October 26, 2006
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1 Is there anyone out there who doesn’t love Fridays?
2 It’s fun because I tend to begin my Fridays on Thursdays. I had a Pepsi Fat last night. That’s how I party now. I had ice cream in the afternoon, and pushed the envelope to Pepsi Fat. I’m not really a Pepsi guy, but it was the only game in town. I’m not ANTI-Pepsi, by any means, but I just like Coke better.
3 One thing I’ve noticed about having a position that is close to management: you get into chocolate and caffeine.
4 At the Chill on the Hill, the Activities guy is right up there with management all the time.
5 People what know me just can’t quite get that.
6 I’m as un-management as a man could get, always avoided those guys, and now I have this big, strong power pack strapped to my side, a communications system that I wear like a bad-ass marshall in the Wild West.
7 Bad Ass Bill. I just thought that’d be a cool name. I go by lots of nicknames.
8 Bad Ass Bill. That’s the Western gunslinger character in me.
9 He’ll be one of my guys when I finally separate into these various characters who have more or less become who I am: I’ve been Boffo, Bounty Hunter, Cabal, Cap’n’ Numb Skully, El Professore, H, Super H, El Directore, from the Ministery of Mirth, Live from Mars. And now, Bad Ass Bill.
10 Anywho, that’s me in a name. I have been called all of those things at various times in my life. I’ve been called a lot worse. And I love each character; in fact, I’m half tempted to write a play with all of them in it.
11 I shall call it My Bad Self: A Legend in my Own Mind. The only one who will believe it will be my mom. I’m guessin’ nobody else would care. Like everyone else in the world, I’m all about myself! Haha! (Dusts off his coat and straightens tie.)
12 Haha! YEEEE-UH! So gangsta.
13 So gangsta.
14 Moving on: Fun DN tonight for all sorts of reasons. Nhat made a Halloween mix for Helene, and it’s great. It’s all rock, but it’s awesome. It has AC/DC, Metallica, Psycho, and all sorts of awesome Halloween stuff, like 30 tracks. I have it cranked instead of the TeeVee, and I also purchased this just grand old strobe light, so I have all that goin’ on while I’m fixin’ to finish writing this tonight.
15 The fun thing is that Nhat came up to the Chill on the Hill last night right when I began writing the DN, and he got to watch the whole process of getting it from concept to finished product. No rules, but it does go up in an intersting fashion each night.
16 I was enjoying watching it take shape, but I also realized that it was getting late; I worked a volleyball game and hopped on the computer midway through the third game. I told Nhat I was looking to a sort of Wild West theme, and so I just began cutting, pasting, and watching the DN come alive. I then went home and listened to this Haunted House Halloween Party Mix that Nhat made for Helene’s work.
17 When I got the haunted mix and the strobe, however, all bets were off with the Wild West theme. It was an instant Halloween party.
18 I’m having this HUGE Halloween party now, as I sit at home continuing writing, but everyone else is asleep, so I guess I’m the only one invited.
19 It’s three minutes to Friday. I have the stereo cranked, lights down, strobe up, and Halloween in the air. Here is the list of songs, not in the same order, but you’ll get the idea. It’s a total party CD playing:
Ghostbusters – (from the movie)
Nightmare On My Street -DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
Purple People Eater
Dead Man’s Party-Oingo Boingo
Werewolves of London-Warren Zevon
Nature Trail To Hell-Weird Al Yankovic
Monster Mash
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman-The Tubes
Tubular Bells (from the Exorcist)-Mike Oldfield
Creatures of The Night-KISS
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)-Concrete Blonde
Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man-Concrete Blonde
Zombie Stomp-Ozzy Osbourne
Bark At The Moon-Ozzy Osbourne
Dead Shall Rise-The Dark
The Dark-The Dark
I Put a Spell on You (Bette Midler-from the movie Hocus Pocus)
Thriller (Wacko Jacko)
People are Strange AND Riders on the Storm (The Doors)
Highway to Hell (?)
Hell (Squirrel Nut Zippers)
Dead Man’s Party (?)
Psycho Theme (from the original Hitchcock movie)
I’ll Be Watching You (Sting/Police)
Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Enter Sandman (Metallica)
Shout at the Devil (Motley Crue)
Twilight Zone (Golden Earring)
Fire (Arthur Brown)
My Little Demon (Fleetwood Mac)20 I know, I know, how could you leave out (fill-in-the-blank)?
21 Or (fill-in-the-blank)?
22 The answer is this: It’s a party! Make that mix for yourself before the weekend is over, and then throw out a strobe and some fine bevs, and I guarantee a good time. It’s working for me.
23 So I’m gonna shout at the Devil, and crank up the tunes!
24 It’s Friday, after all, and a Halloween weekend!
25 Throw on the mix and party on!
26 It’s fun!
27 Have a wonderful weekend everybody.
28 Peace.
~H~
