It’s been a wild last few days, that’s for damn shit sure.
Concert first. Yellowcard was awesome. I found out the easy way that I like them. The hard way is to buy their albums and pray for that miraculous moment that they’d come to a school near me. Instead I was in the middle of a mosh-pit rocking out and worrying about breaking a leg or something whenever someone would fall. It was crazy. I fell on a girl, Lindsey fell on me, a big fat dude fell on her, and somehow we were all fine.
So report card time:
Weird Al = B; points taken off for feeling like a loser when I told the wrestling coach why I was skipping practice that day (after we left he told some teammates that if we were going to ANY other concert he would’ve been mad, but figured we wouldn’t get into any trouble for going to Weird Al).
Keith Urban = A-; there was a huge ass crowd, he’s really talented and liked showing off how awesome he is at the guitar. Not an A or A+ because I’d like to think someday I’ll see an A or better and don’t want Urban to be it.
Yellowcard = B+; it was certainly intense and they were good, but it wasn’t like a huge event that I was impressed with. No crazy solos or wild light shows or stuff like that. But I found out I recognized more songs than I thought I even knew and the crowd was really into it. It probably helped that we were in the middle of it all.
Then went to bed way too late, woke up too damn early, went to class, skipped a class to go running, and drove to the cities.
Wow. I’ve never driven in the cities and I did an alright job but my lack of confidence showed when it came to “you have to take this exit” cause I was so unfamiliar with where we were going. I didn’t really look at any maps and just was like “Tony, lead us there!” and then Linds was all like, “I’ll figure it out, lil bitch Bryce” and then they were like, “yeah we got it figured out lil bitch Bryce” and then they were like, “Lil bitch, you should’ve taken that exit.” But somehow we made it to the game like just in time for the game.
We got spanked.
Then HP and the skank mall. There apparently was a club in the mall, but if you didn’t know that, like we didn’t’ for a while, you could’ve swore we were about to get shot for not paying our hookers. HP was great though, worth the wait. I’ll let the experts go into detail on how it could’ve been better. Part I didn’t like, sitting front and center.
Then went to bed way too later and woke up with about 6 hrs of sleep again. Went down One Ways like they were MY- WAYS! Yeah, whose the lil bitch now? Even intimidated a cop into passing a ticketing opportunity when we were illegally parked waiting for Tony and his bagels.
By the end I was glad to be back home and even gladder that it was going to be a short week.
Now I go play basketball cause Chris Smith is finally back from Wal-Mart. What a lil bitch.
November 20th, 2005
I normally get a pretty good idea that I should post when Lindsey goes, “Christ Bryce, are you ever gonna post again or what?”
So this one is for Lindsey…
Let’s see. Lots to post about I guess.
Spur has gone weekly. That means I have no weeks off and am pretty much doing the same amount of work. . . actually more. I forgot that now we have to edit our own photos. Doesn’t seem that hard but I’ve screwed it up almost every week and it takes so damn long to do it. I’ll bet the five photos I edited took an hour or more Monday night.
This issue we also had a record low for stories from the Sports section, just two stories. Granted we have only two sports currently participating: volleyball (in the NCAA Division II tournament) and wheelchair basketball. So we covered volleyball and did a news story on our Athletic Director which I thought worked out nicely.
I am realizing how freakin’ slow my computer is. I can’t stand it. I can’t open Firefox and have Itunes function at all. And all that with Azureus running and good luck. This never used to happen and it makes me want to upgrade my computer more. Therefore my wishlist would look like this: new motherboard, graphics card, a nice processor, a second harddrive (300 GB would be pretty awesome), and a DVD burner. Oh how I wish upon a STAR! But if anyone is reading this that may want to get me any of this for Christmas or birthdays forget it, I’m very particular and you’re probably anal about making sure it’s a surprise.
Any excitement recently? Grandma’s wood pile seriously impresses the shit out of me. We conquered an old outdoor fireplace in the process to free up some room. But to our horror we discovered my aunt Sue is a sick little girl. We found a tea saucer in the pit of the fireplace. It doesn’t take owning your own brewing company to know that means she burned her poor doll to death! She always loved playing Waco, Texas.
I have been extremely busy lately, just ask Lindsey. My schedules tend to be classes, hr or so break, Schwan’s from 4-9pm and then homework or Spur. All that while taking 18 credits makes me very nervous about next semester when I may be taking 21. But what a story some day for the kids, I’d own them. “Daddy we don’t want to clean up you’re vomit from drinking too much on a Tuesday night!” “You know, when I was in college I was taking 25 credits while being editor-in-chief of the city newspaper and all while working my way to the top of Schwan’s! And I didn’t complain at all!” “Yeah daddy, cause you drank” “That’s right kids, daddy drank”
Scary, huh?
It really hasn’t taken my long to write this much, makes me feel guilty for not posting more.
This weekend will probably deserve a post. David’s Birthday is right around the corner, Friday for you ladies who wish to call him, and we’ve all got big plans. Trip to the Twin Cities, watch the biggest upset of U of M’s history, go eat at some burger joint, Linds consummates their marriage, and Harry Potter 4 just before we trash Tyler’s place… then Lindsey and David do it again. Gross. I should say something.
Tomorrow of course is the Yellowcard concert and I think my conversation with Bartley sums up a lot of people’s opinions about the concert:
Bryce- so you going to the Yellowcard concert
Bartley- yeah, I’ll be there
Bryce- so, do you know any Yellowcard songs?
Bartley- not really, I downloaded all their songs last night though
Bryce: me too, have you listened to them yet?
Bartley- No, not yet
Bryce: me neither
Bartley- but I’ll bet I’ll be their biggest fan after the concert
Bryce- yeah, maybe I’ll want to listen to the songs I pirated.
Made the conversation come to life didn’t I?
Well, that’s all for now. I’ll try and remember to post after this weekend since it’ll be fresh stuff.
November 16th, 2005