Ok, applied for unemployment and an Oregon Trail Card. Tomorrow I'm going by the dentist and setting up an appointment. I need to get in touch with Jim about possibly borrowing some grocery money until my unemployment kicks in, and probably go and sign my exit papers on Friday.
Lots of reading and writing. That's all for now.
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Rumination (Saturday Life #9) 13 October 2012
Well, well, well. Today is regroup. JP #2 isn't happening. Time to watch a little college football (non-Ducks) and just see where the day takes me.
I have been thinking about the Olivia situation a lot. It's hard to believe we've been broken up for 6 years. February - October of 2006. I moved here in July of 2005. I've lived in Eugene for over 7 years. It's been a long time coming to be back on my game, and be back on it like never before.
Listening to all kinds of music and watching all kinds of movies, as always.
More on all of this later :)
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I have been thinking about the Olivia situation a lot. It's hard to believe we've been broken up for 6 years. February - October of 2006. I moved here in July of 2005. I've lived in Eugene for over 7 years. It's been a long time coming to be back on my game, and be back on it like never before.
Listening to all kinds of music and watching all kinds of movies, as always.
More on all of this later :)
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Friday, October 12, 2012
A Denial (Friday Life #5) 12 October 2012
I have a keyboard (maybe 2?) again!
I'm about to head to trivia with my peeps. Should be fun. I'm thirsty and hungry!!
I'm listening to the new Converge. It's very good. It flows, it's a bit different from most Converge albums in that sense, and I really appreciate it. I'm interested to find out about my unemployment and how that's going to work. I need to apply for food stamps on Monday as well. Going to take a few week vacation at least, focus on living, getting caught up on my manageable bills, and jogging, playing basketball, etc. Looking forward to it.
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I'm about to head to trivia with my peeps. Should be fun. I'm thirsty and hungry!!
I'm listening to the new Converge. It's very good. It flows, it's a bit different from most Converge albums in that sense, and I really appreciate it. I'm interested to find out about my unemployment and how that's going to work. I need to apply for food stamps on Monday as well. Going to take a few week vacation at least, focus on living, getting caught up on my manageable bills, and jogging, playing basketball, etc. Looking forward to it.
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Location:E 35th Pl,Eugene,United States
Oh Charlton (Film #7) 9 October 2012
Ben-Hur, Wyler, 1959, 6/10
I'm working my way through Ben-Hur, the William Wyler epic from 1959 that is all of 212 minutes. I have to say that the music is pretty damn classic. Miklos Rosza knows what he is doing, and there can be no doubt about that. Overture opens on Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam (just their hands) and once the nativity scene is through, we get a more distanced view where you can see the cherubim and the figures of God and Adam much more fully.
To believe in a Christian god is tenuous. The exact origin of the religious impulse is impossible to know, it seems, but if Christianity has been with use for about 2,012 years, it would be safe to say that we've practiced religion or its proto- form for at least 100, 000 (Blombos cave is 80,000 years old, for instance). Another interesting red herring is the idea that Messala says to Sextus that god isn't in every man, only one man. Obviously meaning the emperor, this implies that their society worships the emperor as a god and that conditions were worse for the everyman. The subtle capitalist message here is humorous. They then discuss how to "fight an idea," and Messala embodies Joseph Goebbels, Henry Ford, etc. in his answer: "With another idea." Welcome to the information age.
The Last Films I've Seen
1. Lemmy, Olliver and Orshoski, 2010, 8/10.
Well, what can be said about the godfather of speed metal? He's a bit of a hoarder, he still drinks and does drugs like a crazy sob, but he has integrity and seems like a genuinely good soul. Highly recommended.
2. How to Steal a Million, Wyler, 1966, 6.2/10.
Audrey Hepburn. Peter O'toole. Recipe for success, right? Sort of. No real moral, message, or directorial flair. Video quality was ho-hum. Worth seeing.
3. River of Grass, Reichardt, 1994. Actually haven't finished this yet.
4. Dexter, Season 7, Episode 1, 2012, 10.0.
Not sure how they do it. Dead in the water, only to rise on the tides of Neptune. Or something. Seriously fucking brilliant, and more than makes up for the turd of episode 2.
5. The Avengers, Wheedon, 2012, 7.2/10.
The fanboys cum dumpster. Umm good but nothing revelatory. See below.
6. The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan, 9.4/10. Revelatory. See above. Terrorism, nuclear war, evil, good, human nature, pain, redemption, environment vs. genes, love, betrayal, consumerism, schadenfreude, and more. So much better than the dark night returns. Nolan taps into it in his piece de resistance.
I'm working my way through Ben-Hur, the William Wyler epic from 1959 that is all of 212 minutes. I have to say that the music is pretty damn classic. Miklos Rosza knows what he is doing, and there can be no doubt about that. Overture opens on Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam (just their hands) and once the nativity scene is through, we get a more distanced view where you can see the cherubim and the figures of God and Adam much more fully.
To believe in a Christian god is tenuous. The exact origin of the religious impulse is impossible to know, it seems, but if Christianity has been with use for about 2,012 years, it would be safe to say that we've practiced religion or its proto- form for at least 100, 000 (Blombos cave is 80,000 years old, for instance). Another interesting red herring is the idea that Messala says to Sextus that god isn't in every man, only one man. Obviously meaning the emperor, this implies that their society worships the emperor as a god and that conditions were worse for the everyman. The subtle capitalist message here is humorous. They then discuss how to "fight an idea," and Messala embodies Joseph Goebbels, Henry Ford, etc. in his answer: "With another idea." Welcome to the information age.
The Last Films I've Seen
1. Lemmy, Olliver and Orshoski, 2010, 8/10.
Well, what can be said about the godfather of speed metal? He's a bit of a hoarder, he still drinks and does drugs like a crazy sob, but he has integrity and seems like a genuinely good soul. Highly recommended.
2. How to Steal a Million, Wyler, 1966, 6.2/10.
Audrey Hepburn. Peter O'toole. Recipe for success, right? Sort of. No real moral, message, or directorial flair. Video quality was ho-hum. Worth seeing.
3. River of Grass, Reichardt, 1994. Actually haven't finished this yet.
4. Dexter, Season 7, Episode 1, 2012, 10.0.
Not sure how they do it. Dead in the water, only to rise on the tides of Neptune. Or something. Seriously fucking brilliant, and more than makes up for the turd of episode 2.
5. The Avengers, Wheedon, 2012, 7.2/10.
The fanboys cum dumpster. Umm good but nothing revelatory. See below.
6. The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan, 9.4/10. Revelatory. See above. Terrorism, nuclear war, evil, good, human nature, pain, redemption, environment vs. genes, love, betrayal, consumerism, schadenfreude, and more. So much better than the dark night returns. Nolan taps into it in his piece de resistance.
Mense (Weekend Review #5) 14 October 2012
I wonder, when was the last time I played basketball? Certainly not for quite a while. It's nice for sure, although I am definitely dying.
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Location:E 15th Ave,Eugene,United States
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Jp2 (A Look at the Weekend #7) 11 October 2012
Hmm. Lost my job and couldn't feel better. Seems a bit strange that I feel this good but once I got suspended a part of me knew I couldn't go back.
Let the job hunt begin!!
But first...
Let the relaxation and projects begin!!
Good times. Trivia night Friday, bad hat Saturday, and brunch with Jim Sunday. Get my resume in order, get a keyboard, and get some scrumptious groceries.
Invent a Bunbury, do a lot of reading, and screw my head on even better.
"Few are the giants of soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle." -Freya Stark
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Let the job hunt begin!!
But first...
Let the relaxation and projects begin!!
Good times. Trivia night Friday, bad hat Saturday, and brunch with Jim Sunday. Get my resume in order, get a keyboard, and get some scrumptious groceries.
Invent a Bunbury, do a lot of reading, and screw my head on even better.
"Few are the giants of soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle." -Freya Stark
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Location:Hilyard St,Eugene,United States
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
All Alone is All We Are (Music #9) 10 October 2012
Today I am going to write about an album that changed my life:
Nirvana: Unplugged.
Between this album and a high school friend, Dave, I came out of my shell. Granted, I was trapped within it, writhing because of such a sudden awakening, but without them both, who knows what horrors lay ahead?
That sounds so dramatic, but I am a sensitive person raised in a horribly insensitive world. It's even worse in small town America.
I had recently met Dave and we went to his house after a Lumberjack football game and he took a shower while I picked up his acoustic guitar and was strumming away.
(Brief guitar-playing history: I come from a musical family. I'd played viola since fifth-grade, I have recordings of my brother and I goofing around on my dad's guitar at the ripe age of 2. My brother, dad, mom, grandma, aunt, and stepdad all play. I knew relatively little about the technical aspects of what I was doing and the only song I knew was "house of the rising son," but for some reason I had been playing quite a bit lately)
Anyway, Dave saw I was curious, wrote out a few tab sheets, and I was on my way. This was the first album that I delved into. I haven't revisited it in its entirety in quite sometime, so here we go. "About a girl," "come as you are," "Jesus edoesn't want me for a sunbeam," "the man who sold the world," and "pennyroyal tea" have relatively low emotional resonance for me (tracks 1-5, respectively), but track 6 is when we start getting somewhere.
"Dumb" and "Polly" were both huge inspirations for learning chord changes quickly. So darkly beautiful and I have Dave to thank for introducing me to this stuff. My brother wouldn't have ever listened to this, so I quickly connected with my step-brother stylistically, and he was quick to introduce me to modest mouse, foo fighters, camper Von Beethoven, built to spill, and various other northwest, post-grunge bands. I couldn't stop listening to alice in chains and tool for the next three years, however, so a lot of his guidance was lost on me (sorry Alan).
It was strange listening to a band a couple of years after the impetus and person most directly responsible for their sound/aesthetic has committed suicide. It all brought a lot of rage, sadness, impotence, despair, fear, love, and many other things to the fore. I briefly flirted with suicide. It's laughable now.
After a few more songs with little emotional ties, the holy trifecta starts. Meat puppets' "lake of fire," my favorite nirvana song ("all apologies"), and leadbelly's "where did you sleep last night" round out the album. The sheer emotion of the final track is as epic as any iron maiden or old Metallica solo.
References
Music
- Unplugged, Nirvana, 1994.
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Nirvana: Unplugged.
Between this album and a high school friend, Dave, I came out of my shell. Granted, I was trapped within it, writhing because of such a sudden awakening, but without them both, who knows what horrors lay ahead?
That sounds so dramatic, but I am a sensitive person raised in a horribly insensitive world. It's even worse in small town America.
I had recently met Dave and we went to his house after a Lumberjack football game and he took a shower while I picked up his acoustic guitar and was strumming away.
(Brief guitar-playing history: I come from a musical family. I'd played viola since fifth-grade, I have recordings of my brother and I goofing around on my dad's guitar at the ripe age of 2. My brother, dad, mom, grandma, aunt, and stepdad all play. I knew relatively little about the technical aspects of what I was doing and the only song I knew was "house of the rising son," but for some reason I had been playing quite a bit lately)
Anyway, Dave saw I was curious, wrote out a few tab sheets, and I was on my way. This was the first album that I delved into. I haven't revisited it in its entirety in quite sometime, so here we go. "About a girl," "come as you are," "Jesus edoesn't want me for a sunbeam," "the man who sold the world," and "pennyroyal tea" have relatively low emotional resonance for me (tracks 1-5, respectively), but track 6 is when we start getting somewhere.
"Dumb" and "Polly" were both huge inspirations for learning chord changes quickly. So darkly beautiful and I have Dave to thank for introducing me to this stuff. My brother wouldn't have ever listened to this, so I quickly connected with my step-brother stylistically, and he was quick to introduce me to modest mouse, foo fighters, camper Von Beethoven, built to spill, and various other northwest, post-grunge bands. I couldn't stop listening to alice in chains and tool for the next three years, however, so a lot of his guidance was lost on me (sorry Alan).
It was strange listening to a band a couple of years after the impetus and person most directly responsible for their sound/aesthetic has committed suicide. It all brought a lot of rage, sadness, impotence, despair, fear, love, and many other things to the fore. I briefly flirted with suicide. It's laughable now.
After a few more songs with little emotional ties, the holy trifecta starts. Meat puppets' "lake of fire," my favorite nirvana song ("all apologies"), and leadbelly's "where did you sleep last night" round out the album. The sheer emotion of the final track is as epic as any iron maiden or old Metallica solo.
References
Music
- Unplugged, Nirvana, 1994.
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Location:Fox Hollow Rd,Eugene,United States
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