hockey

busy week. david visited during “my weekend”. some bct, some movies (3:10 to yuma, and poltergeist), not enough/any aud. met up with joe to trade tickets/money, then the sabres home opener.

first home opener i’ve been to. it was exciting to be there (their new touching video montage includes a shot of central terminal, i was excited ha), cool to see the Presidents Trophy, and the 2 new banners unveiled from the rafters. i wish we would have won, but it’s a long season. there were 1 and a half good periods, and then the rest was pretty crappy. the new high def jumbo tron is awesome!! you can actually see the replays now hahaha.

oh absinthe is legal in the US now. just fyi. get your (gross) drink on.

 

even tho most of the time i do a whole lot of nothing i suddenly feel like there are 97297 things i have to do in the next few days. david arrives tomorrow before i go to work, so i should clean and find ways to entertain. plus mary needs help with this bullshit toke committee stuff (which has really died down and is almost a non issue, tho she feels we should still respond) so she wanted me to come over tues or wed to help her. photo shoot at bct on wed night. my mom thinks she’s dying so she has dr appts and wants me to come over tuesday to go through financial stuff in case she dies during a colonoscopy. i won’t be awake before 2:30 because i was on tokes tonight so stayed late, i’m wide awake and have been having trouble getting to sleep before 8 am the last few weeks. arg! so while i really don’t have that much to do, i do so much nothing that it’s hard to fit it all in 😛

but then, FRIDAY NIGHT, wooo sabres home opener. i’m so freaking excited it’s sad. hahah.

oh yeah. when i got home from work sunday night (technically monday morning) there was a silver suv pulling out of my drive way, face first. from what i could see in the dark the driver was wearing a baseball hat, smoking a cigar, and looked very much like the roulette player who i get in fights with. i sat in the road waiting for him to move so i could pull in. the suv pulled into the driveway across the street and just sat there. it was very weird and unnerving. so if my house blows up or i’m robbed or stabbed, it was dennis. go to the casino and ask any roulette dealer about dennis and you’ll be able to track him down and turn him into the cops. we haven’t had any fights recently so there’s really no reason for him to want me dead, and yes i know i’m being paranoid and silly. but it really did look like him, and it’s weird.

October
And the trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear
What do I care
October
And Kingdoms rise
And Kingdoms fall
But you go on…
… and on…

i am the new proud? owner of an nfl jersey. wtf? hah we can wear jeseys on game days at work, so anything to not have to wear my ugly mustard color uniform is ok by me. i have a rothlisberger jersey. since finding out the origin of the steelers logo, i really like it, and the jersey is black so it was no contest. haha i can’t wait til someone asks me about the steelers and i can tell them i know nothing about football. except where the steelers logo is from hahaha. i’m a nerd.

britney spears lost custody of her kids hahahahah

u2 quotes

i dreamed about there being a new version of the muppet show.

i also spent yesterday redoing my shopping cart on institutional green, so now it actually works: http://www.institutionalgreen.org/store

i finished reading U2 Popaganda last night, so now the u2 quote post

Adam: I’d have to say that within the u2 camp, I would definitely be the most diminutive of all the members.
Edge: Adam is the most well-endowed member, no contest, but he wouldn’t know because he’s blind.
Bono: Some people think u2 should be hung. All I’m saying is that we are, in fact, particularly well hung.

“I love women, they’re definitely the stronger sex. Some of my best friends are women. Some of my best friends dress up as women too.” – bono

Interviewer: What do you plan to do after the tour ends?
Bono: Extend the tour… reality isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

“It’s a mad thing we do. There’s nothing natural about it. I mean, I hit things for a living…and people clap.” – Larry

This next one is for adr2
“Strange things happen, like certain pieces of music you’ve used as intro tapes…you’re at home and somebody puts that on the record player and you suddenly start crawling up the walls, the adrenalin starts going. It’s like this Pavlov’s Dog reaction. There’s a song called “4th of July” that we used to use all the time, and I still can’t hear it without thinking we’re about to do a show.” – Edge

“Religious people, generally they freak me out. Honestly, I start twitching when I’m around them. But sometimes, maybe weirdos are the only people who really know they need god.” – Bono

“It’s really the most expensive demo session in the history of music.” – Bono on Pop.
but it’s such a great one!! i hate that u2 (esp larry) hates pop.

“We’re on a roll. Its getting more like the early u2 records. Really simple, stripped down arragements. That’s what we’re hungry for – music with that life force.” – Edge on how to dismantle an atomic bomb, 2002….
edge…seriously? simple? stripped down? those are not the words i use to describe that album

“I went into that record looking good. Then one day they had a guy doing hair in the studio. Bono said, “dan, why don’t you get a hair cut?” I came out with a fucking mullet. I’ll never forgive them.” – Daniel Lanois

“The lights came on during “Where the Streets Have No Name” and there must have been 10,000 people with tears running down their faces. And I told them they looked beautiful, which became the line in “City of Blinding Lights.” – Bono on u2 playing NYC after 9-11

“One of the ancient privileges of being a freeman of the city is the right to graze sheep on open ground. So the next day Bono and I borrowed a couple of sheep and took them out to eat the grass on St Stephen’s Green. It seemed like a good idea at the time.” – Edge

HA!!!!

“If you really hate me or u2 don’t shoot me – that will only sell another 5 million records…I’m worth more dead than alive! If you really hate me, don’t make me a legend” – bono 1988

“I’m famous because I know Bono. That’s pretty much it.” – adam

“Anyone is welcome to tape our shows and pass them around to their friends. But if you start selling them, we will find out where you park your car and we will pay you a little visit!” – bono 2000
promise? haha

“Be brilliant or fuck off.” – bono

“u2 is not a particularly great name.” – larry

“I had one of the worst haircuts of the 1980s. I know that it launched a million second-division soccer players. But the truth of it, if I’m really honest, is that I thought I looked like David Bowie.” – bono…LOL

“I need them for when I’m being insincere…” – bono on his sunglasses

“You know, it’s no surprise to me how ugly the world can be, but I have to remind myself to pay attention to how beautiful it can be. To see a wave crashing in, or a beautiful tree. Or a beach full of breasts, heh heh.” – bono

hockey

Phill and I went through our sabres season tickets, took the ones we’re using, and here are the rest if anyone is interested (adrienne ha)

We’re probably gonna put them all on ebay in a store, so if you’re going to buy from us just pay us, and don’t use ebay – we can avoid all the fees and stuff.

phill is mad cuz we finally got the picture tickets (didn’t last year because we bought them late), and instead of action shots or photos of players, every game features a different picture of a fan. hah i think they’re cool, i’m just glad i’m not in any – he threatened to send the photo of me and sabretooth to them to use.

dumb bush

bush’s UN speech, complete with phoenetic pronounciations was accidentally posted online. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_phonetics
yeah “accidentally”. if i worked at the UN and had a copy of the speech i’d “accidentally” post it online too, so everyone can laugh.

“It included phonetic spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of U.S. human rights criticism.”

seriously…how else would you pronounce those names?!?!?!?! later in the article, the countries, i can sort of understand – at least help with kyrgyzstan is helpful, not so much the other 2. but those names? there aren’t even any silent letters in those names!!

 

drama

i bought a camera body on ebay that is from the los alamos nuclear facilities. this thrills me. but that’s cuz i’m a dork. it’s on my porch right now and i’d go get it except the spiders. must wait til sun is out. i also bought a mini exercise bike for under the desk, because i have the best intentions to get new bike tires, but it’s been 2 years with these intentions now and no functioning bike. all i do is sit in front of the comp all day, so now i’ll get to ride a bike while i sit here. i just hope there’s enough clearance for my knees and i’m not sure there is. i’ll work it out. it has not arrived yet though.

oktoberfest was saturday, so i called into work on super asian match play day. good for me!! it was super busy and i’m soooo glad i missed it. i plan on missing the next asian concert day, i’ll be asking for it off as soon as i find out when it is. anyway. oktoberfest was really good, lots of people, we made some good money and it’s become quite an easy event (at least for me ha!).

went back to work sunday and there’s aaaaaalll sorts of dramaz going on with toke committee and how we get paid, and how much money is being “wasted” by paying 16 dealers a bit extra to handle all the tokes. it’s pretty ridiculous because in the end, when you do the math each dealer is paying $4 a week to have other people manage their money for them. wtf is the big deal it’s 4 freaking dollars! if you’re so hard up for the extra $4 a week in your pay check, maybe you should just get a 2nd job. but it’s CRAZY. since my shift has the most to do with the tokes we’ve been dealing with the most questions and stress about it all. in the end i think it’s going to be all for nothing, because the petition that this certain person put up declaring that our by-laws be changed only has the support of 52 out of 431 dealers. but it’s still stressful and ridiculous.

dream

dream: i guess i was in school again. i was sitting around a table with some others in a common area or student union type place. but it was also like a hospital. suddenly there was some alarm, and we apparently knew why it was going off. there was a killer virus that had escaped somewhere in the world, that was going to kill everyone. bioterrorism or something. some people came into the room with face masks on, because they were so worried. others i was with scoffed at the notion that the virus would be close enough to where we were to hurt us. but then suddenly we all started wearing face masks. they were too small though and wouldn’t cover your nose and mouth at the same time and you could barely breath through them. i was like, where are the normal surgical masks, we’re in a hospital for gods sake. the alarm stopped which i guess meant it was all clear. at this point the school decided to dismiss classes and send everyone home. but they told us they were going to send us on buses. we all complained but thought whatever they’re getting us buses. then the school said no that we had to pay to take the bus and it would be $66. then people were yelling that they couldn’t afford to take a bus for $66. so they let us all go thinking we’d go down to where the buses were, but most people took off either walking home or going to the subway. in the subway i saw people i knew, supervisors from work, and thought even the bosses wouldn’t take the bus for $66. then we realized why they wanted us to take the buses, and not the subway – more terror attacks or bombs.

 

dream

dream: a neighbor near my parents house beat up and left his daughter in the trash at the end of the driveway. i was looking out my bedroom window and i thought it seemed like a person was laying on the trash bags. i could sort of see hair but i wasn’t sure. then she started moving, and i realized she was alive just really beat up. i guess she saw me looking at her because suddenly she had climbed on to the roof in front of my window. she was explaining how he had beat her up and she needed help to get away from him. i tried to call 911 but no one was answering. we then saw her father come out of the house and start shooting the garbage bags, thinking she was still laying on them where he left her. he apparently had very bad eye sight since he didn’t see she wasn’t still there. apparently she thought laying on my roof was a good hiding spot, but then he realized she wasn’t laying on the trash bags and started randomly shooting to his right and left. she dropped off of the roof and got on a bike and tried to ride the bike away to safety but for whatever reason she rode in the direction of her house, so she’d go right past him but on the opposite side of the street. i guess he noticed, and he shot at her and hit her and i watched her fall off the bike. i called 911 again and someone answered this time. now i went outside where a crowd of neighbors had gathered and i told them that i was a witness and that i had seen him shoot her blahblahblah.

 

dream: using barbie dolls to reenact scenes and looks of britney spears and christina aguilera ha

popmart dvd. it comes complete with pop up edge. fantastic. and a great quote: “…the emergence of the quartet for the encore, alighting from the spangling Lemon like gay-acting robots from a space capsule (lol), to launch into the riff-munching big beat hoolie that is Discotheque. Knowing homage to Spinal Tap, inspired stroke of laugh-out-loud silliness, and simply gobsmacking the coup de theatre all rolled into one. “The Lemon” has entered the history of rock show gimcrackery alongside Black Sabbath’s Stonehenge (lol) and The Stones’ inflatable penis, and knocked them all into a cocked hat. And if you’d ever wondered where that Lemon is now, Edge has some breaking news… “Our manager has been handling the Lemon issue, ” he tells me. “At one point I believe he was trying to sell it to the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. That would have been perfect. As a vehicle I’m afraid it has its limitations – it probably wouldn’t get you to work and back. But it could make someone a fantastic cocktail bar.