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09/28/2008 18:47 #45828

Typing on a non-networked machine
Category: words
So this getting in touch with Danielle (e:paul,45806) reminded me of one of the most fun nights of my high school years. It was before the internet touched my life. She had this word processor. Not the computer type, but the kind you type into and can edit and print. Like a hybrid mini terminal/typerwiter. I think it looked something like this.

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We spent the evening typing one sentence after another into the machine creating a story of sorts. I wonder what it said. I serioulsy, can't remember a thing about it - maybe she can. I do remember wandering around afterwards and imagining that everytime we stepped on a sewer cover that we were transported into another universe. I started to belive it after a while because everytime we would step on one, no more cars or anyone went by and it snowed and snowed.

Its crazy how much time I spent just wandering around in the snow in my youth. I do just about everything to avoid it now.
tinypliny - 10/01/08 19:23
Wow, you believe in the alternate sewer covers parallel universe theory as well? :)
iriesara - 09/28/08 19:28
your imagination was off the hook at that point, I do remember you telling me about that whole night shortly afterward. don't forget, i believe in god and the loch ness monster and all such nonsense things, but your imagination was off the hook.

09/28/2008 09:03 #45820

Shaved My Head Again
Category: hair
I tried to give myself a haircut again but just trimming the sides. Unfortunately, that left me with a mullet. So then I tried to cut it shorter in the back too which gave me this really bad guido haircut. Then I trimmed the top to, not bald just short and it looked too military. Then I decided to turn it into a mohawk but when it was done I decided I was too old for that which took me to the next step - buzz cut.

Somehow this happens everytime. It makes showering really convenient.

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tinypliny - 10/01/08 19:27
I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU SHAVED THAT GORGEOUSLY HANDSOME MOUSTACHE. :/

I am very displeased in a New-Delhi-nasty-kind-of-way. I don't have anyone to mob now. :/
tiburon1724 - 09/28/08 20:39
I like rockin' the buzzcut in the summer, I've grown my hair back in for the colder weather though. I'm too scared to try doing anything to my hair by myself, so I go to Supercuts even for a buzz!
iriesara - 09/28/08 19:26
thank god the mustache is gone, that's all I have to say, even considering my fine intrigue for the shaved head business, which is none
paul - 09/28/08 12:20
I just look younger. You are getting it confused.
hodown - 09/28/08 12:06
You look kinda hot in those pictures!
metalpeter - 09/28/08 10:36
You so should have kept the mohawk that would have been interesting. I tried to cut my hair once, that is why my hair is different lengths. I was shaving and was going up towards my ear and my hand sliped and I took a chunk out of the hair on the side so it was time to shave all the hair on the side. My hair was long enough that mos of the time you couldn't tell how short the stuff on the sides and in the back was. I'm sure the back wasn't exactly even but again you couldn't tell from the hair on top of it.
gardenmama - 09/28/08 10:21
My son ends up doing that everytime he tries to cut his own hair. One of his friends gave him a buzz cut once when there was something wrong with the clippers. He ended up with these completely down to the skin bare spots on his head (sort of a leopardy pattern, though more sporatic). I, of course, had to make fun of him and call him spot. It took forever for the hair to grow back on those spots too - it was wierd. Anyway, it's a nice look on you - you look very handsome (and serious).

09/27/2008 14:26 #45806

Danielle Woodman - Terry's Friend?
Category: web
So (e:terry) left his facebook signed in and I decided to search for people I knew in Buffalo that I cared to find out about in order to see if it was worth joining. The problem is the people I cared about in any way - I pretty much have contact with and the rest of the people I knew, I don't really care if I know them anymore as I would have kept contact.

That coupled with the fact that the few people I could possibly care about don't seem to be on the internet at all, or are woman with new last names I have no idea about, or are form foreign countries and don't seem to be on facebook.

Then I saw this:

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Just as I was about to quit looking, she magically showed up as someone that (e:Terry) should be friends with because of their mutual friends with Nameless Bitch and (e:gaylynnemup). What a small world. I guess it is Buffalo after all but really what are the chances of that, especially considering the two of them are not Buffalonians, (e:terry) is no a Buffalonian and she graduated high school like 3 years before I did. Maybe (e:terry) is a Buffalonian now. I guess he spent more of his adult year here than anywhere else.

Danielle contributed a lot to my growing up, even though we knew each other for such a short time - I would say during that time I changed from being a kid to being a semi-adult and no I do not mean this in a sexual way. It would be so interesting to get to talk to her now

Maybe Nameless Bitch can invite her to our holloween party?

iriesara - 09/28/08 19:24
holy shit, that's crazy! Hi Danielle! little bit nuts.
paul - 09/28/08 09:40
I still can't believe it;) I sent you an email.
ellie - 09/28/08 01:40
Hey Paul!,

It's Danielle! It is a small world. How are you? Are you on Facebook too? I'd love to hear about what you've been up to!

Love,
Danielle

09/26/2008 18:16 #45802

Little bit of Rave history
Category: music
So my favoritest of favorite raves was this one Syrous party at Cinespace in Toronto. It was some giant movie studio maybe. Anyways, I remember the laser show was insane amazing and ther music was different than anything I had heard at all the other parties up to that point.

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The lasers were insane. I know I just said it but I remeber that was the only time I was ever really impressed by a light show.

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So I found these images online but I have the flyer upstairs. I remember looking it up before and none of the djs music matched what I remembered. Then looking over this forum carefully I saw that Mickey Finn (UK) was replaced by Andy C because of imigration problems.

Mickey Finn was originally billed but due to immigration he couldn't enter the country. We were lucky enough to get Andy C to spin.



How crazy is that? (e:hodown) remembers this party too I am sure. I think we even saw my cousin Christina there.




tinypliny - 10/01/08 19:00
So, did you end up going? I was very briefly in Rochester that night. :)

09/26/2008 17:27 #45801

Dancing for jesus
Category: dancing
I am thinking about going dancing in Rochester tonight. MC jumper who I enjoy is MCing the hardcore room at Tilt.

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Anyways, semi related but way more interesting I was looking some Andy C stuff on youtube and found some jungle music remixed to a video of christian dancers at different churches being moved by the holy spirit. Looks like there are ravers everywhere.


heidi - 09/26/08 17:41
Barbara Ehrenreich's _Dancing in the Streets_ talks about the human need for communal joy and how it's been manipulated in Western culture, harnessed for churches, then relegated to the "bad" people. Raves and ecstatic expressions in Christian churches are contemporary cultural expressions of this need.

Have fun!

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