I Could Buy A Decent Used Car Or An Amazingly Thorough Prostitute

First off, I've just recently discovered this show and it's pretty amazing. FOX has clearly gone retarded for the most part it would seem. How many other networks have cancelled a top rated show (Dark Angel) or "one of the top ten shows of the year" as declared by TIME magazine (Undeclared) prematurely? I was actually sad when the final episode on the last disc ended because I knew the story was over. Also, Seth Rogen is amazing and I wish I'd discovered him sooner than 40 Year Old Virgin and I look forward to Mr. Rogen's next venture.

Secondly, I've discovered one of the greatest bands ever...Arnocorps. They are the world's only action-adventure hardcore rock n' roll band and they have to be seen/heard to be believed.
Thirdly, it's always nice to be reminded that even when things are shitty you've still got some really good friends who'll stick by you through thick and thin. Sometimes all it takes is a little reassurance to not feel like the world done turned and left you or some such noise, and realistically I should be pretty grateful. Let's check the pros and cons.

CON-I got dumped. PRO-This clearly means that I'm not entirely repulsive to the opposite sex and means I just need to play the field and keep my chin up and somethin' will pan out sooner or later. The sun even shines on a dog's ass some days.

CON-Sometimes college seems overwhelming. PRO-College is probably the single most positive few years of my life ever. I've got great friends, great experiences, and, oh, yeah-THE FRATCAVE.

CON-I'm sick. PRO-Eventually I'll get better, at which point I can take over the town with my NERF arsenal and get back to smacking fools just for living.

Don't act like I won't smack the taste out a bitch's mouth just for livin', 'cuz I will. Believe 'dat.

Also, thanks to the kind words regarding what I previously referred to as a "trainwreck." I need to remember that even bad experiences are just that, experiences, and they need to be embraced and learned from...And realistically, it was better than other fare I've seen so I suppose there's that too.

Days of Future Past

"There is something out there waiting for us...and it ain't no man."

Status update-Still a little under the weather, but I'm getting better.

"I ain't got time to bleed."

Tomorrow morning I'm going out in the morning (7 AM...ugh) to help my buddy Ryan do a video shoot in some forest in a town about an hour west of Bowling Green. I got nothing better to do, plus I like helping out with stuff like that when I can.

Mark sent me some old Apostasy (my first "real" band) tracks over the weekend and I gave them a listen. I'd love to write better lyrics for the songs and track them again, because the musicianship on them was pretty amazing but my vocals sucked back then (although there are those who might argue that my vocals still suck).

I'm starting to get a little worried about the state of Experimental Film. Right now it seems like there's pretty much zero interest in it and the only people who are very much about getting it done are myself, Tom (my DP), Erik (a comic goldmine) and Matt (who's helping to score the film) and it's kind of got me doubting whether or not it's gonna happen at all this semester which sucks because I'm really attached to this script and I'd hate for it not to happen. But I'm one more trainwreck (the previous two being My Roommate's A Zombie!!! and Marduk's Madness) from just giving up on filmmaking all together. Only a handful of people out of the dozens who are supposedly "film people" seem to have any interest in actually making anything, everyone else just wants to talk about Oscar nods and what not.

Whatever. It's a bunch of noise that needs to get fucked. I'm out.

NERF Wars Episode II-Attack of the Foam (Rubber Darts)

Bad news-My immune system has petered out on me temporarily and I ain't feelin' so great.

Good news-I now have the following in my possession.

One (1) Buzzbee Toys Double Shot Blaster






(The darts are loaded into shells, which the gun ejects after firing...How sweet is that?)

One (1) Buzzbee Toys Rapid Fire Rifle






(Same as above, darts in shells, shells eject).

One (1) Buzzbee Toys Mech Tommy 20



















Battery-operated, semi-automatic. Fires off twenty rounds in roughly five seconds if you're quick on the trigger.

Two (2) Nerf N-Strike Maverick revolver pistols.



















This is fun to play Russian Roulette with among friends.

Did I sit in my apartment for an hour today doing nothing but playing with these? Yes.

Now that I've got all this foam dart based ordnance, I kind of want to shoot a series of shorts around them. It could be good fun!

Also, UFO won two awards yesterday for our sweet ass booth at the Get Involved Fair (to which I contributed an embarassing amount of movie memorabilia in the form of action figures and my cardboard Gandalf).

Then I get to go home and work for the weekend...Yay!

I Thought I Heard Some Noise

Week Two of classes have come and gone and I haven't dropped anything yet...Lookin' good.

I hosted a potluck last night for a very small group of friends because, well, we're classy and adult like that. I successfully made Ranch Chicken and Deviled Eggs without fucking them up too bad and in short a good time was had by all. The next step now is to host an all out, knock down slobberknocker of a party complete with drinking and dancing like it's my job (which I kind of wish it was-set your own hours and I don't know about anyone else, but I find it hard to be anything but incredibly content while dancing and drinking).

Also, I'd like to reiterate my cynicism just a tad. The dating game is fucking bullshit and a total crap shoot. The people you want don't want you and the people who want you you don't want. Does anybody remember that movie My Best Friend's Wedding? I think Julia Roberts might have been onto something (after trying my hand as a hooker in the effort to bed a millionaire and then as a pixie to hook up with someone who never grew up but did but didn't, she was bound to stumble across one good plan in the mix sooner or later). That just makes sense to me, and all that "love" nonsense? Yeah, it holds true for maybe like one out of every ten people. Everybody else is probably just too lazy to keep searching and just take it where they can get it. So that's the plan, I think. Random wedding pact, because let's face it. Too many people my age have already settled down, and frankly I'm too fuckin' old to go looking for love these days. Besides, the ones that I could be potentially interested in would never be interested in me, so basically I'm just cutting out the middle man (or woman, rather).

Okay, on to slightly more positive things. I wrote two songs just because, and now I present them to you for your viewing (dis)pleasure. This first one is only partially complete.

The Guy Behind Me Won't Shut The Fuck Up by Dustin Meadows!

He's got some stupid comment for everything the teacher says
And a voice like a baseball bat to the back of the head
The sound of his own voice, he just can't get enough
But the guy behind me won't shut the fuck up

He thinks he knows just about everything
Butchers the language, but everyone's still listening
He wears that stupid hat, bitchin' 'bout God knows what
But the guy behind me won't shut the fuck up

I'm actually kind of proud of this next one.

Jailbait Baby by Dustin Meadows!

I met her at the all ages show, she told me I was sweet
She's gonna be a doctor someday but she's the only drug I need
And when she smiles my heart skips a beat
This girl she's smarter than me and she's barely seventeen

So what if she's still got a subscription to Tiger Beat?
And the only movies we see have to be PG-13
Yeah, maybe my baby she's not old enough to drive
But 'til then I'll bring the beer and cigarettes tonight

She asked me to be her date so we got a ride with her mom
Nothing wrong with a 21 year old going to the prom
She tells all her friends about me and they think I'm cool
I tell all my friends about her, they say I'm a fool

So what if she still has to use a fake ID?
And we always gotta hang out at the Dairy Queen
Yeah, maybe my baby she's not old enough to vote
But no matter what I'll always hold her close

I just want to hold her, I just want to touch her
I just want to love her but I really wanna fuck her

Five to ten? I'd do it again!

Yeah, maybe the law thinks she's a little bit under (I'd do it again)
But I always say age ain't nothin' but a number (I'd do it again)
She throws her panties on the stage (I'd do it again)
Don't give a fuck if she's underage

So what if she always watches the Disney Channel on TV?
I don't really mind hangin' out at the Dairy Queen
Yeah, maybe my baby she's not old enough to drive
But 'til then I'll bring the beer and cigarettes tonight

I'll bring the beer and cigarettes tonight (3x)

That's all I got, kids. Laters.

Nerf Wars Episode One-The Shotgun Menace

So, my refund check finally went through the other day (yay!) and I got the money ('cuz credit's no good when the Jawas run the shop in your neighborhood).

On the school front I am in the following courses-

(GEOL 104-Earth Environments) This class seems like it will be pretty easy, although we haven't had a lab meeting yet. My lab section is on Monday and since next Monday is MLK Day it means I won't have my first lab for another week and a half...Woot...I think.

(THFM 262-History of Film) I rearranged my schedule a bit, and now I have the later course meeting so I don't have to get up at 8 on Thursday now. I really like Lupro and Hall (the professors), and they seem pretty into the material. Here's a few examples of why Stefan Hall kicks ass-1) He spent the last week of break playing the hell out of Resident Evil 4 and loving every terrifying, beautiful second of it. 2) He showed us Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Running Down A Dream video as well as the Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight, Tonight video. While I'm not a huge SP fan, I've always liked this song and the video for it even more so (we watched these as examples of animation for TP&TH and the SP video is an homage to Molies' Trip To The Moon).

(POPC 260-Popular Culture Research) This class is basically working on a huge research project of my choosing for the entire semester...I'm leaning towards doing something on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead series about how the horror/zombie genre serves as social commentary. Any thoughts/suggestions on other stuff?

(POPC 350-Crime & Deviance In Film) I have this course with Professor Shoemaker (who taught one of my all-time favorite courses, Sci-Fi/Horror Film). We're watching some pretty cool stuff in the class and we get to do a research paper on a crime film of our choosing (I'm leaning towards Sin City, Snatch or Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels although those could change). Plus, he remembered my name. This is huge because I guess he typically doesn't remember a lot of people easily...He even remembered the exclamation point...That pretty much made my night.

(POPC 470-Comics & Culture) I have Coletta for this course, another of my favorite instructors. The material covered includes Peanuts, Dick Tracy, Batman: The Killing Joke, Superman: Birthright, Sin City:The Hard Goodbye, Blankets, Harvey Pekar's Quitter, Will Eisner's The Spirit and more. We get to do two research papers, one on a comic strip (I'm leaning towards Penny Arcade or The Boondocks) and a comic book (Invincible, The Walking Dead and Marvel's Civil War series are all strong possibilities). The only downside to this class? There's about seven or eight geeks (geekier than me) who like to spout out useless trivia thinking it will impress the instructor. Hey, guess what? I'm pretty sure the secret identity of the Scarlet Spider has nothing whatsoever to do with Charles Schulz.

In other news-I bought a couple of NERF guns the other day, and last night me and Chris' band practice turned into an all-out NERF battle. Are we eight years old? Yes. Fuckin' deal with it, son. I want more so I can run around like a little kid and shoot people with foam darts all the time.

I finished Experimental Film last week. Once I receive a little more feedback, I'm gonna revise it one time and hopefully start pre-pro next week.

That's it for now. Laters.

Fuck This Noise

Good News-Got my own place, the FratCave, where the New Year was rung in in style.

Now as it always goes, there's the good then almost immediately comes the bad. Do to BGSUck's shitty internet/server/what-the-fuck-ever I was unable to register for classes until 9:00 this morning. Since I wasn't registered as full time until that point, I now have to wait 3-5 business days for my refund check. I'd pretty much been barely scraping by this past week with the refund check being the light at the end of my tunnel. Now I might not even have it until a week from now thanks to the bureaucracy. To top it off, my phone's just about out and since I don't have internet in my apartment that's pretty much my main means of communication at the moment. So thanks again to BGSUcks for daring to Dream B!G and fuck BGSMe right in the ass once again.