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So I saw Bob Dylan for my second time last night in Bloomington, IN at the IU Auditorium. The seating was supreme! 12th row! I had a great view and the show was awesome. My favorite of the night was definitely "Ballad of a Thin Man." It was also nice to be able to sit down (which was definitely a plus compared to my first Dylan show in Louisville where I had to stand for 5 hours)... Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone knows what that little automated voice says at the beginning right before the band begins to come out. I know it says something about Columbia records and finding Jesus, etc. I've heard it twice, but I keep missing parts of it because the crowd goes nuts everytime it starts. So, if anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks! :)
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Belated Halloween greetings!  We don't usually do anything to celebrate, but this year we went to town a bit and got dressed up.  Scarlett insisted on going as Minnie Mouse, I dressed as a vampire of course, and Paul attempted to don KISS make-up, but found that his beard was an obstacle and instead wore a bandana and said he was a pirate.  I messed up the adhesive on my vampire fangs and they wouldn't stay fixed, but no matter.  I'll probably wear the same make-up to the Alice Cooper gig next month, minus the fangs, which would have proved too incovenient in a mosh-pit situation. 

We didn't go out anywhere, we just watched Corpse Bride.  To Scarlett's upset, we recieved no trick-or-treaters whatsoever.  Ah well, all the more chocolate for us. 

My pumpkin carving went well, and produced enough innards for me to bake a pumpkin cake and Paul to bake a pumpkin pie, both of which were delicious, I'm pleased to report.

Photos! )
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Um, I finally uploaded photos to my Flickr account – please feel free to friend me over there if you've got an account of your own. I'd love to see your photos, and will do my darndest to put up more recent pix when I have time.

Also, as Samhain...er, Samhain approaches, I want to wish everyone a safe, enjoyable Halloween and/or a meaningfully introspective Day of the Dead/All Saints Day. Honor those who have passed while looking towards the future, and bring close to you all that you need to make it through the heavy winter ahead – real, metaphorical or both.

On a bitchier shallower note: guess who invited me to a Halloween party? You'll never guess. So I'll own up – it was my pal, who offered me a crash space on Little Miss Insecure's sofa. Of course I cc'd her on his e-mail,saying HOW NICE OF YOUR GIRLFRIEND TO LET ME STAY! YOU KNOW I'LL BE THERE, BRO!!!

Clueless straight couples, please, please change "don't ever change".

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I purchased a pumpkin this week in my local supermarket, with the intention of carving it and making a cake and a pie for Halloween.  I chose the biggest, most flawless looking pumpkin in the store and was overjoyed by how aesthetically pleasing it was in its pre-carved state.  However, yesterday morning I awoke to find that my kitchen STANK to high heaven, and that my pumpkin had, for no obvious reason, started leaking a rancid liquid all over the worktop!!  I have had to exchange it in store for another pumpkin, but they only had a few left so I couldn't find one as large or as beautiful as the first.  Sigh.
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Twenty one books I have read so far this year (this doesn’t include the half a dozen tedious politics books I’ve read for my degree):

 

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage and Starting Over In JJ Abram’s LOST Edited by Orson Scott Card

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake

Valis by Philip K. Dick

The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick

Pink Floyd And Philosophy: Careful With That Axiom, Eugene Edited by George A. Reisch

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Watchmen by Alan Moore/Illustrated by Dave Gibbons

Breakfast Of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald/Illustrated by Kevin Cornell

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Consider Phlebus by Iain M. Banks

The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks

Complicity by Iain Banks

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Cycle Of The Werewolf by Stephen King/Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

 

Twenty one books I have purchased and intend to read:

 

The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

I, Robot And Other Stories by Isaac Asimov

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Che: A Graphic Biography written and illustrated by Spain Rodriguez

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Hellboy: Seed Of Destruction by Mike Mignola/Illustrated by John Byrne

The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez

Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon

Winston Churchill by Henry Pelling

A Brief History Of Time by Prof. Stephen Hawking

The Children Of Men by P.D. James

Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Ronnie by Ronnie Wood

Krautrock Sampler by Julian Cope

A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 

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