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During the trip I finished reading “A People’s History of the United States”. It was beyond frustrating. Because it really is “everything you never learned” in high school history. It shows the other side of every major event in the US, from the landing of Columbus to The War On Terrorism. And that saying “history repeats itself” is so obviously true when reading the book it made me sick. Everything that is going on now with Dubya and Iraq happened in 91 with Bush Sr, and in the Vietnam era with Johnson and Nixon. One of the reasons my parents are angry at what is going on with Iraq is that the people in power, and the majority of the blindly patriotic population were from the Vietnam era, they should remember what that was like, they should remember the lies the government told to justify a war we should never have been in. And it’s true. The de ja vu is outstanding. And the book was just sick in showing how much president after president lies, and “sells out” for lack of a better term. How nothing ever gets done, how much capitalism sucks (LOL), etc. It really makes you very jaded and anarchistic. It was a great book and I suggest that everyone read it.

And dubya really should be impeached. With everything he’s done, nothing happens, yet Bill gets a blowjob and gets impeached. This country is so fucked.

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woo atom bombs

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the atomic testing museum is the greatest museum EVER!!! it was so cool. just lots of archival stuff to see, gadgets and stuff that i want, and video footage. in one theatre they simulate what it was like to see one of the tests, complete with wind to simulate the blast. haha how cool. i got myself a ms atom bomb magnet hehe.

after the museum we went to the fashion show mall to meet tony tim and JC. had a snack at this tapas bar, had a pitcher of sangria and then went down to mandalay for some reason….ended up playing there a bit, and we tried to go to the burlesque show but it was dark on tuesdays booo. drove down town to see the berlin wall in the bathroom of main street station then adr and i headed home. had a very fun time. tony was drunk and ridiculous. lots of funny pictures will be coming out of that haha.

hanging here til it’s time to go to the airport. home soon 🙁

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ha! trent dream

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dreamed i was back in school. i couldn’t really remember my schedule or my locker comb because for some reason i had missed alot of it. but my first class was some sort of music class and it was in a big lecture hall type room, clam shaped with long tables and chairs and a stage up front. so almost like a concert theatre too. when i walked in trent was walking out of class. the teacher was handing back our tests we had taken on…trent reznor of all things. she was putting them at random on the tables so i had to find mine and find a seat. mine was on the same table as trent’s test so i sat there figuring that he would come back in and sit there. i got a b+ on my trent test and i was like, wtf i should know all this stuff. so i was looking at what i got wrong and one of them was like “who did trent give $1.38 to, to buy a coffee in 1992?” LOL i really wanted to look at trent’s grade cuz i figured he should know all this stuff since it happened to him but i thought it was rude so i didn’t look. someone else sat in that seat and i was all grrr. but then we all had to move down to the front of the room to the stage because trent was going to do a demonstration. so i was sitting front and center and he was on stage in just jeans and a burgandy shirt and a baseball hat, informal much like a sound check. there were some other people from bands there, and the teacher explained that they were there to coach trent on how to use voice inflection to change the meaning of a song. so he starts this song, and he is singing so that he sounds mentally retarded. and i burst out laughing, he hears me and he bursts out laughing. but these people and trent continue with this song and dance thing singing like they’re retarded. hahahahah. class ends and my next class is english, i can’t find the room tho cuz it had been so long since i went to it. i get in and mary from work is there. so i sit with her and she had skipped music class. i told her i was going to skip too but was so glad i didn’t cuz trent showed up and the singing like a retard was the funniest thing i had heard in forever. hahah

wtf haha

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desert rain

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so off to rhyolite today. and fyi i’m not sure it could be any LESS commercial considering not a single thing was there! i guess unless you consider a sometimes manned chair with info on the town as commercial hahaha.

anyway. the drive wasn’t too bad, scenery much like the drive to cabazon. desert and mountains and sparse vegetation. we passed an exit for Mercury, which i thought was interesting, since Mercury is also the name of one of the base towns on the Nevada Test Site. driving through these “towns,” if you could call them that, was unbelievable. why does any one live out there?!?! and what on earth do you do?!

we kept seeing signs about yucca mountain…which is the federal government’s target for storing vitirified nuclear waste. of course there’s all kinds of opposition, GOD KNOWS WHY considering there is NOTHING out there. but it was odd cuz i had no idea yucca mountain was in the area…i definitely needed to see a map haha.

yeah. when we got there there was no “guide” or any other people to speak of. it had started raining shortly before we had gotten there. started looking at the bottle house and the other ruins and a few other cars with people showed up. no one else was at all interested in entering any of the structures, wimps haha. i really wanted to go in a mine but i am a bit too scared to die in one. checked out all the structures and the “open air art museum” much like that place down in west valley that i can’t think of the name of right now haha. a few random structures including a lego girl. pics of everything to come. for there not being ALL that much to see, i somehow took 3 rolls of film and some digital.

headed back towards LV and we passed an Historic Nevada Marker, and driving by we notice it said Nevada Test Site. um WHAT? ok now i FOR SURE needed to see a map because i always thought the NTS was north east of vegas and we were going north west. but sure enough, we turned around to see the marker and it was about NTS and there we were. so Mercury really was THE Mercury base camp on NTS. of course now we had to take that exit and see what could be seen. which was not much BUT I WAS ON THE NEVADA TEST SITE!!!!!!!!! i was so excited. took a few pictures of signs, some were about needing a docimeter and all that. drove up to the gate and turned back around. god i’m such a dork hahah. looooved it. back home looking at the map we basically drove the complete west side perimeter of the base. cool! next time i plan to come back to vegas it MUST be when i can take a tour of the complex. no ifs ands or buts.

so back in vegas we got dinner at buca since i can’t anymore, and waited to hear about the show we were supposed to go to tonight. turned out there weren’t enough tickets for all of us so adr and i just drove around. went to wynn…and while i think it’s rather unimpressive on the outside, it is pretty inside. well, the non gaming floor is pretty. the rest is just…a casino. went to circus circus and wow it is so awful. and it’s borderline awful-to-the-point-of-not-even-being-fabulous. reno was much better haha. stopped at sahara and it is totally cheese fabulous. LOVE IT! drove around some more waiting for the others to get out of the show but by that time i really didn’t feel like doing anything. tired from the day in the desert. tony didn’t arrive until after midnight, and they were all checking out other strip places before going back downtown to find him. tomorrow going to atomic testing museum to be a geek after adr gets home from school. i figure i won’t be up til then anyway haha. dunno what’s going on at night but group dinner had been tossed around and i’d like to hang with tony before leaving. not gambling anymore tho, i’ve lost my share already.

Rhyolite Photos

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sunday vegas sunday

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forgot to mention about last night…we were in aladdin and everyone disappeared so adr and i were standing where i was playing waiting for them to reappear. these 2 guys and a girl walk by and apparently the one guy was staring at me. i’m oblivious to this stuff. he finally said something and i looked. so like 15 min later they come back and he is like “here this is for you” and he gives me a slot ticket. he starts going on about how i’m worth every penny of it, and he wishes he had more to give me but that was all he had and i was worth it. and it was 75 cents LOL. adr2 is like…was that an insult or a compliment. then a few minutes later they come back to clarify that i was worth way more than that. LOL

anyway. sunday was catching up on sleep day. adr2 “left” in the morning and we slept til afternoon before going to dinner with some of adr’s teacher friends for a birthday. came back home and decided to go get tattooed. that’s when adr2 called to say she was still in vegas. we knew she had been delayed but hadn’t heard from her so we figured she was home. nope. flight was cancelled til tomorrow so they put her in a hotel. so we went and got her, went to the tattoo shop but then didn’t get them done. went off to treasure island to see the fabulous pirate show haha. that was fun. then went drove downtown with me standing out the sun roof, and the adr’s singing “reptile” out the windows at top volume. hahahah it was fabulous. met up with bobref and tim at fitzgeralds and hung out there.

tomorrow we’re gonna try rhyolite, and then hook up with the home people to go to an adult hypnotist at stardust (i think). tuesday is gonna leave me the atomic testing museum while adr is at work.

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nin vegas

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so nin vegas. got up and since we all had seats we didn’t bother to do the line thing. so we went to a mall for a bit, and met amira and rolf at the venetian to go to madame tussauds and molest wax figures. i kissed a zombie LOL. and tried to kill Dubya. after went to treasure island but no pirate shows til after 5 so we went back to venetian and got dinner, then off to aladdin for the show. had decent seats in the 100 level. brought my camera this time, and seems i got some good shots. thank you 400$ piece of shit camera.

setlist was the usual. got with teeth tho YAAAAY. good show of course tho. after went to paris with amira, rolf, candace, ryan and their friend somethingoranother. went BACK to aladdin to play some games and try to get a 5$ nin chip (turns out they haven’t gotten them yet grr). i was winning in 10$ black jack tho. then we all headed to MGM, got some drinks, played a bit, lost money in 3 card poker even tho i WAS winning. headed back to the apt. adr2 leaves tomorrow. dunno whats going on the rest of the time. the people from work arrived today, bob ref called me during the show but i forgot his number so we’ll hook up tomorrow prob, see what’s up. tony arrives monday night i think. bachelor party hahaha. i promised his fiancee i wouldn’t let him touch anyone hehe

setlist
1 Pilgrimage/Mr. Self Destruct
2 You know what you are
3 Terrible Lie
4 The Line begins to Blur
5 March of the Pigs
6 Something I can never have
7 Closer
8 Burn
9 Gave Up
10 Eraser
11 Right where it belongs
12 Beside you in time
13 With Teeth
14 Wish
15 Only
16 Everyday is exactly the same
17 Even Deeper
18 Suck
19 Hurt
20 The Hand that Feeds
21 Head Like a Hole

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nin cabazon and arriving in vegas

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in vegas. the flight was uneventful except for the fact that it turns out a few people from work were on the same one therefore i was forced to sorta socialize with them. they were people i don’t see and or talk to often. arrived fine and on time, met adr at the airport and off to her house. off to the strip for dinner, shopped at some of the casino malls for boots (no luck) and then back to the airport to get adr2. shopped and turned in to get up at 5 to head out to cabazon cali.

spiral show!

we got to morongo around 10 and got in line. it wasn’t too bad at that point, but by the end 102u870834 people cut in front of us. but no matter it was a 900 ticket show. we met 2 really cool people from utah behind us in line, candice and ryan. so we had a good time.

the show. the first half of the show was allllll old stuff. i actually thought for a while we would get all old stuff. but eventually they threw in only, you know what you are, the hand that feeds and…i think one more from with teeth. we got please for the first time i think out of all our shows. it was almost all the old songs they’ve been doing, and then the few from with teeth. it was a great show of course. trent and the guys were really happy. trent mentioned that they were playing “hit after hit after hit” LOL and that it felt like they were playing for all their good friends, and how he thinks he has the best fans in the world but that he’s never been in a shitty band that would have shitty fans LOL. he forgot the words during starfuckers and just stood there til he remembered. aarons guitar was messed up and trent told him it sounded like shit. aaron said something that i couldnt understand. trent threw the mic to the crowd to sing the “don’t you part” but since aaron wasn’t playing no one was singing and trent was like “just say don’t you a bunch of times” LOL josh was drumming the hand that feeds so completely dorky, much like bono during “love and peace or else” it was hilarious. at the end aaron got onto the speaker stack and jumped into the crowd. basically right into adr2’s arms. but we all ended up on the floor LOL. i was on top of amira, and trying to get up when some guy decided to use my neck as leverage to get up wtf. everyone was really cool, all real fans and all that. it was great.

super tired drive back to vegas after the show. on the drive we drove through the town in the middle of the desert that had the world’s tallest thermometer, and wow it was so less fabulous than it should have been. it was digital! lame. the desert is so weird, nothing around and occasionally a town with a few buildings and gas stations that are boarded up anyway. lots of joshua trees. and it turns out we were driving NO where near Joshua Tree park to find THE joshua tree. another time.

setlist:
Pinion
Wish
Sin
Terrible Lie
March of the Pigs
The Frail/The Wretched
Closer
Mr Self Destruct
Piggy
Burn
Only
Home
Please
Reptile
Dead Souls
You Know What You Are?
Gave Up
Suck
Hurt
Starfuckers, INC
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

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what on earth is this uno attack commercial? i think it is one of THE worst jingles i have EVER heard. it’s like some girl trying to be all britney and practically moaning. and she says “you may get no cards”.. um grammar? who thought this was a good song? they should get fired.

i went to get my really expensive custom frame and it looks good. went to the mall and the power went out. so everyone was just standing around waiting, probably 15 min or so. someone said power was out all the way to cheektowaga…it was still out near the blvd and robinson, so of course, rush hour traffic, no signals, it was a mess.

laundry and packing and etc then vegas!

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after 5 days of thinking i was dying, monday comes and poof, snap, stomach is 100% fine. wtf. stupid stomach. but that’s good. even tho most people think i don’t eat, i actually DO, and it sucked not being able to eat really cuz it hurt so bad afterwards. and yes i’m still drinking the aloe juice, but i just canNOT do the DGL now that the stomach doesn’t hurt. it was just THAT wretched. wretched is the only word to describe it.

and besides being sick not much else except counting down to vegas. been having trent dreams, like that he played “non entity” at the cali show he he. 36 more hrs til i leave.

and that’s about it. how exciting.

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aww adr2 brought me a whole bag of natural remedies and things to take for my stomach. the aloe vera juice wasn’t totally hideous. very strange but not necessarily bad…but in large doses not sure if i can handle that haha. we’ll see. stomach got way worse after i ate, wouldn’t have been able to work. i pretty much have to go in tomorrow cuz i already will have gotten points for today. out of sick time.

6 days til the spiral show! and it was a year friday since the reno show that started all of this 🙂

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