two.points.collapsing

crazy blogger. i posted last night and it doesn’t show up until right now. sorry for the delay.

went to classes, ran some errands, sent some mail, now i’m in the weekend zone. i’m nervous about the improv tryouts this afternoon though. i just want to do well so strongly, because it’d be so much fun to be a part of the group. so i’m all jumpy right now and don’t have much of anything to do with that energy. maybe i should go run some laps. maybe i should stand in front of a mirror and practice being someone else. and being funny. could always use more practice at that.

i think the best i’ll end up doing is reading a book though until then. all the same, wish me luck!

i made a new mixtape tonight. tonight being thursday night. it’s a lot of fun and because of that, i’m oddly looking forward to the ten-minute skateboard-commute to school tomorrow morning, so i can road-test it. for some reason music on cassettes only sounds good to me through headphones or car stereos, but not nearly as good through the tape deck in my room. the very one i made the mix tape with, that is. it’s a mysterious pheomenon.

listening to goddamnit, a cd i haven’t put in for at least a few weeks i think, which is odd considering it’s probably one of my favorites. the plea for peace tour is coming through LA in the next couple weeks and part of me wants to see the matt skiba acoustic set that’s part of the line up (and another part of me wants to see hot water music go insane on stage like they did last time i saw them), but the other part of me would rather use the 20 or so bucks it would cost to get tickets through the Man to just buy a couple new cd’s or something. it seems like more value.

i am going to see burning airlines next friday though, which excites me. mmm mmm that’s some good rock and roll right there. my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

so now i’ll probably get my pillow all wet. oh well. good night!

wow, sorry i didn’t post at all yet today. workday readers must have missed me.

but i just haven’t been at my computer today. spent the morning sleeping late, then i wrote a letter (on real paper, not email) to a friend of mine. had to gobble some taquitos then go to four hours of class. now i’m back though and posting away.

oh, i also found out that i’m getting a prime time college radio time slot this semester. monday nights from 7 to 9 pm pacific time, you can’t stop the rock. that’ll be me broadcast via AM radio and live on the internet. the semester’s programming doesn’t start for a few more weeks, so there’s no real reason to link the page this early on, but i will just for celebratory reasons. being a dj at KSCR radio is fun. start thinking up requests now because picking all the songs myself isn’t very exciting.

what else . . . tryouts for the school improv company are this weekend. freshman year i tried out and that was it. last year i tried out, got a callback, and that was it. so since i made it to the final dozen but not actually onto the team last year, this year i’m going all the way. well, not necessarily but i’m sure gonna try. come on, i’m a funny guy.

(not to be judged by the content of this weblog).

from the family guy i just finished watching:

“does the idea of a geocentric universe give you a hard-on!?”

“sir, yes sir!”

“do you want to make 16th century mathematician johannes keplar your bitch!?”

“sir, yes sir!”

oh my god why can’t more television make me laugh so much. and include references to the age of enlightenment. (or late rennaissance maybe? see, it’s even ever so slightly over MY head, which is something i almost never have to worry about with tv, believe it or not.)

i love that show.

in other news, i found out — over a week after interviewing and repeated “i’ll get back to you by the end of the day tomorrow” emails — that i didn’t get job #1, but that just means i get to take the easier job with no dress code instead. good enough for me. my only problem was that the man who interviewed me, in the most recent email, said “if you don’t hear from me by midday tomorrow, go ahead and take the other offer” instead of saying “we went with another candidate, sorry” or something straighforward. the only reason i found out for sure is that i bumped into him on the way to one of my business classes today. i can’t say i’m upset at not getting it, but i’m just disappointed in the lack of courtesy in being so roundabout in saying “we aren’t hiring you”. people are so weird sometimes.

speaking of which, i’m going to read about a psycho killer now.

good morning!

keep this under wraps, but a very respectably sized box of goodies is leaving los angeles for australia before 5pm today. i won’t tell you who it’s for, but see if you can guess.

but look at me, off to class i go to learn about jainism! better get going so i’m not late, and try not to step on any bugs on the way…

biggity bam. american gods is now behind me. i enjoyed it a lot. love that neil gaiman. his characters are so interesting, and even if the story isn’t profound, it’s just a joy to read. not that the story wasn’t profound, necessarily. i just think, i’m pretty sure, that i am bound to love anything that ever comes out of that man. not to be taken too literally, of course.

so it’s on to american psycho which comes recommended highly from multiple trusted associates, and on into the week. the problem with this week, is that i’m aware that it’s not even a full week, so no matter how much of a drag it might be, i have to realize that next week has a whole additional day’s worth of potential unpleasantness. i thought i’d come back from a long weekend all recharged, but i know full well that extra days off just make me that much lazier and less willing to do go through the motions. but at least, oh thank heavens, i’ve had time to read so far this semester, in the non-textbook, non-required sense. often times i think that books are my salvation in times when i can’t think of nearly enough things worth doing with my day, or really sure that i want to do anything at all with them. there are some things in my life i’m sure i could do without (maybe should do without), but on the opposite end of that spectrum is the pleasure of reading.

that was one of those “why did i write that out for other people to read?” moments. don’t mind the boy, he’s just a harmless bookworm.

now i wake up and eat breakfast. still tuesday. school. blech.

but at least today i don’t have class until 12:30 in the afternoon, so i can have a leisurely bowl of cereal (done), do some laundry (doing), and get in a little bit more neil gaiman before i go to class (going to do as soon as i finish typing). the book is still very gripping and i like it a lot, but i’ll be sorry in about 80 more pages when it’s over. (pouting face).

me and dominic are the coolest people ever. phases one and two of the secret mission are complete, with a super cool bonus mission thrown in. don’t worry i’ll tell you later.

in other news not related to secrecy, i must spread the word: the impossibles rock my block off. we saw them for the second time this weekend, and it was just as good, and they blew me away again, and i love them. they’ll be on tour for another month or so, if they’re coming near you, you betta recognize. also, one of the bands that opened for them, recover, was really exciting and talented and good. i liked them a lot and now i have one more cd that i want to buy. but darn this little thing called money that i seem to have a little shortage of. blast!

at least i didn’t have to go to school on monday. now i sleep. school tuesday. blech.

monday morning. agenda for the day includes maybe doing homework, and hopefully completing a secret mission for a good friend. if all goes well everyone will be just a little bit happier for the trouble. wish me luck, and i’ll fill you in once the mission is declassified in a week or so.

over and out.

back from a nice little trip to see jay and silent bob again, with mike and pat, who hadn’t seen it. i have to say, the catption that popped up when mark hamill entered (which wasn’t in the version i saw when we saw the early screening in july) was a little bit insulting to my cultural intelligence. isn’t part of the coolness of cameos like that feeling good that you recognize the person without being told, and appreciating them being snuck in as a small supporting character? and it’s mark hammill, who wouldn’t have known that already?

well, obviously someone.

this was great too: driving back to the freeway afterward, we went past a gas station. in the parking lot near the road, was a guy selling neon from the back of his station wagon, with a bunch of his brightly shining wares sitting on the roof of his car. all the greats were up there, from a green neon cactus, a pink neon flamingo, a blue neon martini glass. . . it was hilarious and we were glad to have seen it. a neon dealer. i wondered if he was always at that corner, or if he went from place to place, trying to sell his lights throughout the city, maybe the country. and neon dealers are WAAAAY creepier than drug dealers, if you think about it.

“hey man, you got a neon peace sign?”

“you know i do.”