TESTING. IS THIS THING STILL ON? OH, YEAH. HIATUS. IDEAS, MAN. IDEAS? IDEAS. NEUROSISMUCH?.

HIATUS. BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT. I AM TWITTERING THOUGH.

what to do...

2009?

weighing my options

photosographs

WAS is highly in need of pictures. pictures that i've taken. pictures of things that are happening to me. places i've been things i've seen. but in order for that to happen i'm going to need a camera. but that means i'll have to spend money to acquire a camera. we'll see how that goes. i guess this'll have to hold me over until then.

OHMY GODZ NEW DMB ALBUM

NEW DAVE MATTHEWS BAND ABLUM APRIL 14 2008 THIS IS GOING DOWN

i'm glad theyre just dropping the news now. yeah it's, four moths away, but there's been no huge stupid build up like with shut up oh i mean Stand Up.

if this album is as good as some of the music they've been making on the road the past couple of years we could be in for a great record.

leroi moore will be missed though.

T.S.

I cannot stand T.S. Eliot. I have a hard time taking seriously anyone who believes Hamlet to be "most certainly an artistic failure". And what's this business about becoming an English subject? Really, pal? The man should have been tried and executed for treason. And I'm not alone in my dislike. Samuel Beckett once wrote that he believed Eliot's work belongs in the the reverse of what "T. Eliot" spells.

B(name) cheat sheet, by Emily

Name b(name) bo b(name)
Banana fanna fo F(name)
Me my mo m(name)
Name

Dear mid-Ohio weather:

I'm watching you.

amsterdam

CNN.com - Amsterdam to clamp down on sex shops, brothels, dope cafes

Amsterdam has decided to clean itself up, a little:

"I think that the new reality will be more in line with our image as a tolerant and crazy place, rather than a free zone for criminals" said Lodewijk Asscher, a city council member and one of the main proponents of the plan.

He said that. A city politician actually said that! I have never been to Amsterdam, but I just fell in love with the city a little bit more.

December

Welcome ba—GET BACK TO WORK!

Teen Age Rock Band

We're all clear that songs like Sonic Youth's "Teen Age Riot" and Beck's "E-Pro" are included in games like Rock Band 2 to please a certain crowd, right? Good. So to the guy who gets pissed off that another guy doesn't want to listen to Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" for the fifth time tonight: tough titties.

Cave Story

Why, oh why didn't I heed Jonny Greenwood's message earlier? This game is amazing. I could not agree more with the Radiohead guitarist: "a work of art". Cave Story hearkens back to my all time favorite game, Super Metroid, and has a fresh, beautiful simplicity even in its nostalgia for the games of old. Find this game. Google it. Play it. Love it.

Return from the library

Sung to the tune of Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls":

Books, books, books.

Will's Nap

NICK Is Will asleep?
WILL (From behind the door.) Yes. (Pause.) No.

Napoleon

i just got all sexy with napoleon for like three hours. meaning i was studying for my histroy exam. i know everything. i got my napoleon on. or i guess i could say i got my napole-on.

The Western Heritage

One of the greatest sentences in Kagan, Ozment and Turner's The Western Heritage:

Bismark ordered the Prussian forces to be as obnoxious as possible to the Austrians.

Ah, the joys of European history.

College

I just put a massive dent in a Pepperidge Farm chocolate cake, sitting on my floor with a spoon.

The Speech

Yes we did. Yes we can.

I will never forget this night. Though I could not be in Chicago, I will never forget where I was: Delaware, Ohio. In a dorm room at Ohio Wesleyan University. Having voted in the state of Ohio. At 11 PM, hearing John Stewart announce that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States of America. It is a great, great day to be an American. I am so proud. I am so happy. And, I am, hopeful.

WHEN I CRIED

Obama in Grant Park:

To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

Everyone's talking...

OBAMA. TONIGHT. BE THERE. I AM SO PISSED I'M NOT GOING TO BE IN GRANT PARK.

Shitshow

I know, let's play troubleshoot two lights for three and a half hours! Fun was had by all!

CHOCOLATE ON MY PANTS

DYING

"The Mayor Of Sillyville's Campaign Victory Speech"

Spank you all very, very much.
Spank you. Spank you all.
I do believe I have asses to kiss,
Of those who helped in this campaign:
From the ding dong ditchers,
To the photoshop team,
To the unicyclists and
The whoopie cushion users,
To all my family,
(except my in-laws)
Who were there
Even when I wasn't at my silliest,
And of course to every one of you goofballs
Who believes, laughing and slapping,
that Silliness is the only way in Sillyville:
It might have been possible without you,
But you were there anyway,
Acting silly, silly, silly,
Willy-nilly, all day, every day.
Spank you,
And may God have mercy on your souls.

Scrooge

I HATE HALLOWEEN. I don't know why. I have few reasons. There are many things about Halloween that I should love: the theatricality of it, for example. But I hate it. It is by far my least favorite holiday.

Torch

A burning torch that's turned upside down;
The word, "Qui me alit, me extinguit."

(Pericles, II.2)

keep it loose, keep it tight

beautiful amos lee song. keep it together man, just keep it together... this week's gonna be a little rough, what with it being focus week for orchesis electrics crew... [in the voice of ze frank]: "you can do eet" also LOVE PEOPLE LOVE PEOPLE

Malvolio

i'm playing Malvolio in OWU's upcoming production of Twelfth Night or What You Will in the studio theater. i could not be more excited for my first Shakespeare production!

crack

i've never tried crack, but these are two things i thing it's probably like: starcraft and cappuccino.

i should not have played Starcraft with my roommate for an hour and then started my work due tommorrow at 12:46 am and then fucking blogged about it.

Deerhoof: Fresh Born

I have seen the tears and music of love; they are called "Deerhoof".

Deerhoof played the Metro Friday night. They were pretty standard: i.e., incredible. Their ability to put on an enrapturing performance is just silly. Beautiful, dangerous, warm and silly. Just silly.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that Deerhoof are "inaccessible". They are not making noise to piss off, baffle and alienate listeners. Deerhoof's music, even at its most dissonant and angular, is joyful, their shows friendly and engaging though wild and unpredictable.

As the band took the stage Friday night, singer Satomi Matsuzaki brought with her with a bag of tortilla chips which she offered to us in the audience. Of the set that followed a little less than half was material from the new Offend Maggie (including the night's opener "Snoopy Waves", "The Tears and Music of Love", and my personal favorite off that record, "My Purple Past"), though missing was a rendition of "Offend Maggie" herself. All of these new tunes were marvelous and rang true alongside old favorites.

John Dieterich and newcomer Ed Rodriguez consistently dazzled with jarring guitar work. After seeing the band as a trio last time through, Rodriguez has added a new splash to the band. He was equally at home on both Offend Maggie material and old-school tunes even as he brought his own shot of flavor to the Deerhoof snowcone. It was great to hear powerhouse songs like "Milk Man", "Dummy Discards A Heart" and "Rainbow Silhouette Of The Milky Man" in new arrangements, back to their roots of great guitar interplay.

Drummer Greg Saunier's spastic, sensitive brilliance shone throughout the night, as did Satomi Matsuzaki's lovability. As difficult as it was to look away from Saunier during such songs as "Wrong Time Capsule" and "Rainbow Silhouette Of The Milky Man", it was equally difficult to look away from Satomi during the band's encore, "Basketball Get Your Groove Back", Offend Maggie's heir to "Panda Panda Panda" and "Dog on the Sidewalk". The petite singer/bassist wielded only a microphone and her quirky choreography as she climbed onto an amplifier and delivered much of the song balancing on one leg (with occasional help from Ed Rodriguez, who was looking especially at home with Satomi's antics).

Once again a quartet, Deerhoof's Offend Maggie has made them once again "Fresh Born" and through yet another rebirth, Deerhoof's soul remains intact. Anyone who was at Friday night's show is now unafraid and eager to get reborn along with them.

The Beckoning of Lovely

Hamletmonkeymanpoem

Some brilliant person made an engine that will generate randomized alternate versions of Hamlet. Here's one of my favorite openings of one so far:

SCENE VII. Another part of you.

HAMLET
Good madam! nay it is such a questionable shape
That you do bend your eye on vacancy
And, in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
And, like the king's mess: 'tis but our fantasy,
Rough-hew them how we will,--
Cry to be made
Out, out,
Swear by my sword.

OPHELIA
Pray you, sir; 'twill not appear.

HORATIO
It shall be the fear?
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Nor what he did.

HAMLET
Upon my life and soul
Lends the tongue: but in's own house.

Exit POLONIUS with all forms, all things will we show our duty?

Park Ridge

My mother cleaned my room for me. It's good to be back.

THE FUCKING TSA made me throw away my shaving cream. i'm really upset about it.

Homecoming

I'm headed back to Chicago in a couple of hours! I'll be seeing family and friends, going to the Deerhoof show at the Metro and visiting some of my old haunts. Should be a good week.

it's 2:32 AM and i'm still awake, at my computer. fuck do i suck at this going to bed thing.

Better?

25 Hours

25 hour until I can shave off this damn beard! Come see Fashion!