| kickass my dickass |
[09 Aug 2006|01:53am] |
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lieberman squeaked by with less than 100 votes in enfield, but lamont won overall. the victory party was pretty awesome. nearly bumped into one mr. jesse jackson. hopefully support for lieberman will fade as the rest of the party supports lamont... but it's still going to be a tough race. oh well, score one for democracy (i mean inquisition). onward and upward!
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| update from the polls |
[08 Aug 2006|05:21pm] |
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well, i've been at the enfield polls from 6 am until now (finally, a break from the hot sun!). a lot of support there for malloy, myself for lamont, nobody for lieberman or destefano. there were a couple of "vote joe" signs, but that's about it. i actually called the destefano campaign to tell them the malloy campaign was there in full force (i like 'em both so i'm not taking strong sides on that race), they said they'd send somebody out, but nobody showed up. turnout has been strong all day, no more than 5 minutes between voters. i checked in with the women running the polls right before i left, they told me we've already surpassed 33% turnout, and we only get 25% turnout in a normal primary. they're expecting 50% to 55% by the time polls close at 8. 22 news from springfield showed up and briefly interviewed me, so those of you in the CT/MA area can totally check that out tonight. voter support seems very strong for lamont and malloy, but that could be because those who don't support us are keeping their mouths shut as they walk by. either way, we've gotten a lot of positive comments from people you'd expect to be lieberman supporters, and a lot comments along the lines of "where's joe?". most interesting comment all day was a man who came out and said "i just voted for your guy. i agree with him on everything except one issue: lieberman's right about the iraq war." how's that for a one-issue candidate? things are looking good for those looking for a change. i'll be heading back to the polls after taking a break, then heading downstate to get the results with the rest of the lamont campaign. look for another update late tonight.
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| music thinger |
[30 Jan 2006|09:26pm] |
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How many songs: 8534 items
Sort by song title:
First Song: $300 by Soul Coughing
Last Song: Zombie Tots by Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge
Sort by time:
Shortest Song: alt.mania by Sean Altman (00:02)
Longest Song: Oahu by The 6ths (28:13)
Sort by artist:
First Artist: !!!
Last Artist: Zwan
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First Album: !!! (self titled)
Last Album: Zopilote Machine (The Mountain Goats)
Top Three Most Played Songs:
Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone by Neutral Milk Hotel (8)
Exodus Damage by John Vanderslice (8)
Portions for Foxes by Rilo Kiley (8)
First song that comes up on Shuffle: Corduroy Boy by The Dears
Search:
"sex", how many songs come up? - 18
"death", how many songs come up? - 78
"love", how many songs come up? - 212
"you", how many songs come up? - 725
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| critical windows update |
[12 Jan 2006|10:08pm] |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) theotherchicago has nudged me about posting, and who am i to refuse? so... let's see. i am currently in student limbo, as i have finished my graduation requirements, but not yet graduated. i get my degree in 2 months, and then have the ceremony at the end of may. so, for the now, i am back home in connecticut with the parents. i tend to get congratulated about being done a lot, but i'm not really convinced it's such a good thing. other than that, not a whole lot is new. a whole bunch of new concert pictures (and various other media) from this fall are up on my site in the usual place, for anyone who may be interested but has not seen them yet.
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[21 Sep 2005|11:52am] |
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i'm back, baby
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| oh, concerts... |
[16 Sep 2005|01:37pm] |
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well, let's see. on saturday, i went up to portsmouth with leebenningfield to see jv again. once there, i met up with mary, justgivein, and her friend kirk/dirk/young john vanderslice upon arriving at the venue. it was kind of a weird place. jv played a pretty nice set, though not quite as nice as the salem show. after he purported to be done, someone yelled for exodus damage. jv said he thought that song didn't work solo acoustic, so, of course, i yelled "it did in salem!" this prompted jv to ask me up on stage to provide clap/stomp percussion for it. there exists a picture of this, but it is far too lame for me to post.
sunday night consisted of seeing of montreal in cambridge. much like last time, the set was very heavy on the sunlandic twins stuff. however now i've had more of a chance to listen to and get into those songs, so i had more fun. there was lots of shoving going on, but somehow i managed to get shoved right into the front row. once i got there, that was one less direction to be shoved from, so it was nice. i got lots of fun pictures. you'll have to pardon that first one, a guy bumped into me and made me hit the border button. grr. oh well.
i took a break from concerts on monday and did, uh... a whole lot of nothing. i think. i honestly can't remember a single important thing i did, at least.
tuesday consisted of a whole lot of classes, followed by seeing mike doughty at the paradise rock club. his new band is pretty awesome. it was a totally different crowd experience than of montreal. just a bunch of people keeping a little bit of distance from each other grooving on their own. no jumping or pushing. the band did a rendition of "true dreams of wichita" that sounded almost exactly like soul coughing's. you could just feel the excitement in the crowd. other highlights included mike refusing to talk about anal sex, a crazy jam with mike doing mark de gli antoni's part on samples (it was rather hilarious, as were the faces mike was making), the mashup of firetruck and it's raining men, and a surprise cover of hungry like the wolf. plenty of pictures here. my legs were hurting a fair bit during the show, so i'm kind of glad i'm taking a break from concerts for a little while.
since then, things have been going pretty well. my "yo momma" player made it to the semi-finals, which is just a bit disappointing but still not a bad thing. other than that, um, yeah. good times. -=]
oh, and while putting these pictures up, i decided to create an index to all my concert picture galleries. this is still under construction, but should be fully functional: i used to go to tmbg concerts way too much.
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| by popular request |
[10 Sep 2005|08:30am] |
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well, i guess it was only two of you, but still. you demanded, and so you shall receive.
uh, let's see. i am currently enrolled in the following classes:
Intro to Artificial Intelligence
Social History of America
Psychology of Education
i stayed up all night making my AI player for a modified version of Connect4 known as "Yo Mama" to be pretty badass. i was going to make the name some clever play on deep blue or something, but then i decided that might not be as amusing as i think it would be, so i simply called it "smartplayer". there's going to be a competition between all AIs made by the class, and i'm hoping mine will win. not sure how likely that is. i was able to outsmart it a few times, but i am an actual human, after all.
thursday night i saw mr john vanderslice at a small art gallery in salem. he played a bunch of his poetry songs and a bunch of stuff off the new record. he attempted to take requests but he couldn't play most of the songs we requested because he either didn't remember them or they were hard to play acoustic. he did manage to pull of time travel acoustic though (not that difficult of a task, actually). he ended on a neat version of exodus damage with the audience providing stomp/handclap percussion. this particular song has been stuck in my head ever since. afterwards, we all ate a bunch of home-baked (and imitation home-baked) goods and discussed the merits and drawbacks of DCFC signing to a major label. all in all, a good time was had, aside from the huge traffic backups on the way there and on the way back (entirely different routes).
it seems likely that today i will be heading up to portsmouth to see the 'slice again. and then tomorrow it's off to cambridge to see of montreal. and then, i sleep. oh, and i'll probably sleep a little right now, too.
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| hmm. |
[28 Jul 2005|04:56pm] |
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playing around with IE7 beta 1. the tabs are nice; they work just like firefox so it took no getting used to. the gui isn't very attractive; there's a toolbar stuck on the very top with back, forward, reload, and the address and search fields. the menubar is below this, so it looks different from every other program out there. the big disappointment comes with almost no improvements to css support. hopefully they'll clean this up for the final release, but i'm not holding my breath.
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| random thought of the month: |
[03 Jul 2005|12:48am] |
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it would be pure awesomeness if the mountain goats covered wesley willis. i'm thinking "cut the mullet".
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| not surprising. |
[04 May 2005|03:27pm] |
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I am:
4%
Republican. | "You're a complete liberal, utterly without a trace of Republicanism. Your strength is as the strength of ten because your heart is pure. (You hope.)" |
Are You A Republican?
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| OMGOMGOMG |
[01 May 2005|08:34pm] |
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superintendent chalmers just said "it's not my birthday" on teh simpsons!!!1111!
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[12 Apr 2005|01:08am] |
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guess who's probably seeing of montreal tomorrow?
i'll give you a hint: it's not not me.
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| spider poison is people poison? |
[20 Mar 2005|08:00pm] |
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today at lunch in the dining hall, the original song from the "if you don't like country music, fuck you" song was on the radio.
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| an open letter |
[25 Feb 2005|11:37am] |
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dear porn stars,
please stop adding me on myspace.
love,
chris
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