The Agrinautica

   I haven't been able to utter a single intelligible thing since I got my wisdom teeth out this morning. I haven't felt any pain though -- the worst part by far was getting an IV in my arm before they started, which is something I just can't stand. The worst part since then has been my inability not to constantly drool blood (my lower lip and the rest of my lower jaw is completely num). Also its 8pm and I haven't eaten since yesterday (!!!!) I am so ravenous. Kristy's in the process of makin some chicken noodle soup though which hopefully I'll be able to consume. Kristy's been taking good care of me.


Last night Kristy and I went to the Phenomenauts show put on by the Entertainment Council in the Coffee House. I think it was the first ska show I've been to in Davis. People don't know how to skank in Nor Cal! Well some do, but there were more people trying to mosh than skank, and the music definitely was skanking music. Not only that but a large number of the moshers seemed to actually just be trying to get their aggressions out and be as obnoxiously violent as possible. For example they seemed to target this guy who appeared to be the only person genuinely skanking, and make it their mission to prevent him from doing so by constantly slamming into him. Weak. )=
   Altogether the show was a lot of phone though. The Phenomenauts were teh awesome. Unfortunately we only caught the end of Flip the Switch and missed Lobster Rockets altogether.

Picture of the Day

Previously on Emosnail
   Three Years and One Week Ago Yesterday: The Hammer of Justice - I discover my older brother nibot has a livejournal, buy a mallet and name it Trogdor. My friend ambivextrous is still visiting.
   Three Years Ago Last Friday: Troll Attack - The ASUCD Supreme Court announces my dissenting opinion on the recent case to be "null and void." Ironically, it turns out my dissenting opinion remains in the SGAO archives while their majority opinion does not. Also someone trolls my livejournal with retarded malicious anonymous comments. It was later linked to an individual whom we shall not name in hopes of not reopening that conflict, but she went on to date one of the current ASUCD Presidential candidates.
   Three Years Ago Last Wednesday: An Innocent Trip to the Grocery Store - I set off on Friday night to walk down to the local grocery store. Along the way I get kidnapped by some girls I'd met on the bus and end up visiting three different towns and having various drunken adventures.
   Three Years Ago Yesterday: Scarf Party - I bounce back and forth between two different parties that are 19 minutes apart by foot. Not having a car at my disposal ain't gonna slow ME down.
   Three Years Ago Today: Ozma Show - One of the seminal events in recent Davis musical history, the band Ozma plays in the Coho and packs it to more than twice capacity. Then again, "capacity" for the Coho is for some reason designated at about half full. Anyway, it was the awesome. I got the screen name of the hawt female member of Ozma but it turns out she never came online )= Also I met my good friend Gabi calicoto* at this show, although it wouldn't be until I met her again some months later that we'd actually establish contact and become friends. Also I think Matt Jojola established his innovative photography skills by getting an awesome picture of the show through the roof.

*(Gabi I just went through four of your screennames to try to figure out which one is currently in use)

   After my one class today 10-11 and some meetings, I hung out with Roxie and watched this band she'd brought, The Groovie Ghoulies. They were a psychobilly band, which is the awesome, but I was really impressed by their ability to randomly do songs in completely other genres and do them well.

   After that I spent about an hour as an itinerate MU urchin. I wanted to get ahold of Kristy to see if she wanted to lunch with me but without my phone I was powerless. Nor could I call any other friend for that matter. I've never felt so alone in the middle of campus. Eventually Gena took pity on me and accompanied me to Pita Pit whereupon I devoured a gyro.


   Much later I was fleeing an ASUCD Supreme Court meeting when I noticed some commotion in the Coffee House. Turns out it was an electronica show organized by Amie Gutierrez. "Electric Badness" was playing when I got there and I thought they were pretty cool so I hung out for awhile there with Roxie. Then another band came on that I wasn't feeling so much so I went on my way.


   Apparently my cell phone turned up, they want me to call some number (I think its the MU Information Desk). Hopefully I'll be able to track it down tomorrow.


Breaking News: California Aggie conservative columnist Ian Watson allegedly fired for plagiarism involving an article about Star Wars -- Emosnail: you hear it here first!


   Also Kristy and I have been dating for a year and a half now. She is sauce that is strong and I have jockred for her.


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Donakazis - the drink that has more alcohol in it than the sum of its component parts, somehow
   Year Ago Today: Thai Food and Hippies - and six months

   Today was the Shins show. It was excellent. The other two bands that played, Bishop Allen and the Decembrists.
   I knew the term "Decembrists" was a reference to a historical Russian dissidant group, but nothing prepared me for the playing of the Soviet Anthem in full before they took the stage. I nearly swooned.
   Unfortunately I couldn't make out the lyrics of very many songs - sound comes in a bit distorted when you're sitting between the speakers. My life is so difficult. (I was backstage for the whole show).
   And almost as shocking as the playing of the soviet anthem: in the middle of their set, between songs, the Shins lead singer is talking and I'm not really paying attention but all of a sudden I hear "has anyone seen the guy with the green mohawk?" !!!

   As if the day couldn't get any better, Azver happens to be around when I'm finally done with loadout around midnight and gives me a ride home.


   In other news it turns out that Adrian, Azver and I all have best friends from out of town visiting this week. As such we've planned "Best Friend Night" for Friday and its gonna be awesome.
   On that note, my extremely good friend AARON DAVIS is coming into town tomorrow (Wednesday) and will be here through Saturday. I ahven't even seen him in two years because he's been sailing around like a pirate (no really, he's been on the only commissioned US tall ship, the coast guard Eagle).


   Exciting roommate bonding last night + Shins show today + soviet anthem at show + reference from the shins + aaron is coming to town = this is possibly the best week ever.


Related
   sivart13's account of the show: "...RIDICULOUS security people who yelled at me while I was yelling at famous internet celebrity Kris Fricke"

Poll of the Day
   The following is to determine to what degree people know what I'm talking about regarding certain things. While some of these words may have multiple valid meanings which appear as possible answers, please indicate the answer which most closely reflects the way the word is applicable to the Emosnail livejournal.
[Poll #295558]

   This morning I had to be at the flagpole at 6am to go chalking for the Shins show.
   So I get there at six, and Courtbutt is like "don't you read your email??" and I'm like "uh, yea?" and she's like "the email said 5:30." I look around to see if there's some reason I'd have been better off waiting around for half an hour, but from the looks of it I got the better end of the deal since those who arrived at 5:30 had spent an extra half hour standing by the flagpole.
   So we all stand around for twenty more minutes waiting for our valiant leader Devin to show up, but he never does. So we all disperse and go back home to sleep.


   In other news, I really need a new source for music. Winmx is getting progressively worse*.


*This is by no means an endorsement of music piracy. We here at Emosnail would never engage in such activities nor advocate them.

   So I got there at 9am, earlier than I've been on campus for months, to help with load in. Not knowing what plugs into what and where things go makes helping difficult, but I did my best and plugged in some monitors.. then we put up barricades.. then I had to go tour a winery at 10:30.
   The entertainment council had scheduled us so there were at least four of us in freeborn hall at all times, so my next shift was from 12:00 to 1:30, during which time none of us did anything because there wasn't anything to do.
   We weren't particularly excited about the opening band (I never learned who they even were) so a few of us took advantage of our special ability to go in and out of the venue to go get icecream from the COHO.
   Then I'm sitting in the lobby with two volunteers whose names I don't know, and the guy sees someone come out of the staff rooms with a cup of water. Deciding he wants a cup of water he goes over there to inquire about water and gets sent somewhere else. Then I says to the other "you can get whatever you want from the staff room if you just look like you know what you're doing. For example, I'm going to get some coffee from them," and I proceeded to go in and steal some of their coffee. Meeting up with Arya and Vanessa after that, they asked where I got the coffee and I explained it to them. A minute later they come back with sodas and I'm like "you got sodas from the staff room??" and Arya was like "haha we one upped you." I was about to mount a further raid to one up them, but Pixies came on.

   Pixies are excellent.

   Helped evacuate the opening band's stuff from the stage before the Pixies came on, distributed Shins flyers to people trying to escape after the show, helped with load out after the show. Arya and Yadira (porcelain999) helped a bit with load out too, but they soon disappeared.
   Head sound guy asked if I was working the coachella show. Then he joked "can we request you?" Head of the freeborn staff: "if you ever want to work for freeborn..." me: "you have open positions?" staff member: "we could make one for you." I think the promoter said something nice too.
   I don't know about working for freeborn; the one thing that wild rivers taught me more than anything else is that while hard work may impress people not expecting it, as an employee you'll be constantly overshadowed by people that work less hard and shmooze the higher ups constantly. One of their employees had a small mohawk though, so I think I could keep mine.

   Then I walked home. It took 45 minutes but I thoroughly enjoyed the night and the solitude.

   And saw two cops that actually looked young to me and I was like "wow I'm getting old."

PS: Tickets to this pixies show sold on ebay for like $500!

   So after the MUN meeting today I go to the Coffee House, where Brillaint Red Lights, The Fiery Furnaces, and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists are playing for free.
   Shortly after getting there, Azver gives me the rest of his bottle of wine (in a brown paper bag of course), and then Entertainment Council director Andrea Chalupa gives me a peice of pizza. Mmm everything is better when its free.
   Hung out with my apartmentmate Adrian was at the show. Briefly our other apartment-mate, Jill showed up as well. In an unprecedented display of roommate bonding we all completely incidentally found ourselves standing together at a show.
   Then I walk over the The Colleges where Kristy is at the apartment of Courtbutt, Christie, Sarina, & Adam. While finishing my conversation with Aaron on the phone I see my friend Nat(alie Kempkey), an unusual happening since she no longer goes to Davis. Apparently she came in just for the show. And scarcely had I finished greeting her then Brian McInnis emerges from a nearby apartment to say hi. Kristy then emerged and saved me from more random encounters in the Colleges.
   Courtbutt sewed two of the three missing buttons on my pea-coat back on (the third is missing). That was strong sauce.


Apartment-Mate Needed
   In completely other news, we need a new roommate here next year since Adrian is leaving us for a better place (a house in downtown Davis to be exact). Anyone who wants to have the Casbah experience may contact me asap. The end.


Picture of the Day

Cow Diseases, Part 1 of 4
inspired by newspapers during MUN class
© Kris Fricke 2001

   Taking Back Sunday played today on the quad for free. Unfortunately the Lesbian, Gay, Etcitera organization was having themselves an event as well and had gotten the sound permit. However our people talked to their people and we agreed we could peacefully co-exist at our opposite ends of the quad. This however, meant nothing apparently, to the campus events bureaucrats/fascists (SPAC), who proceeded to pull the plug on Taking Back Sunday. TBS however valiantly took back Monday by playing acoustic in the quad and everyone loved it.. apparently. I myself was not there. I was in class. d=
   I did however get my picture taken with some of the members shortly thereafter.


   On November 5th Tiger Army, Rancid and Nekromantix are playing here. On November 5th my friend Croat from back home and possibly others will be up here. On November 5th, my best friend from back home, Aaron Davis will be visiting here as well. On November 5th (or the 4th or 6th) I think I'm hella throwing a party.

   

FRIDAY NIGHT
   So Friday night I made some calls, but being the not very cool person that I am and lacking my main connection with 98% of the people I know (the internet, AOL IM specifically), I couldn't drum anything up and eventually resolved to study till round 6am and then get plastered by myself and sleep through the day.
   No sooner had I left my apartment to go get myself some steel reserve, but who should call me but comrade Bree (badbree), saying I should join them all. So it sounds like a better plan than my previous. I proceed to Aggie Liquor first however, where they scrutinized my ID, asked me if that really was my signature, asked me my birthday, and finally settled the matter by swiping it in their little machine, which no doubt caused my secret file deep in the government archives to be updated with my latest alcohol preferences.
   Then I was off to Body-Part Drive where in the middle of a maze of bleak warehouses I found hella people crowded into a rocknasium, but not before Courtney (lilmisscourty) did her best to get me lost (whereupon I'd of course be dismembered and placed on the curb in tupper-ware for the trashman to pick up, as is the tendency on Body-Part Drive).
   Needless to say shortly after I arrived there everyone fled, so next we went to AEPi, the jewish fraternity. There I hung out with my friend Bryce Kuklok. Now let me tell you about my friend Bryce. Bryce is catholic. Bryce is the founder of the Agnostic and Atheist Student Association here at Davis (which (A) I am now the president of and (B) we actually have a table for Activities Faire on Wednesday AND (C) I finally got the banner from Bryce.. but I digress). Bryce is a member of AEPi, the Jewish fraternity. Bryce is a weird guy. He's also majoring in International Relations, Peace and Security, same as me.
   At some point a drunk frat guy (and I have to say, I don't believe "drunk frat guy" is nearly the malevolent connotation it usually is when it is said in reference to AEPi) declared that anyone who drove on a Del Taco run he'd buy food for. So of course Bryce immediately volunteered and proceeded to take advantage of the situation as much as possible, ordering several orders of chili cheese fries all of which the other guy paid for. Ah he makes me proud.


SATURDAY NIGHT
   Saturday night was Sashie (slosha)'s birthday party, an event that warranted a keg. The party was.... very interesting. Yes. ::awkward silence::
   Suffice it to say people were dancing in ways that would get them arrested if they did it in public. I mean much more-so than your average party.
   Every single person asked me where Kristy (basicallyasap) was. She was back home in p-town where her parents were holding her hostage at the time.
   My friend Joe was also having a party in the same apartment complex (La Salle), so I went looking for that party as well. First I stopped by Apt # 220, where there were three sorority girls WEARING TOGAS, no joke. Then I eventually found the party at #120. It wasn't really very exciting so I just wrote on Mike Cuddy, who was passed out at the time, with my sharpie and returned to Sloshie's. My friend Azver made an appearance, and then later so did a bunch of the local punk rock kids; Zane, Sachi (soccermomxcore), Don (dysfunk408), Alex (from KYD), and a few others. Apparently they just happened along and saw the party going on. Me: "who do you know here?" Zane: "ummm.... you."
   Bree, Courtney and Christie and them were of course there at first, but later-on apparently decided to leave and go to the AGR fraternity, where apparently some random drunk guy decided to start punching Bree's friend Amy. Whats with the violence here? I heard a similar story I think last week.. some dude just came up to someone's friend outside a frat house and started punching them for no reason. I bet its the local kids.


Entertainment Council
   I stopped by the Entertainment Council office because they had summoned me to submit to them the hours that they may own my soul tomarrow to help for the Primus concert. They staff there had spent all day dealing with red tape apparently, and at the time were trying to get an alcohol permit because the band had a handle of vodka, a case of beer, and a bottle of wine, which they intended to consume during the show. Also the band apparently has its own cook, so arrangements needed to be made to allow the fire dept to inspect the cooking set up they were going to have.

   Rancid comes here on the 5th of November. I very much look forward to meeting them.