August 3, 2002

Ahhhhh.... I'm still speechless. Miss Juliana was less than 5 feet away from me. Her performance went by too swiftly for me to capture every note that was invoked, I was in utter amazement. It was breathtaking. I hope the pictures came out alright and clear, though the shutter was slow. Check back by tomorrow night...

Today was magazine day. For the past few weeks every magazine subscription of mine have all been delivered to my apartment on the same day. The previous spreading of the periodicals that was once enjoyed is now lost to the inundation of reading that I now endure due to mr. postman. I am now faced with all of these choices. I hate decisions. I cant even decide on what belt to wear between 3, let alone pick what I want to read for the next few hours out of a choice of eight. I like magazines, but I love free magazines. I have perfected the art of the "3 months free" promotion that a lot of online stores or credit cards offer. I have been getting Time, Newsweek, and US & World Report for free for nearly a year now thanks to MBNA. Jane has been appearing in my mailbox as well for about 5 months, but I do not remember ordering it or even filling anything out for it, but it kicks, so i don't wonder. I actually pay for Rolling Stone and CMJ. CMJ's New Music Monthly is my bible. Every issue comes with a compilation cd of different types of artists, from techno to rock to celtic, you never know what you'll get on the cd though the magazine is more rockish. The staff is defnitely the most talented music reviewers I have ever encountered. Plus they're not contradictory (cough cough RS RS) and know their stuff. It's like Christmas once a month. Cosmo and Sports Illustrated also come hither, though not addressed to me. I have kidnapped them and made them my own even though I don't really read them, I never know when I may be bored. Or need to attack a fly. But then the whole swarm of magazines also poses a space issue. I can't throw away RS or CMJ once I am finished with it. So my bathroom has become quite the library of entertaining music knowledge. I just better not find any pages missing...