What if....



What if Springsteen had written a whole album, never recorded it, then died, then Ben Folds was asked by Patti to finish the songs, and record them, then he died and then the album got released?

Well, that's the equivalent of what you get in the sci-fi novel "Psychoshop". Alfred Bester [Stars My Destination & The Demolished Man... you like science fiction and you haven't read them? you fucking piece of trash.] wrote this novel in the early 80's, shelved it when he got sick and then died in '87. In the early 90's (after completing the Amber-verse) Roger Zelazny got the manuscript, finished it and then shelved it. After he died in '95, Random House reprinted all of Bester's work in trade paper editions, and published "Psychoshop" for the first time.

The book jacket says:
"In this genuinely mind-boggling novel, two of the most unfettered talents in speculative fiction envision a commercial establishment that attracts customers from Edgar Allan Poe to a sorcerer intent on fabricating the Beast of Revelations. Brimming with wit and imaginative bravado, scandalously sexy, and fabulously strange, Psychoshop is the first-ever collaboration between two winners of the Science Fiction & fantasy Writers of America Grandmaster Award."

I've been wanting this for a while, and I found a thrift store copy for $1.41, WOOOOOOO!!!!!
I'm going to start reading it after I finish my book about coffee.
- posted by Mason @ 11:58 PM

Dude, check out those tasty waves!



Megan and I watched Point Break today. When was the last time you saw it? Because it's wonderful.

If you've never seen it, there's something horribly fucking wrong with you. Patrick Swayze and his surfer buddies rob banks wearing masks of Regan, Carter, LBJ and Nixon. Canoe Reeves is a hotshot young FBI agent whose new partner (the indomitable Gary Busey) has been hell bent on catching the Ex-Presidents for years.

It's awesome: there's surfing, there's bank robbing, there's sky diving, there's John C. McGinley as Keanu's stereotypical screaming precinct captain.
- posted by Mason @ 11:22 PM

Thrift Store Record Haul



Hot damn! We scored like a mother fucker today. Someone with great taste donated all of their LPs to the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army charges a little to much ($1.99 per record), but these were worth it.

Here's the list of what we bought:

Brian Eno - "Before and After Science"
Brian Eno - "Another Green World"
Leonard Cohen - "Death of a Ladies' Man"
Leonard Cohen - "Live Songs"
King Crimson - "Beat"
Television - "Adventure"
Steve Reich - "Tehillim"
Captain Beefheart - "Safe as Milk" [German Import]
Captain Beefheart - "Doc a the Radar Station"
Captain Beefheart - "Ice Cream for Crow"
John Renbourn - "Sir John Alot..."

Every one of these albums is in either mint or near mint condition. Lovely, eh? I'm pleased.
- posted by Mason @ 7:06 PM

My father is now Batman



My dad just got a new Honda Civic. Black. Mag wheels, tinted windows, touch screen GPS/MP3 Player/XM Sat Radio which also operates fully under voice command. I'm in love with it.

Here's a photo of my pop demoing the whole thing to me.
- posted by Mason @ 11:07 PM

An actually good movie, shockingly.



Megan and I just watched a great comedy about network pilot season called The TV Set. David Duchovny is a television writer trying desperately to hang on to his vision of a new series. The cast is fucking awesome, and Jake Kasdan (son of legend Lawrence Kasdan and director of a number of episodes of Freaks and Geeks) wrote and directed this movie superbly. It's funny, it's painful and (like always) you really connect to Duchovny's character. I suggest you netflix it.
- posted by Mason @ 10:45 PM

Pat Farris does construction now



Apparenty, our old friend Pat is in the construction biz now. Check out this thing he sent Daniel:

There really is someone better out there. I can make your dreams a reality and I wont rip you off in the process. Just look at the awesome pics below. You don't even know what is possible these days it is absolutely amazing. You can make your place look just like a magazine for a cheap price. Not only that, if you want something completely crazy done I can do that as well. I just did a place for a colorblind guy in only colors he could see. I built a guy an insane bank vault type security system for his offices and he can lock any door in the place with little switches under his desk and without anyone finding out about it. I kid you not, and I could do it again tomorrow for $1200 per door. Switches that light up when locked $20 extra, because that's what the parts cost at radio shack, but you don't know that and some guy is charging you twice as much because what, he has a truck? Oh yeah that's right I'm also good for the environment I will show up atyour place on a bike. That's right 80lbs of tools, a couple of 85 inch long 1x14's, a toilet in a box, and six 6 foot fluorescent bulbs; on a bike. It is a thing to see and really worth hiring me just for that. I will also just haul stuff on my bike, from any where in Manhattan to any where in manhattan $1 lb min 20lb max 200lb or 100kg (you get more if you are French). Oversize and weird stuff is at my discression. I am SERIOUS about all this, this ad, my skills, making you happy. Don't let the kidding fool you. And while were on the matter I'm also gender unbiased. That's right my assistant is a 6'2" redhead who also happens to be my girlfriend. She'll tear up the floor tiles, reroute the pipes for your new sink or drill a hole in a steel beam with the new high torque drill that takes 1/2" bits that she had to have for christmas. Whatever you want. We will show up when you want and will not boss you around. You are paying us. We are not gruff or overly scruffy. We will not act like it is a great big pain in the ass to do any simple little thing. Why do other contractors push their clients around like that? You get all that but still, WE ARE CHEAP AND WE WILL HELP YOU OUT.PERIOD. EVEN IF IT IS A LITTLE NOTHING JOB CALL ME AND I WILL DO IT FOR $20 IF IT IS CLOSE TO WHERE I AM RIGHT THEN You need to call me, Pat. I will fix you right up with anyting you can imagine, if you can't imagine it tell me what you need it to do and I will build you that. Call Pat 646-326-1367 We Have Lived in places that were totally bombed out and fixed them all up for less money because we got free rent, we are doing this right now actually. The guy will tell you we are great. We are open to this, especially if there is lots of space. Manhattan, Colorado Rockies, Florida, Amsterdam, San Francisco, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Paris France or Dallas Texas areas considered. THIS EXCLUDES QUEENS AND THE BRONX, SORRY. Oh and one more thing, I can fix computers too. Windows all kinds, networking, software, Photoshop (which I'm also awesome at), wireless, Exchange server, Active Directory, FreeBSD on a laptop, or want me to ghost 500 new dells give me 2 days a coffee machine and a kvm switch, or maybe you just dropped the computer okay i won't even mention it. If i don't already know how to work something I can figure it out in about five minutes. Well if I'm going into everything then I can also fix cars, tractors, washing machines, dryers, heaters, lawn mowers, ridiculous saltwater fish tanks, toys, chainsaws, weed eaters, bicycles. etc. this I will do cheaply. (PLEASE GIVE ME OLD BIKES BEFORE YOU THROW THEM AWAY I KNOW PEOPLE WHO NEED 'EM) I could probably hook a bunch of stuff to run your house like in the future. Automatic doors and rotating cabinets. I would love to do that actually and would do it as cheep as possible or at cost. I can also whip up BIG OLD MTV FLAT SCREENS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS WITH LOTS OF BLING however this will be very expensive. I CAN INSTALL BIODIESEL AND OR STRAIGHT VEGITABLE OIL CONVERSIONS especially if you have an old mercedes or any thing with a 7.3 powerstroke diesel i.e. Ford or a anything with big cat engine. I would love to do a boat conversion. Or I could help you setup a bio-diesel co-op. Also I grew up on a farm and could do anything farm related i.e. build barns, plow fields, bale hay, tend livestock, veggie garden or set up a communal farm (anyone got the scratch) since there are no farms in manhattan I would entertain Long Island farmers or those around NYC. We will be your personal assistants full time if you live on a boat or in fabulous loft or a dilapidated where house or a private island and we can live there too. We can act in movies and plays and or write movies or plays for you. Especially Jada, she went to acting school. We have been trying to learn guitar and we know the a e d c g and b7 chords but have been told to just get tabs. We could teach you those chords we know, which are apparently twice as many and the ramones knew so there you could have a carrier in rock thanks to us. Set us loose on any project in the world and await spectacular results. IF I DIDN'T MENTION IT, DOESN'T MEAN I CAN'T DO IT. BUT WAIT THERE'S EVEN A REGULAR AD TOO. Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry; No Job too small, No budget too tight patcoconstruction@yahoo.com 646-326-1367 We Can Do Holiday Fix-Ups for your party (leaking faucets, running toilet, pain touch up) Assemble gifts, Set Up Decorations, Trees, Wreaths etc. No job is too small! Quick service anywhere in Manhattan. Whether you want to move the sink in the bathroom, install new lighting, or tear the kitchen to bare walls and start all over; we can do it quickly and quietly for considerably less than any estimate you have. If you need to make quick repairs to get your deposit back, can't afford spend $300 having a plumber fix your toilet for five minutes, or need an electrical outlet where there isn't one, don't worry we've got you covered. Small Business love us, we understand what you need and we get the job done. We are also designers, and will include free design advice with any project. We are imaginative and have given great results to our past clients who are our references. Pity and discounts given to the elderly and those living on fixed incomes especially if the situation is dire.

Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry; No Job too small, No budget too tight
patcoconstruction@yahoo.com 646-326-1367
We Can Do Holiday Fix-Ups for your party (leaking faucets, running toilet, pain touch up) Assemble gifts, Set Up Decorations, Trees, Wreaths etc.
No job is too small! Quick service anywhere in Manhattan.
Whether you want to move the sink in the bathroom, install new lighting, or tear the kitchen to bare walls and start all over; we can do it quickly and quietly for considerably less than any estimate you have. If you need to make quick repairs to get your deposit back, can't afford spend $300 having a plumber fix your toilet for five minutes, or need an electrical outlet where there isn't one, don't worry we've got you covered. Small Business love us, we understand what you need and we get the job done. We are also designers, and will include free design advice with any project. We are imaginative and have given great results to our past clients who are our references. Pity and discounts given to the elderly and those living on fixed incomes especially if the situation is dire.
We designed the colors of this NATURAL STONE bathroom and did a bare wall tear down and rebuild.

CHECK OUT THAT RADIATOR COVER, PEOPLE LOVE THOSE
This was done in a medical office, torn out to the walls.

Many more pictures available, and refrences. 646-326-1367
this is a gigantic loft we built I also fix wheelchairs

Recent Jobs include:
Custom Commercial Security System with Electro-Magnetic Locks
Door Bell Install
remove burners /storage and install stove/oven combo
Split Room to two
Custom Closet
Specialty Water System with handmade wood cover
Flourescent Lighting
vinyl flooring
faucet repair
Formica Countertop
Commercial Space Customization
Remove door, replace with wall
Tile Custom bathroom w/fixtures x2

Gotta love that Pat!


- posted by Mason @ 11:54 PM

Ooohhhh, sexxxxyyyyy....



This awesome "painting" was at an estate sale today. It was just a cardboard print in a gold painted frame. They wanted $50 for it. HA! I love it and I if it had been an actual painting and had only been $10, I would have bought it.
- posted by Mason @ 9:46 PM

Heavy Metal Dishwasher, Pt. 2



So my plan worked out well. One old portable cd player+one thrift store FM transmitter+one shitty kitchen boombox= me cranking Rush really loudly while I wash dishes.
- posted by Mason @ 11:45 PM

Matt Groening is one of my favorite people



Today at Half Price, I bought three "Life in Hell" books that I didn't own. Sometimes I forget how much of who I am as a person is based on Groening's work. Much more because of Life in Hell than The Simpsons. The above pictured tome is of his early 90's post Simpsons craze work, and it's some of my favorite. While not as classic as "School is Hell" or "Work is Hell", I think the "Akbar & Jeff" era is quite amusing.

10 panels of Akbar and Jeff staring at each other. Jeff says "I hate you." Akbar says, "I love you." I crack up laughing. That's why I am who I am. Thanks Matt.
- posted by Mason @ 8:34 PM

Jesus, enough with the Fleetwood Mac already...



As you well know, I'm totally on a Buckingham/Nicks bender lately. Demonoid has this torrent of a great live show off the Rumours Tour 1977. The sound quality is great and the performance is stellar. Even the evil Christine McVie sounds pretty good. Download it or ask me really nicely and I'll burn you a copy. It's FLAC! [as all good bootlegs should be]

Here's the info on the show (via the NFO):

Fleetwood Mac
Live in Nashville May 21, 1977
Nashville Municipal Auditorium

(Soundboard)

This is a recent cassette transfer and the sound on it is outstanding. I think it's the best sounding soundboard of the Rumours tour - and an upgrade from what I've previously heard of this recording. It's a seemless recording meaning there are no cuts or edits between tracks. There is a very slight cut at the end of disc one, but it's right at the end of Gold Dust Woman,no vocals are cut. There is also a slight cut in at the beginning of disc two, but again no vocals are sliced off.

I have no info on who taped the show, but a big thanks to everyone responsible for getting this tape transferred - it's a really great sounding show.

Artwork included.

Lineage: SBD>?>Cassette>wav>cdr>eac>wav>flac Level 6

Cd #1
01 Welcome
02 Say You Love Me
03 Monday Morning
04 Dreams
05 Oh Well
06 Rhiannon
07 Oh Daddy
08 Never Going Back Again
09 Landslide
10 Over My Head
11 Gold Dust Woman

Cd #2
01 You Make Loving Fun
02 I'm So Afraid
03 Go Your Own Way
04 World Turning
05 Blue Letter
06 Second Hand News
07 The Chain
08 Songbird

- posted by Mason @ 11:38 PM

Heavy Metal Dishwasher



A few days a week at work, I wash dishes when we close. Before you say, "You wash dishes, that sucks!", know that I sort of like it, and it's a total badge of honor to be the dishwasher. It's job reserved for the most senior [or at least most responsible] member of the crew. A problem with it is that I'm forced to listen to the radio while I do it, which is obviously wack.

My plan for tomorrow is to burn off some Slayer, Megadeth and Dragonforce and bang my head while I soak the pans. It's going to be awesome.
- posted by Mason @ 8:08 PM

"The pipes have burst, the studio is flooded!"



Occasionally I hear a really good story from a customer. This is one of them. I don't know if it's true or not, but it seems true, so it might as well be.

I was talking to this customer about Fleetwood Mac while making a latte. He says, "One of my best friends from high school was their tour manager in the late 70's." I said I thought that was pretty cool, and we talked some more about the Mac, and in the course of that he told me this story:

==================================
His friend the tour manager was asleep in bed when he gets a phone call from Stevie Nicks. She's on the phone screaming that the pipes have burst, the studio is flooded and all the equipment is ruined.

"Why don't you call the plumber," the tour manager says.

Stevie screams, "we already called all the plumbers in the phone book, none of them will come. You have to come over here right now."

The tour manager sighs, "Why don't you call the fire department, they'll come turn off the water for you."

This enrages Stevie even further, "The fire department said they wouldn't come, you have to come over here right now." She slams the phone down.

So he gets in his car and he drives over to the studio at 4am, and when he gets there, all five of them are standing on chairs and tables, screaming and freaking out because the whole place is flooded and all of their gear is ruined.

So he looks down at his feet, and there's no water. There's no burst pipe, there's no leak, there's nothing. The carpet's not even damp, yet all five of them truly believed that their studio was now a lake.

They were so coked out that they had all convinced themselves the room they were in was flooded, all of their possessions were destroyed, and the only person who could fix the problem was their sleepy tour manager.
==================================

Like I said, I have no way of proving whether or not this story is true, but even if it's not, it's so hilarious that it doesn't matter.
- posted by Mason @ 11:42 PM

I found $83 in the street.


the actual money i found

This morning I was walking to the Diamond Shamrock to buy a bag of ice. In the bottom-most corner of my peripheral vision, I saw something blowing along the parking lot next to the homeless shelter.

Money. A wad of money. I snatched it, stuffed it in my pocket and kept walking, lest it's owner see me gaffle it. I went and got my ice, and waited till I was safely back in our apartment to take the cash out of my shorts. Megan counted it. $83 bucks. I'm so very pleased. I'm sure it was meant as drug buy money, but it's mine now. That's a pretty good start to a day, no?
- posted by Mason @ 1:32 PM

My 4-Track Role Model


too lazy to get out the scanner, this is a cropped picture of the tape cover

In 1993 I got a tape in the mail. My dad's friend from high school, Paul Fleming had done some shit on his 4-track out in San Francisco and he wanted us to listen to it. Honestly, it blew my mind. I think (retrospectively, of course) that it sounds like some Bob Mould shit.

I've had this tape for years and I really think that it's the thing that made me want to get into home recording. I just ripped it from tape to mp3, and here's my favorite song on it, "Career Girl". I've tried to get every band I've been in to cover and no one ever would.

I think I'll just re-record it myself.

Paul, if you're reading this, I really just wanted to say thanks. Is there other stuff from this period that I haven't heard?




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- posted by Mason @ 11:33 PM

Answering Machine Tapes



We've long been fans of thrift store answering machine tapes. This one is pretty long {about 45 minutes). I ran it to FLAC if you want the full CD of it for sampling or whatever [obviously you could email me and I'd mail it to you]. For the casual listener, here's the mp3 audio:



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- posted by Mason @ 1:26 PM

NATIONAL DAN-DAN NOODLE BOWL DAY



happy birthday daniel. it's your birthday. you are 21 years old. you are my brother.
- posted by Mason @ 11:17 PM

4tracker/attacker is HERE!


pull the full size cover here.

Ok, you've heard about it for months now, and it's finally here.

Download the 320kbs mp3 via the web here.
- posted by Mason @ 10:38 AM

Our New Couch



My friend James helped me move our new couch from the Salvation Army to our living room this morning. Megan and I had been thinking about buying it for about week since we saw it. It's a sleeper sofa.

Yes, a sleeper.

We've FINALLY solved our couch/bed problem after over a year. Remember when the sleeper sofa we brought with us wouldn't fit through the door, and then we left it outside, and then someone stole it? Yeah, that was fucking awesome.

So we're very, very, very happy with this gorgeous split pea soup green crushed velvet beauty.

Come by and sit on it, if you like.
- posted by Mason @ 11:41 PM

Fuck You, Huey Lewis Rules

this picture is unrelated to my story, but i only make one post a day...

I had an argument at work yesterday about how I think Huey Lewis is fabulous. I got really defensive about it, because I genuinely like Huey and the News. Also a big fan of Rick Springfield and Jackson Browne, I brought that into the fight as well. I just don't get how someone who likes pop music can talk shit on "Jessie's Girl". I just don't get it.
- posted by Mason @ 9:31 AM

Thrift Stores are Dirty



Megan took this awesome picture of a thrift store in Garland. Isn't that sickening?

Look mom, it's that BLACK MOLD!!!!
- posted by Mason @ 11:54 PM

I am the craigslist master.



Last night I saw a craigslist posting for a "VINTAGE KORG KEYBOARD POLY ENSEMBLE K-4 $100". I did a quick search and found out that it was the most Tangerine Dream/Gary Numan motherfucker ever. I emailed the guy figuring that I wouldn't hear back from him. This morning he called and left a message [I didn't answer because I didn't recognize the number]. I called him back and he told me how "a bunch a guys had called [him], and [he was] probal'y sellin' it too cheap," but if I could be there in an hour he'd hold it until I got there.

We drove [yuk] up to The Colony, a disgusting outer suburb in far north Dallas to meet the guy at his house. He and his wife were really nice, but the whole time I was there he kept talking about how he was selling it too cheap. I got the feeling he sort of didn't want to sell it, so I pulled out my birthday money [thanks dad!], made the exchange post haste and got the fuck out of there.

I was going to use my $100 birthday dollars for the tape deck I need, but I blew it on this instead. I think it was well worth it. It sounds fucking awesome.

Also, Happy Birthday to my friend Issac... you fucking poo-putt.
- posted by Mason @ 11:26 PM

Argent - "Nexus"



I'm a big Zombies fan, and I've long been looking for any Argent [Rod Argent's band after The Zombies] albums. Someone on OINK uploaded "Nexus" from 1974.

It's really, really good, but not at all what I was expecting. About half of the tracks are prog as fuck, and a few are sort of uninteresting "rock" songs that I didn't care for, but it's all impeccably produced. If anyone has anymore Argent, I'd love to hear it.

Check out this awesome song called "The Coming of Kohoutek". [right click and save target as, ya herrd?]
- posted by Mason @ 11:54 PM

The spanish are excellent craftsmen.


This ebay auction is on my top ten most beautiful and amazing things of the last ten years. It's a replica of an 1873 Monocycle. Built by a Spanish engineer in Burgos, Castilla y León, it's priced at a very reasonable $13,000. That's not a joke I'm making about how expensive it is, this fucker is well worth $20k, so thirteen is a steal.

The text from the auction:

Bicycle history has left us with a big range of rare and varied vehicles, especially in the last quarter of the 19th century.
For many inventors, the idea of reducing the bicycle to an unique wheel could be very attractive.
The first monocycles were constructed very similar to those that we see in circus attractions.
The driver must be a born acrobat to be able to dominate the longitudinal and lateral balance. A more unstable vehicle is practically inconceivable.
Due to this problem they invented the monocycle with interior rider.We cannot deny that then it was solved the problem of the longitudinal balance, since the gravit center of the system was kept below the center of the wheel.

After many dedication compiling information about books and documentation of epoch of the 19th century, 1got a base of knowledge to make this faithful reply of this unique monocycle for it´s funcionality and elegance.
It was invented in 1873 in France.

All the pieces that compose this original way of transport have been realized by hand, recreating and improving, if possible, all details.
Steel and bronze has benn confrontted, been now more attractive.
The toothed wheel was dealed before in Oak´s wood as model for the bronze smelting. Later the mechanization work were carried out, polished and protection.
The unions and assemblies of the system have been realized by screws(heads and square nuts) and by crushing clinches, skill very used in the 19th century.
The outside consists in two hoops, 188 centimeters, lodges a bearing surface in rubber. The inside has got 238 pins, clinched on, which transfer the movement of the pine kernel. It has got a frame on which go three wheels (two guides and motive one). It carries on throught the low part by an skate, preventing then of fallen down ahead.
The adjustable saddle is screwed to the mechanism of dulling by cross-bow molded and submitted to a thermal treatment in forge to obtain the suitable alasticity.
The tips mounted for friction and rubbing draft in the pieces, are turned in bronze and outolubricated to guarantee smoothness and to avoid wear.
Used matertials: Steel-cool (with different alloys and hardness depending on the fatigue of work and wear to the solid alloy bronze, 43mm rubber cord torico, medium hardness, Oak´s wood, leather, brass.
Metals are polished and covered with colorless protection, not using paintings, because they hide and mask the artesal finished of the pieces.

The driving and the managing of the monocycle is an unique experience. The gravit, centrifuges and inertia forces are basic for it´s funcionality.
Changing the weight of the body laterally the monocycle inclines, allowing us the direction.

Nowadays it is an ethnographic museum.

"Oh, is it rideable?" you ask.



Hell yes it is.

I'm so fucking astounded by the masterwork that this thing is that I don't really know what to say about it. Here are the close-up pictures.
- posted by Mason @ 7:34 PM

We've been mailed my favorite new zine.



The Practical Pedal is a zine written just for me. It has all the things that I think in it and articles about things that are important to me and my cycling. It's all about being a reasonable person and riding a bike because it's efficient and cost effective and earth friendly, not because you're a jock-douche-bag and wear a lycra shirt.

I suggest that you sign up for it, it's free but you can pay five bucks for it if you want.
We paid for our subscription because we want to support them and not be jackasses.
- posted by Mason @ 11:57 PM

"Yeah, we're gonna you some new shoes, Leo."



We went to the thrift store with my friend James from work.

Megan scored me these Onitsuka Tigers for FIVE DOLLARS! Yeah! That's about $60 off.

I love the colors, I think they're so beautifully garish. Would you wear them? Probably not, but I will.
- posted by Mason @ 11:06 PM

Wahhh! Wahhh! I need a new mastering deck!



Dear Jesus,

Mom and Dad said that if I ever needed anything all I had to do was pray to you and you would help me. I figure that if praying is good, writing you a polite letter on Mom's stationary would be even better. Jesus, I need a new cassette mastering deck. The one I have is poopy. It's just an early 80's Realistic [that's made by Radio Shack, I don't know how up you are on consumer electronics] single deck home unit. I really need a Tascam 122 MKIII or a 112 MKII [but the 112 isn't as cool and doesn't have XLR inputs]. I want a used one, preferably an older one because the VU meters are warmer and more yellow. If you can get me one, then I promise I'll never do anything bad again and I'll go to church every day for the rest of my life.

Your Friend,
Mason

P.S. - Say Hi to God for me.

P.P.S. - I liked you in that movie where you sang songs and smited the money changers, but I can't remember what it's called.... oh yeah, Grease. You were great in that.
- posted by Mason @ 11:46 PM

I love you Mary Hartman!



My new obsession is Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. It's lovely and weird and odd and sort of funny in a disconcerting way. I'd read about it before but we were motivated to rent it after picking up two of Mary Kay Place's "Loretta Haggers" [her character on Mary Hartman] country albums at Paperbacks Plus.

There are hundreds and hundreds of episodes of the show, but only the first 25 are available on DVD. I very much want to watch every single episode. It's sort of like Soap, but much more compelling and with better acting. I think my parent's may have watched it when it was on, yes?
- posted by Mason @ 2:12 PM

I got a chain letter!



I'm so excited! I've never gotten a chain letter before, so this is big. It seems what I'm supposed to do is mail six people a one dollar bill, then mail out 200 letters exactly like the one I got to random people. This will make me almost one million dollars in 20-90 days. Pretty sweet, eh? What utter hogwash. I'm not saying that some people won't mail you a dollar, but most likely you won't cover the cost of the mailing. Here are some pictures of the letter [younger readers might be more familiar with the word "screenshot"].








- posted by Mason @ 11:36 PM

Ballin' [just for sherman]



Meg and I went to see Bourne Ultimatum last night and it was wonderful.
Megan spotted this fresh whip in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart next to the movie theater.

Hey Sherman, "It's ballin' son."
- posted by Mason @ 11:59 PM

Have I mentioned how much I hate driving?



However, we're going to the midnight showing of the Bourne Ultimatum.
Somethings are just well worth the trouble.
Matt Damon is god.
- posted by Mason @ 10:45 PM

Working Hard or Hardly Working?



Megan isn't feeling great, so while she slept, I spent this morning dumping our new album down to digital. We purchased a new Canaon SD1000 [remember when I bought her the SD700 for her birthday, and then I dropped it and it broke a month later? yeah, that fucking sucked a cock.] so I tooked a picher of myself.

This is totally the media shot I'm going to use for all that national press buzz the new Moon Mission Death Squad album is going to generate.
- posted by Mason @ 11:53 AM