Using Bees To Effect Vengeance

I get to be as self-indulgent as I want without wasting anyone's time. Guilt-free solipsism -- excellent!

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Friday, November 22, 2002
 
Group Asks: 'What Would Jesus Drive?'

Smirk. I think Jesus would drive a Chevy Lumina with a bumper sticker saying "In case of rapture this vehicle will be unmanned." But come to think of it, wouldn't Jesus take the bus instead of drive if he's that environmentally conscious? Which raises the question, "What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us?".

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Monday, November 18, 2002

Thursday, November 14, 2002
 
So we went to see the Beck/Flaming Lips concert the other day. On this tour, the Lips are not only opening the show but acting as Beck's backing band. Well, they weren't just acting as the band, they *were* the band.

How was it? I have rarely experienced feelings of pure happiness to compare to the one that came over me during "Do You Realize", a lovely uplifting song -- a video screen behind the band is flashing images, the band is conjuring a suitably grand, psychedeloperatic noise, there are Lips fans clad in animal costumes dancing around on the stage, and as Wayne Coyne sweetly croaked, "Do you realize/that everyone you know someday will die?", he raised his arms in triumph like he'd just won the World Cup while the elephants and pink bunnies clambered down to hug concertgoers in the front row. It's very hard to describe, but it was ineffably moving. The clashing of profundity and glorious silliness...the painful sentiment of that lyric paired with Coyne's jubilant gesture and the uplifting sweep of the music-- it was defiantly humanistic and calmly resigned at the same time. I don't know.

Sonnet was taken with them as well, proclaiming after their set that it was the best concert she'd ever seen. I can't go for that (No Can Do), but it was a sublime performance.

The MP3 of the Time Increment: Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
 
Apparently, the bastards make you get an Ofoto account in order to get your heaping fill of Dexiness (see below -- thanks to B for pointing it out). I'll try to find somewhere else to post them....

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Monday, November 11, 2002

Friday, November 08, 2002
 
This is going to make compiling my next mix much easier... I especially like how they've taken the initiative to add cowbell to classics like "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".

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Sunday, November 03, 2002
 
Another birthday. I'm 28 years young. Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, clothing, and/or heaping quantities of English chocolate (including the unjustly underrated Double Decker).

The birthday sparked the usual cornucopia of profound emotions: the bitter self-recrimination, the free-floating abject hopelessness, the unquenchable soul-lust for Double Deckers, the terrifyingly visceral awareness of the inexorable passage of time and the concomitant sense of hurtling towards death, and -- trust me -- "inexorable hurtling" is an exhaustingly knotty concept to contemplate in and of itself. Anyway, I wallowed in those emotions from around 10am (after opening birthday presents) until 4pm (before putting on pop music with loud guitars). The pop music fixed it, basically. My wife also helped, but that's between her and me.



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