i love that this just says “drum”!
SO niagara falls
i have just completed my first 40 hour week this summer, if not the entire year. i forced myself to do it. it was tough yesterday and today to not leave early, but i made it. we’ll see how my paycheck compares to my supervising pay checks. i really wanted to come home and keep going through my pictures today. i realize that i really need film. i’m going to have to try to make it out to color tech to buy some, as it’s the only place that sells my TMAX!!! film around here. the overpriced camera shop that was near me closed a few months ago.
i gotta dye the hair back to black tomorrow, so if/when i get the extensions tues they match. i haven’t seen the girl all weekend to get her address and stuff, so hopefully i see her at work tomorrow. or i’ll just have my short hair. blah. and laundry.
one thing that exploring today kept reminding me of was the book “atlas shrugged”. i finally finished it last week. i had only been reading it since march. overall i really liked it. there are times when it got way too repetitive, as did “fountainhead”, with ayn rand’s philosophy. i actually had to skip almost an entire chapter towards the end – john galt’s speech – because i just couldn’t take it anymore. it was a frightening book in many ways. but i don’t really buy into her philosophy. the book was very anti communist in a way. ANYWAY. exploring reminded me of it because one chapter sends dagny and hank to the 21st century motor car factory – which had been closed and abandoned. they go through the factory looking for records, and find “the motor”. that’s what i kept thinking about today, there were lots of motors and machines around.
i’m now reading “catcher in the rye”. a classic apparently. and although i honestly am enjoying it, i don’t quite see the point as there is no plot. i don’t get why it’s such a classic, when it’s just a teenage boy telling stories. it’s as if my stupid meaningless random posts from 5 years of having a blog were condensed into a book. i’m half through and yeah, no plot. not getting the “classic”ness. whatever. i do like it.
i found out about a bar that i’d probably like in buffalo. club diablo. focuses on punk, goth and industrial. i’m totally gonna check it out. man i need friends to go out with me haha. from the small picture in the magazine i saw it in, it was reminiscent of lux in rochester which i thought was the coolest bar i’d ever been to. looks way more swanky and trendy than the continental. the cont is such a dive haha. and apparently from their website, clubldiablo.com, ron jeremy hangs out there when he’s in town. lovely. i decided i MUST go there, because they have a specialty drink called jim jones kool-aid hahaha that thrills me. no cover on wednesdays, specializing in synthpop and ebm. adr2, you are SO going with me when we get back from vacation.
i feel like i have lot to do in the next 2 and a half days, but i’m sure i’ll sit here all day tomorrow and play snood.
new location
david from forgottendetroit.com was in town for the weekend, and we headed out to carbo-sil in niagara falls today. i hadn’t paid much attention to the place before yesterday, then realized, hey, i should go there! very cool place. very easy to access. alot of abandoned vehicles in there, including a school bus. and lots and lots of barrels of crap. it’s so niagara falls hahaha. i wasn’t too fond of some of the “mud” we had to walk in. but my shoes haven’t melted yet. it’s a strange place. it’s pretty when you are there, but just looking at my digital thumbnails, it doesn’t photograph well. and digital sucks. i took 2 rolls of real film, but probably won’t get them developed til i get back from vacation.
in one of the buildings, which appeared to possibly have been used as a mechanic office at some point, had a big shelving unit full of bags of rocks. labled samples, with the location they’re from. sometimes bigger rocks, sometimes more gravel like, and some really fine material maybe not rock. didn’t want to touch them too much though. there was also a 45 of a madonna song “stay” which i’m not sure i ever heard.
across the street from carbo-sil is globe, possibly one of the most beautiful factories i’ve ever seen. i think it’s still in use though, so no attempt was made to check it out closer. i’d love to. at olin yesterday security came immediately and weren’t all that happy with me taking pictures. i don’t think they understood why anyone would want to do such a thing. you know, except terrorists taking pictures of chemical plants to bomb or something. they kept asking me who i worked for, MYSELF AND MY OWN ENJOYMENT thanks. all i was doing was walking down the sidewalk in front haha.
SO EXCITED. a bunch of fans of the show Fear on mtv put together a 7 dvd set of all episodes and bonus stuff. sold on ebay. totally mine now! freakin loved that show. can’t wait to get it!
i’m off of work for 2 days and i go back to find that the nearby factory Olin is being demolished. They already half demolished what appeared to be an office building. they’ve started tearing off the blue siding on 2 other buildings to reveal beautiful brick structures underneath. !! going to go out there tomorrow afternoon and see what i can see. haven’t heard about if we’re going to attempt exploring this sunday. david from detroit is in town and wanted to check some places out. dunno if i’ll hear from him tomorrow. schedule is open i guess.
good news bad news
good news. i go on vacation in 6 days. chicago for 3 days, detroit in secret for 1 day, and cleveland for 1 day. nine inch nails shows of course. i convinced adr2 to go to chicago with me, but detroit will be by myself, then meeting adr2 and bliss for the show and a ride home in cleveland.
bad news. jerome dillon, nin drummer, is in the hospital again with his newly discovered heart condition. they cancelled the oakland show, but trent said they are getting a replacement drummer. however if the shows next week get cancelled… i guess i still will go to chicago and detroit cuz i don’t want to waste the money i spent on the flights. but i have no way of getting home…i have one way flights. adr2 said she’d still go to cleveland to get me, but i may be able to change my rental car info and be able to drive it back to buffalo. wait and see i guess. i hope the shows aren’t cancelled because i’d have to just get refunds for the tickets. won’t be able to get the time off to go to the rescheduled dates i’m sure.
i need to take kitty to the vet soon. they sent me a cute little post card. so among the dentist appt, and 2 doctor appts, i will have to make a kitty appt.
saw the corpse bride tonight with kate, adr2 and bliss. it was cute.
wolf blitzer is from buffalo? that’s what he just said on his show. i love him. haha before i knew he was from buffalo. the other funny guy from the show said that buffalonians write in alot because they have nothing else to do, and wolf stuck up for buffalo haha. this amuses me tons.
an anorexic stray cat just came in my house. it was black with a little white on it’s paws, and gold eyes. pretty but very skinny. kitty was none to pleased with another cat in the house. had to chase it around to get it back outside.
finally made jenn’s baby the new kids on the block shirt i was trying to make for her shower…back in FEBRUARY! i’m so lazy.
last year a canadian documentary crew did a film at the terminal. we recieved the final version and are still deciding what to do about it. it was a good project, even if i do look bad with orange hair in it :). anyway. one of the stellar things in the film is the conversation that they had with tom telesco, the 2nd post 1979 owner of the building, and the one responsible for selling off all the decorative items inside the building.
i mention this, cuz his apparent story is that he went down to florida after hurricane andrew and made tons of money rebuilding down there. cnn has a report on right now about bogus scam artist contractors and i’d laugh my ass off if he was one of them.
that is all.
Hm. ok. is there an eclipse right now or something? the moon is a crescent moon at the moment. but it’s horizontal. isn’t the crescent moon always vertical? it looks like a cheshire cat smiling. and i don’t remember ever seeing a horizontal moon sliver before. i’m a bit unnerved. maybe i just never paid attention before. does anyone know anything about astronomy?
i’m not dead. mom wanted to come sleep here again tonight. i told her i’d be ok. and my aunt suddenly thinks i’m coming to chicago tomorrow. um, no, one more week. gotta make sure to get a hold of her tomorrow so she doesn’t go to midway to get me.
i’m getting my extensions done on tuesday. probably just black, but if i can i want to put blue streaks in. don’t know why blue, but…well. i do know why. it was a dream i had a while ago haha. but i have to work with the hair for one night so we’ll see. it also suddenly occured to me i could have the girl weave dreds in. i don’t know how i’d look in dreds but you know, i’m so goth 😛 it’d fit. again, would have to work with the hair so…i don’t even know where we are going to get the fake hair, somewhere in the ghetto.
call me paranoid but…
i got a strange phone call on my way to work tonight. they asked for me by name, said their name was anthony. so i thought it was tony, though it wasn’t his cell number. he asked if i was home, i said no. he asked me for my house number. so i told him. now things aren’t matching up in my head. he repeated the number incorrectly so i told him again, and he repeated it incorrectly again and i just said yeah. cuz i’m realizing i don’t know who this person is. he never asked me for my street name, just the number.
so now i’m freaked out. so i call my parents and ask my dad if he can go over to my house and see if anyone is breaking in. he did, no one was there. i asked tommy to call the guy back and find out who he was. the guy told tommy he was trying to get a hold of his cousin, who’s also named sara, to get his aunt’s phone number. tommy asked the guy if he asked me for my address and he told tommy no. tommy said the guy sounded sketchy.
ok and of course my mom is freaked out. so my parents came over at 4am when i got home to make sure no one was hiding in the bushes waiting to kill me, or already inside, or if there was a mail bomb on my porch. and mom is sleeping downstairs on the couch.
very unsettling. it would be a massive coincidence if this guy called a wrong number of a person who had the same name. i can’t think of any other anthony’s, especially ones that would 1. have my phone number and 2. have any reason to call me and 3. have any reason to know where i live enough to just need my house number. i don’t like this.