the next presidential election should be done as a reality show. seriously. you’d get more participation that way. throw all the candidates into a house…mccain, hillary, all the rest… for let’s say 4 months before election day. maybe we start with 10-15 candidates and after a few weeks of living together, america starts voting them off by phone. throw in some challenges – dancing, singing, comedy, sports, figure skating – fly them to an exotic location for a few weeks. by november you’ll be down to 2 candidates, and america will vote for the last time, and elect a president. hell the whole world could contribute and pick our new president. i think it’s a brilliant idea.
hahah from atu2.com so funny
“U2’s latest album will be launched amidst the usual fanfare at midnight tomorrow, but fans hoping for fresh sounds or a hint of experimentation would be best advised to stay under the duvet.
There is a grand total of one new song from Bono and the boys, there’s one re-hash of a punk oldie with Green Day and 15 apparently shameless re-hashes of their own oldies, and not-so-oldies such as ‘Vertigo’ from the band’s previous album.
And the bonus track? It is only ‘I Will Follow’, which you might have bought on the Boy album. Or perhaps on their first Best Of collection a few years back. Or maybe you’re not actually a U2 fan.”
The new track is called ‘Window In the Skies’, while U2 cover ‘The Skids,’ and also ‘The Saints are Coming’ track with American rockers Green Day. You get a DVD featuring “single promo videos” too, which sounds as bad as it is.
now when they say rehash…are they shit remixes like the best of 90s disc? or complete just regular songs repackaged… kate? you know? not really gonna buy it anyway, that new song…um…no thanks. but if they were like acoustic redone versions that would at least be interesting, and not just a 3rd best of.
in other news. i was just at target. and people have tents set up outside in front, waiting for playstation 3. and the manager was outside telling them they’re only getting 8 of them in on FRIDAY….now i’ve sat in alot of lines but none of them involved a tent, or 2 days out in the cold for a friggen video game!
dear god i am so sick of urban explorers and uer and the database.
the wheel almost fell off my car. my dad put my snow tires on last saturday and they sounded funny, but i ignored it because they sound funny to begin with – just louder than the regular tires. but then it kept getting worse – a sound like something was rubbing/hitting something else as the tire spun. it was super loud when i went to the grocery store today so i detoured to home to tell my dad. he test drove it, and looked, and he forgot to tighten the lug nuts all the way on one wheel. super. that would have been great to have the wheel come off.
must remember to buy rubber gloves for transfig. and bandaids.
what else what else…
my new green contacts finally arrived, and along with them, they sent me chocolate haha. anyway. they are very green. i think they make me look demented. more than the blue ones did. but i like em. they’re so obviously fake it’s amusing.
hair cut tomorrow, i need new jeans cuz my pirate jeans have a hole in the ass. i guess they officially become urbex pants now. it’ll be ok to get them covered in bird crap at transfig thurs. hair dying tomorrow night as well.
i finished reading A Clockwork Orange. it got much easier to read with all the strange words when you just ignore them. and eventually you read them so many times that you sorta know what it’s supposed to say. all in all the movie followed the book pretty well. but wow that end chapter, that was in the UK versions and left out of the US ones for a long time…it actually almost ruins it. just…not expected, doesn’t fit, and almost seems like a cop out. on the other hand, it does make a statement that everything is just a phase…i am now reading Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail. i don’t know how i found it, i think the title just sounded interesting when searching someone’s bookmooch list. rat scabies is a drummer of one of the first london punk bands, and the story is about him and his neighbor trying to find the holy grail. i’ve only read one chapter and it’s already quite amusing and fun. i mooched all these “classics” off of bookmooch, books that have been banned, famous books that as an educated and intelligent person, i feel like i should read…but i really have no interest in doing so. these fun little novels are much more appealing than what i expect “classics” to be. i think it’s because of how much english classes in school ruin good books, i fear reading things that are taught in school. scarlet letter – great book. really liked it, but then i think about how much my 11th grade english teacher made us read in to it and find hidden meanings and it just wasn’t fun. same with a tale of two cities. i love that book now. but i hated it in 10th grade. i’m just scared of the classics cuz in my head classic=boring.
OH…anyone want to go to toronto vs buffalo next wednesday at HSBC? because we can’t get rid of the damn tickets. this was definitely NOT a game we thought we’d have trouble selling the tickets to, but we got no bids on ebay, nothing through craigslist or postaroo, and most people at work have to work next wed – that day being our 2nd busiest day of the year and all. if anyone knows someone interested, section 321 row 10 seats 21 and 22 – $150.
oh yeah. i ran into the guy who was playing keyboards for jeff martin this summer, who always played in my fav crappy band at the casino. so i asked him about it, and he said jeff is off doing his solo acoustic indian music thing, and they may go out on the road again after that. wow. what a downgrade to be on tour with a big artist and then come back to this terrible coverband who plays at the casino. but he’s still cute. haha
kitty isn’t mad at me anymore for taking him to the vet. went to a new place, they all seemed nice, and the dr talked my ear off about the casino. ran into my 6th grade and high school art teacher mr martin there. kinda neat.
lets go buffalo! i found out how to request an appearance at an event by sabretooth. i’m so getting him at the terminal for something.
i had a moment with this kid at work last night. we were waiting to be put somewhere by the grave shift at 4 and were talking about music. he’s a big aerosmith fan, has seem them 40 some times i guess. and a girl came up to me to ask me about this nin song she heard on 103.3 that was trent singing ghostbusters…and i was like um..no? LOL anyway…got to talking about cover songs and how everyone and his brother has covered “come together” and “helter skelter”, and then how we can respect the beatles but don’t like them. and i said something about how i found them boring, and “i want to hold your hand”…no thank you. and just as i was thinking it, this kid says “yeah, i want to hold your hand? no, i want to fuck you like an animal, yes” LOL
i have booked my flights to europe. and dear god was that stressful. hahaha. arrive london gatwick march 6th. depart london gatwick march 27th on delta airlines (which apparently i’m a skymiles member…?). *deep breaths* hahah
arg. my next electronics purchase, after the camera is paid for, and after europe, is going to be a GPS. because i apparently am completely incapable of following directions correctly and getting to where i need to go in a simple manner. i left my house an hour early to get to the meeting with russell and a developer, and i end up in lafayette square, and not ellicott square. and drive around downtown in what can barely be called rush hour, but was trafficy enough, trying to find the right building. i called mike and he wasn’t home, and i called adr2 and she didn’t answer. while on the phone with my parents trying to look it up on the internet i accidentally found it. just in time. arg. no more of this!
these “truth” commercials about cigarettes are usually pretty good, and this new one i just saw is the best. 2 guys singing a song about tobacco and the singer has a stoma and uses an electronic voice machine thing.
anyway. ellicott square building is beautiful. i’ve never been inside. really stunning. meeting went well.
i officially have my first europe travel partner. alex got his london show tickets today. now we just have to wait for adr2 to stop being so damn stupid 😛
so busy weekend. where did we leave off? i dunno. friday was work. that’s all i remember about that.
saturday david came into town from visiting pittsburg for the duran duran show at the casino and some exploring. i had told people i’d take them to bct, so we went there and froze our asses off. had a long chat with ed…strange things are a foot at the…bct. anyway. after freezing there, i took him to sattler and froze there. retook, for the 3rd time, my audience self portraits. hopefully this time, they’re bright enough, and i didn’t sit in the same seat twice. back home to watch some of the sabres game, he went to the show, i didn’t start til 10. so work. there was a strange mix of people who went to the duran2 show, and a bunch of people in flannel who came in after alice in chains at dome theatre hahaha. managed to get out early and sleep a bit.
today brought trying to go to spaulding. sad to say, it’s half demolished. the front admin building, and the long brick building closest to the street that housed the reznor heater are now gone. so dan is the last out of towner to see the place. just as we were moving the fence to go on site a truck pulled up with a big piece of bulldozer, and another truck entered the site. booooo on them. made a half hearted attempt to find this other place i heard about recently, and i know i’ve driven past it before, but i couldn’t find it. so back to the falls to take a look at the place dan and i stopped at in the dark last month. nice little place. i still have no clue what they made there, but they left lots of machinery behind. back home to watch some more hockey, david left, and i went off to work.
my knee is killing me cuz i wacked it with a table lid at work yesterday. didn’t start hurting today til back at work taking the stairs every hour. blah. and also my stomach. i’m nervous because after i eat i’m getting faint pains that used to be the sign that i was getting a gall bladder attack. and this worries me because after surgery, the doctor said my common bile duct was larger than it should be – which meant it was possible that there were still some stones stuck in it, that could give me problems later on. he said it was something that the stomach specialist would be able to take care of, not surgery again. but i still cant imagine how they’d get them out without shoving something down my throat or other nastiness. yuck. i’m hoping it’s just my imagination or something.
and i have a myspace stalker.
and i’m trying to read clockwork orange, but i didn’t get the version that comes complete with a glossary to tell you what the hell all these words are. i’ve given up trying to figure out what they mean, and just keep reading. i’ve seen the movie so know the basic plot, i can get the gist. i got all these books from bookmooch.com and now i don’t want to read any of them. blah.
tuesday is election day and i really can’t wait to go vote. only so i can NOT vote for tom reynolds. i had 2 tom reynolds propaganda mails yesterday (and one pro-walmart propaganda piece). all of them target his opponent, and none of them say what reynolds plans to do about these things he mentions. not that this really matters, because there’s no way i’d vote for a republican, but who is running against Elliot Spitzer for governor?? and who is running against Hillary Clinton? ah well i’ll find out on tuesday when i go vote haha
“If you went to bed Thursday night before the end of the Buffalo Sabres’ game against the Boston Bruins, there’s a good chance you’re about to spit your morning coffee all over this newspaper.
The Sabres won.” hahahahahahah
and in other news. i found even cheaper flights to london…we’re talking under $400!! we’re talking half what i paid last time i was in london, 10 years ago (my god that long already!) so i don’t know how adr2 and bliss can NOT go! 😛 *face* 😛
had to work a 6th day this week to deal in the black jack tournament. they’re pretty boring, and i only ended up dealing in the first round. got to be a spectator the rest of the time, and get updates on the sabres game – which seemed doomed, down 4-1 in the 3rd, only to come back and tie, and win in a shootout. they just don’t quit!
which reminds me – dream – i finally went to a game with my season tickets and i was sitting near some guy who we apparently knew from games last year. and the game we were watching was actually a re-run of the “no goal” finals game from 99. then for some reason after the game, to get out of the arena, we had to walk across the ice. which wasn’t slippery at all. so we’re walking to the exit which is near the players benches and there were some sabres sitting there crying. and we were like, it’ll be ok next year when we win the cup. haha
also took adr2 and bliss to sattler in the afternoon. it was snowing. damn buffalo haha. went for drinks after the tournament which was alright. there was a fight at the bar and keith is all, wtf we come to this bar because there aren’t fights here!! haha
dear god my house is so cold. the heat just turned off, and i’m freezing. it’s gonna be a long, cold winter. and an expensive one.