Today I’m thirty years old. Let’s take a quick snapshot:
Portland, Maine. The only single-syllable state. Currently nineteen degrees. Trash day. In Portland you have to use special government-issue trashbags which are blue and cost more than your standard black trashbags, even though they’re of a poorer quality. But the garbagemen won’t take away non-blue bags.
Here’s my little office just now:
And here’s what it looked like from our back porch about ten minutes ago:
I’m wearing a bright purple t-shirt that says Colorado Rockies on it, always a clear indication that the laundry needs to be done, like, posthaste and shit.
Songs I’ve heard this morning: Yes, “City of Love”; Cliff Martinez, “Will She Come Back”; Pavement, “Here (Peel Session 1)”; Queens of the Stone Age, “Song for the Deaf”; Teenage Fanclub, “The Concept”; Rushmore soundclip, “O. R. They?”; The Cult, “She Sells Sanctuary”; Boards of Canada, “Alpha and Omega”; The The, “Twilight of a Champion”; Ocarina of Time Soundtrack, “Enter Ganondorf”; Lamb, “Gold”; Luomo, “Synkro”; Judas Priest, “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming”; Orbital, “Halcyon and On and On”; Talking Heads, “Heaven”; Kid Loco, “Grantby – Grimble”; The Cure, “The Hanging Garden”; Loverboy, “Turn Me Loose”; Latin Playboys, “Tormenta Blvd”; Ryoji Ikeda, “Headphonics 0/1”; The Breeders, “The She”; Four Tet, “Parks.”
The last email I wrote went out yesterday afternoon and said, among other things: “That’s plenty anecdote! You mean the big guy from Canada! Used to be a lumberjack! Sure, sure, I know aaaaaaaall about them and their little baby.”
Raw output from my browser’s history file from this morning: Flak Magazine: The State of the Union, Flak Magazine, S E R I A L T E X T . C O M, Salon.com, Blog of a Bookslut, The Hypertext Connection: Archive, The Hypertext Connection: Ex-Girlfriend Soliloquies: Vol. 2, http://hypertext.bloop.org/, PayPal, Swappingtons: the book, CD and DVD swapping and trading emporium, Cardhouse Inflight Meal Product, riley dog..half-baked cookies in the oven..fruitcakes on the street.., experience the SHARPEWORLD difference, slatch.com | the biscuit city road fan club, Yahoo! Movies – Showtimes, scrubbles.net, My DiaryLand Diary, ToT :: no war, d/blog, thomas william jarvis, posters.jpg, style.JPG, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Update – The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for GameCube at GameSpot, GameSpot: for all your PC Game, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube needs., The Morning News – The Rolling Stones, Aftermath, The Morning News, movabletype.org, vending, Ftrain.com, Tagline: a movie weblog, EXPERIENCE, Typographica.
All of my Animal Crossing neighbors, except the jerks, gave me birthday presents today. Mostly hideous shirts that I quickly sold back to the store, but still, it was a sweet gesture.
My mother called at the time of my birth. She read the “If You Were Born On This Day” thing from the horoscope: “Don’t spend the entire year hanging out with your friends. Schedule at least one retreat with an enlightened advisor.” I don’t remember the rest.
OK I go weep now.