| May 4, 2002 |
| Hmm... today has been a very long and interesting one. I got up at 5:30 am so I could be good and awake for my field day for my Hunter's Safety class, which was set for 8am. I ate out for breakfast and was out at the testing site by around 7:30... I figured it would take longer to get there than it did. I actually got kind of worried that I was in the wrong place, because nobody showed up until about 7:50. Oh, by the way... it was about 35 and fuckin' snowing that whole time. Well anyway, the whole session took from 8 to about 9:30 am because of the weather and the fact that many of the other students (mainly little kids) didn't show up. Of couse it stopped snowing about 5 minutes after we got done and I'd left the pit... oh well, that's all done and over with. Now I can murder my innocent Bambi this coming fall... death!!! Heh, heh, heh.... (insert asshole/prick comment here) After that I spent the majority of my day with Brent... we just kind of hung around and did quite a bit of nothing. I did get 2 free meals out of the deal... homemade chicken/ pork pot pie for lunch and grilled burgers for dinner. Other than that we basically just carried some wood around, took care of his chickens, and looked at different muzzleloaders that I might get. I've found 3 models that I really like; the Hawken, the Kentucky rifle, and the Tennessee rifle. The Hawkens are basically just what you see in the movies for a muzzle loader... nothing too fancy. Kentucky rifles are very long, usually very accurate rifles... the barrels are usually in excess of 3 feet long. The Tennessee is a carbine, and they usually have a barrel somewhere between 20 and 24 inches( anything under 26 is a carbine when you're talking abut muzzleloaders, 34+ is pretty much the standard, especially in rifled guns). Anyway... I'll wind up with one of those in 50 caliber before the end of the summer. I got home about 9:30 to a suprise... they were having a concert in the lobby right next door to my dorm from 8pm till around 11. I arrived back in time to hear the last band finishing up thier set. They were some shitty ass poser punk band, who really fucking sucked and horribly butchered some really good songs. I felt like going up and kicking that entire band's ass... especially that shitty ass singer. He was just a monotone screamer... those kind of singers blow. I didn't even get that band's name, tells you how much I like them... fucking losers. After the shitty punk band came a kickass alternative/metal band called Obelisk. They were great! They opened with an incredible cover of Primus' "The Heckler." Any band who has the balls to do Primus tunes has my respect, and ones who kick ass with them get some serious points. After that they played a couple of songs I wasn't familiar with, but they both sounded very good. Then came the climax of the set (for me anyway) when they played Rage Against The Machine's "Revolver." They totally blew me (and most of the rest of the crowd) away with that one. Unfortunately the singer messed up his voice doing the song and they had to cut thier set short after one last song. After this came a local (I think) band called Junction51. They were a solid acoustic rocking band... very good dance tunes. They played some Eagles, Steve Miller, Sublime, a few songs I didn't know, one awesome Irish drinking song (Gary should have been here), and finished strongly with Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville" around 11:30 or so. After that came some good news... well, I guess I'd better give a little backstory on this one. They're having a Battle of the Bands up here on campus this Tuesday. I'd wanted to enter this from the get go but I couldn't find anyone else to play with and nobody likes listening to shitty fucking bass solos, so I'd pretty much scrapped the idea last week. Well anyway, this guitarist I know named Todd (who happens to be from Indiana) expressed an interest in jamming and maybe working something out for the show. This would be extremely awsome, since he's a kickass guitarist (I jammed with him once a few weeks after I'd moved up here last fall). The only problem is that he has to get an electric guitar and an amp, since all he has up here is an acoustic. He said it probably wouldn't be a problem though, and that if he got one he'd stop by tomorrow. If that happens we'll definetly jam (which is kickass in itself) and if we can half ass put something together, we'll try to polish it up and compete in the battle on Tuesday. If anything comes of this it'll definetly make my journal, and my bands page as well. After that I talked to dad on the phone for a bit and decided to this entry.... it's actually May 5th now. I'd better get to bed and get some sleep... |