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Mar 30, 2009
fantastic. see kids? even MLK was a plagiarist, and he made out okay.
well, i suppose he did get assassinated. but i can't hardly use that as a potential consequence of plagiarism on my syllabus.
w00t!
w00t!
Mar 28, 2009
the situation with the phish (and other things)
my neighbor has gone almost 36 hours without throwing anything at the doors or windows of my apartment, and for that i'm grateful. the fact that i'll probably be home alone late tonight and drunk is a little unsettling, but it's SD's b-day, and if i can't celebrate with him by being a horrible, obnoxious, drunken asshole, then what kind of friend does that make me?
no friend at all, that's what kind of friend that's what huh what?
umm...so, despite logging onto ticketmaster seven seconds after the phish at the gorge went on sale yesterday, i got totally shut out of tickets. having learned my lesson, i tried ordering just one ticket this morning for hartford, CT and got it. i'm gonna try again for tomorrow's on-sale and then next week. i'm hoping i'll get lucky and be able to grab at least 4 tickets total that i can then trade for four gorge tickets. i hate buying up tickets just to trade, but when livenation's ticketing is as fucked as it is, i don't see how i have much of a choice. me not buying trade tickets isn't going to stop thousands of other people from buying them, thus causing me to not be able to get the tickets i want. so. here's hoping i can snag 3 more. even if i can get three total, i could probably stomach paying over face value for the fourth one, just to be able to see the whole gorge weekend.
online ticketing is so fucked.
might be going to see sun kil moon in may. in portland/seattle. my credit card is weeping.
no friend at all, that's what kind of friend that's what huh what?
umm...so, despite logging onto ticketmaster seven seconds after the phish at the gorge went on sale yesterday, i got totally shut out of tickets. having learned my lesson, i tried ordering just one ticket this morning for hartford, CT and got it. i'm gonna try again for tomorrow's on-sale and then next week. i'm hoping i'll get lucky and be able to grab at least 4 tickets total that i can then trade for four gorge tickets. i hate buying up tickets just to trade, but when livenation's ticketing is as fucked as it is, i don't see how i have much of a choice. me not buying trade tickets isn't going to stop thousands of other people from buying them, thus causing me to not be able to get the tickets i want. so. here's hoping i can snag 3 more. even if i can get three total, i could probably stomach paying over face value for the fourth one, just to be able to see the whole gorge weekend.
online ticketing is so fucked.
might be going to see sun kil moon in may. in portland/seattle. my credit card is weeping.
Mar 27, 2009
Mar 25, 2009
potentially the best thing evar.
i am going to attempt to get tickets on friday afternoon for both of phish's shows at the gorge. i'm hoping the getting-tickets process will go okay, considering the gorge is a 20,000 person venue and i've frequently managed to get tickets for 1,000-seat venues before they've sold out. but then again, this is phish, so i wouldn't put it past the universe to simply calmly say "fuck you" and somehow let 20,000 other people who are online at the exact same time get tickets first. we'll see.
Mar 23, 2009
potent dreams and impotent fury
i've been having weird dreams lately. it might (in part) have to do with the fact that i slept 13 hours 2 nights ago and 1 hour last night. i might (in part) have to do with the fact that i'm possibly just nuts.
i don't really know.
nonetheless, two nights ago i had an awesome dream that involved me landing in a hot-air balloon in a futuristic London occupied by heavily armed asian soldiers of indeterminate nationality. i spent some time sniping soldiers and jumping from rooftop to rooftop, but the team i was meant to rendezvous with had been waylaid and so i was essentially alone in enemy territory. after a harrowing chase through the elevator shafts of a huge office building, i found myself on the roof of a utility shed in a large park, where i discovered that the invading army's ultimate plan involved destroying all the vinyl records in London, thus demoralizing their enemy by creating a dearth of hi-fi 70s rock. the dream ended with me hooking up a turntable and blaring a zeppelin record (i think it was the song remains the same) across the park.
i don't remember the one from last night as clearly, though it was on the same level of insanity, and was suddenly truncated when the dude downstairs swung his fucking medieval battering ram into the wall of his living room, or whatever it is that he does at 4 in the goddamn morning pretty much every morning that makes my entire apartment shake like there's a bomb going off.
for some reason i'm being super-pissy this morning. something about having to deal with the police regarding them kicking my fucking door in, and having to deal with (for the third or fourth time now) with the person (who shall remain nameless) who has an AML session after mine coming in when there is still five minutes left in my class and moving all of my shit across the room (including a pile of student papers) while i had my back turned talking to a student so said person could set up the stuff for their class. i appreciate efficiency as much as the next guy or gal, but, seriously, if you have to start moving my stuff around to get your class ready, shouldn't that be an indication to you that maybe you've come in a bit early and need to just chill out for five minutes until my class is actually supposed to be over?
i should stop ranting angrily and focus my energy on something productive. like destroying everything in the universe.
i don't really know.
nonetheless, two nights ago i had an awesome dream that involved me landing in a hot-air balloon in a futuristic London occupied by heavily armed asian soldiers of indeterminate nationality. i spent some time sniping soldiers and jumping from rooftop to rooftop, but the team i was meant to rendezvous with had been waylaid and so i was essentially alone in enemy territory. after a harrowing chase through the elevator shafts of a huge office building, i found myself on the roof of a utility shed in a large park, where i discovered that the invading army's ultimate plan involved destroying all the vinyl records in London, thus demoralizing their enemy by creating a dearth of hi-fi 70s rock. the dream ended with me hooking up a turntable and blaring a zeppelin record (i think it was the song remains the same) across the park.
i don't remember the one from last night as clearly, though it was on the same level of insanity, and was suddenly truncated when the dude downstairs swung his fucking medieval battering ram into the wall of his living room, or whatever it is that he does at 4 in the goddamn morning pretty much every morning that makes my entire apartment shake like there's a bomb going off.
for some reason i'm being super-pissy this morning. something about having to deal with the police regarding them kicking my fucking door in, and having to deal with (for the third or fourth time now) with the person (who shall remain nameless) who has an AML session after mine coming in when there is still five minutes left in my class and moving all of my shit across the room (including a pile of student papers) while i had my back turned talking to a student so said person could set up the stuff for their class. i appreciate efficiency as much as the next guy or gal, but, seriously, if you have to start moving my stuff around to get your class ready, shouldn't that be an indication to you that maybe you've come in a bit early and need to just chill out for five minutes until my class is actually supposed to be over?
i should stop ranting angrily and focus my energy on something productive. like destroying everything in the universe.
apparently i'm not as light of a sleeper as i thought i was
i just found out today, through word of mouth (thanks to our awesome local news system, seven days after the fact) that apparently some dude got shotgunned in the face in my apartment complex on last monday night (the night we got back from san francisco). pretty wild. one would think that i wouldn't sleep through gunfire, but apparently i did. odd.
apparently the guy got in an argument with another guy, who decided to resolve the argument by driving to walmart, buying a shotgun, and firing said shotgun into guy #1's face.
yet another reason why walmart shouldn't exist.
apparently the guy got in an argument with another guy, who decided to resolve the argument by driving to walmart, buying a shotgun, and firing said shotgun into guy #1's face.
yet another reason why walmart shouldn't exist.
Mar 21, 2009
ashes of a life of not being in credit card debt
just pre-ordered wilco's new DVD (how could i not have?) got a free high-res download of "monday" from the DVD for preordering...i don't normally like (i.e. i normally fucking HATE) concert films with a lot of quick-cutting. but. this clip is excellent, despite the fact that there are like 120,000 camera cuts in the song's four-minute run time. i'm really excited to see this thing in its entirety. just got the tracklist too:
Ashes of American Flags / Side with the Seeds /
Handshake Drugs / The Late Greats / Kingpin / Wishful Thinking /
Impossible Germany / Via Chicago / Shot in the Arm / Monday /
You Are My Face / Heavy Metal Drummer / War on War
despite the fact that there are a lot of obvious choices and me being a weirdo i would have preferred some odder cuts (muzzle of bees, spiders, at least that's what you said, i am trying to break your heart, blah blah), this list is totally solid. well, with the exception of "wishful thinking", which is a good song, but for my money could have been replaced with "how to fight loneliness" or a few other songs if they were going for a somber choice.
on the up-upside, all the DVD tracks including these extras will apparently be available as a free download (audio only) when i get the DVD:
Extras: I'm the Man Who Loves You / Airline to Heaven /
It's Just that Simple / At Least That's What you Said /
I am Trying to Break your Heart / Theologians / Hate it Here
so that's fun.
also got to hear neko case's middle cyclone the other day. i really like it, and fox confessor is also really growing on me, finally.
partway through the second of three phish hampton run shows, and still loving it, though the beginning of night two was (more than) a bit sloppy.
sorry i haven't been writing much lately; things is crazy. at the very least, more photos to come. also, i think LL may be doing some art/drawings for my upcoming website thingamajigger.
i'm gonna submit a few of the poems i've written lately to a few indie presses and see what happens. looking at finally attempting to write a new album this summer as well as record the one i wrote last year. sheesh.
at least i'm teaching until june, so i shouldn't starve to death. more later.
Ashes of American Flags / Side with the Seeds /
Handshake Drugs / The Late Greats / Kingpin / Wishful Thinking /
Impossible Germany / Via Chicago / Shot in the Arm / Monday /
You Are My Face / Heavy Metal Drummer / War on War
despite the fact that there are a lot of obvious choices and me being a weirdo i would have preferred some odder cuts (muzzle of bees, spiders, at least that's what you said, i am trying to break your heart, blah blah), this list is totally solid. well, with the exception of "wishful thinking", which is a good song, but for my money could have been replaced with "how to fight loneliness" or a few other songs if they were going for a somber choice.
on the up-upside, all the DVD tracks including these extras will apparently be available as a free download (audio only) when i get the DVD:
Extras: I'm the Man Who Loves You / Airline to Heaven /
It's Just that Simple / At Least That's What you Said /
I am Trying to Break your Heart / Theologians / Hate it Here
so that's fun.
also got to hear neko case's middle cyclone the other day. i really like it, and fox confessor is also really growing on me, finally.
partway through the second of three phish hampton run shows, and still loving it, though the beginning of night two was (more than) a bit sloppy.
sorry i haven't been writing much lately; things is crazy. at the very least, more photos to come. also, i think LL may be doing some art/drawings for my upcoming website thingamajigger.
i'm gonna submit a few of the poems i've written lately to a few indie presses and see what happens. looking at finally attempting to write a new album this summer as well as record the one i wrote last year. sheesh.
at least i'm teaching until june, so i shouldn't starve to death. more later.
Mar 19, 2009
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