daybreak

a thousand systems






4:02

home. quiet. i am alone. how lovely! listening to Trey Gunn's music for pictures. first time. it's great so far.

i'm also, for reasons that escape me now, not using capital letters. wow. talking about lazy.

vancouver 0 nashville 0

why in the name of baby jar jar binks does tennesse have a hockey team? it's counterintuitive.

wow. this is an extraordinary album. way diverse. he's a monster.

new ideas. or thoughts followed by ideas. i smell like flowers.

21st century schizoid man
-king crimson

i slept so late today. i was exhausted. must be why i am still awake.

it's may 1st. wow. may.

vancouver 1 nashville 0

nashville! ha!

wow. canadian commercials are even worse than american ones.

once there was a way to get back home
-the beatles

it's nice outside. madrid is a city to be outside. i can see the whole north and west from the patio.

good night dear friends.

people they're the man thing
-king crimson

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The Big Wheel Spins

The way the big wheel spins
Well, I was only a kid, on a holy crusade
I placed no trust in a faith that was ready-made
Take no chances on paradise delayed
So I do a slow fade
-Rush

i finally dragged my ass out of bed and to the market. That was productive. This flat is really nice. And i'm still in a hood i have really come to love. i feel quite at home here, having lived in 5 flats in this neighborhood.

It's like i'm 60's KGB spy.

I got a steak and barbecued it on an electric grill and ate it with a martian (martini.) Home. Always less than 7 Peruvians. Home.

It's about 55F now. Nice and cool. (13C ) Little humid cuz it's been rainy. But lovely really. Madrid is a place to be outside.

The Caps lost. The Mets lost. WTF? Is this 2008?

Hang on. Yes, the Mac has a calendar. It's 2011.

No screw that. That's not correct. That would mean that Colin is ..... 11!

That can't be.

That would make me.......!!!!!!!!!

Fuck this. I'm going to bed.

Wheel goes round, landing on a twist of faith
Taking your chances you'll have the right answers
When the final judgment begins
Wheel goes round, landing on a leap of fate
Life redirected in ways unexpected
Sometimes the odd number wins
The way the big wheel spins
-Rush

It was a new day yesterday

Well I wanna see you soon,
But I wonder how yeah.
It’s a new day yesterday,
But it’s an old day now.
-Joe Bonamassa

18:11

i am moved in. Well, my stuff if here at the very least. And a long weekend cuz Monday is "Dohs!" de Mayo. Viva la Republica de Espana. I guess it's a Kingdon (Kingdom) as well. Kings are stupid. Speaking of which- no i did not watch the Royal wedding. We threw off King George. That's what the VA state flag depicts.
"Thus always to tyrants." King George's crown is on the ground and he's got a foot on his chest. Take that Moth Fluffer!

Listening to the smooth sounds of The California Guitar Trio with Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin. Great stuff. I slept til 15:00! I was out til like six with Amanda. We met at JJ's for the quiz with Carla and Asun. It was fun. We wound up at her place playing guitar hero. Fucking impossible game. Nothing like actually playing music. Frankly, i don't see the appeal.

I had slept maybe six hours , in 3 hour shifts the night before. The movers cam late. I was moved in by 16:00. Danny showed me the essentials before he boogied off to Barca for the weekend. I showered, ran to Alcala Fusion for lunch and then went to class! There were only three of them and i was exhausted so i let them go at 20:30. You can only do so much when there's three people. I taught this article; the gals loved it. It has a lot of important things to say about a woman's ability to control her body and the number of children she has, as well as getting a proper education.

Jane says "have you seen my wig around?
I feel naked without it
-Jane's Addiction

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/opinion/24lepore.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=poor%20jane%27s%20almanac&st=cse

I have to go buy so food. And then eat it. It's the first day of the rest of my life.

THE LAST LAST BROADCAST FROM THIS SHITHOLE

Verbal: Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.


Waiting for the movers. 20 minutes. I am out of here. Praise Jah!

I confirmed it with Barry- Nukes to launch at 15:00.

THE LAST BROADCAST

11:23

Looks like i'll be ready in time. I slept from 7:00 to 10:00 and now i'm back at it. Shame i got to work tonight. But i am so happy to go. I feel a strangely pleasant feeling. Relief.

ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
WE ARE ABANDONING THE PRC
LAUNCH NUKES ON MY MARK......

Hella Cool

What's the upside of having to wake up at 4am to keep packing? Because of time zone weirdness, there's NHL hockey to listen to in Vancouver. Okay, i can sleep a bit then final pack and clean, then good bye PRC! I have one last album to listen to from the play list and then we are over the five hour mark. It was inevitable.



Like a rolling stone
-Bob Dylan

5:33

2 minutes left in the game. I sit in bed in the half light.

Vancouver 1, Nashville 0 - Final. I like the Canucks. I'm thinking it could be a Canucks - Caps Stanley cup final. That would be awesome. Hell of a lot of travel for the teams, though.

5:40

Last night in hell. Goodnight Satan.
That's 2 hells in two sentences. Three times a charm.

Hell.

Adios Infierno! / Dohs! de Mayo

Game 7 - Habs and Bruins. If Montreal wins, they play the Caps.

Then game 7 of Tampa and Pitt. If Boston wins then the winner plays Washington.

Just got home an hour ago. Worked til 22:00. So i'll watch this, fall asleep and then work manana por la manana (tomorrow in the morning).

I teach 8.5 hours manana ( a new record). Then pack and move Fri Morning. Then teach that night.

I kind of never stop. Like most all of us, i guess. Life moves at a quick step. With alacrity.

So another thing i've taught this week is an article; Man Thanks Dog for Eating His Toe. Last August this guy woke up with four toes. His dog had chewed it off. It was infected and his dog chomped it off. He was drunk as a lemur when he went to bed. The dog amputated it for him. I think i saw an episode like that on M*A*S*H*. I think Hawkeye chewed off Frank's gangrene toe after a bender. Or that's how i remember it. But the doctors at emergency also discovered he had diabetes. So he thanks his dog.

I give up. I'm going back to my home plant. This planet sucks. I miss Tralfamadore.

Monday is a holiday, so i can rest up and settle in. It's Dos De Mayo (when Madrid celebrates the begging of the uprising against Napoleon rule in 1808.

I have the flat to myself so i may have a "D'ohs!" de Mayo Party.

2-1 Boston.

JUEVES

Boston won. So did Tampa, so the Caps play The Tampa Bay Lightning. They are a team i would have rather avoided.

you can't always get what you want
-Rolling Stones

Don't i fucking know it! Stabile's two teams are the Rangers and the Lightning (proximity). SO this is round 2 for us.

It's 22:53. The movers will be here in 14 glorious hours. I couldn't sleep last night, worked late and then stress maybe, but now i have all this packing to do. At least the Peruvian refugees will be in bed soon and i can throw shit in the living room. They have no idea i am going. I'll be like Keyser Söze and just poof, disappear. Black ops. No trace. No name. No number. Just an echo in the wind. So, i am probably in for a long night. I just got home after a record 8.5 hours of class. I am a machine.

I just wrote an impassioned letter to the Ayudiamiento of Madrid (government) stating that because of the way they multiply uncontrollably, that you should be able to hunt Peruvians 'in season' to thin out their numbers. Like deer or kangaroos. It seems the environmentally responsible thing to do. Guns are hard to come by in Spain but i have a very sharp knife.

Music to say goodbye to hell by
Permanent Waves - Rush
Fair Warning - Van Haleny
Soup - Stickmen
Greatest Hits - Tom Petty
Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree
Animals - Pink Floyd

That's 5 hours of music. I hope it doesn't take longer than that. I hate long good-byes.

23:18
Get Cracking, Get Packing!

00:11

Some minor headway made. Lots to do. I could use an indentured servant. Why can't i find one? WHY?

I am tired. I only slept 3 hours last night. I had a load of stress nightmares the night before. Bleak.

Fuck you! Is that all you got? Bring it bitch!

Ah, mood swings. I love being a Gemini! Both of me. There's nothing like it.

Now i can't feel my toes. That means i am exhausted.

You must have heard the cautionary tales
The dangers hidden on the cul-de-sac trails
From wiser men who have been through it all
And the ghosts of failures spray-canned up on the wall
We've got to judge the judge
Got to find the finds
We've got to scheme the schemes
Have to line the lines
-Pete Townshend

left foot

right foot

pack

left pack

right pack