so nin.com posted official tour videos on youtube…one of me, i’m not that i posted, and now my all time favourite song – the great destroyer. hahhahahahah still no way i won’t laugh. anyway…seriously, where are josh and jeordie in these videos…it seems the led screen totally cuts off the stage, and i’m assuming josh is behind the screen…ali is up front playing, but no jeordie… i’m confused…

somehow i managed to burst the bloodvessel of my middle knuckle at work today. it really hurts. and it itched for some reason. it’s all nice and purple. and my mouth feels numb. i’m dying.

running to stand still

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lying still
Said I got to do something
About where we’re going
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain
Maybe run from the darkness in the night

Singing ha la la la de day
Ha la la la de day ha la la de day

Sweet the sin
Bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You got to cry with out weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
You know I took the poison from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here

Singing ha la la la de day
Ha la la la de day ha la la de day

She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under a black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging, she is raging
And the storm blows up in her eyes
She will suffer the needle chill
She is running to stand still

10th Anniversary

tonight i used my last sick day to call in for the 10th anniversary at the terminal. kate did an awesome job putting it together and it looked great. i wished for more politicians to show up but ah well that’s ok πŸ˜› jerks. haha. i intended to leave around 9:30, didn’t end up leaving til midnight haha. spent the time talking to bill and tracy, and whoever else stopped by, had some drinks, etc etc etc. good time. it was funny cuz most people dressed up, and it was all “double take” on everyone, because we’re all usually pretty scummy when in the building. tracy wore a dress, and i was like OMG, and i wore a dress, and she was all OMG! hahah. amusing. i have a feeling a certain person is going to complain about the event, given the fact that he made a comment when he got off “stage” after his little speech. and it’s just, you know what, fuck off. it was a nice event, and it was nice to treat ourselves for once.

i have SO much cake left over tho, if anyone local wants it, let me know. it’s really really good πŸ™‚

dbags

another reason on the list why i’ll never pay for metallica anything ever again….

http://www.dailygaming.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=230

“Attorneys for the gaming companies named in the lawsuit were bemused by the lawsuit. “Our company paid a licensing fee to feature the track ‘One’ by Metallica in Guitar Hero III,” counsel for Activision/Red Octane told reporters. “We don’t understand why Metallica would turn around and sue us, unless they’ve gone from insane completely batshit insane since 2001, but we’re confident that the law and our contracts will be enough to have this thrown out.”

and

“Some speculate that the various arms of the band’s crumbling media empire are so out of touch that they don’t know what they have and haven’t licensed, while others believe this may be one last desperate grab for attention from a band that has lost all cultural significance outside of reruns of “I Love the 90s” on VH1.

and

“The band infamously blamed file-sharing programs, which were quickly rising in popularity at the exact same time that Metallica was quickly disappearing from the mainstream consciousness, for the decline in their records, believing that it was Napster, not their own douchebaggery, that stopped fans from buying their albums.

 

haha aaron

oh aaron north…

what gear do you play on: Ruiner
The song always kicks in, and I go, “DAMMIT… what are the words I hafta scream really fast again? ‘The Ruiner knows Phil Spector, he likes wearing sweaters’ Right?”” hahahaha

what gear do you play on: The Perfect Drug
AN: That’s easy, only cos I remember finger-fucking the arrangement on that sucker forever. I know I play a Jazzmaster in drop D tuning, and make lotsa weird noises. It sounds cool, and is fun to play actually. Maybe we’ll even perform it live someday. Eh. Prolly not.

Trent made it clear from the get-go that he wasn’t really interested in me trying to sound like any of the old dudes anyway. He was like, “Instead of copying something Robin just copied from Richard, do what you want”… And to the dismay of kids everywhere with shaved eyebrows and those weird shoes with the big soles on them, I did.

man i still find it hard to believe aaron is 3 years younger than me…

$$$

*edit* the employee of the year doesn’t get $1000, they get $5000 hahahahaha. i made a deal with another dealer that if either of us win employee of the year, we’ll split the prize hehe.

employee of the month!

so for being employee of the month i get a lunch with management on thursday at the steakhouse, 100$ cash, 150$ gift card for the restaurants or stores, parking in the ramp for a month, and apparently some jacket from the gift shop. then i’m in the pool for employee of the year, and for that you get 1000$.

this is all so surprising because well…i’m a damn good employee as far as attendance and knowing what the hell i’m doing, and not coming to work high/drunk. but as far as customer service, i don’t really strive for our “4 Star” service bull that we all had to go to 8 hours of training for. i’m not rude unless you’re a total ass to me, but i don’t really go out of my way either. the 8 hour training 2 years ago was the most wasted 8 hours of my life – because who doesn’t know you’re supposed to greet people when they appear in front of you (be it a gaming table or the counter at mcdonalds or a clothing store), or to smile at people, and to thank them for their business. seriously, do people not know that kind of stuff? apparently they don’t know because we all had to be taught this for 8 long boring hours. this is all stuff i learned from my PARENTS, it’s called being polite haha.

anyway…so it was unexpected, tho i don’t think undeserved πŸ™‚ shawn was the pit boss who nominated me, so he gets to go to the lunch thing and give a speech about me. hahahaha that’ll be amusing. i get to take a guest and i guess i’m taking my mom since adr1 leaves wed, and adr2 doesn’t eat meat, and i have no sig other.

also it is in the paper that the south grand island bridge is on the verge of collapse… ok not really, but it is apparently rated between “poor” and “serious” condition hahah so glad i don’t have any reason to go to grand island anymore

wtf

i’m not quite sure how i do it but i seem to get injured while i sleep. i hurt EVERYWHERE…my legs hurt as if i had climbed the koln dom again, my chest feels like someone gave me CPR, my neck kills…and none of it makes sense. all i did yesterday was go to the post office, play dress up, and edit photos. such a work out πŸ˜›