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| Thursday, December 8th, 2011 | |
| 9:51 pm | Week's happenings so far. So, things are still going well here. Saturday night Vince randomly decided to come over, and it was good to see him, since he hadn't been over in a couple months, literally. We all just hung out, talked, listened to music, and it was a good time. He was dealing with some things that had to do with his truck, but he didn't let that ruin the weekend, which was good. Hopefully he's able to come over so we can do something for both his and my birthday. That'd e pretty fun. Tina and I were going to go shopping on Sunday, but since I was tired as hell from the weekend, we decided that we'd go the next day. it was rather amusing, since I was awake in time too. I walked out in the living room to assess the situation, and she was all, "You look so tired, go back to sleep." I did just that, and the next thing we all knew it was 3 in the afternoon. We decided to go to the Mexican restaurant for lunch, and I got quite excited to learn that they have Tortas. this totally made my day! I wasn't getting burnt out on the burgers and fries or anything, I'd just wanted something different. Sunday night was early for all of us, and I was awake by 11 so that Tina and I could go shopping. That ended up being a lot of fun. I ended up getting four more pairs of jeans and I can't remember how many shirts, but now I have a newer wardrobe that I'm quite happy with. Wendell behaved well as usual, and by the time we got back to the house, all I wanted to do was sleep, so I did just that. The rest of the week has gone by quite quickly. I’ve been reading these fantasy books about owls that I’m just eating up for some reason. I think I like these books better than the Redwall books. They're shorter, and there are many surprises. They're not even really predictable either. Called Dad yesterday to check up on him, and all is well on that front. I can't tell if he misses me or anything, but I’d like to think that perhaps he does just a little bit. Hard to tell with him. Heh. That's all I've got to say for the moment. I'll update again soon. Current Mood:  happy |
| Friday, July 29th, 2011 | |
| 2:09 pm | Thoughts on IPhones, Panik Nation Gig and books. Yesterday Charles and I went to the Verizon store, so that I could look at phones. The guy that helped us out was actually pretty cool. I looked at a Droid 3, but I didn't know how to tell the guy how to install Talkback, or any of those apps. I'm not sure if you can do that on a store phone or not, but the Droid 3 does have arrow keys and a Qwerty keyboard, so this is good. I did get to play with an IPhone, which the guy did get Voiceover running on, and I think I don't like the IPhone much at all. I couldn't figure out how to do anything on it, and once I thought I had the whole grid deal worked out, something would ruin this logic and I'd want to throw the IPhone, and all its helicopter Windshield glassiness against the nearest wall, so it'd shatter in to many little glassy pieces. haha. I know that there are cases and such for it, but I don't want to pay $150 or $60 for an extra case along with the most likely $150 for the IPhone itself. That's practically Netbook price. LOL. I guess I don't get this IPhone worship. I know that they're made with accessibility in mind, I respect this. I know that most things are going touch screen, but I don't have the patience to learn such a thing yet. I do have the time, but I find that there are no absolute beginner podcasts for the IPhone, and there are for Droid. All you get out of IPhone users is, "I love my IPhone so much," and this is just weird to me. Most, not all, these blind people say how easy the phone is to use, but I'm just not seeing it at all. To be fair, I only did play with it for half an hour or so, but still, I know that from within that half an hour, I most likely could never love it. Droid users are not as snooty as IPhone users and are more willing to answer beginner like questions. A few IPhone users will do this as well, but as a whole, they expect you to learn things on your own. I'm not a pick up something new and learn things on your own type. I rather like the whole Eyes Free Shell deal for Droid, and yes, even the fact that you can speed up the main speech on the Droid. Stupid little things like this make me happy. I couldn't have a phone that speaks at just one rate. after going to the Verizon store, Charles and I ended up picking up a couple things he needed, then we went back to his place so Wendell and I could meet his Golden Retriever! I've heard about Charles's dog for a couple years now, and it was good to finally see him. He's a cutie, and he and Wendell got along quite nicely. I got to meet Charles's mother as well, and was quite amused that she kept calling him Chuck. I do not see him as a Chuck. It took ages for me to go from calling him The Sir, to just Charles, but it finally happened, when we started hanging out a bit outside of karaoke. He told me to let him know when I wanted to actually purchase a phone, so I will indeed do this. Panik nation played last weekend at Eldo's, and I went out for it. It ended up being a pretty good show, and I could tell that they practiced. I heard Robbie sing "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" and was like, "Holy shit, I've never heard you sing that well." He thanked me for the compliment. this one old guy irritated me near the end of the evening though. He kept telling me how courageous I am and how he knew my Dad. He also kept asking how I was getting home, and I told him that I was fine. I don't know why sighted people think we're all courageous just because we you know, go out of our houses and actually do things, having drinks included. I cashed out my tab, and I quietly asked Cass if she could find Brad so Brad could walk me home. Brad came over and informed me that he had been keeping an eye on me, and would have come over sooner, but he was busy working. I understood this, and was ok with it. It had rained a shit load while Panik Nation was playing, and silly me wore my crocs. Guess it wasn't so silly after all though, because no shoes got ruined. I read this book called "The Wedding Dress" this week, and it was quite good. All about how these three young ladies survive after the Civil War, and how the two older sisters are trying to get the younger sister married, making her a wedding dress and all. Now I'm reading a book by Jennifer Weiner called "Little Earthquakes." I won't lie, I downloaded it because it had the same title as a Tori Amos album, but it's turning out to be a good book. All about three women who become friends during their pregnancies, and their trials and tribulations for that first year or so. There is another woman in the story, but I’m not sure of her role just yet. I'm finding that as of late I'm liking books that have to do with women and friendships. I suppose that's all I've got to say for the moment, but will update soon. Current Mood:  hungry |
| Monday, June 13th, 2011 | |
| 9:02 pm | Dustin, music, other things. So, what's been up since I wrote last. Not a whole lot really, which kind of sucks. Dustin and I watched Mask a couple weeks ago, and it was an awesome movie. A bit sad at some parts, but it was quite nicely done. Dustin did very well at explaining to me what went on when I got confused. I can't say that anyone's ever wanted to or offered to do that kind of thing, and it was awesome. It worked well when we watched Freaks and Geeks together too. Next we are going to watch White Oleander. Rachel and I watched that when I was at her house last, and I followed it quite well even when she took her brief 20 or so minute nap. ;) Naps happen, and this is perfectly fine. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Angantyr - [Hævn #02] Thulens Ord |
| Monday, May 30th, 2011 | |
| 5:37 pm | Hanging out with friends, books, other things. So, what's to say. I went to karaoke on Thursday night, and got quite drunk indeed! I have decided that Brad, Jen, and Lacey are quite fun to party with, and that jello shots are the devil. I wasn't sure that Jen was going to come out, but she actually did, and caught right up to us as far as drinking. Brad sang, and I was disappointed, because I indeed do not remember this. I also don't remember talking to Dustin when I got home either. I feel kind of bad about this, but the important thing was that Charles had walked me home, and I was indeed safe. <3 karaoke! At one point Claude had brought one of the food baskets over filled with something like 24 jello shots. Jen kept saying, "Hey, Gina, can I have another one?" I obliged. Haha Friday I spent being hung over, so wasn't all that good of company. Mersadees Binns was at Eldo's that night, but I decided to not go, since Panik Nation was there on Saturday. I hate missing either band, and I would have gone if I were not hung over on Friday, but yes, such is life. The Panik Nation gig was a lot of fun too. I didn't drink all that much, but this was to be expected. They had two ladies in there that were sampling Stolies, and I have decided that I still like my vodka best. I was joking around and I asked the one lady if she was trying to get me drunk, and she laughed and said "no." I am a bit skeptical, since she didn't ask for my ID, but maybe she figured that since I was there and drinking, that I am old enough to drink. Yeah, I'll say, 31 fits this criteria. Ace and Charles came in, and it was awesome to see them as usual. Ace and I had a good talk during a set break, and he told me that if I wanted to sing new songs, think of songs that I grew up with, that I'd like to sing for example. I have come up with four so far. I did not get to talk to Robbie that much, if at all, but he did say "hi," to me, and gave me one of those silly plastic lays. Usually they have the plastic beads, but I think they probably wanted to change it up. Other than karaoke I have just been reading, and roasting to death. I've started the Shannara books, and The Sword of Shannara seems so LOTR like. Two men traveling, one that has elf stones, nameless creatures trying to detour their traveling. Both men are mysterious, and yeah. I'm not sure what I think of this series just yet. I might also read The Song of Ice and fire series, but we'll see. I've heard that series is pretty complex/hard to follow. The Coldfire Trilogy from C.S. Friedman is also on the list. I’m just not sure which to go with, since they all seem good. Laura says the Coldfire books are awesome, so I might go with this, but we'll see. Yay that Cam and Laura both like fantasy and such. Dustin is home from his Dad's, so talking normally has resumed, which I am quite grateful for. We almost beat our Skype record last night, but we both got tired, so this didn't happen. Ah well, soon, it shall. We talked about uploading various songs to RRR's Automation. We'd say, "There's not *insert artist* on auto." We'd then find it in our music collection, and in some cases, giggled. I actually suggested that someone do a Classic rock show on RRR, since there is not one of these. I figured either he or James could do it, so we'll see. Megz was fine with this idea. Dustin and I are going to watch Mask tomorrow, then I'm not sure what we'll do next. I suggested watching Waterloo Road, so this would be fun. Who knows though, a book might pop up, and we might read it together. I have finally heard back from Rachel, and this is awesome! I hope that a visit is worked out, because I miss her/everyone in Piqua loads! Time just ran away from me, and I kept thinking. 'Holy shit, I haven't heard from/talked to Rachel." This will change though, I'm sure. hopefully I can be up there for her birthday, since she had the party for me. Missing out on my best friends birthday would indeed suck, but we'll see. just as long as we get to hang out/have a blast like always, this will be fine. I'm going to go for now. I am hungry, and need something to drink. See? I'm updating more often. :P Current Mood: happyCurrent Music: Sarah Jarosz - [Follow Me Down #10] Gypsy |
| Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 | |
| 3:12 am | Music, and such. I'm slightly disappointed that BARD doesn't have the entire "Song of ice and Fire" series. This seems to be a TV show, so I figured that I'd read the books, just in case it came up in conversation. That, and it's one of those popular fantasy series' that quite a few people that I'm friends with have read. I'm always up for new fantasy. I know that I need to finish both Wheel of Time, and Sword of Truth, and this will happen. I've gotten this Accessible Kindle for PC program and it comes with Tom and Samantha. I figured out how to open one book, and I'd totally use it if I could figure out how to open more than one book. Also, I need to figure out how to have it scan my Kindle library. There are a few issues with it, but if I can read more books without having to convert them to mp3 from Text, I'd totally do it. Especially if I could bookmark with it. There was this specific magazine top 25 females in Metal, seen Right here. I'm not sure exactly what I think of this list, since one of the criteria is that the female vocalists have to be hot. I heard and acquired materials from bands that I didn't know, and I think I’m kind of disappointed. they all sort of sound the same. They either sing like the chick from In This Moment, or they have opera like vocals, or they attempt to growl like Angela Gosso from Arch Enemy. There were a couple of bands I'd like to have seen in the list, but I also understand that this is just an opinion. Was thinking of doing a females in Metal show this coming Thursday, but I’m not sure. I'd actually have to prepare for it. Also, why aren't other females in Metal ever noticed? Guitarists, bass players, drummers, keyboardists? Why is it usually vocalists? Opera IX wasn't in the list, and neither was Jex Thoth, Blood Ceremony, Cruachan, or Tristania. I am rather disappointed about this, since both Blood Ceremony and Tristania both had albums out either last year, or this year. Bands like Halestorm, Nightwish, We are the Fallen, Leaves Eyes, Delain, and some others that I didn't know of were in the list. Moving on however, I'm still reading "The Island" and it's still good. I think that Tate is my favorite character thus far. I am slightly irritated that her older sister is going through this depression, and I’m five hours into the book. I hope that the sister snaps out of it, or finds love, or something. I need to find something else for Dustin and I to do together. We're going to watch an 80's movie called "Mask" when he gets back from his Dad's. This made me think of something that Rachel would like, which made me miss her. Hopefully a visit will be planned once the weather is consistently nice. It's time for sleep, I guess. If I don't sleep, I will read, or listen to music, and I'm trying to change my sleep schedule so that I can wake up earlier.</p> Current Mood: tiredCurrent Music: Enbilulugugal - [taoGtnepreS #04] Gina's Song |
| Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 | |
| 1:23 am | Outings with friends, books, whatever I felt like talking about. :) The get together at Lacey's on Saturday ended up being a good time. It was good to see everyone again, and to actually get to talk to Brad, Lacey's boyfriend. Yes, I had met him Thursday night at Eldo's, which was previously mentioned, but we all had to yell to talk. Jen walked in, and she asked where I was. I was like, "I'm right here," since I was sitting at Lacey's table. She then handed me a Pepsi. This goes back to a rather amusing high school incident that I keep thinking of every time I drink Pepsi. We had been talking one day, and I said, "Hey Jen, I'm going to bring a Pepsi to you tomorrow." Sure enough, I did, and both of us laughed our asses off. I usually think of this whenever I drink Pepsi, because it's just one of those things. Lacey made Spaghetti for dinner, and it was awesome, as was the garlid bread. I was a bit skeptical about asking for seconds, but when Brad asked me if I wanted more, I whole heartedly said, "Yes, please." Dinner conversation ended up being pretty fun, all kinds of silly things being talked about. The cake afterwords was good as well. The pieces were huge, and it wasn't even that rich at all. I'd eaten most of the cake, then realized that I had a lot of icing left, so did not finish it. I felt sort of bad about this, but I was just full, and I didn't want to eat crap loads of icing. I'm not sure where that cake was gotten, but if I ever need cake, I'd get it from that place. Everyone left shortly after dinner, since everyone was tired, which left Brad, Lacey, and i there to talk. This ended up being fun as well. Brad is in to Roleplaying games, so I mentioned the game that Cam, Laura and I were all going to play last year, then all the stuff happened at one time. I texted who i thought was Laura, but I had messed up their contacts in my phone, and it ended up being Cam. LOL. I still need to fix the contacs in my phone, come to think of it. If Brad and lacey joined the Roleplaying with us, that'd be cool. clothes then came up in the discussion, and I mentioned that awhile ago, Lacey had informed me that she had a bunch of clothes for me. She sure did, and I spent the next I'm not sure how long on the floor going through all the shirts, and picking out the ones I wanted. I picked quite a few, and we ended up putting them all in a different bag so we knew which ones were mine, and which were hers. I'm not sure. I have this weird way of telling if clothes are going to fit me or not, because when I had gotten home, and tried them all on, all but 2 of them actually fit me. Brad had left to go get some cigarettes, which left Lacey and I to have a bit of girl time. This is always good, and I appreciated this. Upon Brad's return I was still going through the clothes, and I was rather amused, since sometimes when I asked what color things were, he'd be like, "Pink." The two of them walked me home, and this taught me that if I'm going to walk from where they live to my house that I wear shoes that are not my chucks. I got a couple tiny blisters on the bottoms of my feet, but they're gone now. I think we're all going to go to karaoke again this week, but we'll see. I usually don't decide if I'm going to go till the day of, but if Brad and Lacey want to go, I'd not object to this at all. I miss going to karaoke and such. I also mis the fact that Panik Nation has not done their monthly gig at Eldo's, so I hope that this happens this coming weekend. I'd be irritated if it didn't, but i guess sometimes things happen. I'm reading tthis book called "The Island" and so far it's good. I hope the storyline progresses a bit quicker than it is so far, but I'm going to keep at it. So far, none of the women have dealt with the issues that I've mentioned in my previous entry, but I'm only four or so hours in to the book, so we'll see. I got this Accessible Kindle for the PC program last week, but i'm not sure how to get Kindle books just yet. It seems that the Realspeak Samantha is one of the voices for it, as is tom. If I can get books for it, and figure out how to load them, I might end up liking the program a lot. If not, then i'll just continue to use Text Aloud MP3. I'm thinking about making all new ringtones for my phone. I'm sort of sick of most of the ones I've got on it now, but have no idea what I want new ones to be. Yeah, between a rock and a hard place. I picked another Windir track for my new Default tone, since "Fagning" is Salem's tone. i'm not sure why I picked that particular tone for him, but I did. I also need to pick one for Dustin, but i'm not sure what this will be either. Speaking of Dustin, he comes home on Saturday! I'm glad that he's having a good time at his Dad's, but i'd be lying, if I said I don't miss us Skyping and stuff. If he were at home, we'd be Skyping for the next three or so hours. He does need to spend time with the family though, and I completely understand this. Every time he calls though, I'm always like, "yay!" He does get online when he can, so this is awesome. that's all I have to say for the moment, so I shall end this entry. I'm trying to update more often. Current Mood: tiredCurrent Music: Katamari Damacy - 02 Katamari On the Rock -Main theme |
| Saturday, May 21st, 2011 | |
| 3:09 pm | An update. I just finished this book "Gone with the Nerd" and while I knew exactly how it was going to end, I still wanted to read it to see how it'd lead up to the end. The basic plot of the book is that this actress goes off to the mountains with her lawyer who's a nerd to work on a role for a part in a movie. Someone wants to kill them, so the book goes back and forth with all the tricks the killer does, and the two main characters pretty much trying not to fuck. Oh, and might I add, the main characters are under disguise. yes, totally predictable but it passed the time. I went back to reading "Baby of the Family" and it's a pretty good book. There isn't much of a plot though it's just chapters telling the stories of various incidents with the main little girl, but I’ll finish it,I guess. I don't really like the fact that the chapters don't really connect with each other all that well. I'm not the greatest at analyzing books and such, but I’m just expressing my opinion. Like this one chapter was all about how the main character got her hair done. Really? I just wish that the book would have more substance. I finished "Five Women" and while it's good, I still think that I like "Angry House Wives" a It has more of the Togetherness feeling, and it written better. This seems to be just five women telling their stories, and meeting together at the bar every so often but it seems like the women aren't as good of friends as they were in Angry House Wives. I do like the fact that Billie, the one lady in "Five Women" was a former musician, and because of this, I learned about the Monterey Pop Festival. This was two years before Woodstock, and from the CD's I've heard from it, seems to be a better performance. Of course, I haven't heard the Woodstock performances in quite a few years, so I could be wrong on this fact. I just don't get why they everyone talks about Woodstock, and not the Monterey Pop festival. Back to the book though. It seems that in every Women’s Fiction book that I’ve read recently, one of them has to deal with cancer. I liked the details that Jaffe went in to as far as the details of the Cancer that the lady in Five Women had. It seemed pretty well researched, and it was a rather emotional part of the book. I might start reading more books having to do with such things. Even reminds me of the Cherryl Woods books that were suggested to me last year. I'll still like Sci-Fi and Fantasy best, but I like reading new and different things. Dustin's at his dad's house for a couple weeks, so we haven't gotten to talk nearly as much as we normally do. I understand that he needs to be with the family, and we do talk every night on the phone, or have thus far, so I'm glad for this. Come to think of it, I believe that we've talked every day in some way or another since we've met. He seems to be pretty happy at his Dad's, so this is good. I had 11 listeners two weeks ago on my show, and I was rather surprised by this. I didn't do any other promotion than normal, it just sort of happened. I don't know if it'll happen again, but yay! If anyone is interested, and if this hasn't been mentioned before. Reckless Rebellion Radio! Thursdays from 5 to 8 EST. There is even a schedule on the page now so that everyone can check out all the other shows on the station. They are all good. Cam's, Dustin's, Megz and James's, BlackEarth's, and DJ Lor's. Headed off to Lacey's for a bit. We're having dinner, and socializing. I'm glad they invited me. I'd do such things if I had a place of my own, though it'd be more like us ordering pizza and such. LOL. Will be good to actually talk to Brad, (DJ Lor), so we don't have to yell, and be like, "What'd you say?" Met him at karaoke at Eldo's on Thursday actually, and it was a good time. They both got to meet Lincoln, who I was thrilled to see. I hadn't seen him since sometime last year, so got all excited. Michele was not there, which kind of sucked, but one out of two isn't bad. that's all for now. Been working on this particular entry for a week. Current Mood: hungryCurrent Music: JB Nelson - [Weeping Willows #03] Die With Pride |
| Thursday, May 5th, 2011 | |
| 12:38 am | Weekend, books, other things. Saturday, I woke up, and Dad asked me if I wanted to go out with him. I figured why not, so in all my half awakeness got dressed, and got ready to go. We ended up going to the former V.I.P., which is under a different name, and had a few drinks together. I enjoyed myself quite a lot there. Ended up meeting the bartender Terra, and got to talk more with the manager Deanna. Would be cool if I could go there for karaoke and stuff. There was pizza there, and this brought up how I don't really like Barry, the one guy that works at Pizza Mart. he might be the nicest guy ever, but I don't much like his voice, and he just seems to be a bit weird. The pizza was quite good though, so I should just get over this, and if I want pizza, order from there, depending on the price. Terra was quite nice, so I hope that she and I actually can start talking. I also hope that I can go there for karaoke. Came home, enjoyed what was left of my buzz, and Skyped with Dustin! I told him all about the day, and then got a stupid headache. Slept to a silly childrens book, woke up, and had an awesome Skype Conversation with Dustin and his best friend who was visiting for a couple days. The best friend is very insistent about me visiting, within the next couple of months, so I hope this happens. I woke up to a message from Dustin's Mom, and I was pretty touched that she let me know what was going on. :) Laura messaged me later in the afternoon and asked if I wanted to have dinner with her and Cam. I jumped at this opportunity, since I don't remember the last time I got to hang out with the two of them. I think it was sometime around my birthday, since I remember going to Pig Iron, and getting the neat present from them. I still play around with it, and have figured out how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on it. it is fun. I digress however, I had a lot of fun over at their house. Laura informed me all that was going on the way over, and while Cam was making the pizzas, I got to see little Dougie, and talk a bit with Tim, and continue catching up with Laura. Cam made home made pizzas, and they were quite good. We also had cheesy garlic bread, and these little desserts that I can't remember the name of, but I liked them. After food, the kids went to bed, and Cam and Laura and I hung out and talked for awhile longer. Laura drove me home, and told me that she'd give me a call, and if I wanted, I could go out running errands with her. I told her I’d be perfectly fine with that. Monday was lots of talking with Dustin, then Cam's show Monday night. I was quite surprised at his show, since he played lots of Filk! I thought I was the only person in Columbus that knew about Filk, but I guess not. He even knows about the Firebird record label that has a lot of the Leslie Fish stuff, so I totally was all, "yay!" Dustin's show was Tuesday, and it was quite good as well. He never really plays the same stuff on shows like how I do, so each show is a surprise. It was a country show, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. I wish that I knew as much as he does about music. I should, as often as I listen to and discover new music, but sometimes I obsess over bands and songs, and he usually does not do this. Started a couple books earlier in the week, and I'm liking them. The one is called "Not Even If You Begged", and it's a romance, and the other is called "Angry House Wives Eating Bon bons." Madelyn Buzzard reads both, and they both seem to be quite good. "Not Even If You Begged" is a romance, and Angry Wives, is a book about women surviving friendships through something like 30 years. Angry Wives actually made me think of Jen so I should probably call her and suggest that she check it out. I feel a bit bad about not calling her as of late, and I really should change this, since I miss talking to her. One of us visiting the other would be fun as well, since I haven't seen her in a couple years, literally. Last night, Dustin and I Skyped for a few hours, and I sort of freaked out to him about a couple things. Thinking about it now makes it all kind of silly, since I am worrying for nothing, but you'll have this. We were looking up various radio stations on Google, and this is when I learned that Reckless Rebellion Radio is the first 8 or 9 results in Google. This made me happy. Now I just need to figure out how we can get more listeners. :) I'm not a fan of tweeting about it every 15 or 20 minutes, since I get irritated when other stations do that, however, there is a Facebook page, so this does help. I can't figure out how to bring up the mood and music thing with this new Semagic. i forgot which view to have it on, and this is just slightly irritating. :( Going to go though, since I’m not sure what else to say. I really need to update more. Happy Fifth of May to all. Current Mood: hotCurrent Music: Bloodbath - [Nightmares Made Flesh #06] Eaten |
| Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 | |
| 10:45 pm | TV shows, radio shows, books, randomness. Tomorrow's Dustin's 30th birthday, and this is awesome. Just sucks that I'm not with him physically for it. I hope that he ends up having a good birthday even though i'm not there with him in person. He and I are actually listening to Freaks and Geeks together. he has seen the show before, so can listen to the mp3's at the same time as me, and tell me what's going on. I have not had this before. I figured that since he can see, that he'd want to watch the videos, but I was wrong. I can't wait to see how he'll react when I show him a DVS film. LOL. Too bad I didn't watch the show when it was actually on tv. it seems good enough to have gone on for more seasons. Instead, we have shows like Gossip Girl, and Pretty Little liars, that promote dishonesty. I watch them, and am going to read the Pretty Little Liars books, so what's this say about me? Eh, it's just tv and novels. This doesn't reflect my personality at all. I just don't get why dishonesty is such a big part of tv dramas these days. What happened to good wholesome tv shows? Things like Little House on the Prairie? I never really watched but a few eps of that, but have read some of the books. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was good too. Now we have teenagers watching shows about how to deceive people, and this sucks. the only issue that I'm having with the pretty Little Liars books is that the reader sounds really young, and kind of snooty. I hate snooty people for the most part. Ah, well, I will most likely read them and compare them to the tv show. The issue that I'm having with the tv show is that the main girls are making fun of the blind girl in the series. All I know about the blind girl, Jenna, who doesn't even have a really big part is that she has a guide dog. I wonder if she holds the harness properly, and how she looks, as far as being blind? I mean, god forbid people have an actual blind actor play a blind character. I am quite irritated at how blind people are being portrayed on tv these days. I am still reading Eight Cousins, and I like it. When they put it on BARD though, there were a few speed changes with Kristen Allison's voice, but it could be worse, I guess. I am starting to like her narrating more than I used to, but Madelyn Buzzard and Mitzi Friedlander will always be my favorite NLS readers. I kind of wish that it talked a bit more about the scrapes that the kids got in to, but I guess that really wasn't Louisa May Alcott's way. Rose's Uncle Alec though is a sweetie. I guess I just can't read one book. I have to go back and forth between books. Have always been this way. I have changed my show time to 5 P.M. EST, to hopefully get more listeners, since a lot of the East Coast will be getting off work and such, so we'll see how this goes. Last week I didn't get many listeners, but I had only made the decision a couple days earlier, so time will tell. Going to keep my fingers crossed. Dustin did a pretty awesome show this morning after Cam finished. It was a show having to do with the music he was influenced by. A lot of that was mtv early 90's videos, and I was listening to it and thinking. "Hey, I'd have played that." Derek would have liked it as well. Megz did a show last Wednesday as well that I quite liked. It's good to hear both her and James doing shows again. I need to teach someone to broadcast and teach them how to use IRC, then we'll have another DJ on staff. I am excited about this, because this person knows music, and has a lot to offer. They are a quick study, so teaching them won't be all that difficult at all, so this is awesome. A couple of friends and I are fixing our friendships, so we'll see what happens with this. I will remain positive on this whole thing, since if I don't, well, it'd just be silly. I hope it all works out in the end. Fights either mess up friendships or make them stronger. We'll see how it all ends up turning out. In the one case, we both admitted that we both messed up, and I was not expecting this at all, so yeah. I have not talked about music much lately in my LJ, and I don't know why this is. God knows I've been listening to tons of it, but I just don't really know what to talk about. I'm sort of on discovering new music overload. Lately I am quite fond of things like The Devil Makes Three, J.R. Preston, Tjolgtjar, Hank III, Sarah Jarosz, and lots of other things that I didn't know about a year or so ago. This is funny, since people always think I like just metal. Hell, I can't even do a complete metal show, since I hate format. LOL. I think I'm going to end this entry. Will update again soon. Current Music: Pretty Little liars - 1x08 - Please Do Talk About Me When I'm Gone |
| Friday, April 22nd, 2011 | |
| 7:58 pm | Just another update. Lacey wanted to go to karaoke with me last night, and Jenny actually came with her. I wasn't sure how it was going to go, but we all ended up having a lot of fun. I kept teasing Jenny, suggesting ridiculous songs for her to sing, but it ended up that she could actually sing some Beatles. Now that she has a bit of an idea of the selection, I actually expect her to sing next time we all go out. If she doesn't and if we just talk that'll be fine too, so we'll see, I guess. We talked about life, books, boyfriends, (Yeah, I told her lots about Dustin), and life in general. I truly enjoyed myself, and hope that we start hanging out again. She mentioned a possible trip to her Mom's this summer, and that'd be fun, since I like her mother a lot. We're actually trading books as I type, so it'll be interesting to see what we end up giving the other. I felt a bit bad that their cab took ages to come, but Jenny and Charles got along just famously. Who knew that two people could have the same sense of humor. I was sort of surprised by this, but I wasn't going to complain, since I like it when friends get along with each other. Hopefully both Jenny and Lacey will come out to karaoke again. Still plugging away at "An Old Fashion Girl." Time has passed, and the characters have gotten older and such, and the book is talking bout romance a bit. It'll be cool to see if young Polly marries anyone if at all. it seems that marrying someone several years older than you was more accepted in the 1800s than it is today. I know that I wouldn't marry someone that was 50 or 60, but this is just me. I won't knock the idea, but people that age mostly remind me of my father, and to me that's just weird. Maybe they thought differently back then, I'm not sure. I also like how they talk all eloquent like, and wish that I talked like that myself. Perhaps if I read such books when I was young, my own writing would be lots better, and a whole lot different. Maybe also I'd understand books better than I do, and would be able to read a lot more deeply in to some of the books, but I’m not sure. I’m deep and analytical about things, and surface like about others. Guess it really all depends on the issue. The stations still going well, so yay for this. BlackEarth is DJing for us now, and this is awesome, since he did good shows back on the OGR days. I heard the beginning of his show last night before karaoke, and was like, "Yeah, his voice is still the one I remembered from ages ago." This kind of amused me. Dustin did a song using files that I sent him! It's on the Enbilulugugal album called taoGtnepreS, and I do quite like it a lot! He used my mandolin playing, as well as another recorder file, and it is Ambient like in nature. The Ambient musicians that have heard it, as well as others have liked it. He plans on making a song with Wendell sounds, but they will not sound at all like Wendell sounds. I am excited about this, and I can't wait to hear it after its completed. Dustin and I are doing quite well, and I find that each day that we talk, I want to see him all that much more. He knows this, and sometimes I want to be all girly about it, and I am with him, but not usually with others. I joke with him and I ask him if we were separated at birth, because of the way we think and the things we have in common, but he assures me this is not true, since his parents have always lived in California. I'm quite glad for this, because it would suck indeed to love someone and find out that he's the brother I never knew. I do know that I have a brother that's a year younger than me, but I have no idea who he is, or his name or anything. I get curious about that stuff sometimes, but then I get angry, so I never think to ever look said brother and biological mother and father up. I'm going to start "Eight Cousins now, since I'm 10 minutes from finishing An old Fashion Girl." It ended quite nicely, and I am pleased at the ending. Current Mood: chipperCurrent Music: Wayne hancock - Highway 54 |
| Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 | |
| 12:28 am | Books and such. I'm reading "An Old Fashion Girl" by Louisa May Alcott, and it's proving to be good. I thought there might be some boring parts like there are in Little Women, but there have not been yet. Now, Little Women is one of my favorite books, as is The Lords of Discipline, but there are boring parts in every book, I guess. Too much action all the time would just be a pain in the ass. LOL. And I spoke too soon. I just started the second part of the book, and it's proving to be a bit boring. I will next read Eight Cousins, and Rose in Bloom. I actually read Rose in Bloom before I knew that Eight Cousins existed. The end was kind of weird from what I remember, but I’ll actually read the books in their chronological order, so hopefully Rose in Bloom will make more sense the second go round. I'm also reading The Black Dagger Brotherhood books, but way that the third book was ripped is making the NLS player read it weird. Can we say irritating? I was quite liking reading them again a second time, but now I’m going to have to use Winamp with the Pacemaker plug-in, since I don't know of a Foobar plug-in that does the same thing as Pacemaker. Suppose I could use Klango, but this and even Winamp would tie me to the computer, and I like reading when I eat, or when I do other things in the house. that, and the codec’s for the NLS player are awesome, and such. I can listen to things faster, and have it not sound all funny. However, with the third J.R. Ward book, this happens, and I’m not sure why, since it doesn't happen with any other books I've ever put on the player. I've been obsessing over Super Egg Hunt. which is great fun, even though I don't do very well at it I keep playing it though, and sometimes I get better scores, I don't know how people can get over 100 eggs though. Blah. Guess I’ll keep trying. I also learned about River Raiders. I think I like this game a bit better, for the simple fact that you get more time. The ghosts are quite funny indeed. Especially the one that says something about trying to find his son. The only issue that I have with the game is that the swimming sound is kind of loud, and you can't tell when the coins are centered. Other than that, the game is awesome. Maybe there will be future releases of the game and such things will be fixed. Dustin suggested that I read "Johnny Got His Gun," last night. he said I will cry when I read it though. He was like, "BARD might have it," and when I looked, sure enough it was there. I'll get him thinking like a blind person yet. Hell, he played a game of Super Egg Hunt, so this is good. I like when I can get sighties in to blind games, and blindness in general. Perhaps sometime I'll blindfold him and have him walk around the house and such. This would amuse me greatly. I don't really know what to say, so I'm going to go. I just need to get in to the habit of updating more. Current Mood: hotCurrent Music: Wayne hancock - Highway 54 |
| Saturday, April 16th, 2011 | |
| 5:55 pm | Panik Nation gig. Panik Nation was at Eldo's last Friday night, and it was a good time. There was a line up change with a new drummer, so this was something to get used to. It is electric drums, and I’m not sure that I like this particular sound all that well. Everything else was pretty awesome though. John and Cass worked, and as usual, they did a good job of making sure that I got my drinks. Gary was there, and I was joking with him and telling him that he was going to leave drunker than me, and this did indeed happen. I don't usually get terribly drunk at Eldo's or anywhere, since I usually have to walk myself home. I don't know. Even if I know that a friend will be walking me home, I guess I feel sort of weird walking out by myself all shit drunk. Course, if I was out with friends, this would not be an issue, since they'd be doing the same thing, but yeah. I did get to talk with Robby, the singer, as well as meeting the guitarist, and it turns out that I know the guitarist from the couple open Jam sessions that I'd gone to on the Monday nights. Both he and his girlfriend are quite nice. I asked if Panik Nation had any demo's or anything that could be played on RRR, but I was told that they didn't. The guitarist, Steve said that he'd see if they could work on some, and even do one at Eldo's. We'll see what happens. I've never heard an actual recorded gig from there, so it'd be awesome. I'll admit, it'll be more awesome if said gig is recorded there, and I’m in attendance, but yeah. That actually reminds me of how when I listened to the mike Perkins DVD, I totally heard Parker laugh during part of it. he and Vader rewound it, and sure enough, they heard it as well. I don't really know what else to write about, so I'll go. Current Mood: lovedCurrent Music: Wayne hancock - Highway 54 |
| Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 | |
| 7:14 pm | Seeing Cam and Laura, Books, and other stuff. I finally got to see Cam and Laura today, and it was fun, however went too quickly. Not because of the time that we hung out, but because it was so much fun that time flew. We decided to go to Pig Iron for lunch, since the food is good, and Wendell can lay down, and not get stepped on or anything. We always sit in the back area where it's pretty quiet, so this is good, since we can all talk pretty much uninterrupted. Our waitress was pretty awesome. She actually made me laugh, because she said something about having a habit of stepping on things, and for whatever reason this amused me. I ended up getting the fish and chips, even though I vowed to get something new, since I like trying new things on the menu. This just didn't happen, since the fish and chips just called my name. When I saw the two pieces of fish were so huge, I felt as though I was eating an entire fish with each piece. I don't know exactly how big fish are, but I ended up being quite full indeed. Usually this is the case when you go out to eat though. Cam and Laura and I talked about all kinds of things including memories of specific events in life, and wandering eyes. I never really knew about wandering eyes, but I do now. Sounds pretty strange indeed, and I can see why they'd be weird to look at. I didn't want the time to end, but Laura said that now that it's warmer outside, we'll hopefully be able to get together more often. She also said that she has a picture of me on the swing, trying to pet Wendell on her Facebook, so yay! I remember that quite fondly. This came up because she had actually mentioned us all going to the park again. I have no idea why Wendell doesn't like it when I swing ,but the Wog is silly indeed. I also told Cam about the station, and he seems pretty excited about the endeavor which is good. He's decided to do an 80's show since whatever station we were listening to at the restaurant happened to be playing 80's music. It was kind of good stuff too. They kept saying the station name, but Cam Laura and I were too busy eating and talking I didn't really get to catch the name. I felt a tiny bit bad for Cam, since he was still a bit under the weather, but he managed to have a good time as well, so this was awesome. I didn't get to hold little Dougie this time, but I’m sure I'll get to. He is a year old now, so it'll be great to see how much bigger he is since the last time I held him. I also learned that Suzi is quite the mommy's girl, and I felt a tiny bit bad that she was crying when Laura had gone to pay for the food and such. Kinda made me wonder if I was more a mommy's girl or a daddy's girl. I honestly can't remember, and this kind of sucks. I came home and took a nice long bath while reading "Kristy and the Haunted Mansion." Yes, I'm re-reading Baby-Sitters Club books, which was something Laura and I talked about it. Cam Laura and I all like reading, so this is awesome. I asked if she thought that Claudia was a crappy speller, because she was dyslexic, and she wasn't sure about this. I wasn't either, till last night. I mean, she read Nancy Drew books, but her spelling in the actual Baby-Sitters Club Notebook entries was just Atrocious. Next, I'm going to read three more of the Alice books that were recently put on BARD. Part of me is tempted to re-read the entire series, but I just read them last year, so I think I'll pass on this. I remember most of the stories well enough that I don't think that I'll get confused when I read these three newer books. After that, I might re-read The Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton, but I don't know. I get so fickle when it comes to books, so knows what'll happen. I still need to finish the Harry Potter books, since I'm on book 5. Dustin comes home tomorrow, and I am quite glad for this, since I have missed him lots. He needed to have fun though, and we did text quite a bit, so I'm not complaining. I do hope though that once he's home, and after he's unpacked, and has spent time with his family/Mollie, that we will get to Skype for a long time. I have missed this a lot. :) I have been listening to the music he's given me, so this helped some. ;) Yay for playlists. Ace has tagged me in pictures on Facebook, but I'm not sure what they are, or if they're even of me. I need to actually get more pictures of myself. Dad took one or two actually, but he doesn't know how to send them or anything, since he's pretty new to using his computer. Suppose that's all I've got to say for now. I'm going to read another silly Baby-Sitters Club book. I just finished one, so I figure I'll read "Kristy's Big Day" the one where Kristy's Mom and Watson actually get married. Yeah, I might need to read adult stuff after these/The Alice books. I do have a couple Debbie Macomber books on my computer. I did like her knitting series a lot, so we'll just have to see. |
| Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 | |
| 9:12 pm | Thoughts on tv. So, I am a tad bit irritated. I am noticing that a lot of the teenage drama's that are out these days have a lot to do with people lying to get what they want. I watched a couple seasons of Gossip Girl, because someone in college when I was there was talking about the books, so I thought that I'd check it out. I figured that it'd be about normal high school kids, but no, it happened to be about snooty rich upper east side teens from New York, that well? Lied to get what they wanted. The storyline was boring, and friends went against friends, and nothing really good was really happening. I mean, I have never seen such snobbery on TV before. It was even the level of, "Oh, you can't sit on the same step as me. Does this mean that our youth is going to be fed this stuff, and will start doing such things themselves? I mean, teenagers do like/look up to people they watch. I did this at one point myself. Heh. then we have the show that's called "Pretty Little Liars." This is also based on a series of books that have to do with girls lying and keeping secrets as well. I have the books, but I don't think I'm at all interested in reading them at all. I mean, if the authors of such books can write them, this could make them dishonest people for thinking of the ideas Maybe this isn't the case, maybe they have good imaginations, and aren't like the people they write about, I don't know. It seems that the good teenage drama's are a thing of the past, with the exception of One Tree Hill, which is still great in my opinion. Even though the new 90210 isn't as good as the old one. It focus's on different issues and all, but there is still betrayal and such in it too. The things that people will watch, I guess. Sure, I could be guilty of the same thing, but I couldn't ever write about such things myself. Then there's the same plots done over again. In at least every TV show, two people that hate each other get caught in an elevator, and are forced to talk. Road trips happen with people that hate each other, and one student falls for a teacher, and said relationship never works. Then we have the issue of homosexuality. Why can't there ever be a gay couple in a teen drama? There's always one of the main characters that experiment, and the relationship never works out. Kind of makes me think that it's not good for teenagers to express such things, and this doesn't make sense to me at all. I am not gay myself, but have friends that are. I think that it should be just as accepted as anything else that's shown on TV. This happened in The O.C., and I was particularly irritated, since I thought the chick that Marissa was interested in. This is currently happening in the new 90210, and I bet either the guy that it's happening with will either be killed off the show, or he'll realize that it's a mistake, and will end up hooking up with a female character. I don't much have anything else to say on this subject without repeating myself, and being all long-winded, so I'll go for now. |
| Sunday, November 28th, 2010 | |
| 5:41 pm | Nightcaps show/more music. I am obsessing over This piece of music. I don't know why this is, but ever since Tange gave me the link, I have been having it on repeat. Oh, there are a few issues that I have with it, like it doesn't need to be 35 minutes long, and I know where it should perhaps be broken apart but I won't do this. All in all it is a great piece that uses xylophones, or something that sounds like a xylophone, and its 35 minutes in length for the most part doesn't bore me. Oh, there are times when I fast-forward it but usually I'm doing other things when I listen to it. So, I went out to hear The Nightcaps on Friday night, and it ended up being a pretty good time for the most part. Oh, I did want to brutally murder the guy that randomly sat across the table from me who kept telling me to quit biting my nails. First of all, if I don't like someone I'll do this or fidget with something so I don't have to talk to whoever it is that's irritating me. Second of all, they are my finger nails, and if I choose to bite them, this is not his business in the least. I was texting someone, and he was like, "Who are you texting?" As far as he knew, I could have been texting the non-existent boyfriend telling him to come over and deal with said person. However, I picked the truthful answer, and I said, "I'm texting a friend, and this isn't your business." This lead to me texting said friend and asking, "Can I kill?" Haha. All that aside the music was good. I did have one issue though which I asked Nick about. All the instruments except for the bass and the vocals were coming out of the right speaker, and this was irritating me since in my head it was wrong. I texted Ryan and asked him why this was, and he gave me a few ideas. I then asked Nick about it during set break, and he informed me that he had it set up that way on purpose. One thing about me is that I may rip the shit out of a band if I'm seeing them live, but if they ask me if I hear anything wrong or errors, I’ll flat out tell them. Note: Mike Perkins show in July of last year. However, this year when I heard mike I didn't hear all that many mistakes and told him just that. He then told me that I wasn't listening well enough. I laughed. I always enjoy hearing The Nightcaps, but the keyboardist wasn't there this time. This meant that they couldn't do their version of "Time" by Pink Floyd which I have been obsessing over. Their version as well as the Dream Theater cover. Let's not even discuss Dream Theater. I was on Skype, and somehow Scenes from a Memory came up. I told the person that I was on Skype with that they needed to listen to that album because that album is in my top 10 list of all time great albums, so they did. What's this mean of course? That I listen to it myself, which refuels the obsession. I even got some Jordan Rudess, and James LaBrie albums, and I haven't formed an opinion of these except for the fact that I do indeed like Rudess's solo piano stuff better than his stuff with whatever band he was playing with. Maybe some of it was keyboard effects, but I just didn't like it as well as the solo. Keyboardists like Rudess make me want to pick up my keyboard again as opposed to learning the guitar. I could do both I guess. *shrugs* No one ever takes my music types of stuff seriously. At least no one that I hang out with. |
| Sunday, November 21st, 2010 | |
| 7:36 pm | Open Mic Night, and my sudden popularity. So, what's been going on, let's go in mostly chronological order here. Wednesday morning I wake up, and Kelly texts me and asks me if I’d heard about Uncle Bob from karaoke dying. I hadn't heard, so she and I texted about this for awhile. It turns out that he killed himself, and I have mixed reactions about this. Yes, it does indeed suck, but I don't see why he thought his life was so bad that he needed to take it. I know that this is the only way that some people know how to deal with such things, but it doesn't mean that I don't understand it regardless. Hopefully he's in a better place and such. He'll be missed. Decided to go to open mic night, since I hadn't been out in awhile, and I haven't seen Nick in what felt like ages. I asked him if I could be in the running for the guitar still, and he said that the top 5's had already been picked, but I could still sing. this suited me just fine, since singing is more important to me than a guitar. Yes, I'd like to learn the guitar still, but I already know how to sing, even if not that well. Charlie and Jan were there, and hearing them sing together is always good, since Jan harmonizes quite nicely as well as having a damn good voice. It turns out that her father was Claude's teacher, so that was pretty interesting to find out. There was also this quite good musician there named Matt. Not the Matt that sounds like Jasper on One Tree Hill, a married guy. I don't know if I have his permission to record his stuff or not, but I wish I did. nick told me after hearing him that he figured I would like Matt's music since I like Mike Perkins. I was thrilled, since Nick was right. Matt kind of has the voice of someone I've heard before, but I can't place who it is. Nick and I ended up singing our usual songs, but we added "Wait" by the Beatles to the rotation. It turned out that I didn't know it as well as I thought, but Nick said it was all right. At least he didn't humor me and tell me that it was one of our better performances. Some guy named Wes wanted us to sing "Southern Cross" by CSNY, but I didn't know that song at the time. I'm not going to know it by this Wednesday either, but it's a song that's on the list to be learned. I did get a copy of it however, and it is a great song. Not sure why I never heard it before. Thursday and Friday I spent a lot of time reading Harry Potter/texting my cousin Jon. Got back in touch with someone that I talked to a couple times several years ago having to do with net radio as well. He didn't remember me, but I remembered who I was. He ended up being lots nicer than my silly 20-year-old memories lead me to believe, so this was rather a surprise. I would like to continue to talk to him, and told him as much. Last night Mersadees Binns played at Eldo's, and while I liked the show, it just wasn't the same since the one keyboard player Mike quit. I knew that he was going to quit, but I could also tell that there were new members in the group, since it wasn't as polished as previous performances have been. Brad the bartender that I hadn't seen in quite a long time was working, and my only real memories of him before last night consisted of me being at Eldo's one Sunday night when an acoustic duo was there, and I left pretty drunk. LOL. I think I had only had 4 Screw Driver with 7-Up's while there, but for whatever reason I ended up having more to drink than expected. Wasn't hung over the next day, but still. So, today I ended up randomly calling my cousin Jon, and we had a good conversation covering a whole lot of things. He sounded the exact same as I remembered him sounding years ago, and while he grew up a lot, changed some, but is still the same old favorite cousin of mine. Now I just need to get ahold of Joe, and see how he is, since he's the other favorite. :) I have become quite popular on Twitter as of late, and I’m not sure why this is. the other day I ended up having something like 50 mentions, and I was just tweeting like normal. I’m not really complaining about this, but it's not something that I’m exactly used to. I'm mostly used to people thinking I’m bitchy for expressing my opinions, and getting all pissed off. Even if this happens, I'm going to still express opinions, since being Opinionated is just a part of who I am. It seems though that people seem to be interested in their music and they want to know what I think, and if I have issues with any of it. This was how the Twitter conversation made it sound, so I answered all questions appropriately. Not sure what else to talk about, so I am ending this entry. I'll try to not make it so long between updates, but we'll see. |
| Friday, November 12th, 2010 | |
| 3:23 pm | Townes Van Zandt Lyrics. ( Townes Van Zandt - Rake - Lyrics. ) I discovered this song a week ago, and love it. |
| 3:11 pm | Books and cooking. For the past week or so on and off, I've been reading Icy Sparks. I do think that it's a good book, but I'm having a problem with a few things. Just because Icy has Tourette's Syndrome doesn't mean that she needed to be sent away to a hospital. I did like this part of the book but the problem that I'm having is that while she was in the hospital, it was never said that she does have the Tourette's. The other problem that I'm having is that for the past half an hour or so it's been talking about God, and how Icy has gone to various churches and such. This is not going to cure her from the Tourette's either. Yes, her friend Miss Emily found God, which I suppose is good, but I don't see why people finding God is going to be the cure all for problems. I hope that this doesn't offend anyone, but these are just my views on the particular subject. What I do like about the book is that the author seemed to have put a lot of thought and research in to it. I also like how she expressed Icy's thoughts. I do wish though that there'd be more focus on the Tourette's though, as far as the ticks. When she did express them, it was usually the same set of words. Maybe that's how the syndrome works, I don't know, since I've never met anyone with the syndrome, but it could have been changed up a bit. I thought it was kind of odd though about the eyes popping out feeling she had. Perhaps I should research the syndrome though. I'm at a loss of what to read now though. Git suggests the Born trilogy by Robert Ludlum, but I've never read such books. I do need to finish the Sword of Truth books too, but I don't know, I want to read something different. Totally unrelated. I might end up having a show on Stillstream! DarthBuddha mentioned to Palancar that I was interested in doing a show, and we talked about it briefly. Pal sent me a text file of the Stillstream Repository, and I've been looking at it/getting more free commons Ambient. For listeners of my Vampiric show, this does not mean that I'm giving up Vampiric, so don't think this at all. Stillstream will be more serious, and the Vampiric show will still be my normal randomness. A couple reasons why I want to do this is because I want to see if I can do a formatted show. Yes, I could try it on Vampiric, but the other side of me says that I want to do it on a bigger station so I can get my name and such out there. Oh, I know that people will find this arrogant, and I'm sure that this will have pissed off people, but I don't care. The other day I was talking to Susan, and we were discussing French Toast. She gave me a recipe, and lately well, the past two days, I've been making it. I got a bit irritated though, since the french toast likes to stick to my non stick pan, and I'm not sure why this is. Tim says it's because the non-stick pan I’m using is old, and because of the sugar, but I always apply a new coat of butter before making the next piece. Yeah, I should probably make more than one at a time, but this will happen soon. Kind of surprising how far one egg can go. LOL. I'm going to go for now. I am bored, and have nothing else to talk about really. 2 months and 3 days till my birthday! Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: Nettless - The Moon-bog |
| Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 | |
| 8:31 pm | Silly joke. Two women were out for a Saturday stroll. One had a Doberman and the other, a Chihuahua. As they walked down the street, the one with the Doberman Said to her friend, "Let's go over to that bar for a drink." The lady with the Chihuahua said, "We can't go in there. We've got dogs with us." The one with the Doberman said, "Just watch, and do as I do." They walked over to the bar and the one with the Doberman put On a pair of dark glasses and started to walk in. The bouncer at the door said, "Sorry, lady, no pets allowed." The woman with the Doberman said, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog." The bouncer said, "A Doberman?" The woman said, "Yes, they're using them now. They're very good." The bouncer said, "OK, come on in." The lady with the Chihuahua thought that convincing him that a Chihuahua was a seeing-eye dog may be a bit more difficult, but thought,"What the heck," so she put on her dark glasses and started to walk in. Once again the bouncer said, "Sorry, lady, no pets allowed." The woman said, "You don't understand. This is my seeing-eye dog." The bouncer said, "A Chihuahua?" The woman with the Chihuahua said, "A Chihuahua? They gave me a f*****g Chihuahua?!" Current Mood: silly |
| 8:28 pm | I'm a bit confused about something. I discovered the song "Mr. Crowley" by Ozzy when I was at Don and mary's this past weekend. I didn't notice this at the time, but after getting the song, I learned there's a recording imperfection at 2:26 in the song. The bass comes in a bit early, which kind of messes up the song. I'm sure that people won't hear it unless they pay close attention, but this isn't the point. I heard it the third time I listened to it. What I don't get though is that Rush was making music during the same era, and their stuff from the late 70's/early 80's is pretty close to perfect. Specifically 2112 and Farewell to Kings, which are my favorite two Rush albums. The recording technology was there, and if Ozzy/Sabbath were making music back then they should not have made that error in the song. Alan Parsons Project was also doing music back then and their stuff seems to be relatively well put together too. I also don't really like the fact that when I'm listening to music, I want to change some songs, and make them sound how I want them to. People tell me that I should learn an instrument, but I'm not sure that I know how to write songs of my own, and this kind of sucks. I never hear anything new in my head that's worthy of me writing down music wise, or even remembering. If that does happen though, i don't have a way to keep the melodies. Heh. I know that i'm picky, perhaps too much so, but I was just thinking about all this. I also know that I'm sometimes called an arrogant musical snob, which amuses me all that much more, since most people don't pick up the things that I do about music. Either that, or they just think I'm weird. I know that no one will share the same musical views as me, which is just common sense, but seriously. This ends this entry, since I don't really have much more to say on the subject at the moment. |