time2put down the steak knife

 












Finally finished reading the Temple Grandin book, Animals in Translation. She has done a lifetime of good work and i totally respect her for that. Can u hear a "but" coming? I am having a hard time reconciling the meat-eating Temple with the "i love all animals" Temple. yeah yeah yeah she's heard it all b4, but not from me.

How can she make a comment like "animals are going to turn out to be more capable than we know", and then eat one? She gives a rap about oh, maybe autistic people need more protein, but as just about everybody knows by now, people, non-autistic AND autistic, can often find more protein in non-meat items than in meat items. AND without all the anti-biotics, hormones, and who knows what all. (People, have u ever seen inside a meat truck when the back-end is open?? That shit is just hanging there, or on the floor, uncovered, dirty, being handled by the driver's bare hands.) Anway,read up on this...check it out 4yourself. U mite be surprised actually, how little protein there is in a big mac, compared to a plate of rice and beans.

Here's something else she says in the book: "We need to study animals...what are they feeling?" Uh, Temple, they MIGHT be feeling dread, as they pass thru that very nifty gadget u invented for the slaughterhouses. "What are they doing?" Well, Temple dear, they are dying, that's what they're doing. And "What do we need to do to treat animals fairly, responsibly, and with kindness?" In answer to that question, i have 3 words: dont eat them. 

yer doin a heckof a job brownie

 












This is Brownie. Nancy Kravtiz' grandmother made him for me. He's coming out of his shell, he's got a wonderful view.

Dont u miss seeing dean wareham on tour? I do. Maybe he should start his OWN non-tour diary. I remember hearing some of dean's lyrics,along time ago, and someone asked me if i wanted to be introduced to dean, and i said no because i thought, because of his lyrics, that he would be nasty-ass. 4instance: "dont know what you're sayin', but i hate it anyway". Hmmmm, maybe there's some dean wareham at google video...

I read about a Spiritualized fan who went looking for some Spiritualized at google video, and there wasnt anything, so he made one himself. Isnt that cool?

Well, if not touring is good enough for dean wareham and jason pierce, it's good enough for me. 

(jumpin jack) flash

 












Since I are 2stoopid2learn how2show more than once picture at once on this bloggy, here's another pic4u (see below), with the flash on. Love ya2times!! 

roses r red...

 












and violets r purple, sugar is sweet and so's maple syrple. (is that a roger miller lyric? i think it is.) he was so great. Well, we can still love him on valentine's day...even tho we cant see him. But hey! Please put down your hand, 'cause i see YOU!!! Appy-hay Velentine's Day, yall. x0x0 

once u painted our bedroom red...

 












...this is where we go to the stars u said.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY all u lovers out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

everybody loves my baby but my baby dont love nobody but me

 












Yup, that's my A#1, my BFF4Ever, the one,the only...RWS. He has been busy finding and editing old ACC performance movies. Pretty soon, he will break for dinner (spaghetti!). HI RICH!!!!

Have u seen FORTY SHADES OF BLUE starring Rip Torn? What about EROS? If your favorite movie is BLOW-UP, do we have a surprise for you! Eros is 3short films, one by Antonioni. Wow is it gorgeous. Unbelievable camera work, so much emotion in the camera.

So, of course, no tour/shows...does watching old footage of shows count? ok, ok, so it doesnt count. So sue me!

Gotta go check on my spaghetti! Bye yall 

sweet dreams r made of these who am i 2disagree

 
















Nothin could be finer than2b with carolina in the mor-or-or-ning. The excitement around the stimboleum is escalating! Escalating excitement! We r expecting our special long-lostie 2 arrive in a few days, and tho we think it's wrong to pray for trivial things like good weather, we do hope that it doesnt rain every day of the visit. Bike rides, pizza at Pizzetta 211 on California/23rd Avenue, sunsets at the beach, these r a few of our favorite things we will be sharing with our long-lostie. Doesnt it sound like fun? Sure couldnt do all this if i was on tour. ha ha. The only tour i'll be on is a tour of GG Park, where all the flowering trees are in blossom. And of course we will have2show our visitor the Angler's Lodge, the most esoteric/existential spot in the Park. We love showing this spot to visitors, and clocking their reactions. When we showed Sonic Boom, he thought it would be a good place to be really really high. When we showed it to a surfer-friend from New Jersey, he laughed out-loud. Stay tuned to read about our long-lostie's reaction!

I gotta love the Bay Area...2day's post-yoga lunch: baby spinach with fresh figs, tiny cubes of feta cheese, and thinly-thinly sliced red onions. Hope u ate something scrumptious 2day. If not2day, maybe2morrow! Bye. 

dont call us...we'll call you

Once again, i had2much2dream last night...2much2dream. The main dream, which was more like a nightmare: ACC got signed to a big major label! OH NO!! How did this happen?? I couldnt remember anything that led up2the signing, just all of a sudden, we were signed. SHIT! "They" brought in the big producer, the big A&R guy(nae offense HT) the big this, the big that, and all their ideas were so shit. It was unbelievable how shit they were, like a bad joke. "They" played us some backing trax "they" had made, and we were appalled! Everything sounded so bad and cheesy but not in a good way! Now, ACC has always loved bad and cheesy, especially when applied 2her own music, but this was somethin else.

We tried breaking the deal, we tried everything...being nice/reasonable(yeah, like THAT might work), we tried being hard-asses, nothing we did could get us off the label. We kept meeting with person-after-person but we couldnt get off. We wanted2sound like ourselves on this new signing, but we could tell there was no way that was gonna happen. We asked them why did we get signed if they didnt want us2sound the way we sound, but you know, there was no good answer, just a bunch of circular booshit. Jeez A was so happy2finally wake up(and cry!).

If u'd like to see 2 ACC videos... Jet Boy Jet Girl, or Been There Done That ...

Another dream starred Kim Fowley...he had invited ACC and BFFRich 2dinner. Then we noticed he wasnt at the table for awhile, so we went looking4him, and saw him...sitting outside at a table for 1! ha! So, just like in real-life, R wanted2walk over and be polite and say goodbye, etc., and A said "Absolutely not!" Then A woke up...and laughed! Bye kids!

that's close enough

 












Step away from the german shepherd! Now that we r reading the temple grandin book, we know that alot of the "fun" things we did to smoochie were things that could have set him off in a bad way. Like making fast moves, or certain "play" activities. Now we know that maybe smoochie was doing all he could to restrain himself from showing us what he was capable of in the Hurt Dept.!

But the one thing that isnt true about smoochie...not only did he not mind if u were around him when he was eating, he actually liked it. he liked me 2sit down by him when he was eating, and if i got up b4 he was finished, he would come get me. how cute is that?

i could have an entire blog devoted 2smoochie, that's how interesting and smart he is. one of his nicknames is LL Smoochie for "Ladies Love". Ladies would always stop what they were doing2admire him and say things like "stately", or "what a handsome guy". it's true he is a totally masculine dog. once when i picked him up from his vet, they said "your boyfriend is waiting for u." ha ha.

he is demanding, and i guess that's not a good thing, but we liked that about him. we preferred to think of him as communicative rather than demanding. because his owner neglected him, we tried 2make up4it by letting smoochie know he could talk and we could understand.

another great thing about smoochie...no one would fuck with me when i had smoochie by my side. once i was walking him in a somewhat remote area where i would never go by myself, and a bunch of gang members kinda popped up out of nowhere. do u know how funny and satisfying it was when they cut me PLENTY of slack...they walked WAY around us, the whole time their eyes open WIDE looking down at smoochie, not EVEN looking at me or saying ANYTHING. these huge pumped-up guys. and smoochie put on his best manly-man face and attitude, and even slowed down, like "yeah, motherfuckers, i'm walkin' here, u got a problem with that?" not threatening, just casually VERY serious. wow was it great! when we got past them i hugged smoochie and he looked at me like "did i do it for ya or what?" smoochie is a great top, he loves loves loves doing what he thinks u want him to do. (well, sometimes!)

send the love to smoochie, everybody!! 

dreamin' is free

 












...but maybe if there was a charge u could choose the programming? Jeez, had more wild ones again last night. AandR were on a cruise ship when dangerousbad weather developed... hurricanes, tornadoes, and the ship pulled up at the Cliff House and let us off the ship but there was fast-rising water at the Cliff House and we couldnt get out and the water was rising and rising and everyone was getting wet, everyone's hair and face and clothes were wet and even tho AandR's house is/was just a few blocks away, well, u know how it can be in dreams, for some reason we just couldnt leave, kinda like a luis bunuel movie, only in color. Then A woke up.

On the bus the other day, watched a crack whore. She(?) wasnt even aware i was staring at her even tho i was right across the aisle from her. Her movements were so un-human and bizarre...drinking a bright yellow soft-drink out of a huge plastic bottle...wearing a bikini top stuffed with something and she kept reaching in to adjust the stuffing and sucking down the yellow liquid like a person on the desert who hasnt had anything 2drink in days...on her head was a blond wig in braids, covered by a bandana and she kept reaching under the bandana 2adjust the wig...just in constant strange motion, all the while talking to what appeared 2b a "normal" guy she was with. We got off at the same stop, and the guy was complaining that he didnt get enuf sleep the nightb4 and crack whore said "Thing about havin' a drug probbem, u aint need but a coupla hours a sleep a night." I wanted 2follow them 2hear more, but it was an up-hill walk and crack whore and normal guy had 2stop every other step because they were so out of breath and it was taking2long. Hey! I got my OWN life, ya know? Cant b following u 2 around all day!

Later, mates. 

yellow yellow kissed a fellow

 












Red red peed the bed. Blue blue spit in your shoe. Brown brown wear a frown.
Green green ruptured your spleen. Orange orange...uh,er,..Pink pink u stink. Tan tan u da man. Black black sat on a tack in a purple Cadillac all the way to Pontiac.

Ok ok. Hi. Got a nice review on one of the songs on LOUIE LOUIE (Caroline Says). Click here (and check entry for Feb 1)!

Going to SFMOMA tomorrow with my yoga teacher 2see the Chuck Close exhibit. She used to sell art so i thought it might be a fun thing 2do2gether. Dont like the Museum much, but, as the blogger known as NEXT BIG THING would say, "whadda ya gawna do."
The Palace of the Legion of Honor provides a way better experience for looking at art...cant wait to take our special guest to the Palace later this month. :-)

Ok, kids, "Over an' oot", as the above-mentioned wee blogger would say! 

u were stuck in a dream and u wanted2scream

 












A huge hi-dee-ho (with no emphasis on the "ho" part) :-) to the blogger known as HUMAN4ANIMAL. Believe u me, folks, this little lady is GOING places. Just remember u heard it here first. U HEARD what i said!! :-)

And speaking of hearing (odd phrase, no?) have u ever heard that when u minus your 4.20, u have more dreams? Or maybe u just remember them when u wake up? ANYhoodle :-) yours truly sure has been dreamin baby dreamin. Had a dream i was riding on the back of a motorcycle driven by BFFRich, and i saw a very arty red and black road-sign up ahead. I became apprehensive, and the closer we got2the sign, the more nervous i felt. U know that feeling in a dream when u need2talk but u cant even tho u r trying so hard? 4some reason, i felt compelled to SHOUT OUT what was printed on the sign but it was coming up fast and i panicked that i wouldnt be able to read it. Then, just as we were passing it, i saw that it said BLACKNESS,in big red and black letters, and i finally was able to scream(4real)... "BLACKNESS!"

Needless2say, all this screaming woke up BFFRich with a JOLT..."wha? wassamatter? huh? wtf? u ok?..."

I'm sorry BFFRich. Didnt mean2scare u like that. Pass the dutchie!!! 

debbl with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress

 
















When A&R first moved to SF, they stayed in a funky motel at the beach, at the end of the streetcar line. What they didnt know was, prostitutes used the motel as their "office". So all night long, the sound of the ladies' high-heels click clicked up and down the metal stairs, right outside A&R's window. One night, A&R heard a client say to one of them, "you go up first so i can look up your dress." You know how sometimes you over-hear something and you never4get it? This is one of those things.

The motel is still there, and even tho A&R arent touring, maybe somebody in the motel is going "around the world". heh heh. 

i hate 2 see that evening sun go down

 












...but at least it is lighter later these days. with unbelievable sunsets, and sunrises. at this time of year, both are so colorful and glorious.

had a dream about hanging out with francis coppola and his daughter, sophia. she made us a fancy but austere soup and served teeny tiny portions in teeny tiny cups, like espresso cups. francis showed some of his movies, or actually, just PARTS of the movies. he would screen just a few minutes, then say THIS IS SUCH SHIT! and take it off, and put another one up,and then say the same thing. the weird thing is, the next morning, at yoga class, the teacher said "today at class, wouldnt it be perfect to play the music that appears at the end of godfather 3?"

i want cake from kriksa RIGHT NOW! what brought THAT on? oh, i see, my phone book is open in the "K" section. mmmm...want cake....feelin' like eric cartman! 

the big picture

 












Have u ever been inside a camera obscura? It is trippy and peaceful and calm. Well, wait a minte. I just realized it wouldnt be trippy peaceful and calm if the camera were in an unpeaceful not-beautiful location. Anyway, what's really fun is2take someone in who has never been in one. Then u watch their face and that's the fun part.A&R are expecting a special guest in february, and this is one of the things we will show her. Too bad the Musee Mechanique isnt next to the Giant Camera anymore, we could take her there too. Well, we have a cd of the Sounds of the Musee Mechanique, we can play that for her at least. The Musee is now located near Fisherman's Wharf I think. Maybe we'll make it over there, but 5 days is such a short time when u r in the bay area because there is so much to see and do. Oh well, maybe on the next visit!!!

"Funny" tour story: For awhile, ACC played accordion at Ghiradelli Square...no singing, just solo accordion. And can u believe it, ol' Accordion Breath was asked to leave and not come back! The reason was that ACC did not pander to the crowd, u know, make dumb jokes and "relate" to the people, and some of the songs were melancholy or sad-sounding. And ACC was told that the merchants thought the accordion was chasing away customers! HA FUCKING HA!!! How funny is THAT? Still, it's always somewhat embarrassing 2b fired, even in situations where u didnt want 2b there anyway. Which was not the case at Ghiradelli...it was nice being outside playing music. ACC was constantly asked by the people passing by to play zydeco, which ACC doesnt know the first thing about. But wouldnt you like to hear FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS by the Sisters of Mercy instead? What about EAT THE RICH by Motorhead? IMAGINE by John Lennon? No? Well, ok then, what about GREENSLEEVES? No? NO??!! What the hell is wrong with you???
:-) 

yes as a matter of fact i DO love lou reed

 
















Hey yall. Got a good LOUIE LOUIE review in Signal To Noise. Coolness, as my friend george would say. Also heard from a long-lostie today! Will show u her picture later, and u will see why she is known as one of the cutest girls on earth...just scrumptious. Took an Ambien last nite. Gee i wish i could take one every night. Got up in the middle of the night and stumbled around the house it was SO FUN! Maybe every other night or so would be ok? Please enable me, somebody. 

look thru any window yeah, what do u see?

 











Uh oh,just realized i am repeating meself with the window thing. Oh well. R u reading anything interesting? I am. "Animals in Translation" by Temple Grandin. She is autistic and works with animals. Just fascinating. As Dean Wareham would say, "it's a strange fascination." And speaking of Dean, be sure to watch for springtime tour dates for DEAN AND BRITTA, who will be out promoting their 2nd cd. Havent heard any of it yet, but it's gotta be glossy and superior. And speaking of things glossy and superior, i am painting the breakfast nook a color called LUCKY DUCK. And speaking of ducks...hmmm, guess i dont really have anything to say about ducks, except, please dont eat them. No tour, no tour story...2busy painting and reading. x0x0 

do these hats make me look fat?

 












My hat it has 3 corners
3 corners has my hat
and had it not 3 corners
it would not be my (non-low fat) hat
These r super-deeeelish pasta hats, filled with ricotta cheese. The next step is, cover them with tomato sauce and bake. Speaking of baking, guess who does not wake and bake anymore? Or bake period. That's right, ACC. As Genevieve Waite said, "I got to pu-pu-put it down." No more safety meetings 4 me! No more 4/20 24/7. The good news is, i dont seem2care...no jonesin'! And speaking of safety meetings, here is a cute/funny tour story: In amsterdam, at a "coffee" bar, i axed did they have any humboldt, which was kind of a stupid question, since the menu listed dozens of exotic choices...i could have picked one of them. But no, i wanted me humboldt. So when i axed the guy behind the counter, he got all excited and said "no, do you?!" So that's your tour story for the day. Maybe that's what i'll do from now on...instead of saying "no shows/tour again2day", i can tell u a funny tour story.
Toodles4now! 

and i think i'm gonna crawl right thru your window

 












spring isnt here but the flowering trees are flowering and i want you. pizza4lunch sitting outside. got hair dye on my new asics. oh well. bffrich found a little lost dog, running scared. he held onto it until the owner showed up a few minutes later, and the owner said2the darling dog, "you are bad!" and so i had2say2the owner "YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS BAD." what's wrong with people anyway? sometimes i hate them. maybe i'm just hungry. better go get a tofu cutie out of the freezer. no show2nite btw. bye. 

bff 4ever

 












what could be better than watching the sunset with your bff, then walking home...to NO CABLE!!!! that's right, no cable tv. they(comcast) can kiss our butts, then kiss our butts goodbye. maybe if everyone cancelled their cable, THINGS WOULD CHANGE!!! like maybe they wouldnt raise their rates to $84 a month for long-time subscribers, while giving new subscribers a rate of $29 per month. does that make sense 2 all yall? we say UCKFAY OOYAY to cable tv. but not to you. to you we say we may not be touring, but we still love yas.
p.s. can we come over and watch tv? 

trapped in the closet like i'm r kelly

 












No time2blog and no time4telly. so i sure as hell dont have time2tour. went on a closet-cleaning binge, finally came out 2day. whew. does anyone want a sisters of mercy black,long-sleeved button-up shirt? says sisters of mercy in white letters on a front pocket, with the logo. kinda med/large. also found 4 valium i thought i'd lost. small potatoes but MY potatoes. found these cool white shoes. found 2 vintage luther blue tshirts. sorry if i seem a little distracted...ted nugent is on tv showing his hunting movies. with his dumb-ass wife. found a lock of hair from my old dog. :-( 

no tour...just pizza

 












Ah-boe-ganza. Ah-bahn(?) ganza?...itsa great word even if mis-pronounced. And who can get tired of eating pizza? not me. unless it's the pizza in england. or maybe the bad pizza was in the netherlands? cant remember which was worse, whichever one had the very pink mystery meat. That, and the butter on top of your breakfast coffee, whew, THAT was tough. This picture reminds me of the first time i had pizza, back in the early 1900's...i thought the mozzarella on top was fried eggs. These days, i believe u can order pizza with quail eggs on top, or robin's eggs, something like that. ok, goodbye from Pizzabreath. 

untouched by human hands

 












Hello. This photo has not been altered. My non-tour schedule remains unaltered as well. Does it count that i sat on the side of the bed and played a bitchin' solo version of ME AND MY BERETTA? oh, ok...that's what i thought. It was still fun tho. Whilst(I heard someone say that today, instead of "while") playing, recalled playing a bitchin' live version on the BBC in Manchester. Fun. Also recalled that once, whilst being interviewed on the radio by i think the Dutch or the Germans, they accidentally called it ME AND MY UMBRELLA and felt bad for making a live, on-air mistake, but we thought it was funny and maybe performed it that way for them. Either we did or i just remember that we did. Either way...have a nice day. And have a nice tour if you r touring. 

ratty!

 












RatGirl is in Cali and we couldnt be happier about that. The Stimboleum hosted a little party with RatGirl and her 3friends, all semi-famous/soon-2-be famous. And 2day we will party with Ratty in Berkeley. Then she goes back2Brooklyn,where, hopefully, she will blog. Princess RatGirl, your readers r waiting!!!! 

stigmata

 












BffRich was having trouble with his ipod, then this symbol mysteriously appeared on his hand. Freaky, right? This is not a joke/photo-shop thing. As george carlin would say, "Weird".

No tour or shows coming up. Who needs it. Download si, tour no. 

j 1,06

Happy New Year from A and R (pictured above). No show this new year's. Stayed home and listened to Dean Wareham instead...no new year's eve show for him either. Maybe Roky Erickson had a show...he's been playing in Austin lately. Check out the Austin Chronicle for info and new pix of Roky! He looks really good. Healthy! Well, gotta go finish filling in my new address book. My big event, as Craig Leon would say!