Author: briancollapsing

ugh. i don’t want to work now, i just want to go home and start moving so i can be finished moving sooner. and i don’t want to sit in this chair, i think it’s sucking out all of my vital energy somehow. and i don’t want to look up any more fun facts about african americans, not because i don’t like them, but because i don’t want to look up fun facts about anyone right now. facts just aren’t that fun, to be honest (did you know beethoven was probably part black? that the first man to reach the north pole was black? that alexandre dumas, writer of the three musketeers and the count of monte cristo, was a quarter black? not my idea of fun, even if they are sort of interesting, maybe).

maybe i can get out early somehow.

one of the things i’ve picked up reading various articles relating to my internship (for this marketing firm specializing in the online arena) is the term “stickiness”, which is a good thing for your website to have. it means that people stay there for a long time once they visit, and that you leave more of an impression on them. one way to make your website more sticky for your audience is of course frequent updates. new content is important. and it’s strange to me that now that i know at least a half dozen or so people probably read this somewhat regularly, i know i have an audience. that, in turn, instills me with this small pressure to write something for those glorious few readers even when i wouldn’t have otherwise — because i want them to stay, and think this is a good place to be, and ultimately, although this may be misguided, to like me (or what i have to say at the very least). so despite not having much to relay to you out there, i felt i should at least say hello so i can keep my site “sticky”.

so hey everybody. good morning. nice to see you.

oh wait, i do have a few things to record. i stayed half an hour late last night at work, so i came in a half hour late this morning. extra sleep is so welcome. it felt great. also: i started the unbearable lightness of being last night and so far i’m in love with it. i really hope that feeling lasts. and in conclusion: i have to move to my schooltime apartment building (two doors down the street) starting tonight and finishing before noon on saturday. i really hate moving. or at least packing and carrying things. unpacking is fine, but i couldn’t find anyone to do the first half for me, so this is just going to be a pain. but at least it’s the last day of the work week and the jimmy concert is on saturday. rock and roll.

i did it! take that h.p. lovecraft, your all-too-similar short stories have been vanquished by my literary prowess after a hard and long battle. you are no more to weigh down my mind, or my backpack!

yes, in the beginning hours of a new day i have laid to rest another book. now watch out milan kundera, i’ve got your number!

not that you probably haven’t had enough of me today, but i was reminded (by mr. many days) that i never shared the juicy details of my roommate’s group trip to the strip bar with pizza buffet. i can’t even say that with a straight face. well it turned out the “pizza buffet” was the bartender microwaving red baron personal pizzas for any and all takers. how incredibly sad and pathetic and hilarious is that? and since the chairs are right up on the, what, runway i guess you call it, where the girls dance, instead of with tables in front of them, the five guys had to sit and eat their pizza pulled right up against where the stripping was happening. what a great image, just sitting there inches from nude girls eating microwave pizza. outstanding.

oh, and it looks like no ghost world for me tonight. but i’ll see that movie, and soon, that’s a promise! now how ’bout i finish that book…

yeah, i’m back again with more music news (i’m working really hard today).

the topic: NEW END ORIGINAL. oh my GOD. this was a good idea. jonah of far and onelinedrawing with two former members of texas is the reason? could it be any better? if you haven’t downloaded the mp3’s from jade tree yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. hot damn. this is good.

(ps for josh — their drummer pat has left the band! maybe he was kicked out i don’t know. probably because he wouldn’t ever give you a drumstick. but more importantly, although they have someone to fill in for them for the rest of this year touring, they’re gonna need a new drummer! i hear opportunity knocking josh… so get your ass back from down under so you can rock the world over!)

alright, now that i’m fed and watered (thanks again subway) i can explain murray’s law to you, and record it for myself so i don’t forget it.

my excellent friend dominic and i saw a commercial for osmosis jones, the mostly-cartoon movie coming out soon with bill murray, and were talking about how much we both love bill murray. he’s great and he can turn a scene right around. but we also both projected that there was no way that osmosis jones could be a good movie, despite bill murray’s inclusion. so i proposed that every seasoned actor, no matter how incredibly good they are, or how much you like them, only stars or is featured in good movies. it just can’t happen. so murray’s law is that not every movie starring really great actors is going to be really great. and it’s named after bill murray and also murphy’s law, which on dictionary.com says The correct, *original* Murphy’s Law reads: “If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.”, which seems somewhat related. when confronted with the choice to do a movie or not do it, eventually an actor will make the wrong choice, resulting in catastrophe.

the only time i think this law might break down is close to zero, i.e. when an actor has only been in a very small number of movies, in which case it might be likely that they are all good movies. if anyone can point out any actor that has only ever made excellent movie choices, please please email me so i can add this exception to my new theory.

in other news, if you haven’t already, or hadn’t even thought to, you should really, really visit the impossibles dot net and download the song they have posted. it’s the impossibles (one of my most favorite bands…coming soon to southern california and performing at chain reaction in anaheim (rock!) AND AGAIN here at my school! double rock!) covering “star slight” by at the drive in (another very excellent band). and the song is pure rock fury. don’t miss it. and since it’s only a minute and twenty seconds, you’d better listen to it a few times to make sure you got it.

i have to go now.

hey, it’s wednesday!

and i’m finishing that goddamn book today if i have to kill a man to do it. but not without some other activities, i’m hoping. my suggestion to the fellas was that we go see ghost world tonight, which looks excellent. i look forward to seeing it. even if not tonight, soon. you know, hopefully tonight though.

things are good right now. listening to sarah on the net playing good tunes, glad the week’s getting closer to over, and working hard. promise.

last night i had a great conversation with my dear friend emily which made me feel good, and glad i have such good friends to make me smile. and i got another email from lynn today which made me smile yet again. it’s a strong indication i think when it seems like every other thing a person says or writes to you makes you grin really big, even if it’s not a joke or funny at all — but because you just love that person and who they are and think they’re incredible and are glad to be hearing them say anything at all in their own special way. i’m a sappy guy sometimes but good friends just make my life worthwhile and i have to make that known.

what was i gonna say? oh, this is me reminding myself to write down something about murray’s law later today (i’ve got things to do now which prevent me from going into it), before i forget. this needs to be recorded. so come back later and you’ll be in the know.

oh my god, this is hilarious. and it’s hard for things that i’m reading to make me laugh out loud too, but this definitely did it. nice.

i just can’t make this book i’m reading get finished! every day i say i’m going to finish it today. but i don’t. i know i won’t tonight. but tomorrow, tomorrow is my day…

don’t oreos and milk sound good to you right now? well you probably wish you were me then because i’m going to get some from my kitchen for mass consumption right now. then i have to keep reading.

hey, tomorrow’s wednesday!

oh, weak. i’ve been supplanted by several places and am at number 52 now. where did i go wrong? it must have been in looking to this list for a measure of worth.

from now on i’ll have to rely on myself or the hostess for validation.