writ. dodging classification

doing really good right now, thats about what things sum up to.

Oh i so totally need to clean sunday morning. Hopefully i wake up in a good enough hour to do that. I also need to scan more of my fotos so i can get everything up on the gallery site. This is mainly a kind of a reminder to myself and a status and a notification of whats to come.

I’m also slightly un-sober.

Cheers.

EDIT UPDATE May 01, 2005: I totally cleaned the hell out of my bathroom this morning, go me.

I’m sore today. I ran my yearly fitness test yesterday, then i went to play some volleyball for about 2.5 hours directly after my test. Wow that was a challenge. My legs just didn’t want to move me anywhere quickly at all lol. Otherwise than that though, I’m feeling pretty good, so it doesn’t bother me that I’m sore hah.

On other notes, I need to remember to e-mail Mat some photos today… and also i need to scan more of my rolls of film, I’ve got quite a few to go like 30 pictures lol. must find time!

Still need to go look and play with some digital cameras that I’m looking at getting.

Also, the 14.99 i spent on MLB.com’s gameday audio Internet broadcast service is probably the best 15 bucks I’ve spent in a long time. I can sit anywhere that I have an Internet connection and speakers and listen to any baseball game live that is going on, whether it be the home feed or the away feed. So basically i don’t have to miss any Phillies games as long as I’m at home or at work :). Also just for something to listen to i can listen to random other baseball games for teams i have some sort of want to listen to. So worth it. You can also listen to archives of games if you’re so inclined, though I think I’m mainly going to use it for live games, it rocks.

ciao

Little preview of my upcoming film rolls:

the rest may be a letdown .. this is one of best ones ;).

So today I headed down to this place thats just opening up in the hamden area of baltimore called the Musical Exchange. The guy who owns it used to have a place on Eastern Ave. and he’s a bank customer of my friend Jason. The place really isn’t even setup and organized much yet, but he’s got it all out there and some of the better stuff that he’s gotten to, on the walls already. Oh to backup .. it s Record shop. All vinyl, and some used CD’s. The main pull of the place is of course the records. Most anything thats not rare is 5 bucks if in good condition or a dollar for questionable stuff, or if its just worth a buck. Anyways, even with the lack of organization yet, I was able to ferret out 4 cool records to add to my collection of Vinyl. Things worth having on vinyl and not just CD.

David Bowie – Heroes
The Doors – LA Woman
The Who – Odds and Sods
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense

I was looking for Bob Dylan’s – Blood on the Tracks, and apparently I was the second guy that week looking for it, but to no avail he didn’t have it for either of us. He had a bunch of other Bob Dylan records, some stuff I may have thought to get but I really wasn’t looking for them. I kind of had focused that if I bought a Dylan record today it’d have been Blood on the Tracks. With that I also had some ideas to buy some P-Funk, of the Funkadelic era. I saw some Parliament, but the record that he had was pretty much a lot of stuff I already have on a compilation CD of Parliament stuff.

All in all a good vinyl day. I’m definitely going back to this place when it looks like he’s a bit more organized.

With that .. I also got some film developed today so that will be incoming soon to the gallery (once i get off my ass and hook up my scanner).

Poll stolen from Mat

1. What School did u attend?
Sun Valley in Delaware County PA

2. What year was it?
1996-1997

3. What were your favorite band(s) or artist(s)?
Reel Big Fish, Cake, Squirrel Nut Zippers (I just remember hearing Hell on the radio and going woah, what is this, thats just so freakin different from anything else I’ve heard on modern rock radio yet, I listened to the morning radio show for about a week or so before I actually caught the song’s name and who did it.)

4. What was your favorite outfit?
khakis and some shirt. I really don’t remember.

5. What was up with your hair?
Sorta half long, with a part. Once i started driving i realized hair blowing in my face annoyed the hell out of me ;) .. so that got cut relatively short eventually.

6. Who was your best friend(s)?
Spent most of my time hanging with Dan, Chris, Kurt, and John and some others who phased in and out.

7. What did you do after school?
A/V Club, Wrestling, Stage Crew.

8. Where did you work?
Giant Food store, for some time .. i really don’t exactly remember how long i worked there, it wasn’t much.

9. Did you take the bus?
Got my license a couple months into the first semester, so after that i drove, the hunchback (1985 Toyota corolla hatchback)

10. Who did you have a crush on?
Too many girls who didn’t think the same about me.

11. Did you have a girlfriend/boyfriend and who?
Nope

12. Did you fight with your parents?
Probably, nothing major though.

13. Did you ever get detention?
Nope, maybe once.. who knows. I was after school for other things anyways…

14. Favorite Subject?
History maybe. I just got through most everything not hating it, not liking it all. I had a BASIC programming course once, that was great, cause i already had taught myself most of what I could learn in that class.

16. Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
I have no idea, quite honestly.

17. Did you smoke cigarettes?
Nope, didn’t have an interest in the least.

18. Where was your Senior Prom held?
Some Radisson hotel…

19. Did you have a “Max” (hangout) like Zach, Kelly & slater?
Does a pagoda on the Neumann college campus count? We’d hang out there and BS about just about any topic from philosophy to science to games. Kicked out by campus security many times for just sitting there doing nothing but hanging out.

20. Admit it, were you popular?
Hah, i didn’t even think anybody besides my group of friends, realized i existed.

21. Who did you want to be just like?
I don’t think I had an Idol.

22. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A scientist.

23. Where did you think you’d be at the age you are now?
In some ways I’m exactly where i was thinking. In others ways its totally not the case.

1. Go get some film developed
2. Hook up my scanner
3. Get me a Dairy Queen blizzard.
4. Order my XM thingy
5. Resist the urge to buy this.
6. resolve a conflict in my head and just get it over with and just say something.
7. … (how bout somebody make a comment and tell me what else i should make a note of)

Well its Friday. The week is over. Its been a relatively uneventful week. I’m glad, i didn’t have much planned, but then again i didn’t want much planned. I watched a bit of baseball, and I’ve been really debating some new technology to buy. The choice is between XM and their new hand held XM radio that you can just tote around with you OR an IPOD. They both bring different functionality for me, which I’ve debated and talked with friends about the pros and cons of getting either one. No need to get too much into that here, basically its a choice between convenience (of carrying around my whole CD collection on my hip) or getting something that has added capabilities (i.e. XM w/ being able to listen to Any MLB baseball game for any team when its on, and the other stations it has). I’ve pretty much decided on XM, because the IPOD would be cool, but right now i want more baseball and I want to listen to the Phillies, and toting around CD’s seems to work well for me currently so no reason to change that. I’m going to let the idea sit for a little while though, just to make sure I really feel like spending money at all.

This Saturday evening is the return of Karaoke Craziness!!! at the Merritt House in Dundalk, MD (if you don’t know about this but want to come leave me a note or give me a call or something). Heather et’all and I are going back to the place we went before and we’re bringing even more of a posse with us. We’re ready to rock the house with some more fun music being sung under the influence of probably too many rum and cokes or gin and tonics(in my case). With that in mind, I’ve been thinking about what I want to do. The return of Hell by SNZ is in order, cause i just love that song and its fun to sing. I think I’ll do Rocky Raccoon from the Beatles if they have it. I previously was thinking Obla Dibla Dah, but this morning I listened to the White Album on my way to work, and I just realized Rocky Raccoon is just too cool, and it had slipped my mind. Who knows maybe both will come up, though I think I’ll try and con somebody else into doing Obla Dibla Dah with me if I do it. As for the rest I was plotting possibly doing the B-52’s Love Shack, or even some Talking Heads. We’ll see what happens. I really have no idea how to sound like the guy from the B-52s so i need to go home today and listen to that song a few times so i can get it right ;). Who knows this could all change when we get there and I think of something totally different.

Oh one more note. I’m hitting some newly opened Vinyl store somewhere in b-more with Jason this weekend. Here’s hoping for some more plastic goodness to add to my collection ;). That reminds me I should think about what sorta stuff I want to look for.

As for the rest of the weekend, i really don’t have much planned, talk to me if you got ideas.

Friday night I was out into DC to meet up with Emily and make our way to the Staccato in DC, to see Communist Bakesale play a show, w/ The Jones and a band called the Roustabouts. I’d have to say, and since Mat said it already, it was probably their best show yet. As far as crowd, playing and the whole scene in general. The place was packed by the time Bakesale got off stage. They even got cheered into doing an encore song, which I hadn’t seen happen before. Lets get to the point. The big thing about this show is that the crowd was great. We had people dancing, and carrying on and cheering. For the first half of the show I was working to door for the band, taking the cover charge. But about half way through the show i moved on and was dancing. I have to say i think I met a whole lot of new people who made it out to see the guys play, friends and friends of friends. It also was a product of “The Jones” keyboardist being a guy, David, that I’ve met before when I was painting mat and Emily’s house, as well as other get togethers. His wife Catherine was there, and friends they know. This was kinda cool since I’ve heard about the Jones through Catherine and Dave, but hadn’t been able to get out to see them, till now. Both bands played great shows. The place stayed packed for when the Jones came on. I’d have to say I think its a blur of all the people I met. I guess the only person to note that I hadn’t met before, but spent a good amount of time hanging out and talking with, was this cool cute girl, Kelly, whom is friends with Catherine through some convoluted roommate brother’s cousin type of connection. (i guess just about as convoluted as how I know mat and Emily). She apparently has made it out to quite a few of “The Jones” shows but has wanted to see Communist Bakesale. Sorta the inverse of me going to Bakesale shows I guess. Though this time she arrived too late to see Bakesale play. Which means, of course, that I was harassing her to come out and actually see Bakesale when they play something down in DC again. The rest of the people who made it out that i know were regulars of these types of things (Lance, Emily, Catherine, Erika, some people I think Emily knows through work .. and other people with various connections to either Communist Bakesale or The Jones). A good portion of us were dancing through both shows, which just iced the cake on the packed bar. It really looked like the guys were having a lot of fun playing as well.

Nobody really had the energy to stay around for the Roustabouts to play, because it was pretty damn hot in the place by the time they were coming on, and everybody was either tired or hungry. (of the people i was hanging out with that is, the place stayed pretty packed when we left ;))So with that Mat, Emily, Eric, Myself, Kelly, and her roommate (a guy whom i can’t seem to remember his name for the life of me) headed off to get falafel down the street from the Staccato. Catherine and David would have come along I believe, but they had to get home to sleep for their early ass flight to go to Costa Rica on vacation (man i wish i was going on vacation!!!). I ended up forgoing the falafel, and got some fries of which everybody else was vulturing from. What i really needed was the soda I got as well, i was so dehydrated.

The last thing, was if i hadn’t been so hot in the place, and kinda exhausted, in need of getting out into the night air, i would have wanted to see a couple of songs from the Roustabouts, for one intriguing reason. Of their musicians, they had a guy with a violin, that had it running through a WahWah pedal. He was testing out the sound before we left, so we heard a small taste of what it sounded like. I have to say that’d be pretty cool.. I’m ALWAYs a big fan of the Waaah.

Also i got a few pictures I took with the K1000 from the show, but they’ll be forthcoming when I finish the role and get it developed.

It was pretty busy this past weekend. I was at Mat and Eric’s show on Saturday (thanks to Heather, Jamie, Boehm, and Erin whom i conned into going with me). Of which afterwords there was some mean rounds of tetris attack played. Then I was taking pictures down in DC for the cherry blossom festival, with Heather, on Sunday, of which it was sooooo freakin’ windy that day, but at least no rain (and ended up being pretty fun despite the wind). It seemed anytime we got closer to a destination the wind hit us harder. Pictures will be incoming (must get developed). Then I went to the Orioles opener on Monday afternoon to see them win against the Oakland A’s. Everything was great. I had a lot of fun on all accounts. I think this weekend I may take it a little slower (though i may be going down to DC to see Mat and Eric play again on Friday). Maybe I’ll head up to Philly on Saturday, not sure.

Really this blog post is just been a kind of random smattering of things so far… and will continue to be.

So what am i thinking about right now? I think I want lunch. Also, i gotta remember to bring stuff home with me that I need for my trip to Jersey for work tomorrow and Thursday. Work trip should be interesting in the least I think. So I guess my week is pretty busy, not all fun, but at least not boring.

I could go into more details about my weekend, but for some reason I’m just not feeling like spending the time to write out the hour by hour account this week ;). It was enough that I did that for the Easter weekend last week, so I’ll just leave you guessing. Unless you were actually out with me for some of this stuff, then you already know :-P.

All i feel like saying is Saturday, I lost my voice, i was talking a lot.. and I’m still getting over a cold induced by allergies, which was probably the reason i lost my voice (don’t even think my voice is fully recovered yet).

Also yay, the Phillies won their opener :) and so did the Orioles. I have high hopes for the Phillies this year. They’re actually making me go back on my vow to hate baseball after last season.

This is my new background for my computer at home and work (thanks boehm for the link):