holiday buzz

i feel sorta fucked up this week. maybe it's the life brand cough syrup. maybe it's the unruly to-do list. maybe it's because an exciting strike always gets me tingly, or because harper boxing about national unity is so numbing. maybe it's the sleeplessness from the coughingness. nights have been long and painful, so days are fuzzy. it's as if i'm slightly high. high is good.

i won't go into too much detail about it, but i had an unbelievably strong craving on monday to hear this song by toto. yes, toto. oh and also, she's gone by hall and oates. don't judge me. the satisfaction of said craving led to a masterful session of multitasking that went late into the night.

as for what could be considered a lapse in musical judgement/taste, there is one person i know who would find it cool instead of horrifying [even though you hardly ever read this, you know who you are, you know you wish you were sitting right here next to me right now, or better yet, on a saturday night because we're cool like dat, downloading cheezy a.m. radio hits circa then]. ok so no, we're not cool, he and i, but that's the way we roll.

so aneeeeeways, i was multi-tasking galore up in here, going apeshit on limewire, working on ndp stuff, filing a stack of paperwork, and gobbling up what i could find on morales, whose victory in bolivia made me bawl like a baby. the socialists are taking over latin america, they say, and i say WOO fucking HOO!

i suspect i might have been wired after a tiring rehearsal on monday. the band put down a few roadmap recordings of some new tunes so that mike can work his magic on some horn charts. i was expecting to sound like shit on account of that marathon cough, but feedback on my vocals has been VERY positive. guess this pre-xmas buzz has rendered me productive AND sultry.