Dark Matter

because I am evidently an idiot…

how the FUCK does one use the PSI website?

I come back all energized from Charlotte. I decide I’ve got to post something about the Ken Hunt Prize to the membership lists.

I try to sign on. I get told I don’t have my password right.

I decide I must have forgotten it. I send for a new one.

I get the new one. It works, I go into my account, I set my own password.

It works, lets me see my private messages. I sign out, try it again. Still works.

Get back in, change my e-mail on the account.

Try to access the forums. Tells me only users “with special access” can do that.

OK…Sign out, try it again. Nope, password doesn’t work. Find out my account has been deactivated because I changed “vital Information.” OK.

Reactivate account. Try to sign in. Password doesn’t work.

Send for a new one? I don’t think so. Think I’ll cool down a little first.

There is one incorrect fact here, of course…it’s “Inuit,” not “Eskimo.”

See previous entry.

I guess I’ll do a full entry when I get back…

but hey Worcester-ites: Bobby Gibbs placed 19th over all. Wheeeee!

i saw some people I knew.

I drank alcohol.

I hear there’s a poetry thing around here somewhere. I’m a go look.

i’m shutting down. see you in Charlotte.

for the folks not there, I have technology with me and will check in here and there.

bye!

EDIT AT 2:15 AM: Dammit. I can’t sleep. Grrrr…

I just turned down an offer from a headhunter to come in and interview for two potential positions, each making 60-80K.

In Bentonville, Arkansas.

For Wal-Mart. (Bentonville should have tipped you off.)

I’m pretty sure there were benefits, too…imagine that.

I leave for Charlotte tomorrow in the late AM, get there mid-afternoon. Staying at poet central.

Looking forward to seeing all y’all.

Definitely. You scored 38% Cold and 64% Level-Headed!

You can kill. But the question “Why would you?” arises. Out of safety or cruelty?

And based on the news today, this might come in handy.

my last entry was on all-female cover bands.

what to my wondering eyes should appear but this on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/30/arts.zeppelin.reut/index.html

ALSO: Anyone notice that the Asylum website is apparently down?

1.
Roger Bonair-Agard was in top form tonight at his Hut feature.

2.
He reminded me that I need to get to NYC again soon.

3.
KEXP has a jazz program after my own heart…just heard Paul Motian Quartet. But the DJ is the quintessential jazz DJ…dark stoner voice, hushed delivery, etc.

4.
Love this new guitar. Strings starting to lose their new string twanginess. Now, it’s a matter of waiting for the top to open up, and then this baby’s gonna rule.

5.
Before leaving the Hut tonight, I turned Jeff onto a video that Sou and Bill and I saw on the web yesterday for an all-female AC/DC tribute band called Hell’s Belles. The lead guitarist, Adrian Conner, is insane and insanely good, transcending mere Angus imitation. Highly recommended.

I wasn’t aware of how many female tribute bands there are. Check out Cheap Chick, for instance…it’s astonishing how much the drummer really looks and sounds like Bun E. Carlos.

Hell’s Belles: http://www.hellsbelles.info/
Video clips under Media; Beating Round the Bush highly recommended.

Cheap Chick: http://www.cheapchick.com/

well…

recently bought a Powerbook because I felt I was going to need a good sturdy laptop for work.

today, i picked up another expensive item I’ve had on layaway for a while: a brand new Ibanez Artwood dreadnaught acoustic guitar.

Artwood is the high end of the Ibanez line — top notch woods and construction.

This one has a solid Engelmann spruce top, laminated maple back and sides (stunning quilted blond I might add), gloss finish, gold hardware, bound rosewood fretboard, understated bridge, soundhole, peghead, and fretboard inlay…the works.

Got a bright, balanced and punchy strummed sound, great bass sustain, and still retains nice clarity when fingerpicked. Sucker’s loud too.

This guitar is everything I usually dislike in a guitar: new, dreadnaught, maple, and kinda flashy (although not overly so). In fact, in all my years of playing and collecting, I’ve never owned a 6-string dread before (my twelve is a dread).

Proof, I guess, that you should always be sure to check your assumptions at the door when you are looking for something. I like this instrument, and actually started a song tonight — a good guitar gives you a song right away.

Big ticket items like this are probably not wise right now, but I figure on selling some of my others, and also…why not, while I’ve still got a comfortable cushion to work from? I can’t foresee another luxury purchase soon; gonna get the car a major tuneup and have done with it, but that’s utilitarian.

Call it emancipation with strings.