1 March 2003
I need to change things around in the photo galleries. I will do that after I write a paper.
Whore of my testicles...
I saw Possession, which had some surprisingly awful dialogue. I went to Goodbye Blue Monday's and the Sayles-Hill student center where I played Hangman, quite well I might add.
Tomorrow will likely see work at the post office, a rough draft of my paper for film class, and most certainly the radio show.
I realize I need to fix some links in the archives; it will get done tomorrow.
2 March 2003
The playlist for last night is up. The mp3 will be up later. Read this.
3 March 2003
Impossibilities.
Canada Challenge.
"When in doubt, I whip it out." -Ted Nugent
The photos are indeed finished, with some code stolen from The Morning News.
The room is a bit cleaner. My face is a little more barren; I now have a mustache in place of the fuller lip curtain. The paper on Rules of the Game has been revised once. I no longer smell of nor feel orange juice on any part of my clothing or person. I am listening to Brian Eno. Check out the photos very soon for a new format. Except Cristina. She can't.
4 March 2003
"As a gesture, irony (whatever that term might mean) is not a passive retreat from politics but a semiotic intervention within politics. Irony is not an essentialized state of (apathetic) being, but a tool to be utilized towards any number of objectives. In its refusal of conventional terms of debate, irony can be a brutally honest rhetorical strategy. Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal" could, after all, reach certain political truths about poverty in his own historical moment in a more compelling manner than other forms of "earnest" speech. Similarly, the smirking irony of smart cinema may be able to tell us more about the more desperate aspects of our own cultural moment than condescending didacticism. Irony, in other words, should not be seen as a disengagement from belief, politics and commitment; rather, it is a strategic disengagement from a certain terrain of belief, politics and commitment. More precisely, it is a retreat from the moral map of the social formation that so often sits in judgement of such irony. When such irony reaches the point of nihilism, we should remember that nihilism itself is not so much a belief in nothing as a refusal to believe in someone else's something. Or, as a nameless bohemian in Richard Linklater's Slacker puts it, 'Withdrawing in disgust is not the same as apathy.'"
- Screen 43:4 Winter 2002 Jeffrey Sconce "Irony, Nihilism and the New American 'Smart' Film"
The intra-page links in the CD collection have been fixed.
5 March 2003
I have added a baseball to the splash page and a new gallery to the photo page.
6 March 2003
I have watched the last movie and done the last reading for Film History and Criticism. I have one more assignment for Calculus III. I sing once more in the Choral Concert tomorrow night in the Concert Hall at 8.00 pm. I attended my first KRLX board meeting this evening and tomorrow will learn even more about being a Compliance Director/Programmer. Saturday night I will do my last show of the term. It will probably not be recorded because the mp3s always skip and they take forever to edit and produce.
7 March 2003
The state of Iowa has 28 urban areas with more than 10,000 people.
My radio show went pretty well last night, even with the monstrous Lauren Garrison present. I stayed on for the next show (Fly Fishing with Rob Oden). It was interesting and the newspaper delivery guy stopped by.
Today I declined to attend Calculus and instead slept until it was time for Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the lounge. I then went to the record library where I learned how to do more as a compliance director for the station. I also checked out a few items.
8 March 2003
Tonight I attended the Accidentals concert (so so) and DVD Fest (quite good). I believe that is all.
I work at the post office only three more times this term. Today I received The Creek Drank The Cradle and The Reputation. Hopefully I will play something from each of them during the show tonight. I also received the review of my radio show on Friday. It was done by one Teague Lyons, whom I am replacing next year as Compliance Director. The review was quite good, mentioning only a few lapses in cueing the music, which was certainly better in most other shows. In academic news, I have nothing left to do but study, so I will hopefully do some today and plenty tomorrow. Friday is the big day with the Calculus test at 8.30 and the Film test at 3.30, hopefully.
9 March 2003
Amuse yourself. Ferry Halim has simple yet entertaining games and a beautiful overarching design.
The playlists are finished for this term as is the radio show. Last night was a very fun show with country records and dancing guests. I woke up an hour and a half ago. I am going to finish my Tecmo Super Bowl game and watch The Simpsons.
10 March 2003
Guided by Voices: "I Am A Scientist"
I am a lost soul
I shoot myself with rock & roll
The hole I dig is bottomless
but nothing else can set me free.
Unfit for print.
11 March 2003
The French will surely come to Washington's aid now.
I have borrowed Mary Star of the Sea by Zwan from the record library for spring break. I have also filled in for the 3.00-4.30pm time slot on KRLX.
Interestingly enough, my perusal of the vinyl LP's resulted in Columbia Country and Fiddle Fever being saved from the outgoing bin and Internationalists being thrown out.
I have determined what I will be listening to on spring break.
12 March 2003
This is why I listen to college radio.
13 March 2003
I have studied all of Calculus III. I am hopefully prepared for the test tomorrow. It has also become evident that the state of the moustache is strong.
Gadzooks.
14 March 2003
"A kiss without a moustache is like an egg without salt."
In a couple of decades, we may see a world where major international cities are within a few hours' commute of each other.
I am finished, but it is never over.
15 March 2003
I am ready to begin the trip of trips. It begins today with 300 miles. A very easy day by comparison. It may be a while til I rap at ya again, somewhat in the words of Jim Anchower. Here is a link to keep you entertained, and you can peruse this til the cows come home and you won't see one percent of it.
29 March 2003
I have returned and I now own every spot on the high score boards for Kickoff. More later.