Gone Away

Ok, this'll be quick. I'm going road tripping out to Utah from the 21s of June through the 1st of July. I'm packing as I'm writing this and don't have much time.

Today's Music
Eve 6 - Open Road Song

Art + Music Update

Current Art Inspiration
Mario Pergolini by arielferreye
Sensitive Eyes by rebelchic

My Current Playlist

4 Strings - Take Me Away (Into the Night)
American Hi-Fi - The Art of Losing
Michelle Branch - Goodbye to You
Ra - (any song you can download. They're all awesome)
Socialburn - Everyone
Socialburn - Down
The Starting Line - The Best of Me
Third Eye Blind - Crystal Baller

Back to the Blog

Well, I tried a different blogger as some of you may or may not know. It's called b2,and it itself is pretty good, but the free server I tried it on stinks, so I will be posting back on the old skewl, at least until I get some dough for a decent host. So, let's see: what have I been doing lately?

Monday: I worked from 5:00-12:00 at Target w/ only one break. It was miserable. I'm still sore all over from all the walking. The cart pusher was broken, as always, and when you're 18 you have to stay until who knows when. I need a different job. Last night I also finished up All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It's a great book, and everyone should read it - probably the best war book I've ever read. A Farewell to Arms is pretty good, though.

Sunday was fathers day, which was fun. I worked for a couple of hours, went to my Grandpa Creeron's cottage, where we grilled out with my uncles and aunts. It was really a beautiful day, and there was a surprising lack of strife within the family (woot). After I came home that night, I hooked up a new (cheap) dvd player that didn't work, and then had to re-hook the VCR. I can't really remember anything else.

Jesse's Words of Wisdom

Jesse "Hey Kerry, what does contiguous mean? I know it's a word."
Jesse "Can you vegetate someone?" (insert awkward pause) "that's logical thinking!"
Jesse "I don't even think that's funny. Why would I put a hotdog on my wrist?... what's sensual about a hot dog?..." DT: "Can't you tell it looks like a vagina?"
Jesse "Admit it. Admit it Damnit! ... You heard it, right?"
Jesse "It's not porn, it's a freaking playboy party. It's toplessness. That's not porn."
Jesse "No, I don't want a damn hot dog. My wrist hurts!"
Jesse "Well, I was kind of hoping it'd break, well not really. When it was in the moment I was thinking I was hoping the damn thing'd break."
Jesse "actually you did get me kind of mad when you twisted my arm. But I'd never do it back."
Jesse "I'm gonna twist your arm back some day. Just to get your back."
Jesse "I can't. I can't. I can't move my writst. I can't stand. I can't move, I can't do anything."
Danny " you want a hot dog?" Jesse "Yeah, actually I do" Danny: "We actually have them upstairs, we've had them all along. But they're cheese dogs, so I figured you wouldn't want them." Jesse: "Cheese dogs are fine."
Jesse "my wrist fucking hurts. I can't even fucking think straight." (as if there were some sort of correlation)
Craig: "So how's the manroot treatin' you, Jesse?"
Craig: "Danny, do you want me to kill Jesse?"
"Tell me what vegetative means!"
"I was being all passive like ghandi and then you came and beat me." Danny: "Yeah, but Ghandi said fucking intelligent things"
"I dont mean meat, I was talking about veggie dogs."
Greg: "Go eat a hot dog, I bet you're good at that."
Jesse "are you insinuating that a hot dog means a penis or something? What because of the shape? I don't think it does."
Jesse: "You're Lying Both Ways" Danny: "No, I'm only lying one way"
Jesse: "I'll Be Witty if you give me a hot dog"

Update

This morning I woke up around noon and did some more Thank You cards for graduation. Then I pulled some weeds. I ran, read some AQOTWF (what a shitty acronym), fell asleep, that was pretty much it. But we're lanning tonight!

Books Read Thus Far:
What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Currently Reading:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Today's Music
The Starting Line - The Best of Me

Reading Binge

A lazy day.

Woke up at about noon, just thought I had to be in Compton soon... er.. wait a second... I'm not in NWA!
*Ahem* I woke up around 11 and read some Chomsky, had to deal w/ some refrigerator problems, showered late, downloaded some music, finished off Chomsky, started Old Man and the Sea, went to The Italian Job and then to the Radiohead CD release party for their new album Hail to the Thief.

Side note: I'm having difficulty deciding to use punctuation. Something wants me to and something doesn't.

I Graduated!

More on this to come. It was a riot.

Ok, so Sunday was graduation. Alex and Colleen and Kirsten and I sang the National Anthem. Fitting, eh? The choir pieces went well enough. Mrs. Sterkel was great, but the normal speaker was focused too narrowly on space exploration. The actual graduating part went well. Curt wore someone's honor chords for humor. Shannon Hodell almost fell on her face (I wish). After graduation, I attended about 5 graduation parties of friends and then had to run to my own w/ Jerome at his house. Scads of people I hadn't seen in years came including: Mrs. Van Ness, Mrs. Saffian, Ashvin, my barber, etc. etc etc. It was a lot of fun. There were lots of friends and we had a blast playing Dance Dance Revolution. Nathan and I severely tore it up. Eventually all the parents got drunk and that was funny.

Today's Music
Staind - Fill Me Up

Today's Poem

Last Week

This is the last week of high school for me. It has left me with mixed feelings, namely feeling bad for leaving all my teachers and friends behind, and happy to leave all of high school's problems far behind. Tuesday was especially noted as Mr. Smith sang to us and our English class took a trip down to Mr. Mapp's room for a photo op. Wednesday was marked by my first round of exams: I didn't have one first hour, went out for breakfast at the pancake house 2nd hour, and had a speech in Spanish 3rd hour. After school we proceeded to Target, where I bought an Air conditioner for my grandparents, as well as some soda for my graduation party. It was difficult for me to get it inside, but somehow I managed. I also had a voice lesson and sent a final thank you to the teachers who had affected me most. I played a lot of xenosaga.

Today(Thursday) I had calculus, which was basically just a big chat session about our fears and was a time for us to write letters to our teachers and ourselves as sort of a time capsule of ourselves. I dressed like rambo today with camo pants and bandana coinciding with a kelly / hunter (I'm not sure which) green abercrombie muscle shirt, one of my favorites incidentally. After math I had social studies, which was a large discussion of the senior survey and a lot of other things. Then I had my Physics exam, which also went well. After school we had graduation run through. Everyone got his / her cap + gown + tassles. We practiced walking blah blah blah.... took the picture of the entire class after which Jerome, Tamara, Greg, Nathan and myself went to the food court. I ordered my $8.10 delicacy of the big montana combo (1/2 lb of beef) along w/ curly fries, a medium pepsi and a slice of cheese cake. Then I came home, took a nap, and downloaded some music.

Today's Music
The Faint - Agenda Suicide

Saturday

Saturday was a colossal blarg. I didn't do too much. I awoke around 10, watched some tv, ate one of the free pastries, along with my staple, Honey Bunches of Oats, played some Warcraft III, and downloaded some music. Then I took a shower. Um... what else... hrm. Then I continued to read Breakfast of Champions by Kirk Vonnegut, but I was sleepy, so I took a nap, continued reading, and went to Sarah Wright's graduation party and then to Matt Busse's graduation party. I came home around 8, played some more Warcraft III, finished Breakfast of Champions, and watched The Matrix with the family. Then obviously, I blogged.

Today's Music
Systematic - Leaving Only Scars

Friday

Friday was marked by another unexceptional half day - another day closer to graduation, another day closer to college, summer, etc. But already I think I'm beginning to feel bored. Maybe I just need to diversify my arsenal of computer games. Anyway, back to the school thing. We had afternoon classes on Friday. First hour (band) I turned in my jazz band folder, and my marching band hat, I then cleaned out my locker and played Dance Dance Revolution. In choir, we sang our two graduation songs, "Go the Distance" and "Reach." It was pretty boring. Apropos of choir, I will be singing the National Anthem at Graduation along with Alex, Kirsten, and Colleen. Spanish was marked by an "examen" over "La Catrina: El Ultimo Secreto." It wasn't that bad. I played chess in Math Class again. I really have no desire to do my senior wrap-up for that class, maybe I'll do it after I'm done blogging. Maybe I'll go off on more tangents, who knows? After school, I had to pay an unjust six dollar fine for my year book, and I picked up a copy of the Eagle Post, in which my article about the infamous thirteen year old pundit was featured. We then went to Fazzoli's; Tamara and I skeedaddled to her house, where we did a whole lot of nothing, but I did manage to bench press 200lbs! After that I went home and played Warcraft III. I followed that up by getting gas. The nice ladies at the gas station gave me a huge box full of free pastries. Then at 8:30, Tamara came over and we went to see Finding Nemo, which totally rocked my world.

Today's Music
Unloco - Failure