auto boulot dodo - left coast

today was a good day for amusement on the email front:

it started out with a great email from insound some excerpts...

"So, maybe it's just me and maybe you all don't see what's going on here but
every week I am completely enthralled and baffled by Seth Cohen's storyline in
'The O.C.' I mean, this kid is like knee-deep in tail. He's literally fighting
off the hottest girl in school and some other totally adorable, but maybe a
little clingy, punk rock girl who has definitely bought the new Belle &
Sebastian DVD to impress him."

"And so all this reminded me that real life isn't like this except for on
Valentine's Day, which is coming up soon. On Valentines Day, the indie rock
boys totally get rewarded for their mix tapes and their hack poetry and that's
sort of why all you guys need to buy pretty much every new release below. Air.
Notwist. Numbers. Stereolab. Seriously, you've got mix tapes to make. And
really, how many times can you recycle the same Elliott Smith and Bright Eyes
songs. Plus, I'm dreadfully afraid that because of 'The O.C.' that the jocks
are onto us and then what happens if they start making mix tapes with like
Death Cab and American Analog Set on them. See where I'm going with this? We
must advance and evolve. Constantly coming up with new songs for the mix tapes.
Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. Look out prom queens. It's our time
to shine. Our time."

so yeah that amused me. i guess it's almost just as bad to have calvin college students making mix tapes with death cab. but i'm addicted - i can't stop!!!

ooooooh new Savath and Savalas album. it sounds pretty - i'm in awe of Scott Herren. He clearly rocks the witch.

then a cute email about hip hop robots. way too cool. i feel stodgy (blech that word is horrible in an appropriate way). some people come up with witty ideas about hip hop robots where my ideas lately have been about a book analyzing the american health care system and attempting to present the relevent game theory and economics in an accessible way. potentially useful but not very hip. i wrote an outline for this piece of writing - it's a huge project to do the way i would like, but more and more in the real world i'm realizing that often there isn't anyone that's going to do things you think should be done or even know anything about doing them better. you just have to do it and figure things out as you go. yay real world ego repair!!!

i'm getting into the studying. i think the course 4 material lends itself more to a spatial/graphical interpretation which i dig. also medication. i like psychopharmacology. i like that my doctor understands how unprecise these things are and trusts my judgement




listening to: unicorns