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Wednesday, July 10th, 2002Well, the rest of Tuesday was fairly easy going… After dinner I finally got my financial aid crap out the door, so that’ll be getting all squared away, and I checked my bank account to find that I had gotten paid! Yay for direct deposit! So the Discover Card promptly got paid off as well, now I only have the Mastercard left (when it comes) and I’ll be all squared away. I ended up just going out by myself, I headed out Cheektavegas way, to the Media Play on Walden. My months and months of patience finally paid off, as lo and behold, the clearance rack held the object of my desires (at the moment): The Static-X “This Is Not” shirt for 75% off! $4.50!!! Yay I so happy! Fishing my way around the entire rack, what do I happen upon, but a Slipknot long-sleeve shirt for not just 75% off the original price, nooooo… ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-EIGHT CENTS. $1.88 for a long sleeve regularly $20 shirt! Suffice to say I was pretty hella excited by this… 🙂 Requisite trip to the mall, didnt see anything of interest, so last logical destination, Target. Picked up Korn’s Untouchables, as I don’t think I’m gonna find it any lower than $11.88. Turns out Trice was working at the service desk, so I chatted with her for a little bit. Got home, and wasn’t 2 minutes home when Carolyn calls, her and Sara inquring about a Denny’s trip. Suuuuure why not… 🙂 Came back, watched the news with the parents, and after some computer fun, bedtime. zzzzzzz.
The bargain hunter struck again. I guess if there’s anything that I’m glad my parents taught me, its that money doesnt grow on trees and to shop around for a good deal. While this doesn’t mean nitpick or haggle over pennies, holding out for awhile to get a better deal usually works… hehe, especially on extremely non-essential items such as rock t-shirts 🙂 I’ve had my eye on that Static-X shirt for literally 9 months… and it languished at 25% clearance for most of that time, at each of the Media Play’s I’d visit. I always made it a point to check the clearance racks for that kind of thing, and once again, my dilligence has paid off 🙂 So the closet expands again, but at a fraction of the cost it could have been! 🙂 So to make a long story short… I’m a cheapskate 🙂
throwing rocks, and the bottom falls out of the ketchup
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2002Yes, I’ve been lax again on the updates, more lazy than anything else. Monday night I took Sara out to get her birthday present, so Target was the first destination, and I got her one of the oft-talked about tanktops with velcro letters, so you can make your own saying on them… It’s about time someone came up with that idea! I know iron on letters have been around forever, but this you can change up on the fly! So after that, since she’d been clamoring to make window clings, I got her some of the special “paper” that you can throw in the inkjet printers to make the aforementioned clings. If they turn out well, I’m getting myself some too 🙂 The mall was the next obvious destination, duh, then Andersons for a milkshake. Tuesday at work was kinda slow in the morning, but in the afternoon I picked up a new project, wiring a patch panel for audio and video in the Examinations video room. As it sits now they have to reach behind and plug into whatever deck they want to use, and this will simplify that greatly. So I’m doing the inital layout now, and as the month goes on, I’ll be making the cables and ends and what not. Shades of ITV, the skills are going to come in handy! 🙂 So after work I picked up Danielle and Sara, and we headed to the second Friendship Festival concert at Fort Erie Racetrack, this time seeing Holly McNarland, Edwin and the Pressure, and David Usher. The review will be up when I get home from work, but for a quick rundown: Holly was quite impressive, she had a great voice and I liked her backup band as well. Edwin was plauged by PA problems, and even when it was on, we couldn’t hear him. Right at the start of the last song, someone in the crowd threw a rock and got Edwin right in the head. He was bleeding pretty bad, and that was it for the set. (More on that in a second). David Usher was great, voice and band alike! The three of us ended up at Maple Rd Denny’s afterwards, and after getting my fries, I went to shake the ketchup, and got it all over myself! The bottom of the brand new plastic bottle had cracked and the ketchup was oozing out the bottom!! The waitress gave me the fries for free, so that was all good 🙂 One more day of work, then I’m off tomorrow, and even though I have to come back in Friday, I think its gonna be an extremely light day. 🙂
Okay, the throwing rocks thing. It’s stupid, no matter how you cut it. I don’t care how much you don’t care for someone, throwing stuff at them up on stage is not the way to show it. Didn’t mommy ever tell you not to throw things? My feeling is that this was a result of some lingering animostiy towards Edwin for leaving I Mother Earth in their prime to go do his own thing. Fans in Toronto and the surrounding region seem to absolutely LOATHE him for this. I personally don’t understand, but thats beside the point. The fact is, its now 4 years later, and IME’s had one album out, Edwin’s got two out, and its time to just let it die. But back to the rock throwing. It doesnt matter how much you hate him, for whatever reason, THROWING SHIT AT HIM ON STAGE IS WRONG!!! He was bleeding quite badly, now I realize (from wrestling, Mary made a Rick Flair comparison) that head wounds bleed a lot and heal fast as well, but again, not relevant to my point. The fact that someone decided to throw something with intent to injure at practically a sitting duck up on stage is disturbing. The culprit tried to run through the crowd, and didn’t seem to make it very far before he was surrounded. Even the rest of Edwin’s band jumped off the stage and into the crowd to give chase. I hope Edwin chooses to press charges, and I hope the person got the beating of a lifetime in the interim. The announcement came down that Edwin was okay, and was taken to the hospital as a precaution, AND that they did indeed catch the rock thrower. Good. Throw the book at him (pun naturally intended).
a garden of shirts for eleven fingers
Sunday, June 30th, 2002Kinda let this slide yesterday, so where to start? Friday night for Sara’s birthday we got the usual motley crew and went out to dinner, Buca di Beppos was really good, they do all the portions family style, meaning you get a huge plate of pasta and everyone takes what they want. It worked out to about $11 a person, so it ended up being rather affordable as well. The spaghetti was great, as was the garlic bread. For dessert, Adrienne had baked a chocolate cake, so we all headed back to Sara’s house to digest the massive meal and do some dessert. The party was then transferred to Danielle’s basement, where we played Taboo for a while, then shot pool, both while we were “indulging” in some beverages 🙂 Danielle was kind enough to be the DD for us (at her own house!) Thanks Danielle!
Saturday I actually woke up at like 9, and went out to buy a 100 ft chunk of cable, and did the wiring (if you can call it that) to my room from the basement so I have cable TV in my room now!! Yay! (And there’s still nothing on!). So when that was done, I helped Sara fix her computer, she got a burner for her birthday, and her dad installed it and it was working fine, and then when she went to go burn something, it locked up the machine. I thought it was stuff in the system tray not loading, but it ended up being that the old CDROM drive somehow got back into the hardware profile. Deleted that, and we’re back in business! Sara was going to work soon, so I ended up going to the Salvation Army on Military, and hit the jackpot! 4 SOUNDGARDEN SHIRTS!!! 3 Superunknown ones, and a Down on the Upside Album cover. $2 each! Pressing my luck, I went to FrizB’s, now that I could actually buy something, and raided the $3 bin, getting Local H, Lost Highway Soundtrack, Comes With The Fall (Jerry Cantrell’s live backing band), and I also bought the Cantrell Album. Best Buy had the new nonpoint for $7, so that was the next stop. Came home to mom and dad going to pick up pizza, so I ate well, and then went to go pick up Danielle for the F11 show. (Review will be up shortly). The show was pretty good, we met up with Mary, Mike and Joe, and Rick and Janet came later. If the volume of people is the same Tuesday for Usher / Edwin like it was last night, we will have no problems 🙂 The show ended about 11, so me and Danielle decided that it was too early to go home, so we hit Chippewa. Thanks monthly parking! Parked in my lot, and we were close to everything! We ended up at Big Shotz I think the place is called, and ended up spending the better part of two hours there just kinda shooting the breeze and watching all the people. Quite the good time!
Not sure whats going on today, Best Buy has CDR’s in the ad today, and I’m all out, so I have at least one destination 🙂
no degredation for violet light
Wednesday, June 26th, 2002And so goes Wednesday. Work was pretty good, did a lot of little things for people, fixing logins mostly. Nothing really crazy. The whole money thing got itself resolved at work, and then when I get home, whats waiting for me on the table? MY CHECK!!! I GOT PAID!!! I’M SO HAPPY!!! So that’s a huge load off, I can actually afford to pay for my parking, my parents back for credit card bills, etc. Yay!
I recently found a gift card Amanda had gotten me for Xmas to Barnes and Noble, so I went out and picked up The Tragically Hip’s new Cd, In Violet Light. I had my heart set on getting the new Jerry Cantrell disc, AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE IT!!! Everything else was overpriced (the Hip CD was too for that matter, but the gift card made it bearable). I mean, 13.99 for OLP, can you say 9.99 everywhere else? 16.99 for Korn (13 elsewhere) 18.99 for PapaRoach (11.99 at best buy), and I gotta go back to best buy tomorrow and get the new Nonpoint because its only 6.99!!! That place is good for something… 🙂
So after that we hit the thrift store, media play, and ended up at Tim Horton’s for some reason. I was driving, and I still don’t know how that happened! 🙂 Surprisingly 🙂 we went to Danielles house again, just to play pool and goof around.Came home and watched the news with the parents, it ended up being the usual Bonus family circus…. 🙂 I really enjoy doing that kind of thing with them 🙂
Dunno what we’re doing tomorrow, but I think Adrienne is going to be back by the evening time, so the fab four will be in full effect for whatever we do! 🙂
free fort erie
Wednesday, June 26th, 2002There’s just something cool about changing your console to have bright green letters on a black background. Its like an old monochrome terminal, and even though I wouldn’t want to run everything in it, the command line being that color makes me feel all old-school. Yeah yeah, I know, I’m not old school at all, and I don’t care. Thats not the point. I dunno, its all nostalgic and crap.
And I have no idea what I’m saying, cuz I’m hungry. At work, its 12:30, and we havent left for lunch yet. Normally, I dont care, but today I’m hungry! Got up too late and was too lazy to make my lunch, so I’m acutally gonna buy it today. I’m supposedly getting paid tomorrow, check’s in the mail so they say. We’ll see. This whole lack of money thing sucks. There’s tenatively three shows coming up in 4 days, and luckily two of them are free. Finger Eleven (with The Full Nine and Mudmen) at Fort Erie racetrack as part of the Friendship Festival, theres one freebie, then the Watchmen in Port Dalhousie (small club show, shouldn’t be too expensive, this one I’m not sure if I’ll be going to or not), and then David Usher and Edwin for the friendship festival again at the racetrack (another freebie!). But as sara told me yesterday, the big one is July 12th at Jillians in Rochester… VANILLA ICE!! To sound like a high school girl… we are *SO* going to that show! 🙂 Word to your Mother! 🙂
Jerry doesn’t disappoint
Saturday, June 22nd, 2002The show was awesome… Epidemic was really boring, but Jerry Cantrell was amazing, and I think this was the best I’ve seen Nickelback so far… the review will be up later, but suffice to say it was an awesome show! I even got goodies, me and Mary both got Cantrell setlists, she got a Cantrell pick too and I got a Nickelback pick… woohoo for 4th row!! 🙂
a tea party for canadian martyrs
Wednesday, June 19th, 2002Tuesday at work was kinda slow, we had to do inventory down in the basement, and compile all the inventory sheets that we had done from the day before. It was a fairly slow day, nothing out of the ordinary. The car was real damp, so getting to work in the morning almost became an adventure, but eventually it turned over and away I went.
After work, we ate dinner and then Sara and I headed to Arizona’s in Thorold to get our tickets for the Tea Party show this saturday. Getting there was no problem, and then to get back we decided to follow a different route, and we purposely got lost in St. Catherines. We happened upon a Salvation Army, and we’re like, Canadian Thrift store! Awesome! But alas, it was closed, so we hit the Great Tiger (I think thats what its called) store next door. It was like a K-mart, but only half the size. Kinda weird layout too. So after that, we were like, we wanna find a mall, so we looked at a map in that store, figured out where we wanted to go, and found a Wal-Mart instead! Straight for the CD section, with the exchange the prices were decent, and then I found a Watchmen “In The Trees” CD for 5.99 Cdn! After GST and all that tax with exchange it cost me $5 American! And if I wanted to get that CD at Record Theatre, it’d cost me like $15 at least. Yay Canada!
We passed a school on the way with a funny title, and then Carolyn told us that its a common school name in Ontario… The Canadian Martyr School! What?!?!? Learn how to be a martyr for fun and profit! Very interesting… so we took 406 to 58, under the Welland canal tunnel to the QEW, and then toured Fort Erie for a little bit, came back home and stopped at McD’s for a bit (Sara was hunrgry, go figure!) 🙂
Today at work so far has been okay, I went upstairs to exams to put out a new machine, and another guy in the department was playing the BB King / Eric Clapton CD, and then gave one of the women in the department a Stevie Ray Vaughan CD! So I was getting serenaded while deploying the machine! 🙂 The rest of the day seems like its going to be light, nothing really going on. Time will tell!
robot outhouses
Monday, June 17th, 2002Tagline on Pimprock: “Home to more shitty metal than a robot outhouse!”
This is our last goodbye
Thursday, June 13th, 2002“This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
but it’s over
just hear this and then I’ll go
you gave me more to live for
more than you’ll ever know
this is our last embrace
must i dream and always see your face
why can’t we overcome this wall
well, maybe it’s just because I didn’t know you at all
kiss me, please kiss me
but kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
you know it makes me so angry ’cause I know that in time
i’ll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye
did you say “no, this can’t happen to me,”
and did you rush to the phone to call
was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
saying maybe you didn’t know him at all
you didn’t know him at all, oh, you didn’t know
well, the bells out in the church tower chime
burning clues into this heart of mine
thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
offer signs that it’s over… it’s over
-Jeff Buckley
cornell goes blonde
Sunday, April 21st, 2002Holy Blonde Hair Batman!
Jerry Cantrell and Chris Cornell at an informal memorial for Layne Staley in Seattle.
Yikes!! Hope that grows out sooner rather than later!!