The Consumate Casanova

Ground control to major tom:

2009-07-11T00:59:00.002-04:00

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground control to Major Tom: Commencing countdown engine's on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear,
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today...

See you in Vancouver.

New Era of Baseball

2009-07-09T00:12:00.003-04:00

Seriously, this place is a cathederal to the greatest franchise in sports.

This is the great hall, where they have memories from the past championships and the Yankee greats all over the place.

Seriously, this place has anything you could ask of a stadium.

"Hey Vernon, what's it like weighing more than your batting average?"

Melky leading off of first, he advanced to second on the next pitch, only to be driven in by Jeter's go ahead homerun.

But Joba would fall apart and despite 4 runs in the first 2 innings, we'd be losing by double our score when we came to bat in the 4th inning.

Ahh Yankees baseball.

Great game, Toronto really tried their best but fell short, even with knocking around Joba. Yanks still pulled it off 10-8.

Independence Day

2009-07-08T15:18:00.000-04:00

So after we walked through the city and decided to call it a day in Manhattan we got back to the parking garage and we head back out towards the GW Bridge and there's a gigantic swarm of cops just walking across the street, pulling U turns in the middle of busy streets and then having conversations with the ones that were trying to direct traffic.

Why do you ask? Because they closed off some 100 blocks for the Macy's 4th of July fireworks celebration.

So we're stuck in traffic looking for a way to get back on the parkway towards the bridge but everything's closed off. Which was really upsetting, it was only 6pm and the fireworks celebration wasn't until 10pm. Yet they still felt compelled to seal it all off that early.

It's not like they needed that time to clear traffic to bring in truckloads of fireworks! The fireworks were brought in and set off on barges on the river. Ugh, it just made question that little thing called common sense.

But we made it back to Jersey (yeah, it smelled) and back to the hotel after a nice dinner of chicken fraincaise and stella.

We got back to the hotel and kicked back and tossed on the tube. The fireworks were on, they could be faintly heard from where we were, but not seen.

It was a good show, they could've done so many interesting things with 5 barges but they just shot them up one at a time and it could've been so much better coordinated.

Oh well.

It was still an amazing spectacle to watch with the bridge and river as a backdrop.

Times Square is a Triangle

2009-07-07T12:32:00.003-04:00

We didn't get into the city until around 2pm. We hadn't had any lunch so we were all starving.

After the whole find parking fiasco we headed straight into the Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square.

After we ate we headed back outside and put on our tourist hats and walked into the square.

While I was standing and taking that picture, I realized my camera battery was low. Now that's normally no biggy, but I had packed my charger with the rest of my computer equipment that's already been shipped off. So I had to go buy a new one.

While getting the third degree for being irresponsible, etc. in the center of New York City a guy approached us. Black, clean cut, shaved head, sunglasses, really slick suit. He handed us pamphlets and started telling us that there's a presentation on the beginnings of the universe just a block away. I start thinking, hey, that could be kinda cool, so after I read the front of it, it's only 15 minutes long, so, why not? right?

Wrong. I flipped it over and it had a little mini-map on it. New York City Church of Scientology. That put the kibosh on that pretty quick. So we started calling the guy Tom Cruise: "wow, you got taller" "you got a tan" needless to say, he wasn't happy. That was that.

So we started walking again, only to stumble upon this.

I thought it was hilarious so I took a snapshot. We turned the corner and on the very next block...

I want to know what it is with this town and hippos!! Oh, notice the Danielle's jewelry?

I think the scenery is beautiful in a city scape. It's just my thing, my element, I love being in places like that. Unfortunately, I have the world's bitchiest family. It smelled bad, there were too many people, there wasn't a place to go grocery shopping (like we needed to?) and the traffic was agonizing.

Which is why I wanted to get a hotel IN New York City and not in New Jersey. We drive to the hotel, park the car for the weekend, and just take the subway to the places we wanted to go. Granted, yeah, it's not the most pleasurable experience, being a sardine in a moving can. But it's better than listening to my stepfather's road rage while my mother, who doesn't know where she is, trying to bark out directions contradictory to the ones I'm getting from friends/family/GPS.

No wonder this family has high blood pressure. But it wasn't enough to ruin the day for me. I had this song running through my head all day. And I'm not ashamed in the least bit.

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

New Jersey is the Armpit of the USA

2009-07-06T13:58:00.001-04:00

So, I could do this in one gigantic mega-post. Or break it up into sections and make it easier to read/write. Considering I still have to run a few errands before I call it a lifetime here in Upstate New York, I'm going to break them up.

So here the story goes, we went to the old Yankee Stadium a bunch. We went every year from 97-00 and then we took the act on the road, we visited Fenway Park (in Boston, aka enemy territory) in '01 decked out in Yankees gear. It was still a good time, besides the stepdude deviating from the directions we had and getting us lost. Oh, did I mention on the way home we somehow ended up at the border for MAINE?!? WRONG DIRECTION.

Then in '03 we went up to Toronto for a game.

We haven't been to a game since. We were trying to get tickets last summer before they tore the old stadium down, but ticket prices were absurd. So last week we started looking for tickets to go this weekend. I found them and got approval from the credit card holders and we shelled out just a little over a grand for 4 tickets on the first base line.

The only thing left was to book a hotel. Me being as indecisive as I am, didn't book anything but left options for my parents and what do they do, choose none of them. So instead, they booked a place in New Jersey. Not even close to the GW Bridge or the rest of the city, we were a good half hour away.

You say, a half hour, that's not much at all. But then, you've never been in a vehicle with my stepdad driving. It's like torture because he has no build to anger when he's driving. Especially when he doesn't know where he's going; he never does.

So I'm trying to give him directions and my mother insists on reading off every sign on the road and generally just confuses the fuck out of him because we don't need to know where the fuck the signs lead us to, we already have a place to go!

Anyway, getting to the hotel wasn't too much of a bugaboo but we left the house around 9:30 and arrived around 1:30 (that's pretty good time) and had the whole day to waste. We I wanted to spend the day in NYC so me and my brother convinced them too.

He's not cut out for city driving. People cutting other people off, traffic in stand-stills. He was going mental. My mother was acting like we were on a roller coaster, holding her breath and complaining about EVERYONE EVERYWHERE and the way they were driving.

We hit 42nd and headed into the heart of Manhattan, not listening to advice to find a place to park and walk a few blocks, we ended up halfway through the city (no parking garages in sight because they didn't want to get off 42nd) so finally I tell him to pull a U-turn and we head back towards the center of all the riff raff and we find a parking garage...

nobody was having any fun, we were hungry, we were tired, and there was a shitload of cops all over.

More to come (with pictures, lots of pictures)... Hard Rock & Times Square, New York's Obsession, Fireworks on the River, Yankee Stadium, Legends, Hybrids and Ethnicity Study [a family discussion gone wrong]

Sing it Frank...

2009-07-03T23:05:00.000-04:00

Going to New York City.

Going to Yankee Stadium.

Going to have to put up with a short-tempered family who constantly bitches about everything.

This can either go great, or be a major drag, like Cancun.

I know, Cancun? Major drag? Impossible!

They made it so; hence why it's the last vacation I went on them with...

I'll spare you details.

Talk to you later (I'll be sure to have pictures for this next post)

Glen Sather is a fucking idiot

2009-07-01T15:08:00.004-04:00

You spin a genius trade that gets us the Habs' best defensive prospect and frees up a ton of cap space for us.

What do you do next?

You let fan favorite, enforcer, Colton Orr, walk. He signs with Toronto for 4 years, $1 mil per.

And what do you do?

You go out and sign the biggest douchebag in the entire NHL. Yeah, I'm debating on turning the Lundqvist jersey in for a Luongo.

Fuck you Glen Sather. You better trade for Heatley or sign Gaborik and then MAYBE MAYBE I'll think about forgiving this attrocity.

But this is just stupid. It seems it's Sather's M.O. Look, we went out to Gomez and the Devils in 06, we lost to Drury and the Sabres in 07, so what do we do? Sign both of them.

We lose to the Caps in the playoffs this year and what does he do, he signs the guy who did nothing all post season except put a dirty hit on our player. SO THAT'S THE GUY YOU GO AFTER AND SIGN? Not only sign, but overpays.

Sather is a predictable idiot (he does this every year) and a moron when he has cap space to work with. I hope Dolan doesn't let the Rangers turn into the Knicks.

*******************AMENDED*******************

Okay, now I have to think about forgiving him. How about this Slats, you resign all our kids to good deals and I might be inclined to call this season a wash. You got the best scoring free agent, but you also spent too much money on a retard that nobody is going to like in the locker room.

I hope he spends his entire contract in Hartford.

Slowly but shirly

2009-06-30T14:44:00.003-04:00

Buy a plane ticket.

Find a place to stay.

Get a ride to the airport.

Get a ride to the Canadian Wonderland.

Buy a suitcase because parent is being a fucking bitch.

Pack clothes.

Get Insurance.

Ship computer and monitor.

Ship my guitar and amplifier.

Set up my Archos for the plane ride.
(Krista, hope you got one for Brian.)

Bad advertising.

2009-06-29T16:36:00.000-04:00

The point of this post is because I can't stand the stupidity of fear mongering and who tries to do it and on such a regular basis. Here's a few commercials and I want to know if you find this as strange/stupid as I do.

Okay, commercial one, touches on basically every type of stereotype there is in cigarette advertising and spins it all into old guy on a respirator and pretty much decaying while he's still alive.

Good commercial. It makes sense, in almost everybody, this is what is going to happen if you're a heavy smoker your entire life. I find this commercial to be a little bit preachy but effective enough to get the point across.

Swimming

This video, also good. It's a first hand account of a guy who used to love to swim but can't now. What's the problem with this one? Nothing. He's got what was coming to him. It's called consequence, I think this is also a good ad.

Now here's the kicker, this one sucks. Why you ask? Because it has NOTHING to do with smoking. But you say, well he's going to miss out on his daughter's wedding day. I say, no. The main concept of this is to say, if you smoke, your daughter will never get married. If I'm wrong, then why go through the trouble of showing the close up of the girl watching the scene? Why go through all the trouble of sleep and make up depriving the girl for a commercial so she (almost) looks in as bad a shape as her smoker of a father?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. It's one thing for them to advertise adverse effects to smoking, that are common and well known. Little did anyone know, smoking will turn your daughters into un-marryable and dirty people.

This is just another case of New York throwing away tax dollars on a shitty advertising campaign. You've made smoking illegal inside any building, 25 feet in front of any building, you've levied a shitload of extra taxes on cigarettes over the last 5 years, and you still have to advertise that people should quit? Ugh. This. Is. Stupid. I. Hate. The. New. York. State. Government.

Little Boys Everywhere Rejoice!

2009-06-25T20:19:00.000-04:00

Are we really going to miss him?

No.

Responsibility, Not Quite Yet

2009-06-25T01:21:00.000-04:00

If I were to tell you my entire life's been building towards this moment would you believe me?

If I were to tell you that I've done things, things that I know would turn out horrible, things that would push me to my limits and to newer depths, just to know I could do them?

I've done nothing but think about moving to Vancouver since before any of you started reading this. I've wanted to move there since I was sixteen and there hasn't been a day in my life where I haven't thought about being there.

Blog or no blog.

But I'll save the blogmance for later. That's right, I just coined my own phrase. Blog + romance = blogmance.

I should get it copyrighted so I get a nickel every time someone says it.

Also, I've decided that I'm going to start posting more photos. I miss the days when I used to. Don't you?

I miss the days when I used to just take pictures. I used to love it, I used to sneak disposable cameras into shows to take pictures. I used to walk all over Fredonia, campus and town. I used to even take pictures of random stupid stuff and I have an entire photo folder named just that.

Responsibility can really destroy all the fun in life can't it?

I'm never going to grow up. I'm going to remember when Toys'R'us was a place you begged your mom to take you. When the ninja turtles and x-men were still amazing cartoons. When you listened to the oldies radio station and they didn't play stuff you grew up on.

When Guns'N'Roses and Metallica didn't suck.

When kissing a girl was still... blech.

When your imagination still ran wild with things that would be given a rating of less than X.

When you played Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and it inspired you to take up the sport?
Or when you dyed your hair blond... boy, those were the days.

Or when your hairline wasn't starting to recede and your mom didn't tell you she hates the way you look with short hair now?

Yeah, those were the days.

I Am, A Time Traveler

2009-06-24T00:25:00.005-04:00

Date

Depart

Arrive

11 Jul 09

Syracuse, NY 10:01am

New York, JFK 11:11am

New York, JFK 12:00pm

Seattle, WA 3:11pm

Life is Sexually Transmitted

2009-06-21T03:32:00.002-04:00

So this is the Final Countdown.

Yes. It. Is.

Thank Zeus, I don't know if I can handle being here like this, with nothing to do, for much longer.

Yeah, I've gotten some things in order and you know, have gotten to scrub the tub, or plant stuff for my mom in the front of the house, or, you know, sleep in the basement now that she's sleeping in mine.

Yes, the selfish prick that I am.

Anyway, I meant to take pictures of the place. It's gorgeous, it's right on the water of the Erie Canal, called Aqua Vino which, if you haven't heard, is owned/operated by a local, Robert Esche. Why does nobody remember how in '97 he single-handedly got the Flyers past the Rangers into the Cup?!?

Gah. I hated him for a long time, but the restaurant is actually freaking amazing.

The menu has three different sections for meals: there's seafood, there's steak, and there's pasta. That's it. That's more than enough for me thank you.

The best part is the wine. Have I mentioned how I love wine? Anyway, I started drinking wine before the food came out and then, after I started in on the chicken riggies, I really needed something cold, so I ordered a beer and my uncle, mom and step-dad started giving me looks.

wine + beer = fear

At least that's what the guys were relaying to me. I don't get it, I drank them both and I'm fine.

But the more I go out to eat around here the more I realize how much I'm going to miss the food.

I'm going to have to have pizzas/tomato pies/greens/chicken riggies mailed out to me on a ~~monthly~~ ~~weekly~~ ~~daily~~ meal-time basis.

Anyway, someone's getting a little depressed that she doesn't have this exquisite cuisine in her town.

Someone else plans on helping me cook some of these recipes.

Someone else better stock up on wine and plan on gaining a few pounds, again.

Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

2009-06-18T17:52:00.000-04:00

This.

These people are here illegally and are being rewarded for getting injured while working illegally...

let's strike a proper metaphor...

If I robbed a bank and a police officer shot me on my way out and I sue the city for being shot... would that make ANY sense at all to you?

No. I'm just so confused by this, as usual, it makes no sense to me as to how you reward someone for doing something illegal and then getting the State to pay for their hospital bills...

shouldn't they need a social security number in order to be awarded this money?

If not, then I don't understand the system of HAVING a social security number in the USA (I guess this is part of the reason why I'm leaving) if it's used for job applications and opening bank accounts and PROVING YOU'RE A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. Then why is it not required for such payouts?

My point is, fix whatever is broken and pay to have their asses shipped back to whatever country they came from.

But NO. We know they're illegal aliens and we're still going to foot their bills and then GIVE THEM 3 MILLION DOLLARS because their dumb asses weren't qualified to work on a hazardous construction site.

How much you want to be this all happened because they couldn't read the warning signs because they were in English and not Spanish.

Do not pass 'Go' do not collect 200 dollars.

The U.S. Government keeps calling illegal immigration to this country a greater threat than nuclear violence; yet when the case keeps happening, the government keeps rolling over and taking it in the proverbial financial anus.

These people deserve NOTHING, they don't deserve the health care they're getting, they certainly don't deserve a huge financial settlement, and the government of the United States is just proving, again, that it doesn't have the back bone nor testicular fortitude to do what is right and what is LAWFULLY OBLIGATORY.

I honestly have lost all faith in my government. Looks Canada gets a fresh start to abuse it!!

Good Riddance

2009-06-16T13:31:00.000-04:00

The more I'm here the less I feel I'm going to miss it.

I'll spare further details and just tell you that the tentative plan is to get on a plane July 8th and fly to Seattle.

As for getting all my computer (and golf) stuff out there, I dunno yet, I'm going to have to mail most of it and then bring some for baggage on the plane. I'm just really not thrilled about having to spend an extra $200 to get my stuff out to me.

And that's not including my bass gear, so that will have to wait until either the parents get sick of looking at it or actually feel generous enough to send it to me. They'll claim the second, but it's really the first.

Normally this is the part where I start getting deep and all the things I've appreciated/cherished here over the years, blah blah blah.

Well, I'm not for a reason, I won't miss it. The food, yes. A couple of people, you know who you are. The rest of it, I really fail to care.

Green Day - Good Riddance

This is the Panic Office

2009-06-14T15:46:00.002-04:00

Jump out of bed as soon as you hear the alarm clock!!

You may find it useful spending five minutes each morning saying to yourself. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better." Perhaps it is a good idea to start a new day in the right frame of mind.

I Need A Good David Caruso One-Liner:

2009-06-11T04:19:00.001-04:00

Shaz

i sneezed
it's stuck something in my nose
i need to sneeze again to get it out!

Michael

hahaha
noooo
i wanna pick it!

Shaz

it's too far
it's gooey
it's gross
i need pepper

Michael

ruin my sport

Shaz

listen, if i can't scoop it out with my smaller finger, what makes you think you'll get it out?

Michael

*gets out drill bits*
*gets out soldering iron*
*puts on holster*
*slides on sunglasses*

Shaz
are you going to swap it for a q-tip!?

Michael

start the blow torch!

Disappropriation

2009-06-09T15:31:00.001-04:00

I am upset I tell you!

They said we were supposed to get thunderstorms today!!

It's sunny and 26!

I'm learning Celsius for you damn Canadians, don't abuse my kindness.

But what's really pissing me off is the whole job hunt thing. I've never been a fan of it while searching for something local. Now trying to do it for a job across the continent and in a foreign country where I'd have to get approved for a work visa and yadda yadda yadda.

I don't like the hoops that you have to jump through just to work... you give me a task, you pay me at the end of the week, why does there need to be a whole huge process?

So I'm really just frustrated right now. I want to be there, I want new golf courses, I want a new place to live, I want a job that I actually want to do, I want Shazzi and I want to not be sleeping on the futon in the basement anymore!!

Airbourne - Runnin' Wild

Worst Time of the Year

2009-06-08T13:18:00.000-04:00

For me anyway. My allergies take on a lifespan of their own. I'll be tortured and incapacitated by my sinus and constant itchy eyes, runny nose, sneezing and nose bleeds because of all of them.

But by far the worst is that I have indoor and outdoor allergies that act up in unison. So there's really no escape from it. I'll be fine for a couple of weeks, I'll mow the lawn (barefoot) and go golfing and I'll be perfectly fine.

Then one day I'll fall asleep and wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to stop sneezing. I'll be up for 3 or 4 hours trying to regain my composure and take a bunch of different allergy meds.

I'll fall back asleep and then I'll be out for a good 10 hours. Then I'll be chastised for it. Nothing like being blamed for something that's out of your control.

Perhaps even worse than all of that is this whole job hunt thing. I hate it, I always have and I suppose I always will.

Doesn't mean I haven't been trying though. I have, but it pains me to do so. I hate waiting and I hate hoping that something just falls into my lap. Which is all I can do right now.

I guess I might have to move without a job. It's a little risky, but it beats sitting here with notices coming in that I have to repay loans in another 5 months.

John Arthur Carradine

2009-06-05T14:06:00.004-04:00

The only other people that gave Chuck Norris nightmares were Bruce Lee and Kwai Chang Caine: David Carradine.

Not to lie or stretch the truth in any aspect. I loved the guy, in every role he played he was fucking bad ass and he knew it.

I grew up, watching him and MacGuyver at my grandparents' house almost every day after school. I'd sit on the floor eating after the bus ride home, waiting for mom to get out of work.

Kung Fu was by far one of the best shows on television, even if they were nothing but re-runs.

It was one of the few shows that captured the realism and spirituality of martial arts and led me to take up Tai Kwon Do.

Anyway, it was one show I watched religiously when I was younger. You can even ask my parents, between this show and TMNT I'd line up paper bags in the living room and knock them down, Kung Fu style. [ Hey give me a break, i was 4 and the bags were almost bigger than me ]

Anyway, I was enamored when they started a new Kung Fu series in the 90's and watched that for a few years before it became boring and predictable.

He's mostly known to you uncultured trendwhores as Bill in Tarantino's Kill Bill movies [ they even let him keep the Kung Fu flute for the role ]

He played another great role in the original Death Race 2000 movie back in the 70's. So much so, that when they re-made it with Jason Statham a few years ago, they did a voice dub for the same character he played: Frankenstein.

Well, he's dead now. Found hung in his closet infound dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel, Bangkok. An unfitting end to a great, under appreciated, actor's life.

Why is Suicide Illegal?

2009-06-03T16:51:00.000-04:00

So here's what I find is the perfect follow up post to my last one and it tackles the concept of what Dan brought up

Not everyone is glad they're born. Not everyone is glad they had a child.

Well this brings me to this topic. Suicide should be legal. Why not? Like he said, some people just think their lives aren't worth living. I'm fine with that assessment. But, like everything, there should be rules. I'd like to set some of them up right now:

The 5 Rules for Legalization of Suicide:

Age limitation, no teenage angst thank you, just like drinking here in the US of A, you must be 21 to legally commit suicide.
You must donate all of your healthy organs to be used to help people who are dying and don't want to. This means setting up a doctor's appointment to get your organs appraised!
You must have a written will verified.
You must have paid off any debt and/or have enough collateral.
You must have a valid reason (you're dieing, drifter, fail to see the point of living any longer, etc)

Financial crises is not a valid reason*

When you get out of the doctor appointment you're given a wristband that senses your vitals and when it doesn't sense them anymore, it sends out the "pick-up" signal to an ambulance at whatever locale you kick the bucket in.

There you go, now there's a ton more organ donors, a lot less people who don't want to be alive, and strict rules to make sure it's handled in the best way that it can.

Abortion is Genocide

2009-06-01T16:17:00.000-04:00

At least that's what most people are spewing.

I am not one of that sentiment. I'm not sure where I stand on the subject though. I'm an advocate of a woman's right to choose, but at the same time, I'm sure we're all glad that we were born.

But hypocrisy is just so much fun.

A man, pro-life, takes an abortion doctor's. Now if that's not ironic, then I don't know what Alanis Morissette was singing about.

First of all, this happened in Kansas, otherwise known as "The Bible Belt." Why? Because people there are dumb enough to believe in the word of god, as seen on TV.

These are the people who give Americans the stereotypical bad name that everyone around the world assumes that we all are. These are the people who think every Muslim in the world wants to kill us. Why? Because our god is better... even though technically speaking Christianity and Islam believe in the same god. But at least they're not Catholic. Wait, fuck that, maybe they should be Catholics, they'd be so guilt riddled all the time that they wouldn't do stupid shit like this.

Sure they'd say, don't have sex, don't use condoms, don't have an abortion. But they wouldn't go killing people over it in this day and age.

Even more ironic, the guy shot him in church. Way to turn the abortionist into a martyr. Everything the guy believed in, he just turned into the enemy. More so than before.

Not to mention the Dr. has 4 kids and 10 grandchildren, I don't think he was practicing on his own family for fun.

I think that people need to not be so ignorant as to blame a doctor (or a gun manufacturer) for deaths that they have nothing to do with.

It's a conscious choice by those who willingly have an abortion. It's not like these Dr's are going around in hoods and ski masks sneaking into couples' houses at all hours of the night and sticking barbed wire up their vags.

Then, I could understand gunning the guy down. It's like blaming drug dealers for the drug problem.

They're not the problem, the problem is the drug users! I don't think I've ever seen a drug dealer have to make a sales pitch. Hell, I'd love to see one try. But people go to drug dealers because they want what they have. People go to the doctor's because they want a remedy to whatever their problem is.

It's too bad they can't isolate the part of the human DNA that believes in non-existent spiritual beings and just omit that little bugger right out of our genetic code.

I might donate my body to science now just for that.

Dr. George Tiller was 67.

Yikes

2009-05-30T17:10:00.000-04:00

New design... let's work out the kinks folks... let me know what's off and what you think...

Can I Graduate?

2009-05-29T00:12:00.002-04:00

Seriously, I don't know why they had this in the showroom. The lead singer didn't understand it either, and I quote, "it's fucking weird" and "it's like a scene straight out of Goodfella's."

Which, is true, I don't understand why they had a show like this in the showroom. It's usually reserved for more... conservative shows, like: Celine Dion and The Temptations.

But the show went on, and it was bad ass. Minus the non-alcoholic beer...

My favoritest song of theirs "Motorcycle Drive By"

We were pretty close to the stage and the pictures don't really do the intimacy of the show justice.

See, they even pulled out the couch for a little jam session in the middle of the show.

They closed up the show with "How's It Gonna Be" and "Semi-Charmed Life"

The worst was... when in-between the last song of the set and the encore, I let out a 'K-I-C-K-...ass... It's been a while since I've been to a show... my bad.

No Support

2009-05-27T12:44:00.002-04:00

I wish I was talking about technical support because the massive amount of porn I have on my computer killed it.

But no, unfortunately I'm talking about real support.

You know, the stuff you get from people who care about you and want to see you happy with your life.

But no, instead, I have parents who'd rather see me work 8 hours a day at fucking Taco Bell than to actually get a professional career in a city I actually want to live in.

No, nothing. Not one iota of help. Nothing that even resembles it. Instead, I get threats as to how if I don't get a minimum wage, grease bearing, PIECE OF SHIT JOB then I'll be out on my ass.

Oh, you mean the same threat that you've been barking to me for the past 6 years?

Really?

Do I need to go to bed at 9om and wake up at 6am again? No, because the last time I had a job I was working 30 hours a week and doing school full time, all you did was COMPLAIN THAT I WASN'T HOME ENOUGH TO HELP OUT AROUND THE HOUSE.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

I hate to be the case-study for bad parenting but here it is. You'd think they'd ask or even care about applying for a visa to MOVE TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY but no, they don't even give a flying shit.

Instead, they're worried about me getting a job. For the month (please god be less) that I'm going to be here.

And I know how this path starts. They want me to get a job, I'll get the shit pasting job they want me to get, then (like last year) when I take my mom's car to get to work. I'll get phone calls midway through the day bitching about how she needs the car so she can save 20 cents on a can of tuna at a store she has to drive an extra 10 miles to get to!

So then would come the invariable, okay, we'll look at getting you a car bullshit. But no, that'd be too generous for you to spend money on a vehicle for your son (which you never have) so they'd offer to go in halfway or just flat out tell me I owe them some stupid digit amount.

Then low and behold, I have to keep working said shit job and do some sort of crap car payment and by then I'll have lost my fucking mind and have moved out so add an apartment rent to all the bills.

Then I'm stuck here with no money, paying back all this on top of loans and woohoo, my life has turned out just as meaningless as yours.

Some parents. Why is it that the only time they even remotely helped me was when I was away at school?

Yay now watch all those thousands of dollars in education go to waste... it's what you were banking on anyway.