Monday's Missives

You used to these goofy things in the 90s all over antique stores, shops and tea rooms. Some dogs go ballistic over them- I don't blame them, they're pretty creepy.

• Joy Division was founded by guys who figured they could start a band of their own if Sex Pistols could do it after seeing a  SP show. For this to be true their instrumentalists were very competent and actually were even very good technically.
• Joy Division's 1979 album Unknown Pleasures is on my list for when I get my new car with the ultimate sound system.

  

  Way creepier than the subjects would ever want to admit.

• One of the clerks from work reported she had something hanging from the bottom of her car. It was a shroud to protect the brake lines. It is amazing the things you can still fix on a car with some wire (which I jacked from my nursing buddies boombox antenna I had previously rigged up for her).
• On a related note: what if that girl was 300 lbs and ugly instead of strikingly beautiful- would I have helped her? Yes, I would but who else in this world would have?
• The antenna for the boombox was born of necessity. Our building is so thick, dense and well built you can't get traditional FM/AM reception so I wired her radio to her overhead file cabinet effectively making it a giant antenna.
• I'm really smart that way.
  
  
  

  

  Speaking of creepy these leather covered books are that if nothing else but they are something else- cool. The lady that makes them hollows out a compartment so you can stash a... derringer is what I picture. Anyway, one is on my list when I have a 100 bucks burning a hole in my pocket.

• FG (friend-girl) asked if I had starting referring to her as girlfriend on here now that her status has changed. I shook my head around and made some weird noises. She repeated the question. I looked at her and said, Noooo, girlfriend doesn't sound very cute nor clever- it sounds... ominous. FG sounds funny and is light.
• Although also being goofy, I was being honest - she was decidedly unimpressed.

  

  Disembodied doll heads are always creepshows.

• Personally I know two different guys who had bands that when they needed a drummer just grabbed a guy and showed him how to play the drums. One was some Army guys on a lame overseas deployment, another was a garage band. The garage band's drummer was a no show during practice so the singer grabbed a guy and and said, Sit here, hit the foot pedal on a three count (or whatever the number was) tap the cymbals when you think it sounds right and and rock the snare as I scream our way out of the song. I'm not making a lame joke about drummers but that is how those two got started and they continued to play for at least a couple of years I know of and the garage band had some local to regional recognition.

  

  Fish with the eyes eaten out- creepy.