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:: Friday, October 28, 2005 ::

:: Calvin 4:23 PM [+] ::

Neil Gaiman

Neil is a funny guy. THere is a reader who objected to the use of Didot as the body font for Anasi Boys, because it is difficult to read. Neil responded by saying:

There is a world in which publishers let me choose typefaces, but I'm afraid it's also the world in which the Second World War was decisively won by the Belgian-Martian alliance. In this world, you'll effect a change in things like this by writing to the publisher directly. Honest.

funny guy.

Have the sniffles -- gonna watch the first episode of LOST-- season 2. Going to see MirrorMask on the morrow as well. Hooray for weekends.

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:: Thursday, October 27, 2005 ::

:: Calvin 8:09 PM [+] ::

Been in kind of a bad mood the past couple of days -- and watching the final four episodes of Lost: Season I didn't even help. I am stressed out -- I REALLY enjoyed the weekend and the time off, but this week has been rough since.

I got back to school on Tuesday after the hurricane day, and ended up making presentations every period on this lesson plan form I designed that got cut to pieces and redesigned, then put back together much like it had been (saga, major saga) and now we have a new tardy policy being put into effect on Monday that VERY few people are happy about.

We are to lock our doors when the bell rings and the kids have to go to SAO to get passes. I think it is going to make people skip more rather than be late, and there will be MANY more interruptions during the period than there have been. If all the teachers would be in the halls and have something meaningful going on at the beginning of the period, none of this mess with tardies would happen. To top it off, I am betting there will be many teachers who will badmouth the program and the administration and not lock their doors. I am trying not to be cynical, but sometimes that is difficult when grown-ups act more immature than the kids.

This weekend I will get to spend time with my lovely wife, get caught up on grading (haha) and see MirrorMask. Things should get a little better soon.

Also, Depeche Mode is coming on Thursday, and as soon as I post this I am putting in for Friday off.

Happy end of the week.

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:: Sunday, October 23, 2005 ::

:: Calvin 9:52 AM [+] ::

WOW.

Saw NIN last night at the ST. Pete Times Forum, with the Queens of the Stone Age as openers.

NIN

Josh Homme, the lead singer/guitarist for Queens, was quite the axe-wileding maniac, and handled a heckler with aplomb by introducing the band's "Little Sister" with a little "background" on the song and an insult to the young man's partying and libidinous appetites. (Cleaned up for general consumption) The music was good too, especially "No One Knows"

There were a few interesting-loooking folk in the audience at the show, but for the most part people looked very normal, which I found both refreshing and a bit sad. There were a few young people, but most of us were a little long in the tooth. If Trent and company had not come out and rocked steady, I would be tempted to say that he has jumped the shark.

Here's the setlist:

1. Pinion
2. Love Is Not Enough
3. You Know What You Are
4. Terrible Lie
5. The Line Begins To Blur
6. March Of the Pigs
7. The Frail
8. The Wretched
9. Closer/ The Only Time
10. Burn
11. Gave Up
12. Eraser
13. Right Where It Belongs
14. Beside You In Time
15. The Collector
16. Wish
17. Only
18. Reptile
19. Suck
20. Hurt
21. The Hand That Feeds
22. Head Like A Hole


We didn't get "Sin" or "Starf'ers, Inc." and the idiots behind us talked through "Right Where it Belongs " and "Hurt," but I could have just seen "Wish," "Suck," and "Reptile," and "You Know What You Are" and gone home with a ringing in my ears and a smile on my face.

The guitarist, Aaron North, was insane. He joined the band this February, leaving "the Icarus Line," a hardcore outfit with bad attitudes (at a Hard Rock show, Aaron used a mike stand to break into a guitar display case, took a Stevie Ray strat out and played it unti the security guards grabbed him). He flung the guitar all over the place, guiding the feedback with sweeping movements that took it over his head and behind his back, kicking water bottles into the audience, and laying down with his feet inverted on his amp during "Head Like a Hole." He smashed the guitar at the end of the show and THREW it into the audience (Trent handed his to someone int he front politely).

The drummer, Alex Carapetis, did a great job standing in for Jerome Dillon. He pounded it out and kept time with even the most difficult tunes. Not bad for a guy whose previous experience is mostly with folks like Christina Aguilera's opening band and Lenny Kravitz (the drummer for A Perfect Circle, Josh Freese, only played two shows with the band after Jerome's cardiac episode.)

Trent was buff, focused, in fine voice/scream and seemed to have taken his own advice ("Gave up trying to figure it out")and actually had fun. All the pain is still there, but the elements of theatricality and humor ("I'm glad the hurricane slowed down so we could play the show) demonstrate that he no longer seems to be down in it.

Awesome show.

On a lighter note, I tried googling some folks from school and found the valedictorian from my graduating class as well as my best buddy from the early 90s in Gainesville.

I doubt I will write either one of them, but it is nice to know that the world is such a smaller place because of the computer.

Have a great day -- I believe we are going mower shopping in a bit.

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