insignificant other

moving

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:22:58 GMT

i ate my first meal in my new apt today. i think that's the thing that made it feel like mine. now i need to get my stuff into it.

stranger to myself

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:01:14 GMT

i told someone recently that i wouldn't be sad when livejournal died. while i might miss a certain contact with select people that i woudln't be able to repair... i was ready for that chapter of my life to be closed. honestly, it's been closed for a long time. it's not like i'm a frequent writer, though i'm still a compulsive reader. i decided to go back and read some of my old entries. now i just feel old and know that i am not that person anymore.

backed up

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:06:15 GMT

i'm already friends with you somewhere else. smell ya later.

edit: oh, not all of you. plz leave a forwarding address my lovelies. i have spaces and faces and aims to please.

i guess this will also mean i'm going to have to get something to fetch RSS feeds for me instead of lj.

shhhhhh maybe

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:48:20 GMT

those who know, know. those who don't... should guess?

tired

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:26:00 GMT

and then i was 80

election reflection

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:11:37 GMT

it feels odd to have voted for someone for president who won. i've never done that before.

dear friends who play wow

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:05:40 GMT

i've formed a new guild with the intention of playing with friends. the trick now is to get friends playing on my server. if you are interested in more info, let me know. also...

http://bteam-guild.com

hit refresh a few times so i can feel useful for making it have random backgrounds.

yeah

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:45:11 GMT

i'm in a shitty mood this week. if you deal with me, expect to get a piece of it.

inspired

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:29:48 GMT

following fidgety's new meme. these aren't the best videos ever, but they're ones i really remember from the time and the songs kick ass. it's true... the music really was better back then.

my fifth video was going to be pavement's gold soundz. unfortunately, it looks like it's poorly encoded on youtube. instead, you get...

runners up:
dink - green mind
the murmurs - you suck
elastica - connection

oh... the meme, in case you can't read it, is to post your top 5 music videos of all time and say why. i'm breaking all of the rules.

FRIENDS! I HAVE MISLED YOU!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:09:23 GMT

nada surf is not playing with gogol bordello. nada surf is playing the same night as gogol bordello at a different promowest venue and thus it confused me. please come see gogol bordello instead of nada surf. i know your love for the song popular may seem like fond nostalgia... but gogol bordello will rock your ass off.

also, the raconteurs totally pwnd tonight. i love any time bands can evoke the transcendent moment. 15 minute versions of blue veins kick ass.

a couple of things...

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:30:46 GMT

1) it's my birthday tomorrow and so there's some talk about getting together and drinking. i'm kinda crashing saci's thing. if you're not friends with her then you obviously don't know wtf that thing is. long story short, after 9 or so we're going to be heading to some bar called chubby's (1846 hard road, dublin, oh). i guess it's near smokey row. i don't know the details. i'm also looking for any volunteer to DD my ass around. otherwise... i'll probably just go to the pre-9pm thing and then go home and be depressed.

2) going to some shows this week. if anyone wants to come with, that's cool. raconteurs are playing monday at the LC and gogol bordello is at the newport on tues. both of those shows are undoubtably going to kick ass.

3) i'm sorry if you've tried to contact me in the last 3-4 weeks but i've been bad at getting back to people on things. needless to say, work has been pretty busy and i've had a lot of other things going on.

z) this summer seems hot and oppressive already. my wiifit kicked my ass last night. i still haven't seen a single hot summer movie. lost was awesome. i need to go watch the venture brothers. the end.

life changes

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:44:19 GMT

trying to get out of my life slump... here is a numbered list of developments, because i like lists.
1. drinking a little again... right now... this very moment. for some odd reason, this allowed me to clean my kitchen... a little... a few moments ago.
2. packing my lunch for work. i really need to do some analysis to see how much money this is going to save me. i also need to better understand how likely i am to spend money just because i have it.
3. i've decided i want to buy a house in columbus. i have nearly no liquid assets. that's kinda what #2 is about.
4. i bought a new camera. that means i should probably re-up my flickr shit. i also need to leave my house more to find things to take pictures of.
5. <Combat Looters>, <Keyboard Turners> or <I Stand in Fire>. i can't decide.
6. nostalgia. i used to despise it. i'm begining to feel it more frequently. also.
7. i know someone who is looking for an illustrator for some children's books (that don't involve jesus). anyone game?
8. this entry has been modified 4 times and gained an additional number each time.

get out the racist vote

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:57:28 GMT

am i the only one who feels like "white hardworking americans" is a codeword for "racists"? i feel like there's an unspoken acceptance of racism by the candidates that it will benefit. personally, i'd like to see all the candidates say "i don't want your vote if you don't want to see obama in office because he's black. if you are such an ignorant person, you couldn't possibly be informed enough about politics that you should be voting."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90483754

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051203014_3.html?sid=ST2008051301359

i have nothing to say

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:19:09 GMT

http://www.miss-landmine.org

i've seen 260,000 faces, and i've rock them all

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:03:03 GMT

that was a crazy fun weekend.

yesterday, tyler and i had a marathon run at rockband. i think we played from 2p to 1a, with a break for food. ty was a quick learner on all instruments and we pushed our band pretty far. i'm contemplating picking up an extra guitar for situations in which i can actually get more than 1 person to come over and play with me.

today i shoveled snow like whoa. i'd been doing pretty good keeping ahead of it most of the weekend. i thought it'd be nice to have it shoveled for the pizza delivery guy on friday and the mailman on saturday. today i went kinda shoveling crazy, though. i cleared off the sidewalk all the way to half-way down my building. i also cleared paths to people's doors and to the street. the great part was that the sun would do a lot of the work if i could start getting the sidewalk exposed. i kinda feel like if everyone had gone out and done a little work with their shovels today, all of the sidestreets would be clear.

i eventually got over to my car, which i'd had to park forever away on friday. i tried to clear the snow around it, but eventually just decided to use my AWD to pull out of the spot. i dropped it down into the lowest gear and it was able drive over the 2 ft drifts no problemo. now i'm all set for going back to the grind tomorrow... except that i have no clean laundry.

bordering on pleased

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:12:42 GMT

it looks like i underestimated the staying power of this rank 1 blizzard. i woke up this morning and found all of my previous shoveling under 5 more inches of snow. i'm glad i ordered enough pizza last night to get me through the weekend. this snow is easy enough to shovel, i might go dig my car out later. it's really nice out :)

disappointing

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:16:28 GMT

i was hoping for blizzaga but we didn't even get blizzara.

disappointed

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:39:33 GMT

most of what i want to say has already said here by myself and a few others. i've now officially switched in my support of voting my principles to voting for the most electable lesser of two evils. i think 2004 cemented that. i'm sad because even though i've made this sacrifice for the greater good, the greater good does not come about. perhaps the problem in this democracy is the people. with a retarded electorate, the system will never change. (they're not just retarded because they don't agree with me. that doesn't help their case, though.)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:43:40 GMT

it looks like i was wrong. ohio is an open primary. guess i'd better make it to the polls on tues.

i don't care...

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:48:02 GMT

i don't care that it's 35 degrees out. i was driving around with my windows down.

i ate cake for dinner for a week

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:25:23 GMT

i recieved a nudge...

i think i'm going to grow the goatee of doom. i started this morning with the prepatory grooming. it will take several weeks to know if it's going to go anywhere. sometimes, i hate the fact that i grow so much facial hair. sometimes i wish i could use miracle grow.

i was sitting in my car tonight, in a drive thru... waiting for my frosty and baconator and listening to the talking heads on the radio. i thought to myself, "hey, it's david! sweet, he's on the radio again. man, he's such a cool guy." then i marveled at the relationship that david byrne and i have that is completely in my head.

it all started with david_byrne. no, i guess it didn't... it all started with my odd relationship with livejournal and my friends list. i've never been a very good (writer of whatever i'm supposed to write here without being called a fucking blogger), but i've still been a compulsive reader of my friend's lives. i am up to date on every bit of information people are willing to share with me (unless i immediately forget... which does happen). with the exception of communitys and one news feed, every person is someone i know personally or have gotten to know relatively over the internet. i think that's what led to this situation...

then there was david. i added his syndicated feed because of some odd place he turned up in my daily internet reading. i think i may've been instantly amazed and dumbfounded by what a cool guy he was apart from the talking heads (which i've always loved). the problem is, his blaaawgh-whatever is written like a normal human. inserted among all of my friend's lives, it just took a seat. sometimes, i'd start to refer to what david was doing when someone mentioned they were up to something similar... "oh, you like sufjan stevens? david just saw him the other night. he said the show was amazing. everyone was dressed in butterfly costumes. the he rode his bicycle to the airport so he could fly to brazil."

i don't know how to end this story. the end.

SAN DIEMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

i'm making a note here: huge success

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:15:06 GMT

so, i'm taking a month off of work. actually, i only have something like 10 business days left that i'm working this year. maybe less. this entire situation fills my stomach with butterflies every time i think about it. i have a very hard time letting go of things. i'm more of a person to take every 3rd day off than 3 days in a row. having an entire month not in the office is going to be completely surreal.

in other news... i want to sleep... and i want to see how sweet mario galaxies is. i think i'm going to make the smart move and sleep.

also, i finally beat portal advanced 18.

less than three

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:38:40 GMT

mister timid (9:48:22 AM): I had a dream last night and you were in it. We were camping in my parents' living room and you had this propane powered gun that made mini biscuits.
mister timid (9:48:48 AM): I had one too, but mine was older and you had to mix shit. Yours was FULLY AUTOMATIC.

expensive cat

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:32:35 GMT

so i know everyone wanted an update on my cat. i didn't take him to cat welfare. i put him in a burlap sack and threw it off of a bridge, just like i always said i was going to do. it took me a while to find a burlap sack, actually... once that was done, though, the rest was easy. there are bridges everywhere. i am officially a man of my word.

the paragraph above will be my journal entry if i ever am looking at a $600 vet bill again. it looks like he has some issue where salts build up in his bladder and eventually cause him to have problems peeing. supposedly i'll be getting him back all fixed in a few days after i find some hojillion dollars. it's a good thing i just sold off a bunch of stock. i think i've already allocated almost all of those funds.

in other news... i spec'd moonchicken. LASER OWL PEW PEW!

...

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:42:14 GMT

i once bought a game that was described as "it's a game for people who like to read." then i realized, most of my friends are... book related. so...

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