break the cycle of mallratting
By Eric | August 16, 2002 9:11 am
So after I got home from work, and after dinner, I was about to head out and about again when I got IM’ed by Adrienne, so I didn’t have to amend my (lack of) plans, just the initial route, and now I’d have a co-pilot! Ended up going to the Galleria, where I got a clearance Staind hat at FYE for $6! This one is from Break the Cycle, and the one I have currently is from Dysfunction… gotta find one from Tormented! 🙂 So we wandered the mall pretty quickly like always, and then hit Target, where Adrienne got a foam mattress pad thingy. fun? wow! We stopped at Andersons after that and sat outside for awhile, till they closed the place at 10 hehe. Came home, played on the compter for about an hour, watched the news, and went to bed… zzzzz I was dead tired for some reason.
Today at work is shaping up to be rather stress free, so that will be a nice end to the week. 🙂 Most likely Rumors tonight with Amanda and crew, plus Adrienne and maybe Sara, then the CNE tomorrow! Yay canucks! 🙂
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too much blind melon
By Eric | August 15, 2002 5:08 pm
Gotta love random crap in your email, especially when they’re trying to give you a virus:
Date: Thu,15 Aug 2002 23:57:43 PM
From: Bich Phan
Subject: Fw: bee wedding
To: ejb0568@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
yeah but that way we can have a cake and dress up in bee outfits well u can be a tree ill be the bee and gpo to the park and swim in the fountain after dark itll be enchanting or im i going cray in a normal way that sounds beautiful lets have it at the beach that way everyone else will be out of
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Enjoy the attachement
I think this guy watched the Blind Melon video one too many times 🙂
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washington grand slams our images
By Eric | August 15, 2002 3:42 pm
Wednesday turned out to be a much calmer day 🙂 Work was pretty good, I was keeping busy mostly the whole day, just doing odds and ends, the usual. I came home, ate dinner, and then went out by myself, a couple of CD stores, nothing huge. I picked up the first Reveille CD at Record Theatre on Main street… woohoo 🙂 Came home to find an IM from Adrienne, so I called her up, and Amanda and I went and got her and headed for our favorite place of all time, Denny’s… We actually got there before 10, so we got the big menu, and the 2.99 grand slam! 🙂 hehe! The waitress was all confused about stuff because she said, “I’m usually never in here before 10”, to which we replied “Neither are we!”. We spent the better part of 2 hours in there, just yapping about nothing… hehe.
Work today was a constant busy… 🙂 The morning was dedicated to getting the new images onto the machines in FOIA. Gotta love whoever they got to make these images. These drive images were not made by us, they were shipped to us on CD from Washington, supposedly all configured, and also came with 128MB of memory upgrades for each machine, plus a new PCI SCSI card to replace the old ISA cards for the special scanners they have. They were nice enough to spell out exactly what steps to take to get everything installed. That’s fine, except for the fact that these are Windows 2000 images, and the drivers for the SCSI card are for Win95!! So after fighting with these things to no avail, Rob on a whim tried running the software without installing the drivers. And lo and behold, it worked! Why? Don’t ask me, I just work here. It makes no sense at all, but it works. I don’t ask. 🙂 This afternoon was patching up the rest of that image, and then working on a way to get a different disk image up to the Rainbow bridge over the network. Fun stuff 🙂
As Scott alluded to, Dave Williams, lead singer of Drowning Pool, was found dead on the bands tour bus yesterday. There obviously was something wrong with him, something did indeed give, and his body naturally hit the floor. 🙂 (I could go on, but I’ll spare ya, Scott wants the submissions anyway!) (Check last posts comments for his email)
And now its raining outside. Yay.
Current mood: just vegging 🙂
song: Reveille – Butterfly (no, not Crazy Town!)
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olp show adventure
By Eric | August 13, 2002 10:04 am
Well, the show was good, (finally got neon crossing!) the ride back was anything but… when I have more time, I’ll spill the whole story, lets just say Eric doesn’t like to drive with no headlights at 3am…. I did make it home eventually (at 4am!) and took the day off so I could get it fixed (and get some semblence of sleep).
Blah. In the words of Nonpoint… What A Day.
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08/12/2002 Our Lady Peace, Audiovent (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | August 12, 2002 11:59 pm
Well, OLP show #13, first one since back to back March ’01 shows. Greenwheel was the other opening act at this show, but due to miscommunication between me and Mary, I didnt realize she would not be attending until about 7pm, so I hauled ass into Rochester, picked up Rachel, and got to Water Street by 8:30, to just catch Greenwheel walking off stage. Blah. Headed up to the balcony, and we were about 4 deep up there too, so for a lot of the show, I really didn’t see a whole lot. No matter. In any case, Audiovent was decent, the lead singer and guitar player are the brothers of the singer and guitar players in Incubus, and you could tell. It was a little Brandon Boyd up there, even though the music wasnt exactly the same. I liken them to back when Incubus was harder. (S.C.I.E.N.C.E. anyone?) Anyway, they sounded really good, no bad words here. Then an extended wait for OLP, who didnt come on until about 10:45 I’d say. With both Mike and Jamie not in the band anymore, it was a bit different. Not that they were bad by any means, they sounded awesome, but it just wasn’t quite the same. Maybe I’m dumb and jaded, hehe 🙂 So they opened with All For You, right into Do You Like It, mimicing the beginning of Gravity. From that, the singalong for Superman’s Dead was quite impressive, and then into Naveed, with the new guitar player (Steve Mazur) trying to copy Mike’s old extended intro, and not quite pulling it off. Then in the middle of the song, they stuck a part of Life in there, which was interesting and different. From there, we got Not Enough, Bring Back The Sun, and daring stunts from Raine during One Man Army. He climbed up to the balcony from the bar, did just about the entire song up there, and at the end of the song, dropped, so as to be caught by the crowd! Shades of Eddie Vedder and/or Cregg (BoyHitsCar) at all? 🙂 Whatever was next, followed by Is Anybody Home?, Innocent, Right Behind You, Birdman (the return of Raine doing the strobe light dance!), Clumsy, Are You Sad, and they closed the main set with Starseed. The encore started with Somewhere Out There, and the next song was a joygasm and a half… NEON CROSSING!! I’ve waited 12 shows to hear something oddball off of Naveed, and for *lucky* 13, they finally did one! By this time I was able to worm my way up to the barrier up top of the balcony, so I enjoyed this one with a full view 🙂 The final song of the night was the 4am singalong, also very impressive. The show sounded excellent, they looked good, the setlist was 18 songs long and a good mix, but as a fan since the release of Clumsy, it’s just not the same without Mike and Jamie being there.
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housewarming for brooke
By Eric | August 11, 2002 11:21 am
Saturday ended up being kind of an aimless day… Sara thought she was going to get called into work, then they called and said they didnt need her, so she was gonna go in at 5 like she was supposed to, and she’d be the first one to go home, usually like 9ish. Which was actually important for once, because we had Brooke’s housewarming party to go to! (More on that later). So after wasting a bunch of time in the morning after I got up, I picked up Sara, and we hit one lame garage sale in Tonawanda, then the Salvo on Military, and of course Frizb’s 🙂 (Gotta love 4 for $10!) I picked up the last Bush CD I didnt have (Science of things), the 2nd Tonic CD, Local H, and a band called Skunk Anansie, who I heard about because the female lead singer did a track with Sevendust. woohoo! After that we picked up lunch at the Bvld mall, and Sara had to get ready to go to work, so I dropped her back off about 3:30. I proceeded to go out Niagara Falls way, stopped at Media Play, and the Goodwill across the street from the Factory Outlet Mall. Goodwill was kind to me…. Finally got Atari paddles, and two more games! (River Raid and Berzerk!) Then went to the mall itself, and finally got some books at the discount book store. I got the NASA Mission Control book I’ve been lusting after forever, the book of Lincoln’s speeches (Dr F will be thrilled!), and a little surprise for Karl (dunno if he reads this, so I’m not giving it away, you’ll find out monday!). So I came back from there, and vegged out at home for a while. Never really did eat dinner, just lounged. Sara finally got let out of work about 10ish, and me, her and Adrienne finally hit the road to Brooke’s place about 11. Brooke was our high school valedictorian, and is going to UB to get her MBA in Corporate Finance. Her and her boyfriend got an apartment near Gates Circle Hospital in the city, and had a party to “open it up”. We turned out to be the only people from high school there, but being the socal butterflies that we are, that didn’t matter, and of course, we ended up knowing mutual people… one of Brooke’s friends, Roy, lives down in Nassau county and knows (or at least knows of) Dan! So the night was fun, catching up with Brooke and meeting her friends and all that. We didn’t leave till about 2:30, and Sara needed to get a card (and food, of course!), so before we went home, we stopped at Wegmans… mmmm… iced animal cookies.. aaaarrrrrrghghghgghhghg 🙂 So finally got to bed about 4, and up at 11… not too shabby 🙂
current mood: still waking up
song: Default – Let You Down
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rockin the outback alley
By Eric | August 10, 2002 10:56 am
Work friday was kinda slow, I did a couple of odds and ends jobs, and then in the afternoon I got to go back to the peace bridge, more bus terminal fun, ghosted a machine or two…
Got home from work, the parents and Jake went to Corning to check out the glass museum, so me and Amanda went to Outback. We actually had a great waiter, but the moron cooks in the back kept putting bacon on Amanda’s cheese fries, so they took forever. We had no less than 3 different people apologize, and we got a free appetizer card out of it! A quick shot to the thrift store on the Boulevard (where we saw a woman switch prices on a candle… its like, you gotta cheat the freakin salvation army? how low are you?) and we were back home. Called up Adrienne, and went to one of the more unique events I’ve been to in awhile… Rock-n-Bowl! Voelkers Bowling Alley, on the corner of Elmwood and Amherst in buffalo, has local bands come in and play, and for $10, you get the show, two games of bowling, and the shoes! So I got to try out my new bowling ball (the $2 thrift store special!), and lets just say, my ball kicks ass! The whole reason for going was that hollowpoint was playing, and they were on first, so me and Adrienne watched them, then started bowling… got a couple beers, then Andy and Scott from hp, plus Scotts girlfiriend Gretchen joined us for bowling…. we had a most excellent time (yes way Ted!), me and Adrienne drove around for awhile afterwards, and I rolled into home about 1, and bed was not far behind. 🙂
So now it’s 11am, and I have no plan whatsoever… 🙂
current mood: still waking up
song: Stone Sour – Get Inside
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running out of dope
By Eric | August 3, 2002 5:26 pm
From Pimprock:
Running Out Of Dope? – wookubus
(4:24 PM PST 08/02/2002)
Following what is rumored to be the recent departure of band guitarist Acey Slade who is said to have now joined The Murderdolls on a permanent basis, filling the position originally held by Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen; Dope are now rumored to have been dealt another blow with band keyboardist Simon Dope being the latest to leave the fold. Simon is said to have gotten out of the music industry altogether and is currently working a day job, though no official word has come down as of yet.
Wow. Geez Edsel, you know its getting pretty bad when your lose the best member of your band, and your little retarded brother (that mom made you let into the band or else you couldn’t play) leaves the band for a DAY JOB. He couldn’t handle hitting just one key on the keyboard and that lonely little cymbal you gave him…. too much stress! Ah well, I guess you still have Virus to entertain yourself with!
Anyone else find it funny that Acey keeps taking Tripp’s place in these bands? What’s next? Tripp leaves Static-X and Acey shows up knocking on the doorstep? “Hi guys I’m here! I’m Tripp v2.0!!! I fit right in!”
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a bad NIC fixed my blues
By Eric | July 29, 2002 9:53 am
Okay, aside from the fact that my internet connection was down all weekend, through no fault of Adelphia’s it turns out, (one of the two NIC’s in homebase crapped out, the one that the cable modem was connected to), this weekend was a virtual whirlwind of fun and excitement, if not high in the hours-slept column 🙂
Friday night Mary came over and we went for a walk by the river. It was a nice night out, not terribly hot, not a lot of bugs, etc. Just a nice leisurely stroll, walking and talking. We got some food afterwards (where else but Denny’s??) and chilled at home for a bit longer. Steven Lynch was on Comedy Central… that dude is a riot! I actually got to bed at like 12 friday night, a new record for me! (Lack of internet = more sleep!)
Saturday I woke up around 10, poked around home for awhile doing not much of anything, and then decided to take a trip up to Rochester, check out the old stomping grounds, specifically the record stores and the thrift shops! I picked up the first Down album, and finally got a copy of Adema. The thrift stores didn’t yield much of anything, save for a NIN “Fixed” shirt that I already have, but this one was an XL and will actually fit… Sara’s getting the large one I had previously to perform “sparklization” and make it look less like a t-shirt and more like a work of art… heheh! So I hit the mall for dinner (God there’s nothing at Marketplace I wanna go into anymore!) and when I came back to my apartment, Scott, Katie and friends had just come back from the Rennasiance Festival, so I had tons of company! It was a bunch of kids from NT that Katie had graduated with (they graduated the year after I did). About 9 Rachel got ahold of me, went and picked her up, and we went out to Irondequoit to the pier. They have movies on the beach on Saturday nights up there, I never knew this! We didn’t watch it (Ocean’s Eleven), but you could hear it all the way out on the pier… I never realized how dark it was out at the end, you could actually see stars in the sky 🙂 A couple car-radio sing-a-longs later, and we were back at RIT, where we sat up talking way past my bedtime 🙂 fun fun 🙂
Sunday morning came too quickly 🙂 hehe! (need sleep!) I went out with the parents to this mega-garage sale on the Boulevard, and then me and Dad tried finding replacement bolts for my alternator mount, to no avail, the search continues! (case hardened automotive bolts anyone??) About 3ish it was time for the Blues! One short jog the wrong way down a one way street later (haha!) we parked and ventured in. For $10, this show was definately worth it. There’ll be a show review in concerts section eventually, but the two bands that stood out were a local group called Willie and the Rheinharts, and a younger kid from Atlanta named Sean Costello. Quite impressed with both of them! We stayed till about 9’oclock, then me and Dad both were getting tired. We’re on Twin cities on the way home, and who calls Dad’s cell? Adrienne! haha… Amanda gave her the number, they’d been trying to get ahold of me all afternoon 🙂 So Dad drops me off at Danielles (I missed most of her going-away party,, *sniff* sorry!) just as Bill and Leah are leaving. ah well. So we end up shooting pool and discussing Life, The Universe and Everything. 🙂 I was coerced into an “Alabama Slammer” shot, which when warm, tasted like Robitussin 🙂 eheh! Danielle’s dad graciously dropped us all off at home, and I was expecting to go to bed, when Dad calls the Adelphia people. After sitting on the phone with them, we determine that their service is up, and our NIC is bad. So we have internet on the main box, but no one else in the house does. New second NIC coming up! So by the time anyone reads this, the new one will be in and functional 🙂
Current mood: tired!
current song: Creed – Bullets
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07/28/2002 7th Annual BluesFest: Little Charlie and the Nitecats, Sean Costello, Willie and the Reinharts (Buffalo, NY @ Lafayette Tap Room)
By Eric | July 28, 2002 11:59 pm
The 7th Annual Lafayette Tap Room BluesFest was the first real concert I’d been to with Dad! 🙂 We got there about 3:30pm (it started at noon), and on stage were the NY All-Stars, who brought up a bunch of local people to play with them for a song or two, unfortunately, I don’t recall any of the names, save for Allison Pipitone. In any event, even with the changing cast of musicians, they were quite good. Next up was Willie and the Rheinharts, another local act that tore up the stage… these guys were really great, even though they only got to play for about half an hour or so. Next up was a kid that couldn’t have been much older than me at all, Sean Costello, who came from Atlanta, GA. This kid smoked too, very very impressive. After his set Dad and I picked up some dinner (BBQ pulled pork, cant beat it!), and hung around for one more act, Little Charlie and the Nitecats. They were a little more old school, two of them dressed in suits, an upright bass, etc. They were impressive as well, with some really long improv jam sessions in all the songs. We didn’t stay for the
closer, as we were both tired, but for the 5 hours or so that we were there, we got treated to some amazing tunes, and the $10 was well worth it! 🙂
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