stupid unicode encoding. stupid uofa computers not recognizing that.

It's because his posts use unicode encoding. If you change your character encoding (under 'View') to unicode, it looks normal.

dude, the "I" is Rivers talking about himself - methinks that's a case of RTFT
what're you up to tonight?

how come your posts always have "I’m" in them now? haha

Something's not translating through the html methinks...

sorry, one more from Rivers...fuckin' Calgary girls.


Elisha Cuthbert just spent fifteen minutes screaming into my ear about what a loser I am and, alternately, cooing how much she likes me.  Tears actually came to my eyes.
I guess it’s time to start saying goodbye to all the women I won’t have now.  All the possibilities.  The movie stars, the other successful musicians, the orchestra violinists, the law-students, the med-students, the fun, bad-girls, the the young ones, the bossy ones, the pure ones, the serious meditators, the natural-born leaders . . .
Good-bye. 
It’s so hard to let go, but it’s not like I ever had them anyway.  The only choice that’s confronting me now is one . . . or nothing. 
It’s tough to concentrate right now.  The other guys (and Peggy) are in the trailer with me gabbing. . .  oops . . . gotta run to the set. 
....
I can see why she’s the TV star and I’m the songwriter.  She looks amazing on camera and I look gross.  It’s weird too because she looks pretty in person but she looks AMAZING on camera.  The make-up girl said she’s “so fun to do cuz the make-up just slides on.  I had to mix together six different eye shadows just to make our session last ten minutes.�
BRB.

excerpt from Rivers' Myspace - found through Musicians Who Blog from beatnikpad.com

I took typing, Psych 101, and English 101 that semester. It was in my English class that I heard the analogy of the unraveling sweater. Dr. Eisenstein used the image to demonstrate the effectiveness of focused thesis statement in an essay. “All I have to do is hold a single thread in your sweater and it will unravel as you walk away.�

By the way, it’s “HOLD this thread� not “PULL this thread.� I know it sounds like PULL on the record but it’s definitely supposed to be HOLD. I’m thinking that maybe Brian sang the wrong word (he joined the band just in time to do those vocal tracks) and I didn’t notice at the time. We were really rushed to finish the album.

We saw Blue Man Group with Ric Ocasek round about the time we finished the Blue album. And “P�, Ric’s wife Paulina, had a baby round about the time we mastered it. I remember thinking that we had totally botched it—the guitars were too loud, the drums were too dry, the vocals were too low, and the energy of our live show had completely avoided being captured in the studio. (I love the Blue album now, though, and I think we did a great job, especially for a first album, and especially on such a limited budget.) The press was quick to viscerate us for being slick, lifeless, major-label rock and I took it all like poisoned daggers in my heart.

it happened to me last night a few times too. yeah basically it was timing out. except mine would sometimes go to the Preview Message screen, but the Submit button would not be available

that's okay... but it's happened to me like 4 or 5 times now. I think it's an issue of it "timing out". If I take too long writing something it comes out blank. But I didn't expect editting it would do that...

Sorry, Tay, I literally have no idea why that would happen. The fact that it only seems to have happened to you doesn't help me find the problem.

Over the next few days, I'll try to set it up so that it saves old versions of editted messages, so I can manually bring it back.

As for a permanent solution, it may take a little longer.

I'm not gonna fuckin bother re-writing the song of the day, because that's too much fucking time down the drain. But anyway, here's who they were:

song of the day:

sylvie: I saw them last night and I got a pre-release copy of the new album from smallman and it's fucking killer.

minotaur shock: their new album is fuckin great, and on top of it they did the remix of tulips which is the hidden track on the new Bloc Party album Silent Alarm Remixed.

I am Robot and Proud: great new album.