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i’m watching arlington road, it’s about your neighbors being terrorists…and it was from 99, so pre 9-11 haha. anyway. tim robbins is in it, and he’s the bad guy. and i am having issues watching him play a bad guy. he just reminds me so much of nate. he just can’t be evil haha. (ok and wow…twist ending holy crap, genius, oh god this shouldn’t be seen by potential terrorists haha)

there is reason to believe that the sattler theatre was used as a mosque of the Nation of Islam. there were records of attendance from 69 and 70, the first page labled as Muhammed’s Mosque of Islam No 23. do you think looking up info on the Nation of Islam will set of red flags in the white house spy rooms? i know nothing about the Nation of Islam except Louis Farrakhan. does it even have anything to do with the Islamic faith? (apparently it does) i just want to know if there are records to confirm that the theatre was a mosque of NoI…I found an excel spreadsheet online that lists Mosque 23 being at 512 Broadway, a different address…another website on buffalo churches list Mosque 23 being at 512 broadway, but it has now moved to 5 walden ave, and there is no longer a building at 512…next time i go down to the terminal I’ll have to stop in and see if they have any info on the old mosque.

to make things more confusing, i noticed in my exterior picture that the address actually ON the builing is 512 broadway not 516 broadway, putting the Mosque at the theatre. still gonna confirm at the current mosque if possible.

I have no idea what this spreadsheet is a list of, it’s not labled, yet it lists the Socialist Workers headquarters in Buffalo as well as the Workers of the World haha. and 14808 other group headquarters between 1969 and 1988…Alaskans for Nuclear Arms Control…”Closely Watched Films” whatever that was…the file was from the Radical Information Project “The Radical Information Project (affectionately, RIP) is dedicated to providing information about “conflict” or “contentious politics” (e.g., demonstrations, terrorism, civil war, protest policing, human rights violations and genocide/politicide) and analyzing this information in fundamentally different ways.” http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/davenport/home.htm

anyway this reminds me, when i got us lost in the ghetto yesterday cuz i went the wrong way on the 33 we found THE best church ever. HOLY GHOST TEMPLE FLAMING FIRE MINISTRIES (the caps come straight from what i c&ped on their website http://www.webspawner.com/users/holyghosttemple/). what a great name for a church. god i’d LOVE to go to a service there if i didn’t think i’d get mugged before or after. they have a fabulous logo too. unfortunately it’s not on the website. for school chris has to participate in a racially uncomfortable situation, i said he should go to a service there. i need some fellow heretics to go with me one day hahaha.

ok so that was fun. yay research. photos to come in a separate post.

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i think the minolta has finally bit it. even more than it did after i broke it. i thought it was just the batteries being dead on sunday, but put new batteries in it today, it is still stuck at full zoom. the slider makes it look like it’s supposed to be zooming, but it’s not. may be looking at cameras tomorrow. gah.

so the outing today was shot on film. chris and i went to sattler theatre. upon walking in it wasn’t as fabulous as i was hoping. but by the end it had grown on both of us. unfortunately i can’t shoot color film, plus i used one of the expired rolls, so the colors are way messed up. i’m not good enough with photoshop to make it look normal haha. most were switched to black and white, and i have 2 real black and white rolls to pick up tomorrow. it’s a neat little building. i’ll need to go back with a new camera if i get one, for color shots.

so looking for a camera, i still want to go with nikon. it seems silly to spend 900 on the d70 when for 100 more i could get the d80…but i’m still having issues spending that much money. gah. so expensive. and i don’t know whether to get the kit with a lens, when the stock lens was reviewed sorta badly, or not. i know nothing about lenses, and maybe mine is shit right now too and i just don’t know any better. will i really notice a problem with the stock lens? i doubt it. gah so so so much money.

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tool concert in cleveland tonight. headed up with tony, phil and patrick, got in around 6:30 and tried to find a place to eat. reminder: i hate cleveland. as patrick put it, you shouldn’t have to go more than 2 blocks in any big city to find a restaurant. but there were none. eventually found a place, and had sorta crap service, but whatever.

the show. the floor was all seats, and we had seats side stage mid section, and they ended up being really good. tony was impressed hehe. isis opened, and they were the same sort of art/atmospheric-metal type thing that tool does. i swear they only played 4 really long songs. they weren’t bad, but to me, sort of boring. tool came on around quarter after nine and opened with stinkfist. rockin of course. followed by the pot, i think it’s called, which wasn’t bad. but most of the rest of the show was new stuff, and given the fact that i still don’t like the album, i was kinda just eh about it. i don’t think the setlist showed off the fact that maynard is (still) the best rock singer around. they were easy songs to sing – and of course he makes singing seem so simple – and just…not the best choices to show how good that band is. 3 songs from aenima – stinkfist, 46&2, aenima, 2 songs from lateralus – schism, lateralus, the rest was new stuff. they played one of the songs from 10,000 days that i can’t listen to because the guitar tone shoots right through me something awful. i think they also played the 2 longest songs of the record, and it just bugs the hell out of me. it was boring. just as trent doesn’t do an encore, they only had a “sort of” encore…they never left the stage, they all got rid of their instruments and sat on the stage for a few minutes, then got back up and started with lateralus. highlights: lateralus and aenima (the closer). lateralus was incredible…disappointed that there was no “sober”…a song that truely shows off maynard’s voice, and gives me chills. nothing from undertow.

looks like the setlist was the same as the toronto show, which was
Stinkfist
The Pot
Forty Six & 2
Jambi
Schism
Lost Keys
Rosetta Stoned
Wings For Marie
10,000 Days
Lateralus
Vicarious
Ænema

maynard had a mohawk, and looked oddly attractive in jeans and a cowboy hat. and it sort of disturbs me that i think that. haha

so it was good, i’m not sure tool can be bad, but as patrick said in the car, he thinks they were better when he saw them with lateralus. i agree. i wouldn’t see them again this tour, but of course i’d go again in the future.

in other news….Lacuna Coil – December 12th Toronto, ON – Kool Haus. they’re supposed to be touring in november as well. yay! hopefully they don’t play all new stuff 🙂

back to work tomorrow.

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early seinfeld episodes, jerry’s dad was played by a different actor…

i drank apple juice today cuz kathryn had juice boxes and i was beyond thirsty so i gave it a go. i haven’t had apple juice since i was a kid because frankly, i imagine that apple juice is what pee would taste like. i just find it so terrible. but it was the best damn apple juice ever – at that point i probably would have drank the water sitting around the site…hahah. i was THAT thirsty.

 

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finally a sucessful trip to beth steel today with dusty and kathryn. met them at the site around noon and headed straight to the coke plant. it was sunny when i left the house…not so once i got to the lake. clouds and hurricane winds. thankfully i left my jacket in the car when i got home last night. spent 5 hours at the coke plant. i can safely say i have shot all i can shoot at the coke plant, and i might as well just give up on the coke plant at sunset desire…tho by the time we left around quarter to 6 the sun was starting to come out. of course. but after 5 hours there, i think i’ve had enough. i will return with people who want to go but please not for 5 hrs again. we didn’t see a single sole there, and no evidence of any work beyond “slag” breaking as far as the windmills go. there were obvious changes to the rest of the site, even from 2 weeks ago with dan. continued demo of the remaining buildings and parts on the other side of the canal. i wanted to climb the big black towers, but the wind was way too scary. one of the cool things i saw this time around was the “car dumper”. i never really thought about how the coal was removed from railroad cars, but i would have thought some kind of bucket scoop shovel contraption, or something like the grain elevators. nope…the cars were moved into this big yellow cylinder thing, which i am assuming by the way everything looked, flipped the cars over, and the coal was collected in a big chute below. very cool.

new location to check out – statler theatre. looks fabulous, and apparently is wide open at the moment. but i swear someone told me about it at the terminal, probably mike, and that it was purchased…so i’m worried that the openness will quickly go away. i may try it wed/thurs if the weather is nice and i can get someone to go with me. it’s on broadway, not exactly sure where, but still…it’s broadway. i’m not taking any chances. so if anyone wants to go… 🙂

editing pics now, and pics from the wedding.

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wow my comp/internet is not doing well…

anyway. eric is married. that is so weird to think about, because i don’t consider us to be adults haha. i’ve known him for 20 years, which makes me feel old, but still…we’re not old enough to be settled and married! haha it’s just weird.

i realized that when you actually know people at a wedding it can be fun! the wedding was at an old little chapel that was cosy and cute, nice ceremony, everyone was emotional hehe. the reception was right after at the same place, which was convienient. good food and good company. it definitely wasn’t boring, and the time flew. jake even got me to dance with him, and unfortunately there is proof haha. it was good to see the RIT kids again, and the bonus family. all the best eric and tiff!

adrienne and i made a quick detour in watkins glen to investigate whether or not the glen springs inn still existed. and i’m not convinced that it’s gone. found a power house and what looked to be a churchy building, it had a cross on it, but there were lots and lots of trees and another dirt road that i didn’t trust driving on. couldn’t see very far into the woods to confirm the building being there or not. it would be impossible to drive up those roads in the winter though…i may just end up calling the library down there and asking haha. gah, me use the phone!

the trip home took a bit longer because it was so so so dark, and bad signage, so i had no idea where we were. we ended up on the east side of seneca lake, and driving back up to geneva – probably the most convoluted way but oh well, we made it home.

i have some pics that probably are crap cuz i hate my flash but i don’t want to look at them right now. exploring tomorrow, possibly a new location but we’ll see.

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what gets sara to finally unpack the boxes in her house? that have been there since the move in april? being unable to find the nin philly club dvds. i know they’re incases….just can’t find them. but i did find some other interesting stuff in the boxes haha.

and holy crap wow, they were just under my desk on my comp’s subwoofer hahah. well…at least i sorta unpacked more stuff. i still can’t find the audio from the shows, i didn’t want to have to rerip the audio from the dvd, but i do what i have to do…

like make animations from the trailer. i should be figuring out what to wear to the wedding tomorrow but nope. this is clearly more important 😛

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thank you for making me not think i’m stupid for not being able to read 451 and being sorta bored by catch-22. i’m going to continue with 22 for now but i can see myself putting it aside for something else at some point. my book choices are because i decided to read books that were banned. so i have american psycho, electric kool aid acid test, ordinary people, uncle toms cabin…others i think too, to get through. i have only a few “educational” books like the pentagon papers. waiting for one about free masons 🙂 i’m so weird.

sooo cold.

i broke my sewing machine. go me! it’s jammed, won’t move, don’t know why.

picked up adrienne at the airport and went to the arena to see if there was a practice. we were there maybe 15 minutes before the end. no matter. one of the players (some young kid haha) threw her a puck. so that made it worth it hehe. worked on the costume until the machine broke. ah well.

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i finished the radioactive boy scout – interesting book, amazing what this teenage kid managed to get, as far as radioactive materials are concerned, just by writing letters to the atomic energy commision, and other government agencies while posing as a college professor. this is pre 9-11 but STILL…you’d think that writing to a company that provides uranium for experiments would not succeed in gaining a sample…incredible.

so i thought i’d start fahrenheit 451 and i tried…got a few pages in and i couldn’t take it. it wasn’t making sense, i didn’t like the writing style, and if i had to read one more dickens-esque “he was shaking, yet still” phrases i was going to rip it apart. so that one is on hold.

so i tried catch-22. it’s going better, but i am still annoyed by it for some reason. i think i’m at a point where i just can’t read a novel right now. i may put that aside for the pentagon papers first but we’ll see.

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