ignoring people

I saw this girl I used to work with in the convenience store across town today. I had to go to round rock and pay a ticket.

She was younger (adorable) and we had a good connection insofar as a work relationship goes. Yet I am certain she noticed me today and completely pretended she didn't see me.

She hovered in the same area for too long as I paid and kept her gaze in one place as I walked out. You can always tell that sort of thing, like a sixth sense.

Of course I have been guilty of that as well, which is why it didn't really hurt my feelings. But it got me thinking, why we do that? Especially people we got along with.

It's like seeing someone out of the social context we knew weirds us out. Maybe its just that we don't want to expend the energy in small talk. Whatever it is, its always has more to do with me and never the other person.

I tell myself she felt like she looked like crap and didn't want me to see her that way. And that is obviously the situation... because I say it is. =)

One time I saw a guy I see practically every other weekend out in Austin. He was beside me in his car during traffic. I looked over and noticed him and could tell that he was trying hard to appear casually looking forward or changing the radio, looking to the right excessively etc. (I have done that to people and I know whoever reads this has too)

The funny thing was we were constantly pulling up beside each other as the flow of each lane shifted with traffic. It must have been excruciating for him to keep pretending he didn't see me. I found the whole thing absurd and very very funny.

He texted me the next day and asked if I have any shows coming up. People are weird.

Iran and Larry King

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/23/ahmadinejad.us/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Complain about the times we live in all you want, but I find it fascinating that we live in an age where we can see an interview with one of our biggest "Threats" with Larry King.

amazing.

sometimes songs write themselves

I woke up today and had the following line in my head...

"it was a bad day for the movies"

I have since began playing with lyrics for it. We have this really fun quirky song we have been building for awhile and I think it would go perfect with it. Daniel might be against it because he
has already began singing to it. But this song will be a departure from both of our writing...less "I" based and more imagery based. The potential for cool concepts and imagery are limitless...

loaded up on pleasantries
counted out hyperbole
making friends with enemies

it was a bad day for the movies

here we are...

as I stand here and view the landscape as an official 30 year old I notice something...

I don't feel different than I did yesterday.

=)

I'm just glad I didn't pour a lot of money into the stocks recently. That would have really pissed me off.

Had drinks with Natalie and Sam last night. I hoped to get home and clean up a bit but happy hour lasted until about 11 pm and then i was drunk and ready to hear the magnetic fields so I just spent the next hour laying on my floor marveling at how badass stephen merritt is.

Got lots of nice text messages wishing me the best. Calls from family singing to me and a pack of cigarettes with a bow on it. heh. Help me celebrate my getting older with something that will surely shorten my life.

ACL this weekend. I'm going to miss it. We have all day Saturday blocked out to record pianos so that's more exciting to me anyway.

Been sleeping weird. Part old mattress that needs replacing and part racing mind. I dreamed I was on a date with a woman and her face started contorting and shifting into horrible disfigurement and then back again. and then she went crazy on me and started getting all hysterical in my face. I woke up disturbed.

And I think I have been buzzed for about a week straight. Stupid. I need to take it easy for awhile.

Oil

Check out Kevin's blog about a coming crisis. Damn him for making me think about it.

http://thatbirdhouse.blogspot.com/

birthday shenanigans

Great weekend. Kevin and Demetria came down to help me celebrate. The party went well. Lots of folks, lots of beer etc.

Several musician friends of ours were there so we all had some really fun impromptu jamming where I basically just sat on the floor and screamed my lungs out while everyone just riffed off of each other.

It was great having Kevin make it. It meant a hell of a lot to me.

The actual day is tomorrow. First day of fall. First day of 30. Everyone keeps telling me I'm going to love this decade. I believe them.

my humor is out of touch...

I thought the new Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates were brilliant. I guess that's why they have been pulled. It would seem that TV bigwigs think American's are a bunch of slack jawed yokels who need to be spoon fed our information...I guess most people do...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/19/microsoft.seinfeld.ap/index.html

I am aware that its an advertisement so its inherently evil, of course. =)

But it was funny stuff. Viva Seinfeld.