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| Monday, June 21st, 2004 | | 9:04 pm |
| | Sunday, June 20th, 2004 | | 4:30 am |
Strange but True
BERLIN (Reuters) - 'A camouflage-clad German man wielding a samurai sword attacked at least seven hikers in forests west of Berlin, performing sword tricks before ordering them to leave the woods, police said Friday. They suspect a 46-year-old local man who trained in martial arts and survival skills in camps in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam to be the attacker. "He's dangerous and has been hard to find because he wears camouflage," said Catrin Feistauer, spokeswoman for the Nauen police department. Police have used infrared cameras mounted on helicopters to try and track him down. The man pushed two elderly people off their bikes and, flashing his sword, shouted at them to leave the forest. He later tried to drive a young couple out of the woods. No one was seriously hurt. "It's frightening because the violence level has increased each time," Feistauer said.' For some reason, that reminds me of that Whispers book that Bree was reading.. - John Current Mood: : / | | Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | | 6:23 pm |
Canadian Indians Block Capture of Whale(AP) - Indians in dugout canoes led a killer whale out to sea off western Canada on Wednesday, trying to thwart scientists' attempts to capture the orca considered by the tribe to be a reincarnated chief. Luna the whale separated from his pod, or family, and arrived in Nootka Sound off British Columbia in 2001 at about the same time the chief of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht tribe died. Luna, now 5 years old, became fond of folks in Gold River, a former mill town of 1,400 people on Vancouver Island, B.C., some 125 miles north of the U.S. border. I wonder if they'll make a movie.. - John | | 4:01 am |
This is what I get
Late night and I bother putting the Televison on for the first time in a great while. A long time ago I was watching this show where this boy stayed up late and watched a scary movie that he wasn't supposed to, and it scared him. Actually I believe it was a cartoon really. And the movie he watched was Killer Clowns from Outer Space. Turns out that's a real movie. Killer Klowns from Outer Space. A Turner Classic Movie. " Teens flee from large clowns who shoot popcorn and spin cotton candy webs." I'm glad we don't get TMC. - John Current Mood: frightened? | | 3:02 am |
Hmm
I have no idea how to react to any of this. I'm not sleeping like I should. I'm just listening to Sun Kil Moon on Winamp in my room and trying to get everything straightened up. The Living Room is a mess with papers everywhere. Cuzco is playing in the living room. It's a tad odd to walk from one to the other and hear the shift in music. Almost done with 'the curious incident of the dog in the nihgt-time'. It's really easy to read and I'm still enjoying it. After that I'll probably go to The Five People you meet in Heaven" or something. Still thinking about Robert's news. Moving to Colorado for a 70,000 a year job. That is impressive. I'll miss him. A bit jealous too. Makes me feel a bit like a ..slacker. But I wish him good luck. Hopefully he hasn't bitten off more than he could chew or anything like that. He'll finally get the colder climate he wanted, I think. I still want to build that goldfish pond. - John Current Mood:  sleepy | | Thursday, May 20th, 2004 | | 2:39 pm |
I think hunger has killed my appetite.. - John | | Saturday, May 15th, 2004 | | 1:51 pm |
E3..
Outside the Convention Center, the real U.S. Army has stationed a real OH-58 helicopter. Every few hours, real Special Forces teams perform mock urban assaults. The mission: encourage today's youth to play the Army's new computer game called Overmatch, in which our troops use their superior "training and technology to defeat a vast enemy force" in a desert town that bares a striking resemblance to downtown Fallujah. It is a recruitment tool. Wow. - John | | Tuesday, May 4th, 2004 | | 12:49 pm |
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I feel sick. I get home, and there's a small, fragile little body of a kitten laying in my driveway. Mouth half open, eyes shut. Only two days old. I watch it for a second and it moves. Still breathing. I touch it and it recoils. There's no telling how long it's been lying there baking in the sun. It's little mouth had sand in it. I don't think anything hurt it though. No bugs were on it as far as I could tell. So I brought it back over to the porch and left it where it used to be. I hate our stupid cats. I looked but I couldn't find the other kitten. No telling what wonderful hiding place that cat had for her. If that thing doesn't pull through.. I wanna kill that damn cat. - John Current Mood:  angry | | 12:25 am |
Like the Old Days
Today was really nice. I didn't study at all. And I have a major test tommorow. I'm gonna fail, I'm bad. But today was a really nice day, worth it? I think so.. Was gonna get Bree that Buffalo Pizza as it's very good - but coupons not accepted and it's like 17 bucks for a medium!!! ( SPECIAL pizza.. : / ) Not happy about that, made me kinda mad. I also hate that I don't see as many shades and colors as other people do. I think something's wrong with me. I'll try not to think about it. Then the day starting getting better. Me and Bree decided to try out the 'family' 4 wheeler, and Bree told me all about her old 3 wheeler, it was neat. We figured it out and took turns driving it, that was a lot of fun. Then we went to my house for a few minutes, and I cooked some Tacos because everyone was hungry and I couldn't waste the defrosted meat I had. Turns out Zesty Italian goes pretty well with Tacos! I also made a taco salad using the Taco sauce from Taco Bell.. mmmm... I think everyone likes that stuff, it's good. Then me and Bree go to the coast. I completely forget I have a test tommorow : X So we go to the mall which was nice, got many neat things, including a comic book by the guy who does Invader Zim! Haha : D We also got some of those wonderful Almond Pretzels and that vanille dutch shake... very nice snack. Then we head to Walmart and I returned my skates.. bought Second Hand Lions.. I haven't seen it all but I liked what I watched. Then me and Bree went and looked at plants, which was nice. I really do like plants but I think I like the weirder ones better.. they don't even have to have pretty flowers on them.. I like weird ones and if they bloom too they're even better.. I'm strange. I want to be able to decorate a house and yard.. Then we go to Barnes and Noble, which was set to close in like 10 minutes. Me and Bree finish up there in record time - me getting TWO books I wanted and her getting one we've both wanted. Overall, I think it was time and money well spent.. I bought Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Fencing Master (Only $5.98 for hardback!) and Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind (about 26 bucks.. hardback). Both looked interesting to me. If you average the two prices together, it's not too bad... Bree reminded me of that.. <3 I really like both my books I think. Well, having not read them anyways. I'm glad I have them. It's interesting, that a review for The Shadow of the Wind turned out to mention The Club Dumas which turns out to be a book by the guy who wrote The Fencing Master.. it compares to two in quality, so I found that interesting. Something to say about my taste? I really hate Books a Million. That place looks like a old warehouse compared to Barnes and Noble. They don't have music either and Barnes and Noble actually has a wondeful music selection ( much better than anything in the Malls around here ) and a pretty good movie collection as well. So anyway, we leave Barnes and Noble and head home. On the way back Bree played the Anatasia soundtrack, and I really enjoyed that.. Today was a really nice day with her. But I'm going to learn not to say foolish things to her. And I think I have to learn to better manage my time some. : / - John Current Mood:  happy | | Saturday, May 1st, 2004 | | 11:51 am |
Thank You
A special thank you to Bree for returning my Ray Lynch and Juliana Theory to me. Love, - John Current Mood: thankful | | 11:34 am |
Let it Rain on the Parade
Bouts of annoyance and depression since yesterday. I feel like I'm 15 again. I haven't changed a bit I suppose. It amazes me how much Laura and Bree can sound alike. The same attitude - They can even have the same voice at the times. Bacardi knocks our food on the floor, Minnie left shit on the kitchen floor and Bart, well, he was just gross last night. I did not like animals last night. Had a dream that I was swimming with a baby elephant in this pond. There was a big sign in the middle of the lake that read: Do not Drown elephant. *Shrugs* This morning around Seven I got up and went to Hattiesburg with Dad to go get his motorcycle. Dreaded riding in the car with him. We found stuff to talk about eventually, but everything he told me depressed me. He took me to Hattiesburg Cycles. Looked at lot's of Motorcycles and now I want one. I don't like the Classic look that's making a comeback - I know they're VINTAGE - but they're... ugly to me. I like the new, futuristic looking ones - the ones dad hates. We found a bike with 2000CC. Dad told me he believed if you could get it tilted up you could launch it. That thing was a warhorse. I found a nice one that I liked. It was only 600cc, but for bike as light as it was it would take off. Believing what the speedometer's said, some of those bikes could hit 180 mph. Wow. He showed me one bike.. I can't recall it's name. Star something, I think. Said it was designed to get you from one place to the other faster than anything else. They also had Waterskies, Four Wheelers, and dirtbikes and I wanted one of each. 20,000 might take care of it all. I wanted to live close to the Coast for a minute.. Then dad needed to find some more comfortable boots, and I noticed a sign that read TJ's Western Apparel or something, and it had a picture of boots on it. They had many, many boots, but not what dad needed. I learned what steel toe'd boots were. Then he got his motorcycle and we left. Many many things slummed about in my mind on the way home and I was glad I didn't have to talk to anyone. I think I'm obsessed with Joyce. His stories are not that interesting to me, but I see their genius. I think I hate him. A jealousy thing. I'm fasicinated by his character too - self proclaimed genius jealous of other writers around him. His 'epiphanies'. *Sighs* I'm gonna spend the next hour or so playing with these damn chopsticks. I'm unhappy. - John Current Mood:  contemplative | | Saturday, April 24th, 2004 | | 6:10 pm |
*Devil Horns*
With all this talk about Water Guns, I couldn't resist. Earlier Laura got bored so she tied up the midge. I wandered by and it turned out she was really, really ticklish. Laura squirted me with her hair sprayer thingy for punishment. "Bad Piggy." Well, later in the day I found my old pressurized water gun... You should hear how two little girls scream when you just walk into a kitchen and start squirting them, laughing manically. I laughed and laughed and laughed. And then I ran. Midgets are very fast. And very scary when angry. And they have teeth. And I ran, shooting all the time, and barricaded myself in mawmaw's house ( she wasn't home ). There i reloaded and returned to a locked house. They came out with a jug of water, but I grabbed it. I dumped it on them. Laura's bra got ruined. I ran some more. I returned. They sat outside guarding hte door. All doors but they one were locked. It was time to get ready for skating, so negotiations began. I still know how to bluff ; ) Both of them, convinced I had a key to the backdoor from mawmaws, fled back into the house to lock all the doors - leaving the door they entered unlocked. Candy from Babies.. hehe. But I made a strategic error. I *ASSUMED* (*Sigh*) that they really weren't dumb enough to do that - so I tried to slide up the window screen on the half open window to get it - taking too much time so they recovered. If I had chosen to go for the door I would have walked right in : ) So both of them are a tad unhappy now - I must be in constant vigilance.. I have to take them to Walmart after skating too. That was fun. I'm evil. - John Current Mood: Sinister | | Saturday, April 17th, 2004 | | 4:02 pm |
Feelings
It amazes me how much someone can say without a single word. A piano can summon so much more than a Rhyme. - John Current Mood:  crushedCurrent Music: Bill Conti - Love Theme | | 3:42 pm |
Don't Let Me Drown.
I found out Jon Crosby has 5 Vast Albums out now. No concerts in this half of the state though. Learning to play Poker. And none of this matters at all. - John Current Mood: Lost | | Thursday, April 15th, 2004 | | 11:12 pm |
Concert
The other night me and Bree went to a concert in New Orleans. Finally got to go see Mark ( of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters) : D :D :D There were.. set backs, but it worked out in the end. And I'm very glad it did, because Bree and I had been looking forward to this for a while I think, and the day before had not been a good one for her at all. So she really deserved something special. Well, we get down there, and Bree's right - the people at the ticket booth are just gay as you get. Won't give us our tickets. Even though Bree is the Ticket's Purchaser's Daughter, and we have the Credit Card used. None of this matters. We call Bree's house and our parents sort everything out with Ticketmaster and we finally get our tickets - losing much time. So we get there.. it's not the uh, bar we were in before. Instead, we're located upstairs, it this odd place.. It was very small, quiet and intimate, but the whole thing made me feel like I was in some kind of opium chamber.. There were very few people there as well.. Kinda odd, I think. Everyone is sitting at these little tables scattered about the room, and none are left, so me and Bree just sit on the floor - right in front of the stage. I say we had the best seats in the place. It was very pleasant to me. The first - surpise - act comes on, they play a bit and get lost. One song of their's started off very nicely, it caught both me and Bree's ear, but it went downhill as the country like lead singer took over. Very strange. Their violin player was funny. He seemed very lost throughout the entire thing. He had this dulled, absent look on his face and seemed totally out of it. He was my favorite!! Then of course came Mark. But I didn't know it. He walked out on stage, in the dark, smoking one last cigarette - which he threw on the floor and stomped out before taking a sip of his water - the mark that he in fact is a singer. He then sat down on his stool and introducted himself. Not at all what I expected. He seemed older, heavier than I expected. His voice just didn't seem to match the person I was seeing. And he was obviously in a foul mood. I think he was miserable, or at least annoyed. He was really whiny, and I mean total bratness. He wanted the lights turned back down, the air off (even though he took his jacket off, which he just threw on the floor), he complained that not enough people were at the show.. REPEATEDLY - he complained about New Orleans ( not that I blame him but still, there were surely natives there that could have taken offense ).. it was pretty bad. It was so strange that I would never have expected that from just hearing his voice and music. The solo performance was wonderful.. he did a superb job.. he's a great guitar player and I thought his singing was dead on.. he's very talented and has a wonderful voice.. but wow, he seemed unhappy. He didn't play " Have You Forgotten" though.. he took few requests and refused to do some. Then he just quit and left. Moody. I hear people talking about hearing emotion in a voice.. when someone's singing. It's very strange to me that someone can sing like that but actually be in a bad mood. I don't think emotion has much to do with singing always.. if someone is a talented singer.. they can sound good, regardless of their mood. Or maybe they just get lost in their song for the time. I don't really know. But Mark sounded great but he was in a horrible mood. And he kept wanting his resonance. I think it's his baby blanket still. I thought he was supposed to be over that, but apparently not. The first song he sung with the resonance off he was quiet and it wasn't until the next song that he regained some of what he lost. But he still sounded good. He's got a great voice and he's talented. His voice does go really well with resonance though. All in all, I really enjoyed it. Me and Bree then spent a great deal of time driving about looking for a special all night Cafe that sells Beignets. Which are basically funnel cakes with a different shape. So they're very, very good. I grew frustrated.. and Bree took over driving for a while. Then she found the Cafe, which was a treat. We then left and headed home. She was nice enough to drive home too.. my memories a little blurry but I believe she did. She's really sweet. She takes care of me. I didn't get home till 3 in the morning. So I missed a few classes the next day. It was worth it : ) - John Current Mood: sleepy | | Monday, April 12th, 2004 | | 12:55 am |
I hate computers. - John Current Mood: pissed off | | Saturday, April 10th, 2004 | | 9:48 am |
I'm being Weird
A curious ant catches a Centipedes attention as he strolls by. The ant admires the Centipede and quickly asks just how many legs did it have. And for that matter, how did it manage to walk with so many legs?
The Centipede, taking the time to consider this, tripped up on his own feet and collapsed. I never saw how true this was as a little boy. People were not meant to function consciously. You'd be surprised just how many ways a human being can stop working right or enjoying what he's doing when he's become too conscious about what he's actually doing. And I don't mean Conscientious, as in knowing he's doing something wrong. Nothing to do with morals. I mean when something stops being natural. They call it Stage Fright. Performance Anxiety. Living outside a moment. Thinking too much. Prime Examples: 1) Not being able to do something in front of someone that you normally would be able to do. 2) Me trying to comprehend the full scope of what it means to be in Love with Bree. It's bizarre. Try playing a game. Tell someone they're not acting like their self, and then ask them to try and be more like their normal self. It can be unsettling. I'll shut up now. - John Current Mood: ThinkingCurrent Music: Live - Overcome | | Friday, March 26th, 2004 | | 1:55 am |
Ahem..
(though a bit late..) <3 And to many more to come, - John Current Mood: jubilantCurrent Music: Yanni | | Saturday, March 13th, 2004 | | 11:25 am |
Mending Fences?
Went to Robert's Wedding. Actually got there on time and without any trouble.. that's something for me ; ) It was a decent Wedding.. I guess it was decently planned. Robert apologized to me for the way he talked to me on the phone. I can understand his frustration though. I never told him that I was angry with him, for his hypocrisy and lying to me, and it's probably important that I let him know that. The Poison Tree... Otherwise we'd probably just drift away completely after the wedding. He's future; I'm present. He didn't think I would show for the wedding after everything.. o.O Poor Bree had to sit through the reception and everything.. it was her first wedding. We're gonna have a Peaceful Marriage! We checked my midterm grades online.. I really, really didn't want to.. as of the posting, I'm actually failing Spanish... the retake test isnt on it though.. but still... that's what you get for not studying. At all. I have to be better than that. It's humiliating. This Spring Break me and Bree are going to get a lot of stuff done. Today I'm going to try to clean my room. Maybe tommorow, because day we may be going to see a movie before skating, I dunno. But yes, the room will be clean come end of Spring Break. And when we go back, I'm actually going to study like I'm supposed to. I have to start going home while the sun's still up ( and my eyes ) so I can study. Yes yes. I must make it right. - John Current Mood: Renewed? | | Friday, March 12th, 2004 | | 1:20 am |
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