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White Unicorn
Saturday, March 11 2017
The brutal cold was back, and most of my focus to day was repainting yellow and blue shapes on the laboratory floor. I'd made the mistake of attempted a reddish brown replacement for the yellow in one of the big shapes, and getting that back to yellow was first on the agenda. As I worked, I listened mostly to the first two albums from the Australian band Wolfmother. They have an appealing retro psychedelic bluesy hard rock sound somewhere between Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, and the White Stripes. As with all good retro acts, it's as though they did a lot more versions of the good songs from those bands and avoided the crap. (My ideal band is one that just keeps trying to remake Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" and Gary Numan's "Cars."). My favorite song for now is "White Unicorn," though that could change.
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Gretchen was gone most of the afternoon and evening, and tonight she had a hankering to re-watch Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which she'd seen at least twice in the past. I watched it with her, and though I think I'd seen it too (I did, in the same year I first painted the laboratory floor), I don't remember much about it except "Wannna fuck?", "I put a cherry on top"
and Samuel L. Jackson's character convincing a soon-to-be-murdered guy to get into car trunk with the promise of a delicious restaurant meal. I'm a sucker for a caper that involves good smart people taking advantage of less-smart evil (or otherwise less-good) people, and it definitely scratches that itch.
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