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[Mar. 25th, 2009|02:04 pm] |
I've got a stomach virus!
This meant I spent most of yesterday at the health center throwing up and then the hospital for some quality time waiting for a room to open up. Carrol County General is a terrible hospital (though my nurse and doctor were very nice). I've never been this sick before, though the vomiting stopped yesterday.
bleh. |
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[Mar. 9th, 2009|03:32 pm] |
I Can't get motivated to work on paper about "Film Noir in It's A Wonderful Life". Which is weird, because I love those two things seperately and its only three pages.
I also have another 5 page paper due for lit methods by friday, but thats just a draft.
Oh, and maths.
I saw Watchmen on friday. I have never been more moved by an opening credits sequence. Despite some small flaws, a great movie. Need to see it again. Hurm.
Pretty excited for Spring Break and the potential for Dinosaur World/Seeing my family/General hangage/sweet, sweet Chipotle. |
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| My Life In Music |
[Feb. 26th, 2009|01:01 am] |
This is just as good a time as any to do a new lj post!
Hey Joe-Jimmy Hendrix, various Guns N Roses (age 4)
This is my earliest memory of listening to music, my sister would pick me up from kindergarten and she'd get me to memorize Jimmy Hendrix songs and play the Terminator 2 soundtrack. This is responsible for my fondness for both Hendrix and gNr, I think.
Kissed By a Rose - Seal, Batman Forever OST (age 7)
The Batman Forever soundtrack was the first album I've ever bought and I bought it because, like everyone in 1995, I really liked that Seal song. My mom bought it for me one day when I'd come into work with her for the day. I remember really liking that soundtrack for some reason. This was the first movie soundtrack I bought as well and it kicked off my lifelong habit of listening primarily to movie soundtracks.
Judge Dredd OST (age 7)
I have no idea why I bought this soundtrack, other than the fact that it looked cool.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins, Various Mozart, Beethoven (age 7)
This is the first non-soundtrack album I owned, my dad bought this and some classical music cds for me for christmas(I was really into "Tonight tonight", mostly because of the music video). I remember feeling cool and grown up for listening to Smashing Pumpkins. The classical music cds got me onto a serious classical music kick that went on for a good five years or so.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (age 10)
Episode 1 coming out was so huge for me, to the point that I ended up skipping an elementary school chorus concert I was supposed to sing in to see it with my parents opening night (I remember being so amazed and envious that my-best-friend-at-the-time Mike Smeltz saw it at midnight). I listened to this soundtrack a lot as a kid, it makes me think of 5th grade and being friends with Mike and AJ Dean.
The Rugrats Movie OST/The Best of Godzilla 1954- 1975 (age 11)
I recieved both these albums for christmas, I think they were both from my aunt. The rugrats soundtrack is a pretty weird range of stuff (Angelica covering a Blondie song?) but I remember liking it alot. The Godzilla soundtrack is a funny story. I asked for the soundtrack to the American Godzilla movie (I really liked that Puff Daddy Zepplin remix thing, I guess), but my aunt got me this. I only listened to it once and my mom and I ended up laughing at it. Then is just kind of sat in a box for 10 years until I found it a few months ago, burned it to my itunes and realized how awesome it is (and far superior to the Rugrats soundtrack. Good call, Aunt Diane!).
The Beatles Anthology tapes (age 11)
I got really into the beatles around middle school, specifically on a trip to visit my grandparents in Boise, Idaho. The White Album sticks out. Listening to these tapes is largely responsible for my love of the Beatles.
You or Someone Like You -Matchbox 20, Kryptonite - Three Doors Down (Age 13-15)
Kicked off a love of what I can best describe as "wuss rock" that lasted until around sophmore year of high school, wherein that thankfully stopped.
Abbey Road - The Beatles(age 13)
This was the first Beatles album I actually bought, after hearing it while Jeremy Embrey and his dad and I drove to a boy scout camping trip. I listened to it over and over while on vacation in the US Virgin Islands and I remember being super proud of myself for picking up Paul McCartney laughing alittle bit in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". After this, I'd officially fallen in love with The Beatles.
Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band/ Shrek 2 OST(age 15)
I ended up listening to both of these alot over the period of like a month. I think my mom bought the Shrek 2 one for herself and Sargent Peppers for me. The Shrek 2 soundtrack is weird, but has an interesting cover of "Changes" on it that was the catalyst for me really getting into Bowie a few years later. Sargent Peppers became my favorite Beatles album and I listened to it like nonstop on this one boy scout campout at Solomon's Island. To this day, it's my favorite album (for some reason it isn't in my itunes, which is an oversight I will correct immediately). "Being for the Benefit of Mr.Kite" is such an underrated, awesome song.
Various Johnny Cash (Age 17)
I spent a large chunk of the first half of senior year being super depressed and began listening to almost nothing but Johnny Cash. I'm still a huge fan, but I can pinpoint the lowpoints of my teen years by looking at how much Johnny Cash I was listening to at the time. Then and the summer of '07 were bad times, man.
Of Montreal/Ratatat (age 18)
My roommate Ross loved these two group and got me into them when we moved in together freshman year, officially getting me interested into music that isn't older than I am.
There's alot more I can talk about, but I'm exhausted. Look for part 2 tomorrow. |
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[Jan. 21st, 2009|07:15 pm] |
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Well, after four months and alot of emotional blackmail bullshit, its completely over. I still feel like shit, but I'm glad that she finally made a decision, ANY decision regarding getting back together. I tried my best and apparently I'm still an asshole and all that was pretty much for nothing. She said she likes being single and that she wants to focus on school and "moving to boston after I graduate".
Despite all of this, I'm looking forward to the semester starting. I'm taking interesting classes, my friends will be around, and I can throw myself into Contrast editorial/CockTales/TV club/work/the blog.
I really, really need to find an internship. |
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[Jan. 7th, 2009|12:57 am] |
I am completely fucking useless.
The end. |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 30th, 2008|02:47 pm] |
Monday:
Got a haircut! looks ok, I guess.
Fun game times at Josh's was fun.
fin |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 29th, 2008|12:08 am] |
Sunday:
Work went by reasonably quickly. Can't really think of anything else to be happy about. |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 28th, 2008|12:22 am] |
Saturday:
Watched Dark Knight and Breakin' 2: Electric boogaloo.
Had a pretty amazing multi-hour conversation on skype that will not be soon forgotten. |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 27th, 2008|01:43 am] |
Friday:
I worked at Borders today for the first time since September and it went well, so cash was earned and I got to do something productive. Totally excited to use my employee discount to buy a copy of Bat-Manga. Got to hang out with John and Zach and partake in hiijinks/hunt for pez. |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 25th, 2008|12:32 pm] |
Thursday:
It's Christmas and watching my nephew upwrap his presents makes it even better.
I got some really cool presents, including:
*Watching The Watchmen! which is a big coffee table book filled with all these conceptual sketches and whatnot for Watchmen.
*The Dark Knight on dvd! I will watch this many times.
*A DC Comics Silver age/Golden age cover calendar
*A Signed copy of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard book!
*Spaced: The Complete Series on dvd (Plan on watching some of it today)
*John Hodgeman's new book!
Sweet Christmas. |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|02:53 pm] |
Tuesday:
Celebrated Christmas with my dad and stepmom, recieved the following:
*Daredevil Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis (30ish issues of sweet, sweet blind superherory)
*A sweater
*$20
and maybe best of all...
*A tie that plays "silent night". I may have to work this into my new years party outfit.
Wednesday:
It's christmas eve! That alone is enough to be excited about. |
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| Happiness Meme |
[Dec. 22nd, 2008|05:04 pm] |
Monday:
*I got 99% of of my christmas shopping/wrapping done!
*Josh and I had a delightful afternoon of shopping and making missed connections with strangers.
*I picked up a copy of The Proposition for $9 at Target. |
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| Happiness meme |
[Dec. 22nd, 2008|12:25 am] |
Rules: For 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. If you can read this, you've been tagged.
Sunday:
I'm back home from England and I got to spend the day with some of my best friends, eating Chipotle and "not" going to the mall! |
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| Things I need to do before I leave, in chronological order. |
[Dec. 13th, 2008|11:28 pm] |
Sunday:
*Study for Archaeology final
Monday:
*Study for Archaeology final
Tuesday:
*Get my second English paper back from Brit/Irish lit Seminar tutor
*Attend final Brit/Irish lit seminar
*Study for Archaeology final
*Last Shambles meeting
Wednesday:
*Last minute studying for Archaeology final
*End of semester/"Max's farewell party" party
*Go to bed at reasonable hour because ohfuck final tomorrow morning
Thursday:
*Take Archaeology final at 9:30
*Run errands in town
*Pack
Friday:
*Drop off keys, leave
*Catch 12:30 train to London |
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| This was going to be a What's On My Mind, In 5, but I have too many things to discuss. |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|08:22 am] |
It's beginning to feel a great deal like Christmas and that makes me happy. I need to start doing some Christmas shopping, possibly today.
My improv show with The Shambles last week went really well and I may be performing in the last one of the semester next week. They are awesome kids and I will miss them.
I emailed my boss at Borders and will be working there for the two weeks I'm home. This is kind of a necessary evil, as I'd rather use that time to hang out with people, but I'm going to need some money.
Hard to believe I'm going to be home in 17 days. This semester went by really quickly, I have to believe the four weeks of almost back to back papers helped in that aspect. It's weird thinking about going back to McDaniel, it feels like I've been away from there for much longer (though I guess I have since I haven't had classes there since May).
Pretty excited about my classes next semester: I'm taking Film Analysis, Scriptwriting, some English Major requirement filling Lit analysis class and Astrobiology (Which is apparently a pretty easy class about theoretical alien life. Lots of movies are watched). I also may be taking a non-credit math class that will get my horrible public school system math skills back in shape in order to take the math equivalency test I have to pass to graduate.
I can't stop thinking about Marina and I'm really worried about how stuff goes when I get back, even though I know I shouldn't be. I can't decide if she doesn't want to get back together or if she's just waiting until she sees me to tell me how she feels. In any case, she's apparently getting me a christmas present, so I guess thats a good sign? I'm mentally preparing myself to be heartbroken, but hopefully being home with family and friends will soften that blow. I know I should probably just forget about her until I get home, but that was pretty much what I did when Alex and I broke up and it just made things worse ultimately.
I found out I have to turn in a revised version of my first English essay as well as write an "essay" comparing Sappho/English poetry for my english class which won't be collected or looked at by my seminar professor. This is frustrating because I thought I really only had to do some reading and study for my Archaeology final. It's certainly not the end of the world and it really isn't that much work, but uggghhhhh. My first English paper was kind of a mess too, but I'm going to just try and knock it out this saturday and change as much as I can without having to go back and do more research. I'm not at all prepared for this Archaeology final, which is silly because all I have to do is answer one essay question in an hour. Next week will be spent studying powerpoints and notes.
Guys, Dinosaur Kingdom is not open during December/January! This means we can't go (though I'd be down for it during spring break/the summer). We have to come up with something else. Something awesome.
Zac Bittner's incredibly entertaining, sprawling epic of a Facebook note is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, if only for the Pat/Zac flamewar.
it's 2 in the afternoon and I still haven't showered, should prolly do that.
Later skaters. |
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| What's On My Mind, In Five. |
[Nov. 19th, 2008|09:49 am] |
5.I got into The Shambles, which is University of York's Improv troupe! I'm pretty excited and suprised about it, given that they had a ton of really impressive people auditioning along side me and I'd assumed that my being there for only one semester would've probably hurt my chances. It's a really funny and talented group of people and they seem really excited to have me, so I feel like I've really found my niche here.
4. Still feeling down about ex-girlfriend stuff. Things seem to be at a standstill, it doesn't look terrible, but we don't talk alot and I'm beginning to worry she'll have "moved on" when I come back (I...have experience in this). Ultimately though, theres nothing I can do about it for right now, so I'm trying not to focus on her. Needless to say, things will either go really well or really poorly when we finally do get to see each other when I get home in December.
3. I've gotten B's essentially on my last two papers (well, a B- and a B), which is fantastic, as I was expecting to get atleast C's on them. Now all I have to do is knock out my last paper for English/Irish Lit (due monday) and I will literally have nothing to do but read for class until my Archaeology final.
2.I'm really excited for Dinosaur World with Josh, Sisson and Corey (and presumably others). I'm only going to be home for a few weeks because of Jan term, so I feel like this kind of adventure is needed.
1. Despite the fact that I've spent alot of my time abroad missing home, it really has been a great experience. I feel like I've managed to lose alot of anger that I've had inside me and become less of an asshole. I guess being in a really beautiful city and out of your comfort zone will do that to you. |
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[Nov. 11th, 2008|05:11 pm] |
My grandmother died yesterday. I just found this out today in a one sentence email from my dad. I didn't get to say anything to her and I feel really bad for not atleast calling her. We weren't that close, but she was my grandmother. I hope my dad calls me tonight. I hate that the one time I'm out of the fucking country, someone in my immediate family dies.
I would really like to go home now.
On top of this, my internet in my room isn't working, which is frustrating in terms of trying to check for responses from my parents about this. |
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