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Am very tired. Please forgive language lapses this evening.

Yesterday began with unusually warm temperatures and a hasufin dropping by to take me grocery shopping for the homeless. After we'd bought eggs, hash browns, sausage, and such with some of my spare food stamps, we went off to meet his friend Sara and her two beautiful cats, then we three bipedal beings all went off to IHOP to eat more breakfast-like food which was undoubtedly bad for us.

After lunch, Hasufin abducted me and transported me across state lines for purposes of hanging out with lyssabard, tlttlotd, and stardansr. We spent a few hours being wonderfully lazy (most of us, at least), then, as the natives grew restless, we all went On the Border for Mexican food. Very tasty food in good company! After this, we ran to the car, most of us (everyone not called Hasufin, I believe) shivering a bit since the temperatures were considerably chillier than they had been in the morning. Since people had to go out and do things early this morning, the company broke up after dinner. It was overall quite a pleasant day.

Had a dental appointment today, which I was looking forward to about as much as you'd expect. As it turns out, when it comes to all the things I have any control over, everything was fine: no cavities, gums no worse than before. Unfortunately, since my bite has been a little bit off for many years now, that has put a certain amount of stress on some of my teeth and gums, which (says the dentist) means I need some work done on three of those teeth. Ouch. Can't say I'm terribly thrilled with that idea, but we'll see what can be done.

¡Música!

I've been missing my old record collection lately. Been missing it rather a lot. There are far too many old songs in those LPs and EPs and 12-inchers and 7-inchers and even (can such things be?) 10-inchers that I just never, ever got in any kind of digital format; and since I don't have my records here, much less any way to play them even if I did have them, it's been far too long since I heard those songs. Today there were two songs in particular that kept trying to take over my brain and, since I was too tired to do anything actually useful, I decided to look for them online.

Well. Those of you who have ever suggested that I watch anything on YouTube will know that I never, ever watch YouTube. I Do Not Do YouTube. No matter how wonderful that video may be, the site is too dial-up unfriendly for me to bother, okay?

As a measure of how desperate I was to hear one of these tracks, I went to YouTube. If any of you can locate for me any version of this song in mp3 format, I would appreciate it (the version I knew was on the Common Bond album from 1971); in the meantime, if you have no aversion to YouTube, you may go watch a live performance of Ides of March, "L.A. Goodbye".

For the second song, it wasn't even necessary to brave the horrors of YouTube! Weirdly enough, a blog post out there features a SendSpace link that still works, making for a very happy hummingwolf. RetroMusicSnob has the Passion Puppets, "Like Dust". True fact: a British music magazine in the mid-'80s once said that the three best guitar groups in the UK at the time were U2, the Smiths, and the Passion Puppets--and the Passion Puppets were the best of the lot. Or maybe I made up that last part.

Now, if anyone can explain why out of all the songs I've ever known, it was these two that decided to gang up on me today, please tell me. I'm curious.

Whee!

Mere hours after downloading a relatively obscure song by the Passion Puppets (see previous post), I find a mashup site with a mashup featuring that very song. And then I find this Project Opus page with Passion Puppets songs I never heard before (along with two I have). I love the internet so very much tonight.