the cryptic semaphore



March 29, 2005
No Chicano sociologists?

If I am unable to attend
the Smiths conference, I shall rend my body asunder, or sump'n.

March 19, 2005
Fictional band names from my journal, Fall 1999-Summer 2000

The Totem Polacks
Focaccia-pet
Tildo
The Knee-Jerks
Jiminy Piwo
Contraindications with Moron (TM)
Hopeless Semantics
Massive Pontiff
Hell n' Ready
Hall and Ass
Haulin' Oats
The New and Improved Homos
Quiet [pronounced "kwee-AY"]
Frantic Bacon
No, Man, -I'm- Dave
Nobody Came
The Curios
The Fucking Geniuses
Hilt Chocolate
Hilt Julep
Insanitizer
Crimitorium
Eager Beaker [this was accompanied by a drawing of a smiling laboratory beaker exclaiming "mL! mL!"]
Dilduendo
The Contractual Obligations
'Per Se' Sledge
The Alcoholograms
The Bucoholics
Big 'Ol Chet's Eyeliner
Chink Think Tank
Expect Delays

The Sniggers
Valmyra 69 [a type of land mine]
The Lapsed Agnostics
L'Uomo Homo Della Duomo
Crinoline Minded
The Miercoles
The Bottom Dollars
You Toucha My Band, I Breaka You Face
The Heavyweights
Amygdala
Opines
I Thought You Said Your Dog Does Not Bite
Lugubricant
Nomenculture [name for lesbian rock band]
The Ex-X-File-ophiles
Salutatocracy
Septuagenaricrats
Franalabadami
Harvey and the Lackluster Monochrome Windbreaker
Yttrium Atrium

And an idea for a new dance, the "Quote-Unquote," where you dance around making the "finger quote" gesture.

Also something Andy Creighton said one day in rehearsal that I wrote down: "Can we try playing that again like we're not on 'ludes?"


Celebrities at their worst.

March 10, 2005
Arjuna asks the jukebox of kala

Why all of a sudden is everyone on SoulSeek downloading
Paul Davis's '65 Love Affair from me?

March 08, 2005

March 04, 2005
Get Down Tonight; No Interest 'til 2006

My alter ego, DJ Personal Bankruptcy, will be guest-DJ'ing at Radio Free Chicago Night next week. Party people will need to get down to aliveOne, 2683 N. Halsted, on Wednesday March 9th. The roof will officially be on fire starting around 9 pm.

March 03, 2005
Memphis's Easley Studio destroyed in fire.
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