choral fixation
4703-01-05 13:32 PST
 
Ok so I have been practicing and practicing and this is the best I can do. The mix is still not perfect, but it is "good enough." If you want to hear it, click on the "Choral Fixation" pic above to go to the giardiasound.net audio download page. It's 56 minutes of gritty, groovy, quirky, perky house. =)
Also, there are some new pix up on the images page. I have a lot more that I need to post too, but who knows when I'll have time.
Oh, yeah. Happy year of the cock.
los azul de la lavandaria
Tue Dec 28 01:07:41 PST 2004
So last friday I was trying to do my laundry. But stupid me, I brought only enough quarters for one load, and I only had a twenty for change. So I left my dry clothes in the washing machine and went to the corner store. I needed carrots anyways, so I could make roast potatoes and carrots when I went home later to San Jose for xmas eve.
While I was there I figured I should just get some tamales to eat, since they were sitting there at the checkstand in a crock pot. I got into a discussion with the cashier girl and I started using my broken Spanish. I hate talking in Spanish because I don't know how to say anything, and I feel like an idiot. But the cashier girl was so friendly and stuff, I get the feeling that people around here are happy when you make an effort, however weak. It was fun. I asked her for fives so I could use the change machine a la lavandaria. I always change a five in the machine at la lavandaria and have plenty of quarters.
So I went back to la lavandaria carrying my groceries and my laundry bags, and found out that the change machine was out of change. My fives were useless.
Back at the corner store I asked for quarters. The other lady at the front of the market was an Indian lady. She also speaks broken Spanish. She confidently and happily spoke broken Spanish. What is my problem? Anyways the cashier girl gave me $5 of quarters, even though she had to break a roll to get enough.
Back at la lavandaria, I started my laundry, and saw a guy telling his little boy to stop trying to feed a one to the change machine. "I have quarters if you need any," having no clue at all how to say that in Spanish. The guy almost wanted to change some, but then the little boy made a happy noise and I saw that the "out of service" light was no longer lit, and the machine was working.
Oh well.
canadian dad
Fri Nov 5 16:51:52 PST 2004
The following quote is from a letter my dad just wrote to
my auntie. Pretty much sums up the state of the nation. Plus
while I was trying to find the jesusland image above (Franck
originally emailed it to me but then I lost it), I saw all
these websites about how DIEBOLD voting machines in Ohio were
malfunctioning. In
one case, a polling place reported 3000+ votes for Bush
when only about 600 people actually voted there.
It is not difficult to empathize with Galileo's Inquisition
experience now that the intolerant evangelical Christians are all
over the country imposing their religious values on scientific
research, women's rights, and the rights of our gay citizenry.
Their one-issue-mentality found a vehicle to hijack the Nation
through an incumbent president who doesn't understand the
principle of the separation of Church and States. That is the
story of our last election.
Never mind the misdirection of resource to fight terrorism, never
mind the rush to, and the mismanagement of the war in Iraq, never
mind the unapologetic tax cut for the rich and the record
deficit, never mind the stewardship of the environment, never
mind the unilateral style of diplomacy and our all-time-low
prestige around the globe, he is the one because he is not a baby
killer and because he opposes gay marriage and therefore preserve
the integrity of God-blessed institution. Now that the selected
president has become elected, we are doomed to suffer four more
years of the same arrogance and divisiveness.
I have lost faith in our collective wisdom and in our marketing
oriented democratic process. May the gods bless America and all
of us.
-- Pat Wong
In happier news, I am pretty much done with J&K's wedding invitations.
They are at the printer's now.
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