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excavating tiny notebooks for tiny ideas

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In retrospect, boredom has always had its benefits, boredom at work, boredom in high school, boredom on saturday night, boredom in meetings, boredom in mom’s car, boredom in my car, boredom listening to bored people talk about things even they find boring. Boredom goes well with fear, fear of eye contact in particular, fear of anyone looking and seeing i’m afraid, or bored. At least fear can be exciting. Like you I filled the margins of books with my doodles, or expanded into making entire notebooks of word doodles, with really no substantive notes on whatever I was supposed to be paying attention to. Sometimes I run across these shrunken notebooks and my attempts to be amusing. This notebook was from an event in rwanda, which should be exciting, perhaps. But boredom has a way of making itself at home anywhere. And after all, Rwanda is just somebody else’s backyard, as common to them as your own dumpy surroundings. Eh?

Wax Stack

Some albums I had pulled out for listening fun. Or just staring at album art…

You can look up Lisa online. She performs at Senior Centers with her daughter. Bill is dead. They really look like they stepped out of Star Trek c. 1967
You can look up Lisa online. She performs at Senior Centers with her daughter. Bill is dead. They really look like they stepped out of Star Trek c. 1967
... they can barely be listened to.
… they can barely be listened to.
Tropicale Style
Tropicale Style
I found this in a cache of similar stuff in the Bay Area, but thought I had got it in Minnesota, which would make more sense. It's refreshing. Salvation Army sponsored
I found this in a cache of similar stuff in the Bay Area, but thought I had got it in Minnesota, which would make more sense. It’s refreshing. Salvation Army sponsored
Today is my favorite, Al is always odd guy out. Squinter
Today is my favorite, Al is always odd guy out. Squinter
I always liked the haughtiness of TSOL. Or that they seemed to have so much pretense. Silly, Fun.
I always liked the haughtiness of TSOL. Or that they seemed to have so much pretense. Silly, Fun.
I liked it.
I liked it.
One of my favorites. I'M NOT A ROBOT EITHER!
One of my favorites. I’M NOT A ROBOT EITHER!
Nice
Nice
Its a kind of sophistication.
Its a kind of sophistication.
Amazing. True Jersey types in some way, total studio singers, purely non-skaters. California Twist? Yeah right
Amazing. True Jersey types in some way, total studio singers, purely non-skaters. California Twist? Yeah right
Kind of amusing how soft it is. I thought it might be the house band for Radio Shack.
Kind of amusing how soft it is. I thought it might be the house band for Radio Shack.
Kinda pretentious pop moog but a nice listening album
Kinda pretentious pop moog but a nice listening album
Parallel Lines cover. One of my favorite top 40 albums, along with the Cars
Parallel Lines cover. One of my favorite top 40 albums, along with the Cars
I imagine them posed in their pink leather suits for hours to get this photo right, before digital editing, the frozen expressions, the perfect spacing, the slight forward lean. I hate the music.
I imagine them posed in their pink leather suits for hours to get this photo right, before digital editing, the frozen expressions, the perfect spacing, the slight forward lean. I hate the music.

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Hilarious 60s cover. Psycho horn player. Why does it remind of Suicidal Tendencies
Hilarious 60s cover. Psycho horn player. Why does it remind of Suicidal Tendencies
I always found this cover intense
I always found this cover intense
Sadist
Sadist
One of my first thrift store finds ever. like from the 80s
One of my first thrift store finds ever. like from the 80s
An amazing cover. They rock like neanderthals
An amazing cover. They rock like neanderthals
Such an amazing record.
Such an amazing record.