Turbulent Innuendo
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
THE BIG ONE?
Nuggh.
Okay, I'm really tired.
But I just slept from roughly 4 in the afternoon to 10 at night.
So I shouldn't be.
Sick, maybe? I don't know.
But I still feel like updating this anyway.
I don't really remember anything before D.C right now due to tiredness, so that's what it's gonna be about. To attempt to describe the pure wierdness and randomness and awesomeness that the trip was.
DAY ONE
Before we even started the trip, we had to slog through an entire school day, which was potentially the most useless day of school in my entire life. Two periods of chilling watching IB World Cup games, one period of Study Skills (which is always unproductive,) and a Psych period where we "worked on a project" (A.K.A blabbed for about an hour.)
But all of that unfruitful labour led up to the orgasm of band trips. Cue sitting on a bus for, oh, 5 hours maybe, and ending up at a rediculously sweet hotel, with a pretty large indoor pool and an arcade with some kickass (albeit not working) games. It was pretty cool how our rooms were all surrounding the pool, and the overall design of the hotel was just great.
After soaking for near an hour, we went back to our rooms (I roomed with Cooper, Martin, and Andrew R. What a room.) and watched TV for like hours. There's crazy shit on HBO at 3 in the morning, as exemplified by the rediculous documentary thing on crackheads and how they break needles in their arms and kick their girlfriends in the face while crossing the street.
DAY TWO
Um, second day... what happened. We got dressed all nice and purdy and junk, and went into D.C and saw all the crazy monument stuff, and went into the Capitol building and... uh. I don't remember much about Friday morning. I do remember, however, that we went to the delicious mall (Pentagon City Mall or something?) and then got our asses blown away at the Marine Barracks show afterwards.
For one thing, Marines just have this intimidating thing about them. Maybe it's their classy uniform. Maybe it's the swords that they always wear. Maybe it's the fact that some of them look like they could rip you apart by simply staring at you. But whatever reason, whenever they say something, you listen. They say, "Get out of the street!" and everyone just helter skelters over to the sidewalk immediately. They start talking at the show, everyone shuts up. But yeah, intimidating. The show itself was amazing. We played half of their songs in band, so it wasn't uncommon to hear some people (read: EVERYONE) around you humming their parts. The real show stealer was that silent rifle squad, though. Nothing says "Don't fuck with me." like spinning a bayoneted Garand rifle in perfect unison, and tossing & catching the still spinning rifle to some unheard beat. What was really fun, though, was getting completely confused as to what we were supposed to do after the show, and driving around in a blue Marine bus for like 20 minutes.
DAY THREE
Okay, um. Oh yeah, more monuments. Went to go see the World War II Veterans Memorial and the Korean War statues, and the Lincoln Memorial (and a Lincoln action figure thing for Mr. Baron. Priceless.) and all of that other good jazz. Then we went to the White House for an "eh" tour , nothing really that I hadn't seen last time I went... fun to see the protesters pounce on us and try and talk to us after we got out though. Then back to the hotel for some downtime and discussion about sex positions in the water. Then to the mall again (World Cup t-shirt!) and finally, to go and see Shear Madness.
Wow. Wow. For starters, we were RIGHT UP IN THE FRONT ROW. Like, if I felt like it, I could reach out and touch that actor's feet if I felt like it. When they were washing people's hair, shampoo and water and junk got on us, that's how close we were. The fact that a good portion of the show was improvised was pretty killer, but the real clincher was how they incorporated Broughton gags in there (cop with Broughton tee, "I'm double parked on Peace St.!") and the whole thing was so damn funny to begin with.
Then we went back to the hotel and watched Goodfellas and incorporated the word "fuck" into everything we had to say for the rest of the night.
DAY FOUR
Fun day. Ran around the Baltimore bay area for right near 5 hours, checking out the aquarium and other junk. The dolphin show at the aquarium was kinda lame in my opinion (once you've seen one dolphin show, you've seen them all) but the aquarium was sweet. Identifying Dory fish and Nemo fish with all of the other attendees was priceless.
They we went to the Power Plant (Barnes & Nobles) and the hotel (the mall) and blew the rest of our money. Sorta wasted 5 bucks on a paddleboat ride that was as exciting as a nosebleed. Eating at Five Guys was... interesting (that hamburger definetely reduced my life span by a couple of years.) After all that crap, it was an agonizing 6 or so hour ride back to Raleigh, 30 minute ride home, sleep (not really) and then school. Blah.
AWESOME STUFF
- Learning new and exciting positions from that HBO show. The three-point star is my new favourite.
- A? Group A?
- Watching Marc flip out was strangely entertaining?
- Spinning theories on how fast Marines could kill you was fun ("They already killed us with that bitchin' show. 60 days from now, our brains will comprehend what we saw, overload, and explode like a watermelon.")
- Spinning theories on how Eric got lost was possibly even better ("Some dude came up, and was like 'I've got Halo 2 in the back of my van' and Eric was like 'Fuck yeah, let's own some noobs.' And the rest went not well.")
- Homeless people are created by the government to provide amusement to tourists (getting freestyled to by a homeless dude was absolutely amazing.)
- Azumanga Daioh is the funniest shit ever. That is the first book that has made me laugh out loud. No, not simply laugh out loud, rather it made me roar, bellow, and cackle in pure glee.
- In general, hanging out with all me mates (juniors and seniors in particular) was just the time of my life. Graduation soon = :(.
LISTENINGS
Here's the fun new junk I listened to on the trip!
At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
How To Save A Life by The Fray
Generic? Yes. Predictable? Oh yeah. But still good. And I like the lyrics.
Return to Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio
Take the Pixies. Keep like their genre of rock the same. But give them gospely voices. There you go.
Return To The Sea by Islands
The Unicorns, but more reggaeish.
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? by The Unicorns
Old, but CRAZY AWESOME crazy indie pop.
Wolfmother by Wolfmother
Modern stoner rock. Just look at the album art.
Um.
Yeah that's it.
Since I'm feeling like all tired and shit, I probably forgot some stuff, and will add it later. Until then, bye?
~meh!~
EDIT: I wanted to change the template of the blog, because I didn't like how the little text border thing on the other one was too small for my preferred size of pictures.
So I did.
But I forgot to save all of my links, so they're gone.
Fuck.
Nuggh.
Okay, I'm really tired.
But I just slept from roughly 4 in the afternoon to 10 at night.
So I shouldn't be.
Sick, maybe? I don't know.
But I still feel like updating this anyway.
I don't really remember anything before D.C right now due to tiredness, so that's what it's gonna be about. To attempt to describe the pure wierdness and randomness and awesomeness that the trip was.
DAY ONE
Before we even started the trip, we had to slog through an entire school day, which was potentially the most useless day of school in my entire life. Two periods of chilling watching IB World Cup games, one period of Study Skills (which is always unproductive,) and a Psych period where we "worked on a project" (A.K.A blabbed for about an hour.)
But all of that unfruitful labour led up to the orgasm of band trips. Cue sitting on a bus for, oh, 5 hours maybe, and ending up at a rediculously sweet hotel, with a pretty large indoor pool and an arcade with some kickass (albeit not working) games. It was pretty cool how our rooms were all surrounding the pool, and the overall design of the hotel was just great.
After soaking for near an hour, we went back to our rooms (I roomed with Cooper, Martin, and Andrew R. What a room.) and watched TV for like hours. There's crazy shit on HBO at 3 in the morning, as exemplified by the rediculous documentary thing on crackheads and how they break needles in their arms and kick their girlfriends in the face while crossing the street.
DAY TWO
Um, second day... what happened. We got dressed all nice and purdy and junk, and went into D.C and saw all the crazy monument stuff, and went into the Capitol building and... uh. I don't remember much about Friday morning. I do remember, however, that we went to the delicious mall (Pentagon City Mall or something?) and then got our asses blown away at the Marine Barracks show afterwards.
For one thing, Marines just have this intimidating thing about them. Maybe it's their classy uniform. Maybe it's the swords that they always wear. Maybe it's the fact that some of them look like they could rip you apart by simply staring at you. But whatever reason, whenever they say something, you listen. They say, "Get out of the street!" and everyone just helter skelters over to the sidewalk immediately. They start talking at the show, everyone shuts up. But yeah, intimidating. The show itself was amazing. We played half of their songs in band, so it wasn't uncommon to hear some people (read: EVERYONE) around you humming their parts. The real show stealer was that silent rifle squad, though. Nothing says "Don't fuck with me." like spinning a bayoneted Garand rifle in perfect unison, and tossing & catching the still spinning rifle to some unheard beat. What was really fun, though, was getting completely confused as to what we were supposed to do after the show, and driving around in a blue Marine bus for like 20 minutes.
DAY THREE
Okay, um. Oh yeah, more monuments. Went to go see the World War II Veterans Memorial and the Korean War statues, and the Lincoln Memorial (and a Lincoln action figure thing for Mr. Baron. Priceless.) and all of that other good jazz. Then we went to the White House for an "eh" tour , nothing really that I hadn't seen last time I went... fun to see the protesters pounce on us and try and talk to us after we got out though. Then back to the hotel for some downtime and discussion about sex positions in the water. Then to the mall again (World Cup t-shirt!) and finally, to go and see Shear Madness.
Wow. Wow. For starters, we were RIGHT UP IN THE FRONT ROW. Like, if I felt like it, I could reach out and touch that actor's feet if I felt like it. When they were washing people's hair, shampoo and water and junk got on us, that's how close we were. The fact that a good portion of the show was improvised was pretty killer, but the real clincher was how they incorporated Broughton gags in there (cop with Broughton tee, "I'm double parked on Peace St.!") and the whole thing was so damn funny to begin with.
Then we went back to the hotel and watched Goodfellas and incorporated the word "fuck" into everything we had to say for the rest of the night.
DAY FOUR
Fun day. Ran around the Baltimore bay area for right near 5 hours, checking out the aquarium and other junk. The dolphin show at the aquarium was kinda lame in my opinion (once you've seen one dolphin show, you've seen them all) but the aquarium was sweet. Identifying Dory fish and Nemo fish with all of the other attendees was priceless.
They we went to the Power Plant (Barnes & Nobles) and the hotel (the mall) and blew the rest of our money. Sorta wasted 5 bucks on a paddleboat ride that was as exciting as a nosebleed. Eating at Five Guys was... interesting (that hamburger definetely reduced my life span by a couple of years.) After all that crap, it was an agonizing 6 or so hour ride back to Raleigh, 30 minute ride home, sleep (not really) and then school. Blah.
AWESOME STUFF
- Learning new and exciting positions from that HBO show. The three-point star is my new favourite.
- A? Group A?
- Watching Marc flip out was strangely entertaining?
- Spinning theories on how fast Marines could kill you was fun ("They already killed us with that bitchin' show. 60 days from now, our brains will comprehend what we saw, overload, and explode like a watermelon.")
- Spinning theories on how Eric got lost was possibly even better ("Some dude came up, and was like 'I've got Halo 2 in the back of my van' and Eric was like 'Fuck yeah, let's own some noobs.' And the rest went not well.")
- Homeless people are created by the government to provide amusement to tourists (getting freestyled to by a homeless dude was absolutely amazing.)
- Azumanga Daioh is the funniest shit ever. That is the first book that has made me laugh out loud. No, not simply laugh out loud, rather it made me roar, bellow, and cackle in pure glee.
- In general, hanging out with all me mates (juniors and seniors in particular) was just the time of my life. Graduation soon = :(.
LISTENINGS
Here's the fun new junk I listened to on the trip!
At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
How To Save A Life by The Fray
Generic? Yes. Predictable? Oh yeah. But still good. And I like the lyrics.
Return to Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio
Take the Pixies. Keep like their genre of rock the same. But give them gospely voices. There you go.
Return To The Sea by Islands
The Unicorns, but more reggaeish.
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? by The Unicorns
Old, but CRAZY AWESOME crazy indie pop.
Wolfmother by Wolfmother
Modern stoner rock. Just look at the album art.
Um.
Yeah that's it.
Since I'm feeling like all tired and shit, I probably forgot some stuff, and will add it later. Until then, bye?
~meh!~
EDIT: I wanted to change the template of the blog, because I didn't like how the little text border thing on the other one was too small for my preferred size of pictures.
So I did.
But I forgot to save all of my links, so they're gone.
Fuck.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006
HOLY CRAP! (SONG OF NOW)
I fell down in the desert baby, yeah
I had nothing but a peice of paper, oh yeah,
I had to write something down,
And I found myself alone, then I let go of everything,
Into another dimension
Purple haze is in the sky,
See the angels wicked eye
All these things we must try
'Till we see the reasons why, oh yeah
Lightning crash on the hill tonight, (yeah)
I got a feeling everything is gonna be alright
Then a horse came running to me
Said we're gonna go to the sanctuary
Then a storm began to blow,
Into another dimension.
Purple haze is in the sky,
See the angels wicked eye
All these things we must try
'Till we see the reasons why, oh yeah
I got lost in the desert baby, yeah
I found temples made out of paper, oh yeah
I had to write something down
But then I found myself alone
Then I let go of everything
Into another dimension
~ Dimension by Wolfmother
A fresh new blast from the past. Check them out.
An actual update with actual real life stuff will actually come after D.C.
Actually.
~meh!~
EDIT: Oooh, check them out now.
EDIT AGAIN: There's also a kickass live show on Google Video, but its 50 motherfucking minutes long.
Watch if you like.
YET ANOTHER EDIT: Holy shipshakes Batman, they're coming to the Cat's Cradle on June 7th too!
I think that I like this band.
On par with like my obsession with the Decemberists when I found them last year.
I fell down in the desert baby, yeah
I had nothing but a peice of paper, oh yeah,
I had to write something down,
And I found myself alone, then I let go of everything,
Into another dimension
Purple haze is in the sky,
See the angels wicked eye
All these things we must try
'Till we see the reasons why, oh yeah
Lightning crash on the hill tonight, (yeah)
I got a feeling everything is gonna be alright
Then a horse came running to me
Said we're gonna go to the sanctuary
Then a storm began to blow,
Into another dimension.
Purple haze is in the sky,
See the angels wicked eye
All these things we must try
'Till we see the reasons why, oh yeah
I got lost in the desert baby, yeah
I found temples made out of paper, oh yeah
I had to write something down
But then I found myself alone
Then I let go of everything
Into another dimension
~ Dimension by Wolfmother
A fresh new blast from the past. Check them out.
An actual update with actual real life stuff will actually come after D.C.
Actually.
~meh!~
EDIT: Oooh, check them out now.
EDIT AGAIN: There's also a kickass live show on Google Video, but its 50 motherfucking minutes long.
Watch if you like.
YET ANOTHER EDIT: Holy shipshakes Batman, they're coming to the Cat's Cradle on June 7th too!
I think that I like this band.
On par with like my obsession with the Decemberists when I found them last year.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
INTERESTING.
Music Videos!
Rough Gem by Islands
Fashion Zombies by The Aquabats
Kudos to Marc for being a bud once again and showing me how to blog these bloomin' videos.
Tahahaha.
Back to work!
~meh!~
Music Videos!
Rough Gem by Islands
Fashion Zombies by The Aquabats
Kudos to Marc for being a bud once again and showing me how to blog these bloomin' videos.
Tahahaha.
Back to work!
~meh!~
Friday, May 12, 2006
ITS FRIDAY
Respond to this and i will..
1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
~meh!~
Respond to this and i will..
1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
~meh!~
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
(YET ANOTHER) SONG OF NOW
In trouble with the dogs
Yapping like the trogs on that tape
Getting stepped on like a baby
Maybe slept too long
Is that so wrong?
So at sunrise we moved on
At lunch the storm had gone away
I didn't swim
But I watched the waves
While others stayed
under for over an hour
While lovers hovered around the towel
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
In trouble with the gods
We didn't always misbehave
Where the sun shone, now it's gone
Weve been waiting for so long
Now it's on.
Not that we would do ourselves in
Funny how things work out in the end
I never learned to swim
Now I'm wasted, I'm too old
Just hold on for as long as you can
I'm so afraid to die
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
The frogs, the frogs got it first
And the birds all knew it too
The worst was the worse smell on earth
Silver and snow
Silver and snow
Don't breathe
Don't breathe
Don't breathe
Dont breathe
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say
now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
Who knew? Volcanoes!
~ Volcanoes by Islands
~meh!~
In trouble with the dogs
Yapping like the trogs on that tape
Getting stepped on like a baby
Maybe slept too long
Is that so wrong?
So at sunrise we moved on
At lunch the storm had gone away
I didn't swim
But I watched the waves
While others stayed
under for over an hour
While lovers hovered around the towel
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
In trouble with the gods
We didn't always misbehave
Where the sun shone, now it's gone
Weve been waiting for so long
Now it's on.
Not that we would do ourselves in
Funny how things work out in the end
I never learned to swim
Now I'm wasted, I'm too old
Just hold on for as long as you can
I'm so afraid to die
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
The frogs, the frogs got it first
And the birds all knew it too
The worst was the worse smell on earth
Silver and snow
Silver and snow
Don't breathe
Don't breathe
Don't breathe
Dont breathe
We washed our mouths at the riverbed
When we noticed something glowing
It was growing
Things are going to change
Hot rainfalls made of magma
melts Alaska
And in icy Argentine they say
now I've seen it all
Who knew? Volcanoes!
Who knew? Volcanoes!
~ Volcanoes by Islands
~meh!~
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
SONG OF NOW
Well yeah, we're the freaks of nature
We're the kids that easily bruise
We're the geeks and the creatures
Outer space hillbillies from the moon
Get stupid on your time
Keep your geriatric biker fight
Diffuse the land mines
I'm alright
You're Alright
We're Alright
Well we both know that our day will come
The revolution has begun
So raise your fists and take a stand
With your super cool...
Super cool wrist bands!
We broke out
And now we're running crazy
Down the middle of the boulevard
(Spaced out!)
There's a nerd alert
There's a nerd alert
And you'll never, ever
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
You'll never...!
We're fat, young and hungry
But we don't care
We got big old brains
Like Mexican candy
We got some complex flavor
Running up in here
So get stupid on your time
Get the bud bowl off the air
Diffuse the land mines
I'm alright
You're alright
We're alright
You know that your apathy
Became your enemy
And you did yourself in
Find out this phenomenon
Is running on and on
And we'll never give in...
We broke out
Now we're running crazy
Down the middle of the boulevard
(Spaced out!)
There's a nerd alert
There's a nerd alert
And you'll never, ever
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
Live...
~ Nerd Alert by The Aquabats
This song makes me laugh.
~meh!~
Well yeah, we're the freaks of nature
We're the kids that easily bruise
We're the geeks and the creatures
Outer space hillbillies from the moon
Get stupid on your time
Keep your geriatric biker fight
Diffuse the land mines
I'm alright
You're Alright
We're Alright
Well we both know that our day will come
The revolution has begun
So raise your fists and take a stand
With your super cool...
Super cool wrist bands!
We broke out
And now we're running crazy
Down the middle of the boulevard
(Spaced out!)
There's a nerd alert
There's a nerd alert
And you'll never, ever
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
You'll never...!
We're fat, young and hungry
But we don't care
We got big old brains
Like Mexican candy
We got some complex flavor
Running up in here
So get stupid on your time
Get the bud bowl off the air
Diffuse the land mines
I'm alright
You're alright
We're alright
You know that your apathy
Became your enemy
And you did yourself in
Find out this phenomenon
Is running on and on
And we'll never give in...
We broke out
Now we're running crazy
Down the middle of the boulevard
(Spaced out!)
There's a nerd alert
There's a nerd alert
And you'll never, ever
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
Never take us alive
Live...
~ Nerd Alert by The Aquabats
This song makes me laugh.
~meh!~
