Ghost Maria.

on the road again

This is my nephew. He has another brother who will be born this winter so that makes him a big bro like me.

This is a picture of me that he drew at Thanksgiving, a good likeness if you ask me.

Now I am packing for my mini Low tour out to New York and back. It is always hard to leave home but touring gives me the opportunity to do things I don't when at home like write post cards and read. So I'm off, come see Low if you can. Peace.

Wave

When I was growing up my old man used to say the waves on Lake Superior could get pretty big. There was no reason to believe him.

sweet sounds

yep, it's back!!! HCIS radio is online.

http://radio.harborcityschool.net/listen.pls

It's run by 10th grader Megan Spitzley. Shes the big cheese!! send her CDs and permission to play them on the school station (I'd hate the RIAA to come after her...but she'd prolly kick their @$#@$).

Harbor City International School
HCIS Radio attn:Megan
332 w. Mich St. #300
Duluth, MN 55802

she like schwag too so send posters or stickers

Then listen faithfully at work or home. Soon we'll have a benefit concert at the school and would love to have you play there.

the youth will help us to rock on!

i'm in heaven. and it is right near hell.

i have made my way into the Mall of America. I know, I swore I wouldn't but the allure of the Mac store was too great. I am leaving now 20 dollars down, I hope I can find the car.

Top Thanksgiving Moments...With the 'rents

1. Drinking eggnog before noon (watered down with a little brandy, of course).

2. Marathon games of Cribbage, Scrabble, and Trial Pursuit.

3. Drinking homemade wine and beer (another all day event).

4. Gorging myself silly on UN-turkey with a fake yet realistic crispy tofu skin (gravy and stuffing included) and following the meal up with a 1.5 hour nap.

5. Ending the night with a little pumpkin pie (never mind the lard crust).

happy turkey day from lil c-freak circa 11/?/63

i made it.

I hit snow outside of Minneapolis then it stopped but it was slick as hell. I made it anyway and then I played the new "Iron Country" for my folks. I think DadFire liked the "White Iron Band" more than Fat Hen but thats OK. Now we need to get to bed. I have an appt with a turkey at 6AM.

gobble gobble.

Good ol' Bemidji

Hey all, i'm here in the land of Paul and Babe for Thanksgivin'. After a 3.5 hour arduous drive in the dark, I have arrived. And what am i doing? Blogging on PDD. Sheesh. I just wanted to wish all of you bloggers out there a Happy Thanksgiving. I'll be seeing ya soon. Oh, Barrett and Scott, you are both gonna have to give me some lessons in html. But i'm trying.

Gobble Gobble.

I am packed, I borrowed a car and my errands are run. Now I am off to the land of my birth, Austin, MN. Yes that Austin, can you say SPAM? When I was growing up you could smell the plant for miles on hog-kill days or maybe that was the Spam cooking.

I am very excited to get home because I love Thanksgiving and I have been out of the country for the last couple. 2 years ago I was in England with Low and I managed to get a pizza with stuffing on it. Quite good actually.

Well have a good time folks and don't drink too much. Vomiting Thanksgiving dinner can be kinda nasty.

safe travels.

sometimes i feel like this.

Tha Lumpy G Rap

This rap about Lumpy G came to me one day entirely unbidden. I thought I'd share it. Private to Lumpy G: I'm sorry. Respect.

"Well my name is Lumpy G and I'm tha big dipper
You think my hips are lumpy but I'm only getting hipper."

Uh, anyone want to help finish this?

Slim Goodbuzz ... Engaged?

She's hot. She's motivated. And her taste in men is impeccable. She's Jenna Ross, president of the Society of Professional Journalists. I say Slim should go for it.

It's 9AM where is Jacko?

I missed it again.

New Stuff!!!

Introducting ... the latest of many new features of Perfect Duluth Day: Featured Artist. Scroll down and download Amy Abts' beautiful single, "Approach & Attack." Then go out and buy her album.

Sacred Heart Studio on MPR.

Check this out. A piece on the Sacred Heart Studio which played yesterday I think.

I can't wait to get home and Blog this.

One of my favorite bands ever is the "Danielson Familie." They are so cool that Matt Groening invited them to play at "All Tommorows Parties-L.A." Well any ways, Fluevog shoes made them their very only shoes, limited edition style. I passed up my chance to buy a pair 2 times because I thought they were 2 expensive, then on a Low tour Al and Mimi found them on-sale in Vancouver for 40 bucks Canadian, which is like 10 cents American.

Well tonight I decided to wear them to the Starfire Lounge. Alan wore his Fluevogs (basic black) and we traded for a while. The True Pale boyz were there and Lindquist was playing the most righteous tunez. All in all a stellar evening.

Gracias, muthafukkas

I would like to personally thank the staff of Fitger's Brewhouse for not only hanging on to the camera I left there last Thursday, but for putting it to good use.

I just saw a deer get hit.

OK, so I'm walking down my block toward Super One and BAM! this deer gets hit on I-35 like 50 feet in front of me. The car was OK, and kept driving without swerving or panicking. Then two other deer come running at me and bounce their way down Bristol Street.

Being a die-hard blogger, I would have scaled the fence and gone up to take a picture of the deer, but I drunkenly left my camera at a bar and have yet to pick it up from their lost and found. I'm sure the deer will be gone by the time I get it back.

Unfortunately, I am not one of those meat-freezer roadkill people either.

Found!

Since I have been without car for a while now I have been walking much more than usual. Besides the exercise I really like finding lost notes on the ground. It is a habit I picked up after discovering "Found Magazine."

Well Sunday I found the best note ever. I actually walked by about 10 steps then turned around and went back. It was a foggy day and I was on my way to the Save the Norshor meeting. The note seemed so perfect. Maybe a message from beyond.

Now today I read an article about the "Zero Point Field" and can't help but wonder if I sent myself the note.

perfect holiday warm up

OK...ok...thought I'd finally chime in here again. It's been awhile. Been to busy making a blogging engine for the kids at Harbor City School. Actually been doing a bunch there like this. So here's your chance to help HCIS and come and visit and enjoy mostly warm fresh KRISPIE KREME!!! Yes where havin' a school bake sale...only we aint doing the baking, someone at 3 in the morning is and then we're haul a$$ing them up as quick as we can ( avioding deer ) to you.

Facts:

• Order/Pre-pay by Dec 2nd by calling 879-3592(marie) or any friendly HCIS Staff(baci) or student.
  
• Sweet warm glazed units arrive on morning of friday dec 5th @ HCIS by 7:30a
  
• Stay at HCIS and have breaky and coffee with us
  
• All $$ goes to HCIS Student activity fund
  

Marie will keep her van warm the whole way...but I have to admit I COULD NOT make it the whole trip in a van smelling odf that glazed goodness.

More Rodent Dreams?

Zoey, it's weird that you mention a rodent dream. I think it was 2 nights ago that i had a very similar experience. It all started at the movie theater. A large group of us had decided to see a movie. Well, half way through the reel broke. We waited and waited for them to set up a new one. However, the manager came and made the announcement that we would not be able to see the rest of the movie. They were giving refunds at the back of the movie theater as you left. Dissapointed, I walked to the back of the theater. Some worker handed me a check. I peered at the check and was surprised to find it written for a mere 2 dollars. I approached the worker to ask why when a second worker thrusted something else at me-- a sickly looking ferret! I was like "what the-" and then i looked around me. Everyone had a ferret! Someone explained to me that it was part of the refund. $2+a ferret. My ferret was mean... it bit me and ran away. I looked for it in the theater for awhile but in the end gave up.

Thanks Chuck.

What: Happy hour. With music from my iPod.
Where: Pizza Luce
When: Today from 4-7PM.
Why: I don't know.
Who: You should be there.

Art Opening tonight.

Lizzards Gallery is having a group opening tonight from 5:30-7:30. They are located at 38 E. Superior St. in good ol Duluth, MN. My friend Jeff and his friend Deanna recently purchased Lizzards and this is their first big opening. Oh yes there will be free booze and food too.

PDD Poll Results

OK, now, who did you really vote for?

Bergson [11 votes, 28.95%]
Bell [2 votes, 5.26%]
Gilbert [11 votes, 28.95%]
Elroy Jetson [3 votes, 7.89%]
Godsey [11 votes, 28.95%]

see...i warned you

Feels like the first time.

I had my weekly Oral Surgeon appt. today and much to my surprise I get to open my moth a little bit everyday. I took off my rubber bands and opened my mouth for the first time at work this afternoon and it was like someone elses mouth. It actually hurts to open it more than 1/4". But slowly I am working up to brushing my teeth. It hurts so good.

I'M SCARED

The picture of the Professor scares me. Make it go away.

Moby is cooler than Michael.

On Apple's Music Store they have celebrity musicians pick 20 of their favorite songs in Mix-tape fashion and then they sell them singly or as a whole bundle. I present to you 2 bald superstars and their picks. Personally I like Moby's setlist much more. What do you think?


Helpless - Neil Young
Transmission - Joy Division
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
First It Giveth - Queens of the Stone Age
Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Slip Away - David Bowie
Questions in a World of Blue - Julee Cruise
Fade to Grey - Visage
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything -Bauhaus
(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Girl U Want - Devo
All My Colours - Echo & The Bunnymen
Blue Light - Mazzy Star
Common People - Pulp Hits
Death Valley '69 - Sonic Youth
Rabbit in Your Headlights - U.N.K.L.E.
Heroin - Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground 1969 - Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed, Vol.1
Los Angeles - X


Beautiful Day (Live From Boston) - U2
Thank U - Alanis Morissette
Violet - Hole
100% - Sonic Youth
Who We Be - DMX
Move Your Feet - Junior Senior
Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie
Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus - Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
Love Hurts (Single) - Nazareth
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
1959 - Patti Smith
I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
The Man Who Sold The World (Live) - Nirvana
Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees) - The Ink Spots
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
Teeth - Kristin Hersh
Excuse Me Mr. - Ben Harper
That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon
Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
Video Killed the Radio Star (Single Version) - The Buggles
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Winter - Tori Amos
Everything I Own - Bread
Sweetest Thing (The Single Mix) - U2
Family Affair - Mary J. Blige
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
All the Things She Said - t.A.T.u.
Emerge (DFA Remix) - Fischerspooner
Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Minimix) - Bjork
Breathe and Stop - Q-Tip

Barrett is buying something

Howdy from Best Buy. Barrett is buying a new puter.

Merci. Gracias. Grazie. Danke Schon.

So it has been a few days now since "JawAid" and I just wanted to say thank you. Thanks to Amy Abts and Jay, Haley Bonar, Low and Trampled by Turtles. Thanks to Eric Swanson for recording the night and lining up the PA. Thanks to Trent and Brandon from Sound Central for providing the PA free of charge. Thanks to Tom Fabchance for being a great sound guy. Thanks to Simon Gray for the light show. Thanks to Tony Dierkins for designing the poster. Thanks to Dana and Sharon for making the T-Shirts and being the greatest bosses a guy could ever want. Thanks to everyone that came to the show. Thanks to the Sacred Heart Music Center for the space. And finally, thank you Duluth, MN. for being the greatest city in the world.

I am over the hump now, less than 3 weeks to go and everything seems to be healing real well.

I am so modern.

As I type these words I am completing my first purchase of an album online. No I am not ordering one, I am actually downloading the record from the Apple Music Store. It reminds me of my other first purchases.


1rst LP. Shaun Cassidy-Da Do Run Run, purchased at Younkers in Austin, MN. I think it cost $2.99 and yes I still own it.


1rst CD. Talking Heads-True Stories, purchased in Dinkytown during my freshman year at the UofM. I spose it cost $9.00 or so and yes I still own it.


Todays purchase. Junior Senior. D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat. I don't think I am going to be buying much music this way but I had to try it.

it was warm in the land of huns...

but i decided not to swim after all.

Night of the Blawggers

It sure was fun hanging out with these people on Friday night/Saturday morning. I felt like we all hit it off pretty good--when we talked, it didn't even feel all post-y and comment-y. It was totally like real life.

But seriously, we must further discuss this convention idea. A huge room filled with hoodie-wearing digital camera freaks is just too sweet to procrastinate about.

Wanted: Cheap-ass guitar

I need a guitar so I can learn three chords and start a band. But I am stone-cold broke. Any of you Duluth rockers got a beat up old guitar in your closet you were going to throw away anyway? Or I could maybe give ya ten bucks... in a couple weeks ... maybe more in a couple months ... long story ... will rock for food.

Crashing Through.

Looks like benefit concerts are all the rage this fall. Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening fame and his band mates from Dub Narcotic Sound System were involved in a car crash back in October and there are numerous benefit concerts scheduled all over the country. There is a show tonight in Winona if you happen to be there and then again on November 20th at the 7th Street Entry. I think I would like to go to that show and prove that I can get in and out of Mpls without a jaw fracture.

Idea

Someone should produce an album called "Duluth Does Karaoke" in which local rawk and/or roll musicians belt out the standards, live at the Alpine.

Let's see, Starfire could do his karaoke signature, "Rhinestone Cowboy," but what else? I'd love to hear Cougar Conley sing Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know."

Take the Skinheads Bowling...

Poll Results

Who ya gonna vote for...

Bell [3 votes, 12%]
Bergson [22 votes, 88%]

Bye Bye Doty!!

      
      
      

small world.

i just saw comedianne Maria Bamford (i think that's her name) on Comedy Central's 'Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn' and she was wearing a Bullseye "Duluth is a Cool City" t-shirt under her jacket. i shit you not.

The true face of Duluth ...

... is white and slushy.

I voted for Bergson

Boo-yah.

This is my brother. That is his deer. It is dead.

Maybe the comments resigned too.

Observation

Funny how when the comments function goes down, it feels exactly like that moment at the party when everybody stops talking at once.

Monday morning links.

Space Waitress turned me on to this link.

From Complicated Fun I found this story about Brad Nelson.

And Finally, via Copacetic I give you Homestar Runner. I know I am probably the last person on the Net to see this but it is good stuff.

Poll Result

Do you believe in...

Vampires [2 votes, 3.77%]
UFOs [13 votes, 24.53%]
Leprechauns [15 votes, 28.30%]
Chupacabra [12 votes, 22.64%]
Shadow People [11 votes, 20.75%]

Conquering the VFW.

   

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