Will's Air Space

2009-05-23T18:13:00.002-04:00

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

2009-03-05T16:43:00.002-05:00

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

2009-02-25T22:29:00.002-05:00

what to do...

2009-02-10T18:06:00.001-05:00

2009?

2008-12-27T19:19:00.001-05:00

weighing my options

photosographs

2008-12-20T17:15:00.003-05:00

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

2008-12-15T23:22:00.002-05:00

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.

2008-12-12T00:09:00.007-05:00

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

2008-12-11T02:53:00.008-05:00

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

Dear mid-Ohio weather:

2008-12-06T15:44:00.001-05:00

I'm watching you.

amsterdam

2008-12-06T13:15:00.006-05:00

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

2008-12-02T00:07:00.001-05:00

Welcome ba—GET BACK TO WORK!

Teen Age Rock Band

2008-11-30T23:13:00.005-05:00

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

2008-11-30T23:04:00.001-05:00

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

2008-11-18T18:27:00.003-05:00

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

Books, books, books.

Will's Nap

2008-11-17T00:23:00.002-05:00

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

Napoleon

2008-11-10T01:39:00.003-05:00

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

2008-11-09T23:50:00.004-05:00

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

2008-11-09T22:03:00.003-05:00

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

The Speech

2008-11-05T23:45:00.001-05:00

Yes we did. Yes we can.

2008-11-05T01:29:00.009-05:00

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

2008-11-05T01:27:00.003-05:00

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...

2008-11-04T17:06:00.001-05:00

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

Shitshow

2008-11-04T01:15:00.001-05:00

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

CHOCOLATE ON MY PANTS

2008-11-02T22:33:00.000-05:00

DYING

"The Mayor Of Sillyville's Campaign Victory Speech"

2008-11-01T15:40:00.000-04:00

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

2008-10-31T19:03:00.003-04:00

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

2008-10-29T20:36:00.003-04:00

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

(Pericles, II.2)

keep it loose, keep it tight

2008-10-28T01:27:00.004-04:00

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

2008-10-25T13:40:00.002-04:00

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

2008-10-22T22:35:00.001-04:00

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.

2008-10-21T00:47:00.011-04:00

Deerhoof: Fresh Born

2008-10-18T20:46:00.009-04:00

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

2008-10-15T19:15:00.005-04:00

Hamletmonkeymanpoem

2008-10-15T16:35:00.008-04:00

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

2008-10-15T01:16:00.001-04:00

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

2008-10-14T16:58:00.000-04:00

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

Homecoming

2008-10-14T13:42:00.003-04:00

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.

2008-10-13T02:32:00.002-04:00

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

2008-10-13T01:09:00.003-04:00

Better?

25 Hours

2008-10-11T15:25:00.004-04:00

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

Resurrection Hypothetical

2008-10-07T12:47:00.003-04:00

By some chance, both Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley have been granted one more night on this earth, and both are playing separate free shows, tonight. Which artist do you see and why?

Lovegods

2008-10-06T16:21:00.002-04:00

If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods.

(Much Ado About Nothing, II.1)

Family Guy @ OWU

2008-10-05T22:16:00.011-04:00

Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and voice of Brian, Peter, Stewie and Quagmire, spoke today to a group of Ohio Wesleyan students in support of Barack Obama. It was sweet. Seeing and hearing the voice of Brian come out of a real human being was a little bit surreal. At one point he read an answer that Sarah Palin gave in an interview in the voice of Peter Griffin. It was fucking hilarious.

About the vice presidential debate, he said that Sarah Palin winked so many times, he started to wonder if "we were all going to get to make out with her afterword." Not that he wouldn't enjoy it, he said. "What an angry, passionate encounter that would be."

For all his humor, MacFarlane's comments were intelligent, insightful and appreciated.

I asked him a politely phrased question about the roles and responsibilities of celebrities in political campaigns. The translation of my question, he said, is what business does a cartoonist have telling us who to vote for? "No business at all," he said. Just doing what I can.

The End

2008-10-05T03:33:00.002-04:00

The Cubs lost tonight. It hurts. It hurts so much.

Reckoner

2008-10-04T12:10:00.001-04:00

Baseball

2008-10-03T16:02:00.008-04:00

Baseball hurts. Involving myself in baseball is dangerous. There is so much at stake. It's as dangerous as, say, listening to an album or reading a play. In some ways it's more so. Baseball hurts. Baseball hurts. Art hurts, and so does baseball.

Cubs Lose

2008-10-03T01:29:00.000-04:00

10-3. I have work to do. So do the Cubs.

Exams, Opening

2008-10-02T16:09:00.001-04:00

Exam today, preview tonight. Exam tomorrow, show opens tomorrow night. Welcome to college!

October

2008-10-01T22:41:00.008-04:00

October. This is my first Ohio October. The smell of the crisp air and the comforting weight of a few more layers of clothing bring a certain romance to every autumn.

Moments

2008-10-01T16:14:00.001-04:00

There are moments when I love my life.

Obama

2008-09-30T00:28:00.005-04:00

I don't want a butcher or a baker. I want a fucking candlestick maker! A mover and a shaker!

Cool Hand Luke

2008-09-27T23:39:00.002-04:00

"Sometimes nothing can be a pretty cool hand."

SCENES!

2008-09-26T21:53:00.003-04:00

Scenes 2008 was a great evening. All of the scenes were great. I'm incredibly glad with the way my first OWU performance went. Next up, Fashion!

Hot Lava

2008-09-21T22:49:00.000-04:00

Who groused?

2008-09-21T00:17:00.003-04:00

BAILOUTBAILOUTBAILOUT

2008-09-21T00:13:00.003-04:00

CNN. com - Bush wants OK to spend $700B

In the House... lawmakers who groused earlier this week about "bailout mania" gripping Washington held a conference call to discuss the plan.

Thank god somebody held a conference call.

A little bit of gayness in 113:

2008-09-19T00:27:00.006-04:00

I'm coming to bed soon, Alex. I mean, going to bed.

Encore

2008-09-16T15:02:00.001-04:00

It's getting real again.

Note to self:

2008-09-16T13:12:00.005-04:00

When you say you're going to take a nap, take a goddam nap.

CARLOS ZAMRANO

2008-09-14T23:00:00.006-04:00

NO-HITTER.

THE SEX QUESTIONS

2008-09-13T16:04:00.006-04:00

Learn them & love them, OWU, college students everywhere:

1. Do you find me sexually attractive?
2. Would you like to have sex?
3. If we had sex, what would we do?
4. Do you see this as a long-term, short term or one day-at-a-time relationship?

Rain Rain

2008-09-13T15:19:00.000-04:00

Have the underlying distributions changed?

Bukowski

2008-09-13T01:13:00.000-04:00

I know a kick approaching when I feel it. If I had the spare time, I would totally be on a Bukowski kick right now.

LHC

2008-09-09T14:41:00.003-04:00

I am a little worried that the world is going to end. But I guess Pitr's dad says everything's going to be okay.

Some people never go crazy...

2008-09-09T13:25:00.006-04:00

In my acting class here at OWU, we're using poems of our choice for some exercises in interpretation. I've been working with "Some People" by Charles Bukowski.

some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
they'll find me there.
it's Cherub, they'll say, and
they pour wine down my throat
rub my chest
sprinkle me with oils.
then, I'll rise with a roar,
rant, rage -
curse them and the universe
as I send them scattering over the
lawn.
I'll feel much better,
sit down to toast and eggs,
hum a little tune,
suddenly become as lovable as a
pink
overfed whale.
some people never go crazy.
what truly horrible lives
they must lead.

Some essentials:

2008-09-07T00:04:00.002-04:00

"Toxic" - Britney Spears
"Stitched Up" - Herbie Hancock and John Mayer
"Fell in Love With a Girl" - The White Stripes

Robert POST

2008-09-06T22:31:00.001-04:00

Incredible.

September.

2008-08-31T16:18:00.002-04:00

Buckle down.

In the bookstore, in the laundromat...

2008-08-28T15:25:00.001-04:00

If you are at college and missing someone, you might want to reconsider listening to "Guess How Much I Love You" by The Lucksmiths.

xkcd and me: "Fuck Grapefruit"

2008-08-26T15:47:00.000-04:00

xkcd version:

My version:

Ben/Video Games

2008-08-26T00:32:00.004-04:00

ME Ben really loves video games.
WILL Not really.
ME Do you love video games more than Ben?
WILL No, I love Ben more than video games.

Train Pilot!

2008-08-24T21:08:00.000-04:00

Bill McKibben in Deep Economy describes seeing this printed at the International Trade City in the Chinese city of Yiwu:

Does thinking the son and daughter become the scientist? Then start growing from the electronic toy bricks! Train pilot! Look for the Bill Gates!

Skype...

2008-08-24T13:02:00.001-04:00

...is a little bit like magic. I love magic, but it worries me.

College.

2008-08-24T01:32:00.001-04:00

Message

2008-08-23T18:58:00.007-04:00

A message from the Flecktones:

Dear LeRoi,

May you always be a light.
May you always be a friend.
May what you did for others be done for others too.

You have been a great friend.
You have been a great supporter.
You have been an inspiration for a generation.

The world will miss you.
I hope you're playing with Coltrane right now.

Love,
--All of us

OWU

2008-08-21T16:32:00.001-04:00

I am moved in.

Leroi Moore

2008-08-19T22:31:00.007-04:00

From the Dave Matthews Band website:

We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.

I can only hope that Leroi Moore knew how much he had given to so many people with his music. I feel blessed to have heard him play. He will be missed.

Playahs

2008-08-19T12:27:00.000-04:00

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely [playahs].

Things I want to write about soon:

2008-08-18T00:27:00.013-04:00

Macaroni and cheese, college, GPS navigation systems, Shakespeare, chicken, my old band. We'll see.

Offend Maggie

2008-08-16T18:10:00.000-04:00

Deerhoof's new album, Offend Maggie, will be released October 7th, the day before my birthday. I am very excited.

ukulele

2008-08-16T14:19:00.001-04:00

i've been playing my new ukulele a lot.

8, le matin...

2008-08-12T14:04:00.000-04:00

Sexy girls don't like me on the outside.

la journée est finie

2008-08-11T00:36:00.009-04:00

today was all about holding on, and now i have to start letting go. i can remember every second of this day; not one was wasted. i don't want to forget. it was a beautiful day.

i'm so tired, but i don't want to sleep. sleeping means the day is over.

i know things will be okay, but right now i don't want them to be. i want to be back in the woods. i wanted to stay. thank you for everything.

vous me manquez,

tu me manques.

20 hours

2008-08-09T17:09:00.001-04:00

i am going to suck every last drop out of the next 20 hours.

guillaume le conquerant

2008-08-06T23:52:00.001-04:00

somebody get that man a float.

survivre, ca va aller...

2008-08-06T17:46:00.005-04:00

i feel like the walls are caving in, but i feel great...

ca va aller.

and the night will be beautiful.

Shakespeare in the night...

2008-08-05T18:12:00.002-04:00

This speech is so much better at night on a dock with the stars reflecting on the water. Ursa major is actually there...

Odyssée

2008-08-04T10:49:00.001-04:00

No regrets.

Wisdom

2008-08-03T01:13:00.001-04:00

Couldawouldashoulda never built no bridges.

...(this place)/(you)

2008-08-02T17:27:00.008-04:00

i only have seven more full days up here.

i'm really not going to want to leave...

longville time travel

2008-08-02T17:19:00.003-04:00

DAN Even if we could travel through time we wouldn't be able to visit the future because it will always be the present.
WILL (Pause.) I really don't want to talk about time travel.

Edmund

2008-07-31T01:14:00.003-04:00

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail and my nativity was under Ursa major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

(King Lear, II.2)

Magritte encore...

2008-07-29T18:10:00.004-04:00

Pitr to new staff member:

2008-07-27T22:18:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the only thing in your life that will ever matter.

2008-07-27T17:23:00.002-04:00

Time is doing weird things to me. Weird things are happening to me.

time needs to SLOW DOWN.

2008-07-25T10:47:00.002-04:00

sérieux.

whisper in my ear...

2008-07-24T11:04:00.001-04:00

i love chocolate

Why don't we do it in our sleeves?

2008-07-21T00:42:00.008-04:00

Thank you, Linda. You inspire me.

restodanse ce soir...

2008-07-19T16:45:00.000-04:00

preparez-vous.