u23d

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oh happy day, u23dmovie.com just added the transit regal theatre as a location to see the movie. we don’t have to drive to toronto or rochester now!! yaaaaay!!!

in other news my norton antivirus has suddenly stopped working after 3 years, it claims i need to activate the program because the trial is up, but it won’t accept my key…i just freaking resubscribed too. trying to work it out with customer support, where i told them i had already downloaded their “fix” for it from the FAQ page and it didn’t work, and what do they tell me to do – install the fix…gee thanks for your help.

transit! so happy now!

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employee of the year

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so….cassie is trying to come up the 14th so we can go see u23d. and looking for show times, it appears that neither of the now 2 rochester theatres showing it are imax, nor either of the 2 toronto theatres (carolyn, does empress even have an imax theatre? scotiabank toronto seems to be imax, but not clear if the movie is ON imax or not…or running beyond feb 7th…and i can’t call canada apparently)…the roch cinemark site is so shitty tho it’s hard to really tell. and nothing within 3 hours appears to be imax either. arg why can’t they just show it on freaking transit imax.

the work dinner was nice. a fellow dealer won employee of the year, which was nice. as nice as someone NOT ME winning it can be hahahaha. anyway. it was super long though, they delayed dinner because of the weather and all the people coming up from the salamanca casino. we didn’t eat til at least 8, and the courses were so slow. dinner was small filet and crab stuffed lobster. I TRIED THE LOBSTER, it was horrible. never ever again. and this time, unlike the crab cakes i accidentally ate, the crab was pretty horrible too. aside from it all tasting bad, everyone pulled the meat out of the lobster tail and left empty lobster tails around the table, with little lobster legs, and it was so totally barftastic having sea spider carcasses sitting on the table all around me. nightmare hahahahahah

but i got the wii hooked up and online. it’s working, more to play tomorrow 🙂

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wiiiiii

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thanks to john  i got a wii!!! he txt me this morning that his store had 3, so i jumped in the shower and ran over and he saved the last one for me. yay! 500$ later…LOL now if only i could figure out my network code and get it online (now that my internet is back after the power outtage)….

tonight is my 3rd free fancy dinner from work, the employee of the year dinner. maybe if i win employee of the year my expenditure today will be justified hahahah

the weather is total shit. wasn’t planning on leaving the house til dinner until the wii thing came up. my hair froze walking into best buy, and i almost got blown over walking back to the car. and i didn’t sleep much because the wind was so loud and i thought a window was going to break. ah well.

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tonight’s A daily show moment of zen, so hilarious, a certain clip from each of bush’s state of the union addresses. who needs writers when you have an idiot for president?

song lyrics for no other reason than i heard the song today and remembered how much i love it
Nothing remains
We could run when the rain slows
Look for the cars or signs of life
Where the heat goes
Look for the drifters
We should crawl under the bracken
Look for the shafts of light on the road
Where the heat goes

Everything has changed
For in truth, it’s the beginning of nothing
And nothing has changed
Everything has changed
For in truth, it’s the beginning of an end
And nothing has changed
And everything has changed

(In your fear)
……………..In your fear
……………………..(seek only peace)
Of what we have become
…(In you fear,…………..seek only love)
……………………………………Take to the fire
(In your fear)
………….Now we must burn
………………………(seek only peace)
All that we are
….(In you fear, seek only love)
………………………….Rise together
…………………………….. ..(In your fear)
Through these clouds
(in your fear)
As on wings
(As on wings)

Oo, ho
Oo, ho

This is the trip
And this the business we take
This is our number
All my trials
Lord will be remembered
Everything has changed

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the US sucks

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someone at work put on fox news (arg!!!) last night, and saw that obama won the SC primary by ALOT. that led to just a small discussion about the primaries (and the fact that i can’t change my party affiliation until AFTER the general election in november, despite what the ny state website said) and the candidates…a friend said if hillary wins he’s starting an assassination pool because no way will she survive 4 years…and thinking about it, neither will obama…and that is really telling about how fucked up the US is. because i agree, and it’s sad that our country STILL has crazies out there who won’t stand for a female or black (or god forbid both) president. i mean, get with the times america. it’s sick.

and of course, what else is sick is the fact that there are hate groups out there, one specifically, who stated they’d protest heath ledger’s funeral because he merely PLAYED a gay character in a movie. ok not that i understand these groups protesting things like matthew shepard’s funeral, but at least he WAS gay. it really makes me ill.

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dream +

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had a bizarre dream about a new nin record, that was supposedly year zero. there was all sorts of hidden stuff in it that had to deal with the arg…like if you looked at a certain part of the packaging it told you a certain part of a song to listen to for a clue…which was turning the speakers really loud during the first song and you’d hear a voice say a number – which i forget now – that was the actual “year zero”, meaning that the album was taking place actually in the late 80s (?). i was trying to get to a computer to write up my review of the album, though i never got past the first song which had a woman talking softly on it, like la mer.

and in that spirit, time for my review of the new econoline crush cd, ignite. last thursday i went up to canada to find the cd. i have no idea where to buy cds in canada so i had asked around, with my first stop being walmart. well nothing is ever easy for me when driving around an unfamiliar place. i looked up where the closest one was, as opposed to just going to the one i know in st catherines. it is at morrison at qew…no problem. except qew doesn’t exit at morrison, the only exit once driving past walmart is thorold stone road. so i exited figuring it’d be easy to back track…not so. never saw the walmart again, eventually was almost back into the tourist area of the falls before crossing morrison rd. cool. took the road, finally found the walmart, which was back where i had exited qew. LOL. and they didn’t have the cd. fine, i’ll go to future shop in st catherines which i also know where it is. the kid working was about 12, i asked if they had the cd and he went to look it up. couldn’t spell it so he asked, and i told him…it wasn’t on screen, but he would have had to keep scrolling to see it and didn’t. whatever. i said i wasn’t from the area and where else could i buy cds. he said best buy. i asked where it was, he said 4th…AS IF I KNOW WHERE 4th IS! i thought it may be close and easy to find so i drove around a bit, didn’t find it. fine off to pen center, which i’ve accidentally found once but wasn’t sure i’d be able to find again. i did find it, but at this point it was almost time for me to head back home to go to the board meeting so i had 15 min to run in find HMV and find the cd. they DID have it. thank god. so off for home…figuring glendale went back into the falls (it doesn’t) so i had to back track back to 401 or 104 whatever the road is, and finally made it back into the states. the cd better have been worth it.

overall i guess it was. it was only $11, and though it’s short, 11 songs (i hate that), it is more gritty and rock-ier than “brand new history”, but nothing like “affliction” and definitely not as good as that or “devil”.
could have been – the yelling vocals sort of bother me, but the song has grown on me alot and is pretty cool
dirty – first single, average
psychotic – one of my favs, has a weird cool female vocal part, very unexpected
get out of the way – very stadium rock and roll with the “hey, hey” shouting, reminds me of gary glitter or something. another fav, it’s fun.
hole in my heart – sorta cliche, slower, not really my thing but not horrible
unbelievable – good music, but the chorus sorta bugs me, not sure why.
the love you feel – i think it’s supposed to be a “razorblades and bandaids” comparable song, the drums even sound similar, but doesn’t hold a candle haha. it’s good enough
heaven’s falling – my #1 fav from the album. rock-y and neat
burn it down – another fav, rock
bleed through – best “slow” one, tortured rock
you don’t know what it’s like 2007 – remix/rerecording of the song from brand new history, it’s got neat piano and sounds down tuned or something. it’s a “hidden track” actually track 23 or 24.

i considered taking sunday off to go see them in st catherines but i really need to work, it’s been so slow everyone’s been having to go home early or sit around doing nothing for 3-4 hrs a night, which is actually pretty horrible. EC will tour for ages around here as usual, so no big deal to miss the show.

monte carlo in vegas is on fire.

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a guy told me i look like a young liza minelli. and he repeated, that he said a YOUNG liza minelli hahaha

one of our more notorious players died this week. NOT suicide this time.

u23d will be showing at some IMAX in rochester, Cinemark IMAX® Theatre 2291 Buffalo Road …that’s the closest. or toronto Empire Theatres at Empress Walk 5095 Yonge St…..both starting feb 15th. seems like i’ll be going by myself 🙁 not knowing how long it’ll be running in either place, i may have to take a night off of work to see it. hahah

 

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for someone

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is this really how it ends
with a broken heart and a bottle in my hands
in this dirty room i crawled into
running away from the ghost of you

tore it all apart
lost the way out we’ve gone too far
there could never be enough for you
nothing hurts the cold hard truth

never felt so alone
this city feels so damn cold

tell me was i wrong was i right
fought hard with all my might
my soul kicked black and blue
all my pain comes bleeding through
tell me was i wrong was i right
fought hard with all my might
my soul kicked black and blue
all my pain comes back to you

mountain of amends(?)
angry words and blood on my hands
i fell into a burning rage
felt the fire burn through me

when you took my hand
were you playing a part?
did you ever understand?
complicated so like me
lips to feel love’s for real

never felt so alone
this city feels so damn cold

tell me was i wrong was i right
fought hard with all my might
my soul kicked black and blue
all my pain comes bleeding through
tell me was i wrong was i right
fought hard with all my might
my soul kicked black and blue
all my pain comes back to you

*transcribed by me, accuracy in question ha

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pet peeves

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pet peeves
1. i absolutely cannot stand listening to people eat. whenever food makes an appearance there must be noise to accompany it. so loud restaurants like applebees and fridays are good. dinner with my parents and aunt trudy last week reinforced this. i almost smacked all of them. (well not my mom, didn’t notice her eating, really just my aunt)
2. i cannot stand people chewing on ice. i know i do this as well and i’m now trying not to, as not to annoy others. it is especially bad at work in the break lounge because it’s quiet in there, and people sit around me and chew ice and it drives me nuts.
3. people obsessed with me. now this guy at work follows me around. well as much as possible when we’re not on the same break schedule. but if we are on the same break, he’ll sit next to me all the time. stand behind me if i’m on a computer. and sometimes he won’t even talk, just stand there. which is almost better because he is so obnoxious and sounds like a muppet. and i found out the other day, he talks about me to other people all the time. on top of that, he’s married to a cocktail waitress. and fat and completely unattractive. not that being skinny and attractive would make it any better. he is also one of the most ignorant people i know. arg i just want people to leave me alone.
4. the girl upstairs has become a big annoyance, and not just the sex thing – because most of the time i’m at work and since the new years eve incident, there hasn’t been an issue. but she is just so loud on the stairs, and of course she is always walking around on the stairs when i’m asleep. this is the main reason i want to maybe possibly buy a house. i am so tired of having neighbors in the same building.
5. people bugging me about boyfriends. look, i don’t date, period. i know people, aside from mike, cannot even begin to comprehend that, but it’s not fun, and i’m completely not interested. this does not make me gay. i don’t like girls either. i hate everyone ha. that would make me asexual. so don’t ask me out, don’t ask me for the 100th time if i’ve found a boyfriend yet, don’t ask me if i’d date you if you weren’t married. this one especially goes out to one of the asian bacc players, and mr c.p. the one who wanted to take me to las vegas for the superbowl (dear god he makes me so uncomfortable). again. just leave me alone.
6. people calling me kid/kiddo or any other form of the word. i find it insulting.
7. gambling stories. i really don’t care if you had pocket aces and got boned on the river. i don’t care about the time you had 100 bet up and caught a blackjack. or the time you were up 10k and lost it all back. i see it every day of my life, and no gambling story you can tell me will be something new. we can talk about gambling, or what i do, but please limit the stories.

i think i’m done. i’ve got the worst headache, started last night listening to coast to coast am (ironically while they were talking about earthquake “sensitives” who get headaches 72 hrs before earthquakes) and it did not go away while sleeping – i slept really badly too, no thanks to girl upstairs.

oh…at work i ran into someone from high school…didn’t know he was from HS, i didn’t recognize him but he did me and mentioned it. talking with him about old teachers i bring up my landlord who used to teach senior math. he said, yeah he’s my neighbor…i look at him, and was like “so you are my neighbor too” lol. he lives in the apt building on the other side of my driveway. small world. our 10 year reunion is this year, it’s being planned on myspace apparently to be a weekend event with bar hopping, dinner, and a picnic. i still don’t know if i’m going to attend. as he said, the people from HS i want to see, i still talk to. i can only think of 2 or 3 people i’d want to see, who disappeared, like emily meyer and i’m not sure she’d be the type of person to go.

i dreamed about trying to get into the aud with danielle. well…we were down there for some reason and i was explaining how you CAN’T get in anymore because they added the 2nd garage door etc etc etc. then it started pouring so i was walking to my car. a guy walked out onto a balcony of the aud (?) and i thought, wow they have a guard inside now, good thing we didn’t go in. then i was trying to drive home and the buffalo streets were all weird. i ended up near the baseball stadium which was now called Rangers field, but looked like Wrigley. then i kept rearending this car in front of me because my brakes weren’t working, but the people were asian and couldn’t speak english and didn’t know they were supposed to pull over to look for damage. so we kept driving while i was trying to get them to pull over. then i got rearended by a motorcycle. finally we pulled over and cops were magically there, and also magically i had a non expired registration with me (my real one, i can’t find, i only have the one that expired in june).

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numerology

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listening to coast to coast AM and there is a guest on who is skilled in numerology. so for fun i figured out my life path number and attitude number, both 7s. the characteristics of 7s are amusingly accurate for me

SEVENS are another cerebral number. They have a loner quality. They need to learn to have faith. They have a love of natural beauty: ocean, green grass, plants, flowers, etc. If they do not have faith they tend to become very cynical and escape through drugs, alcohol, work, and geography. They have an air of mystery and do not want you to know who they are.

The 7 Attitude. You don’t get to know what they’re thinking or feeling. They keep to themselves and are introspective. They must continue studying the quest of why they are here: The 7 Attitude asks the big questions.
They will reveal themselves slowly as they go. They can shut down and make you feel they are not remotely interested in what you are saying, but the joke is on you because they are the ultimate observers. They don’t miss anything.

i don’t know how one escapes through geography though…

http://numberslady.com/num.cfm

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