reports of my demise
now playing: blake allen, "heaven"
....may have some truth to them.
actually, that's not entirely true.
what has happened, though, is that the plot has thickened in the time since i reported that daily kos ended up on the 403 list at work ("403" being the code for "forbidden", for those of you who have better things to use your intellectual hard drive space for).
in that time, this site (along with the accompanying journal from which you're now reading) has made the list, along with blogger itself, and other similarly profane and offending sites...like paypal and super 70's radio.
so now, to compensate for all those half-hour lunch breaks they charge me for that i seldom fully utilize, i guess i'll just have to join the hordes and play tetris instead.
(i should add that the same person who's presently adding all these sites to the Evil Forbidden List is the same person who sent me an email before the election outlining how the draft was a democratic proposition being used by the left to scare voters and that the congressmen who proposed it in the first place were democrats. now, there was a resolution introduced by two democrats in the house, before the war...HR603, i believe, but don't quote me on that...you can google the particulars if you want....so one has to wonder if his motives have as much to do with how much time i'm spending online as they might have to do with the growing number of IP addresses in the company that were hitting my blog and my site of late. we may never know, for as of yet, no one has uttered a single disciplinary word in my direction about surfing habits or net use. but tomorrow is friday, and that would be the day that this could very well change. especially if he drops by here.)
i've been listening to the two most recent songs that blake has passed my way from the sessions for his new record, and i think they may be the two strongest songs he's given me so far. this close to being finished, i'm tempted to tell him to toss everything else and go back and write eleven more just like those two...but i think that they just happen to hit chords with me regarding where i am right now. i don't think they invalidate the rest of the record or anything like that.
(which i have to say, because i know he stops by here and he may very well take me at my word and do just that...and that'd be a damn shame.)
and no, i'm not gonna say which two, so don't ask.
i must've watched almost famous three or four times this week. tonight was the night for the "directors' commentary cut", which was fascinating. seriously. firstly, he confirmed my suspicion that it was supposed to be gram parsons and emmylou harris in the hotel room with the open door as penny was leading william down the hallway of the continental hyatt house...and there were some other moments of fascination in there as well. he talked about a conversation he'd had with ronnie van zant before he died, in which ronnie confided to him that he was considering firing one of the band members - this has been speculated upon by skynyrd fans for years, but i'd never heard him say it publicly.
the entire "cleveland concert" is on DVD One of the set. that's next.
and might i say, finally, that i truly hope he manages to avoid ever, EVER making a sequel to that movie. that'd just be a damn shame.
so, sporadic posting for the time being, since this particular PC (the one downstairs in the studio, the recording PC) is the only one i have access to for posting for the time being. much more to discuss...maybe next week when i'm unemployed i can catch up a little bit.
....may have some truth to them.
actually, that's not entirely true.
what has happened, though, is that the plot has thickened in the time since i reported that daily kos ended up on the 403 list at work ("403" being the code for "forbidden", for those of you who have better things to use your intellectual hard drive space for).
in that time, this site (along with the accompanying journal from which you're now reading) has made the list, along with blogger itself, and other similarly profane and offending sites...like paypal and super 70's radio.
so now, to compensate for all those half-hour lunch breaks they charge me for that i seldom fully utilize, i guess i'll just have to join the hordes and play tetris instead.
(i should add that the same person who's presently adding all these sites to the Evil Forbidden List is the same person who sent me an email before the election outlining how the draft was a democratic proposition being used by the left to scare voters and that the congressmen who proposed it in the first place were democrats. now, there was a resolution introduced by two democrats in the house, before the war...HR603, i believe, but don't quote me on that...you can google the particulars if you want....so one has to wonder if his motives have as much to do with how much time i'm spending online as they might have to do with the growing number of IP addresses in the company that were hitting my blog and my site of late. we may never know, for as of yet, no one has uttered a single disciplinary word in my direction about surfing habits or net use. but tomorrow is friday, and that would be the day that this could very well change. especially if he drops by here.)
i've been listening to the two most recent songs that blake has passed my way from the sessions for his new record, and i think they may be the two strongest songs he's given me so far. this close to being finished, i'm tempted to tell him to toss everything else and go back and write eleven more just like those two...but i think that they just happen to hit chords with me regarding where i am right now. i don't think they invalidate the rest of the record or anything like that.
(which i have to say, because i know he stops by here and he may very well take me at my word and do just that...and that'd be a damn shame.)
and no, i'm not gonna say which two, so don't ask.
i must've watched almost famous three or four times this week. tonight was the night for the "directors' commentary cut", which was fascinating. seriously. firstly, he confirmed my suspicion that it was supposed to be gram parsons and emmylou harris in the hotel room with the open door as penny was leading william down the hallway of the continental hyatt house...and there were some other moments of fascination in there as well. he talked about a conversation he'd had with ronnie van zant before he died, in which ronnie confided to him that he was considering firing one of the band members - this has been speculated upon by skynyrd fans for years, but i'd never heard him say it publicly.
the entire "cleveland concert" is on DVD One of the set. that's next.
and might i say, finally, that i truly hope he manages to avoid ever, EVER making a sequel to that movie. that'd just be a damn shame.
so, sporadic posting for the time being, since this particular PC (the one downstairs in the studio, the recording PC) is the only one i have access to for posting for the time being. much more to discuss...maybe next week when i'm unemployed i can catch up a little bit.
posted by tom at 01:35
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