I was in a weird mood yesterday. I tried to get some work done, but couldn't really concentrate. I had to have a serious money discussion with my parents, which is never nice. But at my age it's downright disturbing. It worked out for now, but it is something that will bug me for a while.
I ended up reading, watching a Bill Hicks tape, and for some reason I got obsessed with figuring out the chords to Vision of Love by Mariah Carey. If that isn't the first step towards clinical insanity I don't know what is (however, I did figure them out except for a chord change at the end of the first verse).

It's weird watching Bill Hicks. I think he's really funny, but he gets so outraged by things that on occasion he's more frightening than actually funny. But even weirder is how his material isn't dated. He talks about music made for the pre-teen audience (replace Debbie Gibson and NKOTB with Britney and NSync and you could perform the same material today). He talks about Bush and America selling weapons to small countries that are then considered a threat to world peace. And he talks about how television is stupid and how minority groups yammer on about violence in movies and on and on about topics that are still being discussed today.

On Totally Bill Hicks, which features his last performance, there's a documentary called It's Just a Ride, which tells the story of Hicks' career. Some of his colleagues call him a preacher and says that more than being Hendrix or Jim Morrison he wanted to be Jesus. He didn't just want to entertain people. He wanted to show them the light and save them. That passion sometimes is a little scary, but I think that's what made him take his job so seriously and that's why he was so good. In the documentary someone mentions that a lot of people doing stand-up see it as a stepping stone towards getting a sitcom or something like that. But not Bill. He wanted to perform in front of people and that's what he did. For more about Bill Hicks check out the People Who Hate People HQ.

It was also weird reading Sarah Hatter and seeing that she was considering a hiatus from blogging, because someone had written something hurtful in her comments. Thankfully, only nice people leave comments here, but I've been sent hateful mails, because of my Warhol site and things I've written on Usenet, so I know the feeling. It's just a damn shame that people don't have anything better to do than leave annoying comments and send hateful mails. Hopefully, she'll reconsider especially after so many left supportive comments on her site.

Finally, we're going to the Aarhus Blogger meeting tonight. Hopefully it'll be a bit more structured this time around. Last time we just sat in small groups of people, who already knew each other, so there weren't any real general discussions. But I think we'll try to do introductions and stuff tonight, so that everyone gets to know everyone tonight. And afterwards I think we'll be doing some serious drinking. I think I need that tonight.

In a weird turn of events it has been brought to my attention that the place (Royal Oak) where we were supposed to meet tonight may not exist anymore. So, the new plan is that Jan and myself will stand outside the place where the bar is or used to be and then, when people start showing up, we'll make a decision about where to go. For more info go to ABCBC.