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RAISE THE DEAD

Hank Williams died when I was five
He sang I'll never get out of this world alive
Now it's been a long time since I was that kid
And I've seen a lot more than Hank ever did
I've done the down and out in every dark end dive
But I'll never get out of your love alive

Sam Cooke met the woman at the well
She told him that his song was something he could never sell
And I think he knew a change was gonna come
Still he lived too fast and he died too young
Well dying young I have survived
But I'll never get out of your love alive

I got washed in the blood of Bill Monroe
When he sang about the the blues in the body and soul
He believed in a God that could raise the dead
Still it's a mighty dark night to travel he said
I've seen a mighty dark night and I made that drive
But I'll never get out of your love alive


Robert Johnson had a hellhound on his trail
Drove him to the coffin like a hammer and a nail
It takes a powerful man to carry that load
When your trying to beat the devil to the old crossroads
I wrestled the devil lived to testify
But I'll never get out of your love alive
I'll never get out of your love alive
I'll never get out of your love alive
I'll never get out of your love alive

---Emmylou Harris

why the fuck am I typing an entry and not sleeping?

this is what happens when i fall asleep pre-10 pm. I wake up 4 hours later in the middle of the night and can't sleep. i've been puttering around -- had a snack, watched some tv, watched some porn, went back to MTV2 which is more interesting since it's "hip hop month", and now i've caved in and dialed up because i don't seem to be getting any more sleepy.
( late night ramblings )

for some reason...

I'm still snickering about something that happened this morning. The alarm went off, and they were playing that horrible horrible song, Contagious by "The Isley Brothers" (I don't believe it's REALLY them). MelRo thought it was some made up song by Howard McGee, like a parody. Then she made some comment about how she believes her personal quality of life has been diminished because she heard that particular waste of a song. Tee-hee. Then again, I'm also still laughing about a line from the movie on Saturday night. We decided to get popcorn, since we had free passes to the movie, and the two of us pretty much inhaled most of the bag in the 20 minutes before the movie started. Near the end of the bag, something happened and the bag tipped and almost capsized, but she caught it. I said something about it being a close call, and she said "yeah, good thing we're pigs otherwise we would have had popcorn all over us."

i'm laughing right now.

maybe you had to be there. but i'm writing this down so i'll remember it, not you. :)

Friday, November 16th

[hey Ridley! I don't suppose you could come to Chicago this particular weekend in November? you can see me work the turntables and scope out the hot chicago dykes, a few fags, and tranny boyz......]

I'm very excited to announce my first paid gig as a live DJ. Yes, I don't do my music for the pure sanctity of art. I'd like to pay some bills with it, too. They don't call it a career change for nothing. May this be the beginning of a beautiful new relationship between me and my life.

Today has been sorta busy at work, but not in a bad way. Had a good lunch with Di___ and Lisa. We had a funny discussion about stupid art. Lisa told this one story and I still don't know what exactly happened in the piece because she was laughing too hard and crying and we were so entertained by her reaction that we couldn't bear to ask her to repeat it. The conversation was inspired by "Mirror, mirror. Father, father." Illeana Douglas rocks my world.