i can update the blog from anywhere, because i am omnipotent. look in your cheese, i’m there.

yeah. i’m at james’ house (or should it be james’s?) right now, looking to get some bbbbeer at the monkey pub tonight, as pbr pitchers are cheap cheap (and i don’t have a job). and speaking of jobs, i was thinking about working at the metro again. free movies, and i get overworked and underpaid. that’s something i’m looking forward to. although i don’t know if i’d get the job, because i’m leaving for half the month in december. long boring december in california.

i sure hope i’ll find something to do down there. i’m hoping i can find some of my friends i went to grade school with, but i certainly didn’t have any luck doing that when i was down there for thanksgiving. although i didn’t graduate from this high school, most of the kids i went to grade school with did, and i went there for a year. what a strange, strange thing to see on the web.

for the life of me i can’t find anything about st. rose on the web. oh well. my curiosity is gone. completely.

deadfish is almost done, once we get all the articles in - you can check out the old stuff here, the new stuff should be up within the coming weeks. i’m gonna go drink beer and watch damien jurado play.

boy, they sure do have some opinionated people at pitchfork. i tried to like the stuff, i swear. i am also one that doesn’t believe in subjective media, so they might as well go all the way. but christ, i’m gonna fucking flip out if i see another article where someone’s licking modest mouse’s ass, or listening to jets to brazil and wanting to hear jawbreaker. and i honestly think death cab is a good band name.

but then again, i don’t review music for a living, and i may not have the insight these guys do. oh whine, whine, i’m not going to do that anymore. these reviews are well written, and i’m a nice guy. really.

hooray, i’ve found my dismemberment plan cd!

seattlites listen up - damien jurado tomorrow night at gordon biersch, and friday at the croc is the revolutionary hydra. robbie ratcat’s drumming! woo-hoo!

end of post. lessons learned.

good. finally. good job, brandon.

i’m in a computer lab now, waiting to get started another project for my astronomy class. yes, the planetary defense one. i’m kind of distraught at the fact that i can’t drink coffee anymore. i haven’t tried lately, but the caffeine likes to mess with my stomach. i’m drinking decaf right now, and realize that i like the taste of coffee. i never really realized that i liked the taste of coffee, but oh, i do. now if only it could keep me awake.

there’s a new adbusters mag out, it’s got a really good article corporate jamming through reverse psychology. it’s actually pretty funny, and kind of scary. i recommend you pick it up and support the cause, but you can also check out the article through that link above.

in any case, my group members are looking at me strangely as if i weren’t helping the group. well, i’m not. i’m updating instead. this is starting to be a bad habit. if you happen to know anything about planetary defense, let me know. haha, i hope you email me some outlandish ideas, and then i’ll work it into the presentation, just like jason worked the word aforestation into his economics project. and it’s not even a real word. that guy is a riot.

i got one. christmas is coming, with its white balls of flame. how much detail do i have to go into? i recognized it and repeated it to myself over and over, trying to figure out the tune, but really what i remembered was a specific intonation she tends to use. in any case, that’s the spinanes, i think from the third one, whose name for some reason i’ve forgotten, and of course the name of the song eludes me, and in the end i could be wrong. i’m going to have to go home and listen and see if i can zero in. in any case. free dinner, but i have to wait until summer. so it goes. -bmp

A green plastic watering can, for a fake chinese rubber plant:

i just had the strangest encounter with an acquaintance from high school. he lives in chicago now, and is here visiting one of my good friends. he called me up, and asked a favor - that he could come over and watch a DVD that was region 3 encoding. i’m glad he came over though, because i got to watch taxi, directed by luc besson.

the movie was fucking great. pardon the language, but i feel that strongly about it. luc besson’s had some questionable films (i.e. messenger: the story of joan of arc, the fifth element), but it also includes movies like leon (the professional) and la femme nikita. in any case, if you have the chance to see it, i recommend it highly. it’s not heavy hitting or anything, but it’s fun.

i’ll admit that i have been trying to keep myself from the radiohead craze, i don’t have any albums, and ok computer never really impressed me, but i’ve listened to fake plastic trees about 5 times within writing this update, and the bends is on my list of purchases i’d like to own sometime soon. yeah, i know. i’ve been missing out.

i’m gonna go eat all the tacos i want for 2 bucks.

christmas is coming, with it’s white balls of flame:

i hate it when people whine about how they had a huge long update but then it got erased or something (probably has something to do with the whole “don’t cry over spilled milk” thing) but dammit; i had a big long update but then it got erased or something.

in short: can’t play on weds. because i have to do a stupid presentation on planetary defense (not unlike armageddon). tristeza = good. and something like i was going to watch gladiator and x-men.

i only watched part of gladiator earlier tonight, and never got around to x-men. didn’t enjoy it as much the second time. in any case, i wish brandon would get on putting up his weblog. if he indeed is going to do that.

i’m really bummed i won’t get to play on weds. i’ll probably be going up to bellingham anyway this saturday to go see a sandcastle still play at stewart’s. you should stop by if you’re going to be in town. also, i heard there’s going to be a dance party of sorts at the showoff gallery where calvin johnson will be spinning. whoopee.

that whole lyrics thing is still going. tell me the band or person, and i’ll take you out to dinner, only i get to pick the place (recommendations welcome). email me. if you’re not in the same state (or country, brandon), just keep a tab and know that i owe you.

in any case:

astronomy tonight was me saying “deep crustal” over 20 times. laugh out loud, you love it.

i can’t find my dismemberment plan cd. i ransacked the computer room looking for it right before we left for california, but it was no where to be found. i ended up listening to photobooth at least 4 times while i was driving.

so, the rome people put me on an active waiting list. so if someone dies or drops out of the program, then i’m in. i bet it’s cause i got a 0.7 in zoology class a couple of years ago. i’d be sitting in front of the tv, and then the simpsons would come on, and it usually came down to watching the simpsons, or going to class and hearing the prof talk about the sheath of schwann which james and i could not stop laughing about. we couldn’t help but think that we were the most immature kids in class, but c’mon! doesn’t that make you laugh? sheath of schwann. say it to yourself. aloud. tee-hee.

incidently, i’m also one of the same kids that laughs when my astronomy prof says uranus, even when he says it the “correct” way.

i didn’t go out yesterday after updating, instead, i watched the tv and did some new things to the mlb site. around 3 am i finished up and realized my brother was trying to go to sleep, so i let him be. he helped me do a lot of the stuff with the site. thanks, dude.

i go upstairs and plan on sleeping, but can’t, because my sleep pattern is all screwed up. i watched boogie nights and finally got to bed around 5. sigh. didn’t wake up until 1245 today.

matt fu called me yesterday and informed me that there is a birthday party for masa records on weds, dec. 6th. with camden, bellingham sensations - lands farther east, a sandcastle still and jackie fiegel. and me, if i decide i can justifiably skip class to get to the show. if you’re interested in the shows details, email me or matt and we’ll let you know what’s up.

speaking of what’s up, for the life of me i can’t find the damn url for what’s up magazine in bellingham. if you know it, lemme know, please.

i have to do homework, but i hope this post keeps you busy for a while.

for some reason, i can never find anything cheap. 15 dollars? damn.

we got home this morning at 10 am. i was up most of the night driving until about 7, were i could do nothing but close my eyes. we stopped at a chevron for a moment while somewhere in tacoma i think, and i felt like i was delirious. i got dizzy and looked at the window. being amazingly disoriented, i thought i was back in california and was thinking that we’d be at my parents house again any second now, and would have to do the whole drive over. i’d have to sleep on the couch and listen to my dad talk about how i don’t have a girlfriend and my mom talk about how much i need to get a haircut. gladly, we’re here in seattle. not rohnert park.

i was actually kind of disappointed because i never actually got to go into the city. we were going to last night, but wanted to beat traffic out, so we opted to leave for seattle instead. i had a good time though, and felt some sort of strange melancholy as i was leaving. i forgot my damn camera there too. no, it was okay though, i got to go out drinking with my sister (which i’ve never done before) and ended up telling the story about the first time i got drunk and ended up hiding behind a dumpster while the fuzz shined their lights on me, and finally getting home and finding brian passed out in a puddle of car oil in the parking lot. woo. i prefaced the story with, “you can’t think any less of me if i tell you this story….”

i just woke up about an hour ago, so i haven’t really done anything with the day. i think i’m gonna make myself get out of the house and do something, because tomorrow’s another monday. must see the simpsons tonight though. i wonder if it’s a new one….

oh yeah, one more thing, did you know the the push kings have a new album out? you can listen to a couple of the songs on their site, but i will refrain from giving my opinion until i actually get my grubby little paws on the record.

oh politics! let’s not bring either of those topics into play on this site okay?
so many hardened hearts.

I love the amp I bought for 15 dollars that has three inputs, reverb and tremolo. Hot damn it
sounds good!

I’m staying near Elmira NY and I went to a college hockey game tonight, and at this game I saw
two of the most gorgeous mullets ever… oh oh oh.

rule #1 of family get togethers: don’t ever talk politics or religion, especially if your views differ. unfortunately, i ended up doing both today. yes, all today. then i talked shit about bush and ran away, and ended up having to go to church. yup.