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mike

This just happened and it makes me so sleeeeepy…:

A co-worker walked up to me and asked “How’s it going?”
I replied “Hey, what’s happenin?”
He replied “Good… good…”

WTF?

This happens probably 5 times a day around here. Do they even NOTICE? Or has the autopilot of insincerity been on so long that they don’t even know they’re TALKING?

Stop asking people how they’re doing unless you actually give a shit.

mike

Am I wrong to not play the game? I often find that to stand my ground and not be fake, I leave people hanging. I just can’t pretend to be interested in things that I’m not, to believe in things I don’t believe or to get excited about things I don’t care about.

But all around me, I see people en masse doing it to each other constantly. It’s like “the way things work” or something. And I know that my refusal to play along closes doors on me and slows my progress on the upward ladder.

Am I even ON that ladder?

I love getting excited. I love believing. I love all that stuff. But only when it’s worth it.

How do so many people keep pretending so often to so many unworthy things?

mike

Dinner with Jerry

With the passing of Jerry Fuckwell a couple days ago, the NPR was awash with memorial bits and interviews of people who just ADORED this asshat. I learned that, according to J.F., it was apparently me and all my Fuck-o friends that caused 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina! I am SO SORRY!! I didn’t mean to!

-cough- ASSHAT -cough-

But having to listen to this shitheads beliefs and ideals for a half hour on the way home got me thinking about my OWN beliefs and ideals. I came up with some stuff:

- Children are not the future or an investment. They’re people and it’s the parents job to make sure they don’t end up Asshats. It’s that simple.
- Sterotypes are real and necessary. But without fail, every stereotypical person moves OUTSIDE a stereotype as soon as you know something personal about them.

actually, you know what? screw that list. I’m good and my friends are good. We’re BENEVOLENT (gimme a quarter). I couldnt even go through with my fantasies of humiliating asshats in public (or in private, either).

I just want it to be known that I don’t believe in the “Revolution” and I don’t like Status Quo and accepting shit situations. I adore the middle of the road and love to see the MASSIVE PICTURE.

There’s an album that says “The only thing in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans”. I used to worry about that because up until I read that, I was happy with my middle of the road attitude. I’m back to that, now. I now consider that to be one of the dumbest, lack of perspective statements I’ve ever been even partially influenced by.

Polarizing people is an easy and fast way to fame and popularity. Many people choose that road (and go straight down the middle of it, too). I refuse. And I refuse to be influenced by those and their ilk.

Fuck you Jerry Fallwell and your Jesus Freak Friends. But if you came to my house for dinner, I’d have served you good food and given you good conversation and invited all my gay, drug using, non-Christian friends over to passively humiliate you with their intellect, spirituality and wit. Of which, I believe you had none.

mike

I walk across the Lorain bridge every morning and afternoon (if you’re looking for me or something) and I googlemapped it and it’s a 2 mile journey each way! I’m walking 4 miles a day now, I guess.

It’s a good long time to think, though. Here are some of my thoughts:

- is it Tuesday? My iPod has been playing two-fers all morning. Two from Simon & Garfunkel, the Beastie Boys, The Smiths and Black Moth Super Rainbow to name a few

- I know that it’s impossible to learn EVERYTHING but at what point do we start to think we’ve learned everything that really applies? I can learn that caterpillar meat has been estimated to contribute 40% of the total protein consumed in the Bas Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo but… is it useful?

-WOW! A stereotypical “hot blonde in a BMW” just drove by … like.. is she on her way to a a porn shoot? That was weird.

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We’re coming a long way with the new website and store and blog and all that.
I even got logged in with the USPS to figure out shipping charges for individual orders AS YOU ORDER THEM!!! I think that’s nice. I love technology.

We’ll unveil the new wonderland soon.

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want to piss me off fast?

Don’t drug your kids, people. for fucks sake, just dont.

mike

We don’t have licenses or seatbelts. Hold on to yr girl.

Seeing that Jerry Falwell is trying to block God’s attempt YET AGAIN to bring him home (God always wins Jerry, just get on the train) made me wonder if I’d still like Ministry if I played it today.

Would Jesus Still be Building my hotrod? Would I still Twitch?

I used to LOVE me some Ministry, boy. mmm hmmm!!!

I still have my stacks of Skinny Puppy CD’s, too. And Foetus.

But after I discovered that I didn’t like the people who listened to that stuff, I stopped listening to it, too.

Would I still like it, though?

mike

Ok, I’m in love again. These Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Chocolate Low-Tops are just the most awesome shoes. Yeah, more awesome than YOUR Chuck Taylors so keep it shut.

I even went and bought new socks for my new shoes. New shoes + new socks = divine intervention.

I had a dream the other night where all I remember is that I was in the Yawns van in Chicago and Eric was driving and he picked a one way street but you could only drive BACKWARDS down the one way street.. normal speed .. say… 35/40mph. Backward. And we were all getting sick and I told Eric maybe people wouldn’t be able to put up with this much longer and he called us all “pussies”.

Erin had a dream last night with “Zombie versions of my friends who all spoke dead languages I didn’t understand, looking for Yoko Ono”.

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We’re still in the  long stages of not only moving the blog but creating a new www.thevoltasound.com AND putting together a catalogue of merch.
Who wants a Volta Sound T-shirt? (raise your hands)

mike

Soooo…

Erin and I decided it was OK for me to start dressing more Grown-Up. So, to make it easy, I thought back to my father, the Texan. He always wore dark jeans, a big belt buckle, boots and a blue button down dress shirt tucked in. I realised that the only difference in my current mode was the “tucking in” part.

So, I’m tucking it in from now on. This is just a warning so none of you are startled by my sudden maturity.

I guess it’s not PROPER IRONY but… at the exact same time we agreed to this new direction, Erin also bought me a pair of low-cut Chuck Taylors for my birthday which will ALSO be a major part of my new “look”.

I guess I’m essentially going for the “Mark Leddy”.

mike

So, I’m up 22% in Texas Instruments, 13.5% in McDonalds, and 30% in Apple…

in 3 months. not bad.

I’ve lost on Coke, Cisco and Google so far with Coke being the biggest loss… -14%

So I went to find out what’s happenin at Coke… seems they’re quietly in the process of changing directors and officers. That’s good. I should buy more and let it recover over the next year or so.

-nods off-

I’m telling you, though. Somone give me a million to invest. I’ll increase it by 20% this year. that’s $200k!!!

in fack, had I had a million 3 months ago, I would have put it in apple and already generated $200k. This is how rich people roll.

Money makes money far more efficiently than hard work. Fuck hard work.

mike