October 2005 Archives
This the second blog post within an hour or so. Kind of sad. I lost interest before.
Pixels: I was supposed to pick up a new car yesterday but it fell through at the last second. Alright in my eyes though, it was an 85 Skylark, or something to that effect. Since I didn't have to drive to Stoughton because there was no longer a car to get I picked up We Love Katamari and Soul Calibur III. Katamari is as good as ever, although me and Mike threw down on multiplayer and that is hard as hell. I'm not sure how the logistics work because you're both controlling the same ball and trying to navigate in whatever direction you feel you should. Soul Calibur III is as good as previous installments and looks like it's gong to have a lot of replay value. The character creation is decent and I basically made Solid Snake from the get-go, complete with CQC. Apparently I *can* get back into video games, we'll see if I keep the trend going...
I was considering doing a post about Saturday night in first-person narrative before I realized that's what I do already. I did, in fact, start catalogueing a lot of the night in fictional-form 1st-person, present-tense, to have material to collectively draw from later on. This is actually something I've started to do recently with a lot of things so that I can have a pool of little vignettes to expound upon for nefarious purposes. Currently this nefarious purpose would be a "it-might-as-well-be-nonfiction" story surrounding an English Major neglecting his classes. This consists solely of the thought process in his head as he stumbles around from social scene to social scene. I'm not quite sure how well it can work without any real dialogue and it's difficult to try to differentiate what's actually happening from what he thinks about what's happening but we'll see.
Aside Saturday night was an MIAD halloween party down in the Third Ward...
Last night around 9:30ish I was leaving the Walgreens on Downer and decided to swing into CD Max for the sheer fact that it was still open. Nothing phenomenal there, none of the cd's I was specifically looking for at least. Picked up Dear Catastrophe Waitress, a Rainer Maria EP and the Remy Zero disc because I'm a music junkie like that when I have cash to blow. I recognized the girl behind the counter as the cute girl who used to run the Preplayed in Madison, my friend's old roommate who it turns out is actually now a film student at UWM. I hope this means if I start wasting as much money at CD Max as I did at Preplayed I'll start getitng the hook-up I used to get there, which was ridiculous. I still can't get Youth Group out of my fucking CD player though...
Yesterday I was inexplicably feeling a little disheartened for a good part of the day. The drive I did have left me at work and when I got done at 4 and went about the tasks I had to go about I just felt more and more like shutting thinking off and tuning out in my room for the rest of the night. Then Youth Group had to come along and pick me right up. Skeleton Jar is one of the best albums I have picked up. Not just lately, I think it may be one of the best albums I've picked up period. I feel like a bit of a blasphemist for saying this but this is almost what Plans should have been for Death Cab for Cutie. Excellence on a disc. How can you stand there and watch this scene/I hate you for liking me. Stuck in my fucking head. All day.
Ever try to buy a sandwich for a vegetarian? Probably not. They don't make them. I understand I can go to subway and get a fast food veggie sub, but that's not what I'm shooting for here. I kind of neglected to eat anything yesterday save a piece of bread and this morning when I woke up all I wanted was some lettuce and tomatoes and other shit, encased by decent bread that I probably really don't like that much and would never seek out outside of this package deal. No go. Instead I bought wonder bread and cheese slices. Phenomenal.
Riverwest Film & Video tricked me into entering a Netflix like thing where I can have any one dvd/video out for like ten bucks a month. I was just going to rent two movies but when that was going to be like $7.50 I figured fuck it and took the bait...
Ok- this image was just a random google pic thrown Aaron's way but I'm too captivated to let it be.
Is there anything better? That's the greatest hair I've ever seen. Crazy Straw hair? Brilliance. Somebody make it happen.
Jack Thompson is an asshole. I wanted to put in references to being right-wing, conservative, Catholic League ties.... etc but I don't want to suggest there are no good right-wingers or conservatives out there; That is not the issue. Jack Thompson, on the other hand, makes his living preying off of families that have been hit by tragedy. He IS an asshole. He's the one that finds grieving parents whose children have killed themselves or gone on school shooting sprees and tells them that they can exonerate themselves of any blame by sueing whatever video game company is on top...
Ugh... so my buddy Dan's been feeding me the Love Hina manga books for the past few weeks to help pass the time at work. I just finished the 14th (and final) book. I knew the story from the series but when you have 14 books to tell it it becomes a bit more convoluted. It could be argued that this shit isn't too many steps up from cheesy serialized airport novels but at some point I actually became captivated and wanted to see where the characters end up after the anime leaves off...
Semblence of a point aside, I'm really in kind of a foul mood now that I'm done with them. This is what happens when you take in too much of any one thing. Even though they had complete closure on everything since I've spent large chunks of time over the past week getting through these books it feels abrupt that it's just... done.
Would someone who saw me last night explain what happened? I seem to remember having a few beers with Jesus at home and walking to Rascal's. And I remember waking up back at home this morning.
Need more clues.
Thumbsucker opened last night.
Fucking Amazing.
We caught it at Mayfair and got stuck with the rough choice of sitting too close or sitting in front of people. I voted up front because I didn't want to deal with douchebags but my vote doesn't count for much. The only thing that kept me from saying something to the asshats behind us was the awesome rice krispie treat I smuggled in. That lasted the previews. And it was triangular.
Run down of the weekend:
Oktoberfest. Not much to say on that. Pulled into La Crosse at about 1:30 AM, got up about 6:30 AM and went down to the parade grounds to push T-Shirts for B & B Graphics, my relative's company. It was alright but there was less free beer handed to me, the beer that WAS handed to me was fuckin' PBR, and there were zero drunken propositions I was willing to take up. Last time I did this, a few years back, there was more of those criteria met but I was also underage and had a girlfriend so I couldn't fully appreciate them. Still a decent time and decent cash for 2 hours of walking up and down a mile and a half stretch. Couldn't get a hold of the 2-3 people I was attempting to get a hold of until I had decided La Crosse partying was bust and headed back into Madison- so that was kind of lame.
