plane crash

a plane flying to buffalo from newark crashed into a house in clarence tonight. wow. 48 people in the plane, dead, and one person on the ground so the news says. crazy! when i was a kid and i heard planes above me i had a fear that they were crashing into the house.

sabres are raising season ticket prices again by 5%…so that’s 4 years of having tix and 4 price increases. I shouldn’t complain, it’s only a 1.50 increase per game as opposed to $3 previous years, but still…RECESSION PEOPLE! i wonder (hope) if they will reconsider the platinum level window prices next year, since they didn’t sell out the Leafs games this year. i guess even crazy leaf fans won’t pay 100 for nosebleeds. if we renew by March 20th we get a 20% discount on playoff tickets, but even reading all the details i’m confused as to if the discount applies to 08-09 playoffs, or 09-10 playoffs, or both…it’s some sort of rebate that gets applied to our account, which makes it even more confusing.

i found a download for u2’s “no line on the horizon” song, and it’s not too bad. it appears that it is not the album version though, it is a b-side on the “get on your boots” single. everyone is waiting for an album leak, it’s only 2 weeks away.

i was really bored this afternoon so i went out to the aud despite the shite weather, took like 2 pictures because it was snowing, and the longer exposures necessary made for snow streaks. plan to go tomorrow too and hopefully adr2 gets out of work early so we can take ladder.

the text boxes that come up on youtube videos now, with comments or whatever, are the most obnoxious thing on the internet.

watched u2’s grammy performance on youtube. the screen, the platform, and bono are very reminiscent of the fly. which is a good thing. but then i listened to 30 sec clips of the album on walmart’s digital music store, and i am so incredibly disappointed. really really very sad about it. i’m hoping the whole thing redeems itself some how, but from the clips…i’m going to hate it.

aud demo started last week, and i took a drive down there on saturday to take some pictures. i need someone to drive me down there with a ladder so i can get shots from above the fence (here’s looking at you and your van adr2 🙂 hehe). there’s no way to get any elevation around the building, unless i want to risk death by stopping on the skyway haha. i was going to go down today again for some action shots (hopefully) but i slept too late, and tomorrow is going to be warmer so i’m going to try again tues.

i want to buy the stuffed severed horse head (a la the godfather) that i found using stumble, it’s only $45, but then i remembered i wanted to buy the florida voting machines that caused all the problems in 2000 with hanging chads, that ended up with the worst 8 years in recent american history. that was $99 and limited quantity so i did that instead. for now. haha.

dream

i dreamed about obama. i was on a flight some where, and looking out the windows the ground looked so cool, with neat patterns out of the fields and it was at night, so the lights looked awesome. then we went to land and it was pretty much a nose dive to the ground, but we landed with no problem. then suddenly i was in a car and i had to go to customs, because i was in vancouver. so i was waiting with my car and getting my luggage out, wondering how my car got there in the first place and how i was going to get it home again since i flew there. customs came and peeked in the car and said i could go. so i got in the car and they pointed the way to my hotel, but i took the wrong way, which was this skyway type road, very high off the ground but also very very narrow so if you turned just a tiny bit you’d fall off. i got to the hotel which was a casino and i checked in and went to the room. all the matresses of the 3 beds in the room were on the floor. i sat on one of them, and realized if i just thought about a certain kind of chair, that chair would appear in the room. then i got up to go to the bathroom and realized the room was all disheveled because someone was else was staying there. there were towels on the floor and underwear and bras hanging in the shower. so i was like, wtf, i gotta call the front desk. but instead i left and i ended up in another room, the presidential suite with obama. he was there all alone doing some work, so i sat down and we just chilled. then i realized, i was chillin with the president, so i txted all my friends LOL. we were talking, and i asked him where the secret service was, and he said they were outside guarding the door. but then how did I get in? then i said, “stupid question, but are we in vancouver” hahahaha, and he said yes. i realized that his room, especially for a presidential suite was really really small, smaller than the one i got which had 3 beds and furniture that would just appear. so we hung out, and i realized he is super cool so i txted my friends again about how cool obama was. finally left back to my room and remembered that i needed to call the front desk, so i did but the phones wouldn’t work.

and people need to get over the fact that michael phelps smokes(d) pot…seriously. NOT A BIG DEAL! everyone smokes pot at some point. did anyone really think a young rich kid, athlete or not, was going to not smoke pot? puh-lease. it should be made legal just so people can’t sit up on their high horse and look down upon things like this. it’s a non issue to me.

dream

work should be interesting tonight, considering everyone thinks i’m a steelers fan. haha especially if they lose, they’ll rub it in as if i care.

dream: i was walking to geneseo…which is something i apparently did all the time. i started my walk down the correct street, which at one point involved walking through a rickety old victorian house. you had to go through the house, i guess it was just totally impossible to continue on the sidewalk or go around it. only this time someone was moving into the house (think the fight club soap house…falling apart and probably condemned) which was surprising. i had to make my way around boxes and furniture, and ended up having to go upstairs and out onto a turret, which i was going to have to jump off of…only it started to crumble and completely fell off the house with me in it. so i got out of the wooden wreckage and then this new owner came out and i apologized for breaking his house. then i was confused as to which way to go, since i came out of the house in a different place than normal. so the owner told me to turn on the street and that that was the right way. so i did, and i ended up in a little town i had never seen before, and realized i didn’t go the way i normally went. walking through the town they were preparing for some kind of festival, lots of people on the streets. then they all started walking out of town and i had no choice but to follow the crowd. i asked someone how to get to geneseo and they told me to follow rt 17 so i was going to, but couldn’t get out of the crowd. walked passed a bus station which was announcing buses to geneseo so i was like Oh i should just take a bus instead, but again, couldn’t get out of the crowd to go buy a ticket.

then it morphed into being home again, and there being a news report about one of Father Baker’s orphanages burning, and i realized it would be a good exploring opportunity, but i couldn’t go alone and thought, wow i need more friends. i was going to call alex to go but never got the chance.

nkotb

did i mention new kids on the block are coming to my casino in march? since we’re technically not allowed to go, i signed up to work the show hahah. so i’m on the list, however tony said it’s a long list so i may not end up getting picked 🙁 we shall see.

and yikes, gas bill 224$!!

reading is fun

i really don’t have alot to say lately.

i finished reading the His Dark Materials series. and i will ask the same thing i asked when finished harry potter…seriously, these are children’s books?? the 3 books are much darker and deeper than harry potter, and just because they star children, they’re for children? it discusses killing god! they go into “hell” and let out all the dead people! among all the other somewhat disturbing and violent parts of the book. i liked it! haha no really, i enjoyed it, and it kept me in suspense so that i kept staying up too late reading.

next up is the 2nd Ender Wiggins book, came in the mail today. i just can’t finish Atlas Shrugged again, there is just too much and it’s too dense. i’m about halfway through and i keep remembering things that still haven’t happened yet haha.

dream

dream: i was at work with all the casino workers but we worked at walmart. for whatever reason, someone suddenly said the rapture was upon us, and everyone started panicing and running around, running towards the front of walmart. there was a group of us who were like, no way is the fucking rapture coming. i found some religious book in the toy section about the rapture and i was going to read it to the people amassed at the front of the store waiting to be taken to heaven (i guess) but another coworker said they’d never understand and it would probably make them mad. alot of people had left the store but i stuck around because i thought the situation would be very humorous hah. people kept telling them that it was not the “fucking rapture”. then i went back to the garden section where the leader of the rapture group and another person were tieing someone to a christmas tree and beating the shit out of them, as if it was jesus on the cross. then i realized this was sorta getting out of hand. so i grabbed what turned out to be a mic stand and tried to start beating the 2 guys with it, but it was really heavy and i didn’t do a very good job. so i left them and went back to the front of the store to find my friends and we were going to leave, but then the leader of the rapture was like “There’s no way you’re getting out of here”. he and his cronies started moving the shopping carts in front of the doors to block anyone from getting out. someone told me to escape and call the SWAT team, so i launched myself over the carts and out the door into the parking lot. i ran to my car hoping no one was following me to take me back inside, and made it, and started driving home – which was my old town house near the air base. there was a really funny colored sky like a big storm had just passed. i tried to call 911 but it wouldn’t ring, because the power was out from the storm and phones weren’t working. i tried again and got through and told them some cult took over walmart claiming the rapture was coming, and they were like…what?!?! hahahahah

 

Inauguration day!

“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers.”

wow. obama acknowledged atheists. holy crap!

HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY!!! We somehow, barely, survived the Bush Administration. Congrats to all! ha

*edit* LOL cheney in a wheelchair

one more day!!!!

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.” -George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

“People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in’s house and say I love you.” -George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

Get on your boots!

more thoughts on “get on your boots”
1. like i said, when it starts, it is not a u2 song. when i got it on phill’s phone, there were downloading issues, and the song “was not available”, so when it worked i thought maybe it wasn’t the right one. but bono comes in and he has a distinctive voice proving it to be u2 afterall.
2. the closest to “molten metal from mars” as u2 is going to get. the edge’s guitar is kick ass and dirty. adam’s got a funky bass line throughout. and i think i hear the hint of a drum machine…0_0
3. it’s got an old 60s vibe to me. part of it is the layered harmonizing vocals, part is the guitar.
4. the tempo of the vocals, or style of singing, in the verses is reminiscent of “vertigo”
5. omg just realized what the claps in the background remind me of…peaches “fuck the pain away”. LOL
6. the end, bono “chants” (approx the 2:30 mark), very cool. then the guitar kicks back in, that’ll be great live.
7. “i don’t want to talk about wars between nations….not right now” hahaha

my reservations
1. lyrically…i can’t figure out what the song is about. and it’s not super stunning with lyrics like “sexy boots”, “fuzzy boots”, “satan has a bomb scare”. again, no profound bono lyrics here.
2. i really really liked “vertigo” when it was released. leighanne and i listened to it on repeat for about 2 hours, and we were both very excited for the album. then “how to dismantle an atomic bomb” came out and it was severely lacking compared to what “vertigo” had promised…so i’m still hesitant for the album, but more optimistic having heard this and having seen the album cover.

i picture it having a fun video, like performances in the 60s with girls in go go boots, and the camera zooming in and out on edge’s guitar parts. maybe even like a parody of the 60s like those breaks in Austin Powers where he is with a band haha. definitely something better than the cgi-fest that was “vertigo”

it makes me happy right now, and i needed it cuz i had a depressing dream that was going to ruin my day. not anymore!