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vernacular_lifeI'm in a posty-kind of mood today....
This was the 2nd and last time we'll deal with Lending Tree -- everyone associated with them seem to be scheisters. We went back to the original lender we got the mortgage from, and while our monthly payment won't be nearly as good as lending tree's initial offer was, the closing costs are about $2000 less (FYI, Maryland has the highest closing costs in the country. yeaahh!) Thus we splurged and went with...........
The 20" I-mac! This will happily be the latest in a looooong line of Mac's I've Had
Gogol Bordello: After last month's debaucle of getting shut out of the DC show, I'll DEFINATELY be in attendance at the Gogol Bordello show in Baltimore!
You just tell me that this doesn't sounds like a blast:
Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York's immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz's taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the Birthday Party and Einstürzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to Western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster, Hütz became enamored of the mystical, outsider qualities of gypsy music. Living as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before moving to the United States in 1993, he experienced life as an outsider himself. After arriving in New York, he teamed up with guitarist Vlad Solofar and squeezebox player Sasha Kazatchkoff. American Eliot Fergusen added a strong rock sound on the drums and the band was also augmented by Sergei Riabtsev on fiddle, a former theater director from Moscow whose past experience would prove helpful in the future in crafting Gogol Bordello's bizarre stage shows (like one which tells the story of super-powered immigrant Ukrainian vampires).
Random amusement today: I get on the elevator at work w/ headphones on after just exiting the train. I'm in the process of turning everything off and putting it away when a frumpy, holiday-sweater wearing woman enters the elevator and asks, "Oho! Who are you listening to?" Without thinking about it, I reply, "The new Dogs Die in Hot Cars album" because, well, I was listening to them. She stares at me, blinks, and says "You're sick".
This was the 2nd and last time we'll deal with Lending Tree -- everyone associated with them seem to be scheisters. We went back to the original lender we got the mortgage from, and while our monthly payment won't be nearly as good as lending tree's initial offer was, the closing costs are about $2000 less (FYI, Maryland has the highest closing costs in the country. yeaahh!) Thus we splurged and went with...........
The 20" I-mac! This will happily be the latest in a looooong line of Mac's I've Had
Gogol Bordello: After last month's debaucle of getting shut out of the DC show, I'll DEFINATELY be in attendance at the Gogol Bordello show in Baltimore!
You just tell me that this doesn't sounds like a blast:
Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York's immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz's taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the Birthday Party and Einstürzande Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to Western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster, Hütz became enamored of the mystical, outsider qualities of gypsy music. Living as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before moving to the United States in 1993, he experienced life as an outsider himself. After arriving in New York, he teamed up with guitarist Vlad Solofar and squeezebox player Sasha Kazatchkoff. American Eliot Fergusen added a strong rock sound on the drums and the band was also augmented by Sergei Riabtsev on fiddle, a former theater director from Moscow whose past experience would prove helpful in the future in crafting Gogol Bordello's bizarre stage shows (like one which tells the story of super-powered immigrant Ukrainian vampires).
Random amusement today: I get on the elevator at work w/ headphones on after just exiting the train. I'm in the process of turning everything off and putting it away when a frumpy, holiday-sweater wearing woman enters the elevator and asks, "Oho! Who are you listening to?" Without thinking about it, I reply, "The new Dogs Die in Hot Cars album" because, well, I was listening to them. She stares at me, blinks, and says "You're sick".
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Date: 2005-03-15 07:11 pm (UTC)LOL at the lady in the elevator. Maybe she'll think twice before asking anyone that question.