aggienaut | Entries tagged with rock it

   When I arrived at indie rock night (Rock It) at the Grad I pretty much asap found Amy Zimmerman & Dan Masiel sitting with this guy in an "echo" shirt and sat down with them. We were talking about grad schools when the third guy interjects "I have an eight inch penis." We all kind of look at eachother and keep talking like he didn't say anything. He says it again a little later and then "no really its eight inches!" Eventually after at least four unsuccessful attempts to bring the conversation topic to his willy, he wandered off in search of other takers and we immediately removed his chair to prevent his return.
   Inside he apparently was marauding and groping rump, unsolicitedly dancing with girls, and various other bad behaviours. At some point a bouncer had to intervene when a guy got pissed about echo-shirt-guy getting all up on his lady.

   Anyway, otherwise things were fun as usual.

   Shortly after last call DJ Jordan "J2" Smart made an announcement between songs: "Whomever owns the Mercedes parked over there [gestures], um, apparently someone just smashed into your car."
   Now, that describes my car. And Jordan and I have been friends since freshman year so I was sure he must be fucking with me or something. Anyway, I go out there and see a white pick up truck has gone over a four foot median, a bush, and a metal pole, and hit my parked car in the front!!

   Apparently the bouncer had heard the commotion and walked around the corner to find the guy trying to push his car back off the median. The bouncer yelled at him and the guy fled on on foot. We never saw him again.
   There were two cases of full beers beside the car that we suspected had been hastily evacuated from the car. Upon beholding the incident, Amy Zimmerman noted "well, so much for me being in the picture of the day."
   My car was operable enough to drive home, I haven't driven it since then though.
   As the bouncer described the guy he saw to Officer Franti, Amy & I began to recognize the description -- "wait.. was he wearing an 'echo' shirt by any chance?" "actually.. I think he was."

Picture of the Day

Amy confiscates the beer found at the scene

In Other News:
In addition to the pictures of the crash, I put up some pictures from Rock It. Within ten minutes of putting this batch up, two of the pictures had already broken the 1,500 view threshhold!! One of them is currently at 2,901 views and climbing! I think I must have landed myself a prominent spot on one of their main "recent changes" pages or something.

Current Location: Davis, CA

Crap. First I was going to write a quick synopsis of what the real deal with King Arthur is, since thats what I'm writing my paper on, but then I realized I don't really have time to even make a shoddy ass attempt at that. Then I was going to go with shid's idea of "go to Google and do a search for the phrase "____ needs" (in doublequotes as shown). In the place of the blank, enter your name. Record the top ten results of what you need and share with your friends on your journal," which is the meme I mentioned before of using if I got really desperate. But alas, I've been foiled!

Some ass-butt is NAMED "Kris Needs," & he fancies himself a musician, so every freaking link goes to his crap ass music! The only result that ISN'T him is very insightful though: "Kris needs to change his name." Seriously, then maybe I could get some use out of this stupid meme.

...

   Actually I'm saved. That one result IS the meme. Somehow they got around Kris Needs. Some highlights then:

• Kris needs to change his name, mow the yard while Betsy throws quarters at him
• Kris needs a posse of five
• Kris needs MONEY to fight off the lawsuits
• Kris needs volunteers
• Due to imbalanced energy, Kris needs more rest during this tension-filled cycle
• Kris needs to do these weird therapy techniques
• I do, however, think that Kris needs [his] own weblog (damn straight!)

   Okay now I've got that out of the way and seven minutes to go till midnight.

   Elements such as the Grendel of livejournal, AKA otimus, apparently think I'm being "too competitive" about 30 in 30. I don't really know where thats coming from, since I've proclaimed every entry I've made so far to be barely passable, and tried to reiterate frequently that any "rules" I mention are merely blogthodox standards to give one something to strive for.. in the end the accomplishment is all in your head. There is no all around winner, though many of us usually like to declare "best ofs" (in our respective opinions) in different categories in the end. And on that note my "best of the day" declarations are just to encourage everyone and hold up shining examples to be emulated. There is no central authority here that is judging you or functioning in any other manner.
   Also otimus says I'm a hipster.
   Also otimus is just bitter because his entries are all TL;DR

   Day 4 best I think I'm going to peg as professor_david, not so much for the entry itself, so much as the extensive conversation about chicken strips that ensued among the comments.
   shid gets an ~~honourable mention~~ though because his entry tricked his ~~girlfriend~~ fiancee into thinking his friends were in jail. ~~If the entry had had a visual aid it might have been today's number one (in my opinion)~~. Okay its officially a tie. The rest of you are all really getting the hang of it though.

   Now if you'll excuse me, Kristy & I need to go rock out at Rock It.

Current Music: New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

   Internet is still down. Today I went into the complex office to talk to the manager about it. When it came up that I'd left the techinican a messege on Friday detailing the problem and never heard back, the manager called first the technician, then his supervisor, and then the company owner, as each didn't answer their phones. She left them all angry / saucy messeges saying things like "this is not how we treat customers around here."
   Despite the fact that I absolutely loathe not having internet access, it made me a bit uncomfortable that she was giving them such a haranguing on my account. I suppose some "customers" might feel more special for that kind of treatment, but it made me want to clam up and not say anything that was going to get the techs in any more trouble. d=

   Anyway, so Sunday, my birthday, Kristy & I went to Rock It at The Grad. As usual it was good times.

Emosnail Fashion Exclusive
   So apparently there is a hideous new fashion trend: belts worn waist high. In my humble opinion, this "style" is a misconceived fashion abomination on a level with mullets, if not worse. Please, if one of your friends appears to be even considering participating in this depraved act of aesthetic barbarism, sock them in the neck. If god forbid you think you yourself might be about to consider securing your belt around your upper torso, I urge you to immediately present yourself to a trusted roommate or other nearby individual and beg that they immediately wallop some sense into you before you commit fashion thoughtcrime.

   In less sordid news, Kristy put a bunch of new pictures up on Flickr. In addition to the usual cute kittens, my grandparentinlaws' dog Daisy is prominently featured.
   Also, here's a picture of that delicious nutella pizza Kristy made the other day.

Picture of the Day

"Dog Myspace Picture?"
(C) Kristy or Daisy

Quote of the Day
[00:59] Darth Laabs: apparently GSA [Graduate Student Association] wants you to meet with us about UCSA [Univ of Ca Student Assn]
[01:00] Darth Laabs: do you know these people?

Previously on Emosnail
   Year Ago Last Tuesday: Cell Phone MIA - Phone is missing in action, presumed POW of Unitrants. )= Also I cake Φ A Δ pledge-parent Nick Kory in the face.
   Year Ago Last Wednesday: CoHo Shows - Roxie brings a psychobilly band to campus and I hang out and watch it, later (that same day) Amie Gutierrez brings an electronica show to campus and I hang out there with Roxie. Also aggie columnist & aeroflot hater Ian Watson is fired.
   Year Ago Today: Birthday 2005 - "its a good thing I'm a frat boy now or I'd basically have no friends, basically." A year later I doubt even they'd show up if I scheduled something. (= Anyway, I haven't scheduled a birthday celebration yet because I haven't yet found a date for which more than one person other than Kristy and I would attend. But back to a year ago: Philip Neustrom got a digital SLR camera, making the rest of us obsolete, riots broke out in Uzbekistan as I had predicted, and Kristy and I get an awesome video of frolicking squirrels, which has probably since been lost forever in my computer crash. )=

PS: Φ A Δ pledglings are after every last point they can scrape up this last week. If any pledglings come across this they can get three points for mentioning this mention to me. They can also get five points for registering to vote in Davis, or for anyone else they get to register in Davis. Frankly, such civil-responsibility ought to be a requirement. (=

Current Mood: freezing
Current Location: Freezing Computer Lab - The Trees, Apts, Davis
Current Music: Hot Hot Heat - Ladies & Gentlemen

   Internet's been down for three days. SBC said the entire area was down, but ThickAir, whom we get internet directly from (through SBC lines) said that it should be working, but I wasn't showing up on their network. Technician said he'd reset the network and it should be up in twenty minutes. That was two days ago. Situation hasn't improved, and the technician hasn't answered or returned my calls since.
   So in order to go online I have to go into the freezing study lounge. Now, temperature was pushing 98 outside today, and everyone was complaining about it, but in here, I had to go get a coat. d=

   Anyway, today is my birthday (No one would know if it weren't for Facebook. I'm not really doing anything special, though Kristy & I might go to Rock It this evening.
   On Friday, for my birthday, Kristy made me a fancy dinner that consisted of, among other things, gnocchi (which is one of my favourite things ever), and for dessert delicious nutella pizza (pictures coming soon). She also got me some real port (I've only had $5.99 port before (= )
   My actual birthday started at 12:00 last night with Kristy calling me while I was hanging out at a campfire at Lake Berryessa with Jenn Smyrnos & Nicole Farazian, two very awesome people.

   Saturday was an official-unofficlal* Φ A Δ retreat at Lake Berryessa. It was fun. It was attended by Tessie Cross, Alex Estrada, Gena Rinaldi, Jenn, Nicole, and myself.
   Now Lake Berryessa is about half an hour away, and, it turns out, directly on our own Russel Boulevard.
   Russel, the main thoroughfare of the city of Davis: leaves town to the west; becomes a small squiggle of a road between farms; becomes a main thoroughfare in nearby Winters; becomes Highway 128; and goes right past Lake Berryessa.

* I'd like to go on the record that I think the "official-unofficial" categorization of events is dumb. Its not against our rules to have alcohol at events, so thats not a problem. Theoretically it has been argued that this categorization releases the fraternity of some liability -- I don't really buy that though, if something did come up I doubt any court would be impressed by the officially-unofficial nature of things. Really its primary effect is to violate the spirit of Φ A Δ bylaws, by explicitly reserving the right to violate Φ A Δ bylaws.

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