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[08 Nov 2009|09:16pm] |
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Just watched the Super Super Classico... Los Angeles beat Chivas 1-0 ARRGHHH SUCKS D:<
Klejstan is so bad he's not even MLS material. I can't believe this guy was ever on the US National Team. He seems like a cool guy otherwise but DAMN. Preki's other mistake, besides relying too much on Klejstan, was to wait until '82 to put Sueno Flores in. When he finally hit the field Chivas was able to get on the offensive (they started out well but by the half they were on the defense, and not going a very good job of it, either) but it was too little to late by that point. Beckham was fucking annoying as usual with his attention-whoring (faked a fucking injury when he left the field and the cameras were all over him). I feel really bad because Bornstein played very well -- Galindo seemed really nervous and there was this one pass that I really felt should've been a goal but he got in there too late. I mean, it was a really obvious goal, I can't believe they fucked that up.
Anyway, I added Jonathan Bornstein as a "friend" on facebook a few weeks ago. I never really understood the appeal of celebrity Twitters, and thought that fans who post replies to Misha Collins' twitter or whatever are crazy, but now I see the appeal. :D I have to admit that it makes me feel like somewhat of a stalker going through and saving pictures of him out with friends or celebrating holidays with his family but ehhh whatever. It seems like he is a major player these days -- seemed like every other photo was of him and a different girl. Wish I was cute enough to at least get my picture taken with Jonathan Bornstein :(
Also, I didn't realize that he and Benny Feilhaber went to UCLA together (and played on the soccer team together) -- that's really cool that they were friends in college before they were both on the National Team.
PS. It was cool seeing THIS on the cover of the local paper. And two entire pages inside devoted to Nashville's bidding to be a World Cup city. Although it is kind of lame that a lot of people will probably need to convincing that this is a great idea for Nashville even though that should be completely obvious...
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| BY HELPER TEEN |
[07 Nov 2009|10:31pm] |
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As promised, here's some of the stuff from those notebooks I drew in as a kid. I was about seven or eight years old when I made these. When I was that age I spent a lot of time making my own "textbooks" because I guess I didn't have anything better to do, and I spent most of my time in elementary school reading and working out of textbooks by myself, so I became pretty familiar with them. I think this one was supposed to be some kind of reader, cause it's done in anthology style with different "authors". I didn't have a lot of time to invest in scanning these, so I'll come back to this later...
"Helper Teen"? WTF
( Compelling stories about crab migration and an eel with fake hands )
Now that I think about it, nowadays someone would have probably tried to label me as autistic or something. I was a pretty weird kid...
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| Feel Good Friday: O'Gar |
[06 Nov 2009|05:28pm] |
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The last two days were horrible for me. In addition to feeling horrible in the wake of the shittiest Halloween in recent memory, I had to sub at the Pearl-Cohn Freshman Academy (their 9th grade is so horrible they get sequestered in a separate building like two miles away). So yeah, glad it's Friday
It's time for this week's video. Here we have an Italian disco tune from '83 called "Playback Fantasy" by O'Gar (whoever the hell that is). I found it on youtube while searching for artists played on the WRVU show Penguin Parade, which I look forward to every Thursday evening. They play a lot of retro electronic music and disco type stuff.
This video is majorly ridiculous but you can't help but admit that the song is awesome. Recently I've been interested in disco because it's obviously the precursor of house music which I've always enjoyed, and who doesn't love music you can dance to?
I really wish the DJs from Penguin Parade actually spun records at a local club, or if there was any nightclub place in Nashville cool enough to play stuff like this (and old synth stuff too).
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| Yard Sale in West Meade |
[06 Nov 2009|03:15pm] |
My family is having a big yard sale tomorrow (Saturday, Nov. 7).
There will be an assortment of bric-a-brac, antiques, and a bunch of other stuff.
Plus over 1000 books, new and used, all subjects, and all $1 each.
Starting at 7:15, no earlier, and fresh stuff will keep coming out all morning!
Our address is 739 West Meade Dr.
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| I can't believe this actually exists |
[05 Nov 2009|07:28pm] |
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Last night Antony and I went to McKay's again and I found a copy of Liquid Sky on dvd, which made me really happy, but it wasn't nearly as exciting as finding this X-FILES MANGA FROM 1996 for $2. It has Chris Carter's name all over it and is published by the same people who brought you "gems" like The Guyver and El-Hazard so I'm pretty sure it's official:
( THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE )
When Damen came over for Halloween he brought these spiral notebooks in his attic he had found during their move, which turned out to be these "books" I wrote and illustrated when I was seven or eight. They are full of LULZ and I will scan some of the pages and post them soon. LOOK FORWARD TO IT
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| Don't you just hate those "a new comm, lookit!" entries? |
[04 Nov 2009|10:03pm] |
:P Yeah, me too, but what has to be done, has to be done. In this case, creating ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) drawingpractice, because I haven't touched a pen in years and want to get back to it - and refuse to believe I'm the only one who's too lazy to do it on their own! The place's open for newbies and masters alike. So, join/follow the comm for prompt posts and fun and learning! (I'll be changing the layout soon and updating the info page as I think of things. Suggestions warmly welcomed!)
X-posted all over the place; sorry if you get this more than once. Oh, and if you like the idea, you're welcome to advertise this all over the place as well. :D I really, really hope this comm kicks off!
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| Suggestions? |
[04 Nov 2009|09:10am] |
I'm looking for the following:
-A place to get eyebrows threaded. Not waxed or tweezed, I want them threaded.
-A place that sells nice blank books, such as a good stationary or book store.
-Ice cream shops, particularly near Vandy, West End, or Charlotte Ave. I've found the B&J on 21st, and the Tasti-d-lite or whatever it is on West End, but they otherwise seem to be in short order.
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[02 Nov 2009|08:46pm] |
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Had a nervous breakdown at work today. Due to some computer glitch my job at MLK was mysteriously recorded as being canceled by me and I was replaced by another sub, and had to scramble at the last minute to find another job. I'm really not feeling well. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) selphish, I did start preliminary sketching on your commission but it may take me a little longer than originally planned.
ETA: I just realized a lot of people probably wouldn't understand why losing this job was such a big deal. Basically, you get a $20/day bonus if you work every day that's available for a whole week. If you miss a day you miss out on the bonus, and considering my pay rate I depend on this bonus to make enough money to pay the bills and live comfortably enough to where I'm not scrambling to pay for essentials every month. However, due to some stupid payroll shit it turns out I have to work for an entire nine days in a row this time around to receive the bonus, which means if I wasn't able to find a job today, I would've lost my bonus for two whole weeks (TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS), which is a big fucking deal.
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[01 Nov 2009|10:41pm] |
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| shit halloween |
[01 Nov 2009|06:29pm] |
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I was really disappointed by this year's Halloween. It's not just the stress from getting sick and not being able to work a week in October or the anticipation that led to Halloween being such a huge letdown, it was also the fact that the party at Little Hamilton was nowhere near as awesome as last year's party. Everything just sucked in general.
The night before Halloween I drove out to Antioch to hang out with Becca and Garrard. We sat around watching Becca play GTA4 and then we watched Fargo on Blu-Ray (I hadn't seen that movie in a long time). The next day we spent all afternoon making our costumes at the last minute. When I got home my ghost costume started falling apart (some of the expensive fabric I'd pinned to the top of the sheet got ripped off and I had a hard time trying to attach it back). I got really upset about it but finally I was able to let it go and Damen and I went to Logan's with Antony so he could eat before getting dropped off at work. One of the servers looked like Wolverine, but only his hair and beard, he was wearing a Logan's uniform, so I wonder if that was supposed to be a silly joke (LOL LOGAN'S) or if he actually had a Wolverine costume somewhere. There was a cool Alice in Wonderland group in the restaurant as well.
CLICK FOR PICS
To our horror when we arrived at Little Hamilton there was a fucking COVER, I guess because they had bands this year instead of just a DJ, which sucked because nobody wants to stand around and hear your shitty band, I wore a fucking ridiculous costume so I could come out and DANCE with a bunch of other fools wearing ridiculous costumes. This one band went on and started playing "She's Lost Control" so for a moment I was like, "alright, they actually did get a Joy Division cover band," but NO, they didn't even know the lyrics and they couldn't play the whole song. After "She's Lost Control" the singer announced that they were about to play "Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance To the Radio" -- I guess he clearly didn't realize that the name of the song was "Transmission," and again, he couldn't play the whole song and didn't know the lyrics so then they just segued into one of their own shitty songs. IT WAS EPIC TROLLING YOU GUYS. During the shitty bands there was a makeshift theatre set up in another room and they were showing Evil Dead so Damen and I just sat around in there waiting for the bands to go off. Finally a DJ went on but she was only on for about forty minutes before another band came on (and she played a lot of the same songs from last year, boring). After that we decided it was time to go.
Later, after I picked Antony up from work this morning, I realized that he probably had a lot more fun at work (even though they were slammed and he was working his ass off). He told me that his favorite costume was this guy who went as a plantation owner (planter is the correct term probably) and his friend, who was black, went as a slave. The guy who was the slave had shackles and everything. Oh, and he also saw an awesome Joker and Harley Quinn (I think based on the WB cartoon version), and the Harley ordered the food in character, which sounded pretty awesome. I wish I had thought to go there after the party in hindsight, although I wouldn't have been able to park or find a seat in that place it was so packed so NEVERMIND
I'm still surprised I didn't see a single Michael Jackson anywhere. I mean, that seemed like an obvious costume, maybe nobody did it because it was too obvious?
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| Wreck? |
[31 Oct 2009|05:06pm] |
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Okay, I haven't been able to find any news about it and at this point am sort of concerned that my boyfriend and I had some sort of post-Rocky mutual hallucination last night -- when we were leaving Rocky at like 3 this morning, we drove by a wreck on 21st that involved two cars and that massive brick sign right before you get into Hillsboro Village. It must have happened right before we drove by because there weren't any cop cars on the scene yet. Does anyone know what happened?
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| Lab coats / Halloween |
[30 Oct 2009|02:33pm] |
Friend of mine told me there is a shortage of lab coats about for Halloween costumes. Should anyone be having an issue finding one, Land Uniform Supply at 2100 Charlotte has about 60 or so. They are, however, real and cost accordingly.
/not affiliated or endorsing, this is just a PSA for the labcoatless
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| Feel Good Friday: Siouxsie and the Banshees |
[30 Oct 2009|12:17pm] |
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Turns out there will be no Joy Division cover band at the Little Hamilton Halloween party this year. :( I'm disappointed, but I'm actually kind of glad that they're getting a DJ instead (I'm assuming, anyway) because I wasn't sure how Reid & everyone else would be able to pull this off. Unless someone has a VOX Phantom and a six-string bass lying around, I don't see how it would be possible, really.
Here's this week's video, Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Halloween" (I tried to find the most appropriate song possible). Sound and video quality are ehhh but I prefer having a video to just posting the song. Here is a better version if you want it.
HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
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