Simple rules for all those folks who keep requesting my friendship without prior interaction with me and without any introduction, explanation, etc....

( очень простые правила  )

Не могу понять в чем дело. По крайней мере два раза в месяц приходит запрос добавить в список друзей от каких-то странных людей. Я против "странности" ничего не имею (к тому же думаю, что и меня в эту категорию многие включают, и не без оснований :-}) но почему бы сначала не объясниться? Не в любви, конечно, просто в мимолетном своем интересе. Это ваша работа, граждане, не моя, хотя один из самых первых "кандидатов в друзья" утверждал противоположное, да еще высокомерно так - мол, читайте мой журнал и тогда модет быть поймете. А у меня, извините за грубость, жизнь в наличии имеется. Я человек мирный и дружелюбный, но не торчу в ЖЖ круглыми сутками, и если захожу, то обычно не нaдолго. Во избежание дальнейнеших обид и непонимания, прошу ознакомиться с моими очень простыми правилами:

Если хотите быть друзьями, напишите что-нибудь.
Два предложения или две страницы, сколько хотите.
На комментарии будет поставлен фильтр, так что никто кроме автора и меня их увидеть не сможет. Если запрос придет без комментария, значит вы не удосужились это прочитать, и я вас не только не добавлю, но и заблокирую. Если вы посылаете запросы всем подряд, от вас тем более не убудет. Однако если вы серьезно, то не пожалейте пары минут, чтобы это подтвердить.

Tags: friendship requests, запросы добавить в список друзей
Current Music: Three Mile Pilot - Aqua Magnetic

Two birthdays and two coming up!

Tags: birthdays, music, neglecting the online life, pall jenkins, superlungs, terry reid, three mile pilot
Current Music: Terry Reid - When I Get Home

OMG has it been really no posts since April? Wow I suck at blogs.
So I did move to San Diego. For a month. In the hindsight, it was like running away from problems instead of solving them.
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Tags: black heart procession, depression, drugs, dysphoria, jeff buckley, mobile phone service, moving to california, pall jenkins, river, san diego, terry reid, three mile pilot

Wow, California license is way more impressive than what the state of Arizona issued 2 years ago - that one is just a piece of paper, like the social security card.

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Tags: moving to california, neglecting the online life, three mile pilot
Current Music: Terry Reid - Anyway

in the nearest future I'll be going to Palm Desert to get fingerprinted for my California license.The irony is clearly off the charts.

Tags: california desert shitholes, fingerprinting, irony, moving to california, palm desert
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Jethro Tull - Wind Up

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
  - Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

( I'm excited and scared in equal proportions... )

Tags: anaglyth, anxiety, brian may, hand don't fit the glove, kid on helium, motto, moving to california, quotes, slide show, spring cleaning, stereo photography, summer sequence, the jaywalkers, writer's block
Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: The Hand Don't Fit The Glove - The Jaywalkers

Ah, sharks. I'm so behind. OK.  So dominoe tagged me with an M. It goes like this:
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.
Here, have 5 songs (1st two are links to a streaming file, cause me lazy...):

  1. Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' At Midnight (click on the 2nd song in the embedded player) His voice gives me the chills, still.
   2. The Church - Metropolis
  3. Terry Reid - May Fly (another voice that can blow out a few windows.)
  4. Claire Hamill - (The) Moon Is A Powerful Lover (that's a lady with a super voice. Yeah, I cheated with the "The" but I don't have enough M songs I really care about. So sorry)
  5. Three Mile Pilot - Midgaard Serpent. I love this song. You probably won't. I don't even know why I'm posting it.

Tags: claire hamill, howlin' wolf, letter m, meme, music, terry reid, the church, three mile pilot
Current Music: Deep Purple - Pictures Of Home

Beautiful and disturbing at once. It's the expression that gets me... I've never seen Terry this dysphoric.

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Tags: 1969, disaster, dysphoria, lp, old photo, superlungs, terry reid
Current Music: Hot Hot Heat - 5 Times Out of 100

Back from Vegas. It was an obligatory trip mostly, the "reunion" with the relatives of my mother-in-law. I didn't say Hajimimashte! to anybody, just in case I've met them before and have forgotten (it means something like "nice to get to meet you (for the 1st time)"). I'm glad I didn't, because indeed we all met before. My memory sucks.
I had a reasonably good time though missed large chunks of the conversation which were in Japanese.

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Tags: interstate trip, japanese relatives, las vegas
Current Music: Claire Hamill - The Moon Is A Powerful Lover

OK, so this took place on the 9th, but I it took me till today - right smack between our two birthdays - to write the very honest tale of seeing Mr.Superlungs for the first time ever. It was well worth the drive from Arizona to LA and then back (through Palm Springs - they have Crazy Shirts there, yay!)

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Tags: califonia, los angeles, mccabe's guitar shop, santa monica, superlungs, terry reid