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so, like, i had another half a post that got cut off of the last one because fucking blogger sucks shit. and of course i have no clue what all was in the other one. frustrating. more talk about the same stuff i think. some commentary on mead, i believe. and a bunch more on that germanic paganism business. if you're really curious about it, i'm sure you'll be able to fill yourself in on the finer points. oh, and then it got into gnosticism. i'm sure that many of you would have appreciated a little digression on gnosticism, but too bad. if you really wanna know i guess ask me. my question was if anyone knows of any figure in the world of relatively respected academia who publishes much on gnosticism. also, don't believe anything you read about gnosticism in mainstream publication articles on the book of judas.
alright, i think i'm over it now. as you can see, you missed a lot... good news on the front of the finest vee-nahl. made a trip out to the corner record shop after not seeing anything i really got excited about at vertigo. heresy, i know. but the truth is that corner really has a lot better diversity and a lot of stuff that is in better shape. a little more of a collector feel. plus the place doesn't draw the same crowd. i didn't see anyone at corner whose ass i thought deserved kicking. come to think of it i dont think i saw anyone other than the dude working. who was really nice and not pretentious. imagine that. just cause someone forms opinions about music they don't assume that then those should be codified into conventional wisdom. anyway, some good scores, first of all music from big pink, which herm was talking on last time i saw him at vertigo. a canadian stones import with the best "greatest hits"-ish collection (being the stones there will never be a definitive one, fuck forty licks) name ever: sucking in the seventies. the point is, its got beast of burden. but it doesn't have this one song i really want to track down that i don't know the name of. and i can't very well make music noises on the blog here, so be glad you don't have to hear me go 'do do do do do do do' 'bum bum bum bum bum bum' like some other people do. point is, it has mostly spoken word lyrics really low mostly with a little 70s stones falsetto and a kick ass base line. just puttin that out there. also scored maiden's '85 classic "powerslave". that's right, bitches. they had a ton of really good maiden vinyl, piece of mind, number of the beast, killers. will probably have to pick up some more at some point. i was interested to see they had a four record set from rock in rio like 3 years ago. just kinda funny to me that they would still bother to put that out on vinyl, but hey, we'll take it. but probably not buy it for 45 bucks. finally and most importantly an addition to the floyd vinyl: momentary lapse. really dig that one and my cd copy is fucked and get this shit, as far as i know, its actually out of print. i'm sure it'll pick back up or did when floyd was gettin more press a little while ago. so pretty happy with all that.
this stop at the record store was actually accomplished on a whim on the way back from some old school miniature golf. played upper and lower at loeschner's (sp?) and damn was it nostalgic. i really love that place. and i love that it hasn't really changed at all. makes me happy for some reason. they were playin some good tunes down there too, lots of beach boys, another nostalgic experience for sure. interestingly enough, also heard the weight, which is on big pink. but its not the best one, for the record. no pun intended there.
i almost never remember dreams, but i recall a bit of one from the other night. i kept ordering shots of tequila. i was like damn, i hate tequila, i'm wasted, and this is really nasty. then i kept getting more. that's all i recall in particular. then i woke up, all upset that i had to work in the morning. then i remembered it was saturday, not sunday, and i was very very happy about that. point is, happiness is very relative. on that front, i saw this sticker with a pretty sweet obi wan kenobi quote, something like you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our point of view. wondered if anyone could put that in the context of the films for me though, i have no idea when he says it or to who or why. so let me know. i know you know. also in the request section, the name of that motown kinda song or who its by, 'my world is empty without you, babe'...
so step up to the plate folks. help me out here. especially on academics specializing in gnosticism. i know everyone but me is up on that shit. so in exchange, i offer some valuable beer information to one and all. obviously it is hot as hell wherever you are when you are reading this because it is hot everywhere in the country right now. although i've never been a big fan of this brewery, they have my favorite summer beer this year, chicago's goose island brewery "summer ale", i think they call it. it's a kolsch, and damn is it good. very very refreshing. admit it, you're sick of oberon anyway, and you should have been drinking witsun in the first place. this kolsch isn't quite central air, but damn, its close. crazy delicious, as they say. widely available, shouldn't be too tough for most of yall to find. yeah, i said yall. i think that should be accepted as a word. unless someone else can propose a better second person plural for the english language. if they can start to get away with publishing advertisements and so on with PLURALS WITH FUCKING APOSTROPHES then they can start dealing with yall. fuck those fucking extraneous apostrophes. really don't like them at all. so don't do it, please.
heard about this guy at the university of wisconsin... the guy with the 9/11 thing goin on this year. and they're freakin out about it of course, but from the sound of things its not the school itself getting after him, which is cool. not surprising that there is some hubbub. but it really pisses me off as it is coming at a point where the mythos surrounding all the events of 9/11 is starting to be preserved, archived for future generations in the form of feature films. maybe a videogame sometime, pull survivors from the rubble, then take your same character to afghanistan to hunt down and actually catch osama. i'm sure the reality will change a little to make the point a little more clear. i've got my own opinions, but either way, the point is that the reaction you get out of people when you question the legitimacy of the "accepted facts" of 9/11 just makes me even more nervous. i don't think most people will ever find out exactly what happened, but it really doesn't seem like it was looked into enough by anyone worth listening to. more questions than answers, but all they're interested in feeding people is answers. the ones "everyone knows". fucking crock, and you're not even allowed to question it. although this guy at wisconsin i dunno. i hoped it would be someone with a rep who was tenured who was doing this. seems like this guy is just setting himself for a bunch of bullshit academic shit talking. oo, only bid on the job, not track, blah blah, not published in this, must be some whack job. and it seems a little personal. its not like the US gov't is gonna hear about this guy's class and be like, alright, you got us, we did it. they're never gonna admit it. ahh i can't even take it, don't even want to think about it any more. if you haven't seen it, track down 'in plane sight'. good shit.
also, please look into my untimely demise. they probably won't admit to that either.