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In less than twelve hours I will be in Roanoke, Virginia, searching for clues to unravel the mystery of the English settlement that vanished there in 1587, watching Arrested Development, and smelling that motel smell.
By sometime Saturday morning I will be in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains, where I will languish (one could even say rot) for 4.5 days. I expect heat, weird trees, and hillbillies of various shapes and sizes. As impractical as it may be, I'm bringing five books (the new Harry Potter, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Everything is Illuminated by Johnathan Safran Foer, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and You Will Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers) all of which I'm in some stage of reading, and hoping to finish them all by Thursday.
Other items:
I saw Grand Buffet tonight at Southpaw; guys were hilarious, and Magnolia Electric Co. Jason Molina has a vicious unibrow.
I need a blazer so badly.
Even two glasses of whiskey can't make the food at Stop 20 taste good.
I miss New York already.
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[17 Aug 2005|03:54pm] |
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I just got my second rejection from McSweeneys. The last thing I submitted didn't really fit their style, so I understood the rejection, but I'm pretty upset about this one. Especially because of all the pretentious garbage they publish that's only mildly clever and only funny in theory. Here is my little failure:
Changes Involved In
The Transition From
Lil’ Bow Wow to Bow Wow
Shirt size increases from XXXL to XXXXL
A newfound feeling of superiority over Lil’ Zane
Finally allowed to smack hoes when they get too uppity
Pet Jack Russell Terrier traded in for pet Rottweilers
Tattoo removal surgery for entire staff of bodyguards
No longer forced to subsist only on bubble gum blunts
Voice changes, body hair appears, beats get fresher
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[09 Aug 2005|01:07am] |
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It's been two years since I've made an entry on this, and honestly I'm not too sure why I decided to start again. It might be because summer is dragging out so long and I'm desperately groping for anything to help me break out of my routine of work-home-Brooklyn. It might be because of the reading through all my old entries and realizing how boring and immature they are I feel the urgent need to repair my LJ legacy. It might even be because throwing all my ideas and thoughts here helps to increase their clarity and gives me an outlet, and I can't keep a private journal because I'm so trained (and so attention starved) to only be comfortable writing for an audience.
Whatever it is, right now I feel totally unsettled and uncomfortable and mostly I just want to be back at school. As much as I've grown to like and understand my parents living with them can still be unbearable most of the time. After the freedom of living at school being here is like regressing back to high school; I know they can't help treating me like a child (because they're mildly neurotic and/or totally obsessed with structure) but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. Added to this is the fact that my computer has been broken all summer, and me being on my dad's drives him crazy. I'm strongly considering getting an apartment next summer, but don't tell them that.
Besides my parents, Elmont/Floral Park/Franklin Square in general is just bringing me down. Tricia hates me now and whether or not that's totally justified it took a big cut out of my social life. I still love my high school friends but there's a distance there because for the most part I've changed and they haven't. Summer hasn't been bad, just uneventful and somewhat depressing. At least at school there's opportunity and excitement while here it's just stifling and inescapable routine.
I leave for Tennessee in a little over a week and after four days there and one sure to be grueling Greyhound trip I'll be back here for a few days before leaving with Lisa on the 31st to go to Penn., and then back to move into school. Hopefully next summer won't be much like this one.
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[22 Jul 2003|03:36am] |
I'm tired of summer. for one, its too hot, and for two, I have nothing to do. My social life has disintegrated to the point of me and tricia driving around by ourselves on some nights. No one wants to hang out with each other anymore, all of my friends are now part of couples and they remain with the other person in that couple on most nights of the week. So.. I'm stuck with tricia, which is good, but there could be more going on. Events from the past two days:
Today: Went to work. Recieved news that I was suspended for accidentaly giving away a vegetable platter. Rejoiced. Christina drove me to tricia's house. I tried to write her a resume. I failed. We went to Kristi's house and ate some chinese food. I ate noodles, but they were like sheets so I dont know if you can really call them noodles. Then to my house, then me practicing the driving for a bit. Then to kenny's, to the bank, and to bethpage to pick up his girl, elise (unsure of the spelling here). then to the mall, bought my brother golden sun for his birthday. ate taco bell. saw james, was attacked, walked around, left. drove to witches brew, realized how much it sucked, drove to dunkin donuts for cheaper coffee and better seating.
Yesterday: Worked 2 to 6. Went with Tricia to Ralphs, bought an ice, paid back christina, picked up jessica, ate a chicken, threw the remains on the roof of a hair salon, drove aimlessly, went home.
How dull is my life? really. I'm going to bed.
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[22 Jun 2003|02:12am] |
some short notes:
graduation is on thursday. im indifferent
i was at hofstra for two days. not bad. got my schedule. four classes : short story workshop, liberal arts, community within society, ethics and principles of american news media. looks easy.
summer doesnt feel like summer yet, its just eh.
my activites for the past few nights have been nothing special. specifically :
Tonight : played scrabble with arce and kelly, planned after prom. Scrabble is a bad game, dont play it.
Last Night: Worked, watched tv with tricia
Thursday: Hung out with tricia and jessica, ran into cindy, angela, kelly and dave at Ralphs ices, talked to them. Watched tv with Christina at her house.
Thats not much, thats not my summer, its on its way though, i hope.
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[15 Jun 2003|11:36pm] |
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woo. my triumphant return to the livejournal scene.
or not.
tomorrow is the last day of school. My last day of high school ever. Its strange, not sure how its going to feel. We got Garber the cake, it has a picture of me, andrew, matt and eric with garber giving the thumbs up. The writing says "Paul Garber - The Smartest Man Alive." If he doesnt catch the overwhelming irony of this cake than hes stupider than I ever could have imagined, if he does, I cant wait to see his reaction. I wish I could see his reaction when he gets the little letter I wrote to him, and possibly when he finds what I wrote to him on the AP Gov test. God I hate that man.
On a better note, summer starts. Later for me thane everyone else, because I have hofstra orientation from tuesday until thursday. So I get to stay at hofstra for two days, and I have to bring a lamp, among other things. A lamp.
I cant wait
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[08 May 2003|12:21am] |
its late and i should be tired, but, im not, and i dont care. im going to see afi tomorrow, but for some reason i really dont feel like going. oh well
ive got busy times ahead. friday is dinner with tricia for the six month, saturday the james and jesse super barbecue extravaganza, then my birthday, then the carey prom the friday after, followed by weekend in hamptons.
in other news,.. we have a show on the 25th of april , at image, on hempstead turnpike across from the nassau coliseum, be there.
i saw identity last friday with tricia, it was good, and i was proud because i understood it totally and everyone else in the movie theater was totally confused. the best little thing was how they had a copy of sartre's "being and nothingness" on the car seat, no one else probably noticed it but i saw it, and it was a cool little thing how that relates to the entire theme of the movie.
recently i find myself interested in philosophy, and politics, and basically just intellectual discussion. yes, i didnt think it possible but im becoming even more of a nerd.
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[29 Apr 2003|08:40pm] |
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back into that good old posting groove.
so me and arce went to kennys house, to finally teach kenny all the songs. it went well. hopefully we can get our act together now and get some shows, especially with kenny and his "connections". although they are connections so i didnt really need to put quotations around it. sorry. yeah. the basement plan is goign to be put into action soon enough. as soon as we can find one other band that is reliable and not dangerous we will be renting the place which equals greatness. its like having our own apartment, albeit without heating, air conditioning or bathrooms, but hell, we can still do whatever we want. wooo
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[28 Apr 2003|02:53pm] |
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im back, with a vengeance
yeah
over the last few weeks my laziness has increased sevenfold. it takes me upwards of three hours to write a one page assignment, most of that time is spent not starting. but its ok, because school is over, pretty much, i just have to study for the ap exams and after that im done.
so i went to the skate & surf festival in asbury park on saturday. asbury park is the one of the craziest places ive ever seen, all abandoned hotels and carnival attractions and such. as for the music, i saw
Folly - subpar unintelligble screaming, with a little bit of jaziness mixed in, but still eh.
Recover - pretty good, never heard anythign by them before
Death By Stereo- terrible, thats all i can say. lead singer was a super jackass
From Autumn to Ashes - i couldnt really see them, but sounded good. i think i hit some little girl in the face while i was in the pit. yet do i feel bad? no. if youre 13 years old and 5 feet tall you dont belong in a hardcore pit, sorry.
Catch 22 - they didnt have a lead singer, and they played the songs really fast, i became confused, but was still entertained.
Finch - theyre pretty boring live, we opted to buy merch and go out to the car.
Taking Back Sunday - for some reason i thought snapcase was going on after finch so i missed the beginning of the set, twas good though.
Thursday - fantastic, steve lost his voice so the lead singer of FATA came on during cross out the eyes. i was too tired to enjoy the end, tricia almost passed out. good times
and that was all
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[03 Mar 2003|11:52pm] |
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is there anything better than sitting up late on a school night with no homework to do listening to german techno. the answer is yes, there is, but thats what i have to settle for right now. how many times have i said this before, but im tired to death of school. i was supposed to have a band practice tomorrow but my mom is making me go to the dentist. as a rule, she will always schedule dentist appointments on tuesdays, even though i always tell her not to. this reminds me that we're recording saturday, which reminds me that i may be going to see the voodoo glow skulls after, which reminds me that i forgot to buy tickets for asbury park. stupid fuck that i am.
back to the dentist. he has big hands and does not seem very gentle. i do not want him to drill my precious little tooth. i've never had a cavity before. im scared to get a shot in my mouth, that has to hurt a lot.
on the subject of prom, the planning is finished. for tricias we are getting a limo, going to the city afterward, sleeping at caitlins house, then staying at a hotel the next night. for mine, we are taking james's van, driving around after, then going to kelly's house by the lake upstate. who needs a limo when you have an old grey van. prom will kick ass, especially since im just going to screw around and especially if i can find the tux i want. now i have to go to sleep. goodnight
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i am totally relaxed. for once. its pretty nice actually. i dont have any homework. woo. at least i think i dont have any, it seems to be quite often that i will think that and then go check and end up having homework. anyways. we have a show on saturday, with just a feeling, at the red zone. i think we do at least. i need to get confirmation but its almost definite. i really wish i didnt have school tomorrow. im very happy sitting here eating my sandwich. i dont want to have to go to sleep and wake up at 7 again.
i have to get out of work saturday somehow. i could ask to work 10 - 2, but if they say no, then i cant call in sick, because they will know i'm lying. such a pickle i am in.
prom is coming soon. i dont want to go, but alas, i must. im trying to get a victorian era tuxedo thing going, but its soo hard to find. i think after tricias prom stuff will be happening, although not too much to my interest. speaking of prom, i have to plan my prom with christina sometime soon. fuck! i need to stop saying prom. i hate that word. im going to finish my sandwich. mayonnaise kicks ass
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this vacation was crap. i spent it either being sick or bored filled in with moments of anger and about 84 hours of sleep. and although tomorrow is saturday, it will undoubtedly suck as i must work for seven hours and then go to dinner with my family, followed by sunday and then school. for ap gov or economics or whatever the hell im supposed to call it i have 25 little question things to do. and not easy questions, these require about a paragraph an answer. i just remembered this today and have yet to start it. my b key is broken. well it works but i have to hit it like 5 times to get it going. how would i go about getting that fixed? i have a dull pain in my side and im wondering why its there. i would like to stay up, yet i have to awake at 10 tomorrow, and i havent woke up that early on since last wednesday, which was the last time i went to school. i have managed to write over one hundred words without saying anything that i originally intented to say. what did i intend to say? i dont remember. my thoughts are all a mess. i changed the font resolution on my computer, so now everything looks different. i would like to keep writing but i can not, as i need to sleep, yet im not tired. BAH!
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i have drivers ed tomorrow for the first time, which means I have to wake up 30 minutes early, which = not good. not good at all. i dont even want to drive anymore. the odds of me killing myself in or with the car are too great for me to even consider driving. especially when i havent had enough sleep.
otherwise, things are fine.
im in creative writing now instead of psych since the new semester has started. i got a 69 on my math mid. but a c overall so i get the st. johns credit. i got a 70 though and my parents are going to be super pissed because they already were about the 69. i think i also failed my government midterm. i dont even care anymore, i do my hw and i study, what else is there for me to do. the problem is they still care, and might punish me if my report card is bad. bah
im going to see finch, movielife and the used on thursday with joe. im going to see taking back sunday on sunday with joe and christina and others. both should be good shows. i saw the early november last sunday at the continental and they were fantastic. they were crazy and the bassist went in the crowd at the end and proceeded to hang from the PA box on the ceiling, i thought the whole thing was going to come down on top of us. the worst part was this monstrous guy who slammed me into a shelf, almost breaking several of my ribs. then i bought a poster from him, as he was running the merch table.
i was sick, tricia is now sick, everyone was or is sick. sick is crap, winter is crap, school is crap. what the fuck is this north fork virus? what the hell is going on? im going to sleep
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[29 Jan 2003|06:58pm] |
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oy. im sick. of course sick on a vacation day and not a school day. and i cant stay home tomorrw b/c its the first day of the new semester. my sickness has progressed from a cold to some kind of flu like symptoms and now im sore and achy and not looking forward to waking up tomorrow.
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its thursday, and im listening to thursday. that only happens once a week. reminds me of a conversation a few weeks ago though
Joe Vaas (imitating morons who make comments about thursday shirts) : Why does your shirt say Thursday, its Wednesday
Howard : Today is thursday.
Joe Vaas : oh shit, yeah.. damn.
yeah that made sense to no one but me but i dont care, i was goign to forget it if i dont write it down.
yeah anyway, the thursday song is extremely good. if the whole cd sounds like this im going to cry. my computer is about to crash, so i should probably update this now
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this is like bah! to the third power or something
really
i dont want to go to school. why am i the only person who has to go back tomorrow. i hate you superintedent george goldstein, and i promise, i will have your head for this.
if only, :(
i have enough homework to choke a horse. seven social studies essays due the 10th, which was given to me in early november. one english essay due friday (i hope it is at least, not tomorrow), and a lot of other crap.
i went to a party with tricia last night. fun i guess. howard went home early because he had convinced himself he would have a bad time and therefore had a bad time. i was in pa with tricia for 2 days before that. i am so lazy.
my new years resolution is to hang out with jamie more, because i dont enough, and because i didnt have one. that is all for tonight
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i pushed update when i wasnt done updating
i saw the movielife, fairweather and the reunion show tonight at the knitting factory. great show. i didnt see the reunion show because i dont like them, so we sat down at the bar and drank soda. and the best part, I met Daryl, of glassjaw. he was just standing around there and kelly noticed him but she was too afraid to say anything. i went up and shook his hand and talked to him for like a minute.
i feel so accomplished
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[27 Dec 2002|02:23am] |
this vacation is going by so fast. and unlike everyone else on long island we have to go back next thursday. bah
i got a lot of good stuff for christmas, the list
DVD's - Requiem for a Dream (Directors Cut), Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange
Cd's - Saves the Day, Tool, Thursday, Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, Smashing Pumpkins
Books - No Exit, American Psycho, Catch 22
PS2 Games - Tekken 4, Contra
And!! I got a ping-pong table. the greatest thing ever.
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i find out today that we have an extra long christmas vacation this year. thats nice. lately ive been going crazy thanks to constant annoycance from marc. im going to kill the little bastard, i wont rest until he is badly hurt, and thats definetly true. he has the be the stupidest waste of time i have ever encountered and i cant believe i put up with him for so long. him and all his loser friends are now after me due to some attacks i made on his house, for which he called the cops and gave them my phone number in case i did it again. yet he wont come out of his house to fight me, its disgusting.
on a lighter note, everything else is going well. school is routine and the days go fast and i have barely any homework to do. i cant seem to stay awake in ecology although there is no logical explanation why. me and james started our own cookie company, J&J's Punk As Fuck Cookies. making cookies isnt as easy as it looks. band practice is tomorrow, we have 8 songs done and are going to record as soon as the studio is free, play a show whenever we get our act togethere and somehow schedule one. i got a stereo finally last week, and i got the transplants cd tonight, as well as the closer to god single for 5.99 at FYE. and i have 30 pages of ss notes to do by friday, so i'm off
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wow that is so cool, look at all the flashing things around the cat!
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