Archive for September, 2001

I immediatly found and bought that Tool CD. At Coconuts, no less…

It’s very good. Very, very good. I recommend it not just to Tool fans, but to all (good) music fanatics.

People seem to be hiding from me lately. I can’t understand why! Two seemingly good online friends have not appeared online or written back to me in a week. I know they’re there, too. I should stop worrying, I guess. It doesn’t matter much. But in a way it does because I got along very well with both of them and thought I could actually gain a friend! I don’t get it.

I’m tired and hungry. Mmm… Lucky Charms is waiting for me downstairs. Then to dreamland I shall go.

Damn, I can’t remember the last time I had a good dream.

Man, I gotta get to bed, but I want to plug this first.

I found the people who did the string arrangement of Tool!

Go here!

Thanks to Kabir at toolshed.down.net for posting this information which I searched and searched forever to unsuccessfully find… until I made it to his site.

This girl Ainie, who I work with, out of the blue said to me “oh, you have an admirer.”

“What?” I said.

“You have an admirer. *smile*”

I sighed. I’ve waited my entire life for someone to say that.

But seeing how Ainie is only 18, I knew it was not going to have a beautiful outcome…

“This girl I go to school with was talking to one of her friends around me and she said “do you want to go to the camera shop to see if that guy’s there?”

Ainie spoke up. “Hey! I work at The Camera Shop!”

“YOU DO?! Do you know Carl?”

=====I interrupted Ainie’s story=====

“Is this that girl that thought I looked like Russell Crowe?”

“Yes! It is!”

I was right. Very flattered… I didn’t know what to do — or say, even! Ainie went on to quote the girl a few more times; things she said about me. But, I’ll spare the poor girl any further embarrassment.

I told Ainie about my Picture Pages saga. I gave her the URL to pass on to the girl (I think her name was Becky?) I guess so she could have something to laugh at. I noted “please don’t stalk me” on the card. So the chances of her seeing this are pretty high.

Oh, by the way.. “Hi, [Becky??]”

So it’s cute. I am extremely flattered. I just wish it was someone a tad bit more my age preference. Everyone knows it’s DEFINITELY not high school girls any more.

Other things…… hmm….

Nope. That’s about it for today.

Much thanks to Sarah for linking my site. Check out her links page to find a nice movie database she’s putting together.

What a blast!!

And I underestimated the fans. They were VERY well behaved. Literally NO moshing, just a bit of crowd surfing.

Jeez, I don’t even know where to begin. What a great experience. These guys are just plain geniuses and watching them live for the first time showed just how incredibly talented every single member is.

A treat for my fellow Tool fans out there:

Click below to download the song “Aenema” composed of just stringed instruments. It’s very good, I just wish I knew who did it.

�NEMA (mp3)

Though I’m not going until 5 or so… this’ll probably be my last blog until then.

I am one excited mutha-forker.

A good night to you all!

Ok, if this is Tricia’s little way of trying to prove that she really is insane, then she’s doing a bang-up job. I do not have the strength to even reply to her latest comments. It’s simply not worth it. But at least I, along with some others, are getting a good laugh from her (outstandingly) twisted mind.

Onto other things…

Hmm, what other things are there? TOOL tomorrow night! (Well, tonight, technically)

Aahh… I am super-psyched. I just hope I don’t get killed or badly beaten in the mosh pit. HEY, there’s a good reason for a rant!

Moshing at TOOL

Why? I mean… yes, the music is heavy. It is also loud. But it’s not Metallica, ok people? This music is not loud because it likes to be…it’s loud because it HAS to be. So much energy and passion. So much power and emotion. So much intelligence. Moshing at TOOL is inevitable, I’m sure. But to me it would be like moshing to a college professor’s speech in Philosophy 101.

“Jusss…t… ARGH! What are you moshing for?! Dammit! Just LISTEN. Experience! Let it flow through you. You can move a bit, bob your head… whatever… but ramming into your neighbor with all your might (not excluding your ELBOW) ??!

WHY!?

You’re stupid! Bunch of morons!”

Buuut what are ya gonna do, eh?

Before you get an email about the Wingdings prophecy, I’ll inform you it’s another hoax.

The email informs the reader than one of the flights that crashed into the WTC was named Q33NY.

If you translate them into the Wingdings font they look like this:

Q33NY

Very cool. But no flight was really named that. Sorry.

Read more here.

Some people, man…

Just living in a world full of pent-up anger and use any excuse, little or great, to release it. Anything to use it up on. Usually triggered by fear of losing their invulnerability.

You can’t do anything to save them. Gotta let them air out. One day, they’ll see.

So it’s strange being the one to bear the news to some of you. This news I have known for a week. I was not sure about releasing it into the air, but after approval from the person in question… I will do so now.

John Newman. A friend since elementary school days. One that’s been from one end of the spectrum and back as far as friendship goes. Someone to relate with, have long discussions with, and laugh with. John moved to Portland in January of this year and came back home a few weeks ago.

He’s been feeling ill since a month before he came back. His energy decreasing rapidly, his weight dropping dramatically.

Lumps began to form around his neck and back. Some big, some not so big. Lumps he feared. So much so, he avoided the doctor.

Wouldn’t you?

Last week his family finally forced him to the hospital. And the inevitable was revealed.

John has Lymphatic Cancer. Commonly known simply as Hodgkin’s Disease or Lymphoma. Either way you look at it… it’s cancer.

It’s a very common form and has a curability rate of 95%. He will start radiation and chemotherapy in the next few weeks. He will lose his hair and have to quit school. Fortunately, there’s a program that gets him a full credit for that semester (or something like that)

More Catscans, Petscans, echocardiograms, radiation, and chemotherapy are sure to come.

He’s not looking forward to it. He’s still having trouble grasping his situation.

But he’s doing fine. All is normal and should be kept that way to our best abilities.

He’s doing just fine.

Having troubles with my coz@cozbaldwin.com email address. Please send any emails to coz20@home.com instead. If any were sent during my vacation to my official address, I have not received them.

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