this is odd.
i’m writing to you from a different computer. it feels so strange not to have that little comforting metal track pad just a thumb’s stretch away. so why is my little metal ibook trackpad not a thumbs stretch away? why am i writing to you from a different computer? funny you should ask, let me tell you (prepare to be bored).
a few weeks ago i got hooked up with a cable modem. and i loved it. super fast interweb connectivity meant that i could line on to my favorite web-stations without all of that interminable waiting. but then i got greedy. i thought to myself, ‘hmm, if i have the cable modem for the interweb in my home, then how hard could it be to have them also install the cable tv which seems to be so popular with the young people these days?’. and yes, i do think in run on sentences. so they came on friday and hooked up the cable tv for me, but in the process they seem to have rendered my cable modem kind of unusable. so now i have to wait until november of 2007 for them to come back and fix the problem. and in the meantime i’m stuck down-lining my e-letters with an old dial up modem. ah boy, life sure is tough, huh.
the things that we (ok, i) choose to complain about. pathetic, truly pathetic. the world is teetering on the edge of chaos and i complain about cat-bites and slow interweb connections.
i’m not really complaining. but i had gotten very attached to that fast modem.
in other news, i went to see the mission of burma reunion show tonight and it was really outstanding. the last time that i had seen them perform was in 1984 at danceteria here in nyc. and they were actually better tonight than they were 17 years ago. and i even got to play guitar with them during the encore. so now i’ve played with 3 of my childhood heroes, new order, david bowie, and mission of burma. i’m the luckiest new-wave kid on the block. they (burma) were great. what an amazing band. and i had a lovely time playing guitar with them during the encore even if a couple of my friends in the audience did yell ‘moby sucks’. it’s nice to have such good friends… i had received a call from my manager earlier today wherein she said ‘mission of burma called and they were interested in having you onstage to sing “”all world cowboy romance”” ‘ and i was flattered, but confused, for “”all world cowboy romance”” is an instrumental.
there’s no singing on it. it might even be burma’s only instrumental. but my manager, bless her heart, was just a little bit confused. they had said they wanted me to play on ‘all world cowboy romance’, not sing. so i played. and it was fun.
so, thanks burma.
-moby