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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
6:02AM
Jan 14th- Seattle WA- Ghosts Project, Nathaniel Johnstone, Soriah, Adrian H & the Wounds
January 14th in Seattle
Rendezvouz Jewelbox Theatre
2322 2nd Ave Seattle WA 98121 USA Earth
Jan 14th 2010
10:30 PM
21+
8$
Monday, December 21, 2009
40 QUESTIONS FOR 2009
01. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
saw jurassic park. (no, really.)
02. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
nope. i'm not sure what they were, but i'm pretty sure anything i planned at the beginning of the year didn't happen due to unforeseen circumstances.
03. Did anyone close to you give birth?
nope.
04. Did anyone close to you die?
no.
05. What countries did you visit?
i was in canada for one day...
06. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
consistency.
07. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
i don't wanna talk about it.
08. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
using my unhappiness as motivation to move forward.
09. What was your biggest failure?
letting loose a little too much when i first moved back.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
i was hospitalized with the flu in october, but other than that i'd say this was my healthiest year in a long time.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
artwork.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
my friends'.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
no comment.
14. Where did most of your money go?
beginning of the year: drinking. end of the year: books and artwork.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
going to alaska.
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
"gloria: in excelsis deo" by patti smith
17. Compared to this time last year, you are:
hotter of colder? colder. wisconsin is wayyy colder than baltimore.
Fatter or thinner? fatter.
more active or lazier? far more active.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
making artwork.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
ruminating.
20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?
23rd: xmas-eve-eve party with huuuuuge extended family.
24th: xmas eve party with aunts, uncles, and first cousins at my grandma's, then hopefully catching some of josh's dj set at riverhorse.
25th: x-mas with my immediate family.
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
that's what i told myself for a while.
23. How many one-night stands?
a couple.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
it's always sunny in philadelphia. also: i am a gleek.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
i don't hate anyone.
26. What was the best book you read?
tie: the unbearable lightness of being and the chelsea whistle.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
unsure. gray matter is pretty awesome, but i don't want to credit them with "greatest musical discovery."
28. What did you want and get?
more confidence in my ability to be self-reliant.
29. What did you want and not get?
easy answers.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
i didn't see a lot of new stuff. i absolutely loved the fantastic mr. fox, though. and where the wild things are. i am ten years old.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i turned 23 and spent the night with friends. very low-key.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
less heartbreak
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
um...classy hobo?
34. What kept you sane?
my mom and my friends.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
probably rose mcgowan, just like every other year.
35. What was your favorite video game of the year?
i haven't gotten to play arkham asylum yet, but HOT DAMN does that look fun.
36. Who has made the most cameos in your dreams this year?
susprisingly not DJ : P um, probably my dad. because what's life without a bunch of crazy guilt-inducing dead dad dreams?
37. Who did you miss?
i'm pretty sure we all know the answer to this.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
i met a lot of awesome new people. i seriously can't even pick one.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
you can't spend your time waiting around for things to happen.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"all i know is that i don't know." - op ivy
Current mood:  sleepy Current music: portishead
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Chronicles of Nic & Krampus...
Saturday, December 19, 2009
5:12AM
It took me fucking long enough, but I just turned in the last of my goddamn work for all my classes this semester.
3 courses, that I have done VERY well in, that I am actually getting credit for. Days like these, it seems like graduating might even be a remote possibility. (Especially when my prof leaves comments on my essays like "I love the way you write!")
Then I remember that I still need to hand in work for my 2 incompletes from last fall, and it all fades to black again. Blah.
I think I will write here soon, after I get some rest.
There is a lot to catch up on.
I can count at least 5 sizable entries, most with pictures.
Perhaps it is more likely people will read them now that there has been a mass exodus to Facebook/Twitter, etc.
As a side note, I think I want to make a t-shirt that says:
"I hate your short attention spa-"
Geared towards facebook/twitter, etc, but also in general... to everybody that has ever suddenly started talking/changed the subject 3 seconds before the punchline/point of the story.
Sorry it's true.
I love our modern society in many ways, but people have become flippantly impatient and it's bothersome.
"I hate your short attention spa-"
I like it.
I actually did a search to see if that had been created already, and strangely I found nothing.
I'm used to coming up with a great idea and finding out that it's been done 20 times over.
It's like trying to come up with band names in today's age or something.
So yes, consider this a press release announcing upcoming livejournal posts.
Current mood:  tired
Friday, December 18, 2009
http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/12/17/the-dugout-a-rod-fine-says-doctor/ by B. Thompson StroudFiled under: MLB, The Dugout  Here is great news for fans of 29 teams in Major League Baseball: a check-up reveals the wonderful news that third baseman Alex Rodriguez requires no surgery on his hip and will be at 100% for presumably the rest of his life. Remember back at the beginning of the season where he was all worried about PED allegations and people were making threats to him and he had a weird body problem that looked like it might keep him out forever? And then remember how he came back and hit 2,000 home runs and when the playoffs started and we expected him to turn back into Alex Rodriguez he just kept plowing through our hopes and dreams and the Yankees won the World Series? No, I don't remember those things either. Maybe next year will be Opposites Year. Tonight's Dugout follows. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Thursday, December 17, 2009
I'm kinda lost right now. My life is broken into non-intersecting chunks. I turn one way and things are going very well. I turn another direction, and crazy and unpleasant things are happening. I keep going. I face the good side. I drown myself in projects and work. I could probably go every day and night for a few weeks and still not have all the projects I've began finished. Still, I have to take breaks for sanity. Now, though, when I take breaks, I just have no idea what to do. I end up sitting around, and nothing seems fun.
I like building things and I like fixing things. That is what keeps me busy. It's fun, but more than just being fun, I find it very gratifying. I build and i fix and I learn about what I'm building and fixing. I like that ah-ha moment; I like that moment of figuring something out. Eventually, I get burned out, and it seems like I have nothing outside of my little world of music making and gear. It just feel like killing time until I get up for work, or have my next nerd-out or rock-out time at the practice space.
It's not like I don't have direction. I definitely have interests and goals and desires. It's just the part of me that makes me try has turned off for a lot of the time. So where to now?
I have not consumed any caffiene today and only because I need to quit that shit. I should have weaned off that ish tho !!! UGGGH so exhausted ! YES ! I need to pass my final on Monday ! I seriously cannot wait to be done with this semester so I can take it E-Z !!!
In Jan. I go back to FL to see my man. It's insane how we met under a total carefree don't give a SH*T circumstance that I would have never normally done in the past. Look, I am pretty delerious right now so I know I am throwing in some words I don't really know crap about because I am trying to sound smart..HAH!
So what else is new in my world? Just trying to survive this crazy semester , talking ish about instructors with my peers, drinking gatorade, gettin' fat, and watching Judge Judy.
I need to nap. Update later !
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/12/15/the-dugout-baseball-stars/ by B. Thompson StroudFiled under: MLB, Backporch Features, The Dugout  The Seattle Mariners are turning it around, folks. Two years ago they lost 100 games with a $100 million payroll. Last season they improved to 85-77, and this offseason they're one of a few teams going out of their way to make their presence felt. They are trading, signing, and transacting more than a character from Jersey Shore. With a few more roster shakeups they could be looking at a contender. Or hey, at least we could have a different AL West team losing in the playoffs from time to time.
Their first big move was acquiring Arwin-from-The-Suite-Life-quality utilityman Chone Figgins to satiate their need for a power hitter. The next step is adding my personal favorite baseball player Cliff Lee in an attempt to have him play baseball as far away from me geographically as possible. Step three: something involving the moose. Step four: PROFIT!
These issues and more in tonight's Dugout. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
9:10AM
"i've been in this town so long that back in the city
i've been taken for lost and gone and unknown for a long, long time"
- beach boys
this was not a good year. i mean, there were some okay parts, but all in all it pretty much blew. mallory made everyone hand-painted ornaments for christmas, and she was painting the year on the back of each one, and i told her to paint "things were fine in 2009" on mine so that years from now, when my memory is gone, i'll look at that ornament and think to myself, "hmm. must've been a good year."
i just don't feel like myself anymore. which begs the question, what IS "myself"? i don't think i really know, but it sure isn't this. it's weird; for so long i've constructed my definition of myself according to someone else, and now that it's just me i'm finally starting to "discover" myself...and i'm not sure i'm liking what i'm finding.
oh god. it is far too early and i am far too hung over to start thinking about this shit. to bed, pronto!
Current mood:  apathetic Current music: beach boys
Sunday, December 13, 2009
http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2009/12/12/the-dugout-bay-bye/ by B. Thompson StroudFiled under: MLB, Backporch Features, The Dugout  In "teams I wish would would huddle together closely and jump off a cliff" news, Boston Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay has turned down a sixty-million dollar deal from the club to explore his options in free agency. His agent says that there are already better offers on the table, so that was my starting point. Then I image searched Jason Bay's agent, vomited out loud for about twenty-five minutes, and the whole Dugout process changed.
But anyway, Jason Bay is better than your average outfielder and therefore will be carried around the parks next year in a golden chariot filled with dubloons. These entitled athletes, am I right? Tonight's Dugout is after the jump. Or below, I guess, because you can't read this from the main page anymore. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Friday, December 11, 2009
So, for my intro to library sciences class, we had to prepare mock grant proposals in groups. Research, possible funding, partners, budget, timeframe... the whole she-bang. At the end of the semester, we presented our proposals to the class (prior to turning in our final paper.)
One of the groups had this proposal for Lincoln Elementary, in Madison, where one of the students is a teacher's aide, and another group member has a daughter. It was for purchasing playaways, which are like self-contained, self-playing audio books. It's to help the children's comprehension rates- because there are a lot of English as a second language students, and it's a high poverty district (apparently something like 70% of the students are on the free student lunch program - which is a measure of poverty.)
So, I'm on paperbackswap.com. Duh. Have been for years. They have a book drive program for schools this holiday. Members donate credits, pbs matches them, and donates 1000 books to the schools they pick.
I thought it was a serendipitous match - and it would, possibly, free up money in the budget for their playaway project if -IF- they were chosen.
I had to contact the principal (Ms. Hoffman) to get the okay prior to suggesting the school. She said fine.
I JUST GOT A CONFIRMATION LETTER THAT THEY'RE GOING UP AS A CHOSEN SCHOOL NEXT WEEK!
SQUEEE!!!
I just helped a school!!!
I DO GOOD LIE-BARY STUFF!!!
( the letters )
Current mood:  ecstatic
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New York Yankees left fielder Johnny Damon is scheduled to "host" tonight's episode of WWE Raw. Having watched wrestling (or sports-entertaining) for as long as I have, I've used my keen sense of observation and third-grade education to start figuring out what's going to happen before it happens. To fully enjoy today's Dugout, read it before 9PM EST, then watch the actual show. If I have not predicted Raw with a 2% margin of error, I will eat my shoe. Also, I will enjoy wrestling for the first time in forever.
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