Build the robots [04 Oct 2008|03:00pm] augustusbones [ music | Doctor Steel - Build the robots ] I am back in my element. Thursday. Spent the early part of the day packing up and moving. I may miss the three year old but at the same time I wont. I wanted to live closer into town and I got my wish. After the move and a bit of unpacking I went out to the club for a beer and some social time. The view was packed early on, seemed everyone came there to watch the VP debate. Watched enough of it to notice that Palin couldnt properly make a solid counter however she did demonstrate some shady characteristics consistent with manipulation. Its all about the gestures. She did say something that bothered me... you cannot use the words nuclear weapons and safe and secure in the same sentence and expect me to ever take you seriously. Biden was pretty on the ball however there is something about him i have yet to figure out that makes me want to sucker punch him. I am still leaning towards Obama. Later in the evening I met up with friends, made new ones, and had a blast. After that A group of us went out for food and did a bit of exploration at some of downtown Raleigh's graveyards. Even though there isnt a frightmare this year I will do my best to get into the Halloween spirit. I had some other unspeakable fun as well. Friday. Hung out with a very good newer friend of mine over at his place. Food, coffee, exchange of ideas and all that fun stuff. Ended up going out that night to Flex for 120 minutes. Far more badass than i had expected. My good buddy Rick was plastered and being a wonderful host. I never get enough of that guy. Afterwords two of us went to try and explore some of Raleighs buried secrets. First stop was ::the section containing details for the rest of the night out has been deleted by the management:: All in all I am oddly happy again and hopefully can continue to keep my life drama free. Update for the next showing of Fistful of Brains. October 26th, 9:30pm: The Colony Theater. Be there. Even if you hate my guts you should still come.. you get to watch me die horribly. I know some of you would love to see that. After tonight I am going to be handing out flyers at various local festivities and would be happy to slap you with a paper reminder. post comment

Can a fist ever be just? [01 Oct 2008|12:08am] augustusbones I am a pacifist but that does not mean my fists are passive. Violence to me is something to avoid until absolutely necessary. When however am I to know the time to wave my fist? It has come to my attention that two people who are very close to me have been raped. Neither wants to involve the authorities or seek street justice. I know their stories not second hand but from their very mouths and I know that neither is being false. I tell them both to either call the law or unleash me and my angry friends on their attackers. I tell them both its not just about justice, its about keeping it from happening to someone else. Neither has the will to take a stand. They just want it all to go away. It wont go away though. What am i supposed to do, wait for yet another girl i care about to hit me with the same story before i force the issue? Will I ever even have the right to force the issue? What do you do when your fist is clenched but the people you want to swing it for tell you not to? It doesnt feel right to let someone get away with such a horrific act. I have done my share of terrible things but even a soulless bastard such as myself knows there are some things you just dont do. Maybe I am not the right guy to dispense a violent retribution but i sure as hell want to. I dont want to sit here and tell people I love that everything is going to be fine because I know im lying to them. What the hell am I to do? 6 comments|post comment

Please stand by as we load the propaganda [29 Sep 2008|01:15am] augustusbones First off I just have to say that im blasting a steampunk remix of the theme to inspector gadget. Thanks go to the Reverend Jynx for introducing me to Dr Steel. This past weekend i went to the premier of "Fistful of Brains", a locally made horror flick that i am in. It was showing at the Ava Gardner film festival in Smithfield so it was a bit of a trek out but well worth it. I am not going to reveal any of the details about the film but i will say its well worth a veiw. I am a bit biased because i am in the thing but dont let that stop you from having a look, for those of you who want to see me perish this is your chance. Not sure when the DVD release will happen but i will keep posting more info here as i have it. After the movie was over we were told to go check out the after party at the museum. That was something new for me, walking into a museum with classical ambient music playing in the background and being handed a glass of wine. Raided the food trays, saved me from having to get dinner later, and socialized with my friends. I got to hang out with Ed for a while there, seeing him in the wheelchair i have to admit was a bit hilarious. Talked with Cindy for a while as well, I love those two. Of course GiGi and TooTall were there drunk as usual as well as a few others from the Ed circle. I got to know some of the other cast a bit better and talked with Bill and Christine a bit. Eventually everyone was saying we should go check out the hotel parties so we did. Christine took us to one of them and the real drinking began. After a while at that gathering Cecil and Fancy had to take off and they were my ride, i elected to stay a while longer and catch a ride out the next day. Ended up over at Ed and Cindy's hotel room and spent a few hours bonding with my very drunken role models. Cindy said some of the nicest things, she told me alot of things others have said about me to her in a negative light and how she didnt care and had her own opinion and it was a good one. For someone like me it means the world for someone to be able to accept you for who you are and still keep you around. I stuck around there for a while until kevin and jynx invited me back to kevins place with them. I said why not. At kevins place he showed me a problem with his computer and it required my skills, Jynx and i ended up driving all the way back to my place to grab some parts and then back to kevins so i could repair the thing. Even drunk running on no sleep i could still repair the thing in no time. After that we went on an "urban exploration" adventure. Ended up going to some out of the way bumfuck town in NC called Coats so we could explore an old high school that had been abandoned since the 80's. That was all kinds of eerie. Of course we encountered the expected post shutdown vandalism and that was unfortunate for such a place. It was mid day so we had the daylight to partially illuminate the place, flashlights werent needed at all times so i think that detracted from a bit of the horror factor. I didnt have my camera on me the entire time and that started to bug me because of all the things i wanted to snap. Kevin had an EM detector with him, kinda helps with the ghost hunting i suppose, but didnt really get any readings. After that was a trip to a graveyard by Campbell and then Chinese buffet. I ended up getting home sometime around midnight, yes many other things happened but some were a bit too personal and way too awesome to be discussed. Fistful of Brains will be playing at the Colony theater sometime late next month, go see it. post comment

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