pine-cones
Friday, January 28, 2005
vote for Dougal
I have never heard this radio station but they offer you the chance to vote for Dougal's band's single: Voice Of The Mysterons - You Don’t Understand My 25 Year Transmogrification (An American Werewolf In Glasgow)

Go here, pick two other randoms off the list, and then email the DJ, his email address is at the top of the page, and tell him to play VOTM ALL THE TIME

DO IT NOW!!!

Oh yeh if u want to hear the track it is on the purevolume website. There is a picture of the Barcelona Cathedral there too.
posted by pine-cones @ 15:00  
Thursday, January 27, 2005
torts
posted by pine-cones @ 08:00  
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
on being disturbed
"You're either going out or he's disturbed. Actually, he'd have to be disturbed to go out with you. So either you're not going out, or he's disturbed."
posted by pine-cones @ 16:30  
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
fir
spar shop is my friend
posted by pine-cones @ 14:00  
Monday, January 17, 2005
scar tissue
i have it.
posted by pine-cones @ 12:00  
Saturday, January 15, 2005
excerpt 1
last night's dream involved various things. here are some excerpts.

tried to break up a fight between two lads in a park
one was trying to break the other's foot
but with the sides of his fists
odd but threat was there
anyhow
talkin led to a cease in violence
but lack of tact and subtlety at critical moment
(telling dominant he was in the wrong)
led to change of target
me and the lad both had to split and leg it
posted by pine-cones @ 16:00  
excerpt 2
turned into a metal ball like super metroid
balled from the park into underpark room through metal ellipsoid entrance activated by my proximity
unballed
room warm turqoise colourscheme
technology advanced
purpose of room - recharging
found female friend inside cavern
i was holding an energy pistol
out of place in this place
but anyway
shot her in the forehead
unusually, one shot not enough to kill, did not cut straight thru
she insisted i finish the job
however pain of wounds inflicted causes target's head to bob weave and sweat
so kept trying to shoot original wound deeper
target satisfied when brain exposed
(rather than brain dead)
then "thanks, that's enough"
seemed happy enough, not sure why
complied anyway
posted by pine-cones @ 15:30  
excerpt 3
walking in park with girl
identity unknown
tho a reunion of hearts
found wooden collapsable deckchairs
settled chairs on gravel path through park
realised she was ex
hurrah thats nice
sat in sun on chairs for a while
our eyes closed
asked "what are your plans for the day?"
oh you know. this and that; and get kissed
heart leapt
as did i when felt presence of
park keeper and companions
standing too close for normal

-at some point during this excerpt became
aware that i may be travelling in a psychodrama-

moved chairs to grass at side of path
retrospectively considering possible path obstruction
found chairs to be placed by old church building
at the base of which flowers grew
well placed to catch sun and grow towards favourable environment
complimented park keeper on skill of groundsman
engaged in small talk about this instance of grounds tending
dream fading
posted by pine-cones @ 15:00  
Friday, January 14, 2005
dogtown
last night's dream involved doing skateboard turns with my hands on the floor.
posted by pine-cones @ 23:50  
Thursday, January 13, 2005
mystical squirrels
fellow squirrel sighters, behold! for we are not alone, our yearnings are rewarded - the mystical squirrel is imminent. Exact day and time not disclosed, some squirrels may appear more mystically derived than others, cloud of unknowing not withstanding, handling fees may apply.

oh, and last night's dream seems to have been fairly depraved and involved stealing as well. or something.
posted by pine-cones @ 13:00  
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
fading
i think that last night's dream involved being one of the worst people ever. or something.
posted by pine-cones @ 16:40  
Monday, January 10, 2005
o 0 oO O o o
head is bubbles. some other things:
  • I have an abscess which is, by now, the size of a satsuma
  • I can't see it without the aid of a mirror, ha ha
  • Junior Doctors are good at giving immediate diagnoses, but will laugh at a friend's comedy affliction just the same as anyone else would
  • Why didn't i register with the local GP a year ago? Why did't i keep my NHS registration card in an accessable and obvious place? What happened to the card I saw the other day dated 2002? Well at least I have one from 97. Div.
  • After all this time I still can't take tablets which say "swallow with water". Tablet is swiftly and skillfully moved away from the back of my mouth by unconscious process at the critical moment.
I am on pills.
posted by pine-cones @ 13:30  
Sunday, January 09, 2005
M-S-M
lately i seem to have been thinking about blind spots. kind of a spin on this sage auld quote:
you are like people who stare at themselves in a mirror and forget what they look like as soon as they leave. JIMBOB KNOBBLY-KNEES McJOEY ch1v23/4
my own concern is more to do with looking in the mirror and actually managing to see what's reflected back at you, never mind remembering it. i refer to those tricky psychological denial mechanisms which prevent you from seeing yourself as you are, cos if u did, your ego couldn't handle it - in other words, the sizable conflict between crushing and humuliating reality and the "ego ideal", which is your own conception of who you should be, is avoided. in this way, you are able to deal with your own personality fault-lines in (more or less) manageable amounts.

I have a hunch, and the hunch is this: denial mechanisms band together and form blind spots. Those blimming incomprehensible blind spots obscure massive areas of your personality which, if you were aware of them at any time other than the occasions in which they are the major player in your decision making, you would find utterly distasteful and would struggle to even admit that they are ingrained into YOU. This has been bugging me for some time, seeing as according to this theory, I wouldn't know what my own blind spots are. But I don't want to be gullible or superstitious about it either (although paranoia is tolerable) ..
posted by pine-cones @ 22:00  
Thursday, January 06, 2005
squirrels 3
eye-wrestling with squirrels. try it, you will never win by fair means or foul. they are devious beastlets.

perhaps chewing is the squirrel equivalent of blinking.
posted by pine-cones @ 13:00  
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
news on the random
her name is lucy ellis, and she moved to greenland.
posted by pine-cones @ 14:30  
Monday, January 03, 2005
squirrels 2
Do they even have eyelids?
posted by pine-cones @ 17:30  
Sunday, January 02, 2005
mario, queen of the circus
he is SO GOOD.

I saw him at the Edinburgh Festival last year. He just pitched up in the park on Festival Sunday and started strutting. SO GOOD.
posted by pine-cones @ 17:30  
squirrels
Do they blink?
posted by pine-cones @ 13:50  
Saturday, January 01, 2005
rip van winkle
90daysofhair is starting his 90 days today! go and check out his face, it is clean now but hopefully it will soon be all grizzled up. get over there and observe the course of nature and sponsor him too. he said the lowest sponsorship so far is 2p, don't be shy.
posted by pine-cones @ 16:00  
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