12 of 30: Suburban Epidemic's new album

Suburban Epidemic has been on of my favorite bands for awhile now, since I saw them in Josh's basement with How To Steat And Cheal like the 3rd day of my freshman year. We have become good friends and they are still making bitching songs. Our bands have played bunches of shows together and we all dry hump each other. Friday was their most recent CD release show. I just got around to listening to the album today. I would safetly say this will become one of my favorites. It is awesome. You need to get a copy of it. Talk to Sean or Landon or Kevin or anybody from their hood if you know anyone from that area. And if you don't I will set you up. It will be $5 you will never miss.

Get on it.

11 of 30: Remember, Remember the 3rd of November

So it is for sure Fall now. It has been toying with us, but it is too cold for hoodies and I can see my breath. Hello Fall.

You know the saying, "Spring showers bring May flowers, but what to Mayflowers bring?" Yeah, that is how Fall is. Except its Fall cold brings Oct/Nov shows, and Oct/Nov shows bring really really good bands. Every year around this time it seems like all these sweet shows happen. Yesterday was Flatfoot, today is Hobgob, Tuesday is The Toasters, the 14th is The Copyrights. It's chaulk full of killer times.

I am here tonight speaking to the concert going folks. There are a lot of good shows happening, where ever you may be. Springfield, St. Louis, Belleville. Get out and get to some shows. Must of us try to get to shows, but fail way too much (like myself). I am wanting to say this now before the roads are snowy: Get out and support your scene.
DIY or die.

Go have yourselves a Halloween.

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10 of 30: Short blog

Out of time. Gotta type fast. Why do we like hot long showers, they make our lungs hurt? I used to not like to shower, or bathe at all. It's boring. That is why I shower at night. I do not waste time in the shower that I could be reading or playing games with friends. My sickness is turning around.

Live Long And Prosper.

9 of 30: Top 10 Comic Book Movies That I Have Seen

I am tired and sickly and nothing exciting or interesting happened today. David is reading 'V for Vendetta' so I was thinking of best movies from comic books. Here is mine:

1. Watchmen
2. Ghost World
   
3. American Splendor
   
4. V for Vendetta
5. Sin City
6. All the Batman's
7. Both Hellboy's
   
8. 300
9. All the X-Men's
10. Mystery Men

Runners Ups:

1. The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen
   
2. The Spirit
3. Judge Dredd

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8 of 30: Late is better than never

NOTE: So today was a busy day for me and I couldn't get my blog in on the real time I was supposed to do it. I can't miss a date so I am going to post a late one. Sorry.


So I was thinking about what to write. I was going to write about going to the doctors, then I had a real fun time at the show tonight so I was going write about that, but then I found what I wanted to write about. The title kind of gives away the main idea. I was thinking to myself, "Should I even post?" I decided to because late is better than never. I feel that we all need to carry this philosophy in aspects of our lives.

I was transcribing a DVD of deans of music that are All Steinway Schools. In a segment, a few students were interviewed. They talked to this women. She was a pianist and had a future in playing, but she met a guy. They had kids and she raised them all. Now all of her kids are out of the house. She has decided to get the degree in performance. It took her decades but she is finally realizing and living her dream. It was late for her, but it was never too late.

I am getting closer to graduating. And I am in classes with people that are like 3 credits from graduating. I seem to think about being in their shoes, being so close to a career or even in a career. I wonder if they have done what they wanted, realized the dreams they have had. Or is working in their career field the dream they have had for themselves? I will never know, nor does it matter. What matters is the point that I want to achieve with this blog. I want to say to you that you should do what you have always wanted to do (I would write more but I am tired and sick). But I say go today and start. Go buy a guitar and start a band, write that letter, drive to Canada, fly out to California, join an armed force, write a book, paint something, backpack Ireland, ask that crush out. Do not let yourself forget the dreams of your youth, even before you lose your youth. People get busy, or tired, or embarrassed and they put off the little dreams for themselves and I am afraid we will grow up to be a generation of lost dreams. Don't let us be that. Let us all have the stories for our grandkids just like our grandparents had for us.


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7 of 30: Cleanliness Is Next To Diseaselessness

I live in a house off of campus. I live with dudes. 7 dudes. 8 including me. The place gets a little untidy at times, as you can imagine. This blog is not about tidiness. I am by far not tidy. This blog is about being clean, like smelly-free clean and rotting trashlessness. It is gross and unhealthy to live in grossness. The bathrooms get filthy and trashcans pile up at my house. It starts to smell and it gets pretty grody. I am going to give a break down on how I think houses/apartments should be taken care of without actually having to do much manual labor. This will in turn keep your home stench free.

LIVING ROOM/LOUNGE AREA:

• If you are eating food, throw uneaten food into the trash can. This will keep the old food from sitting out on the couches and tables for days at a time, and it won't smell like Chinese food for weeks!
• Throw your trash away! Most areas that have a lot of traffic will have a waste bin near. If not, you should get one. Very helpful! It doesn't take but a second to toss away some garbage and it helps to keep the room look clean for guests. And paper cups start to leak after awhile and cause a big mess.
  
• Trashcans should be emptied regularly. The food in there will go bad and smell terrible after a few weeks, so take it out when it is relatively full instead of falling onto the floor.
  

KITCHEN:

• Clean the food of your dishes into the trash can. You know you won't be doing dishes anytime soon, so this saves your sink from smell like poo.
• If you microwave something and it pops and some of it gets on the walls of the microwave, just grab a paper towel and wipe it up. It will be fresh and you won't have to scrap it off a month later.
• DO YOUR DISHES. 'Nuff said.

BATHROOM:

• If you pee on the seat, wipe it up. We all do it, so just grab some paper and wipe it. This also goes for peeing on the floor. And yes, that does happen. Way too much.
  
• If you clog the toilet, get a plunger and plunge the shit out of it. Haha, that pun made me laugh. If the problem is taken care of promptly, other stinky issues will be avoided.
  
• Throw away your empty toilet paper rolls. They look dumb. Unless you draw faces on them all like I did one semester. That is funny.
• Clean the sink off every once and awhile. The tooth paste film and the soap film are grody, so get yourself some cleaning wipes and give it a rub down. It won't hurt anything.
• Clean the shower every so ofter. Grim gets at the bottom and it is not pretty. So all you gotta do it get your bleach and go to town. It will smell bad, so watch out.

BEDROOM:

• Pick up your dirty clothes. I have a problem with this. Keeping the dirty clothes of the floor is kind of one of those real lazy things I do. I just put them wherever. But every time I think about it, I put them all in the basket or a pile. It makes things look nice!
• Don't let trash build up. It is nasty.
• Change your bed and pillow sheets every so often. New linens are comfy!

So there you go, my simple steps on keeping your home tidy and stench, trash, and disease free!

PS: This blog is not written towards anyone in particular, but it was written with a certain 8 maned house in mind.


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Blog 6 of 30: Life In The Slow Lane

We are a product of our generation. We want everything fast, easy, cheap, and good. I am guilty of this. And if you say you are not, think about it. I am sure that you are probably guilty of it yourself. I am not going to speak against that tonight. I am just going to say that I feel we all need to appresh everything we run by everyday. We miss the nuances of life that make the boring, monotonous routines we fall into worth it.

Today, I saw something I have not seen in a long time around the Lew. Getting on my bike in front of Spellgirl, I notice a person bend over and pick up a leaf, freshly fallen and beautifully colored and covered in rain. They just looked at it. Appreshed it. I was amazed. I used to do that kind of thing, take in the beauty of the such an insignificant object. They just enjoyed that 5 seconds of their life with that pretty leaf instead of hurrying, bustling, worrying about the next thing life has coming.

I have been getting into photography recently. I use a slightly vintage Canon AE-1. It takes real nice pictures. The reason I bring up this hobby is the whole reason I got into film photography in the first place. I had a digital camera, like everyone else that has a digital camera or a camera phone. I would take a picture of someone, and then they would demand to see the picture and then hence delete if not up to their standards of self image. This bothered me. I felt slightly offended, but not offended. I wanted to capture that 1/250 of a second. But instead I was told to recapture the moment, to recreate something that has passed. I did not want to do that. So I went out and bought disposable cameras so people couldn't edit the tiny momeny I wanted to preserve. Then I eventually got my Canon AE-1 and the rest of history. I learned to enjoy the ugly pictures, the grainy, the misframed. I could not do anything about it, as people would say, I "rolled with the punches." Film photography is how life truly is. Life is not something we can edit to fit what we want. We need to accept our ugly moments, our beautiful moments, our stupid moments, our brilliant moments, our grainy moments, our misframed moments, our overexposed moments, our masterpiece moments.

Moral of the Story: Live life second by second. Everything is important, do not ignore anything.


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October 25th, 2009: Today was not my day

Sorry for the lack of anything today. I am feeling really sick and completely sapped for creative energy. I wrote a six page paper today. So I will not be writing anything worth much today, other than if you have never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, you need to. Straight that. One of my favs. Well, it is way too close to bed time for me to be writing this. I will end on this note: A diet of Diet Coke, Tylenol and stale doughnuts does not make you feel any less sick.

Goodnight.

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October 24th, 2009: Moon

I just watched the film 'Moon.' All I have to say is wow. It used so many aspects of other classic Sci-Fi movies, but came out as a very original film. It was very visually pleasing. I read somewhere online that the most recent writers strike occurred during the production, so that gave the Duncan Jones a lot of time to get gather aboard some of the top effects people. It paid off very well. The visual effects were great. Costumes, the set, the moon. I should have tried harder to see it in theaters. I think it would have had been a bigger mind destroyer.

I can't talk about the plot too much, becuase you need to see the movie. I do not want to ruin it for anyone. I will lay down some basics. The earth peoples are harvesting what I assumed was Hydrogen-3. They said H3, so it could be something different. We will never know. But to the point. They have bases on the Moon where they harvest it. They have a person(Sam) there for 3 year periods taking care of everything, with his only companion a computer(GERTY) that helps with what ever he wants. Sam has his routines of carving a village of wood, excirsing, eating. It comes to a point where Sam leaves the base to fix a problem on one of his harvesters. He leaves the base to head to the harvester then something happens, more other things happen, and then that is where my mind goes nuts. That is all I can say. Trust me, you don't want to hear more.

When I read about this movie, I was stoked. When I watched a trailer, I was stoked. The film completely satisfies and lives up to everything that I expected. Watcht this movie.

PS: Wait for the DVD, the computer screen did no justice.


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October 23rd, 2009: Car Influenced Blog #2

ay, I am on kind of a roll with this blogging about cars deal. This is a simple issue-more like a request. I am a person who walks, drives, and rides places a lot. I have to deal with cars a lot, usually stupid cars at that. Driving like they are the only ones of the roads. That is dealt with in yesterdays blog though. This is solely about one problem that I feel we all face. Drivers that do not use their blinkers. You know how annoying it is. Sitting and waiting for a car to pass so you can go and then they turn right and you could have went the entire time. Gunning through an intersection on our sweet bikes because you have the friendly "Walk" light, the car at the intersection seems like it is going straight, and the hill you're going down is sweet but then that dormant car suddenly guns it right almost taking us out. It is really unsafe. Turn signals are put on cars to warn surrounding motorists and pedestrians of what their planned maneuvers are. They were invented for that purpose and they serve it well. So, pretty please for the sake of safety, push the lever up or down according to your desired destination.

I am not putting blame on people but more of a friendly reminder to use your blinker. It's not hard to forget or get distracted. Tons of traffic, a phone call, etc etc. So yeah, just look out for everyone else.

And if you are not using your blinker cause you are lazy: Paul will "try" to "stop" and will "accidentally" run his bike into your car and try to cause as much damage as possible to either himself or you. Who are the police/insurance agents going to believe had the right-a-way, a bi-cyclist or a motorist? So watch yourself.

PS: Paul is serious.


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Also, Paul and I have a bet that I can't blog everyday for 30 days. Watch me.

October 22nd, 2009: Railroad crossing, watch out for cars

Stupid driving, we have all seen it. Going way too fast or driving way to recklessly. Like today, Paul and I were riding up to Shnucks on our bi-cycles. We were going going going and this really big truck speeds up to us, the people yell incoherently and peel out speeding blindly into a left turn. What if there was a person walking across the street? They would be dead. LU is really bad with harvesting drivers with the tendency with driving really fast and paying no attention to where the are going. Daily, I have to dodge traffic on my sweet bike. It bothers me on so many levels. So the rest of this blog goes to those shitty drivers trying to show off or pay no attention to anything but getting home or to class faster than anyone else in the 63301 area. So if you are a nice driver, I thank you. Go to Shnucks and buy some Turtle Cookies. You deserve them.


Dear A-Holes:

Here are my qualms and concerns about your driving:

1. You are driving around campus. A part of campus that there is really no need to drive around nonetheless. Everything is pretty close on campus, try walking or biking. It is fun and does not make you seem less like a MMA fighter.
   
2. If your car is loud: It is annoying. It does not make you cool. Buy a new muffler. If your car is to quiet: Good for you, unless you are driving stupidly. People can't hear you, so be careful.
3. You are driving too fast. You're probably not going to be late to class. If I can get to Young 404 in 8 minutes by walking, you can get to where you're going 10 times faster than me. So cut us all a break and slow the eff down. None of us want to get hit by a car.
4. Misc. dangerous driving acts: a) Texting. We all do it. No big whoop if you are careful, but is texting while you are driving in fast moving traffic on the interstate a great idea? How about through bustling campus roads with tons of bi-cyclers and walkers? Think not. How does waiting the minute and a half until you are way from potienal manslaughter cases to text your bro back about the partay last night. Sounds awesome! b) Peeling out. Are you kidding me? Why do you think peeling out in front of two dudes riding bikes will make us envious of you? Most people ride bikes for a reason, to get places without having to drive a car. Thus, we don't care that you can gun it and go really fast. We know how cars work.
   
5. Calling me names from your car when you speed by me on my bike. You are adults, act like you are one of them please.

So please heed some of these comments. They will make a lot not hate you and think you are a tool. Slow down and be courteous. It means a lot to people that are not driving. And next time you roll by someone riding a bike and you decide they are a wuss for that, think about this before you want to show off: You need to get gas for you Nissan, I don't. And my bike will work if a terrorist group attacks us with EMP weapons, your car won't. It is easier to break traffic laws on bikes, cars, not so much. So, don't be douchers.

Moral of the story: Please Do Not Hit! We will die. Your car has insurance and it can be fixed. Our bodies aren't and cannot. Thank You.

PS:

1. Giant TAPOUT vinyl stickers on your windows are not cool.
2. I have always wanted to kick out a headlight or a taillight out, so don't give me a reason to do it. And to you drivers of the black car with grey stripes and that grey SUV, watch yourself.

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October 21st, 2009 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bugs

So I am going to start blogging again, but not in my usual fake diary format that I had done in the past. Re-reading through my blog proved that I am a very boring person that sometimes does exciting things with exciting people, but not frequently enough for me to have my own space on the interwebs to revel on. So I am turning it into a place where I will talk about something I experience that day and give my take on what it means to me and its effect on society. Sounds lame, probably will be sometimes, but I don't think I will take it too seriously. I have a list of topics to write about, and let me tell you, it's going to be a trip. Now on with the show...

I have been riding my bike a lot lately. It is very efficient, clean, and way effing faster around campus then that bros Jeep/Truck/etc. that almost hits me every day riding to Roemer. That is a different topic for a different day, though, so I will get back on subject. So I ride my bike around my area of St. Charles. It's not bad, no dogs chase me and I hardly ever anymore get called a queer, faggot, or am told that I will burn in hell. But there lies my problem, the roads I adventure are outside and bugs live outside.

It has gotten warmer in the last few days and with that, a rise in bugs. I have no issues with bugs. I think they are mostly cool since I am a boy. I only don't like bees, wasps, and those giant ass beewasps looking deals that kills bees and wasps and eats them. I am afraid of those three. So yeah, bugs are neat and fun to watch. My earliest memory of bugs is my uncle or somebody like that had just found a stick bug and I was mind blown. Awesome. I keep getting on tangents about other things than my point. Back to it. The part I hate the most about bugs is their love of living in my hair. Since my 5th grade year in Mrs. Post-Lucas' art class when a tick fell off my head in front of abunch of my peers, I have always hated things being in my hair. I guess it partly ruined bugs for me. I am always paranoid about things on my head, I will get a itch and think some thing is eating my dead skin cells etc. etc. And the temperature lately has not helped my situation one bit.

This semester has been bad for my critters-in-hair phobia. Early this year riding to class before the first cold spell hit. I felt a lot of little things hitting my arms. It felt like little rocks kicked up from a car or something, but I was on a walking path so it wasn't that. I didn't think anything of it and continued. A week or so later I went the same route and had the same thing happen. This time though, one hit my glasses and it was freaking gnat. That is what was hitting me all over. And of course a crap ton landed in my hair. I procided to wigout calmly to make sure none of them little boogers got in there. Some did, sad to say, but I took care of them. I have not taken that path again needless to say. A similar incident happened early this evening. There recently has been an out break of Asian lady bug things around LU. They are not too bad becuase I can see them coming; and they are nice, slow and pretty, go them. But I was riding to the same class as I was riding to when my gnat incident, and you guessed it, a ton of lady bugs hit me as I was riding. I can totally feel them when they hit my head, I quickly got them off my head. All was dandy until an hour into my class when I notice some pocket lint in my pocket. I start to take it out and found out it was a GD lady bug. It startled me. Cory was spooked. It snuck into my pocket, probably to use my phone to call it's bras about the sweet kegger this weekend . That bitch. I am sure I am not the only one who has this problem. Tell stories of your experiences of bugs getting places they should not be in or on. Let us speak up! Revolution is a foot!

Moral of the story: Bugs, you dudes are cool, but if you sneak into my hair or beard or pockets again, I will probably kill you.

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Thank you.

tomorrow

breakfastblahblahblahclassblahblahblahlunchblahblahblahnickblahblahblahhome.

i get to see emilie and her tattoos tomorrow.

it shouldn't be about the bars, but about the friends.

lately,

i haven't wanted to watch movies, or be online, or read. i have wanted to walk and watch tv shows though. i just feel like going for walks. i think i may do that tomorrow. i have a couple of things around home that is keeping me fresh and wanting to do things, like emilie and joe and them such. i super like that. they will go with me to dumb places. and look for cameras everywhere with me. and go to schnucks at wee hours. or suggest we explore. i need to find new things to do around school. it feels like we are here in a pool of

update

-still dating emilie and having the greatest time
-dmww is playing sick lately
-i am going to start writing more

top ten favorite bands

1) neutral milk hotel
2) mu330
3) less than jake
4) superchunk
5) big d
6) the chinkees
7) dino jr.
8) the copyrights
9) the steinways
10) the arcade fire

there is ska on that list, dg.

March 5, 2009

I am

i couldn't think of anything to write.

March 4, 2009

Hi, today i was tired. I had two tests today, which weren't bad. people in the cafeteria still blow my mind. they turn 8 again. we had a real fun think-about-grade-school night again at dinner. so i had a job interview at this, what i thought was, telemarketing place. its so night. david warned me. thank you. nothing very fun has been happening lately. i have a show on friday. i love when the music fraternity people ask me if i am going to the battle of the bands. and then i tell them i have a show. it makes me feel like dmww is going place.

• March 6 in Lincoln
• March 13 in Belleville
  
• March 14 in Springfield
• March 28 in Harvard
• April 16 in Springfield
• May 21 in Springfield
• May 25 in Springfield possibly
  
• June 6 in Springfield

sick shows.

March 3, 2009

I did my laundry today, high five.

March 2, 2009

today. classes. wow. awesome. nonfailed test in econ. actually a B. i am stoking on that. i did not do much. like practice. orchestra was canceled. i did however watch alot of freaks and geeks.

that is all.

i miss emilie.

i need to do business law.

i want to ride a bike to walgreens.

March 1st, 2009 UPDATE

How come i get upset, and then just not be upset anymore?

February 27th-28th and March 1st, 2009

FRIDAY:
breakfast, test, lunch, hung out, sat around, got my new old phone, courtney came out, went to show me's with david, sleep with pills.
SATURDAY:
woke up really excited, picked up emilie from train station, she was looking awesome, science center, galleria, had an awesome time, hotel, came back to campus and showed her stuff, got food, back to hotel, and went to bed.
SUNDAY:
took emilie to train station, it was really early, dropped her off, didn't lose her wallet, sleep some more, went to work, did marketing, got off work, ate, and got sad.

February 26, 2009

Um. I forgot what i did. econ take home test, went to qt, listened to music, bass lessons. i got a twitter though. its fun. twitter.com/coryvsucks. i couldn't sleep well last night. no fun at all.

SATURDAY:

February 25, 2009

hello. today was a kinda sad day. i woke up and went to the seminar. got back and went to the art museum. which is rad, but i was kinda down about this weekend might not working out. and i was really missing girl. so that was kinda lame. i was kinda lame. we ended up stopping at v vinyl and finding rad rad rad stuff. but i am broke broke broke. i had some change so i had enough to eat some chicken sandwiches from sonic i think. orchestra was br00tal. we did give ourselves nicknames. here is the list:

1. Paul=Party
2. David=Shark or Snake Shark or Snark
3. Me=The Red Baron
4. Nick=Clyde
5. Ashley=Peaches
6. Charlie=Dr. Clark
7. Lani=LaLa

we gave ourselves these names. rad. i went to dinner. then to walgreens. i got my sleepy aid. fun. and now i am doing work for black sheep.

February 24, 2009

boring day. again, i do not like choir. i did set up my phone for mobile facebook. easy way to upload pictures. um. i am on arcade fire and i got through the apers and the aquabats. um. business law test went good. um. got a couple shows booked today. um. ate a sandwich. um. i had to reinstall aim. the new version suck.

being at school has its ups and downs. and i am broke poor, so it is hard too.

i really miss emilie. we are head eating monsters.



i hope a thing happens...

February 23, 2009

here is a something different:

• 5:30 AM: i woke up and didn't have any texts like i thought i was going to have. david woke up the same time. weird.
• 7:10ish AM: i got all those texts i was waiting for. it made me real smiley.
  
• 8:32 AM: i decided that i am going to do a time detailed blog today.
• 8:39 AM: i needed to blow my nose really bad.
• 8:49 AM: got out of macro econ. we got a take home test.
• 8:55 AM: i discovered i really never walk in a straight line.
• 8:59 AM: i entered history class. we watched a movie.
• 9:50 AM: i was told neil diamond has a girlfriend. wtf.
• 9:59 AM: i started marketing class.
• 10:00 AM: david and i decided that our band's name is going to be The Carmen Sandiego's.
• 10:05 AM: i forgot to turn my homework in on friday. hopefully he takes it late, i thought.
• 10:50 AM: he took it late.
• 10:51 AM: lunch walk.
• 11:25 AM: i am eating the charmiest off-brand lucky charms ever.
• 11:45 AM: walked back to the dorm.
• 12:00 PM: button time!
  
• 12:50 PM: andrew wk makes me wanna jump up and down.
• 1:26 PM: i finished a button design i think greg will enjoy.
• 1:50 PM: class time, uhoh.
• 3:05 PM: class out. fun.

this is where i didn't take notes. i will go off memory:

• i set up string ensemble.
• i did more button stuff.
• i like texted emilie bunches.
• i practiced.
  
• i went to orchestra.
  
• i had cereal at dinner again.
• went to a kinda bad movie tonight. ew.
  

i am on animal collective on my journey. i have gotten through andrew jackson jihad and andrew wk today. it was a really boring day. i am tired. i miss my girl.



byebye

February 20-22, 2009

my weekend was longish. lots of little things:

FRIDAY:

1. picked up emilie to take her to work. she bought me another camera and seasme chicken.
   
2. went to greg's and rolled the rest of the shirts, which took way way way lesser time when three of us are doing it.
3. we practiced the new songs.
4. we drove to decatur but kinda got lost finding the place. cody got mad at greg.
5. we got there and we were all hyper. they had free candy. joe made fun of andrew.
6. tracer bullet was awesome. we had the sax player do a sick solo with us. we will def have them at bxs. the other bands... not so much.
   
7. i took pictures.
   
8. we drove back and nick like pooped himself in the car.
9. i stopped by emilie's and ate the chineses that she bought the day before. i like hanging out with her. i think she likes it too, even though i'm kinda a stupid head.

SATURDAY:

1. i woke up and nobody was home.
   
2. i picked up emilie and we got wendy's.
3. made a pit stop at the antique store.
   
4. we were going to go to my dad's but he was busy so we stayed at my moms and i reformated freaks and geeks for my zune.
5. we went to my dads.
6. we went back to my house for a bit.
7. we went to her moms and played with twyla and camden.
8. we stopped by joes. i showed him matt and kim.
9. we went to her aunt's and we hung out for a bit.
   
10. i tried sleeping aid's for the first time.

SUNDAY:

1. went to church.
2. picked up emilie for work.
   
3. we ate.
4. she went to work.
5. i went to work.
6. i ate hot dogs and pizza rolls.
7. i wacthed the end of the new willy wonka and ate.
   
8. i read.
9. i sit.

emilie is awesome to hang out with. always a good good time. watching csi, trying to make her stop tickling me. playing life. holding hands. i really like her.

i am also listening to all my music on my zune artist by artist, in order.

blah.

boring.
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i suck.

February 19th, 2009 UPDATE

i was in QT getting gas, and a guy comes in, buys "Body of Lies," and then leaves.
wow.

February 19, 2009

hi, no time to write much. i worked out today. i was sleepy all day. i am sleepy now. i hate choir. i have homework. i do not feel good. one thing: i am very lame. i just wanna say the same thing over and over, but i don't. and it is probably a bit of a good thing i don't say a lot of the stuff i think about.

February 18th, 2009

today was tired day. i don't know why. i went to class. i gave nathan his deposit. we are now like 250 in debt. first time ever. sweetness. but we'll have a bukoo amount of money. i bought a metronome. i chilled. nothing really happened today. i have recently discovered how much chocolate milk and cookies. i took a picture, but i can't upload it to photobucket. i am watching the shawshank redemption. pretty good movie. so, today was not so eventful. nothing really i should bring up. i did discover the ergs! are my new party party party music, though:

Hello Katelyn, let's start another
Bullshit day among the rest
Grab your coffee and a smile
And we'll blow through this fucking mess

Maybe I could make a stupid joke
Maybe you could have another smoke
And we plot our fucking way out of this town

I wake up early too
And I punch this clock the same as you
And I don't like it anymore than you do
Take comfort in the fact you're not alone

February 17th,2009

hi. i sleep regular amount today. high five. first time in awhile. so i got up and i worked out today. i did not get tired, which is weird cause i haven't done anything physical in like months. its fun. i need to start doing it more. i got to do it on like tuesdays and thursday. i was doing this stepper/glider thing:
i don't really have much going on tuesdays. i have choir. it is the sweetest thing ever... all the people are killer and it is boatloads of fun. not really. some guy in the tenor section has toms. i laugh laugh laugh:i did that business law test today and that was successful. i probably went to fast and didn't get them all right. which is fine. there were alot of them. i am in need of securing more bands for my comp. i am like 6 short still. i will get them i think. i am watching mozart and the whale. its different. not bad. kinda like mediocrally done. i need to clean up my desk again tonight. i am way unorganized. i don't have any other work to do tonight, besides write this and a generic message to all the bands that are on it now. byebye.

February 13th-16th, 2009

It has been like a few days since i have wrote anything. at home i really don't have a lot of computer time when i am home. it was a good time. i hung out with all my peoples i guess. not really greg. he was out of town in edwardsville. i saw emilie alot. i got her boots for valentines day. sweetness. i made a card, it was neato. i think she liked her present and card. i didn't do much of else. we couldn't practice cause greg neglected to tell me he was busy on sunday after he told me we could. i got the money to pay for the shirts. here is what we have decided. we are going to have a kiwi green, a red, a color called carolina blue (very nice), and that pink color:
friday i went to a show on friday. and i got alot more bands secured for that comp. rad. on saturday, i got all prettied up. we went to eat at cancun cause the other places were like all full. we played life and watched juno. it was an awesome night. she is cute. the way she dances to latin music and how she poses. it is adorable. she makes me smile:
sunday was rad. i sat around with emilie. i went to pizza machine, but they ran out of cheese. we ended up at fieldhouse. we went back to her aunt's and made a mosaic. it was an awesome weekend. i have been trying to download dilbert for like 3 days now. its getting there. 21%. i am watching the green mile. its an awesome film.

things i need to do:

1. become funnier.
2. talk slower.
3. sleep better.
4. snore less.
5. be cooler.

life is weird. so i wrote something long and wordy, but i decided that i will let things sit in my head. i wanna be perfect. who doesn't?

fresca is becoming not my favorite soda. i'm getting tired of it.

february 12, 2009

Good evening, i had an alright day. it was pretty boring. bad. like i cleaned the sink. and my stuff got straighten up. it was cool. its nicer. i found a website called www.wimp.com. its got funny videos. i am home early. cutting class. it was a boring drive. lots of traffic. that always sucks. and i was tired. tonight could've been better, but things happened. couldn't control them. what can you do. gotta get up early tomarrow. i'm probably going to donate and such. i had taco bell tonight. i wish i had more to talk about. i will make something up. lets talk about fashion. and what it means to people. people read and judge. imagine if i dressed differently. like started to wear hollister polos and flipidy flopidys. would i have more friends? think about that. i wonder how influencial to people appearence really is. think about people you know that you think are no good by how the dress. huh?

well, i am at joes. cody bought a cookie cake. party.

and awesome video:

february 11th, 2009

okay i took tests today. they were okay. econ and marketing. there was stuff i knew and didn't know. you know the drill. i got my supplies for my card making adventure. i got paul's other bike from him today. niiice blue. and has brakes. nothing really exciting happened today. i put some strange sweatpants on today at bass sectional. i will get a picture. they were fab. and i got a picture:

i am watching ratatouille. pretty good so far. the diving bell and the butterfly was good too. not amazing, but pretty good. um. i ate better food today? i got nothing. i am the most boringest person ever. me and greg set up our tentative tour schedule for this summer. what the hell, i'll post it here:

1. july 10th at black sheep.
2. july 11th possibly at music at the mall.
   
3. july 12th possibly at mixtapes.
   
4. july 13th
   
5. july 14th
6. july 15th
   
7. july 16th
8. july 17th
9. july 18th
10. july 19th
11. july 20th
12. july 21th
13. july 22nd
14. july 23rd
15. july 24th
16. july 25th
17. july 26th go home

that is all we got right now.

and now a picture of an out of focus hulk bobble head:


and now a video dg showed me, mad props:

february 10th, 2009

Hello, today was nice. it was nice outside. and i didn't have to really go to classes. i only have really one class because choir doesn't count as a class. fuck that. i forgot to get my dvd from the mailroom. so i couldn't watch that, and i was kinda busy so i couldn't really watch a movie online. my day was uneventful. me and david thought about old cartoons we used to watch. i got mustard all over my hands at lunch. and i bought sweaters. that was my day. i did get some shows worked out, and finalized the order for shirts. i wore my new shoes today. hurray. now i gotta study. boring blog day.

february 9th, 2009

Hello, today was okay. i sleep in kinda. almost skipped class, but i drove so i wouldn't miss it. i have been kinda thirsty all day. its probably dieabeetiss. it was pretty uneventful. i got my new shoes. i got the stuff worked out to get new shirts for dmww. here is the design:

and that is about it. here is my schedule for my finals for this semester:

• MONDAY: World Hitory at 9:00am
• TUESDAY: Business Law at 6:00pm
• WEDNESDAY: Marketing at 9:00am
• FRIDAY: Marco Econ at 9:00am
  

i'm not sure when my music business final will be. whatever. i'll figure it out. and here is a sweet song.

february 8, 2009

Hello, i am going to do a blog.

things that are going on:

1. i have a new girlfriend. i am dating emilie. she makes me over the top happy.
   
2. school. its okay. i like my classes. i got a good set up.
   
3. record label. i got the money. i am putting out sub ep's cd.
4. rough spot with friends. i think it happens like every semester. it feels like i leave and people kinda forget about me. but i worked that out. so we are chill. there is no good spot with someone at school, but i am really trying to work that out. she is making it really damn hard.
5. i am trying to watch all the movies on the top 250 list on imdb.
   

that is about it.

and

i am currently watching duck soup. its pretty good. its a marx bros film. like 75+ years plus. wow. "I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." haha.