I've been driving too long

So it's 4:10 on this fantastic wednesday morning and I've gotten back to Morris safely. I am now listening to Yell & Ice by Subtle, which is amazing music. I am waiting for the next w00t. I am reading my friends blogs. I am regretting drinking the tasty mocha double shot star bucks energy drink. But here I am nonetheless. Fall break is over and I am glad to be back in Morris for a few reasons. Wednesday nights are a basically free night to do whatever because I don't have to get up till noonish. Then Thursday is the office and possible swing dancing. Then it's Friday and the weekend. And it's my birthday weekend, so yay. Then it's next week (who knew?) and that means that it is close to next weekend where I will see atmosphere. then the next weekend I am going to drake, then I will probably go see subtle, then I'll probably be in (bore)is. then who knows. but that's like a month in advance. Thanksgiving is somewhere in there.
Okay, cognitive sentences from now on.
So, this weekend was pretty great. It was like a mini reenactment of the summer. I played a HBS show with colin on friday and like 5 people came, it was fun times. Sad thing was we hadn't practiced in about a month, and not just with each other, like total lack of practice. So we weren't as great as last summer, but I still had a blast. Then I played poker two nights in a row sunday and monday, which is always a lot of fun. I got to see Jenny's apartment, which was cool. I now know my way moreso around the U of M campus. I also got to eat Mesa pizza, I had the taco+guacamole pizza and then it was so tasty and because Jenny said "Well, your already here" which is like the most motivational thing to say to me besides, "just cause".
Then colin and I worked on helloblacksmith stuff and got set up with recording using a amazing mixer. Basically, we need 2 or 3 more mics and we can record ourselves decently professionally. It will be done hopefully over winter break, so keep your eyes open for our EP.
Other things to blabble about....hmmm....how about....blogs!
Yeah, blogs.
I like blogs, and I'm glad that more people are starting to have them, it makes me happy to have a somewhat easier way of keeping up to date with the happenings of my friends. And it's not just keeping up to date through wall posts and messages, it's a very self informing way. Like, I say what I want people to hear, and sometimes more or less, but because it's me posting for the general populous, it can have more detail spread to more people with less effort. I have a hard time keeping in touch when I don't see someone very often, and I know that. If people read my blog, then I can post something once and have multiple people read it. Granted, it isn't as personalized as, hey I want you and you to hear this, but it's kinda similar. But the fact that people are getting away from Live journal makes me happy. No offense to those who use it, I just generally see it as a more emotional outlet than not. And as good as emotions are, I feel it created the need to post emotional and personal things in an unproductive way. I dunno what I'm saying really. It just had a bad connotation for how people are. As good it is to have an outlet for that stuff, i think there are better outlets.
Blogs are a different kind of outlet, where you can post about what happened to you that day or week, and it can just be the facts. Or you can post your feelings about something. Or you can post links, art, music, or ideas. Or you can be me and just kind of word vomit onto the internet. But I figure that is my style or whatever. Anyways, I guess I chose a fitting name for my blog. I like it. Wherever I start is very rarely where I end up. But yeah, lets end it at that for tonight. Think of this as a makeup post for the week or two of slow posts.
And sorry.

Life and such

It's been a bit since I posted last, and although I don't feel the need to apologize, sorry. I haven't been up to much at all really, fall break ends today. Last week was a long week in some ways. Stayed up late most everyday, something I should probabably stop doing, cause school should be the most important thing on my plate. I kinda haven't made it as important as I should be, although I don't nessicarily slack off that much, I just could try harder. But hey, isn't that my motto, there's always a way to be better or try harder.
But yeah, music has been good to me lately. Hello blacksmith had a preformance on friday, which was awesome. We weren't as fluid or practiced as last summer, but it was still great. And now I have concerts on the horizon. There's an atmosphere concert Nov 2 that I'm going to. then there's subtle in Madison on Nov 13 that I haven't commited to, but am probably going to. Then there's Bon Iver in December that I'm going to again in madison. And who knows what other shows will pop up in the cities that I'll spend the 30 bucks to drive home to see. Soo many concerts, so much driving, so much money.

Feel the windchill?

So winter is on it's way. And I live in Minnesota, so it is really starting to show. Our fall is like some cities worst winter. But we deal with it, but not as quietly as I would think. Last year, more than any other I saw what could be described as SAD, seasonal affective disorder. Not really like horrible, but just a long spurt of lower than par happiness. It really hit me when summer came, which is by far my favorite season of them all. Apart from everything that happened last spring, I was just so overjoyed that the sun was warm and people were more friendly.
But spring is gone, and fall is here, and I feel the slight lack of joy setting in. Like, maybe it's just the things I've seen and been thinking about in the past week or two, but I think how happy I am is somewhat brought down by winter. It's beautiful and makes Minnesota what it is and Minnesotans who they are. It partially defines us, our character. We take a sometimes unbearable cold for months and stick it out with a smile on our face. The extremes in this state are amazing. And I do love it to death.
I hope I'm wrong and things get better, just overall. I can't predict what will happen, I gave that up a while ago. I do know that this will be a winter unlike others I've been through, here in Morris the wind chill gets to be 20-30 below whatever the temperature already is. It sucks, and I bike to school. My life, and myself, have changed enough to say this will be different and new, but I feel something else coming. I can't figure if it will make it colder or warmer this winter.

Steam powers my addiction

So I really want to play video games. Like, soo badly. In my past video games have been like 4 years of time and energy spent, and I was happy. So I can associate them with being happy and content with them. But apart from that they take my mind off things, which is why last year when I installed Diablo II, it was a interesting two or three weeks where I didn't really talk to people or do anything much. But it distracted me from everything so it was good. This past month I've wanted to play some time wasting mind numbing video game, but I didn't know if I should. I brought up Battlefield 2, cause that was the first multi player game I saw at home. But luckily I didn't bring the manual which has the serial number on it. Dang. But I really want to buy the orange box and play team fortress 2. But I also know that fallout 3, GTA4, and a bunch of other games come out this month, so I dunno if I should save my money. I have a steam account, but don't know the password, so I can't play the games I've bought already, like counter-strike and half-life 2. Or I could find one of the newer games and buy it for the mltiplayer and not pirate it for the singleplayer. But then I get into issues of feeling like my computer can't handle some of the newer games. Sad day. So, like most of my obsessive thoughts, it'll probably blow over in a week or two. But by then new games will be out and I want something. Argh, choices. But yeah.
I've also thought about getting an xbox360 for the reason that it's cheaper than buying a gaming rig and I could play really high quality games with no lag. But that won't happen.

I put on my trenchcoat and detective's hat

So, today I went to the radio station to drop of the mail and hang out for a bit cause I got done with my calc exam early. So I open the mail and get the music and stuffs and I decide to do charting during data structures, so I send myself the play lists of the week. But when i go into the station, I notice that the desktop background is really blurry, like a jpg stretch to fit the screen. Then I see what it is. Tubgirl. Fuck. I quickly change it to the default abstract bg, but goddamn it, tubgirl. (If you don't know what tubgirl is, DON'T look for it, it is one of those shock pictures on the internet.) So I end up back at the station after my classses and I'm labeling CDs and Ben, the Programming Director, comes in. He's the man who runs the discipline so I tell him about it. And then we start thinking who it could be. Cause the door was locked this morning and the last show was at 3 yesterday. We use firefox to determine the pic was set up yesterday, but for some reason firefox wouldn't tell us what time it was used. So, we have a list of suspects, but we are hot on the trail on the perpetrator. The thing is, if anyone else saw it, it is really offensive and fucked up. So I'm glad I got to change it before the day's DJs started. But the person, if we find them, will probably get the boot. Which is a big deal cause that doesn't happen often at all.

Amazing site

So, I guess blogs are one really great way to give shoutouts to other blogs and cool sites, which I haven't done too much, but this site deserves it, because it is amazing and makes me so happy. The site is Tour filter and it is like a craigslist of concerts. It shows most all touring bands (so no local shows, which is kinda lame) that come to the twin cities. So I know that TV on the radio tickets are up to 66$ each, gwar tix are 59, as are atmosphere tix, Hold steady tickets are in the hundreds. But it also shows me that tom morello is coming to the fine line and kings of leon are playing on a weekend Im home. Like, this is so amazingly easy to use and understand. I don't know if anyone else will be as excited as I am, but whatever. And they have RSS feeds and customized lists of artist that you can set up.

I think I'm back to being an indie kid

Cause the music of choice has been: Spoon, Bon Iver, Okkervil River, Built to spill, and the shins. All great, but all soo so indie. I'm not saying I wasn't indie before, I feel I am indie in the way I like bands that are a part of a small community and are actually independent. But yeah, I've made a somewhat smooth transition from just hip hop to a blend of Aesop Rock and college rock. It's nice. I do think I am behind in the listening timespan, I mean I'm listening to year old CDs for the first time. But whatever. I have a fairly large headache from the weekend, so I'll leave it at that.