2003-02-24

 
in case anyone is curious, I was able to settle the case of the library book that I left on the train. I purchased a hardcover copy of the "Biotech Century" for 11 dollars online (was almost perfect condition!) instead of paying the library forty dollars to replace it. They made me get a librarian's signature to say it's okay and then I was doing fine again! I then went upstairs and took out another ten CD's from their collection (Blues like Bessie Smith and Big Boy Crudup this time!) to burn. Oh I love the library, and my conscience is clean.

This Weekend's Barbecue
This weekend my roommate and I had people over. Well, not quite. Only one person showed up somewhat near on time, and we fired up the barbecue after waiting an hour because we were getting hungry. We skewered vegetables with this orange-chipotle barbecue sauce that I made (yum!). That Vietnamese chili-garlic sauce is my new favorite ingredient! (move over coriander! goodbye Hoisin!). And my new favorite vegetable is Delicata squash. you can eat the skin on this one if you stew it. I had some leftover and stewed it with an asian barbecue sauce (so easy to make) and it literally melted in my mouth. My recommendations go out to you to get ahold of this squash!
So the real interesting part of the barbecue (besides the "friends" of mine from San Diego that really treated me like shit, besides drinking all our beer, making fun of me, showing up five hours late, and getting us lost on the way to the bar) was that my old friend from childhood (Meghan Ollendike) came down from Newport Beach to visit, since I'm moving up north next week. It was such a treat reminiscing, even though we weren't best friends or anything. I recommend to you all (besides that you eat Delicata Squash) try to contact old friends from adolescence whenever you move to a new place. It really was a rewarding experience.

The Zine I'm Creating
Well, if you've been wondering what the deal with "Future Wave" is, I'll explain here (and probably in countless other places throughout my website). Future Wave will start out as just a web content zine, but will eventually evolve into a print zine, which my roommate Sara (who's an awesome painter and graphic designer) will help layout. Hopefully that will be soon, but I have to see what kind of responses and content I get. So, the premise is this: I hope to coordinate musicians that I enjoy to formulate a collective critique of industrial capitalism and try to answer the question of "where's the world going?" Much of the music I listen to (post-rock, for lack of a better word) is instrumental, and there are ideas absent from the music. I am certain that these musicians possess radical ideas about the world, and most of them are probably forward-thinking, as the music has a dreamy quality. So far (I started mailing out propositions last night) I have received a nice response, and I think the project will be an overall success, provided that I keep up with it. Check back on the zine tab to see what has been posted, if anything at all.
posted by MM 6:35 PM