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Sun Dec 11 06:00:01 EST 2022 ======================================== Slept from eleven-thirty to seven-thirty without waking. Cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers early in the morning. Highs in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20 percent. To do: * [x] groceries * [x] AWS study Washed dishes. Read more of Kim Gordon's autobiography. > Our second gig was at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Before the show, we all got drunk. That night Willie wore a dress and a hat, and before the show stared, he blew fire across the stage, a style and a trick he'd developed during his short stint with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo with Danny Elfman. Willie liked shocking people, and he summoned us onstage by asking "the spics and cunts to come on out and play." We were, I remember, and explosive mess, pure mayhem and caterwauling. We danced, tossed our tambourines onto the ground, and let everything fall apart into a garage noise jam. It didn't take management long to pull the plug. We played only two or three times, mostly for fun, but I knew this band wasn't going anywhere. Years later, my lifelong friend, the artist Mike Kelley— who always derived immense pleasure from the unacceptable—told me he was in the audience that night, and that our performance had inspired him to go home nd start a "noise garage band." In retrospect, I realize that the band Mike started became Destroy All Monsters and grew to include ex-members of the Stooges. Until Mike told me this, I had no idea what genre Below the Belt even was, if any. But I did know one thing: I liked performing. Ah, that feeling in Vampire Survivors when you have multiple evolved weapons and you're laying down enough damage that it's hard to keep enemies on the screen with you! Started watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. Great show — ahead of its time. Can't believe I hadn't seen it. Watched Murder, He Says with Fred MacMurray on Criterion. Pretty funny. Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 0/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 2/2, meat 0/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: coffee Brunch: corn chips, cheese Lunch: cucumber Afternoon snack: cake Dinner:

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