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May 18, 2004

disconnecting bad music associations

tonight i was flipping through my itunes library because i'd been seeing some stuff that needed to be deleted, and i wanted to find it all.

i was kind of surprised at the stuff i found when i really started looking. i've got close to 9gb of music stored so it's not surprising that i'd lose track of some of it.

there's a lot of stuff given to me by Evil Chris that i never listened to because he became Evil soon after giving me that music and then i didn't want to hear it.

he also kind of ruined certain things for me, like this one nick cave record, and i feel a little weird listening to angels of light.

i need some way to disassociate him from the remaining stuff that i haven't listened to yet. it's been almost year since i last saw him. i never had much in common musically with the guys i'd dated before him. the experience was surprisingly intense. of course, everything about chris was intense, in that horrible, depressing kind of way.

like i said to one of my co-workers today, i need to date less lame guys. Evil Chris is one of the people who had helped ruin asheville for me, actually.

Posted by lisa at May 18, 2004 11:45 PM | TrackBack

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you either need to run over that music with 9 Westy, or you need to play it in 9 Westy while doing something liberating and fun!

either one of those options will probably help disassociate it from The Evil One.

Posted by: christa on May 19, 2004 08:13 AM

I also think you need to start specifying you're only gonna date guys who drive. :)

Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on May 19, 2004 09:55 AM

i could do that, but then apparently i'd be limiting myself quite a bit!

however, i have actually come around to the idea (mostly) that it's better to date no one than to date someone who is lame and/or Evil.

Posted by: lisa on May 19, 2004 10:32 AM

i totally agree with that concept, except that now i'm sexually frustrated. i'm considering lowering my standards.

Posted by: alicia on May 19, 2004 11:42 AM

(TMI ahead for those who wish to avoid it...)

well yes. there is that one tiny drawback. try not to be experiencing this as you approach your sexual peak, is my advice to you.

theoretically, i'd probably be willing to lower my standards if i was physically attracted to someone, but it tends not to come up. not that i'm not physically attracted to anyone, but the ones i'm attracted to don't seem to be particularly interested.

then again, i can never really tell anyway.

Posted by: lisa on May 19, 2004 11:51 AM

i'm working on a theory about the terrible lack of date-able guys in the triangle. i very rarely meet guys i'd want to date (and when i do, they are not interested in me for more than a couple of weeks, due to some weird karma thing that i really need to fix).

let's scout guys together in a whole new scene! does the ama have conferences here? let's crash and look for cute doctors!

well, i'm mostly kidding about that last bit. i think all the guys i'd like are hanging out at home w/ friends, anyway. where do you think guys you'd like are?

Posted by: alicia on May 19, 2004 12:09 PM

well, since i'm usually at home working on a web site or a car or something, or drinking at christa's house, i figure they are someplace other than my house or christa's house.

vast experience seems to indicate that they're not at the radio station, or if they are, i'll wind up accidentally introducing them to their future wife. (seriously!! it happened!!) but i have to admit, i still hold out hope that i'll one day date someone from that station and we'll have great sparring conversations about music, and make each other mix tapes, and go see shows together.

if they're out at all the cool rock shows that i miss all the time now, i lack the skills to meet them there, because seriously i used to go to rock shows all the time.

if they're on the personal ads, then they don't have a car. i could maybe work with that if they're cool in a lot of other ways but mostly the personal ad guys seem to be boring or insane or not interested in me that way.

it's possible that they're not in this area. that's just too depressing to contemplate though.

Posted by: lisa on May 19, 2004 12:42 PM

oh, i was also hopeful that i would meet people at ooh la latte, but i think everyone there is gay except me and sarah. at least the cute friendly guy who works there is gay (i think. my gaydar can't always be trusted.)

Posted by: lisa on May 19, 2004 08:58 PM

really? i thoguht the cute guy who was working there the morning after i got robbed was kinda flirting with me. or maybe he was just being nice since i was so upset. or maybe it was a different guy altogether. my gaydar is also totally unreliable.

Posted by: alicia on May 20, 2004 10:03 AM

well, i'll admit i'm not completely sure about him. sarah thought he was flirting with me the first time we met him. he sure is cute though!

Posted by: lisa on May 20, 2004 10:27 AM

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