ich bin ein auslander

I simply cannot stop listening to the Postal Service. It’s not the best album; there are serious flaws, some lines that make you wince, horrible synth tones, crap production… but I just can’t stop listening to it. Amazing. Really, really, really good. It’s funny how in the whole 80s sound is right now… and how I was just blabbing about OMD a few entries back, and now I’m listening to all these bands that sound just like them, but a little modernized.

Anyway, catching up since last I blabbed…. saturday, went to dinner with our old neighbors who have bought a house, moved into it, got a dog and are now 9 months pregnant. well, she is, anyway. haven’t seen them in almost a year, so it was a bit of a shock. probably be the last time we see them as well. hopefully not, but the kid thing.. well, you know. they like to party but i can’t see us knocking them back once junior has made his entrance.

after that, we headed into hollywood with the idea of dropping me off at john’s studio and wendy heading off to catch a few art openings, but we ended up out there too late and just hung at the studio for a bit. everyone there was pretty burned out and looking forward to a day off, and had pretty much stopped working so we just looked stupid shit up on the web and had a cocktail.

sunday, visited the parents. got fed great but very fattening food, and did the usual ritual of fixing every electronic item in the house since they seem completely incapable of using things properly. had to turn off the alarm on the stereo which they don’t even know how to turn on, reset the clock as well, fix the printer and reinstall their email program since they blasted that somehow, and then reprogram half the remotes since they fucked those up as well.

I need some help, fellow geeks. For Christmas, I will be purchasing TWO high end remotes that someone suggests to me here. They need to be SIMPLE remotes (unlike the sony commander, like I have) but they must work with the whole setup. I basically really need to be able to program a big DVD button to turn on the DVD player, and turn the TV to the correct channel. And then the VCR button should do the same. My parents are incapable of a) distinguishing remotes from each other, hence buying two of these, programming them to hell and hiding all the other remotes) b) the concept of turning the tv to a station, then pushing a button to control another device, then controlling that device, then pushing the tv button again to control the tv…

plus, they just like to push buttons at random when things don’t work. which fucks things up even more. sigh.

ok, i’m getting twitchy just thinking about it again.
remote must control tv, dvd, vcr, and directv. help. help. help.

after that, i was too burned out for much of anything so we came home and watched the extended edition of the two towers with skeely…

and today, work. very exciting.

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