Finally...

It is about time I got a job: I found out that I was getting bad references, that previous managers couldn't remember my employment, that my petty misdemeanor is not petty to some, and that my credit has been checked thirty-seven times since October. This was a struggle that took its toll on my body and landed me in the hospital after the paramedics visited my apartment twice in less than twenty-four hours. The second time having them hog-tie me down to the ground, so I would not injure them or myself, after breaking through my screen- door to give me 1200 grams of glucose (This amount is phenomenal. This is how much sugar you should only consume during an entire month).
In the emergency room, I waited four hours for the doctor's to tell me, "If you don't know what happened, we don't know what happened". But I had my iPod and this is what I heard...

1. "Choking Tara (Creamy Version)"- Guided By Voices. I don't own too many GBV albums, okay none at all, but I know that they are important in Indie Rock history (look, they are the first band mentioned in the U.S. lo-fi movement of the nineties) and this is a fine single for listening to in E.R's.


2. "Speak Low"- Charlie Haden. This is from the soundtrack to September Songs, the movie about Kurt Weill, you know, the guy that wrote "Whisky Bar", that The Doors covered? It is a slow song, and I don't speak German, so the lyrics are lost on my ignorant brain. I haven't seen this movie, and I don't know anybody who has.


3. "Dig It A Hole"- U-Men. Again with the soundtracks. This too is from a movie, Hype!, I haven't seen. Quick punk song.


4. "Radio 1"- Air. I actually own this album on vinyl, but got this version from CMJ. This is my favorite album by Air, and everyone else's least favorite. People are fucking stupid, this is a perfect album.


5. "Can't Fight It"- Bob Mould. This is from the No Alternative album for Aids research. I'll be honest and say I like him better with Husker Du, but people can change without my permission.


6. "Has It Come To This?"- The Streets. Mike Skinner makes me want to rap. It is all slang with a a repetitious beat that works on every level. I still think Grime is a silly word, but so was Grunge, right?


7. "Let Me Put It Next To You"- The Soft Boys. I finally smiled when this song came on. I love this group, their albums, their songs, and this was when I felt better about my situation. I just put it in the perspective that I don't have cancer, or that I still have a roof over my head, that I own an iPod...


8. "Hold Onto The Rail"- The Clean. I hate that iTunes places the wrong album art when these song play, but this is an album that I would place in my top fifty, no, twenty... hell, my top ten favorite albums. Go buy The Clean's Compilation. You will be complete after that.


9. "All Or Nothing"- The Small Faces. Where were you when this song was made? I was an itch in my Daddy's pants... sorry. This is a ballad type of lyric that I find myself promising women too, but never fulfilling what I say.


10. "Twist"- Goldfrapp. Alsion Goldfrapp would make me sing the previous song's words without fail. Look at her!

All right, that is all I have to write about. I did listen to "Green Onion's" by Booker T, and this song reminds me of Joe Valentino, because he told me about them opening up for Neil Young and then being Neil's backing band, as well.

Oh, yeah. I got my job at Bonfils Blood Center.