nothing like old school soul.
listening to — “soul train” on tv hahahah.
1:35 am — let me tell you, dudes and dudettes… there is nothing like old school “soul train”. the shit fucking rocks your pants off. reminds me of the times when i used to go to sleep listening to javier the xman on wild 94.9 haha. man, he was awesome. but then he left. to go to los angeles because of some internal crap. and i was sad. i even wrote him an e-mail saying, “sorry to see you go, your show is the best, blahblahblah”… it was a show that played nothing but slow jamz and my gawt it was awesome. so i stopped listening to 94.9 as much, and eventually javier came back, so i should start listening to it again 
but now the doghouse has left as well… so old 94.9 just isn’t so good anymore 
so yeah i haven’t made much tangible art stuff lately, but yesterday i went to the downtown seattle art walk (first thursday of every month, all the galleries are open for perusal), and it was umm, inspiring? in a way? i guess? this has always been my theory — that artists just need to be confident in themselves. lots of artists do things that i could do, but i would never think of pawning it off as art, would never think it is good enough for people to own or to love. and i guess that’s the major difference — that those people really believe in their own work. so i’m thinking… i could probably do that. i really wish i had gone to art school, but it’s a little too late for that now (is it?)
instead, i’ve been trying to reclaim whatever minimal art skill i have (at least in the fine arts) and trying to make physical manifestations of things. we’ll see how that goes. i actually drew something today that i like, but i kind of screwed it up when i was trying to overlay it with paper (hard to explain). but now i guess i will just transfer it and make it smaller and paint it…? lenny bought a pack of 3 canvasses — one for me, one for him, and one for andy [crossett], so that we can each paint a painting for our apartment. we’ll see when that happens.
saw death cab for cutie tonight @ key arena. it really wasn’t that exciting, to be honest. they’re not very good live. i think i will be forever satisfied with having seen them once. the decemberists, on the other hand, were about 10,000 times better. i’m pretty sure guns n’ roses, who i’m seeing tomorrow, will also be a ton better. also playing with death cab tonight was jenny lewis & the watson twins (the watson twins were sOoOo lame) and ted leo and the pharmacists, but unfortunately i missed them. sadddddfaceeee.
saw mel gibson’s movie, “apocalypto”, yesterday. it was entertaining. i wouldn’t say good, and his action fighting sequences were fucking terrible as hell (terrible camerawork), but the movie itself was entertaining because it was… funny. people say it’s gory, but the way people died was just funny — kind of like how people died in “a history of violence” — bad in real life, funny in the movies. perhaps that is a terrible thing. but unfortunately, i still find it funny.
couple days ago i put together a 1 hour showcase for some people from new york who were “trend finders”, and they had this lady named susan, who was convinced that seattle was a new hotspot. so i had to find two bands for her, and have them each play a half hour or so, and then do a q&a afterwards. it went well. had john [gillanders]’ band play and this other guy’s band, who i got off craig’s list. they’re called the GIANT KILLER ROBOTS! the guy helped me find a venue too, which was very nice. $250 pay for it. wewt.
i remember random strangers used to always find my journal through search engines. wonder if they still do.