Analog Sh!t: The Common Sense Hustle

Analogue Sh*t: The Common Sense Hustle

Monday, October 31, 2005

|nooooo|

I took this last night. My first attempt @ yellow photojournalism. More later.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

|weather/ whether |

Seemingly, a short-lived period of depression in Philly is over. It rained for about a week and a half. A month it feels like. On Friday it seems like the weather was just trying to piss you off because it wasn't even a drizzle, it was like a mist over your face. And it was cold. I've never been misted in the cold. In my face, even.
But what can you do?

Then, my mom was lost somewhere on the eastern seaboard between Virginia and Philadelphia for some odd hours. Somehow I found her in her hotel.
Me, her, and C.L. walked the whole of Philadelphia maybe.
The weather stopped being depressing.
Other interesting things that occurred:
-Going to Hibachi's and ordering $100 worth of food and paying $31 for it.
>Fried ice cream.
>Smoked salmon sushi.
> Beautifulness.
- Putting a Kiddy Perm in my hair after being through trial @ Black Hair Court.
- Freestyling in the back a hack (faux cab) for an entertainment lawyer.
-Arguments w. a Professional SEPTA bum.
-A fight breaking out in the middle of pancake time.
>The drunk white people. <3

The sun shined all these times.
I don't have much to say. Tommorow I'm going to go join some Feminist Alliance. Soon my glamorous modeling career begins. I really have to stop eating food like I live in Philadelphia. The food is just......
so...
good.
:-(

I'll have something profound to say soon.
-M.

p.s. i've enabled real comments. so, comment. for real.

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Sunday, October 02, 2005

|Time & Shit|

I will preface this with saying that Philadelphia Pancake Day is the shit and should be made a national holiday.

My circadian rhythm is planning a revolution against me.
I would estimate that in the last week and a half I have gotten very little sleep for various reasons.
Some of those reasons I'm pissed off about, some of them I couldn't dodge. I mean, really, how can I escape the reality that my nasal sinuses actually cease existing when I choose to go to sleep?
This only adds to the irritation.

I spend most of my time unasleep being semi-productive. Busying myself with various forms of mass media to mask the fact that my body hates me. In turn, I've turned into a walking zombie.
What gives? I don't believe that "oh you're just in college" crap.
But then again who knows what I believe. It's like 6 in the morning and I'm a zombie. As a matter of fact, anyone who attempts to read this shouldn't really understand it bc it's written in zombie code.

I'm restless.
I go to sleep late and wake up early. I have bursts of sleep. I can't nap. I have got to be living my life wrong. My personal perception of time gets masked by that of my surroundings...the bus schedule...the kids yelling down the hall @ 4 in the morning...the other zombies like myself up, all reassuring me that this condition is okay.
Not saying that I'm not NOT time efficient. I'm not a psycho-planner or anything. I've tried the PDA route, it actually messed my schedule up more. I go through the day with the next thing in mind
it just adds to that restless quality...
"what can I squeeze in here?"
That mentality all day makes you want to die sometimes. Sucks knowing that I live in a society where that question becomes more and more pressing
until I'm not even a person anymore
I'm just a schedule.

Ha. This is the age we live in people. When you log onto your dating website of choice it will no longer have a picture of a desirable partner, or even an extensive list of their hobbies and interests; you will only get their schedule. I think we should resort to this system if you ask me. It's a modest and seemingly efficient proposal. An example using comparison, shall we?
Bob: 24
6am-7am: Light jog through the park.
7am-8:30am- Reads the daily paper on his commute to his great entry-level job (with benefits I might add).
9am-12pm: Meaningless meaningless American busy work.
-Lunch-
1pm-5pm: More meaningless work. Office smalltalk. Emails and crap. Oops, did I type crap?
This is where schedule-dating can come in handy
6pm-10pm: Log onto www.someweirdassfetishes.com and masturbate for four hours.
11pm: Pop a couple pills and dance around naked for a bit.
12pm: Begin one-hour before bed prayer. Update tommorow's schedule to include time for ritual sacrifice of some small animal. Pick out a tie for work. Lights out!!!

Oh my, seems like Bob here has a couple of (sacrificial) skeletons in his closet. Let's see how he measures up against another Schedule-dater, Travis.

Travis: Suprisingly also 24.
6am-7am??? This is a time?
(skips to 3:30pm)
3:30pm-4:00 When my real day starts. Roll off the couch and pour some cereal. Fuck...no milk.
4:00-10:30- ps2!!!
10:30pm-10:45pm- weed!!!
10:45pm-11:00pm- Write some songs for my band.
11:00pm-11:15pm- Realize I've been just THINKING I've been writing for the past 15 minutes when I've only been THINKING about writing for the past 15 minutes.
1:00am- Damn, where'd that whole other hour and 15 minutes go? Fuck this, I'm goin to sleep.

This system is promising with my proposal. How many times have people had to quit an otherwise great relationshit due to scheduling/agenda/life goal conflicts? Oh sure, you hear about it all the time with celebrities. With the schedule-dating system in place, this could all be easily eliminated. Who cares if you're attracted to the person or not
FORGO YOUR STANDARDS FOR TIME.

I really think I've lost my mind. I'm watching the sun come up now. Well, the skyline is changing from dark to light. It's a melon color and it fades to blue. The clouds are purple. I'm listening to my ipod.
There is no relief in sight for me.

My problem is that all the boys want to sleep when I'm awake.
And be away when I'm here.
*waits for the day when she'll find someone with a similar schedule and agenda*
Possibly that way, I'll either be asleep right now, or not watching the sun come up alone.

-M.

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