BYOC

Whoopeee!! State made it to the Final Four. Not that I really watch basketball. Let's face it, I only watched the last two minutes of today's game. But still it's fun, and I get to brag a little at work. Dad and Devon are talking about going downtown on Saturday and hang out to watch all the people and hoopla. I told Dad that it is strictly a Bring your Own Couch party.

Oops, hit the wrong button

What season is it? I overheard Sean and Devon planning what to watch on TV. Devon said that Maryland and Virginia would be playing at noon. Sean said, "Cool." So dummy me thinks they are talking basketball, right? Final Four season and all that. No. I go in the living room and they are watching college lacrosse in HD, critiquing every play, totally intent on the game.

What season is it?

Time Warp

I'm not sure if this is a trend or just Wabash, Indiana a little behind the times.

I saw two games from my childhood today within a period of about 15 minutes (yes I actually owned some toys).

First, at the Wabash Walmart, a mom was buying Operation as a present for her 6 year old. I used to love that game back in the day. Only problem was the little plastic organs always got lost.

Second, at Subway, a girl and her mom were playing Score Four. That was certainly one of my favorites. I could never convince my sisters to play because I kept beating them. Score is a 3 dimensional game and is shown above. The object is to get 4 of your color beads in a row - up, down, accross, diagonally.

So - What's up with retro toys?

Back to other music forms

I had a moment today. A good moment. It involved Devon. Let that thought linger for a while. Anyway, I was sitting on my couch, getting ready to quietly enjoy West Side Story all by my lonesome (so I could sing along and cry, and dance if I felt so moved. I always liked the America number best.) So Devon joins me. Why, we are both still not sure. But he watched the movie with me and made only a few snarky remarks. He was able to watch without making any snorting noises at the dance scenes and remained silent at the end and so did not interrupt my tearful enjoyment of the flick. He immediately turned on college lacrosse when the movie ended but I feel we made some progress in advancing his cultural appreciation of musicals.

passport

Applied for a passport today. It should be mailed to 712 in, and I'm quoting the woman at the county clerk's office, "less than a month although we've had people saying its more like two weeks." I don't believe that for a minute. The birth certificate should be mailed back to you as well, although probably at a different time.

I've heard marathon runners say that the last 6 miles feel like the first 20 so it's with no small sense of anxiety that I approach these last few weeks of school.

My and Ronen's thesis was in the online edition of the school paper: http://www.michigandaily.com/content/arts/getting-know-noise-music

There may or may not be a follow-up on Michigan Radio.



Here's two more futures I'm daydreaming about:
http://app.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html

http://gradfilm.tisch.nyu.edu/object/dualdegree.html

this is an idea too

Big Ten career fair in Chicago April 3rd. The lack of demand for housing means that you can get a two bedroom apartment a few blocks from Lakeshore for $1200/ month. Which is unreal. Not as unreal (yet slightly more appealing) than this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08barlow.html?_r=2



I mean, for a city with next to nothing... that's an opportunity right?

St. Paddy's Day

So yesterday was st. patricks day as i'm sure all of you knew. and up here at cmu, it is tradition for the cafeterias to serve special food on special occasions. for example they had a thanksgiving dinner, christmas dinner and even a valentines day dinner. i have learned to be skeptical of these days as the food is tends to be disapointing. so when i heard that they were having a st patrick's day dinner, i did not enter the cafeteria feeling confident i would get a very filling meal.

boy was i wrong

they had everything Irish you could think of. being the good Irish boy i am, i headed straight for the corned beef and cabbage. it was not as good as mom's but it was tasty enough for me to have 2 helpings of. they also had 3 or 4 different kinds of potatoes, all of which were very good considering it is college dorm food.

overall, i was very impressed with the dinner and hope its just as good next year

Music education

I have had a few days to ruminate on the performance of Airport last Friday. I enjoyed the performance, but I am not sure why exactly. I don't mean that as harshly as it looks in print. It simply wasn't music as I know it. It was certainly art and expressionistic, but my conformity-minded brain wanted more structure. I was taking pictures that night and I think that got in the way of my understanding of what was happening on stage. I was distracted by the crowd's reaction. The sitting down part caught me off guard and fascinated me. Next time I will focus solely on the noise and see where it takes me.

What we have here, is a filure, to commuunicate!

I love the fine coaching staff of ROLAX. Today before practice, Ryan,t he real goalie made a joke about how i have to play goalie tomorrow. However, thats a large problems eeing as i play attack. I had nor eason to believe him, but regardless i asked miz about it. He replied, well yeah itll just be a quarter or something but yes. needless to say i was stunned, i was totally un aware of these happenings. When i asked him when he was going to tell me, he said, tomorrow at the scrimmage.

Yay for les communicatos. woot.

Vacation

Nothing like a few warm days in the spring to make me start thinking of family vacations. I would like to actually go somewhere this summer, economy permitting. I am opening the arena up to suggestions. Mine was a tour of Stephen King's Maine. Sort of a "Go In Search of a Nightmare" theme. Chicago is always an option. Brendan's participation is an optional thing as well. We know you are busy setting up a life...somewhere. Dad said he has never been out West; Fargo doesn't count.

Predictions Coming True

Made it to the end of a tube of chap-stick this morning. There's an odd satisfaction to this event, a very livable addiction. Also, my feet have to sweat a little more than is comfortable and while I'm not to the point where I'm changing my socks to drive the tunnel to Canada, it's causing me a little concern. Still, I think I have a solid decade before I'm falling asleep in front of the NASA channel.

Free senior...ish pics.

Prestige is offering free senior pics for one junior guy. They take my senior pics early, but i get them for free. They then put up pics of me in their lobby. I also spread the word about how fabulous a job they did for me. but obviously, theyd kinda be junior pics. I am quite willing to do this, because they are free. Since you rarely look at them anyway, i figured why not. i still have time to decide, but if its approved, by the old geezer rents, the opportunity is mine. If you want true senior pics you can still make me get them at the end of the summer or whatever, but i figured saving 400$ is always good. get back to me.

show

The School of Art and Design needs to get on it's horse because there's an exhibition that I'M A PART OF that's not being advertised on any university website. Anyway, I'm playing a show at the video studio on Friday March 13th. I don't know what time exactly but I think 8pm is a safe bet. I have a hard time describing the music I make and why I'm passionate about it but I think if you see/ hear it you'll kind of get it. I also have a movie I made last semester on display at the Duderstadt Gallery until March 14th. On a related note I'm in the video studio again Friday March 20th as model in my friend Stewie's thesis/ fashion show.

Busy month out here but April is looking a bit more chill so hopefully I can make it home for a day then.

Hockey Season ends

Tonight the Royal Oak Ravens played the Brother Rice Warriors in a preregional game. I was very proud of our boys. Brother Rice is probably the best team in the state right now, but our guys showed they can play with the best. The Ravens ran out of gas in the third period, but up until them, we were in the fight. We lost 4-0, but it was a very close game until the middle of the third period. Great season, boys!

continental air transit blues

I now know why it's called the "red-eye." The issue isn't that it's 11am in California, lord knows I should be awake by then. It's that I've been up since 3:30amPT and it's now 2pmET. I've effectively been awake for nearly 11hrs by now. And I couldn't recline my seat due to a combination of crowded airplane + tray table + fat person sleeping behind me. And we sat on the tarmac at SFO during which time they did some maintenance on the brakes and unloaded 21 passengers because the plane was 3 tons overweight.

I gather this sort of thing is a regular occurrence.

I'm also upset that it's a full 40 degrees colder here.