Theremin-Driven Chamber Punk...

[juliebata]

That's the description given for a group called the Theramones, playing at a local club this Thursday night. I want to be there. Badly. Theremins are SO COOL. I'm still kicking myself for not going to see a different band I really like a few weeks ago. I didn't have anyone to go with me. I HATE being alone! Maybe this time I'll feel strong enough to say "Fuck It- I'm going anyway!" We'll see...

I made another quiche last night, it turned out even better than the first one. I'm eating leftovers right now, mmmm....

I feel pretty detached from the whole war thing. Call me a "bad" American, but the shrub disgusts me. I'm not a political person at all. I've said before how I avoid the news. I never sign petitions. I rarely vote. I don't march or chant. Does this mean that I don't care? Well, yes and no. This war is stupid, and I don't want it to have to happen, but it's going to, and I can't stop it. So I'm just going to go on with life because that's all I can do. This war will have little effect on my day to day happenings. People will continue to come to the dentist's office where I work. I don't know a single person in the military. The price of gas will go sky-high, but my car can sometimes go two weeks on one tank, so I can live with that, and I can walk to the store more often, if need be. I don't live in fear that I will be the victim of random terrorism. It's pretty unlikely that someone will stick a bomb under my car, or dust my mail with anthrax. If it does happen, maybe I deserved it for just being an uncaring sheep in the herd. I do feel bad for the people around the world who's lives will be far more fucked up by this war than mine, but I'm helpless to do anything about it. I'm just going to go on with life as best I can, going to work, driving my car, being lonely, eating quiche, and writing about it.
-Juliebata

Comments

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

If you do see those guys, and they have a CD... I want a copy.

I'm limiting my exposure to media. No TV (but I stopped watching TV news last year; however, I'm watching Children of Dune on SciFi Channel). Little radio. Check news.google.com a couple of times a day. I blog about science and programming. Read the blogs of people I trust who 'buffer' the news for me.

I've decided that mass protest doesn't work well here. Instead of people going, "wow, that's a large number of people not happy about US policy", we get arguments about how many people showed up, the politics of the organizers, and some ex-hippie wank-off from Berkeley claiming protest is sedition... . Vigils are good, it's hard for wakkos to look good by screaming at a grandmother holding a candle and a rosary.

"Hubris" is the term I'm hearing often to describe Bush. But if he overextends, he's not the one who takes the brunt of it.

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

And listening to Lush -- wow, I thought I was one of only 3 people who liked the band.

-- Clay, thinking on obscure bands and wondering about trying to track down something by Dubstar

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Oy! Lush is great. And I think I'm the one responsible for turning Juliebata onto that band.

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

It was my hearing Ladykiller on an alternative radio station here in Austin that got me revved on the band.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Didn't a bunch of us sort of fall for Cocteau Twins at the same time? I don't remember whose fault it was. Then it was simply a matter of checking out other bands on 4AD.

How do you find out about new bands? I used to be in touch with a handful of people who spent a lot of time on music, but I hardly ever see them these days. You and Juliebata have both turned me on to bands (Bambi Molesters!), but it's harder to describe music when you're an amateur like me.