the great pumpkin...

ahhh an onslaught of music news! the great pumpkin will be set to re-appear this later this year through festivals throughout europe... where will this charlie brown be when it decides to rear its head over jack boot teeth towards the u.s.?

hopefully in the patch, with the slew of other minions grooving to the sweet jack-o-lantern sounds.. will it be the same? is it just a gimmick since maybe he needs money? who will be in voltron formation to form this great pumpkin? do any of these questions really matter?

no.

all that matters is, the time is upon me to hopefully witness the rebirth of something i held so dearly, or to go back into the current less than nourished...i'm preparing to bunker down in the midst of ticking clocks, anxiously waiting with sidewalk camping gear in tow, for the announcement...

in any case... 7.7.07 - 'zeitgeist' will be upon us... i'm not holding my breath, or maybe i am, but i just don't know it yet...

being damn handy..

besides the fact that it's been ball freezing weather out here, i've found myself last week being damn handy around the house... our dryer had suddenly stopped working (most likely due to the fact that i stuffed it to the point of exploding preganancy) that it had stopped drying... it worked, but just didn't dry...

so i took it upon myself to take the entire thing apart (to the point where the drum that rolls around fell off "un-expectantly") and starting looking for anything.. about a day or two poking around in there, i eventually called a repairman to get an estimate... $125 beans just for him to come out and look at it and for the first 30 min of labor... at that point, buying a new dryer woulda been cheaper (thanks CL)...

being a poi dog pondering, i decided i wouldn't let it get the best of me and went out and bought a multi-meter and started testing the connections for continuity... i found some fuses and heat thermometers and tested those as well...

alas! it was the thermal fuse and themal regulator that showed no signs of ohms thus == broken. i called up some local part shops and threw down $20 beans for the parts, installed them and put the dryer back together (with no missing parts!).. that night... we enjoyed the beautiful heat emitting from our now fixed dryer...

later that week, my car brakes were making a quite familar grinding sound everytime i braked... i took it into a shop for a free estimate, where they anally 'pirated and boarded' me with an outrageous price... i declined, of course only had a one night stand with them only t find out what was wrong so i could try to fix it myself... now i had changed my brakes once before, but that was about a year ago... could i do it again?

a little worried i couldn't remember how to change them, i decided to give it a go... alas number 2! i now not only have new brake pads, but i have new rotors!

besides this handyness, i have come to find out today about Ozzfest... normally, i don't care two beans about Ozzfest, but when tickets are free, i care... as this will probably be the only opportunity i would ever take to go see bands like From Autumn to Ashes, Atreyu, Lacuna Coil, or In Flames... not only for the fact that i'd probably get my ass kicked by any roid-raging 16 yr old there, but i'd be afraid i'd not only be "down with the sickness", i'd prob get the sickness (ala, the time when we went to see STP with disturbed, and godsmack [yes, odd lineup] and 2-tags and both woke up the next morning with cold sores on our lips... )

Nonetheless, it's nice to see them giving back to the fans... i'm defiantely considering stopping by for a few sets... maybe i'll come back from it with some new piercings, tats, and sores....