny that it was possible to see other planets with the naked eye, after someone mentioned seeing Jupiter in the night sky.  So, I find it pretty difficult to be too upset with the astrologers in my neighborhood.  They are also the only folks I know that have ever invited me to watch meteor showers.

I don't spend time researching it, but I enjoyed the conversations I've had with friends.  I liked looking at the star charts of when my different friends were born.  At the very least, serious astrology gets a person to look up and see where everything is in their night sky.  I agree with you on the newspaper horoscopes being dumb.

I'm open to the possibility.  Especially where electromagnetism enters.  All the planets and stars have magnetic fields (north poles/south poles).  and all the atoms have electron orbits with varying degrees of conductivity. And all this stuff is moving around in cycles.  I could imagine all these giant, moving magnetic objects interacting and interfering with each other, pushing and pulling on our electrons while we are being formed in the womb, generation after generation.

I'm not sure how anyone would qualitatively track its effect though.  Then again, our ancestors seemed more aware of celestial movements than most people today.

This time of year the planet Venus is setting in the west with the Sun.  It's the first bright object you can see in the western night sky.  The brightness is the surface of Venus reflecting light from the Sun.

Venus is on the opposite side of the Sun right now in relation to Earth. The angle of Venus to the Sun is the approximate angle that Earth is traveling in its own elliptical orbit around the Sun.

Venus orbits the Sun in the opposite direction that Earth orbits the Sun. Looking down from the north pole, Earth would appear to orbit the Sun clock-wise.  As Venus moves counter-clockwise, it will gradually make its way between the Sun and the Earth.  As it does, the reflecting light visible to our earthly perspective will appear to wane, just like the light reflecting off our moon as it transitions through it's phases.

This allows me to visualize my three-dimensional location in our solar system.

This is my obsession of late that helps me from losing my mind.

Thanks, Ryan. 

I'm a Negativland fan, but didn't know Ian Allen specifically.  I think I came into it post-Ian Allen.  Stuff like Christianity is Stupid, U2, and the Sonic Outlaws documentary.

I'm checking out A Big 10-8 now though.

I'm an audio engineer/multimedia producer by trade, and an artist and experimental musician by nature.  Its not for everybody, but this is right up my alley.

For those needing an introduction to Negativland and the culture jamming scene of the 1980s here's a bit of Sonic Outlaws:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YszqbuDiiv0

FRNT RNNR

I would tell you to start with "The Devil doesn't live here anymore, Becca, that's why I changed the locks, XOXO, Jer", but unfortunately their entire discography melted on the dashboard of their Toyota Corolla while on tour in Yuma, so it's pretty hard to find.  I only heard it once, and I was swimming at the time... it sounded amazing underwater though!

Listening to Neutral Milk Hotel is like getting trapped at a party by someone repeatedly insisting that you let them finish telling their 30-minute joke, while fearing that the punchline will be that they kept you captive for 30-minutes while you kept trying to walk-away from a joke that had no punchline.

Selfishly: Quit my job and go to school for everything, because I love learning and making and talking with same kinda foks.

Altruism(?): Free public WiFi broadband everywhere that wants it and ad-free "YouTube" forever.  (The internet is an academic leveling field.)

Eccentric Villain: Purchase huge corporate real estate areas, demolish them, and turn them into wilderness. 
...and maybe create a media storm on Fox News telling them that I plan to release real-life bulls and bears onto the floor of the stock exchanges, after the media gets upset with my real estate demolishing hobby.

yeah, Fred and Toody are rad.  I've seen a couple of their live shows and they don't disappoint.  True DIY lifers.

A nice cross of Neil Young and Link Wray... earthy, raw, road-worn anthems.

oh ps i am not nate rainey

Is that what you are going to tell your tattoo school professor in Anthropomorphic Dick Tattoos 101, lindsey?!

Happy respective b-days, doods.

Art School is having Open Studios, which is usually fun.  After that I'm eating chili and drinking cider around a backyard fire with a few friends. 

There's a party on Saturday at an art collective and I agreed to shoot some video, but I'm not very inspired by video recording a party, so it's more like giving away free labor. 

I'm finding a recent pet-peeve with words that have no reason to exist except for peoples desire to create artificial buzzwords or weird urls, like Explainer, Complexity, or Givelify.

EDIT: Complexity might be a normal word in most situations, but I just saw an article for someone creating a Complexity Institute, and it seems weird.  I hear George W. Bush and his Decider voice when I see these words.  "I oughta send Ol' Brownie down to that School for Complexity Studies and giv'em a couple two or three Explainers on how to Givelify their shopping habits...  then we'll grab some sweet, sweet brekkie."

I've broken too many bass strings recently...

if they are breaking at the bridge every time (especially if it is the same string over and over), you may have a burr at the saddle.   

this thread will never die, and you are using it appropriately.  depression is a mother fucker.

Brett, OP was talking about Burger King, Taco Bell, and Cheap Fast Food in general, not swinging by your ultra-local back alley food co-op for a 12-dollar organic salad.

Subway might be gross, but if my other two choices are BK, and TB, I'm choosing corporate spinach from Subway.

I've heard the rubber claim, too.  I wouldn't be surprised.  The same stuff that makes drywall is in a lot of other breads too, as well as some brands of tofu. 

I think what made Lucy so bad, was that it didn't have to be dumb.  They just made really dumb decisions with the story. 

Under The Skin was really beautiful.  Really slow and simple.  It was definitely more of an Art movie... like, I could probably watch it without any dialogue and I would still think it was pretty.  Story wise, it could have been slightly more detailed or thought out or something.  Parts of it left me wanting more depth.  I would watch it again, though.

I guess its not some lesser know option, but you can get a veggie foot-long at Subway for 5-bucks, and it's technically possible to stretch that into two meals.

Omg Rory! That first picture of you! So amazingly adorable!!

Rory was such a heartwarmingly cute baby that her photo may actually qualify for the Lime Dog thread.

when people really try to force dumb slang. 

Like someone using "Brekkie" instead of typing "breakfast", It doesn't make the concept of breakfast cuter, it makes it sound like I'm about to have breakfast with someone who likes to talk like a baby.

Also the word AmazeBalls, when Amazing is phonetically easier to say anyway. 

I have no idea what I'm doing with my life and everything seems so useless.

ditto. I know the feeling will pass, and then I will begin to feel stoic about it, and then that will lead to feeling at the top of the world, and then for whatever reason I'll return to depression.

The biggest existential thorn-in-my-side as of late, is not having anyone to talk about big philosophical stuff with... or even little philosophical stuff, I guess.  Its not that I want to make everything a big deal, but right now I feel like every conversation is a list of someone's daily activities, which are usually a repeat of yesterday's activities.

maybe I'm just a fart head.