John’s Crawlspace

Okay, I’m doing this update from a computer lab on campus because we don’t have the internet at our (off campus) house yet, and won’t for another week or so. I just got finished with my first couse, Media Writing, and have an hour or so until my next one starts, so I figured I’d do a quick post. I took Adderall this morning, and since I didn’t take any all Summer, my tolerance is at zero, and I feel like a speed freak. Anyway, we went over the syllabus in my Media Writing course, and there was one thing that I thought was kind of strange - “Blogs and podcasts” are considered extra credit for the class. I’m pretty sure that this site was in existence way before the term “blog” started to be used commonly, but I’m not really sure if I’d consider this site one of them. According to Wikipedia, it was first used in 1997, and - Actually, I just realized I don’t care. But regardless, I don’t think I’d want this site to be used as extra credit, it just doesn’t seem appropriate. And Podcasting is still relatively new, but I’m not interested in that at all either, especially since I lost my iPod. Yep.

Last Tuesday night, some friends and I decided we should get some money together and do carbombs at my friend Dave’s house. I always do these at bars, and they’re so good, but they’re usually around $8.00 or so. I think there were six of us doing them, so we threw in $20 each, and there was enough ‘ingredients’ for us to do a hell of a lot more than $20 would buy in a bar. So I did around 8 or 9, and then decided to change things up a bit - I busted out a bottle of grappa, and we did a few shots of that. For those of you that have never had grappa, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the worst-tasting liquor ever. Then we drank what was left of my Absinthe that I had brought home with me from Spain. At this point I was pretty drunk. Tommy and I decided it would be a good idea to go kayaking. The house we were at has a lake behind it that eventually leads into the Susquehanna. So we grabbed a few beers and hopped in the kayaks. We started paddling upstream, and from this point on everything is very hazy, so the rest of the story is based on what Tommy told me. After kayaking for half an hour or so and finishing the beers, I thought we had somehow ended up back at Dave’s house, even though we has been paddling upstream the entire time. Tommy tried to convince me that it wasn’t Dave’s yard, and not to get out of the kayak, but apparently I was hell bent on getting out right there. So I dragged the kayak into some random person’s yard, and Tommy headed back to Dave’s. I honestly don’t know where I slept, but I’m assuming it was either in the kayak (which would have been pretty uncomfortable) or someone’s backyard. I don’t remember waking up the next morning either. When I ‘came to’, I was at someone’s front door, and I can’t explain why but I was trying to get into the house. I’m pretty sure that I thought it was Dave’s Aunt’s house, and that I thought that Tommy was in there asleep, because it still hadn’t dawned on me that I was alone at this point. So I kept ringing the doorbell and knocking, still not having any idea what I was doing. I was just standing there with no shirt on (I’m mad that I lost that shirt, too) shivering like crazy because it was pretty cold out. Then the cops showed up. I was glad to see them because at this point I wasn’t aware that I was doing anything wrong or out of the ordinary. They asked what I was doing and at that point it struck me that I didn’t know. They asked where I slept, and I didn’t know. I told them I was at a friends house the night before and that we had gone kayaking. They told me to get into the car and asked me where my car was. I know how to get to Dave’s house, but I didn’t know where I was, and I don’t know the names of the streets in that neighborhood, so they drove me around for about 10 minutes. They started to get pretty aggravated, and told me they were about to take me to the station, and then I finally saw the street I was looking for. So they made me stay in the car while they talked to Dave’s parents. Apparently they asked them what kind of drugs I was on, since I guess being covered in cuts, not wearing a shirt, and shaking alot gives someone that impression. Anyway, they got a call on their radio and had to take off in a hurry, so hopefully I won’t be getting any surprise citations in the mail, but if I do, I deserve it. Then it dawned on me that I had no idea where the kayak was. So I hopped in the remaining kayak, still drunk as hell and confused, and went looking for it. After an hour or so I started to fear that it floated all the way down into the Susquehanna, and was about to give up. When I got back to Dave’s they had found it while searching on foot. That was a huge relief because those things cost like $400. Anyway, the whole thing was ridiculous and I can’t believe it happened. I’m not the only one that got hammered that night, I’m just the only one who has retarded shit like this happen to them. I kind of see this as a sort of wake-up call of sorts. I’m not gonna stop drinking completely, but I’m definitely gonna tone it down for awhile, even though school just started… We’ll see. I did call Dave’s mom and apologize and everything, but I still feel like a complete moron. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my little story, and I hope I don’t have any more like it to tell anytime soon.

Check it out - You can use your PSP to access your iTunes on a WiFi connection. That’s kinda cool, but it looks like you need to be using the 2.0 firmware, and a Mac, so… Maybe not. Alright, I have to get to class.

Last night before I went out, I was looking through old entries on here. To be honest, alot of the stuff I used to post is just retarded, dumb high school stuff, whining about girls and etcetera, but I found this image, which was scanned from a progress report from a Health class I had to take my junior year. It’s funny to me that the filename is ‘bullshit.jpg’, because looking back, I deserved every single comment on there, I was completely ridiculous back then. I remember the teacher tried to withdrawal-fail me from the class on more than one occasion, and the I spent the majority of the time out in the hall. Anyway… I completely forgot about that so seeing it again was pretty funny, at least to me. Anyway, I ended up going to a party with my friend Rita, and I’m pretty sure I was the only one there that was 21. I walked in and there was about 15 people there, and all I saw was Natty Ice everywhere, which is usually the only recipe needed for a night full of violence, vomiting, and what have you. We hung out for awhile and then decided to go watch a movie somewhere else. On the way home, we saw one of the kids who was at the party earlier, and there were two cop cars and a paddywaggon next to him. We turned around and drove by again, and saw the cop cars heading toward the direction of the house where the party was, so he must have told the cops where he was drinking, which is a pretty shitty thing to do. Anyway, the cops ended up arresting everyone there, and this all happened within minutes of us leaving the house. Being 21 is nice because I don’t need to worry about getting anymore underage drinking citations (I have enough as it is) but it reminded me of what it was like to be in constant fear of the police when I was drinking. The kid who got picked up by the cops before they went to the party called Rita from the police station, and when we went to pick him up from there, he was covered in blood. When asked where all the blood came from, he ‘didn’t want to talk about it’. Anyway, it made for a pretty interesting night. I don’t usually post about what I do in my free time on this site, but I thought that was kinda funny… Maybe due to the fact that I’m at home right now, once I’m back at school (in less than a week) I’ll get back in the swing of this type of stuff happening all the time.

My younger brother is in a band called ‘Still Motion’ and they just recorded three of their songs in a studio. If you’re into any type of rock music, you should gime them a listen. My brother is on lead guitar and vocals. Also, if you’re interested, you can check out the (somewhat crappy) videos I took from the last show they played here. Thanks once again to Mitch over at The Drunk Tank for letting me store these files on his server. Anyway, if you guys give them a listen and like what you hear, leave some feedback on here, I’m sure the band would love to see it.

Apparently people list items for sale on ebay all the time with spelling errors. Since the items aren’t spelled correctly, they’re often not found and therefore are never sold. This site lets you find those items. Also, if you’re looking for good deals, Propertyroom.com is an online police auction site, you can find some pretty cheap stuff on there.

I didn’t plan on going to Hellfest, since there’s only a handful of bands there that I’d wanna see, but this sucks for those of you that did plan on going - That shit got cancelled. It’s cool though, you can just sit around and listen to http://www.crotchduster.com” target=”_blank”>Crotchduster instead (”Mammal Sauce” is a very special song). Oh yeah, and there’s a “fake hellfest” going on this weekend (it started on Saturday I think) at the Trocadero in Philly, I might actually go tomorrow to see Horse the Band.

If I was a celebrity and I was drunk enough I’m pretty sure I’d piss myself on stage in front of everyone, too. Then I’d steal a car and drive away naked into the night.

I’m sure some of you have recently tried to do Windows Update from within Windows XP and encountered something about ‘Windows Genuine Advantage’ - If you’d like to bypass this crap and just get to Windows Update, this quick tutorial shows you how. Oh yeah, and while you’re at it, stop using Internet Explorer. Seriously - I’m usually way behind on tech-related stuff, but even I have been using Firefox (and some great extensions) for a good year or so now.

You know, I’ve found myself bitching alot lately about gas prices, as they’re getting progressively closer to $3 a gallon - But after seeing the prices that people in other parts of the world are paying for gas, I realized it could be alot worse.

I don’t know why I just watched this video, but that is some seriously creepy stuff… I don’t even know what to say.

Who the hell would wear a shirt like this? If you’d walk around with that shirt on, you’re probably the kind of douche that I’d like to flatten with a steamroller.

Someone asked me to plug this site, they sell glowsticks and bracelets and stuff real cheap - So I guess if you’re into raves and putting holes in your brain then check it out - Didn’t people stop doing that stuff five years ago? Nowadays it’s all about the COQ ROQ. Alright, I’m gonna get to bed. I’ll try and make the next update a little sooner, I’m moving back to school on Wednesday so I dunno if that’ll happen, since alcohol tends to plow it’s way to the top of my list of priorities, but we’ll see.

The new Between the Buried and Me album “Alaska” leaked. You can download it here. This link will only be up for a few days, so grab it while you can.

So I’m a huge moron and I lost my iPod. I figure that by now most of you have done these free iPod sites so if anyone is willing to sign up for mp3players4free for me, I’ll paypal you $10, plus whatever the offer cost you (if you do one that isn’t free) - If you’re feeling generous and wanna help me out (and earn some quick cash), e-mail me or send me an IM. I seriously can’t believe I lost that though, maybe if I stopped blacking out everytime I drink things like this wouldn’t happen. Woof.

I don’t know about you guys, but if I had kids and “BubbleMan” tried to come anywhere near them, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill him with my bare hands.

Starting on August 28th, Microsoft and Pepsi will be giving away an Xbox 360 every 10 minutes - for 9 weeks straight. I don’t drink a whole lot of Pepsi/Mountain Dew, or soda at all for that matter, but maybe it’s time to start. You can check out the article here. So if you’re in the market for a free Xbox 360 you have two options now: You could drink an assload of soda and rot your teeth out (and still probably not win anything) or you could do Uncle Jiglet (and yourself) a favor by signing up here. To be honest though, I’m not counting on too many people signing up on this one, and I don’t really care about it all that much - I’d take a new iPod over some video game system anytime. Anyway, enough about that.

If you’re looking for a place to store your music online, it seems like using Gmail wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

You know what really grinds my gears? When retarded ebay auctions like this one get publicity. I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve come across news articles that describe an ebay auction where someone is selling ad space on their forehead/t-shirt/grundle or something similiar to that, and yet they describe it as if it’s never been done before.

Want cheap DVDs? All the DVDs on this page are less than ten bucks.

Wanna look for sex offenders in your area? this site lets you search by name or zip code, but it doesn’t work for Pennsylvania… That’s no fun.

If you have a dual display setup and are looking for some cool wallpapers, this site has a bunch.

Free Stuff: DrinkUp! drink mix, Dentyne Vanilla Chill gum (click on “backstage”), energy drink, super awesome radical stickers, and 10 free music downloads from Sony Connect (register here and you’ll recieve an e-mail containing the code for your downloads). That’s it for now - you stay classy, San Diego.