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Name: Sam(uel)
Birthday: 9/18/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Music: Listening, Playing, Singing, Recording (Studio 410 baby!); Frisbee; Basketball; watching baseball, particularly the Red Sox; IM softball; generally being a drama queen
Expertise: trusting the good lord. right.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
12/16/2003
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| i read about Tenniscoats here and fell in love with this song immediately. it starts all tinkly, then adds some frail, hesitant vocals, and builds to a nice waltz-like thing. it's awesome, and apparently it's what you get when japanese people and swedish people get together. who knew?
and with that i have nothing else to say except starting class on january 2nd sucks. i truly wish they gave us those three extra days off.
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| new york drivers honk too much. and i thought bostonians were bad (we may in fact still be worse but the sheer volume of cars in such a small space makes the compound effect of honking much worse than boston). some of it is necessary. well, i can actually only think of one: the warning shot to jaywalkers. the i-know-the-light-is-yellow-but-i'm-going-for-it-anyway-so-watch-out honk. if it wasn't for that honk there would be many more dead people in new york. all other honks are barely necessary and their annoyance factor far outweighs their usefulness. i think mitch hedberg's honking rule should be implemented in new york:
"I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then,
someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're
like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"" | | |
| i went to a sufjan concert tonight with melody and her washu friends. it wasn't a standard concert. the first half was a "cinematic suite" about the brooklyn-queens expressway. leave it to the "50 states project" guy to write a piece about a crummy new york city highway. it was an orchestral piece in the musical vein of Illinois, but much BIGGER. along with the orchestral portion was an 8mm film of said crummy highway, its adjacent neighborhoods, and hula hoopers. yes, hula hoopers. and in the middle of the piece, 5 hula-hoopers walked on stage and started hula hooping. it was crazy strange, but surprisingly awesome. i never knew someone could be so good at hula hoop. they were seriously amazing at it!
anyway...the whole cinematic suite was really odd. i definitely enjoyed it. the music was great. the accompanying film was good, and i've made my feelings about the hula hoopers clear. but the whole BQE piece made me think, how strange do you have to be to come up with this kind of stuff? who writes essays called "The Hula Hoop vs. The BQE." Here's an excerpt of the essay by Sufjan: "as a symbolic construction, the hoop is an existential goldmine. insulated against the world, the hooper resides within a circular plane, a tube of plastic, shielding himself against the world. like the driver of an automobile, the hooper is contained within a physical habitat, a moving object, the hoop. but while the automobile traverses a finite linear path, the hoop is hypnotized in perpetual and circular motion going nowhere, a planet revolving around its sun, the hooper."
i see a crappy plastic toy that my weakly gyrating hips could never master. apparently sufjan sees an existential goldmine. thankfully during the second half of the show, sufjan laughed at the ridiculousness of looking for symbolism where it isn't. i was starting to think he took it all way, way too seriously. still, maybe that's the key to "art"? taking little things way, way too seriously to the point where maybe it starts to actually mean something. but i (and my incredibly huge left brain) will never get it. all i'll ever see is some hot hula hoop action. | | |
| is it too soon to think about 2008? not according to all the sports pieces about the emergence of the red sox as potential dynasty. it's exciting, but who knows if it'll happen. i thought the 2007 tigers would be better than they were this year. they looked like they had all the pieces to contend again this year, but it just didn't happen. so who knows how the sox will do in '08.
my one BIG thought about the sox this offseason (besides resigning lowell) is more a plea: please DO NOT sign a-rod. please. please please please. why are all these articles linking him with us? how would that be a good fit? sox fans HATE HIM. i doubt sox players like him. he is anti-clutch in the post-season (not just non-clutch, ANTI-clutch. and he's a douche. unless boras (also a douche) was acting on his own, breaking the opt-out news during game 4 of the world series was just pathetic. (si.com's jon heyman reported it first, maybe 45 minutes before fox. i hate that guy, he's a crappy sportswriter. according to espn's keith law, jon heyman gets inside info from boras corp, which makes complete sense -- one douche reporting on another douche).
if we sign him, we officially become the new england yankees. okay, after the dice-k business we already sold our philosophical soul, but signing a-rod would make that soul unredeemable. i think we're on the road to respectability with huge postseason contributions from rookies and homegrown players, why ruin that? i don't just want to win, i want to win with some class and smarts.
anyway, rant over. my october was consumed by baseball. i had an exam this morning, which i did very poorly on. it's the red sox fault, but i don't blame them, if that makes any sense. :) i guess it's back to normal life starting tomorrow.
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| before the alcs started i was in a very content place. this season has been a bit of a surprise to me. there were tons of unknowns after falling to third place in '06, but different people stepped it up and propelled us to a pleasantly surprising division title. i mean, who knew lowell and youkilis would carry us in the first half? that in a down year for manny, and a year when papi wasn't getting pitches to hit we would still win? honestly, when the alcs started, the indians could've beat us and i would've been sad, but not distraught. it's a different world after '04. no need to think about curses. and with the yankees out of the playoffs i was content, win or lose.
but then i went to watch game 2 at a random bar in new york city. there i heard sooooo much crap from douchebag yankee fans that I quickly remembered how INSUFFERABLE new yorkers would be if we lost, and was no longer content with just reaching the alcs. so tonight i am very pleased. new york city, you can suck it.
random thoughts:
- i know there's a whole world series to play, but who else is excited to see what jacoby ellsbury can do in an entire season of play?
- our young home grown players (pedroia, youkilis, and ellsbury) went 7 for 13 with 7 runs scored and 7 RBI's tonight.
- if hafner hits at all this series, we lose. how many times did he come up in a key spot and strike out?
- is there a reason the sox keep coming back from these 0-2, 0-3, 1-3 deficits ('03 ALDS, '04 ALCS, this series)? my hypothesis: since Boston is such a tough place to play normally, that if you survive there, you're mentally tough enough to fight off elimination games.
- apparently i grew up in the same neighborhood in cincinnati as kevin youkilis.
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