It's amazing how this contraption called time can really throw you through a loop.
Every little experience seems so close by, it's hard to realize that it's been six and a half years since it happened.
Thank god I got livejournal for the older memories, I feel I may be doing a dis-service to my future self for not putting as much stock into the newer ones.

..
Man I wonder what my memories of this time are going to be 10+ years removed, or even less.

Enough thinking, time for sleep. I've got work in the next five hours.

One thing about this house I dislike, how petty highschool kids bring petty highschool bullshit all around it.
I mean, I've only been out of it for a little while, but even back in highschool I felt like I had the maturity level up and beyond it.
You interact with humans on a personal level daily, and you know what you do with the ones that annoy you? You deal with them.
Are you a bogart for attention? Do you get off on the idea that you hold some illusory position that gives you some justification to berate your friend (supposedly your best friend) just because who she decides to hang out with?
and what kind of friend does that anyway? I can understand if there was a threat of physical or emotional damage, but that really doesn't seem to be a stemming point of that sort of anguish.
If one person seriously upsets you so very much, yet they barely have an impact on your life, your closemindedness is clearly the problem.
I dated the girl in question, but you know what, I can be a bigger person about it and look past the flaws, and even enjoy the company if it makes the woman I love happy.
Nothing good can come from the negative energy you spread out, it just lets your immaturity shine through and gives me a reason to dislike you, which I really hate doing to anyone.

On a completely different note. diskothiq, if you're reading this
Kentucky is not a skip-overable state. :(
you have to believe me when I say you're just going to the shitty parts of it.
Like seriously, that's one reason I moved back home from covington.
If you ever decide that your band wants to make a worthwhile stop in Louisville, I'll treat you all to dinner.

Yesterday, for the most part was pretty nice.
I'm sorry for being snappy around 6-8pm, I had a migraine bursting out of my temples.
I got some pretty wonderful stuff from all special people.

I really should clean my room, but after I get off of work.
Things are going really well, and while I don't have anything in mind for the future right now, I'm ready for the present, and all it can give. It's about time I changed perspectives, even for a little while.

Yay!
I love internet
I love the internet even more when it's on my computer and not some crummy laptop, and where I have an opera browser with all the webpages that are the dearest to me, including you livejournal.

Everybody should comment and tell me how their lives are/what they've been up to.

It's been a little while friends.
Here's the skinny on what's been going on. I live in the Highlands now, with Garrett, Jeremy, and Daniel, it's a pretty wonderful and old school house, and we've got everything you could imagine, except for internet. We named it the Aquarium for some reason.

Which we should be getting this weekend! If you're ever just crusing down bardstown road and can't find anything to do give me a call and I'll tell you how easy it is to get to our place.
It's really awesome cause it's like a block and a half away from where I work.

Yeah, everything's been going pretty great.
Pretty good I think I did pretty good.

and I've been playing some of that Guitar Hero stuff, it's alright, and I think it's helping me play real guitar better, don't ask me how, something to do with rhythm I guess.

The only things I want right now is for the house to warm up faster, and of course, internet.

Happy November everybody!
November is the start of two National *'s that I'm taking part of, which most likely aren't national but people say it anyway. National Beard Growing Month, and National Solo Album Month. It's fun being freshly shaven, and it's fun writing stuff, maybe one day I'll take part in NaNoWriMo, maybe.
Reading old livejournal entries, this is around the time we all did those silly walkabout on Bardstown Road, dressed up and whatnot, if ANYBODY's around that remember taking part in this, I hereby decree that we should do it again!
but most likely, I'm talking to an empty room. I wish people used Livejournal more. I know I'm being a hypocrite for saying this, but I'm going to try to keep mine relatively active some more. I still say it's everyone elses fault. They all left before I did!
Everything else available pales in comparison, terribly so. I usually get RSS feeds as updates instead of actual user entries, you guys are pathetic!

Dates to remember:
11/10 - the Mountain Goats (St. Louis)
11/13 - the Mountain Goats (Newport)
11/14 - Aimée's birthday
11/15 - Potential move-in date, I'll be listening to Bulk Removal Truck but in reverse.
11/21 - Seven months. :)

School time is now though!

last thing, pretend today is yesterday and watch this video.

The past six months have been mindblowingly amazing. Uh...not much else to report except that I'm wholly excited about the future, and when it all happens I'll be reporting on that.
Stuff that has happened/is happening:
Aimée and I celebrated our half year.
I lost my iPod but found it the next day. :)
On the same day I lost my iPod I got a new job though, working weekends at the Karma Café
Today is my first day, I go in at 10.
Tomorrow, after work we're going to turn in our applications and stuff for the house we're aiming to get, right down the road from Karma Cafe, I've never lived in the highlands before. :)
the Mounatin Goats TWICE this november!!!
We found an old notebook Chet stashed away at Heine Bros. and saw that people actually took to writing in it, and it was filled up a good portion, it's awesome that people found it, used it, and actually returned it. What kind of people snoop around the drawers anyway.

That's about it. I should get some breakfast now and head off! Thanks for listening.

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In reference to the topic title:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zOQq2N3xA
:) Hilarious.

Okay. First thing's first, this is going to be a quite long entry, so I'm gonna divide it up into sections. It'll be fun.
I've got alot to say to you people.

Aimée.
It's been going absolutely fantastic. Mmm, reaching the half year mark and I don't think it crossed my mind once that I should've thought twice about this relationship. Aimée and I appear as though we've been together years, when it's really the product of years of undeveloped attraction. She and I are going to take a four hour trip to St. Louis to go see the Mountain Goats (See "the Mountain Goats") and it'll be awesome. Since I last wrote we've been doing so much together, I can't even begin to exhaust the list that I need to put down somewhere. Red River Gorge was definitely a highlight, spent three days down there right before the end of summer. I really thought I'd be hard pressed to find a relationship like this, and for a good long while I was, but it paid off immesruably. What can I say, love does some crazy things to you.

the Mountain Goats.
So this is what sparked it. tMG is coming closer than two hours away from me! woo! After already making reservations for the St. Louis and such I was surprised that I could bring the tally up to two shows this fall. Mike Wojeckjoiski (or however you spell his last name) and I are gonna meet at St. Louis, and bring something special to each of the shows we go to (he's going to one in Springfield the day after), but I'm not gonna disclose that information cause Peter may be reading...it's nothing bad, just silly. Mike is nuts, he's selling his guitar and taking a bus all around the midwest, and we're meeting up again in cinci. For ZOOP! 08 we might be certifiably insane, but there has been talk in the IRC chat about us all heading to nall's place for what people in the know are calling Tape Day (where we sit around and rummage through Nall's archive of bootlegs and shit he's gathered over the years (and quite possibly hasn't listened to himself)) and just sit around and listen to them. Afterwards we'll pile up into one or two cars, and drive across the country to new york. Yeah, it's quite possibly the most absurd idea I'd ever take part in, but it'd so be worth it.

Interpersonal Relationships.
Me, Garrett, and Jeremy have been looking for a place to live for quite some time now, and it's starting to pay off. We're finding places all over, Garrett's boss found a house for rent which I'm kinda wary about, but yesterday we looked at an absolutely marvelous apartment for rent, just down the road from Ear X-Tacy, the location is beautiful, and while it says only 2 bedroom, we could easily convert it to four to pay an incredibly cheap amount of money. I'm not sure about this place Garrett's wanting to look at though, may be worth it, may not. Last weekend we had the gang over to Garrett's place and Daniel brought over Halo 3, which brought back so many memories of Freshman year. But yeah, if I get a place down there, I don't need to waste gas with a car, I can bike everywhere I need to be. :)

Miscellaneous Stuff.
School's going quite alright, and I'm on fall break right now. So that's how I got enough time to update you livejournal.
You people living in/around cincinnati got it so good. Robyn Hitchcock, TMBG, tMG, Bowerbirds, Robert Pollard, Loudon Wainwright III. You're seriously wasting your oppourtunity up there if you don't see at least three of those acts. Robyn Hitchcock is performing with the frontman for Harvey Danger too.
Oh yes. I also got a new iPod.
But also I got certifiable evidence that Microsoft is the lesser of two evils.

okay, so it wasn't all that much in the update, but I think it's satisfactory for a few month break.

Okay so, I was just gonna edit the other entry, but I figure it has already been a few days and nobody really checks the backlogged entries.

So yeah, day two started waking up to the sounds of what seemed to be pigs in terrible terrible pain, but as it turned out they were just over-estatic about being fed and felt the need to shout to the heavens just how much they enjoyed it. I gotta say, I've never heard anything like it in my life.
After having some breakfast (vegan chocolate chip muffins, really tasty) the gang went on a tour of the Farm Sanctuary, it was breathtatking, all the animals getting along the best they can. Some of them were being real bogarts for attention, some of the sheep were just pushing their way through to get petted. Some of the random bits of information our tour guide provided us with (about industry farms) were kind of frightening though, and although I understand FS's practices, I couldn't help but feel weirded out when they mentioned them (cause if I were in their position I wouldn't neuter/spay the animals, but yeah, that would take away from the room for animals they could be saving.)
After the tour Matt and I hit the town to grab some neccessities. On the car ride there, he told me he wrote a love ballad about him and I driving off a cliff on the way to Zoop. When we got to town we parked and walked down the streets that seemed to have been lost completely in the natural flow of time. Just the look of the city made me assume that, but as soon as I went into a second hand shop I realized this to be entirely true. The walls were overflowing with video/audiocassettes, N64 and Playstation games, and ancient technology. It's kind of surprising that my mind considers such stuff to be as ancient as I do, as my room is sparsley filled with them...but yeah, in shops on the main strip of town, it seems like it'd be out of place. I'm not denouncing Watkins Glen in any way though, that whole town was beautifully charming. Matt and I got T-Shirts for Darcy and Allison's screenprinting dealy. Afterwards walked out on Seneca Lake and spent a while just staring out at all the water.
We got back to FS and probably for the next few hours hung out exclusively on the patio of the People Barn, watching the screenprinting process slowly go down the drain. Too many screenprintings and the ink starts to gunk up in the frames, I got a pretty decent shirt, but some of them just were not good. It made them all unique though! Also I went off with this fella George and his friend to inspect what seemed to be a javelin throwing event right behind the cabins, it was pretty fun. The javelin was actually a tent pole that went unused, but we spent a good 30 minutes if not more throwing it at a barrel of hay. We weren't good at it at all, but the people who had it had prizes to the people who won the contest, I came in second and got a gingerbread-girl doll. (Post script: I left it in Matt's car :[.)
The only concert of this night was the Mountain Goats' All Request Set. It started off with Jenny, that kinda made me wary of the songs people chose...but even into the second song (Alpha Rats Nest) I knew it was meant to be an amazing night. Hearing all the banter about the songs and the Filthy Five [songs he had to print out lyrics sheets for (though it should've been six cause Store is a bitch to remember)] just made the night worthy of remembering, cause those songs have a slim chance of being played again. Although my request didn't get filled I can't say I didn't enjoy the night, and for the encore John played SBLS#1 because Peter requested it (great call on that, I love that song) then played Solomon Revisited after I yelled for it. Because he couldn't end the set on a song he forgot some words to, he also played Red River Valley...and because the crowd wouldn't let him get away with only ONE encore, they played California Song (PPH on guitar) and it was great, they should really do it on guitar more often, it's awfully charming.
After this night there was yet another bonfire, this one, we started a bonfire singalong, I got Matt's guitar from the tent and began playing songs that weren't played tonight. It was amazing, because within like 20 minutes of playing, Matt was playing From TG&Y, we were all watching him and suddenly hear somebody say "No, you're playing it wrong," not thinking Matt begins to refute that, but we turn to our accuser to find it's JD, it was pretty crazy. Soon after John tried teaching Matt how to play it by pointing out chord changes, but eventually took his guitar and began playing himself. He played it through one and a half times (having mismatched lyrics the first time through) and after so many drunk fans yelled for it, he played Up The Wolves as well. This really kicked in the campfire singalong, and after JD left (and broke Matt's guitar string) we played and sang along to so many songs. Peter joined in as well, playing Going To Kansas, bits of Tulsa Imperative and Bad Times, Terrible Oldies. After we exhausted ourselves clear of Mountain Goats covers (this took a few hours) Matt and Colin started playing original material, and Matt sang that one song he wrote about me (now titled: Down In Seneca Lake). I started feeling overwhelmingly tired and left the party a bit early, and found our tent to be damp on the inside and out..it wasn't that bad to deal with though.
The next morning I woke to nothing but my stuff in the tent, seemed like matt already put his in the car, we had a few hours to hang around before we had to get going though. Did not have any money for breakfast though, cause I gave all I had at the request show. I scrambled change together to get some orange juice though, mm mmm. We hit the road after saying our goodbyes to various internet friends, whom all pretty much said we'd all meet up again this time next year. So yeah, that's exciting. Matt and I drove out of town and listened to the recordings of the shows I had...they were baaad quality, but so far they're the best cause nobody else has a full recording of PPH's set or tMG's first show, at least they're not circulating it. We had some trouble getting back to PA though, stopped by coppers and we missed the exit for the turnpike and had to drive down to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to find another entrance to it. We also didn't stop at a bank, so all the money for the turnpike had to be found in change in our pockets and the car. It was fun. Matt had a summer school class to go to as soon as we got to his house, so I just hung out on the IRC chat and talked to nall and christopher about the fun they missed. Ooh, and soon after Matt got back, we recorded a pretty rockin' version of that song of his.
The next day we woke up at 6:30 because I had a flight in the next few hours. While the Philly airport was easy to get to, there was huge line to wait in. Even that was bearable in comparison to all the delays I'd have over the next few hours. Luckily, it only made me arrive home an hour and a half later than I'd expected. And yeah....so that's my trip!


Farm Sanctuary...
Zoop...
I'll miss you, and will see you next year.

I've still got one more entry on the way, not about Zoop, but about what else has been going on.
:) Livejournal I really like you.

Okay I finally got some free minutes to update my livejournal.
This entry might be full of parenthetical asides.

Boy oh boy has this weekend been one of the most absolutely amazing experiences I've ever had.
Friday at 2pm I left to take a flight to Philadelphia, PA to meet up with friend Matt McDermott, whom I would accompany on to Watkins Glen, NY to ZOOP!
So yeah, the flight took me from Louisville, KY to Detroit, MI to Philly, and had it not been fo the insanely huge Detroit aiport and a Nintendo DS my brother lent me, the 3 hours in connection would have been absolute hell. I got there around 9:30pm and I had some trouble finding my luggage, go figure. Turns out some asshole just took it off the conveyer belt and left it on the opposite side to which I was standing. Blegh.
I met Matt just outside and took a long drive back to his house, was gonna tour the city just a bit, but traffic was hell. I can't recall much we did that night, we listened to some stuff on his record player and watched Wizard People, Dear Reader. The next day we gathered some vegan foods. In retrospect, we accrued way too much to eat in a single weekend, but we wanted variety I suppose. We started our five hour drive about 11:30, after going to radioshack to look for some recording equipment for Matt's iRiver. Not much to say, we listened to as much that wasn't Mountain Goats on the ride up there, I put on Ghost, and Philip Glass, and some other stuff. We got a bit turned around cause I forgot that we were supposed to take 17 W to 14 N and so we lost about 30 minutes on time, but no worries. We eventually got to Watkins Glen, to which we put on Matt's cassette of The Hot Garden Stomp, to help pump us up. After our last non-vegan meal (at a pizza hut) we drove to the Farm Sanctuary and set up shop!
It was awesome, just seeing so many people there already, being only a few minutes past 5 (which was registration time). We got our stuff up pretty quickly, set up tents next to some nice people (kind of hard to not do that though) and went in to go get registered. I came across Darcy as I did that too, and after making a donation and getting a wristband, I went over to say hello and help her set everything up. For the next two days Matt and I would be spending most our time with them, and we started off the day by watching them set up and make screenprinted t-shirts for Zoop. They were all pretty dandy. I think the nicest part about this whole farm sanctuary show was just that Peter, Perry, & John (sounds like a 60s folk group) were just wandering amongst us, just hanging out and talking to anybody, the warm welcoming feeling of community within Mountain Goats (and that which the Moutain Goats have with their fans) ought to make anybody jealous that their favorite band couldn't do such an event and pull it off as well as it was done this weekend.

The first night's show was unexpected to turn out as well as it did. Matt, Darcy, Allison, and I were probably first in front, sitting, excited! I wasn't sure what Perry was going to play, if it was his own act or Prayers and Tears stuff, glad to hear I knew a good portion of the songs on his setlist. He had a very powerful performance, not what I was expecting from the descriptor "intimate" on FS's website, but still...jesus. Damn good. Peter Peter Hughes was amazing, I'm kind of upset I never got the football albums, cause they were rockin', and so glad he played Highway 71 Revisted, cause I couldn't for the life of me remember the title to that and I really like that one (that and Satch Carlson are my favorites from the DiskothiQ catelogue). I'm sorely pissed that my recording didn't come out as well as it could've (we listened to it on the way back, it was below decent) because I think G-3 is the only one who got a bootleg of that, hopefully it will surface soon. As for the Mountain Goats, they fucking blew me away. It was an absolutely amazing blend of the new and the old. The crowd, my god, it was so beautiful seeing people singing along with EVERY SINGLE SONG. God damn, during Old College Try it was serene, the crowd was "ooo"-ing along. He even played the song he got "the Mountain Goats" from, (Screaming Jay Hawkins' Big Yellow Coat). Hearing songs like: ong For An Old Friend, Hot Garden Stomp, Alpha Gelida, Keeping House, Shadow Song, and The Mess Inside absolutely made my night over and over again, and only left me with a huge anticipation for the next night.

After the first night (as well as second) there were bonfires. The first night wasn't all that exciting, I mean...well it was! But it was very very calm. Just a bunch of folks talking and whatnot. Matt brought out his ghettoblaster and we listened to The Birthday Party almost exclusively. We left with I think Joy Division playing, the people who stayed around 4AM demanded we walk off so that the sound fades away, instead of just turning it off. Oh it was so awesome, each night Peter stayed out with us probably longer than anyone else.

I will update this more later, with info on the second night!
I promise!
I just gotta go right now, meeting up with Aimée to celebrate our 2 month anniversary.

Oh god I just got my request in for the Farm Sanctuary show sent in last night and let me tell you how fucking excited I am. Only fifteen dollars too, I figured I'd go there and come back with only $20 in my checking account. But yeah, he'll be playing Against Agamemnon, and he's just as excited as I am:
"right on man! that predates Sweden so it'll run you fifteen clams. I
am stoked at this request, that song's a personal favorite!

jd"

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Other than that piece of wonderful news, this past two weeks have been going along great. So much information to impart on, but basically most stuff has been documented in Garrett's facebook, it includes sushi at the pink door, more and more wimbleball, intense games of pinball, Scrabble, Super Munchkin, going out late at night and hanging out at parks, trying to climb trees with Garrett's ninja equipment, Frisbee, Wii and Pool Parties, and so much more.

The stuff that hasn't been documented have just been stuff done with Aimée, and she had gotten me craving time to play this game she adores DragonQuest 8, and planned trips for rock climbing that have been postponed cause she wasn't feeling too well. Oddly enough, the stuff we seem to plan out goes alot like this, and all the stuff we do on impulse just seems to go extremely well. We've done so much stuff recently I'm beginning to lose track of specific events, they'll all come back to me though someday.

I have also been revisiting the Monkey Island games for the nth time, they're always so enjoyable. I've also been having virtual concerts with the MG folks. I went up to the NKY area to get some info and pay rent and god forbid I nearly drove the entire length back. 'Twas exciting. Ooh, I'm also quite the artist on facebook, it's fun to draw.

I really got nothing much else to say that I wanna say, other than I'm really wanting to reunite the band, and that I think I'm gonna keep my winamp on shuffle today. Is it weird that I heard this song as a sample in a Negativland piece before I heard the original? Ha.

( I decide to put a survey here. )

MM MMM livejournal I have to tell you lots!
Life has been going swimmingly lately, I never got to use that adverb before, but it's a trip.
Hmm...well the first thing I can say is that this time a week ago I had a beautiful temp job, working for the man. Canvassing for Lunsford and Stumbo, and that was a wonderful job; warm air, nice tan, talking to people, and $10 an hour. Aniello and the other canvassers helped provide a great experience at a good price. Yep, it was unfortunate there was no runoff or I could be working for the next few weeks. No matter though, I got my airfaire for Philly/Watkins Glen and am so looking forward to two days of a Mountain Goats hippie-fest thing.
Of course, wimbleball season has started up again and we've been playing every week. It's been fantastic, that is, of course, until Carl told us he got mono and we shared ice cream and gatorade and water (with just about everybody there)...so yeah, that shit's gonna suck, but I'm gonna try and be optimistic and not think I contracted his disease...but Wimbleball has given good reason to rekindle friendships with good people. :)
and of course, I've been spending lots of time with Aimée. I won't venture further than that though cause i'm sure you all don't care to read it.
Last thing is since election day I've been housesitting, and it's actually been more of a burden than a blessing. :\

I believe my bike is beginning to suck...or maybe I just need more air in the tires/new tires completely.
Yesterday was a somewhat magical day, I biked to Garrett's and we biked all over creation taking pictures in a snide attempt to beat Aimee's (no é) laundry list of photo albums on facebook. We did not succeed, but we got five albums worth. Including this very special one:

ADVENTURES IN LEGO WORLD!

59 photos

By Garrett F Wilson

"Alex and Jeremy go to LEGO WORLD!"

It is fantastic, and there will be many more in the future.
No. We really don't know why.
and no...we don't know what's wrong with us.

i personally don't think there's anything wrong.

Boy did I have a fun weekend.
I think I'll start off with my last final. Acting II ended off really well I think. Brittany, Ben, and I did a good job on our scene I think. Although brittany was incredibly late to our practice! :(. It was good though, I enjoyed that my Acting II class was the last class I'd go to at NKU.

Afterwards came the tumultuous task to take my things from the apartment. Alliterations aside, all I can say is that this was alot more challenging than one would assume. It took like 3 or 4 hours to pack everything up in the uhaul. Blegh. It was nice though, afterwards lying down in the empty room with the sun beaming down upon you through the window. Something really good came from it though, I talked to some fella as I paid for my rent, he was interested in getting his intern a summer apartment here, and whaddaya know, I'm looking for someone to take my place for the summer; we exchanged information and I'm gonna call him after I write this entry. From the night before and all the work I had that day, it came to no surprise that I fell asleep on the car ride back home. It was nice though, cause it left me energetic to get all the junk out of the truck when we got back home.

Friday I much rather enjoyed. I practically spent the whole day with Aimée. I drove to ear x-tacy (and I realized Bardstown Road can be kind of hellish) and met up with her there. From there on we went driving about, we went to some place in the highlands and walked around, and then went to visit her friend Eryn at Nancy's Bagel Place or something. We hung out 'til she had to close up shop and then went over to her place and got caught in a rainstorm and a few episodes of CSI. As her family was rearing up for dinner we took our leave and went back to Aimée's, where we danced and looked at a pecuiliar thing called the Brain Book.

Saturday was derby of course. It was good times, I spent half the day with family and whatnot. I'm not usually in to derby, but it was nice to see my cousins after I don't know how long. After the races though, Aimée and her friends came over to the area and picked me up for an evening of storytelling on a hammock, drawing, playing Life™, and I fell asleep on her couch with my arms wrapped around her (awwwwww).

Sunday completed the welcome back weekend for me, and it was just as fun as the days preceeding. Aimée dropped me off at Krispie Kreme, to meet Jeremy and Garrett for a donut breakfast funtime; indeed it was donut breakfast funtime. We talked about pokémon, drew things, and of course, ate donuts. After which we went to Border's and looked through all the delicious books and movies. Garrett and I bought a puppet making kit (and found out it kinda sucked, but that comes later in the story) for eight bucks, we didn't really get anything else though. To counteract the intense sweetness of donuts, we wandered to a subway and ate and talked to Jeremy about getting an apartment with us in the fall...and on our walk back to Garrett's (we had to walk cause I didn't have a bike >:3) we saw the most beautiful house for rent, and seriously, if we got a fourth roomate it would be cheaper than it is for my fucking apartment currently, and the location is so much better (right in the heart of the highlands). So that got us thinking of renting a house instead of just an apartment. We got back to G-dawg's and researched a bit more, tried out sock puppets out (see the parenthetical aside above) and watched Greg The Bunny.

Monday and tuesday has been a bit boring, just sitting around.
But you know what's not gonna be boring? WEDNESDAY!
Cause on WEDNESDAY, at TWO PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME, there will be the first wimbleball practice of the summer! WOOH!
At the one, the only regulation sized wimbleball court. Come along, it'll be beautiful.

Mmm mmm mmm, I can tell this summer is gonna be wonderful; then again I can't remember a summer that hasn't been.

And livejournal, I'll be sure to tell you all about it, as compensating for neglecting you for so long.
As for me, I got a shower to take and a phonecall to make.

Okay so.
Here's the dillio.

In the summertime (June 16th and 17th) there will be a super special Mountain Goats concert that I've been planning to go to for months now. It's all free and whatnot ('cept if you wanna donate), will be a big campout for 200 special fans, include two solo, unamplified sets, and a very rare solo set by Peter Peter Hughes (:D, I will totally be yelling for Satch Carlson (despite that it's by diskothiq) and I Don't Smoke). For right now, me and Garrett were planning on finding a ride up there, but alas there was no one to hear our prayers. See, therein lies the problem. We don't drive, and the irony of it all is that I'd have the ability to get my license on the 18th of July. Gr8 right?

Well, as I have no problem taking a plane to Philly and driving with friends up there, I can say I'm going regardless, but it's alot more costly and I'd have to abandon Garrett. :( A 10 hour drive (from Louisville, 8 from Cinci) would cost about $130 in gas (there and back) and split that with all the people in the car, it becomes insanly cheap. And so this is where the question arises. Would anybody be interested in trekking up to a farm sanctuary in upstate new york for a pseudo-hippie fest with nothing but the Mountain Goats?

I'll so be your best friend forever.
And If you could get back to me by saturday, or plans may already be concrete for me.

This weekend has been fun I think.
I went and did a long time dream of mine. A mix-cd concept album, which is basically creating a coherent narrative through a random strand of songs, which is a challenge in itself, but seeing as I am competing with tMG fans, I couldn't use any Mountain Goats music. It's great though, it's about love, war, and a piano. I'll probably upload it sometime after I mail the physical copy out, cause I'm proud of it. :)

This weekend I also watched Kung Fu Hustle, which was a fun movie I had borrowed from April long long ago. She and her friend Ryan came over and we all watched. I still like Shaolin Soccer better, but this was very good. Hopefully I'll be getting Save The Green Planet this week from Hudson so I can show them that movie, cause it's fantastic.

The end of the semester is already here. :x I have to get packing, I have a fun trip to NY to look forward to in June. :)
Other than that though, work and wimbleball and good times with all my pals.


and fribsee.
Lots and lots of frisbee.

Dear Journal,

Let this be a warning to you, journal, if you ever try to bike seven miles (fourteen there and back) up to covington with a bike whose front wheel isn't fully pumped (in a three hour period), you're in for a treat. Holy shit and I thought no area could get worse hills than the highlands, but I was proven wrong!

Bleh, it was for a good cause though.
I think I'm gonna go swimming, who's with me?

I say twice a month is somewhat regular for updating livejournal.

Let's see, where should I begin with this.
Well, I saw Andy B a week back, and it was pretty fantastic. Not as good as last time though, I had ice cream and a nice place to sit down then. I had myself a good time though, alot of people I knew were there, and many good songs were played.
Only two more weeks of school, and not even that cause the last is finals week and I might be going home before the end of it, and then we'll see what happens from there. What a pecuiliar way to end off the semester at that, usually you don't get horribly sick in this nice weather unless you have allergies, but that's not the case for me. It'll be good to get out for the summer, it'll be great to be home for good. I kind of have a job all lined up too. :)
I came into town this weekend to see the One-Act Play Festival at Atherton. They were good! I must say. I wish I still had the program log with me so I could go into more detail about it, but Melinda's and whomever wrote the Alien one were my favorites. I went out afterwards with a bunch of cast and crew and friends of to Applebees, which was nice and loud. I got to recconect with some peoaple that was alot more than just passing them by and saying hello, it was good fun nostalgia.
Last night though was probably my favorite. It was what should've been a day at the waterfront turned something alot better. I met up with Aimée at Ear X-Tacy. We were gonna head down to the waterfront or possibly to the Indiana side, but we got kinda lost driving around. it was all sorts of fun though. We eventually gave up and went looking around for a place to eat, being halfway lost already we came to the same end. So we just hung out at her house, and went on her roof to watch the fireworks only to find out that we were kind of idiotic in that plan being that the fireworks were being blasted behind us. We travelled to her attic and watched from there though, and that gave us a gorgeous display. I could say that the fireworks were clearly overshadowed by the illuminating glow brimming from her eyes, but that's just me speaking in hyperbole... but to tell you the truth livejournal, I couldn't keep my eyes off her. Things that night, did not go over as well as I wanted though, but there's always hope that summer will bring all the neccesary change that's desired on my behalf.

After some detail omissions, I arrived back home. I wish I could say my night ended there, but there was one more detail that had to be peppered on this livejournal sandwich of informaiton. I got a drunken phonecall from a random Mountain Goats fan at about 2am.
I can't really tell you what that was all about other than it was a disillusioned cacophony of laughter.

Livejournal, I'm sorry I neglect you so like an overworked father neglects his middle child.

Just haven't had much time to place all the thoughts in my head though.

Current thought:
Doesn't it just break your heart when you tell yourself you're gonna commit to something, and the procrastinator in you takes away all the time you had in the day?

Yeah, me too.
It sucks.

But it makes for a good mindset to put this month's celebration to use.
Not to say that was the intentional focus on it, cause that'd be a strangly sadistic thing to do to myself.

GOD DAMNIT.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck you, evil alarm clock.
Class today was gonna be awesome, but not anymore.