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10:22 pm
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i'm addicted...
i'm addicted to civilization 2. stupid computer games. they make me do bad things like skip class (okay, maybe the rain today had a lot to do with it...)
tonight i watched the movie "dirty rotten scoundrels" for the first time in like, 10 years. friggin hilarious. what a ridiculous movie. ever seen "the jerk"?
after watching the movie, i was sitting in my apartment, minding my own business when the girls that live above me and my roommate dragged us outside to play in the rain. we were all soaked head to toe. fun times. now i'll probably catch pneumonia and die. thanks ladies.
back to civ 2... sigh...
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12:43 am
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i'm too lazy...
man! it's that time of year again. a new semester starts, and i find it really hard to get myself motivated to do anything. schoolwork is a chore, and i barely have any. i'm too damn lazy!
in other news, i'll be going to chi town (chicago) with ashlee and nathan this coming weekend. ROAD TRIP! sweet. ashlee has some law conference to go to, so nathan and i are tagging along. the sucky part; i have no money and am teh broke. suck. it'll still be fun. i'll just have to bring all my food, and not spend any money i don't need to while i'm there. we're only going to be gone for a couple of days, so that shouldn't be a problem.
i'm not sure how much i'll be updating this journal in the coming months. i've discovered a land far superior than that of the land of livejournal. it's called myspace, and i'll probably be doing my blogging there more than here. links to all three of my myspace pages are below. the first one is my personal myspace account, the second is the myspace page of my band "everyday", and the third is a myspace page for my other band "mother of all bombs". you can listen to our songs if you click on the band pages. ciao!
my personal myspace page
my band "everyday"
my band "mother of all bombs"
Current Mood:  sleepy
Current Music: Explosions in the Sky
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01:56 am
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A New School Year: More Stuff to Bitch and Moan About
well, classes started. after a very very long two weeks in RA training, classes have started and all the kids are back in cloud town. things are going well, and i'm in good spirits for the most part.
RA training was a rough patch. i went into it with a pessimistic attitude, which was kind of stupid. about 2 days in i just kinda let my bad attitude go and tried to enjoy myself as much as possible, which kind of worked. i was exhausted every day, but i wasn't a bitter angry man the whole time either. anyway, i'm an RA in stateview apartments, and it's pretty cool. my apartment is alright (the bedroom sucks, because there's a fucking big-ass pipe in the corner of the room that takes up too much space) and my roommates are cool. my staff mates in stateview are also awesome. the job is still gonna wreck my social life, but i kind of need to keep it and redeem myself from last year's mediocre performance in holes hall.
relationships are tough. that's all i have to say regarding relationships.
classes are okay. i think this'll be my easiest courseload in over a year. last year was hell. total hell. i managed to get good grades (for the most part) but i almost self-destructed. i don't think i'll be self-destructing this year over classwork. i'll have to work for good grades this semester (and i fucking need them), but i'm confident that this semester will be kind of a breeze. sweet.
everyday played a show tonight. it was another one of our rare performances as of late. the show was alright, but we weren't as prepared for it as we could've or should've been. we really haven't been doing much lately, and have grown rather lazy as a band. we rarely practice, and practices are mostly unproductive. that needs to change, but i'm not sure if it will anytime soon. looks like the rest of the band (sarah and jesse) are moving to duluth, so that means a huge commute for me to be able to practice with them, and with the gas prices so high, i doubt i'll be able to practice with them more than once a month, if that. i have a feeling that the band will probably turn into more of a recording project, which is fine i guess...
well, that's my life in a nutshell right now. peace out, bitches.
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04:27 pm
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only three weeks of summer left?!?!?//1/1/11wafeoow0afdsafsd
*checks calender*
yep. only about three weeks left. yikes.
i can't say i've had a bad summer at all. i've done a lot of stuff and have had a lot of fun so far. a month ago, i bought a new drumset which i'm in love with. a few weeks ago, i went to chicago with ashlee for a music festival and saw a bunch of really good indie rock bands. this past weekend i went back home to rochester to visit friends and had a good time going to the beach and golfing. this coming weekend i'll be headed up north with ashlee to see my parents and hang out at their cabin. and in a couple of weeks i'll be going camping with a good friend of mine and playing a show with my band. oh yeah, i've also been taking a couple of classes, one of them online and the other during weekday mornings. they're going alright. i'll get an A for sure in the online one, and probably a B in the other one (maybe an A if i try extra hard in the next few weeks.)
the only thing is, all of the stuff i've done this summer has been rather expensive, and now i find myself a little broke. ouch. i'm trying as hard as i can to work extra hours on campus, but it's been hard. i'm only scheduled about 10 hours a week, so i've been trying to find extra things at work that need to be done so i can get more money and pay bills. i'm not too worried about money, but i know that the next few weeks i've gotta take it easy and not spend any money i don't have to.
summer is nearly over, which kinda sucks. it always goes by way too fast for my taste. RA training will be starting in a few weeks, and then i'll be starting fall classes before i know it. it'll be my last year in st. cloud, and that kind of scares me. i have no idea what to expect out of this year. i hope it's a good one! later.
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03:02 am
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at nathan's behest...
THIS IS FOR YOU, NATHAN!
pro's and con's of my summer:
pros:
-lots of freetime to do nothing or anything
-it's warm outdoors (i hate the cold)
-only one easy class at a time instead of multiple classes that are all hard
-more time with friends
-more time to visit home
-i can drink a beer in my own room without the threat of losing my job or getting in trouble
-oh yeah... no dorms this summer!
-i have time for my band
cons:
-i spend too much money in the summer, which isn't good
-i get really lazy in the summer, and i gain a lot of weight
-sometimes, it's just too damn hot outside
-everyone else is still busy, which means i spend a lot of time alone
the pro's far outweigh the cons for sure. i can't complain. my summer has been pretty awesome so far. i haven't really done anything or accomplished any other goals besides my goal to play video games (yes, i actually set a goal to play video games more this summer. don't laugh...)
this coming weekend will be fucking brilliant. i'll be going to chicago with ashlee to an indie rock festival and seeing a bunch of awesome bands. yay!
tomorrow, i'm going with ashlee to eau claire since she has a doctor's appointment early in the afternoon. bleh. i have to leave in 5 hours for that. no sleep for me!
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02:11 am
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a real update
mostly for myself, so i can look back at my blog in a year, and read about how boring my life is... but also for anyone curious about the inner workings of my life and mind. heh...
classes - suck. i'm sick of school, wish i was done for good. i used to love school, and liked going to classes. not any more. i skip a lot of them now. i actually have semi-decent classes this semester, but i'm not interested in them anymore. i just want to be done and get all b's and c's and move on.
health - overall health is stable, but i've felt crappy lately. ashlee has teh mononucleosis, which is teh suxxors. means i've probably got it. might explain why i'm pretty tired out, why i've had a sore throat and fever the last two days... doesn't explain why i can't sleep at night. in fact... if i'm so tired, shouldn't i be sleeping all the time? shit... i need to stop napping so i can start sleeping normally at night. that's my problem!
job - being an ra is much more fun when you just let go and have fun with it. i gave up on trying to enforce noise policy on my floor like a nazi, and i don't get angry anymore when i suspect people are drinking on the floor. instead, i let the noise issues go, mostly because nobody else but me cared in the first place about the noise. earplugs have become my friends at night, and they make it easier for me to sleep, which in turn makes it easier for the guys on my floor to not hate me for hating them for making noise. even though holes hall is traveling down the proverbial shitter in some respects (loss of ra's, vandelism, drinking), i'm happier than i've ever been as far as my job goes. plus, i only have 5 more weeks of this shit left. i can deal.
relationship - going swell. colorado was awesome (for the most part). ashlee and i don't get to see each other very much though. wish it was different. but i'm dealing...
bands - ouch. shit is falling apart. matt (guitarist for all 3 bands i'm in) is leaving for new york in june for an internship. that means that one band is for sure done, and the other two are damaged. i haven't even mentally processed the entire situation yet, probably because i don't want to admit to myself that the days of fun in multiple bands are coming to an end. i'll miss matt as a fellow band member and as a friend. i wish him the best.
overall - lots of shit has happened in the last month. on one hand, it'd be nice to forget the entire existance of march 2005, but there were a few good moments in there, and i'd like to hang on to those moments in memory. march 2005 will be one of those times in my life where i look back and just shudder and feel like shit. i only have a few of those times in my life... here's to hoping april is a better month.
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02:26 am
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omg!11oneone
i don't have anything to say. just updating my journal so i can say i updated it. maybe i should write an actual update one of these days...
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08:16 pm
[Link] | i wish everyone would stop asking me how i'm feeling and if i'm okay.
everything sucks, and i'm feeling shitty.
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06:15 pm
[Link] | i miss you ashlee... :(
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11:19 am
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been awhile!
it's been awhile since i've updated, but i don't have much to say. classes are so-so this semester, and i can tell that i won't be pulling a 4.0... my mass communications 420 class will kick my ass, as will my english 333 class. i actually have to study my ass off this weekend for my 420 class, as i have a test in there next week. i've heard the prof's tests are super hard, so i'm sure i'll be lucky to get a c. i'm not a very good test taker because i'm not good at regurgitating random facts. it's an essay test, and i usually do better on essay tests than on multiple guess tests... anyway, it helps that i'm on duty this weekend, because that means i'm stuck in the building studying and not out drinking and forgetting to study.
last week, i bought an x-box and the game "fable". i never thought i'd ever buy anything from microsoft, especially an x-box, but i noticed that half of the guys that live on my floor have one, and i wanted to fit in. the game i bought with it is pretty fun, and it'll give me temporary enjoyment in times of need. it'll be fun once i get a few more games for the thing and start playing them with the guys.
jeez... i have nothing more to say really. i'm looking forward to this week actually. looking forward to getting the test over with, looking forward to seeing my best friend dana, whom i haven't seen in almost 2 years due to the fact that he lives in berlin. i'm excited about the show my band is playing next weekend (well... not so much the show as much as the afterparty). and i'm excited about sleeping in tomorrow morning for the first time in a loooonnngg time. peace out, suckas.
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01:36 am
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long day...
where to start, where to start. a lack of sleep over the last few days... a huge lack of sleep last night. then a long day of class and work. a 3 hour night class that i got rocked in because i missed last week. duty tonight, finding a kid vomiting in the bathroom. dealt with that situation for the last 2 hours and now i'm done. i will be going to bed in a few and hopefully getting enough sleep. i'm on duty all weekend, so i'm preparing to be tired and cranky all weekend, but hopefully it won't come to that...
this week has been a weird week...
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12:39 am
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new job, new classes, new stress
classes started today (fuck), but i was lucky enough to have the first one cancelled, so i got to go back to ashlee's and sleep for another hour or so. my afternoon class was a lesson in pain and anguish. it's in a building i've never had classes in before, and it took me ten minutes upon entry to actually find my class (mostly because i'm a dumbass). once i found the class, it took me ten more minutes to figure out that i actually shouldn't even be taking this class. it's a communications class INTENDED FOR MAJORS AND MINORS OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES. i'm not a communication studies major or minor, plus, i don't even have the prerequisite classes needed to be in the class. so now i have to drop the class, drop down to 12 credits and push back my graduation date yet another semester. fuck fuck fuck. looks like i'll be at scsu for another summer.
one thing i've discovered as an ra in the freshman dorm is that out of the 8 floors of rooms in my building, mine is the loudest and rowdiest. tis a sad fact. i'll either have to live with it and learn to dissasociate myself from my job at certain points, or let the job consume me and take control of this floor. takin' back the streetz!
so tomorrow night i'll be stuck in the building on duty like i am tonight. on thursday my band "everyday" is playing a show in minneapolis, and on saturday my other band "mother of all bombs" is playing here in cloud. i'm excited to play with the bands again, and excited to party down this weekend.
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05:57 pm
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exhausted...
well, i'm currently in the middle of ra training here on campus. it's been okay, but i've been super exhausted the whole time. i spent the weekend busting my ass moving my mass amounts of shit from one room on one end of campus to the extreme other end of campus, and let me just say that it hasn't been fun at all. sunday and yesterday were especially rough. sunday night i nearly broke down after moving all day, and then having to spend time putting my bed together just so i could sleep. the fucking futon wouldn't go together properly, and so it took me almost 2 hours to set up my bed. yesterday, i had training from 7:30 until 6:30 in the evening, and then i had to continue moving my things into my new room, as well as help my roommate move his stuff. i haven't been sleeping well either, so with the lack of sleep combined with the exhaustion of moving, i've been really struggling to stay awake during the training the last two days. today was really bad and there were points i almost fell asleep during training because i was so tired. it's been alright though. the rest of the staff in my building is really cool and we've been having fun together. i think we all get along really well, and that'll make this year in holes hall decent. i have 3 more days of training before i get a day off, a day i'll definetly appreciate, and a day i will refuse to do any work whatsoever. on top of training, i have to get my floor ready for students moving in this weekend. i have to hang up posters and bulliten boards, check the condition of every room on my floor, and tidy it up, which means the next 3 nights i'll be staying up late trying to get that stuff done. yippy... oh well, time to stop whining. the next 3 days should be a little easier, since i'm almost done moving.
on a side note, i found out today that i have 34 cents in my checking account. so i'm flat broke for the next two days until i get paid. i'm not too happy about that. where the fuck did all my money go? i spend it faster than i can keep track of it. looks like i won't be buying books for class this semester... heh...
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11:51 pm
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summer is over now...
i don't particularily feel like updating, but i almost feel like i have to since i both haven't done so in a long time and because nathan finally updated his after a month. so here goes.
1. i found out a few weeks ago that i'll be an ra on the ninth floor of the freshman dorm here on campus... holes hall. i'm excited about the money i'll save on not buying food and not paying for an apartment, since i get both free for being an ra, but i'm not too terribly excited about the job. i'm pretty indifferent about it actually. i'm sure it'll be different, but i hope it doesn't suck. i'm giving up a bigger apartment and personal freedom and weekends to do this, and i hope it wasn't a mistake...
2. my band has been driving me crazy over the last few weeks. we've been waaaay too busy, and it's taking away time i'd rather spend on more important things. this week, we tried to record a demo, but it didn't turn out. i feel like i wasted precious time doing these recordings, time i was intending to spend with ashlee because i knew she...
3. ...would be getting a position as a assistant hall director in benton hall here on campus. i'm super happy for her, and proud of her as well, because she's really wanted this position ever since it opened up. plus, it's a super huge step up from being an ra, and a huge responsibility. the downsides are that she moves into her new apartment this weekend, and starts training for the position next week all week. total bummer that this week i wasn't able to spend enough time with her, because i won't be able to spend barely any time with her after this weekend for a loooooooooong time. pretty stupid of me to put my band above our time together. pretty depressing situation overall. pretty selfish of me to feel this way...
i start training in about a week and-a-half for the ra position. i'll be going to visit my parents at their cabin next week as well as driving back to their house in rochester to pick up shit from home that i want here in st. cloud. i'm actually half excited to get out of st. cloud, just to get away for a week. i'm not looking forward to starting school in a few weeks. i wish i could quit sometimes. i've got one stupid year left. anyway, i need sleep and it's kinda late. g'night.
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06:39 pm
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debauchery in duluth, part deux...
actually, you could hardly call last night anything but obscene. total chaos. great times. so this weekend involved myself and some close friends, luke, matt, mike, pat, loisa, chris and betsy. some friends of ours from minneapolis in a band called the plastic constellations secured a gig in duluth at pizza luce with a band from new york called the hold steady, whose frontman is craig finn, the ex-frontman of the legendary (at least to me and my friends) band, lifter puller. sadly, lifter puller aren't really a band anymore since the members all moved to different corners of the country, but the hold steady is almost as good. ex-lifter puller bassist also plays guitar for the hold steady, so it's like having half of lifter puller there when you go see a hold steady show... anyway... so the constellations were great. i love that band with every inch of my little body. they were tight and energetic, and the only dissapointment from them is having them tell matt and me that they wouldn't be able to play a show we had planned for september 11. big bummer, but it sounds like we found a band in duluth to replace them for that night, so all turned out fairly well. anyway... the band that opened the night was alright, but i forget their name. they played a cross between speed metal and punk rock, and it was an interesting set. the hold steady were super awesome, and me and all my friends were super drunk by the time they came on, so it was even cooler. i spent nearly 40 bucks on beer and pizza over the course of the evening, which is a lot of money, but it was worth it. after the show, we all stayed at the bar until close, then we drove over to a house where all the bands were partying and got even more drunk, had a hip-hop dance party to some jay-z, spilled alcohol everywhere, and had an amazing time. the party was complete chaos, with the owner of the house having to go around and tell all of us to shut up and stay indoors so the cops wouldn't bust us. we left the party at about 5 a.m. and headed to a friend's place where we had permission to crash. once there, matt and i had a drunken wrestling match, with everyone pig-piling on top of us at one point. little sleep was had, although i think i got more sleep than everyone else, because i was so tired. this morning we all woke up at the crack of 11, and some of us started the journey back to cloud, while matt, mike and i stayed in duluth to shop for music equipment. i was specifically looking for a new guitar amplifier since i fried my old one, as well as a used bass guitar. i ended up buying this really old, really loud bass amp for $150, mike bought a cymbal stand for his drum kit, and matt bought some sleigh bells. after some lunch, we left duluth much poorer people than when we had arrived...
tonight, my band is playing a show here in town. actually, it'll just be an improvisational set we'll be playing tonight, meaning that we'll make up the songs as we go, which is always fun. tomorrow, we head out at 9 a.m. for grand forks, north dakota where we'll be playing at an outdoor festival. i'm excited for it, and hope we'll have a great show and see some good bands. peace.
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07:50 pm
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sonic youth and class
so last night i went to see live one of my favorite bands of all time, sonic youth. it was kind of wierd, because i almost didn't get to go. tickets were $25 bucks, and i didn't have a lot of cash-flow, so i was apprehensive about buying a ticket. i probably would've bought one before the show and gone and seen them had i not recieved a free ticket from my wonderful college radio station and my pal jesse hoheisel. jesse and i bummed a ride from our other pal, chris hantos and his girlfriend betsy down to minneapolis yesterday evening for the show, which was at the quest, a shitty club in downtown mpls partly owned by prince. anyway, about the show... i'm so glad i didn't miss it, because sonic youth were totally on. they played for almost 2 hours and played a bunch of songs i was glad to hear. every band always leaves out a few songs that you really wanted to hear live, and sonic youth were no exception, but they played a good set consisting of mostly stuff off of their newest album. they forgot to play one of the best songs off of said album, but what can one do... the opening bands, hair police and wolf eyes, were absolutely terrible. both bands were noise-core bands, which normally i can appreciate, but they were the two most boring noise-core bands i've ever seen. (for the record, noise-core is a "musical" genre where said "band" makes as much noise as possible .usually consisting of a drummer, a guitarist playing random notes and screaming into a microphone, and some guy using a keyboard or sampler to make annoying noises, said band can play anywhere from 3 minutes to a half hour of "wall-of-sound" noise, but never any real songs.) anyway, great show, great band.
OH! since i haven't updated in awhile, i should talk about my current class. i have a mass communications class this summer session. it's called announcing, and we're supposed to learn about broadcast announcing and how to properly do it. there's a huge glaring flaw with the class, and that is that the teacher is a total psycho. she's beyond psycho. i hate her with a passion. first of all, it's almost certain that she's going through some major hormonal changes, because she is definetly one of the most bi-polar, manic people most of the 15 of us in her class have ever encountered. one minute she's really nice and sweet, and the next minute she's a raging ball of terror, screaming and yelling and being a psycho. since she's actually a teacher in the theater department on campus, she teaches the class like it's a theater class and not a mass communications class, so in the end it has nothing to do with what we're supposed to be learning. plus, she's a super picky grader and is overly-critical of student's work. for example, in class, we have to perform out loud for her and tape the performance so she can listen to it again and again. the performances are usually news stories read aloud and recorded into a tape machine for her to listen to and critique/rip apart. she's super picky, and if you make any little mistake at all on the reading, she docks a bunch of points off the performance. and our grade is mostly based on these performances. it really sucks, because i've been doing alright on the performances to my reckon, but she gives me c's on them because i mix up a few words and don't read fast enough. earlier this week she had us reading shakespere into a tape and because the language was so difficult it was super hard and none of us went mistake free. it didn't matter to her that shakespere is hard to read, she still gave us all c's on our readings. the class wouldn't be a problem and i wouldn't have a problem with the harsh grading if it was a 10 week class and we had the first 5 weeks to learn how to announce usuing her style, but it's a 5 week course and we started the graded assignments the second week of class. thank god i only have 2 more weeks of this shit.
anyway, my weekend looks to be semi-boring with no real plans other than band practice. i have a major decision i have to make this weekend, and it'll probably stress me out, but other than that...
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10:39 pm
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debauchery in duluth
on saturday, my band traveled to duluth for a rare out-of-town performance. basically, it comes down to the entire evening kicking much ass. while my two bandmates, jesse and sarah, spent the whole day in duluth, i was busy being hot and not sleeping. i finally drove up there around 4 and arrived there at 6. the three of us endulged in a 20 dollar bottle of red wine and a large pizza (the pizza was free) and waited patiently for both the bands to begin playing and for our friends to arrive. the "bros" (andy, matt, luke, and berto; everyday loyalists, fanbase, and cheering/heckeling section) showed up at about 8 and promptly left for the nearest bar where the four of them got shitfaced. they show up back at the pizza place drunk out of their skulls, and i guess the rest is history. we played a beautiful (but short) set, and the other bands we played with were excellent. fair-weather friend, the band that invited us up, was just mind-blowing. it was the loudest performance i've ever heard, and i've heard countless loud bands live. they were just brutal as hell and i was totally slayed. i ended up getting a little drunk before we went on, and then got more drunk after we were done playing, but it was all good. after the show, we partied down at fair-weather friends bassist's house. it was total chaos, with vomit ending up all over the front porch, the back porch and the bathroom (none of it was mine this time!!). total debauchery. so anyway, we went to duluth and once again, the bros conquered all. go us!
i must mention in this journal where i record my thoughts and happenings that i have the coolest girlfriend in the whole fucking world and i'm absolutely crazy about her...
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10:34 pm
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farenheit 9-11
so this might not be the type of movie review up to roger ebert's standards, but i'll try. actually, this'll be more of a "thought piece" than anything. here goes...
expectations were high as i sat down to watch this movie. i had heard from various friends who had seen it before me that it was very well done, and that it could very well be a movie to go down in history as the first to unseat a president. does michael moore posses the genius moviemaking touch that'll kick georgie boy out of the white house on his nazi ass? umm... maybe.
the movie starts out with moore going straight for the heart with scenes of people mourning the attacks on the world trade center. moore obviously wants to pull at the heartstrings of the thousands of affected (and disaffected) americans that have and will see this movie. good tactic to use if your goal is to set bush up for a fall by connecting him to the attacks, which is the next manuever that moore takes. the next hour and a half is spent mostly trying to separate fact from exaggeration as moore interjects fact-and-figure in between his one-sided attacks on the bush administration. while i mostly kept up, there were a few times when even this number-monger became lost. it almost comes too fast, too furious. while i don't have any problem with moore using the facts to make bush out to be the evil facist he is, these parts of the film weren't executed as well as they could have been. more focus was needed, as there were times where he would jump from one topic to the next without transition. the better parts of the film were the more emotional ones; for example, the visit he paid to the family of a soldier killed in iraq. these scenes were done very well, and while it almost looks like moore is exploiting the family (specifically the soldier's mother) during their on-camera emotional breakdowns, it's totally real, and you realize that moore isn't exploiting, but that the family actually wants america to see the grief they've endured because of bush's shit war.
overall, i don't know if the film was as bright as roger and me, or even bowling for columbine, but it is a very entertaining flick. i learned a few things that i never knew before, and i'm failry learned on bush administration hijinks. the information on the bush-saudi tie-ins is fantastic, and the parts where moore interjects his special brand of humor into the film are truely hilarious. as for faults, besides the fast-paced fact-slinging i found that there were times when the bush-bashing was put on a little too thick (as if that was possible). actually, now that i think of it, there was only one scene that pissed me off as far as the bush-bash stuff goes, and that was a scene where they show him sitting in a florida classroom "reading" a book to a bunch of grade-school children whilst displaying a semi-concerned face after being informed that the world trade towers had been attacked. moore said some crap about what he thought bush was thinking at that moment when moore had no friggin clue what could have been possibly running through bush's head.
my only concern with a movie like this is the conservative backlash it could recieve. while i know there are facts within the movie that even bush-adoring conservatives could never dispute, it is nevertheless inevitable that it'll be tried (it already has: www.moorelies.com). the movie will either mobilize conservatives unhappy with bush's war on iraq to vote independant or even democrat, or mobilize conservatives to rally behind bush and vote him in for another four years.
so that wraps up my pseudo-review of "farenheit 9-11". umm, anything else going on? classes 1 and 2 end this week, i'm tired and need sleep tonight, i have a show with my band in duluth on saturday that i'm looking forward to, i want to drive to clara city with ashlee and see nathan during the clara city annual festival thing on sunday, serafina is back in town for a week, i'm going crazy in st. cloud, hilary is coming to st. cloud on thursday, i have nothing else left to say, i'm done, i'm out.
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02:06 am
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busy weekend ahead!
so today i took a test, rollerbladed 7 miles, saw a movie, played scrabble, and watched a movie (the goonies). and tomorrow...
i drive 200 miles to see my mom and dad up north at their cabin on the lake. yea! i'm bringing my roommate, raghu, with me. time to get the poor kid out of the room for a change. it's my mom's birthday on sunday, and i know she'll be happy to see me up there this weekend. when i get back i'll have to post some pictures that i'm sure i'll snap while there. i'll be coming back to st. cloud on saturday, then working sunday morning at 6 am (ugh), as well as sunday evening for a couple of hours. i'm hoping that i'll be able to catch some fireworks with ashlee on sunday night. ashlee really wanted to go see them and i wanted to go with her, but i work until 10, so i'm hoping i can maybe get out a little earlier so we don't miss anything. on monday, i don't have any class due to memorial day, but i work until noon, so i'm not really getting out of anything. but it's cool because i'll just sleep all day on monday anyway.
oh, one more thing. today i saw the movie "farenheit 9-11". i'm pretty tired right now, but i'm sure i'll have to dedicate an entire journal entry at some point to this film. i have a few thoughts i'd like to share...
and lastly, i might as well erase all the journal entries that say i was confused, because i'm not quite so confused anymore. maybe still a little confused... but i'm much much happier than i have been in a long time. :) peace out.
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damage report
so friday night i didn't drink nearly as much as i thought i would, and ended up only being half-drunk. i had a great time at the after-party though. there were a lot of people there and most everyone was either drunk, stoned, or both. my bands played pretty solid performances before the party, and a fun time was had by all. the plastic constellations were incredible and played a great set. lots of fist-pumping going on, lots of "fuck yeah!" moments... the band "best friends forever" (bff) were also really fun to watch. a great night.
yesterday, my friend joel came up to st. cloud from his home in the suburbs and we spent the day goofing off. we ate a spectacular meal at the asian house restaraunt, went cd shopping at the electric fetus, and ended off the evening when he came to see my band play a second performance in as many nights. our performance was a little off, but it was fun and it was nice to have joel see us play. my roommate was also there, which was cool because it's high time that kid got his nose out of his books and out of the dorm room.
today i plan to do nothing but feed myself and wash myself. i wanted to go see "farenheit 9-11" this afternoon, but couldn't drag myself out of bed to go with my friends, who went to the 3:45 matinee showing. i'll catch it this week for sheezy. i've heard it's just an incredible movie.
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