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the oc is a brilliant and wonderful show. since angel has been cancelled (sad face), it is the best show on television. and i will tell you why: wine. without me drinking wine, the oc would be crap. luckily, i am able to overcome that and awesomify the show. it really is brilliant. I just watched last week's episode. hey, i'm a little behind, didn't get home till 9:30 tonight (at my last condo meeting ever! until i own a condo, if such a thing were to occur and i was so inclined to attend the meeting) so i just watched last week's episode instead of doing the twofer.

like honestly, the past 8 episodes have been the same fucking thing. each good in its own right, but they've all been the same premise, just stepped up in intensity. like, if i wasn't drunk when i watched it, i'd recognize this as a flaw, but instead i considered it simply good tv... but i can step back from the situation and see the shortcoming. but tonight it all (thank god) came to a head and exploded. i actually lost faith for a second tonight with the graduate seen with luke and marisa's mom. but then i reflected on it and decided that it was awesome.

i just spent the past 30 minutes talking about buffy and angel on my irc channel. i'm so awesome.

also, when i start a band it will be called 'the peter gallagher explosion'

4 more days. wuhoo.

good weekend. katie and i went to the shins concert on friday night. was good. i'm not particularly fond of shows at the roxy, and the shins were great but not like OMG great... they were pretty much as you would expect them to be, which is certainly good enough. although, for the first time ever in my life, i was unable to see the band since i was standing right before like a 6 inch platform. it was weird. katie said she like it, which makes me think that maybe if i force music on her she might go to future shows so i'm not a loser all alone.

immediately after the show we met with jin and friends and went to this bar called the tam. the place was essentially mary ann's, if mary ann's had more space and was a dive but not quite AS a dive. hell, even one of the bartenders was wearing a mary ann's shirt, as apparently he used to work there. the biggest difference is that the jukebox was really weird and was playing pavement and wilco and built to spill. good for them.

saturday i pretty much played video games. sunday i played poker at tony's and came home and vegged out to fox's lol sunday. hahah i actually wrote it. fuck them.

today i didn't have work so i got to chill out. i played some videogames when i got out of bed (after watching dora the explorer... which was AWFUL but i couldn't turn away). so i played my games and then got bored of that so i cleaned my room. and clean it how. the place is like a goddam masterpiece now, it like turns me on and stuff. i give it 2 days until it looks like the shithole it used to be.

oh yeah, before i cleaned my room i watched daytime tv... jerry springer and maury povich. i CANNOT believe springer. like... wow. seriously, wow. they have, as part of the show, a pole dancer that that have to mosaic out her crotch when they do the upskirt camera angles before commercial break. she's not like a guest or anything... she's PART OF THE SHOW. and it was pretty much all downhill from there. i'm not sure if this makes me feel bad for humanity more than the fact that fox's friday night lineup was celebrity spelling be followed by when animals attract (an hour of footage of animals doing it). but like, wow. and the commercials during daytime tv are terrible too.. nothing but those degree from home and medical assistant training courses and personal injury lawyer commercials. i'm not sure during my two hours that i saw a normal commercial for a product, like shampoo or a car or something.

so then i cleaned my room as mentioned previously. and i realized that it's freaking boring as hell to be home all day. i don' tknow why weekends work but they do. today felt different because it was a monday and it was b-o-r-i-n-g. i cleaned my room and did laundry for chrissakes. i don't know what i'm going to do after friday when i have 9 days off.

then i went into work at around 6 to do my second to last (!!!!) meeting ever. was fine, a typical bullshit meeting that i was told would be cake but turned into 12 owners who hate BRW. like i care. want to fire us? GO FOR IT. micah (my replacement) was there. then we went out for a quick drink. he's a good guy and i wish him well... i think he's better suited for it than me. but GAWD i cannot wait for my lameass cubicle and longass commute.

i remain however very unhappy. well, periodically unhappy. for the most part i'm just not happy. there's a definite distinction. one way or the other, happiness is not much a part of me. maybe the new job will take care of it. i doubt it, but hey, here's to hoping.

i've decided to stick with my february cd as is. i like having it ready by midmonth. i will burn one for katie and one for jin, but more importantly, i like having the playlist on file to refer to in later months/years.

I think the theme should be songs i play throughout the past 30 days and then assemble on a couple of nights while drunk. so it's like shit i've been listening to, plus shit i thing of at the moment, all sequenced so that it sounds good together. i think that works. it'll be a nice snapshot sorta of the past 30 days with some random crap thrown in for shits and giggles. if you want one let me know.

february:

1. the decemberists - shanty for the arethusa
2. the notwist - chemicals
3. the twilight singers - teenage wristband
4. modest mouse - float on
5. tv on the radio - staring at the sun
6. the rapture - house of jealous lovers
7. the dresden dolls - bad habit
8. john vanderslice - promising actress
9. broken social scene - almost crims (radio kills remix)
10. xiu xui - apistat commander
11. air - alone in kyoto
12. sufjan stevens - flint
13. rachel's - last thing last

omghi!!!!!!11!1!!!one!1

yay

so no wine and oc tonight because katie had the brilliant idea to do a powerhour. i'm not sure why it happened, but it did, and by geoerge was it fun. it was like a trip down memory lane, from the binge drinking cheap beer to the uhh, enrique inglesias. when that freaking song came on i felt all warm and fuzzy inside. it's brilliant.

yeah so we did the powerhour and stuff. lots of fun surprises in there that i had forgotten about - like the tim davis song. and i hope the office gets complaints tomorrow about people on the first floor screaming about survivor. cause that'd rock.

also hi i gave notice at my job tonday./ staples, who i will from here on refer to as the corporate mother, actually came through and extended me a goddam offer, and it was a nice one and i snatched it up. the plus side: i have a new job. the down side: i have 2 more freaking weeks at the old one.

so apparently TS is coming up first week of march. for the occassion i've been commissioned to create a new power hour, and i relish at the task. it's gonna be rad.

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the notwist thursday was like freaking cool. first i went to tony's to watch survivor and get properly inebriate for the evening. then we went. the opening band, themselves, was like totally fucking weird man. some weird rap hip hop theatrical satanist nonsense, but for the moment was TOTALLY on. i guess the main dude is dose one from clouddead and hood and stuff which was weird. anyway, they, in my state, were like a goddam revelation. then the notwist came on. started with some lame ass country song and then broke into one with the freaks which was like a sermon. like really super great awesome. they played a lot of other stuff, all good. and there was one super long jam with the dudes from themselves and dose one on mic and it was super intense.

then this weekend was... OH! katie's birthday.

me her and oly went to dinner at firenze right around the corner and it was spectacular. we got some garlice bread shit that was like, you bite into it and it GUSHED out liquid garlic and olive oil concentrate and it was so bad for you but so good. i got a steak for my entree which was 24oz and rare and quite the yu,,y. then we when to an tua nuas for a bit, which was fun. we were supposed to go to fun karaeoke bar but it sadly didn't happen. my present to katie was a transparent pink umbrella she pointed out in lost in translation, and we thought it broke but oly fixed it and it's rad.

and then uhh

like the defunct jude, i decided the other night to produce monthly cds of songs i put together while drunk. i threw together a bunch of shit last night and right now i'm seeing if it sticks. so far so good. katie will get one. jin will get one this month before i leave. i should mail one to jude along with the cds i made a long time ago. and aside from that i do it purely for my own entertainment and anyone who might come along and request it.

ituned the new modest mouse single last night. it's really good, and also really not like anything i expected. i'm looking for the specific words to explain the difference from the old stuff but i can't find them sadly. but i'm way down with it.

i had dreams monday night... three times this happened... i forget the details but each one of them ended with some girl starting off a speech with "i'm sorry..." and then me being lulled into a sense of security and then the girl would get a hat and curly black hair and turn into a guy and snap my neck. then i'd wake up. three times. i wish i could remember more but the only thing i've got now is that one of the 3 scenariors took place outdoors in a flea market type setting.

la la la.

uneventful past couple weeks, it's been very light on meetings (none last week, i think, maybe one) and only had 2 this week and now i'm done.

last friday i played poker in chinatown and had a pretty good night, i took my winnings the next day to electronics boutique and bought an xbox and a bunch of games. so now i'm the complete console warrior, phear. i also found my gameboy at tony's on sunday so double score, that was like finding $250, since i was positive i had lost it somewhere unrecoverable.

saturday was spent playing video games, not going to the supermarket, and then watching tv with katie. i made the mistake of taking my dinner (bowl appetite) in there and looking at what she was watching. Pretty soon i was sitting down watching a really awful remake of the parent trap which really went on for an hour longer than i ever could have imagined. then some saturday night sketch comedy junk and then i returned to video games until like 4.

superbowl sunday we buffied and angeled and then i went to tony's for the game, and then back here for survivor allstars, which is awesome. i hope the patriots winning the superbowl is over because i hate boston sports fans and during the game jonathan and i kept wishing someone would break tom brady's head.

tonight's condo meeting was awesome. like the best ever. there were two people there: a nice old lady, and a cute young not a bitch chick. like really cute, and not married like another trustee at an unnamed condo, who is sort of cute, totally married, and a super bitch. tonight's was way out in xtreme southie and is not a building that will require any attention, so it's not even worth me creating elaborate fantasies about creating elaborate fantasies. and i'll create elaborate fantasies about anything.

well ok, i'll do it just this once since i'm still fresh off the meeting, and it's good fun for all. my plan is that there will be an emergency meeting called, probably because of a fire or a burst pipe or something. we'll say this emergency meeting is held next wednesday. it'll start at like 7 and go for an hour and a half. afterwards, i'll look at my watch (i have a watch in this elaborate fantasy) and will say "fantastic, just enough time for me to get home." cute not a bitch unmarried trustee will say "home for what?" and i'll say "the OC." then she'll scoff and then admit that she too watches the oc. then, in my most tim stewartesque manner will say "it's a good show" and she'll be reassured and will say, "well, i'd hate for you to miss any of it because you had to come down here, why don't you come watch it with me." and i will. and the show will be good, seth will get back together with anna and that'll be cool and seth will be way awesome. then oliver will do something remarkably creepy that marisa doesn't catch and she thinks there's a totally different spin on it. ryan will try and say something to marisa but of course she'll turn him away, but uhh, i dunno, somehow something really bad happens to summer because of it and marisa will be like "oh shit, ryan was right about oliver" and she'll go and apologize and ryan will be like "i'm moody and full of angst, but in the really cool way, not the loserish way, and you suck marisa, i was just trying to protect you all along." and he'll walk away, then umm... like a shins song will play or something. after the show wraps there'll be a kickass preview for the next episode. then cute not a bitch unmarried chick will say "wow that was good, remember when seth..." and we'll talk about the episode for a bit. Then she'll be like "wanna make out" and i'll say "yeah, but you know, i have to bill out $50/hour for extra time spent at properties" and she'll say "you've got my authorization." and history will be made.

notwist on thursday, rock.