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I think I have alot to say, but we'll see how it ends up..

Firstly, the weekend... Friday night, had to pick Marissa up at the airport... got hassled by a cop who told me he'd ticket me until I was "unable to drive anymore"... great... soured the entire night... Saturday, went home to Grand Rapids to see family, hung with them until Sunday afternoon where we had lunch with dad... was nice, I love my dad! On the drive home, me and Marissa got in an accident on 96. We went to the Sheriff's office, they chalked it up as a hit and run, which pretty much puts the fault on the other guy. Good deal. Work today was fine, boring as usual..

I finished a book last week, A Widow for One Year by John Irving. It came at the recommendation of Emily who gave it to me so I'd have something to read on a Greyhound bus. I read all of it, completing about 400 pages in 3 days, and I totally dug it. Something I really like about totally tragic storytelling. The first part of the book, especially, was quite interesting and terribly sad. The other two parts, while not as good, were still very well written and interesting, and I was almost brought to tears at the end of the book.. Good stuff. I'm taking suggestions as for what to read next.

I also just finished watching the movie Primer, which came at the recommendation of Dylan... very interesting movie about invention, time travel and it's effects on your surroundings... I am going to have to watch it again as alot of it is hard to understand, especially stop starting it at work so as not to miss anything during calls... however, it was good enough, from what I got, to warrant another viewing...

Some current albums that I'm currently listening to are both of the Bear vs. Shark full lengths, the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime, and Enon - Believe.... all really interesting and refreshing to me..

Last but not least, I would like to congratulate two people on acquiring new employment. I will not name them here, but they both know who they are...

Edit: Another person I overlooked also got a new job. Congratz to that person

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That's RIGHT! Finally, after a week without it, my iPod is back. I can't wait to start loading music on it. And Apple did a great job. No charge for anything, not even to ship it to them. Very impressed with the service I have received. And it's a BRAND NEW iPod too...

Wowza!

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Since June 01:

06/06: Bear Vs. Shark (Mac's)
06/10: Streetlight Manifesto (Alvin's)
06/12: Enon, Thunderbirds are Now! (Mac's)
06/16: The Apes, Hard Lessons (Mac's)
06/29: Gil Mantera's Party Dream, The City on Film (Mac's)
07/06: Diver (Mac's)
07/09: MC 3rd Degree, La'Resistance (VFW, Lansing), Bit (Mac's)
07/19: The Constantines (Mac's)
07/25: Some crappy metal show (Mac's)
07/28: The Hard Lessons (Kraftbrau [CRAPbrau])
08/01: The Good Mornings (Vine street fair)
08/02: The Van Ermans, the Cartridge Family (Mac's)
08/09: Flogging Molly (Royal Oak Music Theatre)
08/11: Planes Mistaken for Stars (Mac's)
08/12: Bear vs. Shark, HORSE the Band (Mac's)
08/18: The Hard Lessons (Mac's)
09/07: Ill Gotten Gains, C. Gibbs (Mac's)
09/08: The Sights (Temple Club)
09/09: One Be Lo (Mac's)
09/14: Neva Dinova, Orenda Fink, Tilly and the Wall (Mac's)
09/26: Casionauts, Bit (Mac's)
09/27: Bear vs. Shark, Hella (Mac's)
10/13: Fallopian Dudes (Mac's)
10/19: Boomin' System, Fun Ender (Mac's)

More to come....

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What a fucking crazy weekend. Friday night, took a bus to Detroit, and met up with Seabass. We went back to his place, had some beers, went out and played some disc golf at this fucking LAME ass course (9 baskets for 18 holes does NOT make for a good game). Went back to his house again, had some more beers, and left for Alvin's to see Streetlight Manifesto . We were meeting up with my dad, little sister Faith, Vicente, and, much to my surprise, his fiancee Wendy. It's pretty sweet he's getting married, she seems like a good girl. I would like to say that Alvin's was hotter than any show I've ever been to, even the Streetlight show in Toledo. They weren't allowing people to step outside, so to keep cool, we drank those wonderful $2.50 PBR's they had there. Alot of them. Show was awesome, they dedicated a song to me, and we drank with the band after the show.

Saturday started awful, waking up at Seabass house and wanting to die. Got in the car after some outstanding Wendy's chicken nuggets, and drove to Grand Rapids. Surprisingly, our loud voices woke Deke up, and we got to playing some disc golf shortly after hitting up Spinski's for a new putter. First, Old Farm, where I won. Seabass lost. I laughed. Then Riverside. I got second. Deke lost. I laughed. Went to Fat Boy, and then Vinnies, then back to Riverside. I quit after 9, and good thing, cuz Luke ended up losing three discs in the back nine. I laughed alot at that. Went back to Deke's, showered up, played some foos and had a few beers. Drove back to Detroit at about 4am, and was dropped off at Marissa's apartment. She wasn't happy to see me that early, but I did at least get her to open the door so I could hit the pillow and get a few hours sleep before I took her to the airport to go to Chicago for a week of work training. I pick her up again on Friday.

Last night, went to Enon at Mac's after hanging out with Dylan, Adam, Mona and others over at their place before the show. Show was good, talked to Sam from Wanderjahr for a while, dude knows his shit when it comes to music, and it was a pleasant conversation. Unfortunately, I now sit at work, tired and mad I'm here. This day couldn't go fast enough.

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This is my last day of work this week, I have tomorrow off for the Streetlight Manifesto show. Going with Seabass, that should be a fun time. I'm pretty excited, two decent shows in a week, and more good ones coming up at Mac's:

6/17 - Fallopian Dudes
7/17 - Neva Dinova and Mayday
8/11 - Planes Mistaken for Stars
8/12 - Bear vs. Shark

That is FOUR good shows in Lansing. Wow. That's more in that short period of time then the entire time I've been in this city, I think. I'm especially excited to see Neva Dinova here in L-town. They put on a good show, good lazy drinking music.

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So I saw Bear vs. Shark tonight... awesome show.. I would suggest gettting their newest album, Terrorhawk, at your earliest convenience.... awesome band, awesome album...

My PS2 is in decent shape... I need to start burning at 1x.... I think that is my problem with games... however, I'm getting the best DVD's for burning games, we will see how that goes....

Pistons won... here we come, the finals..

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My ipod is broken. The hard drive will spin up, click, spin down. I can't format it, can't do shit with it. Diagnostics on the ipod report the HDD is good, but it isn't, not even close. I can hear it clicking. A new drive is $175 if I get it from ipodmods.com, and it's about $250 to have Apple repair (replace) it. I can't go without an mp3 player, so I'm taking suggestions on what else to get. Losing all the music on it is a pain as I don't have all of it on computers anymore.

If you know me, you know how important that fucking thing was to me. It's a real shame that it doesn't work anymore. I don't have enough money for a new one, so I'm going to have to go alot cheaper for my new mp3 player. But a new one is necessary, for sure.

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