Parallelogram...revisited
Back back back on the air for yours truly. http://wrvu.org 10am-1pm (central time, por supuesto). I played lots of great tunes today : ) and sent some out to people, on the air and in my head. Olive's "Outlaw"was for Flynn and "More Than Us" by Travis for Marty...and more for some people in town I know. I played Jeff's stuff on the air again today, and right when my 3hr block was up, I got a request for J's stuff. It was insane! I'm so psyched for him.
Worked last night with Lucas and Nash. Lucas is - how to describe him? I've already mentioned his concerns about being an aging hipster (he'll be 25 this month), his fun ghetto fab accents (can I ouuuse this librrrrrrrery card en herrrrrrre?), and his naming of people, as well as his astrological interests. He's just fun. ! We might try to write a screen play about this screenplay writers group who comes in to discuss stuff on Mon nights. It's going to be called
Cooky and will be about this woman who hears music in her head / tries to tell me to turn it down / has frazzled hair and crazyness all about her. It's going to be great.
That's about it. Work again tonight from 3.30-11.30. Marcus Aurelius has been my guru / standby lover as of late. He's been trying to drag me outta my mood and make me a bit more stoic? no, maybe a bit more rational? he's got it goin on in some parts. Here's a taste:
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrong doer has a nature related to my own -- not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.
-- Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations, book I
and this:
Then what should we work for?
Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from taht same source and spring.
--MA,
Mediatations, book IV
On and On
Saturday night I stayed home, drank Capri Sun, and watched
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I'm such a rockstar. Yesterday I worked 8:30am-4pm at B., then returned for Merch Night from 8p-1a. woo woo. Now at the other job...and back to B. at 3:30. Rock star, I tell you.
