So I am pretty happy to see that Death Cab for Cutie finally has their own official website. I didn’t even know about it because I stopped checking a few months ago. For a long time they only had a cloak to the Barsuk site. Now I have a decent resource for the goods on my favorite band. Yay.

http://www.deathcabforcutie.com

I just picked this up and thought it was pretty interesting.  Truth is somewhere in the middle.

http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm

Generally speaking, my day has gone well.  I can only hope that it is a precursor for the night that will surely follow as time would have it.  I recieved an email this morning from the author of a new book.  It seems he wants to use one of my photographs for the cover.  Wow!  I find that very satisfying.  I went to college and did not graduate, but so far have achieved many of the goals I once thought could only be achieved post-college.  I’ve had my photos used all over the internet which is nice, but this excites me so much more for some reason.  There are cliche’s based on book covers.  Holy crap.  People will judge this man’s book by its cover.  People will get to touch my work.  That’s just nuts to me.  Below is a low-res version of the shot. 

As far as the nerd report goes, I have added an XML “atom” feed to the left of the screen for all of you that read blogs via syndication.  (Jenne is happy now:) )

Crap I keep forgetting stuff that I am meaning to stay.  I will have a thought and think, “hey, I’ll blog that”, and then I get on here and forget.  ADD I suppose.  I do know that it sucks George is working tonight.  He won’t be able to hang out for the cleaninng or dinner which is quite the crapiness.  What else is the crapiness?  The fact that I missed going to Matt and Cathy’s beach house.  Can you believe it?  Two of my best friends have a beach house for two weeks and I of all people didn’t get to go out there.  I haven’t been to the beach since Amy and I went, and that’s been weeks.  Maybe I will make it out there next weekend.

I’ve been trying to see if there is anything I can sell at the moment.  I have bills overdue and I need to pay for the apartment deposits.  I won’t get my first paycheck from my new job until the 6th, so I am really strapped for cash.  Gah!  I have a vintage Steve Caballero skate board I could sell for a couple hundred, but I love that thing and would hate to see it go.  I did think of selling one of my horns.  I have three tromboes left over from high school.  At least two of them hold too much sentimental value but one of them may be able to make it’s way to the $50 bin.  Well, whatever…I’ll figure something out.  I will be back when I remember all that other stuff.

Holy moly!  I wrote lyrics to two new songs yesterday and plan on throwing some music to them this weekend sometime.  I’ll keep you posted on that.  Benji came over last night and helped me move my washer and some other things.  That was nice.  We went and got some food and looked at some cars as his van blew up over the weekend.  Boy did I get tired fast.  I got home and crashed with my boy Cecil (Cecil is one of my cats to the new readers) after a little bit of The Family Guy.  I will be going to Columbia tonight for a little more clean up at 217 South.  Then I will be heading right back to be at work tomorrow.  It sucks because I feel like I am going up for a fun weekend or something, but I am just going to clean.  Oh well.  Things are going to be good once I finally get settled here.  Crap!  Tonight could be the last time I get to see Amy, which totally blows if it is.  Yikes!  The fear of the unknown has just settled into my empty stomach.  Let me tell you, feeding your hunger with fear is no substitute for beans or the Lean Pocket I will be consuming for lunch today.  Either way.  I hope to see her and El tonight somewhere in the midst of clean-up. 

mmmmm…Lean Pocket.

I had planned a trip to Carowinds today to see George’s favorite band, 311.  I don’t care a great deal for them but I really have a good time picking on George about liking them so much.  I told him I’d go see them with him, but then I got my new job so it kind of put a stick in those plans.  Today would have been a great day for Carowinds too.  Oh well.  Instead I will be unloading the van from this past weekend (vid and a few pics from that soon) and preparing it for the trip to Columbia tomorrow night to finish my part of the cleaning.  Yeah.  Lots of driving lately for me. 

I’ve started writing again.  I had taken a break for a while when all the fun started, but it’s back to the grindstone I suppose.  It feels good to write, and it will feel better soon to have an audience.  The new apartment should be happening really soon.  I just don’t know if I can wait for payday.  I am so broke from all this moving and adjusting to the new job and I still have two more weeks before I get payed.  I am not sure how all this will affect me.  I am supposed to record this weekend with The Ectomorphs and then I am  also late on some bills, and I have to eat, and I have to get gas to get to work and Columbia…  You know the drill.

Well, lunch is over, so I will be back sometime later either tonight or tomorrow.