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[26 Jan 2005|04:51pm] |
its the beginning of a new semester yet again
Bio II - my professor seems almost nice but with a hint of being a complete asshole...if thats even possible. this class starts at 9am and he made it very clear that if we are going to be late then dont even bother showing up. i thought i was competley fucked until he said that there was a 12:00 class that we could go to if we missed this one. i am saved.
Art History...again - if i fail this class again im done with this whole school thing. and that will be the least of my problems since apparently i have a mild case of retardation that somehow went undiagnosed until this point.
Women in Lit DL - ive taken these online classes before and i usually end up doing the assignments at 4am. the work gets done and i don't have to bother putting on pants...everybody wins.
Basic Drawing - i dont go to this until friday morning, but from what ive heard the teacher is cool and the class is easy.
on a sad note Hey Mercedes broke up last week. my favorite band, who i only got to see one time when i didnt even know who they were is no longer a band. if its possible at all im going to try to make it to chicago for their last show sometime around april/may. why the hell don't i own a copy of 'everynight fireworks'? ill tearfully buy myself a copy when their final ep comes out, whenever that is.
i have more to write about but sadly no time.
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[16 Jan 2005|02:06am] |
i just got home and i am fairly drunk.
i am going to sleep now.
good night.
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| photo bonanza #3 |
[30 Dec 2004|08:46pm] |
TELL ME MORE SOCRATES
christmas morning, notice my grandmother looking thoroughly annoyed.
im still wearing glasses, reading books, and being all smart.
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| heres to another god damn new year |
[29 Dec 2004|10:47pm] |
and outside two million drunk bostonians are getting ready to sing all the same lines out of tune yeah...
i have to work both new years eve and day, which may put a damper on what to date has always been my least favorite holiday. but then again how can you really put on damper on something you didnt like in the first place? i may go to hoboken and hang out with my brother, but that all depends on whether or not anything is going on around here.
yesterday i found out that even with my bad grades im still doing well enough to transfer next year, needless to say im stoked.
i have the entire day off tomorrow and so far i plan on going to get lunch with my mom and then possibly going to a birthday party.
...well i dont know about that, mainly because knowing about that would mean knowing about some pathetic, ridiculous, and absolutley true things about myself that id rather not admit to right now.
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[23 Dec 2004|08:41pm] |
im going to save myself some time and not rant about something i have little to no control over.
in fifteen minutes it will be christmas eve and early tomorrow i will be going to work. after that, im going out to eat with my family and then probably watching a movie.
i have almost an entire month to myself...rock.
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[19 Dec 2004|09:02pm] |
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im passed the point of freaking out over my not so impressive grades that im getting for this past semester, and im much happier because of it.
in regards to my life outside of school things have been going swimmingly.
things to do tomorrow
-meet with communications group
-oral presentation
-get recommendation letter for college app.
-call work and protest working all day christmas eve
-spend all my money christmas shopping
-study a little math and science
-take some "me time"
greg and i both agree that drinking wine at bars should be more socially accepted.
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| holy hell |
[11 Dec 2004|12:40am] |
my mom drove two hours each way in bad traffic and rain to buy me a guitar for christmas, she is the best.
im looking forward to actually being able to buy my family decent christmas presents for once.
ive been fairly stressed out the past week or so. this semester is ending pretty soon and i have crashed headfirst into the brick wall of reality that i did not do well at all. bad enough where i may have failed art history for a second time. so right now im doing my best to pick up the peices, do some extra credit/study, and hopefully scrape by on this one. this is honestly making me wonder if somebody like me who has never been a paticularly good student should really be persueing a career in teaching.
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[04 Dec 2004|01:24pm] |
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today is the first time i can remember being home on a saturday in a long time, being stuck at home writing a paper doesn't seem so bad compared to going to work.
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[23 Nov 2004|02:05pm] |
I heard everybody's voice cut out when you spoke
And I watched all the lights go dim
when your eyes opened
Well I can't believe you showed up, what do I do now?
It's last call, time to go
But before we say goodnight
Let's walk home, let's be afraid
I wanna grab you by the arms and kiss you so hard
Let's do it right under the streetlight
I want it now, somehow I forgot how
Way to go, way to go
Forgot you've got so far to go
thats one of my all time favorite songs, i've had it stuck in my head all morning.
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[11 Nov 2004|06:42pm] |
heres a story..
there was a girl i went to elementary school with. she had a weird raspy voice and was called ugly a lot even though she wasn't paticularly ugly, as i remember she just had a shitty personality and was mainly made fun of for that reason. so anyway i know this continued throughout middle school and the beginning of highschool. well last week i was at work and we had a promo. a promo is when a beer or liqour company sends a girl there to stand with a display of whatever and try to sell it to old men by flirting with them...yeah its pretty fucking ridiculous. so guess who the promo girl was? yep, raspy voiced girl from elementary school. only now she had a fake tan, monster breast implants, and creepy fake blue contacts. she told me that she is a model. i later found out that by model she meant shes a female wrestler, which i assume requires her to be at least 90% naked. between that and standing next to piles of liqour, being a "model" sounds pretty shitty if you ask me, but this girl tried really hard to make it appear that her life was awesome.
im not so sure what the point of this story is, maybe its that this girl is retarded for becoming a professional whore to get back at people that made fun of her in elementary school instead of dealing with it in any kind of constructive way. maybe its that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. the girl being the book and her laughably huge breast implants being the cover...yes i know that didn't make any sense.
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[02 Nov 2004|10:07am] |
i really should make a point of fixing the clock in my car. i just walked into biology class thinking i was ten minutes late when in reality i was 50 minutes early. so now i have an hour to kill and im updating my journal from the computer lab, jesus christ...im that kid.
im really looking forward to this election being over with, mainly because im really sick of talking about it. at some point this afternoon im going to my elementary school to vote. although im really tempted not to just to spite certain celebrities.
and now heres list #1 of some cd's that i should own
hey mercedes - everynight fireworks, the weekend ep
the very best of elvis costello
the cure - live in paris
tuesday - freewheelin'
alkaline trio - self titled
the city on film - id rather be wine drunk
the very best of tommy james & the shondells
the dismemberment plan - change
braid - movie music 1 & 2
the firebird band - the city at night, and whatever album "kiss me" is on
the beach boys - pet sounds
piebald - we are the only friends that we have
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| which way do the streets go? |
[28 Oct 2004|08:17am] |
im supposed to be in bilogy right now. i've skipped so many classes recently, its ridiculous. its even more ridiculous that it really isnt affecting anything and im still doing well.
last night leif greg and i didnt get back from the ucb theater until after 3am. we saw some pretty funny comedians, 2 of whom had vaginas. the first girl wasn't all that funny but was cute and made me laugh a few times, the second girl was obnoxious, unfunny, and for the most part annoying. but all in all it was a really good time and it only costs $3 plus gas.
"I really don't get the expression "thats like kicking a dead horse"...so you mean hours of endless fun?"
while we were looking at all the neat stuff hanging up in the theater matt walsch walked by and said hi, yeah thats right we met captain lu natic, one of my personal comedic heroes.
today is my last day off work so im going to try to be studious...and if i have some free time later, creative, and if i have any time after that im going to take a crack at being sexy.
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| and i will talk about this year |
[14 Oct 2004|10:44pm] |
the past two days have been filled with me desperatley trying to finish lyrics for two songs. the tricky part is that when you try to do something like this, if you do it for too long you tend to lose your objectivity. so after tonight im taking a break for a day or so and then picking up where i left off. and hopfully ill have everything worked out by the beginning of next week so we can finish the recording. note to self: write lyrics while youre writing the music, not 6 months to a year later, youre only setting yourself up for a task comparable to the agro-crag.
tomorrow is friday and i start my weekend of nonstop work. ive gone out so little on the weekends recently its mind boggling.
this is a long shot, but does anybody that goes to occ have a biology book theyd be willing to let me borrow?
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| things to do monday |
[10 Oct 2004|09:20pm] |
- go to communications class
- mow my lawn (and if youve never done it...mowing your lawn when its cold outside is one of the weirdest things you'll ever do.)
- recording session with greg
- stop at work and see if i can get a sunday off soon so that i can finally go back to the upright theater
- homework
- sit back and reflect on how productive ive been
after a full weekend of nothing but work and sleep im very excited about having the next four days off.
cursing and curse, verse and reverse
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| photo bonanza #2 |
[01 Oct 2004|07:41pm] |
this new job is doing a great job of destroying what was left of my social life.
so yesterday we were recording drum tracks at gregs house with a borrowed tascam portable studio type thing. which seemed to be working well, leif managed to bang out both songs in a little less than an hour and i decided i would skip art history class to stay there and try to get the bass done so we could move on to guitar. well the tascam portable studio is a stubborn little fucker that refuses to give up the drum tracks we recorded. so we decide to just try to record bass directly into the tascam so that we can at least be productive and then export them all later...right? wrong again, the tascam seemed to think it was funny to let me record entire tracks and then simply erase them. so we called it a night, i didn't talk to greg today but for all i know our drum tracks are still being held hostage. god i fucking hate robots.
"i am the tascam 5000 and i will kill you"
greg's xbox has every fucking videogame you could imagine for any system and yes its fucking amazing. if you hear any of our songs without bass on them its probably because i was trying to beat space invaders.
i think ive finally decided what im going to go to school for. i think im going to go for education, possibly elementary but maybe not. i've weighed the options of staying here after im done with occ this year and getting a job that i will most likely hate..or taking out a loan and going to school for a job that i could actually see myself doing and not hating. plus its one of the only jobs that i could do anywhere and still have enough free time to persue other things like music. so as long as i can pull it off with loans and financial aid, thats my plan. and im almost definetly staying in nj, and definetly within driving distance.
i don't remember taking this picture but apparently it was during the couple weeks that i was attempting to grow a beard. and also i don't why i look especially greasey but fuck you for pointing it out.
and lastly here are pictures i took at practice about a month ago so greg could sell his amp, so if you need them here you go dude..
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| not a kid anymore, are you kidding |
[23 Sep 2004|07:48pm] |
the last couple days i've been doing stuff non-stop. and tomorrow i have class at 11 and then straight to work until 10...holy hell thats a lot of me not having fun.
3 more days until the big 2-1.
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| holy update |
[16 Sep 2004|02:58pm] |
after several months of bitching and moaning i finally found a new job. i started working at buy rite liqours on route 9 yesterday and it seems cool so far. i base that on every other job i've ever had, on the first day people usually treat you like youre a moron for not knowing things that you'd never know if you didn't work there. there was none of that and all the guys that work there seem okay. i quit my old job right after i got this one and ive been in a great mood ever since.
i just realized that im going to nyc both this weekend and next weekend. this sunday im going to see patton oswalt tape a special for comedy central with leif, greg, and whoever else claims the last ticket. this is going to be fucking rad, not only do i get to see one of my favorite comedians live but everytime its on comedy central i get to say i was there. next weekend is my 21st birthday and my brothers 24th (we're 3 years and two days apart, weird huh) and being that none of my friends that id like to go out with are 21 yet im going to hang out with jim and his friends. they are all cool dudes so it should be a good time.
i know what you're thinking, chris works and a liqour store and is turning 21? well rest easy anyone who cares, because im going to maintain my status as an occasional moderate drinker. im not a fan of getting totally wrecked so i don't thing 21 is going to be too much of a change for me.
and now im gonna go do some homework and maybe work on some songs.
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[06 Sep 2004|09:15pm] |
well summer is definetly over. heres the basic rundown of my classes and my impression of them so far.
biology - leif and i are in the same class and the same lab so this should be pretty cool.
finite math - my professor thinks shes a comedian, which really sucks because she isn't funny at all. a girl who works at my bank who must be at least 23 is in my class and asked if we needed to know algebra for this class. now just for the record, ive never been really good at math. and i hated it so much that in highschool when i was a junior and was accidentally placed in a basic skills class for freshmen/sophmores i stayed in it because the teacher said there would never be any homework or real tests...im not proud of that and think it was a pretty retarded move on my part. but anyway, my point is if i know algebra, theres no excuse for anybody not to. and if you don't know it by your mid-twenties, sorry kid...you missed the math boat.
art history - this teacher was pretty cool, he randomly speaks in a german accent and told some funny/interesting stories. this class should be alright besides the fact that its in a room that looks like the inside of a prison.
public speaking - i wouldn't know because i didn't go. i stayed home and worked on songs with the duece. im pretty positive im switching this class for something else anyway, and if i don't im sure i didnt miss anything important.
im still trying to decide what to do after this semester is over. leave me a comment with a suggested career. later dudes.
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[31 Aug 2004|08:09pm] |
i really wish my camera wasn't busted so that id have some pictures to post on here, but it is and i don't.
i really hope that i don't get any taller/fatter for the rest of my life so that i can continue to buy youth size xxl tshirts that cost only $5. like the one i bought the other day that just says "football" with a fierce looking bear swating a football with his paw, as if he were the mascot for the sport itself.
Lesser practice has been happening a lot more frequetly now and its been fun. we have a few songs we're happy with done and a bunch more that still need to be arranged but have the basic parts there. playing as a trio seems to be really working out for us, even though its sort of limiting its a lot less complicated and we get a lot more writing done now. i also played with another band last week which was really cool, i may be playing with them more but i don't know whats gonna happen with that so i won't say their name.
i really can't believe i have start classes again in a week, what the fuck.
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