5 posts tagged “rhetorical shotgun”
Had a good (but short) time at home this weekend. Garret, Jon, Marie and myself trekked out to Milton to check out their new skatepark, but made the fatal mistake of arriving after school got out on a Friday. So we mostly just stood around for a couple of hours making fun of the little kids hogging the 12ft bowl and fat kids blocking ramps, etc. Saw a kid with the skates I want, so that was cool. Anyway, we figure as long as the next trip is during school hours everything should be peachy keen. Plus, I'm sure the crowds will thin out as kids start getting bored with it/scared off from horrible injuries.
Left Crestview yesterday and went back out to Milton for a birthday party, I didn't get to stay very long, but it was cool, I had a good time. Drove from there back to Tallahassee - something I am never doing again. I caught the lunar eclipse on the way, though, which was pretty badass out on the highway.
The Rhetorical Shotgun show last night was really good. There was a good turn out, the guys did a good job, fun times were had. Bytchly's, the venue, was basically a hole in the wall, a single room the size of an average bedroom, maybe, with a tiny stage in the corner and the soundbooth in the back. But it was cool as hell, one of the owners looked like Lemmy from Motorhead, and the sound was pretty good. Russ called asking me to use the security camera to record the "afterparty" for him since he's out of town this weekend for his grandparent's anniversary party and missed the show and everything. I didn't do it because we were all tired as shit and all we did was have some Coors and pizza, lay around, watch Wayne's World, and fall asleep.
I overslept for work this morning and dealt with some severe indigestion all day (nothing uh... messy, just couldn't eat all morning), so that was rough since I had to skip on the homefries and coffee I usually get at work. I'm gonna chalk it up to all the greasy food and driving I did yesterday, I drank lots of water all day and I feel fine now. The dishwasher was even later than I was, and there was only one cook, so it was interesting seeing the new Food and Beverage manager washing dishes when I walked in. Sort of took the edge off when he got on to me later about forgetting to schedule off for this weekend and accidentally racking up a couple of no-call-no-shows Thursday and Friday.
It's weird: I'm not pissed or anything about work, it's just that lately I feel like its time to do something new. I think I'm going to look for a new job this week if I have the time, there's a printshop nearby I'm really interested in checking out.
Went to see the play version of "A Christmas Story" at TCC with Mitch, Russ, and Andrea last night. The play was funny as hell, though they didn't have the scene at the chop-suey joint or the "Drink More Ovaltine... son of a bitch!" part. Still, it was probably the best five bucks I've spent this week.
Planning on going to the firing range with some friends sometime today... I really need to be making flashcards and studying for my myth final tommorow, but I figure if I get started after I finish posting this, I might get done on time anyway.
There's another Rhetorical Shotgun show this Thursday... I'm kind of worried because A) its finals week and B) the booking agency keeps giving them "headlining" shows in the middle of the week and at the same venue... they really need to start opening for big bands on big nights and playing different effing venues. I swear the fucking booking people are retarded. One good thing though, is that the band is actually getting paid for this show, which is kind of a big thing.
So I'm at school complaining to a friend in my graphic design class about the guy pissing in my yard, and he tells me his own public urination story.. apparently he was at a pub somewhere in town last weekend and had got totally trashed with his friend. He suddenly gets this bright idea to piss on his friend's shoe as some sort of drunken joke. So they're sitting at a table, and he unzips his pants and starts peeing on the guy's foot. His friend, who I assume was more sober than he was, gets mad and gets up. But now, the guy is still peeing and he's so drunk and its such a big piss that he can't stop. So he's just sitting there pissing on the floor when the bouncer - who actually happens to be in our GD class - comes up and is like, "Dude, what the hell are you doing?" and he's like "Yeah, I know, man, this is embarassing..." but he's still sitting there pissing himself with the bouncer just standing there.
Long story short, he finally finishes up and leaves in shame, only to see the bouncer again in class Monday, and get embarassed all over again. I don't know, I thought it was funny.
I just officially closed up shop at my blog back at the dot com, I decided to stick with Vox for now. Kind of a big decision, I ran my own blog there for a little over three years, I think. But I've already explained my reasons for doing so, and I won't go into it again... too much typing.
Happy Halloween, everybody - I hope you had a good time; Mitch, Russ, and myself spent most of the night at Target Copy making covers for the Rhetorical Shotgun sample CDs:
What's the last thing you crafted, constructed or created yourself?
I am so proud of myself... lately I've actually been getting stuff done!!
I've mostly been doing stuff for Rhetorical Shotgun, the band my brother, my roomate, a friend from highschool, and his brother put together. ...basically there's no excuse to get out of doing stuff for them, and all I want to do when I get my degree is this kind of stuff anyway. Hell, the only reason anyone learns graphic design is to make some DAMN ROCK AND ROLL POSTERS GODDAMMIT
Got some sharpie paint pens yesterday on a recomendation from a friend, I'm gonna be doodling crap all over school. I have plans for a chubby little alligator guy... scratching his balls or some other slightly obscene antics. I think it's especially funny because FSU's rival is the UF Gators... and some people actually give a shit about this! Can you believe that!?
Going home real quick this weekend for my follow-up eye exam appointment. I really want to go see the new Jackass movie tonight while I'm there, too. Movies are so much better at the Rave.
Well, Saturday I ended up crashing out from two until eight, effectively wasting an entire day. So yesterday I decided to "ride it out" and stayed up all day after work. It worked out pretty well, and I got a nice eight or nine hours of sleep last night. Only thing was that during the afternoon, I was so tired I couldn't think straight. I went to Pac Sun to get a nice pair of sunglasses now that I have contacts, and I forgot to use the gift card I have left over from Christmas, and there was a 2 for $25 sale (I paid $20 for mine) and I only got one pair. What the hell, Chis - way to be a smart shopper.
I have homework to be doing right now, but instead I'm writing this and working on a poster for the November 2 Rhetorical Shotgun comeback show. I found out it coincides with The Day of the Dead, and I got a burst of inspiration. Still a work in progress (the show is 2 months off anyway) but I'm proud of it already. And its monotone and low on detail, so I figure we can take this down to Kinkos, bust out a hundred copies on the cheap and stick em up around Crestview, Destin, and Tallahassee.
Tried to keep it from looking like the Misfits logo (hard to do with a white on black skull)... I think I did alright. Thinking I might stick in some vines or something in the margins, to reinforce the dia de los muertos theme, and fill up space.
Vox is still alright so far... I'm hoping eventually they'll make it so you can use <img> tags and maybe some other limited HTML support. Especially if I'm going to eventually run out of hosting space for audio and images here, because I'm not signing up for a flickr account when I pay a hundred bucks a year for my own server. Right now you can only upload pictures from your computer or off of flickr or photobucket as I understand it. iStockphoto? What the hell. But I'm giving Vox the benefit of the doubt for the time being. We'll see what happens.
Point is, I'm not ready for the big switch from my dot com yet. If I give up on Vox, I'll probably just end up taking my old blog off the navigation at my website and letting it be my little secret.
