04/23/04 -- too close to midnight for my own good

hello mother fuckers. 

been a while hasn't it?

not that some of that crazy-assed shit that runs through my mind has stopped mind you. i just have not been in the mood whatsoever lately to do anything with this thing i started almost a year and a half ago. hard to imagine. hmm. the best thing is the obsession has subsided, hee hee.

truly of late it's been the best of times and it's been the worst of times. well, almost on both accounts. my decade-long career at the shop is rapidly coming to a close as the brilliant minds of ownership slowly yet methodically destroy what's left of two companies with a great potential. it amazes me, as a business major, and not the most intelligent or ambitious one mind you, how people get put into these high-level positions in the first place. the chutzpah (for lack of a better anglican word) i've seen this last years has made everything else i've experienced to date pale in comparison. if i've learned nothing else all these years, it's that working together on both sides of the fence always produces the best results. but texans like to play hardball, and all the while the companies slowly tank. i've been thinking lately of writing a book about this ... a first-hand account you could say of how to kill a business within a couple of years. god knows i didn't think the former ownership was great, nor the first for that matter, but just when you think it can't get any worse ... . so monday, it seems, will be the end of it all for the most part ... the third mass exodus from the parent company. unbelievable when there was so much potential. had a big blow out fight over all this shit too. made a total and complete ass of myself and did some damage to a good relationship. but  fuck it. i wish sometimes i didn't care about crap as much as i do, but i've invested so much into this shit the last ten years, it's awfully hard to let it slip. i'm learning though. soon i won't give a shit about anything! and what a glorious day that wil be, lol.

but fuck all of those guys anyway.

we all know rock and roll is the only thing that matters right? or maybe rock and booze and drugs and sex?

tonight i'm experiencing two of the above and wishing i was experiencing the remaining two. i'll leave it to you to figure out which ones are which.

had a lot of dreams lately for some reason ... weird shit ... dentists, homosexuality, ufo's, rock stardom, ex-wives, old girlfriends, current girlfriends, falling, you name it. odd since i rarely remember any of these things in the morning. speaking of ex'es, lol ... came across that confused little so-and-so's website. probably a lot more interesting and useful than mine, but then again it's all done in white background so that means mine wins cuz it looks neater in black. hee hee. evidently still the same old gal she was when she walked out on me ... for good reason no doubt, heh. it seems as if i'm the one who had to disintegrate and reintegrate a couple of times. and somehow i don't think i'm entirely put together just yet.

short of that ..... went to death valley. it's amazing how much life there really is there after all. it is truly an amazing place and i would recommend it to all you guys out there. sooner or later i'll post the pics for those who care (and it seems there's a growing number of you, lol). picked up the guitar and played tonight with the boys for the first time in two weeks. didn't suck too bad ... but tanked on the supersuckers. oh well.  speaking of the music .... the house of metal has been closed for what seems like an interminably long period of time. seen way to many punk shows and nowhere near enough of the dark stuff, the metal stuff or the goth girl attractor stuff. finally did heal up the ribs and back though ... just in time for the next throw rag show next week! yippee!

fishing's coming up. that should be good. figure i'll go even if i'm unemployed, lol. this will be the first year i'm there on my b-day ... and i'll be 40 to boot. ought to be a nice way to spend the halfway marker sipping a glass of wine watching the sun set behind mammoth mountain.

and on the national scene .. bush and his daddy still can suck my balls. nothing, and i mean nothing good has ever come out of texas. nothing. not that kerry is any better mind you. and say what you will about howard (stern that is) he still deserves to be on the air without being fined. they should fine the networks on radio on tv for putting on all that inanity that already exists. i'd much prefer to hear discussions on necrophilia, homosexuality, bisexuality, etc., etc., than to see another joe millionnaire or, god forbid, the disgusting spectacle of the swan. the fuckers on those shows and the bastards who produce them should just be shot for contributing to the demeaning and debasing of society ... in ways even howard never did.

but that's just one man's opinion.

m