houseoftrash: HI TOM
allenbroadway: Hey!
houseoftrash: how are you doing?
allenbroadway: Pretty good, but fried.
allenbroadway: Just got done with the Wisconsin Valley Fair in Wassau
allenbroadway: My van,Ol' Blue, finally died (transmission) so I bought a Ford--white minivan (Iforget what it is called, Windstar, maybe?)
houseoftrash: yeah I was actually just consulting your website to see what you were fried from
allenbroadway: So now we have a vehicle that gets good milage!
houseoftrash: Yeah it's sad I guess but you still have memories, long may you run etc
allenbroadway: I'll get over it. I'm trimming the fat before the "Long Emergency" (when gas goes up to $2.50, like in Wassau,WI)
houseoftrash: I'm glad to hear you got a new car, that seems like it's beena sort of hobgoblin in your life
allenbroadway: Well, Iconsider myself a "Move On Fast" kind of guy. I'm over it.
houseoftrash: bury your past!!
allenbroadway: How are you?
allenbroadway: What past?
allenbroadway: "The past does not exist"
houseoftrash: you know, yoko ono. where do you want to spend eternity? bury your past, move on fast. nothings gonna last?
houseoftrash: I'm ok, but it's really a blank in my life right now
allenbroadway: "Where do you want to spend eternity?" That's what one rock said to the other, right?
allenbroadway: "It" being your life?
houseoftrash: hmm.
allenbroadway: I realized one drawback of the rollup keyboard---
houseoftrash: no, the blank I guess. where did you get a rollup keyboard?
allenbroadway: I didn't buy one yet. . .you know, the musical keypad that you can roll up andput in a back pack, like we were talking about?
allenbroadway: It would be very hard to do glissandos. . .
allenbroadway: or grace notes with one finger.
allenbroadway: I could say my life is a blank right now if i wasn't so frantic to get out ofdebt. . .
houseoftrash: oh yeah - I agree that would kind of suck. I'm in a similar dilemma now
houseoftrash: that's a blank.
allenbroadway: What dillema?
allenbroadway: Yes, but for me, with all the frantic working and planning and trying to trim the fat, it seems like something is actually happening
houseoftrash: that's all I'm doing is routing money from the source to the target, without getting to siphon it off
houseoftrash: what'
allenbroadway: boy, have you talked to brother G. lately? He really seems to be in a mind-rockgarden
houseoftrash: s actually happening?
houseoftrash: what's a mind rock garden?
houseoftrash: Or better yet, has he talked to me, I talk to him or rather "at" him all the time
allenbroadway: He thinks that we are literally living in the Matrix. Mind rock garden----a blank----resigned, etc.
houseoftrash: like everyone I guess
allenbroadway: I don't feel that far blank (yet)
houseoftrash: oh yeah, the old existence thing. he stopped posting about it, if he's still thinking about it he should contact me. There have beensome developments in actual science that may mean my totally crackpot theories are kind of on to something.
houseoftrash: Information as a particle, etc
houseoftrash: Anti - information, if I tell it to you you know less etc. --it's real science now
houseoftrash: anyway]
allenbroadway: I was watching a video on the production of Sam Shepard's latest play, with Nick Nolte, Sam Shepard, and Cheech Marin. . .It put me in kind of a weird funk tosee all these great actor-guys collaborating on this great play that didn'treally get much attention in mainstream. EvenWoody Harrelson wasin it. The movie title is appropriate. It's called , "My So-calledDisaster"
houseoftrash: that shouldn't depress you
allenbroadway: Anyway,the DVD is on pause right now, and there is a sad spanish guitar loop that'sbeen playing now for forty minutes. It's kinda getting to me.
allenbroadway: I thinkit's called "atmospheric" music
houseoftrash: I don't think it's good for sad people to listen to me or read what I write. One time recently I commented on somebody's livejournalwho had a broken heart and their next post was about how they had slittheir wrists.
allenbroadway: Anyway,I've been drawing more drawings per day than ever in my life, so, aside fromthe fact that I'm fried, I'm hopeful.
allenbroadway: It's funny just before you sent me this instant message, here, just now, I was looking at my old bookmarks on internet explorer, editing them, and I went tomy girlfriend's old online journal, and I clicked on " my friends" andyou were the only listing! I laughed, thought that was funny-strange, andsuddenly your instant message popped up
houseoftrash: yeah I kind of like that site. It's a lot more interesting than blogger anyway.
allenbroadway: So, just when I was thinking about you, your instant message exploded on the screen
houseoftrash: hah
allenbroadway: i haven't visited it in ages, because I switch browsers.
allenbroadway: How isthe weather in N.Y? It's super hot and humid here in Nova Praha. Les miserables
houseoftrash: I've been having breathing problems for the first time in my life and I hear a lot of other people are too
houseoftrash: makes me a little paranoid
houseoftrash: they say it's the heat and the pollution
allenbroadway: My breathing problems went away, since I left Greenpoint this year. My nasals havecleared up and I hardly ever use my inhaler.
allenbroadway: I think I'm only going to give New York City five more years
allenbroadway: ---but maybe 7.
houseoftrash: I don't care where I am anymore, so I don't feel like it's necessary to leave or to stay
houseoftrash: I'm thinking of an exploratory trip to vancouver though
houseoftrash: HEY are you on a windows machine>
houseoftrash: ?
allenbroadway: I'm thinking I need to be in a more sustainable environment. Perhaps somewhere Amish, where I can drive horse carriages to the gigs during the "Long Emergency'
allenbroadway: No. I still have my 1998 iMac Pioneer
allenbroadway: on dialup.
houseoftrash: ok
allenbroadway: I'm trying to talk my mom into installing windmills and solar panels on the farm.
houseoftrash: there's this program called "Google Earth" that shows satellite photos and you can zoom out to see the whole planet and then zoom in to see the house we lived in at 2403 grand, and the same for all other places on the planet
allenbroadway: can you see Ann's mannequins through the window?
houseoftrash: NO!
allenbroadway: Maybe the empty beer cans I left on the porch.
houseoftrash: And, the photographs would have had to be 10 yrs old
allenbroadway: I heard you can make solar panels out of beer cans!
houseoftrash: most of them are from the last 2 years
houseoftrash: there are some great things in baghdad though
allenbroadway: Is there or is there not a Hope/Crosby "Road to Baghdad" movie?
houseoftrash: sounds familiar.
allenbroadway: It'd make a nice "Movies in the Park"
houseoftrash: If you could make solar PANTS out of beer cans, uh dsagsergt
allenbroadway: I found a cassette at the D.A.V. today of The Wallets! From the late 80's. I thought of you, because of all the accordian dance music.,
allenbroadway: But ifit was your tape, the words and melodies and music would have been better.
houseoftrash: Oh yeah the Wallets. Reminds me of the Motels
allenbroadway: I didn't hear it then, but now I do. Plus the "Minneapolis Sound" (purple).
houseoftrash: Yeah if anything I should go down as the only person to ever use the humorous qualities of the accordion in a way that was funny and might still have sounded good anyway.
allenbroadway: Twin Tone really put alot of money into distributing a cassette that would eventually wind up on an obsolete medium in a thrift store two decades later.
houseoftrash: The Motels were a New Wave band from the Los Angeles area. They are best known for "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly, Last Summer", both of which peaked at #9 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Earlier on in their career they scored a Top 50hit in the UK with the ballad "Whose Problem?" in 1980.
allenbroadway: For instance, the copy on an anthology of your songs could have a blurb that reads:
allenbroadway: "the only person to ever use the humorous qualities of the accordion in a way that was funny and might still have sounded good anyway."
allenbroadway: On TwinTone Classics.
allenbroadway: I heard from my sister that Wane MacFarlane from Ipso Facto is producing CyndiLauper in New York these days. Someone told me they heard her do a reggaeversion of Gir;s Just Wanna at Taste of Minnesota a couplea years ago.. .weird
houseoftrash: Sure, it would have sounded good.
allenbroadway: I founda reggae(!) version of Jackson Browne's, "Doctor My Eyes"!
houseoftrash: "all through the night" is a reggae song, I'm surprised I haven't heard new versions of it. I hope she's getting paid for all the "timeafter time" and "I drove all night" covers.
allenbroadway: He actually sings it as "Doctor I Eyes"
houseoftrash: I'm watching a commercial for vacations using an Iggy Pop song.
allenbroadway: I saw that, too.
allenbroadway: I had to use my credit card to order the advertized vacation right away. I loveIggy.
houseoftrash: have you ever been to Vancouver?
allenbroadway: No.
houseoftrash: Me too, and he just looks better and better
allenbroadway: Better and better. . .than Steven Tyler
houseoftrash: yes, he is aging kind of amazingly.
allenbroadway: I saw Aerosmith on VH1 behind the music and I felt sad that The Odd broke up .
allenbroadway: I haveto go now, nice chatting, but Joan just pulled a cermonial Wiccan blade tomy jugular, so I have to sign off. Bye!
houseoftrash: If you started the Odd again, how would you see it?
houseoftrash: ok talk to you later
allenbroadway: ooops,she just lowered it to my. . . . . .guts.3
allenbroadway: 20
allenbroadway: out

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