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3/11/2010 11:43:42 PM

I THINK I HAVE A NEW FAVORITE BETWEEN TWO FERNS:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/60072add5a/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-ben-stiller

3/18/2010 2:30:00 PM

dumb enough to go see your fucking movies

3/18/2010 2:31:43 PM

biggest laugh for me came at the 1:47 mark

3/18/2010 2:33:45 PM

I watched all three Mad Max movies in a row. Does this make me a bad person?

3/18/2010 2:35:09 PM

no

it might indicate that you need some more productive things to do

but i listen to records all day, so what do i know

3/18/2010 2:36:52 PM

3/18/2010 3:32:52 PM

Who should play Jimmy V in the film, "Miracle on Hardwood"?

3/18/2010 3:36:26 PM

What are your thoughts on this Pixies cover?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrxLY_ef3a8

3/18/2010 4:23:12 PM

it's not awful, i guess

but it's boring, pointless, and adds nothing to the song

3/18/2010 5:43:04 PM

nothing groundbreaking, but I do like her voice.

guitar work is bland but fitting for a stripped down version imo. meh

3/18/2010 6:00:16 PM

it's not stripped down

it actually has MORE parts than the original

sure, she can sing on key

great, so can frank black

nothing pisses me off more than bland covers of excellent songs

3/18/2010 6:09:10 PM

http://www.ultramusicfestival.com/lineup

Who should I not miss, at first glance, if anyone

3/26/2010 4:29:57 AM

diplo, sasha & digweed, rabbit in the moon, afrika bambaataa, orbital

which is to say what should you not miss if it's 1999-2000 because that's when i stopped paying attention to this sort of thing

3/26/2010 5:19:17 AM

kthx. Yah I'm not really into this stuff, that's why I asked.

I know I'm gonna see Swedish House Mafia, 'cause Florence Welsh is performing with them, <3

I'm covering it for consequence of sound, I think at this point I just have to shoot The Crystal Method, Orbital, and Kaskade.

[Edited on March 26, 2010 at 5:26 AM. Reason : .]

3/26/2010 5:25:51 AM

walk by ghostland observatory

their music is pretty bad

but their laser show is something to behold

haha

[Edited on March 26, 2010 at 7:47 AM. Reason : e]

3/26/2010 7:45:37 AM

so colossus played the pour house last night.

did you go? i think i read in the jaxpot thread that you were dj'ing.

if you missed it, how sad are you right now.

3/26/2010 8:12:45 AM

i went to see joanna newsom instead

and then i booked it back to raleigh to see veelee next door to the colossus show

i've seen colossus before, though. fun stuff.

3/26/2010 2:40:28 PM

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF J. NEWSOM?

other than the fact that she's really really cute.

3/26/2010 2:41:12 PM

it was tremendous

the harp playing is even more impressive in person, especially those runs on the high strings

i was really impressed with the blend they had in their voices and playing, especially with such low stage volume

and who doesn't love extended trombone solos

3/26/2010 2:50:09 PM

What is your favorite Terrence Malick film?

If the answer is anything other than Badlands I may have to stab you.

3/26/2010 2:57:51 PM

then i won't sat anything other than badlands

not that i would anyway, that movie rules hard

3/26/2010 3:12:48 PM

Also, what are your thoughts on Greenberg? I kind of want to see it, but at the same time The Squid and the Whale was really hard to sit through, and it seems like Greenberg might be just as acerbic if not more so.

3/26/2010 3:17:33 PM

there are moments in the trailer that i enjoyed

but i'm really not a baumbach fan

and the reviews are not great

i might see it eventually but i won't be paying to see it in a theater

3/26/2010 3:42:45 PM

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"it was tremendous "

i thought so too. i would just get mesmerized by the harp playing just watching her hands. then i would blink and my contacts would like move cause i had been keeping my eyes open/glazed over for so long haha.

3/26/2010 4:09:41 PM

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"diplo, sasha & digweed, rabbit in the moon, afrika bambaataa, orbital"

I saw Rabbit in the Moon tonight.

Oh man, shit was nuts.

3/27/2010 2:24:53 AM

does !!! still exist?

I have not heard their name mentioned since Fuchs died, and Myth Takes was 2 years before that.

wikipedia is not helpful.

[Edited on March 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM. Reason : v]

3/27/2010 3:17:53 AM

they had shows in late 2009

3/29/2010 9:32:08 AM

Have you played an attacking position or have you always played goalie? Also, what do you like about playing goalie?

4/3/2010 9:12:24 PM

I've played goalie from the very beginning, but I occasionally play right wing in a low league for fun. How low? REALLY low. In seven games ever, I have three goals and two assists.

Goalie is fun because you get really cool gear and you get to steal satisfaction from other people. There's no better feeling than stopping a breakaway and seeing your guys pick up the puck and score immediately at the other end.

4/4/2010 6:07:47 PM

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"Goalie is fun because you get really cool gear and you get to steal satisfaction from other people."

lol, best reasons ever.

4/4/2010 6:11:16 PM

What's your mindset during a breakaway? What style of goaltender are you?

4/4/2010 8:08:21 PM

The mindset is to get out quickly, match closing speed with the shooter, and force him to one side or the other and then explode to that post, keeping in mind to watch for a quick shot instead of a move.

I'm pretty standard butterfly, but I use active hands more than passive hands and have some weird Hasek-like wrinkles in my style. For instance, I often drop my stick and pick up the puck with my blocker hand instead of trying to reach across and cover it with my glove.

4/4/2010 8:32:48 PM

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"I'm pretty standard, but I use active hands more than passive hands and have some weird wrinkles in my style. For instance, I often drop my stick."

Nice masturbation technique son. I'm impressed.

4/4/2010 8:35:00 PM

Handle me with care: Yea or nay?

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4/11/2010 9:43:04 PM

great song

i prefer to jenny lewis/m. ward/conor oberst version to the original, though

4/11/2010 9:44:59 PM

oh yeah the only one i've ever heard is on that watson broads album

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4/11/2010 9:45:49 PM

original is harrison/orbison/dylan/petty/lynne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU

4/11/2010 9:49:18 PM

i figured it was some kind of dylan homage, and the lean on part sounds like the beatles

go figure.

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4/11/2010 9:53:13 PM

I'm not going to ask you what your favorite book is, but throw a couple out there.

Detail the Creative Writing department staff you were in contact with--what did you think of them? (Trying to decide who to take courses with and who not--Kessel is my anchor right now, and some future courses are taught by McCorkle and Barhardt, or however you spell that guys name).

4/11/2010 9:57:35 PM

I've still got a bit before I graduate, so I still have plenty of opportunity to lose my sanity. How did you put up with the way this school and its students treat English and its related subjects? Is there some kind of trick to it? Another tdub English/Soc. major told me to just not respond to TWW "my education is bigger than yours" talk and just treat it like you would any other troll.

What say you, oh wise graduate?

4/12/2010 9:51:30 PM

^^Only respond to this one.

I KNOW YOU'RE THERE, I CAN HEAR YOU BREATHING.

4/13/2010 8:10:14 PM

Favorite books. Hmm.

As I Lay Dying
Invitation to a Beheading
The Little Prince
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Fever Pitch
Naked Lunch

Nothing out of the ordinary.

As for the LCW staff, I loved them all. I never had a class with Kessel, but Wilton had him look over a story I wrote and he had some very good criticism on character motivation. I never had any contact with McCorkle. Wilton Barnhardt was my advisor for two-plus years and provided me with endless advice. He knows something about everything and is endlessly entertaining, but more importantly will call you on your bullshit and won't let you get away with performing beneath your abilities. Prammagiore (if she's back from abroad?) has some input on the screenwriting side, and she's an excellent reviewer and a cool lady. Give me other names and I'll see what I can do.

In regards to your other post, I never had any problems with the school itself. The biggest culture clash I ever dealt with was in a world lit class with Barbara Orr, who grew up in Africa and as such had a very Afro-centric curriculum. While that didn't bother me, a bunch of the engineers and especially business majors in the class thought it was biased and also had a problem with the essay-heavy test format, which caused all of the English majors to laugh at them. The only other major problem I had was in a Creative Non-fiction course, where all the LCWs fought tooth and nail with the Technician writers.

When engineers look down on me, I tell them to enjoy their money and their cubicles while I enjoy my wine, women, and song.

4/13/2010 8:32:31 PM

Katie wants to know if you are going to the love language thursday

4/13/2010 10:22:29 PM

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"The only other major problem I had was in a Creative Non-fiction course, where all the LCWs fought tooth and nail with the Technician writers."

That's funny, I had a similar experience in one of my fiction writing courses. The room had a PHYSICAL SPLIT, one side was non-English majors and the other side was LCW, English, Humanities, and the Windhover. It wasn't even intentional, it just happened. Eventually some trade-offs were made and the lines finalized. We gained a couple Accounting and Atmospheric Sciences and they gained a Poli Sci and the single most inartistic Design student I've ever met.


Prammagiore, Kessel, Fargo (graduate student, so you probably haven't had her or anything), Thompson, Bennett, Tom Wallis (?) and... I think there's another... are the only ones I've really had contact with.

The only one I didn't like was Bennett, and that was because we had a bit of a clash. The first half of the class (American Lit II) I was slacking, and I wrote a paper analyzing feminism in The Yellow Wallpaper that she particularly disagreed with. My next paper was an A+, but she thought it was "too good for my history of work" and "far beyond the scope of the class" so she almost took me to a academic trial over it, but let me "prove it was my paper in my own words" (which, of course, it was). She begrudgingly admitted that I seemed to "know what I was talking about", and that she'd check a few things, and that I should know that "it is an A+ paper, should everything prove fine." Almost a compliment. Almost.

4/13/2010 11:39:48 PM

Are you satisfied with this year's playoffs? Are there any teams that didn't qualify that you wanted to play? Conversely, are there any teams in the playoffs that you didn't want to play?

Keeping with the theme of the thread, do you still write songs? (I count Music Theory )

4/13/2010 11:54:08 PM

^^^ no, but i am probably going to the love language on saturday because they are playing with fucking HARLEM

^ i always love the playoffs. i'd like the canes to be playing, but then i'd have to buy tickets and i'd be broke

yes, i still write songs. i'm working on one right now, in fact

4/14/2010 4:06:33 AM

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson--read it? like it?

4/14/2010 8:05:43 PM

no, but i think i shall now

4/14/2010 8:44:01 PM

I think you'll like it if Faulkner's your favorite writer. Anderson and Faulkner were good friends and Anderson was a somewhat significant influence for Faulkner.

4/14/2010 9:07:26 PM