9-7: Well shit, I got a little offtrack. I need to update a lot more. The last 4 days have been in-fucking-credible. Victoria was insane. The town was so tourist it hurt me but i still liked it a lot. It had kind of an old feeling about it. The best part: Two record stores (Ditch Records and Boomtown Records). Sadly, I parted with 130 dollars at these establishments. But I picked up 4 lps, 8 cds, and 13 7"'s, so I don't think it was a bad investment at all. I even got the Cerberus Shoal cd on Tree which I don't think they make anymore and is incredibly good. I also got three Belle and Sebastian eps (i'm hooked, i know). And the new album comes out tomorrow along with the new Sunny Day lp. More money more money. At least when I told my mom, she wasn't mad and I think she understands that it's like the one thing I enjoy most of all (except for girls). My cousin Tony was there. He never buys me anything and even when I buy him stuff he still treats me bad sometimes, I don't really understand it. For instance, I bought him an ice cream cone (c'mon, even all you vegan kids dig ice cream), and he was still treating me kind of like shit. I know he doesn't mean it, and it really doesn't bother me, but like this summer, he refused to buy me a snickers bar when he had all this money. I can imagine everyone (i hope) reading this being like "You're kind of petty john". Fuck that. It's the principle of the matter. He has the money, he just can't bring himself to spare 50 cents on me to buy me a snickers bar. In worse news, college is not at all what I expected. Don't listen to 'em kids when they say it's about maturity and intelligent people. That's the most outrageous lie I have ever heard. I thought High School was bad. I was wrong. Kids on my floor start drinking at 2 o clock in the afternoon almost every day. It's a perpetual state of drunkeness. I tell them I don't drink and they don't understand. I'm not sure I understand why I don't drink either but I'm gonna talk about that in a bit. I guess I should have expected a lot of alcohol at college, but the university of puget sound never really struck me as a party school. I thought the girls would be different too. Unfortunately, my experience so far has proven this untrue. Fact of life: women are hypocrites. Girls go for jerks and then complain about the lack of decent men. Wake up ladies. Don't date jocks or egotistical fucks. Look at that shy kid that sits in the back of your class, because chances are he probably has so much more to say and he WILL treat you better. I have met a couple cool girls (no drug free ones yet). But maybe they'll come around, but it's not like I'm in a big hurry. I'm just enjoying having a huge chunk of free time and I have like 10000 records to listen to. It's funny because I just spent all that money on stuff and the first thing I did when I came home was to go look at the Bottlenekk distro site and pick out a huge number of things that I wanted. Oh well, it's healthier than drinking. I saw Sunny Day Real Estate tonight. It was incredible. I'd attempt to describe it but I don't think the words could do it justice. Jeremy's voice started failing towards the end though and he began to sound like a muppet to me but other than that and the old long haired gothic girl rubbing her hair all over me and dancing around like a fool in front of me, it was almost perfect. They also should have played Rodeo Jones but they didn't. And that bassist from the Mommyheads is a fuck too.
9-25: Like, I have a lot more stuff written that I need to get
around to be posting here but i'm lazy. What's new with john? i'm
sure that's the question on most of your minds. Sadly, the answer
is a resounding "NOT TOO MUCH". But things do appear to be on the
rise. The biggest deal in my life is the unbelievable fact that i've
spent around 350 dollars on music related things since I've been here (which
is a month). That, in itself, is frightening. I'm telling you
kids, it's an addiction. but a semi-positive one. When I'm
living in the gutter and eating out of trash cans, I'll be able to think
of my nice heated storage space that contains my record collection and
the warm feelings that brings will make it that much easier to get through
the day. Classes were not too much fun this week, as I had a calculus/physics
test on monday (i'm in an integrated course) and a computer science test
on thursday. I got a B on the first one and an A on the second one,
so I can't be too disappointed with myself. School is quickly beginning
to suck as I have an insane amount of work due on tuesday including a paper,
a take home quiz, and a big ol' computer program on monday. Other
than that, the past 2 weeks haven't been all that exciting. I've
met some more people who i can handle but now I feel bad because I never
want to spend time with anyone. Tonight, I went over to my friend
Josh's house for a while and hung out but then I came home and just wanted
to be alone (it's been a long time). I turned down going to a girl's
room *gasps* and then going out with some other people. Funny, but
i have a feeling I had a lot more fun just wrapped up in the beauty of
my rca cables and the 6 dollar couch my roommate brought home. I'm
trying to think of anything else that's happened to me in the past few
weeks. My calculus teacher threw an eraser at me for talkin' shit
in class. classic. I suppose it means he likes me though so
it's probably a good thing. My english teacher is a fruit cake but
I like him a lot (maybe we have something in common....)other than that,
not much has been happening. Maybe this is a good lesson in learning
to update everyday because then all the excitement will be fresh in my
memory and it would most likely be more entertaining for you readers (not
that my life isn't laughable anyway...). Well, on a fresh leaf, tomorrow
I am going to go to my first hardcore show. Botch/mourn the sun/harkonen/backside
disaster. i'm terribly excited. Whoa. Deja Vu.
Which is really weird. heh. I don't think that's ever happened
to me while typing on the computer before. hmmm... Well, I'm
glad I finally got off my ass and updated this, but unfortunately I don't
have much to say. I'll have photoshop pretty soon so maybe i'll be
able to make this page look decent. personally, i think part of the
charm is in the plainness. Also, you kids reading this (if there
are still any) needs to be emailing me with some feedback. so get
off your ass. MAIL ME SINCE
YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT MY LIFE! .
tada. I'm out for today.