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 She's still really wary of the new place. But I think once we've got it established and there's more open space for her to run around she'll like it a lot more. I'm still buying time. Have a compilation.   Minnesota Electric (1999) It was the end of the century. Pulse of the Twin Cities was a weekly paper that ran down the happenings around town. They existed for a few years as competition for City Pages, but didn't last long. They did however manage to finance a few compact discs in their run. This is actually the second on. The first is much more AOR fare, so I haven't got it. This one is a bit more my speed. It's rock and roll with a splatter of hip hop. Some names will be familiar or become familiar eventually and some never released anything else. Discogs can give you the run down . I'm hungry and cold chinese takeout is calling my name

 I'm buying myself another week of getting my shit together. Fortunately I'm also on "vacation" in that I took a week off work. We're not going anywhere or doing anything but assembling an apartment, but I'm not at work, so I've got that going for me. Meanwhile I have to look up how to tie fishing line so I can use the picture rail in the rooms to hang up our art stuff.  This room won't really feel complete until the Captain Beefheart Reprise promo poster is up. I also need to get the now kind of beaten up Soft Boys Rykodisc poster in some kind of frame. And I found in a forgotten place an original 1983 poster for Mission of Burma's last shows (the first time around) I took it off a wall way back then after the infamous afternoon all ages show. (if you know when to look you can see me in the video of the show on the deluxe "Vs" set from a number of years back.) Anyways, Here's the other the Blue Up?  Spool Forka Dish (1995) I got noth...

 So we're moved. It's Tuesday. As in just a few days ago rather than the weeks prior that you and I have both become accustomed to when it comes to these short bursts of typed regurgitation. It took an extra couple of days to after the movers to cram the rest of our accumulated crap into our now much smaller space. It's going to take quite a few more days to unbox and place said accumulated crap.  We have a lot of crap. My sleeping habits are kind of fucked. My middle aged body is sore and there's barely any room to move in the place. My closet is a mess and stuffed with musical equipment in such a way that I don't think I will be able to use it for clothes until I figure something out. The cat is still kind of stressed out and hides in the closet for most of the day. The kitchen is filled with boxes and we're subsisting on takeout for the foreseeable future. But it's done and we're committed here for a minimum of one year. Maybe longer if the old ennui ...

 My thing lately has been boxes of cheap red wine. It's easy, it's convenient. Nothing's too expensive that I feel guilty about using it to deglaze pans with when I cook and shit like that. And they keep for a long while compared to an open bottle of wine. But pulling off a couple of glasses is on occasion just a little bit too nonchalant and we get to a place like where I'm at now. Stressed out, but a little relaxed. Just not able to concentrate very well but also at a point where I have really run out of fucks in the matter anyway, so who gives a shit. Anyway, here's the other disc by Exercise The Autumn Gentleman (2003) Unfortunately it seems this is also a victim of a failure on my part to transfer the scans from the other laptop. You'll pardon the shitty picture. Perhaps once the dust has cleared I'll fix this. Perhaps not. It's more of the good stuff from the previous release. A little digging says that one member was previously part of Calvin Krim...

  It's still two days before we get keys to the new place. We're at a bit of standstill. Not much room to move around and it's hard to even tell how much more there is to pack anymore. Since life must still go on I was getting ready to make the big pot we'll eat for the next couple of days. I'm trying something new. a Moroccan style chicken and eggplant tagine over cous cous. I'm using a fresh head of fennel, regular ginger and adding some zucchini to up the vegetable levels for mine. I had all my prep done and was getting ready to start the cooking and assembly. Upon opening the cabinet to gather together the necessary spices I discover that we're out of paprika. This kind of stuns me a bit since for nearly as long as I can think back we'd had two different open ones in there. I must have forgotten I'd already used one when I used up the second. *sigh* So now I have a little time to kill while I wait for the grocery store to open up, I'm going ...

  So it appears that I severely underestimated the number of those folding Lp boxes I'm gonna need for this move. By about half a dozen. I just got my ratios mixed up. Five boxes covered about three and a half shelves. I have two and a third to go. If I was good at math I could work it out, but I'm too frazzled and stressed to really want to think about it and I got up too late today to hit the liquor store for a box of stress relieving juice. So here I am. With nothing else to do currently because the tape roll is too loud when I'm packing up boxes and wakes the wife up, I'm just going to by myself a little extra time in the future at the new place to get my lazy ass settled in and figure out where all my shit is and in what fucking order it's in and who's the dumbass who packed all this stuff up this way. What a fucking moron that guy was.... So I think I'm going to end up with a baker's dozen of Lp boxes to go with a like number of Cd boxes and the pr...

  Yeah so we should still be unpacking and figuring out where to put everything in less space. There's a lot of art and stuff to hang and we'll need to figure out the best method with the picture rails and fishing line. We're probably pretty freaking busy. The nice thing is that I also got some time off coming this month that I took back when whether or not we were moving was still a little bit up in the air. So I'll have three weeks in the middle of the month to get acclimated to the new place. So that will be nice. In the meantime Mollycuddle Mollycuddle/Pilot Light split (1998) Here's a split single with the unknown entity called Pilot Light. There's almost no useful information about Pilot Light on the sleeve or that I could find. They releasd an album on Bandcamp in 2011. Based on a couple of the names there, I'm going to assume they're also a local entity. Go and give them some love. The primary reason for this posting is of course the Mollycuddle...

 The horror of only being able to sporadically do laundry is the accidentally forgotten load that sits in the machine for a warm week and gets that lovely bacterial sour tang to it that don't initially notice, but wafts out gently once you're out of the house and can't do anything about it except hope nobody gets close enough to notice your clothes stink faintly like kimchi. The helpful household hint is that when you wash your sour smelling clothes again, which really doesn't do much to dispel the odor, is to pour a heaping helping of white vinegar into the rinse cycle. That seems to be the most effective solution we've ever come across. I just had to do it with a load of reds of unknown vintage. Not that any of that matters because if things have gone according to plan (as if they ever do) we'll have spent the day moving into a slightly smaller, but slightly nicer apartment in an entirely new neighborhood today. I hope that went smoothly. We now return you to ...