Stuff to Know

[oneirophrenia]

Stolen shamelessly from eternal_hlessi.

10 Years Ago, I:
1. was about to finish my undergrad degree at Cal U
2. listened to way too much industrial music...but at least it was good industrial back then. Like, Skinny Puppy and good Front Line Assembly and stuff.
3. was obsessed with Devo and the American Transcendentalists
4. thought Uma Thurman was the hottest thing alive
5. wouldn't even drink a beer if it was given to me for free

7 Years Ago, I:
1. was almost done with grad school and already looking for jobs
2. had only been to a handful of concerts in Pittsburgh, and hadn't a clue how to get to the city
3. was still obsessed with Devo, but was now obsessed with H. P. Lovecraft
4. had just started getting Nyarlathotep off the ground, after having put out a couple of 90-minute cassette albums full of random techno-pop weirdness
5. went to Boston for the first time with my buddy Joe and met my real "dad," his brother Bruce, for the first time, thereby finally ending the debate of how someone like me could've arisen from such tedious parents as mine.

5 Years Ago, I:
1. was battling severe, severe depression...and losing
2. ended up in my first-ever "real" relationship (mainly thanks to 1 above, since if I'd been in my right mind I would've told the 'ho to choke on a donkey wang and leave me alone)
3. discovered that I really liked margaritas, but rarely drank, and when I did almost never got even slightly tipsy
4. was extremely disillusioned with grad school and didn't want to go back to finish my damned master's thesis
5. was still obsessed with Devo, but was now even more obsessed with Gary Numan, the Talking Heads, and Warren Zevon. Ohyeah, and I put out the first-ever official Nyarlathotep release, Ia!

3 Years Ago, I:
1. met Jennifer at the end of a year of absymal, completely pointless attempts at dating. I should've known that the trend was only continuing, not ending.
2. was teaching at Penn State Fayette and still working at the newspaper
3. was a pretty damned heavy drinker (who was obsessed with Devo, Skinny Puppy, Gary Numan, and the Comateens)
4. visited aRvin in New York City when he still lived there and realized how much I despise New York City
5. lived in Pittsburgh, and despite everything, was pretty happy

2 Years Ago, I:
1. was in a serious, committed relationship for once...and was too blinded by complacency and crap to realize what a sucking pit of hell it was turning into.
2. was making some seriously good music that would eventually turn into Our thoughts make spirals in their world
3. was still living in Pittsburgh, but was dealing with lots of commuting thanks to my job
4. was growing bored with drinking
5. was now obsessed with Gary Numan, Devo, Skinny Puppy, etc...and started to realize that my big thing in life was no longer writing prose or poetry but writing music.

1 Year Ago, I:
1. was just about to move in with Jennifer. *shudder*
2. was teaching a spring semester at Penn State for the first time, and really enjoying it
3. was wishing like hell that aRvin still lived around here so he and I could finish the Morpheus Laughing album and we could KRUSH the world with our industrial might!
4. thought all was right with the world
5. feared that it would all just end suddenly, for no reason.

Yesterday, I:
1. helped aRvin wander around town and bought stuff at Kawai and the like
2. got seriously, seriously drunk on Cuervo Especial and Cabo Wabo Silver
3. (censored by the Comics Code Authority)
4. realized that if Purim is even a slight indication of how awesome Jewish holidays can be, then I am straight up converting!
5. really got in touch with a great deal of myself I haven't had up n' running in quite some time.

Today, I:
1. woke up after barely sleeping, but still wasn't tired
2. hung out with aRvin again, naturally, and got a lot of shit figured out
3. got a new Devo LIVE DVD, which I'm watching right now (it's a recording of two live Devopalooza performances in California back in 1997)
4. didn't drink ANY caffeine or alcohol.
5. Came back home to Uniontown, where I now live again, and played with Kristi.

Tomorrow, I will:
1. go to work at the newspaper
2. SLEEP. Gods, will I sleep....
3. write some new music
4. watch the Devo Live DVD again
5. try to remember where I left my mind

Things I do everyday:
1. write music
2. sleep and wake up and breathe and eat and stuff
3. listen to music that is in some way electronic
4. remind myself that I have been through hell, and that it was a great learning experience, and now it's time to just rock it out
5. cuss like a sailor just because I can

Top 5 Musicians Lately:
1. Devo
2. Talking Heads
3. Otto von Schirach
4. Skinny Puppy
5. Gary Fucking Numan

5 TV Shows I Like:
1. I don't watch TV.

Comments

[jdecay.livejournal.com]

Most Jewish holidays aren't all that exciting. Though, latkas and applesauce after lighting the menorah makes up for it.

As she was driving by, Becki spied Arvin and you wandering through the south side this weekend.

I still listen to the Morpheus Laughing demo. It's fun to try to pick out which parts are Pegritz and which parts are Arvin.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

You must now berate Becki. She drove right past our asses and didn't even holla at us? For shame!

And as to Morpheus Laughing...well, my friend, expect MORE of just that in the near future! And expect what we do now to put that old stuff completely and utterly to shame. It will completely devastate yo ass.