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Boy was it ever! I would explain it to you, but I barely understood it myself. For your listening pleasure, however, I’ve put together another mixwit mix tape that I feel helps express in very broad terms the kind of day I had.

Featuring

1. Kajiura Yuki - Key of the Twilight
2. Sonic Youth - Hits of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsburg)
3. Placebo - Bigmouth Strikes Again (cover)
4. Sebadoh - Too Pure (live)
5. The Tubes - White Punks on Dope
6. New York Dolls - Human Being
7. Tsunami Bomb - The Invasion from Within
8. The Distillers - Sick of It All
9. Howlin’ Wolf - Spoonful
10. New Radicals - I Don’t Wanna Die Anymore
11. New Radicals - Someday We’ll Know

I hope you enjoy it!

A friend just called my co-worker and said that there’s a bomb threat in a campaign office for Hillary Clinton located in Rochester.

Clinton is scheduled to visit the state soon, however she is not present now.

As with any bomb scare, I’m sure this is being taken very seriously. I wish the officers and citizens the best of luck.

Hillary’s official campaign office for the state is located at 34 Fir Street, Manchester, according to the official NH site for her campaign.

Local news station WMUR has an up-to-date report.

An man reported to have a bomb duct taped to his chest has taken two hostages inside the Rochester campaign office. Police are surrounding the office. No other progress has been reported as of yet.

Update: According to WMUR, the hostages were released at around 3pm. They now have video, as well as several witness accounts and area activity reports.

I was standing outside in the back parking lot of my apartment building with some people, talking about I don’t even remember what. It was night time approaching early morning and rather cloudy. All of a sudden there was a noise in the air like dozens of planes. Flood lights popped on to periodically illuminate green (like the old copper on Lady Liberty) planes of a sort I don’t even suspect could really fly. Rather than having a wing perpendicular to the body, or two as with a bi-plane, there was one wing suspended away from the body in a parallel that extended slightly beyond the body of the plane on all sides. While I was busy being confused-bordering-on-fearful about it all, one of the planes swooped low and banked hard over our building once or twice before dropping a bomb that rocked the very air around. Everyone outside was knocked down, including myself, but I looked up to discover the damage was mostly to the third floor, but there was a fire. I pushed myself off the ground in a rush. I nearly went right back down to the ground from the immediate dizzy spell, so I half-ran and half-crawled to the badk door, struggling to get the key in the sticky lock and charge up the stairs. The next thing I remembered I was waking up next to my beau. It was early in the morning, the apartment was a mess, and it took me a moment to realize what had happened. I’d gotten to the apartment and passed right out. Why he was there, seemingly undisturbed, I don’t know. I can’t remember if I woke up on the floor or in bed. At this point, a frantic search for the people outside occured, turning up everyone who had been there, plus extra. Rushing up the stairs, the damage was awful but no fire was raging. Heading back down to the lot showed everyone was either up or getting up. There was some outside source who didn’t believe in the bombing, at which I nearly lost it. The planes had been there! Everyone else saw it, too! It was a short lived argument for whatever reason, and next I was looking to help one of my neighbors who was mysteriously also one of my co-workers. He’d lost a lot in the explosion and I was going to offer to store some of his stuff while he tried to rebuild/relocate. The beau wasn’t too happy about that and was probably less happy when neighbor/co-worker started making up the couch as if to stay there.
Before, during, or after all that, I was somewhere public with a little watch on a chain attached to my collar. Just a little clip on thing, and it also had a pink teddy bear charm. I found out during the course of the speech I was listening to that there was a culture of dominance and subserviance which relied on such indicators to show who was who. Sure enough I look across the room just in time to spot the short haired girl with the animal collar riddled with charms just like my little pink bear. I didn’t get my watch out of sight fast enough and she came over to me. Subserviant though she was, she was clearly a leader in her circle. I tried to explain that I didn’t know, and it was a mistake. The girl only smiled at me knowingly and proceeded to evaluate the quality of the bauble hanging from my shirt collar (or did I have on an animal collar as well…). I remember a couple arguments between some same sex couples where I hyperfocused on their faces, as well as the start of another event/scene/thing, but not clearly enough to make the transition.
that’s all.

Just found the most stunning picture of Carole Lombard in a Flickr feed I’m subscribed to!

Found via Trouble in Paradise, Art Deco and Gatochy’s Flickr

Too pretty not to share. :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30harris.html?ex=1317268800&en=c6ea4450122c3e93&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Interesting article regarding the dissolution of Roman democracy.

Guess the Statue of Liberty play does work more than once, if you make the ball look like a bomb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_play

Also, I found this little blurb disturbing and amusing.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/11/08/cc-insider-scoops-rusmfeld-resignation/

Synopsis of totals available behind the cut:
Radio Rock: 1
Country: 2
Psychobilly: 1 (I would like to see Unknown Hinson in either country or Psychobilly. He’s great, you should google him and check it out!)
Pop: NA
Emo: NA
Original Emo: NA
Ambient: 0
Chillout: 5
Indie: 5
Metal: 0
Metalcore: 0
Hardcore: 0
Post Hardcore: 2
Grindcore: 0
Doom / Sludge / Experimental: 0
Powerpop: 2
Punk: 1
Pop Punk: 1
Street Punk: 0
Crust Punk: 1
Rap: 0
Hip-hop: 4
Ska: 0
Classic Rock: 12
90’s Alternative: 6
Industrial: 2
Electroclash: 2
Electronica: 2

My heritage wins out overall. If any bands are missing from my listening loop, please, fill me in! I really only checked off artists I either have albums for, or have a strong familiarity with. Which means there are several in these categories that I “sort of” know, but not enough to stand behind them for the purposes of this survey. Read the rest of this entry »