This is an archive of my other blog. It is all here in its entirety. I'm thinking about makeing the switch to this blog and i wanna have it all here. Just so its in the same place.
Friday, May 02, 2008
The Weird Things That Happen
I Just had a 45 minute conversation with a guy from
I learned a lot about the differences in our cultures right away. He is 17 and can’t get his license until he is 18. Poor guy. Weed is legal there (already knew that) and you can get whatever drug you want easier than a pair of socks (his words almost). I suspected that but wasn’t sure. But in spite of the X and the Weed and what else all he wants to do is drive a car. And an American car at that. A Dodge to be precise. And here I thought that Europeans didn’t like American Cars. Haha.
I talked to him at midnight; he said it was 7 in the morning there. I didn’t ask what he was doing awake at 7 in the morning on a Friday morning playing counter strike. It was a most interesting experience.
Also he introduced me to using the word Chill instead of Cool for things… I said I liked it and I will probably start using it in my speech. lol.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
AWESOMENESS
How can someone love a movie so much that it pains them to not be watching it? I don’t know but that is quite how I feel about the movie Spirited Away. I have probably ranted and raved about Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisashi before but really it cannot ever be stressed enough.
I think I have now moved to a point where I can call Spirited Away my favorite movie of all time. It has surpassed Indiana Jones. I know I know “Omg nate how can a movie surpass Indiana Jones?!?!” well… it does so by being the most emotion filled honest innocent epic ever created that’s how.
Now I know what you are thinking, “oh Nate went out and watched Spirited Away again, now he’s gonna rant about it.”
Well, no I didn’t watch it actually. I don’t think I’ve watched it since I saw it with Jen, who also liked it and she doesn’t watch anime anymore. No actually I just found the Hisashi Meets Miyazaki Films album on ruckus. It’s a compilation of the soundtracks of some of the
Now if
I cannot stress this enough. If you are reading this, then you NEED to watch Spirited Away. This is not a suggestion. This is a requirement. I am not joking. I do not care if you don’t like anime. That doesn’t matter. This surpasses anime, this surpasses ANY DISNEY MOVIE YOU HAVE EVER BLOODY SEEN!!!
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Eclectic Mix
To all who think Facebook is the devil:
Get over it! Facebook does not take over peoples lives. It is what you make of it. If you wanna post pics then do it… if you don’t, don’t. Its not like its hard not to post. Its not like it will dominate your life checking other peoples profiles unless you want to do it. I have had Facebook for years now and if anything I spend more time in Digg.com than Facebook. I spend more time playing Guitar than Facebook. I spend more time driving my car than Facebook… heck I spend more time EATING than on Facebook. (And that says a lot coming from me
Well that’s my rant about that.
Paramore. Paramore freaking rules all. They rock period. Even if I don’t remember the concert because I spent all of my time fighting off squirming kids trying to get to the front row, they still put on the best show. Now was it better than at the Myth… eah… I don’t know … I didn’t pay enough attention. It was a smaller venue so it was hard to compare. But man was it loud. And clear. I heard all that Hayley was saying. It was great. Also… Kristi and I decided that we wanted them to play Stop This Song because we love it and its not popular at all because its just a B-side. So we thought that I should scream at them to play it… but third song in… what do they play? STOP THIS SONG! (love sick melody) oh man it was so great. My voice roared like it never had before!
Also we met Maddie, who is a cool Iowan girl who happened to be at the concert. Fun times that it was.
The drive wasn’t bad. Its not that far and it was exciting on the way down because of the rain. It was exciting on the way back because we got to play with Amy’s car. Pudge and Colby had fun. ^_^
The hotel… seemed like it had been around for a few years but other than that it was fine… except I had no place to sleep so I didn’t. Whatev. I slept in the chair a bit. Lol.
Today we remember the one who has gone before us. Today we remember Travis. Every year it feels a little better than the year before. Standing at the crash site today, I was almost calm. I was ok. I was happy. He had truly left for a better place I felt. Then I started reminiscing. That was a mistake. That made me sad. Not just because we don’t get to see him for a long while, but also because it reminds me of more innocent times, of simpler times. I was 16 years old! What do 16 year olds care about? What do they have to care about? Well we found something to care about real quick. Everything changes. But my memory of Travis, of the person he was, will stay the same.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
No Sense
Today is my brothers birthday… he is 18 years old today. O.o oh my. He’s an adult now. That means ive been an adult for over 3 and a half years… something’s wrong with that. Dang that’s depressing. But good for him! He made it out of high school… or will soon. I remember when I made it out of that place… only to run right into a similar place. I cry.
Enough of that jazz.
Today err… yesterday I guess I woke up at about 8 am from a dream and I thought to myself… this will make a great manga! I must write the idea down. And I did… and I remember my dream. And I do think it would be a good manga… so I shall write two at once! And see where that goes. Muwa hahaha!
Sorry I’m in a very weird mood. I wanna go to bed but also not because I think my roommates are still awake and are being noisy. Maybe they’ve gone to bed. Yeah I guess its quiet now… I’ve had headphones on for a while.
Also I had the worst service at an Applebee’s today. Stupid waiter didn’t give us silverware… took 15 minutes to take our orders… and then we didn’t see him again until he brought us the check… and then Gina had to leave for a meeting and Mitch just left… and I sat there with the money… waiting… for another 15 minutes for him to come back and take my money… and then I waited another 5 minutes for him to run the dang thing. I left him 0 tip… but Mitch over tipped so it evened out. Bah.
Not much to talk about on any front. Paramore is coming up. But it seems so far away. Even if it is… 2 days away… or 2 and a half. Whatever. Lol. I need sleep I’m out of here.
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Saturday, April 05, 2008
These are doctors.
Here are the three worst doctor names i have ever heard... and yes they are real.
Dr. Hurt.
Dr. Payne.
And one i just learned today...
Dr. Saw.
-_-
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Hello Computerland!
wow its been a while since I’ve written a blog blog. I don’t even know what that means. Basically I see it as I haven’t written a journal like entry in a while. Most are just postings about Paramore or what not. yeah. So I thought id write a little update on life and such.
The story:
I’m writing a manga thing with the assistance of Kristi and Andrew. They draw I write basically. I really really am having a hard time with the writing. It’s in story board form so the writing it self is mainly dialogue. I have to tell the entire story though dialogue... well that and descriptions of what characters are doing in panels. The idea here is that we can enter the Rising Stars of Manga contest by Tokyo Pop. Which would be totally sweet... except I that I have no idea of how good my story is. Their art is amazing. They both have different styles but they both draw so well. I want the story to be able to do it justice... but I don’t know. It might suck. I hope not... I mean... I don’t know. I try so hard to be original... but everything has basically been done. Romance, comedy, action, family issues, future stories, historical stories, stories where characters go back in time... stories where characters go forward in time, stories in space, stories on earth, stories under the earth, stories about humans, stories about animals, stories about stuffed animals, stories about going to the sun, now I’m running out of settings. The point is originality isn’t really very easy. My short story teacher said, "Don’t try to be original now until you have some more experience writing." well I did get a good grade in that class so maybe I’m doing something right. I just don’t come up with too many stories... and the ones I do I make them so complex. Like this one. I'm trying to keep it focused.. And I think I'm doing a pretty good job. It’s hard to tell though because the only copy I have given to Kristi already. I have the other quarter. I guess Vie done about 85 to 90 pages so far. I need about 300 I'm told. I guess the only thing to do is just keep going and see what happens.
The girlfriend search:
...no
School:
I'm procrastinating on several aspects. Including but not limited to: Changing my major, and sub-letting my apartment. Wow I suck at life.
Job:
Again I’m procrastinating because I wanna a good full time job but I have to be in school too, but I want full time so I have money so I can pay for stuff (car, food, apartment) without having to fall back on my parents. Ive been a virus for far too long. This depresses me to no end.
Car:
It’s mostly fixed. I need to replace the timing belt not long after 100,000 and I’m almost there. Also breaks... but who uses those right?
Computer:
It decides to crash to a blue screen at random intervals with various programs... sometimes no program. I believe it has something to do mostly with programs that use the internet... but this is not proven nor can I predict anything to test it. I wanna reformat but I don’t wanna deal with it. Whatev.
Food:
I hate cooking in my apartment so I eat protein bars in place of meals. Or I eat out. Or if I need to I cook like... shells or ramen or hot dogs or pizza rolls. I have no fruit for this week. Maybe a slight problem.
Classes:
New Media and Culture and The Economics of New Media are annoying. I don’t even care that much about them but they annoy me to no end... somehow I got a b- on my econ mid term by sleeping in class and studying not at all. NMAC however has a 17 or so page term paper for me to do. Death to me. Audio engineering rules all as I knew it would. I just did the rough mixes on my most stressful project to date. But it was fun and I enjoyed myself... I think. I can’t remember. I was in a daze. LOL. The mixing board is so amazingly complex and intricate and I needed to keep track of so much in my underused brain. More on that later. But it was good for me. I made it harder than I had to. I do that sometimes. But I think the result is really good. The teacher didn’t yell at me... though I basically let him run the show because I was so frazzled by everything going on. Which is good. My brain is melt.
My Brain:
Is broken. I don’t sleep right. I don’t think right. I over think. I under think. I am incapable of making sound decisions. I drove like 100 miles today cuz my brain is stupid. = I’m stupid. bah.
Music:
I love music. I need it. I need more of it. I’ve gone through a stylistic change recently. I think I've talked about this. Basically I shifted from metal to punk as being my favorite genre. This was perpetuated by Paramore I think. One of the most honest bands out there I think. Now most of the metal I used to listen to sounds downright silly to me. 80's metal makes me laugh at its stupidity most of the time... I’m finding there are few really good songs. My favorite band still remains the pillows. Just because no one can match the feeling I get when I listen to Blues Drive Monster or Happy Bivouac or Last Dinosaur. My own songs are sad and depressing as always but that is because the happy songs I’ve written all sound stupid by comparison. I don’t really know what I’m trying
To do with song writing but it seems to really help me sometimes. It seems to be the only thing I can do right. I like to listen to my songs, even if no one else likes them I will still like them. That way I can always have something good to listen to. A touring band may not always like to listen to their own songs because they listen to them all the time as they play them. But I like to listen to my songs. Right now I’m listening to Jimmy Eat World's "Drugs or Me" of the album "Futures." It’s such a good song. I remember lying on the couch in my uncle’s condo in
I think that’s enough for now. See this is what happens when I don’t write enough. It all comes out at once and then you all get a really long entry. I’m amazed if you even have made it this far. Well done indeed. Please comment so I feel like I’m writing to more than just a screen. :{
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Thats What You Get
Paramore's new video premiered today. I saw it. Its good as music videos go. I dont really like music videos though. The only ones ive ever really liked are Lost Prophet's Last Train (also happens to be my favorite song) and some of the Goriilaz music videos are cool... also Chronic Futures only music video is really good. I forgot the name of the song as i dont like it very much but the video is sweet... well the songs good too actualy. I dont know.
Anyway Paramore's video... good... standard stuff... its why i dont like music videos... not much ever really interesting but i like Paramore so i watched it.
MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News
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Monday, March 17, 2008
Stop pushing. I'll go when im good and ready!
People are in such a rush to get life done and over with. All throughout grade school the goal is to get to middle school. And from middle school to High school. High schoolers cannot wait to get out and go to college, or their jobs. College students just want a degree so they can get a better job. the working population just wants to save up for that awesome retirement. and retired people just sit on their savings untill they pass on.
yeah awesome.
The tone of this was alot more angry before but i thought that no one would understand it and as the anger is not directed and anyone who will read this its pointless as well.
I'll put it like this. I make desisions based on feeling and gut reactions than logic and thinking.
Buying my guitar. Picking my college. Buying my Car. Asking out someone.
I havent really had any such reaction to picking a major yet. I picked one cuz it needed to be done but i think that may have been a mistake. well no i take that back. It wasnt it was worth while i think... but not nessesarily for clear reasons. I understand a little bit of whats going on here but not all.
All i need to say is, if i am makeing a desision dont push me, dont rush me. I will do what I do and I will do it in time. Im waiting for something to set and click because something doesnt feel right yet. Nooo i dont know what but i will know it when i feel it. Trust me. I have a feeling I'm on the cusp of something here. So give me a little bit longer please.
I run on feeling and gut reactions almost entirely. Its who i am.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Happy Thoughts part 2
2 Years and some days ago i wrote a blog here called Happy Thoughts. It was about the Jazzman. The bus driver who plays jazz music on a boom box on one of the busses here at school. He is totaly still doing it. He upgraded his boom box but he is still here. He still cranks out those jazzy rythems. It makes for good times and helps make my day a little better each time i board his bus.
Its the little things in life that help us make it through the rough spots.
And belive me there are alot of rough spots.
I came across that entry while going through past entrys ive written. Its very interesting to see what ive written about in the past. Ive written so much. Over 4 years 300 entrys and over 9000 hits. Im just being nastalgic right now. i dunno. ^_^
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
in addition
Oh yeah. In addition to the spectacle made of myself this weekend. we went hot tubing in our underwear in the fridgid cold.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
The things i do.
I woke up today in a not so great mood. I was sad. And depressed. Possibly because of some dream i had. Nevertheless i transfered the sadness to everything around me.
So i decided that my hair was too long (actualy i had decided that a long time ago) so i got it cut.
That was not extreme enough.
I then decided that my neighborhood was far too quiet today. So i got my guitar and amp outside... perched myself on top of my hill... cranked up the amp as LOUD as it would go. And for about 15 minutes i roared! i was the loudest most prominent thing in the radious of about a mile. I could hear the echo of the guitar all around me. I was a force to be reconed with. I fully expected the cops to come and arrest me but i did not care. (This is how distraught ive been). So what is the first thing i hear after i get done playing the first few chords of "Rock you like a hurricane?"
"Wooooooo!!!!!" comes a voice from behind me. At first I thought i was some house wife yelling at me to turn it down. But no it was Ally, the neighbor girl and her friend Rachel. They were all like "You rock!!!"
And that is what happens when you make a spectacle of yourself.
They ended up comming out and watching me for the rest of the time. Then they were like "play Misery Buisness!" so i did. Then they went to the park and i realised that i couldnt play very well cuz i could not feel my fingers so i went inside. No cops came. No one told me to turn it down. In fact all i did was bring a rock concert to some 12 year old girls who were probably bored with dumb school anyways. Now they have something interesting to talk about.
So today i made interesting things happen. I told the hair cut lady to do something interesting... lol lady, she was a year older than me. Im old. I realised this as the girls asked me what grade i was in and i replyed 15th. What sillyness.
Also i love to ski. Downhill ski. Its so much fun i had forgotten.
So lets see. I have made much spectacle of myself this weekend. I danced the YMCA and Macareina in front of the whole mall of america. I Skied downhill and screamed as i fell... probably much to the amusement of the people in chairlifts above me. And i attacted the attention of everything with ears in a radious of about a mile. I'm such a child. ^_^
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Dissapointment
So Fireflight has released their new album. just now i took a listen on their Myspace and Shoutlife. Man its sad. Its so horribly generic. So slow. Nothing happens. Granted ive only heard 3 songs in whole and 2 others about a minute each but it was horrible. One song seemed to have potential but... Im listening to their old album right now... and it is just so much better. I mean the mixing needs work and this album always gives me listening fatigue from being so bloodly loud 100% of the time, but the writing is just so much more varried.
Now i havnt listend to the whole new album, so maybe it gets better. When when in 3 out of 5 songs i hear the dreaded "Pop" chord progression as the chorus, i shudder.
So here is a list. Another top 5. The top 5 bands to release a disapointing 2nd album... or 3rd or 4th or whatever.
5. Greenday. Dookie was awesome... they should have stoped there. Thats all i can
say about that one.
4. Avenged Sevenfold. What the crap is this new album? City of
now we are purely Avenged Sevenfold. The other albums were us finding ourselves"
(not a direct quote) but come on!
3. Journey. Every album since Steve Perry left has been utter suckage. JUST STOP!
2. The Pillows. I know i know i rant and rave about how much i love The Pillows. But
seriously, they havent released a good album since 2002, and they have released 5
since then. They have there moments, but mostly just are generic J-Pop suckage. Unless they change their sound soon they are doomed. I still love the
old albums. they ROCK!
1. Metallica. need it be said? St. Anger? What? Was? That?
Contrastingly some bands that have sucsesfuly released better and better albums include...
5. Yellowcard. Its hard to place this one. On the one hand i dont like the newer albums as much as i liked
4. Coheed and
3. Paramore. They are still young but of the two albums they have released, Riot! is even better than the first. If they keep it up they will be amazing. Lets hope they do!
2. Jimmy Eat World. They have a lot of albums under their belt. They keep getting
better. Though differnt each time
note that most of these bands sound different each time they release an album... just a thought.
1. AFI. They just keep rocking! They get better, and better, and better!
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wind
I miss summer. There is no two ways about it. I miss the warm. I miss the feeling of the wind in my face as i drive 70 down a freeway with the windows open and my music blaring. I did that this past weekend. I had the window wide open as i crused. It was wonderful. It was only 40 out so i still needed the heat on full blast but it was more than tolerable... it was comfortable. Thats all i got to say about that.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Time scale
So ive started storyboarding the manga im trying to write... and... i just got done after a 2.5 hour session. and... i got like 15 pages done! woo... thats about... 5 minutes of reading time. maybe less. oh bugger!
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Of Ash and Mist
The scars you left they turned to grey
the man who says with nothing to say
i cannot hide bloodlust in my eyes
i will come back and not in disguise
its over you know i will reveal
your secrits your madness
The hurt in my heart wont hold me back
in one fluid move i'll have you down
the pain my heart wont fade
i dont wanna cry today
you are the last chance i have
The pool of blood you left is cold your heart is cold
spilt fresh from your heart im sure is told you're a liar
made my eyes seeing the light
diving through danger you know my plight
behold the blame is all on you
Crying for us smiling with us
loveing for us hateing with us
hopeing for us dreading with us
speaking in us naked to us
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
cant i just press f10?
Nerd suicide right there.
I'm ill. There are no two ways about it. Im sick. Thursday hit me like a brick wall. And i slept. And i had a fever. Friday = suckage as well but as i had to produce a band i had to muster up my strength. Run around for coffee. and use every bit of courage in me to not thrash my hands on brick walls. I was beyond angry in anyway that anyone who reads this has seen me. I was full on ready to growl in the face of any stranger who questiond my presance in the area. But... i was instantly defused by the nice man at the coffee shop who said i got a free cup of coffee with my purchase of a pound of ground beans. I just about cryed on the spot. not even jokeing. lol.
Saturday i wasnt as sick... but my lungs had decided to become filled with crap. And they were on sunday as well. Kristi was in the same boat as me so we went around all day takeing turns hacking and yelping in pain as the force of our coughs destroyed the tissue in our throats, and lungs and ruptured our diaphrams. Today i am slightly better but my lungs still hate me.
Also i become exausted after about 5 hours of being awake and wanna go back to bed. like now. zzzzz
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
I
Im at that point where i dont really care about much. Ive been in class all day. I havent had a chance to mull over my life much. I was just so tired. Im still so very tired. I just go to class and stare. or doze. depending on the subject. Im trying so hard to think of some way to pull a life out of this college experience. Im trying to work out living next summer, a job... something better than target, and what major i ultimately end up with. And then there are the times that i just wanna leave.
Like today i desparately wanted to just go away for a while. A week or so. just hop in my car and go somewhere. Buy airplane tickets to japan. That would be sweet. Or better yet just drive south to the warm. lol. Winter needs to end NOW. but i just wanna stop moveing for a bit. I realize im not moving very fast it seems but i just wanna take a step outside and see for myself what im doing.
Valentines day is comming up. In honor of the occasion i will be buying a bottle of Jack and hiding in the corner all day listening to the most angry music i can find.
Just kidding.
Actualy Brenda said something about her and dave wanting to come down and visit seeing as how we are all single... i dont know what she has in mind but im sure its more fun than a bottle of jack in the corner.
I have no problem with VT day. I joke and call it Black Heart Day but that its only because i need someway to make up for my inadiquacys. It is a stupid coporate holliday but no one said you actuay HAVE to buy stuff. Be creative! write her a song. even if you dont write songs if she really loves you she will think its great. ( if not dump her). Make out, have sex, cuddle, have a nice conversation, go ice skateing, do all the things you take for granted but i dont get to do cuz im always on the wrong ladder.
Actualy i think the vast majority of my audience is single so thats a mute point.
Nevertheless, if you are complaining about VT day because of its corporate roots get creative and not buy something to stick it in their faces. Otherwise being single is a much better reason to complain.
Im not bitter at all.
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Heres an interesting tid bit.
So a while ago i was made aware that the original Command and Conquer was going to be released as a free download. I couldnt belive my ears (eyes really as... as i read it). Well... i am now downloading both disks. Sweetness.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Hey hey it is me.
So school has been interesting to say the least. Its bloody cold first of all. That sucks. I hate it. I soooo want warm now. Karate is gonna kick my ass. We just did some stances today and my left leg reached its limit... as in it started shakeing uncontrollably. I was starting to freak out. Im like what the frick is wrong with me? My legs still are sore. stupid. We didnt even work that hard i didnt think. That said it is really fun and i actualy felt like i was learning alot. Its so complicated. All the form and controll you have to get just to throw a punch. If you do it wrong you like break your shoulder... or your knee... or your groin. Im not kidding. And its not funny. well kinda.
Audio enginering is going well. I love this kind of thing... but it is really hard and its bascally like we are running our own stiudio... we are in charge of EVERYTHING... inculdeing refreshments for the bands. lol. but no its really fun. I also have New media and culture... i fell asleep. And economics of new media... i fell asleep. And Drama and the media... thats a 3 hour night class... but the teacher is so full of energy im afraid to fall asleep lest she explode at me in a sarcastic rant and insult my intellegence or something.
Ive met a new friend. Her name is Gina. Mitch met her at a movie party or something he had one day... i dont know the details. But basically the three of us have sort of started a tuesday night tradition of food gathering. We went to the Wok today. mmmmm MSG.
I have rekindled my love of AFI if you couldnt tell from previous posts. Basically i got really sick of Metal cuz most of it is so generic. Ive returned to likeing styles of music i used to like from the earlyer years of high school. Like AFI. but now its different. Im getting into electronic puck stuff like Silversun Pickups and Shiny Toy Guns. Also if any of you like Paramore check out Meg & Dia. They are just like Paramore but with a slightly different flavor. They seem less focused than paramore, more free form. Their style is more broad as well. Its interesting. But like i said it is a slight difference and you kinda have to be really in tune with the music to pick it up.
So ive decided to write the backstory to "Lockdown" as Jen suggested. Its funny because "Lockdown" is really more of an exagerated description of something that really happend. Just how much is exagerated is actualy very little. In fact most of the descriptions are 100% accurate such as what i was wearing, where i was and what i was doing.
So the Backstory will probably end up being a big metaphor for the actual back story as well. It should make for some interesting writing but its complex and i have to work it out. I will probably add character names and tell it from a different perspective just to shake things up. Its cool because i havent written anything since my fiction class and i really should use what i learned for something... like this silly blog ive been useing since 2004. haha.
Finnaly i wish to appologize to some people who have been wrong by something i posted a few days ago. Like the post below me says im passive aggressive to a fault. So much so that i dont even know im doing it untill its too late. And apparently more people read this thing than i thought. If you do read it and havent before commented before please do so. I appriciate feedback of all kinds and would love to know just who is reading this thing.
This is entry number 336. And i still dont know such things. Haha. anyways. gnight all. have a wonderful week.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
grrr
So i'm passive aggressive so sue me.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Top 5 Part II
The first top five list I wrote was about my top five favorite guitarists. No Hendrix was not on there because the list was specifically, "Top five modern and living guitarists." He's dead Jim.
This time around it is my top five favorite albums. Now this is different than favorite bands and songs. An album has to have more than just good songs on it or be released by a great band. In order for an album to be truly great it has to be coherent in structure. it has to change and flow in perfect time to tell a story. (not literally). A great album is one that the songs themselves are great yes, but that when you listen to one and only one you find that you are missing something of the big picture. Its rare these days that bands treat the album as the piece of art that they should be and instead just through songs on them. So lets take a look at the very best in recent memory.
5. Switchfoot's "A Beautiful Letdown."
This album has a sweet subtleness to it that makes it work very well. The songs are but together in perfect order and the band expertly changes the feel and mood of their songs. Opening with an astounding rocker with "Meant to Live" they continue the assault but then get moody with "Dare you to Move" after that the songs become very spacey like the hero of the story has been broken and is now rebuilding himself. They close with a powerful song that gives the impression that a lot has been lost but he has come to terms with it. Add to that the fact that this is one of the few albums out there on Sony’s dual disk format with the DVD side having a true 5.1 surround sound mix which is fantastic sounding and you have a winning album for sure.
4. Coheed and
3. Evan and Jaron’s “Evan and Jaron.” This album is epic. This band is epic. These guys are some amazing songwriters. Their style lies somewhere between rock and folk. They aren’t really folk rock, but they drift in and out between a twangier folkier sound and some straight up rock. This album is more of a rock album and it was one of the first albums that I ever really listened to and liked. The songs are expertly crafted and sound just great. It opens with the rocker “Outerspace.” Which flows into a picked acoustic guitar that gradually builds. The whole album just melds from the first song into the next. It closes with one of the saddest songs I have ever heard, “I Could Fall.”
2. AFI’s “Sing the Sorrow” AFI was on the last list too… they are really great just fyi. But great for a reason. The previous three albums have been great, but “Sing the Sorrow” is on a whole different level. This album paints a picture in your mind. And it is there from song 1. Think lightning storm with no rain, and a barren and blackened wasteland, with streaks of orange and red on the horizon, and or the first terminator movie. Then once that song is done the picture stays and a story is created in it. The whole album just has this feel and it is incredibly cool. Its unlike anything else. To top it all off the songs are great, every last one of them. They are brooding and dark but fast and hit hard. The band members are all excellent at their instruments and the vocals are top notch. But when listened to separately they don’t have the same effect as the whole album. However once you’ve heard the whole album the songs themselves conjure up the same imagery. Its great.
1. Lostprohets “Start Something” If ever there was a way to craft an album this is it. It is a different approach than “Sing the Sorrow” in that it paints its picture very gradually. It opens up rocking like any standard rock album, but quickly becomes something more. Its not just 12 songs on an album… its more like one song with 12 movements. They all connect to one another. They just slide into each other. There is no gap, no dead space. Only once or twice do the songs actually stop. They are still coherent songs in and of themselves but when listened too all the way through one feels as though the album is speaking to them. And then there is the ending. It is a spacey techno rocker that lasts for oh… 10 and a half minutes. There is a xylophone part that is so out there and its juxtaposed with all this synth and spoken word vocals and a female vocalist singing. The final chord is held out for over 1:30 minutes. Its epic to be sure. But when its closing an album like this it just works. It just works.
And there you have it. My 5 favorite albums of all time. There is a lot on there and there are a lot of great albums. But these are my favorites. These are bands that understand the art. These are bands that understand that what they are doing is a little different than what everyone else is doing.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Lockdown
The fresh snow drowns out all sound in this forest. There is no wind hissing in the trees, no cars passing on the road. The only sound that can be heard save for my breathing is the feint hum of the power lines, and they are over 100 yards away. It is in this location that i have chosen to meet my foe. I have fought many an enemy in this forest. Whether or not i won any of then only time can tell.
This night i wait standing in my leather jacket that seals me against the cold. The hood of my hoodie is drawn and my blade is safe in the saya. My feet stand in boots a size and a half too big for me and my pants have holes in them. The temerature is hovering somewhere between 10 and 15 degrees but i do not flinch, and i do no waver.
No matter what your perception of me might be outside of this place, when i go into this forest i do so for one purpose and i do not back down for any reason. In this forest I go to do what i need to do.
As the hour grows late i turn and face my demon. brandishing my blade i place the saya in my belt and stand ready to meet my foe. I strike once! and twice! He reels from my blows but is un injured. As he backs away i pursue, i put all of my momentum into my strikes.
CLASH and CLANG our blades sound until the fight becomes so intense that i cannot help but let out a yelp of exhilaration. "Saiya!" i yell as i swing my sword for the last time. This time there is no clang. this time there is only the sound of my yell as it echos among the trees. My echo can be heard for several seconds. Im sure if she were outside my friend would hear it as well at her house.
The battle is over. Who has won? only time will tell.
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Friday, January 04, 2008
The Top 5
This is my top 5 list. of what? of whatever i feel like at the time. I will do more of these... maybe... if i like them.
This entry is about my Top 5 Guitarists...Modern and Living.
5. James Hetfield (Metallica), For his expert crafting of riffs and song composition, James Hetfield scores the number 5 spot on this list. His guitar work shines most on the track Master of Puppets where he shows the versatility of the guitar even in a genre as crude as thrash metal. It is hard hitting at times and soft and gentle at other times. He is the master metal guitarist.
4. Claudio Sanchaz (Coheed and
3. Manabe Yoshiaki (The Pillows), while later Pillows tracks are dominated by Saowo's obsession with popie melodies and simple song structures, the golden era of the pillows is a guitar heavy punk beating with some of the most unconventional yet sonicaly pleasing solos to grace the underside of a compact disk.
2. Jade Puget (afi), Jade is one of the best living guitarists now that doesnt get the recognition he deserves. Afi has some of the most intracate riffs of any punk band and nowadays they probably dont even fit into the punk genre. On top of that Jade is the ONLY guitarist in afi live or otherwise and he has written the songs to be played so that they are interesting played by himself as well with overdubs. His sound to date is one of the rawest most satisfing crunches ever to come out of a guitar cab. As the only guitarist in my band i really look to him on how to write songs for single guitar.
1. Neal Schon (Journey) probably the most technicaly proficent on this list, but that isnt what earns him the number one spot. He is the guitarist that inspired me to play the guitar. His solos are living things and breathe with an intensity that is surpassed only by his speed and presision. The new journey may be a small shadow of what they once were but that doesnt mean Neal cant still rock with the best of them.
The factors that influence my choices in guitarists are weighted in this order,
1. Infuence on me
2. Writing ability
3. Ability to preform live or otherwise.
4. technical ability.
As you can see technical ability is last and i do not care about it so much. Thats why Hetfield is on here instead of Hammet from Metalica.
This has been my first top 5 list. There will probably be more... stay tuned!
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
This is why
This is why i never buy music off itunes, and will NEVER buy music of itunes or any other source. If i am going to buy music it WILL be a cd.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity/print
This link explains why.
If you are too lazy to read it... cds sound better. YES ITS NOTICABLE!
And my hearing is shot so if i notice it than you should too.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Film Review!
So i just watched Star Wars Episode I for no good reason and as im watching it i think to myself... why did i hate this movie so? I used to think it was the worst of the new 3 but now i think its the best. Of course being the best turd still means you are a turd.
Lets see. No one can act save for the 2 jedi and possibly Natilie Portman and Ian McKellan. The Diologe sounds like it was written by a middle schooler. There are points in the story that make me go "Wait... and this 'coincidentaly' just happens to work?" I mean sure... Jake Lloyd can win the pod race cuz he's the chosen one... but R2-D2 gets to fix the shield genorator cuz hes the best put together droid? Im sorry when did that matter in the face of relentless laser fire? Also i didnt know that being "the chosen one" meant that you can build a pod racer that goes 10x faster than everyone elses... even though they arent slaves and can afford much better stuff.
But... there were moments in the movie that made me go... huh... this movie rules. Like... any sequence with darth maul. He still looks badass and he still kicks ass. The end movie lightsaber scene, while shorter than i remember, is still one of the best sword fights ive ever scene and the music. John Williams really out did himself with the score of that movie. Its brilliant. The pod raceing scene... minus the stupid diffrence in horse power is still sweet to watch... especialy on a good sound system cuz the sound design is top notch. If nothing else it is a aural and visual master piece. everything is seemlessly integrated into the movie. The CG actualy does look very natural and is unobtrussive.
Then there are the moments that make me want to vomit... errr anything with the word or creature "gungan" in it and/or any time i hear jar jar speak. each time he does i loose a little bit of my ability to speak english correctly. Whosa are yousa indeed. Anikins forward question of "are you an Angel?" also made me nearly snot myself in laughter. So what do you say when you meet a pretty girl? "are you an angel?" is not my idea of a good pickup line.
But then there are moments where Liam Neeson delivers his diologe with elogance and grace. And he should have gotten an oscar for "best actor who was given crappy diologe." He made it work. too bad he died.
Overall the movie was an enjoyable experience even after all these years. When i wasnt actualy entertained by the movie i was laughing at george lucas and wondering how he ever got star wars episode iv to not suck. So that made the bad parts berable and the good parts stand out as, "oh george must have been sick that day." In any case... stuff blows up... lightsabers are swung and the music is pretty. if you dont like any of that then... no it wont have gotten better with age.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
A list of grievences
1. I cant spell.
lol. its very true i cant spell. but its minor in the scheme of things.
2. Ive been single for 3 years.
Yes i know some of you could say youve been single for longer... but really after the 2nd year the feeling is all the same... so you should know exactly how i feel. I could go on and on about how i can not find anyone who likes me and how all the girls that i have ever liked only wanted to just be friends. (yes even Rachael, she only dated me cuz i pushed... little known fact for yah there.) But i wont cuz i dont care... im like getting used to it or something... which is depressing in and of itself. ewww
3. I feel guilty for abandoning the youth group.
Sometimes i feel like ive turned my back on God or something... but i havent... just the youth group. But honestly all i did was run sound for them... and they only really needed me once and now that ive shown adam how to do it they dont need me at all. Also i never even said i wanted to sign up. I sorta did cuz i wanted to help out... but the reality of it is i would much rather be doing something else... like hanging out with my friends. haha. Im a bad person for that but its true and i wont deny it. But even before that it was stressful and i didnt wanna do it because A... i had to get up insanely early and im sorry... but unless im getting paid... no. B the worship team is whiney and not musical. (there i said it) C. Everyone wanted it done their own way and i was like fine... do it your way. (but secritly i did it MY way). Im sorry but im the one who has done this in school. Im the one whos MAIN INTEREST is sound and the production of shows and albums. Do i know everything about it cirtainly not but i do know what i am doing. THE SUBWOOFER IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!! (there i said that too good grief).
Now im angry and dont feel so guilty anymore... but i do sorta.
4. I dont know who i am.
Amy said i have an identity crisis. That is the truth. I dont know who i am. I dont know what i like. I dont know what kind of person i am. I dont know what i want to do with my self. Here is what i do know. I love God. I love friends. I love guitar. i love music. I love sound.
Conclusion: start a christian band with my friends right? Wrong.
I dont really like christian music. Like switchfoot is good... but they arent THAT christian. They have christian overtones in their music but they dont sing... "I love God." every chorus of every song. Same with all the other christian bands i like. And worship bands are good and all... at sonshine. But i dont listen to them elsewhere cuz they just arent my cup of tea. Im sorry if that makes me a bad person but i just feel that the usual christian worship songs are overdone and lack... substance.
Paramore is christian and they arent a christian band.
Woah tangent. really i just have a hard time seeing myself for who i am. I cant get outside my body to look at my life.
I once asked ppl on facebook to sum me up in one word... it was a quiz thing or whatever. the responces? "Weird, Intreugeing, odd, ect, ect." o.0 wow thanks guys. they manage to say so much and yet so little at the same time. Those are the most empty adjectives ive ever seen im sorry. they just are.
5. im out of money.
I will end with this cuz its easyest. easyest to explain easyest to solve. I need funds and i should get a job. yep. still the interem period is stressful cuz it does take a bit of time to get a job. What with modern day requirements of a drug test and blah blah blah.
o.0 tomorrow i get my final take home exam for cinema and ideology. = death to me. = i should sleep now. = its bloody cold out = i dont wanna go = bikeing in this stuff sux. = my life sux = i need summer now = wakeboarding!
now that is how my brain works right there. That is an exact copy of my train of thought there. Notice how i went from class all the way to wakeboarding in only 8 steps. And you wonder why im so scatter braind haha.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
ahem
So today was interesting. I woke up at 8am my usual time and checked the weather, which said it was 5 degrees out... so i promptly said "NO" and went back to bed. Then at 11 i woke up and my dad texted me and we went to lunch. It was good i had a buffalo chicken sandwich. But thats beside the point.
Dave came down to visit and see me play my first "concert." Basicaly it was me playing a song for my class. But i got a bag of chocolates and apparently an extra quiz point for it. so woo! The song went... ok. I messed up several times... and the mixer had a setting that made channel one's sound louder than everything else whenever it detected someone singing into it... channel one was my vocal... so the concert consisted of very quiet guitar and very LOUD my voice singing... :'(
o.0
but that is good because it made me forget the fact that i forget my lyrics easily... and the fact that i wrote them on my arm before hand... im a looser. but i got through it. my teacher was intreagued. (He's in a band). Dave thought it was cool that i could even do it. And a decently pretty blonde girl told me "good job".
i should have asked her out.
afterwards Dave and i went back to my apartment and dinked around in linux... and im still in linux because windows died. i have no windows anymore. stupid microsoft poop.
then Dave and i went to guitar center. It was good. I played my favorite B52 amp with a SWEET fender telecaster like the one that the guitarist in Paramore uses. IT was cool. sounded so awesome. I WANT THAT AMP! its so yummy sounding. i could just listen to it all day. Then i moved to a less awesome amp... but still had the awesome guitar... but the amp was really close to the bass section. So the Bassist and Guitarist of Four Way Fish Kiss had a little jam session right in guitar center. We played Misery Buissnes... and got told to turn it down... but the other employee seemed to enjoy it. whatev. were rebels. lol.
Then we tryed to find chipotle... and i called everyone who i thought would no... but no one picked up. Dave called people he knew and no luck... so we said screw it we will eat at the chopotle by my appartment... then as we were just getting back on the freeway Amy calls me back with the information that we were less than a block from the chipotle... and that we went runnign around on a wild goose chase for no good reason... gay. We still ate at the one at my apartment. Then dave went home and i went to mitches house and dinked around on the internet... much like now. I like haveing my paper done... means i dont have to do much. ^_^
that was my day. I really just wanted to tell how the concert went but ended up rambleing. tis k I needed this. rawr moo llama yeay!
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Monday, November 26, 2007
!
When is a band actualy a band? Ive been saying im in a band for about 2 months now but i was jokeing... wasnt I?
Apparently not! 4-way Fish Kiss wrote its first song over this past weekend! Yeay!!! cheer for us! I wrote a guitar part and then Kristi came over with some lyrics and we hacked it together. And i mean hacked it. It needs polishing. First of all were are both alot more concerned with what the end product ends up being... this isnt like one of my solo songs where i just throw it together and call it good. Now we actualy have to think about what we are writing. Im glad she writes the lyrics though cuz im no good at it. Ever read the lyrics to my songs? they suck. Anyways... we rock... and dont have a drummer at the moment cuz... of stuff. yeah. about that.
so i just stayed up way late cuz i thought i had a 7 page paper due today and then the printer didnt work so i had to go to mitches early this morning to print it off but then when i got to class the teacher was like "i wanna remind you that your papers are due on wedddneeeessssdayyyyyy." noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
So anyways i hated life for a while but im over it. on to bigger things right? I just wrote another fish kiss song. i rock. also we put in a cheat code to unlock through the fire and flames for guitar hero 3. and i got 72%! thats bad. its hard. my arms hurt. im hungry. i want dinner but its not dinner time... i think my apple juice is bad. i cry. oh well. anyways... rock on friends! Check out our band we are cool! laters!
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Monday, November 19, 2007
SONSHINE!
Fireflight is confirmed for sonshine yet again!!!! YEAY!
2:00 pm on the 18th of July!!!
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
8+8=150
"God, i want to dream again take me where ive never been
i wanna go there, this time im not scared.
Now i am unbreakable, its unmistakeable
no one can touch me. nothing can stop me."
The venerable Fireflight RETURN with a new album comeing out in a few months. Their single is available for download at the major music sources. "Unbreakable" is a short but sweet tune showcaseing Dawn's pure voice. Is she Haley Williams of Paramore? no. But it is Fireflight. and it is amazing on its own terms. I like the song even if her voice isnt as good. The guitar is as smooth as its ever been for fireflight. Not complicated, but now it sounds like they have some Splawn amps... and thats a plus in my book. Probably got the idea from touring with Diciple's guitarist who also uses Splawn. The arrangement of the song is what really stands out. Its just very pollished and with a full orchestral backup it sounds suitably over the top. Overall it sounds like a single... catchy short and to the point. I hope the rest of the album is more...varied. Thats usualy how it goes. I look forward to the rest of the album over the singles usualy.
In other news the guitarist of 4-way Fish Kiss will be preforming a solo gig at Murphy Hall on the 27th... oh wait thats me... i signed up for what now?!?!?!?! Sometimes i think i may be takeing this band thing too seriously... but... i like the name so i will stick with it. But i have a preformance... im going to vomit but it will be the first time i preform my own stuff for more than 8 people at once... 150 its alot more than 8. save me. what have i done? Iol if anyone wants to come watch its at like 2:30 pm at my school on the 27th thats a tuesday. I doubt if everyone will be there... maybe it will be only like 50... which is still more than 8!
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Nightmares
Amy posted something about a powerful dream. That made me remember a dream i had about a week ago.
The doctors told me something was wrong with my lungs. Something was terribly wrong and that i was going to die in 24 hours.
I kept wakeing up from this dream but it continued when i went back to sleep.
It was rather scarey to know i was going to die... but i was most scared for my friends. All i could think about was that i had to make a will so i could leave them things. That was my sole goal in the entire dream. I needed to find a sheet of paper so i could leave the will. I was hanging out with people at a house that reminds me of my old house on co. 50. I hadnt told them i was going to die. I just remember hanging out into the wee hours of the morning knowing that i was about to die. As the hours went by the feeling of impending doom became greater and greater. However as 24 hours passed away i did not. I remained alive. I dont understand what happend, i dont know why i lived but i did... and then i was awakend by my alarm clock.
I have a friend who has nightmares all the time. It kinda makes sleep seem less fun dont it.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Also...
Girls should not wear thongs while rideing bikes.
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Monday, October 29, 2007
III
I have played all three guitar hero games now. My roomates have them. As such i get to play them all the bloody time. hehe. Before i got here i didnt get guitar hero. I play guitar (well if i do say so myself) for real but i had a hard time doing anything with guitar hero.
However after about 10 minutes of being forced to play guitar hero on expert with my roomates i began to understand it.
My first project was Cowboys from hell on Guitar hero I. I never beat it because i dont know where the disk is anymore.
Then my roomate got Guitar hero II. I was playing it with another of my roomates and he was like "this is 'Six' the second hardest song in the game." I did poor. But i understood what i had to do. So i played around with it on my own. I now can get through the song almost 100% of the time. And i generaly get pretty decent scores.
My second project on that game was Hanger 18. I got that one too. That one took a while.
Now with guitar hero III we are trying to beat the game. I did my part by beating a Slipknot song and a
"Wow Nate you sure like to talk alot" you are probably thinking. No you dont understand. Guitar hero is a GREAT game. beacuse of playing this game i am alot better at real guitar too. It pushes me to become faster and more dexterious. So the point of all this is... if you want to learn how to play the guitar... try playing guitar hero. and dont play on anything but expert. yeah it may be hard at first. But you will learn to adapt. and once you do you will find that you have improved amazingly.
My only problem with the game is its price. Its insanely expencive. :(
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
My Brain is Nowhere near as mushy
Thats right i can think again! woo!! That said i dont want to and am procrastinateing on reading for my 5-6 page paper! hahaha. If course that means it will be 4 and a half pages but you know. Actauly other people in this class are just as stressed out as me. I overheard two people talking about how they have no idea of what the teacher is talking about and that the concepts are too abstract to really grasp. HUZZAH! im not an idiot!!!!
This is good i was getting worried that i just wasnt smart enough... which im not and i keep telling everyone so but they dont belive me. But still this means i just have to try and pass this semester... and hopefully i wont kill my GPA too badly... -_- THEN I CAN GET NEW CLASSES THAT MAKE SENSE!
Note to self... avoid all classes with the words... Phillosophy, Ideology, Thinking, Abstract, Disscussions in, Cinima and... , and Studies in. I shall go look for new classes now... so i can decide if i will die or not.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
hello in there?
My brain feels all melty right now. I'm not sure why. Maybe its cuz i just got a C+ on a paper i did no work for. Maybe its because the TA said my paper was really good in some aspects... with really wierd mistakes? i was like, "huh?" I will have to read the comments. I dont even remember what i wrote about. That's sad.
My melty brain could also probably have something to do with the fact that i watched 2 horrible movies today. Stupid film classes. Gah! First was the "Battle of Algeirs" which i suppose is supposed to be good... but i didnt care. Second was Devdas. I think thats how its spelled. ITs an indian musical, and while the indian singing was kind of cool for a bit... it just became annoying and i stoped careing after 15 minutes... and its a 2 and a half hour long movie...I left early. It was just so bad.
However to spite these reasons i think the best explination for my melty brain is a lack of sleep. Seriously... i dont know whats wrong. Like over 6 hours should be plenty. I SHOULD be fine. But i just cant push through anymore. I just dont have the energy. I just wanna fall over when i ride my bike to class. Then i realized that would be a bad idea as my skull would get crushed by the bus next to me o.0. Also i do not nap. I just dont. I may doze off in class... but thats because i cant stay awake. I will be writeing notes... and then i will be sleeping. I awake later to find my pencil has trailed accross the paper from the last letter i mannaged to write. If im not in class im fine and can stay awake. If im not watching a movie im fine and can stay awake at this point. Tomorrow will not be happy. Tomorrow i again must do this, but then i can sleep.... sleeeeeeeeep. I just wanna be done now k?
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Musack!!!!
A couple of years ago was a music explosion for me. I started watching FUSE and it really did use to be a good channel. This was what 10th or 11th grade i think. so 4 or 5 years ago. Yeah. I discoverd a great many bands that i love today. AFI, Jimmy Eat World, Coheed and
Hot of the heels of my recent discovery of paramore this year we have...
Jimmy Eat World with Chase This Light! This album comes out in... like 3 hours! haha!!!! yeay!
Later we get ANOTHER NEW COHEED AND CAMBRIA album. I just listend to the new single. Its a typical single for them... but thier singles were never my favorites anyways! ^_^ It should be fantastic though they have alot to live up to after Burning Star IV
Finnaly it is reported on their my space page that the Lostprophets are in the studio now recording a new album. All finger crossed for that!
we got good stuff comming up. I cant wait to hear it all!
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Because i can
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
More Paramore
Its been along time since a band has affected me like this. Since ive found a band that i like SO much. That i absolutly must go buy their album(s). I think the last one was Lost Prophets with Start Something. That is a really old album now. They have since moved on in a direction that i dont really like. But start something is still one of my top five favorite albums. Along with the likes of Futures,
However... sing the sorrow may get bumped off the list by this new band. This new band that has captured me with their sound. Their writeing is Top Notch. Not the most orriginal, but they have a polish and a complexity that more than makes up for that. You can go two ways. You can invent something new or perfect an old idea... this band has done the latter. But possibly more than anything else the voice has caught me. The band is Paramore. And the voice is Haley Williams's.
There have been a number of singers that have a voice that works in such a way, that i cant help but take notice. Something about their sound just catches my ear and wont let go. One such singer would be Steve Perry for me. Powerful and with impressive range he is the pinicle of male voices in my opinion. Haley's is just as impressive.
Yes yes nate, ramble on. Here is the part where you talk about the guitar right? Wrong. I dont have much to say about it. It's good. Its rock. They arent amazing. They will get better but the main draw of this band for me is the song writeing and the vocals.
Oh but nate, these days anyone's voice can sound good with modern technology. oh ho ho! this is the best part. They did an acoustic preformance of one of their songs. It was this preformance more than anything that really tuned my ear to her voice.
The girl can sing... hands down. And the band can write! So give Paramore a listen.
Also... their entire album is available to stream on their myspace. HA to an organization that will remain nameless.
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Monday, October 08, 2007
im running on 3 hours of sleep and pure adrenaline!!!
what a weekend what a weekend. Thursday night... i went out with kyle to applebees... and who should show up 5 minutes after we do? why its TJ, Dan, and Kenny! We had appetizers and they were like "Dude? why arent you haveing beer?" I thought about it... but was too slow. and then by the time i had made up my mind it seemed too late and i was like whatever.
Friday night i did absolutely nothing. Really it was nothing. I played video games... which is pretty much what i did all day. Oh wait... no for the first 4 hours of the day i installed Sabayon Linux on my home computer... cuz i can. Then i tryed to get beryl working... stupid thing... oh well. Then i downloaded
never mind that game suxorz.
You have to understand that my linux skills are... non-exsistant. So when i get something like... compiling pidgeon instant messanger myself to work, I find it pretty amazeing. You all probably dont care or even know what im talking about. Lets just say im new at this.
After that i played with my brother and his friends online in halo 3. Yeah i know its an average shooter and does nothing new and bioshock is supposed to be better blah blah blah. Poppy cock! Bioshock is actualy a pretty shallow game with mediocre shooting gameplay and a mildly entertaining story. halo 3 is a shooter with pretty solid mechanics and a superbly dramatic space opera... compleate with over the top sound track and massive scale of cutsceans. Multiplayer is oddly enough really fun as well... even with the obnoxious pre-teen whiners.
Saturday i went to my uncles for a brunch thing... thats in river falls WI people. Hour and a half drive... i dont like long car trips. After that i went to Angela's birthday party. I was the oldest person there by at least 3 years. I feel sad. But no it was really good. I had alot of fun and really enjoyed myself.
My blog is doing interesting things to the text format so forgive me if it looks weird.
Today... well yesterday now. But i woke up at 430 because i could not sleep cuz im a moron and it was too warm in my room. So i watched anime and played DOA4 untill it was time to go to the church to run sound... which i did from like 730 to 1130... what a job that is. gah! Then i called up Kristi and we hung out from like 1pm till 10 pm. It was epic. We went from Carribou Coffee, to Best Buy, to Borders Books, To Guitar Center, To Buffalo Wild Wings, Cold Stone, and finnaly ending up at her house... where we made Miis on her Wii of people that work at target... for like 3 hours. That was really quite fun. Alot of fun really.
IM going to bed. right now.
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Now for something with a bit more substance...
Yes i am back. and this time with something of a bit more... interest, shall we say?
I am takeing 4 separate classes.
History of Cinima and Media Culture
Cinima and Ideology
Media and Popular Culture
Opposistional Cinima
It has taken me a month to remember what the names of my classes are. Why? Cuz going into this semester i was how shall i say... less than enthusiastic. I didnt care what my classes were i didnt even think i was comming back. But i did. So i figured i had better learn the names of my classes eh? right.
Anyways these classes have turned out to be rather hard. I didnt understand a thing going on in them... untill today. Today something happend. Something snaped. It seemed as though i had turned on the windshield wipers during a heavy rain storm. Suddenly a bunch of things linked together and made sense.
"Great Nate!" you all say. "You are paying attention in class good for you!"
No thats not it. lol I still drift in and out as bad as i always have. But when i do drift back in... enough parts are lineing up that i can piece together whats going on... from DIFFERENT CLASSES!
Seriously... its like im taking the same class 4 times it seems. We go over the same terms... and doing it 4 times is finnaly enough to get some things through my head. My skull has become immensely thick over the years it seems.
Now dont let this fool you. My classes are still hard... i still dont have 98% of it figured out. I still dont know what German expressionist new wave bejing bicycle communist strike films are all about. But at this point i dont even think it matters... either i pass or i dont. hopefully i pass. yeah. eep.
I hate school. I hate learning. I have always hated it. I would much rather learn at my own pace by myself learning about what i wanna learn about. Today i learned alot about the inner workings of automobiles just from googleing it. I learned everything i know about recording songs from the internet. And my audio class... that one was helpful, But it doesnt count cut it was so unlike school anyways it doesnt even count. Really i would much rather find a job and ask... ok what do you need me to know in order to do this job? And i could learn it in a couple of days... easy. Barring anything really mentaly involving of course like physics... which i hate anyways and would never do so whatev right?
alot doesnt make sense to me about how this whole college thing is supposed to work. The whole idea has always seemed the most absurd to me. People tell me i get a degree and all that is is something that gets me an in. thats all it is. That concept pisses me off to no end! You have no idea becasue im not typing in all caps... or in bold font. But im livid right now thinking about it. What an absolutely retarded idea. Seriously im really angry and its hard to control. You know that tightening feeling in your chest? and the shortness of breath? Yeah... that feeling. Ungh! Ok im over it. Why must i conform?
I could go on a political rant right here.
But i wont. Cuz ive ranted enough for one night. Ive survived 2 years of this crap... actualy ive survived 16. I can survive 2 more i guess... but really? Somtimes i wonder if there isnt a better way? what are the bloody options? Ive never even thought about it.
Thats my first rant of what is going on my head this year at school. As you can see... not much is different. Lol. oh dear its going to be a long year. But now is time for bed.. and happy thoughts... like sleep. mmmm. I catch you all later!
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Yeay im 21 now!
This weekend contained my birthday. My 21st birthday. The birthday everyone waits 21 years for. Was it everything i hoped for? Yes. lol
No really it was fun. I had a bunch of people over and we had bbq and played games and stuff. And i had 2 beers because i could. so i did. Blue Moon and Honneyweiss. Both good... for beer. I didnt like it that much. It was rather bitter in taste and the alcohol itself... hmmm... it made me sleepy. For about an hour i just wanted to lay down and take a nap. It was redicoulous. But when it wore off i could get back and enjoy the party. Thanks to all who came. It was a blast!
Today i went to church and stuff. Im really tired again. Not because of beer though... After my party i had to take holly home and i got back to my bed at like 330 and woke up at 10. Thats like 6.5 hours. Not great. Not bad... not great though.
I was going to write more but im going to save that stuff for later. I just am not in the zone right now... i will write more when i can write well enough to do the subject matter justice.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Friends
Lots has happend since last entry. This weekend felt like so long. I dont even really understand why. But it was.
Thursday i hung out with Kristi. We played guitar hero and talked and it was really fun. Her brother is really cool as well. He has just started working at target as well. Hopefully she can get a bonus off that. I wish i got my bonus... silly Kara.
Friday... Jake came over for a bit in the evening. I dont remember what took place earlyer in the day. I know jen called me at some absurd hour of the morning like 1030 or something wanting to hang out. I dont know. Jake and mitch and i went to applebees and chatted, then Nick and Marlise showed up for like 3 minutes. then we went home.
Saturday I hung out at jakes shooting things for a while. We shot wasp nests. I thought we would get swarmed... but no they died by the shotgun. haha. Then we went to an apple orchard with his family and Jen, followed by dinner on the lake at Maynerd's. hooray for free food! and birthdays. haha. After that Jake went off somewhere and i went to Nicks house where he taught me how to weld. I like welding. Metal being molded to my will... mwahahahahahaha! I like metal. Then Marlise showed up with Jen... and Jen left immediately... so i took me leave quickly so they could have... Nick and Marlise time. ha
Sunday was church day. I went to Church... then Youth Group... then Vespers. I have never been so... God. If you know what i mean. like... the whole day it was like... God. God God God God God. It was really weird. Thats all i can discribe it as.
Amy is right... i suck at discribeing things. i sorry.
Today i just got paper assingments in both my classes. Stupid papers. They will kill me just like the rest of the classes are. Gah! geh! *choke* But Marie lives in my building. I did not know that. So that is really cool. I have yet another friend here at the U. Amazing how i seem to be accumulateing. People say everyone is going to bethel. But it isnt much more than go here. Of course this school is bigger so the odds are better i spose. But whatev.
Im tired and there is work to be done... that i prolly wont do... but still. Im off! Gnight all!
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Novelty
I am so out of shape. Today i embarked on a 4 mile bike ride in addition to the mile i already bike for class. That shouldnt have killed me like it did. but my legs want to die. They hurt. My body is like... "Noooooooo we dont have the energy to do this anymore. why are you punishing us?!?!?" Im sorry body, but we need to get back into shape.
Actualy rideing a bike is easyer for me this year. I think its because my bike sucks less... or i weigh less. That could help. I think its both, cuz now i never change gear. even going up a hill im in gear 10 of 15. Tomorrow is going to hurt i can already tell. I need to eat something i think to make up for it. OoOoo cookies! lol. Kidding. But i am so tired. I am going to bed at midnight. Maybe i will get a full nights sleep... and be awake for class! What a novel concept! This is getting boring. Im going to go now. But i will update again soon.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
An Anomaly
So yesterday i was rumaging though the My Documents folder on my computer and i stumbeled across several writen works of mine. One was a very emotional and scarey freewrite i wrote over aim once. the other was this. I remember writing it thinking... I am going to write a book about my crappy job. Well i never finished it. I never even got a chapter. But what i got...well, i just found it an enjoyable read. here it is
A Dedication to Friendly, Fast, and Clean
Nathan Crist
August 15, 2005
“Attention associates, All hands on Deck, all hands on deck. Thank you for your dedication to friendly fast and clean.”
Oh how I had to listen to those words that spoke unimaginable pain and suffering. Well perhaps it wasn’t that bad in the end. It was a job after all and I did get a decent wage out of it. Still that monotone recording that spews the same bull out of its cheap speakers melted my hope and consigned me to hours of listening to customers complain about the most meaningless drivel.
“Sir this coffee is bad. Its… eyuk! Something’s really wrong with this stuff. You need to fix it.”
No I don’t. I don’t care if you don’t like the coffee. As far as I can see it is perfectly fine. Besides I had just made that coffee an hour ago. People usually don’t start complaining about it until it’s at least four hours old.
“Sir, is this real coffee?”
“um yeah…” I reply then mutter to the person I’m ringing up, “no its plastic.” He just laughs and walks away, leaving me to deal with the pompous ass who thinks that if his coffee is not made right than he should not have to pay for it. Well nuts to you I’d like to say. Take your money and be gone, never to return. But Super America is customer driven now. “I guarantee it!” the commercials say. So I have to abide by what ever the customer wants. If he wants me to shine his shoes I do it. He wants me to give him a free car wash because his car was so caked with mud that one wash could not possibly clean it I give it. He wants me to come out and jump his car that actually doesn’t need to be jumped because he didn’t realize that the transmission is still in drive, I do it. That’s what it means to be a CSR or customer service representative at Super Freakin’ America a.k.a. Sucky
In speaking of which, when I first started working there I was amazed and appalled by the shear amount of cigarettes, cigars, and chew we sold. I counted one shelf out of at least ten up front alone and found over 4,000 individual cigarettes there. Then there were the boxes upon boxes in back of about 36 cartons each. Take that times 10 packs per carton and 20 cigs per pack and you get 7,200 of the damned things.
Then there are the people who smoke them. They come in all shapes and sizes. There are big smokers and little smokers, young smokers (18 and older) and old smokers, male, female, it doesn’t matter. There is no specific personality type that smokes the things. I will come across just as many nice, cute girls who flirt with every young man who looks their way as grumpy old men with persecution complexes blabbing about how “back in my day kids respected their elders.” However, in spite of the variety of people that smoke, 9 times out of 10 I could spot a smoker before they even entered the store. They have a rigidity about them that only comes with a mass intake of nicotine each day, or I’m assuming nicotine. I really don’t know a thing about it. I just know a smoker when I see one. Sometimes I am wrong I will admit, but other times it’s impossible not to miss. For instance this one old woman, I can’t even begin to guess her age but she looks like she belongs in a casket at a funeral. I think it has something to do with the fact that she buys three packs of menthol cigarettes each day. The things must have sucked the life right out of her because she is falling apart, literally.
I hate cigarettes. I despise the little cancerous demons that plague the world. I wish the government would ban them but I don’t think that would go over too well with the general population lest we forget the prohibition era. It should be if I hate the buggers so much, that I want nothing to do with them, that anything involving cigarettes goes in one ear and out the other, but that’s not the case. In fact I am fascinated with them, with the different brands, the sizes, the types. I don’t know why, but I remember the brands the regulars smoke so clearly that when they come in I already have their packs ready and waiting by the time they reach the counter. This one girl will sometimes come in and say, “I need mine, grandmas and moms today.” It takes me less than two seconds to pull the necessary packs down from the shelves, as I know exactly which ones and where they are. I remember the brand and type that my acquaintances smoke. I even begin to identify regulars by the brands they smoke. One time I was talking to my friend about work as he works there too and said, “You know the Marb Mediums guy…” and he knew exactly who I was talking about because everyday, he came in for a pack or two of Marlboro Mediums.
As you can see i was very bitter when i wrote it. Please remember i was young and hated the world. As for now i look back on the job with mostly fond memories... mostly.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Hello Girl, My Name is Boy.
What a weekend. So much stuff... i was so busy. I had no more than an hours of rest at any given time. And of those less than hour rest periods... there were like 3 total... maybe. I dont even know. Like... right now... im just content to sit here in my apartment and stare at this screen. It is relaxing...requires no thought... other than what im writeing. Someday i will address my obsession with the elipsis... but not today haha. If you dont know what that is just look at what i have in abundace in my writeing. Its a punctuation mark to be specific... yeah,
Anyway i was all set up for a quiet weekend of a little Metroid, maybe a little bioshock, maybe a little anime. And hopefully i could hang out with some people when they came home... if they came home. But on thursday when i stoped to get my work schedule for the weekend... something happend. I encounterd a girl, and we ended up at applebees. Its more complex like that... but I like it written like that. Yeah we hung out all night. It was really cool. Thats all i will say about that... other than that her name is Kristi and we hung out again tonight. ^_^
Friday night was cool. We hung out at molly's house and saw Shooter. We also restrung Justin's and Zach's guitars. Shooter was alright, kind of generic and predictable, but it was a fun ride.
Saturday we helped build tables for the youth group. Not too much interesting here to write about... other than nick with a nail gun is kind of scarey.
Sunday... being today was a really busy... hecktic... stressful day. The sound at church needs running... im the most knowlegeable in that area right now... that makes things hard. Because i dont have much experience. I dont really know what to do. And its a church. I would like to have everything loud. I would like to do alot of things. But because of the setup... its hard to work with. Really i wanna just reform how the whole thing works together. I wanna move the speakers. I wanna move the stage. I wanna get rid of the BLOODY PIANO! That would solve... 95% of the problems. The piano is easily the loudest instrument up there. It is SO loud that we dont even do anything to it. When you hear the piano... you hear... just the piano. No speakers. just the piano. And it sucks becasue it is too loud. You cant hear anything else unless you turn them way up. Then the old people complain. Oh my good grief. Its not going to hurt you. I bet we arent even pushing 100dB. Deal with it. Thats what i wanna say to them. GRRRRrrrrr. 100dB is rather loud really but it in no way is dangerous to human hearing. According to OSHA you can listen to 100dB for 2 hours straight and not be damaged. 120dB and up are normal rock concert levels. Remember its a logrithmic scale... thats over 4 times as loud as 100dB!!!!!!!!!!! dB means decibel. fyi
after that fiasco we went to guitar center. Justin, Adam, Josh, and Myself. I want a fender Jaguar. There i said it. hah!
After that i did sound again for youth group. It wasnt as bad. But we had less instruments. And this Punk Rock Josh... this guy who ive been told so much about by John and Adam and the like... I dont like him very much. He is rather arrogant. He kept trying to change my mixer settings. I was like... yeah... dont touch that. No i dont wanna play bass. I was just fed up. I had to leave. So after the preformance i left... called up Kristi... and we hung out for a few hours. She has... a MASSIVE family. And more video game systems than... wow. To put it in perspective... we played 8 player Halo. With an XBOX and an XBOX360. it was Kristi, myself and 6 of her siblings. haha it was awesome... i totaly got my butt kicked but it was great fun. Then she showed me her drawings and we talked about anime and stuff. Yeah. I know i said i would say no more... but it seemed appropriate to end on a better note than stupid sound systems.
so yeah. Its been a long time since ive been able to fill up a blog entry like that. Im going to be.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007
The Crumbling of Society
So i come back from class today, early because we just went over the sylibus, and decide i should make some lunch. It was a horrible lunch btw but whatever. When i go down to go to my next class my bike is gone. I look and look but it is not there. Some punk riped off my means of transportation. Now i dont care that they stoll my bike. It was an el-cheapo from wal mart and it was falling apart. I care that they almost made me late for class because i had to walk. If i had walked in 5 seconds later than i did... i would have missed the opening of my teachers speach. litearaly i made it withing 5 seconds.
Incidentaly i bought a new el-cheapo bike from target for $60. and a not so el-cheapo lock for 30. Thats half the price of the bloody bike! grrrr.... people make me so angry. Why they steal my bike!!!! Why i need buy new one!! Thor want eat!!!!
I had chipotle today it made up for my crappy lunch.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
o.0
So here i am back at school for yet another year of... school. This year i have an apartment. It has a kitchen. I must make all my own food now. Im used to makeing food... but not substantialy good food. Fruit. Fruit will save my life... as it will be about the only nutritious thing i eat. Otherwise i have ramen and hot dogs. lol. Im kidding i can make more than that really. But you get the point. I had one class today. I dont really remember it. Nothing substantial was discussed. Sylibus day you know. Nothing really important. The prof though, he is a Marxist for sure, self admitted in fact. This should be interesting. Also aparently some University workers are strikeing tomorow. Apparently some professors are holding class off campus?!?! I hope none of mine do that... cuz that would suck... alot. I dont know where anything is off campus. I know where the CD store is... i should go there. I need some CDs.
Any whoooo nothing really to report yet. But the blog should come back into full swing here. So never fear loyal readers, you will get pleanty of entrys soon. ish. yes. laterz!
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
Movies
Movies are interesting in that there are so many different kinds, it is hard to characterize them or even to say what makes a good movie in the first place. When people ask me what my favorite movie is, i always say, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Just because it is such a solid film. But lately ive got to thinking. A good movie isnt about the camera angles, the lighting, the plot, the characters, the acting, the score. Its about what it makes the watcher feel.
There have been three movies, and three movies only that i have seen, and have loved so much, so fantasticaly much, that i had to watch them a second time... right away. Like... i watch it... and then i want to sit back down and watch it again. Within anywhere between 5 and 48 hours i will have seen the movie twice. These movies are... Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
The first two make sense, They are both Miyazaki Films, That man is the walt disney of our time... only 5 billion times better. But Harry Potter? A movie adapted from a book? really? Yes really. See watching that movie for the first time was my first exposure to the world of harry potter. I had heard of it of course and how good the books were... little did i realize that they werent just good books... they were amazing stories that could hold up extreamly well when presented in any medium. I have seen each of these movies an uncountable number of times by now... and yet i can still watch them... they still hold my interest all the way though. They are that good. So when i am asked what is my favorite movie... what do i say now? If i had to pick of the three i would pick spirited away. of course i could also pick princess... and if the mood struck me i would pick harry potter. interesting.
one more thing... each of these movies benifits from something, the same thing actualy. And that is a First class musical score. Joe Hisashi Scored both Princess and Spirited, while none other than John Williams scored Harry Potter. I can recall the theme song to each of these movies instantly. Music is so important for me ive realized. I will like the movie 10 times better if it has a good score. Unfortunatly those are few and far between these days. but it is good to know they are still comming.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Car Personality
Funny thing is, i actualy drive one of these.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
The Midsummer's Blog
So many things are swimming through my head right now... this entry is not going to be very structured. So i appoligize in advance.
Im sitting here in front of my new large LCD tv. The computer doesnt look quite as sharp as it does on a computer monitor... but it is deffinatly passable. And its sheer size more than makes up for it. I have to turn my head to see things in the corners almost. I mean i can flik my eyes up there but... it is quite a distance. to give you an idea of how big it is, the letters you are reading are about the width of my pinky right now.
So i have this large tv... and on the first night i showed Amilie to Amy and Kara. They both loved the movie. The TV made kara sick but i think she was going to get sick anyways. But we really havent used it since. I mean we dont really do movie partys anyways anymore. Its kind of sad... but i dont care. Movies are long and i would rather converse with my friends and be social if we are going to hang out. But a movie once in a while is good too. What im trying to say is while this TV is awesome... it doesnt compare to being social. It is not a replacement for a life. This makes me sad sometimes because we cant always be hanging out.
I just got off work. And when im done with work there really isnt anything i want to do more than see my friends. It re-energizes me and makes the look of dispair fade from my face and become replaced with a smile. But then you have nights like tonight where everyone is busy. really? everyone? Yeah all at the same time. Oh thats lame. So what do i do with myself... i go home and look at my large TV. See we are comming full circle now.
Basicaly i know I cant hang out with my friends 100% of the time. That is redicoulous. People have other things they need to do... except me. I never have anything i need to do... well rarely. I mean i work... but then you have problems of lineing up work schedules and things just dont work out right and suddenly I have the day off when no one else does... what do I do then?
I need a project. something to do. Normaly i play guitar and write songs... but ive hit a wall. I dont know what to write anymore. i have ideas. I can write things. But i dont play anything that really grabs me anymore. And its not like im trying and trying and trying and nothing is comming out. Realy i play stuff and it sounds good and i like it. But i dont really care. Im also having a style crysis. Like i love heavy metal and stuff. You all know that if youve read my previous posts or know me at all. But its not my favorite genre anymore. I like lighter stuff. I like punchy rock guitar stuff now. Guns 'n' Roses kind of stuff even though i dont really like the Guns that much. I still love metal... but im most at home listening to stuff like Coheed and
What does this have to do with me? Well... im used to writeing something on the guitar... then i record it and call it a song. My voice sucks though... and im haveing a really hard time writeing a song for Jen's voice. They are so poppy, the ones i get her to sing. Ive asked Kara to sing one of my songs. Its an Electric Guitar only song. But who knows if that will ever happen. And between all the poppy stuff i write and the normal stuff i write ive lost my sence of what i want the sounds to be. Basicaly im sick of writeing songs for no reason. I would like to show more people my songs but they never seem to be too interested.
My conclusion? I need a band. I made a call today to a college friend who expressed interest in starting a band. I really hope something turns out. I think it could be alot of fun.
In the mean time? Project ideas anyone? I once wanted to write and draw a manga. But my drawing skills are... very medeocre at best. So then i could just ditch the drawing part and write a story... but then there is the problem of what to write. All of my plot ideas are really quite cheesy and have been done before... but then so has just about everything. Originality aside they are still cheesy. And getting myself to start writeing... well that would be difficult. I did a good job in my short story class though... I think. Sometimes i just want to vedg out. I dont know how to spell vedg. So i added the D to make the G soft... at least i hope thats how you read it. Ive always wanted to design a video game... but codeing... thats hard work. and i dont really understand it all. Ive always wanted to play with small engines. But i dont have one to play with... i dont know how to weld... i dont have a welder. I want to build a go kart.... or mount an engine on a bicycle cuz im insane.
I really do want to wakeboard more. I love it. it is so much dang fun. But i dont have a boat... or a wakeboard. I need to be not working and Justin needs to be home and willing to go out for me to go wakeboarding. thats a bundle of circumstances thats hard to come by these days. but when we do go out... i feel so amazingly comfortable now. Ive been out three times. The first two were hard... the third was alot more fluid. And then i just feel so free. I love just flinging myself across the wake. I would do it all day if i knew how to land. I suppose i should learn that first before i try to fly.
Ive written alot already and now im out of steam. Again im sorry for the randomness. But i just felt like writeing stuff. I feel alot more comfortable now. Before i just had things running though my head that needed to come out. So yeah. Cheers!
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Me
I am who i am.
I feel how i feel.
I see what i see.
I hear what i hear.
I think how i think.
I play when i play.
I change what i can.
and dont what i cant.
I Live how i live.
and like what i like.
cuz thats who i am.
and that is my life.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Hahaha So true
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Crisis!!!! Solved!!!!
So the past few months ive been recording my songs useing a free program called Reaper. Its a good little program, but... the songs i was recording were...off. Thats all i can use to discribe them. Something just wasnt quite right. Well now ive finnaly got an outside ear to hear one of them and gave me some honest feedback. Jesse said that the solo part on one of my songs... Corporeal which is posted here, had bad timeing. I already knew this but i was panicking thinking that my playing was at fault... that somehow i had destroyed my sence of rythem. Well i have discoverd the cause and it is not me!
Reaper has a lag time in recording of a few milliseconds. It cant be very many... but over 27 ms is noticeable. So what would happen is i would record my drums... and then record everything to that. The drums are my metronome. So all the other parts are calibrated to the drums... thing is that the other parts are then recorded 27+ milliseconds later than the drums... makeing the whole song sound wrong... but not so wrong as to put a deffinate finger on it. So what i did was move the drum track a little bit down the line, usualy lineing up with a bass note... and holy crap!!!! Does it sound so much better!!! The result is just amazing and now they sound like they are supposed to. This is such a relief you dont understand. I thought my sence of rythem was destroyed. I thought i was loseing my musical tallent... the one thing i have going for me. But im not. Its just shareware programing.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Riddick
Those who know me... know that i love the Chronicals of Riddick Series. It is just fantastic. Its original and surpriseingly well done. I first got into it when while searching for a movie at Hollywood Video, Amy pointed out Pitch Black as a possible solution. I had heard of Pitch Black only as a movie preceeding another movie that had just come out but wasnt doing very well. I was like... Cool alright lets watch it. I loved it. I loved every second of it. It is still one of my favorite movies. I then saw Chronicals and loved it as well.
Then a while back i saw an X-Play review for a Riddick game. I was like... oh no a movie franchise game. that will suck. But X-play loved it. I was intreagued. So nearly two years ago then i had just build my computer and wanted a nice looking game to test it out on. So i bought it. HOLY CRAP. Amazing, simply amazing. That was two years ago... why am i writeing about it now? Because i just played through it again on the hardest difficulty. Im truly astounded at that game. Few games have amazed me so much as to make me play through their story lines again and again. I fully intend to play through it again someday.
I just thought i would post that so Vivendi and Starbreeze get their kudos. (They made the game)
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Monday, May 21, 2007
Corporeal
Here is a song that represents a dramatic departure from anything ive done in the past.
http://n8crist.googlepages.com/CorporealFinal.mp3
Behold the end of life inside
the lies we spread come back as hate
destroy the want destroy your friends
take from me and know your fate
Here at last, the lonely days
say your prayers, Darkness falls
shadows reign, the life you have's burned black
so take what you wanted and leave
so no your not needed any more
no one wants you no one likes you
tell your self the last day will be
no one no where fools your eyes
take all my lies
we cant they cant stop the ride
Dont run and hide
scratch for gold in hills of lust
take the sin and break apart
open doors to screen the shame
black out parts that no one wants
hide yourself beneith your skin
say your prayers, Darkness falls
shadows reign, the life you have's burned black
so take what you wanted and leave
so no your not needed any more
no one wants you no one likes you
tell your self the last day will be
no one no where fools your eyes
take all my lies
we cant they cant stop the ride
Dont run and hide
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Friday, May 11, 2007
A weeks passing
So ive been out of school a week now. In that time ive had an operation, 3 job interviews with 2 comanies with another one comming up, failed a language exam, driven 500 miles, spent nearly $100, all of the money i made back from books :( I drank coffie, watched 2 movies, sleped over at sarah's house, went to church, ate at olive garden, and recorded a song i call Uber Metal.
I have started playing Metal Gear Solid 3 again. I played part of it last summer but stoped in june... im now picking up where i left off haha. But it is a great game and it really makes me want a playstation 3 just so i can play Metal Gear Solid 4. Hopefully they will put it out on the 360... or the playstation 3 will drop in price when they realize no one wants them.
I have also started playing X-wing alliance again. Its an old old game but it is super awesome. The culmination of the X-Wing series. Though I think TIE Fighter was the best of that series. The thing about Tie fighter is that there is SO MUCH THERE! the story is super long. It just keeps on going. And it is HARD too. The AI is brilliant. For a 1995 computer game it is just fantastic. Thats right... the game is 12 years old. I need to use my DOS emulator to play it. For those of you who dont know what DOS is, that is precisely my point. It is that old. X-wing alliance however is much more recent than that. It runs perfectly fine in XP. It even has dynamic lighting and supports 1280x1024. haha.
I am rambeling again. I will go now and not work on homework... cuz i have none!
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
To all my fellow Open Door Attenders!
http://www.thedoor.org/
Go there. You can stream the video of the past two weeks of services. It is pretty sweet!
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
It's may!
Happy may to you all. I dont know why but indeed it is may and it is glorious that it is as such. right.
So i move out... in less than 48 hours. Its a fantastic feeling. Where as last year, i was sad and felt almost like i would miss the place... this year, i cant get out of here fast enough. Why? Its a combination of things really.
1. This room is smaller than the room i had last year. Sure T-hall was more noisy and sick but it was also more friendly... and the space was nice.
2. My roomate is the silent lazy type who didnt have a job last summer and annoyes me very greatly. Where last year my roomate was a loud obnoxious type who ive found i actualy got along with quite well.
3. and probably most importantly... I rarely got the chance to see Danielle. As the best friend ive made here at college, it saddens me to have missed out on hanging out this year. She was always just so busy. Always working, she had two jobs see. And then she got her boy toy which took away alot of her time. That is one thing that has always scared me. When all my female friends get their own love interests... will they still hang out with me? That said i can deffinatly tell she still values my friendship highly... and im not worried. She is staying in
As with last year though, it is time to go through what i have learned over the past year.
1. I've learned how to spell Hungry and Tomorrow.
2. I've learned that i never want to be a meteorlogist.
3. I learned that one can't always rely on one's self to get through life.
4. I learned not to take for granted what i have, and to make the most of it for those who don't.
5. I learned that dropping a cell phone... can break it.
6. I learned that just because i love heavy metal doesn't mean i cant write other types of music.
7. I learned that a cold reception doesnt always mean dislike.
8. I learned that lofted beds suck... oh wait i already knew that.
9. I learned that reading the Bible slowly greatly enhances what you get out of it.
10. I learned that Cars are among the coolest things humans make, and that the british are best at makeing an auto show.
11. I learned that just because Izzy is blonde and beautiful doesnt mean she can't fall for a plain guy like George.
12. I learned that even the best TV writers can have dry spells, but that they can come back and write some good stuff again *Cough* lost *cough*.
13. I learned that it is redicoulously easy to loose weight... as long as you are afraid of the food.
14. I learned that friends notice such weight loss and yell at you when it happens. (Im sorry guys, this summer ill try and fix it kay?)
15. I learned that oversteer is an interesting thing, and that it has boundaries that shouldnt be crossed.
16. I learned that college is a big crap shoot and no one knows what the crap they are doing.
17. I learned that the love God must have for man must be so awesome as to continue to make the world go round.
18. I learned that German is a crappy language that makes no sence
19. I learned that love cannot be forced.
20. I learned that bureaucracy is evil.
21. I learned that the internet isnt the best place in the world to be.
22. I learned that cake is amazing.
23. I learned that even the hardest fall can be recoverd from.
24. I learned that a good Digg is hard to come by.
25. I learned that no matter what desision i make, i need to have faith that God will set me on the right path.
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Grrrrr!!!!
Im getting stressed out and worried. A month ago i got sick. I went to the doctor. They gave me medicine. I got a little better. Today it got worse. I'm really, really tired of this. Im going back to the doctor tomarow.
In other news... i have a car!!! Yeay! '98 Volkswagon Golf Mk. III. 82k miles. 2.0 litre, 5 speed manual, keyless entry, its black, the thing goes like a rabbit on speed, and now it has 2 working headlights!!! I like it. So far i have done over 200 miles on just half the tank of gas. So im hopeing for a good MPG rateing. (ill do the math next time i fill up.) I have a job interview not tomarow but next monday at target. So hopefully i will have a job really soon. Then i can start paying things off. Like the aforementioned car. Also... i will be liveing off campus next semester so i will need to pay for a house or apartment. No way will i ever live in a dorm again. Hellish nightmare that it is. So combineing that with the fact that i now have a major, i should be pretty good... now i just have to get healthy again. Grrrr.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
A midnight muse
So the blog seems to be mended. I really hope so because its annyoing when it breaks down. I thought it was time for an update on where im at.
I am a Studies in Cinima and Media Culture major now. Ive just declared and registered for next semester. That means i will continue to go to this... school. *Sigh* its not really what i want but i really dont see a better option. The only hitch in the current plan... other than im not really enthusiastic for it is that... i may fail german. If i do... i will have to retake it. That will screw up my nicely planed out schedule and make everything harder. Stupid language. Doesnt help that my teacher is a vegan hippy either. Dont get me wrong there is nothing wrong with being a vegan or a hippy. Except that they dont eat meat and drive a Toyota Prius which according to Top Gear... sucks (and dosent actualy help the environment and doesnt habe THAT much of a benifit on gas mileage.)
So other than that... i am going car shoping tomarow. I need a car beacuse... im getting old and need a car. lol. And will have a job and things to do. ugnh i dont want to think about jobs right now. Seting up an interview during school sucks. Scheduels conflic and bah! If i had my car now we wouldnt have this problem. If i went to a different school i wouldnt have a parking problem either. Stupid large school takes up all its land with useful things like chemistry labs and Magnetic resonance imagers... i wonder if we have a partical accelorator...
So ive just complianed for 2 paragraphs... thats nice. Im trying to think of something to not complain about.... but its not going very well.
The weather is nice. Tomarow supposed to hit... what is it up to now? (checks the weather at www.kare11.com/weather) 70. 70* farenheit. Sweet. Sunday is supposed to hit 80... lake? Water ski? after church? oooooooo. oooooooo. im excited. Im going to go now because im rambeling on about pointless things. and its midnight so im going to check for greys. later!
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
NUMBER 9
Though i would give people and update on my newly extended weekend.
"What? Extended? What are you talking about naterz?" you ask.
Well my german class was canceld for tomarow... and as that is my only class... ich habe keine klasse on montag!!!! (that means i have no class)
The weekend so far has been interesting to say the least.
On friday we partyed it up at my house! Wooo. We sat in the hot tub, and at first it was just me, Justin and Amy...but were soon joind by melanie and kyle... and Jen... and Kara. (Kara didnt actualy go in cuz she didnt have suit cuz she came from work but she got her feet wet). Afterwards we saw a movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. And just so you know jen... it was great. Really sad but great.
Saturday was the 4th year annevesary of Travis's accident. If you havent gatherd by now... thats what my poem was about a few entrys back. This April has been full of pain and death. It has been totaly weird. But all that didnt matter anymore as we sat at the crash site. It was not a big thing this year. Just a few of us showed up... with no candels. But we shared rememberances. Thats why we do it. to remember. I enjoy it even though its sad. I really like getting to hear how others knew him cuz i honestly wasnt as close to him as some people. But we didnt get to go to the grave site... i wanna go. I have never been there. I dont know where it is. I would have gone today if i knew where but i really have no idea.
After that we went back to justins where we went out onto the dock...that we had just put in. Yeah, earlyer that day we had put in the dock to spite nasty winds and water that chills the bone. But it was cold at night even more so, so jusin and I got stuff for a fire. How warm and cozy is fire? Amazingly so thats how!
Today after church i applyed to Target for work! Yeay me! Then i ate at Panera by myself because i was super hungry. You are right Amy... the frontega sandwiches at like 1:30 pm are awesome! Mmm so warm and melty. CHICK-ON! lol
So now im just buming around at home cuz im not going back to school till tuesday now. Which means i get a 4 day week... which means... IM ALMOST DONE WITH SCHOOL! 9 DAYS! 9 DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT! 9 FREAKING DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE NUMBER OF DAYS LEFT OF SCHOOL IS LESS THAN 10!!!!!!!
It has begun. I shall be gearing up for full on summer slackage! I mean yes im going to work 40 hours a week. But whatever! I dont have to do homework! YESSSSSSSSS!
of course i have finals too. so its not acualy 9 days.... but I only have 1 final over finals week...and im not counting that cuz it will be like 2 hours and im moveing out the weekend prior to so...9 days!
And with that my dearest friends i am out. I bid you good night and have fun in class tomarow...hehe i finnaly get my revenge for easter break.
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Stand Up and Take Notice, There Be Lies Afoot
I am so very angery right now. The media... the media needs to take a f***ing chill pill. Pardon the french. Any story about VT... any story at all has been turned into an atrocity. People are blameing anythign and everything they can think of to try and explain this tragety. The most prominent ive seen is the video game connection. Seriously? THERE WERE NO VIDEO GAMES IN HIS DORM!!!!!! Blameing video games for a mass murder is like blameing rocks for the fact the sun is yellow. It just doesnt make any sence.
There have been many other reasons proposed for the VT killings. Some of these are even worse than the video game issue. I just chose to harp on that one because its one i know most about. I wont go into the other issues but rest assured... they are redicoulous.
The one thing ive seen that may give a shread of hope is the stuff he sent NBC. The pictures and video clips. These are the best source of info so far people. Theres been interesting stuff in there, like anger at the wealthy? But untill this stuff can be proporly analyzed DON'T SMEAR THIS MOMENT OF PAIN WITH LIES. The only thing that matters right now is the people dealing with this tragety. And how our thoughts and prayers are with them.
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Monday, April 16, 2007
dang it my weekend is gone again!
the weekend just flew by. Friday night we went to jen's house and chatted. Then we played mind games that are smarter than me. stupid mind games. But Amy brought brownies and bread...mmmm brownies... so its all good.
saturday i went to applebees with Kyle and Melanie, then to best buy to buy GTR2. Awesome raceing game. When i say buy... i mean i used my gift card.
Sunday after church we went to Leeann chins (a mistake, read on for why) and we had food. Mmm something about fake chinese chicken that is just so yummy. We ate outside cuz it was so awesomely nice out, i actualy got a little burned. i was like, how could i get burned? But we sat out there for like an hour, and i am pasty white from months with out sun. Then Jen showed up cuz she was working like 3 blocks away and showed us all up with her tan from
Dang it now im tired.
Thats right i said sleeped
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
This picture...
http://www.edg3.co.uk/snatch/life.jpg
amazing
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Friday, April 13, 2007
What is Cool: A Social Critique
I was watching Freaks and Geeks today. Lindsy was hanging around with her freak friends and Sam was hanging with his geek friends. Stuff happend. Lindsy got in trouble. The point of the matter is that sam told her "No one thinks you'er cool you know." To which she replyed, "belive me I know."
Now in my eyes she wasnt being cool, she was trying to be cool but thats the thing, you cant. Im my opinion it is imposible to be cool by trying to be cool. That is just plain uncool. Its the antithesis of cool. So what then is cool? What does society say is "cool"?
The D.A.R.E. program teaches us that cigarette companies advertise to make their cigarettes look cool, and the people look cool smokeing them. They teach us that these things are terribly uncool and that you shouldnt do them. Fact is there are some situations where smokeing a cigarette does look cool. These situations mind you are all on film and never in real life. Ive never seen anyone in real life smokeing that looked cool doing it. They just look like fools. But why on film does it look cool? Is it the atmosphere? Is it the lifestyle the characters lead? Is it the characters themselves?
Lets take the example of Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop". That character is the epitomy of cool. He smokes all the time. Is that part of his coolness? Its part of it, but i contend that he would be just as cool if he didnt smoke. The smoking deffinatly adds a dimension to his personality that we dont see. But i think he is cool for a different sort of reason.
Spike is cool because he lives the life he wants to live and he doesnt let anyone get in his way. That is cool. He's not trying to be anything other than what he is. He is a terribly honest and straightforward character. He dosent share much about his past for sure. but what we do know makes us all the more awed by his coolness. He has reasons for everything he does. Good ones too. So therefor it is Spikes character that makes smokeing look cool, not the other way around. That is why smokeing never looks cool in real life.
So lets look at an uncool example for contrast. Paul Walker played whats-his-name in The Fast and the Furious. He has gotta be one of the most uncool characters in the history of fillm. The whole thing is fake. The raceing is fake, their reasons for raceing is fake, its even in the plot for it to be fake. That makes it terribly uncool. Im not just bashing the movie, (it was a horrible movie btw), but he was just such a poser. He looked out of place and like a douche bag. If he smoked no one would light a cigarette again haha.
So we have two contrasting points. Both seem to point to one thing. Genuinenees (yes thats a word). Spike is genuine. His character takes no crap and gives no crap. He is cool. Paul Walkers character is the most fakey piece of trash there can be... he is uncool. Therefore it can be concluded that at least one piece of the puzzle is how genuine is someone. I would say, that in order to be cool, all one has to do is be who they are with out fear or trepidation.
This may require a part two.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
April Showers
April is a time for thinking.
April is a time for remembering. Remember those who have gone before us, but also those left behind.
April is a time for lives to change. April is a time for people to start to belive.
April is a time when people can see what fruit we can bear. From the trees to the lakes to the sun to the ground, all things, one in God.
April is a time for rain.
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Monday, April 09, 2007
er... maybe not
Upon further listening to the song... there are still problems with it. :(
So dont download it... its broken. I broke it. Im flat. Jen had pizza in her lungs... it just didnt work out. We will try again.
Other than that bombshell it was a great weekend. Friday night Amy and I met justin and sarah at MOA to eat and then went to open door. And to spite rideing with me the whole night Amy did not complain that my driveing sucked once. See i am nice boy. Then we went to justins and watched the Passion. Oh yeah that movie. I forgot about that one.
Saturday i had people over at my house. They brought food and then laughed for 2 hours straight. o.0 Ya rly.
Sunday after easter lunch/dinner/supper i went to carraboo (i dont care how its spelled right now) with Amy and Sarah and they took pictures of us...but really they just wanted pictures of me cuz im so beautiful. Then Kara showed up after takeing forever. And she lives the closest to the place. Then we went to applebees and justin came later. There we were served by incompetent watresses and waiters who took way to long to do anything. Sarah got mighty pissed because she had to be home. We eventualy left there and went to my house...again. More of the same ensued. Except this time we had justin...and he and kara get along well. Mike showed up as well which was cool.
Now it is monday. Ready for this? I have to write a story, write 3 responces to other peoples stories. Figrure out if i have a history paper due in 24 hours. Read a german play. Fix my crapy german essay. and some how make it to all my classes without dieing. rawr
I dont think i can do this. Im still sick. I want to go home and sleep forever plz. mmm im hungry.
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Sunday, April 08, 2007
Huzzah!
So Jen came over to re-sing The Lost Lamb. I hope you guys like it though I may have sung a part or two myself. Whatever i like it.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
2.5 hours is not fun
Apparently...im broken. Or at least not running at 100%. I just got done with a day of hell. I went to the universitys urgent care center today for... medical reasons its all very technical...suffice it to say...i was ill. I spent 2.5 hours there. Most of it was sitting and waiting. and more waiting. But they shiped me out, gave me drugs...and guess what?! im not going to die! So to all who were worried...im ok. Not that anyone really was.
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Monday, April 02, 2007
The Fool's Dance
You'er getting a doubble weekend batch of bloging here my friends. You get my rant on the intracacies of Heavy metal music as well as the normal run down of weekend activities.
Friday started off normal enough. Go to class and live in dispare for an hour... but then i went to Danielles apartment. I havent seen her in a super long time. It was really good to catch up. Especialy since we watched Avatar, and it reminded me of how much i love that show dearly. I could not stay long as i had to go home. Danielle was sad because i was suppsoed to take her to the RHA formal dance that night... However it is difficult to plan for a dance when you have NO IDEA OF WHEN IT IS!!! We didnt even know it was happening that day untill right then. Needless to say, we were bumed. I think she went anyway for the free food haha. Friday night i went to
Saturday i actualy did homework! wow! Then justin and i met up with melanie and mitch and kyle and his friend Lenny for applebees. After that we went to justins house...where i again made a fool of myself by neglecting to tell people to call me when they left the bridal shower for anna. Ugnh im really good at this arent I. But its alright becasue i flew in my car back to my house. We played games and such and there were alot of people there. I was really surprised. I had no idea that the turn out would be so huge. The night wound down with Jen and Amy takeing over my bed... and falling asleep. Just for like 15 minutes or so, but as time moved on i started thinking that i might have to sleep on the couch that night. However they awoke and set off shortly thereafter.
Sunday...being yesterday, was fun as well. We did chipotle after open door. Always a good choice. And after that Justin Sarah and I went to caribou coffee to re-create an awesome afternoon we had several months back at the same caribou. It actualy went quite well, only problem being that the stupid coffee people moved their comfy chairs away from the fireplace...making us choose between comfy chairs and warm fire on a drizzly day... needless to say, we chose fire. But other than that we were able to spur some intersting conversation and i got my favorite drink.
Since then ive done more homework and tryed to write some songs. Ive hit another style crisis. Its silly because i always try to fuse heavy guitar with popish melodys and. Such a combo leads to the different styles fighting one another. Some songs sound poppy...others sound thrashy...ive been haveing trouble mixing them again.
And ive rambled on far to long. Im sorry. Ive just alot to say tonight i guess. Good night all. I rise with the dawn...ewww...someone go to school for me please.
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
Public Service Anouncement
I love heavy metal. I really do. Metallica freaking rules (most of it), Dragonforce rocks my face off. Motorhead is cool. Dio was pretty good. Priest and Maiden were alright. Trivium rules (though probably because they are trying to be metallica). Avenged Sevenfold is more metal than not...and they are amazing so thats good. KSE is good for a listen. I used to like shadows fall...but i grew out of that, any kind of screaming is pretty much dead to me really. Early metallica is kind of funny though.
Any way we have established that yeah i like some good metal. However most of todays metal is just...bad. Really bad. Just fast guitars with no song writing tallent, and then have someone scream at the top of his lungs (shreding his vocal chords in the process). Though i did hear one really interesting band today. Kitty. Interesting name fora metal band right? Well its an all girl band. It was weird. Rocked, but weird. But still most of metal today is just a mess of crap thrown in with some poop. Please stop useing blast beats that last for more than 2 seconds. I know you think its cool that your drummer can move his feet and hands so fast but really its just noise. When the entire verse section is comprised of it...its just stupid and impossible to listen too.
But all that is a mute point when it comes to the matter i bring up now. I just watched a Mushroomhead video. It disturbed me. It disturbed me on a level that i thought impossible. Im usualy impervious to blood and gore in movies and stuff because i know its fake. But this...this was just so pointless...and so stupid...and the music sucked beyond measure. It was the worse sounding thing ive ever heard. Combine that with the fact that I could have made a better quality video with my 5 year old camera and the fact that it made me want to run and hide and you got yourself a recipe for WHAT THE F*CK! (Sorry about that)
But i mean COME ON PEOPLE! LEARN TO WRITE GOOD METAL!!!
Bands like that give metal a bad name. When i say i like metal people think of shock bands like them. And thats stupid. Metallica is like the best selling band in the world of any genre. (Dont quote me on that). And there is a reason for that. They are GOOD AT SONG WRITEING!!! Just listen to master of puppets. Its perfect. Its over 8 minutes long...and its like a musical with multiple acts. It moves from one thing to the next and comes to a climatic conclusion. Such an awesomely written song hasnt been heard since Stairway to Heaven, and not since then. Lets not forget, Puppets is 20 years old. But i digress. Mushroomhead has ruined metal for me. Well...no it hasnt, but now im more reserved about saying i love heavy metal. Because i dont wanna support bands like them.
At then end of the day...my favorite band is The Pillows. Though they arent writeing as good as they used to either. Its getting better, their last album was good. I hope the new one is as well. Also same goes for metallica, except their last album sucked. They havent written anything good since the black album...comeone let their new one be better! Fingers crossed ppl.
In conclusion, avoid musroomhead...listen to The Pillows. The end.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Sleeps lost
So last night i was trying to get to sleep, but there was this rumbleing. Someone was playing their music insanely loud. Now low frequencys are non-directional. You cant find them just by listening to them. But i was sure that these were comeing from the floor above. I was sure it was on 4th floor and that there was a loud party. So i get out of bed throw on some pants quick and investigate with the intent of yelling at those responcible. However what i found was that when i steped outside my door...was that it was comming from the room right next to me...and that the music wasnt very loud at all. He just must have had it playing right next to the wall that my bed is against.
Nevertheless i was out for blood on this night so i rapped really hard on the door, and politely asked hit to turn it down. Politely but firmly. Ok so i was downright mean about it. Whatever he turned it down.
But then... my dorm room sucks see. The heating system is useless in the spring. Its way to hot, even when turned off. So i have to open the window or i'll die...but some lewd, dim witted, morons decided 4am was a good time to have a humorus conversation outside my window. I wanted to take a megaphone and yell out the window at them. I dont have one. So i had to put up with it. Whatever. I eventualy got to sleep. However now i am really tired. Now i just want to go back to bed but i cannot. I cannot because i have class all day. arweawataigaer.
Also i have to write my story soon. help! any ideas?
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Monday, March 26, 2007
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So yeah the song actualy isnt finished. Jen isnt happy with the way her voice sounds (though for the life of me i dont know why) and we are going to doubble the vocals...something ive never done before. We will see how that turns out. Also...my laptop is dieing. I dont know how much longer it can last. I think the hard drive may be corrupted. Without the laptop the only other computer that has recording software is this one. This one that is at school. oh dear school.
I really dont know what to write at this point. I took a week long break from blogging because i knew few would be around to read it. What with spring break and all. I figured it was time to give a proper entry.
I mean, the weekend was fun. We went shooting at tims, hung out at adams parents house, ah memories, i saw MacGyver, and last night I had dinner at Jen's with her energetic family and adam. I felt suitably awkward the whole night as did adam im sure. But the food was really good and the stories were funny.
At
Sunday after open door we went to chipotle. Amy bought for me and then slapped me! Hahaha sorry amy i know your sorry and its quite alright, it sounded worse than it felt, but i just wanted to write it like that. Besides i deserved it lol. Then we took Kara's sweatshirt and money just to prove she is oblivious to the world. And she is. Most deffinatly. The best part was when amy meerly reaches over the table, in full view of kara, and takes the money. I dont know what became of that money. I gave the sweatshirt back.
Spring notice: it is spring. As such i will die soon. In about a month is when it will get really bad. I can already feel it. The air from my open window is blowing into my face. Its irritateing to my eyes but nessesary to keep me cool. I really hate spring. Why did God make it so that everything has to bloom at the SAME TIME! gah! My tummy is grumbleing. Its time for breakfast soon. I gots to go. I prolly forgot stuff somewhere in my rambleings but thats because my brain is dead.
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
Ah ha!
Im so frustrated. My laptop is dieing. I managed to squeeze out a last song with Jen but i just dont know if it can do any more.
anyway here it is as well as on the side bar.
The Lost Lamb
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
Wowza
This week has been one of the most emotionaly stressful and confuseing weeks of my entire life. So many things to think about, so many things to go wrong...yet none of them really did...well at least nothing i could prevent went wrong. Somethings are just beyond my controll and i end up doomed anyway. But we all make sacrifices...whether we know it or not.
I dont understand my head. I dont understand my brain. How it works. I dont understand my emotions. I dont understand how i even feel anymore. I had a breakdown a few nights ago because of this. My poor brain has been kicked around so much lately im still reeling. Thats my problem with my brain.
The chief problem of the week has been, WTF do i do with my life. My parents have made such a desision almost impossible. Their views on who I should be, as well as their anti christian sentiment has put up large walls on the paths i want to go down. However in spite of that... i feel we have made some kind of progess. The goal is to go to a new school, Ive picked out a few ones i like, Get a communications degree, then go to IPR and get certified in pro tools so i can record people. yeay! THis is a very tenative and sketchy plan. But i hope to make real progress with it. Prayers guys, this one needs to work. I need a plan to work.
Ok that was a quick update. With most people on their spring breaks now and some others on mission im not sure who all will read this one. But its here. im here. im going to bed.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
duuuuuuuuuuuude
Spring break is AWESOME! Yet i have done no homework and im going to be screwed...but i no care! Wooooooooooooo. Ive been to bethel and
Sad note, Jen has taken refuge from the world and fled to
Sader note. Ive been recording songs for her to sing. Sorry jen im not doing so well. Its hard. I wrote them hard. The laptop isnt the best for recording. I dont have the pluggins i want. I have work to do that i do. but ive done 2 of them so far. Thats 2 of 3. yeay me. Also....no more acoustic stuff for me untill i get a proper preamp...that just causes problems.
Today holly called me and wanted to go eat. So we went to ridgedale, but Amy texted me and was like "you should come to panera". Then mitch called and wanted to go to the auto show. So we met up with him at paneral. However we spent too much time at panera and decided to go back to
Ok this entry is sporatic but im tired and i dont know what time it is because this stupid clock is dumn...but i think its like 2 am. so im gonna go. I actualy have to wake up before 1 pm tomaorw....lol
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
The Wii
The wii is amazing. It is inovative, fresh, smart, and its nintendo. All things that i treasure. Ive had the wii for a few months now. Ive played a variety of games on it. Zelda, COD 3, Far Cry, and of course the sports game. The sports game is by far the best of the lot. My GRANDMOTHER was playing the sports game. Kara loves the wii. Whenever i see her she's like "Nate you should go get your wii." Amy (who has a secrit love of video games anyways plays the wii). Jen plays the wii. All are examples of people of a demographic not nomaly targeted by game companies. Microsofts game branch is now rethinking their philosophy on gameing because of the wii. Sony is just become bitter about the whole thing and has started slinging insults. Therefore the wii is awesome and everyone should get one...right?
Well, i dont know. For you see zelda...actualy was dissapointing. Its a fantastic game to be sure, but it could have been SO MUCH MORE! there could have been more depth, more story, more inteaction. I think that the desision to omit voice acting was a mistake. Their reason, of how they dont want to ruin players perception of how link should sound, is compleatly stupid. Miyamoto YOU are the artist here, YOU tell us what like should sound like. I would have felt 100 times more immersed in the story if there was voice acting, end of story. That said, the game is Still fantastic and i recomend it to ANYONE who wants to play a game-game on the wii. Cuz far cry sucks ass plain and simple. Call of Duty is good, but ive played the first and second call of dutys and if it werent for the new controlls...it would have just been plain.
This is the problem, 3rd party developers usualy suck. For any system ever, there are few really good games...my standards have been set too high. Zelda met them, but i felt that they should have exceeded them. Call of duty was fun, but i had played the game before in previous installments. Far Cry isnt even really playable. Wii sports is a party game. Thats different. That is what you show to people. That is the new idea of nintendo. This kind of, sit around and have a fun night of wii playing with your friends. Its great fun. But i miss something.
There are 3 games for the gamecube that surpass ALL others. That are responsible for seting my bar so high. These are the 3 games i compare all other games too. Eternal Darkness: Sanitys requim. FANTASTIC. AMAZING. ONE-OF-A-KIND. The story was so enguageing, the voice acting was of oscar quality, the gameplay was solid. Deffinatly one of my favorites. Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. Again, just stunning. I know its a remake of a playstation game, but the Story was flat out THE BEST of any video game ive played. the over the top voice acting while not as good as eternal darkness, was awesome. (see where im going with this?)
Finaly THE BEST GAME i played on the gamecube, Resident Evil 4. This one, had a spooky awesome story, above par voice acting, COMBINED with the best gameplay of the 3. This is the secrit combo for a good game people. You need the Story, acting, sound, and gameplay quality to have a really superb game.
This is what im getting at, Zelda needed voice acting and more interaction with the main story. If it were fleshed out the story would have been fantastic. Amazing. But it needed voice acting to tell it, and maybe more...something. Its a really cinimatic game. Amazing camera work, and motion captured cutsceens. Then it would have been a perfect game, doubtless.
Now it is possible to have a good game-game on the wii. Something that people can sit down and blow hours away without even realizeing. They just have to meld the elements together right. And this is true of any video game console. i just have more experience with the wii at this point. And the wii right now does not have the best of games out. Not the best that they could be. Look for metriod in the future to be awesome. The new resident evil, and final fantasy crystal chronicals hopefully will be awesome as well. The Wii is still young, lets give it a chance to see what it can do.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
According to this...
Im not stupid!
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Monday, March 05, 2007
Help me
I just sent my parents an email stateing my desires to change schools. http://www.mcnallysmith.edu/ in case you were wondering. But im terrifyed. Absolutly mortifiyed. This is big and important and im haveing a hard time writeing even this. (actualy im probably makeing a bigger deal out of this than i think) But really nothing scares me more. Prey for me if you would. I'd really appriciate that.
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Sunday, March 04, 2007
Snow Nate and the 7 midgets
Adam moved in this weekend. Its a nice little house that it is. We had a small get to-gether at his house to comemorate is moveing in ness. Jake came down cuz he wanted to see everyone. The usual ensued.
The following night we gatherd at adams parents house to comemorate
Today i went and cashed my state refund check and then spent it all lol. Actualy I just bought some anime and a book. Then i decided to call Holly up cuz i hadnt seen her in a long time. We decided to go eat somewhere. Andrew (Holly's boyfriend) became jealous of this and wanted to come too. Knowing that i can make someone's boyfriend jealous brings warm feelings to my heart that it does! We ate at panera! Amy was working there...we came in an hour before close! Oops. Sorry amy. But panera has good sandwiches, and its really close to andrews house. Amy was haveing passive fights with one of her current co-workes who was also my previous co-worker, who also knew andrew in some way...weird. But it was funny...cuz he obviously wasnt up to working much...and amy wanted to kill him.
After panera we went and played munchkins at andrews house...its like wow in card game form...sorta. Its funny. Then i took holly home and now im typeing here on the good ol' 64 bit windows machine. Tomarow i go to school early...so i must go to bed...but that wont happen for a while...but id like to think it would.
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Thursday, March 01, 2007
Adrenaline
We all know the feeling even if we dont understand it. Epenepherin, or by its more common name Adrenaline. Its a natural hormone secreted by the body to initiate the fight or flight responce. The Oh Crap feeling you get some times? Thats it. In Grey's Anatomy when they are trying to revive a victim and they say Push however manny CC's of epi? Thats it. They do that beacuse it stimulates the heart to pump, and pump fast. Your body needs the blood to be flowing in order to run away from...say a bear or other equaly large problem. Its an amazing little device that can allow the body to continue to fuction under the most extreame circumstances.
But it is not without its downfalls. The withdrawl from adrenaline, its simmilar to the crash you have when you have drank too much caffine, and you body has used it all up. Or when you've eaten too many candy bars. The brain feels weak and drained, the body feels tired. Even if you havent actualy done anything physical, because there can be non-physical reasons for the release of adrenaline, you will feel tired.
Dealing with the opposite sex in matters of relationships seems to be a good trigger for adrenaline. I dont think my adrenaline level has ever been higher than that time i was sitting in the chair lift in
Its a draining feeling when it hits. You feel as though all the blood has left your face, a serious feeling of Uh oh floods your entire body. There is no more finese left in your fingers, you are unable to process complex thoughts untill the initial rush leaves, which means for a grand total of maybe 15 seconds, untill your body gets used to it, you are dumbfounded, speachless, and look like a compleate moron. Those 15 seconds feel like eternity, like nothing will ever work quite right again, but soon you regain function of your brain. You cant move with any kind of subtlety but thats not that important.
Well there you are. The ablilitys and drawbacks of adrenaline and how it can be triggerd by something other than physical stimuli. This was a free write. Something to calm my adreanaline soaked mind. I hope you enjoyed it.
(No i did not just ask someone out)
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Here it is
So this weekend Jen was kind enough to sing one of my songs. This one was freshly written specificaly for the female vocal range. When i say that i mean...I just wrote it way to high for myself. Anyway here is the mp3!
Knowing Grace
Also for future reference it is on the sidebar as well!
Well Time
That is the title of the rest of this entry. What a fantastic weekend. I ate loads of pancakes and tacos and mexican other food. I am very tired, very unmotivated. I realized this as i was speaking to Jen and Adam last night after everyone else left. The previous night i had slept over at
I think school is takeing its toll on everyone. Amy's stressed out more than ive ever seen her. Jen was grumpy. Those two are usualy the most bright energetic bulbs in our little group. I want to be done with german. School may be bearable without german. such a monotonous class. And it meets every day. every bloody day. Im so tired. Today i woke up at 7 am. But thats only part of it. the constant presance of school hangs over me. Like an entire ocean over a deep sea diver. Its pressure is pushing on every part of me. My suit can only last so long, already its cracking, and i have to stay down here for another couple-a-months.
*Sigh* i wanna be done now.
Well im becomeing too depressing and i dont mean to be. I am like i said just tired. So i will leave you with a question.
Why does no one have the patience to sit thought a 9 minute song anymore?
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Story time!
The following is a writeing exercise i had to do for my Intro to Fiction Writeing class. The idea was that i had to write a VERY short story in which the main character has a desire that he ends up not getting, and still the reader must be satisfyed with the ending. So i came up with a plot in about 15 seconds and wrote the story in 20 minutes. I hope you all like it. Please dont take it too seriously, its a simple exercise.
A Family Again
My name is Ian Lepowski, I’m a photo journalist. Some time ago my father was camping in these woods. These very woods I am hiking through now. When he came to
When he was here, he saw Bigfoot. Yes he saw the Bigfoot. I was about 15 years old at the time. And when he came back he was so ecstatic. He wanted to tell everyone. He had brought his camera with him. He said he had pictures. However when they were developed… There must have been something wrong with the camera. The pictures were all white, completely ruined film. They laughed at him. They laughed at him and his white pictures. He lost his job because they said he wasn’t credible. After that he couldn’t get another job, all because of that creature. He drank himself into a depression and hasn’t left his house in 7 years. Since then mom’s been taking care of him.
Now I’m going to get his life back. I am going to hike thought these woods and get some pictures of that beast. Good ones too. I have a digital camera this time. This one won’t fail. Even if it does, I have a spare as well as a camera phone if I need it.
I was just checking my watch when I heard a twig snap. I was pretty deep into the woods. I don’t think any other human would be out this far. It could be a bear! Or it could be him! I crept forward, camera at the ready. Ahead there lied some raspberry bushes. Bears like raspberries! I should have backed off. It was stupid. It was probably a bear. I was going to get mauled if I kept going but I did. I tip-toed around the left of the bushes. Then I saw movement! A brown furry shape was moving behind the bushes! I drew up to my full height to see more clearly. I saw what looked like a large monkey, about twice my size and weight. Yes! It’s him! I can take this picture and vindicate my father! I saw more movement, this time more to the right. Two more miniature versions of it were scrambling in what looked like playing. They were playing? That’s when I noticed the smell. It smelled faintly of meat cooking, mostly of fire. I focused my eyes more clearly and thought I saw wisps of smoke though the trees.
I moved off to the left even more and saw a fire burning next to yet another Bigfoot. This one was bigger. This one must have been the dad! They were intelligent! They were cooking! They had a family! Excellent, I can take a picture of them and save my father. What will the world say when they realize that he was right, that they even have a whole family?
Those last words echoed in my head as I drew up my camera to take the shot. They had a family. If I take this picture people will want to see for themselves. Zoologists will want to capture them. They will want to look for more. Bigfoot’s life will be disturbed. Even if my father is drunk in his home, I can’t ruin another family’s life. I won’t ruin another family’s life.
I turned my camera off, and headed home to my family.
It needs editing but its alright.
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Ich hasse Deutsch.
Do you wanna know what that means? Its German for... I hate German. I really do. Jen tells me never to speak it. So i always do to get a laugh. But in reality i also hate it. I hate the sound of the language. It makes less sense than even english. Its never going to be useful since no one speakes it save in
This was supposed to be a rant on how im going to fail German class but instead turned into a rant about what contrys are better. hahaha. But really when all is said and done, i havent seen all of
Ok i need to stop ranting cuz i could go on forever.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
I may get hit for this
But i like my phone!
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WHY? WHY is it whenever justin starts horseing around it get hurt? Last time i bashed my head on Amy's knee so hard it hurt for 2 weeks! Now i ran up some stairs to get away from him and sliped and fell...now my hip is killing me! BAH!
So last night i was at
Satruday night we were house-sitting at jens house sitting house! It was fun...untill justin started rapeing everyone. ha...haha.....ahem. anyways.
friday night we were at my house playing wii and playing songs. Then i had 3 girls in my bed. then i had none.
Sorry about the sparseness of this entry. but........im tired.......and yeah. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
oh geeze
So here is a quick update because i seem to have confused alot of people. My spleen is fine. It has not ruptured. It is not broken. Nothing is wrong with me...save for being to skinny in some people's opinion. So dont even give the spleen comment a second thought. I just posted that as the title because im weird like that.
In other news the link to Kara's blog has been updated down on the side bar there so it should take you to her new site. Cheers!
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Monday, February 12, 2007
oh my ruptured spleen
College students are the weirdest breed of human being i have discovered yet.
this is the part where i usualy write about the weekend. Where i usualy say something along the lines of, "Friday after class Jen came and picked me up and we went and hung out at her
Continuing...if i were to write about the weekend, the second paragraph might look like this, "Saturday was a fun day. We gatherd at Adam's for some lunch. Amy emerged from
The final act of my story would go something like this, "Sunday i woke up and watched Downfall. Depressing but good. then i did my taxes. Yeay i get money! then i vegitated for a bit. Then i ate dinner, then i went in the sauna for the first time. I had forgotten what happens when you pour water over the rocks the effect was...quite drastic lol. Then i watched Lord of the Rings 1 and then several hours of tv before going to bed at 2 am. and then wakeing up at 7 to return to school. Now it is 9:30 and im still not supposed to be awake and yet i am."
And that is what my weekend would sound like if i were to write about it... again i say IF i were to write about it. But instead i'll just say something along the lines of...SAI YA!
good morning everyone and have a great day!
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Friday, February 09, 2007
Update time 2!
So i just saw the new Lost. Hmmmm....Hmmmmm... ive been dissapointed by the last 6 episodes...basicaly the ENTIRE of season 3 so far. NOTHING has happend NOTHING. FINNALY this episode they do stuff. FINNALY! basicaly they could have done in 2 episodes what they have done in 7. They have wasted everyone's time. Like the entire first half of second season. They wasted time. They are just suckers for money now. They are just trying to pull people in. The charm of first season is gone. The mysterys...never solved. At least not satisfactoraly. They run off and do other things so by the time they DO solve something...the audience dosent care anymore. Like...when we first saw the polar bears. i was like "WTF OMG why are there polar bears!?!?!?!" when we found out why it was anti-climactic and rather retarded.
This new episode...things happend...but there was no mystery or charm. There was no character development really...except for Dr. Burke...yes another doctor borrowing a name from Grey's Anatomy (ill get to that show in a minute). That was interesting. That brought some of the ol' lost feel back. But the rest? Not really anything interesting. Yes another weird plot twist was thrown in there...but at this point you expect a twist so much...that i would rather not know. I hope i didnt spoil that for anyone. I still enjoyed myself watching it and will continue to follow the series...though with less gusto than before...cirtanly less than for...grey's!
I shall be watching tonights episode very soon but let me just say...these first episodes of this half of the season have been phenominal. Phenominal acting...phenominal story telling...never a dull moment. It gets a little cheesy with the double marrages and George going out to vegas to get married so quickly. but hes been traumatized from the death of his father so eah.
Listen to me...sounds like a soap oprah. It kind of is...but it has an actualy production value so its ok. What i was trying to say is that while it is still chinsy and cheesy and chick flicky...it is a darn well made show and i really enjoy the characters...still. The writers in this show know what they are doing. They got a nice cast of diverse characters to work with. They are useing them well...and the actors that are playing them are doing a bang up job of it. Now...im off to go watch the new one! Later all!
Edit: After watching the new grey's....uh oh.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
what do you want on your car?
One of the things i like to do in my spare time is price out cars on the internet and gawk at things i will never have. Tonight i was putting together a nice little Ford Mustang GT when i looked to see what kinds of nice optional extras. Ford impressed me with their vast aray of luxury items including... Brakes, and wheels, and a transmission! Really...what will they think of next?
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
minor details revisited
So in my recap of the weekend i forgot one little thing.
During the superbowl while Prince was being Prince, a loud screeching noise erupted from the wall. It was the fire alarm. But it was unlike any fire alarm ive ever heard before. I have tinnitus and i think that this alarm has destroyed my hearing even more. It was the most shirll...percing noise i have ever heard. And it was loud enough to drown out all other sounds and make my skull resonate.
But...at least it wasnt pulled for no reason as...the back hall way of the apartment building was turning into a lake. (many explitives insert here) some little puke had thrown a football into a sprinkler head. Our party went to investigate the situation and found that a waterfall had been created where the sprinkler head used to be. also it smelled like gas. Fun stuff.
Anyway the fire department arived and wanted to shut off the alarm but couldnt cuz the building manager had the key to the alarm...and she was not there at the time. She had to come from wherever she was to let them in and finaly after 15 minutes of my ears dieing...we had peace. We went back to our super bowl and sometime in the middle of 3rd quarter went to the back hall again to check the damage. We were totaly not prepared for the carnage that lay before us. The entire hall was reflecting the celing. It looked rather werid to see the same thing on both sides of the hall as well as top and bottom. Looked like a kalidoscope sort of. Now there is only one way that the whole floor can reflect the whole celing...lots and lots of water. the fire fighters were splashing around in it looking for the sprinkler head.
The moral of the story is...DONT BE AN IMBECILE!
that is all.
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Monday, February 05, 2007
eeee
So i was right its monday and its freakin cold out. I say if it doesnt get above -10 in the next half hour here im not going to class. Plus i am sick. No im not but the air is so dry that my throat is dieing. wah.
I didnt intend on going home this weekend but i did. Friday night Adam came to visit and i simply decided to go home with him. We then hung around his house with Mike and Josh. They were playing Another World. Its a funny game with shooting things and they died alot. I spent the night in the water bed. mmmm what a satisfying sleep that bed can bring. The next morning we had Pancakes and sausage and bacon and hashbrowns. And i got to see Joshes new guitars and amp. Plus we saw shadow of the colosis. Thats a pretty cool game. It seemed a bit easy to me but then thats just me.
That night i went out with Holly to get some food. We went to Panera. Jake H. was working there. I got the fronteaga chicken. it was yummy. Holly did too but upon seeing that mine had cheese in it she made them make her a new one without cheese. hahaha. Then Jen called and after some confusion and 50 miles of driveing later i had taken Holly home and arrived at jens house. We watched some Tv show that seemed to be made of pure sin and then chatted cuz she had no scrabble to play. Of course she fell asleep and then i fell asleep and we didnt wake up again untill the dog decided to come down and say hello. "Snickers go away you smell!" She exclaims. smelly dogs.
Sunday i came back to school for danielle's super bowl party. She was cheering for the packers. We had subs and chicken wings and wontons to eat. it was amazing. after the super bowl i made Emma drive me home cuz it was death outside. Oh side note. on the way there i got lost in the tunnel system and wanderd into the radiology unit in the hospital. Then i spent the next 15 minutes looking for a way to get out of the building before i realized that i was still underground and needed to go up a floor. yeah. Hospitals = confuseing.
20 minutes now. the temperature has risen above -7 degrees now. I still dont wanna go to class. Lets see how warm it does get.
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Sunday, February 04, 2007
Correction
Habben sie das Deutches band gehören?
or
Hast du das Deutches band gehören?
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Lord in heaven...please have mercy
Here is another 5 day forecast. Actualy...i dont even care about all 5 days. Its Saturday, sunday and monday that concern me
Saturday High temp of 0. Yes thats right. 0. Oh no
but wait
Sunday a High temp of -2.
Monday a high temp of -3!!!! DEAR LORD SAVE US!
Now im a
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Top Gear
Is an amazing show...all must watch it...NOW!
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Teh shooz
Yeay i finnaly have new shoes! These ones dont have holes in the bottoms that wick up ice cold water from the sidewalk! yeay. With that i got new clothes as well. Clothes that actualy fit me! yeay!
In other news. Chipotle rulz.
In other news. We played trouble this weekend and then hung out at
Ok enough stalling. time for the real news of the day.
I went to my advisor to decide my future...all i ended up deciding was that i need to call a number and set up a meeting with our IDIM department. Thats the build your own major thingy. I had been tossing around building my own major for a while now. Thinking something along the lines of Music Production and Buissness...however the buissness end of that would require calcuolus. I dont do that. So now im thinking i can combine Music Production, Music Composistion, and english or audiology. Yeah. Thats what i may be doing. If that turns sour i will be doing Engish or going to a different school. I really should go to a different school. That woudl be the best option i think but really...i do not wanna transfer. But thats just me. I dont like switching things once ive set down that path. Maybe thats my fatal character flaw...well one of the many.
In other news it appers my writers block has been lifted and i am churning out new songs rather quickly. I wrote one last night. That brings my working total to 3. Only one has been recorded. And one other has lyrics. The other one has no lyrics and is not recorded either. But they are all workable songs. They are more rock and less metal now...but the one i wrote last night still retains its metal edge.
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5 day forcast
Today...high of 18 = cold but not bad.
Tomarow...high of 12 = thats a little nippy.
Wednesday...high of 18 again. = at this point i dont notice the difference.
Thursday...high of 16 = no point in careing.
Friday...high of 5!!!! = I curl up in a ball and DIE while trying to cross the bridge.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
MY FACE IS ROCKED part 2
May 3, 2006. I posted a blog entry...of which this is the sequil. On that day i had discovered the anime called BECK. I just finished watching it for my second time. Honestly it is one of those shows that i WILL watch again...and again...and again. It is flat out AWESOME.
All who are reading this are probably thinking, pfff naterz and his anime, he's just rambeling on again. NO, no this one is different. This one...is pure cinimatic excellence. This one...is the best tv show OF ANY GENRE! The characters...are so real. The most real i have seen in a long time. I identify with every single one of them. Their acting is great, the writeing was phenomenal. Phenomenal is a word i have reserved for things that i want to discribe as being the absolute best. That is what this show is. Any and all can love this show. you dont even have to like anime. In fact you can hate anime...and will still love this show. It breakes from all anime steriotypes. It uses its medium to its advantage...tastefully and carefully. The music...is just cool. and the final episode has 2 PILLOWS SONGS. AS WELL AS THE LEAD SINGER LENDING HIS VOCAL TALLENTS TO A CHARACTER!
Plus the final 3 episodes remind me of sonshine. Watch this show. you will be amazed. lol ill watch it again soon...and probably post another blog about how great it is. Haha.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
35k is not enough
..though I certainly would take that amount in cash. I got this email about a Russian missile shooting down an American plane. There is no text, just a video clip. Or what looks like a video clip.
In reality the thing is labeled as Video.exe and has a total size of 35 kilobytes. To the computer illiterate this means nothing. And so the unsuspecting would open it thinking they will see some video. Let me inform the uninformed right now.
Unless you specifically mean to install or run an application...NEVER click on something with the suffix .exe. ESPECIALY never click on a .exe file if it is under 1 megabyte. Unless you know exactly what it is you are clicking on.
That Video.exe file is a virus. It will eat your computer and kick your babies. It will plunder your information and take your virginity. It will erase your hard drive and take the leftovers from your freezer. So just don’t do it.
I went home this weekend for the first time in 4 days. Lol. 4 days. I cant even last 4 days anymore without wanting to shoot something. Bleah. But it was good. Though it seems some people are quite worried about my physical health it seems.
On Friday as I got home my mother gave me a lecture on proper eating habits. I eat just fine. I say. Then I go to meet Adam, Amy and Jen. As I walk in Amy narrows her eyes at me in a very unnerving manner. As I ask what’s up she asks to see my hand. Confused I raised my arm. That’s when she struck. Her hand moved faster than I could comprehend and before I knew what was going on it had come crashing down with the force of a freight train. (or at the very least a model freight train). “EAT!!!” she yelled.
And so began a weekend of people telling me to eat more and to not die. Me being me I decided to poke fun at this and on several occasions warranted more physical abuse from Amy and others.
Otherwise we watched some movies and played some games. I had a nice chat with Justin and Sarah, went to Open door with the gang, ate homemade chipotle burritos, watched Amy and Kara make Miis after viewing creppy movie, and did no homework whatsoever!
Now it is 930 in the morning. I have had 4 hours of sleep cuz im smart like that. I have class at 1220 but that is it. Then I have a paper to write and books to read and crap to do. Im
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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And my break is over. Over it is. Time to do it all again. Only this time...im more sad.
Im reluctant to do another semester in a school i hate, learning things i dont wanna learn. FACT
I dislike living in a dorm room, it is small, uncomfortable and loud. FACT
For all intents and purposes this school is seemingly worthless to me. FACT (whether or not it turns out to be so is anther matter entirely.)
But that is not why i am sad. This semester is different. Adam is moveing out soon. Yeay for Adam!! Sad for the rest of us. What will happen to nights in Adams basement. A place where we can just vegg out...or goof off depending on the mood. Amy is going to Bethel. Horay for Amy!! But the thing is, she will love it so much she wont wanna come back to us. Jessie...whatever happend to that kid? Does he exsist anymore? Mike may be moveing out with adam. Hooray for MIke. well shucks, what now for the rest?
I know im being pessimistic. I know they are all still around. I know they can all come back to see us, and we can go out to see them too. I just hope they give us the chance. i just dont wanna be left alone when all my friends have gone. lol maybe they should take me with them. I laugh in writeing, but im haveing a real hard time writeing this. This may sound rather selfish of me. But belive me when i say that i wish nothing but the best for everyone. Im so gald that Amy gets to go to school, that adam gets to start a carreer, that mike...well that he's doing something at least. I just hope that they do not become so busy that i do not get to see them.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Crap
One of my classes got canceled, I dont care about it i didnt need it for anything at all. Just filling space. However that speace has left me a 3/4 time student instead of full time. I really dont feel like trying to find another class to fill the spot. EJGPOAEGPN STUPIDITY!
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Butterfly effect
SEE IM NOT CRAZY! THERE IS A 3RD ENDING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mpk5XeYh-g
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Monday, January 08, 2007
Iran may need to get its ass kicked next
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132568.ece
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Friday, January 05, 2007
Story
i took my brothers car out to get some batteries from the local Holliday. On the return trip a Cop speeds up on my tail and lights up his cherries. I pull over and what does the cop say? "There's something wrong with your exhaust."
"...my exhaust?"
"yeah. have you modified it?"
"uhh....no."
what i should have said was "its a honda, they all sound like that when they are 15 YEARS OLD!!!"
Long story short he told me that state law requires that the exaust noise not be louder than the general engine noise. as if a law could be any more vague.
Theres been a hole in the tail pipe since i was a sophmore in HIGH SCHOOL! 4 years ago!!! And they pull me over for this now?!?!?!? Good grief.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Wii on the net
So opera has made a web browser for the wii, and i am useing it now! yeay!
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Monday, January 01, 2007
I would like to share something funny.
Recently i have lost som weight. With that people notice and comment....but only the second time they see you. You see them once...they go back and ask someone else, "Has nate lost weight?" Then the next day they come up to you and say "You look good man."
Thats happend to me several times now. Kinda funny really.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Sunday...is band day.
I gots some things to say here now. First of all it has been christmas. Christmas was good. Lots of good things to talk about there. But before that i would like to share a little bit about a documentary i just saw called Before the Music Dies. Its about the crap that is the music industry right now basicaly. Its not a particularly amazing documentary but its good for any who have some interest in the subject matter so i liked it.
Now. Last night was Christmas eve. Good night all around. We go to Grandmas every christmas eve to partake in eating and singing and present opening. However after that i did something i have never done before...went to a friend style christmas party...on christmas. I drove over to Andrew's (holly's boyfriend's) house to partake in more eating...less singing...marginal present opening but lots of fun haveing. There was Amy, Holly, Seward, a Dave, a Dan, a Matt, Andrew and myself. We played Apples to Apples and watched Dane Cook. Funny stuff. Then we drank a Jones soda holiday dinner...(i wanted to die). After that we watched the new Hellsing. Interesting. Not sure if i like it really. Its supposed to follow the manga more...but never haveing read the manga...i dont really care. But it was cool nonetheless. Holly got me a large Kenshin wall scroll. Sweet!
Today was christmas day...we opend up presants...somewhere in there i accuired a Wii...and zelda...and happyness ^_^ hahaha. Seriously...props. Major props go to Nintendo for actualy dilivering on their promise....SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!! Who wants a ps3? when you can have a wii! But the wii dosent look as pretty. Who gives a shit! Seriously! Seriously! Before i got the wii i was all like...yeah...looks dont matter...its the gameplay that's important. ummm...little did i know just how much FUN THE FRICKIN WII IS!!! Holy crap! Wii sports...AMAZING. SIMPLE...but AMAZING. So much fun. We all got the party together and played some wii.
OMG...ZELDA! ZELDA has knocked me down! one...its pretty. very pretty. 480i never looked so good. HDR nummyness. ACTUALY USED ARTISTICALY TO TELL THE STORY. Some games will use HDR too much just to say...we have HDR. Zelda uses it tastefully...you barly notice it except for some extra richness in color and the bright spots have some glow...but then you get into the twighlight realm (i dont know what to call it yet)...and it is turned on overdose...giveing the world a saturated...blended look that contrasts the normal world quite nicely.
I played that for 3 hours straight and had to pull myself away to try other things like..
Call of Duty 3 for the wii. All i can say is...FUN. Like...its a WW2 shooter...if you have played one before then you have played Call of duty 3. Seriously...it is NO different. But that is to be expected. We got it because it is the best first person shooter for the Wii right now...and the Wii is supposed to be good at FPS. my review...It could use some tweaking...a little touchup on the controlls. make it a little less...floaty...tighten it down a little. but...it is fun...and it is precise...at least more so than dual analouge. And while it is not as presise as a mouse and keyboard...it is more realistic...and actualy feels like you are pointing a gun at something.
I should mention something about the sound for both games...GREAT! Both are presented in Dolby Prologic 2. I really notice. They really went all out on the 3d sound stuff. stuff that happens behind me...i hear behind me...stuff that happens on my left...i hear on my left.
Next story!
(too much diggnation for me)
Im really excited. Im haveing jen come in somtime in the next couple of days. She has graciously offered to sing one of my songs. A song that i have spcificaly written for her to sing. So that should be really cool. Add to that the fact that i just got an SM-57...and we'er gold baby! Look for the new song...in the usual spot in a week or so.
Well thats is it for me for now folks. I told you i had alot to write about!
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
heeeeeeeeeeeee
Im done with finals now...im done with everything. I'm tired. I dont ever want to study again. The last 3 days have been Sooooooooooooooooo slow. Slow slow slow. Study study study. Nothing to do but study. blah. i feel so boreing yet...i dont really have anythinhg to go out and do yah know? Ppl are busy. Still studying. So i sit here and watch some Bleach. Play some cs. Play some nintendo. Wish i had a wii right now. Man i need a wii. that would realllllyyyy help. Im getting bored of this now too. Im gonna go now.
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Monday, December 18, 2006
*puke*
My roomate's emo...and a throwback...and very awk.
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Sunday, December 17, 2006
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I'm so freakin worn out.
My body is dead. Moveing my fingers to type on the keyboard is hard work. They are numb from the cold. And its not that cold. But they got cold from being out...for 4 hours! My spine hurts from jumping a 12 foot fence. That jump also compressed my stomach...and it now hurts too. Both knees were destroyed by cement and brick on 2 seperate occasions. I climbed on top of more buildings than i want to remember. I ran so much my legs have run out of muscle to use. But i won. I got the flag and won. It was epic.
Capture the flag, an event that occures every other week on my campus, is something that everyone should experience. What does it involve? Anywhere from 30 to 60 people playing in a game that can at its largest moments be a half mile long...and infinatly wide. (its not worth going waayyyy around let me tell you. Dosent work at all!) You jump fences...climb on top of rooftops...scale buildings....break into buildings. But in the end it comes down to...who can make the mad dash to get the flag. All the steath work in the world can help...but if you dont have the speed...it just dosent work. Take me...im a very slow person. I get the flag and just throw it. (rules of the game state...wherever the flag lands when a preson is taged, or when he/she throws it is where its new location is.) In this manner i move it closer to the goal by 20-30 feet. And when its 15 feet from the goal...that is pleanty.
Its finals week. 1 down. 2 on monday. 1 on tuesday. I studyied for number 1 on monday yesterday. Today i shall study for number 2 and the tuesday one since...i wont have much time on monday to study. But then on tuesday itself i shall study more since my final is not till 630 in the evening. I just wrote that more so i could organize what i need to do and when i need to do it. You really dont care when my finals are...or what i am going to do about them. So whatever. Im tired. Im going to bed. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Saturday, December 16, 2006
Politics
I dont usualy like to get political. But this is kind of important. Its also a facinateing story. Iraq is a mess. And i think we dont always realize this. The Bush administration would have us belive we have won...that the war is over and we just need to clean up a bit. This paints a different picture, even if it isnt directly about that.
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Friday, December 15, 2006
Nacht
A new Nightcast trailer is up! It looks pretty freakin sweet!
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
To jen
Its on this page...on the left column...3 one down. Lost Friends X2
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Hooopala walla whabang!
Well it twas my last weekend going home for the semester. Next time i go home will be when i am finnaly done with this poop stain of a semester. On the bright side i got a new gamepad controller so i can play Final Fantacy VII and N64 emulator games now. YEAY!
This weekend was great. I went home on monday...put in a motherboard...realized that a new motherboard wasnt what the computer needed...and went to adams to hang out. I had been talking to Amy about talking to our group about being a group and she brought it up at adams. "How do we talk about God?" she asks. Well the answere might as well be her question cuz it worked. Yeay! Let me remind you all to read Romans 1! I just did today. And i shall again soon.
Saturday i went with my dad to pick up a new processor for the computer. I put that in and realized that a new processor wasnt what the computer needed...and recorded my final project on the laptop. It shall be posted shortly in the left column where the other songs are. Its just a rehash of lost friends entiteld Lost Friends X2 but Jen says she likes it better and I do too. See what you guys think. I mean it should at least sound better cuz im a better guitarist now and a better recording engineer as well. Then we went to adams house and hung around lazy like. Adam Jen and kara crashed on a bed, after we played dont break the ice. I played with adams graphics card, overclocking it...then trying not to burn my fingers on its heat sink...(it wasnt that hot, im jokeing).
Sunday i went with my dad to pick up a new power supply for the computer. I put that in and realized that a new power supply was just what the computer needed, declared it fixed and closed 'er up. Then i went to adams and played imperial glory with adam and mark while Amy and mike and Jen(marks gf) looked on in utter amazement. hehehe.
Now i am back at school. I really dont know what to do right now. I have a final on thursday but then nothing till monday. Im gonna be very bored for a long while. Come visit me!
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Take it and like it!
Audio project...Done.
German skit...as done as its going to be.
Weather discussion...long gone.
That leaves me with this paper to correct and my finals. YEAY!
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
if i have to
Finals are approching! Red alert! Sheilds up! Fire phasers! Teleport me to the shuttle bay so i can run away! Seriously...i might just fail. GAH! im too tired to try and figure things out. Im needing christmas break...NOW. no more skits. no more tests. no more crappy projects that balh alv arlh ar a.rhaa.
Sorry, im a little out of it right now. I really...dont have that much to write about. So i will stop, and fart around online some more.
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Monday, December 04, 2006
new update
Both papers are now done as is one audio project and the weather project!
That leaves me with
1 Paper to Correct
1 Audio project
1 German Skit
1 Weather Discussion
and the 4 finals
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fact time
Did you know that the same companies who provide food to public high schools also provide for prisons?
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
To be Idle is to be Dead
I have blogged many blogs in the past few hours...but this is the most important.
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This is a story of a radio show where the host Jerry Klien basicaly said that America should brand all muslims in America with an arm band or such because they are dangerous. That instantly disgusted me and i wanted to punch him...but then i kept reading. People were AGREEING with him. AGREEING! They wanted them put in CAMPS as well!!! "like the japanese and germans in world war II"
"well you forgot one ethnic group there" i thought to myself.
Upon further reading jerry klien then reveald that it was a hoax and that he was sick and disguested that people were agreeing with him. My level of respect for him went from pond troll to good man.
I ask myself "who would ever think of agreeing to such a thing."
I asked myself in history class when talking about the holocaust "who would ever think of agreeing to such a thing."
If America were to condone any such action...i cant imagine the consequences. But i hope...that no one would stand idley by and watch.
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
in other news...
You Are Pumpkin Pie
You're the perfect combo of uniqueness and quality
Those who like you are looking for something (someone!) special
What Kind of Pie Are You?
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Update:
One Paper down!
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I have it all set out...its doing it thats the hard part.
OK here is where we stand. I have:
2 Papers to write, 1 to correct.
2 audio projects
1 german skit
1 weather project
1 weather discussion
4 finals.
The death starts now and i may lose alot of blood. Hold me.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Lets go to Chipotle...cuz its happyness.
I registerd for next semester...bleah.
German 1004: German again. I suck at that language. Im going to fail...if i dont fail 1003 first. oh no.
Music 1014 History Of Rock Music II 1970 to presant: A class im takeing for no reason other than to waste time.
History 1018: I dont remember what this class is but im sure i wont like it...its a night class.
English Writing 1102 Intro to fiction Writeing: The only class im remotely looking forward to. It is also a night class.
2 nigh classes in one semester? im going to shoot things starting with my head. I am vastly against night classes. But there was no other way to work it into my schedule. Cuz stupid ass German meets every damn day at the same bloody time! GAH i really dont like german! but what are you gonna do. I miss my old German teacher Mrs. Peterson. She was really good. I actualy learned from here. The teacher i have now...whats her name...she suxs. With an x.
In other news i went to Madison. Its a bloody long ways away.Turkey day was the same as always...rather boreing. Food was good, but then its Turkey. Turkeys always good. Except...my appetite is gone. I didnt eat much all weekend. The most i ate was chipotle yesterday. But i can always eat chipotle. Because its Chipotle. Oh praise God for chipotle. Anywho after turkey day i spent the next 48 hours nearly asleep and/or compleatly asleep. I read for 4 hours everynight. Then i slept for 10 hours. Then i awoke and sat on the couch and watched James Bond while eating a turkey sandwich and a slice of pie. I Did this for about 6 hours. (note times are not exagerations...only estimates. When i say 6 hours its really....about 6 hours give or take 10 minutes) Then we went out to eat. Then we came back where i watched more Bond and read more. I spaced out/slept on the drive home.
Once i retured i awoke from my 2 days of half sleep wanting to play. So we went out to adams house sitting house. Lol that makes no sense. Before that we went to Jakes house. And Drama ensued. So for the sake of less drama. I will skip ahead to the next morning...when the Cat decided to make fools of us.
The cat sprints from the house to the white shed. Adam, Amy, and I give chase. Amy bangs on the shed. The cat runs under the truck. The cat runs into the trees. Adam, Amy, and I persue. The cat dubbles back throwing us from his trail. Amy and I spot the cat at 50 yards behind us. Amy and I charge. The cat dissapears behind the barn and has not been seen since.
At this point we look for the cat for like an hour. And by look i mean we stood around...and went back inside where Amy fell asleep and i was about to but then adam came in and told us that we didnt need to find the cat because its an Indoor/Outdoor cat and can fend for itself.
We immediatly leave.
Then we ate chipotle. Afterwards i decided not to return to school just yet in favor of watching movies at adams house. We watched the 10th kingdom. We only got a third of the way though because its 7 hours long. All i can say is..."What's that?!?" "Thats my Tail."
What....the heck.
Anyways now im back at school and have much to do. Yep yep. i cry.
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
Where's my Wii?
Weekend gone...me tired...me not looking forward to monday. I miss the weekend already. Friday we saw Joeseph and the Amazing Technocolor dreamcoat. It was a pretty good play. Considering its my old high school im glad to see they still know what to do. Sort of... haha. Then we went to perkins. We havent had a large group of perkins goers in a long time...and know i remember why...that food sucks! Not to mention it put Amy out of commision pretty quickly. I think it will be some time before we can go back there...if ever.
Saturday I hung with Holly. We ate china buffet and looked at Wiis at target...I want one...though they are all gone now. After that we bought pop for Amy and then went to her horsey barn to see animals! Lots and lots of animals! Holy crap...there was this one room with like 15 cats...and there were more cats in the other house. And there were goats...and ponys...and a donkey...and horseys...and...dogys...and i think thats it. It was fun.
After that i went to see the Pristige with Adam and Mike...very good. Very interesting. Though its one of those movies you dont really want to watch again...at least for a while.
Now im bored at back at school. I dislike this place. Whats worse is its thanksgiveing weekend and i have to spend most of it in Madison. Wah. im gonna sleep as long as i can and burry my nose in a book. I get back on saturday. SATURDAY. thats like my entire weekend gone. Stupidity. Oh well at least the semester is almost done and i can go home soon. GAH i hate this dumb school.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Eeep
What a hecktic weekend. It all started when my parents said they could not pick me up. This is bad beacuse i had promised "Angry" i would go to her play. So i needed a ride. Jen said she could do it. So i thought great. She would pick me up on saturday and i would hang out with danielle and anna friday night at the U. Oops. So while im hanging out with them i am waiting for a call from jen...she had said she might not be able to pick me up in time so im panicking...then DING idea hits me. Amy and Kara are in the city at a concert. Ooo i will call them. Amy said she could pick me up when they were done. Ahhh at last all was well. Then it came time to direct Amy to pick me up...there was yelling on the other end of the phone...Kara was distraught...amy was pissed...and then i told them to go the wrong way...Im an idiot. When im driveing i always know how to get to where i need to go. Im just good like that. Telling other people where to go...thats a bit harder. I rather suck at that. Im sorry to Amy, and anyone else i have mis-directed.
Once we got out of the city we were fine and haveing a dance party in Amy's car. I reaffirmed that i cannot dance ever and should just sit down. Kara...looked like a fish...amy...somehow didnt drive us off the road. We went to adams house that we did. I seriously dont remember what we did at adams so fast forward to saturday.
I awoke at 11am...oh bloody...quick jump in the shower, get ready, i have no shirt! AHHHHHH. I found an old shirt that i never wore...hmm. I was good to go. We went to Mcdonalds. Looking back on it i should have had the snack...chicken rollup thing whatever its called. But whatev. Sarah's play was good. I try not to critique High School plays but lets just say there was good and there was bad and leave it at that. Thankfully Sarah was good and i dont have to lie about it. After that we wonderd delano highschool in search of memories. I had one memory...of swiming there many years ago. Then we went to adam's again. We ate hot dogs and played monopoly. Then we went to Jen's and played DDR and phase 10. I won both. YES!
Sunday we went to vespers after eating at Applebees. Amy, Mitch, and I had a very poor experience with our waiter, and left a tip of 24 cents on a $30 bill...that man is probably not very happy now. Vespers was excellent as always...they had candels!!! yeay!
Now it is tuesday morning...really early tuesday. But at least my monday is gone...i have a test in politics today...oh poopy. I just rememberd that...im screwed!!! AHH!
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
MY PLAY REVEALED
I have reached the end of my rope...nothing left now. Seriously, what am i supposed to do now? After i register for the comming semester, i will have compleated all my liberal education requirements. Everything i need to graduate will be compleated...except for my major...and i am possibly farther away now from deciding on a major than i was 3 years ago.
"So take classes you are interested in." you all say
I have no bloody interests!!! No one understands this! I like music and guitar and video games...what the hell kind of major is that!
"So take a music class." you say again.
What music class!?!? There are like 30 of them. None of them are a heavy metal guitar jamming class. I do not do music academicaly. Its a rule i made for myself that my parents ruind for me. Its why i hate saxophone and trumpet now. If i were to make a career out of guitar...it would probably get ruind for me as well. Well maybe not...but building a career on music has never been a feasible option in my mind. The music industry is too focused on looks. Looks...i dont have.
"What about your Audio Technology class?" you guys point out.
Well the class that it was a pre-requisit for...the class i took Audio technology to be able to take...was cancelled. I dont know why, and i dont know if it will be back. I am left with minimal options here.
Option 1: I give up all hope on doing something interesting with my life and become...some random major that i pick by throwing darts. Then i become a middle class single virgin who does nothing in his free time but play computer games and watch anime.
Option 1= not appealing
Option 2: I drop out of school, work at lowes for the rest of my life. Become an impoverished single virgin who does nothing in his free time but scrape the bottom of peanut butter cans for dinner.
Option 2= not appealing
Option 3: I hurl myself from the Washington Avenue Bridge in a deasperate attempt to save my self from the fates of either options 1 or 2 but in doing so i actualy survive the fall. Then i become an inmate at the local mental health institute saying nothing but the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42 over and over again and playing connect 4.
Option 3= deffinatly not appealing
Option 4: I use said numbers to win the lottery but in doing so i set up a vortex of jinxes that hurts everyone around me and eventualy ends up in the crashing of my Oceanic Flight from Australia on a desert island. Then i do nothing at all untill we discover a hatch...then i type the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42 into a computer all day every day.
Option 4= Not appealing...unless i get to hook up with Kate.
Yep thats my life in the next many years...kind of sad really.
(please everyone note the sarcasam, im not THAT pessimistic)
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Monday, November 06, 2006
Windows is Copying Memories...
The weekend 'twas. Im so bloody tired. I dont even know why. I stayed at the U on friday to attend food makeing at Danielle's apartment. It was yummy. very yummy. I enjoyed it very much so. Then we played capture the flag. We played 2 games. i taged several ppl the first game because i was defense...rather boring actualy. The second game i played offence...i rocked. I scaled buildings, jumped crevases, and broke into buildings as well. I was stealth incarnate. Of course it dosent really matter, because i got taged when i went for the flag anyways. But the second time...i got the flag. I moved it like 50 feet at least...granted most of it was parralell to the center line but i got it into a better posistion. Shortly after that we won. WOOO! Then danielle lost her phone and we had to find it, which we did not.
Saturday i paniced because i thought Jen had slept though her alarm and forgot to pick me up so we could go home, but no she was in a meeting. Oops. Sorry Jen. When i got home i ate and then went to melanies for Apple cider makeing. Its great cider and its kind a fun too but honestly somethings really pissed me off. First: molly. she and i...dont get along so well. Second: Francine and her know everything attitude. I know that she actualy pretty much does know everything about apple cider makeing. But when it comes to apple scrubbing...THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG WAY! I CAN CUT OUT WHATEVER I WANT! I mean sure, she knows how to do it, and she knows the most effective ways. But she doesnt have to be so condesending about it. And she is so cheery and laughing as she belittles me i just wanted to be like, "hey...im helping YOU out here. If you dont want it then just SAY SO!" Basicaly she made me feel like a little kid. Seriously, i dislike that. I shall be narrowing my eyes for some time to come when i think of that.
Now that ive got that off my chest, Aside from the cold fingers and toes and general monotony of apple cleaning it was fun. heh heh heh. Ok so i would have rather been at jakes eating pizza 2 hours before we were supposed to be there but...at least we had friends to talk to right!?!?
Jakes was fun. Amy pretty much kicked my butt twice in Fussball. Jake kicked my butt too. I dont know why i keep trying, its not like i practice and get any better, i dont know why the outcome would ever be different, but its fun to play. The pizza was really good...i only had one piece because i cannot eat much but it really was good. Then we played celebrity. Im sorry jake, i dont know my celebritys very well. I tend to not think of them as so important. Then we played a "fake" game of settlers. I dont know how fake it was. I was playing to win i know, but that was killed by melanies late addition to the game. Amy won her first game, she pretty much killed everyone. haha. It was jakes first time playing ever and he did quite well as well.
Sunday i came back and did homework, then mitch and i went with danielle to her church. Then after a stop off at annies for some Malts and Shakes we hung out at her apartment for a few hours.
Today, i didnt do much except for escort Danielle downtown so she could get a new phone to replace the one she lost. Its sad really verizon wanted to rape her with prices. But we found a cheap nicer phone at target that works even better than verizons crappy crap phone.
Yep, thats my life and what i do. Sorry about the long entry i guess a lot of things stuck in my head and i wanted to write them down. Interesting.
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Fun House
So there i was sitting at my computer trying to figure out how in the world this was gonna work. Cuz while in reality its simple...in theroy its tough. Ok so maybe not but i always over-plan. But i worked it out. So i hop on the bus...ride it for about 10 minutes, get off...walk like 6 blocks...find st thomas minneapolis campus...and wait. 15 minutes later jen arrives! (Like i said i over-plan). So we ate...then shoped at target!!! Woooo!!! then we went to jen's house. I like jens house. It is a very homey house. Not like my cold uninviteing dorm room.
So we watched wayyyy too many girly shows. Top model, some drama that takes television drama to a whole new level...of pain. heheh im gonna get smacked for that comment. But its ok cuz there were like 5 girls and 2 boys...i dont know where the other boy was the whole time so in reality i was the only boy...and there was no way i was gonna out vote those girls. they had their hearts set on watching these shows.
In the morning we had to get up early cuz jen had to work...im a bit slow in the morning. 6:30 isnt that early though so i was fine. Fine enought to find my way back to the bus and make it back to my... uninviteing dorm. I cry. I wanna fun house!
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
I updated the layout...sorta
It's late so i cant talk long but...If you will notice to the left i have re added the tag board for random comments...i hope thats not a mistake. I have also added some songs above it. I have rediscoverd the space i have at google and can upload songs there. Check the stuff out, lemme know what you think.
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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Weekends are gold...
This has been understood since God created man. "...And then God gaveith the gift of week-end. And he saw that it was perfect." > ok so maybe not. But they are pretty much amazing, and the only reason i still breathe is because i have those 2 days of peace to look to.
Friday night we had dinner at adams. AWESOME. Excellent job cooking yous guys. Major props to you! Then we carved pumpkins! YEAY! I did 2 because i messed up Boba Fett. It was really hard...my pumpkin was too small...the knives were too dull and oddly shaped...and when i tryed to use lee's drill....well all went to hell. So i made another one that simply said Naterz.
Saturday night we played civilization. That game...is long. We need to play the advanced rules because everyone was too into war...they would contest that it was I who was too into war...but they killed all my Settlers!!! My settlers werent hurting anybody. And they just slaughterd them. Pffff. Then we had to "rescue amy" lol. She was fine but she could have frozen to death and she could have been attacked by a vicious racoon.
Sunday night i was really sad. But amazingly an oportunity arose to fix that. I was so frustrated by being at school. I just happend to call adam to tell him i saw him driveing hours earlyer...and he was with justin. He suggested that i call amy and try to get a vespers quest together. (I used quest for lack of a better word). So we did, And we got lost...and traveld down one way streets the wrong way...and...that was my fault. When we got there we ate some food. Afterwards justin had to do some homework and Amy and I took a walk down by the lake. And i reaffirmed why bethel is so much better tham my school. THEY HAVE A LAKE! AND A FOREST! AND A SWING SET! Needless to say it was very pretty. a little cold...but down by the lake we didnt really feel it. After a while we realized that Justin was probably neck deep in some super hard math problem and we should probably just head in the direction of vespers. So we did. After spotin 5 different ppl that looked like justin we finnaly found him. And went to vespers. VESPERS RULZ! So much better than crusade. Bree, Erica and Tim sat with us. I hadnt seen them in a very long time...so it was good.
Now i am back...and must go to bed. Night all!
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Travis
So the night Travis died...i could not sleep. My head was just on. My brain would not stop thinking. I could not sleep. I was so in shock i just didnt know what to do. I saw my guitar and amp sitting in the corner...same guitar and amp that sit behind me now....and i pluged in some headphones...same headphones that are in the drawer now...and i played.
I played alot of things....but one thing...three simple chords....i played alot. And alot alot. Some months later i wrote more, and soon i had a song. I recorded that song. I have shown it to many people...but few know the meaning behind it. This is my song for travis...as song that more than any other song i have written, reflects my feelings that i had at the time i wrote it. Here it is...in full mp3 glory..."Lost Friends"
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Monday, October 23, 2006
Paying attention
So i just got back from the recording studio here on campus in order to try and figure out how in the world im supposed to use the digital mixing console for our next project. Through a series of happy accidents and mindless blundering i somehow mannaged to figure it out...Then i asked my teacher about what the heck i just did. He pointed some things out to me...i slaped my forehead like "DUH!" and then recorded the project. WEE! yeay i win.
In other news i would like to talk about a thing called situational awareness. Its an important skill to have for such tasks as...Flying a fighter plane, tactical commanding. playing First person shooter games, DRIVEING A CAR! Everyone has this skill on some level. Some better than others. FIrst of all like i said it is ESSENTIAL To have this skill in air combat. Fighter pilots have a good grasp of the world around them. Thats all it is folks. A GRASP OF THE WORLD AROUND YOU AS IT STANDS IN THAT MOMENT IN TIME! Now some ppl like to stand in the elevator loby downstairs. In the middle of the hallway. These ppl have poor situational awareness, as they are unaware that THEY ARE BLOCKING PPL FROM GETING TO THEIR ROOMS! PPL...PAY ATTENTION!
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
mahr
So...the first thing you guys prolly notice on this page is the new header. I realized that the one i had MAY...and again i say MAY...have infringed on some copyrights that no one cares about anymore because that game will never make another dime. But in the spirit of the thing...i made my own. Ive been into this whole...neon angle writeing. Thats what i like to call it anyways. Fun stuff that it is. I made my name as one. Its my Aim icon. I made a triangle of power for our group, "we totally kick ass."
So i was supposed to hang out with jen today. But she had things to do so i didnt. Bummer. I watched lost all day. Ok not really. Actualy i did homework. And if i had hung out with jen...i would have failed. lol good thing we didnt hang out. Then Holly calls me up just as im finishing din din. Its always good to hear from her. We continued conversion online for the better part of 3 hours. I watched a bit of Lost while doing so. Thats my thing lately too. Watching stuff while IMing ppl. Or playing guitar, surfing the net, AND IMing ppl. Im good like that. Playing Cs and IMing ppl....not so easy though i have done it. Only on low textured maps because of the time requred to swap bettween windows and the game is less. My roomate just turned out the light. My eyes hurt. Im out. Lataz.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
A sigh befor nigh.
Or something like that. unk. School is kicking my butt. I dont know if im gonna make it. Right now there is nothing i would rather do than to curl up by a fireplace and drink some hot cocoa. mmmmmm. I miss my dear friends. I miss them alot. I saw them a little bit this weekend. That dinner...amazing! Now my stomach complains. its hungary. It wants food...its too late for food. Im sorry stomach. Dinner tonight...bad. I always say UDS is bad. But not like tonight. Tonight there was NOTHING! they ran out of EVERYTHING! even milk. All i wanted was a bowl of cerial when i found they had no bread for a sammich. (i know i spelled it funny). BUT THERE WAS NO WHITE MILK! it was all chocolate! i cannot pour chocolate milk over my cerial! My dinner consisted of dry cerial, some lettuce, and a few bites of a VERY sour apple. Its no wonder im depressed. Why didnt i think of that befor?!
Whenever i dont eat enough, i get really depressed and want to die. Literaly, i get to the point where everything sucks and i just want to end it all. But...i get some food in me and i feel MUCH better.
Im sooooo tired. but i do not want tomarow to come. damn its 12:30 it already did. aww crap. guess its too late.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
I feel...at a loss.
"What is that litttle line with the dot underneath it at the end of the sentence?" That was the question that someone asked today in my german class. The symbol he was reffering to was one of these ! yeah. My friend thought surely he must have been talking about something else so he said jokeingly "you mean an exclimation point?" To which the first boy answered "yeah thats it..." and continued talking about something. I dont remember what it was because at that point i had lost all faith in humanity and wanted to kill myself on the spot.
Five minutes later i come out of shock and back to the world...only to find he is asking another question. "So i misheard you yesterday when you said you add an apostrophy when there is no vowel change?"
to which the teacher replys, "Look at this verb...is there a vowel change?"
"No..."
"Is there an apostrophy?"
"yeah..."
"ok then."
I blank out for another ten minutes
When i come to, class has once again resumed. But now...another kid is talking. The teacher had put something on the overhead. It had a colon at the end of it...signifying a list was about to begin, something about a mother reading to her kids. This kid decided to say, "Oh so she tells the story of colons to her kids i see." I turn to my friend again and he just has his hand over his eyes and is shakeing his head. My right hand shudders uncontrollably as i realize these people attend the same school as i do. I wanted to hit them both over the head yelling "YOU ARE AN EMBARASEMENT TO YOUR SPECIES!!!"
In conclusion for those who dont know. ! is an exclimation point. : is a colon, and just like any other puntuation marks...is NOT ACTUALY READ. If you did not know any of that...please, HESITATE TO ASK!!!
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
Vagabonds have Taken Over Panera Bread!
So 'twas the weekend. I went home and had a really good time. FOOD! OMG FOOD! it was GOOD GOOD GOOD!!! I cry. I have to eat shit that is getting worse and worse every day at this damned dorm. I have to eat it in a few hours. Im not looking forward to it.
But for the weekend when i got home...i had the most wonderful pork chops. Anyone who dislikes pork chops has obviously not had ones that were proporly cooked. These were cooked by my mother and were AMAZING!!! Then on saturday Justin calls me and asks if i wanna go eat. HECK YES!
So i get up and shower and head over to his house. On the way to get food i think, "hmmm....Amy gets off work in a coupla minutes. I'll Call her!" So i do and she doesnt pick up. Of course she is still working so i leave a measage stateing our intention to go to her work. Panera aka hell. As we drive up we see her car so we know we are not too late. We walk into panera and decide to ask Russ...who doesnt know who we are...where she is. He tells us she has left. So Justin and i decide to camp her car so she cant leave without our knowlege. A few minutes later Amy calls me and tells me her manager told her 2 scragaly looking guys were asking about her. WTF, i know im wearing a tie died led zeppelin t-shirt, but am i really scragaly looking...Ok so maybe i am. And justin deffinatly was. So we are a pair of vagabonds who wander into panera and ask about Amy, Russ obviously wanted to deffend her from such ruffians so he sent us away whilst warning Amy of the 2 scragaly evil people who want to attack her.
Whatever, she got off and we ate chipotle. Then for supper i had a birthday dinner of potstickers! YEAY! then at 9 we had hotdogs over an open fire at
So that is the tail of my food adventure. I will cherish the memories of tastyness while i delve into the devil food that is this place. WAH!!!!!!! Pray for my sanity.
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Oh yes!
http://www.transformersmovie.com/
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Oh yes!
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Its just me.
Ok so i wrote something before this but decided to remove it. Obviously you did not read the part where it says "I write like i talk." "Whole 'nother matter" is a common saying in the upper midwest. We add the "n" sound when saying it. I add the apostrophy because otherwise it says nother... which just looks like a typo when i did it on purpose. Trying to pick apart my web blog isnt going to win you anything so i suggest you refrain from doing it in the future. To put it simply unless you cannot understand what i am saying dont whine about it. You think you can do better? Go start your own web blog. This is my final statement on the matter:
"I posted that post about the kid because it was a run on sentece that i had to read four times through before i even began to understand what the kid was trying to say. As far as i know, my writeing is not that bad. I write like i talk, sometimes that means phoneticaly and sometimes not, but thats how i do it so there."
In other news, im at college and the leaves are turning. This means that elsewhere they have already turnd and are probably looking really beautiful. ARRRRR (phonetic spelling right there) I miss being back home where i can see all the nice colors, where i can go for drives...well no i cant thats too expencive...but if im driveing somewhere in particular i can see the leaves. And the smell!
Fall has a distinct aroma to it. i got a little taste of it today...cuz i walked out the door into a tree. But mostly i just smell oil and smog here. Stupid city. I miss all my friends back home. Its so lonely here. I never really connect with anyone save for mitch and danielle...and i dont see alot of mitch during the week and danille is even harder to find. So im pretty much stuck in my room every night doing nothing but typing on computers, defending my writeing style (yes i call it a style, what do you call your's?).
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captian ignorant i mean ironic
Do i offend anyone with my poor grammer? I realize that posting a post about grammer when my grammer is less than perfect may seem hypocritical. But if you were to look a little closer i think you will understand.
First of all this is an informal web blog. I write like i talk. Im from the upper midwest. So yeah i get to say words like wanna and alot. dont like it? too freakin' bad!
Second all of what you pointed out were spelling and/or capitalization errors, NOT GRAMMER! I consider Grammer to be seperate from these things and govern such rules as sentence structure, subject verb agreement, and the like. Spelling is a whole 'nother matter as is capitalization. Note that i did not bash the kids spelling or capitalization though lord knows i wanted too. Instead why dont you look at the incessive run on that the kid has used in his post.
How about you get your facts straight before you go criticizeing others k?
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Sunday, October 01, 2006
omg
Ok i know i just posted but i wanna place an addendem to the last post. First of all i spelled properly, "proporly" twice. I have smacked myself.
Second i lied. If you seach for VHS tapes on amazon.com you can find sonic the hedgehog saturday moning ones. Make sure they dont say "Adventures of sonic the hedgehog"
Thirdly some kid had this to say about one of the sonic tapes.
"A Kid's Review
Sonic was to wired in this video to enjoy it he and sally makeout in it so how can you enjoy that sonic whould never kiss some one ever one thinks sally is cute but hey she is jest plan ugly"
I SAY THIS TO ALL POTENTIAL PARENTS OUT THERE: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS ONTO THE INTERNET BEFORE THEY LEARN GRAMMER!!!! THAT IS ALL!!!
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Sonic, He's the Fastest Thing Alive!
Ahhh nastalgia. Thats what i do here at school I relive the past. Well, in terms of video games and tv shows anyway. Last year it was the N64 emulator and GBA. This year, is even better. I got both seasons of the Saturday morning sonic the hedgehog! This is the good one. The one with Sally, and antwon, and rotor, and bunny. I remember getting up at 5:20 in the morning just so i could see this show. It was great. Darker and more serious than the cartoony one that aired all over the place.
So ive been watching this show alot lately...its...pretty bad. But its addicting. Like i enjoy watching it, but the voice acting is horrible, the writeing is horrible, the plot for each show is...what the heck?!?! Solitions to problems usualy apear within 10 seconds of the problems occurence and ususaly result in sonic running somewhere. For instance. Sonic and rotor are captured by a slimy tentacle creature and lifed into the air. The music turns all serious and scary. Then sonic usualy says something along the lines of "You'er ugly! Sorry, would like to stay, but i gotta juice!" Then he spinns his legs...which somehow finds the ground and he runs up a wall...and accross the ceiling...oh and look he tied up the tentacle creature and somehow floats down to safety with rotor....wait what!? how did that happen? Oh and in the first episode one of the Freedom Fighters (those are the good guys) is captured and sonic and sally make a big deal about it. Im in the seventh episode and they have not mentiond him once. The episodes themselves have very little link between them. They have the basic premis of Robotnick trying to over run the planet with machinery. But thats it really.
There are some really cool ideas in this show. The basic idea is really solid. The freedom fighters fighting to save their plantet...useing what resourses they can to do so. Going on quests to finf artifacts of the plantet while robotnick does the same. The whole concept of the power rings. All this would make for a totaly awesome show if the execution were proporly done. As it is i belive the budget was just too low to do the show proporly. What you get is a show that takes itself VERY seriously but is hard TO take seriously.
Still there is something addicting about the show. And i still call it awesome. Why you ask? after all the bashing i just gave the show? Why would i call it awesome? because its freakin' sonic the hedgehog! And its still really fun to watch. So i suggest you all go out at watch this wonderful show. Wait...thats hard. Cuz it does not exist anywhere! hmmm. i will have to bring it home sometime. yes...yes..!!!!
Alright im out. As sonic would say "Gotta Juice!!!"
Did i just say that? Oh no....
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
I did it...i lived...i survived 2 decades. Never thought i'd do it actualy.
Well it happend. Im not a teenager anymore. But am i an adult? I dont feel like one...i dont want to be one. I wanna stay a kid. Im not ready to be an adult. Well i could if i had to...but i dont want to have to. I just wanna play. Being a kid is so...so relaxing. I didnt even realize. What did i have to worry about. Nothing. I didnt need to care. I cared about alot of crap that didnt need careing. I had a mommy to help me when im sick.
Im NOT sick! Im just slowed down thats all. My head is kinda fuzzy and my stomach hurts alot but im not sick sick. I dont have a fever. Indeed my temperature is quite a bit BELOW normal right now. I always did run a little bit on the cool side though. My body has decided that the food here is not good. It does not like it. Nor do I. We are in agreement. I do not eat much here. Today i had chinese food...my stomach already didnt feel good and i go and assult it with chinese food. But i told Danielle that that was what i wanted so Mitch and i went with Emma and Danielle to get it. They dont know im sick. I didnt want to ruin their fun. Or my fun. I never really had a birthday party of sorts. Sure the family did one every year. But i never got together with my friends and celebrated. I always thought it was rather...a feux pau to through your own birthday party. So i never did it.
Lotsa people called, Imed me, facebooked me, and what not. I wanna thank you all again. I made it a point to reply to every facebook wall post. Just cuz i can.
Birthdays sure aint what they used to be. I dont even get a famly party anymore. Sure i celibrate with my parents. This is my second actual birthday away from home though. That has to be rough for them. Its as much an important day for the parents as it is for the kid. I think we all forget that all too often. But gone are the big family get togethers. Sure we celebrate all the birthdays in the family on one day and i have now been lumped into that. Haha. Damn im old. im an old fart guys. its 1:30 im tired...its friday night...im sick...im out. Laterz!
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
5000 Hits...210th entry
WELCOME TO THIS SPECIAL ADDITION OF BLAKESTONE!!!
tonight I am celebrating the 5000th hit to this site! Thats right 5000. Now it is important to note that i did not always have the hit counter...but thats just a formality. tonight is a grand night. We will be looking back over the years as to what has transpired in the hundreds of entrys into this site!
In the beggining i was called...Himura Kenshin...somewhere down the line i decided that aliases were stupid and simply refered to myself as Nate. But back then...it was high school. The evil stupid thing that high school is. Actualy i liked high school. I have alot of good friends who i made in high school. I really had no expectations as to what this blog would be like... cirtanly i didnt expect it to last this long. The first entry was January 18th 2004. I started the blog because Holly and Adam and TJ were bloging...so i wanted in too.
The early entrys are really just accounts of high school life. What classes i have, why im so depressed, and the like. lol j/k. Though there are quite a few, dare i say, "emo" enterys. hahaha. Smack myself now.
An interesting entry came about on Januray 26, 2004. Adam and I had just dropped Holly off at her house in his car when we were suddenly overcome in a blizzard. We had to roll the windows down to see becase his defrostor did not work...its a darn good thing we did becasue he was able to hear...that his tire...was flat. So that entry accounts the tale of how we changed the tire in a blizzerd. It is one of my favorite storys.
On February 17, 2004 i recount the tale of the montana trip. It was a blast of a trip. Got my first kiss on that trip. All of you who know who that was...shut up. But other than that I love skiing, and i love all my friends. It was simply awesome.
The March 10, 2004 entry's title summs up how i felt about life at the time...it is titled, "I hate my life" and then i go into detail why i hate my life...i was a whiney little bitch. Im sorry to everyone ever.
March 30th i wrote about video games...it got alot of comments. More than any other entery. In the comments Holly posted about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals...a simply marvelous game that she and i have played for hours on end. Just this last summer we played. Now she is in Iowa, i miss those days. And that game. What a great game.
On May 31st I post about my new guitar amp. I love that amp. It has served me well.
Summer 2004. I had a crush on holly and it pretty much dominates the enterys where i speak of such feelings in "code". Haha i thought i was clever but anyone with half a brain could see right though it. So lets just skipp the details.
August 19th was the last entery of 2004. It actualy has 11 coments...but most are not real. Why was it the last entery...i could not log in. Stupidity. So for about a year i do not post a single post and the blog collects dust. I just gave up. Never really ever thought about it. I was busy and had better things to do.
The next entery is June 12, 2005 I give a breif recap of the past year and appologize for the emoness. Not a very interesting entery, but its something.
And then on August 27, 2005 i officialy revive the blog for college. And it has been a connection to my friends who also blog ever since. It took a different tone than the first year. It was brighter. Thank god the whole Racheal debacle happend in the missing period. But absent was the depression from this newly revived blog. It still wasnt great but i had made a plege not to depress my readers. Thats not to say i cant write a sad blog, it just means...they all cant be sad.
And thats pretty much how it continued, until sometime in november when i truly found Jesus. It is too difficult to pinpoint the excat day, but its in there somewhere. I never actualy wrote specificaly about it. It was such a gradual change. I think this is the first time i have even mentiond it. But its important because it is the reason for the continual brightening of mood in the blogs i bloged. The reason for the anti emo. In spite of my listening to Heavyer and heavyer bands I continued to feel better.
The summer of 06 saw the blog pretty much on Hiatus...but now it is back in full force. This year i hope to post more interesting enterys. The last two, "Our Boxes" and The dracula one, are both free writes i did by asking two friends, Amy and Jen, for a paper topic and then writeing about them. I had an absolute blast doing it. If anyone has more ideas please leave comments.
I would like to give special thanks to all who read this blog and commented.
Specificaly i would like to thank
Adam,
Bravo,
Omega,
Kung Lao,
Kitsune,
Amy,
Jen,
Jake,
Cujo,
If there is anyone i have forgotten please let me know. I would hate to miss anyone. Again thanks for reading and i hope you look forward to more and more interesting enterys in the future!
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
"Oh you're a bat!" "I'm Dracula! Lord of the Damned, Damn it!"
Halloween. It is apperently a pagan holiday. I dont know much about it actualy. In order to figure out what the nature of Halloween is and what it realates to each gender type i had to first figure out what it meant to me.
What does it mean to me? Candy. I got candy on halloween when i was a kid. Thats all it was. And it was kind of fun to dress up in fun little costumes and hang out in the neighborhood after dark. We always went to my cousins neighborhood cuz they live in primary suburbia. They have LOTS of houses to get candy at. Lots and lots and lots of candy. I only liked chocolate. And i think alot of other kids felt the same way. I mean...WHO THE HELL PUTS APPLES IN KIDS BAGS!!!! This is not health awareness night people! this is candyland damn it! Juice boxes were ok. After all that candy you need something to wash down all that sugar...mainly sugar infused with water. Last year i did not go trick or treating...i hid in my room form all the drunkards. Though they managed to find me anyway...and tryed to take of all their clothes. Oh God nate give them some candy so they will leave!!! Luckily God had given me some candy earlyer in the day...so i had something to pacify them with.
What does halloween mean for Boys in general? Candy, and a costume from their favorite movie of the year. And at least fifteen boys in the neighborhood dress up as spiderman...or superman...or batman...or darth vader...or satan. Ummm thats 15 boys each. No one is original, but thats not the point. the point is to get the candy.
Girly girls. They like faries...and disney princesses...though my cousin once dressed up as a hippy. For girls it seems the point is most deffinatly in the candy. At that age kids just like candy. I have said candy more times in this blog entry than ever before. Is there a difference in each gender types interest? Lets look at the older age groups.
No they still like candy but they dont dress up anymore. Maybe they do...but now they do not need their parents. Now they just pack into the back of Lee's truck and terroize Adams neighborhood. I dressed up as a paintball player that year. Oh what fun that was. Memories come flooding back. Maybe i'll share those another time. But it had become more about the expreince than the candy. I didnt get much at all. But we had a blast doing it. I would suggest that we do it again...but halloween falls on a tuesday this year so it wont be possible.
Pagan holliday right? Why are we celibrateing such blashphemy? Its the night of evil right? No...no its not. Not a thought of pagans once went though my mind as i tramped though neighborhoods with my satchel full of loot. And really, how can you celebrate something without knowing what it is or what its about? You cant, when all you know is that Halloween is candy night, its ok. You wont go to hell for worshiping idols, beacuse Halloween dosent mean that anymore. Its gone. Maybe in some wierd county of creepvill USA its not but here in suburbia it is. That is the nature of Halloween.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Our boxes.
My box. It is my box. I live in it. I cook in it. I sleep in it. I watch tv in it. It is my box. Due to a chronic skin condition i cannot go outinto direct sunlight. The only sun i get comes from a small, small hole in the top of my box. Now that i think about it thats why the carpet is always wet when it rains.
The hole in the top of my box is the only light i get. As such i have to paint the walls black. Compelatly black. It must not reflect any light whatsoever. If it did my skin would melt off. I am traped in a dark dark world where nothing can ever happen. Im stuck here untill i can rid myself of this sickness. I wait untill the day that i can leave. The time where i will be able to move on. But the black walls press in ever so closely. Its almost as though they are trying to suffocate me. And they are! They are! They are pressing in! Oh save me light. You were to bright for me before! You were simply too amazing for me to stand. But what can i do? Become a slave to the light? Or do i drown in darkness? I must shed this skin...this skin that binds me to the dark world i have built up. I must break free! I will! I am! I am free...follow the light. I'm almost there. This is the first time i have left my box. My box. it has been destroyed. It is ash. It is burning. I no longer need the box. I have found the joy of light. Hello God.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
...and God said unto thee..."where's the fudge cake?"
Im in a bitter mood right now so this blog may come off as being rather bitter. But i have developed a few philosophys about life.
1. No more energy should be put into a project that nessesary. Simple conservation of energy laws. Dont over do. Dont over think. Just do it as it needs to be done. The extra energy you save will alow you to do more things in the end.
2. People should strive to be a quiet as possible when they move about. (exceptions made for girls with high heels as its impossible to be steathy or graceful in those evil things. (i dont know why girls wear them)). Jen may recall her roomate last year. She was clunky and loud. My roomate this year is also clunky and loud. Moreover he is rather clumsy and uncoordinated. I think the two go hand in hand.
3. Calm down. There is no reason to get your undies in a bunch over pretty much anything. I really need to pay attention to this one. I get so bent out of shape about alot of stupid things. Its not even funny. If i ever start melting down someone remind me of this rule and i'll probably punch myself.
So those are my three new rules of life for me to live by. Conserve energy, Tranqulize noisy people, and calm down. (tranquilizers may be used for the third one as well.)
I hope everyone gets the satire.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Thats right...
You Are 76% Gentleman
You are definitely a gentleman. You're very considerate and you have excellent manners.
Occasionally, you slip and do something foolish... but usually no one notices!
Are You A Gentleman?
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Melody
Amy will know what this is. But for all else let me explain. At the end of last school year i watched a show called BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad. It was about a band that was trying to make it to the big time. The show had some great songs. This one, in particular was amazing. I learned it was written by the Beat Crusaders and decided to learn it and cover it. Now here is a link to the Music Video i found.
Why do i love this song? Why did i think it was worthy of the time and effort it takes to learn it, and record it? Because its the most beautiful song ive ever heard.
Click here
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Teh lanz ftw
So the fourth floor decided to put a Lan party together. Thats right i said lan party. 20 geeks and their computers in a cramped area playing UT2K4. I used mitches laptop, mitch used his tower. We played for like 4 hours straight. I got in some good fraging. Blew up several tanks by myself. Oh heck yes! I was known as "wrecker" by the game. It was intense. The lan parted even included 2 female members! Yeah girly girls! The party came to an abrupt halt by the loss of power to the building. It stayed out for like an hour.
And that ladys and gentelmen...is what happens when you live in a building of nerds.
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Pillage
So its my first weekend away from home sitting here at collage. oh noes. So Danielle wanted to hang out. She had to book the night off far in advance so we had this planed for a while. What crazyness. We met up with anna after a bit and hung out in mitches room. There i was raped by both of them and markers, then danielle sliced open my finger with a razor blade. My blood pretty much instantly coagulated telling my i have blood clots everywhere in my circulatory system and im prolly gonna have a heart attack or stroke here pretty darn soon. rawr. Then today i did laundary and riped open the wound so i had to put a band-aid on it lest i bleed all over everything.
my computer?!?!? What is it doing?!?! Windows hangs...while i know this is nothing to be shocked about it didnt start happening till yesterday really. It did it today on start up. I could do nothing! So i rebooted and it works...but still..very strange. I said i would reinstall the drivers for the card...but thats alot of work that i donot want to do. So depending on if it freezes again...i may or may not do that.
now, i am going to try and do some homework this weekend...but its saturday and i have nothing to do! so i will continue to do nothing...all day! yeay!
rawr this is boring
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Dang it Amy!
Your Famous Last Words Will Be:
"I dunno, press the button and find out."
What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Somethings wrong right? I mean really something has to me wrong!
So im at college...and something...is wrong. Nothing is wrong. That is whats wrong. I feel...O...K? this is not possible. Something must be wrong! Something must be wrong with my brain! I must have bottled all emotion down deep inside so that i cannot feel anything. That is what must have happend. because i cirtanly cannot feel...O.K.
Haha. No im sure im fine. But it is strange, to be feeling alright when im at the place i loathed so much last year. Most of the year. I feel as though im ok. But i shouldnt me. I'm away from my friends, i'm away from my guitar, im away from the comforts of home, but you know what i think? God is with me. One conversation with Mark on the forum and The Word speaks to me like it did a year ago. My prayers are being answered. I feel alive in God again.
Girls...everyone has to talk about them on their blog once in a while right? God tells me things. What does he tell me about girls? Im not ready for one. He may test me...let me get close... and then blow it away. BAM! happend several times. he dosent even like me to get close anymore. I have alot of growing up to do before i can consider getting marryied and haveing kids. I know this. And im ok with that. I need to rely on God, he knows the right moments. I just wish i didnt have to have all these little crushes to tease me along the way! grrr to that!
Everyone take a moment....I...just bloged a blog...about girls...and did not want to shoot myself at the end...this...is...a first.
I would like to take a moment and have everyone trave backwards in time several years. 2002-03. Those where the years i was really into film makeing. I made all sorts of little shoot-em-ups with my brother. We had lots of fun doing them even if the movies were...less than blockbuster quality. All was made possible by a little program called...AlamDV. CSB Digital is the name of the company that made it. Its a small small internet based company based in England. Their latest encarnate of AlamDV is called..EffectsLab. They have some other video programs too. Now i have played around with EffectsLab and i must say...it is amazing. But it is not the program that makes good movies...no...good film makers make good movies.
With that i would like to direct your attention to NoControl Cinema. A German based small time company that made the longest top ten movie on AlamDv's website. Some may know this movie as..."The Test" Their latest project is called Nightcast. Its a batman esqe superhero movie i think. Im not sure for cirtan...but its been in production for years and is slated to be shown on the big screen. I learned of this movie back in my video days and was keenly interested.
2 Years later i am still interested in Nightcast...even if i have lost my interest in film. I checked on nightcast's production recently...they are almost done with postproduction and are shooting for a January release! If anyone else is interested i will be posting the link to Nightcast on the left collumn. The link to AlamDv's succsesor site has been there for some time now...it is called FxHome.
Im terribly sorry for the long post but i suddenly had alot to write about. Funny how that works sometimes. And with that...untill next time!
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Monday, September 11, 2006
rawr
rawr to this site and its repairs. Well finaly it is back. hmmm where was it when i needed it. BLEAH!
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Song
So i write songs if you didnt know. Yesterday i was dinking around on my guitar and came up with a riff i really liked. Then i fattend it out and created a verse and a bridge for it...but then i didnt like the verse so i replaced that with the bridge. So i had a song structure...then i started singing "do da doo da dooo" over it to create a melody...and i really liked it. So Today i wrote some lyrics. Compared to my other songs it is lyricaly one of my best. It also fits the song very well. I dont usualy like to post lyrics but i will this time just becasue i like them so.
Scar of Hope
Scars though life and ever lasting pain
Come what may through what may come as rain
never waiting, always seeking, the one truth to behold
Seeking love though our own hope and faith
finding what can never be achived
never stoping, always wanting, the one truth to be known
Cry and pray though its to no avail
no one can help you now
you may think your saved but you are not
Only one can set you free
Bleeding life though wounds of sin and woe
blood that carrys hope of so much more
dieing for love, dieing for life, the one truth that is known
Life from nothing more than scraps of hate
never knowing what they ask of he
dieing for me, dieing for you, the one truth that we know
Cry and pray though its to no avail
no one can help you now
you may think your saved but you are not
Only one can set you free
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
So i take quizes again. im bored.
So i took this personality quiz cuz it was easy. Just click on the picture you like and it chooses your personality. I think it did rather well.
Your Personality Profile
You are dignified, spiritual, and wise.
Always unsatisfied, you constantly try to better yourself.
You are also a seeker of knowledge and often buried in books.
You tend to be philosophical, looking for the big picture in life.
You dream of inner peace for yourself, your friends, and the world.
A good friend, you always give of yourself first.
The World's Shortest Personality Test
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
A World Away
So my computer...is sick. The video card's fan is makeing noise. It wabbles and is not very good a cooling any more. I have banned myself from gameing till i can get it fixed. By fixed meaning i get a new card for my birthday.
But ive really been worrying about it, and thats not like me. It shouldnt matter that something so easily fixed is bothering me. But it does. All because I miss my friends. I miss them and in order for me to protect myself from the pain i transfer all worries and doubts onto superficial things. I finnaly said screw it. And it is makeing noise now. It wirrs and grinds and its concerning. But i dont want to worry anymore. It should be fine. That leaves me with the loss. I called some of my friends 2 nights ago. I was feeling really homesick, and i wanted to talk to them. Amy, Jen, and jessie all picked up thier phones (well jen called me back quickly anyway). It was good to talk to them, made me feel as though i wasnt so far from home. Im actualy not that far really. But sometimes...i sit here isolated and it feels like im in an entirely different world. College is a world of its own. All i can do for now is hold on to the memory of the other world, the world that has my friends, untill i can return.
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Monday, September 04, 2006
Back
So...last year at college...sucked. Im not really looking forward to this year. However i have been here for a day now and i have had time to take stock of the situation
1. I live in Middlebrook not t hall--this is a good thing
2. I do not hear screaming people running down the halls at 3 am--this is a good thing.
3. The food i ate in the caff last night made me sick--this is a bad thing
4. The bathroom is semi private so no one saw me sick--this is a good thing
5. I have found a lack of things to do--this is a bad thing
6. I have downloaded the 2nd season of lost--this is a great thing
7. my ceiling is much lower than last year--this is a bad thing
8. my roomate is quiet...very quiet--i dont know about this one
So far i have pretty even goods and bads...not bad considering last year i wanted to shoot people. Meh i just dont want to go to class. But whatever.
I miss all my friends already but i will be home this weekend. And dont worry i do not plan on watching lost without you guys.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Polotics?
Your Political Profile:
Overall: 40% Conservative, 60% Liberal
Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal
How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?
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Heavy Summer
Wow... This summer has been something else. I have had a blast...it has also been horrible. Watching my friends tear eachothers relationships apart. Every one has reached their limit. New problems, nothing works out quite how anyone has planed. Amy, cant go to school this semester due to the stupidity of money. Kara desparatly wants to go to a different school, anything but St. Olaf. However she cant stay home because her parents wont let her. Mike might not go back this semester. I didnt want to go back and still dont really, but my little problem of "i dont know what i want to do with my life," pails in comparison to everyone else's problems so much...that i dont even bring it up anymore becasue i feel guilty.
Its emotionaly draining when such things happen. But after listening to Kara vent for hours and then say she felt better afterwards was somehow releaving. I'm too empathetic. I feel everyone else's emotions as though they were my own. Alot of times i wish i werent so. But i am, and i feel alot of my friends are too. I think that is why our group of friends is so strongly bonded. Adam said it himself tonight, our group is unusualy close. Jen noticed it today too. She was amazed at how Kara, Marlise and Amy could be so open with eachother.
Its no wonder we still hang out nearly every day. Even beyond high school. My Mother told me as i graduated over a year ago, "you will never remember your high school friends." But she doesn't know, how could she? I will ALWAYS remember my high school friends. I will ALWAYS BE their friend. There is no two ways about it. I'm sorry if this is an unusualy sappy blog, but its important. It's right up there next to God on level of importance, and that's saying something. To be right up there with the big cheese Himself, thats...thats something else. To all my friends who read this blog, as Red Green often says, "I'm pullin' for yeah. we'er all in this together."
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Monday, July 24, 2006
So Who where and what now?
Here is a little midsummers blog entry for you.
Many many people have asked the question "Why do some have while others do not?"
To which i reply, "That is not the correct question. The real question is...What are we going to do about it?"
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Im still here
My blog works again, yeay! So...its been summer here. Yeah i been tubeing, boating, beaching, paddle boating, splashed by little kids, been attacked by little murderous monsterous kids, played hours upon hours of board games untill the wee hours of the morning, and i still dont work. Well i have a job... but i havent started yet. Lowe's has to process my drug test and call me. I wish they would call soon, im sick of haveing no money. Any one know how long it takes to process those drug tests? cuz i dont. I need a job fast.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Skype It! Part 2
So i have had skype for a while solely as an online voice chat thing. But i get this email saying that now calls to real phones are FREE! so i check it out. Its awesome! Why? Ok a few key reasons. 1 its hands free for me. yes i could buy a headset for my cell phone but thats money. 2 Conference calling. I can have up to 9 people talking to eachother at the same time with no extra charge. Not terrible important but nice. 3 The first time I call someone i can tell them im calling from Japan beacuse of the weird phone number that pops up on their caller IDs.
Should you get skype? I dont know, I'm for it becase i already had it and this is a nice extra feature. But i will still use my cell phone for pretty much ALL calls so it changes nothing. I would not recomend it to anyone who isint at their compueter more than 10% of the day. Otherwise its a nice little thing. Calls are free for the rest of the year so im gonna keep doing this for a while.
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
Here it is.
Here it is. Move out day. The day i have been waiting impatiently for ever since the day i got here.
Here it is. Move out day. The day i get to leave my dorm, my classes, my roomate behind.
Here it is. Move out day. The day i leave my new friends behind. And im sad.
Here it is. Move out day, and i am sad.
Below are some lyrics from the most beautiful song i have ever heard. Its from that show ive been talking about lately, BECK. BECK rocks, watch it.
What a fool, I dont know about tomarow, what its like to be
I was a fool, couldnt let my self to go, even though i feel the end.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Wii can do this
Sorry but you know there are gonna be sooooo many puns with nintendos new console, i just had to get in while it was still fresh.
A short while ago Nintendo revealed the offical name of its new console, The Nintendo Wii. WTF is a wii? That was my first thought. Then i rememberd shakespeare. "Whats in a name?" The answere is absolutly nothing, for yesterday i got the chance to tune into Nintendos E3 press conference live. It shatered all of my doubts and reinforced my belifes that it is time to change the game industry. The Wii's contoller, it looks amazing. Zelda looks amazing, it all looks amazing. I had doubts before, now i dont. Now i WILL buy a wii. Maybe even at midnight on the launch date like i did with the Gamecube.
PS3 and the 360 will be succsessful no doubt about that. But they cant touch the Wii for shear creativity and freshness. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THE 360 CAN USE A MOUSE AND KEYBOARD!!! I HAVE A PC FOR THAT GOD DAMN IT!!!! And the ps3 @ $500?!? NO EFFFIN WAY!!!!!! If nintendo can keep its cost down, and they have said they would in past conferences, it will sell. I suggest everone who still has doubts head over to Gamespot and look at the pretty contoller. Im gonna stop dreaming before reality depresses me too much.
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Monday, May 08, 2006
Home Stretch
Yeay weekend! As the weekend after classes are done, last weekend rocked. It was rejuvinateing. It was inspireing. It took away my will to come back and do finals.
Friday around 3ish Mitch, Danielle and myself had a little cookout at MB. I bought some hot dogs and mitch had some steak. Though his steak was ruind because his fridge sucks. So we all had hotdogs. I had like 4. or something. I dont know it was a lot. There were 10 of them and only 3 of us and we ate them all. Then i went home and we hung out at adams. I think we just talked and i dont actualy remember it that much. hmmm.
Saturday i woke up and played guitar. My room is now in the basement and i can put my guitar in there again. Then Amy called me and we went to go pick up Kara. Amy was nice enough to let be get some foodz along the way. Mmmmm chalopas at taco bell. After we picked up Kara and after we compleatly confused Amy on driveing we made it back and took the Knapps boat out. We looked at way to expencive houses on the lake. Millions of dollars for not that much land. Just because there is a lake. Then Justin had to go to a cook out so Amy, Kara and I went to Dominos for thier 555 deal. Then we ate the pizzas in the park. Mmmm good pizza for a change. Then we went to Adams and I discoverd how everyone is afraid of June bugs save for me. HAHAHA I laugh at you all! Then we watched Red Eye and Arlington Road. Both suspenceful and quite good.
Now i am back at school contemplateing getting something for lunch. It is pouring rain now so i cant go out yet. But it should stop soon. Then i have to study study study and basicaly learn all of Psych because i am screwed. Eeeep.
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Friday, May 05, 2006
Memories and lessons
So im going back over past blog entrys and i must say i was so emo. Its like not even cool. I may have bloged about this recently but im not sure. Anywho it made me sad because it was before i had a job and didnt care...now i dont have a job and really really care and need one. eeep!!! But it also made me sad because it brought back so many memories. Some were so vague that i had trouble remembering just what it was i was remembering. I had to stop, and recenter myself in the now. A totaly weird feeling of being pulled into the past. Like i always wanted to be back there and meerly put up with being here.
But i have found I like it here. really i do. I have this new sence of independance that i am afraid i will lose over the summer. If I do...someone punch me.
In reality i dont think i will loose it. now that i have it, i wont let it go, plus i am liveing in the basement. Far away from the concerns of the rest of the house hold...or so it feels. But i have learned so much this past year. So freaking much.
1. Do not go to chipotle as they open. They will not be done with the steak yet and that screws everything up. I got the wrong burrito once because of it.
2. When ordering chipotle go fast becuase they are fast and you need to keep up.
3. A mile...is not far at all on foot or otherwise.
4. I can walk 3 miles in under an hour.
5. Drunk people will always be there, dosent mean i have to be.
6. Never play truth or dare.
7. I learned how to rock with a lame finger.
8. I learned the true meaning of sarcasam.
9. The light rail is genious...maybe.
10. The MOA is NOT a good place to shop (ive been there 5 times at least never bought anything other than food or movie tickets).
11. On that note, student discount movie tickets are a wonderful thing.
12. I learned what it is to be friends.
13. I learned how to not explode in anger.
14. I learned to love again.
15. I learned how to use the AK and AWP.
16. I learned though my roomate that WOW will eat your life away.
17. UDS = not happy
18. Eating lunch or dinner (for free) with parents is a wonderful thing.
19. I learned the true meaning of frostbyte.
20. I learned how to put a condom on........................a door handel.
21. 19 is as young as i will ever be again.
22. I learned how to even out a sound mix and clear it up.
23. I learned to write a better riff.
24. I learned to not let go of the past, but bring it into moderation.
25. I learned the true meaning of Christmas (and all it entails.)
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006
MY FACE IS ROCKED
So today around 930 pm ish i got to MB to help danielle De-loft her bed with mitch. Once we finnished that i unlock my bike and start back. I hadnt got 30ft before i had to stop and let a girl pass (im a sucker for a pretty face shut up). as i do my wheel turns weird and i sorta slip off. I managed to not fall down but it was rather embarasing in front of the cute girl (why does that always happen when they are around). however i soon found out that it was not my fault. My front wheel did a 90 degree angle...bent. Thats right the whole wheel bent in half. o.0 I can go no further so i pick it up and bring it back to the bike rack. So i had to foot it a mile back...and there are criminals around that have muged people and stolen their money. Eeep.
Today i discoverd the show BECK. Not jeff beck, just BECK. Its an anime about being in a band...or so it has led me to belive. Hes not in the band yet he still has to learn guitar, though he is learning. Hes 14, thats when i started learning guitar so it really hits home for me. The animation is top notch. No cheapness, full frames, characters look more human than some anime. It remindes me of FLCL at times with the feel, though it is a straight down to earth show. No robots comeing out of ppls heads. The show also has really impressed me with its knowledge of guitars. The detail is impecable. Gibson Les pauls are featured prominently, as are Fender strats, teles, and jags. It is also notible that the mention alot of famous artists, The Who, The beatles, Zeppelin, even Steve Vai. Their knowlege of guitars is amazing. At one point the main character is being taught an F chord, and sure enough he is actualy fingering an F BAR chord. The songs also are all brilliant. I cant get enough of the opening theme. Usualy in an Anime i listen to the opening once and skip it in the rest of the episodes. Not here, it rocks. OH, its also worth noting there are Americans represented in this show. They actualy speak OK english. As a real American I can tell they are fakeing their accent and they still have trouble with "L's" and "TH'es" however. Oh and just about every spoken english sentence has the word "Fuck" in it. Which is rather amusing. It really fits the American steriotype of being an arrogant bastard. A comon phrase heard is "Who the fuck are you?!?!" I laugh. Anyway i suggest you check out this show it just plain rocks my face off.
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Monday, May 01, 2006
Wooo!
Ah the weekend is done. i must say what fun. I havent enjoyed a weekend at school like that for...since...ever.
Friday we celebrated Danielles birthday. How did we celebrate? CHINESE FOOD!!! heck yes. Mitch and I bought her dinner. then she bought us dilly bars at darry queen so its not much of a birthday preasant. Then as we were waiting for the bus some weird guy with one big yellow tooth apporached me as i held the box of dilly bars.
"Can i buy a dilly bar from you" He says. "ill give you a dollar."
Well i didnt know what to do. All i wanted was for him to go away because he was creepy. So i gave him the dilly bar. Then we went and watched The Count of Monte Cristo. It was very good. Then danielle decided to go to be at 9. WTF who does that? Anyway i went home shortly afterwards and watched Ghost in the Shell 2. It was...ok. The first was...ok. so i guess its par for the course. Thing is they both have soooo much potential, but they werck it with long drawn out scenes of nothingness and philosophical garbage no one wants to listen to.
Saturday we went with Danielle to get her hair cut. Why? Cuz this is the last weekend we get to hang out all together untill we visit her in WI. So while she was doing that Mitch and I hiked over to White Castle which just happend to be a block away from Aveda. mmmmm nothing like a White Castle burger to make your weekend. After that we went to the MOA. I hate the MOA. I never enjoy it there, but i do enjoy the company i go with when i go there so its all good. We wandered around there for a while i got japanese food and it was fun! Then we watched the 1st half of Leage of Extrodinary Gentlemen.
Sunday i awoke, showerd, hiked over to MB to breakfast and watch the 2nd half of Leage of Extrodinary Gentlemen with Mitch and Danielle. Its a good movie. Very fun. Then i walked back to my dorm to start my dumb paper. Its dumb, i am going to fail it. GAH! Then there was this manditory meeting or some such and they gave us pizza and ice cream so whatever it was it had dinner. Then i watched Traffic. Ummmm...not good. no no it was horrible. dont ever watch it. Its a propaganda film.
Ok, now the studyage starts. Later!
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Earthworm Story.
You know those little problems that you have, that are annoying, and you say to yourself i can handle it, its no big deal, and suddenly they become huge problems right before your eyes and you have absolutly no idea of how? Yeah, they suck.
So these earthworms. They live their lives couped up in the ground. Munchin' on dirt, poopin' out more dirt. Not a care in the world...till it rains. It rains it poors it drenches them in water. Weather (<--i know its the other whether) it be because of joy or fear they crawl up. Up up up and out of the ground. When they reach the top they dont quite know what to do. So they journey, see what all the rain has to offer. Unfortunatly this particular worm was unlucky today. It crawed or scooted or slitherd or whatever it is worms do, onto the sidewalk.
The sun arises the next day and here we see the worm. The worm is now nothing more than a burnt piece of tissue. Burnt to a crisp by the oppresive radiation of the star called Sol. It ventured too far and payed the price for his curiosity. It lost its entire existance by just following instinct, by just doing what it thought it should do. There are alot of dangers in the rain. So if you are an earthworm, I cant tell you to not follow your instinct, to stay in the ground is surely death in the rain. Take a chance, go up, see what is out there. You may get burned but at least you tryed right? At least you held on. Its what we all have to do. Hold on.
N
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
Where has it been all my life!?!?!?
Why didnt someone tell me about Dragonforce years ago!?!?!?! They ROCK!
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Sunday, April 23, 2006
Reporting in
Weekend done, Commence report:
At 16:45 friday April 21, 2006 i was picked up by my father at Territorial hall.
At about 19:00 i was contacted by a one Mike J. and asked to bring him a Digital video camera. I decided the best way to compleat the opperation was to drop it off at Adams.
At about 19:30 i arrived at Adam's with the package, we then commenced an operation in installing a new Woofer and enclosur in Adam's Trasport vehicle. The op was successfull and the sound has exceeded expectations.
At about 20:30 i Left for the crash site in accordance with mourning procedures. The result was stirring.
22:00 Mitch and I left for Adams via the fueling station at 55 and 116.
Sometime in the morning i arrived back at base and took some rest.
Saturday April 22, 2006
11:00 i awoke and preparied for the days operation
12:00 i leave the base to seek and apply for jobs.
14:00 i finnish the job hunt by caveing in and attempting to get my job at Super America back. Results unconfirmed
14:05 i Arrive at Adams place of work and kill time.
15:15 Adam and I leave his place of work to test the sub woofer apparatus.
16:00 Adam and I arrive at his house and work on Bass playing techniques
17:00 I leave to Locate Jen.
17:15 After much confusion I discover the whereabouts of Jen...at her house.
19:00 We arrive at the AMC film establishment in preperation for viewing of Ice Age 2. It was excellent.
Sometime after we arrive back at Jens and talk untill she dismisses me.
22:30 I again arrive at adams house where we view the distruction of multiple pices of wood removed from trees in the area.
02:30 I arrive at Base where i play guitar and read untill rest.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
I arrive back at the Theater of Operations to prepair for the next campain.
End report
Nate
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A note to all
To all who have ever used Wikipedia: BE CAREFUL! I just edited an article regarding Metallica's Black Album. I read one sentence and it was FILLED with comma splices and considering that, it wasnt even a sentence. Now im not usually a stickler for grammer and punctuation, but this was just bad. Just horrible. I could not let it stand...so i fix it. ^_^
BUT be WARNED!!!! It is NOT a good source for papers and college professors will most likely fail you if they see you cite Wiki.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Pass the Ammo
My roomate has this tendancy, a tendancy to be a compleate and total ass hole. He is the kind of person i would never be friends with were we not roomates. Because we are i can deal with it. Because i am smart and tend to avoid unessesary confrontations. But i tell you...a minute ago i was going to eat him alive. Why? Im playing guitar and he starts blasting this horid Hipity hop shit. First of all you DO NOT disturb my guitar playing...if you want to leave the room with all your limbs intact that is. Second of all...dont listen to hip hop it will poision your brain. Now my amp here at college is not very big...but it is 15 watts. That would be more than enough to wreck everyones ear drums in the room if i so choose. But i didnt get into a volume war with him...it would have been embarrasing for him you see. Cuz i would have raped his puney logitec speakers with my Marshall. Thank god he left and i was able to put on Master of Puppets to heal my ears. That song is as old as i am lol.
In other news...there really isnt much for other news. Its been an interesting week. Im sick of class. im ready to be done now. 2 weeks after this and then untill wednessday for finals. Then i am out of here. Im out of here faster than you can see me. Then i will be back in four months. Bleah!
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Sleep me = now
Hey thanks for your suggestions but its too late now. The machine was reformated and windows reinstalled over the weekend.
Today was easter. I hope everyone had a good one cuz mine was rather miserable. Remember a while back when i was ranting about how i hate spring because of allergys? Well just like a swift kick to the balls the innitial blow was nothing compared to the pain to come.
I went home on thursday. mmmm i needed that. My school is so stupid. I cant even express how frustrated i am with it in writing. We have NO days off. NONE. Just spring break. And winter break. Im surprised there was a Thanksgiving day break! other schools get an easter break, a fall mid break, im sure there are more as well. Gah! Anyway i decided to make my own break and it rocked. We had a fire at jake's house.
Friday night we had a fire at Adam's
Saturday night we had a fire at kelly's.
Pattern? So we like fires. ^_^
Day time friday was really fun as well. I called justin up and we played super settlers with Amy. Then we went over to Kelly's and played bochie ball! (Sp?) Then we drove a go kart! what fun!
Saturday i had a job interview. Menards. I did a good job i think. But they dont hire seasonaly. so...they may hire me...they may not. I dont know. Then i went to The Mt. Fuji in Maple grove. Excellent hibachi style Japanese food. mmmm. I want more. now.
Now i am back. I came back early because of the allergies and i was just so tired i didnt want to go celebrate easter with my family. I figured it would be better to just lay low and read the bible a bit. I did end up hikeing over to the MB getting the usual food. Then an epi of Iron Chef...made me want the Mt. Fuji food again. Then it was back to my dorm.
A very active weekend really. I kept comenting on how i used more energy in two days than i normaly do in a week. I wasnt kidding, and i wasnt exagerating. Thats why i was so tired. Stupid college is ruining me. 3 weeks then finals. Im done May 10th. Lets all hope i survive untill then! ^_^
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Hmmm
When Blog drive works it works. Thats really all i can say about it. I just dislike Blogspot. Im sorry to all others who use it...but this is just so much more slick...when it works. As it is now so ^_^
I am doing my usual thursday night blog now because i wont be here! Im going home a day early folks! cheer for me! haha. Oh man what a day. Not much really happend. I was tempted to do my paper but seing as how i can do that in 2 hours and its due on monday...i will just wait untill i have a more quiet envoirnment to work in. So i dinked around all day, watched quite a bit of Full Metal Panic. I love that show to death you dont even understand. It may have to become one of my top five! it is that good. After that i went and had dinner with Mitch. before that however we went up to Danielles room to try and fix her computer.
The problem is that she cant accsess AOL email accounts. She needs to do this because that is her main email. Cirtain parts of web pages also refuse to display. Anyone have any thoughts about this? We did a virus scan...no dice. Thunderbird can do the aim mail, but firefox cant. Is it an HTML problem? could some component have been...removed?
Anyways she went to noodles and company leaving mitch and myself to eat uds. ewww. Then we went back up with her and started transfering her important files to mitches laptop so we can reformat it. Then Mitch left for a twins game. So i hung around with danielle untill she kicked me out to do homework. So i came back here.
The rest of the week had nothing much happen. Yesterday the power went out in my dorm twice. That sucked. Other than that not too exciting. Thats usualy how it goes. The beggining of my week sucks and the rest turns out pretty good. I guess its cuz i made my scheduel that way. hmmm.
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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Wowza
It was a fairly slow and stressful weekend. Slow becuase only a few people were home. Stressful because i went job hunting and i dislike job hunting. Im not even gonna talk about it.
Friday night we gathered at
Saturday i drove...everywhere getting all sorts of things mostly not for myself. Though i had this Rasberry mocha freezer thing at borders books (i got it because i had a coupon for a free COOKIE!!!). It was like drinking heaven. It was great. Then i stoped by
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Stuff I Do
Last blog entry i made i decided to use a news report style. I Liked this so far and will continue to do so for this entry.
I have continued and finnished Full Metal Panic. However i found out half way though that it is the second season of the show. o.0 I finished it anyways but now i have the first season and will be viewing that next. This show however was excellent. It was JAM packed with action. And not cheasy freeze frame action no no. This is full motion, full frame, no werid special effects or backgrounds. Its fluid, hits hard, and on top of that the sound is wonderful. I cannot tell you how much other anime shows have been wrecked by haveing crappy gun sounds. This was most excellently done. This one is not just for anime fans, anyone with a taste for tactical combat action will love it. It is also worthy of noteing there is a love interest, and whole story behind that too so there is something for the girls as well. Check it out.
The book. Genevieve. hmmm, it seems dull. I am still reading it as i have nothing else to read but man, if it dosent pick up soon im gonna have to find something else. I dont even really know whats happening. Truly a dissapointment.
Music. I have goten into HIM. Really interesting. Hearing their single "Rip out the wings of a butterfly" i thought they would be just another emo band looking to get on the warped tour. But they have something more. They have a style that i would almost call 80's Journey. They really have a flair for melodys and catchy riffs. Its not screamo either.
This is what i write about when life becomes the same dull crap over and over again. Finals are soon. registration is soon. I have papers to do. I have movies to watch so i can do the papers. Im prolly gonna fail something. Meh same old crap. And with that im out. See you next time.
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
I Hate DST!!!
In keeping with the theme of this week...reasons i hate spring...i wish to explain why i hate daylight saveings time. Put simply, i just lost an hour of sleep and am now very very tired.
The above was mostly a joke, though i hate DST with a passion. A passion that is only ever shown on Daylight saveings time day. And maybe the next day.
In other news, This weekend was fun, strange, dramatic, and laughable. We watched a ton of power rangers...all night. I now have the entire first season. Thats 60 episodes of Mighty Morphin action. I have also discoverd Full Metal Panic and have just completed the viewing of the second episode. It seems full of military tactics and mech action. It has deffinate promise. I will keep you up to date on that.
I have also decided that i need some new shoes. My old ones are starting to ware thin. I do have a pair of Sketchers. (I got these because they seemed to have some good arch support. I was wrong. and they suck). Nothing can compare to Vans. I know they arent the best walking shoe. But when you consider that my feet are so messed up it dosent matter what shoes i wear, its gonna hurt, Vans are easily the best choice.
Today i did nothing really. There was a misunderstanding, i walked over 2 miles for no reason. Peoples feelings were hurt. Generaly not fun. Everything is good now however, and i even think i helped a friend out of her depresion...sorta...maybe. I'm not the best at that.
My roomate and I took a trip (a block away) to the village wok. OMG! FOOD EVERYWHERE!!!! It is most excellent chinnese food for CHEAP!!! and i even have enough left over for another meal. THAT... is a ton of food.
Last night there was an applebees trip with people whom i didnt really know their names!!! Well i do now and it was a most enjoyable time! YEAY BONLESS HONEY BBQ! There was a plethora (YES! excellent use of that word ME!) of pictures taken. Oh dear let us all cry.
Reading: I am currently reading "The Vampire Genevieve". Its not really capturing my attention fast enough. I dont understand what is going on, and the author spends too much time talking about places and things and not enough time talking about the characters. Sometimes i forget what the characters are doing becasue of this. Note to all who want to be authors: Storys need to be about the WHO! not the where, when, what, why or how. Those are extras to help discribe the world of the WHO. We will see how this book holds up for another week. then i have some more lined up.
To Jen: Im sorry we couldnt hang out this weekend and im sorry you got sick. I hope you feel better soon!!!
And with that...im out! Later!
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Friday, March 31, 2006
I Hate Spring!
Spring was invented to kill me. I am allergic to everything that is a plant. My nose runs, my throat is riped to shreds, my eyes burn. Today, my eyes sting. i cant see straight. My eyes water more often than not, and people who i dont even know come up to me and ask why im crying!!! I cant put eye drops in becuase... well i cant. I DEFY ANYONE WHO CAN BUT EYE DROPS IN THEIR EYES WITHOUT WASTEING HALF THE BOTTLE ON THEIR CHEEK, FOREHEAD, AND NOSE!!!!
I miss winter. Winter is good. Winter, the plants are frozen in a non-polinating state. There is no pollin in winter. Summer is ok too. Summer rules in fact. Not as much pollin. Fall, the pollin comes back. but not as bad as spring. SPRING HATES ME AND I HATE SPRING!!!
Well at least we understand eachother.
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Monday, March 27, 2006
DOOM!
So i went home for the weekend cuz i hate it here. What else is new. But i had a really really fun time. First night we all went over to Adams and decided to play a large game of Monopoly. Poor adam was only able to buy the electric company and a few other people were doomed to roll dice poorly. But in the end some tradeing happend, and then people droped like flys. Sooooo for the next like hour and a half it was down to Justin and myself, hammering away at eachothers cash reserves with our hotels. Then justin ran out of chash and began to shuffel houses around each turn. This made his turns last about 5 minutes each. In the end i eventualy lost. Then we went to perkins. I had a really good burger.
Saturday i recorded some stuff and bought expanded settlers! WOO. People showed up late for nicks but we eventualy started playing. After a first regular game of settlers justin was finnaly ready to explain what he had read in the rule book. So Amy, Justin and myself sat down and braced for the worst. o.0 Wow. What a game. It took like a half hour to explain it. But we got it. and we played it. Till like 4 in the morning. At the end, i didnt understand what i was doing. And i may have been crabby. Im sorry about that. But you can only handle getting blown up by that dumb ship so many times! Then not getting resourses. bleah! but it was really really really fun. So much more...involving than regular settlers.
Then on sunday Amy graciously took be back to school cuz my parents could not. And we had parera. yum! Thank you Amy!
Now i am back. Last night i played a game of Online Settlers with adam. That was interesting. We lost to someone named Merry C. It is 9 in the morning and i have to go to class. waaaaaaaaa. i have a test today. Waaaaaaaaa. i have a paper to hand in today. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! im doomed WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Quizez!
Take My Quiz
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Monday, March 20, 2006
A quick Update Cuz I Feel Like It
Today i dove headfirst into the grind. And it sucked. Aside from that today was rather interesting. We changed things up with a trip to the airport to pick up Danielle. Then I took a nice nap in film study class. (oops didnt mean to do that). But i got a 46 out of 50 on my midterm so rock on me!!! Afterwards i got like 4 new Pillows albums. One of them being their 2006 january release. I feel special. All in all it could have been alot worse as mondays go. Alot worse.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Another episode of life!
Wow what a week! Bowling, DDR, Board games, Jakes house, and of course several classic natrop partys, (and one super long into the bright sunlight of the morning natrop party). It was really good to have a break. Even though i see alot of people every few weeks anyway, its always fun to see my friends. Then there was the Nies's party. Saw quite a few people ive not seen in a long time there and that was cool too.
In the slower day time hours i spent almost all of my time at home. Saturday i put together a computer for my parents. Here is a spec list for all interested.
Antec Sonata II case 450 watt PSU
ASUS A8N nForce 4 mobo
AMD Athlon 64 venice 3200
1 gig DDR400 corsair RAM
EVGA geforce 6800XT 256
Plextor 716 DVD-RW
1 new Western Digital 300GB SATA
1 older Seagate Barracuda 120GB UATA (still has files from old computer)
Windows XP x64 edition
It runs. windows 64 has its problems. Mainly no driver support for the printer but i did find some beta drivers. FEAR seems to have problems. Farcry initialy had problems but i got the 64 bit update for it and it is amazing. So its up in the air at this point. I do have a copy of XP pro ready to go in case something goes wrong.
Then i did some reading, recorded some songs, played xbox live. Dead or Alive Ultimate is pretty fun online. The highlight of the game whas when I (a lowly D+ grade fighter) beat a top of the game S class. the spectators were in an uproar and i laughed at him. that booseted me up to a C. Then i changed the oil in my car. By me i mean i drove it to the shop and they did it in about 2 minutes.
All in all it was a most excellent break. I got to sleep in my wonderful not lofted bed, and showerd in my wonderful not craped in shower. But now i am back. This week i have a paper to write, a skit to write (In German), and... im probably forgeting something but i know it cant be good. Its back to the grind and its thougher than ever. Will i survive? Tune in next time to find out!
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
Its thursday, and you know what that means!
Oh time for my weekly thursday blog entry. Today i went over to St. Thomas to hang out with Jen. i was originaly gonna take a cab but upon returning from my class i said, "It is far to nice a day out to be takeing a cab. Im gonna walk!" So i did. 3 miles in about an hour. I Wore only a t-shirt and jeans, it was GLORIOUS!!! warm weather rocks. I slung my back pack over my shoulder and set off with sunglasses on my face and ear buds in my ears. I set the iPod to auto suffle and off i went. I though i could have some nice alone time to my self, Think thoughts about various isues. Alas all i though about was how far ive gone, and how much farther i have to go. It was stupid. For an entire hour i was bored out of my mind. It wasnt even physicaly stressing really. My feet, knees, and hips were sore but i found that they returned to normal after a few minutes rest. All i did was stare at the ground and wait for me to arive.
Enough of that. When i got there the fun started. we hiked to one of jens friends apartments... crap i forgot her name. Oh well. Then we headed back and jen cleaned her room! I know its not the most fun sounding of things but i needed a rest. I just put more mileage on my feet in 3 hours than i have in 3 weeks. (ok so maybe not). But i needed recouperation time. Then we had to go down and guard someones room or something, so we orderd pizza. Papa Johns is interesting to me, Its good, and its not. I dont understand it. I like it for the first minute, and then i dont, and then i like it again, and then i dont. I really dont understand it. Then we watched chicago, interesting film. Very styleized, beautiful use of film as an art form. Though it is a musical, and i get annoyed with musicals, i didnt this time around. Good job whoever made this film! Then we called a cab and i went home, after enduring the constant swearing from the driver.
Yeah fun day! And the moral of the story is, beware talkative cab drives and/or walk.
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Monday, March 06, 2006
I Love shoping! (for about 5 minutes)
A weekend away from home is like... something something i dont generaly like it here.
Sorry i dont feel like makeing a little rhyme but you get the idea. Actualy i had alotta fun here this weekend. Friday night Mitch Danielle and i watched tons of Iron Chef episodes. By the end of it we were all starving.
Saturday we went to Target. Not much interesting there so we hopped on the light rail to go home, but decided to stay on and go to the MOA. There we ate at the Maki of Japan and therein satisfied our Japanse food craveings. After this we did several laps around the first floor. All for the sake of annoying me. I dont mind shopping really i dont. But it has to be taken in moderation. Takeing a break and going to camp snoopy is a good way to relax and have fun. Or going to see a movie. That is always fun. Or even just takeing a lunch break. All good ways to keep the annoyance to a minimum. Draging Nate around to look for prom dresses for a prom that dosent even exist is not a good way to lighten the mood. And they wonderd why i stoped going into stores with them.
Sunday we grilled some steaks. That was awesome. Good food, and i have reaquanted myself with the art of grilling. ROCK ON! Then mitch and I hit up vespers at bethel. Very good band, very uplifting spritualy, even if i couldnt see 2 feet in front of my face because it was so dark.
Today i have failed a quiz and have another mid term to take in a few hours here. eeep. But spring break is in a few days!!! WOOO! im pumped. You can expect one more blog before then. then i will be off for about a week. Untill then then.
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
This One Ends with a Question
Thursdays. Ah how i love 'em. I try to blog on thursdays becasue i have only one class. So i always try to do something interesting. Nothing terribly mind blowingly interesting today but i did do several things.
Firstly i finnaly have watched Bowling for Columbine. Its not what i thought, and its very well done. It deffinatly makes you think. Thats all im gonna say on that one because its a film that should speak for itself.
Then i was dinkin around on google video for a while. Now if you have read my previous blogs of days long past you will know that my favorite band of all time is called The Pillows and they hail from the electronic entertainment industry giant of
I still like Alchemy, and i like far more than just heavy metal. I just explained that my favorite band is the pillows. They are more of a pop punk band than anything. It then occured to me that The Pillows style hasnt really changed, it just got broader. Yes they are pop punk, but their chords deffinatly have jazz roots. Their songs are much more complex than your usual pop rocker. Then i thought, well my musical tastes also have not really changed, just expanded as well. There really isnt anything that i once liked that i dont like now. So i wonder, do people musical tastes really change, Or do they just expand as the listener absorbes more and more stuff?
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Sunday night, you know what that means.
Im really really tired right now. I dont know why. Didnt wake up too early. That much i know. Oh well. It was a good weekend back home.
Friday night we gatherd at Nicks for some game action. Well there were quite alot of ppl there. Much more that i thought there would be. I was quite surprised that there were that many home. But it was good to see them. We played a game of risk. I did rather poorly considering, but i really had not much to go on. That game is hard to understand sometimes. Half way though jake had to leave so he left me to the comand of his army. I was thown into the middle of Amy, The Black Plauge's rampage though jesse's australia. Then i somehow won. Afterwards we played some pool, and Amy gave Ian and me a thorough whooping in fussball. What can i say i suck.
Saturday i spent most of the day fixing the computer at home. Stupid thing needs a new video card but the computer apparently dosent like the new card so it wont work. thats stupid. Then i went over to Jen's and we played more board games. We played everything from Risk, to some greek game or something. I forget what its called but its like advanced tic tac toe. 2 Player risk isnt that much fun. Scrabble is fun... and then i loose. Triominos is...triominos and battleship is awesome.
Now im back at the ol' school awaiting the comming of tomarow when i have to drag myself to class.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Happy Thoughts
Yesterday i was taking the bus to all of my classes. The first time i get on i discover that this bus is driven by the Jazzman. Who is the jazzman you ask? Well he is a fellow i have encountered only once before in my adventures of the U transit system. He brings a boom box on the bus and bungie chords it to the dash. Then he proceeds to blast jazz music thoughout the bus. It brings a smile to my face that someone its trying his best to brighten the days of lowly college students who are fed up with stupid classes and environments. Well some of them. He also has a plauqe posted over the door that says "Jazzman". Thats how i know he is the jazz man.
Thats not hte half of it though. On my second and third bus trips at compleatly different times of the day, i again board his bus. I take out my ear buds so i can listen to his music. It brightens my day as im sure it brightes anyones day who happens to come across him. In the end it is the little things that sometimes make the biggest difference. So next time you find something that makes you smile or makes your day just a little better, slow down and take notice, and give thanks to God for creating this wonderful excistence.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
Slow days but lotsa stuff cramed in there.
Twas and interesting weekend back home. Friday night as my mom is explaining to me that she dosent want me to go out that night, Justin calles me for game night. So of course i leave to go play games. It was only Justin, Med, and myself and we only played 2 games of settlers, but they were both really good games of settlers, and i won the second one! Yeay! Then i went home and watched movies.
Satruday i got up and drove to ridgedale. I got some ethernet cable so we can have Xbox live in the basement. We have cabel internet back home now and its pretty sweet. I also got some books and stuff. On the way back home i had lunch. (at 2:30 in the afternoon). I had some Chalupas at taco bell, highlight of my day right there. Chalupas RULE!
Upon my return to my house, my dad and I decide to try and thread the cabel though the wall to the basement. We tryed to get it to follow the hole that the cabel internet was already going though. It was just some wafer board. Should have been easy to get though. But no. I chisled away at at it for like 10 minutes and got nowhere. So we get the drill. And i drill, and drill, and dill. It seemed like the wood goes on forever.
So i go upstaris to get a new perspective. The actual distance we need to get though is only a couple inches. But when i get up there i find that it is a could of inches of two by four. So I remove all the cables that were there, take the big drill, with the biggest drill bit I could find, and drill though it. BUT... i missed by a few millimeters and end up haveing to grind away at it with the drill bit. In the end all the cabels fit though finaly and we routed it though. What should have taken 15 minutes took over 2 and a half hours. THEN i plug it into the Xbox intending on useing one of thouse free trial things to set it up BUT..... they expired. I was pissed.
After that i just played guitar and watched Red Eye. That was a pretty good movie. Very well made. it is deffinatly worth a look if you ever get the chance.
And that is the story of that weekend. I am now gonna watch some Robot Chicken. If you dont know what that is you should look in to it, its funny. Later!
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
Can I Play?
Well this week of school is almost over. Yep it is now midnight friday morning. And this week has ended not a moment too soon. I started and finished my first real college paper. It needs fixing. Its been so darn long since i have written anything. Im way out of practice. Im gonna have to start free writing again. Though those usualy become depressing rants. Oh well.
Guitar time. I have been striveing to play guitar better and better. I have always endevored to be better. But ever since the accident where i destroyed my finger i have been trying even harder. My parents would like me to get it fixed. But that would involve extencive surgury and more agonizing recovery time. I dont want them to do it. Im afraid that the doctors dont know what they are talking about sometimes. Yes yes i am aware that doctors have extencive schooling and are supposed to be experts in their fields. However i say that NO amout of schooling can compare to actualy being the patient. No one knows better than I what my finger feels like. No one knows better than i exactly how it is broken, and if they try to fix it in the way that they want to fix it, im afraid the results would be disasterous.
For you see the problem is not only is it crooked, it is TWISTED. Thats right when i bend the knuckle it bends diagonaly from the other fingers. and if they try to twist the other bone, well then it would bend at a VERY odd angle indeed.
However there is the possiblity that it could help my guitar playing. Right now it is almost unuseable with the exception of a very few chords. When I got my cast off over summer my guitar playing took a serious hit.
Riff work- was never good at it. Dosen't matter
Soloing- droped to about 30% of pre brake abilitys
Chords- droped to about 70% of pre brake abilitys
Since then i have gotten much better though in different areas.
Riff Work- has incresed to about 150% of pre brake abilitys
Soling- has returned to about 70% of pre brake abilitys
Chords- has returned to about 95% of pre brake abilitys
As you can see i have become much better at riffing. Because i only have 3 useable fingers it is easyer to do riffs than chords. This and it is just so much more musical to play complex riffs than simple power chords (Though they still have their uses). My soloing is still very clunky. It used to be my strongest suite. Now its a shadow of its former glory. Gone are the days when i can just sit around soloing for 3 hours. Now the surgury could bring all those levels back up to 100 and beyond. On the flip side it could to irreperable damage. Sorry for the rant, that got long, but i have things to consider and it better to see it in writing.
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Sunday, February 12, 2006
Summarize
Oh boy the weekend has once more come and gone. I started my weekend early with my Thursday trip to St. Thomas. We went to the St. Thomas campus in minneapolis for lunch and Target. The food was amazing. Made me cry for my school. Evil school no good rotin crap servers! whatever. Target was boring but thats just shoping. Once we got back to Normal campus we played cards, met Nick for food, walked in some prosesion, talked while sitting in comfy leathar chairs, and ate chinese food. In the end I was too lazy to call a cab in the night, and it was cold, so i slept over. Then Tom took me back whilst taking Jen home, and i decided to take the day off.
The rest of the weekend was rather Boring by comparison. Movie nights were fun. But we really need to like do stuff rather than sit and debate what movie to watch. Also movies need to work proporly in order to be watched. That means no weird ISO's that people dont know how to rip. Other than the death discribed below not much happend. Yeah we watched many Power Ranger episodes. Amazing show. I remember why i loved it as a kid now. Then Mask of Zoro. Always a good film. Then, Chip 'n' Dales rescue rangers. Also good. Yep its been nastagia weekend all around.
This week promises to suck. I have a Test in Psych tomarow. Dont know how im gonna do. I have no idea of what the questions will be like. Wish me luck. I have a paper to write. Thats gonna suck. wish me luck on that too.
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Stupid DLLs part 2
So mitch comes over in a attempt to get rid of the Windows 64 bit crap by installing linnux. Somehow it didnt work, and in doing so my Windows 32 bit working version was corrupted. So i had to fix that by useing the auto repair thing on the windows install disk. And after a half hour of install and crap it finnaly worked.
The moral of the story is dont install anything ever.
And i now have yet another step to booting my computer. GAH!
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Stupid DLLs
So today i tryed to install 64 bit windows. I installed it to my useless partition in the hopes that it would now become useful. I was wrong. There was an error during install. It cound not find a critical file and setup failed. Problem is, it trys to boot windows setup EVERY time i start the computer now. I tryed reparing windows (both copys) didnt work. I eventualy pressed F8 in the hopes it would get me a boot menu. It did. Thank god. Now i have no 64bit windows, and an extra step required for booting normal windows. I cry.
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Sunday, February 05, 2006
Another Spin of the Wheel
Weekends at home RULE! Yeay for happy times with friends. Friday night we had our usual game night at justins. We started with the crappyest game of settlers i have ever played. Seriously it was bad. I finnished with a total of 3 points. Justin of course dominated us all. There was flameing death all around, even though Amy complains that there isnt enough death in that game. Then we started a game of Risk. Yeay Risk. I was killed again. I had one good march though asia into australia but was anilated shortly thereafter. Then we played Samurai swords. I didnt even understand what to do, and was compleatly and totaly removed from play about 4 turns into it. Now keep in mind each turn takes like a half hour. But still, the rest of the game went on forever.
Saturday was also fun. Jake suddenly appered out of no where, and came over to my house for a bit. Then he went home and naped leaving me with the suggestion that we should all go out for perkins. I said ah hah! We ended up going to adams for more board game fun... except risk was at Justins house. NOT A PROBLEM! i will just run over and get it. Yeah i did run to his house, down the street, in the cold. I didnt know it was cold, and the air froze my lungs and i pretty much died. But we got the game and played it. I WON! There was alot of bloodshed. We just kept hammering at eachother for hours and hours untill we finnished. Then we went to perkins. I had my usual tremendous twelve. mmm good good food that was. Then we came back to adams and had the bright idea to play risk again. I started out loosing. I had nothing, Jesse who had never before played the was owning me and Amy was just out for any and all blood. Jake and Adam fought amongst themselves and it was a very topsy turvy game. In the end im not entirely sure of how this happend, but i turned in some cards, got over 200 men and won again. By then it was 5 am and we realized that Risk has the potential to be a very long game indeed.
So then today i wake up. Amy had graciously agreed to take me back to school because my parents were off to a party and couldnt take me. So i sat around watching Frasier DVDs untill she arrived. We went up to bethel first to give Justin his Bio book. (Big book that is) And his campus is awesome. It made me even more sad to go back to my pathetic excuse for a campus. Then we went to my school after a quick food stop. I was a little stectchy with my navigation. But we found the road we needed and made it no problem.
Yeah that got long but alot of things happend in a rather short time. Such is a weekend away from here.
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Thursday, February 02, 2006
To live and learn, about games!
Ah lazy thursday aftternoons. I have only one class today. I almost didnt go to it. My body said sleep nate sleep. But my mind wouldnt let me sleep. It said nate, move your ass outa bed and take a shower and go to class. Do which my body had no choice but to comply. And i play the part of the innocent bystander along for the ride. I was confused. I wonderd how my body could move itself, then i realized that i was the one moving my body, but i was only semi consious.
Class was boring as ususal. Not much going on. I dont understand german, but then i dont understand english so thats about par for the course. I have more and more reading to do for film study, but i dont feel like doing it. Like today has be just lack of motivation day or something. All ive dont is sit, and play zelda and guitar.
Oh thats the other thing. A few days ago i got a Nintendo 64 emulator, and have been playing all of the old games i used to love. it really brings back memories, and remindes me why nintendo is far suprior to xbox and ps2. Why? because their first party games ROCK ALL GAMES EVAR! No game can compare with Ocarina of Time. There is simply no better game. Twilight Princess will no doubt be just as amazing. Wind waker was exceedingly cool, but the cel shaded look made it hard to take seriously, and i think zelda is a game that really needs to be taken seriously. It has to have that epic feel. All things ive seen from Twilight suggest a game of such grandios proportions it will be impossible not to love.
Zelda comes out i think June 30th. So keep an eye out for it. I know i will.
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Change? What is that a joke?
Back from a fun filled weekend at home! Friday Night i went over to Justins house. We played Risk and more Settlers. Games are so much fun. We are gonna play more next weekend and i am pumped. Now i just have to fight my way though hell. Haha just kidding.
Saturday i began the day by mixing a song i recorded over Xmas break. It sounds much much better now. I actualy like it. So that go me excited. Then i decided to jam of guitar for an hour, then drums for an hour. Then i ate dinner. Then i watched Battle Royal. Intence movie that is. Then it was time to head over to kellys to play broomball. I just observed this time because it looked more like a lake than ice rink. We ended up talking and sorta watching TV inside. Justin repeatedly mosleted adam and we all laughed, and felt sorry for him too. But its nothing new so we just watch. Then Adam, Amy, Justin, and myself headed over to perkins for FOOD!. I was starving. We ended up talking from like 12:30 to 4am. by the end i was pretty burnt. But it was fun. Late night is fun. Right now i am pretty dang tired. I read 105 pages of film notes. When i say read i mean, read the first 25, skimmed the next 50, and flipped though the rest catching a header every now and then.
Yep nothing ever changes around here.
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Its thursday, I'm not thirsty
If i had to write a paper about what Thirsty Thursday meant for me... it would go something like this.
Thirsty Thursday is that time of the week that i dread. People tend to be up way later than thier bed time, or more importantly MY bedtime, makeing noise and other disturbances, for exaple peeing on the door knob of the room across the hall. Yes it is that time of the week where i loose faith in humanity, and dont gain it back again untill sometime monday evening, when everyone has realized that they cant be up that late and still get to class. However it seems that they all forget that lesson in time for the next thirsty thursday.
Thirsty Thursday means when i go to the bathroom, there may be vomit everywhere, there may be feces everywhere, there may be urine everywhere, there may be naked girls running in and out of the stalls. Of the mens bathroom? Yes the mens bathroom. There may be comdom wrapers strewn about. There may be condoms strewn about, both unused and used. There will most deffinatly be beer bottles in the garbage. Not just small bottles like in a 6 pack. No im talking about BIG 40 oz bottles. There will also be davanies pizza boxes everywhere. Once there was a full Begal sitting in the hall outside my room. Once half naked girls came running into my room. Once i almost got punched. When i say almost i mean, he very well could have punched me... had he been consious. Then someone will run around with a bong trying to get a girl to do it with him, and then have sex. Then it will start to snow and someone will want to build a snow man, but someone else will chuck a snowball at him and a huge fight will breake out. Its well into winter now, so there will be ice balls too, and one of them could break my window.
40 arrests and 30 misdemeanors later, they will still be at it. Consuming more and more alcohol, untill someone gets so drunk that he thinks he can fly and throws himslef off the bridge. He wont die of course. He will just be another redicoulous news story. One of those 15 second blurbs used to fill time on the evening news. Then when it is 2 am most will settle down and try to sleep. Then some late commer will run down the hall screaming something that he thinks is really smart, but infact no one is able to make sence of the noise.
That is what thirsty thursday means to me, and thats why i dont dare look out my door now.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Fun like huh?
So apparently the power went compleatly out in dinky town tonight. All i saw was a power glitch that nearly destroyed my computer. But its good now. So thats alright.
Goll what a boring boring place this is. I had forgotten how boing it was. Although this time i have more work to do. Its still boing. I play a little counerstrike, i play this fun little game i found on the internet called madness interactive. Its bassed of these madness combat movies. Which everyone should check out. Just type in madness combat in google and you can find them. I also enjoy Way of the ninja, though its really really hard. you can find that at Gprime.net. Those are two fun games anyone with flash installed on their computer can play. (If you dont know what flash is im pretty sure you have it anyway.)
So yeah thats an update on what ive been doing for the past like week. Fun isnt it.
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Monday, January 23, 2006
The result of Boredom
This is the result of Boredom
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Here we go again.
So ive been at school for a few days now. Geting back into the grind. Not much has happend yet. German is...german. Psych is gonna be... confuseing. Film study...i hope i dont die. Regualr College life... save me! Thursday's (like today) i have nothing to do. I have German in the morning and thats it for the day. So ive been sitting around playing guitar, writing songs, playing Couner strike and Day of Defeat. I do have homework to do... but doing that crushes my spirit (What little spirit i have left anyway). I want x-mas break back! But here i prepare for my career! (whatever that is) So its like, meh. I do what i need. Its not so bad yet as to create a whirlwind of dispare. No, that will come in about a month or so. For this first month though i should be ok. Well, assuming i dont die of poison. What poison you ask? Oh just the food here. Oh, you mean food poisoning you say. No, no i mean actual poisoning. It feels like my stomach is melting everytime i eat a meal here. ewww *shudders at thought* Its worse than last semester. Worse than ever. On the other hand at home i ate nothing so thats not much better. *sigh*.
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Monday, January 16, 2006
Oh boy its been a while
I am back here at school. It is really an interesting mix of emotions. Yeah its sad that i dont get to see my friends as often as id like once again... but thats been true for the past few days anyway. So ive gotten used to it. Also the internet is really really fast here. I feel so at peace with it because i just cruz along where at home everytime i load a page i have to pray it dosent come with errors. Stupid satilite.
What a break. I cant possibly remember all of what happend but i will outline the ideas. I once heard that Girls tend to remember specifics and details while Guys tend to remember the jist of it. This applys mostly to conversations but i think it works in other areas of memorie too. Anyway for the first few weeks we all hung out pretty much every night. Im kinda sour that i missed the only bowling night. Looking back if i had known that that would be the only one i would prolly have gone. That and the movie sucked.
Christmas was good. Saw the family. Saw my cousin who i never see anymore but she's really cool. And it was fun. Got my new guitar so im happy about that. I posted that already. Then new years was pretty fun. I love broomball to death but poor amy. Im so sorry, i felt so bad when that happend. Otherwise i have gotten alot better seeing as how i never practice broomball, but i was able to be a productive member of my team and work to acomplish something, instead of being an obstical on the ice like i used to be lol.
The next few weeks are really kind of a blur. They went by really fast it seems. There was a movie script night, and a resident evil night, and several movie nights. I played quite a bit of DDR with jen. That was good. good times. Great game. Then Jake came back and had a party. Good party. I really had alot of fun. Ive also improved at Fussball (sp?). YEAY! lol ive been the laughing stock of the fussball world for some time now. Then the last night (being last night) i went to justins house and he, med, adam, and I played Settlers of Catan. WOW! we played from like 9:30pm to 4 AM THATS ALMOST 7 HOURS STRAIGHT!!! It got so late that my brain actualy broke! I mean information would come in, but not register till like a minute later. i forgot my stratagy half the time, i would loose my train of thought just like that. Then i got compleatly screwed, i couldnt build roads fast enough becasue i had no wood. i coudnd build citys cuz i had no ore. and i kept cheating without even knowing it. Like i would misread cards, or symbols. ughn. Dont ever play thinking games that early in the morning, it hurts. Now im paying the price because i had to get up 5 hours later and get here. Not TOO bad but enough where i just want sleep.
Oh my gosh what a fun relaxing break. Now i have spring break to look forward too! Yeay! cuz thats only 2 months away, awwwww! i cry now.
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Hunting
Today i went on a hunt. A hunt for the perfect companion. The one who will stay by my side thought thick and thin. I belive i found it. It is an Ibanez SZ720FM. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=guitar/search/detail/base_pid/519986/ Its a real beauty. Sounds like heaven and rocks my world (when i tell it to). Picked it up at Groth Music. Spent more time in the car than i did picking it out, but it was worth it in the end. Yes i am happy with it!
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Friday, December 23, 2005
Oops
Well its brake time and i have had loads of fun. There is far too much to wright about now but its been great to see everyone. tonight i had some people over. Jen and i had made plans to play ddr and she invited jake and he invited mike, tj, and adam c. It was good to see them cuz tj and adam are in the army. An interesting idea that i never really thought about. What would life be like in the army? I would probably die. Yep yep i think i would die.
DDR was really fun mostly. I was the only one with any real experiance with the game and that was kind of a downer. But it was fun to sit and watch people play anyways. Adam, mike and tj left shortly. Let me just say right now that i suck at hosting. I really do. I dont have the ability to move about and see that everyones needs are met. When they left my guest list was down to a more manageable two people. A few friends i can handle. Or so i thought.
I picked out some movies to watch. One of them was Sin City. I hadnt seen it in a long time and thought it would be interesting to show. Jake and Jen looked though the movies and picked it out. I was going on about how good it was. I forgot that it was hyper violent and gross. I like it, sorta, well it was better the first time. But Jen and Jake hated it. And im sorry. I have faild miserably as a host. Its my job to make people happy and i blew it. Im sorry, I will make it up to you guys.
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Friday, December 16, 2005
Why is there chicken feces on the floor?
Im tied up bound and gaged right now. Actualy no but i feel like it. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to talk to. Cept mitch, but he lives far far away in the distant land of west bank. And when its this bloody cold out, its a LONG ways to go let me tell you! I will prolly end up going over there though. Just for some exorsize. I need some. All i did today was walk to my final. About 5 mintues. Yeah not that much. I also did some push ups. Yeay physical activity? Well its still a far cry from my ususal 3 mile hike. well even then i never did the full 3 miles. I need to get away from here so i can get out and MOVE!
Four days. Four days of this crap. The kind of crap that you scrape off the bottom of your shoe after wadeing though a kindergarten bathroom. Thats what this place is. And when i leave... i will have to come right back. Damn! I hate school! i hate school SO MUCH. i have always hated school. Elementery? what the heck is that!?!? Middle school? OMG dont go there. High school? now i remember high school the best of them all, and while it wasnt the worst of the crop, it was no cherry let me tell you. my last semester as a seinor...i did NOTHING! NOT A DAMN SINGLE THING! NODA ZILTCH ZIPPO! I did no homework, i did no studying, i barely even showed up for class. By that i mean i was almost always there, but there was no class where i didnt sleep. i slept though them all. then towards the end... i just stayed home for the hell of it. I was like, "Mom. im sick today." She'd be like "ok ill call the school." and that was it.
NOW. College. i skip that step and just stay in bed. I do more work this is true. Its still meaningless. Nothing i am learning now will i ever need in the future. Liberal Ed requiements are dumb. Just give me my major (whatever the fruitcake that is) and send me on my way (to where? i dont know anywhere but here!).
Yeay world and its idiocy. Why can't we all just be friends?
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
nothing
NVM this one
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
Roller Coaster
Another weekend passes, another week closer to going home. Mmm christmas time. I am going to have so much fun over break. Broomball, partys, people i rarely ever see! Good times good times.
This last weekend had some good times as well. Friday was alright. Went to applebees with Kyle, Holly was there. She chated with us for a moment b4 she had to work. Then Kyle and i just talked for a bit. No one else wanted to do anything so we ended up just going home. Satruday Jen called me at about 9:30am orders me to get out of bed, take a shower cuz she is comming to pick me up so we can go to St. Johns. So we go up there and jake is wrestling. He called early on in out trip to say he lost his first one and hopes we can make it up for the second. So we make up. With PLENTY of time to spare. I tell you watching men in tights grab eachother is one of the most disturbing things i have ever watched. That and werstling makes no sence to me at all. LOL. I just dont understand why they dont kick and punch eachother. Seems to me it would be more effective in getting them down on the floor. But then Jen says "No. No Nate that would be Boxing." Me: "oh." Then jake wrestles, and looses. Oh well he will just have to do better next time. And i think he needs to learn that. Its really NOT about winning. No sport is. Its about comparing abilitys and striveing to do better. Then i got bored and had to leave. Man wrestling is boring. sorry jake but it is. Its boring and pointless and i still think they should just punch eachother. That would be more fun to watch as well. heh heh.
We went back to
Now im back here and am immediatly bored. I have homework to do, but i have 9 hours to do it in. Its gonna take like 20 minutes. *Sigh* I dont like this place.
BTW aparently blogdrive is an Ad Whore now. so sometimes below my entrys are some ads that are just plain weird. And its in all my entrys. Im gonna write an angry email about this
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Sunday, December 04, 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: ROCKS OR NOT?
Ahh the joys of the weekend. Free and easy. No worries in the world. Just kick back. See a movie. Go on Theme park rides. You know. Its all good! Hehe.
Saturday i called a cab and headed over to St. Thomas. It cost me $10. i would have biked were it not for the snow. And my toe is borken. (Will i think it is). Its black and blue and hurts a bit. Though its better now. Now my legs hurt from the continuing stress of walking the Mall of America. Jen, Jenna, Kelsy and i went to The MOA. We went on some rides, and ate some free food. Much thanks to Jen's Family for the grub! I finnaly saw the Harry Potter movie. Deffinatly good. Deffinatly dark. And it only goes downhill from here. the next films should be brutal and jaw clenching. Kudos to the director of this last one. There were some great shots that i absolutly loved. And MAJOR kudos to the CGI department for that dragon. It marks the first time that i belived a computer generated character was real. In every other movie when i see a CG character i know instantly. Thats the first thing i notice and then my impression of the character is ruind. It distracts me from the movie. But this dragon... this dragon looked real, felt real, sounded real. And dragons arent even real to begin with. Now thats saying something. After the pretty lackluster CGI preformances of the last 3 Harry Potter movies it was a welcome change.
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Saturday, December 03, 2005
CTF! and Oh Frick I'm wounded!
Today was fun. Fun fun fun! After class i head over to mitches. There we sat around while he plaed Final Fantacy 7 and i watched tv. Yeah nothing quite like a lazy friday! Heh heh. Then at around 830 we head out with danelle to play Capture the FLAG! woo hoo. havent played that since 6th grade! It was brutal. The first game we had an obvious defencive advantage cuz we were basicaly in a fort. Mitch smashed into me, and i twisted my ankle breaking my toe basicaly. (I dont think its actualy broken.) Then i fell on my knee. Finding out later that i shredded it open and bled everywhere. Even b4 this i realized that my right quad was seizing up and coudlnt move very fast. But when i came down to it, even to spite the injuries i was able to hold my own in a head to head race.
Second game Mitch and danielle left. Loosers. Heh so i played with the remaining bunch. The second team i went on offence. Assulting the same fort that i just defended. It ended in disaster as it prooved to be most impregnible. The third game we set it up so that the flags are set up on either end between some buildings. Really you would have to go to my school to know what im talking about. But it was a shorter game. We won that one but by a narow margin. Then i came home after getting my stuff at mitches.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
A rant for a bit.
I am so bored. My homework is done for the week. Im actualy sick of counter strike and just about any computer game. I dont feel like playing guitar because it makes alota noise. But then my dorm is noisy anyway. And i just told Anna it was being quiet. I spoke too soon! Ick.
I registerd today. It went ok. No hicups in the system. I Thank god the network cooperated. I have this fear. This fear that everything computer will fail the second i need it. But it didnt. I built this thing well. (With Mitches help pf course). Well it was mostly mitch. I picked out the parts though! With mitches help. Ok so mitch did a good job with my computer. Bah. Im good at useing it. There. Then i ploded to my classes. And determind that i dont like class. Though i knew that already. Tomarow is thursday. Nothing special. Friday, nothing special. Saturday! Jen comes over! YEAY! fun time! sunday, homework. Monday, nothing special, Tuesday... you get the point. Somehow i remember more... things to do in my life than this. I could get a job. But as soon as i do that i will be cramed with homework, i just know it. And i dont even drink.
Seems like everyone is saying how much they love college, except those of us who dont drink. When did drinking become something so sought after? Why is it COOL to drink. My roomate is haveing a beer right now. WHY? it will just impeed his World of Warcraft Preformance. Mike D. Drinks himself silly every weekend according to my roomate. WHY? you just get hung over, then you dont remember what happend, then you have a kid nine months later. Or worse some STD/STI instantly. Its sickening to me. It makes me not want to know these people. These stupid drunks that have defiled their bodies with so much liquer that their livers will become mush at age 21. The age at which you are not allowed to drink unless you are greater than or equal to. Tell me, why do they do it?
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Sunday, November 27, 2005
We will just build a snowman around you.
Oh no. Im back. The 5 days i had off ruined me. Now im back here. I just wanna be done. Ick. I dont like it here. I was talking to mitchs freind Danielle, and she hates it here too.
But this weekend. This weekend was good. Mostly. Well the parts i was home for. Tuesday i decided to skip wednesday to go bowling. That was cool. I bowled a 132 my first game. it went down from there but thats to be expected for me. Wednesday, we hung out at adams, then went to applebees. Then back to adams. Then my mom called, told me to come home, and hung up. how rude! I was pissed. I did come home. at about 2:30 hehehe. 3 hours later i awoke and had to go to frikin madison.
Fast forward to midday saturday. i am back from madison. I have no idea of weather or no we are going to play paitball. Then mitch calls, yep. Pb is on. So i go get air and paint and meet the others at the Nies's. What a fun game. First game i blasted Enies in the face. second game i shot jake in the side. I shot Anies later on. All in all one of the funner games ive played. Then at about 7 i go over to jessies. That was a fun time as well. I saw war of the worlds. good movie that is. Then came upstairs to visit. Seward was saying something about how she was gonna die on jesses frot lawn or something. So I say. "We will just build a snowman around you." As i am saying that amy is talking to. When i finish i realize that Amy had said the exact same thing i said and the Exact same time. o.0 Wow. Thats one of those rare things that happends only once in a lifetime. I guess Amy and I are just on the same wavelength or something. I dont know. (Insert cliche here).
All but for the part i skiped, good. Now im back and have to write a paper. I hate that. eww
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Monday, November 21, 2005
To Shred Head Red!
Well it wasnt the best weekend ever but it was pretty fun nonetheless. On thursday i rode my bike though the freezing cold after de iceing the lock with a lighter. That sucked so bad. But it worked. I stayed over there then rode back in the morning for class. All in all it went pretty smothly. Then i came home for the weekend cuz John wanted to jam. But that was for Satuday night. Friday i was bored all afternoon at home. So i decide to call up Veldy and he and bill we just lounging around so they agreed to accompany me to Applebees. I had not eatten all day and was starved. So we eat there. Holly was working and helped wait on us even though she wasnt our waiter. It was good cuz we got alota pop. But kyle had to wake up early so bill took him home. By now it is like 11pm. I dont wanna go home yet. Its too bleaming early
So i take a drive. For about 10 minutes. Then i realize, "Wait! Holly was just cut when we left. (Means she doesnt have to wait on tables and can concentrait on other work untill she is done) I can just wait for her to finnish at Applebees." So i turn my car arond and head back. I get there and right as i walk in she is finnished. She askes if i want to keep her company as she eats dinner. Well thats why i was there so sure. "Dinner" consisted of a brownie dish. She was unable to finnish it all and graciously let me have the rest. It was Hella good! Then we went back to her place and played mario cart untill she jwust about passed out of tiredness. She also gave me a "How to Draw manga book." Its a really cool book. I got home at around 2am.
Saturday i jamed at Jessie's. Prior to that the only think of interest i did was try to draw manga for 3 hours. I eventualy got a few good pics.
That is the best of the crop. The jam session was at 8pm in his garage. It was fun. John and I coverd guitar while Adam was on bass and jessie on drums. It worked out pretty slick. We need to try to do some actual songs now but it could work. After that we watched Kung Fu Hustle. LOVE THAT MOVIE. Its the second time ive seen it. Then i went home and watche Noir till 4 am. Noir is great. Im liking it even better the second time. But i must go. It is late and i am gonna hate tomarow. I can already feel it.
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Sunday, November 13, 2005
FUN FUN FUN with FRIENDS!!!
Good weekend. Friday I went home and didnt immediatly have anything to do so i lounged around playing some guitar. Then my dad and brother came down and i switched over to drums and we jamed for a bit. After a quick dinner I called adam up. He said i was doing something with mark and would call in an hour so i went out into the hot tub. After about 2 hours i called Amy because adam hadnt called back. She aggreed that it was boring and we couldnt wait for adam to call so we headed over to melanies house. We all hung out with justin untill adam FINNALY calls. Somehow we ended up piling in my car to go get a movie. We rented Batman Begins which we watched at adams house. Good movie, and since amy gets free movie rentals it was doubblly good cuz it cost me nothing.
Saturday i got up at 8 to go get a flu shot. Then i headed over to Melanies for some apple cider making. Good stuff it was. Then Amy and I headed over to Delano to see Sarah Flemmin in The wizard of Oz. It was funney and quite good for a high school play. Then we ate some food and went back to meds for more cider. By now the weather is crappy and wet. It was kinda sad cuz i wanted to go to the St. Johns @ St. Thomas football game but coudnt becasue of the apple cider. Oh well apple cider was fun anyways.
Lee called and told us to come over to his house. We did so but decided to go to applebees after about an hour. By now i am not feeling to hot and opt not to eat. But when we get there Holly waited on us because she works there. Then i get hungary after everyone eats. LOL oh well i dont need to eat. Then i went home and watched some of Noir. Good show that is. I bought it on the tail end of summer.
Now i am even sicker. I took my temp and it was actualy a little under normal. That dosent change the fact that im light headed and my throat has riped itself to pieces. Im tired and dont wanna go to class tomarow. If i feel like i do now i may not go to class at all.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
Surprise!!!
Well today was interesting. I was sitting here in my room after a tough day of classes minding my own bussiness. I was watching Back to the Future 3. Good move it is. I saw the 2nd 2 nights ago. Also a good movie. They all are. Anyway the night b4 Cam Gordon running for city senate comes by asking for our votes. my roomate was ticked becasue he forgot to check the eye piece in the door b4 opening because we would have liked to avoid that. So TONIGHT the door is knocked and my roomate gets up. "I will wait this time" he says. So he pears though the hole. Im still watching the movie. "Its just some girls," he says. I pause the movie to take a look. As i turn in my chair he opens the door and what do my eyes see? But Amy! Amy? Wait a minute. That cant be right. I told myself i was hallucinating and that it was just some girl that looked like Amy. But no it was Amy, she did her little wave. I stare with a perplexed expression as i tell my roomate to let them in. I didnt see at first but Anna and Karrah were there as well. They file into my room. I am still staring with the perplexed expressiong like summer and winter had switched. (Sorry jen had to use it.) So they stay for like 2 seconds and then leave and i am still confused but im over it.
I finnish my movie. Then i go for some Counter Strike action. After a server burb i got in some good gameing. Then i realize, as Amy left she said something about calling me latter. Now my roomate is sleeping cuz hes getting sick. So i decided it would be best if i call Amy before she calls me so as not to disturb him. I call her and we talk for like a minute. Then she says that they are in Karrahs room. Karrah actualy lives 2 floors up from me. So the minute i find this out i rush into my room, grab my keys, go out, lock the door, and sprint up the stiars. I find her room easy enough and knock on the door. It would have been good if i had not knoked so louf because Amy heard it over the phone. It would have been nice to surprise them like they surprised me. But oh well. We chatted for like 45 minutes and then they left. So yeah, a nice way to end a tough wednesday. JUST 2 DAYS LEFT TILL WEEKEND!. HANG IN THERE.
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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Whoo Hooo!
Today was a very very interesting day. Jen called me a few days back stateing that she would like to go to the mall of america with me. Soooo today i woke up at about 10:30 and showerd and dressed. Then because jen said that we would not be eating lunch i went to centenial and had some food. It was good food. (however when we got there they had lunch anyway).So jen comes and picks me up with her cousin at around 12. We have a fun time of getting there.
Once we are there we set up to SHOP! Whoo hoo. Im going to be flat out honest, I hate shoping. I dont shop. I go to a store with a purpose and i generaly leave immediatly. But i enjoyed the company so i was alright hiking though the Mall. We then met up with her family. Her mom, step dad, sister and aunt were there. We all had lunch. Except for me. I just ate some of Jens chinesse chicken. It was good. I like chinese food. Then the whole fam gets to shop together. Oh boy. They go into a dress store. I just walk forward and adamantly refused to go into a dress store. So the decided that i should go get the root beer float i had been talking about for the last half hour or so. So i do. Then i get some corn dog nuggets. That was yum. Then we hit like a bazilion more stores. By this time EVERYONE is bored. So we ditch the group. I actualy dont know how we left everyone. I think we just finneshed.
We did have plans for dinner. But the others decided not to come. Cuz they were lazy. So we just get McDonalds and go see Jarhead. Jarhead is a really good movie. Jen loved it and i did too. Really good cinimatogarphy. Good story. Good characters. On top of that it did not seem "Hollywoodisized" It seemed realistic and true to the events. I suggest you go see it.
Then on the way home jen got to witness classic nate navigation skilz! Jake you know all about these skillz i posses. I have such classic techniques as "Quick turn right before they do!!!" or "Hey lets go under that bridge!!!" "Nate theres no road under the bridge." "Well off road it!!!" I pulled none of those things. But i was compleatly turned around untill i saw augsburg college. I knew where we were then but not how to get where i wanted to be. So after like 7 wrong turns i find the right one and we get home just fine.
So yeah thats my day.
EDIT: Yeah i total forgot the camp snoopy stuff. DUH! Thats how we ditched the group. Haha. Anyway we weht on that new twisting roller coaster. That was a cool roller coaster. It was confusing but really fun cuz it spins. Then we went on the faris wheel. Because we didnt have enough points for the other rides.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Questions.
But why? Why must the man wait? Who said that it has to be this way? When was it decreed that he can't do that? Do what? Why, play in the rain my friend. Cuz isint that what it is all about in the end? To be wraped up in the warm glow. The soft pedals touching the cloth. The beams of sunlight hitting his face as he roams endlesly in the minefield of death and distruction. Or is it of Life and resurection? Who is to say? What is the difference between life and death? One cannot exist without the other. Its a paradox really. How can one die but not to live? How can one live only to die? I will tell you how. He only has to find the key to the rain. Then... he will have no reason to care at all anymore. For "Love" is nothing more than a shell in which we encase the true nature of our feelings. And we all dance to the tune of the rain goddess. No matter how sour the tune may turn. So dance on world. And let the rain soak you from head to toe. To do otherwise, is to reject everything that makes us human.
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
I'm just a tired person.
This weekend was awesome overall. Nicks party was a blast. Once i got there. First Adam, Amy and myself drove up to
Next day i hung out at hollys for a few hours. We played
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
I am so very sleepy.
Today was a good day. Though it was tireing. I am exauhsted. School sucked ass like it always does. I got a bad email last night but i didnt let it get me down. I wrote a song about it. LOL. ITs a heavy song. Or it will be once i figure out the rest of the guitar parts and how to sing it. Then i will have to figure out how to record some awesome chunky bass tone. Listend to the bass on Inspiration on Demand by Shadows Fall and you will see what i mean.
Anyways the song writing kept me in a good mood. I love songwriting. So i went over to St. Thomas to play with Jen. we met Nick S. Brifly and shared storys of trees and squirls and picknick tables. Haha. Then we went to jens room and hung out untill we decided to go on an adventure. That was fun but Kelsey wanted to eat so we had to cut it short. (That and she is afraid of hights.) But its ok because Jen's mom came to pick her up anyway. Jen's mom has a trailblazer so we fit my bike in the back after some effort and got me home without breaking a sweat. Unlike the ride over there. Its good though. I Like riding over to play with jen, and i need the exorsize. So its good for me.
And jake, just because your computer probably would have trouble running pong, dont take it out on me. ^_^ JK jake.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
A we small smakeral.
I figgure now is a good time to blog. I try to leave enough time so everyone who wants to read my blogs can. Anywho ive been kinda sedentary for the past few days. I have disconverd the wonders of Final Fantacy 7. I saw the movie and had to play the game to understand the movie. So i get the game from mitch and start playing. I laugh so hard at the blocks that are supposed to be people but its all good. My sound card probably has enough power to run the thing but its awesome. Uh yeah thats it for now. Sorry its not long, nor is it really interesting. But its something, anyway.
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
The Tomies meet the Johnies and a UMN guy woke up WAY to frickin early for it
Wow today was an absolute blast. On Tuesday Jen L. called me and asked if i wanted to go up to St. Johs with her to see Jake that weekend. Well Heck yes i said! She calles me 2 days later, "Nate? How Early do you wanna go?" OH no. Yeah i had to wake up at 5 IN THE MORING TO GO THERE BECAUSE ITS PARENTS WEEKEND! and we needed a parking spot. So I concede the point and wake up at 5. I had 2 hours of sleep becasue i fell asleep at 3. I was so tired. I dont even really remember the car ride. I WAS awake for all of it. I mean there was Mc Donalds, we picked up Bruce(Jakes Dad) but it was such a blur i dont even know. We made it up there by about 7 and went up to jakes dorm. Jen immediatly kicked Jake out of his bed and sleped there. I took his futon and crashed for another 2 hours. Then they woke me up and fed me Muffins and Cappacino.
The rest of the day was so eventful that i cant even begin to write it all but... it went something like this. First a walk though the woods to a little chapple(SP?). That was a long walk. We met jakes friend Marie. Shes flirty but nice. The walked consisted of conversation and stick fights and leaf combat then we had to go to a football game. What a whimpy football game. Sorry jake but i am in a Big Ten school. I met more friends there. They are all nice people i will tell you right now. Then there was adventures in buildings, i played piano. I played my song "Girl of my Dreams," for the second time on piano for them. Jake recongnized it. That was cool. Then his friend brandon played and put me to shame.
Then there was mediocre food. Meh. Then we played improv. OH FREAKIN YES. I havent done that since that time with Jake, nick s. and the nieses. This rocked so much. Basicaly we come up with random one liners. Two people pick two of them randomly then there is an "MC" that controlles the fun. A short one minute skit ensues and total randomness results. One had us all on the floor rolling with laughter. Yeah thats cuz jakes friend pulled down his pants. It may make no sence to you now but it fit perfectly in the story. Wow that was fun. Then Jen took me home and we had some good old fasioned talking time. It was a very fun day. Now for sleep.
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Monday, October 17, 2005
Weekend in Review
Back here at the U i am once again bored and it is too early to do my homework. This weekend was soooooo fun. I had a blast hanging out with all of my friends. After the game we went to Adams and had a good ol' fasiond Natrop fire. It was just like old times and kinda made me sad. But happy too. Jake brought his friend alex along. What a character. He really hit it off with everyone. I WISH I COULD BE THAT EASY TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH. Its ok. It just takes me a while to warm up to people. Anywho on saturday i went to my grandmas house for a birthday party. My cousins were there and i havent seen them in months. We all took a walk around delano.
Then we went to kelly johnsons house for a hay ride! Lol it was more than a hay ride but yes we did go on one. Oh wow there were alot of people there. Kelly had like invited her whole dorm from crown or something and it was pretty fun. I met one new person and actuayl retained her name in my memorie! How exciting. her name is Jess. After the hay ride i talked to Justin and Rachael. That was pretty funny. Well the subject matter was funny but i wasnt laughing. Then they all went down to the fire to sing. I didnt. I went up to the house to find jake and adam. They were in an intence discussion so i left. Then i found Amy and Kara playing some game on the swing set. I joined them and justin came by. Then we tackled eachother untill we got so hungry we had to go to perkins. So about twelve of us jumped into cars and sped off into the night. Mmmm nothing tasts as good as perkins at 2 in the morning. Then i went home and came back here. I love weekends!
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
The Johnies meet the Tomies and a UMN guy in between!
So today was really cool. After my last class which ended at 2, i biked over to St. Thomas and visited my friend Jen. It was awesome. The ride while gruleing was really beautiful. I rode along the river and the trees are turning their fall colors and it was really a sight to see. Jen and I went exploring along the banks of the mighty missisip and got stuck becuase we scaled these rock clifs and coudnt get back up. So we went along the banks untill we found a way out. There were all sortsa interesting things to view on the way. There was a waterfall, and firepits, and broken glass. It was just an all around awesome adventure. I have determind that i need to go on more adventures. They are fun. Then Jake and his friend from St. Johns came by. Jake is dateing Jen. We hung around and went to get some food. It turns out that the food made us late for Mass. So we hung around in the parking lot with Jens friend i forget her name. But we had fun climbing trees. Then mass finnished and we got to see our friend Nick S. I havent seen nick in a long long time. It was really cool. He is in the seminary and cant ever date or even think about girls. How sucky is that? Anyway we went back to Jen's dorm and i played piano for everyone and they loved it. Then we cramed my bike into jakes car. And we let the seat down to put it in. OH GOD THE SMELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! his sister uses the trunk for her sports stuff. GIRLS SHOULD NOT SMELL LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just about puked in the parking lot. We got home in one piece then i gave jake crappy directions home. Hmm i hope he makes it.
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Sunday, October 09, 2005
What i see.
When is the doasage of a good thing, just too much? When is the point where good intentions turn sour? How long can a person go before snaping? I have played witness to events in the last few hours that make me ask these questions. No, i take that back. i have played witness to such events for the past few weeks. Living where i do i dont have a chance to get the whole picture. But I am able to piece together bits and pieces of the puzzle though my own obsevations and the confidance of others. The good thing that i am talking about is friendship. i have witnessed tensions flare at others, been on the receving end of such emotions, and even been the one holding the trigger down. I always try to take the middle of the road. I dont try to start fights, but sometimes i become pushed in between and slaughterd. Sometime i am the one doing the slaughtering. I always try and appologize though. To any and all in this world that have been hurt either directly or indirectly by my actions, I am so very sorry. All i want is to get along with any and all people in this world. Impossivle though it may be... I will try.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Here is another
You chose hazel eyes. That means you are a very sweet, thoughtful person.
You are gulliable too, so it's hard for you to
sometimes say no to situations you don't like.
You're too worried that you might hurt
someone's feelings that a lot of the time you
don't think about what you want. You are also
very generous. You love to hang out with your
friends, and laugh at every little
"funny" thing.
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I'm still here
While i sit here in my room, the one with the air conditioning that just broke, the one that is heated by two high end computers and their monitors, the one that thank god it is getting cold out so we dont need the AC, i think to myself...why. Yes the AC is out and it sucks. But it is raining out and that is wonderful. It is wonderful because it will push all this hot muggy crap away and bring nice cirsp fall air. That my friends... is life. Fall is my favorite season. Yes those who have been with the blog for a while will remmeber the "Fall kid" this stems from one day when someone asked me what me favorite season. "so nate what is your favorite season" "Hmm i would have to say fall. Yes fall is the one." "HA! I knew it. You seem like a fall kid." "Really? what makes you say so?" "Well you just act like it. You know your all dark and gloomy and pesimistic." Well now i didnt consider myself pesimistic but whatever. I do love fall. It is the season of my Birthday for one thing. That is always exciting. Though i must admit its not really exciting anymore. I dont know why i like fall but i just do. One should note that the above conversation is not accurate nor do I even remember exacly what was said. But thats the jist of it. Bstone out
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Monday, October 03, 2005
This is me
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
ME
I suck at life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and its my Birthday.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
The doldrums
Well today i went to a twins game. Eric called me up and i was like sure. It ended up being him, troy, pam and myself. We won. It was kinda boring but then thats baseball. Its supposed to be a slower game. I dont care much for baseball honestly but i do love comradery and friendship so i went. It was cheap anyway. I find myself getting sick of college. It is starting to get tedious. Everyday is an effort to stay awake and pay attention. Everything seems so pointless. I dont even have a major declared. But whatever i will live.
I have been playing Day of Defeat source lately. I love it. It's awesome. Plus its different than counter strike. Otherwise nothing to eventful.
Its cold out here. I walked instead of biked. That sucked. in between my 3rd and 4th classes i have a break and didnt want to walk back only to walk back again so i hung out at pams. For some reason her room is nice and warm. Maybe its beacuse my room is so cold. or it was so cold out side. Or the fact that she actualy has decorative stuff. My room is plain and without color. Its kind of bland. I hope to fix it sometime. But it is late and i have german to do. So i will log off.
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The doldrums
Well today i went to a twins game. Eric called me up and i was like sure. It ended up being him, troy, pam and myself. We won. It was kinda boring but then thats baseball. Its supposed to be a slower game. I dont care much for baseball honestly but i do love comradery and friendship so i went. It was cheap anyway. I find myself getting sick of college. It is starting to get tedious. Everyday is an effort to stay awake and pay attention. Everything seems so pointless. I dont even have a major declared. But whatever i will live. I have been playing Day of Defeat source lately. I love it. It's awesome. Plus its different than counter strike. Otherwise nothing to eventful. Its cold out here. I walked instead of biked. That sucked. in between my 3rd and 4th classes i have a break and didnt want to walk back only to walk back again so i hung out at pams. For some reason her room is nice and warm. Maybe its beacuse my room is so cold. or it was so cold out side. Or the fact that she actualy has decorative stuff. My room is plain and without color. Its kind of bland. I hope to fix it sometime. But it is late and i have german to do. So i will log off.
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Sunday, September 25, 2005
As they like to put it
What a day. As my first saturday on campus it was, interesting to say the least. I woke up and played counter strike. Nothing new there. I wrote a song for a bit and putzed around my room for a few hours after that. Then i got bored and called mitch. I invited myself over to middlebrook for some lunch. That was tasty. Not Centenial but tasty nonetheless. Following that i headed over ti mitchs room and saw... Battle Royal! I dont know how many of you know this but, Battle Royal is my favorite book ever. i read it over summer and it was awesome. It is japanese but the translation was really well done. Anyway the book inspired a movie. I heard of this movie and always wanted to see it, thats why i read the book, but it was never released in america. Why? lets just say the subject matter is questionable. Nothing pronographic, but it involves Jr. High kids killing eachother. Anyway the book was awesome and the movie, while different in places, really did a good job of conveying the feel of the book. The movie was japanesse diologue and there were no subtitels. I could pick out names and a few simple words. Thats it. But i still understood what was going on and the acting was good enough that i could understand emotion. Deffinatly if you get a chance, see this movie or read the book.
After watching that on Mitchs computer we went to pams room. Mitch got really giddy, stated molesting pam's exercise ball and then she got pissed. Really piseed. Like she was going to throw mitch out of her room pissed. She did a good job of controlling it but i could tell she was not a happy camper. I dont remember what happend after that as i fell asleep in her roomates chair. It was a really comfy chair. I awoke 15 min later to my phone ringing, then on pams suggestion of useing a blanket i fell back asleep. some time later she used her roomates phone to call my phone to awaken my and i found a party in her room. Well not a party but there were people. Then She and I went to (i think drew's) room and hung out and listend to his awesome sound system. He is a cool guy. Really tall too. Following a brief excursion back to pam's and listening to college drama of girls i left for home. On my bike. In the poring rain. Across the damn river. I got soaked. But now i am fine and dry. And that as they say is that.
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
Jag
Well what an interesting night. Mike came over with Harald and kumar go to white castle. Its stupid but funny. Before the movie my roomate and mike decided to take some shots of Jagermister or however its spelled. That was interesting. They had like 6 shots each. They were both pretty buzzed but still alright. They wernt drunk. Then after the movie we all went out with mikes roomate and had some Cigars. We had some NICE cigars. Big fat ones. They were nice and smooth and didnt burn my mouth or throat. We met up with a bunch of people that got witten up for being drunk or some such and that was a little disturbing because they were talking about guys with Vaginas. Dispite that i really had fun. It was rather entertaining seeing the drunk people make fools of themselves. And its true that alcohol really gets rid of the social inhibitions. Because everyone was so talkitive. I wasn't really cuz i wasnt drinking but it was still funny to watch. Yeah collage is interesting.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
View Through the Eyes of Hope
So today was one of my easy days. I like easy days. I got up, went to german, came back, tryed to heat up fozen ramen(didnt work), went to rate my world, then came back. I think Rate my world and German may be the best classes i have this semester. I've already written words about that damnable biogeography class, and rock music is just redundant learning so what do i have left? After i got done with my german class i tryed playing a Coheed and Cambria song on my guitar. Its called "The Light and the Glass." It was fairly difficult to learn but i got it. Then my bottom E string broke.
So i Hike it up to dinkytown to get a new string. I decided to go with an Ernie Ball .52 guage nickel plated string. It is really fat. Thats all i can say. Sound wonderfun though. On my way back i picked up the NEW Coheed and Cambria CD: Good Apollo i'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: Though the Eyes of Madness. Which is the longest CD title i have ever heard. I listend to it while doing homework so i haven't really gotten a feel for it yet but i wasnt repulsed by it. After that i played some Counter Strike. I am getting so much better. I can actualy hold my own against those CS addicts, probably cuz i am one of them now. Humph sad.
Then Mike came over and we went over to the mess and got some food. Not the best stuff tonight but it was food so i ate it. Then Mike, Adam, G Hoff or whatever his name is, some other dude, the Katie chick that was with him and my self played frissbee and i showed them all how not to play it. Then i came back here and watched some Short, Amature films. Ones that really were quite good. I was thourghly impressed with them. You all should head over to the FX home link on the bottom left and check out the Cinima Archive. Pick from the top twenty or so especialy ones by NoControl Cinima. Sure some of the films are in german but they rock, espesialy when considering the buget they have which use to be $0, but i think they have money now. So i am goin to bed now. Catch yall later.
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Monday, September 19, 2005
Bleack
well my biogeography class sucks. Now that I have been in it for a few weeks i can deffinatly tell that i am not going to like it. The teacher is a compleate dud. he is boring and i dont know what else cuz i usualy fall asleep within the first five minutes. I cant learn if the teacher puts me to sleep. The subject matter isint all that interesting either. Uh huh scientific method blah blah blah blah blah... boring shizznit. maybe it will pick up when we actualy have somthing to study.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Crapy homework days
Today was a really crapy day. First it is one of my "Hell Days". That is the term my roomate and I use for days with Four or more classes. I had four today. Not fun one's either. German wasn't half bad because we had a quiz and got to leave early. Biogeography Lecture is were the real "hell" started. It was so BORING! i fell asleep. I mean realy the guy is just boring. And we are talking about the different kinds of maps. I mean, maps. How interesting is that? Not, thats how much. Then i went to rock music and at first that was really cool because we are talking about song structure and i can really use what we talk about in my own songwriting. Then I got bored of that and spaced out. Finaly i went to Biogeography Lab. That sucked. I Hate stupid busy work assingments. We had to do some crap about some elevation and latitude, then put it into Excel and make charts. uggh. I was so frustrated. I got back and had to print them out on my roomates computer. Then i had to do some more Excel stuff for Rate my world tomarow. That was even worse beacuse i had no clue what to do. I know they showed us in class what to do but i coudnt remember how to do it. Thats the problem with knowing so much about computers is that i will listen to it and not comprehend cuz i mean really... i built my computer from scratch, sure i can run Excel. No i cant. I was pissed. Now i have to go to class tomarow and figure out what the heck i am supposed to do. I would like to come home this weekend to see pep band but i dont know if i can bacuse of the homework i will have. Then i unwinded with the sims 2 and counter strike. That helped alot. now i feel better.
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HUH?
Hey hey, im tired. It has been an interesting day. I actualy did some homework in the midst of all my counter strike and World of warcraft. I only left my dorm to go to the bathroom and to eat. I am so lonely. All i do is play computer games. My day usualy starts with me Dling a new demo or something and ends in a frag fest with counterstrike. I've been playing on a 42 person sever. It is so much fun its insane. Downside is i dont meet anyone but who cares when being alone is this much fun. Mitch called and wanted to go to chipotle though, and that made me happy. Part of why i do nothing is because no one invites me. This is becasue they all live across the river. So when mitch invited me it pained me to turn him down cuz a homework. But i would have gone had i not so much work to do. Thats the point.
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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Oh dear
Ok so over this past weekend i went home and wow was it weird. My room was compleatly clean and seemed sterile. It was bad. I didnt like it. My mom move all of my stuff and nothing felt right. Now that i am back im my dorm i feel more comfortable. I rearanged my space to fit in my guitar amp. now it is even more cramped than it was before. Oh and the bathroom is dead. Its been dead since Friday aparently. I have to go Upstairs for a shower. This sucks as now two whole floors will need to use those showers. I hope its fixed by morning.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Greatness is to be Had
Ok So i just played the Awsomest game of counterstrike EVER. 20 on 20 players dukeing it out in full frontal assult nightmare of death and blood and bullets and the sounds...oh god the sounds. I played for hours. I feel drained of energy. Tomarow i have my easy class day. Two and they start late and end early. First is at 10:10 second ends around 2. Last night i belive i posted about my fear that i would not have enough time between classes to traverse the distance between them. Well, it took a herculean effort but i made it in one piece and with 2 minutes to spare. YES!!! In other news i have decided to come home this weeked. The reason...Laundary. Not that i cant do it myself... but i would rather not. And plus i get to finish eternal darkness. What fun. I dont know if i will have any friends left back ther but im sure i will find something to do. I am just sad that i will be missing world of warcraft. Oh well. just a game. An amazingly fun game though. Anywho my roomates going to bet now so i will sign off and read my book. G'night!
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
The Madness Inside
So today was my first day of classes. They werent too bad. I am gonna die. But not today. Tomarow however seems more likly. I have fifteen minutes to walk over a mile. I am gonna cut it close. Even if i jog. I am fat and dont go too fast for too long. So in the end i will end up tireing myself out for a marginal speed boost. I can ride my bike... but as i wont always be able to do that...(snow, rain, tornado) i need to be able to make it there on time. Hopefully i will be able to ride my bike for a while and by the time winter comes i will be in shape enough to run the whole way. So i am setteling in nicely. My roomate is a fellow geek, though a different color of one if that makes any sence. For one thing he has a REALLY cute girlfriend. Darn it anyway gurls and their cuteness why must they torture me so!?! I have gotten into world of warcraft. It is so dang fun that it is not even funny. Im loving that game. It does cut down on the social aspect of life but whatever. Not like I have many firends close anyway. Mike is here. He's cool but more of a partyer. Mitch, pam, eric, and troy live a long way away. I dont like that walk. I need better shoes. That brings me to a point. I am really missing my friends now. Adam, Jake, Amy, Mark, John, Lee, Schony, Rachael, Kara, Anna, and everyone else. I am also homesick. Convocation didnt help either. That was boring and it made me sad. I dont wanna plan the rest of my life now. I have no idea of what to do with it. I dont even know what i like to do. And most of my friends have declared majors. I just feel so lost in the endless sea of education and money that could be wasted on courses that i dont need or end up being useless. I would just like some clarity, to learn about myself. To see with eyes that are not my own. To hear with ears uncouded by the mess of the world. Sometimes I think that life is too boring. I look at what i read in books, or see im movies or TV and wish that my life could be that exiting. Thats why i wanted to be a cop. But im not on the right path to become a cop. Does that mean that i wont be able to become one? I dont know. This place is so confusing. I need to sit back an look at it all. Maybe in sleep my deams will make sence of some of the madness.
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
The Time of the Lost
So here i am dear friends. Here i am at collage. The move in was less than smothe but it all worked out in the end so thats ok. Whats not ok is how freakin lonely i am. My roomate doesn't move in untill monday and all of my friends live in middlebrook, way the heck on the otherside of the river. They hang over there and i sit here going, yeay i have a computer and play counter strike. The one saving grace is i have gigalan connected to what must be a pretty darn fast internet conection because i tested the bandwidth at 3.2 megabits persecond, while downloading stuff for steam. So as i am trying to fix my internet my friends ditch me for more interesting things to do. That reminds me my internet was difficult to set up. (only because i didnt read the green sheet.)
First of all my CA tells me that it must be down because he cant log on. Ok yeah i will belive that. so i will just wait untill someone fixes it. In the meantime i will call Mitch and we can all hang out. Well it ended up that Eric, Pam, Mitch, Troy and myself went for a walk in the rain. Poring severe thunderstorm rain. We went to the rec center for a few minutes and that kinda sucked because there was nothing to do because it closed 27 min after we got there.
In mitches dorm i saw that he had internet so i say "lets all go back to my dorm and you can set me up." We do and i find out that it is far from plug and play. It says im connected but i can view no web pages. Mitch sits down and does an IP config. Then we take the physical address down with good ol' paper and pencil. (I found out that if i had read the green sheet i would have figured this out long ago.) Then we take that address across the hall to someone who does have internet. "excuse me sir can we use your internet?" Everyone's in the same boat so they happily agree. I had to regester myself at the web site and enter my physical adress manualy. What slag. Then i get back to my dorm and it still does not work. Then mitch and the others just get up and leave and i have no frickin clue what to do, those loosers. After two reboots and Nvidia firewall dieing i call mitch back. He doesen't pick up his phone. I then decide that i could go across the hall and get semanteck antivirus cuz it says you need that. Ok then whatever. Just as i am about to leave i look up and the Google home page is staring me in the face. I dont know how that worked which worries me because now there I dont know how to fix it if it breaks. But whatever its really really really really fast so whatever.
So once i fixed it i decided that it would be fun to play counter strike. So i did, for about 3 hours. Now i am downloading the Brothers in Arms demo. That game is supposed to be the WWII shooter to end all WWII shooters. (hopefully). This however dosent chande the fact that i am seriously lonely. I have nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to meet, no car to take, no reason to leave my dorm, no one to call, no anime to watch, no gamecube to play, all i do is sit here and play guitar and type things. Then i realized that i actual miss my home. I knew i would, i just didn't think it would be like this. Wow, i miss my cat, my bed, my friends, my parents, my basement, my warm room. Seriously my dorm is freezing! i had to put on long pants and a sweatshirt just to stay warm.
I dont know what to do now. My download is comming along nicely. I should have it soon enough. But a computer is a very poor substitute for friends. I am hungry too. I havnet eaten in 12 hours. I probably wont eat for another 12. tomarow i have to find my books. I am not looking forward to that. I am gonna get so lost its not even funny. Then my bathrooms are compleatly trashed. Seriously people are sick. Well ive written enough for now. Im gonna read a book.
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Friday, September 02, 2005
confusing
Well this is it. It is my last day of freedom. I move in tomarow. I would like to get together with my remaining friends and party all day... but im stuck in a room packing. I't wont take me that long. When i actualoy thing about it im not bringing that much stuff that isint already packed. So in the next few minutes here i will grab a byte ;) to eat. and start filling boxes. Later on tonight i hop to get together with the friends who are returning for the weekend. Yeah they come back and i leave. I saw brothers Grim last night. I'm still not sure of what it was that i watched.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Think About That
My internet is being a pain in that i am downloading at dialup speeds. I wanted to get Deer Park alpha but it just wouldn't go fast enough. I would have just let it sit while i do other stuff online but it slowed everything else down. Im just glad that I will have some "fat pipes" at college as mitch would say. Then i will download everything i ever wanted to download but couldn't because of Direcway and its idiocy. Even now as i type this I look at the bottom of my screen and it says my page is 38% loaded. It not moving either.
I just finnished Lain. I got lost again and i now understand less than i did before. I think i will watch it again soon when i am more awake. Maybe then i will pick up more of what i left out. Right now i am looking at a site called Thought Experiments Lain. It is really helpful. I suggest you check it out if you
like lain.
I also saw two movies today. First was sin city. All i can say is that it is the coolest movie i have seen in a long time. Seriously its that good. I really captured the graphic novel feel. Story was really good too. Second movie was Sahara. Average movie, Good visuals. Very little CG. What CG there was was integreated seamlessly. Some of the gunfights were a little unbeliveable at times. It continues the tradition of "All the bad guys suck at aiming and the good guys are all expert marksmen" that we see so often in movies, games, really any media of this genre.Then they shot a helicopter down with a 150 year old cannon from the civil war, with powder and fueses that had been buried under the sands all this time. There are so many things wrong with that scene that i dont want to think about it. All in all it was entertaining, but doesn't hold a candle to Sin City.
Then i went to the retro with Mich and Pam. The end.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Nazi's
Well another day more money down the drain. First i went to gathering grounds with Rachael and got a Large frapacino for less the price of a small thanks to her employee discount. Then we sat and talked. It got quite depressing by the time i huged her goodbye. It was then that i realized that i am really going away and wont be seeing her much. I realized that i am a stubborn person. Being broken up is one thing... being broken up while digging in one's heels in a vain attempt to generate some hope of getting back together is quite another. Usualy ends up where the person diggin in gets pulled forward and falls flat on their face. This has happend to me several times over the course of this relationship, and i keep bloody doing it! I just dont understand it. I just never understood what was going on thoughout the whole realationship.
Basicaly what it boils down to is that her parents are overprotective Nazi's that think she is too young to date and that we cant see eachother because they feel that we could never be just friends and would fall back in to the same dating pattern. Well this is partialy true. we always fell back into the dating patten. We just couldnt breakup. Then one day Rachael put her foot down and it was over. And its been over for about a month now. She told me to just move on. I dont know... i am sick of dating, this whole experience has ruined it for me. I dont care anymore. I love that girl and cant see myself with another. Now all I do is write songs about it. It is kinda pathetic actualy. Great now i depressed myself. Ah stupid, im gonna go watch anime now cuz im a friggin losser whopptie doo!
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Oblivion Scream
What a weird day. First i go to the retro with Mitch, Glen and Alan. That was interesting. I brought my laptop but its bettery died in about ten minutes. Fully charged too. Well what a pos. Sooooo i just sat there and made lite conversation while glen checked out my iPod. He came accross some of the song that i had written and asked if i could burn him a CD. He actually liked it! Wow. I will have to get that to him tomarow. Then Mitch and myself went to best buy for some speakers. I need some for my dorm.
And so ensues the fiasco of the mega chain stores. we started at best buy, then sams club, then wal mart, then target, then ultimate electronics, and ultimatly ended up back at best buy where i made the purchace. What a friggin waste of time. There was crapy parking lots, poor selection of goods for purchace, freeway driving at 80 mph, stopsign running, the forggeting of cards and crappy company policy, hot roads and slow traffic. I was ready to shoot someone. But i got the speakers. Creative 2.1 system 30 watts total RMS. 5.25" sub, Satalites have a mid driver and tweeter. Nothing fancy but it'll do for the dorm. Sounds decent enough.
When i got home i tested them out and after hours of listening i decided they were worth it. Then I decided to have people over. Actualy no i didnt. Mike and Adam invited themselves over and then i invited mitch. We jamed for a bit and ended up watchin family guy. They soon left and i set out to play some Eternal Darkness on my gamecube. That game is so much more scarry than i remember. Now i have surround sound and it freaks me out. My heart was pumping. I belive i wrote about this game before. The insanity system is really something else. I cant tell if i am going insane or if the noises i hear have something to do with the game. Those who have played before will know what i am talking about. Well i think i am gonna watch Lain now. Havent seen it for a long time and I am gonna try to understand it. Catch ya later!
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Monday, August 29, 2005
Whatever
Thought i was going to the fair today, no. Last night jesse said that he and some otheres were going to the fair tomarow. Well i called mitch up this afternoon and he said that they had decided not to go. OK I thought. Whatever i can deal with that. Ill go do something else. Yeah i found out later that they did go to the fair. Aww crap. well whatever.
I then went over to mitches for a bonfire. After pouring nearly a whole jug of Tiki torch fuel and almost a gallon of gas... we had no fire. So we went over to Jenny N's for a fire. (She had dry wood i think thats the key). She got the fire lit and then we played volleyball. It was a good time. I suck due to babying my left hand because the finger is still not healed perfect. Whatever. Then we sat by the fire and watched movies on mitch's laptop till jenny kicked us out. Then i came home.
Not teribly exiting i know but whatever.
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Fired up for Collage
I have decided to revive the blog for collage. Maybe i will get people to actualy read it.
Today was an interesting day. I Went to bed a about 2am and had to wake up at seven because my mom wanted to go shopping so we can get everything for my dorm ready. I also had to get a menigitis vaccination at 8 so i can be protected. As a Collage Freshman living in a dorm i am a member of the "at risk" population. Yeah about that. My brother also had an appointpent with the asthma doctor. That took the better part of two hours to complete. I was forced to walk up to the shopping center in the rain because i was so bored. I was so tired, i passed a coffie shop on my walk and i wanted coffie so bad. However i had no money at all because im poor. Well not really just stingey.
Once that was compleated we drove to target, did that thing with the school supplies and such. i just picked things off the shelves and said i need this because da da da da da. Then we went to the Japanese restaraunt that we love. I have shrimp tempura, most excellent i might add. Then clothes shopping, boring then home.
Once i got home i had to change the tire on my car with my dad becasue it got flat from sitting in my driveway. We took it to the auto place and the fixed it up within and hour. Then it was off to the retro with Mitch and Kyle. They had laptops, i didn't. I had some wimpy iced mocha drink. It was less than satisfying.
From there we went to Lee's bonfire. That was cool. Mark was there. hadnt seen him in a while as he's already left for collage. Then Rachael, Jessy, and Kara showed up. Rachael left early because of her cerfew. The rest of us went to applebees and had some good food at half price. Awesome. Then i camehome and typed this. Wow that was long. Im gonna go watch a movie now.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Too bad, it was good for a while.
It has been a year almost since i have typed in this blog. wow what a year its been. i could never tell the whole tale so i wont even try. but i would like to say a few things. i dont relly care if any one reads this. i am only writing this for me. if someone just happens to stumble about this blog thats ok too.
Needless to say i can log in now. so no probs there. lets see whats changed in the last year. I graduated from high school. thats a big one. umm... i got a girlfriend. no more boring pathetic rants about how im girlfriendless right? Wrong, she dumped two nights ago. Although it didnt really hit me untill a few hours ago. Thats part of why im writing this. To express the feelings i cant otherwise. I cant play guitar because my left middle finger is broken. they put a pin in it. It hurts like a bitch, and im typing with one hand. so please excuse gramatical erros as i am haveing enough trouble just hitting the right keys. My music tastes really haven't changed. infact i am listening to the same lost prophets cd from two entrys back. Although i do like heavy metal more now. My car is the same. Oh i got a job but... my last day is today.
So looking back i really havent changed much. im stll depressed about being without a girlfriend (though the pain is much more raw and intense). i still have no life to speak of outside of anime and video games. Yeah im a looser plain and simple. So im gonna go to bed, then i will go to work and then i will go to bed, then i may sleep till nevermore.
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
The story of my stupid ass computer
So i cant login at my house so im here at hollys using her computer. Yeah i dont know if i can fix it but it should be interesting.
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Friday, August 13, 2004
My day
So my internet just decided to stop working. then it decided to work again. of its own free will. sometimes i think computers exist for ths sole purpose of pissing me off. I hate them so much.
Well today was a boring day. I woke up. did the garage sale. Drove to Target. Bought a lost prophets cd. went home. sat in hot tub. typed blog. I might watch a movie later. Then i may sleep. i may never wake up. that sounds fun. i love sleep. lets see how long i can sleep.
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Thursday, August 12, 2004
you know what...
Today was a bad day. Today, was a horrible day. It was... incredible in how it sucked. I have rarely ever witnessed a day that sucked as much as this one. Although there have been others. I had to work the garage sale today. that sucked cuz it was boreing. I thought there were plans to do something with holly tonight. umm.... yeah i guess not. I just wish she had told me or something then i would have tryed to get a hold of other freinds sooner. not that it would have metterd cuz they were all busy anyway. The czech guys went to bed at like 8. Jet lag i guess. And i understand that and its cool. Jake had to go paint his youth center. others i coudn't get a hold of. i finaly went over to nicks and watched tv of all things. Fuck, i can do that at home! Yeah i guess my biggest beef is not knowing that i wasn't going to do something. If i had known then, i would have found something else to do. Like watch a movie or something. BUT because someone says "Ill call you around dinned time." when its an hour away, it prevents me from starting anything. I dont want to be in the middle of a movie when someone calls. The only other thing to do would be to play guitar and i do that all the time anyways so i get sick of that. its like, i waste so much time trying to get people to do stuff that i could have done a billon things myself. and when all you do when you get a hold of someone is watch tv... it's so not worth it. You know what... i dont care anymore. im gonna go shoot my self cuz im an idiot.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Blink Fast
Some of my friends are back now yeay!!! Last night Jake, nick and i went out to perkins for coffie and pie. (jakes treat). we played cards as well. Then tonight i went over to jakes cuz he invited me to nick p's going away party. so i got to his house and he took me and adam there. The party was alright i guess. its not really the crowd i hang out with. that said i dont really have a "crowd" of my own so i guess it dosen't really matter. i was however really bored as i knew little of the people there outside of school and in the end i just watched people make fools of themselves either singing karoke or playing DDR. And no it was not entertaining, it was just sad. exept for a few DDR players who were realy good. then we went to jakes for a bit. His girlfriend was there and i like her just fine but ive had bad experiences in the past of being a 3rd wheel so i decided to leave quickly. I left b4 11oclock. thats insane. i cant come home b4 curfue, what the hell is that about. so i decided to call Holly to see if she wanted to hang for an hour (i needed my gamecube controller back anyway) but... she worked untill midnight tonight. Yeah... thats... thats great. i ended up home at 11:10 pm. And i lost a piece of my samurai sword. its the dealy on the end of the hilt. what a mixed up day. and i dont have my gamecube controller.
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
Thats what i have to say
so i was really bored all freakin day. yeah i thought i might do something but that fell though. Im really getting sick of this "my friends are not here" bussiness. Fortunately i think some of them come back real soon so that should fix some things. But... my freinds from the czech have not emailed me. so i have no clue as to whats going on. And whats worse is Im running out of anime with which to pass the time. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Im really feeling down right now. i have to get out of the house but no one can do anything as they are either working or hangin with other friends. OR there gone from this country compleatly. And there is nothing fun to do by myself that dosen't involve spending a load of money. My day comes down to three activities. 1. watch anime. 2. Play Guitar. 3. Play Doom 3. I alternate between these activities and sometimes though a meal in there. I have an urge to jump into my car and drive somewhere but i have no where to go. and there is no one on the internet so theres really nothing here either. So what i end up doing is writing pointless blogs like this.
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Friday, August 06, 2004
KablamO!!!
So ive been playing Doom 3 for a while now and am kinda getting a feel for the game. It is amazing and scarry. First game to make me yelp in quite a while. So far however i have not died. I'm on the fourth level. I came dangerously close however because i decided to go up against this big dude with a flashlight. the i got sick of that, whiped out the shotgun and bam he's gone. ended up with 4 health though. heh. My only beef with this game is that it is becoming predictable. Its pretty much a given that theres going to be monsters in just about every room. and if there are a bunch of powerups just sitting there... yeah you pick those up and some baddies are sure to come running. so but other times its very freaky so... i dont know enough yet. The verdict is still out on this one.
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Thursday, August 05, 2004
oops!
yeah new quote on the quote blog... im an idiot.
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Yeay
I have just finnished installing my new Direcway 6000 modem. I must say that based of past experiences with this company I thought i was in for an all-nighter here trying to make the damn thing work. BUT i was pleasantly surpised to find that everting went as smooth as... somthing very smooth. I now no longer have to worry about stupid software that takes an hour to load on startup. Ive cut the boot up time on this computer in half!!! whats more is that this modem is ethernet based, not USB, so therefore it gets pluged into my router that has been sitting here being nothing more than a wireless access point for years. Oh and i bought Doom 3. havent tryed it yet. im wating for nightfall.
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
not a good one tonight
Well i was feelin down but the guitar heals all!!! it really does. nothing helps channel raw emotion like rockin out on a fully overdriven guitar at 3 am. (im on headphones) neibors wouldn't take to kindly to 120 watts blasting though the neiborhood.
I busted out my old RC car today. its a real fun one. Its an air devil. you push a button on the controller and it jumps its real fun but... the battery pack must be dieing. i could barly get any preformance out of it tonight. mabe it needs more charge? i did 4 hours. i think thats the required time.
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
well i thin..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Im sleepy and
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Saturday, July 31, 2004
Did you see a bright light?
So all my freinds have gone to different hemispheres! yeah thats... thats... thats just peachy! ummm lifes been weird and i dont quite know how to put this. Lets just say i feel floaty. if that makes any sense at all. as far as i know im not on any mind altering chemicals. mabe ive had too much sun? mabe not enough moon light? Dont they say that light from the moon can affect how you feel? i think i heard that somewhere. i should look into it.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
STAR WARS
So today i got a bunch of my old Gamecube games together that i dont play anymore and decided to trade them in at EB. i got a butt-load a money for them so i decided to buy a game. I saw Knights of the old republic had a nice price cut from the $50 i saw it last at so i decided to buy it. This game SCREAMES Star Wars goodness. Its just fun. Right of the bat its fun. Action right away. And its fun action too. not just simple turn based stuff. I swear any game that uses turn based combat is too old fasioned. it disconects you from the action too much and makes you feel like you aren't in the role. And it is a ROLE playing game. And on top of that, even though this game takes place b4 the waste of celuloid that is the star wars prequils, it actualy feels like star wars. Few games actualy feel like star wars these days. Its good to see that SOME PEOPLE have not lost the touch like others, George Lucas im talking 'bout you!
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Monday, July 26, 2004
LAIN
Something Holly said to me a few minuts ago reminded me of something from Serial Experiments Lain that i have been meanting to look into but never rememberd when i was abel to do it. Now i am. It has to do with the schumann resonance. I have always wonderd if there was such a thing, and there is. Interesting. And yes the theoris about it, specificaly the gaia theroy, are actual theorys used in Lain. I found all this very interesting as i am a huge Lain fan.
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Sunday, July 25, 2004
no crap
So i just finished wasabi. The movie not the spicy stuff. Starring Jean Reno. It was pretty good. Well any movie that can get Jean Reno onto a DDR pad has got to be good. Yeah im not kidding. he danced DDR. I saw it with my own two eyes. It was pretty funny. But seriousy the movie was great.
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Saturday, July 24, 2004
a lost lamb
Yes rockstar does indeed rock. They have created many great games. None the least of which is the GTA series, and the previously mentioned max payne. Red Dead revolver is also an outstanding game. it most cirtanly right up there with apogee.
So today was weird as well. i ended up golfing. that was new. hah. i actualy woke up and everyone left. that was cool. then i figured out how do play tales of symphonia multiplayer and went over to hollys to play it. but... i didnt get in much game time b4 i had to go home.
I just spent the better part of the last two hours playing global ops. its a counter strike rip off is what it is. still it is rather entertaining to play although it can be insanely hard at times. now im really tired and my eyes hurt so i am gonna watch tv.
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Friday, July 23, 2004
a little reading
What a weird day. but i feel better.
Now i think i will blow the shit out of things in Max Payne II, by the honerable Rockstar Games.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
This is a long one
So i have been really busy lately. Im never this busy. But it was really fun. Hangin with friends rocks. Oh and i tried skateboarding yesterday. Yeah umm I dont think its for me. I got on top of the ramp and evey instinct im my body told my not to go down. yeah im a scaredy cat but id like to see you do it. Adam i know you can so nevermind that. but lets see im getting ahead of my self back to the begining.
My mom called and woke my up at aroung 11am. Said to get showerd and dressed as i had to take my brother to my grandmas so he could mow the lawn. Then i came back and changed then left for marks. We had lunch plans at the chinesse buffet. So i got there and played guitar for a while waiting for adam and holly. (on the way home from my grandmas i passed adam so i knew he was comming.) so we get to the chinese place and it was wonderful. Then afterwards adam, holly and i head to my house to get chobits. we ended up staying for too long and i got called of that later. so then we go over to hollys and watch chobits. then adam had to leave. thats when holly and i started skating. then schonie called and wanted to go tubing at justins. only thing is he hadn't called him to see if it was ok yet. it ended up being that no one answered and he came over to skate with us. then we wanted to get john to teach us. so we call him and he wants us to come to the skate park. after a huge mess with that we get to the place and there was a mess with the cops there. then we skated and determind that we suck and would never stop sucking so we gave up. nick left and holly and i went back to her house. well we were haveing a fine time of tv watchin then jen and molly came over. yeah that was death. There is a reason guys avoid all this touchy feely emotional stuff. and it is because it is a huge mess of crap that is really stupid. holly seems to understand this and thats cool. AND THEN oh boy and then, amy and justin come in and jen and amy start fighting. I look at holly and see that she is thinking the same thing. i ask here where the melk is. LOL. so we go out and justins all like. "im running away" so we get out and hide in her room till they go away witch they do. Thank god. and holly and i watch tv again till i have to leave.
Its interesting cuz i never write this much and wasn't intending to. I guess its cuz my days are never this interesting. hmmm. Oh check the quote blog there are some new ones.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
So i came back i guess
Yes its ture i left for wisconsin. the blog is still alive and kickin. Thanks for clearing that up "name". Yes it was a fun tri[. Latley ive been hangin out with friends. And ive purchased volumes 1-3 of Chobits. Its pretty cool so far. And yeah tomaorw i eat chinese food. ugnh im too tired to type well now.
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Saturday, July 10, 2004
Chew on it
im leaving. I'll be back someday. If i feel like it.
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Thursday, July 08, 2004
ANNOUNCEMENT 2
I have decided to change the purpose of the quote blog. It is now for any quotes at all that i think are interesting and worth remebering.
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EQ
Yesterday i went over to Hollys and played the most awesome game ever! Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals for gamecube. It pushes perfect dark for my favorite game ever. It was just so insanely fun. Then i had some really awesome chilly. It was more tomato soup than chilly but it was really tasty none the less. Today i recorded a song after going to the dentist. I hate the dentist. I had a tooth drilled. thats not fun. also, i am not happy with the song i recorded. it dosent sound right. i have to play around with the EQ for a bit and see how it sounds. I uped the mids on the guitar thinking it sounded better but in the final mix it sounds like poo. Ive also been playing around with the eq on the amp and i found a setting i like better. Yeah this is after the fact that i recorded already. hmpf it was hard recording as well. the song dosent flow right. i coudn't get the drums that i wanted. it sucked. oh well. have to play with that more in alitle bit.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Ripin Guitar!
So i was gonna do somthing with holly today right? and im all like yeah! im gonna do somthing today. but she hurt herself and decided not to do anything, soooo i was out of things to do. then Jeni calls and im all like WTF! She said she wants to start a band. Im like hell yeah! the other band fell apart so mabe this one will be good. so she invites me over at 6. it is now 3. so i was like "nick called, wants to shoot rockets. yeah" So i go over... they are straping a launch pad to the roof on the van!!! im like WTF!!! so yeah it was porring rain so the first test was from the garage... the target was jake. It almost took his head off! hahaha. then we do a driving test... it was too wet. so we spend the next hour building a cover for it. we finaly get it working and do the driving test. it skips across the ground and ends up in someones lawn! LOL it was great. then i leave go home and eat dinner. call up jeni, she's "what time is it?" im like "6:30" so shes like "oh shit, i'm gonna call chris and see whats up." so she does and she calls back and is like "come over in a half hour so i can shower." so i do and we jam. It was pretty fun. We have a cool spacy sound. kind of classic rock guitar solo on top of an acoustic guitar riff played on an electric guitar with a metel beat unterneath. then her parents kicked us out and i went home.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The quote blog is up and running and wating for quotes it be inputted. They must be something funny that someone said that they may or may not have meant to say. Either way it should be something that makes you look at the person funny and say "oh wow". Check it out at PLACEBO.
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Monday, July 05, 2004
PIG
so nick calls and want to come over b/c he lost his arrowhead in a tree stump. So he comes over and we get it out of the tree. Then we go over to jakes and shoot shotguns for a while. It was good fun. Then nick left and we watched Paycheck. IT was really good. Then i came home the end.
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Saturday, July 03, 2004
mellow
Well adam and friends are gone on their youth trip to Utah. They all left me and now i have nothing to do. Crap thats not fun. All im gonna be doing this week is gameing. Well thats fun at least but i need a good game to hold my attention.
My wrist seems to be much better now. it dosent hurt to type or play guitar which is a good thing. ONly problem is my freinds i jam with are all in Utah. so it dosent do me any good now does it. I think today i may go down to EBgames and get a GBASP. Then head over to best buy and get some anime, or not. depends on what i feel like.
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Thursday, July 01, 2004
wow
Worked again today. oh spiderman two sucks ass never see it. i know i said the thing about low expectations... let me just say it sunk far lower than i ever could have concived. uh thats it i cant say anymore now. I am overwhelmed from the massice suck that is that movie.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004
confusing yes
B4 i get on with this entry let me get all the bad things out of my system first. That way im not depressed at the end of this blog. My internet was dead for the past few days, it dosent look like i will jam again... ever, my love life dosent exist and my monitor is fucked up.
There now that thats done i had a wonderful day. i actualy worked and got money. now i can buy things. tonight i will see Spiderman 2. Im not expecting too much as i thought the first one was rather lame but that is when movies are most entertaining and good. Take star wars for example. People were expecting great things and got crap. But when expectations are low, then the movie has a better chance of beating those expectations. I wonder if what i just said maks any sense. hmm
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Animenia
Ghaa i just had the worst forzen chinese food ever! ewww i feel truly unsatisfied with that meal. However last night i had a Chalupa at Taco bell now that was excellent... then afterwards everyone went and did something else so i ended up back a home at 10:30! Thats insane i cant be home betweem the hours of 9 and midnight! Its unthinkable, yet it happends more often than I'd like. Oh well i guess you cant goof around with friends every night.
Currently i am listening to my own tunes. yes that means i am listening to stuff i wrote and recorded. IM thinkin of recording a song today as no body ever has time to JAM!!! I haven't Jammed since the first day of summer. that really sucks.
I am takiing this wonderful oportunity to watch lots of movies and anime. I have watched the entire second season of Beast Wars, and am currently half way though Trigun. I hope to view the Entire series of Crest of the stars (includes banner 1 and 2) and bebop b4 the summer is over. OF course i will so ill have to through all of Kenshin in there too. ooooo that'ill be tough seeing as how there are 95 episodes of Kenshin not including the OVA's and the movie.
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
Hmpf
its been a real long time since ive read a real good book. I just finished Prey by Micheal Crichton. it was excelent. 100X better than anything ive ever read in Intro to Lit. Ive done nothing all day. Its weird. I dont know what i was expecting but this wasn't it.
In other news...things are shitastic.
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
hassen
So dude one night nick invites himself over and we watch torque. That is the worst movie ever. That is all you need to know about it. Then last night nick has a bon fire so i head over there. it was cool. good fire, marshmellos, lots a fun. then there final fantasy x-2. It was great untill i meet the uber demons of death. yeah it was pretty easy untill this point. now i cant lay a finger on them and i keep dieing. stupid. This is how all rpgs turn out for me. Good good good DEATH. ughh I hate video games.
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
Ropes of doom
Yeah the days are all blending together now. I have trouble remembering what i did and when so forgive the sparssness of this entry. one night this week i went to willys and saw Robin Williams Live. it was funny. then i went to jakes and rode horses. I was terrified. And the horse wouldn't go over water even though jakes horse did. Still it was fun. then we played halo for hours and then i left. today i was at the dentist. they stuck a laser in my mouth and determind that i have a cavity. then they are like hey there is no seelent there, thats why you have a cavity. Well duh! then i rented movies and games. Red Dead Revolver is pretty cool, and so is Final Fantasy X-2 surprisingly. I actualy could get into it. As for movies i got swordfish and Torque. we'll see how they turn out.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
a return to roots
How can i call my blog "Blakestone" if i dont have the game? Thats the question ive been asking myself.
Today i was doing a little surfing on the net and came across music for one of my favorite games. "Jazz Jackrabbit" i decided i would try to find the game and make it work. Fiding it was easy. Makeing it work was harder. Its dos based. And as Microsoft is evil, XP dosen't run off DOS anymore, it runs of NT. So i needed a dos emulator. After much searching i found one and meraculusly it worked. So ive been playing that for a while. Then i got to thinking. "i tryed blakestone a while ago and it woudn't work... i wonder." So i downloaded it and pluged it in. Now i had to install it with the DOS emulator but i got it, and it works. So now i can say that i play Blakestone.
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
Updates from SAN FRAN
Hey Hey!!! I am currently in san fran on the hotels T1 line. HA ITS FREE!!! today is my last day and i will be comming home tomarow. All in all it was a good vacation except for the bad stuff. Ill go into that late or i may not depending on how i feel. I did finaly buy my samurai sword. i sent it home to myself.
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Monday, June 07, 2004
Blam Blam
Well it has started. The summer confusion. This is where i dont know what the day/date/time/ or anything like that is. it is WONDERFUL! I love not careing about the time. its so great. i just move from one thing to the next. Currently i have been involved with Resident Evil 0 for Gamecube. That is a great game. I think i like it better that the original.
OOOO but earlyer i kinda bailed on my freinds as they wanted to go to guitar center. Well my wrist was and still is killing me. I think i hurt it shooting the shotguns yesterday. I cant play guitar right and well there is no point in going to Guitar center if i cant play. That and i was too flamin tired to move. So i called adam and was like "im not going" and went to bed. They probably hate me now.
In other news im kinda depressed. Im also VERY confused. its actualy kind of painful. Therefore i am distracting myself with things to do. UHHHggg i have to go buy clothes today for san fran. UHHHHGGG!!! i have to go to san fran on wednesday. I HATE family vacations, why can they not see this. I say EVERY FUCKING YEAR, "NO i dont want to go. lets stay home!" But of course them in thier optimistic happy ways always go and buy the plane tickets and after that im stuck. Unless someone wants to take my place? I also hate clothes shoping. It always ends with me not likeing what i get. See for me its comfort over looks. so i get a bunch of shirts and only one or two will i like. Same with pants. With school pants its easy. Lee Dungarees all the way. but shorts are either too short or look gay. AND I CANT VOICE MY FRUSTRATIONS WITH MY GUITAR CUZ MY WRIST HURTS LIKE A FUCKING BITCH! so im doing it here.
hmm i was happy at the start of this blog. Now i just depressed my self. ghaa i wanna go shoot something.
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Saturday, June 05, 2004
yeah
So last night was pretty cool. It wasn't the best ive ever played but it was alright. Melanies was alright as well. I had a really good time at both partys after a slow start. hmmm. I wanna do resident evil tonight. I wonder what else is goin down tonight!
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Thursday, June 03, 2004
Ich komme zu die ende!
SCHOOL IS DONE!!!
well thats all that needs to be said. I have no more German ever! No more tauber ever! no more english class of death for three months. No more office aid ever! I sing for joy! also i dont have a job yet! WEEEEEEEEE!!! im gonna stay up all night!!!
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004
ROCK ON!
Mad am I? hah i was not kidding. My dad returned from a Microsoft convention in San Deiago and brought stuff. One of them was a small stuffed lion that is made of material use clean the monitor.
Last day of school is tomarow. I will be killed with finals. Actual i only have 1 and a half to take but the one will be death. I just want it to end so i can sleep.
Yes the plan is this. Go to school. come home sleep till i have to go play at graduation, go to melanies to burn schoolwork, come home, stay up till 5 am, go to sleep till 5 pm next day, go to Jeni's jam party.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Lions Roar.
So i went back to the old layout because people were complaining about the resolution. I can't do anything about it. This is the only layout i found that works on a 1024x768.
So there are two days of school left. That is two too many. I have so many finals to take its not even funny. I have 3 classes. I have 8 finals. did i count wrong? Last time i checked 8 was more than 3. Hmmm its just stupid. im not even studieing at all. and i cant type because my finger is dead. I sliced it with a sisors. There was blood everywhere.
My monitor is dirty, time to clean it with the lion.
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Monday, May 31, 2004
Fun!
So i went out ot Guitar Center to get my amp. I was looking for a Crate XT 120 but they didn't carry the line anymore. So i ended up getting a Price knock off on a Crate GLX 212. The thing Rocks. 3 footswitchable channels, digital FX 2 x 12 cab. 120 watts of power. i can tear down the house with this thing.
So today Schon calls me up ands like "Dude lets do something" so we go over to jakes unanounced. So we get there and nick has his DDR pads in the car so we play that. Then Jakes like "i wonder if we got the Shotguns out." they did so he tought us how to shoot. We shot clay pidgions. I am a good shot. I actualy hit them. They exploded. Exept for the first one. That one just broke in two. But yeah so he had a 20 and a 12 guage there. I shot the 20 first. it was too small and i hit myself in the nose. So i moved to the bigger and more powerful 12 and that was just fine. I want to go get saftey cirtified so i can go hunting.
Then i went over to marks to see if i could borrow a PA system for tonight. It was burried in junk so no i couldnt but we played with throwing knives, spikes, and tomohaks for a while. It was fun. Im gonna go jam tonight at bacons. should be fun.
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Saturday, May 29, 2004
New stuff
So i got bored and made a new layout. What do you think?
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Sigh...
Last night i went to willys i took DDR with me. it made everyones night. I actualy had a good time to spite the fact that i was really tired and VERY confused about something. I wont say what, its just...
And thats it, theres no more in my brain right now. Rock on!
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
More Guitar Talk
So i need some new picks. The ones i got are too flimsy. I think ill go to Kat's and get some tomarow. I did re-string my entire guitar today. i hadn't done so in about a year. Now it sounds amazing. There is so much more deffinition. I got an interesting mix of strings on it. the first string is a fender superbullet, the second a Ghs, the third is a D'addario, the fourth is a superbullet, the rest are D'addarios. This is because i do not have a complete set of any. I just have random strings sitting around. I really should get a whole set of D'addarios. They are good. The work well with my strat. Also i did not stab my finger while doing this. This is a first. I always manage to hurt myself in some way when restringing.
So i got my yearbook now. We did the whole signing deal. It was alright. Hmm that movie "The day after tomarow" comes out the day after tomarow. I want to see it. looks cool.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Guitar Talk
In the middel of intro to lit i had a spur of the moment idea. I thought it would be good to go to guitar center. So after school i asked adam if he wanted to go. I didn't expect him to say yes nor was i actualy that serious about going but he did agree so i was like alright then. So we went out to guitar center. I actualy was there for a reason. I wanted to Compare Marshall MG amps to Line 6's Spider II series. However two things happend. One nither marshall nor Line 6 had the wattages that i was specifically looking for. And secondly i fell in love with a Crate 120W 2x12. It works out darn good because its the same price as the Marshall MG50dfx i wanted but it has 2 12" speakers and over twice the power. Also i ended up not likeing Line 6 that much. It looked and sounded more like a toy than a musical instrument.
See now thats what most people dont get about electric guitar. The amp is exactly half the instrument. The amp can determine the sound just as much as the guitar, sometimes more so. If you get a crap amp you are going to sound like crap. This is why ive been playing a Marshall for so long. They've always had a good rep, and i like the marshall sound, Its just that... I really liked the Crate sound. and its watt for watt twice as cheep. It'll be interesting to see what goes down.
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Monday, May 24, 2004
uh oh
So i found out today that i cant blog in school. That school and its policys are becoming a real pain in the ass. I don't know what they are worried about. Its so stupid. A stupid end to a stupid day. Just about as stupid a day as it can get. as of now i forget the details on purpose but just know it was stupid.
My dad is in california and my moms all flippin out like crap and im all like "chill" so of corse she dosent and starts ranting about how everythings wrong in the house. I had spagetti for dinner. Thats it just spagetti. no sauce, no meat, im lucky i had milk. Oh wow how uplifting is this.
So ive started to write that story that ive been talking about. Yeah i still need a name for the gril, i need a plot, i need a title, i need a name of the city, i need alot of other names for people. Oh and i need to decide when the story takes place. Now ive written enough so that i can go just about anywhere from where i stoped.
and there is a water noise comming from somewhere. id better make sure we still have a basement.
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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Weekend is done
So the weekend is done. All in all it was a good weekend. Another 9 days of school left. Will i last? will my grades hold up? i don know. But anyway. friday i went to perkins with Holly. Satuday went to Adams/taco bell, and played DDR/ate. Pretty simple yet fun. didn't jam at all so thats a bummer but i did play lots a guitar. Time to go to the Five day grind that i hate so much. This week has a jazz band concert in it, lots of marching as well. I have to march on memorial day. I hate band.
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Friday, May 21, 2004
FOOD FIGHT!!!
So there was a big food fight during A lunch today. I have C lunch. I never got to see it. However i felt the repercusions of it. As a result of this the seniors are in a deep pile of shit, i had to go to lunch late, my shoes are permanatly sticky, and i had to walk the freshmen to lunch.
I dont mind the last one. It was actualy fun. My friend and I lead a line of them rather slowly. Apparantly the teachers are worried that the Freshmen might take after the senior class. So they count of us juniors to whip them into shape.
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Sunday, May 16, 2004
So im bored
So i was gonna go to youth group tonight but then i found out that we are haveing popovers for dinner so i think ill stay for that. I have been bored all day. at one point i went to best buy and got the fourth disk of ryvius. It was cool. Now im
bored again. I went to a concert last night it was cool. The Jam session was cool as well. In fact it was so cool that it overshadowed the rest of the weekend and made it boring. i hate it when that happens.
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Friday, May 14, 2004
HAH
So im sitting in band. Band is in the library tody. I dont know why we are here. It is far to early in the morning for this. Looks like a jam party today. then mabe a movie party. And a concert of saturday.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Let the Good Times Roll!
Yo everone should head on over to FXhome.com and check out the new info for AlamDV3. It looks like its going to be truly amazing.
So Friday deffinatly looks like a go. So thats all cool. My paper is 99.9% done. Everything is rockin at this point. This is a nice change from my usual depressing blogs.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Coolio
So i got DDR pads now. I love that game. I dont know why its so fun but it is. Anyone who thinks its not fun must just be lazy because this game is for everyone.
enough about that. Already i am looking forward to the weekend. On friday i might go Jam. and thats it.
Ok so my paper is going well. I should have it done by tomarow. I still have questions for the teacher. Also i have given up trying to read Paradise lost. I just cant keep focused whilst i read it. Otherwise its a good story. I just wish it was written in standard format.
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Sunday, May 09, 2004
So i can see.
So last night was awesome. I love to hang with friends. And i have never had that much fun playing the piano. It was just working. See thats one of those times where my game is just on! ya know what i mean. Like take friday night. That sucked cuz i was in a horrible mood. But last night i was in a good mood and was "mentaly agile"
Didn't jam this weekend so that sucked. I sorta worked on my paper. Im sposta read "paradise lost" but i dont feel like it. Im such a slacker. I dont got much to look forward to. nope just the weekend. Thats five days away. I think i may take a mental health day. Yeah that'ud be nice.
Last night i also found out that i was really fat. Sewards scooter refused to move with my weight on it. It move a foot then stoped then i fell down. Hollys all like "ya gotta banace on it". Im like "no it wont move at all." DDR pads come on tuseday. Already got the game but tis no fun w/out the pads. Yeah thats gonna be my exercise.
Stop laughing.
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Saturday, May 08, 2004
Feels like Burning
I know that im an anoying pest sometimes and im sorry for it. Thanx to all who put up with my anoyingness.
Yeah i just walked though poison. Its all over my feet. Yeah no one told me that they sprayed weed killer on the lawn. That would have been good to know. Ill let you know how that one turns out.
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Friday, May 07, 2004
Maybe
So not much to talk about today. Maybe ill jam later on, Maybe i wont. Maybe ill see a movie maybe i wont. I dont know what im doing for the weekend. Maybe ill sleep, maybe i wont. Maybe ill do my paper, maybe i wont. you get the idea.
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Thursday, May 06, 2004
So what?
oh what a bleak, and dreary day. So in german, i found something out. I cant speak it. I suck at it. Ann sits behind me and is all complaining about her 90% score. Im like "what r u complaning about i got 60%" Then i took a 430 point english test. i skiped a 40 point question. i am gonna fail. and i have to decide if i take collage comp next year. yeah lifes not that good right now. The only bright spot is World Geo where i can have some fun but thats like a half hour a day. And i have a band concert today. Which i dont mind as much seeing as how i like the concert band. Its all the little extra things that i hate. I mean its thursday night and i dont do anything anyways so it dosen't matter to me if we have a band concert or not. Eah so i cant recognize people easily so what. At least i can... type. I think. bleah. im gonna go sleep now.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Uhhhhhhhh
Well i was gonna actualy try and write a good blog tonight but i just spent the beter part of the last hour filling out the app for hollywood video so im sick of this.
Bacon, willy and mark came over and we jammed. It was fun.
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Monday, May 03, 2004
Oh wow
I am so confused now. I don't know what to do!
On the other hand playing with a drummer is so much more fun. The first jam session between willy, bacon, and myself is tomarow.
Sorry about the flux capacitor thing. I a lazy person.
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Sunday, May 02, 2004
Cat on a hot tin Roof
So at Frissbe it ended up being me, nick s, bacon, eric, and robin. yeah thats not enough to play so we went over to nick s's. Bacon and I played DDR for three hours straight. We were tired. Nick was showing robin how to play paintball. DDR is an awesome game. I must get it.
Last night i played guitar at willys.
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Friday, April 30, 2004
UF2004
What a seriously messed day. I have done nothing at all. Nothing in german, nothing in english, nothing now. I hate doing nothing. Whats worse is the nothing in english is a movie. Hamlet. Who ever directed that should be shot in the face. Who ever wrote that should be shot in the balls, oh wait its Shakespeare and he had no balls! Seriously it is the worst trash ever to be put on a film medium. Maybe is supposed to be good but the class messed it up, i dont know. All i do know is that Kara's dad was our sub and we didn't have to pay attention too much.
Good news is that Ultimate seems to be on for tonight. So that should be fun.
Shit i just rememberd that i have a band thing at 7 AM tomarow. i HATE THIS!!!!!! I want to leave, get out, but i cant because my parents are fucking stupid!
But news of ultimate makes be feel better.
Oh and "linkage?"
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
Da New Stuff
Hmmm. I wish it would rain. I like the rain. I look at the sky and say "Damn you why wont you rain!" ON the other hand if it rains tomarow we wont have Ultimate Frissbe (SP?). We might not have UF anyways. I like that game. I also need money. I have to get the Chobits Perfect collection on DVD. I also have to get the rest of the Mangas. Also I found a new awesome anime show to watch. Geneshaft. Directed by Kazuki Akane. I think thats the name. Its the same as who directed Escaflowne the Movie, which some dont like but i love. Anyways Geneshaft is apperaing on TechTV's Anime Unleashed, Im recording it with my TiVo. I cant wait till i get home so i can watch it.
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Monday, April 26, 2004
uhhh... I did it again.
Well well well... So now is all clear, now is all known. The id cant hide now. I have it cornered. Its still dangerous though. i must be cautious. I however, am not one for caution. Just ask anyone who has ever ridden with me.
So ryvius rockes. New volume comes out TOMAROW!!!!!! OH YEAH!!!!!! I have no money. OH NO!!!! Well love hina rocks too. I've always wanted to see that. Now i have. Good show.
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Saturday, April 24, 2004
word to your mutha
So last night i went to a bon fire at the church. It was cool. I like fire. I smelled like fire. My shoes burned. I also got to see adam on a skate board for the first time. So its saturday but dosen't really fell like it. I woke up and no one was home. It stayed that way for several hours. So i never did get to eat breakfast. Now my mom is makeing pot stikers for dinner but i wont be here for that as i have to go to the prom and play. I dont wanna go see all the popular people show off how popular they are. I have to semi dress up as well so that sucks. B4 i can to anything after that i have to go home and change. thats one extra car trip. I dont even know what im doing after that. Ive still got a while b4 i have to leave. Dunno what im gonna do.
Quote of the day "Hey do you spell sucks S U C K S? I'm trying to write a rap song here!" J. Ventura.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
A moon of orange
Well ive found a new joy. Harvest Moon for gamecube. I always love the first harvest moon and had high hopes for the GCN version, although i did have doubts. Well it seems that they pulled if off cuz im addicted to it. I also have to beat far cry as well. Now that is a hard game. Currently i have no ammo. Im gonna get killed real fast.
Ive also found that i really like Hoobastank. Hmm prom is this saturday. Im not going exept for twenty minutes where i play in jazz band. After that till midnight i only have sketchey plans. Why didnt the pre rain smell come earlyer?
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Monday, April 19, 2004
no title today
Ok No i really want to film. I need a story though otherwise it will just be another effects test. The people in the film need a reason to be blasting the crap out of each other. I also has to be kept in the realm of possibilitys for a director with zero budget, minimal lightwave 7 experience, alam dv, and what can be shot in the area. Those are pretty steep restrictions.
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
Weekend in View.
So on friday i went to my cousins house to celebrate her's and my brothers brithday. Then i went over to marks to see if he wanted to see Kill Bill 2 with me. well he was not there so i had to go alone. I was running late so i drove like mad. Pushing 70 the whole way. Now the speed limit is 45 and for good reason. I almost flew off the road several times. Oh well, I didn't die so its all good. Any hoo the move simply put is awesome. I could use other adjectives to discribe it but they wouldn't do it justice.
On saturday i went over to Mikes and played paintball with him, jake, jonesy, steavans and jakes little asian freind. That guys cool although very quiet. Then i went over to jakes any watched the Fifth Element. I like that movie. I also ate all his food. Then i spent the rest of the night or early morning at home watching Samurai Deeper Kyo. Oh somewhere in there i recorded a song don't remember when though. That brings me to now where i havn't done much today.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
Theater Cinimatique
The last post aside im becomeing interested in doing a short film again. Yes i said short film, not alam dv effects test. That dosen't mean that alam can't be used. it just means the focus will be on plot and cinimatography like it should be. Theam will be survival thiller(maybe some horror elements?).
this is partaily due to the fact that it is becomeing warm outside again.
In other news my internet is fully operational again. The lapse was caused by the rapid temperature changes. It caused the wood in the roof to warp and expand. This knocked the signal strength down to about 50 or so. While this is theoreticaly enough to run, apparantly where i live the signal can't drop below 70 or the transmitter wont work right.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
A time to Write
Hmm havn't bloged in over a week. Just a drop in the will to blog i guess. That and my internet is dead. It was a slow painfull death of lousy connections and halted downloads and now it finally wont work at all. Im just glad it got me though my reasherch paper.
So im gonna write a story soon. I think ive got a premise, and i think ive got characters down. I might try to make it a manga but thats hard so well see where that goes. Umm just one thing, Names. I need a name for an anime sword girl. Any suggestions? The working name now is Kayly (kudos to Adam). I like the name but its not really anime. If i dont make it a manga and just write it, the name will stay Kayly, or if i dont get anything better. I really dont know about even trying the manga, it would be insanely hard. Feedback would be appriciated. Thanx.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
ah hah
I now own Far Cry. It is every bit as amazing as id hoped. I wont go into too much detail but i will say this. LANDSCAPE!!! In other news i finished my reasearch paper so the stress level of my life has gone from uber death to mild. I spent all my money so i cant purchace any anime for a while. I have however really gotten into manga as well now. I LOVE Chobits. I want to draw my own manga now but nameing characters is hard. And so is every other aspect of it. And ive just been tonld i cant blog in her so bye
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Saturday, April 03, 2004
A whizz, splat, aw crap.
Today started out stupid. I had to wake up at 7 to take the ACT. waking up before noon on saturday should be illegal. So in between test when we had a short break, Mike come up to me and says we should play paintball. Its a frckin nice day out so i agree. After the test Mike and i went to subway and had lunch. then we went and picked up my stuff. I have a Spyder Compact 2000. Its a darn good little gun. Hasn't faild me yet.
So then we head over to Nick A's and try to convince him to play. Well he wanted to write his paper bacause he is in sports and wont ever have time to write it again. See this is why i dont do sports, this way im not overwhelmed by work. We tryed justin but he was like grounded or something, jakes grounded, we went over to Adam C's and got him to play. Then we went and got Sam G. and his brother. So we had 5 people, not too bad. I must say it was actualy one of the funnest (little) games ive ever played. Alot of good firefights. I didn't hit anyone but i surrended owen after outwitting adam with a flanking manuever. Too bad i couldn't find my good barrel. Then i went home and slept. All in all a good day.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
GAMING
Every once in a while i will see a game that gets an amazing review on game spot. What makes it so special is the fact that ive never heard of it before. I am talking about Far Cry. Now this is the kind of FPS that i will go out of my way to get. It looks awesome with photorealistic textures and amazing lighting effects. Other than that, Harvest moon is the only other game title that i want currently.
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Monday, March 29, 2004
Ich bin back
Hey! im back from
BTW Kitsune: that has to be the funniest thing i have ever seen!
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Friday, March 19, 2004
Yay!!!
Wow im tired. I wanna sleep!!!! when i get home im gonna take a long nap. A good long one. Then im gonna play Metal Gear Solid. I want residnet evil 4. it looks awesome. Today was such a slacker day. I haven't done any work. Typeing this blog has the most semblance of work all day.
Lets see plans for the weekend... Guitar, quiznos, pack for
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Video Games R back!
I got Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes now. Amazing, the best game ever! Screw FPS. Third person stealth and adventure games rule! Im really looking forward to Resident Evil 4 and Killer 7. Both look stunning as well.
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Monday, March 15, 2004
Auto show
Had some great fun at the auto show. I went with Dan, Nick, his cousins and his dad. I have decided on a few cars that i will have to get in the near future.
Porsche 911
Porsche Boxter
BMW Z4
Ford Mustang
The Subaru WRX wins the award for most uncomfortable ride.
The Z4 wins award for Awesome sound.
The Corvette wins the award for worst back end.
The lotus wins the award for most difficult to enter/exit.
Nick wins the award for checking the most items out that were not cars. Nick's quote "I like the leather boots"
Go to Virtual Horizon for pics.
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Friday, March 12, 2004
Does this seem Familiar?
Well no one wants to do anything. And those that do or might are either grounded or off in St. Could cheering our basketball team on. Its friday, your supposed to do things on friday night. Stupid. I hate boredom. well I give up as of now. I dont care. im not gonna try anymore. i try to get together with friends and they are all busy or liveing under opressive rule. Auto show is tomarow so thats good at least but...I WANT FUN NOW!!!
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Thursday, March 11, 2004
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It has nothing
Well lets see. Ive decided to not go to band tomarow. That makes me happy. My car's lock froze today. That was stupid cuz i had to go though the passanger side. So german sucked today cuz i failed the test. Then band sucked cuz it always does, then world geo was ok cuz i just talked to Nick about upgrading his computer. Then english was boreing as was office aid. Nothing ever happends in my life save for a few weeks ago but that wasn't fun anyways. Now its boreing again. Im trying to decide if thats better.
Auto Show in 2 days! Yeah thats the one bright spot in my near future! Thats gonna rock. I love cars. I love the smell of gasoline. Some people dont but i love it. It makes me wanna drive fast. Im an irresponsible driver. I go way to fast. My cars gonna fall apart cuz a me. my driveway that was quicksand is now rock. That means that the ruts have frozen and its bad for my car to be in there.
I have a guitar and bass and i play them constantly. What else is there to do. Of couse i could work on my paper but im to lazy. LOL is it better to work or be bored? i haven't decided that either. hmm im really depressed right now. im gonna go drink a leiter of chocolate milk.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004
I hate my life.
Amazing. I can't belive it is still snowing. Im ready for the snow to end. I want the cold to end. Im sick of freezing every time i step outside. When is Spring? where is Spring? Why dosen't spring come faster? Why isnt it spring break so i can go to florida?
I got homework to do. I have to memorize a poem, then write two papers. Then read stuff. Tomarow i have pep band. Then on friday i have pep band again. Only that one is an away game so we have to pile on a bus and go somewhere. I dont wanna go. We leave at 6. An hour long bus ride. Get there at 7 assume it takes 30 min to start. Then we play for another 30 min then we watch the game about 2hrs. and hour back that takes it to 11pm. I wanna do things with freinds on friday night. i dont wanna play in band. Its good to support the team but I'm selfish damnit!
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Sunday, March 07, 2004
Some Fun For a Change
So last night I was super bored. I thought "hmmm that Hildago seems cool i wanna see that" so i call up mark, line's busy. Crap. So i just jump in my car and jet over. He's not there. He and Adam went to a church meeting. So i get back into my car and decide to call up Abe. I ended up driveing over to his house. So we left and went to the delano theater. Cool movie but i dont think it deserved all its hype. Afterwards we went to adams cuz nicks parents were there. A bunch of people ended up being there including, John, Jesse, Amy, and Justin. we sat around and watched cartoons while adam and Jesse plucked on his bass. Then Most Extreame Elimination came on and we watched that. Its always good for a laugh. Then adam had to kick us all out. so i went home and watched Spriggan. Very, very good. I've never seen action seens quite like those in an anime before. Then i slept. Now im bored again.
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Saturday, March 06, 2004
Stupidity
Hmm i wrote something but blogdrive lost it so now i have to rewrite it and i dont wanna. K so i played guitar and saw movies at adam's last night. Deliverance sucks never see it.
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Friday, March 05, 2004
Get up and DANCE
Super intendant Napoleon has met her waterloo. School is finaly closed for a SNOW DAY. that means i sit around all day thinking about how much i enjoy not being in school. The fact that its a friday makes it even better becuse it is efectivly a 3 day weekend. I feel like gameing but what game i dont know yet.
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Thursday, March 04, 2004
Like a Bird
Hey what fun today. The parking lot here at schoo was a skateing rink. Fun to play with handbrake on. Yeah so i finished my reading homework and am just sitting here now. oh yeah just one more thing to do tonight. Oh and band. I hate band i dont want to go tonight, but seeing as how i skiped last time i can't tonight. My internet died last night because of the storm but now its cool. i hope it dosent die tonight. oh well. I wanna play Guitar! I wanna see some anime! last weekend i saw Kyo. I think i will see some more this weekend. I know there is school still tomarow but who cares if its Friday!
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Spring and Fall don't mix
Hey its march. Whats up for this month? lets see. A trip to florida, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Kill Bill 2, and who knows what else random stuff. Paintball will comence soon. I'm gonna hang more with freinds cuz its fun and im sick of the house.
Hey today was boring. Lets see my Driveways turned to sludge so my car sunk and bottomed out. I have to park in the street now. Go to school. Sleep though two classes. Learn of the impending english paper of death. just about died while being an office aid. But i did get out and got to mikes and hung around for a while so i did something active. I hope i can go play Guitar today. I have been feeling alot better about things. The world has righted itself again for the first time in months. The blind period is over.
The weather sucks. its misty and smelly. the lawns a mess. so's my driveway. my car is dirty. I hate early spring. We need some thunder storms. or at least a good heavy rain. Wash all the crap away.
Why does the rain only come when you dont want it? Why Does it stay away when you need it?
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Saturday, February 28, 2004
*insert vulgar language here*
Wow i have never been so bored. This sucks. Adam got sick of talking and hung up on me, no ones online, i have nowhere to go tonight, and i have no good movies to watch. I'm going insane. I think im gonna go to the store and buy something. Anything. ill go buy some distilled water. Anthing to get me an escuse to get out of the house.
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Friday, February 27, 2004
Head Bangin' rock
Woo Friday night and im doing nothing yet again!!!! But thats not the point, i could have done stuff, but i didnt feel like it. Its been far too long since ive farted around online. However onlines been boring since no one updates their blogs and Kitsune is compleatly gone. Wonder whatever happend to her. But i find other stuff to do. Check out the spark. it has cool tests that you can take. Also check out pbreview just for paintball goodness. mabe ill get a bass this weekend. mabe i wont. mabe ill get a home theater system this weekend. mabe i wont. mabe aliens will kill us all.
Wow i have too much time on my hands. I need a girl friend.
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Thursday, February 26, 2004
Fun Stuff
Hey sorry about that bit of... inspired writing, i was totaly weirded out. Although not because of markers or glue or any of that. But i fee loads better now. And i want to play paintball soooo bad! i also should be studing for the big exam tomarow but im not cuz im lazy and the office people have me running around in circles. Today Mrs. Ungerecht had me run out to the parking lot to check a permit number. Oh and the camera that watches the parking lot can see everything. now i have to run out to the front of the school and change the letters of the stupid sign. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
So... what next?
And so it comes about that the future is again unknown. Life fades into the bitter cold blackness that has me stumbleing wondering where to turn. something is riped from me in a plot twist that takes my breath away and leaves me coughing up blood that is the color of my soul. For the first time in a long while i see my self as i really am. and yet it leaves me more confuesd than ever. My resovle changes by the moment and seems week. I cannot see though the mist, it is black, it is cold. There are no comforting thoghts, only my guitar can allay my fears and doubts.
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Sunday, February 22, 2004
the shambles are Blown away!!!
Life is freakin weird man. I dont get this shit.
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Just snap, freeze, dubbletap, BAM!
Its been far too long since ive played paintball, With spring coming around ive got to oil my gun, purchase some paint, im thinking about getting a bottom line for my Spyder, and a bigger frickin tank. 9oz, is just not enough when your im a massive 200+ person all day long game. Damn i miss that sport. Im gonna have to get willy to play more as well. Oh and ryvius rockes.
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Friday, February 20, 2004
F***ing Soap
Things are bad. I feel like crap. Things have happend, things were revealed and I can't hide any longer. I know what i have to do but can I?
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Ski Laufen
Well im awake now. I'm mildly sick today as disease spread thoughout the whole bus on the way home from the trip. I tell you it was sad to whach as one after anther succumed to sickness. Even as i whached the water reserves dry up, holly siting next to me mentioned that she was sick. Yeah this was after she asked to share my water, among other things. Of course nothing comared to when Ben puked at the front and two minutes later it was time to eat at Mcdonalds. But im gettign ahead of myself lets go back to Thursday.
So i woke up thursday morning and went to school however my mind was not on my work at all. I wanted to go sking NOW! I basicaly slept though german and band, i was barely awake for world geo and English, I had a pass to leave at 2:15 to finish packing, however the office lady mixed it up and thought it was 2:00 so i got out early. So i got to the church and waited around for the busses to leave. Poor adam got shafted so bad. He got vut off from Holly and all of his other friends with the exeption of Jake and Schon-dawg. Anywho... i got on my bus and holly sat next to me. We talked for hours and then a movie came on but i didnt pay attention cuz i was playing with my new MP3 CD player. I dont ever remember what the movie was, atualy i think there were two. Then they segragated the busses and the boys got shafted and put into the uncomfortable back. I got no sleep and we ended up playing with Kyle's GPS system all night.
Finaly we get there and rent the skis, I was the first ti get mine which is good. Then we got to the slopes and started tearin it up. I skied with Jake and was really uncomfortable with my skining abilitys cuz i hadn't skied for a year but i soon found the rythem. We ran into Mark and Kyle and went powder skin' on the north end. Well powders fun and all till you get stuck. yeah there's some interesting storys there. Then a tree attacked me but i eventualy got the hang of it. Eventualy we went for a break and had a ski mix up and i ended sking with Dan and John the rest of the day on the south end. That was cool. Then i got tired and sat in the chalet for the last hour then we got to the hotel. Mark took his socks off and forever soiled the room with stench. Then Holly, Adam, Kyle and I went to applebees for dinner. That was fun.
The next day we started out sking. Adam asked me to stay with Holly as it was her second day of Sking ever. I was happy to as i know how much adam loves Sking. She was actualy very good. I actualy had to try to keep up with her. Then she lost her pole on the ski lift and adam and jake had to find it. Holly and I had a few more runs alone waiting for them to actualy get it. Those runs were fun and we had fun on the chairlift as well. Then we went for lunch and then i skied with jake untill i fell in the river. There was about four feet of snow on top of it so i was fine but i had a hell of a time getting out. Its a good thing amanda was there to help. Then we went to the
The final day i didnt ski. I was far to tired and sore. i felt that my ski boots would crush my ankels if i put them on so i hung around the chalet with holly and drew and colored. Then a bunch of others came and colored as well. That was cool. Then it was time to go home. Holly found me on the bus and we had another long and deep conversation. That was cool. This time we actualy saw most of cool runnings but talked all the way though The Fugative. We talked untill it was Curfew time and we had to segragate the bus again. Adam was allowed to change busses but he was still pissed about it. I didnt want press him into conversation so i just slept till morning.
And thats the end of the tale. Made new friends, grew stonger with older friends, got in some damn good sking. Best weekend in a long time.
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Monday, February 16, 2004
There and Back Again
It's been a few days but I'm back. The ski trip was awesome. I had so much fun with Holly, Mark, Adam, and all my other freinds who went on the trip. Oh and everyone got sick on the way home. That kind of sucked becuse i was fine but was likly going to become sick soon. BTW (to Holly): as of now i am not sick yet but who knows. I dont feel like being too detailed right now so mabe ill elaborate more in the future. If i feel like it.
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Thursday, February 12, 2004
Last For a While
Hey i fugured i had better blog now becuse i wont get a chance after this. Im sitting in the computer lab at my schoo supposed to be looking at things about neslon mandella but im too pumed for the ski trip to even think about anything else. This is gonna be such a fun trip. 70 FREAKIN INCES OF POWDER TO TEAR UP!!!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!! Ill be back on monday.
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Sunday, February 08, 2004
Why does it go?
Well the weekends gone again. I slacked as much as possible. I did write what has to be the funnest paper ever though so i did do some work. I'm gonna regret this tomarow however. BUT...on thursday, i go skining in Montana! OH YEAH! Thats gonna be freakin awesome. It almost makes me forget that i have a english test this week.
So on Friday i go over to schon-dogs to shoot the movie. We got one moveing sequence where i was on the back of one snomobile following the other two. Yeah is was concentrating more on not dieing than filming, and then Bacon, my driver, fliped it. Heh got some interesting footage there. Then nicks sled died and Me and tim had to pull it back. So that was the end of that. Then nick bacon and me hung around and watched Gone in 60 Seconds. NIck has a great sound system but it needed me to coax out its full potential.
Wow i never realized how much i lived solely for the weekend till now. Its like the only thing that keeps me going. Knowing that a weekend will come. Knowing that i can finnaly sleep, hang with freinds, have fun.
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Monday, February 02, 2004
It never stops
Yeah as expected school was not closed or delayed. Yep that sucks as today we desparatly needed it. The roads sucked pure and simple. I think the plows just gave up. So we got let out a half hour early, big deal, thats 6 hours too late. amazing i didn't go in the ditch. oh and i think my tire is flat, sucky deal.
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Sunday, February 01, 2004
Shaftation
uhgg. The weekends gone. Theres a small hope that school will be closed tomarow, but knowing our school, "Die Hard Schools," it wont be and ill have to drive though a foot of snow to get there. Plus i have to get there at 7 to do a project that I was too lazy to do this weekend. Oh, and this weekend genrealy sucked. I wanted to go see a band last night but that didnt work out, so i called up adam to see if he wanted to watch some anime but surprise, surprise, he got his ass grounded. (this happens about once a week), yeah so i watched "The patriot", Romeo Must Die" and, "Akira" all by my lonesome. Nothin wrong with that as they're all good movies though. Then i watched the first nine episodes of Inuyasha today cuz i was bored. Then the Super Bowl came on so i watched that for a while. However i don't like either of the teams so i dont care. Well, its back to the grind tomarow. I'm sure something will happen and i'll get shafted for one reason or another. Thats what usualy happens anyway.
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Friday, January 30, 2004
The cold claimes my life
Hey Hey! My freakin car didnt start this morning. It was all like "wah wah wah...wahhhh........wah....GRRRRR CLUNK!" So that sucked. But now its good. Went over to Timae's to play Xbox and spike was not there. So that was cool. otherwise, school sucks and its the weekend.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Snow Baby! Yeah!
I went over to Schonys today. Were trying to do a movie involving snomobiles. Bacon came over as well. Today we just planed the whole thing out. We've actualy got good ideas goin for us. Now we just jave to put them on film. Other than that we have fun just sledding. I so need one of those things but i have niether the time or the money to do so. Oh well, just looking to the weekend now. Funny how the idea of just 48 hours of break time can be the driving force for life.
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Monday, January 26, 2004
Snow, Tires, and Engines
Hey! Interestng night. So i was talkin online to Holly about going to a sleding deal at Idihopi with their church youth group. Its a fun hill and i havn't been sleding in a while so I decided to go. However, I don't know how to get there so i stoped at adams and he gave me a ride. First he had to put air in his tire because it was kind of low but not too bad. So we ended up being a half hour late but had fun anyway. So after sleding we have to take Holly home. We get into his car and it wont start. It wont even try to start. So he pops the hood and i ask if i can try. He says knock yourself out. So I give it a go and nothing happens. I wait another minute and try again. It starts right up. So we go to Holly's and she says she lonley so we go in with her. She shows us her pets and pictures and soon its 10:00pm so we have to go. By now the snow has started and has gotten really bad. We get into adam's car and he can't see a thing because his windows are foged and hiis thermostat dosen't work which means, no defroster. We ended up opening the windows trying to see haging out them. Well snow hitting your face at 30mph does not feel to good. Eventualy adam hears his tire going flat. So we pull over and sure enough it is compleatly flat. So we have to change the tire, in the middle of a blizzard. Its freakin cold out! once we get the tire changed, which takes 15 minutes longer than it should have because of the snow and cold, we get into the car wipe all the snow off and start it up...and it wont start. At all. its dead. We call adams dad who will come out with jumpers because someone riped off adams juppers. About 1 minute later a cop comes and says he has one of those jumper boxes. So he hooks that up and the engen fires right up. So we wipe all the snow off AGAIN. so we go the the gas station because he needs gas but dosent want to stop the engine so he leaves it running. eventualy we get going. By now its 11:15pm. we get to adams slowly because he still can't see a thng. Once we get there I hop in my car and go home. And school isn't even two hours late. That sucks. I'm freakin tired. This is a prime example of murphys law. Learn from this.
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Saturday, January 24, 2004
The sleepy stuter
I just got back from watchin anime with my good friends Holly and Adam. We saw some good stuf. Infinite Ryvius, and of course, Kenshin. The first episode of Kenshin actualy. They had never seen it before so i thought it was high time they had. Actualy, truth be told i wasn't that up for anime or anything for that matter. You see, i had to play in pep band before i could go. I really took me by surprise. I even tryed to fire myself up for anime by watching the last to episodes of Furi Kuri. (Great show, that it is). That took me untill it was time to go to band. I was compleatly fired up for a night of friends and anime, then...death. The pep band thing was long boring and gave me a splitting headache. I wasn't expecting it to be that long. I expected time to go home and shower, eat and stuff before i left but time was cut short by the stupidity of band. Oh god i wish i could quit but it unfortunatly is what keeps gas in my car so i can't. So i ended up being tired the whole night, i couldn't concentrate and i was covering this up with a false energy(from caffine) that i think anienated my friends.
Now im left with the problem of what to do now. I think i will watch Inuyasha for sure. them mabe bust out some Bebop or play computer games. Hmmm I haven't gamed in a while but, yeah i could go for some morrowind or raven sheild righ about now. But first i eat. TO THE KITCHEN!
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Thursday, January 22, 2004
Another day, another paper
Once again I have to write a paper. A two pager this time. We do this... every week. Oh well, we started Last of the Mohicans today. An entertaining movie at times i guess, but i was very tired at the time so i fell asleep though most of it. Merila does have two tvs set up in her room so there's no crowding around either. It also helps that I have a small class.
Well its started. Today as im an office aid copying hundreds of pages of texbook on the copying machine, Mrs. Brown comes in and asks "can you help me save this picture i have on a floppy disk to my computer?" I said ok and followed her to her computer thinking there must be something wrong with the disk or she wouldn't be havine trouble. Yeah... turns out she just knows nothing of computers. I showed how to basicly do it but she was still confused. I refrained from going any deeper than a simple drag and drop because she obviously had no knowledge of useing a windows operating system. We're talking about things like, "what's 'my computer'?" I just stared and thought OMG. Good to know what kinds of skills our teachers have today isn't it.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
I got to admit, its getting better.
Well school dosen't get much better than this. Just a little bit of reading for honors, and i have to get a permision slip signed saying i can whach a rated r movie in class. Being an office aid isin't so bad as it has its perks. Today i got to eat bannana cream pie. That stuff is seriously good. I love all nine kinds of pie. I've also gotten into watching Inuyasha on my Tivo. Cool show even though i have no clue as to whats going on. And tivo rocks! At first you wonder, why would i ever need it? Just watch whatevers on. But no that ive got it, its so amazing. I watch things i never normaly would get to see. Inuyasha for one, and Dilbert the tv show. Dilbert's back on comody central. Great show that it is.
Yeah much better day.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004
The longest day
Well it was the first day of new classes today and, as I suspected, it sucked. As usual the first day of the semester was the longest. Teachers hand out sillibi and blab about being respectful the whole day. Honors english will kill me. I got so much crap i have to read already its not even funny. I also have to write a paper. 1 page (not bad) on "what is great literature." Its due tomarow because Alyce can't keep her big mouth shut. Seriously she was talking the whole time. Yeah nothing new there.
Still one page isn't bad and i don't mind reading. I was actualy haveing a good day untill office aid. Here is what happed. The lady told me what to do, and showed me where everything was. Then i made copys and put letters into envelops for an hour and a half. I'm gonna need an MP3 player so i can at least listen to something while i'm bored. So yeah i get to do this 'till march. Fun huh?
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Monday, January 19, 2004
Party! then ... oh no.
I just got back from John's. He was haveing a party and i was like cool. We watched bruce almighty. i had to leave early but the movie was cool anyway. So once i left the party i was drivin home and was all like "cool" interesting weekend. Then it occured to me that the weekend was over and i was like. "oh no". I have to start the new semester tomarow and that means new classes.
This is gonna suck so bad. First of all i'm gonna be bored out of my mind. Ive got German II, (bleh) then band (eah) then world geo, (aww geez) then honors english (shoot me now) and finaly... Im an "office aid". yeah thats right! Great! im a victem of the sysem, that i am. i wanted to take physics so i could be with all my freinds, BUT NO! that class got filled up and i got shafted. So i get bored all day. exepet for Honors English. Then i just get shot all day. We were suppoesed to read "Scarlet Letter", "Uncle Toms Cabin", and "Grapes of Wrath" b4 the semester started... Yeah i read the spark notes. We have a test tomarow. I am so screwed. On top of that i have no classes with Adam. Crap. At least i have english with mark and jake. I think. If counselor lady screwed up then i have english last and instead of office aid, i'm Burgs TA. But... then i have english with nick. Bleh whatever. enough ranting for tonight.
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Sunday, January 18, 2004
S.W.A.T.
I just finished watching SWAT. I was rather disapointed. At first it seemed like a good tactical shooter with life or death decisions being made, and a high tension atmosphere. However after the first shootout, it degenerated into a boring shoot the hell out of everything movie. I mean come on! Like i haven't seen that before.
On the plus side the cinimatography and overall editing was well done and the acting wasn't horid. oh well im gonna go eat now.
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This is the start of Himura Kenshin's blog. Basicaly a place to ramble on about things. Computers, movies, music, or just life in general. Im still working things out so just bear with me. k? Cool.
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