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12:42 / 08.09.04

by "light" alarm clock, do you mean something that wakes you up with light? Is it a strobe? Wha?

The other day when I was watching cable at J's apartment, they kept showing this ad for a Phillips flat screen TV that featured "environmental lighting," which I gather to mean that it projected a glow on the adjoining wall that roughly corresponded to the overall tint of the TV screen - e.g. a surfing sequence was accompanied by a blue glow. Why is this a "feature"? Especially on a mutli-thousand dollar piece of consumer electronics?

12:47 / 08.09.04

"Encountering what appears to be a kindred spirit is always exhilarating, perhaps especially so when sexual consummation is not a part of it."

is that a quote from Welles? I couldn't find it on the page.

In any case, I totally don't agree with that. In fact, I would go as far as to say that usually only quote-unquote "kindred spirits" (ugh, what a phrase - it makes me think of this bad rock group at my college. And the Green party.) turn me on. People who are not my "kindred spirit" do not deserve me. Hahahah - that's why I'm "barbelith single" right now.

12:53 / 08.09.04

Yeah, it wakes you up with light. It gradually gets light, starting at 5:00 AM --or whenever you set it for-- and reaches full light at 5:30 AM. It's really great. You just wake up. Before this I had a clock that suddenly started flashing at the appointed time, but it startled me too much.

12:55 / 08.09.04

were you scared it wouldn't work at first?

Augh! My left leg is entirely asleep! I must have poor circulation.

I'm wearing corduroy pants today. it's probably like 2-3 weeks too early for corduroy, isn't it?

12:58 / 08.09.04

You have to scroll down. It's Simon Callow in The Road To Xanadu. Anyway, the part about sexual consummation not being part of it is clearly bollocks. I read everything selectively.

AUGH, I am informed that my cat has crawled into the subfloor & won't come out. Should I go home & read The Cask Of Amontillado to her?

13:01 / 08.09.04

No, I pretty much wake up with the sun. I got the clock because the sun doesn't come up early enough in winter. The freaky thing was switching awake with the other clock. It really gave me the frights.

It's post-Labor Day, so I think that we're in that corduroy grey area. I'm trying to forcibly remind myself that there are three more weeks of summer & that it isn't fall yet. I'm always rushing toward the future like that.

13:06 / 08.09.04

Well, it's understandable. Fall clothes are the best clothes. I just bought a bunch, and I want to wear them. I'm not going to wear my new corduroy jacket til October, though. I will wear my linen jacket til then.

I am guessing this Simon Callow was repressing sexual feelings for Orson Welles. And Steve.

13:11 / 08.09.04

Tut, I just bought my fall sweaters yesterday & I am wearing one of them today. But it was very cool at 6:45 this morning!

Who's Steve? I mean, clearly, when somebody says that sexual consummation isn't part of it, that practically specifically means that sexual consummation is being thought of. That's how I read that.

13:25 / 08.09.04

All About Steve. i pictured my first college roommate when I read that thread, because his name was Steve, (and he was from New Jersey, of course), which made it all the more funny. A specific Steve image is better than a general Steveness.

14:07 / 08.09.04

So this is where everybody's been hiding.

14:16 / 08.09.04

Dwight, what is your take on the corduroy question? Should I be censured by the fashion board for wearing corduroys this early in the year?

17:35 / 08.09.04

I am not qualified to comment on clothing, as I am Californian, and even worse, a Los Angelena. I've been known to wear white linen slacks in the dead of November, even when it dips down to a frosty seventy-five deg. F.

My evil counsel to you then is to charge ahead with your plan.

17:39 / 08.09.04

Let's hear more about this alarm clock. I recently bought one of those nice-looking round ones with the two bells on top, and A) I almost have a heart attack every time it goes off, and B) it needs to be wound very frequently.

19:00 / 08.09.04

It's a great alarm clock, seriously --here's a link. It's like you're not aware that you're being woken up. The other clock was really cute, 50s style and only forty dollars to boot; but honestly that can't be good for your health, to wake up terrified day after day.

I feel mostly normal today, with flashes of being worried about my cat. What if she dies in there? I'll have to get her out with a coathanger. Ew.

20:14 / 08.09.04

Don't watch Amores Perros!

20:24 / 08.09.04

Dawn simulator?

20:37 / 08.09.04

i've got one of those sunrise clocks. different manufacturer, but the same thing by the look of it. seriously good in the winter. it does sunset too. i wouldn't be without one, now.

22:34 / 08.09.04

Aww Skeet skeet skeet skeet!
I'm really fucking bored. Someone play with me.

23:37 / 08.09.04

Bio K9, I dare you to eat something nasty.

02:23 / 09.09.04

You've got me confused with someone else.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:42 / 09.09.04

INLIGHTENEDMENT writes...

Ok so here it is, at last!!!! UNCONTRIVERTEBLE PROOF!! of the supernatural among us!!!!1!

THIS is just ONE SMALL SECTION of the wall of the Burger King carpark (you know, where I was meant to meet Lord Ka that time). I went back with my digicam to see if I could capture the images of the ASTREL BEINGS that are drawn to the many LAY LINES in the area.

I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams, as you can SEE!!!

CAUTION!! HEADFUCK IMAGES OF THE SUPERNATURAL OCCULT!!!! DO NOT LOOK IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH!!!!!!1!!!!

THIS is one of the images. You can CLEARLY see 3 alien faces, an alien SIGEL, and a footprint which is of a YETI!!!!

Sadly, some MINDLESS HUMANOTRONS are still so HOPLESSLY IMMUERED in the MATRIX that they will not be able to see these CLEAR and OBVIOUS images without HELP. Whilste I dont like SPOONFEEDING people normally but Ive ringed the images so even you SHEEPLE can see them!!!!!!1!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!HEADFUUUUUUUKKKKK!!!!!!!1!!!!!!

11:49 / 21.09.04

For all I know, livejournal is probably working properly today. However, I received a rude surpise when I tried to log in this morning from work (after, I'll have you know, I completed the edits left of my chair by ze boss). It seems Livejournal falls into the "tasteless" category of something called Websense. I don't quite get this categorization, as Livejournal has always delectated my palate like a slightly flat Shasta, but it seems I must, at least temporarily, abide by this absurd decision.

I therefore must ask each member of my "friends" list to courteously repost their journal entries here, with frequent updates of comments and replies. You can stick to reposting only the most hilarious or insightful replies. That shouldn't be too onerous.

I am taking applications for a daytime fill-in poster to take over my journal while I spend my work hours reading 19th century lit on Project Gutenberg and checking myself out in the men's room mirror. Qualified applicants must demonstrate a familiarity with boredom, money issues, and creative paralysis. "Barbelith Singles" will take precedence. Feel free to apply here or by private correspondence.

Thank yew.

12:37 / 21.09.04

Okay, I was talking about this with Fluxington the other day, but it just happened again so I thought I'd share. I've been repeatedly assaulted by Terry Richardson's penis. It just happened again. It's EVERYWHERE, on every art website that covers NYC galleries, in all sorts of magazines. I'm afraid it's seeking me out.

Artnet.com (Not Really Safe for Work, but the thumbnails are small so you'd probably get away with a quick glance)

14:01 / 21.09.04

>groan<

Are you serious? That sucks!

14:04 / 21.09.04

Er, that was in response to your first post.

14:31 / 21.09.04

Yeah, i'm serious. I'm hopeful the ban will somehow be lifted - other sites like Wonkette have been temporarily banned in the past, but maybe I will just need to give up livejournal.

14:34 / 21.09.04

Those stupid fucking Dutchmen. They probably stepped on the computers with their wooden shoes or something. I can just see them standing over your desk in lederhosen, with those gigantic horns balanced on the edge of the cubicle. What the hell are those things made of? They can't be real animal horns.

I just saw the Six Feet Under finale. Jimminy Cricket! It's good.

14:40 / 21.09.04

I've never watched Six Feet Under. Right now, I am trying to get trhough 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD. I've seen the first 3, and I'm sure it's much better than Six Feet Under.

You're right, those horns are from no animal. Try demon. Dutch demons.

Speaking of demons, I'm almost finished with Huysman's "La-Bas" which is a gut-churning tale of Satanism, Succubi and Gilles de Rais. I thought for sure I was going to have nightmares about eviscerated children and deathly cold evil maidens, but alas, no such thing.

14:48 / 21.09.04

Shit! You just reminded me that I lent my fucking Autobiography of Bienvenuto Cellini to that fine Jewess, who subsequently went back to her ex-boyfriend the Corrections Officer.

That's what I get for dating literate bitches.

14:50 / 21.09.04

Did you read The Monk? Was it too long? I need another book, I finished The Princess Bride. I have The Golden Bough, actually; but I am loth to start that.

14:53 / 21.09.04

I didn't enjoy The Monk, personally, but who cares? The Golden Bough is a lot of fun.

14:53 / 21.09.04

Who is Bienvenuto Cellini? Is he aSatanist, 'Toya? I always thought Satanists were pretty ridiculous but Huysmans is kind of making the whole milieu a little unsettling.

Munt: haven't started the Monk yet. I decided to read The Picture of Dorian Grey today but as soon as I start getting into the reading I'm interrupted. I have little hope of making significant progress.

15:00 / 21.09.04

Cellini was a goldsmith in Rome in 16mumblemumble who wrote an awesome autobiography. It has no point or structure, it's basically Cellini rambling on about all his rivalries and misfortunes and how great he is. There's an episode involving a necromancer, which falls into the ridiculous set of accounts of Satanism, that causes art historians some consternation, but that's because art historians are fucking freaks.

15:02 / 21.09.04

and you still have my copy of Master and Margarita, bitch.

15:04 / 21.09.04

And, please, sir, I cannot be "'Toya" and not serve her ribs in the same sentence. Nor will I answer to my slave name, Prince Nelson.

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