Andy

everyone i know, including me, is a mess. fuck it. ya hear me? FUCK IT. schinzer, who i am hopefully about to unblock from my livejournal, had better bring his fondue pot back, because i am a mess and i need some deep-fried red meat.


grrrrrr...

Well, our Michigan victory was punctuated by plenty of bad news. Leave it to him to be the one to ruin such a great game. But fuck it, I have no time to deal with any of it right now...I just have to focus on one thing at a time.


Go Blue?

( I built a fuckin wall, yo! )

I also bought some football gloves today, so I can catch the screaming bullets that quarterback Frank Maiorana throws.

Speaking of Frank Maiorana, I saw a bumper sticker today that said "Repbulicans for Voldemort"

It made me happy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050912/lf_afp/safricarape_050912143657


...how did things get so fucked up in the world that something like this even needs to be invented? people are, in essence, shit. what are we good for? we destroy our planet and kill stuff. we all treat each other so horribly. i mean HORRIBLY. and what can we do about it? how the hell do you stop 52,000 women from being raped every year?

wolfwood had it right. just take out the trash.



heck, i'm starting to think that knives had it right.



...leave it to me to turn a serious topic to trigun.

experiment for the day:

will getting drunk before theatre history make it any less boring?

story at 11.

oof. today was awful. today was a punch in the gut in the fistfight of life. today is also a bad day for metaphors.

but on the plus side, i might soon have my first professional voice-over job!

it's so good to know that you can still go out and meet a whole group of cool people who aren't assholes. it's also good to know that there are cute, nice, witty, intelligent girls out there who aren't crazy. even if they live far away.

this, of course, doesn't change the fact that there are others out there who are straight-up, balls-out crazy. totally fuckin nuts. and it is from those people that i hope to gently disassociate myself, so as to prevent my getting any crazier than i am by default. no more craziness. preferably no more sketchyness. time to shed my skin, like a snake. solid snake. yessss.

and i saw phantom of the opera last night, my first encounter with it since seeing it on stage in toronto more than 10 years ago. and it was GREAT.

and it would appear that the release of advent children has been pushed back. i have not confirmed this. but my hope is that when it does come out the michigan theater picks it up and we don't have to buy it on dvd straight away.

all in all, i'm glad i made the trip. it was a much better option than the theater party.

pain. it's all about pain. unbearable, soul-sucking pain.

the last week has been chock full of pain. mostly physical pain, with a little emotional pain sprinkled on top, for a little extra flavor and pizzaz. how do you spell pizzaz?

i got strep throat, or something a lot like it, last thursday. so i've been miserable for the last 5 days, waking up with a high fever and a throat so sore that it hurts to swallow and going downstairs to sit in the lay-z-boy, huddled in a blanket, watching the same damn episode of sportscenter twice in a row. On top of that, I was so sure that I caused pain to one of my closest, dearest friends, and causing others pain causes me more pain.

then i watched the national geographic special on 9/11 last night, and cried. and cried. and cried. cried, on and off, for an hour and a freakin half. then i decided i'd had enough and changed to laguna beach. does that make me a bad person?

normally, i try to be optomistic. but, right now, i'd just like to say that THIS SUCKS.

i swore to myself i wouldn't use this livejournal for these reasons. it was part of my rationalization for making one in the first place. urgh.

moving back to school would make me feel better if i didn't think i was going to be fucking flat-out broke.

You are Meryl!


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ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!

They have made a sequel to The Transporter! It's being released the first week of september! I have no idea how I didn't know about this!!

Some of you might not know what this means. It means that Jason Statham is about to kick a whole lot more ass.

Transporter 2---September 4th.





Get ready.



ps please note the time of this post. my sleep schedule has gone to shit. it's off the heezy.

( some pictures and a quiz to sum up the last few weeks )

oh my god, look at this


For those of you who were too lazy to click the link, here's the basic idea: supposedly, scientists in Pittsburgh have re-animated dogs that were clinically dead for 3 hours by draining all their blood right after they died, replacing it with a saline solution, then replacing the blood and electro-shocking the dogs back to life. There were no signs of damage to any of the organs, including the brain.

Now then.

First off, this is from some Australian newspaper, who knows how accurate this information is. But, if it is indeed accurate, and they do indeed plan to "test the technique on humans within a year"...

I don't even know what to think about this. On one hand, we would have the ability to save victims of murders or soldiers during wars or mothers during life-threatening pregnancies, but should we really decide who lives and who dies? It's actually kind of disconcerting to me how cheap this procedure sounds...the thing about stem cell research is it's expensive, so not everybody would be able to be saved, but if people can undergo what looks to be basically just lengthy surgery, then we're going to have zombies walking around everywhere!


I'm sure I'm jumping to conclusions here, but still, this is astounding. I can't find any other sources that I know are credible to either support or debunk it...I almost hope it's a hoax.

someone explain this to me:

i was watching tv the other week, back when i still had spare time, and on one channel, TNT i think, they were playing Saving Private Ryan. i was suprised at first because i figured it would be edited, but no...there they were in all their gory glory, soldiers lying on beaches holding their own intestines, swearing up a storm. this was on, by the way, at about 2 in the afternoon.

i switched the channel to mtv2, where they were playing R Kelly's Trapped In The Closet videos, chapters 1-5. suprised as i was by the untouched Saving Private Ryan, i knew that there was no way this would go unedited. i was right. HOWEVER, in addition to editing any explicit sexual content and swearing, they also edited out the words "hell" and "climax"...as in "cathy, go to hell" and "oh my goodness i'm about to climax." not only that, but at the part where our friend R Kelly gets pulled over for speeding and after the ticket would normally have "turned my radio on, and drove 70 all the way home" in a 60 mph zone, the "70" was changed to "55"




wow. so tnt is okay with showing people walking around holding their own leg and explaining in full the acronym fubar, but mtv2 won't let r kelly go 10 mph over the speed limit.


that's fubar.

Six songs that are stuck in my head:

1.)A Lack Of Colour-Death Cab For Cutie
2.)Against All Odds-The Postal Service cover of the Phil Collins song
3.)Of All The Gin Joints In All The World-Fall Out Boy
4.)All My Fault-Fenix TX
5.)Attack Of The Show theme song
6.)The Hymn-composed by some dude who liked U of M a lot, performed by the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club

i tag your mom.

Pick 10 fictional characters that you would have sex with then tag five friends.

1. Faye Valentine from Bebop

2. Catwoman

3. Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft

4. Jessica Rabbit

5. Kasumi from DOA2 (or, hey, DOA4. better pixel count. shit, i'm a nerd.)

6. Sugar Cane from Some Like It Hot (Marilyn Monroe...)

7. Naru from Love Hina

8. Famke Janssen as Jean Grey

9. Mary Jane Watson from Spider-Man. Can be either Kirsten Dunst's or the comic book version.

10. Morgan Webb. As far as I'm concerned, she's fictional.



This has to be the nerdiest list ever. Only 4 are played by real people. Yeesh.

I tag anyone who hasn't been tagged. I'd like to see Seth's list. That'd be interesting. I double-tag Daniel to see how similar his list is to mine. Aaaaaaand how about Kelsey, tangerineblur, mamamuah, and...blueinferno, again to see how similar his list is to mine...

really, rather interesting. kinda funny too.


[EDIT] the link should work now?

for those who haven't yet, get up from your computer right now, go to dairy queen, and get a banana cream pie blizzard. holy god, this thing is good. i'm going to die at a young age from my diet. this and mcdonalds is all i've had today. eh, who needs arteries anyway? not me.


tigers time! adios.

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As you can see, Frank, I am more Nazi than Republican. BITE ME!

on the way home, found two cars curiously parked at the top of the hill on mckinley road with the owners standing outside. looked to the left and saw not one, not two, not three, but four simultaneous fireworks shows going on in the distance (one very distant, the explosions smaller than a dime). consequently pulled over next to the two strangers, albeit at a comfortable American-stranger distance. the three of us watched in mutual silence while the nearest and best show (hudson mills park perhaps?) ever so conveniently and coincidently started its finale. stayed and watched the last bits of gold rain down and fizzle, wondered about some things that no one would find particularly interesting, made a decision or two, then got in the car and went home.

the other three shows just wouldn't have been worth the mosquito bites.

now, if you'll excuse me, there's some homemade strawberry shortcake downstairs with my name on it.