oh the antici... (SAY IT!)... pation

i was just thinking, almost everywhere i look recently, i've been seeing things that talk about what i was just thinking that day or soon before. like my post, when did you change, i read the handout my mom gave us for drama about our characters later, and it was the same thing. and then i was thinking about life and my theory on time and multiple lives/universes, and then i read siddhartha and it's looking me right in the face. all the time the past two weeks this has been happening, and i find it pretty cool.

the ep came in exactly on time (the connextion rocks, i can depend that i'll get whatever i ordered two days after they shipped it (which is usually the day i order it, if it's not preorder). first class priority mail. they know how to satisfy their customers). i didn't get a chance to listen to it yesterday because i was so insane with drama and homework and getting my costume ready for halloween. so today coming home i put it in the van's cd player and oh, it's blue all over again. flickerstick is well worth a wait. it's been what, four or five years since they've recorded anything really new in studio (whta epic doesn't count, even though it had execution and smile on it). it's a slightly different sound, but that's well expected. and it's still flickerstick, and it's still awesome. i have to figure out the lyrics so i can put them up at the compsci site.

it's just... listening to brandin singing, and hearing the guys play and knowing that they really, really felt good about it, and they did it on their own terms, it just has this chill, open, out there vibe to it.

and the little extra at the end of the ep doesn't hurt. it's rex talking. well, it sounds like rex and not el dangeroso, 'cause el dangeroso is a little more wild than just rex. but anyway, yeah.

i just finished listening to it three times straight (only six songs), and i'd listen to it more now if i wouldn't get reminded that listening to music with earbuds for a long period of time will fuck up my hearing.

i need to find a house with a dvd player, that i might be able to borrow for an hour so i can see the dvd. maybe tomorrow.

mmm. i just got an email from a street teamer. another great article about flickerstick (you know, while i'm on the subject and all).

outside the flickerstick world:

26 Things : 2 just started. it's the whole month of november, and now with my digital i can join in the fun. i've been really looking forward to this since july, and hopefully it'll give me some artistic room to learn. i really need to start taking some more pictures. speaking of, i found one way to do the slideshow: microsoft movie maker. the only thing is that when you put more than one still picture on a timeline and play it like a slideshow, it's really out of focus on full screen. which is really bad. i had the thought of learning flash sometime between now and then, and doing the slideshow in flash. if only i knew xml. and had the flash software and documentation. but i'm really wanting to get this done, and besides if i can take a class somewhere on flash then it won't just be beneficial to the project, but also work (i'm hoping) and college.

i downloaded the pictures from alex's surprise party onto the computer this morning. i'll hopefully get time to look at them this weekend. i took a couple pictures today, mostly of daivd and his awesome costume, but i'm sure i'll be able to take more tomorrow.

hmm... i just found out (a couple hours ago) that my phone can get messages. i don't know how... we're not signed up for any kind of service like that... who knows. i never pay attention to those things until they happen.

i got my mom to rent the crow for me today. i want to have her watch it too (for the awsome acting and how powerful the movie as a whole is, not for some creepy punishment for her). i've been listening to the soundtrack all week in my car. i bought that cd four or five years ago, maybe longer, and didn't listen to it more than once then. but i've been really into it the whole week. i try to remember what track goes to what scene, but i can only pick out a couple. so i'm watching it again, for halloween/devil's night/day of the dead, and because i really want to see brandon in that role again. if you've never seen the crow, and read about the story behind the movie, about brandin and all, and experienced a part of the "cult" following behind the movie, well. i recommend the movie. it's great acting, a great story, great photography, to make up a really powerful movie.

i decided to stay home tonight and just shed this whole week off me. i still want to go to matt's and see the firey display, but i don't feel like driving back in just to have to come home early. i have satii's tomorrow (to my great dismay), but this is the last big thing i have to do. well, i have to write my three essays and fill out the application for uc, but once this next week or two is over i'll hopefully have time to do it. before november 30th.

but ah, the physics project. i almost forgot about that.

mmm. must be off.