Archive for December, 2001

So today I went to Gameworks with Ed and Xaq. It was pretty fun… as you might have guessed, it’s a big arcade place. Yeah. It was pretty crazy… not the coolest place in the world by any means. So we rented Suicide Kings and damn it’s a good movie.
The ending made me really sad…. prolly because I’m sort of used to the idea of being in love with someone for real. I used to watch movies and when there was a romantic scene/theme, or two characters were in love and one died or something, sure, it was sad. But it’s not even close to how you take it in when you know that feeling. You know that the characters have that indescribable(yes, I spelled that right) emotion that you have for someone else, and it makes you think how you’d feel if you lost that someone. I’m sure most of you don’t know *really* what I’m talking about. Sure, you get it, but you have to really be in love with some to really get that feeling. :sniffle:: Anyway.
Has anyone else noticed that the plots to “Godzilla vs some other random monster” movies are the worst? That’s right. Worse than porn. Everyone knows how bad porn plots are… well, watch an old-skool Godzilla movie. It’ll end and you’ll have no idea what happened besides the fact that underpaid, sweaty guys in monster suits hooked up to wires in plain view of the camera are romping around a city built to 1/16 bad scale and hitting each other, and for some reason sparks fly out of them when they get hit. Who do they think they are, Power Rangers? Jeesh.

Listening to: No Doubt – Hey Baby(what happened? I thought No Doubt was a punk rock group… what is this crap?)

::yawn:: I love break. Oh man it’s great. The last few days I’ve had the luxury of having almost nothing to do… no homework, no work (although I’m working on a few jobs, mostly waiter stuff), ah it’s great. The cool thing about break is that all your friends are free too (unless they’re on vacation, Carley leaves tomorrow for a week, I’m gonna miss her), and so you can call people and they’re ready to go out. I’ve gone on more adventures this week alone than the last few months combined. I don’t know whether to be happy about that or really sad. Whatever.
Last nite Ed and Xaq came over – lots of new pics in the gallery. We also made a bunch of movies with my new cam… so much fun! Check this one out(right click and download). Meat-sa-ball-sa. Hee hee… I know, it makes no sense, but we didn’t time it out or anything so we were amazed that it sounded so perfect.
My sister goes to Brown and is in Spain for a year – but she’s coming home between semesters for all of January… which means I get to have the fun of moving all of my computer stuff into my old, tiny room. I’ve been in her big room since she’s been in college, but I get to move back for a month. Booo.
Tomorrow I’m babysitting from – get this – 11am to 9pm. It’s gonna be a loooong day. I really don’t know what I’m going to do with 3 kids for 9 hours (they go to bed at 8, punk, I didn’t do the math wrong), but I’m sure we’ll play games and watch movies and what not. Also I’m going to breakfast at the ghetto ass hole in the wall place called Sarkis(sar-keys) tomorrow morning with Elliott, a skater buddy of mine(we’ve had some good times at the skateparks) who has been in college the last year. It should be fun. I’m prolly going out with Josh tomorrow or the next day, possibly into the city(Chicago rules!) so I’ll be *sure* to bring my cam.

Well I gotta get some sleep… long day tomorrow. Everyone wish Carley a fun trip. =D

You know who rocks? Tye rocks. Go check him out.

Listening to: Nothing. Hey all you 800x600ers… you suck.

Yeah, I know I’m jewish… I can still say ho ho ho. Well, Christmas was fun… I went to Kent’s “Christmas Party for Jews” – it was lots o’ fun. Let’s see… I was over at Carly’s(not Carley) house the other nite with Ed, Xaq, Ali, Emily, Gavin, and Lauren the other nite… we watched Dogma and Mallrats… such quality flicks. Oh yeah! I finally saw Ocean’s Eleven with Xaq a few days ago – and it’s a must-see. The cast is perfect(except for the super-lame villian played by Andy Garcia… he sucked), the plot was crazy, and the ending had Thomas Crown Affair quality. This movie was great and it gets a big g27.net thumbs up.
I got a new gallery style – so go check it out. I just threw some new pics on there from last nite. Enjoy. Today I chilled with Carley for most of the day – mucho fun. We watched The Matrix and ate dinner, took a few pictures, and then chilled at her house and I just got home from that. Yaaay. Holy crap – someone bought me something from my wishlist! Once I get the present then I’ll do a big review on it and make a big deally-o out of the super-cool chick that bought it for me.

::Yawn:: So sleepy….

Ooh, new additions to the gallery.

What a crazy nite. I went out to see Ocean’s Eleven with Ed and Xaq. When we got there, it was sold out and there were 19 empty seats(the chick mentioned something about a buffer zone or something. Whatever… anyway, so we got tickets to Vanilla Sky which apparently wasn’t sold out because they sold us tickets. We walk into Vanilla Sky and it’s *packed* – there are like 10 empty seats and they’re all spread around. We didn’t wanna be all far away from each other so we sat along the back wall. About an hour into the movie, this manager chick walks into the theater and tells us that we have to leave because you can’t sit along the wall, it’s a fire hazard. Now, ok, I don’t understand that at all. If we were in the way of people getting out, then we’d be a fire hazard. Has it occurred to anyone that we’re going to be running too?! And has anyone ever heard or a fire in a movie theater? So stupid… anyway, so she gives us our money back because they sold us tickets to a movie that there weren’t enough seats in.
So we leave the theater in search for fun – so we went to Brunswick Lanes(a bowling alley that a lot of trashy people go to smoke, play pool, and get arrested). I brought my new digital camera so I thought we could take some crazy pictures. We went in, saw that no one was there(oh yeah, I had two chicks take a picture with me before we went back outside), and went back into the parking lot for action. We found it. We took a couple pictures with a dope ass car and it’s dope ass rims, and then we found the Bobcat. We don’t know why it was in the parking lot, but there was a big digger thingie. We took a few pics in the driver’s seat (the window was smashed in) and then a car zooms by, does a big circle, and stops suddenly right in front of me.

“Hey Peet!”

It was Katie, an old girlfriend(and now friend) of mine. She and her friend Niki were cruising around in Niki’s pimp ass car. We talked to em for a few minutes, and then we took some pics with them. We tested out Niki’s car in the lot, man that thing hauls. Then we stopped it, turned the music up a little bit, and danced on the hood and trunk and whatever. It’s an old car, she doesn’t care. So we’re doing that, we see a few people, whatever.
Then the cops show up. They cruised right up to us, just one cop in a squad car. We weren’t nervous because we hadn’t been doing anything illegal. He tells us that someone called in that “Teenagers in the Brunswick parking lot were seen dancing and gyrating on a car” – one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard a cop say. SInce when is it illegal to gyrate? Katie and Nikie*had* been shaking their groove thangs to the music, so I assume some dork in a minivan called it in. We talked to the cop for a few minutes, got a picture with him, and he said everything was fine. Nice guy.
Then we went into Brunswick and had a few crazy games of pool. Fun stuff.

Go check out the new pics.

Listening to: Jagged Edge, Jermaine Dupri, Lil Bow Wow – Where the Party At Remix

Yaaaay for my new layout! I’ve got 2 frames instead of 5, things load faster, better compatibility over screen resolutions, no more whiny 800x600ers! I’m still working on getting a Comments page for each post, you know, like over at Vandalized. Andy has helped me out a lot in developing my site. He is a good kid. Go visit him.
Anyway, it’s almost break. Finally. I’m gonna add a ton of stuff to my site over the next few weeks because I’m staying in town for once during a break, yay. Linkin Park is coming to Chicago! Q101 is our city alternative station and any members of the Q101 club get to buy tickets 2 days before the public. I’m gonna get some in a half hour when it opens. I’m psyched. Linkin Park is one of my favorite bands and they ROCK live.
I’m also going to make a bunch of cool QTVRs of my room and other places. For those of you who aren’t down with the term, QTVR is one of those movie files that lets you do a 360 degree spin of an area. Lots of fun.
Damn it’s almost time for class, I’ll update when I get home.

Listening to: Linkin Park – Papercut

Last nite was the Mr.DHS competition – for those of you who haven’t been reading my last few posts, Mr.DHS is this big competition/show thing at my school. It’s like a funny beauty pageant/talent show for senior guys – and whoever wins is named “Mr.DHS(Deerfield High School)”. The show was great – the talents were very… mixed. Here’s how it went:
Rory – acted out the Matt Foley motivational speaker from SNL
Keenan – ran around and sang “I would do anything for love” by Meatloaf
Eric – Sang the Ben Harper version of Sexual Healing and played his guitar
Alex – played the trombone
Dan – pretended to breakdance, but just rolled around on the stage and occasionally jumped
Peet(me!) – performed the dance break from an Usher video, then the NSYNC Pop dance break, then the Pop beatbox
Mike – mixed up a bunch of random food items in a blender and drank it on stage
Zander – played the piano and sang a song that he wrote
Peter – recited a poem that he wrote about the Mr.DHS process(learning the group dance, etc)
Ben – did a club-techno-pop/lock dance to Bombs Over Baghdad
Nick – in full costume, presented a sonnet Shakespeare

It was a *great* show and we all had a lot of fun. Rory got 3rd place, Keenan got 2nd, and Peter won. I wasn’t really disappointed because it’s not a big deal anyway. What really made me feel good about it was that *everyone* came up to me(including the guys who won and their moms) and said things like “Dude you were SO robbed you should have won!”. It was crazy.

My dad taped the whole thing and I’m going to try to vidcap it and host it on my site for y’all to enjoy.

It’s almost winter break!

Listening to: I’ve still got my Usher/NSYNC thing stuck in my head.

Sweeet! I got a super-dope digital camera for Hanukah. Check it out. I’m gonna try to set it up as a webcam, but I don’t have any idea how much luck I’ll have. This thing is *amazing*. I went into my room with all the lights off last nite, totally pitch black, and took a quick picture with the flash. It looks like the lights were on. It caught every single color on my posters and got every detail – I was amazed. I’ll take lots of fun pictures when I get home, and maybe make a few movies. I need a bigger CompactFlash card tho, around 128MB. I found one for $45, can anyone do better? Email me.
The big Mr.DHS performance is tomorrow nite! I’m really psyched.

Listening to: Ludacris – Roll Out

So yay STUNTS is over. I don’t have to go to Techs every freakin’ nite til 9 o’freakin clock. I hate that. We had 3 very good shows and then a semi-fun party. We all sat in the cafeteria and ATE. The cast sat at tables and huddled around a TV playing a videotape of the show, while Danielle and I sat in the back at a table eating Cheetos and talking about random stuff with the occasional contribution from Spero. It was much better than hanging with the rest of the people there – talking with Danielle is crazy fun. What a cute chick. Hey, she just IMed me. Neato.
Anyway, so we had a run-thru of the Mr.DHS show – it went *really* well. I’m way beyond psyched for the actual show. Eric thinks I’m gonna win. I can only hope, but I really don’t think I will. I’m performing the dancebreak from an Usher video, then Pop by NSYNC, then I’m performing the beatbox from the end of Pop. It sounded dope. Man I’m pumped.
Tomorrow it looks like I’m gonna chill with my man Kent – we might see Vanilla Sky so check back for a review.

I’m tired.

Listening to: Usher & NSYNC – Dancebreaks n’ Beatbox

Jeez… this sucks. I’ve got stage crew tech til 9 tonite, and a performance Thursday-Saturday nites. The only fun I have during the techs and shows is when the musical theater kids(Word up Danielle!) come chill over in backstage left – they’re really entertaining. Besides that, I sit there and call the few shifts that there are(and of course they’re all marked totally wrong on the shift sheet I was given and had to completely redesign for everyone) so it’s stressful AND boring.

Sounds great, right?

This Friday I’ve got a big paper due. I’m almost finished with it… I just have to find a few parts in one of the books(to cite them) and write the conclusion. Yaaay.

When I get some damn time I’m going to do a mini-redesign of my site. The frames are really getting annoying because I’m trying to make it work for all of y’all cool people out there – and by cool I mean 1024×768-and-higher people. We rock. Oh yeah.
The layout from the bottom navframe up is going to be the exact same except that the sideframes will overlap the bottom and it’ll all just be tables rather than frames. I don’t know exactly what my plan is for keeping the bottom – an iframe? A layer? Does anyone have a suggestion? I’ll try to post my web-design-layout-doodle page that I make during Math class(I’ve got a 97%, I can afford to take some g27.net time) pretty soon. I hate having too much crap to do.
Damn, I gotta get some new rants soon. I’ve also got a big product battle thingie coming up, prolly in the next few weeks.

Read *all* of Matt’s articles. I’ve gotten in trouble at school for laughing so loud when I read them during free periods.

Listening to: Static X – Push It

Damn I’m tired. Eric and I kept staying up way too late and watching TV and what not. I was supposed to pick my parents up from the airport last nite at around 10(they were gonna call me when their flight landed), but I got home from stage crew and there was a message from my mom saying that the flight was going to be way late and that I shouldn’t worry about picking them up. They said they’d wake me up when they got home to say hi and tell me that they were home.

So this morning, I woke up at around 6:40(school starts at 7:30 for me) and I go into my parents room to say hi and ask them how their trip was.

As it turns out, I had already done all that hours earlier.

They had woken me up when they got home, and I supposedly asked them how the trip was and told my mom that I didn’t want another blanket. She told me this morning that she said “Are you sure you don’t need the other one?” and I replied “No I’m good.” It does sound like exactly what I would say to that – but I still can’t believe that I woke up for several minutes and talked to my parents and I can’t remember ANY of it. Not a moment. Usually when you wake up in the middle of the nite you at least remember something you said to someone. I guess I’ll just be content in the fact that I was sleeping so soundly that I just totally forgot.

Whatever. I can’t wait until STUNTS(the school play) is over so I don’t get home at 9pm every day. I’m gonna get a new job after it! Where? I dunno. Any suggestions? Email me.

Listening to: The library… I’m at school.