urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook I might use photos this time! anderson_crook 2006-12-12T02:56:38Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:10524 2006-12-12T02:56:38Z 2006-12-12T02:56:38Z Fate decides to ruin things for me anew....<br /><br />Thanks a lot... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:10368 2006-11-14T03:09:27Z 2006-11-14T03:09:27Z <p>A four piece diptych in the University Museum depicting Ming the Merciless, General Zod, Lenin and the Master<br /><br />At last I know I'm not alone in this town....</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:10176 2006-10-24T20:08:08Z 2006-10-24T20:08:08Z Need to&nbsp;not allow my desire to get something done right the first time to be such a burden. It has been troubling me to no end lately and causing more problems than necessary.... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:9909 2006-09-27T00:02:57Z 2006-09-27T00:02:57Z I'm at the library. And Ryan Davis is sitting to the right of me...we shall be&nbsp;going somewhere else&nbsp;within the next ten minutes...its another day in paradise. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:9650 2006-09-03T16:46:41Z 2006-09-03T16:46:41Z I have returned to my homestead yet again for the weekend...more to follow...perhaps urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:9409 2006-08-27T22:46:59Z 2006-08-27T22:46:59Z It's no fun...a consistent reminder of why I need to exile myself from Carbondale in the not too distant future...&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_424065188_189083_Diane-Arbus.jpg" /><br /><br />Yet another image for the wall<br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:9097 2006-08-23T04:25:12Z 2006-08-23T04:25:12Z The Roger Delgado Master, El Santo, Cindy Sherman, Sledge Hammer, Principal Blackman, Jandek, Delia Derbyshire, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Roky Erickson and Booker T. and the MG's<br /><br />All below the infamous 'Withnail and I' poster featuring both Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann....<br /><br />In that vein, an image of the Seventh Doctor can now be enjoyed by passerbys to the dorm room, right under a poster of Joy Division looking glum, presumably after sever hours of Martin Hannett yelling at them....<br /><br />Well, I have something that resembles free time...for the moment... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:8927 2006-08-16T18:57:09Z 2006-08-16T18:57:09Z Way too many, in fact... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:8644 2005-11-04T04:55:25Z 2005-11-04T04:55:25Z So,<br /><br />It's been a week or so...what has happened to me?<br /><br />The answer: not a great deal....<br />I've just kind of dilly-dallied my way about and that's about it.<br />Come as humanly possible to finishing my ten to twelve page long thingamajig on the New Zealand media system...<br />Wore my postmodern Tony Danza costume on Halloween to the appreciation/bemusement of a moderate number of people...<br />Watched Collin jump off the spillway<br />Had the first full practice for the Oyster Lucy where I didn't leave distraught...now I need to force our lead guitarist to like Big Star's "Radio City" and maybe it'll be a slightly better situation...<br />Have been commissioned to assemble a mixed CD of "Bands That Have Elicted A Blank Stare" for one of the clerks at Plaza...featuring enough Liliput, Pere Ubu, Urinals and Numbers songs to blow any hipster's mind...<br /><br />Saw Captured! By Robots last night....and it was impossibly kick ass....robot band playing nothing but songs about Star Trek: TNG...clearly worth the cover charge....<br /><br />That's about it...I can't think of much else to say...but again that's one of the realities of my Livejournal postings....but that's how I conduct myself...<br /><br />Take care of yourselves.... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:8222 2005-10-23T22:55:08Z 2005-10-23T22:55:08Z So yes,<br /><br />With much demand for me to actually update my Livejournal (again...its one of the consistent realities of having one) I actually do so.<br /><br />So heres a few things that have happened this weekend:<br /><br />Friday going into Saturday-The greatest return home really early in the morning combination: Purple Rain and SCTV. Abundant Prince and abundant John Candy, the perfect thing to return home to after an OK Friday night.<br /><br />Saturday-Purchased a copy of 'Please' by the Pet Shop Boys. At Goodwill I found I copy of the very same album for seventy-five cents on cassette...therefore I forced Steve to buy this cassette, despite his lack of a proper tape player...strange situation....<br /><br />Saturday-Also purchased the ingredients for my Halloween costume: Postmodern Tony Danza (which is simply a white T-Shirt with the words "Tony Danza" inscribed on it). Later unleashed this costume on a Halloween party a couple of blocks away from campus.....to decent enough response (At the same party Neal stole my other cheap costume idea: Sam from Quantum Leap when he looks in the mirror)...I also was forced to unleash Rock Lobster on said Halloween party...to a decent enough response....<br /><br />Today-As the title indicated, I acted in a commercial for the Big Muddy Film Festival...trudging up to the spillway in a mostly borrowed suit and chasing Collin through the woods along with a few other people...again mildly exciting...took up a majority of my time today...but still was fairly exciting (again...its something easier described in person than on Livejournal...this is why my halfway interesting stories tend to come off as a tad bit boring at times....<br /><br />That's about it...I need to get to work on my International Media Systems Paper now, so I shall end this post..... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:8155 2005-10-11T05:08:47Z 2005-10-11T05:08:47Z <p>Yeah, So midterms are fast approaching...featuring visual literacy (a class built on frustration and open patronizing) and International Media Systems (a class that I have no clue as to what to expect on a midterm)...and now it's time to complain!...... </p> <p>Yeah...midterms....are.....totally...uh....well......um....bullshit....YEAH! OK...so I got complaining out of the way. </p> <p>Plus...I just learned not to mess with West Carbondale, it'll only leave you wandering down Highway 13 looking like a crazy person/hitchhiker.... </p> <p>And now...Boy George!<img src="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/images/boygeorge.jpg"></p> <p>(I know&nbsp;this marks the second photo that I've appropriated from the WFMU blog...I know it's not exactly original...but still...it's a good distraction)</p> <p>I can't think of that much exciting to say..so take care of yourselves..</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:7901 2005-09-12T20:36:14Z 2005-09-12T20:36:14Z <p>Indeed, So right now as I speak...there's a congregation of people outside my room who I barely know...people who live down the very hall that my dorm room is positioned in...weird....maybe its a sign that I should get out and meet people...but at the same time I don't think so... So anyways, things are unexciting as I've said before. On saturday I finally managed to break through JP's cone of silence and actually talk to the man...Good times...and it's good that he's doing well up in the land people call Minneapolis... Although, in news that's semi-interesting I did decide to help Collin out with his band project thing...so that should be somewhat fun and occupy some time when time is needed to be occupied...I don't quite know where this will go though....but at the least it's prep...for the Lazenby Crutch...(Note, I think I'm going to bring up the Lazenby Crutch every single post...for self promotion and no clear reasons)... Also on the plus side...the new Numbers album is coming out tomorrow...and I'll hopefully have the two MST3K episodes that I lent out in February or March by Saturday....plus I've managed to keep on top of things in the past few days....so things are unexciting...but they are looking up at the least....hopefully..... </p> <p>Wow....that whole post&nbsp;was only semi exciting...to someone...or no one....</p> <p><img src="http://blog.wfmu.org/./photos/uncategorized/siao.jpg"></p> <p>Although, I did think that this was a cool album cover....and this has approximately nothing to do with what I was just talking about</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:7664 2005-09-05T20:46:40Z 2005-09-05T20:47:19Z <p>So, I just looked at JP's friends page....and then read the journal's of people who I do not know at all....does this make me a voyeur...I'd like to think so....so therefore it means that I'm only weeks away from going up to Minneapolis with a camera and staring through people's windows....and taking photos....exciting...</p> <p>In other news....Andrew Dossett and Josh Barth visited throughout the weekend...that was fine....I seemed to be a little bit alienated throughout the whole driving around to various sites thing that happened on Saturday...but that's mostly my issue...still though, turned out to be a decent enough day (I even spent about twelve dollars for an excessively large burrito dinner....)</p> <p>Yesterday though I didn't wind up spending much time with Steve and Andrew D. instead I wound up hanging out with Davis, Collin and Neal....and co-composing a weird batch of songs (all on the tape JP)....it might not have the visceral punch of The Nashville Squares (or the future Lazenby Crutch) but it was still pretty fun to do something like that for the first time in a long time...But as a result I wound up missing out on Steve's bonfire thingamajig...which I didn't really feel like going to from the get go. I don't know...something just turns me off from being around a group of friends getting drunker and drunker out in the country as I sit, completely sober, feeling more and more alienated from the group...I don't know...it just didn't seem to be like a great deal of fun.....I don't know...does this mean I'm turning my back on my older friends for new friends...or that I'm going in a different direction?</p> <p>But anyways...that's my weekend spiel...I have to get back to my International Media Systems work now....as I try to figure out the intricacies of the New Zealand media system...it's exciting.</p> <p>So now enjoy one of the best promo photo's I've ever seen for any band: The Embarrassment's first promo photo from the late seventies.</p> <p><img src="http://www.embarrassment.org/dirtyroom.jpeg"></p> <p>Take care of yourselves</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:7334 2005-08-28T20:12:25Z 2005-08-28T20:12:25Z Yeah,<br /><br />So it took a while for me to update....laziness and incompetence is the only excuse I have for that one.....<br /><br />But at this point there's very little reason to summarize the summer.......it was decent....decent dammit!!!!!<br />Despite the horrible gaping rut...still didn't change the fact that I totally conquered a mountain...and finally got the first issue of the Seacow published....Mountain, dammit!<br /><br />But still, none of this has changed the fact that I have quasi-triumphantly returned to Carbondale...and I'm now waiting for the good rut to mutate and conform to fit my school living....<br /><br />Otherwise things have been fairly uneventful...decent...decent...went out to see the Brothers Grimm yesterday with Neal and Collin...and well it was a tad bit of a mess....but a mess that was beyond entertaining as hell.....so therefore I give it a thumbs up...and that was my tenative stab at film criticism....<br /><br />But otherwise, I can't think of much else to say at the moment....hopefully what does need to be said will be said more frequently, this is because for the first time in my college career I have a functional desk setup...so hopefully more anderson_crook in the not too distant future...<br /><br />Well, take care of yourselves... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:6997 2005-05-26T18:02:42Z 2005-05-26T18:02:42Z Only after a month or so of not updating this thing though. But anyways, I finally got back home and managed to solve the greater majority of the dilemmas that faced me back in Carbondale. I still don't have a job...but that's something I'm working on at the moment. Paper turned out OK, finals week turned out OK, basically I'm moving along pretty well. Moved out of my room about two weeks ago in a fairly timely and efficient manner...got back home....and so on and so forth...pretty much an ordinary adventure...but to really recap the events of the last two weeks...<br /><br />Met back up with the same old group of friends I'd always hang out with...and at Blair's house enjoyed a kind of miniature high school reunion...which was endlessly surreal and wound up featuring the word 'amazing' being used a lot....<br /><br />Watched 'Dont Look Back' at the behest of Chris Sloan....also later watched Episode three with Chris, Magnum, Kara, D'lan, Laura and Lindsay....and enjoyed the finest moment of George Lucas' directorial career AKA "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"<br /><br />Spent seventeen hours of last Tuesday with JP, going from staying up until two in the morning helping him keep his sanity while dealing with his final projects to helping him cope with the realization that these same projects were each about half finished by noon to sitting around a classroom with JP to meeting JP's people (and finally meeting the enigmatic Val) and so on and so forth...needless to say not returning until about four in the morning or so.<br /><br />Watching other people graduate and having the majority of that ceremony drowned out by the deafening sound of the Midland High School air conditioner<br /><br />Spending the majority of yesterday on the job hunt in Chilli and Henry plus having a complete stranger come up to me in the Chilli library parking lot and ask me where Abraham Lincoln was from.....plus the dynamic return of Ben "Benjammin" Smith later in the day<br /><br />And so on and so forth.....yes, these are the stories that have happened to me and as a result are the stories that are interesting only to me and a handful of other people...such is the way this Livejournal has been going for about a year or so....oh well.... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:6895 2005-04-28T01:05:18Z 2005-04-28T01:05:18Z <p>So, <br>As previously reported I have an 8-10 page paper to deal with...on freeform radio in today's society...I've done interviews, I've looked up things on the internet....I'm preparing to take notes for a compare and contrast thing for the paper....but I still don't think that's up to snuff for an 8-10 page paper...I don't know, maybe it's mild stress, maybe it's complete and utter indifference but I think that no matter what this thing is going to be shy of the minimum...I just know it.....and it's one of those papers where I have people eagerly anticipating it....this increases the tension of it....I don't know.....I just don't know how to approach it....I have an outline....but I don't think it's going to be coherent at all...or not a fluff piece for freeform radio....this is what happens when you fret about weird things because you have tests and the like looming on the horizon, either way I'm going to try to start physically writing this thing tomorrow and I hope to have it done by Tuesday...this could probably account for it all...although it's completely possible for me to write half of this paper in a day...I just have to be committed...</p> <p>On the plus side I found out that exactly two weeks from now, right now, I'll be completely done with this thing men call the 2nd semester of college...two weeks and a day from now I hope to have sold back all of my books and hopefully have invested nearly all of that money into buying CD's....So that'll be decent hopefully.</p> <p>Either way, that's what I'm going to be investing my time into....writing a paper, dealing with finals and purchasing CD's...then it'll be summer and I'll hopefully have a job, although the park district people have never bothered to call me back, despite the fact that I only sent off the application a week ago. Still though, I hope that I have something to do this summer.</p> <p>But anyways...in the spirit of two posts ago...here's another photo that at some time I have adopted as my wallpaper:<img height="350" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/theseacow/round1054.jpg" width="498"></p> <p>Yes indeed, since Magnum/Sledgehammer has never updated his Livejournal his likeness will be exploited for no particular reason on mine....</p> <p>Anyways, take care....</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:6472 2005-04-18T02:48:55Z 2005-04-18T02:48:55Z <p><img style="WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 644px" height="644" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/theseacow/art%20show%202005/DSCF0144.jpg" width="388"></p> <p>Much thanks to JP for drawing and displaying this....and also using that "Macbeth" slide film thing from the upstairs of my garage.....Plus my ego has been placated....which is good for it as it is pea sized...now you need to do my menacing business portrait.</p> <p>So anyways....recent news...</p> <p>Not much really, some people were trying to scam me by sending me an e-mail claiming that I had been kicked off ebay for "violating security protocols and the like" noting that you can appeal this by "providing additional information"......AKA credit card information, social security things and whatnot....all I know is that I can still log onto ebay as much as I want still....yes, consumer fraud in motion in today's society.</p> <p>Otherwise....attended the SPC versus Daily Egyptian game yesterday....did not actually participate as I was never asked to take part in it.....either way SPC lost with a vengeance to the Daily Egyptian.....but as I've said I was a spectator albeit one who was rooting more for SPC than the DE (I only knew two people on the DE's team....compared to me knowing the greater majority of people on the SPC team)...but this was about the most exciting thing that happened yesterday.</p> <p>Also, I'm attempting to apply for a job for the Peoria park district this summer, I've basically got the application filled out...now I need to mail it off....need to purchase a manila envelope......</p> <p>Other than that...I don't know...my birthday's on Wednesday....hopefully that'll be good...I have a paper I need to turn in that day...but fortunately I finished a rough draft today....but then I should begin research around that time for my alternative media paper that's 8-10 pages long and worth half of my grade for that class......but......oh forget it....my life's like frogurt sometimes, just ten thousand times more mundane....</p> <p>Anyways, take care of yourselves</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:6314 2005-04-07T04:40:53Z 2005-04-07T04:44:46Z <p>As I write this I'm talking to JP on AIM and he's all "Update your Livejournal" So I do.</p> <p>Nothing much has been going on down here in Carbondale, same boredom, same things altogether.</p> <p>Meanwhile I fear the oncoming of papers that I'll be obligated to write in the not too distant future....including an 8-10 page alternative media paper and a 5 page art history paper......hopefully this is stuff that'll be easily cleared out in no time.</p> <p>Meanwhile, my birthday's in less that two weeks.....yep....19th birthday....first one not celebrated at home......still don't know how to feel about it....</p> <p>Yeah, I don't have that many ideas to think of for this post, it's that time of the year where I'm convinced that I'm slowly becoming narcoleptic though...as I will now infrequently zone out in class....sometimes in the midst of writing notes, winding up writing completely unrelated phrases in the midst of notes for art history...yeah, real exciting stuff</p> <p>Meanwhile...hopefully, my first photo!</p> <p><img src="http://www.jagjaguwar.com/jadfair&amp;danieljohnston/jad&amp;daniel.jpg"></p> <p>Yes for no apparent reason a photo of Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair pops up...still though this is a new breakthrough for this LJ. Maybe its a testament to the awesomeness of Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair....or maybe it's just something I'd carefully planned out for years....either way I think I'm going to wrap this up.....</p> <p>As usual, take care of yourselves</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:6068 2005-03-25T03:39:30Z 2005-03-25T03:39:30Z Again,<br /><br />So I find myself one week after spring break finally updating the ol' livejournal account....but only in snippets...I have to get going by ten I believe, so let's begin.<br /><br />The thing that's preoccupying me more often than not is whether or not to change my major....I know that most college students will wind up changing their major more than once but still I'm slightly nervous about changing my major...I've kind of based my several months on consistency...staying the course and so on but I think that it's something I need to do....Oh well, Department of Radio/Television here I come!<br /><br />Meanwhile my Alternative Media in a Diverse Society Class keeps getting stuck in the mud...we're now officially six lectures behind (Today the question of revising the whole class was brought up by a visiting professor) and I hope that it can get back on track as I have already invested time and effort into doing semi-well in this class...<br /><br />Plus there's always the fact that right now JP's using the upstairs of my garage as a makeshift studio....ah JP...a few steps away from being the Fonzie of my social circle (That's right JP, you'll be living there in the not too distant future, I said it) but never the Ozzy Osbourne of my social circle (that's Stu's job)<br /><br />Also I have to work as an extra in my friend's short film on Sunday....and bring in 3-5 people to also act as extras....anyone feel like driving five and a half hours south to stand around a normally closed on Sunday comic store and be filmed standing around there? It should be fairly, if not somewhat exciting plus you get to loiter at a normally closed business!<br /><br />Other than that.....same as it ever was....but now I must get running as the whole Late Night Request shindig that I participate in beckons.....in half an hour... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:5846 2005-02-27T05:25:05Z 2005-02-27T05:25:05Z Again,<br /><br />So it's been a little over two weeks since I've updated this thingamajig and I gotta say...things have sure been happening: tests, films, CD purchases....forcing Adam Hall to watch The Prisoner....detachment......yeah, I'm in this weird zone where I do work but I don't get feedback on any work I do so as such I find myself in this kind of space where I feel like I might be failing but I know I'm not so I keep soldiering on and so on and so forth but with a disconnection....(It's the clearest way I can think of it).<br /><br />Anyways, I've been trying to pitch this show entitled "The Quality Emporium" to SPC-TV nowadays...it's main purpose is to mess around with people's expectations for SPC-TV and also to get the word "Emporium" on SPC-TV...so anyone reading this in the Carbondale area (AKA Alan and Kyle Dare) get ready for an episode set in a car, an episode composed entirely of stills with dialogue, an episode featuring Ryan Davis wandering around the woods for a half hour and an absurdly long monologue...it should be exciting...it should be mundane and it should hopefully be new programming from SPC-TV! (And so....self promotion seeps in)<br /><br />Speaking of SPC-TV I would like to mention that I spent 6-8 hours in that station on Thursday...sitting around, watching TV, telling everyone about "The Quality Emporium" and so on and so forth....nothing really outstanding, I just think that it's semi-sad that I spent 6-8 hours in that room.<br /><br />Meanwhile the Big Muddy Film Fest got kicked off yesterday....I worked the merch table at the first Documentary Showcase last night then ran off (along with Jacob and Shane Pangburn) to the midnight screening of Taxi Driver...which, since I happened to show up at that time and kind of help out around the theater, I got to view for free. The print was old, banged up and grainy but that wound up helping the atmosphere of the film quite well. And so from there I wound up going to sleep at about 2:30 in the morning waking up at nine in the morning to go off and see Tarnation along with Neal, Ryan Davis and Colin. Interesting film, definetly worth checking out (to those that are curious), a bit disturbing in parts but overall I felt that it was a very good film.......From there I haven't seen anything else (keeping in mind that this was earlier today), I've got to help out with a couple screenings throughout the week...that should keep me busy although I also have a paper that I will attempt to have written by the end of Monday (due on Thursday)...hopefully that won't take long, 4-6 pages shouldn't demand much...but that's something to worry about tomorrow. Anyways that's it for now....<br /><br />Take care of yourselves urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:5414 2005-02-11T03:33:44Z 2005-02-11T03:33:44Z Yes you heard it here....my grace period (the first three-four weeks of the semester) is symbolically over starting tomorrow with the introduction of the fabled "First Math Test". The math test itself does not concern me all too much (much of a surprise as I have been a consistent C math student for as long as I can remember) but still it's symbolic....now I can begin the succession of tests, papers and more that dogged me throughout last semester! Meanwhile I anxiously await the CD that I ordered on my epic "Forcing Steve and hopefully Adam Hall (Despite the fact that he would wind up backing out) to walk to the record store walk"....Yep...sure sign that your week has zipped by at a rate that has made you somewhat uncomfortable. Meanwhile I wanted to post photos from two weeks ago's visit out to a field near Makanda but find myself to be incompetent when having to deal with things like that....so instead I'm forced to write out what it made me think of...which off the top of my head was a fairly desolate field on a cloudy day with crows and dead trees and wide open expanses....YEAH!!! The excitement you can have in Carbondale on a dreary day in late January/early February....<br /><br />Otherwise I think I'm off to late night request again in about an hour....pure excitement.....what with the standing around and whatnot......<br /><br />Anyways....I shall get running now....<br /><br />Take care of yourselves. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:5244 2005-01-29T04:53:16Z 2005-01-29T04:53:16Z Once again,<br /><br />So I got back down to Carbondale roughly two or so weeks ago, ever since I've been sitting back and not doing too many interesting things. Basically walking around and hanging out with a few people, otherwise nothing much. And so as a sum of that I find myself on yet another Friday night bored out of my mind because of an unwillingness to do anything. Bah...it's nothing particularly good or bad, I don't know, probably going to go back in no time and go force Brian, my new roommate to watch Slacker....or maybe not...the last person who I made watch Slacker didn't particularly enjoy it....of course he didn't enjoy my corny joke about "So Good It Hurts" by the Mekons.....but that's his fault....<br /><br />And my weekend will probably guarantee more days like today....not that there's anything wrong with that...it's just that I expect a little pleasant variation every once in a while and so far I've just found myself going back into the good rut....could go to the record store....but I went there on Tuesday and I don't feel much like spending money after the hurtin' textbook purchasing put on my checking account...but that's something altogether different....I don't know....something will hopefully come up.<br /><br />Otherwise, as usual, take care of yourselves. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:4908 2005-01-07T03:25:33Z 2005-01-07T03:25:33Z But not to Carbondale....not yet....thank goodness.<br /><br />So it's technically still Christmas break and all that jazz for me, don't go back for a little less than two weeks. Now I have to worry about the books that might arrive at my house after I've left....but that's not much...<br /><br />So let's recap.<br />Last final was on December 17th. I returned back home a day later. On the way up I ran into a friend of Emily's outside a rest area roughly two or three hours down the line. I didn't recognize her at the time but I realized who she was not long afterwords.....same as it ever was.<br />Got to see my Aunt Marsha and my Aunt Janet and Uncle Dale along with the rest of my family....good times...unfortunately my Grandpa got sick on Christmas and had to be ran out to the emergency room in Bloomington..it kind of put a big bummer on that day. I myself would venture out to Bloomington a little over a week later in order to drop off Monsignor Kevin Kelly at the bus station but there's more on that in the future. In the moments between that I experienced what felt like a week of Sundays.....I don't know why....every day just felt like sunday for a solid week....even Sunday.....but I think the whole of that week can be distilled into a top three...<br /><br />If you will...<br />1. The drunken morass that was JP's New Year party....complete with people stumbling over stuff, apologizing, taking photos, waking up people at 11:45 PM, giving away comics/vomiting, unexpected visitors, Barry Manilow and pottery<br />2a. Watching "Slacker" with Chris...kind of spacing out at times...+Watching Mr. B Natural many times with many people<br />2b. Going out to Steak n' Shake with Steve, Kevin, Brittany, Devon and Brent and watching as roughly thirty or so people came in the same party, taking up the whole of the nonsmoking area and then some<br />3. Dungeons and Dragons at Stephen (Knight)'s house until two in the morning.<br /><br />This week has been more, decisive, more effective and more fulfilling, but it still gives off the vibe of a week that's going by too fast, I got my books ordered and all that stuff...got whatever work that needed to be done around the house done but still...I have that feeling that stuff's going by too fast and I need to grab onto the moment and whatever....I don't know what to think...just have to make the best of it and all that jazz...because I'm going to be back in Carbondale in less than two weeks....kind of a downer.<br /><br />But still....... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:4776 2004-12-14T06:31:51Z 2004-12-14T06:31:51Z So......<br /><br />Before all this excitement, I'd like to mention that it's finals week right now...Jeff Alvarez is supposedly visiting and I spent the greater majority of the weekend studying for the geology exam (a class that I would have passed even if I didn't show up to the exam), so the majority of my thinking processes were devoted to geology...that still didn't prevent me from screwing up royally on the test but still...anyways the story....<br /><br />Today I devoted half an hour...half an hour to trying to find a pencil...I needed the pencil because I was about to take the geology exam and didn't have one. And so I found myself out in the middle of the student center realizing this. Figuring monsignor Stephen LoSer would have one, I made my way out to the sixth floor of the library in a semi desperate attempt to find him, and get his pencil off him. But as I showed up and walked around the greater majority of the sixth floor I realized that Steve was not present. And so I then spent about ten minutes going to various floors on the library trying to find Steve or someone else I knew who might have a pencil....no such luck....Then the idea hit me that I should go to SPC-TV...they'd surely have a pencil...undoubtedly! And so I walked back to the student center, got on the elevator and rode up four floors only to have the door of the SPC-TV office close when I was within two feet of it. Taking that as an omen I decided that I should actually go down to the bookstore and buy one...on the elevator I ran into a janitor or maintenance worker of some sorts..I explained my predicament to him and all he could do was laugh at me. It was then that I realized that I had spent the last twenty minutes trying to find a fucking PENCIL...At that point I realized that this quest was completely absurd...But dammit I had to live it out! I found myself in the bookstore roughly thirty seconds later and where I found my pencil...an ordinary yellow number two pencil for ten cents...but then I realized that the lecture hall might not have a pencil sharpener...and so I was forced to buy this swanky blue and white presharpened pencil for an extra ten cents...I bought the thing and went on my way to my date with destiny...to screw up the geology final but still pass no matter what.....but in doing that I'm forced to start asking questions about the pencil itself...why did this one cost ten cents more...is there any kind of justification for the extra ten cents? And if so, what caused it more, was it the pre-sharpening...or the fancy blue and white paint...it puzzled me for a while but in retrospect it's a load of mind bloating nothing...and more cautionary information....don't think about this one too long or you'll wind up sitting there thinking about it so much to the point where you want to write a long post about it...or probably not...it just goes to show that my mind is starting to head downhill...in a landslide if you will...but still you have to wonder how much a man can make presharpening pencils....or maybe not......<br /><br />Well that was some lucid fun....and it probably wasted a lot of time for you all....next time I'm not gonna do that...or devote a half hour to such a stupid pursuit....or write about it at the least...because there have been stupider waste of time things that I've written about, but those were more generally entertaining....oh hell, in the end it's all good fun... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:anderson_crook:4586 2004-12-02T20:01:03Z 2004-12-02T20:01:03Z Well,<br /><br />Once again the squeeze of time is semi-tight but I still feel the urge to post again. So in picking up from last time I did go to the record store and bought "Chairs Missing" by Wire. This marks the fifth or sixth bitter English postpunk album I've purchased in four months....although it does have some brighter moments, "Outdoor Miner" is a fairly accesible, bright song although I have no clue what the hell it's about-probably the best song made after the 50's with a payola scandal attached to it. So anyways yesterday I went to another Live on Tape Delay meeting, kind of the same stuff as usual but afterwords I got talked into helping animate this bit that some of the people who were working on the show were working on. It's a bit about the fall of communism as told by a small child who didn't have it explained out very well. As such there's things like a car flying into the sun and UFO's and brainwashing and the government taking down the Berlin wall using mind waves. And so, using about four crayons, I sat around a coffee table and drew the bit about the government taking down the wall using mind waves...the mind waves were my addition. I drew thirteen frames of what was essentially the same thing before deciding to quit. But anyways I technically entered the field of animation with that one, as a continue to scrape the surface of the film world...."Man Standing on Street with a Cup in his Hand" animates dammit! Fortunately my wrist didn't end up horribly sore as I just finished putting my speech in note card form not too long ago....excitement...I think that I acknowledged to Jackie not too long ago that "I don't do interesting things" and it might just be true as I keep coming back to do my work! Well at least the majority of it will be done in two weeks... Heck Yeah!!<br /><br />Well take care of yourselves..