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Friday, September 1, 2000 10:41 a.m.

i think i need a new password.

Thursday, August 31, 2000 03:38 p.m.

natolee is always right.

Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:38 a.m.

i found a good, honest review of the new jets to brazil album. ugh, i'm so tired of jtb fans who use the excuse "well, the reason you don't like jets to brazil is because you don't want blake doing something different than jawbreaker." morons. it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that they're fucking awful, would it? how can people be so in love with this band?!? the only reason people buy their records is because of blake being in the band. if any other band had released the same exact record, it would be made fun of to no end and no one in their right mind would claim to be a fan of theirs. there is nothing good about jets to brazil (save for one or two songs on the first record) and i'm making a promise to everyone that i will not purchase the new jtb record no matter what color vinyl.

anyway, if you would like to hear a song from the new steaming pile of shit record, please click and listen (r.a.).

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 04:56 p.m.

it doesn't feel very good to be called a hypocrite about something. especially when you know the other person's right about it. i seriously need to keep my mouth shut about things until the exact same things can not be said about myself. using guilt to try and get someone you love and care about to do something, or feel a certain way is the wrong way to go about doing anything.

i need to start showing myself that i truly care about my own ways of thinking instead of giving into stupidity and sacrificing my own morals for stupid shit that doesn't matter.

Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:22 a.m.

yesterday was my first day of school. after a two year hiatus, i had forgotten how uncomfortable school chairs were. i'm happy to report that math is still as evil as ever. oh, i'm convinced that my math teacher is marcy darcy. my philosophy teacher already has us thinking about what we want to do our term paper on. i'm torn between the death penalty (which i flip-flop back and forth on) and animal rights (which i beleive in, despite my affinity for cheese. mmmmm). i think it's going to be on the death penalty. i read a great book on the angola prison in louisiana a few months back called god of the rodeo that almost made me completely against the death penalty. i say almost because i see so much awful stuff on the news lately that it's hard for me to just take one stand on the subject. hopefully i'll have figured it out by the end of the semester.

on sunday night, natolee and i went to vinyl solution to see le shok. we didn't really "see" them because of all the white belt kids there and all the video cameras, so we just listened and looked at records in the back. why so many people needed to document the 10 minute performance on video tape is beyond me. we picked up a ltd. edition le shok record for dan for his birthday that he asked us at least 5 times to get. i made a promise to myself and two other people that i would not buy the new jets to brazil lp because i've heard most of it and it sucks beyond beleif, but it was a gatefold and on white vinyl. i showed restraint and put it back. maybe i'll find it used one day for $3.

Saturday, August 26, 2000 05:09 p.m.

just last week i was complaining that i've been in l.a. for over 6 months with no celebrity sightings. and who do i see last night at a ralph's supermarket? that's right, ricki rachman.

Friday, August 25, 2000 11:17 a.m.

i talked to a bunch of friends last night that i haven't talked to for a long time. "i like the idea" of communication. i worked with all these great people at a photography lab and studio in seattle and they all need to plan a trip to come visit me.

i've been listening to three songs from this band Closed Caption Radio for a few weeks now. i was talking to someone on napster who's working on a webpage for them and hopefully i'll be able to set up a show for them in socal when they tour. i saw CCR (unfortunate acronym) in vancouver over a year ago and i was one of the strangest and best live music experiences i've ever, uh, experienced? hopefully i'll be getting a cd sent to me soon.

last night, emptyvee (mtv) had some special about the lyrics of eminem and their effect on the people that buy his albums. there was a pannel hosted by kurt loder with mos def, some kid who does eminem's webpage, a gay man, and 3 women. it seemed to me that the general consesus on his lyrics was that "it's free speech, he should be able to say whatever he wants". the gay man was offended, but no one really agreed with him at all. the webpage kid went as far as to say that "gay people should be used to hearing 'faggot' by now" or something like that. the women on the pannel didn't seem to be very offended and i couldn't figure out why. i, not being a woman or gay, am offended by his lyrics and i don't think i'm overreacting when i take offense to

"Bitch I'ma kill you! You don't wanna fuck with me Girls leave -- you ain't nuttin' but a slut to me. Bitch I'ma kill you!"

and countless other attacks on women (the song above was about his mother) and gays. seriously, his songs are nothing buy hatred. what is the mass media's excuse for promoting this shit? the main thing i've heard is "sure he's homophobic, and violent, and a misogynist, but he's soooo talented. the dude can flow." yeah, i heard that guy hitler was pretty good with the paintbrush, maybe we should forget about that whole nazi thing. i found it pretty ironic that mtv did an "expose" on basically mtv. i mean, they're by far the biggest promoter of eminem and because of mtv, he gets his message across to millions of impressionable kids across the country who already think it's ok to call someone "faggot" or a girl a "bitch" (not to mention the much worse stuff that he raps about/condones on his record).

would the media and everyone else feel the same way about eminem if he, instead of talking about how much he hated gays and women, talked about how much he hated black people? probably not, i guess he would have gone too far then.

(Salon had a really great article on this a few months back that i would really appreciate people reading. the author was able to get across how i feel about this better than i could with this little rant here.)

Thursday, August 24, 2000 11:05 a.m.

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Wednesday, August 23, 2000 01:27 p.m.

yay! my new (used) camera finally came this morning. i won it off of e-bay last week. i think i still like my old camera that got stolen from my car better than this new one, but i'll probably just have to get used to it. the lever that advances the frame sorta sticks out and pokes you in the eye, so i'm gonna need to fugure out how to make it not do that.

of course "ghost dog" was out yesterday, so me and my friend jarret wound up renting this documentary on wrestling called "beyond the mat". now i haven't seen wrestling since i was in 4th grade, but i remember some of the characters pretty well. one was jake "the snake" roberts, the guy with the python who he would put on his opponents. that guy has the most fucked up life i've ever heard of....one thing after another about people in his life who were raped, murdered, and electrocuted. it was disturbing, which makes me not to surpried to find out he's a crack addict now. wrestlers have really sad and depressing lives, mostly the older wrestlers. they have worn their bodies so much that they can barely walk and yet, that's all they can still do to make money so they keep wrestling at these tiny little matches, making very little money and destroying themselves. sad, sad movie.

Tuesday, August 22, 2000 04:45 p.m.

i use a computer every day, but i'm basically computer illiterate when it comes to html, so my girlfriend, natolee (who needs to start writing in her own pita's thing so that i can link it.) is going to help me out with it. i should really learn html, but it's hard to learn it when yr at work and supposed to be doing yr job and have employers walking around. i do have a computer at home, but last night it started making strange, loud noises like it used to and i had to shut it off. and besides that i have carpal tunnel syndrome and i need to stay off the computer at night most of the time since i'm on so much during the day. (i think i'm getting CTS as a benefit instead of medical or dental insurance from work. quite a deal, eh?)

i went record shopping yesterday after work. i don't smoke, i don't drink excessivly, and i don't have any drug addictions (save for natolee), but record shopping is something that's pretty similar, i suppose. i buy pretty much all vinyl, except when i have no other choice like yesterday when i found the jealous sound CDEP for $2. i really like it. it's pretty much just like blair's old band, knapsack, but the band seems to have a little more energy. i also got a p.i.l. record. that place is such a great place to find used stuff and if i could remember the name of it right now, you know i'd link it. maybe tomorrow.

oh, i read this really weird article in newsweek last night about a woman with HIV who travels all over the world trying to convince people that people with HIV don't die from the disease, but the drugs that they take to cure them or from recreational drugs (pot?). she thinks aids is a big scam and urges people to stop taking their drugs and to continue having unprotected sex and not to worry about spreadig it. i thought she was insane...a bunch of people totally support her, including the foo fighters (who even have a link to her site on their page) and esai morales (the dude from la bamba). nina hagen even wrote a song about her. crazy stuff.

i think i'm gonna rent ghost dog tonight. hollywood video better have it in stock. god forbid they get a few less copies of erin brocovich to leave some space for 3 more copies of something else.

Monday, August 21, 2000 10:28 a.m.

hello there. this entry is number one in the daily/weekly/hourly/yearly/whenever i feel like it journal slash weblog of me, noah. i'm not too sure if i'm going to be really into doing one of these, so i'm trying it out. i guess this is the part of the entry where i add a link. the replacements are my favorite band in the world and i thought it would be only appropriate to have my first link involve them. this page is sorta named after a song of theirs called "shiftless when idle", but that full title wouldn't fit, so it became shiftless. i like it. i think this will conclude entry number one because i have to get back to work and write some e-mail and get my fix of salon. if you haven't been there, please go now. thanks. bye.