The big big whoredom scares me
Apr. 27th, 2006 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatThis entry is sort of a mental dump for things I've been thinking about as of late, but didn't want to make into complete entries.
1. Inspired partially by watching Hookers at the Point a few days ago, I'm inclined to think prostitution should be legal. That way, they can reduce risks associated with it (both for the prostitutes and their clients) and get power out of the hands of the pimps. Sort of like the reasons for legalizing drugs, really, except I'm more ambivalent on the drug issue. I'm not saying I would ever utilize the services of a prostitute, just that I don't really see the rationale for keeping it illegal. If someone wants to pay money for sex, shouldn't that be their decision, not the government's?
2. Do pencil points wear down faster nowadays, or am I just more concerned with having a sharp point? I'm almost sure it's the latter, but I seem to be sharpening my pencil all the time at work, and I don't even use it that much. At my cataloging job, I use one of those mechanical pencils, which is cool, even though I always have trouble loading new leads into it.
3. While I don't particularly like driving in ANY kind of rain, I find drizzle to be especially bad. It falls so lightly that even the lowest setting for the windshield wipers is too fast; but if I don't use the wipers at all, the windshield gets really bad.
4. On my way to work yesterday, someone pulled out from a parking lot, and then stopped right under the stoplight. It was a one-way stretch of road, so it's not like that car was obstructing traffic or anything, but it was weird.
5. I was listening to Severe Tire Damage, the live They Might Be Giants album, the other day. I find the album to be kind of weak, but not for the same reason that other fans seem to dislike it. Most of the complaints I've seen about it on TMBG forums have been along the lines of "it doesn't represent a typical live TMBG show," which I guess is true, but I really don't think it was SUPPOSED to. My problem is more that there seems to have been a lack of preparation. The Planet of the Apes songs are a case in point. If they wanted these on the album, why didn't they record them themselves, instead of relying on low-quality bootlegs? And they used the Live!! NYC version of "Ana Ng," which I was familiar with before Severe [1] came out, and which I always found somewhat lacking. I guess most of the tracks are good, but there are some songs that they've performed much better live, and some other songs that they probably should have included but didn't. Since the Johns usually joke around during the spoken-word part of "Why Does The Sun Shine?", I'm somewhat disappointed that they did such a straight recital on the Severe version, but maybe they thought the joke would get old fast. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I still like the version of "She's Actual Size" that's on there, since that's a song I got really sick of at actual concerts. I think a large part of that was that John Flansburgh insisted on singing the second half of the song veeeerrrry slooowwwly, though, and that's not the case on the live album.
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lozenger8 did a meme in this entry, and I decided to propagate it.
"Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along."
My letter is S.
S is for Sandwich, which I eat practically every day for lunch.
S is for Sloth, probably the Deadly Sin of which I am most guilty.
S is for Severe Tire Damage, which I just finished writing about.
S is for Singing, which is something I wish I could do better.
S is for Sleep, which has been somewhat lacking as of late, but I suppose that's largely my own fault.
S is for Snow, which annoys me.
S is for Scarecrow, one of my favorite fictional characters.
S is for Salads, which I should probably eat more often, but don't particularly like.
S is for Sims, which I used to play an obscene amount, but haven't in a long time.
S is for Sun, the heat and light of which are caused by the nuclear reactions between Conshohocken, King of Prussia, Main Line, and Camden.
If anyone else wants me to give them a letter, let me know. I doubt anyone will, though, and that's fine.
7. Is it pathetic to put on music while posting, just so I can put something in the "Current Music" field?
[1] While I'll often abbreviate album titles by using their initials, I tend not to do that with this album, for obvious reasons. {g}
1. Inspired partially by watching Hookers at the Point a few days ago, I'm inclined to think prostitution should be legal. That way, they can reduce risks associated with it (both for the prostitutes and their clients) and get power out of the hands of the pimps. Sort of like the reasons for legalizing drugs, really, except I'm more ambivalent on the drug issue. I'm not saying I would ever utilize the services of a prostitute, just that I don't really see the rationale for keeping it illegal. If someone wants to pay money for sex, shouldn't that be their decision, not the government's?
2. Do pencil points wear down faster nowadays, or am I just more concerned with having a sharp point? I'm almost sure it's the latter, but I seem to be sharpening my pencil all the time at work, and I don't even use it that much. At my cataloging job, I use one of those mechanical pencils, which is cool, even though I always have trouble loading new leads into it.
3. While I don't particularly like driving in ANY kind of rain, I find drizzle to be especially bad. It falls so lightly that even the lowest setting for the windshield wipers is too fast; but if I don't use the wipers at all, the windshield gets really bad.
4. On my way to work yesterday, someone pulled out from a parking lot, and then stopped right under the stoplight. It was a one-way stretch of road, so it's not like that car was obstructing traffic or anything, but it was weird.
5. I was listening to Severe Tire Damage, the live They Might Be Giants album, the other day. I find the album to be kind of weak, but not for the same reason that other fans seem to dislike it. Most of the complaints I've seen about it on TMBG forums have been along the lines of "it doesn't represent a typical live TMBG show," which I guess is true, but I really don't think it was SUPPOSED to. My problem is more that there seems to have been a lack of preparation. The Planet of the Apes songs are a case in point. If they wanted these on the album, why didn't they record them themselves, instead of relying on low-quality bootlegs? And they used the Live!! NYC version of "Ana Ng," which I was familiar with before Severe [1] came out, and which I always found somewhat lacking. I guess most of the tracks are good, but there are some songs that they've performed much better live, and some other songs that they probably should have included but didn't. Since the Johns usually joke around during the spoken-word part of "Why Does The Sun Shine?", I'm somewhat disappointed that they did such a straight recital on the Severe version, but maybe they thought the joke would get old fast. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I still like the version of "She's Actual Size" that's on there, since that's a song I got really sick of at actual concerts. I think a large part of that was that John Flansburgh insisted on singing the second half of the song veeeerrrry slooowwwly, though, and that's not the case on the live album.
6.
lozenger8 did a meme in this entry, and I decided to propagate it."Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along."
My letter is S.
S is for Sandwich, which I eat practically every day for lunch.
S is for Sloth, probably the Deadly Sin of which I am most guilty.
S is for Severe Tire Damage, which I just finished writing about.
S is for Singing, which is something I wish I could do better.
S is for Sleep, which has been somewhat lacking as of late, but I suppose that's largely my own fault.
S is for Snow, which annoys me.
S is for Scarecrow, one of my favorite fictional characters.
S is for Salads, which I should probably eat more often, but don't particularly like.
S is for Sims, which I used to play an obscene amount, but haven't in a long time.
S is for Sun, the heat and light of which are caused by the nuclear reactions between Conshohocken, King of Prussia, Main Line, and Camden.
If anyone else wants me to give them a letter, let me know. I doubt anyone will, though, and that's fine.
7. Is it pathetic to put on music while posting, just so I can put something in the "Current Music" field?
[1] While I'll often abbreviate album titles by using their initials, I tend not to do that with this album, for obvious reasons. {g}
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Date: 2006-04-27 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 05:55 pm (UTC)Yes, but even more pathetic is the fact I always lie about what my current music really is.
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Date: 2006-04-27 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 05:20 pm (UTC)Okay, that wasn't very funny.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 06:17 pm (UTC)I'll take a letter, though I can't promise I'll do the survey. It depends on how much I have to say about the letter, I suppose. :)
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:26 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's one reason why I think it might not have been prepared particularly well. Did they only have a very small number of recordings to choose from? Maybe, but they released some old live recordings on TMBG Unlimited, and some of those were better than most of the Severe tracks. So perhaps they just didn't feel like looking through old tapes.
Okay, let's see. Your letter is F.
Ask Amsterdam
Date: 2006-04-27 08:08 pm (UTC)It's not the money, per se, that's the problem, it's the biological fact that multiple partner systems ensure that any veneral or blood-borne disease that one person in the system gets, they all eventually get? The possibility of arrest keeps some people from being part of such a multipartner system.
Re: Ask Amsterdam
Date: 2006-04-27 11:54 pm (UTC)Re: Ask Amsterdam
Date: 2006-04-28 05:34 pm (UTC)Re: Ask Amsterdam
Date: 2006-04-28 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 12:32 am (UTC)Sorry.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 12:42 am (UTC)6- sure, I'll take a letter!
7- No, mostly I just turn on the music because I'm a music addict, which is why I felt the need to give it up for Lent. Sometimes I just list background noises. Particularly if they are interesting background noises. Sometimes I will put not the VERY song that is on because it is not very interesting. Sometimes I'll put the song that just ended rather than the song that is actually on because technically that song wasn't on while I was typing. Or if the song coincidentally happens to be a song that just HAPPENS to always be the song that is on when I go to type the current music thing, which happens surprisingly often for having over 40 hours of music on ones computer.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:36 pm (UTC)