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I Hope I Have Electricity Too

Posted by Lynnster on June 22, 2008

With a nod to ‘Coma for recently citing two of my favorite movies of all time, if I am stuck on a deserted island with nothing but a TV and a DVD player and only ten DVDs, I believe I can get by with these. In no particular order:

  1. River’s Edge – In the Nineties and pre-DVD days, I practically killed myself to get a VHS copy of this off eBay. Crispin Glover is a madman (in real life and on camera) – and was wonderful in the Back to the Future films – but he truly shines here in seriously disturbing and unnerving glory. Say what you will about Keanu Reeves, and yes, he’s played the same role a million times, but it suits him no better than in this film. The film is SUPPOSED to be disturbing and so are the characters. And to boot, it’s based on a true story. Side Trivia: Ione Skye Leitch, daughter of ’60s music icon Donovan, appears as Keanu’s love interest in the film, one of her first (Gas Food Lodging is another good one featuring her). She is also the ex-wife of Adam Horowitz of the Beastie Boys, and had a long-term live-in relationship with Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
  2. Heathers – Quite possibly my fave film of all time ever. Yeah, it’s starting to look a little dated now but that only adds to its charm nowadays. And the setting is Westerburg (sic) High School – need I say more? There are so many fabulous tongue-in-cheek in-jokes in this movie – the Heathers, Betty & Veronica, millions more – it’s just beautiful. Back in the days when I actually used to go OUT to the movies, I saw this one about five times in the theater in the same month. Side Trivia: Kim Walker, who played Heather Duke (the first dead Heather) was dating Christian Slater at the time, but they broke up during filming of the movie. Walker later developed a brain tumor and died in 2001 at the age of 32.
  3. Say Anything… – There have been few John Cusack movies I haven’t adored, but director Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything… is THE one. I have referenced Lloyd Dobler on this blog so many times over the years (as well as other Cusack films), I have a separate John Cusack category on the blog. I would have a super hard time picking a favorite scene, but my favorite is probably when Lloyd confronts the guys sitting outside the Gas ‘N Sip. Lili Taylor does a marvelous turn as well in this flick, and her songs about Joe (especially the one – you know the one) always have me in fits of giggles on the floor while watching. Side Trivia: Ione Skye also appears in this one, as Lloyd’s love interest Diane. The Replacement’s “Within Your Reach” is also notably featured in this film, which of course is another of the million reasons I fell in love with it so hard.
  4. Gremlins – I can’t even talk about how much I have always loved this movie without crying. I haven’t watched it in many, many years for the same reason. I first saw it while on summer vacation in a theater in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in 1984. Side Trivia: Judge Reinhold & Phoebe Cates also appeared together in another fondly remembered for me film of the ’80s, Cameron Crowe’s (again) Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It’s not one of my very favorites and it’s certainly gotten dated, but it is still funny, especially if you grew up in the ’80s.
  5. Less Than Zero – Another, to borrow a phrase, ’80s “the kids are NOT all right” film, and another I practically paid an arm and a leg for to get a VHS copy of back in the ’90s. This one is akin to a John Hughes movie gone all wrong. It’s got its problems and on the surface would appear to be really out there as far as the whole wealthy and disaffected youth thing, but it’s really not as implausible as one would think. The details of the scenes themselves may have been different, but mainly due to geographics – the base story existed all over the country at the time, including Nashville. Side Trivia: Oh, James Spader, how despicable you are in this film, but how I adore you anyway and have in every film you’ve ever been in.
  6. Sid & Nancy – And thus begun the rest of my lifelong adoration of Gary Oldman as well. There are much better films he’s been in (and I love each and every one of them), but Alex Cox’s Sid & Nancy was his first big role, and there was just no one else who could have been a more perfect Sid Vicious. It’s the most disturbing and disgusting and sickening love story and everything punk was, a beautiful film in all its ugliness and has one of the best soundtracks ever. My friend Jen used to do the best Chloe Webb doing Nancy (”SIIIIIIIIID!”) that would have me rolling in the floor. Side Trivia: Look for an extremely young Courtney Love in a few scenes as one of Nancy Spungen’s pals.
  7. Drugstore Cowboy – I used to not think very highly of Matt Dillon as an actor until this one came out, and I became a fan of Gus Van Sant’s films on this one. Like many of my favorites, it’s disturbing and difficult to watch, but one of the greatest things about this film is that even though the story is pitiful and pathetic, Matt Dillon is SO funny in it. Under the surface of all the dirty drug addiction tale, this movie is hilarious. Also has an excellent soundtrack of gems from the time of the film’s setting, including The Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction”, Desmond Dekker’s “The Israelites”, Gary Lewis & the Playboys’ “Judy in Disguise”, and Hazel, KY/slash/Puryear, TN (my home county) native Jackie DeShannon’s “Put a Little Love in Your Heart”. Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho is also pretty good though a little faulty; this one is better. Side Trivia: Matt Dillon’s first big film role as a young teen was in another big all-time favorite of mine that has become a cult classic of sorts, Over the Edge – another one that has gotten very ’70s dated over time but still well worth watching, plus then-not-so-known Cheap Trick is largely featured on the soundtrack. As a commenter on iMDB noted, Over the Edge was “a teen movie that gets it right”.
  8. Dogs in Space – An Australian film you’ve probably never heard of and another disaffected youth mostly on drugs flick, but this time based in Melbourne’s post-punk scene of the late ’70s – and also based on more true stories, and starring – yes – the late Michael Hutchence of INXS. This film is such a favorite of mine I paid an extremely huge amount of money to get the VHS tape in the ’90s, and the last time I checked on DVD prices (which admittedly has been a few years now) it could be had for $200-350 – that price has probably gone down by now. Very much a “slice of life” flick and disturbing in places to watch, but it’s excellent and also has a soundtrack far beyond excellent – Iggy Pop, Nick Cave/Boys Next Door, Brian Eno, Gang of Four, and some more legends of the time as well as the fab tracks done by Hutchence and crew.  An iMDB commenter said, “This is for when you’re feeling like you need some company, but you don’t feel like venturing past your doorstep” – I agree.  Side Trivia: The real Sam Sejavka, who fronted Melbourne band The Ears in the late ’70s and is played by Hutchence in the film, appears in the movie twice and is addressed by Hutchence in the party scene as “Michael”.
  9. Quandary: Real Genius or The Doors – I can’t help it, I do love me some Val Kilmer, and if I could take another dozen or so films I’d be taking all the Val Kilmer films as well as the entire John Hughes oeuvre with me. Real Genius is so freakin’ hilarious through and through and I defy anyone to disagree with me. Oliver Stone’s epic The Doors has got its problems but it mostly gets it right and dang, Kilmer did such a dead-on Jim Morrison it’s almost creepy, I can’t help it, I think his performance in this film was brilliant. This was another I saw probably eight times or more while it was still first-run in the theater. Probably in the end, The Doors would win out, but jeez, it’d be a tough call. Side Trivia: Kilmer did most of the singing in the film himself and even the surviving Doors (Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore) admitted they had a hard time telling the difference. So did I the first time I saw the film; I had no idea it wasn’t Jim Morrison’s vocals. On that basis alone, par excellence. Also look for a fairly large number of Doors associates and other scenesters of the time, including producer Paul Rothchild, Patricia Kennealy, singer Bonnie Bramlett, Eric Burdon of The Animals, and a Door himself – drummer John Densmore – in cameo appearances.
  10. Another tough call – Birdy or Platoon? – My decades-long adoration of and obsession with Matthew Modine is only barely outweighed by John Cusack and only slightly precedes James Spader, and having to decide between these two films is awful, though Birdy would probably win out in the end. This also meant I had to toss out another huge Modine favorite and an underappreciated and hugely funny one that probably doesn’t appear on many favorites lists, Married to the Mob. All three are fabulous films for their own reasons. Side Trivia: Having now mentioned Birdy, I also have to mention two more that didn’t make the cut – Valley Girl and Raising Arizona, all featuring Modine’s Birdy co-star Nicolas Cage, also good. Valley Girl, which was really Cage’s big film break, is worth it for The Plimsouls on stage alone. Wow, I first saw that one at the drive-in in 1983.

God, that was awful to try to choose ten and I still didn’t really succeed. Here are a few more – runners-up, I suppose – that didn’t make the final cut:

  1. Edward Scissorhands – I love this movie in all its goofy glory so much it makes me cry and it killed me to leave it off the list. In retrospect, I might have to swap one of the above for it. Side Trivia: Speaking of Tim Burton, there’s also Beetlejuice, of course.
  2. Pretty much all of the John Hughes Brat Pack-era movies (which you likely knew was coming) and Joel Schumacher’s St. Elmo’s Fire – It’d be a hard call, but St. Elmo’s Fire would be the first cut ‘cos it’s almost too cheesy. Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty in Pink, I love but could live without. The Breakfast Club is, well, The Breakfast Club, but it’s not my very favorite. It’d come down to a tremendously agonizing tug of war between Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and I honestly don’t know which would win. Ferris would probably win, though. Even though – Side Trivia: John Cusack makes his second film appearance in a small part as one of the geeks in Sixteen Candles.
  3. Ciao! Manhattan – As much as I adore this, which is not so much a real film per se but more of a collection of some of the few remaining pieces of film footage of Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, as well as many other Factory scenesters, I just can’t justify it being one of the ten. Still, it’d be hard. Side Trivia: I hear the DVD, which I still don’t own, has loads of extra footage and modern commentary by some of the actors from what was supposed to have been the original film, and I’m dying to see it.
  4. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains – Unless you had The Movie Channel or HBO in the early ’80s, you probably don’t know this film; it’s been out of print and unavailable for decades. I had a taped copy for years and the tape finally broke seven or eight years ago. This was one of Diane Lane’s earliest films and also features a very young Laura Dern. It’s an excellent film and, along with the aforementioned Over the Edge, is as responsible for my musical obsessions/addictions as any piece of recorded music is. I was pleasantly shocked and surprised to see co-star Ray Winstone’s name for the first time in years when he turned up in the multi-award winning Nil By Mouth in 1997. The good news is that after years of fans pleading, I got word the other day via MySpace that the film is finally going to be released on DVD and, in fact, the very next day got a notification from Amazon that the DVD was now available for pre-ordering. Side Trivia: Former Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, and former Clash bassist Paul Simonon, appear as the other members of the band in the movie led by Winstone.
  5. Pretty much every Kevin Smith and David Lynch film ever made – I can’t decide. I can’t, I can’t. Though I guess Dogma and Blue Velvet. Or maybe Chasing Amy and Eraserhead. Or… I can’t decide. Don’t make me.

God, that was painful. And it would really suck if there was no electricity on that island.

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Tuxedos & Oscar Just Kinda Go Together Anyway

Posted by Lynnster on February 24, 2008

I hadn’t been by one of my fave blogs in a while, Abbie the Cat Has a Posse, so when I stopped by tonight I was distressed to learn that Abbie had been missing for a while (for real) earlier this month.  Upon further reading, I was relieved to discover that he had been found, thank goodness.   Not really surprised he turned up – a 20-lb. tuxedo cat wouldn’t get overlooked very easily, I don’t think – but certainly glad he did, after what was apparently a pretty large effort by many folks to help find him, and his owner, known as The Guy, is understandably relieved.  Hopefully Abbie will get back to blogging and report on all his adventures away from home soon.

And, if by chance you missed the Oscars tonight, The Squirrel Queen live blogged the whole thing, so drop by and catch up if you have a mind to.  Apparently red was the in color this year, and you know, I’m sorry, but Cameron Diaz just sucks anyway.

Posted in blogfolks, blogstuff, cats, celebrity fruitcakes, celebrity other crap, film fiend stuff, television | 2 Comments »

Yeah, Everyone’s a Critic

Posted by Lynnster on July 26, 2007

As some know, I am a lover of movies, and even very briefly considered changing majors and schools and going to film school when I was in my early twenties.

I have never walked out of a theater while a film was still running, and I have only once turned off a movie in the middle at home and didn’t finish watching it because it was boring me to tears.  That one would be this one.

One I have always been a little sorry I didn’t do the same, and stop it within the first hour: this one.

That’s all I got, but for god’s sake, don’t rent either or I’ll have to say I told you so.

PS Just wanted to let Jon and Katie know I’m thinking of them and eagerly awaiting word of the upcoming Charlotteness. And much love to everyone else and I miss you all.  I’m not dead, just stuck in the black hole of blogging, apparently.

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Hi Ho, Hi Ho

Posted by Lynnster on January 3, 2007

One of the things I bought my Mom for Christmas was a Netflix gift subscription, mainly for the express purpose of her finally getting to see all seasons of Six Feet Under and Dead Like Me. (I know SFU has been running on A&E, but it’s also somewhat censored, and completionist that I am – well, you know). I wasn’t sure if she’d really get into using Netflix, but I told her if she likes it, then I’ll renew her subscription for Mother’s Day.

So the other day I go take a look at her queue to see what else she’s tagged to get and watch.

Um, she is filling up her queue with Disney movies.

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Lala How the Life Goes On

Posted by Lynnster on November 17, 2006

Just wanted to add that even though it’s a sad day today all over Tennessee, it is perfectly okay to:

(1) Make fun of my desire to buy the entire line of action figures from the film The Warriors so I can recreate pivotal scenes from the film with them – a different scene each day!

(2) Scare me with smoke inhalation stories. And yes, I still smell it, tho it’s getting a little better and not as frequent.

(3) Comment on my comment to your comment from the other day on my comment from the other day about your post from two and half weeks ago.

(4) Whatever.

I’m just sayin’ don’t feel any need to be quiet on my account. Besides, it’s my understanding (and from reading her own blogging) BJ had an exceptional sense of humor and seemed to be a really fun person, and this afternoon AT said everyone should pop a beer if they had one, that BJ would have wanted things that way. I imagine she would approve of blogging fun going on in her wake. So I’m not going to make any attempt to contain whatever silly goofy wacky barrels of monkeys I may or may not have been saving up for the weekend.

So, eventually tonight I might post what was supposed to be the REAL post for Day #17, as both the fire one and the announcement were unplanned. (Or I might just be lazy and save it for tomorrow.) And then I might taste-test some of these dozen or so mini-bottles of liquor I’ve got hanging around since last Christmas for a while, and then go drunk-commenting around my fave blogs. You know, like drunk-dialing, but in blogdom.

Oh! Remember the candy discussion? I discovered another new, non-chocolate candy I like last night – well, not really new but new flavors – Jolly Ranchers Smoothies. They’re awesome! Except I had one of each flavor sitting on my desk today and now one’s missing, why are my cats stealing my Jolly Ranchers…

Watermelon Smoothie Jolly Rancher – good. Except, ow – Jolly Rancher stuck in back teeth now. Bad. Ouch.

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It’s Survival in the City

Posted by Lynnster on November 16, 2006


This should have been a Halloween post, but as most of my friends and family will tell you, I am late for everything anyway. So, no reason why this should be any different.

In post trick-or-treat years, I didn’t have much occasion to dress up in costume again and most of the time whenever I did, it wasn’t Halloween. One of my batches of friends from college (hello, Swams!) had a habit of throwing costume and theme parties year ’round, not just Halloween. Beach parties in the middle of February, that kind of thing. My costume for most of these events was usually that of Drunk Blonde Chick. For the beach party, it was Drunk Blonde Chick with Red Ray-Bans, Sandals, & a Lei. You get the general idea.

The one time I did actually go in costume at Halloween was a Halloween party one of the school clubs was having my senior year in high school, fall of 1983, and that was my favorite costume ever. I wish I had an picture of me dressed up, but for some reason nobody took any photos that night, so you’ll just have to use your imagination. I borrowed an old baseball uniform and bat that had once belonged to my then-boyfriend’s older brother and went as this guy you see here.

Purple Fury

Actually, I didn’t go as this one, I went as one of his comrades – the blue-faced Fury, to be specific. The purple-faced action figure was just the only one I could find a decent picture of. Anyway, this is pretty much what I looked like, except instead of purple and black, blue and black, with some subtle differences. And I am not made out of plastic. But I was pretty scary looking as a Fury, or at least as scary-looking as a 5′2″ Baseball Fury could be.

So, if “The Baseball Furies” means nothing to you, I’m not sure we can be friends anymore. Well, OK, I guess we can. But you’re on probation now. I’m just sayin’. Unless you’re under 30-35 and then I guess to be fair I’m forced to cut you some slack, I s’pose.

When I was zipping around looking for photos, I must have come across a bazillion pics of folks dressed up as the Furies – including one of my fellow NIT bloggers who’s done the Fury thing before (and also Luther!) – so that kinda tickled me to find the Furies continue to be a popular costume. For those of you who don’t know (and that are now on probation, heh), the Baseball Furies were one of the many gangs who tried to stop the Warriors from getting back home to Coney Island in the 1979 film of the same name (The Warriors, duh).

Unfortunately, the Furies were also probably the biggest pussies of all the gangs that came across the Warriors’ path, but they had the coolest costumes. (And a bit of Warriors trivia – rather than other actors, the Furies were all stunt men who were working on the set.)

There was no film more revered in Camden, Tennessee in the early to mid-Eighties. There are probably about 116 Camden natives of a certain age (mine) that have the dubious ability, still to this day, 25-ish years later, to be able to quote that movie from start to finish, because we all watched it forty hundred and eleven times. Around 1982-83, not too many people had VCRs yet (I know that’s incomprehensible to some these days) – I had one at my house, a few of my friends had them at theirs. It just became a ritual. Too boring uptown? Let’s all go to JBird’s and watch The Warriors. Too hot and tired of swimming at Lynnster’s? Let’s go inside and put The Warriors in. Snow and ice falling everywhere and they’ve canceled school tomorrow? Let’s all go out to Ang’s and watch The Warriors. Twice. And spend the night (girls upstairs, boys in the basement) and all get up in the morning and watch it AGAIN.

Fury Action Figures

So, the action figures! If I had a lot of cash to blow, I’d be tempted to buy ‘em all. They have them at ToyWiz.com. The original series all came in dirty (bloody) and clean versions. The Ajax one is quite rare and priced high. They also have the blue Fury (MY Fury) priced at $749.99 but I suspect that’s an error. And here’s the funny thing… they all come with several little accessories. For instance, the Luther action figure comes with a tiny broken bottle, so you can re-enact the whole “Warriors… come out to pla-ay…” scene perfectly. If you do that kind of thing. Which I would never do. (ahem)

I was a big Twin Peaks fan back in the day and it just pleased me to no end when David Patrick Kelly, who was Luther in The Warriors, showed up in Twin Peaks as Jerry Horne. But I digress yet again…

Anyway, back to my Halloween costume as the blue Baseball Fury. There was one really bad thing about that costume that was an unpleasant surprise. About two hours into the party, that makeup started itching like hell. By the time I left the party, I’d scratched a good bit of it off, and what didn’t come off was a bitch to get off later. And my face looked like a tomato for the next week, it was so red and swollen from all the itching and scratching.

But still, it was worth it. Best costume EVER.

If there’s a next time, tho, I think I’ll just dye my hair black and go as Mercy. Much, much easier, and for anyone who doesn’t get the in-joke, they’ll just think I’m dressed as a hooker anyway.

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So Tired of Waking Up Tired

Posted by Lynnster on January 31, 2006

Must post before February arrives so it actually looks like I’m at least making a halfhearted attempt at daily updates… ok, ok, here goes… oh, hi. Giggle.

A couple of suggestions… if you are new here and trying to figure me out (and should that happen, PLEASE let me know since I have yet to figure me out either) and wanting to read up on past history, I guess I would recommend for the time being going backwards, mainly ‘cos most of the first two years of the Zone’s existence hasn’t made it over here yet, I still gotta move that stuff (March 1997 thru July 1998). But I should get all that junk moved over in the next week or two so if you are obsessive about wanting to go in forward chronological order, that’ll be possible soon.

If you are an old friend/visitor from the old site and you’ve just now found me again and just now realized I have been updating again, albeit sporadically for a while – especially if you hadn’t been by in a really, really long time – I would recommend starting with March 2005 as that was the first really big update/major catch-up in a long, long time and starting there and going forward should bring you up to speed with all things du Lynnster.

The visitor stats (on Blogger) are, of course, not technically literally correct since I just moved everything over here in January and just know I’m fully aware of that. It’s not set like it is to impress anybody or anything. It’s set that way starting with the final count from the old site ‘cos all I wanna know is how many people have visited the Zone – no matter where it was living at the time – since Day One. So if that’s gonna bug you just pretend it’s not there or something, it’s for my benefit solely and – of course and as always – that’s all that matters. Heh.

Also, not like I haven’t mentioned this forty billion times already, but I’m also mirroring on LiveJournal, so if you like cutesy stuff and the current soundtrack and stuff like that, there’s that. The link’s at the bottom of the side panel.

OK. Enough of all that. Other than moving the rest of the missing ’90s entries, I am pretty much moved in over here now, have added all my fave links and Lynnstered this place up and woohoo. Things are starting to feel normal again… whatever that means.

What does NOT feel normal is, of all the hundreds of times I’ve made off-the-cuff comments about driving myself into clinical exhaustion… lately I’m a little afraid I maybe am! I have been working my ass off since the first week of December with nary a break and now I’m doing things like I did tonight – falling asleep sitting up straight in the chair here at the computer for three hours after I got thru working for the day. Been doing that a lot lately and last week I was so exhausted, at one point I was actually hallucinating (nothing fun, really weird stuff like hearing music where there was none on and some other moderately trippy moments, pretty boring stuff really).

Well, it’s really no wonder I am so beat. Last week I got to thinking about it and scribbled down some figures and realized I have been averaging anywhere from 65-95 hours a week working the last two months, with very few full days totally off not working at all – and that’s just the paid work, that’s not even counting the volunteer work on the side! I didn’t add those hours in nor do I care to know. And considering how bad I have been at time management the last couple of weeks – for instance, last week from 5 p.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Thursday, I managed to get a total of 4.5 hours sleep during that entire time period – it’s no wonder I’m about to drop dead.

I haven’t fared much better so far this week – since about 6 p.m. Sunday, I have had 1.75 hours of sleep (not counting the three hour pseudonap I just took) and now here it is late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. But at least I’m not walking around dizzy all the time or hallucinating anymore. Getting some decent sleep Friday and Saturday nights helped immensely.

So starting late last week, I started making an attempt to rein this monster in and managed to work it out where I had absolutely NO work to do this weekend, and that worked. Except I spent a whole bunch of hours working on moving into the new blog, but, well, you know.

And having started out the week this week exhausted since I never went to bed Sunday ‘cos, well, I just wasn’t sleepy – Monday I had decided that I was not going to take on any freelance work for the early part of this week if I could help it, and planned on spending at least Monday evening and maybe some more just messing around after getting thru with regularly scheduled work Monday day. I wanted to do some stuff like fix up a few more things here in the blog/journal, and watch at least one of the movies I’ve had sitting around for two weeks now trying to get around to watching.

A great idea in theory, but not to be. Due to some misunderstanding and miscommunication last week, it turns out I actually did have some unfinished work to do last week… if I had only known it was waiting for me. So, much as I did NOT want to do anything that wasn’t “me” time Monday night, I ended up doing that, working thru the night. And as usual, it took longer than I’d hoped. So I got 1.75 hours sleep in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, then put in a full day of regular work. Then, as aforementioned, passed out cold at the computer desk this evening.

Which brings me to here. The nap did help, uncomfy tho it was, and I am planning on going to bed at a semi-decent hour (for me, the night owl), and Thursday’s my usual day off so I’ll be able to rest up some more, hopefully. The unplanned work Monday means I get unexpected pay this week, and I got my check from my job that pays for my ‘Net access this week (which I always forget about it being time to come, so it’s always a pleasant surprise when it arrives), so I can kind of afford to take it easy this week, I think. I know I really probably need to, and I need to get this time management thing between the three jobs and the volunteer work/job under control so I don’t wind up hallucinating again, ya think? Yeah.

So yeah, other than killing myself lately with all this stuff, that’s about it. I have been desperately trying to get to movies/catch-up TV for two weeks and just haven’t, but by god, I’m going to this week, I’m determined.

And speaking of that – let’s talk about my Netflix queue. Yeah, I finally bit the bullet and opened up an account. I got rid of Showtime and HBO last fall after realizing that it had been like almost two years since I’d watched anything on them – and paying Time Warner any more money than necessary just goes against every principle I have, I hate that I’d been paying them for that stuff for the last two years – but that’s not really the reason I opened up an account with Netflix. I mean, yeah, I’d thought about that before, just doing that instead of paying TW’s exorbitant prices for premium channels on digital cable, but it was actually something else that made the light bulb go off my head – and kick myself about a thousand times after for not having thought about it before.

One of the reasons I had kept Showtime and HBO so long was because there were so many shows I had fallen in love with, as well as others I’d wanted to see and just never really got around to or kept forgetting about ‘em. Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Queer As Folk – big fan all along. Dead Like Me, saw one episode and meant to keep watching it and didn’t. Oz, got into late and didn’t see the first couple of seasons but really into once I did. Anyway, anyone who’s been around the Zone much knows what a huge Six Feet Under, especially, fan I’ve been since the first episode.

Well, there was this point in time in early 2004 where things got kinda busy and crazy and I fell behind on my weekly watching. And kept on falling more and more behind. And even with reruns, marathons, etc. – it just kept seeming more and more hopeless and futile to even try and catch up. I had the Six Feet Under DVD sets on my Christmas lists the last couple of years – and that is something I do want to own one day – but my family doesn’t seem to be terribly interested in feeding into my obsessive TV and film habit, tho once in a while and depending on what it is they will get me a movie I want or something.

All that really hit home last year when I started reading about it being Six Feet Under’s final season, and more recently reading about The Sopranos starting up again soon (which, remember, I don’t have HBO or Showtime anymore). Now, mind you – I do kinda know some of what happened during the last couple of seasons of Six Feet Under, and I do know the Cliffs Notes version of how it ended. But please don’t tell me anything else and spoil it all for me, I’m behind from mid-Season Three on.

Anyhow, so fast forward to about three weeks ago, when I’m just sitting there working and for some reason thinking, yet again, “Damn, I’d really like to see the rest of what all I missed on (insert any of the aforementioned shows here)”. And then I mourned a little about the fact that apparently no one is going to buy me any of the Six Feet Under season sets on DVD for Christmas or my birthday. And then it hit me.

Well, DUH. Now why didn’t it ever occur to me before that they are all (or will be) on DVD and thus they are rentable?

So yeah, now my Netflix queue is pretty much episode disc after episode disc of various HBO and Showtime series. I do have some movies in the queue too, as well as two here at home – planning to finish watching May tonight and watch Wonderland sometime this week – but yeah. Finally I get to catch up.

Anyway, damn. I’ll be getting caught up on my shows. I’ve got the old Graffiti Wall moved and christened in its blogdom and am even posting sorta regularly, hopefully even better as time goes on. For the first time in three or four years, things are suddenly starting to seem “normal” and “regular” again. I feel like I have just come out of a years-long coma. Wonder what’s next? Well, I can tell you this, it ain’t gonna be the kitchen getting straightened up, uh uh, no way.

In other news, had a big dog fight today. I have really got a problem with Buster and Petey picking on Bruiser. As old readers will know, I have long suspected Bruiser might be autistic or just a little retarded. Before she died, their mama always treated him a little differently than the others – some disciplinary type action when I couldn’t really see any reason for that to happen, some other things that were unusual compared to how she treated the others. Autistic or retarded, who knows, but at the very least I guess he is the weakest of the bunch and this is the second major blowout there’s been, although they have been spaced out by months. Poor little guy will not usually go all the way out in the yard when Buster and Petey are roughhousing, he is obviously scared of them. And I don’t really know what happened to precipitate today’s altercation other than I guess just getting in each other’s personal space. And tho there’s been a couple of very minor, little injuries, it hasn’t progressed farther than that. But I wish they’d stop, ‘cos it’s really scary when they do that. Plus they knocked me over today and I fell face first in the dirt, dammit. Just glad it hasn’t rained in a few days or it would have been mud!!!

All four of the puppies (Brian says, “When are you gonna stop calling them puppies? They’re almost two years old, Lynn!”) definitely have their own individual personalities. Petey is twice as big as everyone, especially Daisy but even his feet are bigger than the other boys’, and he’s Mom’s protector. Buster is so spoiled rotten that no matter who you call to come over to you – dog, cat, whatever – you get Buster too… I think he knows he was originally supposed to have been the only one to stay. Bruiser is my cuddlebug and my pretty boy, he’s a sweet baby and you just cuddle him like a stuffed animal. And Daisy, well, she’s just perfect and has every dog in this house, including her Uncle Dobie, wrapped around her little paw.

Strangely too, finally some evidence of breed has come out – Daisy and Bruiser have really had what appears to be Collie come out in them in more recent months. Buster still looks like his mama, the black Lab, except for his white body and the teeny white stripe on his big black head. And then there’s Petey. Petey, Petey… born with the white question mark on his head, and for good reason. No idea. But he’s HUGE. Big head, big feet, just big.

In closing, got some of the new Skippy Snack Bars today. They were in the granola bar/Pop Tart section of the store and I’m a big fan of granola bars and the like (preferably Nature Valley crunchy, no chewy granola bars for me, thanks) and peanut butter so it seemed like a good idea. They’re all right, too small and too expensive because of that tho. And too bad Jif didn’t put them out instead. Choosy Lynnsters have ALWAYS chosen Jif… and with that, I bid you adieu ’til ‘morrow…

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What’s Up?

Posted by Lynnster on October 13, 2000

So I found out in the course of my extended absence from here that (A) somebody besides the whiny KC/Greg/Duncan/Jo/etc contingent and Stef actually reads this thing, and (B) people I don’t even know, or at least don’t think I have ever met, actually read this thing, and regularly… so upon finding all this interesting info out I am once again motivated to rant and rave at will, at least until and unless I get pissed off again, so, in that case… hi!!

Really tho I’ve just been staying so busy constantly with eBay junk, i.e., my second just about dang near full time job, as well as some private buying, just haven’t had time to be here… vintage Barbie has been berry berry good to yours truly this summer, anyhow. But, I have waded thru and sifted out all the junk mail, expired stuff and other such clutter in my mailbox, answered a few, and am getting around to the rest, I think I still have mail from 1997 in there but I am slowly but surely getting around to everything, including maybe even updating the website some, in fact, I have to now because someone finally solved the Monarchs Riddle, yay!

I’ve also been pretty tied up trying to get my latest cat family addition, who’s now undergone $300 worth of surgery and basically had himself a facelift, to stop hating all his new brothers and sisters and, since he’s not playing nice, spending quality time with him in what’s become his room and he is most assuredly getting way too spoiled rotten.

What else have I done or has gone on… well, let’s see, our Stef in Boston got married in the interim so congrats all around there… I learned that I have, unknowingly, not had any health insurance coverage this entire year and have instructed my family that if something happens to me they are to sue my employer’s you-know-whats off… I got the new STP CD and man, is it awesome… been to funerals, missed funerals, found out about funerals three weeks too late… Chuckie & Jan have a beautiful new baby girl named Maggie…

Went to see The Watcher, now that was a cool movie, and James Spader and Keanu Reeves in one sitting is about more than a gal should be expected to have to withstand, but I must say here, it was REALLY weird seeing Keanu play a bad guy for a change, and every once in a while I felt like I was watching Bill & Ted’s Excellent Serial Killing Adventure… I continue to harbor reasonable grudges against 22% of my ex-boyfriends…

The Hoodoo Gurus played a one-off reunion gig in Sydney during the Olympics and I wasn’t there, but bless Robbo, Sven, and the always pleasant Andy Kelly for making me feel like I almost was…

Cole & Donna came down with the kids one day and yet another reason why I don’t have kids occurred to me after spending maybe an hour walking around the mall at Wolfchase looking for Halloween costumes (John Stephen is to be Bugs Bunny this year) and came home as exhausted as if I’d been walking around there for twenty hours instead of one…

KC experienced a fit of genuine and selfless generosity and I waited for the sky to fall in for a couple of days, but amazingly it never happened… for the first time ever in nearly eleven years I am thinking about changing jobs… it got cold… there was an unbelievably huge wreck right out in front of my house one night, the aftermath of which turned into kinda a neighborhood block party…

Our man in Sydney, Jimm, was here in the States for weeks and I didn’t get to see him this time around, but thanks to the power of USPS Priority Mail I made sure he went home with stacks of Goo Goo Clusters and chocolate Moon Pies… I also recently saw the movie Hillary and Jackie and it was truly incredible, I had no idea… the annual girls’ slumber party time is coming up again, and can you believe we’ve been doing this for ten years now…

Gorman Bechard’s (out of print but you can usually find it on Half.com) book The Second Greatest Story Ever Told is about the second most hilarious novel I’ve read in my entire life (the first being the oft-mentioned Tommy Womack book) and has many Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson references for any Replacements fan to die for… and I don’t know, that’s probably about it.

Spending Christmas in Chattanooga this year, so expect an ice storm to befall the entire Southeast again just before, just like it did last time I was driving to Chattanooga for Christmas and nearly stranded me by myself in Memphis for the holiday… just thought I’d warn y’all in advance.

So I like just about fell over in shock when I opened up my Commercial Appeal one morning a few weeks ago to find ’80s Nashville power pop party boys the White Animals as the front page story and photo in the Appeal section… my god, talk about one’s gloriously misspent youth staring one in the face! After getting over the shock, I was absolutely thrilled to learn that not only are they doing some shows here and there (including New Year’s Eve in Birmingham) but have put out a new compilation CD, which means I can finally have all, or almost all, of the Ecstasy album back again!! That poor pitiful cassette tape I had from 1986 literally died from overuse ages and ages ago, and definitely has been leaving a great big hole in my Nashville Underground music collection ever since. I need to update and revise the entire Links section again, but if you want a copy of the new compilation CD for yourself you can go to the Links section and go check it out, look at old and new photos, all kinds of stuff. Now if someone would just re-release that 1986 or ‘87 Jet Black Factory album, The Movement’s self-titled one, the entire Government Cheese catalog and the City Without a Subway compilation on CD…

Anyway, I must go for now but will probably think of things I forgot later… goodnight Evan D. wherever you are, and talk to the rest of y’all later…

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We Care a Lot

Posted by Lynnster on June 27, 2000

Hello. Wish I had time for lots of stuff tonight, but I don’t… and I don’t have time to return phone calls before 3 in the morning, either, so like, you know, once again, e-mail me with news & stuff, the chances I’ll get back to you are a heck of a lot better at this point with that than the stupid phone. Tonight I’m digging the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack, if you haven’t got it you should… what can I say, the Violent Femmes, The Clash, David Bowie & Queen doing “Under Pressure”, Guns N’ Roses, really old Faith No More, The Jam, The Specials, can’t really do much more to shoot me right back to college and HS again, heh, the Bowie/Queen alone will do that immediately, 1982 in a heartbeat.

Anyway, speaking of Grosse Point Blank – a great flick – anyone who’s been here very long knows John Cusack is one of my fave actors and Say Anything… is just about my fave movie of all time, a fondness I also share with my evil brother-in-law Troy, and we also share this theory about John Cusack having been Lloyd Dobler in just about every movie since… you think about it, you’ll get it. Lloyd Dobler as a hit man in Grosse Point Blank. Lloyd Dobler as an air traffic controller in Pushing Tin. Even – not quite so perfectly but almost – Lloyd Dobler as a puppeteer in Being John Malkovich. About the only movie he hasn’t been Lloyd Dobler again in is Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and I’m not even 100% sure of his non-Lloyd Doblerness in that. And I haven’t seen it yet but I’m absolutely positive of this – Lloyd Dobler as an indie record store owner in High Fidelity.

Anyway, I gotta go, only other thing I have to say is life is suddenly starting to make some sense for a change, that’s scary. But cool. Later…

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Screamin’ Skull

Posted by Lynnster on June 21, 2000

I have been so tired thus far this week I’m not even worth shooting, but since I had to get on AOL anyway tonight I thought I’d write a sec. Among many other reasons I haven’t been sleeping, I got so sick & tired of being behind at work I brought a ___load of it home Monday night and finally quit & went to bed around 5 a.m., but you know what, I don’t care how tired I am because at least I’m finally caught up thru June at work!! Now to just deal with June seeing as how June’s almost over… nothing really else to report, I am awaiting the results of several possibly misguided decisions this week so, surely by the end of the week, I will either be reeeeeeally really happy & in good humor, or someone will be checking me into Lakeside… tho I have no idea who seeing as how my mother is flying to England this weekend (and we won’t even discuss how jealous I am about that!).

So, anyway, things are quiet, a lot of late nights, not much of any interest to spout at the moment. I did come to one conclusion this week tho -

It is a terrible and absolute travesty that the Fleshtones’ Hexbreaker! album is not available on CD!! I am just sick. There are probably less than six nearly-impossible-to-finds on my list for my neverending search to replace all my music on CD now, and that’s one of them, and it’s just like, not out there. And that’s a shame, that’s really one of the best albums of all time, or at least of the last two decades…

Speaking of the Fleshtones, one of my friends used to date one of the guys in that band and it just occurred to me – years and years later now – that I think it’s the same Fleshtone mentioned in the Hoodoo Gurus’ (most excellent) video collection, Electric Soup (see “Axegrinder”)… now, I’ve known my friend for years now and I’ve had that video for at least four or five, why on earth I just now made that connection is beyond me!! (”Lynsey’s train of thought, tape delay, it’s all the same thing.” – K. Callicott, 1993.)

Anyhow…. yeah, other than Hexbreaker!, I’m really close to being finished seeking and finding, with the exception of whatever else just hasn’t occurred to me yet. The only other thing I am actively hunting at the moment is Let’s Active’s Big Plans For Everybody, which can be found but for not much less than $25 or $30, so… yeah, as far as musically, things are kinda spot-on cool and I’m about to make a ten-volume Ultimate Road Trip Mix collection… woohoo.

Oh, on the film front (I keep forgetting about this) – Boys Don’t Cry, thumbs UP. Ms. Swank deserved that Oscar like no other. I knew it’d be good, but it truly bowled me over – a powerful, powerful flick. The Bone Collector is also pretty cool. On the other hand, I found Fight Club semi-boring and ridiculous, tho with some interesting parts, a bit of shame since I never met a Brad Pitt flick I didn’t like… and on the completely opposite side of everything, do not even waste your time seeing Eyes Wide Shut. That was a huge disappointment for me as I’ve always been a Kubrick fan, but my god, I think that may well be the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. Never thought I’d see a Tom Cruise or Kubrick movie I loathed, but that one is certainly it. It is truly awful, horribly boring, much too long, and many other horrid things. I can almost always find something to like about even the worst movies – some of the worst films ever made are so hilarious that makes them good – but this one, nope, there ain’t nothing at all redeeming about it. Do not bother.

So that’s Lynnster’s movie reviews for the month, which I suppose belong on the Movies page but I’m too tired to update more than one page right now. Anyhow – being that it’s almost the end of our fiscal year at work, don’t expect much ’til after 07/01, but maybe I’ll be back. Otherwise, see ya in July!

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You Talk Too Much

Posted by Lynnster on April 3, 2000

My horoscope today actually had the audacity to tell me to ramble on at will tonight, can you believe that? That’s a shame, ‘cos I really don’t have much to report at the moment. The weather is soooo yucky, it’s been raining for days and I swear we’ve gotten more rain so far this year than we did all last year. I have so much clover growing in the front yard it’s taking over, and really need to mow, but you can’t mow the yard when it’s been pouring down rain for days, nope! I am distressed to find not only CD rack as well as my movie rack (both of which are huge) are just about full… what am I gonna do now.

Speaking of movies, I started watching one of my faves, Benny & Joon, after That ’70s Show was over, but I’d come in like when it (the movie) had already been on for a half hour, and it’s been so long since I’d seen it so I was going to go back and watch the first part since I’d forgotten…. and there are many who just won’t believe this, can you believe I do not have that movie on tape??? Unreal, I must have a couple of thousand at this point and that’s one I don’t have!! So that’s a must-get, I just love that movie…. and speaking even more of movies, we (speaking in the, yes, collective we) are all really annoyed about this whole movie version of Nick Hornby’s fabulous book, High Fidelity, a copy of which was given to me as a present last year and I have passed around the throng… anyone who knows me knows I love John Cusack and John Cusack movies, but my god, they moved the tale for the movie to America and that is just not right. I don’t think I can stand to see it, John Cusack or no, it’s ruined already for me. I did, however, catch Cusack’s Pushing Tin not long ago and that is funny, funny, funny. Anyhow, back to movie gripes, the next thing I know my other fave actor, Matthew Modine, is going to turn up in something I hate… caught him in the new TV movie of Flowers For Algernon when I was required to be out of town most of February, and that was yet another great performance.

Well, that’s about all I’ve got to say for today so I guess this wasn’t a good day for my horoscope, it said you would all be fascinated by my ramblings tonight but I just don’t really have any fascinating news, so sorry. Must get a few projects done as well as do my darn taxes so maybe after mid-month I will actually have some real, honest to god, free time. See ya soon…

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I Am Doin’ My Housework

Posted by Lynnster on February 2, 2000

Well, unfortunately I haven’t gotten around to the updating and adding I’d planned to do this week yet… for one thing, I went thru all my old cassettes the other night pulling out the ones I’ve since replaced on CD since the last time I cleared out cassette tapes, so now I’m selling all those guess where (as usual, god I live on that website practically it seems). Could use the extra $ plus the main thing is I just need the space, my house is too full of junk, so off they go… including some I’ve been wrestling with whether to get rid of or not for some time now, i.e., some of the first ‘Mats and Gurus tapes I ever bought. But you know, it comes to a point when you just have packratted too much stuff yet again and, you know, some of this stuff I have on album and tape and CD, so you gotta ask yourself, “Do I really need all of this?” Still can’t bring myself to part with the older ‘Mats LPs tho, which for a long time was all I had of the first three albums. Maybe I’ll just frame ‘em and thus have a bigger ‘Mats/Westerberg shrine on the east wall of my room to offset the (growing unbelievably huge and the ‘Mats side will never catch up in size) the GuruShrine on the west wall. I keep all that music stuff in my bedroom and leave the rest of the house to some modicum of pretended domesticity so most everyone who comes to visit will at least assume I’m a grown-up…

Anyhow, so I got busy again and didn’t have a chance to do some of the Web stuff I’d intended to yet, but soon. Slowly – very slowly – but surely I am eradicating myself of packratted junk once again anyway. You know the other night I mentioned doing a full-tilt cleanup of the computer desk area, filled up a 13-gallon kitchen trash bag full of junk to throw away, and even found some stuff in the process, like my electronic guitar tuner that I thought I must have left either in McKenzie or Oxford, or even worse accidentally thrown away, months or maybe even a year or two ago and was all mad about – it’s amazing the stuff that suddenly just reappears out of nowhere – I guess that’ll teach me to not wait four or five years between serious housecleaning chores.

Anyway… I forgot to mention, I think, this phenomenon a while back that occurred on one of those godawful tiresome lengthy drives during my temporary having to go somewhere every dang week and sometimes twice a week period… do you ever have this thing where you’ve just completely forgotten some song even ever existed and suddenly you hear it and you’re like Whoa!, well, that’s what happened to us, I guess this is kind of dumb but, you know, no matter what you may think of Michael Hutchence and INXS (and I know what some of you think anyway), “This Time” is a great song. Just completely forgot about that one until it suddenly popped up one day and Greg and I are both screaming at each other at the time ‘cos we’d both just simply forgotten it existed. Yes, I lead a very exciting life. (snicker)

So anyway… Freaks & Geeks was great this week, hope some of you caught it, Passions is more hilarious daily and I can’t believe I’ve gotten addicted to a soap opera again after avoiding them since college but jeez, it’s a hoot. The other night I mentioned I was going to the movies, well, I did, but at the very last minute I turned tail and decided to see Being John Malkovich instead of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and god I’m glad I did… I was literally about in the theater floor laughing my head off, it is hilarious and quirky and weird and probably not for everyone but just the way I like ‘em, strange and off, honestly anyone who even remotely shares my admittedly warped and twisted sense of humor should go see it if it’s still playing where you are, I haven’t seen a movie that funny in years and just about laughed ’til I cried. Even Duncan who hardly ever gets a joke (and thus I’ve never really figured out why we have all been friends with him for umpteen years since it’s kinda difficult to hang out with my crew if you’re incapable of getting a joke, but I guess he’s such an airhead it doesn’t really matter) was laughing so hard he was about to throw up, which made me laugh even harder. Anyway, go see it, it’s a total hoot, but if you don’t understand it don’t come whining to me…

Waiting on my Monkees video set to arrive, it’s taken long enough but I’m assured it’s coming this week, which is fab ‘cos Duncan and I (yes, KC and everyone moves off elsewhere and leaves me here and I am stuck having no one to hang out with but Duncan D., which is like the most twisted sick bit of irony and I curse everyone who has moved from Memphis and Nashville in the last two years, blah) – anyway, we are going to hole up here like hibernating bears with hazelnut coffee and Bailey’s and watch every single Monkees episode, which, since there are 58 of them, is going to take up most of the weekend, so don’t be calling me or paging me or bothering me! ‘Cos I’ll be busy doing that as well as looking happily and fondly at my fourth row middle Cheap Trick tickets!

So, well, I really have to go hit the hay as, ironically enough, it’s late again, but be back soon enough. Later…

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It’s Such a Strange Strain on Ya

Posted by Lynnster on January 29, 2000

You would not believe how many times in the last two weeks I have attempted to get a Wall update up and just haven’t followed thru with it, for one reason or another. Much of what follows has been written for some time, yet has just stewed here languishing on my hard drive, and for that I apologize to those who wait. Be it narcolepsy, severe addiction to Mah Jongg, or just being darn sick and tired of most everything, in any case I’ve been too mentally pooped to lift much of a finger and, as recently pronounced by the all-knowing KC, unfit to speak to anyone in any form or fashion including HTML code. Heh.

Right at the moment a number of adjectives to describe yours truly come to mind, which would include: resentful, hateful, spiteful, moody, ill-tempered, make that very ill-tempered, annoyed, aggravated, frustrated, irritated, and once again and most important of all, resentful… so basically I’ve been saving you all a whole lot of grief by keeping my mouth shut, that’s the silver lining to that cloud I reckon.

In any case, if I can find the energy to put on the happy hat for a few minutes, maybe we’ll have a Wall entry here. Wow.

So… I was freezing to death once again all last week, tho I suppose my relatives in Rhode Island would laugh at that seeing as how they’re having daily lows of, like, 3 degrees right now. It’s awfully cold for the Mid-South right now, tho. I don’t really have much “news”, so to speak, except that I was super pleased to read this week that there are plans to build – I won’t get this right, and forgot to keep that section of the paper, but it’s something like – The Stax Museum of R&B or something like that on the old Stax studio site on McLemore (which has been a vacant lot since 1989). I wish I could remember what all the article said about it, but it sounded like it is going to be really, really neat. And it will be so good for that neighborhood, hopefully this is the first of many good things for that section of town. Very historical musically for sure and especially I’m psyched since everyone knows I dig all things Stax.

Speaking of music, I’m sure there will be a host of whiners who will be completely overjoyed to learn that Greg, JJ & I absolutely hate the new Bush CD. Hate it. I know, I know, it’s a tremendous surprise, but all three of us tried to give it a chance and all came to the conclusion that it sucks. So, all can rest easy that there will be no further added to future appearances, there will be no “The Chemicals Between Us” or any other of that tired proto-electronica sh… I mean, stuff.

New possibly-regular or at least maybe-occasional feature to be added to the Wall soon, or should I say Off the Wall (in more ways than one)… had intended to get it up the other night but unfortunately taking more editing than I’d planned, and I’ve been more interested in napping this week than doing anything that could be mistaken for chores.

We got snowed on mega-bigtime this week, wasn’t as much as had been predicted, but still, it was kinda nice and got me a day off work Friday. About three inches – that’s a big deal for Memphis – shoot, I haven’t seen this much snow since the first year I was here, 1988. About two in the morning on Friday it was just gorgeous, the sky all lit up from the reflection of the snow in the clouds, snow just falling and falling, everything silent, the whole ground and all the trees white. It was neat, for about five minutes I felt like I did when I was a kid and we used to have snow all the time in the winter, fascinated. Now it’s mostly melted, but Friday was a good day, and Dare and I shared a bowl of snow cream for breakfast… that’s milk, vanilla, sugar and snow, for those of you who dunno.

I saw Girl, Interrupted last week and it was okay but I was mostly unimpressed, thought it should have been better, tho Angelina Jolie is fabulous in it… even better tho, one day last weekend I flipped on the TV to find a Kids In The Hall marathon on Comedy Central, there is a god. I only caught the tail end of it, I could have watched for days. And honestly, I hope all of you have been watching – and those that haven’t yet – will watch Freaks and Geeks now that they’ve moved it to Monday nights from that Saturday night TV deathtrap… what an absolutely great show, it’s sooooo funny.

Anyway… I’m not in much of a mood for chatter so I’ll go for now, maybe more shortly, still working on some stuff, tho it looks like I will be AWOL from the Wall (pun intended) for most of February, not by choice. So, for now, Happy 34th Birthday to a friend I haven’t spoken to in about fifteen years, and later ’til whenever…

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Happy New Year’s, Baby

Posted by Lynnster on January 10, 2000

I think I should probably admit that the other night when I uploaded the new Graffiti Wall and all the other updated pages that they all said 1999 at first and I didn’t change them to 2000 until I was on AOL and had already uploaded ‘em all and realized what I’d done. Yup, I’m pretty darn close to perfect, mm hmm, but not totally infallible. (snicker)

Anyhow… man, there is so much I want to write right now but while the brain’s going about ninety miles an hour, the bod’s saying It’s after 2 a.m., go to bed, dumbass!! I will scribble until I get too tired anyway and then save the rest for later, the healthy dose of melancholy bit (always good for the soul, that, heh) should probably wait until I’m a little more awake or I’m bound to say a thing or two I’ll regret.

At the risk of sounding like a commercial (again) let me just say that Pantene Pro-V is the most fantastic shampoo and conditioner ever! Jeez, these companies should really send me samples in the mail more often! Most of you regular viewers know how picky I am about my hair… so, I was going out of town this weekend and trying to pack as little as necessary, and I have these gargantuan bottles of Clairol Herbal Essence and just thought, “Crap, I don’t wanna lug those around again,” then remembered I had these two sample bottles of the Pantene I’d gotten in the mail so I tossed them in the suitcase and off I went. Man, this stuff is so great! Shampoo doesn’t usually excite me much, honestly, but I just cannot believe the wonderful things this stuff has done to my hair this weekend, it even passed the slept-in-wet-hair test! Awesome and it smells so good too.

Speaking of smelling good things (and more commercials) here’s another one, you know that Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo commercial where the chick’s just going berserk washing her hair (and it does smell good, but I think I like the Pantene even better)? Well, my word of advice is to pass on the Clairol Herbal Essence Body Wash soap stuff – it just doesn’t smell that great – but go straight to the store and pick up a bottle of Suave’s new Passion Flower & Rosemary Body Wash – I’m telling ya, it’s much like those Clairol commercials, I’d just about stay in the shower 24 hours a day to smell this stuff it smells so great.

Well, anyway, enough of a commercial break, we now return you back to our regularly scheduled programming… the weekend was nice, I love driving on roads I should about to be able to drive on blindfolded, which especially came in handy Friday night as I felt so horrible that by the time I arrived at my destination I really wasn’t sure how I managed to drive there nor did I even really particularly remember driving. It’s always kind of odd to me tho when I hit that one particular stretch that for two years used to be my exact route to and from school every day, it’s still almost like habit that I almost make the turn off to go to school or the turn off to go to what used to be home (and probably a wonder I didn’t do that in the condition I was in Friday night).

On the way up there I thoroughly enjoyed my newly acquired early Cheap Trick remasters and wondered again when in the heck they’re going to release some more of the remasters, as the next in line should be the ultimate Seventies rock & roll live CD, Cheap Trick at Budokan, darn it, which I’m really looking forward to as I happen to like the live versions of a couple of songs better than the studio cuts… I guess Sony’s dragging their heels or not going to release any more remasters at all, it’s been like two years now since the first three were released (which sucked at the time since I’d just bought the first two Trick CDs right before they released the remastered CDs). I have to say again tho, the new tracks on Heaven Tonight are just a hoot, I think they must have been drunk when those outtakes were recorded and there’s an actual goof on the “Surrender” outtake too, heh heh.

I’ll probably do a writeup on the remastered CDs next for the Music page or something, but I was thinking that I recall having a debate some time ago over which Cheap Trick album was the best and was in disagreement at the time, and still am but I have changed my mind about my pick – even tho In Color has two of my favorite songs of all (“Downed” is one), Heaven Tonight is the best instead – the entire, what was on LP, Side One is just awesome and it picks up again towards the end, I mean, how can it not be the best – “Surrender” ranks right up there with “Rock & Roll All Night”, “School’s Out”, and, I don’t know – one or two others – as the ultimate Seventies rock anthems. So, just put on the first five tracks of Heaven Tonight, then cut to the last two… I’m sorry, the ever-vaunted Dream Police LP can’t even stand up to it at all. Anyway, so for those of you who have no Cheap Trick (I’ll save the rest of that for the Music page later, pardon me, I ate breathed and slept that band for about seven years straight in between sneaking out to Ramones shows), after my bit of Seventies nostalgia Friday night, I made the trip back with Marshall Crenshaw (another very favorite songs, “Whenever You’re On My Mind”) and Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds and Madness and The Plimsouls and a host of other Eighties pre-hair-band bands and that was fun too, thanks to brother-in-law I now have the entire set of Rhino’s NW ’80s series and you know, there just isn’t enough time between northern West Tennessee and Memphis to listen to everything I want to on all fifteen volumes… tho I did manage to get thru all but one. (giggle)

You know, one of the best movie scenes ever musically is in Valley Girl when Nicolas Cage takes whatsherface to the punk club and Peter Case and his Plimsouls are up on the stage doing “A Million Miles Away”. Anyway, I’m listening to all that and it’s another wonder about music there for you, one song and suddenly you remember exactly what you were doing or where you were or who you were with fifty million years ago when whatever song was on the radio all the time, strange how one little song can make one miss someone they haven’t missed in years and years and vowed never to miss again, which is actually kind of disturbing.

You know, tho, I think (and someone will make me eat these words, I’m sure) I actually have all the music I need right now… I’ve got my entire Rhino ’80s set, I finally got The Beatles’ Rubber Soul on CD, plus all the other stuff almost that I’ve been wanting for a while, and I even just landed a copy of The Monkees’ video box set I’ve been wanting for ages finally (thanks eBay), but CD wise I almost have everything I want and the rack is finally almost full. Oh, there’ll always be something else I want, I’m sure, but right now I’m just set. Which is really cool. Well, someone can still get me The Who’s Maximum R&B box set…

Anyhow, so Greg and I have gotten in this habit when I’ve been making all these long drives lately, since I have free long distance across TN in the evenings and weekends, of him listening to my (very loud) car stereo via my cell phone so we listen together and that’s kinda fun, except it would be nicer if someone would buy me a speakerphone cell phone (ahem). It’s made all this traveling a little more pleasant as opposed to godawful, and speaking of which, I am sooooo looking forward to this coming weekend and having nothing to do, no one to see or speak to if I don’t want to, and nowhere to go driving or flying to… it’s all been nice these last four or five weeks running here and there and doing this and that all the time, but I am tired and desperately looking forward to having a lazy Lynnster weekend again, finally. I may just stay in bed all weekend long and not answer the phone and not even move. Probably not, but all this socialness has been tiring and I’m looking forward to being anti-social for a change, even tho I finally bought a new battery for my cordless phone after being without one for like eight months, I just wanna I think be alone for the first time in weeks, that sounds the most appealing.

For now, I am yawning a whole bunch, so off I go ’til later – ‘night…

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In the Air There’s a Feeling of Christmas

Posted by Lynnster on December 13, 1999

Welcome back. Sorry I’ve not been around again for a bit, it’s just been impossible to make it back here lately or, when I do have time for it, it’s 3:45 a.m. (like it is now) and I’m about to fall over and must go to bed. But lo, tonight I’m a little awake for a change so update the Wall I must. So anyway, if you came here looking for holiday cheer and good will to men, take your happy ass back out the front door ‘cos you just ain’t gonna find any here.

So – I had to go back and look at November to see what I already had and hadn’t rambled about – as many of you know, my gal pals from back home and I have a yearly slumber party, which this year was right before Thanksgiving and was either our ninth annual, tenth or eleventh, no one can seem to remember how many years we’ve been doing this and we did miss one year entirely. It was fun as always, but of course nowadays I am the only one of the nine who doesn’t have kids, and the conversations invariably turn back to everyone’s kids, which of course is okay. I guess the worst thing of all was the realization that three of my friends have kids who are 13 and 14 years old now, one of them even in high school already, yeesh, talk about making me feel like I’m a hundred years old already. But what’s probably even more ironic is the fact that we also that night included a baby shower for three of the attendees who have fairly newborns, too (in fact one of the new babies is the little brother of the abovementioned high school kid). And then there was some conversation about what teenagers do and what teenagers have to deal with in the world today, which led to a collective realization that, heck, all our teachers thought we were delinquents and going to hell for our misdeeds, but we were innocent babes in the woods compared to some of these kids today. Anyway…. yes, we’re all turning into our mothers, and I’m about ready for the nursing home and a rocking chair, dang it.

So, there were actually a whole lot of things I’d planned to scribble when I got around to being back here again, but the bad thing about that is, I usually think of things like that when I’m driving home from work or something, and by now they’re long forgotten. I did have a much fun drive home one night last week, when The Phantom, which, doggone them, they play great music all the rest of the time but they usually manage to suck every day during rush hour, played like ten great things in a row, including some old Split Enz, Better Than Ezra, The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”, and man I don’t remember what else but it was a good half hour for a change.

And speaking of my daily drive home, I have to hand it to all you nice and creative Memphian folks on Central between Cooper and McLean for all the very cool and spiffy Christmas lights and stuff. It makes my evenings a little cheerier, if you’re in Memphis drive down that way, it just all looks super nice.

So I caught a few movies on video in recent weeks, most notably The Blair Witch Project, which has apparently been a matter of tastes – you either hate it or love it apparently, I for one loved it, it truly creeped me out and I don’t creep out that easily. Many kudos to my buddy and fellow ‘Mats fan Mike M., who was a producer on the film and is probably reaching millionaire status about now, talk about good fortune over a little flick! I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he’ll have another hit movie and get so famous that I can sell my stories to the National Enquirer about how many times I’ve seen him stumblingly typing drunk on IRC…. oh, I’m just kidding. Talk about one of the nicest guys in the world, he deserves every bit of success and I wish him only the best and won’t open my mouth about his typing under the influence… (wink)

And I also got to see 200 Cigarettes, which is a cute movie, I wouldn’t say Oscar material, but it was fun and if for nothing else worth it for the awesome soundtrack, even tho that too made me feel old, blah. And worth it too for the Elvis Costello extended-length cameo, god that was hilarious. Anyway it’s worth catching, it’s a fun one. I also in the midst of my rental-watching saw the trailer for an upcoming one called The Secret Life of Sebastian Cole (or something like that) which looked kinda good but any film with the Voidoids’ “Blank Generation” on the soundtrack I gotta see, so I’m sure I will. I just hope whoever made the movie was as good as whoever picked out the soundtrack tunes…

So Time Warner still sucks for removing the Sundance Channel from the stupid service they forced me to switch to a few years ago, and they have morons answering their e-mail, so next up is contacting their CEO and telling him I want my Sundance Channel back, as well as the fact he/she has morons answering their e-mail… I am just about on the verge of switching ISPs, except I really don’t want to seeing as how I’d have to change forty billion things since I’ve had this e-mail address for umpteen years now, sigh… and now that Tennessee seems to think they need to regulate online auctions on the Internet in this state (as have a few other states, sadly), you can bet I have done some letter writing recently and made some phone calls. You know, if they decide to impose on the average eBay and Amazon and etc. user financially-burdening restrictions – which will basically mean that the small sellers will no longer be able to afford to offer their wares on the Internet and, as a result, make online auction sites much less interesting – then I think it would only be fair for them to impose the same controls on every yard sale, garage sale, and attic sale that’s held in this country every day, as well as people who put classified ads in their local newspaper, especially those with the “OBO” tag in their ads, ‘cos that’s about as close to an auction as it comes, no? If you think I’m kidding click here (NOTE: sorry, link removed) and see what’s happening right now in many states of our union. If it all comes to pass and one day you can’t find that book or doll or out of print CD or guitar or whatnot you’re looking for, you’ll know why.

I think I’m arguing with some other entity about something else right now too, but darned if I can remember what right now.

So anyway, I should close pretty soon – it’s really late now – and don’t know how much I’ll be updating the next few weeks with the holiday rush, as I am nowhere near ready to go to New England next week and have tons of wrapping and packing and mailing to do before I go – got Xmas shopping done early but still I’m behind, however have no more shopping to do so that’s a big plus I suppose. But the 23rd and flying out of Nashville is going to come sooner than I wish as far as the unwrapped and unmailed presents in my house are concerned, so I’m likely going to be knee deep in ribbons and tape and bows this week. Looking forward to the holidays actually – they’re always pretty fun and there are always Mimosas to be had, and lord knows my family and I can put away some champagne and orange juice. Have to admit tho – while I enjoy the grown-up Christmases these days immensely – just having learned last week that my dad has cancer, I almost wish I could just go back about twenty-five years and start all over again and do everything right this time. But hey, that’s all part of growing up, right, learning from your mistakes and what you messed up? I suppose. Merry Christmas and all that, maybe on my next birthday I’ll be a grown-up… yeah right, as KC would say. Matter of fact he just called me an immature little wench the other day, but of course that was after reading him the riot act about wrecking my vacation plans this year… hmm, it’s real mature to be male and almost 35 and so afraid that you might miss out on sowing any more wild oats before you die that you go and do something stupid and wreck about a hundred people’s vacation plans.

OK, y’all don’t worry, you think I’m being a something that rhymes with witch here, but never fear, KC & I have already thrashed this particular issue out between us some time ago and now it’ll just be another one of those things we’ll hold over each others’ heads for all infinity. I just like to get a nice good dig in every now and again. (snicker)

Gotta go, 8:00 will be coming early… but oh, and by the way, please go here (sorry, link removed) and vote for my L.A. buddies The Piper Downs, just because I said so, so they can win lotsa money and get all famous and stuff. If you don’t I will make sure Santa puts a lump of coal in your stocking this year. Thanx!

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You Go to a Movie

Posted by Lynnster on November 29, 1999

Hope everyone had a nice holiday… I was just glad to have two extra days off work, really. No turkey for moi on Thanksgiving – I was pretty turkeyed out anyway having had it twice the week before, had ham and stuffs instead. Saw The Sixth Sense this weekend… excellent movie! Also had a rather Shakespearean holiday weekend, having watched Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth (which was awesome) and Othello over one 48 hour period.

Didn’t really get out in the holiday shopping crowds per se tho I did do a little shopping… mainly wound up with more stuff for folks I already had stuff for, hit some of my usual fave haunts like various and sundry Hallmark stores and the San Francisco Music Box Factory… all in all was a nice holiday weekend I suppose for a holiday I don’t really much like, tho I have to say it was pretty darn weird to be sitting and grabbing a bite to eat at Huey’s on the Friday night after Thanksgiving… I still haven’t really caught up on sleep in about two weeks now tho, I fear next Saturday I may snooze indefinitely since by then I will have not had a day I didn’t have to get up at some point in about three weeks.

Anyhow, some stuff must be done a night or two this week but hopefully catch up with everybody soon, have a good Monday (what an oxymoron…).

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The Kids Are Alright

Posted by Lynnster on November 15, 1999

Wow, I’m getting worse & worse about this, aren’t I? I’m sorry, I’m just kind of severely inundated at present…. I’ve got an awful lot of e-mail sitting in my box and I apologize for that too, I’ll hopefully be getting to some of it sometime this week, at least maybe… no real time for chitchat right now. Plus I’ve got an awful lot of mail sitting there that’s not, per se, personal, that just keeps piling up too… I remember once or twice upon a time opening my e-mail box was a kick and fun and stuff, and nowadays it’s just become a big chore – no offense to anyone, it’s the non-personal non-chitchat stuff that’s making it such a chore.

Anyway…. I just finished watching one of my very favorite movies, that I hadn’t seen in a while, Quadrophenia… and yes KC I still have my Quadrophenia buttons of course… how come all my favorite movies are always on in the middle of the night? I was trying to tape it – this is one of the ones that I’m just cursed to apparently never get on tape, it would appear that way anyway – and the power went off for a second several times, no idea why, but of course that rendered the tape useless once again (last time I was trying to tape it was when the big ice storm hit I think). I just love that movie… and as many probably are aware, you can catch a very very young Sting, who had a very very small part, in it.

Also, I was flipping channels while having dinner last night and stopped when I saw something that looked oddly familiar… right there on the Travel Channel, there was The Rendezvous! Even the waiter that waited on me and Jimm last time I was down there was on TV. Apparently they did a show on Memphis, had that, some of Beale Street, some other stuff, kinda wacky…. I don’t know if they rerun stuff often on that channel since I never watch it, but you might try to see if it’s on again sometime.

Speaking of TV I’m about to have it out with Time Warner as there was a note in my cable bill that they’re taking the Sundance Channel away and putting it on the digital system only come the new year…. that really p’s me off seeing as how when I complained about them taking one of my movie channels away last year, their response was, “but we gave you the Travel Channel, the Food Network, the Sundance Channel, and (yadayadawhateverelse) in place of the ones that were taken off”… and now I never watch practically anything but the flicks on the Sundance Channel and they’re taking it off. You would think that a cable company that’s losing hundreds of subscribers to satellite TV and about to lose more probably since MLG&W was given the go-ahead to run cable in this city, not to mention the people that are probably dropping it due to cable fees continually growing outrageously ridiculous (which is about to be me) would be trying to keep customers, not tick them off. The only reason I stil have cable is because of my film fetish, I can scratch that itch elsewhere.

So anyway… this is kind of cool news, the old bakery building that Strings ‘N Things moved into on Madison with the giant Gibson guitar hanging outside, I learned there is a lot of other stuff going in there soon, including a cafe and also the legendary Rod & Hank’s vintage guitar shop is moving in there. That whole district is growing cooler all the time, I think it would be really super if someone would reopen the old Antenna Club down there.

Let’s see… I was thinking about railing rampant on the Wall this weekend about several things that have been bugging me, but have decided to keep my mouth shut instead… whatever’s bugging me isn’t important enough for me to give it the time of day, in the grand scheme of things. My biggest news is that the noisy neighbors moved out this weekend (!!!!)… (or got kicked out, not sure which is the case)… and I’m spending Christmas in Rhode Island this year, which will be great. And I just got word that my favorite Hoodoo Guru said to tell me hi, so I’m going to bed on a buzz on that… money just can’t buy the small, really truly cool, moments, folks. Off to snooze, I’m tired, catch ya later…

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Hello Goodbye

Posted by Lynnster on November 2, 1999

Hiya. I don’t really have anything major or terribly interesting to report nor do I have much time, I’ve just got this thing about not letting the Wall sit here unchanged very long when a new month’s come around. I am, however, glad always-awful October is finally over.

Well, we have this huge cold front coming into the Mid-South right now with so much wind I think my house is about to blow away, I’m kinda glad to see it get cold again because we’ve been seesawing between chilly, warm, darn near hot this past weekend, and here and there and back for weeks now and I’d just as soon it get cold and stay that way or just at least stay one way.

I am sort of running on lack of sleep again (which is why I can’t stay here long right now) due to another storm front that came in Sunday night – a very minor one, but enough to turn my neurotic dogs paralyzed yet once again – and wound up having to attempt to sleep on a Dobie pillow that night since he refused to move, so I didn’t get much sleep needless to say.

Catch it while you can on Showtime – what has got to be the worst movie of all time is currently running, called Cellblock Sisters 2: Banished Behind Bars. Actually it’s quite entertaining because the acting is sooo bad you’ll be rolling on the floor, crying tears of laughter. I was flipping channels after watching something else one night last week and was just glued to it, couldn’t stop watching it, it was like a car wreck, it’s just so bad you can’t take your eyes off it.

Anyhow… things are looking up at least a little here in the neighborhood, more on that some other time… the annual girls’ slumber party is set for November 20th and I’m psyched about that, unbelievably enough we have been doing this every year for nearly a decade now…

All I’ve got to say about the current state of the ‘Net in general is it’s incredibly boring, I don’t quite understand what has happened to sites I’ve previously worshiped and am finding nothing much new to take their place, except here’s a kind of cool one, click here (link removed) to go to The Hunger Site, where you can click once daily and your click will provide somewhere around 1-2 cups of food among the needy on the planet or something like that, details are there on the site… and I dunno, that’s pretty much it for now I guess.

Happiest Birthday to my good buddy Jimm way down in the mecca city of Sydney, Australia, and to everyone else, ciao for now…

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There’s People Swinging on the Chandelier

Posted by Lynnster on September 28, 1999

Man, I have had more fun the last few days! I wish I could elucidate fully, but it would bore far too many of you to tears, and those I used to delight in sharing such ridiculously off the wall new musical discoveries with don’t seem to be around anymore, really, so I guess I’ll just keep it all to myself, oh well. (pout) There is one thing and that is Halloween weekend is getting bigger with now a, don’t fall over or anything anybody, sax player and – dig this – a Hammond organ, hahahaha! My little self, who has barely touched a piano in probably fifteen years, has had more fun noodling around on all of Stevie’s keyboards and other junk.

Anyway… so, I taped the movie Lost Angels over the weekend because it was on and I remembered I liked it years ago, and watched it much later after I taped it, and you know – how come Adam Horowitz (of the Beastie Boys) never acted again after that film? ‘Cos he was so great in it, what a shame he didn’t continue.

Next… you know I mentioned I had to spend an interminably dull amount of hours in classes for work last week and the week before (and again this Thursday, sigh), one of the more fun things I got to do was fooling around with the test system computer and among the things I had to do was make up registrations and schedules and charges and stuff (this would be medically-related, as if anyone who is here doesn’t know I work for a surgeon, cripes).

Anyway I amused myself thoroughly for a good half hour or so entering into the test system, like, ex-boyfriends and names of people I can’t stand and giving them nasty diseases like the bubonic plague and syphilis, or charging them for surgeries like head amputations and such. Heh. Of course since it’s a test system it all got erased by the end of the day, but it was fun while it lasted. (giggle)

Today had a bit of a hold-your-breath moment when, which was really scary a bit because I’ve been cultivating the evil librarian look for a while now and haven’t worn my contacts much in so long I’ve about forgotten how, I accidentally dropped my only pair of glasses from the fourth floor of our parking garage, yikes. Stumbled blindly down the stairs to find them, miraculously, still in one piece, shudder. Yup, this is my exciting world, I only live here… ’til later, ‘cos I’m still knee-deep in Priority Mail boxes and don’t have time for anything fun… and dress rehearsal is a go this weekend so be there if you wanna!

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Taste the Pain

Posted by Lynnster on September 24, 1999

I decided if I was gonna update today I’d better hurry up and do it, as my mouth is finally starting to get un-numb after an hour and a half and I’m not sure how crappy I’m going to feel the rest of the evening, seeing as how one of my dentist’s parting comments today was, “Yeah, we really kinda beat you up there today…” (shudder)

Yes, I got the first four of what will be a total of twelve fillings today… for anyone that missed the initial announcement, not because I don’t take care of my teeth, it’s because I just have bad teeth period, apparently even if I’d been brushing and flossing fifty times a day for my entire life, they’d be falling apart. Anyway, this was all very interesting… I don’t think I’ve ever had the entire front of my mouth and my nose numb before! It was also kind of neat because it’s like, I now have so much filling in my mouth and my teeth are so filled with filling, it’s almost like I had that expensive laser whitening surgery or something! The rest that are left to be done are all in the back so I don’t imagine those will be very dramatic (and will probably be mostly silver anyway), this is kinda cool tho! I took 800 mg of ibuprofen (probably will switch to Aleve tho – that is a true wonder drug!) as soon as I got home so hopefully that will stave off the worst, but in any case, I’m just planning to turn the phone off, watch the Edie Sedgwick flick Ciao! Manhattan on the Sundance Channel tonight, and take it easy while I ponder whether or not I should have my lawyer contact 3M about their so-called alleged “Original” Dobie (sorry, link removed). Oh, I’m just kidding, but Dobie is not happy about it at all. Later…

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