April 1, 2013

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  i’ve been trying to think of something to write about for weeks now.  in that time frame i’ve had vertigo – which is no picnic.  i don’t recall hugging any piece of porcelain that tightly since my freshman year in college.  it also entailed a trip to the er for fluids, a ct scan and an mri.  thankfully all negative – not that there was anything there to find to begin with, you know inside my head, between my ears – i could have told them that.  oh yeah – i got a choice of music to listen to during the 50 minutes of mri – and i asked for ‘the clash’.  they looked at me like i was nuts – but the technicians all said ‘thanks’ afterward for letting them listen to something different and upbeat for the first time in as long as they could remember.  apparently my speech was so slurred they thought i’d had a stroke.  all i can remember is spinning and somersaulting simultaneously – uncontrollably.  i can remember feeling my eyes dancing in my head – and i couldn’t clap my hands…  all i wanted was darkness and to keep my eyes shut tightly.

  during my now almost three week recovery – i still get bouts of dizziness – but not nearly as pronounced i became addicted to the british tv show ‘shameless’.  i guess there is an american version – i haven’t seen it yet.  but man was i hooked.  i watched like 8 + seasons – struggling through the last one and a half – most of the original family had been written out and the thugs weren’t as compelling to me as the wacky gallagher family.  i highly recommend this show.

  i also watched ‘vikings’ on the history channel.  kickin’ ass and takin’ names.  pretty crazy stuff – and obviously the writers have taken some pretty extraordinary creative license – but it’s still compelling stuff.  the first episode of ‘bates motel’ was enjoyable as well.  what else – soccer – the snow bowl and then the match at azteca…  some ncaa… 

  i missed the first four matches of my daughters high school soccer season – the truck still sends me off a bit – but i’ve figured out ways to compensate for it. 

  lollapalooza line-ups are set – not really overwhelming… we’ll get a few single day passes.  ‘the cure’ for me is the big draw – it was the first big indoor concert i took my daughter to – she was 11 or 12 at the time…  a few others of note from my perspective – thievery corporation; local natives; matt & kim; the lumineers; the vaccines; and vampire weekend.  lots of others i’m going to have to dig around and figure out who they are…

  i missed thao and sallie ford last week – pretty bummed – but i was in no shape to be out and listening to live music…

  oh – the movie ‘this must be the place’ – with sean penn – i really enjoyed this film.  i watched it probably two and a half to three times (one with my wife and she reallyy liked it too)…  it appears to have been filmed in ’08 – not released until cannes or some other festival last year – and i guess it bombed in the box office – but i sure as hell don’t remember seeing any press about it…  but check it out…  penn rocks…

  ok enough creativity for now…  went to the art institute too with the kids – and saw a cool bike exhibit as science and industry…

  hope everyone is moving and grooving in their own rights…

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