Getting a 90 minute professional massage at a 5-star spa and hotel as the first professional massage of my life was not entirely like my first experience of going to a strip club almost exactly a year ago.
It’s interesting, involves a lot of nudity, feeling quite out of place – though intrigued – and I’ll probably never do it again.
Paper: 1/3: Article for the Music Educators Journal
Progress: optimistic only out of context with the other papers
Theme?: the lyrics kill me at some point or other; hi, December.winter
Tracks: (all files uploaded onto zshare.net. Music is rightful property of the artists. I don’t own any of these…Please buy their music and support them.)
+ [Last Night] – Justin Timberlake
+ [I'll Never Smile Again] – Priscilla Ahn (Frank Sinatra cover)
+ [Winter Song] – Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson
December 13 2009 | music and musings and travels | No Comments »
+ consistently misspelled words
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camouflage
preceding
embarrassment
+ words probably overused
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probably
perhaps
considerably
quite
realize
emulate
simultaneously
assimilate
likewise
fascination
interesting
fairly
complex
various
derive
November 24 2009 | words | No Comments »
Upcoming show:
January 1-4, 2010.
Hilton Marks Center
Alexandria, VA
[Select Start] is returning to [MAGFest]!! I’ll also be sitting in a few songs with [The Oneups.] Look at the guest list ([Sid Meier] anyone?) and the band list ([Armcannon]! [The Megas]!)! Everyone should go!
More information to come soon. I’m very very excited.
November 21 2009 | games and music and performances and travels | No Comments »
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With the exception of Facebook, I’ve always procrastinated when it comes to joining social network tools. Yesterday, for whatever same reasons I created a now-defunct personal myspace page back in the day, I created a Twitter page. The first post read “wonder if i’ll stick with it.
Given the number of times I have visited the homepage today, written something, and then decided not to publish it (There’s still only one “tweet” on my page.), Twitter just may turn out to be something of a personal challenge.
Or I could just not utilize it. But then, what was the point of having one? Is impulse required when using Twitter? How might this destroy me…?
November 19 2009 | musings | 1 Comment »
the deducted:
- Subway
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Part II: Titanic Brewery
+ [Titanic] is this cheeky little brewery and restaurant on the edge of campus. They sometimes serve lovely seasonal ales on tap that likewise sometimes get me in troubles of sorts. Back in April, they celebrated an anniversary, complete with specials, one of which included a beer and veggie wrap and some other lovely provision or two. This was my order. It was delicious and that was actually one of the nicest dinners I had ever had the privilege of participating in.
Months later, after a fairly trying day, the thought of a veggie wrap and beer was highly appealing. I was too late: They had changed the menu and the vegetable wrap no longer existed. After an awkward second or two standing around wondering whether or not to pull a Subway and stay regardless, I decided the beers on tap that month weren’t tantalizing enough and probably forgot all about eating after that.
Part III: Whole Foods
+ The exact night of the Titanic failure that I realized I had a lifeboat after all: my friend Jenny, a bona fide vegetarian. Surely she would know a place with good vegetable wraps.
Alas – from having lived on campus for her entire college career so far, she did not know of any one specific place where the wraps were lovely beyond belief. But she did suggest a few places to try. The first was Whole Foods, which I kicked myself for not having thought of, given that I frequent the store for groceries. The second was a Publix (a grocery chain in mostly the Southern United States), but she warned against the one closest to school.
Within a few days, upon inspection, somewhat shockingly, most of the Whole Foods wraps contained meat, unless it was the $8 sliced up caprese wrap that, as delicious as it probably would have been, was not what I had in mind. There were no custom made wraps, though in hindsight, maybe I should have asked the guy behind the deli panel – but I had a sneaking suspicion with Whole Food’s reputation the way it is that this wrap would have probably run me up much higher than a wrap needed to be. I would save that for true desperation. Perhaps this visit was simply at the wrong time of day.
As it is a grocery store, I wondered if maybe I had made this elusive wrap myself once upon some day. After picking up the appropriate materials, dinner was settled with a spinach and feta croissant, some tea, and Nick Hornby.
November 16 2009 | food and travels | No Comments »
About a month back (or perhaps a little more close to present than that), for some inexplicable reason, I desired a vegetable wrap (heretofore referred to by its layman’s term “veggie wrap.”) Not just any wrap. And absolutely incredible one. One I knew I’d had somewhere before but had forgotten where. It’s probably a good thing I’ve started noting particularly fantastic cuisine when I travel.
Why exactly a vegetable wrap is also unclear. I am not a vegetarian. But this most definitely did not involve meat.
For as long as it takes, pocket universe will be documenting this increasingly desperate attempt to re-discover what was once known. These accounts are fairly chronological, with anywhere from one to eight days between ventures.
BASIC INGREDIENTS:
- assorted vegetables (but definitely involving spinach)
- a tortilla.wrap (probably that spinach or sun-dried tomato variety.)
- provolone cheese
- some spread that was most likely basil pesto mayonnaise (plain mayonnaise will substitute just fine for the purpose of this quest)
- additional seasonings may or may not have included oregano, olive oil, ground black pepper
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PART I: Subway
+ There is a Subway situated in the law school right across from the main auditorium of the music school, or home. (I’d like to point out that by some miracle, I have not made a single typo up to this point in this post. I almost feel credible. Moving on…) In the past, I have paid, literally, many visits to this little station mostly because it’s open until midnight, which is later than all but two other places on campus to grab that dinner I forgot to eat again.
I recalled they had wraps, and their possession of vegetables is as common knowledge as Harry Potter. So by the super-powers of deduction granted upon me by grade-school education, as this memory of The Best Vegetable Wrap Ever strikes, I go.
The lady behind the counter pluckily informs that they haven’t had wraps “…in a while! But we have the flatbread!” (Hey – flatbread’s a typo, Google Chrome?) In her defense, I had never ordered a wrap from this particular Subway before. She was just the messenger, and though dejected in my mild hunger, I surrendered and conceded to her enthusiasm. I haven’t checked any off-campus Subways – The idea has never truly occurred ever since discovering there’s one right at home. – but my faith was about as toasted as the flatbread vegetable sandwich gnawed to bits that night anyway.
November 16 2009 | food and travels | No Comments »
Why are we ever anyone but ourselves? When would we be? Why?
Agonizing is a luxury.
November 10 2009 | musings and waffle | No Comments »
“It is all a long way from the beeps and bloops of the first video games.”
I’m surprised it took, of all publications, the [New York Times] this long to write some variation of this sentence – namely using “long way” in combination with “bleeps and bloops.” Fairly nice article otherwise, though.
In other news, it’s time to find a new sentence, or just onomatopoeic sounds, to describe how evolved video game music and the culture such around has become, methinks.
October 28 2009 | games and music and musings | 1 Comment »
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I am still computer-less, though not for lack of trying. The last four weeks have involved various companies and distributors sending me all the wrong parts to assemble together my non-functioning computer. I can’t say I’m thrilled. In fact, now that my professors are asking why a graduate student doesn’t have a computer of her own, I am downright frustrated. I have spent more time on call waiting than I did writing this post.
Today, after calling a company again to complain that they had sent me the wrong part for the second time, at last, I understand the feeling of empowerment. The moments are intoxicating, strengthening, and all so more sensational when you know, without a doubt, that you did nothing wrong at all.
Except perhaps have ordered the product in the first place.
October 21 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
Upcoming show:
Friday, July 31, 2009 – 10pm
Smoke and Barrel Tavern
Fayetteville, AR
performing with The Oneups.
more information [here]
Back to practice…
July 28 2009 | games and music and performances and travels | No Comments »
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