Nay, End of the year, Naught

This is it.

I had a post that I was going to work on before the end of the year and I've got a draft saved but it'll have to wait till the weekend, next weekend.

Till then, get drunk and vomit and forget the fact that you're only celebrating an arbitrary mile-stone. I'll be rocking out on stage. Clearing the room with my feedback and noise!

Back at work... yech.

So I have to work today. First day of the raise. Not a bad raise either... it's aparent that the other job would give me a raise if there wasn't as many employees working there. Since I'm toeing the line at both jobs and not taking time off, we're understaffed there and they don't have their usual cronies to do all of the work. Inevitably, the work falls onto my shoulders. (Not just the heavy lifting but also the bulk of the copying, CD/DVD reproduction, and the usual office janitor crap I do as well. I can do pretty much everything at that job but I don't have to nor do they want me to.) It's just a bad situation. They would appreciate me more if I had more responsibility given to me, and I can only steal so much from the other employees before it would turn into a cat fight. (I work with catty people at that job.)

It's just more encouragement for me to keep my nose in the want ads. I'm not desperate for a new job, but I'm not happy with the lack of opportunity in my current roles.

I also stumbled onto this today in my online readings. Funny, I always thought the point of the game Monopoly was to drive everyone else into bankruptcy.

Just one more thing to make me angry. Intellectual property is an absolute HS scheme. It's a scheme that's in desperate need of change, "updation" (update-tion), & improvement. I get how a person, an individual, can own the rights or patent for an idea they came up with but I don't understand how a corporation can own a patent. Most copyrights last for a certain time period after the death of the owner to protect the estate, but I don't know when a corporation dies? Dissolution? I can't get a solid answer out of my boss but I haven't pressed him in a while. Maybe I'll do that again, soon.

Peace on earth. War in the heavens. Isn't it Boxing Day?

Petty upselling.

I told AG she should read my myspace blog for some kicks.
I also posted a poem there last night/this morning. (Don't you just love poems posted on blogs Dean?)

It's been a banner week for online activity for me. I think I'll take some time tonight to think it over.

Going to go watch the Gusto tonight with some friends. If you like punk rock, you might like them. I'm not a big punk rock fan myself but I think Pat is a stellar guitar player.

(check it, they have a show TBA on their site in Boston on Jan. 10th.)

What the crap... this is great!!!

The namesake of this blog created this on taxdollars!!!!

This was just too funny. I'm sorry if you don't get it. No, Really. I'm sorry for you on so many levels.

They're dancing.

Two-fer Monday

A while back I mentioned this.

Went yesterday. It was a good time/it was a terrible time. I was stunned by the beauty of the marionette scene. Wow. They don't grow mushrooms that good.

The young girls sitting next to me seemed to think that the movie was like attending a high school football game where they could just hang out, get snacks, and run out of the theater every ten minutes (which meant that I had to move to let them out into the aisle.) I hate children! I am a child.

Check this Sausage

Okay. Sheeple.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." (found here)

Where in this oath does it list the things he's doing? I'm not saying that this is the first president to do this but come on. Save the constitution.

Save it for the weekend.

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How's that for a post? Lots of links and political and shit. Keep the oxygen tanks on this week 'cause it's the only way I'm going to get through it. I have a list of songs to finish for my sister before she fly's in from Colorado. I've got to clean up my act. Defecate a bunch of paintings for the Video Project. Get my present for everyone on my damn list completed and in the frickin mail. Make excuses for not blogging more. Ride the Dragon.

So much to do.

With that, here's a nice christmas story for you:

Cybernetic Ghost: I'm not finished. You should have gotten a snack. A war-like race of elves from the Red Planet landed on the ice-encased Earth and they were immediately enslaved by the unevolved Santa Ape to make his confused toys using galactic elfin technology. Toys were made into recognizable shapes and given names like "train," but these toys were also thrown at predators and defecated upon because they were so stupid. Christmas still sucked, in a big way.

Just a seed

I know that these are a little long-winded.

Non-renewable seeds.

Globalization

I keep feeling like I wake up from a nightmare and I want to go back to sleep because the nightmare is not as scary.

Been asleep at the wheel

"Just a thought"

No two sets of similar forces are in balance; in the individual world the forces of destruction always prevail at last, and in the universe at large the forces of preservation prevail at all times.


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That was the thought.

As of late I've been teaching myself how to play "New Years Day" for our upcoming show. It's actually a really simple song and it's more a matter of deciding which subtle part in the recording I want to play. I've also been listening to live versions of the song to get a better feel for it.

Joe said he didn't want to cover a U2 song ever and then Danny J. drops that song as an idea and Joe's like, "Okay." I don't know what's going on anymore.

I also have to try to put some more time into the project I started with my sister last spring. Five songs that I haven't finished yet. Been busy not working on them. It takes time to not work on stuff. Maybe later this week. Maybe later this year. Maybe later next year. Ugh.

Recording is work

I have the mixed tracks of the demos and they sound okay. Could be better.

It's been fun trying to explain to the engineer that I want the replacement guitar track to drop out at the end and the original one to come back in. I recorded it last Saturday night without the bass and there's no drums in that section so I just did it willy nilly and now it's out of sync with the bass line. I haven't listened to the new version of it yet but I'll do that this evening.

Joe is in charge of putting the songs up on the myspace page. I don't know if he's got them up yet. I'll put an offical announcement up when they're there. They're aren't Great tracks. They're demos to get us local gigs and that's about it. Our next goal is to prep for our New Years Eve show and get squared away on recording the songs. That will be the nightmare of nitpicking and paining over a wrong note here, a flat note there, a drum hit that's a few milliseconds off. I'm looking forward to it. I'm not looking forward to it.

I also have to go see Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny tonight! Of course, it wasn't going to stay around long in theaters and I've been procrastinating in seeing it and tonight's the last night in town so it'll have to be done.

I do suggest seeing Jesus Camp. It's not a bad film, as far as the horror genre goes. I love the fact that the camp session is called, "Kids on Fire." Classic Irony.