Duophone Dot Com: Mike Britt

money doesn't grow on trees

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this saturday morning i woke up around 2pm with the desire to stay in bed until 2pm the next day. but instead i got up and started trying to look busy. if i was like most people i would've awaken around 8am, had already eaten two meals, and etc

i try not to compare myself to "everyone else" anymore. I don't think i'm god or anything, but I'm definetly not in the same category as the rest of you.

John lent me "The Undiscovered Self", by Carl Jung - I read the whole thing in one day while I was in between deliveries at Guiseppie's. The book lays out how the role of the human as individual is way different then the role as a social unit, working for "the man" or as he refers to "the state". Here's an excerpt:

Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith.... In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind, the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself, but which come upon one objectively.... The religious person, so far as one can judge, stands directly under the influence of the reaction from the unconscious.

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standmedown needs contacts. we don't know anyone. brandon is doing ok talking to people at work, it's funny cause he's making mad connections, one of which almost led to a drummer, and one actually led to a show (pirate
s den, last friday) - i can do better mixes, so we can have better cds, we're gonna practice once a week with jim (not enough but more than 0) we need new songs and i need to fix all my shit. everything is broken in one form or another

pay cc bill
cash in all my change
there's clothes everywhere
renew vehicle registration
there's trash everywhere
i need to shave
all my hair is gone

i had a dream two weeks ago in which i told everyone at the table that i had to leave, and then imediately i woke up and was like "what the fuck was THAT?!?!"

music: tool euology
mood: hungover

two hours to accomplish those things before delivery work tonite then to emily's with dawn then sleep then record the vocals for broken values then downcaste practice at 6:30 then eat something monday is standmedown practice (which is good cause we haven't practiced in two weeks)

my brother's birthday (june 5th) is coming up soon. he'll be 18. just like the alice cooper song.

last three cds I aquired:
deftones - deftones
radiohead - hail to the thief (cdr)
king crimson - the power to believe

I GOT MY CAR FIXED

Review

Industrial Strength
This is an ambitious and unique song. It definitely shifts through many moods and atmospheres. For me, there is just too much going on in the sequencing and arrangement of it. It sounds like you blew a bunch of coke and just started hitting the drum machine and sampler at random. There is however, some really cool guitar licks in there. I'm not quite sure what it sounds like.

Extra Credit: Guitars, Mood

- thenoiseband
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania

Why don't they sell marijuanna in stores?

I'm starting a new band... if anyone knows any good drummers who can practice three or more days a week send 'em this way.

I'm gonna start recording a high school band called Broken Values on tuesday. I'm getting paid for it, which is really awesome. I'm still delivering pizzas, and the list of problems with my car is continuing to increase.

Three weeks away from graduating. If someone doesn't hand me a job then I'm fucked cause I sure as hell don't have time to go out looking for one.

In other news, the stand me down recording is essentially finished and we're ready to start playing shows. That said, I'm continuing to sit here and wait for a show to fall in my lap - which wont happen. So unless if one of the other five members goes out and books a show then life will continue to stay the way it is.

Also waiting for my next girlfriend to show up. But sometimes I'm glad that I'm single, cause if I did have a girlfriend, she would be very pissed off at me cause I haven't called in two weeks and I keep ditching her to hang out with various other people or go to band practice.

I recorded over a hundred songs since 2000, but in the last three months I didn't write a single song. I really don't have anything to say right now.

I'm thinking about gettimg myself commited to an institution so I wont have to work.

But they probably won't let me leave to go to band practice.

I'm fucking sick and tired of going through elaborate back door shenanagans to buy marijuanna. It usually requires a few hours of calling dozens of people to see what's around and then alot of driving and looking over your shoulder and then you have to find a safe place. It's way too complicated and I'm too busy for this shit. If all I had to do was stop at WAWA to buy weed then life would be alot easier. Why don't they sell pot in stores? Hasn't this idea occured to anyone else? They should really do it. It would cut several hours of bullshit out of my week, I wouldn't have to be making illegal phone calls on my cellphone, and it would probably be safer if it was legal cause the FDA would be involved and there would be regulations for growing it (IT IS A FUCKING PLANT AFTER ALL)

So next chance you get, stop at your local convienence store and ask them when they're gonna start carrying cronic.