Postmodernism and the Freeplay of Words and Signifiers

Rock and Roll has done it again

So i left my Lamars with my feet a little cold last night. The Quiet Ones layed it down and rocked my socks off. It was good to have Mason on the drums. I have always loved it when Chris and Mason are on stage together. Somehow Masons beat on the drums will move Chris' body to play and move like you would never image Chris to move. The show was none the less incredible. Isaac and the Totten Brothers opened up folled by Jarius. This was a beautiful night of music.

Now that the Quiet Ones are no longer playing in Chttanooga, Everyone needs to do the sensible thing and continue to support good local music. Gold is a great local band that now has complete contol of the reigns.

It has been quit coming from this blog recently. i am off of work and just being lazy. i go back to work on the third. But i am probably going to be slow and flabby from all my sitting around. Well that is ok because, like normal, what i lack physically i make up for with my intense brain capacity. Ok well i have to go now, i wish i could sit here and talk with you all day long. You re such a good listener. You do not interupt, sometimes i think you are not there, or maybe asleep. But anywho, peace out

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone

an open letter to me

it feels so good to be done with work. I am feeling as if it is the last day of school or something and i am awaiting the fun of summer to decend into my whole being. There a few differences between the feeling i am having now and those feelings of years past and the school end. For starters it is a whole lot colder now then the end of spring semester. I am almost 5 years removed from any sort of summer vacation. But the joy and ecitment i am feeling right now stems from the fact, i have over a week off from work. I will probably just laze aroung the hose doing little of nothing, but that is vacation enough for me. I have for the first time ever, really been thinking about a new years resolution. I have not actually formulated completly the shape this resolution will take, but this is going to be my year. Finally i believe i am ready to grow up, most of you will probably be thinking that it is about time. Well you are right. I am a twenty three year old without much of a plan. I am going to get my whole fiscal situation under control and most likely take over the world. So watch out world here i come.

Allright enough of that sappy garbage. halo 2 is one of the most incredible video games i have ever played. Yes this is my geeky video game nerd coming out. But the story line in the game is as good as most if not all sci-fi movies i have ever seen.

So who knows. I am off to see a rock show later tonight. John and David your musical touch will be missed on the landscape of Chattanooga. The Quiet Ones are opening up for Gold tonight. This is the Quiet Ones last show in Chattanooga Before Davo and John head up to become singing lumber jacks in the mountains of Montana. Just always remeber your tone better be as sharp as your axe head or you will get chopped down.

I cant wait to see the hordes of people making the trek back to Chatty for the holidays. I would love to have a beer with each and everyone of you who are travelling back for the Holidays

So as i leave you this rainy dreary evening from my seat at Greyfriars i must say that being on vacation is great

The day has ended the deed is done

What a lovely cold week this has turned out to be. I know a couple of months ago i was eagerly awaiting the cold of winter. But now i say good ridance. I have froze my cute little but off this week. All this week i have been working 20 feet in the air on some scaffolding. The metal of the scafold is so cold on my hands i touch it and instantsly get frost bite. Amazing aint it? The area were are working is inbetween two houses in Fortwood, the alley way between the two is like a wind tunnell. At one point on Tuesday the wind almost knocked me off the roof. Strong aint it? The is no direct sunlight all day because of the placement of the houses. so it is cold. And in this instance the heat rises theory is right out the door. it is cold as all get out up there. i took my glove of for a few minutes to smooth out some chaulk and i thought my hand was going to freeze off. But enough with the complaining. This is supposed to be a happy place. I am glad all in all that winter is here, being cold at work sure beats being un bearably hot.

The weekend is almost here. i get to help my brother move this weekend. For me this means moving in to my parents apartment that is on the garage. I am looking forward to that, a space of my own. I cant wait to be the only 26 year old kid still mooching off his parents, it is going to be awesome.

i finished that mix. It is not in its original form. In true Huffine fashion i screwed the original order of songs up. Chris and i had it perfect. But i accidentally pushed this button on itunes that made the order swtich. I salvaged the mix and re-worked it. It is not as perfect as it could have been but it will due.

Here are the songs.

1 Sunken Treasure Wilco
2 Everbodies Stalking Badly Drawn Boy
3 Come Pick Me Up Ryan Adams
4Such Great Height The Postal Service
5 Its Oh So Quiet Bjork
6 Coffee and Tv Blur
7 Everything Hits Spoon
at once
8 Pot Kettle Black Wilco
9 Via Chicago Wilco
10 To Be Young Ryan Adams
(Is to be sad
Is to be high)
12 Dis-connect the Dots Of Montreal
13 Summerteath Wilco

you might be asking where number 11 is, well that is a hidden track that i placed in the middle of the Cd. You have to listen Quick or you will miss it

Oh And that is not it, there is a disk two

1 King Of Carrot Flowers,Parts 2-3 Neutral Milk Hotel
2 Lowdown My Morning Jacket
3 Center Of the Universe Built to Spill
4 Im the man who loves you Pink Bullets
5 I must be High Wilco
6 The Way We Get By Spoon
7 At My Window Sad and Lonely Wilco And Billy Bragg
8 Loser Beck
9 The Fitted Shirt Spoon
10 Casino Queen Wilco
11 This Crystal Morning Ryan Adams
12 Birds and Ships Wilco and Billy Bragg, Natalie Merchant
singing
13 When The Stars Go Blue Ryan Adams
14 In the Aeroplane over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel

Mixed Cds rock. Ok i am out. i am going to go outside and smoke now. Venturing back into the cold. I will leave you where i began, BRRRRR

Coffee and Tv

So tonight is starting off like my normal saturday nights go. I am sitting at Greyfriars drinking some coffee and i am going to head up to the Totten Marr and Ross residence. There i will play some online poker and work on my mixed cd with Chris. he is going to help me with the placements of songs. Then i will watch some Snl and probably pass out in my favorite chair. Only to awake a few hours into my slumber cold and with a sore neck. Then i will move to the couch were i will sleep my happy little self until morning. What a wonderful world it is.

This mix cd i am working on is turning out to be quite the production. i am at a hefty 30 songs right noe. i am going to try and whittle that down some. but the most fun part of making a mix is all in the placement of the songs. the songs have to flow with one another there has to be a stong bulild up a mighty climax and then a brisk cool down. And most importantly to any mix is the right umber of wilco songs to spruce things up.

Well i will leave you all now. I will probably get in another argument with myself in the comment section so keep looking for that. It may not be entertaining to you all but man do i get a kick out of myself. And that is all that matters to me. if i am laughing then i could care less if anyone is laughing with me or not. Hahaha

The life and times of a humble man

So i am here once again to spout of my musings of life liberty and the swing of my hammer. Only in a great country like America could i swing my hammer all day while thinking about bald eagles and the amber waves of grain. I think other countries have mind control machines that stop their carpenters from thinking such nonsense. But seriously folks, what is the deal with this weather. First it rains then its nice, and before you know it there is no milk or bread at the grocery store. what is with that? No seriously can someone tell me what is up. i am really confused.

On a lighter note, i fell in love with an album this week. It is one of those albums that i have had for a while, listened to plenty, but never gave it much merit. Dont get me wrong i have always enjoyed it, but it was always standing in a pretty long shadow cast by another album. The album i am speaking of is "Gold" by Ryan Adams. i still think "Heartbreaker" is a far better album on a whole, but "Gold" really struck a chord with me this week. It might have been the paint fumes, but it might also have been the music itself. I like it. Chris and i have had many conversations on how "Heartbreaker" is far superior, but "Gold" just went up a few notches in my book. Oh and i really need to get "Live Rust" by Neil Young. This album makes it so obvious that jeff Tweedy is a huge neil Young fan. And who could blame him. Neil Young is incredible. Tweedy practically bows down to Neil Young in "A Ghost is Born". Those raunchy, dirty, beautiful guitar licks. Wow both of those two slay me. I would love to see a collaboration between the two of them. i think i would not be able to walk for weeks after that.

Man i really love music, how could you not. I have been called a music snob so many times this week it is not even funny. John Totten, am i a music snob? No i do not think so. I am just a nieve music fan who wishes he couls do eveything that all his many idols can do. I also listened to another classic piece. "In Advance" from the urban Achievers. Chris Marr you are a freaking genius. I think this album actually spoke to me today. Jackson loved it too on his first listen. It realy made me hungry for a sandwich. It really took me back to the good ol' days of sitting at the Littlejohns. what a life we lived back then.

So all in all this is pretty much all i have to offer tonight. i feel for all of you who are taking exams this week. I am glad i am not in your shoes. So to all of you, have a lovely evening and please dont ever call me Alfred, that is not my name

Intense

So Josiah i almost just took a page out of your blog history. I am sitting in Grayfriars right now. Sitting in the back so no one can see what i am typing. There is a typiacal, loud covenant couple in front of me. I can not help but to listen in to their conversation. It is mesmerizing. The mating rituals of a covenant college student is great. i am not going to tell you all what they are saying. I do not want this all to come back and bite me. But Josiah i see why you wrote the post a while ago. Honestly i could sit here and listen to them all night and be entertained. I am not going to be able to because i am going to end up laughing at the completly wrong time. So for a good time try sitting down at grayfriars on a rainy night when the covenant students come out in hordes. it is a good time. So later for now.

Important to me or anyone as crazy as i am

Something that has weighed heavy on my heart for the last couple of years has been the lack of interst in the dvd collection of "The adventure of Pete and Pete". This tv show in my opnion is one of the best shows ever aired on any station anywhere. Nickelodeon hit a grand slam with this one. I just found a website that feels the same way I do. http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jfrens/pete-and-pete/. Go and sign the petiton. If i hadnt of found this site i was about to start my own petitio and letter writing campaign. And Todd Hilliard if you are reading this pull some of your weight out there in Hollywood.

This is for some of you who are worried about exams

Ha ha I do not have any exams. I have not taken an exam in over three years now. It is the greatest feeling i know, to not take exams. So Jonny pants i now you have not been the biggest blog force these last couple of weeks, but through this time of stress for you i will try and keep you amused. But first i have to get rid of this nagging sinus headache. For those of you who do not know jonny pants, you need to get to know him. Through his blog if not in person. He is a redheaded wonder. There is a link to his blog in my links list. Go there cheer him up by leaving humourous comments about facism and how economics and buisness are going to bring us all down. He will love it. But seriously Jonny pants do good on your exams and when it is all said and done i hope we can drink a beer together and pretend that we are at the Polish bar.

So who knows any crazy remedies for the common cold. i am looking for anyhting i have been under the weather for most of the week and i am sick of it. i have not been lmy normal bubblely self. Frances told me my post yesterday was angry. Me angry, never.

Meg hurry up and get to Chattavegas. We need a good rock and roll show and i heard you had some contacts. And please tell me you will bring me some pictures of futureman. I need to talk to him about what is going on in my life i think he would be interested to know about the talk me and Anakin had the other day it was intense. To intense to get in on this blog. Maybe i will comment about it on The College tower. That place seems to be the hotbed for intensity.

Johnny T the paintbrush knows what it is supposed to look like let it move you and then you will in turn be moved by it. Clear your mind and think of yourself as a child and then you will grow on the canvas right before your very eyes.

Chris Marr lay off the jalapenos on that pizza it takes away from the beauty of the sauce. Remember when it comes to peppers dont overkill it. just a hint of fire is better then your actual house burning down.

David Littlejohn what can i say about this man he is crazy. When you come to Chattanooga we will hang like no one has ever hung before. I can show you things that you have never seen before. Just close your eyes and let it happen. Davo just head down that road i think you know where it leads.

So now that i have rambled for awhile and not said anything of any importance i think my job here is complete. it is good to know that when John Totten wants some relief from his blog he can always come over to mine and zone out. See John there is no one arguing over here. So tell everyone over there to lighten up it is almost Christmas. Maybe if you buy them all a tickle me elmo they will put all this blog nonsense in the past. So to all my devote fans i am out, me and my congestion need a cigarette.

Crazy

Ok so i just spent way to much time reading the comments posted on John Tottens blog. Wow some times i think people sit at there computers all day long just so they can argue on someones blog. I would rather have no one say anything on my blog then drag all of the political and personal shit that is being flung over there. This is my blog, it does not handlle matters of truth. It is humorous, when it is serious it is still funny to me. I am the only audience i am writing to. I am not looking for validation from other people i am not trying to portray anything as truth or 100%. I am saying that everything i have to say is true. So john i do not know if i am sorry for what is going on over there on your blog or not. It could be intentional, maybe you want a place for every one to leave long winded comments about topics that are based on someone elses opinion. It has become a blog for argument only for argument sake. And from my reading this argueing is sharpening no ones wit or intellect. there is a lot of back and forth and not a lot of moving ahead.

Sorry for this post. It probably came because i am sick and laying in bed. My head cold has taken over my brain. John is one of my best friends. i would love to see the commentors maybe try to be a little less serious for one second of there lives. The blogging community is good for varied opinions and all that bullshit. But you have to listen to what other people have to say then form an opinion around that. Well have fun. and if anyone trys to start leaving serious comments on my blog i will remove them. I do not want to be forced to think when i am on my blog. It is fine when i am on someone elses, but i control this space. So have a nice day