Catching up (audio)

“Happy” Sunday (ughhhh-I loathe Sundays!) Ok, It’s been ages since my last audio, so I’m a bit ‘rusty’, but here ya go (IF U can handle my rambling). I’ve really missed U and I’m REALLY back this time-I PROMISE.

Boop boop a doop,

~13

It’s Friday,Baby!(Audio)

It’s Friday, Baby!

And look, I’ve remembered to add the tags, just the way U like it.

~13

“Isn’t there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere?”

EDIT. Jack’s Been Dreaming Again…The title finally made up its mind..

 

 

Here I am…and I’m fine, honest. Just waiting on a few links at the moment.

 Today felt like Purgatory…But there was open sky and gorgeous green. Tonight’s a bit better so far…lots of quiet, and I’m putting off ‘to-dos’. I actually ordered a ‘home phone’-sometime between 12-5 Friday afternoon…Icky normal junk, but a necessary evil…I even have the new number nearly memorized-which is thrilling and a bit liberating-no more asking other people to do everything for me…. It appears that someone took Grady and the other stray cats away…Perhaps it’s for the best, really. I don’t like caring about things, and I wanted him to have a real home with real owners that can look after him properly…so I’m fooling myself into believing he does now, or will soon. Still, I miss him terribly already. It’s best not to get attached, isn’t it? You’d think I’d have learned that lesson three decades ago. Somber blahs-sorry…My lifeforce has been depleted…aiming for a heavy recharge.

Writing a short story at the moment-The Dreaming of Jack…or Jack’s dreaming again…or When Jack dreams, undecided on the exact title for now. Free candy (candy=Mix CD) to the first person who correctly guesses who Jack is. And U only get one guess, ya’ cheeky devils!!

Here’s your music  for tonight…It came to me hard, like a smack in the face today while  hanging ’round in Purgatory. These lyrics should have been mine, damnit. If U know me, you’ll agree.

 

Maudlin… Brit-style,

~13

Saturday Afternoon Quickie

I don’t usually envy other people-it’s a waste of time, right? But the people who not only do a fantastic job of bringing someone else’s work to life, but also manage to create the perfect sound for the piece, that’s a different story…I can’t create music/sounds for my work. Sure, I can kick ass in an improv rubberband jazz duo, and I’ve been told I can do a bad-ass impression of Slash-air guitar style,  but other than that, I’m musically useless right now…Not that I’ve honestly tried really, but things like Magix Music Maker drive me nuts thanks to my short-very short attention span, so…. it’s not my fault ™.

Ok, have a listen to this piece and if YOU can tell me who wrote this piece or if you’d like to guess who the performer (that does an awesome job bringing it to life) is and you get at least one of the answers correct, I’ll give you a prize…ok, prize meaning a link to a mix-CD I’ve made just for the occasion. (Mix Cds=yay!)

 

Also, just to waste a few more minutes of a perfectly good Saturday for U, here’s something that someone showed me (thanks to the recent pill talk)-which probably won’t make U smile nearly as much as it made me smile-especially if you aren’t a gaming sort of a person…By the way,  I’m always perfectly happy to accept nice gifts like Left 4 Dead (XBox 360)

So, that’s our Saturday Afternoon Quickie… yummy, huh?

 I’ll give U the answer to the “Know What Cats Know”  in the next ‘real’ entry.

Have a nice Saturday…Have FUN-even if that means eating ice cream and artificial cheese-flavored junk food in your undies! (just make sure you’re wearing clean undies, please-seriously, ya’ dirty birdies!)

Hugs & Tugs!

~13

By the way…

 Answers: It was Stride gum-Spearmint. I’ve been chewing lots of it since the WDs started…(Maybe I can work out a promo deal, I’ll chew their gum everytime I feel icky or do audio entries, and they can send me truckloads of their gum?) And I haven’t done tags lately because I’ve been too lazy-but it’s sorta cool that U wanted to know. I’ll probably go back later and add tags to the  untagged entries, would that make U feel better?

“You Ain’t No Punk, You Punk!” (audio)

Hello U,

I’ve finally found the time to upload a REALLY long audio entry from this morning. Hope U like it-IF you actually find the desire and the time to sit through such a long one spoken with my really, really sleepy-head voice [note to self: stop chewing gum when you're doing an audio, girl!]. It’s quite noisy-loads of traffic, really loud thunder (that even managed to spook me for a sec.), and my ’fabulous’ zombie neighbors coming to life, and of course my sleepy gum chewing…exactly the sort of thing you beautiful freaks seem to enjoy. And I’ve added a few other goodies for U too. Hope U likey.

“You Ain’t No Punk, You Punk!”

~13

Playing in the park-with messy pigtails and sleepy eyes about three weeks ago, Fun!

“It’s just what you need when you’re down in the dumps. one half hillbilly and one half punk. big long legs and one big mouth. the hottest thing from the north to come out of the south. do you understand?”

 

This isn’t the official video, but I like it and this is one of my favorite songs ever: 

 

 Wednesday’s theme tune:

And You can think Mr. Guru for this song, who inspired this entry.

Effing Bloody Poppadums!!

Happy Tuesday, what’cha up to???

I’m currently trying to get a spoken piece out that kept me awake until after 6 this morning…and of course I was too sleepy/lazy to get out of bed and type it or even turn on my bedside lamp and jot it down on paper…so I’m trying to sort it out in my head and get it out so I can move onto other things…The weather’s nice and I feel good today…but I’m a bit distracted…in a good way, so bear with me, k? I have all sorts of things to talk to U about-like a new blog that a fantastic writer/twitter pal has recently started (and I haven’t even told him I’ve read it yet-shows U how slooooow I’m moving right now) and there’s another blog that I’m supposed to co-author with someone about all of the interesting things (movies, music, books, games,etc) we each think are worthy of passing on to others. Unfortunately both collaborators are so preoccupied searching for all things worthy, who knows when it’ll actually be up and running. I’ll let U know if/when it is…..Later I really MUST tell U about some wonderful music that was given to me by a couple of brilliant musicians that I should have told U about over a month ago… I also want to share the coolest, most individual mother’s day card anyone could ever get-actually, it was a Mother’s Day movie created by some 17 year old genius offspring- I’m trying to figure out a way to put it up for U guys to see…Maybe on Youtube  or something?

Speaking of Sunday, I really wanted to enjoy the day-but the cold turkey thing made it very, very hard. I added far too much soy sauce to the Mongolian Beef and the poppadums-the highly anticipated  poppadums???? Wow, they were the most horrendous thing I’ve tasted in a very long time-possibly ever!!! Maybe I expected too much-I wanted them to taste as wonderful as the crispy noodles from charming little places like The Happy Dragon up the street-but instead, they smelled vile and tasted even worse-so sorry guys-they’re a no go…However, perhaps if I hadn’t felt so queasy, they may have had a chance…no, I’m totally fibbing- they sucked-seriously sucked and I don’t think I would have felt any differently regardless.

But enough of my rambling… Have a listen to this song…The sound is interesting-as if it were the lovechild of The Psychedelic Furs and Bruce Springsteen or something- At first, I didn’t like it so much, but then it grew on me. Have a listen and let me know what U think.

Ok, I should stop typing and start working on the piece running round my head right now…it’s not brilliant by any means-nothing earth shattering, but since it was brave enough to keep me awake and even coax me out of bed by 10 this morning, I need to finish it, right?

Ok, shutting up for now…really…I’m going now…Bye.

~13

My Past Two Weeks (Audio)

Have U missed me?

If U can tolerate the loud neighbors, the really terrible sound quality and the random noise that comes with living on a busy street, listen to my latest ramble…and maybe you’ll understand why I haven’t replied to emails/messages lately.

Nevertheless, I’m back to work now and I’ll respond within the next few days, I promise U.

Alive & Fucking Kicking…even harder now

~13

The toys in my attic

I really must pull myself away from the computer, put my headphones on and play with some ideas, some half-born stories that are dying to be either fed or put to rest…My head is a playground full of characters and ideas, but they continously spin around uncontrollably like the toys in the kid’s room on the movie, Poltergeist …So, I’m off for a few hours to see what I can do-been yearning to finish a spoken piece and would love to create my own music for it-though I’m bloody useless at that right now. Have a kazillion important emails to write to really wonderful people who’ve done some very cool things for me-like send their music to me for free and others who have sent other people’s music for my listening pleasure…I’ll not go into the whole health thing, because I told U last month I wouldn’t, right? Instead, I’ll just give U a quick update,ok? I went to the doctor Wednesday and complained about the pressure I’m still having in the left side of my head (we’re on month 5 with it)…I explained about my fear of aneurisyms and he actually took me seriously, so I have to have an MRI and a MRA on Monday morning…Freaking out somewhere inside, but I also know it’ll be ok regardless-simply because it MUST be ok…I have people to love and stories to write.and music to listen to and places to travel to…Besides, he gave me a prescription of yet again-MORE antibiotics and they seem to be making something happen upstairs. I can’t tell if its really working or if it’s my positive outlook-maybe it doesn’t matter which one it is, right? Don’t look forward to seeing more lesions, but I know I’ll have to look at the disc…maybe even post some of them, because that’s the sort of freak I am…Ok, I’m pulling away from Twitter for a few hours and doing some sort of creating-even if it’s my typical dead tree sketching  I usually do when the words refuse to come…

Hugs and all that good stuff-and keep the goodies coming-even though I have been a slow-assed emailer lately-I’ll make it up, I promise.

Your lucky ~13

What IS under that tarp anyway?

Ah, park life…

Went to two different parks yesterday…I love swings. Stumbled upon something strange in the second park, (which reminds me of a tiny Aokigahara).  We found a secret path that led into the woods where there was a dirty tarp covering something…My delirious imagination wants to tell U there was something strange under there, but more than likely, it was something a caretaker had left….maybe? I know I should have walked up to it and taken a peek..The place is secluded and surrounded by flowering trees, perfect for escaping…or doing something U shouldn’t be doing there, if that’s your sort of thing. B invited me to go again today, But there’s things I need do today…writing, for example. I must empty the details of the story, before it slips away. Speaking of slipping away, I keep losing things…Things that were JUST here a day ago are missing…For example, my hand lotion & my favorite pen? Gone! Are the goblins holding them hostage? Maybe they’re playing tough love with me? If I write they’ll bring them back?

I’m SO addicted to Korean Horror…I’ll give U the list of the most recent films I’ve watched later, and there’s also some brilliant music to tell U about. 

 ..For now, it looks like my cereal is finally soggy enough to enjoy.

Oh, and there’s a spoken piece brewing somewhere in the Madhouse..stay tuned.

~13

Thawing!

I’ve had a few days of delicious warm weather and the wind is angry and raging at the window, so I’ll take a break from my own storm and update…

I’m coming back ’round, honest. I know, my head has been all over the place, and I’ve taken things MUCH too seriously-blame it on the season. The point is, I’m FINALLY throwing the misery, the pity and those delicate personal matters™  into a big pot-and I’m sticking it on the back burner to simmer for a while. Then, perhaps I can get back to the real reason I came here in the first place-creating things and sharing them with U-and the occasional sorta sick, kinda funny story of the situations I slip into-and of course, those tiny whispers from the fucking underground!

The noble thing to say would be that I’ll not let my personal baggage get in the way of more interesting work-minded things here, but I would probably be lying-something I tend to do without realizing I’m doing it sometimes-Wow, where would Lucia honestly be without out her little white lies?

So, over the past few days, I’ve been weeding through some of the things I’d been working on until the ‘great freeze’ happened, and the wheels are turning, guys…slowly, but still, they ARE turning…I’ll keep U updated. By the way, I have a few new photos I’ll put up soon.

Productively yours-again, finally,

~13

 

… the misery is there inside her, like a stone, and there’s no room for any other thoughts. She isn’t trying to make an appeal to our sympathies—she’s just shifting this big weight inside her from one place to another. –Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Someday, god knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile despair. I will begin to think again, and to act according to the way I think. –Sylvia Plath, journal, November 3, 1952

You sit here for days saying, ‘this is a strange business’. You’re the strange business! You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. –Rumi