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The Stable

Three things about The Stable:

1. The place is open. Located on the corner of Lemp and Cherokee, in one of the historic Lemp Brewery buildings. Restaurant and bar. Loads of familiar faces working the floor and the kitchen. Drop by on a Saturday for lunch.

2. They have DJs on selected nights. For example, myself, on Thursday, July 31, time TBD. The turntables, in a strange bit of strangeness, are on loan from Robert van Winkle. Seriously, they are.

3. There’s a pizza on the lunch menu featuring tater tots, ketchup and mayo, tons of cheese and (for most folks) a topping of ground beef. Pure health food, obviously. But curiously tasty.

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Organization

My plea for a public flogging the other day yielded a small amount of response, though all of it was interesting. For example, one person chimed in with a call for work, sent mere moments after posting. Thanks for that. Another said I should take the day off. Ugh! And another was from a person whom I owe words. And, yet, they were being supportive of my block. Ayie! Nonetheless, good reading was found.

Some of these notes pointed to various articles, books or other forms of organizational therapy. Here’s the run of those, unless I’m forgetting one.

Apparently, there’s a book called “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. Here’s the Wikipedia rundown, as sent along:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

Fight your indecision here:
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-deal-with-indecision/

There’s a LifeRemix site? I did not know that:
http://liferemix.net/

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Three spins (amended)

Royale – Friday, July 11, 6-10 p.m.

Halo – Thursday, July 17, 10 p.m. – 2:30 a.m.

Royale – Friday, July 25, 10 p.m. – 1:15 a.m.

The Stable – Thursday, July 31, time TBD, likely 10 p.m. – 1:15 a.m.

Am just figuring out this “digital downloading thing.” Meaning: lots of new songs. Yay.

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Help

After a couple false starts, I just finished up Jonathan Yang’s breezy-and-informative “The Rough Guide to Blogging.” Lots of useful tips in there.

I’d like to test a theory of blogging usefulness, not from the book, per se, but inspired by today’s reading.

Between moving, the start of summer class and some other odds’n’ends (plus, it’s so hot!), I have: fallen behind on some correspondence; become extremely overdue for a trip to the post office; and need to complete some grading. Plus the interviews for stories… that need to be written… oy. Strangely, this could all be accomplished in a fairly compact period of time, but I need some external motivation.

If any willing folks reading this could simply drop me a line with the subject header: FINISH WORK by, say, 3 p.m. CST on Tuesday, July 8, I’d really appreciate it. For those sending notes, I will not share your name, or sell your info to discount mortgage houses. Thanks.

(Update: thanks for the motivating notes. I now have a video shoot at WU at 1 p.m., which makes the above time somewhat untenable. Let’s say, 5 p.m. CST. I will say that I’ve enjoyed a couple of weisenheimer cracks already sent in, as well as the motivating note sent about 10-minutes after posting. Gotta love the web.)

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July’s 13

Reunion show, Treeweasels: Wouldn’t miss this for the world. Where: Off Broadway. When: Saturday, July 19. Who: Treeweasels with Magnolia Summer and the Half-Knots. Why: “Original members EJ Fitch (vocals, gtr), Scott Roever (gtr, vocals), and Danny Kathriner (drums) are joined by Joe Thebeau (bass) to present a set of the classic Treeweasels favorites from way back when.” Thanks for the reminder, Joe.

Seafood, squid: Okay, who likes this stuff? Me, no. Have I mentioned that Wei Hong is now online?

Game show, “Cash Cab”: Ran across this little gem while awaiting “The Deadliest Catch.” (Have I mentioned killing cable in July?) The host of this trivia show is Ben Bailey, who seems like a totally, legitimately cool guy. In fact, I would like to be his friend, if anyone reading this has a line to him. We could, like, hang out.

TV II, Euro 2008: I’m glad, as a soccer fan, that every match of Euro 2008 was available via the ESPN family of networks. And, yet, I have to feel as if I lost some time during June. Time that could’ve been spent burning candles and sage for a Germany victory. Sigh. All that time invested. For second place. Mmm. Rrr.

Task, moving: Remind me not to go this route again soon. Those legitimately needing my new digits, just lemme know.

Film, UE: There’s a film out there on urban exploration. It hasn’t played St. Louis. But I’m aware that Mike Steinberg is looking into booking it for the Webster University Film Series. Happy days those would be, indeed! Read up: Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness.

Record, B.J. Ward, “Vocal Ease“: Found this assumed gem at Waxidermy, in an item that includes a clip of the title track. Would spend a couple bucks on this, were an actual vinyl copy to come into my orbit. Have I mentioned that my birthday is coming up?

Out, Belz: Win some, lose some.

Online, books: Great piece on the changing nature of book publishing, book buying, book consumption. From “On the Media.” Every class I have at Webster will hear this one.

Candy bar, Payday Chocolatey Avalanche: Damn, what a delicious sweet treat.

Outsider artist, Skeleton Krewe: A few months back, I jotted down some fan notes of the photos of Skeleton Krewe, a New Orleans flickr photographer, who seems to capture that town as well as anyone could. Noticed, today, that he’s also a painter, in a distinctly outsider art style. Digging these works. Need to save some pennies.

Album, Japancakes, “Loveless”: The note-by-note recreation of the MBV classic. You need this album, really.

Bicycle, Raleigh One Way: It appears that someone’s borrowed my bike and hasn’t returned it. Yeah, I know, “share and share alike.” And, yet, for my next bike, I’d like to keep it all for myself. No unannounced borrowing. A smart person in such matters suggested the one-speed Raleigh One Way as that next bike. Plenty of other bloggers give it up for this ride. So, maybe. Have I mentioned someone stole my bike?

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Fone is ded

The Verizon EnV phone is coming off the market. Not a surprise, as I seemed to go through much of their stock. My fourth version of the model was dunked in water today, compliments of my soccer team. (Roster changes are forthcoming.) The replacement phone, a Samsung R2D2, or some such, will not arrive until Tuesday. Assuming that most folks reading know me and have some reason to be in touch, please use the old electronic mails to contact me in the short term. Danke.

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CDs

Seven of 24 hours will soon be spent with CDs. Not bad.

Molly’s: Tonight, 10 – 1.

Royale: Tomorrow, 6 – 10.

Bloc Party, anyone?

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Molly’s

New DJ gig. For three weeks. Playing the oft-discredited (but so prolific in my collection) compact disc format on a dual CD deck.*

Thursdays: June 5, 12, 19
Molly’s
816 Geyer, 63104
314-241-6200
www.mollyslounge.com

* With scratch capability. Wicka-wacka.