Archive for the ‘music’ Category
Tuesday, November 19th, 2002
Last night I saw The Flaming Lips open and play as back-up band for Beck. The Flaming Lips played only a 40-minute set, and they actually started at 8:00 PM, when the concert was "supposed" to start. (This is how rats must feel in a B.F. Skinner experiment for behaviorism, ...
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Friday, October 11th, 2002
This morning I went to a farm to pick fruit. Sounds like an odd thing to do, but I bet this is the last summer-like day I'll see this year, and the leaves are looking great. Picking the raspberries was nice, as they have this elastic-like band holding them to ...
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Monday, September 9th, 2002
What to do as my simulation runs....Last week I got back from England, where I visited a good friend, took the Tube all over London, and spent a day in Paris. I plan to write up my thoughts on all the items I saw in the many museums there, and ...
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Friday, August 16th, 2002
I saw Spiderman, the movie, today on an airplane. A fine pick for an in-flight movie, as I would never have rented it, but I'm glad I saw it. OK, that opening song -- I hated it, so I took the headphones off and stared out the window until that ...
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Thursday, August 1st, 2002
I go into my local supermarket and ask if they carry tennis balls. They guy says "probably not", but I should check aisle 10. There, they had full size basketballs, footballs, ping-pong balls, Nerf balls, etc. No tennis balls. Another store had min-volleyballs, something I've never seen before. Go figure. ...
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Thursday, June 20th, 2002
I've been listening to a lot of The Flaming Lips lately. Good stuff, more produced that the other music I listen to, but it's worth it. One of the songs I heard first on 88.5 WXPN FM in Philadelphia, probably the best radio station I've ever heard. This was when ...
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