October Archive

Friday, October 3, 2003 -- 4:06 pm
Music in CD Player: none (KaZaA music playing)
Mood: mellow

"Waiting for October, I cross my fingers, cross my heart, and hope to die...Hoping that the end will start it all again...Cause it all ends in 1999 and commences on the 28th, the 28th, the 28th..." Gotta love Polaris. Well, there's no more need waiting for October, because it's here! I actually really like October. I don't really know why. Maybe it's just that fally, crispy feeling that I get. Besides Halloween can be amusing at times...

The September slices have moved to their own archive, with a link at the top of the page, in case you were wondering where they all went to. The slices for October will all be posted on this main page.

It looks like it's going to be another Friday at home, unless something comes up at the last minute. I kind of have this feeling to go out and do something with anyone, especially if it's...well, anyway. I'm kind of lonely. The game yesterday in Frankfort was nice though. It was kind of a "girl's night" deal. Haven't had one of those in a looooong time, prolly because I mostly hang out with guys, I suppose.

My family and I are going out to Applebee's for dinner. Our one time out of the whole year when we go out as a family, for sure. Not that I'm complaining. We just like to stay home better. I guess it's cheaper that way. My family is pretty cheap, actually. Come to think of it, so am I. Well, that's just because I don't have any money at the moment...oh well.

Seriously, all of you who read this should go to www.straylightrun.com right now. Then read the rest of this. It's the website for probably one of the most awesome bands I've ever heard -- and they don't even have an album out yet! You can hear free mp3s of all 6 of their current demo songs on that site. Let me tell you, they are amazing. Basically the band consists of two of the guys from Taking Back Sunday (not a band that I listen to, but what these two guys created is phenomenal -- that alone coming from me must mean that they're pretty good, after all!), a girl who plays keyboards and occasionally joins in singing (sound a little familiar?), as well as a guy on drums. The song "Existentialism on Prom Night" has become my new all-time favorite song, for good reasons. I spent hours just trying to get the piano part. Now I'm happy because I can play it. But anyway, definitely go there -- you won't regret it at all, I guarantee it. I can't accent enough how great those six songs are. They almost rival the genius that is Dashboard Confessional...

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Monday, October 13, 2003 -- 9:32 p.m.
Music in CD Player: Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape
Mood: verrry happy

Happy Columbus Day, all. I still don't see the point of this holiday after all these years, but hell, any reason's a damn good reason to get us out of school, so why abolish it?

Yesterday was niiiice... In any case, I dunno...I can't really explain. Whatever.

Haha, this is a funny smilie...reminds me of myself, hehe!!!

"I can't think of anything else to say..."

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Sunday, October 19, 2003 -- 9:02 p.m.
Music in CD Player: Liz's MP3 CD #31 (although right now the song that's been on my mind all week long is "Out of Reach" by the Get Up Kids...Joel, I hope you're extra proud of me! )
Mood: pretty damn independent, baby

'Twas a quite normal Sunday. Well, kinda. The weekend in general wasn't too normal. Then again, what is normal, anyway?

This weekend was homecoming weekend for us at good 'ole Herk. I went with my good friend Nick. I'm pretty glad I invited him because we had a great time. Saturday night was the dance, by the way...I got all dolled up (if you could call it that) in one of my formal dance gown thingies. Before that I'd gone to a Mohawk football game, thinking, from how Woody told it to me, that a soccer game was going on. So I rode my bike over to Mohawk to find out that it was a football game after all, the big one against Dolgeville. I swear there were like 4,000 people there. And who do I see just as I came in? Luckily my good friend Nikki Beppu. We sat on my hippie blanket and just talked throughout the whole game. I swear I didn't see much of the game, I was too busy talking with her. But it was really good, actually. I love those times when you just sit there with a good friend you've known forever and just talk your hearts out. It's really meaningful. It doesn't really matter what you talk about either. I just talk my heart out. Honesty -- that's my big thing. Maybe I'm too quick to trust people (as I've found out in several recent incidents...), and I believe too strongly in the general good of people's hearts, but when I do really trust someone, I'll tell them everything -- I have nothing to hide I guess. And it's a good thing. I feel that it's a good quality about myself -- I have nothing to hide -- what you see is what you get. I try to be as genuine as humanly possible, I guess. Sometimes that's good, other times not so good.

Anyway, so I mentioned homecoming to Nikki and she generously suggested to doing my hair. So we went over to her house and she straightened my hair for the first time in my life. I was surprised at how nice I look with straight hair, haha. It kinda makes me look older -- and my hair looks a lot longer without all that natural curl. But I just took a shower so now it's not straight anymore. ...Oh well.

Anyway, so I went with Nick. The music at the dance was terrible, actually. And it was so loud I couldn't even hear myself talk to him, and he was standing right next to me. So we both decided to leave. Besides, they were all out of soda...but the funniest part was that I saw Dash just as I was leaving. I "ran into his arms" and talked to him briefly, then gave him a kiss on the cheek and left. It's always great seeing Dash -- good times always follow, no matter how short they last.

So Nick and I drove around, then he gave me the tour of his house and we watched hilarious Homestar stuff. Gotta love Homestar Runner...it's dot-net. Haha! All in all it was a great night -- another good time with an awesome friend who I can just be myself and discuss anything with. I love my friends.

So today Woody and I went to Wal Mart and just fooled around. I guess you could say this weekend was full of awesome friends and just hanging and enjoying them. Dave Hawley called tonight because he's home from college 'til Tuesday, so we should do something tomorrow, since I have yet another one of those extra-advantageous half-day things. Be jealous. Be very jealous. Anyway, so today was basically a hanging out day at home, except for the hour-long trip to Wally World with Woody. Hehe. I watched half of the Jesus Chris Superstar DVD with my bro before getting a call from Dave, which I was happy to receive. JCS is awesome...the album alone is a great musical experience. "To conquer death, you simply have to die..."

I'm in one of those mellow kinda moods...I wanna be inspired to write something sad...although I'm kinda feeling really nice right now.

So that's my weekend. I know, I haven't updated this in so long. I'm sorry, really. I just haven't had the incentive lately, what with recent events leaving me kinda confused. I just gotta forget some things totally...the future awaits.

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Saturday, October 25, 2003 -- 11:47 a.m.
Music in CD Player: Coldplay, Parachutes
Mood: relaxed, comfortable, mellow (in a nice way)

"One time, at Ninja camp..."

For those of you who are fellow Tough Ninja: The Shadow Warrior fans (you know, the movie Joel got that one time at the video store for $3 and which we later found out was a rare gem of a film, to say the least!), I found something utterly hilarious on the 'net about it. I was surprised, since you don't nomally see anything about Tough Ninja ever...anywhere. Well I guess it figures, because I found it on a site called www.terriblemovies.com. So here it is, credit of that site, for your enjoyment...

Tough Ninja: The Shadow Warrior, 7 out of 10 stars
"This film really didn't make much sense for so many reasons but it was really fun to watch. Basically it's about a ninja class that goes bad where several trainees decide to leave after seeing that they only get beat up in training. Only a few escape and the rest are hunted down by the angry ninja boss (And I thought Amazon.com's cusotmer service training sucked!), who is oddly enough an American who stayed in Japan after the war. He betrayed his master to become an evil master himself. His organization commits robberys and kills anyone trying to do the same. The trainees swim away to what I think was Hong Kong. They run into a good samaritan who intorduces them to a Japanese business partner of the ninja boss who tries to exploit them and use some of the women as sex slaves. The escapees are subject to ransoms, fights, and unlucky encounters. Most of the film is really confusing and characters just enter the story without much explanation. What is fun are the bad kung-fu lines, cool fighting and bizarre sex scenes. So much fighting is done off screen that one can't really tell what's going on during a fight. During a bunch of the fights people suddenly dissapear with the help of a computer ping sound. Nice touch! When the head ninja trains everyone he says, "You will all become ninja warriors or you will die in the training. Never let anybody see your face" He beats up a trainne and says, "Try again fatso." When a random blond girl tries to escape the training class she gets two ninja stars in her face and screams, "Ahhhh...the pain!" It's really funny. The ninjas are goofy and use pigeon calls to communicate. When some random white guy tries to enter the ninja compound he says all this incomprehensible stuff and then they cut his throat. It makes no sense. The movie has strange people like an escapee named Jenny who's brother makes his living going into public restrooms and hijacking people peeing with a pair of sisscors. There's also a scene where two guys get thrown off a high scaffholding which looks like a really dangerous low-budget stunt. Another guy has a pole plunged through his chest who jumps on his assailant which kills him as well. When one couple is having sex, the guy licks her boobs with a wierd '70s sound to help it along. Most of the film has the funny dubbed voices you can hear in just about every Hong Kong film of the '70s. There are badly done disappearing ninjas with even worse sound effects. One women bites an assailant while a weird cat/lion sound effect comes out of nowhere. This film is not for you if you're bad at following plots and care. If you like good fighting, kung-fu humor, and a bit of sick stuff along with a battle with an American ambassador ninja, then this is an hour well spent."

Took the words right out of my mouth, pal. So, as you can see, this movie is definitely worth watching...haha, at least it was for me. The funny thing about that is that on the video there was this thing that said, "Volume 1 of the Ninja Chronicles," so we're hoping that there are other ninja gems out there to be plucked. Anyone know anything about these other movies, or if they even exist at all? Tough Ninja fans, unite!

In other news...hmmm. Fall's here, and that means cold, cold, and more cold. And falling leaves, which is actually kinda nice. It also means that bike rides become less frequent...I say "hmmm" yet again.

Party tonight at Lisa's...still gotta get her a present. Gotta read some of that English book too, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann...the coolest thing about that book, and there are several cool things about it, is that it's written by a German (I'm reading the english translation, however ) and it speaks of several places in Germany that I'd been to in my travels. But another cool thing about it, as Briggs nicely stated, "It sounds like an acid trip." Luckily, it's not about an acid trip, but I am reading a couple books that basically are about acid trips. For instance, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. Great book about Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and his "Merry Pranksters," a bunch of hippies who go around getting high on acid and turning everyone on to the "current fantasy." It's like On the Road (yet another totally awesome book!) only instead of covering the beat generation, it covers the hippie era, defined, mainly, by the Merry Pranksters. Another one of these acid books, in a sense, is No One Here Gets Out Alive, by Danny Sugarman, a biography on Jim Morrison. I'd read half of it in German while in Germany, since my host dad had it lying around so I figured, "Why not?" It's there that I also read half of On the Road before deciding to buy it in english. Definitely a worthwhile effort, if you love reading as much as I do, especially reading about the Beat Generation.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2003 -- 4:07 p.m.
Music in CD Player: Liz's MP3 CD #10
Mood: content

I found one of the coolest poems ever today while taking an AP English practice test...it's one of my away messages now on AIM. It's a poem by William Butler Yeats called A Deep-Sworn Vow, and it goes a little like this:

Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine,
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.

Great, isn't it? Mmmmmm...anyway...

This Friday's Halloween -- that means Samhaine for you druid nuts like me. I'd tell the whole story of Halloween's true origins if I wanted to. But I don't really wanna get into it right now, so too bad for youuuu. I intend to spend my Halloween with Brant, since it'll be, like, my first time seeing him in, like, a month or so. He's comin' back from college so we're gonna hang. You know, crazy stuff, which always happens when Brant and I get together, haha! Should be nice. Then Saturday I'm hanging with my good buddy Briggs ...

...My calender is full until next week, so any of my lovers and other admirers who I didn't happen to have enough time for this weekend will have to be delayed to next weekend, haha! Nah, really, I'm not that narcissistic. It's ok.

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