I saw a shootin star last night and it made me think about a firefly I hit with my truck in July.
At first it was a little streak of light in the dark but then it hit the windshield and the little dot got a little bigger.
Even though the firefly was at point a gummy mess, it was still glowing. As the glow faded away it occurred to me that it was probably a bad thing to hit a firefly with your truck, maybe like killing a mockingbird or something similar.
So I kind of felt bad and I"ll tell you what firefly, if we ever get reincarnated as the same species I"ll make it up to you. Like say we both are earthworms, one morning I can be the early earthworm (who would invariably get screwed by the early bird.)
I hope you got laid a lot and made lots of other fireflies.
I found this MP3 from our band. It was a rough cut I encoded wrong and forgot I still had it.
It sounds better fast but I wish it had vocals.
Being forgetful and then finding stuff is like winning the stupid lottery, whereas the actual lottery is like paying a stupid tax.
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08/26/2007 22:49 #40750
let it go08/10/2007 01:13 #40469
smashWow I still like this place (estrip). I mean I don't post much anymore but coming around here and reading everybody else's stuff kindof makes me happy.
If nothing else you are all interesting and dare I say even Good People.
Rochester sure has a lot of festivals and crap.
Buffalo did too, but its like Crotch is making up for lost festival time.
There was a lot of music festivalage going on at the beginning of the summer, and it was pretty sweet.
We saw Toots & the Maytals, among others.
I wish the beer was as cheep as it was at Thursday in the Square.
Boy, those white people sure love their beer eh?
And now its in the August round of the Park Ave/ East End festival.
Its a festivity where people celebrate knick-knacks, brickabrack, and anything that has seashells glued on, and also beer - which is what the white people are all about.
I live in the Park ave/ east end area in a lousy apartment that was hastily carved out of a nice little house.
My apartment doesn't actually fit in the house and juts half into the attic. The lease doesn't actually include the attic, but they should've bolted that shit down if they didn't want me making a fort up there.
Anyways, I hope this note finds you all in good sprits, and I look fondly towards see everyone again at some point. Also Mighty Taco.
If nothing else you are all interesting and dare I say even Good People.
Rochester sure has a lot of festivals and crap.
Buffalo did too, but its like Crotch is making up for lost festival time.
There was a lot of music festivalage going on at the beginning of the summer, and it was pretty sweet.
We saw Toots & the Maytals, among others.
I wish the beer was as cheep as it was at Thursday in the Square.
Boy, those white people sure love their beer eh?
And now its in the August round of the Park Ave/ East End festival.
Its a festivity where people celebrate knick-knacks, brickabrack, and anything that has seashells glued on, and also beer - which is what the white people are all about.
I live in the Park ave/ east end area in a lousy apartment that was hastily carved out of a nice little house.
My apartment doesn't actually fit in the house and juts half into the attic. The lease doesn't actually include the attic, but they should've bolted that shit down if they didn't want me making a fort up there.
Anyways, I hope this note finds you all in good sprits, and I look fondly towards see everyone again at some point. Also Mighty Taco.
chico - 08/10/07 11:19
Hey kook! Great to hear from you. Might be headed to Ro-cha-cha sometime this weekend...any suggestions of fun places to go/things to do?
btw the oldy-school stereo is totally fab. Thanks again for that! I'll post a pic of it with the speakers i found at a garage sale on the West Side for $6.
Hey kook! Great to hear from you. Might be headed to Ro-cha-cha sometime this weekend...any suggestions of fun places to go/things to do?
btw the oldy-school stereo is totally fab. Thanks again for that! I'll post a pic of it with the speakers i found at a garage sale on the West Side for $6.
jenks - 08/10/07 10:30
ditto to felly: attic fort- sweet!!
ditto to felly: attic fort- sweet!!
fellyconnelly - 08/10/07 09:51
attic fort! sweet!
attic fort! sweet!
drew - 08/10/07 08:11
beer, yes. seashells and bric a brac, no. But of course I don't speak for all white people.
beer, yes. seashells and bric a brac, no. But of course I don't speak for all white people.
ladycroft - 08/10/07 04:15
hi
hi
07/04/2007 11:16 #39910
4thI was going to write something about "America," maybe political or cultural but I just realized how feeble that would be.
Instead: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick.
06/24/2007 22:34 #39798
hey guess whathey guess what just listen to my usersound
ESPN Classic has been playing American Gladiator lately.
HOLYSHIT this is the best show. Why did I not understand this 17 years ago?
The goddamn amazingness of it all flips my lid.
The concept of the show is that people, wearing spandex and teeth guards, are pitted against a stable of professional Gladiators.
The professional Gladiators' job is to lift weights and shoot nerf guns and water hoses and run around in giant steel cages.
If I had a Tivo it would be set to record Jeopardy and American Gladiators and thats the only TV I would watch.
In closing, this this is a partial list of American Gladiator names
Zap
Nitro
Blaze
Laser
Diamond
Ice
Thunder
Turbo
Storm
ESPN Classic has been playing American Gladiator lately.
HOLYSHIT this is the best show. Why did I not understand this 17 years ago?
The goddamn amazingness of it all flips my lid.
The concept of the show is that people, wearing spandex and teeth guards, are pitted against a stable of professional Gladiators.
The professional Gladiators' job is to lift weights and shoot nerf guns and water hoses and run around in giant steel cages.
If I had a Tivo it would be set to record Jeopardy and American Gladiators and thats the only TV I would watch.
In closing, this this is a partial list of American Gladiator names
Zap
Nitro
Blaze
Laser
Diamond
Ice
Thunder
Turbo
Storm
metalpeter - 06/25/07 17:54
I used to watch It all the time. I admit I don't remember all the games or all the Gladiators since some of them changed over the years and I didn't see every show.
I used to watch It all the time. I admit I don't remember all the games or all the Gladiators since some of them changed over the years and I didn't see every show.
zobar - 06/25/07 14:53
I actually just watched an episode over some dude's shoulder on my flight from Buffalo to Portland. I remember it being totally awesome [and it still is] but I this time I ended up dissecting it as an actual _sport_.
It's really weird, because it's an individual-achievement sport [as opposed to a team sport] where the contestants never play against each other, but rather against this neutral, unaffiliated team of American Gladiators. Even though they always play defense and never score points, the Gladiators still managed to amass this crazy crowd following. It's interesting, because I'm a total dork.
- Z
I actually just watched an episode over some dude's shoulder on my flight from Buffalo to Portland. I remember it being totally awesome [and it still is] but I this time I ended up dissecting it as an actual _sport_.
It's really weird, because it's an individual-achievement sport [as opposed to a team sport] where the contestants never play against each other, but rather against this neutral, unaffiliated team of American Gladiators. Even though they always play defense and never score points, the Gladiators still managed to amass this crazy crowd following. It's interesting, because I'm a total dork.
- Z
fellyconnelly - 06/25/07 11:11
wasn't there a lame ass cartoon too?
wasn't there a lame ass cartoon too?
james - 06/25/07 09:20
Holy McCrap!
At the end of saturday morning cartoons it was always such a letdown when American Bandstand would come on. But years later when it was followed, no, crowned by American Gladiator. That was some might good accompaniment to a giant bowl of Alphabets cereal.
Check out this page on American Gladiator :::link:::
and be sure to take a lookg at Malibu, he is so trashy 80's looking
:::link:::
Holy McCrap!
At the end of saturday morning cartoons it was always such a letdown when American Bandstand would come on. But years later when it was followed, no, crowned by American Gladiator. That was some might good accompaniment to a giant bowl of Alphabets cereal.
Check out this page on American Gladiator :::link:::
and be sure to take a lookg at Malibu, he is so trashy 80's looking
:::link:::
- note: that was from a google search I just did, I haven't through about this show since it was on TV.
mike - 06/24/07 22:51
AMERICAN GLADIATORS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!! ICE was awesome yet so scary and I liked Nitrogen too I think.
AMERICAN GLADIATORS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!! ICE was awesome yet so scary and I liked Nitrogen too I think.
05/31/2007 01:14 #39474
yepI think I can never live in a suburb again.
Once I lived in Amherst for 1 year andI think that will be it.
I like where I lived in Buffalo. Right there by Childrens Hospital. There was this music school two doors up the street and you could hear kids squeak out Freire Jaque on the clarinet at night when you had the windows open and were eating dinner.
I could have easily, and happily even, worked myself into a predictable little rut there.
I love this fucking area that I'm living/working in now. Country? do you call it? What is the opposite of city.
Rural. I've seen shitty rural places, but This is it. This is the real shit. I get such a boner thinking about buying a house out here. Not yet though.
I like the city and the country but not in between.
Once I lived in Amherst for 1 year andI think that will be it.
I like where I lived in Buffalo. Right there by Childrens Hospital. There was this music school two doors up the street and you could hear kids squeak out Freire Jaque on the clarinet at night when you had the windows open and were eating dinner.
I could have easily, and happily even, worked myself into a predictable little rut there.
I love this fucking area that I'm living/working in now. Country? do you call it? What is the opposite of city.
Rural. I've seen shitty rural places, but This is it. This is the real shit. I get such a boner thinking about buying a house out here. Not yet though.
I like the city and the country but not in between.
fellyconnelly - 06/25/07 10:49
Hey I just got a place right by the music school on elmwood!
Hey I just got a place right by the music school on elmwood!
I have never seen Grave of the fireflies but have heard it is very good. In terms of other fireflies I loved the series on Fox it was kinda a space western and should have stayed on longer. Also back in my kid days Firefly was Maybe my 3rd favorite character from G.I. Joe (very underused also) of course Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes where the best characters how does one pick a favorite really.
heh...your truck is now "the grave of the fireflies", which is actually a really sad movie.
Yeah, they still glow when they hit.
I have such a thing for fireflies. Can't explain it, but I want one of my next tattoos to be a firefly.
Did you know they're used in microbiology labs? There's this test you can run on urine that uses a compound harvested from fireflies to test patients' samples for the presence of bacterial ATP. You add the "firefly juice" to the pee, and put it in this machine, and if it glows, then the person's sick.
Fireflies rule.
I didn't even know it was possible to hit a firefly.
i like your song.
how you BEEN, kookinator?
I never hit a firefly in my life until recently. I was amazed at how their splattered bodies continue to glow across my windshield well after impact. gross and cool.