Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Journey

So. I haven't really taken the chance to write what happened after i left the hotel the other day. I found out that the downtown area of lexington was a mile over a hill. i walked there to find nothing interesting. There was a tattoo shop so i decided what would be funnier than randomly getting a tattoo in the middle of nowhere. Their internet was down though so they wouldn't do it. it made no sense to me. So rejected i began my long journey to the auto place. The first portion of the walk was through the woods. well i was on a road, just surrounded but woods. I finally came out to a main road. By then i think i wasstarting my second listen to Damaged by black flag. 90% of the rest of the trip was to be on that road. There wasn't much going through "town." I stopped and talked to some people at an auto place sitting outside. Some douchebag on a bike kept riding by me and yelling stuff. Finally i got to more nowhere. When i goto to a gas station i looked at a map. I had been walking for a long time now. I had listened to damaged twice and the minor threat discography and had moved on to is this real by the wipers. I had atleast another 2 hours left of walking it looked like and it was allready 3pm. I noticed on the map that there was an interstate that would cut some time off my trip. So i started down the interstate and decided that it'd be a lot faster to catch a ride. I noticed a lot of church buses/vans driving by and was sure one of them would give me a ride. Finally a lexus SUV drove by and stopped. I run up to it my shoulders are killing me by now from carrying my bag and i'm starting to get burnt. I look in the side window with my map in hand and there's a real redneck looking guy sitting in the passenger seat and a hispanic guy driving. There is hispanic music playing really loud and they agree to take me up to my exit. I get there and am walking for a good 20 minutes before the tow truck driver sees me and picks me up. We drive for about 5 minutes till we get to the shop. My car is almost done. I have to wait for about 30 minutes and then am able to leave. I proceed to drive home listening to the buzzcocks and the busy signals and 999.

I'm sure there will be an update on what's happened since i got back. Nothing horribly exciting.

Listening to: Bad religion

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Econo lodging

So i'm just getting up at my hotel. Sleep was ok. I ended up passing out at about 2.

I have to be out of here by 11.

Then it's a good couple mile hike to the auto place.

Luckily it's not too hot out.

But then i'm there for a couple of hours till it gets done.

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so no internet in a couple of minutes

send me text messages.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I would drive one thousand miles

I won't drive one thousand more though because my clutch went out on my way home to durham. I am now stuck in lexington nc. Luckily the tow here was free. So that's just one thing less to pay for. The tow truck driver dropped me off at the nearest/only hotel in the area, a decent econo lodge. My room is pretty big and clean, and i also got a discount with my AAA card. It was a mile or two to civilization. I went there to find only a mcdonalds and a wendys. So i consumed some wendys and then went to foodlion to grab a couple of things to hold me over for the night. I am going to miss out on work tomorrow. Which sucks considering the cost of all of this. For now i'm going to relax and watch charlie chaplin shorts on TCM. I should hopefully be out of here not long after noon tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Record Update

So within the last month or two i have picked up a couple of cool records.

JFA/Faction - Split (spontaneous combustion)


The Kinks - Retrospective 5 7" box set (rhino)


Zero Boys/Toxic Reasons - Split (Selfless)


Best Run Fast Vol 1 and 2 (MCR)



Gorilla Angreb - Long Island (spild af vinyl)


Gauze - s/t 7" (prank)


Gorilla Angreb - Bedre Tider (Feral Ward)


Killed By Trash (p.trash)


Billy Childish & The Black Hands - The Original Chatham Jack (Suppop)


Government Issue - Make an Effort (Reflex Records)


The Jam - Start (also with a flexi containing pop art poem and boy around town)


The Real Kids - S/T (Norton Records)


That's It

I'm sure i'm good on records for a while (till i get to LA atleast)

Listening to: Still the Exploding Hearts

New Beginnings

So after a few recent events I feel like i have a different look at the world. I really feel better about some of the decisions i have made this past month or two. My stress levels have been going down lately, although it's not reflected in my sleeping patterns. But all in all i have been less stressed out and it's nice. Although i have been doing better emotionally i think my body is dying. Very little sleep lately. Usually somewhere between 2-4 hours a night spread out over a 8-12 hour period. Lots of time spent staring at the ceiling. This is not too conductive to trying to not stress out about things. Maybe i'll start exercising before bed and physically wear myself out. But again aside from my physical ailments i feel pretty good about life. I don't know how much longer i'm going to be in durham but i plan on making the most of it. This means no more/less sitting around my apartment. I might try to get in better shape. I definately want to play more music. And i definately want to see my friends more.
I'm excited to be in Charlotte for an unexpected couple of day visit. I'm hoping i get to see some of the people who make my life awesome. I really do know some awesome people and it's a shame i see them once every other month, usually at a show where conversation tends to be lackluster. I also need to see one stanley forsack soon for homemade black flag tattoos. I don't think i would let anyone else do it.
Ok off to get food and find something to do.
Life is awesome. Well not awesome, but i plan on trying to make it awesome.

Listening to: Exploding hearts - Shattered