first off, good morning world.
second up, i’m off to my last class of the year.
third at bat, it’s friday and i’m in a great mood.
and in fourth place, thank you for visiting.
ps–i’ll be back in an hour with more to say and in an even better mood because i’m done with classes until 2002.
i’m not sure if kate is making fun of me or not. you tell me.
but i’m not arrogant, i swear.
what a day. after today, i only have an hour in the classroom besides exams. this makes me a happy fella. plus today i got free lunch at work. that’s right, library christmas party. i know it sounds like more excitement than i’m known to partake in, but i went out on a limb today and dove in. it was good thinking though because our boss is very grandma-like. at times this can be bothersome, but today it was grand because she brought a TON of good food. mmm. plus i met and talked to another girl at work who was pretty rad. she has a skateboard and was wearing a studded belt and shoes with flames on them. that was fun because i think she liked me.
also, we turned in our finished magazine for visual culture today. it turned out really “dope”. haha. i said dope. the finished product was pretty impressive, actually. in my opinion anyway. i think my article was the best looking/best written too, although i can understand cause the other guys spent more time on doing ads and putting together the video for our presentation. want to see my contribution? this one’s for my mom: page one, page two, and page three.
disclaimer: i don’t really like maxim that much, but my group chose it and i did what i can to make an article. that’s also why the writing isn’t very good–i had to try to approximate their writing. that’s the only reason, honest. but all the charts and graphics (just not the pictures) are mine, so at least i did a good job of creating something that looked like the real thing, sort of.
i realized a couple things in the shower this morning.
one, when you’re in our shower, you can hear whether or not the shower is running in the apartment directly below us, since this is your average grid-like apartment building and their shower is right beneath ours. and the apartment below us is occupied by four girls. so that means if i get in the shower and hear water running in the pipes already, that means there’s a naked girl standing directly below me. how ’bout that.
two, my roommate and i were driving back to the pad from getting jack in the box drive through last night, along the greek row, and there were a bunch of girls going from sorority house to sorority house looking at the decorations (they all dolled their houses up real nice for the season…much more appropriate than t-shirt wearing carollers). some of them were wearing santa hats and stuff too. i just realized this morning that if i had leaned out the window and yelled “HO HO HO” at all the sorority girls, i would have been really funny. (that is not a typo. i didn’t mean ‘it’ would have been funny. i would be. that’s right, me.)
oh, and i just realized thing number three, even though i’m not in the shower: i’m late for work.
the worst feeling there is–even if that feeling is unfounded and mostly unreasonable, in which case you still can’t always keep it from cutting you apart–is the feeling of being replaced. like a punch in the gut. sudden and painful and not easy to recover from.
sleep it off, tiger.
wednesday is a heavy blog day this week, because we’re not done yet. it’s time for a new song of the week.
i told you how the death cab for cutie show blew my mind a few weeks ago. well i bought the photo album while i was there and the first track of the show, also the first track of the album, still has me entranced. it’s just so beautiful and simple and strangely and perfectly moving that it’s not going away any time soon. i love it. hence, steadier footing gets its turn as song of the week.
since it’s less than two (beautiful) minutes though, i threw up a bonus track for you from their tourmates, the prom, because they were good too. not as good, but for an opening band i was totally impressed. so check out she stays too.
want to hear a couple things i saw today? of course you do, you poor, passive reader. you’re powerless to stop me.
firstly, it was about noontime on a 68 degree, sunny, beautiful southern california day. i was skating toward the food court to grab some juice and i passed something that really frustrated me, for some reason. it was a group of maybe 8 to 10 kids in navy blue t-shirts with their little acapella group’s name on them, singing christmas carols to random groups of people around the center of campus. it was so weird though! they’re wearing t-shirts, and it’s 68 degrees, and there’s nothing even remotely christmassy anywhere around. it was just so…wrong. i mean, they could at least wait until nightime when it’s cold, and wear sweaters. or even if they had santa hats on, or something. but it was the least christmas-feeling situation, and there they were singing right along. it felt like something from a bret easton ellis book. very weird. and angering, almost.
secondly. i’m sitting on a bench drinking my juice. a girl on a bike rides along the wide central sidewalk, and is talking on a cell phone. see ’em everyday. but right as she passes some other people, and my bench, her keys fall out of her pocket/purse/whatever. without stopping, and without even putting down the phone or stopping her conversation for a second (she turned by holding the phone against her should this whole time), she just sort of loops back around, takes the keys out of the hand of the girl she had passed who had picked the keys up for her and held them up relay-baton style, and looped back the way she was going originally with only a very hasty thank you. it was such a strange scene to me. i don’t know if it was impressive or depressing.
oh, and i had my last finance class of the semester today which means i am fucking ecstatic. nice. i think i’ll watch fight club or play lots of grand theft auto to show my contempt for the Man. yes, that’s my pathetic form of personal rebellion, for right now.
digging the new look so far? i was going to do it over christmas break when i had nothing else to do, but then i realized i’d have to take my laptop–which has photoshop loaded–home with me, and i have to travel light for my illinois adventure, so i don’t want to have to do that. the point is, after fooling around with it for a few days, collapsing got it’s early christmas present from me: an non-template look. yummy.
HELLO!
yes, you are in the right place. i just got crazy. wasn’t so keen on looking exactly like the given template, and finally took the time to do what i’d been meaning to do for a while.
the layout is essentially the same, more or less, but that’s because i like it that way and it’s functional for me. if you agree or disagree you may email any design thoughts, positive or negative.
also: happy hump day.
i returned a little while ago from a free nerf herder concert on campus. it was fun, they’re a medium good band with some catchy stuff but i won’t try to defend their talent or deep songwriting ability. it was free though. and this band called snmnmnm (pronounced like combo of S&M plus M&M), the band before nerf herder, was totally crazy. they had a singer/accordian player, a guitar/trumpet player, a guy on a tuba providing what would normally be the bass guitar line, and a drummer. and the guy’s voice sounded a lot like they might be giants. you can imagine what a weird sound this was, perhaps. it was oddly infectious though and i’m glad i caught them. i came late on purpose and missed the first two–but thank god almighty i didn’t miss the accordian/tuba combo band. whew.
enjoy the new look, i’m off for the night.
hi. sorry i didn’t have much to say today i was busy working on a little project. the results should be visible here in a few hours or less. depending on how efficient i am. but let me say, i did have a very good tuesday.
last night was my last radio show of the semseter, and it went really well. we played good tunes and kept the foolish blathering to a minimum. and i have a story to tell.
my friend emily had called, and i was on the phone with her just about to hang up. i had also just put on the saves the day song “at the funeral” because i saw the video the other day (which i thought was cool save the fact that you hardly got to see the rest of the band, poor guys) and it’s been in my head since then. so as i’m trying to finish a phone conversation and pressing buttons and juggling a few cds to take out/put in the cd players, three young but older than us people come in the studio all excited, and say it’s the weirdest thing that we’re playing that song right then while they were walking by, because they had just directed the video. whoa. so sadly i seemed to miss the first part of the conversation, explaining to emily what had just happened then finishing that conversation, then putting the music in order to keep the show going. but once that was all taken care of i finally got to pay attention.
they told us a little story about how upon airing the really badly censored version that sounded like crap (which they didn’t get informed of until it aired…damn mtv), the vagrant guy–president maybe? i missed that detail, but it’s not important–called the appropriate power at mtv and complained angrily, listing several examples of similar lyrics that didn’t get censored as i’m sure you can all think of yourselves and apparently coming to the point where he said, “oh, we’re an independent label, so it’s okay for you to fuck us?” and hung up. that’s pretty punk, right? i guess they called him back and since he was such a dick they’re re-editing it so it doesn’t sound so stupid. rock.
they were around the radio station, we found out, because they’re scouting the campus coffee house (right next to the radio station) for a dashboard confessional video. not an enormous dashboard fan, but i think i’d still rather see his video than a “dave” video. for sure. i guess they were also the people who did the alkaline trio video for stupid kid. i told them i loved that one–which i really did, i’m not a suck up–and they were excited because it never got any airtime and they thought no one liked it, and they said they’d send me a tape. i thought that was awful nice of them. if they remember to send it, i’ll let you borrow it.
so that was my interesting radio story from yesterday. you should have listened, we did a good job. you’ll just have to wait until tuesday nights next semester now though, sometime in january when we start programming again. sad, i know.
