Wow, 3 mornings in a row I wake up 2-3 hours earlier than usual from a pain in my shoulder, but after I’ve been up for a little bit it feels fine. Wouldn’t even be a problem except I can’t get enough sleep. Issa dandest thign! feels so fine if your stannig up, but herts liek a tateraid if yugh lie down r to long. ! ! ! .
So, roommate Tabey 
disappeared pretty much for real this morning, off to Delaware, Minnindiana to work at the Wheatcliffe factory, I believe. Most of his mass is still here, but his bed and laptop and other entertainment products are mostly gone, and I have a feeling he won’t be pinin’ for big ol’ broken chairs and stuff too fiercely. He’s been my main man collaboratively for video and theatre and music and such the past couple years, and now suddenly… POOFT-AH! Gone. …Leaves a min-pin at a loss for words, lil bit. Glad I can at least take some comfort in the pleasant if somewhat haphazard birth of The Jubi Show. It’ll be cool fun for all, I hope. (…Not to imply that “Jubi Show” is taking your place at all, Michael, just to say that, well, I don’t know, I guess that it is that your exit was so… swift and unexpected and… disorienting, that, well, you know, well, it’s just, in a sense, I guess a way to feel better now is, a person could think of it as: “Jubi Show” fun is going to have to take the place of where all that Michael Tabor fun used to be.)
In other newds!!!
I can’t believe to say it, but there’s actually a brand new rokk ndad rowl compact disc that I think is quite good to listen to and does quite properly “rowk oot” and “sound neet”!!! BUTT HAY: thassjuss smmeeee!!!! 
Traditionally, I’m not even that big a White Stripes fan (really really skinny, bout 6′1″), I’m all, “I like them fine. They’re ugly and Jack seems like a AAA-hole! and their songs sound the same as the other of their songs, but sometimes I like to hear them.” This one, though, for some reason, I get all down to it (though I only got it yesterday, so I can’t guess for Staying Powers). Wasn’t expecting to like it especially, since I’ve uniformly hated most of the other new music I’ve gotten lately. What hey-O! Like it I did. For ME it brought: Nice, simple, well-mixed production; some of my favorite little “solos” and “”licks” ‘”I’ve heard Jack White play; by far my favorite Meg White vocals on a White Stripeys album — mostly backing vocals, which I personally like a lot better than the couple times she’s taken lead in the past — but then there’s also the weird spoken-word-over-bag-pipes-and-fiddles noise-collage song… which, against my better judgement, I pretty much love. And elsewhere on the record, other bits of unexpected experimentation pretty consistently rub me the right way as well, to my continued surprise. Even the super-fuled mariachi trumpets on “Conquest” work out for me. So, well… fucgk yeah, The White Stripes! Thanks for making a new rock musical album that I enjoy to listen to!
ANNand!!! odd as it may BE! There is even MORE music I just now decided to listen to and ended up liking more than expectood! This “thingyis”, uhm, this “stuffed” might not be so-brand-new like White Strips, but ’snew to MEEE OKAAAYY? OK OK?
I haven’t listened very close, and some of the lyrics are already putting me off a bit, but the songs are real catchy-like, and she sings nice, and the music is crafted more, um, like, interesting and stufff…. than wiff a lot of music.
(I’m trying to not learn anything about her though, on account of her publicity photos look right silly… ‘cept this AWESOME shot I was lucky enough to finddit! TouchDONN!!!)
maybe you need a different mattresss. you should get the one with the wine glass holders
I have a board with wine glasses bound to it by rubber bands wrapped around nails, and I do believe you have found me its perfect new use!
Ms. Spektor:
I regret we inform you upon further inspekulation that we unable to listen you “Beguine too, Hope!!!!” albums … prolly ever again, due moss largely to lyrical contentss!! You’re “Soviet Communist” album shows more reason for to um…. Beguine!!! 2 HOPE!!?BUTT: for how… long?
No, Madam, I cannot really so much listen to your songs anymore now that the secret of the words they put into my ears is known to me. Sailors and buyers beware: though the call of the Spektor may be beautiful and alluring, the song she doth sing is tarded.
Awww, man. It was pretty hard to leave, basically because I like my Iowa City friends so much and will miss them! Also, a major concern was not having anything “creative” to do, like video and theatre and music…I’m probably going to go stir crazy. Also, I’ll be back in, like, a week, for anotha load a mah stuff.
Well, you should drive down to IC every weekend. For a weekend bash of theatrical musical video blowouts. and bowling. and Law & Order. and Booger. and sitting around and stuff. It will be totally exhausting but well, well worth it. Every week’s end !!! emoti-CON!!!
“…though the call of the Spektor may be beautiful and alluring, the song she doth sing is tarded.”
Aw, c’mon man, that’s harsh. She gots plenty of good song. And what, suddenly pop music is renowned for its lack of silly words? Like Jack White doesn’t sound like an angry 13 year old pissing about the girls he’s too gross to date?
Yeah, you tell me, me! Regina rulez! She’s like, the best and all that, too! I’m not even sarcastic!