----BANDS IVE SEEN LIVE (if ive seen them more than once it will be in parenthesis) ~= ive met them, *= i have something signed by them : Madina Lake, Smile Empty Soul, Operator, The Exies, Say Anything(3~*), Flyleaf(2), Bullet For My Valentine(2), Papa Roach, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Wolfmother, The Killers, Trivium, Hellyeah, Atreyu(2~*), Evanescence, Korn, Sick Puppies(2), Evansblue, The Starting Line, Hurt(2), Saliva, Mute Math, Sum 41, Chevelle, Seether(2), Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Last Fast Action, The Feed, Ludo(5~*), Lucabrasi, Safetysuit, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Red, Theory of a Deadman, 10 Years(2), Coheed and Cambria(~*), Filter, Killswitch Engage, Shinedown(2*), Serj Tankian, The Birthday Massacre(I met the guitarist, Rainbow, and he signed my shirt), Mindless Self Indulgence (~*), 36 Crazyfists, Suicide Silence (2), Five Finger Death Punch, Black Tide(2~*), DJ Starscream, Airbourne, The Red Chord, Walls of Jericho, underOATH (~*), Machine Head, Mastodon, Dragonforce, Disturbed, Slipknot, The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thorton's band-seen them acoustic met Billy Bob and had him sign my Mr. Woodcock DVD) Armor For Sleep, Hawthorne Heights (~*), Street Drum Corps, Ashes Divide, The Bravery, Chris Cornell, Linkin Park, The Chaotics(2~), Drive A, Ava, Wait, Red Line Chemistry, Miser, Brookroyal, Copperview, Saving Abel, Local H, Story of the Year, Apocalyptica, Puddle of Mudd, Oh My God, Building Rome, Family Force 5 (*~), Central City Heroes(~), Professor Hooknose and his Greasy Gits, Justin Finch-Fletchley (2*~), The Whomping Willows (2*~), The Moaning Myrtles (*~) Lauren Fairweather (2*~) Nina Jancowicz(*~), River Boat Gamblers, Rancid, Rise Against, The Expendables, Ziggy Marley, 311, Arcanium, Warbringer, Megadeth, Houses of The Holy(4), Steve Ewing Band (~), Angels & Airwaves, Gaza, Cattle Decapitation, Whitechapel, Job For A Cowboy, ____local band before TBDM, Arcaic, Goatwhore, The Black Dahlia Murder, Valencia, Saves The Day, Motion City Soundtrack, Armoured Bearcub (*~), Alex Carpenter [of The Remus Lupins] (*~), Lamb Of God(~* havnt seen them live though), From First To Last (* havnt seen them live) As I Lay Dying (* havnt seen them live)
Friday, November 5, 2010
Bands I've Seen Live/Bands I have signed
This is only being posted so I can move it onto my new computer b/c it wont read the original word file but feel free to look through it anyway
Monday, November 1, 2010
Second Annual NaNoWriMo Procrastination
I am not doing NaNo again this year because I am a horrible person.
Last year was when I first found out about NaNoWriMo about 2 weeks before it actually happened and so I was a big wuss and like OH NO I'M NOT PREPARED I CAN'T DO IT. But I did tell myself that I would spend the whole year planning a rough idea of a plot and then I could do NaNo the next time.
It's the next time and I can't do it.
When I made the claim that I was going to do NaNo in 2010 I had not expected that the life as I knew for 20 years would change and that I would be going to a big fancy regular college and working and actually having a set schedule to live by. I've just been put into this schedule and I don't have a grasp on time management yet.
So my reasons are more legit than last year. I work 5 days a week on top of school plus I have my theater tech class that requires 36+ hours of outside school work so essentially I am working every day. Most of my "free time", that is not working, not being at school, not doing homework, and not doing anything essentially, is spent between the hours of 7:30-11:10 pm. Last year I had also not planned on reading 50 books in a year but after realizing I could do it I started that this year.
If I were not reading 50 books in a year I would more than likely be doing NaNo this year.
BUT OH WELL!
So what I AM going to do is write stuff ANYWAY because NaNo is about writing in general rather than writing to a certain point. I'm not going to keep track or anything I'm just going to gather writing "skills" and confidence. I DO enjoy writing. At least in the form of typing. I just like the feeling and sounds associated with typing really fast and putting thoughts in print as they come to you. (i hate writing by hand because I always get cramps in my hand)
So here are things that I am going to give up for 30 days November 2011:
Last year was when I first found out about NaNoWriMo about 2 weeks before it actually happened and so I was a big wuss and like OH NO I'M NOT PREPARED I CAN'T DO IT. But I did tell myself that I would spend the whole year planning a rough idea of a plot and then I could do NaNo the next time.
It's the next time and I can't do it.
When I made the claim that I was going to do NaNo in 2010 I had not expected that the life as I knew for 20 years would change and that I would be going to a big fancy regular college and working and actually having a set schedule to live by. I've just been put into this schedule and I don't have a grasp on time management yet.
So my reasons are more legit than last year. I work 5 days a week on top of school plus I have my theater tech class that requires 36+ hours of outside school work so essentially I am working every day. Most of my "free time", that is not working, not being at school, not doing homework, and not doing anything essentially, is spent between the hours of 7:30-11:10 pm. Last year I had also not planned on reading 50 books in a year but after realizing I could do it I started that this year.
If I were not reading 50 books in a year I would more than likely be doing NaNo this year.
BUT OH WELL!
So what I AM going to do is write stuff ANYWAY because NaNo is about writing in general rather than writing to a certain point. I'm not going to keep track or anything I'm just going to gather writing "skills" and confidence. I DO enjoy writing. At least in the form of typing. I just like the feeling and sounds associated with typing really fast and putting thoughts in print as they come to you. (i hate writing by hand because I always get cramps in my hand)
So here are things that I am going to give up for 30 days November 2011:
- Recreational Reading (meaning not for school)
- A decent amount of internet use. Can't give it ALL up but I can cut back.
- Whatever social life I happen to have at the time. I will probably go out at least once in the month to relieve the tension or whatever, though.
- Becoming intoxicated. If all things go to plan then I will not have problems with this in the FIRST place by next year.
- Playing guitar. It's going to SUCK but I spend lots of free time doing it.
- Doing stuff with people from work. It seems that I am hanging with them more and more so I will need to cut back come next year.
- And the most important thing I will not do for 30 days next November is I WILL NOT PROCRASTINATE ABOUT NANOWRIMO!!!!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Culture Shock (best day ever)
I'm going to use the phrase culture shock in a new context here. The culture shock I had today was when I was being IRL today and things from URL existed IRL.
I get into a lot of cool things through internet people and my internet friends and internet stuff etc.
So today I went to the loop which is like (at least I like to think so) the cultural mecca of st. louis. Its a really cool street full of coffee shops and art galleries and book stores and TONS of music stores and mostly restaurants (many of which are foreign foods).
Today was my best trip to the loop.
So we get there via metro link because I have a free pass for the semester and a guy that's raising funds for a thing comes up to us and gave us a handful of 45's (which are small black disks that play music on a thing called a record player which uses a needle to make sound INORITE?!) I have not listened to them yet but i'm excited i have them regardless.
We go to get say anything tickets and they wanted to charge me extra since i was using a debit card so i didnt get them and i'm gonna get them with cash later this week.
Then we go to eat at chipotle.
I found out about chipotle through internet people (Hayley G Hoover etc) and i've been wanting to go there for like a year. So i ate there and it was amazing
Then we went to FroYo which is a very awesome frozen yogurt place and it was beyond delicious and amazing.
We went to the comic book store and they had all this scott pilgrim stuff and I was excited (i got into scott pilgrim through internet people) and they had other cool stuff and i was very excited they also had doctor who comics and i was like WHAA!
So then we go to the music store and its like my favorite store EVER and in the back they have paintings by this famous guy who paints album covers and stuff and they had 4 neutral milk hotel paintings (i got into NMH through internet people) and I looked and saw these paintings and i just went "WHAAAAAAAAAAA!" and ran over to them and I was flailing my arms and stuff and I was so excited. (also I bought the new ludo album there)
Skipping ahead a bit when I got home I decided I should have bought the painting after finding out that it was that famous guy and so i called the place and they're holding it for me.
So then we went to the indie bookstore.
They. Had. EVERYTHING!
Every David Foster Wallace book
Every Chuck Palahniuk Book
Every Kurt Vonneguy Book
Tons of books about internet stuff like "shit my dad says", "texts from last night" and stuff and a funny book about making bongs out of random objects.
They had almost the whole set of 33 1/3 books including the one written by John Darnielle of the mountain goats.
So basically I just found a bunch of reallly cool things that excited me and it was the best trip ever.
I get into a lot of cool things through internet people and my internet friends and internet stuff etc.
So today I went to the loop which is like (at least I like to think so) the cultural mecca of st. louis. Its a really cool street full of coffee shops and art galleries and book stores and TONS of music stores and mostly restaurants (many of which are foreign foods).
Today was my best trip to the loop.
So we get there via metro link because I have a free pass for the semester and a guy that's raising funds for a thing comes up to us and gave us a handful of 45's (which are small black disks that play music on a thing called a record player which uses a needle to make sound INORITE?!) I have not listened to them yet but i'm excited i have them regardless.
We go to get say anything tickets and they wanted to charge me extra since i was using a debit card so i didnt get them and i'm gonna get them with cash later this week.
Then we go to eat at chipotle.
I found out about chipotle through internet people (Hayley G Hoover etc) and i've been wanting to go there for like a year. So i ate there and it was amazing
Then we went to FroYo which is a very awesome frozen yogurt place and it was beyond delicious and amazing.
We went to the comic book store and they had all this scott pilgrim stuff and I was excited (i got into scott pilgrim through internet people) and they had other cool stuff and i was very excited they also had doctor who comics and i was like WHAA!
So then we go to the music store and its like my favorite store EVER and in the back they have paintings by this famous guy who paints album covers and stuff and they had 4 neutral milk hotel paintings (i got into NMH through internet people) and I looked and saw these paintings and i just went "WHAAAAAAAAAAA!" and ran over to them and I was flailing my arms and stuff and I was so excited. (also I bought the new ludo album there)
Skipping ahead a bit when I got home I decided I should have bought the painting after finding out that it was that famous guy and so i called the place and they're holding it for me.
So then we went to the indie bookstore.
They. Had. EVERYTHING!
Every David Foster Wallace book
Every Chuck Palahniuk Book
Every Kurt Vonneguy Book
Tons of books about internet stuff like "shit my dad says", "texts from last night" and stuff and a funny book about making bongs out of random objects.
They had almost the whole set of 33 1/3 books including the one written by John Darnielle of the mountain goats.
So basically I just found a bunch of reallly cool things that excited me and it was the best trip ever.
Monday, August 23, 2010
BEDA 23- First Day of School
My first day this semester was even more chaotic than the last.
So I came to UMSL in the spring last time. I've never been there during the start of the year in the fall. THERE ARE SO MANY MORE PEOPLE THERE! Parking was 100x worse than I was expecting.
I get to my class on the top floor of the farthest building and sit through that horrible moment where you're not 100% sure you're in the right room. One other guy walks out muttering something about the wrong day. I suddenly see the textbook on the teacher's desk and i'm like ok i'm in the right place.
5 minutes before class starts the teacher goes- ok so this class is intro to astronomy and you need a college algebra and trig pre-requisite. if you're not confident in your abilities to do the math required for this course there is another class with no math that is going on RIGHT NOW. Here's the syllabus for it and the room number.
HALF THE CLASS (including me) GETS UP AND LEAVES.
We all pile into the other lecture hall and confuse the hell out of the teacher.
So 15 minutes into that class I realize that this new class may not fit into my degree requirements. So i freak out and can't pay attention the whole period.
We get out early and I go to the office to check everything. Theres a girl up there with some police because she was yelling at the lady behind the desk. I get sent to another office where they print off a thing. I check the thing and scream (not literally) relief because the class DOES fill the requirement. So the class I WAS in was 1050. The class I switched to is 1001. (hint: higher numbers means harder class). I was in the wrong class to BEGIN with. It was NOT the intro course. My adviser put me in the wrong class because of how it was listed on the sheet. Its difficult to understand but I see how he made the mistake.
Anyway i'm so excited this is all going to work out. I go back to the first office and fill out a form and she tells me that it wont fit because there is a lab that conflicts with one of my other classes. Then she rattles off other classes that all conflict with work. Then she goes, oh no wait that lab is optional you CAN take that class.
Then my second class I walk in and see the guy next to me with the textbook so i'm in the right place. The teacher (who is hot btw) says "this is intro to advertising blah blah blah... and I just want to say.....
WAZAUUUPPPP?!"
and half the class stood up and said
"WAZAUUUPPP?!"
and the second half of the class is like wtf is going on. And the teacher says those who stood up read what she put online for the class and have passed the first assignment.
wow
So my advertising teacher is really animated and uses cool examples of stuff and the class is gonna be awesome.
Then I had work and it was ok but busy.
Tomorrow should go much smoother.
Reading: read some oblivion today. the story i'm on is the greatest.
I havent even listened to music yet today
So I came to UMSL in the spring last time. I've never been there during the start of the year in the fall. THERE ARE SO MANY MORE PEOPLE THERE! Parking was 100x worse than I was expecting.
I get to my class on the top floor of the farthest building and sit through that horrible moment where you're not 100% sure you're in the right room. One other guy walks out muttering something about the wrong day. I suddenly see the textbook on the teacher's desk and i'm like ok i'm in the right place.
5 minutes before class starts the teacher goes- ok so this class is intro to astronomy and you need a college algebra and trig pre-requisite. if you're not confident in your abilities to do the math required for this course there is another class with no math that is going on RIGHT NOW. Here's the syllabus for it and the room number.
HALF THE CLASS (including me) GETS UP AND LEAVES.
We all pile into the other lecture hall and confuse the hell out of the teacher.
So 15 minutes into that class I realize that this new class may not fit into my degree requirements. So i freak out and can't pay attention the whole period.
We get out early and I go to the office to check everything. Theres a girl up there with some police because she was yelling at the lady behind the desk. I get sent to another office where they print off a thing. I check the thing and scream (not literally) relief because the class DOES fill the requirement. So the class I WAS in was 1050. The class I switched to is 1001. (hint: higher numbers means harder class). I was in the wrong class to BEGIN with. It was NOT the intro course. My adviser put me in the wrong class because of how it was listed on the sheet. Its difficult to understand but I see how he made the mistake.
Anyway i'm so excited this is all going to work out. I go back to the first office and fill out a form and she tells me that it wont fit because there is a lab that conflicts with one of my other classes. Then she rattles off other classes that all conflict with work. Then she goes, oh no wait that lab is optional you CAN take that class.
Then my second class I walk in and see the guy next to me with the textbook so i'm in the right place. The teacher (who is hot btw) says "this is intro to advertising blah blah blah... and I just want to say.....
WAZAUUUPPPP?!"
and half the class stood up and said
"WAZAUUUPPP?!"
and the second half of the class is like wtf is going on. And the teacher says those who stood up read what she put online for the class and have passed the first assignment.
wow
So my advertising teacher is really animated and uses cool examples of stuff and the class is gonna be awesome.
Then I had work and it was ok but busy.
Tomorrow should go much smoother.
Reading: read some oblivion today. the story i'm on is the greatest.
I havent even listened to music yet today
Sunday, August 22, 2010
BEDA 22- The "Real" College Experience
I just got back from hanging out with my little brother's girlfriend at her dorm. She's going to the same school as me WHICH STARTS TOMORROW OMG IM SO NOT READY! But anyway I told her to find all the cool people since she's living there and she's pretty picky with people so I was sure she'd find really cool people.
So I have never been on the south part of campus before so that was cool. And i've never seen the resident halls let alone ever been in one before so it was all an overwhelming experience. Like I thought I knew about it but I had NO IDEA.
My brother had to leave because he didn't have his ID and they wouldn't let him stay without it so It was just me, my bro's gf, and then she called up some people and we hung out.
We talked about harry potter on a level that only someone truly devoted can, and I couldn't believe it was a conversation that was NOT over the internet.
My bro's gf knows so much about what is going on at school that it's kind of scary. Last semester I was there I did my best to be completely unattached to school at all. I just distanced myself from it on purpose.
Tonight made me feel completely different. It was kinda weird to me but it was also exciting. I've decided that I'm going to be more involved this semester because my bro's gf is a way to comfortably ease my way into "real" college life.
There still some more people i'm supposed to meet soon so that will be cool.
First day is tomorrow. 2 classes. I'll be there from 11-2. I have not packed my bookbag yet. I only have 15 minutes in between class so I was gonna get snack stuff to eat but I didn't get any. I am the most unprepared for school I have ever been in my life. Oh well
reading-gonna go now
Last song scrobbled: something by dream theater idk what it was
Saturday, August 21, 2010
BEDA 22- Science Be Praised!
Science is some legit stuff. There's nearly a full moon out and it's caused everyone to be crazy today. This literally happens.
I woke up feeling like shit (which i later/before i saw it was a (near) full moon thought that I was having percocet withdrawl or something) and then got into work and one of my coworkers appeared to be sleeping on break. Then i got to the back where I work and literally everyone was there so they sent some people home. and then i was informed that one of my coworkers was having a bad day and I said i was too. and then a different co worker kinda snapped at me.
So myself and everyone that I work with were all snappy and then some of the customers were too!
this guy came in and was yelling at his wife and talking to her like she's a retarded piece of poop and so I gave him some crappy fillets.
some other guy was yelling at his kid
then my least favorite customer came in right when we were about to close and just caused all kinds of shit
I got home and we went to wendy's where these two kids were just screaming their heads off.
no i'm really tired because i had a 5 hour shift w/ no break.
the full moon is an asshole. why do you do this to us!?
reading: about to do a tiny tiny bit but mostly i'm gonna sleep
school in 2 days. tomorrow is my last day of summer and work better not suck
last song scrobbled is something between the buried and me or pantera but i'm not gonna look it up
I woke up feeling like shit (which i later/before i saw it was a (near) full moon thought that I was having percocet withdrawl or something) and then got into work and one of my coworkers appeared to be sleeping on break. Then i got to the back where I work and literally everyone was there so they sent some people home. and then i was informed that one of my coworkers was having a bad day and I said i was too. and then a different co worker kinda snapped at me.
So myself and everyone that I work with were all snappy and then some of the customers were too!
this guy came in and was yelling at his wife and talking to her like she's a retarded piece of poop and so I gave him some crappy fillets.
some other guy was yelling at his kid
then my least favorite customer came in right when we were about to close and just caused all kinds of shit
I got home and we went to wendy's where these two kids were just screaming their heads off.
no i'm really tired because i had a 5 hour shift w/ no break.
the full moon is an asshole. why do you do this to us!?
reading: about to do a tiny tiny bit but mostly i'm gonna sleep
school in 2 days. tomorrow is my last day of summer and work better not suck
last song scrobbled is something between the buried and me or pantera but i'm not gonna look it up
Friday, August 20, 2010
BEDA 20- Work. and learning
I've been working all day today. just got home and ate. and now i'm about to leave to go to a party so i need to blog for today, and quickly.
work is on my mind at the moment so i'm going to talk about work.
i am very grateful to finally have a job. i like my job. compared to how I think other jobs would be, this one is probably better. its a privately owned business so everything is done however they want it to be which is a great thing. i love the people i work with. we have lots of fun. i like paychecks.
I have learned a lot of things in my 8ish weeks of working. lots of things about different things.
- i've learned about cuts of meat/kinds of varieties of food
- i've learned a lot about food preparation
- i've learned about the physical aspects of working and adapting/healing etc involved
- i've learned that I am very quick on the learning curve and can adapt to new things fast
- i've learned how quickly you can become comfortable with people/get to know them when you are in a work environment with them.
- i've learned a few things about communicating with people
- i've learned lots about dumb people that come into work
- i've learned that I am a hard worker that doesnt fuck around
- i've learned lots of other stuff that is deeper in my conscious that cant really be put to words
its been a crazy experience
have not read today. dont have time to read tonight
no clue what my last song scrobbled was. havent been on my computer all day (this is the family computer)
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