tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55269482011-09-28T16:43:35.371-05:00A 10,000 part mini-drama in which our hero Oliver attempts to reach for fleeting moments of happiness against the cruel backdrop of life. Welcome true belivers. Email me at: drmanhattan@gmail.comoliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109684658370455162noreply@blogger.comBlogger3841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526948.post-19482732631764158852010-02-04T13:55:00.000-05:002010-02-04T13:56:41.820-05:00

Oliver's NXT Bookingcut: Washington, Kozlov, Tatsuadd: Danielson, Percy Watson, Alex RileyHeels: Christian, Ryder, Riley, Regal, Jackson, Rosa, Archer, Croft, WatsonFace: Danielson, Goldust, Shelton, Helms, Reks, Savannah, BarettaFirst off, Kozlov and Tatsu are gone. If I could have them shot, I would. They are gone. Go work at Arbys. I hate you. Abraham Washington is gone as well – we got

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MAYBE TOMORROW...THINGS WON'T SEEM SO TERRIBLE AND DESPERATEHi kids. Yep, another year, another post in this blog. Whoo. 2009 was definitely a ying and yang year with the yang happening now. The year started off good enough. I managed to cobble together another thesis at the last minute and get it approved and handed in in time to graduate! I did an externship at a trehab clinic in Queens which

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NEW JACK CITYHeyyy look! It's new years eve again! That means it's time for my yearly blog update. What happened this year you ask? Well...January through May I worked on my thesis. All was well until May when I still had no subjects and my thesis advisor dropped out of sight. In May, through some trickery by yours truly, I landed a swank temp job at a law firm that paid me great and had the

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WE DID ITTTTT!!!For the first time, in a long, long, long time...I'm actually proud to be an american.ps) I also got engaged. There's the last 4 months.We doin' our thing in the world peoples!

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MOVIE REVIEWSIT WAITSThe good folks at Anchor Bay recently satiated my movie lust by sending me a copy of their latest direct to video horror film “It Waits.” I watched it the other night and figured I’d toss a review up here. Someone on IMDB reviewed the film as “It Waits..we wait” which is sort of true as you only see the central creature for maybe a combined total of two minutes the entire

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ON NEW YEARS DAY..WE'LL CHANGE BACK TO OURSELVESHa! It's technically Dec.31st right now which means I'm just under the wire for my annual, year end wrap-up. You thought I'd forget didn't you? Hah! never say die! Just say "don't write in here for 3-4 months at a pop!" Anyhoosish...uh..last time I left you I had just gotten my first tattoo which would place that entry late September-ish. So that

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I FEEL SO EXTRAORDINARYSo thanks to a generous offer from Stephanie I got my first tattoo yesterday. I've wanted a g#@!$^%'d tattoo for most of my life but lack of funds had always prevented me. Steph has a few and after she got her last one about a month ago offered to spot me for one. How could I refuse! I always knew what I wanted: the sleeve for the single True Faith by New Order. So I went

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SUMMER'S OVER AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN I'VE EVER FELT SO HAPPY...Seriously. This summer has sucked balls and , aside from a few highlights, it can go crash into an aids tree. I start grad school on Monday so it's the "offcial" last few days of summer now. To recap...I left my low paying job at the lawfirm confident that I would have no trouble securing a temp position for the summer. I had a few

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27 THINGS I WANT TO DO TO YOUSo i turned 27 on Saturday. Closer to 30 than 20. Closer to the grave than birth. Brrrr. To ignore these thoughts Friday night Steph took me out for a lovely birthday dinner at Brick in Astoria where I had delicious Liguinni and clam sauce. Yummers. Then we hung out at Grath's with the usual gang and watched the gay video countdown on Logo. Your daddy's not tired.

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ALL THESE BANDS, ALL THESE PEOPLE, ALL THESE FREINDS AND WE WERE EQUALSSo this past weekend was the second (technically third) annual Baltimore Insubordination Fest. It was just as awesome as last year if not more. There was some trepidation between Steph and myself beforehand as the Fest came at the worst possible time for the both of us. Steph was swamped with school work and I was (am) flat

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ON RETURNINGHey hey! Look, it's me! I'm back! Miss me? What's up? Have you lost weight? Anyhow...Sooo...I guess I'll briefly recap the past 4 months - FEBRUARY: When I last left you I was about to take the GRE's. I did take the GRE's and did laughably bad. Well, not laughably bad but worse than I expected. The writing and english portions were easy but the math was beserk. One problem asked me

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Fucking FebruaryHeyyyyy! Remember me!? Fuck you, I was busy. January was aiight. I worked most of the time so I made some extra $$$. Most of the time I've been studying for the GRE. It's next Saturday and I'm terirfied. Pray for me. The Funeral Crashers will be finishing our album in about 2 weeks. It sounds awesome. To further kick things up a notch I've gotten some tight pants and shirts. I

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THERE'S A PUBLISHER SHE SAYS IN THE NEW YEAR...IT'S NEVER IN THIS YEARWhat it is peoples. Florida was fun as hell. Friday I took a very bumpy plane ride down and Steph's dad picked me up. Upon arriving at her house her folks crazy dog did not try to kill therefore thereby endearing me to the entire family. That night her dad BBQ'd us some food and we passed out. Saturday we slept and that night

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AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE ME STILL ASK ME..WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK TO TOWN?So it's been ages since I've updated. My bad. But if you've known how busy I've been you'd understand. You would. I promise.Thanksgiving was fun. Food was consumed. Partying at Rebecca's was had. Jake spazzed out as per usual. Good times. Since then I've been working on finals non-stop. I still have one more test tomorrow

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LIFE IN THE COUNTRYThis weekend was the second annual King's Barn pop-punk 'camp-o-thon' and it was just as or not more fun than last year. Thursday night Steph, Kelly Lynn and myself took the train down to my folks house to spend the night as Friday morning we were up early and after swinging by to pick up Jim Testa we were off to Thompson PA once again. We got there around 2:30 which was just

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YOU-GO-SLAV-I-AY!Hi. So Steph and I saw the Parasites last night who played their first NYC show in 8 years. The band (Dave + the Ergs) ruled. The Ergs, Steinways, Leftovers (who have gotten a bazillion times better since the summer IMHO) and For Science also played and were very enjoyable.Friday night the Funeral Crashers put on a show for Kristine's 17th birhtday at our practice space. Everyone

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WHEN THE DAY FINDS YOU AND THE NIGHT'S FOR YOUI refuse to update often! Refuse! I'm like the wind baby! You can't control me muthafucker! Anyhow, what's been going on? Steph and I saw the Evil Dead musical which was possibly the greatest thing ever. I highly encourage everyone in the NY area to do whatever you can to go see it. Also, sit in the splatter zone (on the left hand side if you can

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YOU'RE WITH ME NOW, YOU'LL BE AGAIN AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEENHey, remember when I usd to update this thing? Neither do I. Anyhow it's been sometime. Carlapalooza was about two weeks ago and was mega fun. Chadd is a dick for upping the ante on cool things to do for your girlfriend. Jerk. The Funeral Crashers were supposed to open for 45 Grave but that fell through. Oh well. We're getting pictures

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I WOKE UP THIS MORNING WITH THE PRESENT IN SPLINTERS ON THE GROUNDIt's been awhile. Anyhow I started my part time job this week. I'm working 16 hours doing filing and odds and ends at this lawfirm in midtown. Pay is dick so I may have to try and find an upgrade if they don't give me a raise. But in the meantime it's a bit of extra income. The job itself is pretty okay. I have a lot of autonomy

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WE'RE DRINKING SUNNY D BECAUSE THE PURPLE STUFF'S RANKJust took Medium Fries to the vet. She seems in very good health (though needs to gain weight)and barring no trouble with her stool sample, she'll have a clean bill of health. She's really perked up these past few days and has been very affectionate. She eats, uses her litter box and cleans herself. Steph discovered if you whistle at her

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TORTURE KITTYIt's been a long fucking time since I've updated. No job and cable tv really eat up my time these days. Anyhow, school is going well. I like my classes..even statistics which, praise christ, is less math based and more tuned toward practical applications in psychology. Phew. The big news around the home is that Stephanie and I adopted a cat today. Her name is Medium Fries and she's

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VACATION ALL I EVER WANTEDSo this past week was my one week vacation from work. Saturday was my Snakes on a Plane Party. That movie is amazing. We saw it once at 4:40 and the crowd loved it. Then we went to the beer garden. Then we saw it again at 10:30 and brought fake plastic snakes and planes to throw. The crowd was not really into it for the second show and seemed annoyed at our tossing shit

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HER LAST DAYBusy week. Whoo. Ok so last Sunday the Funeral Crashers played Providence, RI. We got the rental car and were on the road by 3:00. Phil drove up and the ride was smooth. We got to Providence around 7:00. It was a ghost town. We ran into two gutter punks but could not find a liquor store open to buy them beer. We paid too uch for sandwiches at the one open deli before heading to the

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FIGHT YOUR OWN FIGHTFriday night the old lady and I went out to eat to celebrate the end of us (and by us I mean "me") being poor. Afterwards we came back home and promptly yet unintentionally fell asleep at 11:00pm, waking again at 3:30am only to get under the sheets and go back to sleep. Saturday, Stephanie made us delicious eggs and bacon then I had to head off to the MOMA to see Tariq's film.

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C-R-A-Z-YSo when I last left you guys I had just turned 26. Friday night was spent eating cheesy bread, some cupcakes the folks at my job gave me and drinking loads of soda. Saturday we were up early and on the bus to Ikea to shop and shop we did. We bought 2 rugs, a sofa, multiple curtains, shower curtains, 2 tables, a bookshelf and a mess of other knick knacks. We pull up to the register and

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HE SAID I BOUGHT IT FOR YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU AND I BOUGHT IT FOR YOU BECAUSE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY TOOI turned 26 25 minutes ago. Yayy for me. Moms, pops and sis all called to wish me a happy birthday. That was nice. Last night the old lady got me some sweet posters (a FLLV one, a DOTD one,and a replacement Joy Division and Ramones poster)to hang up in our place. Tonight we're gonna eat Cheesy

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HE SAID "HAVE YOU FINISHED SCHOOL?" BUT I WAS 25So I turn 26 tomorrow. Christ I am old. That's four years away from being 30! Fuckin' 30! What the fuck indeed!? Anyhow, move in is still going good. We're about 98% unpacked, just waiting until this weekend and our Ikea run to buy another bookcase and other things of that nature so we can get the rest of our stuff unpacked. So I think Stephanie and

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GET IN THE VANSo moving was not nearly the nightmare I thought it was going to be. Saturday morning I was up at 9:00 and at the Uhaul rental place by 9:30. I was early so I sat and watched news in the garage while I waited for the van to be returned. Bloomberg was giving a news conference in Astoria Park about all the blackouts up there. Luckily both of our old places and the new place were not

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ALL MY POSSESIONS ARE BOXESSorry about the lack of updates. There will be a further lack of updates until after this weekend when we move. Last weekend we got the keys but did not get to clean because the apartment was not done being painted. Also the guest room doorkob was missing, there was no light fixture in the bedroom and the shower didn't work. Many aggressive calls to the landlord led to

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WE LIVE HERE TODAY, WE LIVE HERE ALWAYSOkay so we got the apartment. Credit check went through (712 credit score baby! Whooo!), lease has been signed and only keys have yet to be obtained because my lousy bank told me a check would go through in 3 days and by 3 they really meant 6 days so I couldn't get the full broker's fee out but hopefully Stephanie's roommate will give her her security

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MY HEART IS HOMEIt's been awhile. My apologies. Anyhow, July 4th was fun. Stephanie wantged to see fireworks so we go to Rainer Park in Astoria to watch the fireworks with tons of other people only to find you can't actually see the fireworks from rainer Park in Astoria. Huh. You think someone would have known? Oh well. We got White Castle instead. Yum. I felt bad for Stephanie as I don't give a

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MY GIRL LIKES TO PARTY ALL THE TIME, PARTY ALL THE TIMEOh man this weekend ruled. Friday night I had to forsake the Steinways/Ergs/For Science show in New Brunswick to clean the loft. Which we did. Stephanie was much help in that dept as well. We slept at her house that night because the AC busted in my place last week. Yuck. Saturday morning we were up early and buying more food, charcoal and

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THIS COULD BE A TEENAGE REBELLION SONG EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT I'M IN MY TWENTIESHuh? Stuff has happened since the fest? Oh yeah. Um. Last Thursday the Funeral Crashers played a very good show at Lit. Who woulda thunk it? Much love to Jim, Larry, Matt and Dan for coming out. It rained all last weekend so Steph and I sat inside and ate. Monday night we saw Art School Confidential. It was okay.

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DOING THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT THEM DONEI'll be honest. It's insanely hard to express how amazing this weekend was. I will say that about every five minutes since yesterday afternoon I've been thinking of running back to Baltimore and just sending for my things. Thursday afternoon Steph and I took our time loafing around the house and packing. She had just gotten back from Florida the night before

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QUICK LIKE A BUNNYSorry for lack of updates but I have been tres busy. Anyhow, recording went great. 13 songs in ten hours may not have been the BEST idea but we did it and they sounded faboo on the playback. Now we take them to Ed's and proceed to fuck around with them and add more guitars and effects and handclaps and backwards masking, etc..rock. BTW, anyone wanna release it? Steph and I leave

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BEAT ME, BEAT ME OH E OHSo the Funeral Crashers are all set to record our opus 'Prance With Me' at Monster Island Studios in Chelsea tomorrow from noon-10. We're doing it live again so fingers crossed it comes out as good as our demo. We're having one last practice tonight. If this work day ever ends. Ugh. Two more months. So I saw the Teenage Bottlerocket /Phenomenauts / Epoxies show at CBGB's

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HE STALKS, HE WATCHES, HE KEEPSI forgot to mention that due to my life becoming “busy” I had to cancel Netflix a few weeks back. It got to the point where I’d get a movie and it would sit on top of my dvd player for a month, unwatched, and I’d end up paying $20 for one rental or I’d watch five minutes here and there , forget what had happened previously and be lost. So it is with great regret

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MIAMI SOUND MACHINEFirst up, happy most "metal day of the year." It's a shame that the most satan worshipping, metal thing happening today on 6/6/06 is the release of that shitty Omen remake. Ah well. So I was in Florida this weekend and had a great time. my dad's side of my family lives in New Symrna Beach but I had never been to the Fort Lauderdale / Miami area before. Friday I was up early

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GOING DOWN TO FLORIDAI will be in Florida from tomorrow until Monday. I'm visiting Stephanie who's hanging at her parent's place for three weeks or so. I've been promised much food, booze and interrogation by her parents. It should rule. I cannot wait to get back to a beach again! Last night I almost passed out at practice. I was sweaty, tired, in a foul mood and felt like shit. I went to bed

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THAT'S HOW YOU SPELL L-O-V-EWhen I first read about the WE Fest in Jersey Beat back in the 90's I swore one year I'd actually go. It sounded like a blast and every memorial day I would kick myself for missing out. Needless to say, fate turned in my favor and I joined a band and had some vacation time so with that I applied for a slot and was accepted. I was going to WE Fest. Finally! We Fest is a

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I DON'T WANT TO WAITTomorrow we head to my folks house then Saturday we're off to Willmington, NC for the We Fest. I'm psyched. Sure I wanna see bands and whatnot but principaly, Willmington was where Dawson's Creek was filmed. Have I downloaded the official walking tour? You bet your ass I have. Ask me to stay motherfuckers!

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FIRST THING WE DO WHEN WE SHOW UP IS GET SHITFACE DRUNK TRY AND SOBER UPI'm tired. My head hurts. I want to murder everyone I work with and I think there was blood in my stool this morning. But I had one hell of a great weekend.Friday moring I was woken up early by Stephanie coughing and informing me of the large waterbug crawling across my celing. So up I was at 7:30am wacking at the thng with

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WE'RE DISCONNECTEDSo I was told about this amazing site www.bandtoband.com. It can link any two bands together and their database is quite large. Since I replaced the Funeral Crashers drummer who was in both Interpol and Saetia for a bit, I'm one degree away from those two bands. Consequently I'm linked to a bazillion other bands. Here are some of my faves:Gwar to FC: Gwar - Only Crime - Creep

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I'M AFRAID OF GRADUATINGBusy, busy weekend. I took Friday off because it was moms graduation from grad school. I went up Thursday night and she was pretty bummed because the weather was lousy and supposed to get worse as the weekend moved on and if it did indeed rain Friday morning, they would have to move the ceremony inside and only my dad and grandmother could attend. But lo and behold the

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EVERYBODY'S LEAVINGSo now Elkland have broken up. This has been an awesome week for music. Fuck you.

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HE DREAMS RESISTANCE, THEY TALK COMMITMENT, THINGS CHANGE OVER LONG DISTANCEFirst up: RIP Grant McLennan. What the shit!? Why do people keep dropping dead for no good reason at such young ages!? Fuck! Anyhow, he was one half of the Go-Betweens (the bald half) and wrote some amazing songs like "Bye Bye Pride", "Bachelor Kisses" and the immortal "Cattle and Cain." I'm glad I got to see them last

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GAME (CONTINUES TO BE) ONAnd again, for the third year in a row, softball continues to kick ass. Friday night we got things started with a big dinner at the Neptune Diner followed by drinks and revelry at the beer garden. Saturday morning we were up bright and early and at Central Park by 10:30. This year saw the biggest turnout but the..uh.."vibe" I guess was much more in line with last year's

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SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM (WOAH OW)So Friday night (after getting my work bonus which allowed me to purchase things like plane tickets, new shoes and a decent meal) I decided to give Coldstone ice cream a whirl. Bad move. I got a medium 'apple pie' and found the actual ice cream to be pretty plain, the apples to be kind of gross but the graham stuff rather delicious. I was also warned that no

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THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF SPRINGTIME IN THE BACK OF MY MINDThis was a really great weekend. Friday night Stephanie, Rebecca, Jake, Marcel, Liz and myself went out for drinks at some various bars. Steph and I had met up with Jake earlier at Penn Station after our dinner at Mexican Radio. After the bars we went back to Rebecca's to abuse drugs and listen to some 80's metal. And drink more. Saturday

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DON'T FORGET THE SONGS THAT SAVED YOUR LIFEHow many albums can you name? (this idea stolen from Frank. Blame him.)Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

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WE'RE HAPPY HERE...IN THE HAPPY HOUSESo this weekend Stephanie came out the dirty jersey to meet the folks. Fun times. Friday night I introduced her to both the horror that is the NJ Transit train system and to the wonder that is Fat Lady sub. Hoagie Haven 4 lyfe! The meeting of the folks went well. My dad picked us up which threw me because I had prepared her for my mother picking us up. My dad

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REIGN IN BLOODJust an update on my psych class: both myself and the crazy lady ( who wasn't in class last night) were wrong. The lady in the case had conversion disorder. I didn't know each case involved a specific somafatorm disorder or I would have looked harder. Oh well. We're getting Funeral Crashers press shots taken tonight at practice so we can send a press packet off to the WE Fest then

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DEAD SKIN MASKThe weekends keep getting better. Friday night Stephanie and I went to Grivet's Bday party at the beer garden. Stephanie, being the wonderous, benevolent souls she is, baked Grivet 30 cupcakes only to be told my the nazi staff at the beer garden we couldn't bring them in. So Jenelle had to store them all in her car and deliver them to Grivet afterwards (after we first contemplated

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DATE TO CHURCHSo last night was a little crazy. Stephanie and I went to Atlantic City because she had never been there before and I had just gotten paid. We went on this bus with all these old people that left right out of Astoria... It took like 2 hrs to get there. It was a lot of fun. But then things kinda happened. Both of us just kept drinking and playing nickel slots and drinking some more.

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THEY PUT ME IN AN INSTITUTION SAID IT WAS THE ONLY SOLUTIONI'm typing this with two fingers which is no different than how I normally type except today I have no choice since I managed to rip open 3 blisters on my hands while drumming last night. Ow. Bactine please.The night started out badly during class when we had to get together in groups again (ugh) and go over this asignment where were

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THIS ISN'T WHAT WE WANT, THIS ISN'T WHAT WE NEED, THIS IS WHAT WE CAN AFFORDSo thanks to my teachers convoluted, nonsensical grading system I got an A on my first Abnormal Psych test. Go the dumbing down of America! In other news the Funeral Crashers are playing a show on Thursday night at Galopagos in Brooklyn for the premiere of Zack's movie. It's semi-Troma sponsored so it'll be like I'm back

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IF THIS IS THE STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF...Fantastic weekend. No other way to describe it.Friday night Stephanie and I went to the Found Film Festival at Galopagos in Brooklyn. It's these two guys who have old home movies or weird shit taped off tv sent to them or they find it at garage sales then they edit it together for a hour and a half presentation. It was funny. I finally got to see a bit of

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AARDVARKINGBahhh..I was so close! I'm still miffed I never won the caption contest when Monstervision was on the air but this is a nice consolation. Maybe next time.Blackravgirl writes:My first time on your web site, so I hope this works. About 7 years ago I saw this foreign movie on a cable channel. it had something to do with "white snow witch"., or something similar. What I remember from the

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SINCE YOU BEEN GONE AIIEEEE EEEEEOOOOOO!!!Hi. I'm at Stephanie's on her computer watching the Simpsons. She forced me to update. If you are reading this please send help. I haven't eaten for three days and I can't see out of my left eye. Avenge my death.Anyhow, Friday night I was supposed to hang out with Stephanie and her roommates for dinner. Then that became hanging out for drinks THEN due to

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TAX MAN CAME AND TOOK MY MONEYWell not really...but he did give me a pithy return. Less than $500 total between federal and state. Lucky me. I was hoping for at least a grand. That should just be enough to cover my drum set maintenance. Stupid higher tax bracket me! I swear I claimed 0 dependents on my W-9 or whatever. Curses! Oh well, at least I have my 401K to cash out later this year.I slept

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A FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF USWHOO HOO! The Funeral Crashers got asked to play the WE Fest in North Carolina this year! I've wanted to go to this ever since first reading about in Jersey Beat back in the day. I am sooooo super psyched! It's gonna rule! We play on Memorial Day! $10 for the whole damn week if you wanna go. Booze and debauchery and sleeping on people's floors to follow. I can't wait!

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ABBA ON THE JUKEBOXI have my first test in Abnormal Psych tonight. Am I prepared? I guess I'm as ready as I'm gonna be. I planned to study some more last night after band practice but my presence was requested for a late night rendevouz to which I happily obliged. Ice Cube would have been proud though I doubt he's one for cuddling and talking about shopping at Pier 1 afterwards. His loss.THINGS I

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TIME'S A ' WASTIN'Okay! re-cap! Here we go! Thursday night the Funeral Crashers played a gig at CB's Lounge. I actually talked a few people out of going to this given the hefty cost of the show combined with it's late starting hour and considering that the last two times we played there it was the worst thing ever but, surprise surprise, we played (and apparently sounded) pretty good. The main

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EVERYTHING FALLS APARTSo my neck feels a bit better but now my right foot hurts. I clearly have extensive nerve damage. Maybe I should go to Tony's acupuncture therapist. He told me the other day that he started going to one because "the chi in my liver is all messed up." Seriously. He said that with a straight face. Good grief.The Funeral Crashers are playing tonight at CB's Lounge as part of

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TROUBLE EVERYDAYMy skin is getting worse, my hair is a mess and I apparently slept on my neck wrong as now looking up or to the right is equivalent to someone stabbing me with a hot poker. It's only 10:46 and I have six and a half more hours of work followed by an hour of class ahead of me today. But I get to see Stephanie later so things are really not that bad.Neck massage anyone?

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MY NEW GIRLFRIEND IS BETTER THAN YOUYes. This weekend was fun. Friday night I went over to Stephanie's were we drank cocoa and ate popcorn (Jiffy Pop sucks. Your childhood memories lie. Don't go there) and attempted to watch "The Wild Bunch" but halfway through we decided a more apt title for the film was "The Very Reasonable and Prone to Non-Action Bunch" so we killed that in favor of watching

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DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A LAUGHING STOCK IN LIFE?Funeral Crashers gig went decently Monday night. The sound on the stage of the Continental was horrible and even though I was using somebody else's cymbal stands, they still managed to fall apart every other song as per usual. I'm cursed. Hooray! In any event, Stephanie seemed to enjoy it so that was cool. Tuesday I decided, because

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MONDAYS! I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS!...WEEKENDS! I PREFER WEEKENDS!I swear weekends used to last longer than this. These past two weekends it's gone from Friday to Monday in no time flat which sucks because these past couple of weekends have been great. Friday night I hung out with Stephanie. Our plan was to have "fun." Because we're both huge nerds we actually hung out on Thursday night purely to

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WHO ARE YOU? WHO ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT?So Funeral Crashers tour has been put on hiatus. In lieu of a tour we are opting for a series of weekend shows starting in April and if those go well we will consider maybe a fall tour or a tour next spring. Some highlights will hopefully include the Convergance fest in NO over Easter weekend and the W.E Fest in NC over Memorial Day weekend.

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MID-WEEK MID-MORNINGSo Presiden't weekend happened wayyyyyy too fast. I can't believe it's Tuesday already! Fuck! Anyhow, Friday I was good and did all the shit I said I was gonna do minus my FAFSA since my goddamn bank hasn't sent me my final tax info so I can rush it all out to the accountant, get my taxes done, then report it on my FAFSA so they can then deny me financial aid for being too

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SORE FROM THE SMILES THAT YOU'RE GIVING TO MEI'm still tired. I totally brought it on myself. Tonight is the big "do all the shit you were supposed to do this week while you were out having romantic adventures" night. Funeral Crashers stickers to be made, FAFSA's to be filled out, cd's to be reviewed, ancient Netflix's to be watched. Blah, blah, blah...My pattern for starting a new "thing" with

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ARRRRGHHH!First off: stike two fucking blogger.com. I wrote this whole post, it published fine then..bam!..nothing shows up. I go into my log and it registers as Untitled Post. What the fuckin' fuck?? Now I gotta type this shit again!? Fuck you blogger.com. If shit goes wrong one more time I'm taking my gay diary and my 5000 loyal readers and going over to gay city usa (aka: Livejournal.com).

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TOTALLY SWEET, TOTALLY NEAT, TOTALLY KNOCK ME OFF MY FEETOh man was this ever a great weekend. I'm once again in a very good mood. Why can't all my friends be in good moods with me? It's always good things are happening to them and I'm getting shit on or I'm doing fine and my friends are in shit city, population: them. Unfair! Anyhow, yes, this was a very good weekend. I don't deserve to be happy

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FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR BUTT WILL FOLLOWSo I met Joe Bob last night. He ruled. He's a lot older in person than he looks on television but he still rules. They were like 10 people total at the signing . Kind of depressing but then again this event wasn't heavily advertised (in fact, I wouldn't have known about it if Marcel hadn't called me to let me know). He read from the book Profoundly Erotic

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I WHISTLE AND THERE YOU HIDELong time. My apologies. It's been another busy week here in the working world. Superbowl party was fun. The game was pretty whack but I won $4 from Kiernan who foolishly bet on the Seahawks. When I was home I watched War of the Worlds which is probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I wholeheartedly support a meeting of Dakota Fanning and a city bus ASAP!

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ANHILILATE THIS WEEKSo this week pretty much sucked. I'm really glad it's over. The only cool thing was that on Wednesday I did an interview with MC Lars for Jersey Beat. Yep. Tina had a party last night where her model roommate and her model friends were supposed to come. They showed up late and with their boyfriends. Boo. Also, Tina's roommate is a total bitch. One assumes her cocaine dealer

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I'M FROM THE STREETSSo American Ninja fest was this Saturday and was 2 tons of fun. First off, motherfucking Spike TV tried to undermind my party by deciding to show the AN series that Saturday afternoon! HEY SHITHEAD THIEVES FROM SPIKE TV! WHY DON'T YOU 1.) TRY HAVING AN ORGINAL THOUGHT IN YOUR LIFE OR 2.) HIRE ME AS A PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR FOR A SHITLOAD OF CASH!!?? IF YOUR PROGRAMMING

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BOOZE AND DRUGS AND TELEVISIONYes. Long time, muchos apologies. Anyhow I'm very tired as the Funeral Crashers played a show at Lit last night. Show was okay, sound on stage was less than optimal but apparently it sounded okay to the adoring throng of people that came to see us which is all that matters really. The headlining band's lead singer is apparenlty dating one of the guys in Bloc Party

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DUDE, DUDE, DUDIKOFFIt's a party at my place!Saturday January 28th we are going to pay tribute to the greatest actor ever to grace the silver screen; Michael Dudikoff. We will be watching:American NinjaAmerican Ninja 2: The ConfrontationAmerican Ninja 3: Blood Hunt*American Ninja 4: The Annihilation*American Ninja VWe will break up the marathon halfway through with a screening of one of the best

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GHOSTS OF A DIFFERENT DREAMHey. Fairly lackluster weekend. Friday night had Funeral Crashers practice at my place followed by me jumping on the couch in preperation for a Friday the 13th marathon only to find that the only channel that was showing anything Friday the 13th related was Spike tv and they were only showing part 7. Egnh. It's times like that when I really, really, really miss

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DRIVING IN YOUR CAR...I NEVER EVER WANT TO GO HOMEOh man this weekend was EXACTLY what I needed after a lousy last week. Thursday night the Funeral Crashers played a show at the Cake Shop which is a great venue that has a great sound. We played with this band called The Public who were super nice guys and let us borrow some of their equipment. They ruled as well. Rumour had it that Carlos D of

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I WROTE THIS SONG DURING A VERY DEPRESSING TIME IN MY LIFE...BREAKFASTHey yo. Sorry about that last post, I thought I was on Livejournal for a second. Let me just turn off this Dashboard Confessional record. There we go. Anyhow, to sum up, new years day was pretty crappy. I had a good thing and now I don't. It was ended for reasons I understand yet don't completely agree with. But what are you

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NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEMIf you've never been mine,then I guess I can't be losing you:so everything's all rightyour heart's not breaking,and I don't feel as I do.-Trembling Blue Stars 'Ammunition'2006 can only get better. Happy new year everyone.

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STAY, STAY, STAY AND DON'T YOU EVER GO AWAYSo 2005 is over. This has been a year racked with tsunamis, floods, war, transit strike and deaths. It's also probably been the best year of my life. I know numerous people who are going to get on their knees and thank god when the clock hits 12:01 tomorrow. I will not be one of those people. This has been a tremendous fucking year and I really, really,

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WINTER IS HERE AND IT'S GOING ON TWO YEARSSo the rest of the transit strike wasn't so bad. I got a ride in with Rebecca from my office and my roommate, some of his co-workers and a random hitch hiker or two for those three days. The only downside was I had to hang out at work last Wednesday until 9:00pm in order to get a ride back to Queens. It wasn't too bad. Work bought me dinner. Yum! So I got

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STRIKE ANYWHEREYeah so there's no busses or subways. Awesome. It's not like I had shit to do you F$%^^#$$^*'n MTA bastards. Got a ride into work today with a co-worker and we zoomed right in. I fear what the traffic situation is going to be like getting back to Queens tonight. No counter service at the post office today thanks to the strike so my secret santa is going to be shit out of luck until

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FOUR IN THE MORNING, THE END OF DECEMBERI am tired. This weekend proved to be anythng but relaxing. Friday night, since there was no transit strike (yet...) I went with Jonnie and Chris to see Todd Barry and Andy Kindler tape their Comedy Central specials. Andy Kindler wasn't too good but Todd Barry was funny as always. After that I rolled back to NJ, got a fat lady sub and went to bed. Saturday

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YOU'RE SO COOL YOU COULD HAVE PUT OUT VIETNAMOh man. Sorry for the delay but I have been super duper fly busy at work the past week or so. Uh...last night was my company's christmas party. It was fun. Jessica and I attended and got sloshed and ate caviar on tiny deviled eggs and she got hit on by a lot of my female co-workers(!!??) Awkward. Anyhoo, the Funeral Crashers gig on Thursday was

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ONE BANANA TWO BANANA THREE BANANA FOURIndeed.The Funeral Crashers played a show last night at Lucky Cat that was more of us trying to rock out in a place that was not built for rocking. Sound was craptacular, we got pushed back so this British band called Vampire Lezbos who were supossed to play third could play second and we didn't get paid because the woman putting the show on decided she'd

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I KNOW, I'VE DONE A BUNCH OF CRAZY THINGS...Yo. So long time. Funeral Crashers played a pretty good show at the Pussy Cat Lounge last night. The place was humid as fuck and the sound was of the "not good" variety but we preservered because we are pros.Thanksgiving was fun. Peter and Danni came up. Danni had never had a Thanksgiving before (what with being from England and what have you) but took

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THE BOREDOMSSo I had a bunch of papers to write this weekend. Oh yeah, it was that fun. I'll spare you the details so I can keep all the excitement to myself. I managed to tear myself away from the computer screen for awhile Saturday night to see the Killtakers / Full Minute of Mercury / The Leftovers / SH4 show at Desmond's Tavern. Great show. The Killtakers are recent transplants to Queens and

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WHEN YOU SLEEPGah I'm tired. I'm running on 3 hours of sleep today thanks to a late night Funeral Crashers gig at Alchemy last night that got me home sometime after 3am. It was a decent show. We were kind of sloppy but I think made up for it in energy. The other good news is that we're starting to garner somewhat of a following. There were about 25 kids out last night to see us and they sang and

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TEENAGE SLUMBER PARTYHoly shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. I cannot even begin to describe the avalanche of awesomeness that was this weekend. In fact, I'm almost scared to lest the karmic swing suddenly turn in the other direction and I die in a bus crash tomorrow. Oh well. In any event this weekend was the much anticipated Pop Punk "Camping" Extravaganza. The idea was initially put in motion after

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ALL MY YESTERDAYSOk...before I get into my amazing weekend, I have some sad news to report. Saturday morning my former boss Dorianne Kurtz passed away at the age of 69. She had been battling brain cancer since before I was employed at Surprise! Surprise! and some days were good and some days were bad but sadly in the end, cancer won. She could drive me insane at times but when it came down to it

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PARTY TIME FOR ASSHOLESOh man. What do I say except to borrow a quote from Suki, "TITTIES!"...I mean..."ONWARD TO AWESOME!" Saturday saw our first annual Halloweed bash at Stately Wayne Manor and it was off the hook as per usual. Speaking of per usual, Saturday morning the floors still needed to be cleaned, food and supplies needed to be bought and a PA was no where in sight. I guess we

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COACH STATION REUNIONHey. I'm still happy though life seems to be trying it's best to steer me away from it (in fact TODAY seems to be trying to steer me away from posting. I'm glad you've had a fun day picking your asses co-workers but it's now 5 o'clock and just because you've suddenly remembered you come to the office to "work" doesn't mean it's my problem douchebags.) Anyhow...Friday night I

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HAPPINESS IS ALL THE RAGESo why I may be sick and possibly dying of bird flu or that Canadian death flu, emotionally, spiritually and mentally I am at 110%. It makes sense that in the busiest month of the year for me so far something would come along that I didn't think would happen to me again for some time and take me completely by surprise. I'm reshuffling my schedule around like mad to

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EMO WHEN IT WAS JUST CALLED LAMESaw the Mc Chris / Ergs show at Maxwells last night. Shit was hot. MC was back in fine form. If this tour comes near you go see it. I didn't much care for SNMNMNM because I don't like TMBG and I would like them even less if they had "ska" parts. I have teh band practice tonight. Yup. Posts! Look!

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WE'LL WAIT FOR TIME TO TURN AROUNDSorry, sorry, sorry for the lack of updates but I've been busy. And it's only going to get worse. October looks crazy so if my next update is Nov.1st..well..you were warned. Anyhows, I didn't go to that Elkland show and I got 110% on my psych test (and fucked the curve up for everybody else. Boo yall!). That was most of the week. Friday I went out to the beer

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SEX JACKETSo I found that old track jacket that Tina's old roommate gave her and that she gave to me because it was too big on her and rocked it all weekend. Good choice. The ladies approved. I'm going to be buried in that thing. Friday night I hung out at the beer garden with the pop punk kids and 'officially' met Stephen Stardumb (he didn't remember me from softball two years ago. I wouldn't

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