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November 2nd, 2009
04:18 pm
sorta still alive.
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August 19th, 2009
05:22 pm
84 miles today. Felt good.
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August 11th, 2009
07:07 pm
i don't have anything of substance to report.
Depaul decided i didn't graduate, so i'm a fake college grad. i'm sick of telling the story.
Also, largely sick of hitting shift, evidently.
built a new wheelset last night. It's nothing too exciting, but it's very strong. Happy with it.
promoted at work. almost proud of myself.
foot is healed.
fuck man, i don't know. taking a long ride tomorrow.
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July 25th, 2009
01:13 am
tonight was a multi-hour charlie brown moment.
I'm drunk and one eying the keyboard,so maybe i'll write more later,but you know man,
fuck my life.
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July 22nd, 2009
10:53 am - What have I been doing with/to myself
Got my boot off. I can walk and ride a bike semi normally again. I lost another ten pounds this summer. I also lost all my fitness, which is a bummer.
Got semi-promoted at work. Hopefully this all works out for the best and I get a raise and year round employment. Fingers crossed.
Learning to sew, kind of excited about making outdoorsy type stuff. I'm a weird fit, so having a light rainshell that fits will be nice. Also, a nice light tent that doesn't cost five hundred dollars.
Yesterday was new bike day, too. Pictures to follow, I'm sure. Old gitane, three speed, full fenders and a rack. It's nice, suffice to say. Amazing what you can do for 200 bucks when you're a bike mechanic.
Hopefully band stuff picks up again.
Not a whole lot to report. New apartment. Lincoln square area. Let me know if you want to hit up cardinal liquors.
Current Music: Annihilation Time - II
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July 7th, 2009
09:43 am
Weekender recap
too high to die.
tire toss, Dr. Han proclaims me "handicap now".
Sweet torta, sweet riffs, blown speaker (?), 30+ beer consumption.
Maybe time for a haircut.
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June 2nd, 2009
05:28 pm
Spent april trying to make rent. Worked out, mostly.
Spent May attempting not to die. First week, massive bacterial infection.
Fine for one week
Memorial day I broke my foot.
Well, looks like at this rate, I'll be dead by august.
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April 29th, 2009
11:10 pm
my father just said the most delightfully paranoid thing.
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April 18th, 2009
09:58 am
I'm pretty sure it's just the weather.
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April 16th, 2009
09:41 pm
well, it's like 9:45 ANDS i'm already well on the way to oblivion tonijgt. i'm sure i'll want to talk about all of this if i can figure it out in thre morning, but don't hold yert brewwatylflpnnpqoerenqprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ooh fuck it.
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April 14th, 2009
03:58 pm
Pro-cycling prediction- Next year Hincapie will show up at the Paris Roubaix on a bike with solid rubber tires, straight gauge steel frame (with gussets on all tube joinings), 48 spoke wheels, and a full face helmet.
poor guy.
Signing a lease tonight, moving in about a month. Lawrence and Western. Third band practice tonight, dunno the name yet.
Idiot nosedives.
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April 8th, 2009
09:51 am
Got started down memory lane last night.
It's a shitty street, lot of pot holes and bombed out buildings. Occasional machine gun fire from the windows. It's kind of like a World War II movie, if you follow my analogy. Assume its French, get that "old world" flavor.
Anyways. It's not that bad, and I feel like I'm better equipped to deal with it these days.
I can almost listen to American Steel again. I guess it's been long enough that the hate and pain has melted away, and I can remember the good parts, not just the end parts.
I still miss you, sometimes.
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April 7th, 2009
11:53 am
Notes-
- Idiot Nosedives, fuckin sweet band. Expect a tape.
- good morning beers=best beers
- tangy zest of freedom
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March 24th, 2009
06:45 pm
I just saw this link on Rivendell, and I thought I'd pass it along.
http://www.gussetclothing.com/
Nice looking jeans. They're made in Georgia, which is awesome. It's harder and harder to find clothing made in the U.S. Especially nice for bike riders, as they have a seamless crotch, with a gusset sewn in. It'll cut down on the blown out crotch factor quite a bit. I'm thinking about buying a pair of their fancy black motorcycle jeans. They have kevlar sewn into them, and also look like they fit in a particularly attractive fashion. Plus you can shoot me in the hip and I won't feel it.
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March 19th, 2009
08:32 am
Well, that was one hell of a good practice, lemme tell ya.
Got to play through an anemic mesa. Not sold on it. Sounded better than most of them, though. Probably cause it was "rectifying" all that much.
Current Music: Wipers- Telepathic Love
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March 16th, 2009
03:39 pm - As much as I hate the term- "processing" feel free to skip
I continually amazed at my life and myself. And generally not in the good way. Self important horseshit behind the cut.
( Read more... )
Current Music: Assfactor 4- trying to get myself in a better mood.
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March 14th, 2009
09:46 am - Dead air, dead eyes
Yesterday, after i got AM drunk, I went to my last class ever. It was a waste of my time. But, also I was done. I had to do a scrap book for my history class. The final article in it was pulled from the Guardian, about Varg Vikerenes being released from jail (again). I hope my teacher appreciated my reasoning on the historical significance of black metal.
Lunch with Annie. She's playing drums. Practice wednesday. Also have dunces practice on tuesday. We'll see how that goes. I'm currently playing in bands with most of TIMF, that get me some scene points?
Went home, napped for a minute. Bullshit TV. Pot of coffee+6pak. Got a call from a person I've been hanging out with a lot. Long story short, I didn't end up in western springs at a hipster house show, and i did end up with a gallon of wine and some good company. I'll sleep tomorrow or something.
Decided to wear ex-room dude's his and her bathrobes. Got justin into his snuggie. Couch was a sea of mostly wasted pastel terry cloth.
My bag was like a candy store today. Evidently, at some point I impulse bought a mess of vivarin and i also found a beer! Looking to be a good day!
I certainly had something i wanted to write about, really, i did, but it flew bodily out of my mind when i started talking about black metal.
punk rock makes ya dumb.
wine life.
Thought of some more shit. So, here's some things that people have said to me that stuck in my craw, for good or bad, in roughly chronological order:
-"John, you're the biggest optimist i know. Even though you see the world through shit colored glasses, you just keep going. It'll be a huge let down if you ever quit. I don't think you will"
-W: "Maybe she's just intimidated by you"
J: "How's that? I'm not an intimidating dude"
W: "Dunno about that, man. You're pretty intense"
- "You're playing it like Black Flag and I'm like the Descendents."
(It's weird to write about someone who reads your journal, you know?)
- "You just wish you were an asshole"
Harumph. Thoughts?
The Social Circkle tape is great.
Going to Philly in a couple weeks!
To cliche myself further: I'd like the future to be more Assfactor, less Black Flag.
Current Music: Social Circkle- Static Eyes
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March 13th, 2009
08:32 am
Today is my last day of regular class.
I'd like to point out that I'm still pretty drunk from last night.
EDIT: Fuckit, time to party- I'm having a beer with my coffee.
Feeling good about this.
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March 12th, 2009
08:10 am
Two of my biggest projects for the end of school are done. I have two papers to write, one to revise, and then I'm done. Huh.
More importantly (this is the attitude that's kept me in college forever and a day), I've been listening to the Damned quite a bit, and it's awesome. Constant dance party!
Current Music: Smash it Up- Damned Peel Sessions
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March 10th, 2009
10:50 pm
If any of you are interested in a more "lo-fi" approach to camping, ie doing it simply and easily without giant outsets of gear, check out http://www.bensbackwoods.com/servlet/StoreFront . he has a great selection of knives, sharpeners (mostly of the diamond variety, which is great, they don't need mineral oil!), cooking gear (Ghillie kettles, which are very British), and cheap wool clothing. All sorts of great stuff! Especially of interest are the 12 dollar lots of pocket sized Mors Kochanski books. Mors is kind of "the dude" for bushcraft instruction. If nothing else, everyone in the world would be better off getting his guides to knife sharpening, map reading, and compass use.
But of greatest interest to me are Opinel knives! My dad has one, and I've always wanted my own. They're a classic French design (which is actually in the MOMA for its elegance), and really just simple high carbon steel knives. They need a little more care, but they last almost forever and a day (pops' is like forty years old). They are also dirt cheap. I ordered two for myself, and they came out to roughly twenty bucks total. I spent almost as much on a set of sharpening cards.
If the weather is nice next week/the week after and my trip falls through, I think I'm going to go for a little camping trip. Hop on the bike and ride up to Gurnee/Zion- Illinois State Beach is a nice park. Five bucks for a site. Maybe free, on a bike. Just a little overnighter, which is frankly just about all I'm going to be able to swing for a while.
Anyway, as for the effervescent attitude I displayed earlier. Awesome night. I had a ton of work to do, and working at home is not really productive in any way. A couple weeks back, I went out for coffee with a rad girl, but hadn't been able to hang since then. She suggested we hang out and be productive together, which is an interesting concept, really. So, long story short, we met up at the Pick Me Up round 7. Next thing I know, it's a little past 3 and Joe is telling us to get a move on. Time flies. I actually got a lot done, and had a great time with an incredibly interesting and charming lady. Kinda awesome, really. What a good night.
Huh, wow.
Current Music: The Damned- Strawberries
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