two.points.collapsing

aw nuts, i missed my chance to post on sunday. guess i neglected blogging over the weekend, but i was busy. saturday was concert day… and what a show! i haven’t been that sweaty or tired after a concert in a long time. there was some major rocking going on. rx bandits certainly know what they’re doing. they get better every time i see them too, i swear. so much energy and such great songs… i can’t even describe it adequately. it was so much fun though i’m sorry you couldn’t be there enjoying it with me. and i really like them using the great, great keyboardist rich from the hippos. he’s got it going on. haha.

and sunday, today, well we’ve been busy putting up posters and lights and whatnot (like the disco ball . . . yeah, we’re those guys). it’s rough work. roommate number four showed up today too. now we’re a complete set of four. and just in time for class tomorrow morning.

oh yeah, my friend pat from high school — and now from college too — called me up and we hung out today. that was neat. how strange that we’d go to the same high school in illinois, then the same college in california. random and crazy, but that’s life. apparently a lot of people from my high school came in this year, which can only mean good things about the school i picked, right? let’s hope so, because i’m giving them a lot of my money and all of my time starting tomorrow at ten a.m.

weekend’s over, summer’s over, day’s over, and this post is definitely over. time to wrap up get ready for junior year. yikes!

happy new school year everybody! more tomorrow/later.

got me some money today! yeeah buddy. so i bought some school supplies i needed pretty bad (like ink for my printer), and tape to put up posters (the walls are so bare!). rxbandits concert in a few hours, still very excited about that. and my parents are very nice for helping me out with stuff.

you must must must go here if you like my so called life at all. if every single person that reads this puts their email in, we could end up contributing a whole heaping 10 signatures to this list. and then i’ll buy the boxed set and all of you can just come over and watch it, or borrow it. it’d be perfect. so don’t let me down with this one people.

time to decorate. i’m out to rock and roll. i’ll tell you how it went.

damn you football! i hate being in the non-sports-going majority, because there are no television offerings that i find enjoyable that would ever supercede normal broadcast schedules, but it’s totally okay for pre-season nfl games (minnesota vs. indiana! hot dog!) to supercede the only television program that i ever want to watch. what a day. i’ll say it again, damn you football!!

that’s right, two exclamation points. i’m not kidding around here.

well the mail brought no respite, so again i’ve been foiled, and no movies tonight. tomorrow rock and roll august marches on in glory with a show by the ever-impressive rx bandits, and i’ve got to save my few dollars for some in-n-out burger after the show. …because it’s traditional, and right now we need about as much tradition as we can get. that’s from american gods, roughly. excellent book so far. i’m not too good at remembering exact literary quotes, but that’s approximate, and appropriate. you can’t mess with tradition. so no movies tonight. just dinner and some hanging out for ol’ brian.

i was checking my handy webpage tracker, and noticed that almost half of the visits to this page are from people at okplusthree (or i get a whole lot of repeated visits from one person there). of course that’s a slightly exagerrated ratio, but still, it’s a lot. not that that’s bad, faithful reader(s)! it’s just amazing to know that someone is either (a) that bored, or (b) cares that much about what i have to say. maybe it’s a little healthy portion of both. no matter what, i’m just glad that someone’s interested at all. and oh yeah, wish jen a happy birthday today. i did, and will again here. happy birthday!

simpsons are on, must go now!

last night we went to hollywood star lanes again, and it was so much fun! there were seven guys, and we were all having a great time. apparently we saw the short annoying girl from “that’s 70’s show” and some midget guy that was a regular on mtv’s show “jackass” (which i’ve never seen, but a couple of the guys were very sure that’s who this midget guy was). and we suspected that the two girls and a one guy in the lane next to us were two adult film actresses and their producer, but that was mere theory. it’s hard to really be sure. the guy was a complete tool though and fell down a couple times when he bowled. i laughed at him.

my first game was an embarrassing 80, but the second was a very decent (for me) 134. i was satisfied. my only regret is jammin my finger halfway through the second game trying to give one of the guys the high-five-low-five windmill move after he got a strike. it was pretty humiliating and my right middle finger is still bruised. i’m a complete imbecile.

and i still have no money because my college’s financial offices are crazy and won’t allow me access to my own excess student loan funds until the end of the semester. but i need the money for food and school supplies NOW, don’t you see? i can’t wait until december to buy a folder to put papers in from my first day of class, or to buy dinner for next week. crazy colleges, always so impractical and impersonal. maybe the mail will bring me financial respite this afternoon…(fingers crossed).

maybe, if i’m lucky, i’ll FINALLY get to see ghost world, but i’m not going to get my hopes up because for some reason when i do the plans always get thwarted. at least there’s always that sliver of hope, somewhere. and that’s all i really need.

last night i watched rushmore with some of my pals here, and i absolutely love that movie no matter how many times i see it. you know one of the reasons i think i love it so much? this isn’t the only reason by far, but something i noticed, is that the movie isn’t afraid to take it’s time. it’s only an hour and a half, but seems like longer, because of the slow, deliberate pace of the film. but it’s good, because it makes everything stand out that should, and it draws you (well, me) into the characters, and it’s much more moving and sentimental that way. i love it. and bill murray is a genius, as i’ve said before. when he’s talking to miss cross on the playground about max, then afterward starts walking away and for no reason at all breaks into a sprint — well i laugh at that every single time.

i got a nice “hello” from another blogging brian whose page is very good, so thank you and hello to you too. i love bipolar.

i have an interview today to work in the “business link” office on campus today, being an office assitant while they set up internship programs and mentorships for business students and whatnot. i’m very interested to see if i can get this or not, because i could probably use the seven dollars an hour. but i have no clue if there are even any other people interviewing for this position, or if was the first one to respond to the listing, or what. if i go in and there are a dozen other people there i may have to turn the charm up a few notches because i like looking for jobs even less than i’ve liked even my worst job. but i have a few hours until then so i’m gonna hit the reading then go hang out with my buddies for a few hours. oh, and the weather here this week is perfect — not hot, not cloudy, gentle breeze, no humidity — and if it was every anything besides perfect, this would really stand out as a beautiful day. but perfect isn’t so great when that’s all you ever get, after a while.

i miss rain.

oh, how i’m trying to get to hear as much of sarah’s show as possible, but it’s harder when it starts at ten a.m. because of the time zone change, and i’m a lazy bastard that doesn’t arise until eleven! but i’m trying and so far it’s been grand.

roommate number four, crazy dave, should be coming this afternoon or evening, and mike has to move the rest of his stuff out of his van into our apartment today, and me? well i have to hope the two dollars in my wallet can last me until i get some more money from somewhere, someday.

and today is officially move in day for all the people that didn’t live here all summer, so it’s gonna be a big commotion around the building all day, i’m sure. maybe we’ll have some cool new building-mates, or maybe more noisy shmucks like last year! as if it matters… this year we have an apartment on the front of the building facing the street instead of the back of the building facing the back wall of another building ten feet away. and this means i have to purchase a water balloon slingshot if ever i’ve had to purchase anything. i’ll just put it on the list of “school supplies”. look out, pedestrians! one wrong move and we will rain terror from above! and all my apartment mates are engineers that’ve had numerous physics classes, so they probably know just what sort of angle and velocity we’re gonna need to nail you with our swift justice!

i think you know what time it is. (bagle time?)

shopping carts with FOUR rotating wheels instead of just the front two? you’ve got to be kidding! that’s ludicrous! i tell you, there’s something wrong with that country.

so my friend dom came back from his week in illinois today, which is good, because i love dom. we spent a lot of the evening playing the “watch music videos on mtv and mtv2 and point out exactly why they suck so much” game for a few hours. and every now and then some good stuff comes on (i really like the recent new order song “crystal”, for example), but mostly it’s validating our hatred for bands like linkin park and any rapper whose stage name starts with “li’l” by going into detail over their lack of talent, overly melodramatic “i’m in so much pain” lyrics — i.e. every new hard rock band — and so on. it’s actually a lot of fun. and i figure you have to know your enemy, so this is a good reason to say with full confidence that popular music almost entirely makes me want to vomit. we did see some decent stuff, like a good pharcyde song, so at least 8% or so isn’t downright awful. but in this world, based on my experience, that’s not really too bad a percentage.

(oh, and my roommate just showed up about 30 minutes ago also. how keen!)

lonely days at home don’t provide a whole lot to talk about, although i did discover a new link to this page. so thank you, collapsing friend #5. or maybe it’s #6. something like that. thanks all the same for including me. your page is good. and his link says collapsing which is good, because (although any link is good) links that say “two points” make me think of sports for some reason, which don’t quite convey the right mood for this blog. i think. of course maybe the bulk of what i write could just be one big metaphor for a pep talk from a coach to his team in the bottom of the ninth, or after the two minute warning, or during the last time out left with no fouls to give in the fourth quarter of the playoffs.

but i like to think of what i write as one big metaphor to be used for a talk after your team loses from the players to the coach, saying hey, it’s just a game, for fun. entertainment, see? it doesn’t matter who won, as long as we had a good time. and we did, didn’t we coach? didn’t we have a few good laughs, make a few memories, whether or not we won the game?

because there will always be other games, right?

i left my bleed american cd at work before i left, so of course that means i want to listen to it right now because i can’t. hopefully they’ll send it to me soon like i asked, but by then i probably won’t necessarily want to listen to it as badly. doesn’t that just figure.

i can’t say that i mind terribly getting to sleep until 10:45 on a tuesday. but get this: i could do it ever tuesday (and thursday) until next semester, because class doesn’t start until 12:30 on brian’s schedule. that’s pretty excellent.

finished unbearable lightness of being last night, and i really liked it a lot. it touched on so many ideas in a very touching way. and i like being touched as well as touching so it was pleasant to read. i’m going to start american gods in a matter of minutes and i’m excited because neil gaiman is unbelievable. i’m sure i won’t be disappointed.

nothing much else on the menu for today, except roomie mike is arriving in the funk mobile tonight sometime. that should be fun! mike’s a crazy and fun guy, and a pretty good roommate. it’ll be nice having him back. but that means i can’t just leave my posters sitting on his bed anymore waiting to be hung on the walls. my kingdom for some duct tape, these posters must be hung!

but before anything else, i think it’s that time again. that’s right, bagel time.