oh good...my upstairs neighbor's a nutjob.

details later.

On a one way track and you're not coming back 'cause the killer's on the attack

ok, let me just say this: Good news, Sisters o' Mercy are playing in Chicago in March, I should really look into gettin tix to that. Bad news, Senor Eldritch is looking a little rough these days...

so, made it back from Texas and lived to tell the tale. which i will. maybe tomorrow. It was great to have the whole family together, and my sister and brother-in-law sure have a nice house, but wow, I'm sure not a big fan of the area they live in (exurb, as they say, of Dallas)--1/2 hr drive from Dallas to their house, and the freeway is completely lined the whole way on both sides by chain retail/restaurants. a little depressing that was.

but yeah, Jen took lots of great photos of the weird landscape around my sister's subdivision, as well as fun family fotos and home movies, etc. hopefully she'll post some of that stuff to the web so I can post some of it here. stay tuned.

Don't rain on my parade. Or I'll fuck you up.

Hope the two or three folks who read this had a nice New Years celebration. we sure did--got to see The Mistreaters (best i've seen them in years!) and Aluminum Knot Eye (fantastic, but they usually are), then hit a couple of nice, low key shindigs with old friends. not too bad.

I kinda wish I hadn't worked over my xmas break--i would have liked to get more stuff done around here, but i couldn't pass up getting paid for not much work--not too many people come to the helpdesk over break.

well, I'm skippin class tomorrow so Jen and i can jet to Texas for the weekend to visit my sister and bro-in-law. in the meantime, go check out these goofballs: Finntroll, I guess its a bunch of Finnish folks who sing songs about trolls. I guess they started this as a joke, then decided to run with it--its a type of Finnish folk music reminiscent of celtic folk and polka called humppa played by a death metal band. Sure, its a little goofy, but i dig it.