These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

Wait, I keep a blog? Fuck. I should probably update it.

It's been a couple of weeks (actually dangerously close to a month) since I last updated and that's mainly because until about the last week or two nothing of note has really happened, just the usual slacking and trying to get by. Here's a breakdown of some of the recent things that have transpired in my life over the past couple weeks.

BAND NEWS-My drummer, Steve, got accepted to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass recently and will be leaving for school at the end of the summer. While I'm really happy for Steve, this naturally puts me back to almost Square One band-wise since now I have to find a drummer all over again. We may potentially have one or two more house party shows, but that will be our last hurrah with the current line-up. I've been writing like crazy lately and since none of the other ideas for side bands really came to fruition, I think I'm just gonna use everything I write (be it pop punk, hardcore or metal-esque) for Ghosts In The Fight.

UNRELATED NEWS-Spider-Man was fucking amazing. If you didn't like it, it's highly likely that we probably just shouldn't be friends anymore.

HOUSING NEWS-Brendan's not movin' into the FratCave, so I don't think I"m gonna be able to come up with a roommate for the next term of my FratCave lease. But due to some unfortunate circumstances, there's a possibility that my residence in the FratCave will end at the term of this lease and I will be residing elsewhere in Bowling Green, but I'm still waiting to hear back from a coupla folks on that front so hopefully they'll get on it so I can figure that shit out (as far as how much I need to work and how much I need to be saving). I'm more than willing to take advantage of the opportunity but at the moment it's not in my hands and will more than likely boil down to whether I can get the lease co-signed.

WORK NEWS-I worked like a son of a bitch for the last two weeks and it looks as though my dream of dividing my summer 50/50 between home and BG might be more like 60/40 due to crummy training scheduling. Some days work is easy, but lately I'm finding it harder to mask my contempt for some of my coworkers as well as the politics of the whole thing. It nearly makes me physically ill any time I hear talk of the camp and what we do reduced to profit margins and aesthetics. It's a summer camp, not a boardroom. However, Jim Tressel and a few of the Buckeyes' football players visited the camp this Friday and I was blown away by how well they conducted themselves around the campers and interacted with them, particularly since I was really expecting them to shy away and kind of disregard them. As much as I hate OSU, JT and those two players were stand-up guys and that made me feel a lot better about the whole thing.

MOVIE NEWS-I'm currently doing some pre-writing for a romantic comedy that Steve proposed an idea for, and hopefully I'll start writing it soon. I still need to finish up a few more rewrites on the Experimental Film now that I've figured out a way to shave off a good 7-10 minutes off the runtime and Nick has recently rekindled my interest in Shotgun Samurai and I may potentially shoot one or two shorts back home as well as in BG.

GENERAL NERDERY-I've recently acquired the Mega Man X Collection for my GameCube and just started playing that today. My love for video games is blossoming into an actual past time again and I've spent the last few days playing Mortal Kombat Armageddon, Resident Evil 0, Mega Man X, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Guitar Hero II, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and a gem that I wish I'd discovered long ago in the Mario Party series with the bro hams (and a pretty cool new girl). It was almost like freshman year at BG all over again and tonight there was a very near nerd overload when the six of us (myself, Ryan Mags, Erick Cars, Matt, Dave and Niki) simply couldn't get enough of Mario Party 7 (I felt that one of the mini-games in the game was very derivative of Crash Bandicoot and Contra), making nerdy references (primarily Star Wars and various other video games) and they thought it was particularly funny when I cursed the stupid ass board when I didn't have enough coins to purchase the star whenever I got to it. But the following weeks in BG promise to hold more of the same and I wouldn't want it any other way.

Next post I might actually have one of the comic strip ideas I've been working on completed, but only time will tell on that one.

P.S.-I've also decided that nature is not to be trusted, and therefore have declared war against nature and allied myself with science. Deal with it, in science name I pray.