Impressions

"Thanks to those who support our Mission of Metal. To the Bangers of the world who are the pulse of this aggressive METAL movement that is taking the world by storm. This album is for you!"

Anthrax on the back of Fistful of Metal

Headless Fashion Woman

What I'm wearing:
Shirt: thrifted
Pants: thrifted
Shoes: Urban Outfitters

Mjöllnirista

Albuquerque Semi-Annual Record Show

Today we ventured to a record show. The first time I went, about two years ago, it was in a larger venue. This is the third year that it was held in the smaller venue, the Eleganté Hotel. It was rather crowded at times and suffocating. There are several token stinkies that are always at these things. There is cat pee guy, BO guy and vomit guy. It would not be the same without them. O yeah, cabbage patch carrying woman deserves a shout out.

We picked up several things:
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cryptic Slaughter - Stream of Consciousness
Danzig - s/t
Danzig - II-Lucifige
Dewey Redman - Look for the Black Star
Grand Funk Railroad - s/t
Grand Funk Railroad - live album
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
The Hot Rodders - Big Hot Rod
Jimi Hendrix - Cry of Love
John Lee Hooker - Archive Folkways
Keith Jarrett - Fort Yawuh
Keith Jarrett - Shades
Keith Jarrett - Treasure Island
Less Than Jake - Making Fun of Things You Don't Understand
Make Up - After Dark
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Mercyful Fate - The Beginning
Necronomicon - s/t
Perez Prado - Other Latin American Favorites
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Savoy Brown - Blue Matter
Sodom - Obsessed by Cruelty
Ted Heath - Latin Swingers
Ten Years After - Sssh...
Trapeze - Medusa
The Winners - The Checkered Flag

Here is a picture of the items I was particularly exited about:

If you have ever followed my myspace page I acquired a rather comfortable number of Mexican garage albums, some of these pieces will fit in nicely. I only got the Less that Jake because I really like the song soundcheck, everything else they have ever put out is cringe inducing.

Some of the records are listed for a lot more than we paid for them which may or may not mean anything. It seems that some of the people that sell at this show do not know much about what they are selling. Which is beneficial to the collection! There was this guy that was walking around with a list he printed off the Internet that listed the 500 best records of all time. It still had the web address, unfortunately not clear enough for me to read. He was asking people if they had the records listed, just reading off the list. He never even managed to look through any bin. I heard him ask for Los Rolling (Stones) Sticky fingers, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and License to Ill by the Beastie Boys. I thought it was a rather random selection, and that is the only reason I looked over and noticed his list. I do not want to judge, but I'm going to. Did he wake up one day and decide he was going to collect vinyl or what? Who just downloads a list and walks around asking? He probably was also asking the moderator to ask who had what records over the loud speaker. Part of going to these things, at least for me, is finding those records that you have been looking for a long time, those you forgot you wanted and those you did not even know you wanted. I had to sing a part of a song to one guy because I did not know the title or artist and he knew it. He also included a personal story of the song free of charge. There is a certain kind of socialization that has to take place that the guy was missing out on. He also probably did not have to wash his hands thoroughly of the record grime.

This is a joint collection. People seem to think Yann somehow has propriety over it but we both had our smaller collections when we met. It burns me up for some reason when people assume I like records because of him, or that I listen to certain things because of him. We have mutually introduced each other to certain music and we have a super diverse collection because we each bring something different. Now the actual record player is a different story...

Here is a link to the collection. It has not been updated since August but will be soon.

Impressions

"It's unacceptable for us to do the fundamental things [fundamentals of football] wrong week after week. We need to get fixed."

Packers head coach Mike McCarthy after Packers-Bucs game

Headless Fashion Woman

I cleaned out my closet some what today. I took some things to Buffalo Exchange and then donated the rest. It was a hard thing. I got rid of some sweatshirts and several shirts, but most important I got rid of six pairs of tennis. I was holding on to a lot of those for sentimental reasons. Which seems kind of silly. I have to confess that the motivating factor was that I bought two new pairs on Saturday. When I put a pair in the donation bin, Yann was all like "weren't you just wearing those yesterday?" Yes, I was. Also, Yann has about an 1/8 of closet space , that's one tiny corner of three closets.

What I'm wearing:
Shirt: American Apparel
Pants: Dickies (I've had them for over twelve years also, that's about how long it actually takes to break in a pair. Not these new kind of fashion dickies that won't last through one day of yard work).
Shoes: My new Nike kicks! (This is my first pair of Nike shoes, I never ventured into Nike territory before because of the sweat shop thing. However, my friend Kristin, who lived in Hong Kong and Shanghai for a while, had informed me a while ago that they were now a model for other business to clean up their act. So in my head I'm rewarding them for the change).

Here is a better picture:

Impressions

"You can only take Applebee's and Chili's so much. Our big day was hanging out at Walmart for five hours. It was like, 'Yeah Walmart!"

Jessica Alba on Albuquerque.

"STFU Jessica Alba"

Me

Headless Fashion Woman

Weekend fashion is a different story...
What I'm wearing:
Shirt: Unknown, was a present
Jeans: Thrifted, I've had them for over 12 years, thin as paper!
Tennis: Vans

Impressions

"We are here to make coffee metal... We will make everything metal... Blacker than the blackest black, times infinity!"

Nathan Explosion in The Curse of Dethklok

Headless Fashion Woman

The casual Friday

What I'm wearing:
Sweater: Urban Renewal (I suspect it's an old Lacoste sweater that has been retooled)
Shirt: Thrifted
Jeans: X2
Shoes: Urban Outfitters
Bag: Thrifted

Impressions

"The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena, the videodrome."

Brian O'Blivion in Videodrome

Headless Fashion Woman

It's not class or ideology,
Color, creed, or roots
The only thing that unites us
Is Dr. Marten's boots

What I'm wearing:
Shirt: Dillards
Skirt: Thrifted
Shoes: Dr. Martens

I had to have the picture taken at the last minute. Pardon the cubicles/bull pen.

Wanton Music Playing

As part of my job I sometimes have to travel to schools. Yesterday I had one meeting at a school by my house and then in the afternoon I had to go way across town to the monster that is Albuquerque’s West Side. I try to take the bus as much as possible but when I have to travel to schools I have to drive. It gives me an opportunity to use the shuffle selection on the I-pod, which Yann hates. The idea that songs are randomly played is possibly the worst thing to him. So much in fact that there are probably a number of unfinished mix tapes, cd’s or play lists out there that he did not finish because the songs were not working well together. I have just over 6000 songs on the thing and enjoy being randomly surprised. I revel in the absurdity of some of the songs I have on I-pod, the guilty pleasures. Here is what it played yesterday:
Deceiver-Judas Priest
HolidayThe Get Up Kids
Hollywood Baby-Lost Acapulco
Nicaragua-The Jazz June
Mision Malvarosa- Lost Acapulco
Raining in My Heart-Buddy Holly and the Crickets
The Oath-Mercyful Fate
Double Agent 73 (Who came in from the cold) - The Ghastly Ones
Snaggle Tooth Ann- Gene Norman
El 13 Negro-Terrestre
Dammit-Blink 182
Landlocked- Man or Astro-man?
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring- The Beach Boys
Mechanix- Megadeath
The Right Profile- The Clash
In Heaven- Fatboy Slim
You Know The Formula Right? - Dabrye
Seagulls- The Damned
I Wish- Refused
Look At That Old Grizzly Bear- Mark Mothersbaugh
Fly Trapped in a Jar- Modest Mouse
God Save the Queen-Queen
Friday I’m in Love- The Cure
Martyr to the People- The (Young) Pioneers
This is not a Step- Torches to Rome
1 of the 2- The Damned
Midlantic Schemes- Geoff Farina
Warlock- Desmond Dekker
My Desire- The Damned

What can I say, it was a long drive. My I-pod case came from www.QuietDoing.etsy.com

Impressions

"this is just the beginning, 666"

written on a note by Marco Luzi

Headless Fashion Woman

I always have a hard time picking out clothes to wear to work. I hate having to comply with a dress code. The last time I had to do this was in 2003-2004. My first real job out of college. I hated Michigan so much that I succumbed and the business casual took over every aspect of my life! Finally after escaping I willingly threw out ALL my office girl clothes. I use to describe my life as going from anarchy to office girl to depressed to where I am now, which is a melange of all of the previously mentioned. It is harder since I was a grad student who worked at a paper mill for two years before rejoining the real workforce. I am trying to get to a point where I can comply with the dress code in a creative way. I do push it sometimes but only when I do not have meetings since I am still trying to get away from people asking me what high school I go to, or if I am a student of the school I have to visit. Money of course is an issue so it will take me some time to achieve a neo-office girl closet.
What I'm wearing:
Skirt: American Apparel
Shirt:Target
Shoes:Urban Outfitters
Chaqueta: Thrifted

I am letting my inner Chola out with my name plate necklace...

Impressions

"Bloated with complacency"

From Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal

Hades o La Jaida

Meet little Hades. She came to us about seven years ago. Neither Yann nor I are cat people but we love her and live in fear of her. She is now about fifteen years old. She enjoys salmon and boar bristle brushes. The only non-vegetarian in the home.

Headless Fashion Woman

It took me a long time to get to the point of where I actually took the steps to start a blog. Now that I'm here I am having a hard time coming up with a post. So I'm borrowing this idea from other blogs.
What I'm wearing:
Dress: thrifted
Leggings: American Apparel
Shoes: Urban Outfitters
Purse: thrifted

I'm working on my picture quality...