a lot of junk...

let me see if i can remember all there is to talk about...tuesday evening my Seinfeld box set with seasons 1 through 3 arrived...i conquered the whole thing by thursday night...all 8 discs...yeah, i spent almost all of those days/nights just watching that...wednesday the results for that short story contest were released...i didn't win shit...oh well...wacky coincidence: the first place winner had the same title as the lesser of my submitted stories ("Acceptance"...the better, if you recall, was called "Story"...) i'm sure mine were a lot better, too bad the judge can't just take my word for it...thursday night Jacques came over and we finished overdubbing his guitar on "A Series of False Starts"...when we first recorded it he had a few spots of sloppy playing so we overdubbed it later that night after the others left...but when we overdubbed it the mic was positioned wrong and the overdubbed parts were a lot quieter than the rest of the guitar...so we got around to fixing that on thursday...yeah...then on friday Jacques, Amber, Justin, Amanda, and i went to eat at New Hunan...then back to Jacques/Amber's place where we hung out and stuff...Jason came over after a little while...yeah...i almost forgot, one of them days, i forget which (wednesday?) i went to the bookstore and got The Complete Gray's Anatomy ($4 too!) and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut...then yesterday i went and ate ethiopian with Jacques and Amber...then a trip to the library bookstore yeilded: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ada or Ardor: a Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters 1880-1903 by Marcel Proust, Atlas of the Third World (from 1983), The Plumber's Handbook, Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, and Modern Recording Techniques by Robert E. Runstein (copyright 1974, but this is a 1981 printing...however, in such circumstances, it's not being "modern" is actually a plus...) well, then The Family Ghost practiced after that...we recorded "The Yellow Light" as it's the one song of ours that would fit on the tape that was leftover at the end of the reel...i didn't realize it at the time but that was the first time the whole band has worked on that song together...when i first wrote the guitar i showed it to Jacques and he came up with a guitar part for it...then the two of us showed it to Josh once a while back and he came up with something (when Brad wasn't there), then once when Josh wasn't there we showed it to Brad and he came up with some drums...but it turned out beautifully...we even threw in the vocals...and that Billy guy that i work with came over with some friends of his to give me a recording of a few of their songs 'cuz i had suggested recording his band...i let him listen to the recordings we'd done so he could hear that i don't just suck...they just have two songs right now...i listed to their cd burn and was pleased to hear that they're good...math rock-y...Amanda came over...everyone went their separate ways...Jason came over and we went over to Jacques/Amber's...a trip to Walgreens led me to the Blade Runner dvd in their big bin of mostly crap...we ate at Huey's and went back to their place and watched stuff...it was swell times...yeah...now i end this post...