caution: girl at work

[arguchik]

i'm going to start painting my bathroom today. here's the agenda, to be completed over the next couple of days, or however long it takes:
1. apply bleach solution to the shower/tub ceiling to kill the mildew. (i'm going to do that momentarily...i may need to repeat the process a couple of times, because the mildew is bad--it was there when i moved in, and while it hasn't gotten any worse under my leadership, i have lived here for 2.5 years at this point.)
2. do some scraping, sanding, and spackling all over the room. i might have to repair some plaster in the tub ceiling--there are a couple of spots where the paint has bubbled up, and one spot where it has pulled away from the wall over a rather large area, and there's a crack down the middle of that bubble. i have no idea what's going on behind there, but i'll find out and fix it, whatever it is. i also want to try to scrape the paint off the fixtures where someone painted without masking, previously.
3. re-caulk the tub.
4. give the walls a final wash-down with tsp. or...do we have to use a phosphate-free version in washington? i'll find out. it has always struck me as funny, that the label for that stuff says "phosphate free tsp." how can trisodium phosphate be phosphate free? the answer: it can't. it is a completely different substance. but manufacturers think american consumers won't recognize the product as a tsp substitute, unless they put tsp on the label. lol.
5. mask.
6. prime.
7. paint. probably white, but i'm thinking of putting in some black accents here and there--maybe i'll do all the trim in black high gloss enamel. the floor is mostly white tile (aged to grayish since it was installed in about 1925) with black and peachy pink accents. everything else in the room is white, except i recently got a nice black loopy rug that feels good under freshly showered toes. but the room needs something!

when that's done, i'm probably going to size up the paint situation in the rest of my apartment, and i may turn this into a much bigger job.

p.s. what ever happened to allison moyet, anyway? i don't listen to yaz all that often, but whenever i do her voice blows me the fuck away. even with that cheezy synth crap behind her. (can't fault the beat, anyway. good painting music!)

Comments

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

and what, pray tell, is that dragon quote from? (if it's a yaz lyric, it must be a song i don't know the words to...)

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

from "I before E except after C" off _Upstairs at Erics_

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

really? weird...i don't recall that line in the piece (can you call it a song?). the line that stands out for me: "outside, you can see the difference. inside, you can feel the difference." i don't usually listen to that piece all that closely. sometimes i just skip it. i'll have to listen more carefully next time.

and now that's reminding me of radiohead's "fitter, happier."

a pig. in a cage. on antibiotics.

what other non-song/experimental/spoken word pieces like that can you think of? it would be interesting to make a mixed tape of them. probably the beatles' revolution 9 would have to be on it too.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

it seems like the type of thing we're talking about here could be defined as either 1. spoken word pieces (solo or over music) on albums that are otherwise pretty much regular "songs", and 2. trippy, non-narrative, vaguely dadaist experimentation of a verbal nature - sometimes with music or assorted noises.

for group 1, there's still quite a few to choose from. Anne Magnuson/Bongwater, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Henry Rollins (kinda), a few Robyn Hitchcock pieces, Lou Reed, at least one Talking Heads song I can think of, et quite a few al.

for group 2 (which I think is more what you meant), there's fewer to choose from, but the only other good examples I can think of off the top of my head is the Velvet Underground's "Murder Mystery", at least two or three tracks off Robert Fripp's _Exposure_ album, and maybe something off Art of Noise's _Seduction of Claude Debussy_.

I think there's a few things by Spectrum or Spaceman 3 that would probably qualify.

Simon and Garfunkle's _Bookends_ album contains a track called "Voices of Old People" or something that, while very unproduced, is so *deliberately* unproduced in contrast with the very produced qualify of the rest of the album seems like a deliberate aesthetic and artistic choice. and, for that matter, the last track on their _Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme_ album is a weird mashup of the 7 o'clock news and them singing Silent Night over top of it which seems in the spirit of this list.

and the beginning of David Bowie's "Andy Warhol" song off of _Hunky Dory_ features about 30 or 40 seconds of this sort of weird tricky tape loop kind of stuff.

a few of Laurie Anderson's less linear pieces might qualify in this category as well.

that's about all I have for now. I'll think on it further.

and of course, if we allow things with actual singing of dadaist words, the list grows truly immense.