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[20 Jul 2008|07:23am] |
I told Clayton the old guy with the stroke is ruining my unholy love of disabled people and Clayton said, "Well, he stole disability. He wasn't born with it."
Also he was talking about how much he loves Rainn Wilson and I was like "how can you not like Juno then because Rainn Wilson is the quippiest part of Juno" and Clayton was like "I don't like the particular quippiness that the character of Juno has" and I was like "but Clayton I'm quippy like that sort of" and Clayton was like "you're the Ramones of quippiness."
Because he has this thing about the Ramones and how they were trying to be a pop band but didn't succeed and he doesn't like pop music but he likes what the Ramones accidentally made instead.
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| "I'm talkin' 'bout wive-swappin'!" |
[20 Jul 2008|02:24am] |
Who here has seen that American treasure,"Wife Swap" on the TV? It's ok. Don't be ashamed, I asked without judgment. I might be on that show! No, they haven't started loosely interpreting the meaning of wife and my glow-in-the-dark Frisbee will not be replaced with a big haired Christian wife from Lubbock, Texas. A coworker of a friend has a real wife, not an equivalent, and she has been swapped. For the show, a flag football game was enacted and I shirttailed my way into the game. I saw it as a great opportunity to have actually evidence of how unreality of reality TV. Because I really really hate reality TV. I said that with judgment.
My thoughts were confirmed. I have seen the show a few times, and they have a pattern. After the flesh-composed wives are swapped, she watches the families routine for a day or two, complains about something (uniformly: parenting style, family values, husband quality), and then she tries to institute some change. The variety of complaint became obvious pretty quick. When the produces showed up we were told to "play this out" as though the 20 or so motley crew of six degree, shirt-tail friends of this guy meet every weekend to play tough football in Comstock park. It was an odd, odd, very odd collection of med students, large men, and neighbors. We were to act as though the husband joining halfway though the game was trying something new, a guy that doesn't go out much. A guy to be encouraged to do new things in a safe environment. A scheduled halftime (yes, during a flag football game) was planned to do introductions. At one point the new wifey brought over some water for the guy at an opportune moment.
The wife was obviously down on this guys habits of video games, reading, painting, or whatever kept him from playing flag football and encouraging him to get out more. Or was she being encouraged to do that herself? A possible second or third degree shirttailer explained that the wife went to work at a hospital as a the swapped out wife does, and were a tiny short skirt and stiletto heels - something I doubt she would choose to wear in a doctoring or nursing environment.
The funny thing was, we all did have a good time. And not because we were kind of school-girl-excited about possibly being on a bad TV show, it was generally fun. After the game, we really did want to starting coming every weekend - wanted to be more active and outgoing and found that flag football was an awesome way to do this. I guess that's why they are produces.
I never found out if the wife was instructed to offer some water to the man making an effort to be active.
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| now OCon |
[19 Jul 2008|07:49pm] |
OP: stereotypes about international students ?
5: I have a stereotype about chinese people (particularly guys).
Its just that they seem very socially gauche (note im talking about chinese who came from china and not those who grew up here) and almost always hang around only among each other.
Plus there english is sooo bad!
7: you mean "their," right 5? learn to speak your own language. -international student
8: haha pwned number 5
9: 7, i love you. - another international student
10: you mean 'write' 7. Your english isn't so good either -5
12: um, #5/10... they totally didn't mean "write." just shhhhh
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| someone is RIGHT on the Internet |
[19 Jul 2008|05:25pm] |
OP: i think i want to write a novel, but i don't know if i have determination to follow through on it. Also, i'm a biology major so i'm afraid it will be bad.
4: i'm leaning towards fantasy or sci-fi because i think you can write good fantasy and sci-fi without being a good writer as long as you are imaginative.
16: "i think you can write good fantasy and sci-fi without being a good writer" oh shut the hell up. dont just insult great fantasy/sci-fi writers when you can barely write on the summer confessional. for sci-fi you need more than writing skills, you need to actually have an idea about science (which english majors usually dont) and have a creative approach towards the way you see the future.
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[19 Jul 2008|05:09pm] |
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I want to be in one of those young liberal couples, the girl pretty with dark hair, the guy with a goatee maybe, who bring their little kids to museums and music classes and parks. Whenever I go to a museum or a park all I can think about is how much I want to have little kids of my own. It's weird to think about, how beautiful and funny everything seems in those families, before the kids get ADD or start playing lacrosse--not that you don't love them, but suddenly they are so much stress and work, they aren't just those sweet pretty things that you can shepherd around the world and watch their eyes widen. I'm a shitty writer.
Anyway, I just want that really badly, the cleanliness, the wonder. Dashing around the city and pausing to tie my kids' shoes. But, like I whine every day, I don't know if there is anyone for me to have that with. And if I do find someone people won't even know we're a family.
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| So, it's come to this... |
[18 Jul 2008|11:39pm] |
a movie review.
I saw The Dark Knight. I thought it was good despite the fact that:
the plot was a little convoluted. There was a part with the Batman traveling to Hong Kong to track down a guy whose involvement was a little tenuous. Like... he was a mob accountant that absconded with semi-truck full of mob money. Why did the Batman have to go there again?
it was very long. I think I clocked it in at 2h25m. It easily could have been two good movies. There was good action throughout, but still, the last hour had me wondering how much my parking fee would be.
there were no enjoyable training session scenes. My friend Eric commented that those really brought a lot to the last movie. I agreed. When Ian said that training sequences were an untapped goldmine in Hollywood, Eric replied with, "Yeah, Jean Claude Van Damme never did one of those." Ha.
I thought the acting was good, and the script kept simple enough not to come across the problems that action movies have when people talk.
Maybe I should delete all of this and talk about my recent and wasteful habit developing. I go to a coffee shop, order a coffee, and read for an hour. I could read anywhere. But a coffee shop is a place where I can feel like I'm being social without distraction or burden someone with my presence or need for attention. I never liked the look of a guy reading in a coffee shop, but maybe all these years those guys have been preschool teachers in a foreign country with the summers off and friends without such wonderful schedules. Trust me, I've counted that blessing.
mmmkay, I writ some, now whut?
(this posting game might not be worth it. tripe, or nothing?)
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[19 Jul 2008|02:03am] |
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Remember those Livejournal "things to say to people anonymously" memes that were so popular about a year ago? Well, I've decided to resurrect it.
1. Get your teeth whitened. Gross.
2. SWAMP MONSTERRRR!!!
3. Phony obv.
4. Phony that no one realizes is a phony
5. You remind me of Seal.. the singer and the animal.
6. Creep! but no one sees it!
7. I see you being filled with STD's in a year or so.. if you're not already of course
8. You look like a mentally handicapped kid.
9. You too.
10. Butch. lulz.
11. One day you're just honestly going to explode. DadadadaUIWEEWEWUEU!!!!ZZZ
12. I was eating Lo Mein tonight and I thought of your hair.
13. Here's a shirt. Here's a shower.
14. You remind me of Rollie Pollie Ollie.. except not likable. I hate you more than Rollie Pollie Ollie.. how is that possible??
15. Even Jarvis Cocker would say no, no, no, no.
16. LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE mimimimi.
17. Hippo-crite. x2
18. You really don't know what you're talking about. You the same. You the same. You as well.
19. Argue argue argue walrus hey look diabeetus = you
20. this city is run by fuckin' pigs.. though you say you're my friend YOU'RE NOT YOU'RE ONE OF THEM
21. omg i ate this cheese sandwich and.. life has never been the same. there is donnie, we found him. and darwin, he found us.
22. and then he kissed meeee and then he denied itttttt
okay doneeee!!
edit: i don't remember writing this.
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[19 Jul 2008|02:27pm] |
"Winter is beginning to look up. So should you."
Briefly, I no longer have broadband courtesy my housemate, so I'm back to that useless mobile broadband service that cuts in and out. With some technical acrobatics, I found a place in my room where the signal almost renders the service useable. I'm debating whether I should get that Virgin mobile broadband, 5gb for $39.
I spend way too much time online anyways.
And to bring myself back down to earth, you should know I purchased a dial up service yesterday despite having no landline. It'll only cost me 3.90 in the end, unless they sneak in some steep cancellation charge.
Cinderella's going to the ball tonight, so she's gonna go make herself look pretty before she gets plastered. Maybe even trendy.
I bought some rose wine with cherry and strawberry hints yesterday.
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| Oh Friday Night |
[18 Jul 2008|08:25pm] |
On the phone...
Jon: hey man, what are you up to?
Andrew: Well, I just sat down with my book and a cup of coco. How about you?
Jon: I'm sitting here trying to write a song with a bowl of blueberries.
Andrew: Oooooooh.
Jon: Yeah. Trevor invited me to a beerfest downtown... eh.
Andrew: Eh... when did we turn into our parents?
-gf
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[18 Jul 2008|11:16pm] |
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oh god. I'm turning into a mega-hipster, I'm downloading a Crystal Castles album. I swore I wouldn't.
also, will power needs to be functional. then the pounds will end.
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| Ted Leo - 7/17/08 - Castle Clinton |
[18 Jul 2008|08:23pm] |
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Setlist: Heart Problems / New Song / Me and Mia / Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone? / New Song / Hearts of Oak / The One Who Got Us Out / Counting Down the Hours / Little Dawn / New - "There Goes My Brain" / New - "Gimme the Rock" / Annunciation Day/Born on Christmas Day / Bomb. Repeat. Bomb. / New Song / Bottle of Buckie / The Unwanted Things / Who Do You Love? / The World is in the Turlet / New - "Last Days" // Timorous Me / Hybrid Moments (Misfits cover) / Fisherman's Blues (The Waterboys cover)
Everytime I saw Ted Leo live I hoped he would play "Hearts of Oak" because that song is just so freakin' amazing and sure enough, he played it tonight. I was so ecstatic. He introduced it as the song he can't even remember playing last. Love you, Ted Leo!
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[18 Jul 2008|12:22pm] |
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Steve mentioned that I haven't talked about the happy times I've had recently on here (I've been all "doom and gloom"), so let's indulge my happy side for a bit.
-My birthday this year was the complete opposite of last year but every bit as awesome. Probably even more so, even. Had a quiet dinner with my family and some of my closest friends the saturday before, and Steve took me out for Greek on the actual day. I also got my birthday lovin' this year. ;) Best one yet.
-Met Steve's sister and her husband. I genuinely like both of them. They're good people. Steve thought we ganged up on him a bit, but hey. It's an older sister bonding thing.
-Went to Sea World for the first time ever, which was AWE-SOME. See Myspace for peek-tures. (And the sea lion IS NOT MASTURBATING =P) Steve bought me an oyster with a pearl in it, and his brother-in-law (who is a jeweler) is putting it into a necklace for me. That is so freaking cool.
-Went swimmin' with the swimmer boyfriend for the first time ever. His grace in the water is just... beautiful.
-Finished reading Watchmen. Easily the best graphic novel I've read to date, and quite possibly the best book I've read. I'm being told I need to read Kingdom Come now, and I'm curious about how it will compare to Watchmen.
Dark Knight tonight. I'm super stoked. Going to see the Angels vs. Red Sox game on Sunday, which will be my first baseball game ever. Following weekend is Comic Con. This will be my first time going. And Steve and I's first anniversary is at the end of this month. Lots of firsts lately. ;)
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[18 Jul 2008|10:12am] |
with my own money?
i bought FUGAZI on a tape by fugazi
i bought it when i was 11 and still listen to it like it just came out.
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[18 Jul 2008|09:16am] |
BATMAN
OH MY GOD
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| Take out the Trash, Make the Trash, Take out the Trash, Maket the Trash... |
[17 Jul 2008|11:45pm] |
I have spent a lot of time thinking about writing lately as opposed to actually writing. What I have been doing a lot of is Scrabble playing and TV watching. I finally fully embraced the TV while in Zillah this past week. It was all I could do to keep from eating at McDonald's and ordering coffee after coffee from the local shop. I read a lot too, but man cannot live on Chabon alone. And man, if Nick blocks of SpongeBob and whatever crap Disney's hawking isn't a nice break.
Let's see what it's like, what I write, when I try to write one post before wasting time on the Internets or TV for the day. Truth be told, Batman Begins is playing in the background (er, middle ground) but hey, look at who's in the foreground! Words! Words that don't require me to add up scores!
Does this... ok, does this count or do I have to sit here and think of something to write?
This counts.
Scrabble!
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[17 Jul 2008|09:57pm] |
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning to the darkness of mere being." --C.G. Jung
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I've been feverishly reading my way through Watchmen (thanks to Luke, who gave it to me for my birthday) And it's really gotten me thinking. Who would've thought a graphic novel could be so thought-provoking? And so inspiring of nihilistic sentiments?
The world at large is a horrible place, full of selfish people. Steve and I were talking about selfishness a few weeks back. How there is no such thing as a completely selfless act. If we didn't find some kind of reward (no matter how twisted the "reward" may seem) in everything we do then we wouldn't do it. Think about it. Even martyrdom is selfish.
It's hard to unsee the atrocities of the world. Once we've opened our eyes it's nearly impossible to shut them again. Human society at large is a disgusting bloated parasite, feeding off whatever it can use. We've been dying since the day we were born and we're determined to take the rest of the world with us. You're not different. I'm no different. We're all scum.
The best we can hope for is to shape our own reality. Control the space around us, the things that affect us every day. Live a life of selfishness, surround ourselves with the things that inspire positive feelings in us, and try to do as little damage as we can to everyone and everything else in the process.
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