New Tunes

Mellow Winter ... DJ Raven

1. Portishead - Pedestal
2. Colide - Frozen
3. Lush - Undertow
4. Massive Attack - Angel
5. Kosheen - Damage
6. Skinny Puppy - Antagonism
7. Technoir - Requiem
8. cEvin Key - Running
9. Front 242 - No More - No More
10. Skinny Puppy - The Centre Bullet
11. Dead Can Dance - Yulunga (Spirit Dance)
12. Goldfrapp - Slippage

Powerlifting Mix

1. Celldweller - Switchback
2. Ayria - Horrible Dream (Glis Mix)
3. Aiboforcen - Confusion (Pride & Fall Mix)
4. Terminal Choice - Be Like Me
5. Icon of Coil - Everlasting
6. Funker Vogt - Black Market Dealers
7. La Vogue - Somebody New
8. Rotersand - Storm
9. Sam - 24 Stunden
10. Seabound - Coward
11. Unheilig - Auf Zum Mond
12. Pulse Legion - Wasted Redemption
13. Implant - Slowly Mutating
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Publicdate: 2009-10-08 01:15:24
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Keywords: Industrial; Gothic; Dark

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Recovery

DJ Raven - Recovery

1. Cure - Like Cockatoos
2. Delerium - Flowers Become Screens
3. Angels & Agony - Forever
4. 4 Non Blondes - Morphine and Chocolate
5. Allison with One - While Drifting
6. Ministry - Faith Collapsing
7. Technoir - All Too Much
8. Malaise - Sometimes I Dream
9. The Gathering - Liberty Bell
10. Unhelig - Discover the World
11. Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean, Vast Sea
12. Abney Park - Dear Ophelia
13. Zeraphine - In Der Tiefe

Running

I've lately taking up running. And, contrary to questions I have been asked; No. There is no one chasing me, and Yes. My car works fine.

On the morning of July 4th I ran the Music City 5K in downtown Nashville. This was my first official, register for, sponsored, national event. (Again a relative was even more baffled that I actually PAID to run). I must say it was an amazing feeling. After a 5k loop that crossed the Cumberland River twice and looped part of Broadway, I was quite pleased to walk away with a final time of 30:09. I came in 7th in my 'age group' - of only 18, and 99th overall.

I cannot begin to describe how liberating it felt to cross that line (and to still be alive). Not too shabby for a crusty ol' monkey. I ran 6 miles the week leading up to the race and took one day off. Yesterday I ran a 2 mile paved loop - and came away with 20:29. This morning I did another 10 minute mile. My current goal is to get to an 8 minute mile. I have a new passion. ...and for once, it's GOOD for me!

Since moving to Nashville I have dropped 55lbs, and gotten rid of nearly every vice, save Rum. After last night I am pretty firm in the conviction that the Rum is going to be shelved too.

A Dilemma

I love billiards - pool - 8-ball and 9-ball. I've been playing since I was a wee little monkey. It is one of the few things that I would actually say that I'm 'kind of' good at (that, and maybe cooking - but only if I'm inspired). I've played pool most of my life. I have a great cue. I enjoy the game. But... I HATE SMOKE. cigarettes make me sick, give me headaches, and I can't even stand the way I smell after being near them.

My nose is very sensitive - even more so as a non-smoker, so I can tell when I pass someone on the street if they smoke. I can smell a smoker from the car in front of me, which is why my car runs on internal air 90% of the time. It sickens me.

As I type this I have a tied off garbage bag of clothing from the last two nights of shooting pool - and will not open it until it goes in the washing machine.

It sucks. I wish there was a way I could enjoy the game I love, but not have to enjoy it in the smoke-filled dives where it thrives. My contacts got cloudy from all the smoke tonight, and I was only in there for an hour. The light streaming in the windows cast yellow-white beams as thick as marble that moved as people passed between them, but remained, strangely cohesive.

oh, bother.

I Love Books

Simian_intellect's book montage

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DJ Raven - The Difference Machine

1. Lady Sovereign - A Little Bit of Shhh (Smallstars Remix feat. Ad Rock)
2. Missy Elliot - Lose Control
3. Lady Gaga - Money Honey
4. Timbaland - The Way I Are (feat. Keri Hilson and D.O.E.)
5. M.I.A. - 10 Dollar
6. Clotaire K - Lubnan
7. Ludacris - Down in the Dirty
8. Atmosphere / Brother Ali - Cats Van Bags
9. Babu / Blackalicious - Passion
10. Timbaland (feat. Dr. Dre, Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake) - Bounce
11. Missy Elliot - Work It
12. Khia - My Neck, My Back (Dirty)
13. Jay-Z (feat Puff Daddy & Lil' Kim) - I Know What Girls Like


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Creativity

DJ Raven - The Five Thirteen

1. Xorcist - Scorched Blood
2. Nitzer Ebb - Hearts and Minds
3. Forma Tadre - Celebrate The Cult (Offworld edit by Haujobb)
4. Nine Inch Nails - God given
5. KMFDM - Go To Hell (Fuck MTV Mix)
6. Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love
7. Kocico - Forgotten Tears
8. Psy'aviah - In Silence
9. Front 242 - Skin
10. And One - Wet Spot (Zillo Mix)
11. Zeraphine - In Der Tiefe
12. Peter Murphy - The Sweetest Drop
13. Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday


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Happy Meal

She makes the Best homemade waffles Ever!

Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
This highly moving and historically accurate book was as informative as it was sad. I could not give higher praise to the translator (the original text is Chinese). The emotional power of this pseudo-auto-biography is a sad discourse on the destruction humans bring to nature. Through the Mongolian wolves Rong manages to show how closely dependent mankind has been on them for both survival and tutelage, even going so far as to point out all of the nations and empires that have been founded and battles won thanks to lesson learned by our Lupine friends.


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something I made

Progress

Today, I managed to get my accounting software up to date and back-entered all the transactions from Jan 01. This will allow me to better project into the future while keeping an eye on expenses. Cleaned up some around the house, and got a new mix 90% done and ready to upload to my new pay site. ETA for upload is dark time. Enjoyed one of what I expect will be the last below freezing days today, last night, and tonight. I shall miss Winter, but I know she will be back in a few months preceded by the lovely Autumn.

It Begins

A brand new blog to begin babbling about the positive things that are happening in my life every day. Nothing negative here, just good, old fashioned happiness with the occasional dose of simian wit and copious amounts of mischief for good measure. Grammar? Alas, for I knew it once.