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Just a taste of what's coming.
*grins*
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October 29, 2006
October 27, 2006
whatingodsname
What in God's name is wrong with this world?
Cameras that talk and shout at you?
Yeah, I agree that drunken yobs are a problem, but this? For treating... anti-social behavior?
That's frightening.
Very, very frightening.
I'm going to go and play video games till I can start forgetting.
October 23, 2006
johanncry
Hah. I wish. I haven't been able to cry in a long time.
I'm feeling like a pile of shit right now. I haven't been able to get this essay done, and not because I'm really all that lazy. I just don't feel like bullshitting right now, and I can't come up with a decent thesis for this joke of an essay to save my life.
Give me an hour and I'll probably feel like bullshitting this thing. I don't have much choice, after all.
There are plenty other reasons to my feeling like I just crawled out of the dirty end of Ron Jeremy. Wait... that's every end. Ugh.
Anyway, I have some things to talk about, and none of them political. I mean, I could go on about a whole lot of things... the farce that we call American politics... the crazy shit in Asia, but truth be told, I couldn't give less of a shit right now.
I just don't feel up to it.
But I do want to talk about Sound Mind. Sort of. I figure I really should talk about it, despite not having much energy to do anything. I really do need to work these fingers up to essay mode.
So here it is. Sound Mind's a zine, and it's a rockin' zine. A zine about music and stuff. More importantly from me, I suppose, it'll soon have a website. That's my job... building Sound Mind a website, one that will blow the pants off every other website in existence.
And that's just what I'm going to do.
But that's not what I really wanted to talk about... no, what I really wanted to talk about, was the show we had this Friday. It was a bang up show and it feels like years ago, probably because I've had a lot of drinks inbetween. Still... it was... one hell of a show.
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't charge my camera batteries before I went, so my batteries died halfway through the third set. Which sucks, in a way... but it left the rest of the night to get really inebriated and melt into the music.
So it worked out for everyone. Everyone else gets to see some photos, and I had a shitload of fun.
Oh yeah, before I forget, the photos are here.
Hopefully someone got photos of the later acts, because they too were not to be missed.
I bought a $24 shirt at auction there to support the zine. I suppose that was a little bit two-faced of me, I certainly look like I'm spending a whole lot of money to support the zine...
But since a website in practise costs about $100 CDN a year to run for the amount of stuff we'll be putting on it, and that $24 will probably go right back into the site and the zine (which costs about the same an issue, I think), no, I really am not actually doing all that much.
I should take a few seconds to talk about the show itself... you really couldn't ask for a better variety of music at a basement show. I mean, there are basement shows and there are basement shows. This was certainly one of the latter. Or the former... whichever one is better... depends on whether not you're a fan of italics, I suppose.
One of the photos in there will show you the amount of people that packed into the basement for one of the sets. Now imagine that the basement's that full... and you go up the stairs to the kitchen. A lot more people there. People on the back porch, smoking. People in the living room, drinking and talking, people going up another flight of stairs to line up for the w/c.
And everyone in the house is listening to the music coming out of the basement.
It was a goodly amount of people. And we raised enough money for the zine to cover the last issue, and no one puked! At least, I didn't see anyone puking... of course, since they would've been ejected from the premises right away, if anyone did, I wouldn't have seen them anyway.
If you missed it, and you're in the area to actually feel bad about missing it... well don't worry, there'll be more.
And I'll keep you up to date, and let you know as soon as the site is up. If you're around the Carleton campus, look around, you'll certainly be able to find a copy or two.
Now I'm going to go wallow for a bit before trying to bullshit this thing till I've got something to hand in.
October 19, 2006
bulletstoppingbibles
So a while back, I sent a question to the Box O' Truth wondering about the stories in which bibles stopped bullets in WWI and WWII... now, the Box O' Truth is a website run by a retired guy named Old_Painless somewhere in the States... and he basically shoots stuff for the sake of learning. And shooting stuff.
Here's him shooting some books to find out what I asked about.
I'm sure you all know by now I'm not much of a gun nut, but hey, shooting stuff is cool, and the Box O' Truth is mighty educational.
So I encourage you to check it out... here.
Note to self: carry a lot of books in my backpack if I ever have to tussle with thugs with guns again. =)
October 16, 2006
fuuuuuck
My iPod's LCD screen broke...
... and after searching, apparently Apple doesn't cover LCD repairs. And it's not like I dropped it.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
It's $129 US to get it fixed, not to mention getting it shipped around.
FUCKKKKKKKK!
And it's in a hard protective case too.
GODDDAAAAMMMIT.
October 10, 2006
weallfall
"I'm falling. Falling... just flitting away."
"We all fall, darling. The important thing to fall with grace... try a pirouette."
October 09, 2006
aquotefromjack
A quote from Jack:
"The thing is... when I was living in China, I didn't know it had a horrible government. Now I am in Canada and I can see it, and I think that is the case in North Korea now. People simply do not understand a better way to be governed."
hahshit
Just after I write this whole thing about DRPK's nuclear capabilities, they test their first nuke.
Yay.
Seriously, I'm not sleeping tonight. I need to make some calls.
October 08, 2006
backintothings
So I'm back in TO for the Thanksgiving weekend... whee.
I spent two days making my little brother's computer work. Trust me, it wasn't fun. I won't go into the details... suffice to say: Broken RAM.
Anyway... Music Night photos are up, and that is always fun. By always fun, I mean, I've been too busy to tell you guys about it (well, I did send out an e-mail to Hums students courtesy of Andrea). Oops.
Some of you have probably seen them already, being that you will likely have me on Facebook, or got the e-mail... but I'll post them here anyway.
So yeah. I'm tired. Real tired. Two days of computer fixing, and today I wrote three pages (single spaced, of course, I hate doublespacing) of stuff for an online discussion group for my online class, and then closed the window by accident while trying to move it. My dad has Windows set up with that stupid extra large everything, so the big X is humongous.
Stupid Windows.
Speaking of Windows, I think I've reinstalled that thing six or more times on my little brother's PC in the last week. I'm not hapy with that.
But anyway, I get free food while I'm home, so what the hell do I care? Going to see if we're staying in or going out for dinner tonight now. Oh yes, I'll upload the thing I wrote for class. It's about National Missile Defense and North Korea... and all that jazz.
October 05, 2006
moneymoney
Quick update on my life... I'm way too hungover to type coherently right now:
Winning another $50 when I walk in with my friend with $70 into the casino is awesome. In two games of poker (we were so drunk we thought we were playing Blackjack the first game)... where we ended $20 up... then in two pulls of a one-armed bandit I chose standing there drunkenly meditating on which machine to pull, we ended up another $30 up. Bought us dinner and a cab. We win.