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Now this is just plain weird.

Products that fit my lifestyle:
disposable toilet bowl cleaner brushes
glide floss
febreez
C2
readymade magazine
kitchen sink magazine
kitty crystals
A-line skirts
black t-shirts
curly fries
ipod and itrip and itunes

Products that do not fit my lifestyle:
tape floss
Shell V power
Schick Intuition
clay kitty litter
DIY home waxing kits

I am a clown.
Not becuase I love children, or because I enjoy playing dress up or have to be the center of attention. It is just another job to me. It is really good pay for relativly easy work and I am good at it. I am not particulary funny and I am definitely not witty, but for some reasonmost kids really love this character I have created.
I am not a very typical clown with a big red nose and big shoes. My character rather, is very glamorous, or at least she thinks she is: very pink and girly. Really this character is the antithesis of who I am however she was created based on the cheapest costume that I was able to put together. Almost everyone else in my clown class had a costume tailor made and spent at least $100 dollars. I didn’t have that kind of money and needed to be resourcful. I went to the goodwill bought a little girls dress for $5 and a yellow collar shirt for $1. I cut the dress up to make a pink skirt, added some flower buttons to the shirt and most of the costume was complete. At TJmax I bought on clearance floral streatch pants for a fat 12 year old and made them into bloomers. Finished it off with some purple and white striped tights, pink wig and cheap pink shoes and my character was complete.
Little girls think I am the prettiest clown they have every met. Little boys blush because they think I am so cute. Once I had a 5 year old tell me he loved me and gave me a kiss on the lips….then he took my magic tricks and threw them over the fence. That kid is blacklisted now. My company will never do a party for his family ever again.
Today, I worked at one of my favorite kind of parties which is little girl parties. I can give a totally crappy performance and the kids will still completly love me. Getting a good tip has nothing do with being a great performer. As long as the parents feel like their birthday child liked you a lot then it usually means a nice tip. Today’s party I only performed two magic tricks and the rest of the time I face painted and made some balloons. Totally easy and after the hour party was over I left with an extra 25 bucks in hand.
These parties however are usually the least interesting and I don’t meet any interesting kids. They are all pretty much the same. The mother has spent wayyyy too much time putting the theme together and has spent way too much money on decorations, the cake, the goody bags. A lot of the time the kids don’t even care. I think all the money that goes into those details are really to impress the other snotty parents and they feel like they have to out do each other. As long as they tip me well I hope these parents continue to throw ridiculous parties for their dull kids. I can really use the money.

Over the weekend while I was trapped at work for eternity trying to fix the server, Yaeka got bored (she was there with me all day Saturday) and drew the beginnings of what will become the logo for hiddenmusic.com. Check it out below and let me know what you think.

Yaeka and I went out on the town Tuesday to check out The Race perform on their first west coast tour as well as to do an interview. Before the show we were chatting with singer/guitarist Craig Klein about Seattle and the various weekly papers — well really there are only two now, The Stranger and the Seattle Weekly Craig mentioned that the Seattle Weekly’s review of their latest album If You Can was rather brutal, focusing mainly on the fact that they’re called “The Race” but don’t play fast.

I personally don’t think band names have to have relevance to music. The band name is just the band name. I do think that band names can be really, really awful however so really the purpose of a band name to be is to be memorable and interesting. I’m curious as to what you guys think about band names and also if you have some bands in mind that also don’t seem to match their music. The one that comes immediately to mind is Pinback. Yaeka always mentions how the name doesn’t suit them which I can understand. When I hear the name “Pinback” I think of Pinhead from those horror movies. Regardless of their name, I still think they’re great.

1. When introducing yourself to the band your going to interview be sure to introduce your girlfriend who is standing right next to you. Notice that the band members keep looking at her and are thinking “who the hell is that”. Say something along the lines of “oh, and this is my girlfriend so-and-so”.

2. When going over to girlfriends house. always say hello to her mother. Also try and make small talk with her even if your in a really irritated pissy mood. This rule is especially important if her mother is Japanese and very critical about everything.

3. Rule three coming soon (next time phill and I are in a social situation)

Well there’s definitely one way to measure the success of your prescription drug. Eli Lilly and Company should be very proud of their product Prozac after reading this article from The Scotsman. I mean how the hell does it get in the water supply? Maybe this is the new flouride.

Senior year of college I made a decision to simplify my life. All of my life I had been a pack rat and couldn’t throw away even the stupidest of shit. I am not sure what happened senior year that made me decied all of a sudden that I didn’t want to live my life like that anymore. It may have started with my obsession with organizing things around me, like “my papers” but i could never do it properly because my brain is incredibly unorganized. So, instead of trying to learn how to organize like a normal person I decieded instead to get rid of everything. If I didn’t own anything then I wouldn’t have to organize it. I have taken this simplification of my life, to what some may say a little ridiculous, since I only wear 4 colors now (Red, tan, black, and white…..white was only introduced last year) and I throw away things I actually need, but I have run into a dilemma this weekend. When I was over at my mom’s house I found a big box full of letters, baby clothes, key chains, and an assortment of random shit. So the dilemma is that there is a lot of shit that I definitly do not need and there is really no way to organize it and do not really even hold any significance….but I can’t get rid of it. Well some of it sorta seems like it holds some significance and is a reflection of the sort of kid I was but really its just taking up a shit load of space. Like for instance I have this large collection of newspaper clipping from when Kurt Cobain died. I was a bit of an obsessive 13 year old and I clipped every single article that was written about his death from two of the local newspapers, and since I live in seattle they covered the story for months. There were huge articles written everyday about his suicide/murder. On top of all the newspaper clippings I have a bunch of spins, rolling stones, newsweeks, etc. I know I will never go back and read all this material and will just sit in that box forever so I should be able to recycle it. right? I don’t have any way to actually keep all this stuff in a way that makes any sense. Its not like im going to make a kurt cobain scrap book and its not like i don’t have access to these articles again, I just need to go to the library and look them up. Phill keeps bugging me to just throw it away but I can’t! I need a way to justify it or somehow document it in a photograph that I had collected a retard amount of shit about his death. Yeah I think I just need to take a picture of it all and throw it out…

The biggest challenge for me when it comes to trying to be some sort of “music journalist” or whatever has been interviewing. I’ve slowly become a little bit more comfortable with writing reviews and no longer write under alternate names, but interviews still give me a case of the shivers. Images of Penner and me sitting with Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices with not much to say flash in my mind, but I realize that it is something I have to do if I want to provide some more unique content on The PhiLL(er) and as a result have managed to schedule 2 interview in a 3-day span later this month.

The first is with Chicago band The Race which I sort of stumbled upon while working at the bookstore. Their new EP and album are a big change of direction from their first album, but I really really enjoy it and am eager to talk with them and also check out their live set.

The second is Cex who is labeled as an IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) artist. I also came across his work while at the bookstore in the form of his album Being Ridden. Yaeka and I checked out his live show in Newport, KY last year and it was a very interesting experience. The audience was small and he had us arrange in a semi-circle around him which created a sort of campground feel that fit quite well with his storytelling throughout the set. This interview is still a little shaky as I haven’t heard back recently from his publicity person, but I hope that it’ll still be a go.