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feel good movie of the year:

I watched Ghosts of Rwanda last night.  I was familiar already with several of the people profiled in it, primarily from having read Philip Gourevitch’s excellent We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families a few years ago.  It gave a good overview of the situation, and the bureaurocratic heel-dragging that resulted in nearly a million people being massacred.  I wished it had gone into the history of the (largely fabricated) division between Hutu and Tutsi (way to go, !), but it’s a good primer for anyone interested.  I miss Bill Clinton for sure, but this was easily one of his (and Madeline Albright's) most colossal humanitarian fuck-ups. 

Know what?

 The Allman Brothers kind of kick ass.  I'm borrowing this from a co-worker right now:

Stand Back: The Anthology

The Allman Brothers Band

I realized some time ago after watching The Devil's Rejects that I had given Southern Rock a bad rap.  Still don't love all of it, especially the 12-bar blooze and shuffle type stuff, but I'll be goddamned if "Midnight Rider" doesn't totally rule.  I didn't realize how much of their material bordered on fusion.  There're definitely some jazz influences in there.

QotD: Top 5 Video Games

What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.

1. Tetris on my cell phone.
2. Tetris for the original Game Boy.
3. Tetris on 8-bit NES.
4. Tekken 3
5. I don't play video games much.

I'm not entirely sure why I went and started yet another blog.

 I'm already the proud owner of more than several LJs.  Figured I'd get in on, if not the ground floor of Vox, then at least close to it.  Honestly, this interface is confusing.  Ever heard of having too many options?  Yeah, that's this.  I suppose I'll get used to it.

So, ok.  Here's what's happening: the tendonitis in my arms is absolutely killing me. I've resumed doing the excercises given to me by my physical therapist.  I can't tell if they're having an effect yet.  In any event, the pain contributed to my waking up several times last night.  (Plus I ate right before bed, resulting in rather vivid dreams.)  I got up several hours before I needed to just because I couldn't stay in bed any longer.

On my way to work I stopped at a pawn shop and ogled some gear - a 'gently used' Mexican Jazz Bass, a little battery-powered Vox (ha!) amp, and some other crap.  Were it not that I'm broke at the moment, I might have walked out with the whole lot.  The two things I need to focus on, though, are A) gear that I need for touring, and B) saving up some scratch so I'm not broke when I come back from touring.  This will require discipline, something that seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of money I have at any given time...

ok

So I have one of these now.