So, as I am sure you are all feeling the pinch of, the semester is almost over. Allison can appreciate with me how awesome the end of this semester is going to be for us both. NO MORE SCHOOL. AHHH. Unfortunately, I have hit that stage in all stressful experiences, where I just don’t want to do it anymore. I am pretty sure that I could stop going to all of my classes and still sneak by with terrible grades, and still pass. (except for the possibility that they give me an incomplete, that wouldn’t be good). I just feel like I have better things to do with my time
Bigger fish to fry. Bigger bucks to make! (money = food)
So that’s it. I’m sucking it up. I have 4 more weeks. A total of 12 class sessions. 1 is today, making tomorrow’s total 11. Can you tell I’ve thought about this??
Oh, and in a final note. The advantage of graduation is PARTYS! For which I will be having one. On Saturday the 15th, in the mid-morning. I will provide more details, but ya’ll are invited, so don’t leave town until the 16th please.
this is something ben and alli and i talk a lot about on Thursdays, when we all don’t have class:
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I got all bored and stuff, so I pieced together a cable that would let me plug my guitar right into my computer. (Usually I would use my mbox with its nice A/D converters, but it’s in MN.) I then started playing around in garage band and made a song! Everything you hear is my guitar and garage band pre-set processors.
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Shambot has taken on life of its own. I wanted to study its life-like properties so I took a small sample from an old post no one would notice and put it under the microscope. Here are my findings:
UPDATED – Now we’re all in it! It’s important to note that the faces are randomly placed every time and there it about a 0.00928% chance that your picture won’t be there. If you can’t find yourself just refresh the page!
(Evan, sorry if this crashes your browser.)
so this is the new deal. instead of making a long post about music and why you should listen to it, im just going to post some stuff you may or may not have heard of and you can check it out on itunes and decide whether or not you agree with my correct opinion. this sounds much more manageable to do once a week. So here we go…
Evan’s top 3 albums of the week:
1. Los Campesinos! – Sticking Fingers into Sockets
2. Caribou – Andorra (they had a show last wednesday and i didnt know about it! pissed)
3.The Detroit Cobras – Tied and True
as always please respond with your picks.
Hey Shambies. Sorry it’s been so long! I am now in the process of applying to Graduate school! It’s a lot of work, but hopefully it will be worth it!
Anyways, I saw this today on BOiNGBOiNG, so sorry if you guys all read that blog too. But basically, congress added a line to the Higher Education Reauthorization Bill that states if colleges must police the downloads of it’s students with strict consequences for copyright infringement AND provide it’s students with DRM alternatives like Napster and Ruckus if they want to receive federal financial aid for their students. It’s pretty disturbing that the policy will punish the poorest of the nation’s students unless the college becomes lackeys of the RIAA. Granted it’s not passed yet, but I’m waiting for the amendment to the bill that outlaws libraries from loaning out copyrighted material.
MCADETS, this is an outdated news blurb mostly for you.
While we did miss you at the party a few weeks ago, it should further be said that you missed out on Brock and Steve playing sets, some truly awesome costumes, and a crowd of well over 60 people trying to get booze in the classiest way possible.
I led the keg-stand contest, and Sam and Brock held my legs up ever so high!
We were overwhelmed quickly, as many, MANY people rushed in and partook of the party treats and brews. Shortly after the party “was in full swing” we realized, we didn’t know half the people who were there. And thems was rowdy folk. There were the matching pimps, the gang of Droogs from “A Clockwork Orange”, and the Mammogrambot 4000 who spent most of the night groping folk, oh such an array of weirdness. We ran out of beer quickly, and favor turned against us. It was hot, stinky, and the floor had an eerie wavering to it, much like a sine wave to the beat of Steve’s tunes. Craziness. We eventually kicked folk out and counted our dollars and the party was declared profitable, if not necessarily a good time for us, the hosts.
Here’s a scary-ass picture of Sam.
Scawwy! OOOOH SCAWWWWY!
Last week was the week I realized that I’m moving in less than a month, which was a crazy revelation to have because I am completely unprepared to do so. Minor panic. But it passed and I’m back to ignoring my impending interstate trauma move.
The revelation of this week produced an entirely different set of emotions. In two weeks, dear readers, mother fucker’s gonna have a degree. (In this case, I’m the mother fucker.) Holy eternally burning shit balls. I’m not going directly to grad school, so the papers that I’m in the process of writing are the LAST I’ll do for an academic institution in the knowable future. Same deal with the finals I have next week.
And then, in a few months, all my home boys and gangsta queens will graduate too and (I think it goes without saying) we’ll have an incredibly massive party or series of parties lasting the rest of our natural lives, which, if these parties are as I imagine them, will be very short. Exciting.
I haven’t done a politicsy post in a while there’s some good stuff to talk about on that front, so maybe in a few days I’ll talk about Pakistan or Bush’s first veto override or why I hate Ron Paul with the terrible fury of a thousand ancient suns… Stay tuned.
