Psyched for the show...

Leaving very soon for Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival...

I didn't have a very good night's sleep...
At 7:00am my stereo blasted me out of bed...

Yesterday:
-got my dorm room assignment, I'm staying at Brittany Hall
-sharing a room with 2 other people...one person from Pennsylvania, another from Massachusetts
-bought Pixies ticket, now they're playing 5 shows in New York.....it's crazy...
-watched The Usual Suspects, it's an okay movie
-The Woody Allen film, Sleeper, was pretty good...the Orgasmatron....haha....

"I am the son, and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar"
~The Smiths, "How Soon Is Now?"

GONNA SEE THE PIXIES!!

I just bought my ticket to see the Pixies @ Hammerstein!
I'm kicking myself in the ass because apparently I missed 2 presales...
When I checked yesterday, they were going to play 2 shows...one on Sunday...one on Monday...
I don't know what the fuck happened, but they added dates...and now they're playing Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday...
Tried for Saturday or Sunday, but they were sold out...
I don't care...I'm gonna see the Pixies December 14th...floor seating... :) :) :)

Damn Ticketmaster and their inconvenience charge...
Isn't Tickemaster linked with Clear Channel somehow?
Clear Channel is scary...they control, like, everything...venues, radiostations, TV stations...
And it's perfectly legal...they can't be stopped...

In other news:
James McGreevey, the governor of New Jersey, surprised everyone yesterday when he declared "I am a gay American..." and that he had a gay affair...
Okay, not so bad...except he has a wife and 2 daughters...
He has announced his resignation...

R.I.P. Julia Child
Forget Emeril and Mario...
Julia Child was the original eccentric chef...the real deal...
I remember seeing her on TV when I was little, back when I used to live in Westbury...
She was fuckin' insane...and she was gigantic...(vertically, not horizontally)

Randall's Island show tomorrow...
Should be lots of fun...

"I love the universe, I love all the listeners...
watch it, here's 50 thousand watts of good will..."
~Pixies, "Bam Thwok"

Jones Beach Tower

Rush concert...WHOOOO!

I really need to start going to bed earlier...
Cause this whole going-to-bed-at-2am-then-waking-up-at-noon thing isn't healthy...
I say it, but I probably won't be doing it till the last week of August...
Sleep is damn good...

Went to my cousin's house around 3pm...
Scavenging through their house for coinage...
Pennies, nickels, and dimes add up...
Over to Commerce Bank...turned out to be worth $215...

Dropped Ari to the libary...
Then headed over to Jones Beach with JoMo and Mike for an evening with Rush (in the parking lot)...
Messing with security and people...
"How could you forget the tickets?!?"
"I thought YOU brought them!"
We do the most retarded shit ever...but it's fun...

Blockbuster...
Almost Famous was a good film...reminded me of Spinal Tap...

"I AM A GOLDEN GOD!" ~Russell, Almost Famous

"It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see...
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door"
~Bob Dylan, "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"

Crazy painted hippie bus @ Jones Beach (back)
Note: "We Brake For White Castle..."

Crazy painted hippie bus @ Jones Beach (front)  

Little Steven's Underground Garage Festival

Performers:
Iggy Pop & The Stooges
The Strokes
The New York Dolls
The Romantics
The Raveonettes
The Pretty Things
The Moonie Suzuki
The Electric Prunes
The Fonda's
Bo Diddley
The Cynics
The Chains
The Singles
The Stems
The Woggles
The Chesterfield Kings
The Paybacks
Boss Martians
The Chains
The Forty-Fives
The Shazam
The Cocktail Slippers
The Star Spangles
The Charms
The Fuzztones
The High Dials
The Contrast
The Flaming Sideburns

(a lot of bands with "the" in their name...cause that's what's hip these days...)

Randalls Island, New York, NY
Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:00 AM

Tickets $20
NO GLASS OR BOTTLES
DOORS OPEN AT 10:00AM

Sounds fun...

Shit Pie from the Brew 

New Blog!

Ok, this is my new blog/journal...(it's only my 4th one)...
Very weird writing again, must get back into the swing of things...

Blogger is good, a lot more features...like for instance I can post pictures from my digital camera directly in here...I could save entries as drafts and search through old entries....I could post through e-mail (I don't know why I'd do that)...I don't need to use html at all...so putting links, pictures, and changing font isn't a pain in the ass like it once was...

Let's see...what happened since the last time I wrote? Not much...um...I graduated high school...college orientation was fun...so was prom...still work as CVS (leaving in a week or so)...oh yeah, I turned 18...just trying to have as much fun as possible before I have to leave for college :(

Nunes came back from Penn State...
We tried to surprise him with lumberjacks, druggies, and mohawks...

I've learned that my limit for White Castles is eight...
Also that it IS possible to eat an entire crave case (makes me sick just thinking about it)

Yesterday, the movies that I ordered came in, Bowling for Columbine and A Clockwork Orange...
Watched Bowling first...good stuff...really makes you think, why is gun-related murder so high in the US? It's cause of the media...trying to scare us...in Canada their evening news is about unicorns and rainbows...those Canadians don't live in fear, they don't need to lock their doors...
Funny...right after the movie I flipped to Channel 7 and I hear: "Possible terrorist plot! Stay tuned..."

Today, I watched Clockwork...one of the craziest movies I've ever seen...
I must be insane because the "ultra-violent" scenes aren't so violent to me...so desensitized...it's not good...
When it first came out in the 70s, it had an X rating...Kubrick then edited 30 seconds of the film and the rating dropped down to R...
I wonder what he changed around...

Hung out with JoMo, Mike, Nunes, Dan, and Raul...
JoMo bought "Freakin' Nuts"...imported from Mexico...



Green tea is good stuff...makes your pee-pee hard...ok...uh...yeah...
That's enough writing for one night...

"Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending...
That everyone’s expendable and no one had a real friend..."
~Pink Floyd, "Dogs"

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