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November 30, 2003
quoth bruce giffin
regarding our mockery of him
P.S. I thought the striped rugby conspiracy yesterday during the exam was clever. More importantly, I hope that more of you are now aware of how you too can be on the cutting edge of fashion if you wear them. I was able to spot the rugby shirts that Eric gave people to use by the degree of wrinkling.
Posted by Maggie at 10:18 PM | Comments (0)
havent posted in a while.
havent posted in a while.
had a brain and behavior exam last tuesday.
was incredibly pleased with the results.
got a s'mores kit.
yum.
more later i guess...
Posted by Maggie at 7:01 PM | Comments (0)
November 18, 2003
according to Dr. Saul (who gave a lecture on severe head injuries)
Posted by Maggie at 8:16 PM | Comments (0)
i feel like i should
i feel like i should post something...
im tired a lot lately.
and i really want to know what jenkins and volpe have. i think volpe's is an ependymoma, dont rememeber if its 3rd or 4th ventricle. i wonder if jenkins has a pilocytic astrocytoma? its kinda driving me crazy.
Posted by Maggie at 3:57 PM | Comments (0)
November 13, 2003
the matrix revolutions
or whatever it is called.
oh god.
i heard it was bad. i almost never dislike movies. it was bad
so, they essentially say "incase you didnt know, this movie has religous undertones" i liked it when it was implied, not stated. rather than go into the specific things that i thought were as such (incase someone has not seen it, but wants to) but i assure you, blah.
i had a hard time knowning what was going on, from what i suspect, this is cause there is no "plot" per se....just some stuff.
no good fight scenes
no good technology crap
AND WHY GOD WHY DID THEY WANT TO MAKE NEO AND TRINITY FALL IN LOVE?! that is just wrong. it is so very contrived. i dont think keanu and carrie ann had any chemistry, or if they did, they expertly hid it.
i dont know, a serious disappointment. without even the redeeming values of the first two.
the first was definately revolutionary and unique.
the 2nd i liked...not sure about how i would characterize it though
the 3rd, however, made sure to include 5% of all of the movie cliche's ever made EVER. EVER.
it would have been better if they didnt make this movie.
i liked the 2nd, but PLOT WISE (only) we didnt need that.
with respect to the story line, i think we would have done best if the first movie ended, and that was that. however, the 2nd had the awesome fight scenes, the freeway thing, all kinds o' stuff...
at least in this one they addressed that the oracle looked different! in a creepy way, but addressed it none the less...
Posted by Maggie at 4:50 PM | Comments (0)
November 12, 2003
from bnlblog.com
I was at the show last night in Boston! great job as always! But DUDE!!! whats up with the mohawk? Are you diverting back to your childhood or something? That is so mid 80's!
Ed:
I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!!
Ed, What is up with your hair? I do not find it attractive. It was a diagonal mohawk on Jay Leno. I liked it much better when it was short. When it was short it made you look sexy. Just wondering. Beth
Ed:
I was tired of looking sexy. I wanted to be the stupid looking one for a change. I'm happy that's it's working.
I see that Ed made a cameo in Charlie's Angels 2. Do you have any plans on acting in movies or on TV?
Steve:
In fact, I already have. Have you ever seen the show "Oprah"? I play the role of "Oprah" from time to time.
Posted by Maggie at 10:12 PM | Comments (4289)
November 10, 2003
hair cut
im getting a hair cut tomorrow.
i need it to be wash and wear and able to get out of my face.
it is currently about 4 or 5 inches past my shoulders.
any ideas???
Posted by Maggie at 9:59 AM | Comments (0)
November 7, 2003
bnl show #20
was last night
was one of the best ones i have ever been to...
on this tour they are playing at least one song from each of their previous cd's, additionally, they are doing EVERY song from the new cd. the "old" songs they played were:
RoadRunner
Brian Wilson
Blame It On Me
A
Just A Toy (one of my favs...fell through the cracks, UBER excited)
I'll Be That Girl (same thing as toy)
One Week
Pinch Me
Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel (same opinion as Toy and Girl--dont think they even played it on the marroon tour...SO FUCKING GOOD!!!)
Get In Line
there is a song on the new cd called war on drugs...i LOVE it. i listen to it in the car on repeat for days.... (lyrics at the end, incase you are interested)
there is a part of it that has a very break your heart feel to it, the awesome part when steve just goes nuts...oh god, its just an amazing song....so, steve is trying to dedicate the song to elliott smith, one of his favorites. and this jackass is heckling him. he proposed to his gf i guess, and he wanted steve to do something. steve says something about the guys 'fiancee' then the guy yells something then steve goes 'she hasnt said yes yet...AWESOME' and, i have to agree. there is a sickly amusing thing about that. anyway, the guy keeps talking, blah blah blah, steve eventually goes to the girl 'if you can get your maybe fiancee to shut the fuck up so i can do this song, that would be great' (cause this had jeopardized nearly five minutes)
so, steve goes on to talk about how the number two bridge in the world to jump off of is near him. and so they put a wire mesh/net type thing under it to stop people. spent three million on it. and he calls it a "three million dollar monument to suicide", and says that people now just go to the next bridge right down the road. so then he says the thing about elliott smith.
i swear, i LOVE this song, i nearly cried....
...the time in the night where i honestly got a little misty was during the Q & A. a little kid, Sam something, not even 10 years old, says "kevin, you are a cancer survivor..." and the crowd gets angry, i dont quite know why, i suspect that MAYBE they thought he was going to do something silly, i dont know, but he goes "when i was little i had pulmonary stenosis (i think this was the condition) -- mumble mumble mumble -- anyway, can i come up and give you a hug?"
steve grabs the kid and yanks him up. the kid gives kev a hug. and kev gives him a "real" hug, not just one of those pat on the back things. it was amazing. i kinda almost started to cry. then he shook ed's hand, shook ty's hand, gave steve a hug, and must have shaken jim's or something.
steve then says that this kid looks just like one of his. then ed goes "sam has reduced our drummer to a blubbering mound of flesh"...it was a very amazing moment, in my opinion.
played one more song.
intermissions.
they came back and did three songs with the five of them around a mike (RoadRunner, Tonight is the Night..., and For You there may hvae been one other, but im not sure.
it was amazing.
tonight has this part at the end where steve just goes 'aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh' but it is kind of high, and its beautiful. to do this, he just walked to the front of the stage, no mike, and belts it out. you can see him turning bright red, and i could actually hear him (by now the crowd was quite boisterous, so, thsi is pretty cool -- steve and i were in like row 20). amazing.
but when they first came out, steve wasnt wearing his glasses. and he says soemthing about not being able to see anyone cause he left his glasses back stage when he "took them off" cause he "was crying"....i have a lot of respect for someone who can say that to an audience of, how ever many the taft theater holds. (this was not long after "the hug")
lets see, what else. they opened with testing 1, 2, 3 and ed just walked out to the mike and started singing, and playing, then eventually everyone joined in....
OH ed talked about going to work out down by the river, at a gym right beneath the montgomery inn (those not in the know--known for ribs) and he is saying that its hard to do the treadmill when the only think you can think about is 'mmm, ribs' cept he said 'riiiah' insead of 'ribs'...then they made a joke about that. then ended up importing montgomery inn for dinner.
they went on to talk about harland williams (kev's cousin) and how he cracks them up. and how when he talks to hot chicks he says that he cant go out with them tonight because hes got "riaah...diarrhea' or something, again, funny then, i ruined it (shocking, really)
made some joke about how cinci only has "ten herbs and spices" and kentucky has eleven...cinci's are in chili and KY's are on chicken. it was way funnier at the time, i forget how though...
when they came on ed said "hello cinciopolis, pennsyltucky", they talked about other times they have been at the taft and the experiences. and chili. did a very good improv rap. about the city.
ed was ungodly hot like, he made ed circa 1997 look like a shmuck. arms to DIE for. tight black t shirt. very nicely fitting jeans. did i mention his arms? and it turns out the off center, not straight mohawk looks hot. i had to keep grabbing my steve's arm because of how hot ed was (if you dont get it, nevermind)
i dont remember what else, ill post when i do, but it was seriously one of the best shows of theirs i have EVER seen.
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made a realization. this relates to soemthin shelley posted on her site a while ago. i think the most truly "happy" i ever feel is when i am at bnl shows. i dont know why. i think i am able to leave most of the other shit in life behind when i go to the show. when i am with friends, or neal or family, there is still school and money and everything lurking...the only time i truly can compartmentalize (as far as i can tell) is at bnl shows. its amazing. it is like a rush or a high that i dont have in any other time in life. i dont know how much of this is due to my "love" for them. how much of it is because i tend to have general down view on things (how much of THAT is chemical and how much of that is due to someone i was dating and their view of the world and when i was dating and how i took that and assimilated it) or what...i suspect that a lot of things come into play.
i remember one time in july of 97, kary and i were in canada. we had just seen them for the 4th time in a week. and at this point, i didnt know when we would get to see them again. they are such a big thing to me, cant quite explain how or why, but, they are...and i was in the shower. and i got sad (and started crying, but, if we are reading this, we know i am a crier) because i didnt know when i could see them again...and that makes me sad.
well, whatever, we will delve into my "issues" another time...but, yeah....
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war on drugs
She likes to sleep with the radio on
So she can dream of her favorite song
The one that no one has ever sung since she was small
She'll never know that she made it up
She had a soul and we ate it up
Thrown away like a paper cup
The music falls
The only flaw in her detailed plan
Is where she wins back the love of her man
Everyone knows that he's never coming back
He took her heart and she took his name
He couldn't stand taking all the blame
He left her only with guilt and shame and then she cracked
Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves
Of all these demons haunting us
To keep us company
In the dream I refuse to have
She falls asleep in a lukewarm bath
We're left to deal with the aftermath again
On behalf of humanity
I will fight for your sanity
How profound such profanity can be
Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves
Of all these demons haunting us
To keep us company
Won't it be odd to be happy like we
Always thought we're supposed to feel
But never seem to be
Near where I live there's a viaduct
Where people jump when they're out of luck
Raining down on the cars and trucks below
They've put a net there to catch their fall
Like it'll stop anyone at all
What they don't know is when nature calls, you go
They say that Jesus and mental health
Are just for those who can help themselves
But what good is that when you live in hell on earth?
From the very fear that makes you want to die
Is just the same as what keeps you alive
It's way more trouble than some suicide is worth
Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves
Of all these demons haunting us
To keep us company
Won't it be odd to be happy like we
Always thought we're supposed to feel
But never seem to be
Hard to admit I fought the war on drugs
My hands were tied and the phone was bugged
Another died and the world just shrugged it off
Posted by Maggie at 7:09 PM | Comments (0)
November 6, 2003
6 tests 10 days blah
6 tests
10 days
blah
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November 1, 2003
blanchedesir (9:44:47 PM): you're damn
blanchedesir (9:44:47 PM): you're damn sexy and you know it, you just want me to say it don't you?
Posted by Maggie at 9:46 PM | Comments (0)