by Matt | Jun 8, 2002 | Imported Entry
Well… last night was fun, mostly. There were a few annoyances that I’ll mention, but that can wait for a second.
The day actually started around 9 when we got up to head into the city. We wanted to have plenty of time to wonder around Harvard Square and Chris wanted to go to the New Balance factory store. After dropping off my brother at the T stop in Coply Square we decided that since New Balance was furthest away we should probable make it our first stop. It didn’t take very long and I actually got some new sneakers too. Just some simple gray ones. Mostly because my old sneakers had seen better days and it was just about time to get new ones anyways. After that we drove back to Coply, parked and took the T over to Harvard. As always we wanted to go to Urban Outfitters since their “Bargain Basement” is usually a really good bargain and we can usually find some nice stuff. This time it was a different story. Everything in the basement was nearly the price of the things up stairs and there wasn’t really anything that was worth buying. Seriously, I don’t consider a $35 shirt to be a “bargain” in any basement. Especially when the original price was $39.
After that we decided to hit our favorite store on the planet. Newbury Comics. Now, you have to understand that at this point Chris and I have given more money to Newbury Comics than nearly anyone on the planet, so we should probably have a “valued members” plaque on the wall or something. Yesterday however, Newbury’s out did themselves. I found, in the used rack of all places, the motherload. I now have, in my possesion, the original 3 disk set from the great Paul Van Dyk. Ask any collector how much “Vorsprung Dyk Technik” is worth and they’d probably give you a number in the upper 70s. I found it for a staggering $12. You have to realize where this baby comes from. This is an out of print, german imported, tripple cd set, from 1992. To me at least, this is the equivelant of finding the Beetles “Abby Road” on vinyl for $1.50. Its that great a find.
After all that shopping excitement it was time for lunch. A quick stop at Uno’s Pizza dealt with that while we tried to figure out what to do next. At this point it was 3:00pm and the club didn’t open until 10. I won’t bore you with details about how we wittled away the next 7 hours at Barnes and Noble by reading magazine, because you probably would fall asleep. Either way, around 10 we walked over to Landsdown St and into Avalon.
There wasn’t that big of a crowd until around 11:30 so we just kind of sat in the back and watched John Debo warm up. I have to honestly say that I wasn’t that impressed with his DJing. We kept the whole thing to under 120bpm (beats per minute, slow by techno standards) and really didn’t play anything interesting. Around 12, DJ Micro took over and things got a little better. Playing some decent tunes (at least one’s that I recognized) he played a pretty good set. He even threw in some old stuff to keep us old skoolers happy. The night was mostly enjoyable, with a few exceptions. These exceptions can, and will, ruin and evening unless they’re taken in stride. I have a hard time taking anything in stride, so this kind of thing annoys the piss out of me. I will now list my greviances in no perticular order:
– Smokers – I hope you die and early cancerous death you chain smoking, arm flailing morons. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve nearly been hit by someones cigarette. Hey fuckos, if you’re going to smoke, walk over to the bar and do it, don’t stand next to me. That also goes for the…
– Sloppy Drunks – Honestly, if you can take your liquior, don’t buy it. Holding a cup above your head so it won’t spill is also unacceptable. Why? Because then it simply splashes on other people.
– Spandex – It’s a privildge, not a right. It also went out in the 80s… so fuck off.
– Sausage Parties – I have no problem with a bunch of guys out having a good time, but when you team up and pelvis thrust at a girl like some bad Saturday Night Live sketch, it’s pretty annoying. Especially for the girl. No one appreciates your cock being in everyone’s way.
– “I’m Paul Oakenfold” – Stupid trendy mother fuckers. Take off your sunglasses, your Abercrombie t-shirts and your giant attitude. You’re in a club for christ sakes. Put your spikey, greased up hair away too. Idiots.
– Bump-and-grinders – There’s nothing I hate more than couples on the dance floor. If my girlfriend were with me there’s no way in hell we’d be doing anything like what these people were doing. What’s even more annoying is when you’re stuck in between two couples. The couple of the left is practicing having children and the couple on the right is playing so much tonsile hockey we might as well give them the Stanely Cup. Find a room.
– My personal bubble – I have one, respect it. If you don’t, I’m not responsible for the pain you’re going to endure. This may include sharp rib pokes from my elbows, stepping on your feet, pushing you out of the way or even punching you in the back of the head… which, as one stupid Boston clubber can tell you, wasn’t an accident. You invade my space, I’m going to resist more than the French Underground.
So, it was a good DJ set but was more or less mared by stupid people. It wasn’t completely un-enjoyable, but it certainly isn’t on my list of “great nights spent dancing”. Oh well. At least I have the greatest Paul Van Dyk CD ever to show for my trip. Hooray for me.
Now it’s time to see if I can get this dumb computer working. Wish me luck. Oh, and I appologize for the spelling mistakes… I know there’s a lot of them, but I’m having so many software problems at the moment that I dare not run a spell checker. Sorry.
by Matt | Jun 6, 2002 | Imported Entry
Talk about crappy. Both my computer and the weather are rather crappy at the moment. Chris’ keyboard (the one I’m typing on at the moment) is also crappy… but thats a whole other issue. Anyway, we took my card over to Chris’ house and gave it a try in his machine. The same “bad connection” type problems appeared over here as well. So at this point I’m gonna give tech support a shot and see if I can get anyone from Gainward (the cards manufacturer) to let me know how I can return it. Hopefully I’ll get a response but “web help” has always been known to be less than responsive. We’ll see. Besides that, at some point tonight Chris, Chip and myself are going to go see “The Sum of All Fears” which everyone tells me is really good. I still haven’t seen StarWars yet but I think that’ll wait till this weekend. Saturday I hope to play some computer games with the boys but if this video card issue isn’t straitened out I’m not sure if I’ll be able to… unless of course if someone wants to loan me a GeForce 4 for the evening… but I don’t see that happening. Ok, gotta run. Later.
by Matt | Jun 5, 2002 | Imported Entry
I was also thinking today about how long it’s been since I’ve done nothing. Seriously. If I’m not at school, then I’m at home and working, if I’m not at either I’m somewhere in between. If I’m not in Savannah, then I’m in New Hampshire. Even when I go on vacation I’m usually doing something. Not that those “somethings” are bad, it’s just that sometimes I’d like to do absolutely nothing… and I haven’t gotten that chance. I’d like to sit, on my ass, in a deck chair, on some tropical island, with a Corona and absoluetly nothing nearby except the cabanna (sp?) where I got that Corona. And that’s it. I don’t want to go shopping at local stores. I don’t want to go water skiing. I don’t want to even get up for lunch. I want to sit there and do nothing. I fear that I’ll never actually get that to happen. I can see myself finishing school and jumping strait into work. I don’t really want that. I need a break. A mental break. Maybe I’m just tired. Maybe it’s that I don’t really want to find a job. I know I have to, and I have ever intention of doing it… I just don’t want to. I think most people honestly don’t want to either. But we all do things we don’t like so that we can maintain our quality of life or life style… but when do we get a break so that we can enjoy that “quality” that we’ve been working towards? At retirement? I hope not. Maybe I’ll just go to bed now and hopefully sleep in… that’s as close to doing nothing as I can get at the moment… I might as well sleep in and enjoy it. Sorry for the rambling… my computer has put me in a bad mood. That and I miss my Lauren. I never feel quite like myself when she’s not around.
G’Night.
by Matt | Jun 5, 2002 | Imported Entry
Well, my computer is fucked. More acurately, my graphics card is fucked. A very expensive, very brand-new graphics card, is fucked. There seems to be an issue with some connections between the card and monitors. Both the standard VGA out and the Digial out produce large screen “reminants” or “stray pixels”. A good parallel might be static that you’d get from a loose coax cable TV wire connection. You can “jiggle” it and it improves a little, but there’s still some static and interferance on the screen. That’s whats happening here. The only problem is that this is a tad bit more expensive than a TV cable and that it’s brand new. The 30 day return policy from the web site I bought it at has passed, so now I have to hope that the company that produces it has some sort of policy. The only problem there is that the box, software and receipt of purchase are all back in Savannah. So, now I have a graphics card that is more or less unusable (since the quality of the picture is nearly usless) because of the problems and I can’t return it because I don’t even have the box it came in. There is a small, tiny, micro sized bright side… my motherboard does have a built in GeForce 2. So, the system itself isn’t “unuseable”. It’s just that I bought this system for pure power and stability and now its as if the transmission just fell out onto the highway. So, I have two options. A)Live with it until I have the money for a new card – which is unacceptable. Or B) Try and return the card – which will be nearly impossable.
Let the fun begin.
by Matt | Jun 5, 2002 | Imported Entry
Well, I’m home, but not after an ordeal. There’s always something that has to happen whenever I do anything. This time it happened to be the catalidic converter (sp??) in my car. It decided to be a stupid shit and fall off in the middle of i95. So, with a massive hole in my exhaust system I pulled into the next exit. Luckily the next exit happened to be a “Nashua NH on crack.” I had never seen so many stores. The town was based around the shopping complexes. And when I say “complex” I mean military installation sized. Think of any near by town that you’d go to where there are “factory outlets”. Now, whatever scene you have in your head… double it… then add some more, then double it again. Thankfully this shopping utopia had a Minekie (Mine-a-Key, sp?) and we were able to get it fixed. We had to stay the night but luckily there was a Holiday Inn nearby and an Olive Garden across the street. We were able to have the car fixed the next morning and get back on the road around 10:30am.
From there we drove up into the moutains of Pennsylvania, a part of the drive I dislike severly. Mostly because I’m somehow the one that always has to drive it. It’s twisty, turny, steep and narrow. It’s a two lane road through the mountains and I don’t exactly have a car that likes to climb hills. But no matter, we made it anyways, the car’s transmission being punished the entire time. After that is was a hard right turn towards NY and Mass. Somewhere along the Mass Pike we stopped to get some gas and the rest area we stopped at had a Dunkin Donuts. For the first time in months I tasted the warm brown goodness that is a cup of Dunkies coffee. Then it was a quick jaunt up the Pike towards NH and then I was home.
So, now I’m home… and sleeping. Well, I was sleeping. Currently I’m typing and doing laundry. I think Chris and I will grab some lunch in a while since he just gave me a call. I think it’s time for a shower. Later.
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