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Current mood: chipper
Category: Music

Tonight Martin's band is playing @ Church, and I'm gonna sit in on a song. It's the title track off his new album - Sirens of the Apocalypse. It's a fun and funny song. I been workin' on memorizing it, but also Martin's gonna bring the cue cards. LOVE IT!!!! I'm curious to scope out the place, too, since we have a big show there next Fri...

Energy adrift. The clouds have been looking so pretty lately. All kinds of different shapes. 2 days ago, there were beautiful canyons of clouds shrouding the city. It all looks so dramatic and I just eat it up.

Album art is still in the *almost there* phase. Fine. Rome wasn't built in a day, to use a trite expression. Some things are worth waiting for and all that, though my Arien firespeed nature abhors waiting!!!!!! Witness this phenomenon as I painfully try to get better at harpsichord. Still a beginner, though now reaping rewards and fruits from hard-earned hours spent toiling away. I've been taking my little lessons and practicing regularly for 3 years now. "Consistency is the key to results."-THE FIRM workouts

Went pumpkin-picking this Sunday. Tony took me to Arena Farms. Got a 60lb. one and a 35lb. one for carving. Plus a lovely albino blonde one the size of a Texas grapefruit. We also checked out open studios in Fort Point and that was fun. It was a lovely day for walking about. One of Tony's friends/neighbors makes jewelry and metal wares, and from her he bought me the prettiest hand-hammered copper coffee scoop. Now I gotta buy some decaf!

Cinematic Soul

Current mood: moody
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

So I've seen a lot of movies lately:

Lust, Caution
Inland Empire
Ballad of Sad Cafe
Moonstruck
Elvis '68 Comeback Special

I thought the sex scenes in Lust, Caution were too graphic. Not the nudity per se, no, that was tasteful enough...I just felt like it's unfortunate that actors have to get that intimate with each other...I mean that's not natural or healthy, to me. Oh, I understand it's purpose and all, but how can it not be psychologically damaging in their personal lives?

Case in point: Inland Empire
Layers upon levels about actors, Hollywood, cheating, death.
I enjoyed watching this so much. It had all the tone, mystery, and mood that is typical of David Lynch. I liked it much better than Mulholland Drive, though still not as much as Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet...

And the Eastern European element this time was nice, as I recently saw 'Eastern Promises' and have had all things Russian (Faberge eggs, etc.) on my mind since.

My favorite bit about Inland Empire:
When Laura Dern is recounting what's happened to her and she talks about how men gradually reveal themselves - who they really are. I could totally relate to that whole speech.

Ballad of Sad Cafe:
A strange movie about the West(?) starring Vanessa Redgrave - a master actress. There was a bit in this movie about LOVE...what makes a couple being the "lover" and the "be loved", and how the "lover" craves the love of the "be loved" and how hard it can be to be the "be loved". Made a whole lotta sense to me.

I feel a blog coming on...

Current mood: calm
Category: Life

OK, I know it's been awhile since I blogged...

News of late:
Went to Spooky World on Saturday with Tony. It was good clean trashy American fun. They had a little magic show which incorporated live animals - doves, a big bunny, and a huge poodle.

Tony won me a little stuffed bear with his prowess at darts.

I screamed my head off. Not good, considering I had a vocal sesh the next day...but oh well.

I did vocals for the Narcoterror record on Sunday. I am very pleased with how they sound and can't wait to share with others!!

Yes, yes...This year had been a big one for recording for yours truly.

Soon my vocals will caress your earwaves~~~~~

Last night the Black Fortress of Opium began working on some new material - I presented 3 songs. This band is too good!! They rocked out immediately...We may even have a new song or more for the big Church set coming up on 11/2!

I tuned into my old buddy Peter Choyce's show out in LA on KXLU. Victor Venckus from ZBC was on and it was like a total flashback too a few years back...It reminded me how much I fucking love hanging out there in LA, so I made a foiled attempt to go and see my West Coast friends. But it was not to be yet.

I should really be going back to Türkiye, most immediately, as it seems too hard for me to be an effective business partner from an Atlantic Ocean away. Tix are cheap, and I have no more fear of travelling alone btwn here and there.

I finished reading 'Cat's Cradle' a little while back. Nice read. Quick one, too.

I bought tix to see/hear Mozart's Requiem in February. Yes, it's actually for the day after Valentine's Day...hee hee. I am very excited. I want to get back to supporting the arts.

In some ways, I feel like I'm getting to know Boston in a more committed way. I've been here over 10 years now, and while I suspect it will never feel quite like Houston - I have spent most of my adult life here. Typical Aries that I am, I feel my eyes are just now opening like a little kitten. Rebirth. I feel very grateful to have been blessed with a huge surplus of faith and hope eternal. I have ceased wondering why or from where it comes. It just does.

Went to a spa with my homegirl Irina. That was very nice. She's is a terrific hang. Feels like family.

I've been grooving out on my new guitar, which I adore.

Told SJ Roi about it. He wants to do a TQ reunion. I'm down, with the caveat of many rehearsals first. But anyway, some of those songs we used to do never even got recorded and it's just a goddamn shame. Chestbox, anyone?

Been playing my flute again more. Tony's giving me some session work on it, and it just feels so good when I play it. I have a skill on it that I don't have on any other instrument. I feel like it's a powerful weapon when I play - especially fast. Yes, I have hope a-plenty, but little patience when it comes to practicing slow. It KILLS me to practice slow. But my teacher says really good players do a lot of slow practice.

Oh yeah. I bought the new Siouxsie album, plus the new PJ Harvey, plus PJ's 'Uh Huh Her'.