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Okay, watched disc three of Hornblower. Must own box set. Good god. It's the most adorable thing ever. Hi, I am so fourteen.

Remembered I have a Shakespeare audition early Saturday morning. Fun fun. Especially when I know I probably won't get cast because they are trying not to cast white actors, but they want to see me anyway. Ah, Lady Anne before breakfast, just what everyone needs.

Am frustrated out of my tiny little mind on two different things I am writing right now.

That's all really.

Oh, well, except for this, which I offer for those of you unfortunate enough to understand why this is excruciatingly funny:
http://www.nypress.com/17/34/news&columns/feature.cfm
MASTER STEELOW HAS no idea the convention is happening next week. In between conversations with drag queens and leather-clad mistresses, he keeps asking what exactly the Republican National Convention is, when it's going to be and how many people are supposed to attend.

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Bad things about the RNC other than the obvious? I live relatively close to the start of the downtown bridges, and if this morning is anything to go by a very loud helicopter will be circling over my damn house for the next week. I am displeased.

I have not updated you all on the wonder of really expensive skincare products in a bit, but all I can say is I'm continuing to use the Jurlique thing every day, and the shit is miraculous. Smaller pores, finer lines, softer skin, and most important for my face that seems determined not to leave adolescence behind -- fewer zits (that go away quicker too). Money very well spent.

On another note, after years of doing everything in my power to straighten my hair, it's been about a year with absolutely nothing in it whatsoever. And you know what. My hair isn't curly anymore (or at least not at this length, the top of it was always prone to being flat, but I had thought that was a function of its prior length). I am not sure how I feel about this. I know I'm supposed to be relieved. I know I prefer it at least moderately straight most of the time. But, as human nature (among other things) would have it, I think I've decided I'm fundamentally irritated.

Watched freakish middle of the night Olympics last night. I keep missing all the freakish crap I really enjoy though. Does anyone know when the harem sports (read: rhythmic gymnastics) is on? It amuses me possibly more than anything else in the entire world, a fact which does nothing to recommend my character, but so it goes.

Blah. Restless. And it's showing in the pretentious sentence structure.

we had some good machines, but they don't work no more

Rediscovered Shriekback today at work, and I mean aside from the one song everyone knows (Nemesis). I love this band so much. And I always forget. Listening to The Dancing Years. Am struck by the number of songs they have involving sharks. Hammerheads!

Anyway, I'm trying to think of how to describe it, and I can't really other than to say, to me, it's like songs for the fall of Rome as written by William Gibson. Which suits my mood today, and has a lot more relevance now than when I was listening to this and The Screaming Blue Messiahs at the end of high school and feeling like I was living in this weird isolation driven entirely by the fact no one had heard of anything I was into musically at the time.

Anyway the live version of both Hammerheads and Faded Flowers (which is the source of the subject line) are really spectacular.

protest info

This one seems really interesting to me, statement-wise:

Join THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE: Take a Stand for the Unemployed

On Wednesday, September 1, THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE, a symbolic unemployment
line representing the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost during the past
four years, will wind through Manhattan. Over 5,000 participants, each
holding a pink slip, will form a line stretching from Wall Street up
Broadway to 31st Street and then west to the site of the Republican National
Convention. THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE will focus public attention on economic
policies that have resulted in over 8 million Americans being unemployed and
a net loss of over one million jobs since 2001.

The event - a brief, silent and potent statement - will take place on
September 1, beginning at 8:13 am and ending at 8:31 am. (We will assemble
earlier.) Our purpose is to bring attention to this important issue, not to
create confrontations or hazards. Because the unemployment line will run
single file along the sidewalk and will not block pedestrians or
intersections, no permit is required; the NYPD has given their okay.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE is being organized by People For the American Way; the
Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas; and New York State AFL-CIO,
among others. We invite other organizations and individuals to join us for
this historic event. Organizations can "adopt" a block; approximately 50
demonstrators are needed for each block.

The message is clear and will resonate throughout the country. Extensive
media coverage is anticipated as THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE draws the nation's
attention to current economic policies.

Go to http://www.theunemploymentline.org to register.