Right . . . is anybody else completely bored with finding tons of "Nas7y Par1s Hilton - longs fer yer junk like a biZnatch " emails in their bulk mail . . . and why am i getting stuff like "Beat your Menopause" ?

I went to dinner with jim and Ro at Tram's last night, and the plan was to get a Christmas tree afterwards, but when we pulled up to the place by Page Dairy mart, the tree folks were getting in thier trucks to go home for the night. DANG!!!
So we'll get a tree Saturday. Ended up going to Dee's later, to meet up with jim and Ro and Rudy. I met a crazy girl who flirted with me somethin' fierce, asked me for my phone number, but I figure I was back-up-plan-man because she let on that she was waiting for another dude to show. And of course he did. Cool enough dude, but it became readily apparent that girl wasn't fair game when she kissed his mouth. Shortly after that they both left and I went back to hang with my pals. It's fun to flirt/be flirted with, ahh someday ... some girl will figure it out.

I am finished for the semester. I submitted my Final Exam paper last night around midnight... it was due by 8:00 AM this morning. Now I have to scare up three letters of reference/recommendation for my application.

In other news, I heard some stuff from a girl band called The Likes . . . me likey The Likes. They have two songs from their EP, and both are pretty solid sounding tunes. You can also chek 'em out on my fave, KCRW (see link to the right ... ).

There's another band you can check out: Bedroom Walls. I really dig their chord progressions.

Speaking of which, in the midst of my Final Exam paper writing, I'd relieve my tired brain from its Herculean duty of making sense out of the absurdly abstract Beginnings, by setting myself at the piano. Something happened there in the afternoon, or perhaps over the past few days, and a song came out . . . it's not quite finished yet, but I like to think of it as a fine point of departure where there's plenty of room for stuff to grow.

Today, the Guardian is running an article they ran from Monday December 10, 1980.

A good weekend overall, Saturday was busy busy busy, what with taking apart my spinnet and rearranging the living room furniture with Jim to make room for my new piano ... ok, so it may be 100 years old, but it's been refurbished in the late '60's or early 70's, and been in my family since then.

the New Years eve invites went out, and the party's on... just gots to get some schtuff together in the mean time.