THE GREAT PURGE OF 2012

15:44

Darth Vader during the great purge of the Jedi.

Sleep is Awesome.

So if you ask me
Where do I go from here
My next destination
Even isn't really that clear
So if you join me
And get on your knees and prey
I'll show you salvation
We'll take the alternative way
Clutching the short straw
-Marillion


Music to purge to;

Live at Lorely (1987, disc2) - Marillion
Ghosts - Frequency Drift
Live at the Lyceum 1980 - Genesis
2 - Black Country Communion
Peter Gabriel 3  - Peter Gabriel


I need to really scour my room. Oh, how our transgressions come home to roost! Books, papers, drums, dreams. hopes... scattered all over the place. Let the Great Purge begin. First i have to scrape wax out of the bidet.  It all went down at 3:00 in the morning and it was not pretty. Marcondes had lit up the entire bathroom with candles (porque?) and i went to put one out that was on a wooden picture frame (great idea!) and the metal cylinder was hot as hell. So i insticntively tossed it into the bidet.  Wooden spoon. Dish detergent. Check, check. Off i go.


17:29

I'll buy an anti-grease spray later, but that pretty much worked.  And my room is Cleaner. Still a great deal to go. This is 2 day job,

Time to groom myself. There should be hot water now. Big date tonight. Must wash between my toes!

18:48

Clean. I smell like flowers.  Now go buy beer to bring and get food for manana. Mail postcards. Head out to the Welsh Witch's at 20:30.

Nerds

We're clutching at straws
I'm still drowning
-Marillion

Sleep. I need ye. Stayin' in. 30 hours of class this week and i surrender. Body tired, mind like moosh.

The Seester sent me some nice pics of the Central European Tour '12. Said better ones are yet to come. What a great trip.

She said she loves the new Frequency Drift album, Ghosts. I thought she'd like it. I gave her and Jan maybe ten albums or so on a pen drive. I recommend it very highly for anyone who likes progressive rock. It's got a lot of other influences too. It's kind of mad and surreal. Yet rocking and heart-wrenchingly beautiful.  And the electric violins are stunning. Great guitar. Great keyboards. Mad. The Seester told me, "it was the right mix of classical and trippy." The band would probably love that sentence in a reviews. That was what made me get the album, a great review. It was ProgArchives.com. That's a good site. Nerds of the world, unite!

Speaking of nerd love, i am going the the Welsh Witch's for dinner tonite. Exciting.

Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured. He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special: no termination date. I didn’t know how long we had together... who does?
-Decker, Blade Runner

Airbag

It's Jueves. All is well. Teaching a ton. Everything within normal parameters, thankfully. Still breathing. Too tired too be witty. Me sleep now. Very warm weather here. Nuts. Too warm. It's like Spring. Deploy airbag. i need to slow down.



In the neon sign
Scrolling up and down
I am born again

In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe

In a deep deep sleep of the innocent
I am born again

In a fast german car
I'm amazed that I survived
An airbag saved my life
-Radiohead

To Do List

DOMINGO


19:35


Posted the Karmic Relief album review today on Amazon, CD Baby and BookFace. Yet another thing to cross off the to do list. But the list is still kind of fucking long....


I played poker

With a doctor

Stand straight up

And call him cheat

Then I walked those 20 paces

I gunned him right down

In the street

Hey Ma

Hey Pa

Look at me standin' tall

Brother

Sister - (Ha! )

Look at them bad guys fall

I'm walkin' and talkin' real slow

Out where the tumbleweed blows

Hey Ma

Hey Pa

Let those wagons roll!

Don't wake me up

I'm dreamin' John Wayne's dream

Under a sky so big

On a prairie green

-Big Country

LUNES


23:23

The Giants are in the Stupor in a reamatch with Pats. How delicious! My mouth is watering. !t tastes like.... Giselle's tears, which in addition to being delicious, may also have Fountain of Youth properties. 

I saw pretty much the whole first half and then slept through the 2nd half and miraculously awoke at about 4:10 to see it tied at 17 with a few seconds to go. I saw the OT, which was short and sweet. The strip and then the FG. Great game! It ended at 4:55. The NFL is killing me softly with its song (killing me softly.)

Fierce the Tempest

Fierce the Tempest

-Frequency Drift

Busy as hell this week. But my 9:00 manana was cancelled and i get paid anyhoo. That buys me some time to finish the details for this intensive course that starts manana at 13:00. I got it thru Carla (of Bender Tuesday fame.) It's just me and it's like 9 to 12 hours over the next 3 weeks. They want to be able to teach some business English. So Carla recommended me and they said 'sure," after we talked. I've done a lot of intensives and love them. So this is a nice opportunity. 


And... the Welsh Witch invited me to dinner at her place on sabado, so that is also something to look forward to She's awesome. 

Judgement day

SABADO

I just finished writing an album review the Adults' new album KARMIC RELIEF (2011.) I'll look it over manana and then post it to list of websites Jimbo sent me. If you haven't heard it, i reccommend it quite highly. Some of the songs were songs i played with Jim and Mark a bunch during my 2010 Summer Tour. Cool to hear how they sorted them out.




DOMINGO

The day of the AFC and NFC Championship games is the best Sunday the NFL has to offer offer. It's Judgement Day. You get two games (in case one sucks as the AFC Championship promises to) You also get a chance at a rematch between two teams who know each other and have met earlier in the season, as have NYG and SF.

I say NE over BAL
NYG over SF

Let the games begin!!!!!

Smash Mouth

Walking home that night
The sack across my back, the sound of sobbing on my shoulder.
When suddenly it stopped,
I opened up the sack, all that I had
A pool of bubbles and tears - JUST A POOL OF TEARS.

All in all you are a very dying race
Placing trust upon a cruel world.
You never had the things you thought you should have had
And you'll not get them now,
And all the while in perfect time
Your tears are falling on the ground.
-Genesis

SABADO


2:14 


Okay. I stayed in tonite. Vicky and i were out way too late last night and i was dead after class. Plus i taught 9 hours on Jueves. Manana is another day. I did some laundry and tidied up a bit. It's Jan. 21. This month is vanishing. Crazy. I guess the first week disappeared because the family was on vacation. 


Looking forward to the Giants game even if it is on at 00:30 Monday morning. But i have no class til 13:00 the next day. All the same, it a trippy thing to stay up so absurdly late to watch such things. 

But the NY Football Giants win Super Bowls when i am out of the country. They beat Buffalo when i was living in Jamaica. They beat New England while i was here in Madrid. That's 2 of their 3 Super Bowls. Also, the Giants are 4-0 in NFC Championship Games, Deafeating Washington in '87, San Fran in '91, Minn in '01 and GB in '08. I'm going to say the Giants win manana too, although i think it's going to be a very close smash mouth game. 


It was warm today. For the middle of winter. Europe has had a very warm winter so far. Usually the weather starts getting Spring-ish in Madrid by March. 


13:31


All hail the weekend and being lazy! I find it comes quite naturally. 

Grace Under Pressue

Rush- Grace Under Pressure (1984)


Still Alive. Taught 9 hours yesterday. A new record. Then the Welsh Witch called as i was getting out of class so we went out for a bite to eat. She's very spontaneous. I like that.

My brain is barely working. So i have to shower and get my white ass to class. A little live Pat Benatar from the early From 1983. I am reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (1984.) It's great. He's one of my favorites. Thank you Dunnish for giving me DANCE, DANCE, DANCE about 15 years ago. I have since read everything by him.

So i'm kind of stuck in the 80's. But my left ear isn't pierced this time around. Time travel anyone?