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12.30.01 back in san luis i find a clogged drain and an empty house. off to la for the wedding of the century, misguided celebrations, uncertain accomodations and the chance to miss my baby and his warm bed more than i have yet known. happy new years to you and to those dearest to you. may it bring you nothing but goodness and cheer. # 12.29.01 i need a good job (in print and publishing) and a decently priced apartment in either san francisco or new york (stop that laughing, stop it i say) starting in june. any suggestions? # today i was overcome by a desire to hear something new. i've been driving a lot and i'm on the road again tomorrow and the next day. all my music has been listened to a thousand times. i've been in a funk and it had to end. at virgin today i found her space holiday. this album (manic expressive) is a relief to listen to. it's striking; melodic but sincere, spun with electronic sounds, symphonic sounds and gentle vocals. give a listen to the track lydia if you're interested. # 12.28.01 this is so off-again/on-again that no one will even read it, but i'm back to mac os x for a while. each time a new major application is released and aquired, i come back, each time with the hope that maybe this time i'll stay. alas, i'm afraid that the mac i have simply isn't going to impress me under any release of os x. i like the new os, and i've seen it do amazing things on new apple systems. but it seems that until i can afford a new one, i'm going to want to keep os 9 close at hand. # sf gate has a great collection from their day in pictures throughout 2001. # well, boys and girls, we seem to be in the midst of an unintentional holiday hiatus. the onslaught of holidays, traveling, family, and even a wedding have contributed to something of a slump, the likes of which should continue just past the new year. i'm sure though that you all have other lovely things to be doing right now anyway. # 12.24.01 from ananova: A Christmas edition of Banzai will feature children's TV presenter Tony Hart trying his hand at DJing. He will be seen on the E4 show mixing records at a pensioners' disco. Viewers will have to guess which Radiohead track Hart is playing by watching the elderly people dance. # 12.23.01 look at this! someone is moving on up. # new images are up. these were taken between thanksgiving and now - school got in the way for a few weeks, and the camera lost out. enjoy them, and let me know what you think. # compare and contrast: i'd been waiting to see the royal tenenbaums for a while now (so had someone else) while i wasn't sure if i should bother getting excited about the business of strangers. i enjoyed both, but i must admit a definite preference for the methodical, psychological unraveling of strangers. i don't care much for julia stiles, but her performance was great; on the other hand, i love the under-appreciated talent of stockard channing. near the begining, i was afraid this was going to be an adventure in business-woman cliches, but by the end, both actors had convinced me of their character's ability to out smart one another as well as the audience. if you can catch this one, do. tenenbaums, on the other hand, was good honest fun, although it was tinged with more bitter-sweet than i was expecting (or perhaps wanting?), and wasn't as focused as the previous wes anderson film (rushmore, which i really did like, tho i can't believe any of this was written with owen wilson). at the very least, it made me like gene hackman again (this makes up for that crap-fest) and i loved seeing anjelica huston on the big screen again. # 12.22.01 IN FROM THE RAIN there are quite a few things i learn to appreciate when it's raining. i realize how grateful i am for the inside-of-doors, where things are always warm and dry. i realize how grateful i am for roofs that don't leak. i realize the importance of bringing a warm coat. i realize the glory of a good umbrella, and the tragedy of a cheap one. i appreciate the warmth and frequency of the san francisco public transit system, and i realize how much warmer a bed is with two people in it. # 12.21.01
spotted this lingering effect of y2k about two weeks ago, almost 2 years late. (thanks to darin for catching this one) # 12.20.01 US gets egg on it's face, in front of the United Nations. # excite folds into at&t. at&t gets snapped up by comcast. a cable giant larger than aol emerges. go monopoly! # 12.19.01 scott hacker, former BeOS advocate and author of the BeOS Bible takes a very detailed look at OS X. this is not a small article in the least, be warned. and although hacker comes out with OS X on top, he doesn't tread lightly around the hallowed ground of mac operating systems. this is a highly critical review, with some very good suggestions for improvement in the Mac OS system. # THE FOG i'm back home now, briefly, with my parents. for the holidays. tonight i found myself driving out to see my little sister at her nearby college. my old home town has been paved over. big, expansive new freeways stretch from one corner to the next. welcome to winter in fresno: enter the fog. it's taken more lives around me than i care to remember. everyone i've ever known who has died, died because of the fog. you don't really know it unless you've lived here. they call if tule fog, though i haven't the slightest idea what that means. it's heavy and it's dense. it doesn't drape across the skyline, as it seems to in so many other cities. it creeps in, like smoke rolling out under a door. and it's dark, sucking the life out of the lights which try to penetrate it. the light disorients you. it blurs into a hazy glow, diffuse and frightening. headlight's reflect into your eyes, throwing themselves back from the dim, grey sea before you. it socks itself into patches, jumping out at your car as quickly as a wild animal leaping from the roadside. it's not a road hazard - it's a predator; a clever enemy that deserves your respect. the thing about the fog is that in the city, out of the countryside, it will go away. along the freeway coridors, on the roads, if enough cars are moving quickly enough, the fog will blow away. there's a wind-tunnel effect that happens within the sunken coridors freeways often lie in. it's a paradox, because one person, driving fast through the fog, will be killed. but lots of people, driving fast through the fog, will push it away. i'm here in fresno until the end of today, when i will drive up to san francisco. then i'll be back down here for christmas, then back to sf for a few days, with a wedding in LA just before new years. i plan to hang out in and around LA for the party holiday. a full three weeks indeed. # as a child, i always had grand plans with my best friend to grow up together and to become roommates, in the coolest, hanging out sort of way. now i find myself trying to rectify my dread at the thought of calling him. he hasn't spoken with me since i came out to him. david's latest post is right - the future never does look much like it used to. # 12.18.01 i would trade my favorite cockring for some open-mindedness if only more straight guys were like jason of contrasts.net, this world would be a better place. (i'd link the post directly, but there are no permalinks) # Compared with "Fellowship," the gaudy and lifeless "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" looks like a play mounted at a school for rich kids, where no expense was spared in the attempt to cover up clumsy amateurishness. salon likes lord of the rings. more than like, they love it. three pages of loving it. if you're doubting the movie's potential, give this article a read. it tries very hard to dispell any worries you might have about putting out your $9.50 for this one. i'm optimistically excited, to say the least. [update: cnn likes it too] # finally, a (near) cure for the common cold. way to go, science. # i brushed past cnn's headline news a few minutes ago, and it must be intern-hour because the boy (cute) behind the desk could not have been older than 17 i swear. no lie. # economist blah blah revolution blah blah plastics blah blah esoteric blah blah metafilter. # 12.17.01 thanks to millions in research dollars, guinness can now put real draught taste into a bottle. those crazy irish! next thing you know, they'll be putting a man on the moon. # tonight i went with my dad to his company christmas party. the event was hosted by a threesome (what's the term for "couple" when there are three members of the relationship?!) of leather/biker guys. the only things more hilarious than taking the house tour with my father? the decorations: four christmas trees, three of which rotated, 587 santas, enough lights to put enron out of business (was that bad?) and a martha stewart nightmare of other decorations. it was the las vegas of christmas decorations. it was the most amazing sight i've ever seen. i didn't know whether to be afraid or to stand in awe. oh, and one of the hosts had just gotten an armband tattoo of santa, sleigh and 8 tiny reindeer. obscenely funny. # 12.16.01 NOTE TO SELF: [4:10 am] redbull has caffeine. don't drink redbull and vodka's anymore. # and even better yet: Winona Ryder arrested for shoplifting! what kind of economy are we living in when celebrities have to resort to petty theft? # 12.15.01 a simpson's class?! where do i sign up? # 12.14.01 i got up a little earlier than i wanted to this morning to say goodbye to a friend. afterwards, i crawled back into bed for a short nap, during which time i fell into a shallow and lucid state of sleep. in this hightened state of intellect, i was able to determine that some letters are sexier than other letters. can you guess which ones? # jessie points the way to these incredible photos, coutesy of david at abstract nixon. take a minute to go look at these. i really like this one, this one, this one, this one and this one. # mike sanders talks about bloggers who are pre-occupied with where they fall in a google search. i hadn't even thought of this! thanks mike! the great news is that not only does prosaic* come up first under a search for 'chris streeter' but it actually links my resume. sweet! now gimme a job, somebody. # 12.13.01 david talbot, salon's founder and editor in chief, writes a strangely eerie and touching recollection of U2's recent new york show - part rock concert, part funeral wake, the details of this event would have sounded corny from anyone else. # "Not alone; lone. Alone is an unfortunate predicament, lone is an aesthetic choice." salon has a very positive perspective on the tick. i only saw the pilot, which i know was really funny, but it just came across a little strange. i'm interested in following it some more however, as i am in love with the concept and the sheer volume of the deadpan. plus there's a superhero named batmanuel. # 12.12.01 as the heart finds the good thing, the feeling is multiplied. saw ocean's 11 tonight. eh. at least brad pitt is still cute. # WHEN YOU LIE IN YOUR BED it's 3:17 pm. i am taking a test at 4:00 pm. the clock is taunting me. as i sit outside, a chill breeze blows over my numb hands. the sun and the cold paint everything an interesting color; they make the angles of light sharp and hard. it's a beautiful day outside. i don't enjoy it often enough. the tree on my patio has changed colors, the leaves turned brown and gold. i've left them fallen and they drape over things like a heavy curtain. today is my first final. i never study for finals. i can't ever work up the nerve to do it. i've said it before, but if i didn't learn this in 10 weeks, can i or should i learn it in 4 hours? somehow it seems like cheating. because i wont really know it. but then, how much of this will i really know in the end anyway? i take these classes and my mind expands, but what fills that new void? i don't feel like there's enough new knowledge to accomodate the space left by the new questions. my plants are all dying. i wont be here to take care of them for three weeks. i guess i'll let them slip away. # 12.11.01
# GRAB IT AND RUN ok kids, i've just returned from a meeting with the univ's advisor and i can finally, honestly say that i'm graduating this june. this is the first time i've said it and really known it was true. nothing (short of a being hit by a bus or falling russian sattelite) can stop me now! # i've updated the links page a little today. normally i don't endorse (or even mention) site's i've added a link to, but i think today that you should all go read ameer's page. every time i read it i find myself laughing out loud. what hyjinxs! what hysteria! go check it out. # google has assembled 20 years of archives from USENET [newsgroups] and made them available to internet users. (wired has a story on it.) they've even put together a timeline of important events and annoucements discovered in the archives. one of these includes the first thread about AIDS. # 12.10.01 "I've recently realized how great marijuana goes with reading Harry Potter bedtime stories," said Doblin. this man is going to convince the FDA to legalize ecstasy, according to wired. # YOU ARE LISTENING i've been driving a lot recently. time on the road means time alone with music. i've given just about ever cd i own a go-around recently, but nothing has struck me quite as much as soul coughing's ruby vroom. i think what struck me most about this album was its diversity. imagine listening to a cross country road trip. chicago, detroit, wichita, los angeles... i'm posting an mp3 of track 7, screenwriter's blues. it's is a song for a highway. it's a song about los angeles; because it seems these days, that we're all going to los angeles, in one way or another. # here at my school we have quite a strong fraternity community. which is all the more to provide us with fun and crazy pictures. tho this one might seem pretty mild at first glance, take a moment to study mr. O and mr. R - what is going ON down there?! (via dan) # 12.07.01 happy birthday jessie! (so you can all guess that i wont be updating over the weekend) # 12.06.01 i just got a phone call from a telemarketer asking for "Christina Streegler." do these people have a clue? # 12.05.01 AOL Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin retires, making Richard Parsons the monster corporation's new executive, and possibly the most powerful black man in the country (sans Colin Powell). # Ethel Rosenberg's brother admits perjury, and other cold war ghosts. # 12.04.01 available now: Final Cut Pro 3, sporting real-time rendering without additional hardware. # thought there was nothing good to find at metafilter anymore? me too. but then i saw found magazine. they collect and reprint all those strange notes and photos people find. (you know, like this) my favorite has got to be this; remember how you used to write each word all the way down the page like that, rather than write the scentence all the way through, 100 times? me neither. # after years of languishing in the obscurity of grocery store brands, i have finally made the switch to salon quality hair care products. it's been a gradual progression, gaining momentum with each new aquisition, but it has finally come to fruition. perhaps my favorite aspect of this change is the smell. now, every morning when i apply these products to my hair, i am greeted by the lovely scent of a salon. it's truly wonderful. # i have until thursday to read and learn Gary Field's influencial (but dry) work, Printing Production Management. who says you need to enroll in a class to pass it? # 12.03.01 I'm tired of hearing these hoes talk about how they are still virgins. You only sucked him off a dozen times a month for the past three years and you're still a virgin? He only shot his load into your eye while you were hanging from ceiling straps while singing Vanity's "Nasty Girl" and you're still a virgin? Let's call a skank a skank. Strange Fruit is the co-blog of Dorothy and Raheem. (via aaron) # forget the hype. Dean Kamen's newest invention (registration required) is just a damn cool thing. the segway is a motorized scooter. sort of. it's got a low, human-like profile (meaning it's tall with a narrow base - you stand on it and it has two wheels) so it can travel on a sidewalk, alongside people. it can go for 15 miles on one low-wattage charge. you control it by subtly shifting your weight, and it balances so well, you can't be knocked over. it's an amazing device - the only question is whether we'll find amazing uses for it. # 12.02.01 thanks for reminding me, jessie! amelie was really great, and i highly recomend it to anyone who has the slightlest bit of interest in seeing a really great film. and of course if anyone wants to see it in san luis this week, i'm game. # from david at abstract nixon, a photo essay on a boring gay couple. it's really nice, but they really look boring. # "Am I crazy, or are you Clair Danes?" - chris yes, we saw her, yes she followed us, and yes chris is really tall. and sweet! such a nice weekend it was, i can't begin to describe how much fun i had. i can only hope we meet up again. # « November 2001 | archive index | January 2002 » built with movabletype |
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