2003-03-18

 
I travelled for the second time today to the East Bay to look for apartments. This time I was a little more successful, finding one nice place off Craigslist, and another nice one in the same neighborhood from a sign on the street (the benefit of bicyclery!). It is still very draining to have to bike around back and forth, but soon enough I will have an address and will be able to apply for jobs and order CD's and build a nice place to have guests over for, and well, make friends that will be those guests... I just hope that the apartment I select is large enough. I purchased Eyvind Kang's CD (see below) today at Amoeba records... I was looking for more Sunburned Hand of the Man CDR's, but couldn't resist not purchasing anything else... I saw lots of Vibracathedral Orchestra rare CDR's too which was enticing but I ought to wait until I have a job or at least a place to enjoy all this music (it's quite hard to listen to music where I'm staying because the people there do not enjoy most music and prefer silence... silence drives me mad, but they would say the same about my space music)... Right now I am desiring to acquire: Sun City Girls & Alvarius B., Sunburned Hand of the Man, SY's "demon lover" soundtracks, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Cul De Sac's new one, Abunai!, Comets on Fire. Help someone! I also managed to attract someone with my craigslist ad (to find people who like the same music as myself) to invite me to his band practice to see if I could contribute at all. Now I am shy in presentation or performance in front of others, but it has been many years since I have done so; perhaps things have changed. This fellow, Scott, has enticed me with his idea of starting an East Bay dronerock collective. Wow, my dream. I hope I can still study plant biology though. And last but not least, I went to the peace rally two days ago and had a marvelous time, but it is now depressing about the march to war. The only thing I am excited about is the impromptu critical mass that will occur the entire day following the bombing of Iraq. But of course if I could prevent the bombing of Iraq, I would gladly give up Critical Mass forever. I hate killing. I'm a bit annoyed by this incite of fear with the "Code Orange" declaration. hello... we shouldn't be afraid, we should be mad that the administration has caused this threat (which is most likely insubstantial). anyhow, i must rehydrate and then sleep....
posted by MM 12:44 AM