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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 7:40 pm |
| | Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | | 1:39 pm |
and...
After 6 long years I finally finished and defended my thesis yesterday. Now I am just sitting alone in Tucson in my underware on someone else's couch. I feel free. | | Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | | 11:12 am |
Betsy once told me nobody else cares about your dreams
Last night I had a dream that was really fun for me. It went like this: I had joined a floor hockey team. It was being run by the place in Tucson where I used to take my car to have it fixed, “the Tire Corral.” Somehow this was also my high school. At first nobody on the team respected me. My floor hockey skills were poor at best. Then they put me in the goal. I was the best.* My status on the team rose greatly and our team became unbeatable. We had one opponent; our rival high school. My reputation preceded me. All the girls at the rival high school were enamored by me and my amazing goal tending abilities. They made this very clear through flirtatious post on various social networking websites.
On the day of the big game I was distressed to realize that everyone else had jock straps but I did not and I would be the one who would have the most pucks shot at me. I can’t remember how the jock strap thing worked out, but I think we won the big game. I was abruptly awoken by a charlie horse in the left calf. I have never had one of these before. It was extremely painful and interesting at the same time. My calf got super hard and twitchy. I discovered that I could alleviate the pain by moving my ankle to a different position. Problem solved. My calf still hurts though. *This dream is partially based in reality. When I was in seventh grade I played goalie on our gym floor hockey team. For some reason I did really well. Only one goal was ever scored against me, the was done by the evil Marco G_______ . I did so well that Kent B________ (last names withheld so that this post will not show up in anybody's google searches), the best hockey player in school called me “the wall.”** To my knowledge this earned me NO respect from any girls in real life. This was my one and only glorious sports moment, and subsequently has left me with the vague notion that I am a “good” goalie. On the few occasions since then when this theory has been tested, it has proved to be largely unsupportable. **He would lose this title once Hayes and Beagle Middle School combined for high school. A kid a couple years behind us ended up playing for the Edmonton Oilers in 2006 when they made it to the championship. This post is the result of reading of too many ironic memoirs by white guys who never did anything all that extraordinary; such as Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Sean Wilsey’s Oh the Glory of it All. | | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | | 3:54 pm |
| | Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 | | 6:39 pm |
neddy pot
I couldn't resist replying to linus's post. I made a new category, represented by bold italics to signify audio books listened to. The moral of the story is, if you COULD listen to books on tape at work and you aren't, you are really missing out. Sometimes I get mad when people ask me to do stuff that I actually need to use my brain to accomplish. I would also recommend podcasts. Where do people stand on audio books? I am for 'em. Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and Punishment (Currently listening to, I stopped it the other day completely by accident at 7 hours, 7 minutes, and seven seconds) Catch-22One Hundred Years of SolitudeWuthering Heights The SilmarillionLife of Pi : a novelThe Name of the Rose (currently reading, odds are looking pretty good for a strong finish) Don QuixoteMoby Dick UlyssesMadame Bovary The Odyssey (This one was really fun to listen to, all those haughty suitors and hecatombs)
Pride and Prejudice (No, but I HAVE seen the Bridget Jones Diary) Jane Eyre A Tale of Two CitiesThe Brothers Karamazov ( I remember something about a stinky corpse, I feel like this must be listened to it is really fun to listen to somebody else pronounce russian names)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies War and Peace Vanity Fair The Time Traveler?s Wife The IliadEmma The Blind Assassin The Kite Runner Mrs. Dalloway Great ExpectationsAmerican Gods A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (man I really liked this book)
Atlas Shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books Memoirs of a Geisha Middlesex Quicksilver Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the WestThe Canterbury Tales (parts for school)The Historian: a Novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (I don't know if I really took too much from this, except that we do end up talking about Baby Tuckoo quite often) Love in the Time of Cholera Brave New World
The Fountainhead ( I think as an aspiring architect, I am at least supposed to have tried to read this)
Foucault?s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (Listened to parts on move from Michigan to Arizona) Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel
1984 (I think I skipped the part where they were reading the book about
warfare or something. For some reason I
can?t stand reading books inside of books)
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D?Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune (I must have tried to read this at some time)
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury (it took
everything in me to get through that first part, I had nothing left when I
actually got through it)
Angela's Ashes: a Memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present (read the first
chapter or so, apparently Columbus is a real jerk) CryptonomiconNeverwhere
A Confederacy of DuncesA Short History of Nearly Everything Dubliners (are you kidding Joyce? You
blew it with A Portrait of the Artist)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (I can only read
about 70 pages of misused apostrophes)The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity?s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers | | Friday, December 7th, 2007 | | 9:26 pm |
Get Munk'd
I am not sure about y'all, but this Alvin and the Chipmunks movie has really gotten to me. At first I was all like holy sh*t that looks bad, now I'm all like "bow chicka wow wow chicka wow wow" | | Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | | 10:01 pm |
Grand Cable Company
I realize that I am not a frequent poster, but I figured a trans-state relocation was as good a reason as any. Two weeks ago I moved from sunny Tucson, Arizona to the San Francisco Bay Area to begin working for an Architecture firm that specializes in Historic Preservation. I currently live in warehouse in Emeryville that used to be a submarine repair facility during World War II. It is also were they filmed season one of everyone's favorite TV show, Top Chef. Eva will be joining me here the weekend of Thanksgiving.
I am living the American dream, I am only a short walk from an Office Max AND Office Depot, CompUSA, Circuit City, Trader Joes, and Ikea. You should be so lucky. I would not, however, recommend walking to IKEA, as you will buy something far to large and heavy to carry back, and everyone in your new town will laugh at you for stumbling along busy car-filled streets carrying bags bigger than anyone should ever try to carry. I am also just a moments walk from the former location of Your Black Muslim Bakery, famous for delicious vegetarian cuisine and murdering the editor in chief of the Oakland Tribune.
I have spent much of the time since I got here in Oregon assessing (or, as it were, taking pictures and nodding my head and generally pretending like I knew what I was doing, while someone else assessed buildings) the historic significance of buildings at the Oregon State Hospital. The Oregon State Hospital was formerly known as the Oregon State Insane Asylum and is still the only maximum security facility in Oregon that houses the criminally insane. (For some reason the criminally insane are now referred to as forensic patients. I have no Idea what forensic means, but have heard it used in many, seemingly unrelated, ways) These patients are housed in the only un-abandoned wing of a very big, old and mostly abandoned building. This is, however, not as spooky as you would be lead to believe. Even on Halloween. Also, they filmed NO episodes of Top Chef at the Oregon State Hospital, but they did film the award winning film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" there.
There is a room in a vacant building at the Oregon State Hospital where they store over three thousand boxes containing the cremains (this is what they call human remains that have been cremated. I believe that witty punsters are valuable to society, but should not be allowed to name anything of such weighty circumstances) of former patients. This room is also not really as creepy as you would be lead to believe.
In traditional Lovato fashion, I managed to loose the clearance badge that I was issued. Since the clearance this badge afforded was so unbelievably low they didn’t seem to care too much, and even turned down the Rockstar energy drink I offered them. (Which I had found in the rental car while turning it upside down looking for the lost badge.) Twenty-four hours and many miles driven later, I notices the badge sitting on the hood of my car. This is by far the strangest occurrence I experienced at the Insane Asylum. Anyway, the moral of this story is: You should come visit us. We can go to Circuit City. Current Mood:  don't askCurrent Music: sirens and the crunch of pistachios | | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | | 2:31 pm |
Swiss Made since 1908
For songwriters: The new songwriters club topic is: HARD CANDY For all: Eva and I will be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall. We have had a good time in the desert, but we figure it will be the best place to be to help defend the country when Laos inevitably invades. Current Mood:  its the DtsCurrent Music: Sibelius | | Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 | | 12:14 pm |
this room has the most echo
Goodbye Matt and Bethany! Tucson will miss you. Moments before Matt and Bethany left town, a single bird pooped on both Eva and I. Eva insists that this means good luck for ALL involved. | | Friday, April 20th, 2007 | | 7:15 am |
| | Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 | | 10:57 am |
| | Monday, January 29th, 2007 | | 10:42 am |
crazy cometkaze updates
Music Added: The Nachos Grand Ledge Rock City Matt Elliott Mike Lovato DOS: Reflector Songwriters club: Never heard before songs (although, not entirely new) added Album art (click on album/artist names) | | Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 | | 3:28 pm |
un-merry christmas
Friends, Our pal Matt was involved in a serious car accident on thursday. He is doing OK, but is still in the hospital. Unfortunatly, now he and Bethany wont be able to come back for christmas. Anyone who would like to contact him and needs his telephone number or address, let me know. | | Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 | | 5:59 am |
| | Friday, June 2nd, 2006 | | 5:53 pm |
 On June 2nd 2006 Kittums the Cat AKA Slash AKA Squeeks awoke to an immortal life of prowling the green fields and dozing in the ceaseless sunbeams that no doubt await him in kitty heaven. What was it that undid this proud and noble creature? Not a run in with a speeding semi, nor destruction in righteous battle with a beast thrice his size, but something much more insidious and loathsome: kidney failure. To the many of you whose lives have been touched by Kittums (some of you may even have scars) I say: remember not the empty shell of a cat that Kittums became, but the majestic, affectionate, and ferocious beast we knew him to be. Goodbye Kittums, you will be missed. Kittums was preceded in death by Fred the Goose, Sam the Dog, somebody the chameleon and countless goldfish. He is survived by Polly the Dog. Current Mood:  he was a good cat | | Thursday, April 6th, 2006 | | 10:01 pm |
| | Thursday, February 9th, 2006 | | 6:59 am |
chew
today I woke up with the burning desire to revive cometkazi.com (which would no longer be the name, since the domain is no longer available). Websites are pretty cheap these days, you can get a decent amount of space for just over 3 dollars a month. We could put everything we ever did on it, the world is waiting. This would have to include a massive Drawing on Steve cataloging effort. Also we could revive the songrwriters club. Maybe I won't feel this way by the time 7:30 rolls around. What do you think?? Current Mood:  bitchyCurrent Music: Omnibus | | Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 | | 1:45 pm |
))<>(( back in forth. forever
Here is what I am up to: coming back to michigan december 20th-january 5th going to san francisco january 9th-23 TA'ing a class on digital communications Working at Means Design and Building Corp. (I buy doornobs, garage doors, and draw pictures) Eva and I are going to Flagstaff next weekend so we can be cold on Thanksgiving weekend telling people I am working on some sort of "thesis" excited about not having classes next semester nervous about how useful I will be next semester Sometimes I listen to music on my Ipod, sometimes I listen to music really loud. I eat mexican food all the time. | | Sunday, July 24th, 2005 | | 12:56 pm |
the good, the bad, and the humid
First the bad. I just spent the last five days on a surprise visit to Michigan. The occasion was the death of my Grandma in Norway, MI. The circumstances surrounding her death are also marked by good points and bad points. The bad points being first and foremost that it is very hard to loose a grandmother/mother/wife of 60 years/resident of a small UP town for 77 years, so there was much grieving. It is especially hard when the family has to decide to pull the plug. It is even harder when the husband of the departed has spent the last 14 years dedicated to nothing but the care of the departed and now finds himself alone in a house that he has always shared, with the things that he used to do for himself a distant memory. Good luck grandpa. The better points being that 14 years ago my grandma had a aneurysm of the heart that required the temporary removal of several vital organs and the infusion of blood that was the wrong type just so she could live long enough so that her loved ones could say goodbye. Well, we got 14 extra years that despite obvious health complications left my grandma with a clear and happy mind until just a few weeks ago. Also, within the last few years relations between my dad and his brothers had been deteriorating to the point that they were not on speaking terms. The death of my grandmother has, at least temporarily, restored there relationship to the one i remember on happier trips to the UP of yore. The good news being that Eva got a job in the marketing/readership department of Tucson Newspapers who publish the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen. The job is salaried with full benefits and will solve a lot of monetary dilemmas that could have escalated to mammoth proportions very quickly. One part of her job is to do things like write radio spots for Tucson Classifieds, and we had fun coming up with the mock adds she had to submit as part of the interview. So come to Tucson, dinner is on Eva, who now wears the pants in the house. 3 more busy weeks in the bay area then back to Michigan on teh 13th for a bit of Ledge climbing and relaxing. Current Mood:  workingCurrent Music: buzzsaw | | Saturday, July 9th, 2005 | | 11:36 am |
and on the recordian
Just creepin' around Berkeley trying to find a computer that will let lil' ol me onto the good websites. This week was a crazy week for mass transit here in the Bay Area. First there was talk of a BART strike that left me in the Union Square Hostel becuase I wouldn't be able to get to work otherwise. That was OK though. That hostel is better than Fort Mason for every reason other than setting. Next security was "hightened" due to recent world events. Which basically means that a cop walks by the train in the Embarcadero station before you go through the trans bay tube. I am not sur exactly what he is looking for. Had a mimi PEFO reunion last weekend in San Luis Obispo with my sister and Randy and Lori. Highlight of the trip was UC Santa Cruz, which has to be the best college campus I have ever seen. It has all these brutal concrete buildings in the middle of this big redwood forest. The trees go right up to the buildings. Saw a fawn practically on the big ol brutal steps of the main Library. It was very surreal. It has all these crazy wooden bridges that go over these deep gulleys with redwood trees. If Ewoks were ever going to seek higher education, I have no doubt they would do it at UCSC. Their student union looks like a ski chalet. Current Mood:  flirtyCurrent Music: boys and girls |
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