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| hmm... | [Aug. 11th, 2005|6:13 pm] |
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 geekyCurrent Music| Nince Inch Nails - Closer  IThese past few days are blending in with each other - not much is happening. I've been obsessively working on, and am almost finished with, collecting old movies stan and i made a decade ago, and transferring them to DVD. today i had lunch with shannon and dad, and besides an "interesting" event, it was nice. the "interesting" event? the guy next to us was offended by something that was said, and basically told us off. i just came across a cool website that is selling the COMPLETE series of tv shows that are not on the market. obviously they were recorded from tv channels, and collected that way, but still really cool. here are some that caught my eye!  I used to watch this show alot when i was real young. i especially remember watching it in the afternoons at my granparents place. i don't remember very much about the individual episodes, but recently i've seen about 3 episodes and stan owns the movie. the movie is real silly, and doesnt hold up that much, but the 3 episodes i saw in the past 5 years were awesome. they had the silliness of the movie, but in such a small package of 30 minutes, it's easier to take. but the best thing about them is that they were hour episodes, with a cliffhanger in the middle. that cliffhanger always ends with something like "is this batman's last breath!? will he escape? find out next time: same bat time same bat channel!" i'd love to get my hands on these shows - my number one "to-get" series.  Duck Tales was a show that was on in the afternoons, but i got into it late. i only started watching it when chip and dale's rescue rangers came on after it. then alot of disney shows followed it, including Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Bonkers. By the time Bonkers came on, i was barely watching anymore. And when i was watching Duck Tales was usually on too early, and i was still on my way home from school, so i missed much of it. but of all the shows it is pretty much 'the classic,' and i'd really like to check it out again. on the list!  Darkwing Duck was the fourth disney tv cartoon on in the afternoon, and the one i watched the most (well, besides Chip and Dale, but only because that was on longer.) I remember this one being an event, they had a countdown to it with little clips, and i remember thinking how awesome it was to have a disney cartoon (quality) who was a superhero (my obsession.) each day, darkwing would strut on and it'd say "7 days until Darkwing Duck!" I remember after the success of this, they did a Goof Troop and Bonkers countdown, but those shows blew. on the list!  My #2 "to-get" series. Don't ask me why, i can't explain it, but i was REALLY into this show. I had the toys and made up words to MC Hammer's "Too Legit" using these character's, that i still remember. It only lasted 21 episodes, and apparently didn't even have a real ending. Another weird thing is, i don't remember watching many of those episodes, even though i was really into it. i think it was on Saturday mornings, and i hated getting up.   Tonight i went over to Allison's parent's place. she doesnt live there, and was just hanging out to keep away from her roommates tonight... trouble, i guess. we just watched tv (man, her parents have horrible stations) and played stratego - i killed! Comments: stan: Pirates of Gay Water over Wonder Years??! - Stanus | |
| Shower for 2 | [Aug. 12th, 2005|5:58 pm] |
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 scaredCurrent Music| Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell Ya This afternoon I went for a run, again around the middle school across the street's track. i averaged just a little over 2 minutes per lap, in 96 degree weather. by the time i made it back home, i was exhausted and ready for a shower. i showered up (listening to the "lost songs" of Lennon/McCartney) and got dressed. i turned around to hang up my towel, and to my DELIGHT there's a huge spider at the top of the shower curtain. I guess he was putting the moves on me. This guy was huge, and his creepiness was augmented by the fact that i had just stood next to him for 15 minutes (NUDE!) ugh, needless to say he's not there anymore, i took care of him. Tonight i'm off to dinner, then going to attempt to download the 21 episodes of the Pirates of Dark Water (see last entry.) Wish me luck! 
Comments: brittany: I don't know if it's more disturbing that that entry made me think of you NUDE too many times, or that you "took care" of the spider after he put the moves on you... DISTURBING ALL TOGETHER!!!! Britt | |
| [Aug. 22nd, 2005|2:27 pm] | |
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groggy Current Music| Solid HarmoniE - to Love Once Again On Friday night mom went to my grandparents for the weekend, so i had the place to myself (and mila, too) so imagine my surprise when not a minute after i wake up on Saturday, my door opens and someone else is there! luckily it was only stan, who has a key to the place. he was going over to dad's to check out new cars, and then we were going to have a "family dinner." the car part was interesting. stan is getting a new car, which will mean i inherit the ex-GITRMEN. it's not the greatest of cars, but it's great on gas-mileage, and i haven't had a car in just about a year. stan saw 2 camry's, funnily enough, the same car as the ex-GITRMEN, and then we had to rush back to goto Red Robin. Red Robin was good, i got a wrap (not chicken tenders!) and the highlight of the evening was the encredibly awkward silence from and between Shannon and her "boyfriend" John. I use the term "boyfriend" in quotations, because if he doesn't become ex-boyfriend status in a week, i'd be surprised. Saturday night i got an Im from richard saying he was having a graduation-party, and wondering if i could go. of course this was last minute, of course i didnt' have a car, and of course this actually wasn't a graduation party - it was a series of parties we were going to invite ourselves to. i said i'd go if he picked me up, which he did. it took him an hour to get here (killiam factor?) and then we were off. now i wasn't driving, and i had detailed instructions that i'd written down thanks to Mapquest.com, but somehow we found ourselves entering DC. We didn't want to be entering DC. luckily, since richard was driving, we made an illegal U-turn and headed back to the first party. it was at a place called Dr. Dremos, and is like a huge JMU party. there are about 10 beer pong tables. Stan, Brandon and some of stan's friends were there already, and in stan's case, already drunk. we had a good time there, and then made our way over to a house party nearby. it was also fun, but didn't remind me at all of JMU. everyone seemed to be on the same social level, which was great. alot later we left the party and went back to stan's apartment to crash. richard took the whole pull-out bed leaving me with the other, smaller couch (i only got 3 hours of sleep.) i got some necessary 7-11 food and watched an episode of Quantum Leap before quitting the night. the next morning dad came by to take stan out car-hunting again. i wasn't in the mood so richard and i trekked to the metro stop to get back to his car, still parked at dremos. it took us forever to get home, so i bought us some taco bell for his troubles and we watched an MST3K movie - good stuff. | |
| Defeat Me | [Aug. 28th, 2005|9:11 pm] |
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 contentCurrent Music| The Click Five - Good Day For the past week I've been tracking down old Midi (old computer-music program), MP3, and Wav files on my computer, and marking down when i wrote them. I'm starting a "Steve's Songwriting Journey" document that chronologically traces all my songs (well, only the REAL stuff. Obviously there are millions of riffs and ideas I'm not counting.) I've traced it back to my VERY FIRST song I ever sat down to write. Here's a section of that document: 1995 1. Defeat Me A song written before learning a musical instrument (I, of course, had been playing percussion and drums for a few years. A little piano lessons a few years before this, that I didn’t remember did not help.) I wrote this song using MIDI, perhaps my first midi, perhaps after trying a few versions of songs by other artists (Nirvana.) It was a song written for a fictional band with Ryan Schneider (guitar, vocals) and me (drums.) all I remember about it was 1) we never played it live, 2) it had an extremely hard guitar part near the end, with continuous eight-or-sixteenth note runs that I put in cuz I thought they sounded cool, 3) the lyrics were about a burglar who gets caught. The only lyrics I remember was the chorus that went “puzzled, mastered, but you won’t defeat me.” Defeat Me was the name of the song and our band: I randomly chose it (opened the book, randomly pointed) from a book on the Holocaust we were reading in 8th grade. The song does not remain, and the only real part I remember is the ‘melody’ of the chorus lyrics. Ha! Pretty embarassing - a song about a BURGLAR!?!? I think i was trying to be hip and cool by being "dark." I've spent hours on this document and so far, in a ten year span(1995 - 2005) I figured I've written 74 real song ideas. Not an amazing amount, but not too bad either. The best part is i can see and tracce a progression from year to year. cool Comments: dad: Not sure but wasn't this one of your first efforts? http://www.geocities.com/razzalberry2000/Cutie.mp3 I know it is still one of my favorites. stever: If anyone downloaded and is wondering about this, i actually did remember this song in my songwriting document. Here's the excerpt dealing with it 1997 4. Cutie - POOTIE.midi Actually, mostly written by Ryan Schnieder. I added little (I changed one of the chords from minor to major in the verse, added a bass-line. Dad (Shelby Syckes) made lyrics to it cuz he liked it so much. The lyrics I don’t remember, but he called the song “I can’t get there from here.” Hmm… | |
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