Thursday, September 29, 2005

uh-oh, ab came to town


abbey hugs trees
Originally uploaded by rswells.
although a few days removed, images and sensations from last weekend continue to linger and loiter about my mind. yes, the young doctor made a visit. unfortunately, she spent most of the weekend rather pissed - both in the american and the british sense. indeed, after a beer.5 she'd start rambling on about how much she liked this band called the fire arcade and then go on and on about the weather, footwear, her extensive "running," and disease. she referred to these things as "phernomener."

on saturday, however, things settled down, or should i say brightened up, when we went to ann arbor's arborous arboretum after walking through a protest on campus against the war. i had never been to such a place before, thus my reaction. abbey, on the other hand, maintained her dour disposition until she found a lonely tree that, much like herself, was in need of a little tlc. meanwhile, i proceeded to make a fake firearm and aim it at the dorky dorm kids that tried in vain to play ultimate frisbee and other simple, relatively unatheltic games, like catch.

later in the afternoon, we took in a funny film, THE BAXTER, done by the same people who did THE STATE and WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER. we both laughed and laughed.

sunday meant studyday, at least for a while. a-b read from a book that looked to weigh as many kilograms as she, while i finished off a novel called THE VOYEUR by a. robbe-grillet. i drank my raspbetty tea and she an amerispresso. the weekend's highlight came that night: 2nd row tickets to INTERPOL. when i screamed out "STELLA!" they went right into "stella was a diver and she was always down." whether they heard me or not, i'm still not sure - you tell me. no photos, sadly, but we both looked really good and my red umbrella matched her red hoodie.

in the end, she also listened to my heart. with her stethoscope.

(one other thing, anyone interested in downloading previous radio shows of mine - i've only done two, one more tonight - can click on this link for access. just click on either sept 16th or 23rd and then the 3, 4, or 5 am options and it will take you to a realplayer to stream the show.)

Sunday, September 18, 2005

do i do


dinner
Originally uploaded by rswells.
last night, i drank a couple imports while watching a french film - i'm trying to watch all of the movies in the antoine doinel series by f. truffaut - in my "tv room," before doing some dancing and getting into some bacchanalia at the BANG!

on thursday night / friday morning, i had my first radio show of the semester on WCBN FM ANN ARBOR at the ungodly hour of 3-6am (2-5am cst). my first set went like this, starting from the top:

the velvet underground - satellite of love (demo)
bill withers - lovely day
bobbi humphrey - uno está
pavement - no tan lines
q-tip - let's ride
lowrell - mellow mellow, right on

if you want to review the rest of my playlist, you can go to the WCBN website and search for it under "playlists." i can tell you right now, though, that "remember" by air from MOON SAFARI shall serve as next week's opening theme.

i had one caller phone in, asking me what song i was playing at that moment because he thought it was cool, which made the whole thing worth it. (the song, by the way, was donny hathaway's live cover of john lennon's "jealous guy.") it was fun to be djing again, no doubt, even though only a handful of people probably heard me. it is also fun to be able to say hello to more people in this city. people that i've already met through the radio radio. in the city that already puts a foreboding faint chill into its arborous air.

one other recent development of note can be viewed in this post's photo. yes, i now am the proud owner of a grill or grille. this, of course, brings me one step closer to becoming an M-A-N.

Saturday, September 3, 2005

in other news



this is what the face of venus looks like.

arrival


the bean at millennium park
Originally uploaded by rswells.
after spending a few fun days visiting friends in milwaukee and chicago, i arrived in constantly arborous and sometimes ardorous ann arbor last monday. i found milwaukee to be surprisingly charming and hip and would like to send a special thank you, coupled with a birthday shout, out to la doctora maussonbronche.

chicago, meanwhile, was pretty laid back with trips to millennium and lincoln park, the lincoln park zoo, and the art institute of chicago. the art institute blew me away, especially the monets, renoirs, and the special exhibit on toulouse-latrec and montmarte.

i learned on thursday that i'll be teaching spanish 101 again this fall - classes start on tuesday. my house is not as dirty overall as i had previously feared, but the number of cobwebs confounds me. this morning i went to the farmer's market nearby and bought some broccoli, grapes, and a few paula red (semi-tart) apples.

i'd like to make a brief comment here on the imbroglio that once was the gulf coast: seems to me that this is the third time a massive loss of american life has occurred during the bush presidency; one can apparently blame all three tragedies and the respective after-effects on "bad intelligence."

(on a sidenote, i'd like to send my best to the burgeoning band, KELPIE, as they embark on their european tour opening up for koufax. godspeed you young men.)
 
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