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May 29, 2006
You should know
That throughout my days and weeks, I'm often thinking of great stuff to blog... and then it doesn't happen.
In the meantime, I don't have much to report because I can't remember any of the aforementioned great stuffs.
Steve and I found a great new brunch place... it's so great, I'm not going to tell you its name or where it is. Just that we had mimosas and french toast and such, great atmosphere, great price. Hah. Maybe if you're special I'll take you there. Your treat.
Today I'm relaxing... going to a BBQ with Barry in le east bay. Tonight I'm going to check out a CMNM party that a friend is putting together... "clothed male naked male"... something about the power dynamic created by unequal amounts of nudity. Jana and her friend are getting into town tonight and staying with me, so I'm super excited.
Des gets back from IML tomorow, and it's also back to work. I'm doing my best to simplify... I have my priorities down to about 15. Not sure what to take off to pare it down more... blogging's already not on it, so I think it's time to end.
Posted by Josh A. at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)
May 25, 2006
La musica
Courtesy of Kenjie...
Here's what you do:
1. Turn on your favorite media player and turn your shuffle feature on.
2. Hit "play" and keep track of the next 10 songs that come up. (If you have iTunes, you can make a smart playlist that will automatically list your most recently played selections.)
3. Post your 10 shuffled songs, along with these instructions. You are not allowed to lie, omit tracks or otherwise try to make your musical taste seem hipper than it actually is.
Here goes:
1. The High Llamas - Chime of a City Clock
2. Mushroom Jazz (Groove Nation) - Get This
3. Primus - Los Bastardes
4. Eon - Infernal Machine
5. Best of Techno vol 2 (Return of the Living Acid) - Get Funky!
6. Science Fiction Jazz vol. 5 (Groove Armada) - At The River
7. Rosin Coven - Dybbuk's Dirge
8. 10% File Under Burroughs (Herbert Hunckle & Chuck Prophet) - I Travelled Mostly on the Road
9. Stereolab - Moodles
10. Cake - Jesus Wrote a Blank Check
Who remembered I had half of that? I've been listening to fucking Madonna and Tori like a good gay boy. Not quite, but my morning movement mix is such an odd assortment of mostly pop (Green Day, Rihanna, Melanie C.)... make that OLD pop (Jars of Clay, Fatboy Slim)... and weirdness like the above.
Actually, the Last 25 before this experiment only contained three artists, The Shamen (Boss Drum), Meryn Cadell (Bombazine), and Steve Roach (Body Electric).
Last night, Des admitted two things: one, when he first met me he thought my music was really weird... and two, he's grown to like it and thinks I have great taste in music.
Odd, most people stop at number one.
Posted by Josh A. at 02:28 AM | Comments (0)
May 22, 2006
Reading
Still reading Don't Be Nice, Be Real, a book on Non-Violent Communication by Kelly Bryson. Got at at the New Living Expo after attending a workshop on NVC he was co-leading.
First, a funny bit:
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is an example of a therapist (actually her doctorate is in another discipline) who never leaves her role and seldom empathizes with her clients if they have a political viewpoint different from hers. She gets totally flustered about ten times per show and accuses the caller of "playing stupid" or "playing victim." Her cure-all advice is "Get a life!" said with anger and conviction. This of course immediately enlightens and empowers all her thousands of callers, who are starting to raise the planetary consciousness and lead the world into the new millennium.
Now, the interesting bit...
I once started a group... of twenty six "Love Pioneers." In this close knit tribe that we created to provide community support for our relationship, we had an interesting confidentiality agreement. It went like this: "You can be confident that if it is juicy we are going to share it with the whole tribe." [Wow!] We did not have a problem with factions, gossip or false rumors because we all knew the truth about what was going on with each other on every level. This allows trust to grow. The commitment to stay open to each other even when someone does something out of integrity makes it much easier for everyone to keep telling the whole truth. therefore we must stop punishing people not only for telling the truth, but we must stop punishing altogether, if we are to develop a truthful group, family or couple.
Main thought: Interesting implications for poly! That's how I want myself and those I'm relating to closely to be able to be. In past relationships, I've had difficulty finding people who would even talk to or be around each other, let alone love each other.
Well, fodder for the next poly group meeting.
Posted by Josh A. at 04:48 PM | Comments (0)
May 19, 2006
Pet peeve
Pet peeve: a conversation on the quality/healthfulness of an item, usually food, ended (or allowed to be ended) with the mind boggling, "Oh it's from Trader Joe's."
AS IF THAT MEANS ANYTHING.
Ok, burst of anger vented.
Have you heard this? I'm sure you've heard this, because I've heard it plenty of times in different venues.
Trader Joe's is a grocery store. That's all. It's not a paragon of anything other than decent marketing. Even, "It's from Rainbow" doesn't tell me much other than "it's not dead animal"... It could still be dairy, not organic, refined or processed, artificially flavored or colored, or preserved.
Speaking of which, have you read the ingredients of Nutella? They're disgusting. Rainbow has several nutella clone products with better ingredients... I'm interested to try them and see how they compare. Maybe at a future whole foods potluck I'll do a nutella tasting.
Today while walking to muni, I ate a chocolate peanut butter and orange marmalade sandwich... now my tummy hurts a bit, but it was yummy. Brown and orange-yellow aren't the best colors mushed together on a sandwich though, let me tell you.
Posted by Josh A. at 05:34 PM | Comments (1)
May 18, 2006
I came across an issue of US News (May 22) and the cover story is the Da Vinci Code *snore*
Funny thing in the article, though... a woman comes and asks her priest, "It says in here [DVC] that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child together. Is that true?" and the priest is all, "That's when it struck me," [Rev. John] Skirtich recalled, "that ordinary believers—people in my own parish who are not theologically trained—were being deceived by the pseudo history presented in that book, and I knew I had to do something about it."
Translation: shit shit guys! The people we trained not to think or question us aren't thinking or questioning ANYTHING! Quick, do something!
Oh your parishioners are "theologically trained" all right... like puppies at obedience school. It's just difficult to get people to know who to listen to blindly and who to ignore, eh? As Dawn said in Huckabees when Brad offered to tell her what to listen to and what to ignore, "That's confusing!" And confusion and uncertainty are NOT what we come to religion for.
Here's to anything that antagonizes the keepers of a sacred cow. Maybe I'll even see the movie sometime.
Posted by Josh A. at 10:07 AM | Comments (0)