Aug 27, 20070
Wow. Just… holy fucking shit.
Aug 21, 20070
(718) 775-4867
If that phone number belongs to you, please: stop calling me. I can not receive long-distance calls. If you really need to reach me that badly, you can do so by e-mail - otherwise, stop calling me.
Aug 21, 20070
Back on track
The internet was hooked up a few minutes ago and we are back on track, I am very happy to say.
Aug 14, 20070
News from the Homefront
EAD (Ever After Disaster) has been taking my free-time. By taking, I mean stealing. And by stealing, I mean… well, I mean I’ve been allowing myself the time to sit in front of my computer and make new music.
Ever After Disaster (EAD) aka an anagram Erin came up with (Eat a Dick) or rather, popularized, as well as the new tattoo on my right arm (Bickley, black ink, $32.00) has become the name of my so-called band (if it can so be called(?))
I’ve finished with a short project entitled “Martyr for a day”, a concept album which basically sits you, the listener, in front of a television with ever ’song’ being a commercial. There are actually lyrics to the songs (except for ‘Nihilism’ and …. I feel like an asshole because I can’t remember the name of the other song that doesn’t have lyrics…)
The project to which I’m devoting my time now is entitled “Phlebotomy” (for you people out there who don’t know, a phlebotomist is a person who takes blood - the act or practice of opening a vein; blood-letting). I thought it was nifty.
That ‘album’ will feature 18 new tracks (of Ween proportions… as in Not a suicide note so much as a fucking death-wish didn’t sound like Learn to drown as Learn to drown didn’t sound like anything else I’ve done…)
These two new albums (upon the second albums completion) will be available for download (donations optional of course).
In other non-related yet relateable news, I’ve been working at Wendy’s in Maumelle for the past two and a half weeks. So cheers all around - I’m not just worthless anymore. I’m worthless with steady employment… and that’s gotta count for something.
Lucian’s still doing well, Erin is fine, Devin never wrote anything so he was never really part of the team anyway and Heather’s still somewhere in Morgan.
All in all, the universe (for now) is as it should be.
Jul 17, 20071
I hate to be one of those…
I’ve been taking a break, which includes finding a new job, creating new music, and generally - for lack of a better phrase - finding myself. I’ve had some realities that I haven’t faced in a long time - nor have I thought about them - and I think it’s time to have a sit with myself and think about the things that should be most important.
According to my father, the biggest obstacle in my path is my attitude - my lack of one when it’s needed, and the fact that I have one when it’s not. I’m not a teenager anymore - haven’t been for a while - but I have been treating my problems like one.
And if I am going to get past this, I am going to have to take a few truths with tongue in cheek and learn to move past them - to overcome them. To damn the genetics and learn to deal with what I have to deal with. No more running. And to be a little overdramatic, stand my ground and fight.
The options that are currently open to me: go back to college, get a job, or get into a “safer” portion of the armed services. Either way, I have to choose something.
The support of my readers is always welcome - and as always, something will happen. Either I’ll make the choice or it will be made for me.
And for my own gratification and self-image, I’d rather it be me that makes the choice.
Jul 6, 20070
Lobe by lobe
Being a person of a pretty fucked up sleeping schedule, I found these few tid-bits rather interesting.
CUDDY: Twenty-five-year-old female with sleep issues.
HOUSE: I’m guessing she’s — what’s the medical term? Upset.
These twenty-five-year-old females are usually completely
rational. They’re rocks, really. Uhh, my theory seems
to be supported by the fact that she swallowed a bottle
of sleeping pills. Get her a shrink. I need some
shuteye.
CUDDY: She’s a little bit more than upset. She hasn’t slept in
ten days.
HOUSE: She’s lying. Without REM sleep, your neurons stop
regenerating. The brain shuts down lobe by lobe. She’d
be insane after five days, dead by ten.Oh, for shame, repeating widely circulated medical myths. The bit about
dying after ten days awake has been circulated since around the ’60s, I
think, and it’s untrue. The bit about insanity after five sleepless
days reportedly originated with a radio disc jockey in the late ’50s,
whose coherence degenerated during a widely publicized marathon stunt of
on-air wakefulness. However, controlled experiments yielded mixed
results.In fact, Hannah seemed to be in great shape for someone who supposedly
hadn’t slept in ten days. She wasn’t beset by hallucinations. She
could speak fairly normally and remember what was said to her.Source: World.std.com
Six years later, high school student Randy Gardner attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake — 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms.
Source: Pbs.org
His inability to sleep has not only made him famous, but also represents a “miraculous” phenomenon worthy of scientific study.Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights.“
Source: Unexplained-mysteries.com
Jul 6, 20070
What’s the point?
Looked at a photographic memory taken
a mile away -
with nothing to remember but…
Spoke to an old friend that I saw and
didn’t know what to say -
with nothing to gain from it…
Sang an old song that I hadn’t heard
since I’ve been back -
and still there’s reason to leave again…
Picked up a pack of smokes and even though
I felt sick to my stomach -
I smoked the damn things anyway.
I’m here
and you’re there -
and we’re both just kind of
gazing past each other -
saying what is on our minds
(without saying what is on our minds).
How the hell can we live this way?
Maybe I’m wrong -
maybe this isn’t the point -
maybe there is no point to anything
we say or do -
I can’t live like that -
can you?
Jun 12, 20070
Dead or Alive (the movie)
Seeing as how I saw this (Dead or Alive) about… 6 months ago(?) you can bet how surprised I was when we not only received word that it was coming to theaters this month but also to see the movie posters arrive today.
With a release date of June 15th, I started wondering something: what the hell did I watch?
Taking a closer at the movie info, I realized that I had, indeed, seen the movie. So what gives?
Mininova certainly had it listed September of ‘06 - so the big question on my mind: who let it slip and whether or not it wasn’t a slip, but a release to DVD with a re-release to theaters with a ‘re-invented’ release date.
Also, IMDB has the following information:
Rated PG-13 for pervasive martial arts and action violence, some sexuality and nudity.
I remember no nudity in the version I saw. So is it possible that the DOA coming to theaters is different from what I saw? And if so, why?
It reminds me of a day back in highschool when a friend of mine got a copy of The Matrix. It was a complete copy - the only thing that was missing was the soundtrack. He had gotten it several months in advance of its actual release.
Could that have been what happened here?
I will end up seeing this movie and will have to make my own determination as to whether or not this newer version is better (or the same) as the one I have already seen.
Oh - and as to the original viewing and it’s score?
3 out of 5. Wasn’t great, wasn’t horrible. It’s everything you’d expect from a video game based movie.