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January 31, 2006


	lightheaded .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } lightheaded, originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl. The non-smoking continues, though to what overall, lasting benefit I remain unsure. Is it really worth all this mess? Living the rest of my life constantly denying myself cigarettes. Cause I still want them, a lot. It's a feeling that, while it... Posted by xtop at 10:43 PM \| Comments (6)


	This (widescreen!) American Life "New Beginnings, Part Two: "In mid-January, Showtime made it official: we're going to produce a series for them, a television version of This American Life. We shot a pilot last year, and the full series will begin broadcasting in the fall or winter of 2006. We'll continue making the radio show while we do the TV show. Again: the radio show will stay on the air. "What we can say about the... Posted by xtop at 10:11 PM \| Comments (0)

January 30, 2006


	graveyard .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } graveyard, originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl.... Posted by xtop at 12:36 AM \| Comments (0)

January 26, 2006


	things I'm learning to play Für Elise, the song I crudely taught myself to convince myself to take lessons in the first place. Only now I'm playing both parts, using both hands, and reading it. Full circle, yo. More Murphy Hall nonsense later this week. I'm going to try selling some photos through here, exploring my options and trying to make things, y'know, actually desirable. This is a bit frightening... Posted by xtop at 01:12 AM \| Comments (13)

January 20, 2006


	hello mr. smith This came in the same envelope as the Ebert missive, but somehow tops it with complete lack of coherence, sense, logic and legibility. Also, more swearing and more pop culture references to keep the kids engaged. Enjoy.... Posted by xtop at 01:11 PM \| Comments (1)

January 18, 2006


	from kurt eichenwald's 'conspiracy of fools' p. 290-291 from Kurt Eichenwald's massive, compulsively readable rundown of the entire Enron debacle: On December 20, Collins was ready to throw in the towel. He was weeks from quitting in frustration, but before he did, he wanted somebody to hear the truth. He banged out an e-mail to one of his supervisors. Enron's ballyhooed effort to develop a software-driven network was fizzling, he wrote, with no market share, no purchasers, and... Posted by xtop at 11:43 PM \| Comments (0)

January 16, 2006


	the hobo's medicine chest .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the hobo's medicine chest, originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl.... Posted by xtop at 11:54 PM \| Comments (0)

January 12, 2006


	Gomez It was Charlie Gomez who told me on the first day at Murphy Hall, "If you want to keep Murphy on your good side, just make him laugh." Then, to prove his point, he turned to Murphy and made little gun fingers, saying in his inimitable fashion, "Murphy, I like your style!" Murphy responded with a lopsided hint of a smirk, which was his way of showing some small measure of contentment.... Posted by xtop at 09:21 PM \| Comments (4)


	the stare-able candide Chris Ware makes Voltaire hip for the kids again. This shot doesn't even come close to describing just how well-designed and funny a job Ware did on the cover, which includes fake jacket flaps inside and a character diagram. I picked it up last night, knowing I already owned a well-thumbed paperback of Candide, one I'd tried to read a time or two without success. But this, this was like buying... Posted by xtop at 02:04 PM \| Comments (0)

January 10, 2006


	hello mr. ebert We get a lot of strange letters at work. This missive is particularly impressive, since it seems like the writer learned how to spell all sorts of words but was never told how to string them together to form sentences or complete thoughts. If meth babies could write in the womb, they'd write letters like this.... Posted by xtop at 02:11 AM \| Comments (3)

January 09, 2006


	day the first .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } day the first, originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl. from the first page of the Decameron... Posted by xtop at 11:07 AM \| Comments (2)


	james frey & jt leroy vs. the truth James Frey gets called on his shit: Frey compared those two stints: "Jail is really fucking boring, and occasionally, really fucking scary. It is about doing time and getting it over with and staying out of trouble. Rehab is about fixing and changing your life. It, however, can also be boring and scary." When recalling criminal activities, looming prison sentences, and jailhouse rituals, Frey writes with a swaggering machismo and bravado... Posted by xtop at 01:38 AM \| Comments (0)

January 08, 2006


	a jewish, long island glimmer of hope I forgot to mention this before, but I think it merits its own entry. This past Thursday at my lesson, my teacher showed me exactly how one plays rapid-fire notes in quick succession, by having the fingers kind of roll along, each one hitting the same key, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4. Of course, when I tried to do it, it sounded like I'd swallowed a handful of ludes before the lesson, and what came... Posted by xtop at 02:06 PM \| Comments (0)

January 07, 2006


	HO(ly shit)STEL As part of what seems to be a new Saturday afternoon ritual for me, I slipped down to the Palace to catch the first showing of Hostel, with a bag of popcorn and a coke in tow. And sonuvabitch, that movie didn't disappoint the way I was expecting it to. In fact, it may be the finest new horror movie I've seen in the theatre in, uh, well, maybe ever. As a... Posted by xtop at 03:54 PM \| Comments (4)


	pretty little crucifi, all in a row .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } pretty little crucifi, all in a row, originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl.... Posted by xtop at 12:19 PM \| Comments (0)

January 05, 2006


	one note forward, two sixteenth notes back The metronome is my friend. I understand this now, after a year or more of obstinately regarding the little clicking robot who sat next to me on the piano as a horrible menace whose only goal was to destroy all remnants of creative interpretation and improvisation. I didn't get into piano to be turned into a music churning machine, in lockstep with the time signature, I told myself. And every time I... Posted by xtop at 10:59 PM \| Comments (0)

January 01, 2006


	the first day of the rest of your year I woke up at 8, I woke up at 11, I woke up at 1. Smoked several cigarettes, commenced trying to learn Satie's "Gymnopedie" and drank some flavored water. Thought about what to cook for dinner, now that I finally have a kitchen you can cook in. Made phone calls, put the Glenlivet away and dumped the remnants of last night's interrupted Miller Light down the sink. I'm sitting outside, without a... Posted by xtop at 04:36 PM \| Comments (0)

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