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| 09:05am 04/08/2005 |
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i went to mcdonalds yesterday and ordered the double quarter pounder with cheese, and it was possibly the best burger i've ever had from mcdonalds. i mean, it was just phenomenal...i can barely describe how happy i was after eating it.
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| 10:31am 14/07/2005 |
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my aim is weird. when i try to type in the im box...nothing happens. so i uninstalled it, then reinstalled it, and nothing happened. hmm. |
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| 08:38am 23/06/2005 |
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we're playing the quest tonight, which is incredibly exciting. doors at 6:30, show at 7. go if you want. |
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| 09:41pm 02/06/2005 |
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well i went to see the receiving end of sirens and gatsbys american dream yesterday (the rocket summer was opening). the receiving end of sirens opened for them all, and i must say that they were one of the very few bands that i've ever seen that i was completely floored by. they had such a presence, and played just amazingly...especially considering how technical they are (3 vocalists, 4 guitars, plus a computer to help with all the sampling that they do). i'm still in awe as to how good they were, and they've only been a band for a little over a year...wow...just wow. gatsbys american dream was also very good, but in my opinion, eclipsed by TREOS!
so we just found out that we got a show at the quest. june 23, mark your calenders...we're playing with a bunch of awesome bands like the drive back, and bensonwells. the quest...i'm so excited. |
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| 07:22pm 30/05/2005 |
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i dont know what it is with good albums leaking this weekend, but so far i've already gotten the new darkest hour cd (BEN IT RULES), the new avenged sevenfold (which is weird, i dont know if i like it or not), and the new coldplay is on the way...yes.
anyways, we have another show this friday at the enigma which looks like it's shaping up to be an acoustic-ish show because chris broke some bone in his hand and can't play very hard. he's still going to play, but with acoustic style sticks and whatnot.
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| 09:38pm 11/05/2005 |
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it's always nice to be scrolling venues schedules and find out you're playing a show there before anyone decided to mention it to you.
kthnxdie
show this friday at the enigma...go here: http://www.myspace.com/thepaperexit for address info baby...that is if you want to go. |
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| 06:51pm 03/05/2005 |
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time for my rare update coupled with a story:
so today i was going to fill up, but before i got to the pump i had to wait behind this guy with a boat. well, he finishes and then i drive up to the pump, and start to fill up. as i am waiting for the tank to become full, i empty the garbage in my car, and then i decide to use one of the extra napkins i had lying around to pick my nose. well, then i throw everything away, and i see the guy who was just ahead of me heading back towards the pump; he had dropped his gas tank cover in front of me and came back to get it...but as he reached down to pick it up, he noticed it was soaked in gas. he then went to get some towels from the pump thing, but they were all out, so he stuck his head in the garbage and pulled out a napkin. this was also the same napkin i had just picked my nose with, mind you, and so i was sad for him and kind of grossed out. but i guess thats what happens when you search the garbages for...things...
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| 08:12pm 26/04/2005 |
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here's an original way to update this thing: wow, i don't update this thing too often.
anyways, bright eyes tickets definitely sold out before i got any. i was supposed to go buy them during a week which i was stressed out to the max and completely forgot about. oh well, it sucks, but whatever.
i DO, however, get to go see dredg and circa survive on may 6, which is going to be way cool because it's in the asscot room. i am somewhat jealous of ben seeing murder by death, but i wouldn't want to hang out with college yuppies anyways.
well, we have a show on may 13 at the engima if you care. and then we have one on may 14 in eagan (i don't know the venue yet, but it's a tsunami relief show, so thats pretty cool), and it just so happens that show is on prom. but it's at noon i believe, so you can go and make it back in time for stuff that night.
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| 06:29pm 04/04/2005 |
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hey, we have a show this friday at the garage. you should go. we go on at 6:30 so be little early. two days tomorrow is also playing, they go on after. thanks bye. |
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| 12:19am 24/03/2005 |
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i think it was in fifth grade, i was walking down the hall to gym class and i thought it might be funny to trip and fall. so i did, and for whatever reason i also laid my head down when i fell. then this other kid that was walking down the hall obviously wasn't looking where he was going and he stepped on my face. seriously. his foot stepped onto my face. the weird thing was that he hardly noticed and the rest of the class didn't notice either. how many people can actually say someone has stepped on their face (actually i really don't care)? |
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| 06:21pm 09/03/2005 |
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i just wrote the sorriest excuse for an ap language paper ever, but hey, that's just taking advantage of peer editing days, right?
i hate high school romance business regarding stupid dances. i hate the pressure surrounding people HAVING to get a date, and whether or not its okay for you to go with someone based on who is or isnt friends with them.
yesterday friend a asked friend b to go to the dance, friend b supposedly thought friend a was joking, and friend b proceeded to ask me. i asked what the deal was regarding the a and b, and was told that it was resolved. i said i'd rather to talk to friend a before anything gets set in stone. i found out another long boring story that basically made me have to tell friend b that i cant go with them. and i hated having to deal with that.
now my above story doesn't really relate to my previous comment, but in general i don't like how people have to make such a big deal about going to a SADIE HAWKINS DANCE. i hate the uncomfortablness surrounding girls being desperate to ask guys, and the situations people feel that they are put in when they are asked by someone who they dont want to go with.
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| 11:28pm 12/02/2005 |
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oh yeah, we're playing a show on the 27th of feb with abec, crashing by design, and the drive back at star central. it will be much fun, you should go. |
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| 11:23pm 12/02/2005 |
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i just bought my new ipod, i raised around $303, the total came out to $319 after tax. not bad.
last night was one of the most stressful nights ever, i had to memorize a ten minute speech and make visual aids as well for a speech tournament that was today. suprisingly, i actually did really well...and i wasn't expecting to do really anything.
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| 06:19pm 02/02/2005 |
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so, i haven't updated in awhile, so i thought i'd backtrack and summarize:
i went to florida for speech and had a blast. thinking back on that trip really scares me because it is going to be so weird once i'm a senior and all the seniors that i've been going on these trips with are gone.
i frickin owned my finals.
the band is finally recording again, and this new stuff is sounding great. we actually met with a guy who manages alot of local bands around here yesterday. it was weird, and it was awkward, but it sounds like he wants to start setting us up with shows and whatnot (i would rather manage my own band before i have someone else running it). oh yeah, we have a temporary website up too, the full one will be up in a few days http://www.thepaperexit.com/
my ipod got stolen, and it sucks bad. i never realized how much i depended on that thing until it was gone. but boy oh boy do i have a plan to get it back, one that began yesterday. so i was sitting in french yesterday, and the topic of my ipod getting stolen came up. i suggested me taking in donations to buy myself a new one, and abby pulled out a dollar and gave it to me because she wanted to be the first to donate.... so i got thinking and i made a little envelope that said "Did you steal my iPod? I need a new one...donations here: (arrow pointing to envelope)." so i trekked up to my ap language class (which I think ben is in!) and i asked if i could make an announcement. so i told my story and how if everyone in the school pitches in like a quarter then i'll be set. well, everyone started pulling out their wallets and i left with about $13 from that one class. i continued through the rest of the day by telling my story in class and in the hallway and left school with about $20. this morning i revised my envelope to make it sexier, and came home with quite a large sum of $$...$68.53 + 1 paso to be exact. i also learned that the school news is doing a story on me too, which will only help my cause...hopefully in the next couple weeks i'll have made quite the sizeable dent, enough for me to purchase. feel free to donate by the way. |
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| 09:58pm 11/01/2005 |
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| 09:22pm 04/01/2005 |
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so the show went pretty well...minus a few technical difficulties, like a) playing on time and b) being able to hear who was playing what. anyways, i can't complain. i was quite surprised by the turnout, especially considering the weather was so bad. just about every band came up and asked us to play shows with them in the near future (minus the band who liked to take off their shirts), so we exchanged numbers and whatnot. one band even mentioned playing at fineline music cafe and the quest. which i think i would be down for. we even got paid $100. just for playing our short set. sweet.
my mesa boogie amp FINALLY came today, i bought it on dec. 14, received on jan. 4. talk about fast shipping, i was very worried it wasn't every going to show up. but it did, and it looks and sounds great.
so rather than letting anyone prepare for some type of audition, they decided to post audition slots for the talent show this week, and auditions are this thursday. they could have at least given a warning as to when they were thinking about planning auditions to allow people to prepare. oh well, i'm sure we'll be fine.
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| 07:23pm 31/12/2004 |
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NEW SONG POSTED!
HARRISON FORD'S LOVE DICING IN THE FIELDS OF BOLIVIA
NICE!
http://www.purevolume.com/thepaperexit
WE ARE PLAYING A SHOW TOMORROW TOO!
AT BABES!
WE START AT 8PM! BE THERE A LITTLE EARLY!
NICE!
IT'LL BE A PRETTY SHORT SET THOUGH...NOT THAT IT WOULD MATTER ANYWAYS, PEOPLE GET BORED EASILY. |
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| 07:33pm 17/12/2004 |
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not such a good day. after school i had to go over to kenwood to do some speech stuff with mrs. baese. so i get there and im about to get out of my car, and i see liz o. pull up and sees me and gets out of her car and comes over to mine. so i unlocked my door and she asked if i could help her with something and i said sure. so i closed that door and locked it, then opened my door and locked it and shut it. realizing my mistake i said "crap" and proceeded to try and open my door repeatedly (like everyone does) until maybe it would come open. so as im sitting outside of my car, which is still turned on, i try to call mommy and bring me keys. mommy doesn't answer though, so i start wondering what i'm going to do. luckily i thought of andrew and he went into my house and got my keys.
as im sitting outside, i decide to start walking around my car for fear of boredom. as i am doing so, i find a monster dent on the front left of my car! someone decided to run into my car, at a fairly moderate speed, and then leave so that i would be plagued with having to deal with it. unfortunately for myself, it is probably too big to repair with that whole dentless removal crap, so i get screwed even more.
i wait out in the cold for 20 minutes, and go over how the hell i am going to pay for this, because i just spent $950 on a new amplifier with intentions of buying a cabinet for that as well (another $300ish). now i get to put all of that on hold because all i've done over this semester was work insanely hard at school, work insanely hard on my after school activites, play with the band when we all are able to find some free time (which already is lacking too much), and whatever other free time i could find was spent on working to have more money (and if that ain't justification then i dont know what is). now my money goes to this...money i was planning on using to pay for my speech trip to florida in a couple of weeks. great. |
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| 07:12pm 08/12/2004 |
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this is so weird, and i can't even talk about on here...<-and i really hate when people do stuff like that, but i really can't.
mikey is spending roughly $2000+ on new guitar stuff in the next couple of months or so, and oh boy am i excited. we're talking frickin mesa boogie, and a new gibson.
band stuff is really coming along, and i think we can finally start playing shows on not such a random basis, which is incredibly exciting. i would really like this to turn into something, and i think we know the right people to be playing good shows and whatnot.
regular speech starts up very soon and i get very excited thinking about this season. today i saw tj and post coming from mock trial (i think) and i felt a little nostalgiac from all the good times i had in mock trial with them last year...but i think i like where i am at now.
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| 04:43pm 25/11/2004 |
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a scene from yesterday while i was at work:
::two black gangsta guys walk in and one of them knocks down a hanger from a rack::
tolkin black guy #1: "man pick that up!"
tolkin black guy #2: "i ain't pickin that up nigga!"
::tolkin black guy #1 picks up the hanger and puts it back on the rack::
tolkin black guy #1: "see, easy as pie! and i don't even eat pie, nigga!"
tolkin black guy #2: "shiiiittt."
i laughed...hard. then went to sarah's to find that they had bought me a shirt from the further seems forever/copeland/sparta show. i was happy. |
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| 06:07pm 14/11/2004 |
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i get to go to chicago this weekend for speech, i'm pretty excited...but nervous too. i don't feel they've prepared our little group enough, nor have they seemed to be running it too organized. at this point i don't really care because i'm going to have so much fun with the people that are going.
i got a ahold of one of the new bright eyes albums (digital ash in a digital urn) and might i say, it is sure is swell. it's different but definitely bright eyes, more beat based and electronic-y. then i went on a bright eyes splurge and downloaded a buttload of stuff including his christams tunes, which i think are just so cute. i like christmas time.
so now i'm going to talk about my band because that's just what i like to talk about here. we figured out that mic thing becuase this guy at guitar center told us to use this software that he is going to burn for us once we trek up there again (this software sells for around $3000 at guitar center, we think we're getting it for free). so now our vocals sound beautiful, but we need more ram because the program takes up so much space. we always need something else.'
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| 09:29pm 07/11/2004 |
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probably one of the better weekends ive had in awhile...no debate tournament, no job...just relaxing. it was quite a good feeling just knowing that i didn't have much to do at all.
friday: sarah, izaac, and andrew came over and we went to uptown (becuase we are pretty indie and stuff). that was fun, then we went to sarah's and watched snatch with a bunch of people, and then i went hom because i was effin tired (waking up at 7:00 everyday can have its drawbacks, but i hate sleeping).
saturday: went over to izaac's at like 11:00, and started laying down drum tracks for the EP. i even updated my ipod for the first time since july over there because my dad's company got a new operating system which meant i could no longer update my little beast, its so nice to finally have some new good stuff on there. then sam came over after work and we went up to guitar center to buy a new compressor mic for vocals and ended up spending $372.70 on the mic and compressor, and we are kind of dissapointed with how it sounded. so we'll proabably take the mic back. then we went to sarah's and watched freddy got fingered. then went to andrew's new house and slept there. we all could have pretty much had our own room if we wanted, but i still chose the floor. it will take me awhile to used to his new house, but i think i'll manage.
sunday: woke up, and left while everyone was sleeping to go home and read a book. and let me tell i read that damn book, not all the way through but i definitely read some of it. then i did homework, and it felt good. |
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so i got ahold of the new hopesfall cd and it is possibly the worst cd i have heard in a long time. it is just so bad i can't even understand...seriously, it is one of the worst cd's ever, like omg it is so bad. ya, it's bad, really effin bad.
i've had to work like mad the past few days and now i get to go to work in a little bit, and then mow lawns and then i get to do homework and then i get to wait around until tomorrow night. BECAUSE GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS COMES OUT! AND YOU KNOW I'LL BE PLAYING THAT LIKE MAD.
izaac and i ran up to the mall of america for some crap yesterday, and he had to get sarah a gift as well becuase it was their one year anniversary. well we went into urban outfitters (but i totally didn't want to be in there becuase like i hate how it's in the mall and it just sucks becuase everyone else can buy the same vintage tee i have), and he bought her a $140 coat. i couldn't help but think how expensive that was. so then i went and bought some pants (girl's section).
ben, i recommend skipping picking up the new hopsfall cd, because it's pretty not good (see above). you wouldn't even know it is the same band, which might be okay if it didn't suck so much. |
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we absolutely got shafted. to start it off we had to figure out our sound check this morning which went okay, but 20 minutes before coronation started a fuse blew so we had wire all around crap. then we got the opening slot which absolutely sucked because: a) everyone else got video taped (or at least at this point i have no knowldge that we were); b) our names went unannounced; c) everyone got the benefit of the sound being reworked after our guinea pig performance; and d) we get to play while everyone sits down (which equates to background music). so instead of us being happy before we played, we were just pissed off the entire time we were up there. |
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so izaac and i are playing tomorrow at coronation and i want to kill everyone running the thing. they have absolutely no idea what they are doing, and we knew they weren't so we wanted to be prepared. i talked to mrs. trevino (who is running alot of it) and she told me to stop by on sunday around 4 becuase that was when the sound guy was showing up. so we figured we would go there, do our sound check, and we'd be set for tomorrow rather than having to figure it out sometime during school on monday. so we show up and they tell us it was actually a different sound guy that came, and we basically just have to do everything tomorrow. so now we are praying to god that everything will run smoothly (which it probably won't considering how unorganized they've been throughout the entire thing). plus, we've gone through roughly 5 or 6 songs that we want to play because we can only play one, and it hasn't been easy trying to find one everyone will like, so i hope we picked a good one.
new jimmy eat world is brings the good.
we have been trying to record this one song of ours to perfection, and we decided we are going to start it all over. there is so much stuff that needs to be done for this one which makes any screw ups hard to deal with (ie. recording piano, and acoustics along with mic-ing drums, guitars, and bass) but it's a hell of alot of fun to listen to your own music. verlaun. |
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you know when you're in class, and you see the door open and someone walks in asking for someone? and you know how you're always jealous that they got to leave and you never know why they got to leave? well today, i was that guy, except my french teacher said to come back when we had academic prep in a half hour. well i sat wondering what they needed all class period, and then acamdemic prep came and went and no sign of that girl that needed me. now, i can't help but wonder what they needed, and if it is a vital piece of information.
dammit you mrs. ostergaard, why didn't you let me leave class? what if i never find out what they needed? my chance to be cool, gone, gawd. |
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that felt good today. me, izzac, and sam played at the art show today (just acoustic stuff) and i had a swell time. izaac's dad was all on our cases to "take it up a notch" (we actually played twice because of people cancelling) from before, and i'm laughing just thinking about how serious he was about making our show professional. we had such a good time, and saw alot of people too. it just gets me excited to start playing more shows and hopefully getting off the ground. |
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| 03:34pm 07/09/2004 |
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i sent my debate coach an e-mail last night saying i can't take it, but i appreciate everything he's done for me. and i just got home and foudnn this in my inbox:
"No, no, no! :)
I want you on the team. You are right, we should talk about this. No doubt
you are taking some hard classes and feeling the burden of getting stuff
rolling for debate. This can be resolved, I know it.
See you Thursday.
Andy."
dangit, he couldn't have relpied with "good, i'm glad." i don't understand why he wants me on the team. |
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i've come to the realization, that i really can't do everything i want to do. i try to please too many people and never think about what i am doing to myself. i am far too worried about "what colleges will think," or "what my teacher would think," but never what i am doing to myself. my life consists around stress and managing my time to somehow get things done. i should be having fun in high school, i shouldn't have to think about "am i going to get that debate stuff ever done?"
i'm not saying it is a bad idea to have to make deadlines every now and then, but i am stressed out to the point where i can't even handle things anymore. debate is no longer fun for me, i can't keep up and all it had become is a chore. i'm not even looking forward to the part where it gets a little more fun. i have fun with all those guys, but let's face it they're all a hell of alot smarter than me and know a hell of alot more than i ever will with this debate sutff.
i'd love to continue, but i'd want to in a way where i can give it my all. with school (2 AP classes, 1 enriched class, 1 pre-AP class, and french which i find to be just as challenging) this year, it makes it so much harder. to some people (like alot of the people in debate) that schedule may look do-able, but me no way. and i will never put debate over my grades...ever.
crap...why do i do this to myself. if i would have just done alot of drugs in junior high, and continued i wouldn't have to worry about this kind of stuff. thank you good parents, and my conscience.
on another note, we recorded a demo of a song in about three hours yesterday because we didn't have alot of time. but i think it turned out decent for the amount of time we spent. plus the quality was awesome. |
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i just wrote a check for $300 to buy a $1200 recorder, and i pray to god that it is everything im hoping it to be. thats a lot of money you know.
im almost done with ap language homework...sweet huh?
www.purevolume.com/thedriveback <-some of izaac's friends who live in rosemount (?) i think. go listen to the song ambulance, cuz they just bought the recorder we are getting tomorrow, and hopefully the sound quality will be around there. they have better mics than us though. im scurred |
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im so excited for this band thing to get going. me, izaac, sam, and andrew have been writing like crazy and i'm liking everything we're doing. it helps that i think izaac is amazing at singing too. we've been looking at mixers and stuff and we should be recording soon (LOOK FOR OUR DEMO IN STORES FALL OF 2004),
no band name yet, but joe wants us to be called "slow motion riot." any other ideas, or do you like that one? izaac's dad suggested "izzy and the artichokes" (sp?). gave me a good laugh...band name help would be appreciated, this stuff always seems tough. i like "not gunther."
in other news i bought the head automatica cd at best buy cuz i felt like dancing and i am enjoying it, it's not glassjaw though...but i'd say his lyrics are far more advanced on this record /sarcasm. "baby can you help me, i am looking for someone to dance with, baby can't you help me, you know i hate dancing by myself." |
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debate starts tomorrow
get used to my complaining again, if i can at least remember i can update this thing. you wanna know the topic? here it is: RESOLVED: INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS OF PRIVACY OUGHT TO BE VALUED ABOVE COMPETING CLAIMS OF SOCIETAL WELFARE.
i don't know man, pretty similar to the last one i played with. i wish i was a little more excited instead of thinking of it as something that's just there that i'm going to be doing.
i should finish my ap language homework too
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| 10:05am 28/07/2004 |
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warped tour was a good time. definitely not the best time i've had there, but i enjoyed it. i especially like their $3.50 water, because it tastes that way. i even ended up getting the coheed comic, which just makes me laugh. i don't really how to describe it, but it's just funny. names and information are thrown out so often it makes it sound stupid, and the story just seems silly. i did miss FATA though =(, which also means I missed Fran singing!!!!! dang
oh, ap language, how glad i am i took you. ...actually i am glad i took you, i just hate summer homework. i mean really, all i want to do is do stuff and these papers are just cutting out ALL of my free time. man.
i can't decide if i want to keep my job. i mean, it'd be nice to have some money flowing in, but i don't think i'd even work that many hours because i'm going to be so freaking busy this year. hmm.... |
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| 09:41am 10/07/2004 |
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some stories:
i think it was three days ago, and at work i was going into the dressing rooms to clean then out, and i noticed something on the floor. i got closer to see if i was actually seeing what i thought i was, and i was right...it was a used condom. a used condom sitting in the corner of the room. it was not cool...and don't worry, i didn't touch it.
yesterday i helped this guy find a shirt and a tie and then he went over to the cologne so i let him be. and then this girl named monisha went over to see if he needed help because he was back in shirts and ties again, and then she came back over to me about 5 minutes later. she asked me if i knew the guy and i said no, and then she said that he had asked her if she would give me his name and phone number. so at that point i looked up and then guy was smiling at me, so i ran back to pants and hid in the corner so he wouldn't see me...it was kind of scary. not that the guy was asking me out (maybe a little), but the fact that he was at least 25 and i'm 16 years old.
also yesterday i was walking into the polo section and there is a table by where i was going, but i didnt see that the table stuck out so far. so as i was walking (pretty fast i guess) my knee smashed right into the table. i heard something drop on the floor but i was to busy to care. but my knee hurt insanely bad and was also bleeding. so later i went to check out the table and i noticed a chunk of the wood was missing, and then i saw that the chunk was laying about three feet away from me. and then i figured out that i had taken the chunk out because i was walking so fast...and becuase i'm so hardcore like that. |
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| 01:01am 29/06/2004 |
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normally i might care that my background no longer works...but i don't. i got sick of my layout about three days after i had it, and then i just stopped caring. |
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| 11:56pm 23/06/2004 |
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things i enjoy about my job:
-working with mordecai (he is this sixty year old jewish guy who freaking rules. we have conversations about random stuff all the time and it toally rocks, makes my day got by faster)
-helping nice customers(like people who are friendly and are just looking for simple things and understand i, as a 16 year old boy, have limits to my knowledge)
-having things to do (when it is busy, it goes by faster and i enjoy things so much more)
-working day hours (i absolutely hate closing, which is what i do most of the time anyways. and with closing comes recovery which means putting everything back all neat and folding and cleaning out dressing rooms. day hours gets me off early and its nice to be up earloy anyways and have the night to waste)
things i hate:
-yee who doesn't pick up the dressing room after themselves (WHY DO SOME PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO TRY ON 15 PAIRS OF PANTS AND THEN LEAVE EVERY SINGLE ONE IN THERE, UNFOLDED AND LEFT FOR ME. it seriously makes me really mad. and to top it off is that i usually end up cleaning out the pants one, and i hate pants...clean up your dressing room)
-closing (see above)
-merchandise locates (which means i have to call other stores to see if they have this product and then send it to the people...its just a long drawn out process with totally is not boss. so i always make people feel bad about doing it by saying things like "oh sure i can do that...but i have to do this, and then this, and the computer may not even be right...so itll probably take me roughly 30 minutes.: and then they figure they'll just run up to the other store instead.)
-working with butthole customers (the ones who when i ask if the need help they yell at me and say theyll tell me, i shouldnt ask them if they need help, theyll let me know...those buttheads)
there is alot more for both lists...but all in all i enjoy what im doing...just selling and stuff, its fun stuff. |
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| 12:27am 12/06/2004 |
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oh man i'm on top of the world right now...
so at work they are big about opening up credit accounts and we don't get alot of them so they really want the n00bs (thats me) asking around. well this josh butthole i work with who's my age already opened two (he started at around the same time)...which means he is a butthole. anyways, these two guys came in and had some mad purchases if you know what i mean. so i suggested to them they'd save 15% on all their purchases blah blah bs blah...and the one guy opened it so i was like "noyce." then i found out that they are giving away prizes for opening up accounts and i got $15, plus an extra dolloar (saweet!) on my paycheck for opening one. plus brownie points with my manager cuz she thinks i'm swell.
i am the man...seriously.
working in pants sucks though...i just want back ties or polos!! why!!? |
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| 09:05pm 18/05/2004 |
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i can't believe it has taken me so long to post this story, because it makes me look so freaking hardcore.
so last wednesday i came home from school and i noticed we had some bread (not that wonder bread shit, but real baguette type bread, the good stuff). i cut myself a piece and sat down at the computer. then i went take another bite and ripped a piece off with my mouth and i felt a little scratch on my cheek. I didn't really think about until i went for another bite and noticed blood on the bread. so then i was like "wtf?!" and went to the mirror. there i saw that scratch on my face was bleeding. then i told myself, "wow mike, you are so freaking hardcore. who is badass enough to cut themself while eating bread?...you are mike, you are."
so i had this war scar on my cheek all week (zing!), and i took a picture of it on my phone to remember it forever.... |
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| 06:44pm 13/05/2004 |
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today was pretty awesome. we had a latin dance recital that i watched three time today, and the rest of my classes i hardly did anything.
to top it off, i just got a call from marshall fields and i got the job...bitches. working in the mens department (i was hoping for bras and panties), so that'll be nice. $7.25...dicounts at targay too. im pretty happy right now. |
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| 08:16pm 08/05/2004 |
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mood: good
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5:00pm: so i was watching jack (robin williams) on starz (free movie channels right now), and i've come the conclusion that that movie is one of the best movies ever. forget all of those deep artsy movies that ben likes. go for the straight up good shit...like jack.
8:00pm: so i just got done watching run lola run so i could do my world cultures thing for french class, and i'd have to say that that movie is better than jack...=(, in a different way.
i'm listening to the new sparta cd, and i don't like it much.
g2g, lol bye!!1 omg |
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| 09:09am 08/05/2004 |
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so...prom...
i didn't update, and this was a week ago.
i had a super good time at prom. the people i went with were ton of fun which made it so much better too. i spent quite a bit of money, but it was all worth it in the end.
...still in the process of trying to find a job too. |
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i had an interview over at caribou today, and it couldn't have gone better. that would pretty nice if i could get a job by this summer too....
then, on my way home, i saw jared at walgreens, it was pretty cool.
i'm reading this book called "naked pictures of famous people" by jon stewart, and there's this pretty funny part i thought i'd share...
(i'll set you up for it)okay, these are tapes recorded from the oval office while ford was president. this recording machine was put in place by nixon, and ford has no clue it exists. so this is just one of the conversations caught on the tapes while ford was in his office (by the way, at the time of this conversation, ford has been in office for one whole day):
Ford: Oh, Miss July...I know the old man keeps you in here somewhere...Pretty, pretty Miss July...
(Door Opens)
Sanchez (this guy is a mexican steward that has been at the white house for twenty three years): Oh...I'm sorry, sir. I didn't know you-
Ford: No, No. Sanchez, please come in. I was just...you know there's never a stapler when you...Oh...here it is...damn stapler. Gotta staple some...staplings.
Sanchez: Yes, Mr. President...
Ford: No, no, no. Mr. President must never know I was in here. Is that clear? No tellie Nixon. NO TELLIE EL PRESIDENTE...COMPRENDE? Ten dollars for Sanchez. No tellit Presidente.
Sanchez: Okay, sir.
Ford: Good Sanchez...very bien.
Sanchez: But you're the president now.
Ford: Yes, yes. Yes Sanchez. I'm-the President-and-Mr.-Nixon-can-never-know-I-was-in-here. Okay? Ten dollars. Sanchez good. Ford good. Nixon bad...Nixon mean.
Sanchez: President Nixon resigned two days ago, sir. You were sworn in as president yesterday.
Ford: That's impossible, Sanchez. I just saw Nixon two days ago and if he resigned who's the Pres- Wait a minute. Yesterday...the party. With that nice man in the black robe.
Sanchez: Chief Justice Burger. He swore you in.
Ford: Well, I'll be a sonofabitch. So that's why we had that yummy cake. I thought it might have been my birthday, but that was in 1913. So, I'm the president...
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i got my license on my first try, i was pretty happy i had gotten it over with.
i think i'm going to prom. ::bites nails::
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man, i had a good time last night.
our plan was to be at old chicago at about 7, but the girls were running late so we didn't get there until like 7:30. we met up with some people and then ate real quick. then we headed over to the dance and got there at about 8:45. danielle had to do her lip sync thing so i just found some people and hung out with them until that was over. then we danced the night away.
after the dance we went over to joey's and just hung out for awhile, and then i came home.
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| 09:30pm 07/03/2004 |
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first place at speech bitches, 2.0
i'm so nervous. |
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| 10:36am 29/02/2004 |
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1st place at speech, bitches.
yeah, so i'm writing this english paper, and I'm really bored. thought i'd let everyone know.
i was playing videogames last night for like four hours straight until about 3:00 in the morn (i rarely saty up past 1:00, so it was quite an accomplishment), and then i woke up this morning at 7:00 and i wasn't even tired. it was pretty cool. i wish i could do that everyday, because i abhor sleeping. |
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