hey everybody, this is dustin making that first post. there's a few folks out there who may know who i am, but i've been pretty antisocial for the last few years. i just moved out of Satan House (sob), and up into the old PG area. i might have a head eventually, but if so i hope ben knows that i cut my hair a month ago.
if we haven't met yet, then here's a quick description of myself: i'm a 6' white dude with ties to both VA and MD. i plays bass in bands, and i'm currently looking for something new now that my last "real" band broke up. sonny and josh can vouch for my character. i just moved into greenbelt yesterday. you could say i've slowed down a bit since moving to VA. i don't have any outstanding substance abuse or emotional problems, contrary to what some people may tell you.
Last night I went to the eye doctor and got my eyes checked out (again) and got my new contacts. The fucking assistant (who, incidentally, managed to schedule my appointment wrong the week before - the doctor told her I needed to come back in a week, but she scheduled it for two weeks later) took literally 20 minutes to properly align the machine that does the "air puff" test on my eye. The machine would adjust a little to the left, a little up... then, BANG, about 4 inches above my eye. Then the whole sad process would start again... she'd crank it back down to the general vicinity of my eye, she'd adjust it, a little this way, a little that... BOOM, totally off. The whole time she murmured about how it was 'almost there' and 'just a little more'. Ultimately, I had to tell her when it was aligned.
Another thing that annoyed me about this woman is that she CONSISTANTLY pronounced my name "Chic". SHE-EEK. SHEIK. My name is not spelled anything like that, and I corrected her more than a dozen times. It was amazing. When it came time to make my appointment for next week, she had trouble. She fucking had trouble. She's been working there at least a week - you would think she'd have the hang of it by now.
Or at the very least could pronounce my name.
Anyway, so my eye doctor informed me that my eyes are in good shape, though there is a small imperfection I've created on my right cornea from wearing my contacts too much. He said it will probably heal and I should be fine, but likened it to taking a very tiny (microscopic) needle and poking 10 or so pinpricks in the surface. He said I should just be easier on my eyes in the future, which is true.
And now I have contacts again, but I will be wearing my glasses a lot, too - part of that "going easy" thing.
Anyway, after the eye doctor visit, I headed over to the Treeswing in Riverdale to check out this show that my friend Katy had told me about. I mainly wanted to see my friend Brian, Pat & Mikey's band : Tradition Dies Here. I stopped over at new Killoggs member Joe's house to chat with Brian and then I realized that my friend Allen had moved in, since it was June 1st. Overjoyed by this news, we went to the liquor store and talked about summer plans. I got a 40 oz Yeungling and he got two 40s of Cider. I noted it was weird that my friends who used to work at that liquor store no longer did. Times change. We headed back to the show.
Tradition Dies Here was good. I heckled a little and someone yelled "When Josh has a brown bag in his hand, watch out!" I talked to a much too young for me punk rock girl I have a mild crush on and explained to her what crawfish are. I told Katy I'd buy her a drink at the show Sunday. I chatted with friends, and hung out with Allen a bit more on his porch, and he showed me his new room - he took over Virginia's old one. Virginia is a nice girl who I've met a few times (since she lived with Hoe for awhile), but she was always so ethereal and other-worldly in her manner, I never really got to know her.
So, I had promised Cricket DVDs and food and TLC to make her feel better in the wake of her accident, so she ended up coming over and her and Scott and I went to Prince of Eygpt, goofed off, made fun of each other and told dumb jokes, ate and generally had a good 'ol time. Hopefully she was cheered up. Then I went to bed early, since I had a car service appointment at 7am.
When I awoke, I noted that I had missed calls from Ben and an IM from him that said "Brad just realized that he didn't drive to the paper today". I hope they made it home okay.
I spent my morning waiting on my car at Barnside, eating breakfast and reading the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow book. When I was a kid, a circus sideshow came through town, I remember going to it. It was pretty beat, I think in retrospect, but at the time I was enthralled by all the bottled up horrors and (I'm sure) faked freaks. It was weird reading about the Jim Rose New Orleans Lollapalooza show because I was there. That was a long time ago.
Okay, time to get to work.
P.S. Oh wait - I almost forgot about the radios I mentioned up there in the subject. I'm considering getting satellite radio. Are they worth it? Does anyone have recommendations? I mostly like talk radio, is it good for that? Should I get XM or Sirius? Let me know.
One of my co-workers seems to have a hard time with the fact that I still make mix-tapes (as opposed to mix CD's.) The main reason I do is mainly because my laptop is ancient and doesn't have a CD burner on it and I don't feel like buying an external one, I also don't really care to upgrade it. I only use the sucker for 2 things writing and the internet. It's not the fastest thing on the web but it does exactly what I need it to do.
But I digress. The thing is I LIKE making mix TAPES. I think there's much more of challenge and, dare I say, artform to it. With a CD you just pick some songs, burn them onto the CD and there you have it.
I think with a tape you have to consider the length of the songs a lot more than with a CD. With a CD you're told how much time is left while you're burning. With a tape you have to guess. There's so much more to it too.
I think the time you put into a tape is much more honest than the time you put into a CD. To me, it's the equivalent of shooting on film rather than DV. Editing on a Steenbeck rather than an AVID. Or using an SLR rather than a digital camera. Call me a purist, whatever. I guess I prefer the more hands-on nature of tapes (and film.)
I don't want to suggest that there aren't inherent challenges in making a mix CD but I do think the challenges of making a mix-tape are greater. What's going to be your Side One Track One song? What's going to be your Side One Closing Song? How are you going to pick the songs that go between them? How are you going to open up Side Two? What's going to the final song on the whole tape?
What's cool is the last song on side one should provide a bit of an emotional climax but still keep the momentum going into side two. However, with the final song there has to be a sense of finality. At the same time if it's a good tape the listener should be compelled to flip the tape over and take the whole journey all over again.
I'm not an analog purist. I plan on never purchasing a movie on VHS again. I do feel, however, that if someone gives you a mix-tape it means a whole lot more than if they give you a mix-CD. The fact that it's in tape format means that the person basically set aside a good portion of their day just for you. You get a mix-CD that means someone set aside, what, an hour? (How long does it take?)
I really like when I'm making a tape for someone and end up with a little more time left on the tape than I thought I may have. What do you do? Do you just leave it blank? Nah, that's when you can get creative! What do you have that has a really short song or a funny interlude? My new thing is using dialogue from movies. Now can you do this with a mix-CD? (I'm not being facetious I really want to know, can you do this on mix-CDs?)
So my co-worker, and apparently his roommate, can laugh all they want, we'll see if they ever get a mix-tape from me.
Seems like I've seen this topic, or something like it, posted before (was it Carla?) but what the hey, redundancy occurs regularly on many occasions.
I've got a bunch of movies on VHS that I don't want no more because most of 'em have DVD counterparts and some I just don't really watch anymore. My sister has some that I can't remember off the top of my head but here's the list of what I do have. Y'all can have all of 'em for say $2 each or maybe three for $5. If for some bizarre reason ANYONE on here wants every last one of 'em then e-mail me and we can work something out. I'm just tired of lugging 'em around everytime I move. So here's the list, sorry it's not in alphabetical order but some are grouped by director. Also there are some that I'm offering for 50 cents 'cuz I really just want them out of my life.
Chinatown
Donnie Brasco
Life is Beautiful (.50)
Blair Witch Project
Zero Effect (.50)
Swingers
American Beauty
Jerry Maguire
Scent of a Woman
Heat
Monty Python & Holy Grail
Star Wars Episode I
South Park the Movie
One False Move
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever (.50)
Akira
The Iron Giant
Apollo 13
Sid & Nancy
X-Files the Movie (.50)
LA Confidential
Poison Ivy (.50)
Being John Malkovich
A Siimple Plan
Platoon
This is Spinal Tap
Die Hard With a Vengeance
El Mariachi
Election
Angel Heart
A Bronx Tale
Air Force One (.50)
The Professional
Sling Blade
Mission Impossible
A Few Good Men
As Good As it Gets
Good Will Hunting
Back to the Future III
The Sixth Sense
Psycho
Leaving Las Vegas
Hamburger Hill
kids
Grosse Pointe Blank
by Kevin Williamson (written)
Scream
Scream 2 (.50)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (.50)
by the COEN BROS.
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
SPIKE LEE JOINTS (All for $14)
Clockers
Do the Right Thing
Crooklyn
Malcolm X
Get on the Bus
Summer of Sam
School Daze
Mo Better Blues
4 Little Girls
Jungle Fever
by SCORSESE (All for $12)
Mean Streets
GoodFellas
Cape Fear
Casino
Kundun
Last Temptation of Christ
The Age of Innocence
King of Comedy
by SODERBERGH
Out of Sight
The Limey
sex, lies & videotape
by WES ANDERSON
Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
by KUBRICK
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
2001
The Killing
by SPIELBERG
Saving Private Ryan
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
by SIDNEY LUMET
Dog Day Afternoon
Serpico
by DAVID MAMET
Glengarry Glen Ross (written by)
Homicide
The Spanish Prisoner
Ronin (written by)
by TARANTINO
Reservoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
True Romance (written by)
by ORSON WELLES
Touch of Evil
Citizen Kane
The Third Man (only starring)
by JOHN WOO (All for $8)
Face/Off
The Killer (subtitled)
Hard Boiled (dubbed)
A Better Tomorrow (dubbed)
Bullet in the Head
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