dolphonic© by simbarashe

Thursday, October 28, 2004

skinny fat people

On an almost exclusive diet of fast food for the past four months, I am saddened to report that my total cholestoral came in today at a lofty 125. The doctor said that the desirable number shoud be below 200. Whatever. Then my glucose came in at 85, but it's supposed to be 140. Whatever again. But in more optimistic news, my blood pressure actually has gone up for once, to 177 / 70. Yay.

Of course, I am being just a wee sarcastic. I went to get a physical two months ago and the doctor said that I didn't need to get a cholesterol test because I wasn't 30. But, I eat fast food EVERY DAY, so I said. So I got the tests done today. Part of me was bored, but it was a good idea. So it's true - if you excersise daily (or almost daily, you don't have much to worry about. Now if I could only do something about my head.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Christian O'Mallery.

More work completed on Everybody Hates Donica Pine. Saw Team America, World Police. America, FUCK YEAH! Everybody has AIDS! Well, it was at least funny in the film. Back to 'Donica Pine'. Finished all of Christian and Jon's entries for the book. I figured this all needs to be completed for sure by the end of the year, since next year I'll be going through some radical life changes.

Thursday, October 21, 2004

for the last time.


i sit around and read about god
while most of my friends they call him a fraud
never know who to get advice from
good friends are boring bad friends are dumb
everybody in the world tells me that i rock
but won't buy the tapes on my block
simbarashe is just an average type of mate
who'll pick you up round corner to eight
rarely early never late is the case
and can't compete with my poker face
but who's this lanky kid from red bridge
never famous but he almost did
verona got one and put him in crew
spare all the plays and skip the abuse
enjoy yourself writing poetry songs
enjoy yourself while i sport you along
spot a train spot a renton-spot diane
you really want to know how sane i am

now something is up
can't get enough information
say it and i'll know
break and get out
for the last time

adventures of peter pan had this line
you said it and there it goes
i was just trying to find myself
every little thing could put me in hell
on a shortage of daily good deeds
and nani introduced me to weed
had a smoke and took it again
the third time i got hooked i was in
and then it fell underneath this curse
every little thing could turn into worse
led me to the first time in my life
i drank and drive i drank and drive
and lucky damnit that i made it home
'cos officer was good to leave me alone
i never thought i'd live to be the age 23
told robert that i'd hang myself
and leave all the journals on my shelf
but then he did it first from his tree
left all my stories to the sea
daphne had a slight nosebleed
after smiling when she just told me
i'm off
in a direction you're probably not going
i gotta go i can't explain it
i'll see you later
i'll stop by to see you in the heights.

now something is up
can't get enough information
say it and i'll know
break and get out
for the last time

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

the dark journal

You know I'm talking to you. If it hisses like a snake and crawls like a snake, theres a chance it might be poisonous.

Amsterdam

Like a secret that only the best of friends or lovers could ever know, she asked me to sing about something that only the two of us would know its meaning. Meaning that the song itself about a simple thing would itself be a secret, deeply enriched with codes of you and me were there to see it. And after a piano, a bass, and a guitar she says, "...it needs a little work."

But it could be one of many, quickly recorded impromptu moments that make their way to tape only to collect dust in virtual obscurity until that time comes when...well... perhaps that time never comes. I have many tapes like that. My journals are also full of them - potential ideas that will never become kinetic.

What's the best poem you've ever read? Could the best poem that ever existed be the one that it's author jotted down on a napkin in a coffee shop only to throw it away with the remnents of his or her bagel? I don't think so. The best poem is the one that she thought up in her head; only to forget the words by the time she got to a pen and paper. The best thesis you never read is the one he recited three times over in his dream while he lay half conscious/half asleep at 4 am, only to lose the point from the end of his fingerprints when the time was 12 noon and he suddenly remembered what happened in the toss and turn events of his bed earlier that morning. The best song ever was the one that you hummed in your head in your car on your way to work or school, only to vaguely remember that you had a certain 'moment' at some point in your mind but that melody surely was gone.

And so, a moment of genius is something that we all have no shortage of. What seperates you or me from someone who is considered a genius could very well and may just be that a genius has the willpower to write down, jot, or record that idea in its purest moment of conception. That in of itself is genius.

So the tape has something on it, and it collects dust. I don't need to show it to anyone to get that endorsement of being a genius. Two people can witness a plane flying for only a couple of seconds and that makes it so.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

This is what happens when bad meets evil

Bush and Kerry. Card Carriers and Common Folk. Peaches and Herb. Ebony and Ivory. Batman and Robin. Shaq and Kobe. Well maybe not Shaq and Kobe. Sucka Free Sundays and Ben & Jerry's. Bush and Kerry.

Wouldn't be cool if one of them got up and slapped the other, not because they were upset, but just to do it?

Hmm. Romania admitted to killing Jews during the Holoucost today. Don't know why that wasn't so surprising.

Long live Orange Juice.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Fall is always busy season

Nearly completed proofing Everybody Hates Donica Pine. It's curious how such a monumental piece of work takes much longer than one anticipates. But it's never rattled off the wheels, which is a good thing.

I will be returning to the studio this month to record a few new songs for the ongoing Simsploitation! record. In addition to that collection of arrangements I've been kicking around a couple of other ideas as well, which may plausably work like this:

A 3 volume set spanning 3 genres of music.

• Simsploitation! is an urban driven set of live instruments and retro stylistic funk and R&B (and forever sample FREE)

• An as of yet untitled hip hop album (some tracks of which have been extracted from the Simsploitation! plan.

• Veronasongs - the next Ashbury record; possibly a soundtrack to Donica Pine.

Each disk will be about an hour in length and will all be concept albums in different ways. For example, Simsploitation! will center around events in a 24 hour period. The material in Veronasongs may deal exclusively with the content in the Donica Pine book. Like always, I'll try to keep you posted.

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Cheers.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

conservative minded

That MAC-toting musician Moby made a post on his blog a couple of months ago comparing Democrats and Republicans in musical terms. He said:

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"you know what politics is/are like in the united states?
it's like pop-music
example a: pop-music.
republicans are like ashley simpson, and democrats are like radiohead. radiohead fans will forever be mystified as to why someone would buy an ashley simpson cd, but ashley simpson's handlers/managers understand what the lowest common denominator are looking for and they give it to them. radiohead fans think 'that disposable pop music is terrible, and someday people will see the error of their ways and buy radiohead cd's instead of ashley simpson cd's', meanwhile ashley simpson and her managers are selling millions of records…

my point?
yes, radiohead are better than ashley simpson.

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Well unfortunately I think that's an inaccurate picture. It's the other way around. Any hands for those who remember that Republican phrase about rather teaching people to fish rather than giving them fish? Though I am conservative minded I do concede that most Republicans will only 'post' the instructions on how to fish, and consider this teaching. Though not everyone has the APTITUDE to read instructions. That's true Republican mentality. But that's why this is a capitalist society. Can't have it both ways. Does this make me an elitist? Maybe. But I have APTITUDE. And big feet. Girls love me.

Oh. And I love MACs too.