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a quick trip over to Tinkham with Tommy, Bree, Rob & Oliver. Nice. I wish we would have stayed all weekend instead of just overnight, though.

...a lot of stuff going on. a lot of randomage to explain here, but it's a mess. it'll be much easier to explain after the fact, so...CHEERS! Enjoy your 3 day weekend.


also, TanQ is fine. 10 days of anti-biotics and she'll be peachy. and, she's a slut. our vet is a very handsome young gentleman and she didn't make a single noise as he manhandled her and then carted her off for shots. when he handed her to me she resisted, like she wanted to go home with him instead. I can't blame her: I did, too.

This is Bogey. He is Mike & Kevin's new pug. They had a pug named Wilbur but he passed away last month. very sad. Bogey is tiny and cute. and he bites. a lot.

the Amazing Grace Joens is 60 today. Hert new album, Corporate Canibal, is due out this August. but don't hold your breath: her last 2 albums have yet to be released.

TanQ lost another fang this weekend, so she's down to one lower fang. it's freaking me out, though she doesn't seem to mind, nor has it effected her swine-like appetite. we must get to the vet although I'm terrifed of some awful prognosis. my vet mentioned cancer sometimes makes their teeth fall out. shit shit shit.

What? it''s not like I'm asking for much? that much? Curses!

1 sangster, me, ben
2 josh, sangster, me
3 me in green
4 me & breeb
5 Muhr & Sam

one of my favorite humans ( Marika or Muhr-eekaH ) had a birthday type party last week, so we trotted up to the Ravenna District (ha) and celebrated with a gaggle of good time drinking friends. it was a great time, even if phil collins ended up on the turn table.

1st single from my favorite album of 2008 (so far). I've waited like 6 years for this album and it's well worth the wait.

Madge is finally coming to the Seattle area and by area I mean up north in canada, Vancouver. I have never seen her live and she hasn't been in Seattle since 1990. I hope we can get tickets.

should be fab. this is the 5th or 6th time I'm seeing her. Thanks, Tommy!

I was embarrassed for myself after reading that last post and am proud to reveal that I am now listening to another late-night standby - the Sundays "Blind".

I am so hip circa 1993.

my computer was blessed with a rogue bogus anti-spyware program called awola a few days ago. It's a bitch and a half to get rid of. manual removal is suggested and so far it has eaten up about 9 hours of my life...and I still have it!

at the moment, I am moving 68 gigs of music files onto an external harddrive so the removal program doesn't take 4 hours to scan that music folder again. it's been moving for an hour and it says there's another 240 minutes to go, YAY.


sure, I'm typing this on the laptop Andre gave me but I hate laptops. I hate this little screen and the retarded little pad for a mouse. someday I'll grow up and just have a cute little laptop and everything on external drives and I won't have the computer and giant monitor and keyboard on my breakfast bar and I will sit and eat breakfast there instead.
but for now, I'll just bitch about awola and type on this little keyboard and listen to tanQ! squeek at me because she hates the [ artist deleted in shame ] cd that I have been playing late at night because I am secretly an old woman.

that is all.

1 - keyno
2 - Cheryl
3 - Jazz













day one:
- dropped tanq and my car off at steve's
- sat in the seatac airport for 5 hours, chatted with a hot Marine
- was squished in a window seat on the longest plane ever
- picked up by my sister at 6am
- slept on a couch for 8 hours straight
- drove down to Iowa. dinner with parents
- slept for 12 hours straight in my dungeon bedroom
day two
- Chinese buffet Lunch with Mark's mom
- used DVD shopping, comic shops, etc
- steak dinner with parents
- out with the mason city folk. very fun
- brother's family drove up from hampton
- drove back to mpls/st paul
- keyno wakes me up 7 times during the night
day 3
- CD shopped at cheapo and lunched with Karie at independent
- back to sister's house where karie did laundry
- we watched "hot fuzz". loved it!
- trip down stairs, hit head on wall. left dent on wall
day 4
- started watching battlestar galactica season 3
- bought "cloverfield" and watched extras
- watched original "Poseidon adventure"
- picked Luke up from school
- ate too much
day 5
- jazz the cat tries to attack a skunk. stinky
- watched more "battlestar" & "planet terror". Loved.
- talked to Andre on the phone for 4 hours
- made some sort of "pot lasagna". 'twas good.
- keyno again woke me up barking at the wind.
day 6
- stood up for lunch by olaf at Thai place. cute waiters
- more "battlestar" plus "star wars ep 2" & "nightmare before Christmas"
- went to bed at like 9 with keyno in my room and he never barked
day 7
- actual lunch with olaf at figlio's. w as nice to catch up
- watched "30 days of night"
- mason city gays were up and came over for cocktails. til 4 am
day 8
- parents drove up and we went to my niece's Jesus play
- more grilled steak for dinner
- out with my Minneapolis gays and karie.
- did not drink anything besides diet coke and water.
- hit jetset and the 90's for an old time drag show
- drove home sober at 3 am. a nice time, of course.
day 9
- parents drop me off at the airport at noon
- aisle seat, much better flight
- steve picks me up and TanQ is happy to see me
- the end

my old phone has this terrible buzzing noise so I finally got a new one. "Pearl" is taking a bit to get used to, especially the qwerty keyboard, but I mostly love it. and Hate it.

9 inches tall and a mere 125 bucks. A bargain!

out with Scootie, Danny, Robin and Jessica at toast in mason city. definitely NOT Sober. in the least.

and I'm actually sober.

I've gushed separately about all of these, and now you can actually buy them ( I love the internet ). Robyn is only 7.99 at bestbuy this week.

1 tanQ travels in style
2 cher doll found in mark's garage
3 jazzy b. lazy

did you even know I could read? I started Christopher Rice's 4th book in the airport and finished it the day I got to MPLS. Honestly, I had a hard time putting it down. His first book, "density of souls" was the same. however, the 2nd and 3rd were both convoluted messes. This is a return to form. Yeah, he's Anne Rice's son, and he writes a lot like her before she went crap. what's it about? marines, homo's, murder, suicide and lies lies lies. If you have read any of his other books, you will enjoy this.

I will admit to being very vocal about my utter disdain for the concept of Madonna working with such generic commoners as timbaland and pharrel. Generic. she has never been generic. leaked tracks did not alter that disdain. I was embarrassed and was not looking forward to the finished products. then 4 minutes came and I was surprised. Yes, timbaland should shut the fuck up, but justin wasn't too annoying and the beats were great.
The rest of the album is mostly quite good. "miles away" would have fit right in on confessions, American life or music. and it's an incredible song ( the lyrics are clearly about me and my Canadian ). a few tracks ( like 2nd single "give it to me" ) really need a good club mix.
"The beat goes on" is vastly different and improved from the leak version. even Kanye's ridiculous rap towards the end doesn't kill it.

there are some pretty embarrassing lyrics here and there ("see my bootie get down like that"), but who am I to deny Madge the right to channel her inner Hootchie Mama?

best tracks: 4 minutes, give it to me, heartbeat, miles away, she's not me, beat goes on, the devil wouldn't recognize you.

should never have been recorded : candy shop, dance 2night, incredible, Spanish lesson

it's less of a madonna record than a timbaland, timberlake, pharrel record. but it has it's moments: 7 of them.

I hope it beats the shit out of mariah scary in the charts anyway. but it probably won't, because Americans have terrible taste in music.

I'm off to MN & Iowa on a red eye tonight. That is all.

finally, a video for kylie's US single from X. too bad the album is bombing here. and Sad that her record company thought they had to release the most RnB song off the album ( because you know you have to have a rapper on your album to sell records in the US ) because there are vastly better tracks on the album. Anyway, the video is cute and she looks great. tattoo guy is pretty hot as well.

Bree & Me. More Confessions

Finally! a video for this excellent song that re-introduced me to Robyn.

1 - I left work at 4 today. since then I have eaten two granola bars and a banana. I have listened to the SUndays, William Orbit and Lisa Stansfield. Lisa was annoying me so I put in Erasure's trippy 1995 self titled album. which reminds me of my ex, Nick. that is neither good nor bad.
2 - (THIS IS GROSS )I have had some sort of infected toe for the last 2 months. it started as an ingrown toenail and Yes, I have been to the doctor twice. there's no nail causing problems per se, but the skin hasn't shrunk back to normal so I have to cut the nail away from the skin and ouch. lots of blood, but at least there's no more puss. it get sbetter for a few days and then it's bad again. it's ok today, i semi-stubbed it on the washing amchine and I didn't scream in pain as I have recently. mark calls it Resident Evil Toe.
3 - heading to MN on thursday night and then driving down to Mason city for the weekend. My sister and her husband are flying off to the bahamas in their pal's private jet, so I get to hang out and be an "adult presence" for her 4 teenage sons that will be lingering about. I did this a couple years ago and it's a much better time than it sounds. they have a huge house ( 8000 sq feet ) out in the middle of no where ( ok, just south of st paul and on the mississippi river ) and a HUGE tv and 2 cool dogs and an awesome cat. and a bird of somesort. Hoping to see old friends and new. haven't seen Olaf in years, so that needs to happen. Gonna spend some quality time at cheapo records on lake street and possibly take my niece and her pals shopping around calhoun square.
4 - I have to sneak some old family pics from my parents house as I am plotting to have a book made of them for their upcoming 40th anniversary. My office mate had one made out of pics from her recent trip to mexico. Hardbound, glossy and reletivley inexpensive. gorgeous.
5 - My dad turned 69 on saturday. I realize that he's still young but I worry about my parents all the time because I'm so far away from them. I have mentioned that several times here, I know.
6 - Let me just say that I hate prudential life insurance. I've been trying to get something fixed since last August. idiots.
7 - Mark is cat sitting in west seattle and TanQ is glad he's gone. she's rolling around on the rugs and laying in random places around the living room. I'm not sure if she's staying here with him when I'm gone or staying at casa swenty. she'll be furious if I leave her here with him alone for 10 days. that's a lot of cat puke mark will have to clean up.
8 - my name for Mark is Francine. as in Francine fishpaw from "Polyester". he hates it, probably because he thinks we are accusing him of looking like Divine's charachter and that is not the case. even if he is a little 'house-wifey". Of course, Marjorie was already taken by the other Mark.
9 - I'm off with Bree to have wine with Fwankie.

Because it has been a while, Bitches.

I'm actually suprised that I love the new madge/justin song. Yup, I'm a huge bitch and I hate everything 9 according to UM ) and also I can't stand hip hop, so I was expecting a big smelly piece of crap. Suprise! I love it. Timbaland should be completely removed but otherwise yay. I did expect some stellarness freom the remixes but of the 4 ( tracy young, Bob Sinclair, junkie xl and peter rauhofer ), Only Peter's stands out, which is not a suprise.

and here's the video. I love the whole "Angel of death/harbinger of doom" thing she's bringing. it reminds me of a 1985 Dc Comic series called "crisis on infinte earths" where this black wall of anti-matter stuff ate up entire worlds and all the people on them.

in case you forgot.