Sifting Through Cannonballs
I just took the ailing auto to Lehman’s Garage for the third time in as many weeks. The car, I believe, is just beginning to feeling all of the 100,000 miles that have been put on her. Two days ago the mysterious ‘check engine soon’ light came on. But what exactly does that mean, check engine soon? The manual really doesn’t say. It’s just so general. Does ‘soon’ mean tomorrow, a week, a month? Can I get more specifics please? The check engine soon light should be replaced with a ‘check savings account soon’ light, cause it’s really anyone’s guess what is actually wrong with the car.
It’s the misses’ birthday today! Whoop whoop! We spent our morning coffee time watching her family video tape, that was put together sometime in the 80’s and features some terribly cute footage of her prancing around in various little girl dresses at the tender age of one and two. The video has no sound, which is a bummer because even at such an early age you can tell she’s talking up a storm. I’m bummed that I don’t have such a video tape of my own early years. I would very much like the opportunity to see what I was doing at the age of one. I especially would like to see footage of my with my old green machine. Ahhh, now that would be very touching.
Because of said birthday, I will definitely not be attending the Ornette Coleman show at the newly reopened Walker Art Center tonight. Nor, will I be at the M83 show at the Triple Rock. I’m decidedly bummed that I didn’t get my shit together last night to get over to the Walker for Ed Templeton’s talk and gallery opening. Too much going on in the spring.
Has anybody else noticed that this year is going by seriously fast? What gives?
Also, I’m completely in awe of this new type font, Deréon, that was created exclusively for Beyoncé Knowles‘ new fashion line called House of Deréon. Typically, I make it a point not to listen to music produced by artists with clothing lines, but this typeface may have me reconsidering that rule. Just look at those exquisite letter-forms, those swashes! Beyoncé, you are not just a naughty girl, you are a very lucky girl. She gets the typeface all to herself for six years. Damn.
And, WTF? video of the day belongs to Mr. T doing a horrible rap about being nice to your mother. Which reminds me: “You wanna know why nobody ever dies on the A-Team? Because they don’t take drugs. And you shouldn’t take drugs either. Make it a good scene… positively!” – Crucial Youth.