Adam Gerard
[Recent Entries][Archive][Friends][User Info]
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Adam Gerard" journal:[<< Previous 20 entries]
|
12:17 am
[Link] | around and around and around it goes, evolving between the twists and turns of the tangled tree
clouds rush by the elusive moon, and on and on and on it goes...
|
|
01:03 pm
[Link] |
breakfast
This morning, I made my omelet with chili palm oil from Nigeria and these hot peppers from Nigeria which the African market dude had warned me, while laughing, not to eat. So i was eating it. It was going well, really yummy as I had sautéed the peppers in the palm oil, tho my eyes were watering due to the spiciness. But I am you know, a real man, so i can take the pain. So i subconsciously rubbed my right eye, as the tearing was causing it to start to itch... with a finger i had just picked up a stray piece of oil-coated avocado with. I got the oil IN my eye and proceeded to run around the apartment like a wild boar, releasing numerous profanities, until Amber caught me and administered many eye drops. That didn't work, so i went to the sink and she sprayed my eye with the sprayer until the my eyelid had flipped inside out and at last, the searing pain subsided. So that's my morning omelet eating saga
Current Music: blutengel
|
|
06:14 pm
[Link] | I resist cliche, and I have always been incapable of living with or even comprehending the passage of time. So how could it be that I feel like this, as spring sets in?
Spring. An arbitrary range on a man-made calendar, accepted in loose accordance with an arbitrary tilting motion made by the arbitrary planet that we, a population of anomalous and VAGUELY sentient beings, arbitrarily live on.
Yet it is all there.
All of it.
Literally feeling a tingling in my frontal lobes, as I am increasingly able to communicate with everything outside of my head.
As close as I get to the illusion of happiness, because I am living in what the future could bring.
Not hating life. Just for the moment?
Who cares.
|
|
05:00 pm
[Link] | I spent the last 4 hours at the RI tax dept.. and i only put half the required money in the parking meter. When I returned to the car, the meter maid was there, and she said to me, "Yoah pokking wiz expaahid in ah wiz ginna give yous a ticket, buut dose stuffed gawldfish on yoah dash boahd wiz so [skrieking voice]CUTE[/shrieking voice] I just didn't have the HOT!".
Yes, the average Rhode Islander actually does speak like that.
|
12:04 am
[Link] | Spring is a wonderful time for change.
Listening to Blutengel, over and over and over..
|
|
11:40 am
[Link] | Went to Weekapaug, RI last night because the place is penn & teller (I'd heard about it in passing for a long time, but had never been there). Used the woods, got stuffed on fresh seafood (way too much of it) in Galillee. But none of that is really interesting. What I saw on the horizon in Narraganset across the street from Stop & Shop, after a long day of driving around aimlessly, was truly glorious to behold:
http://www.adum.org/misc/dunkin-glory/
|
|
04:36 pm
[Link] |
Epitaph
Here are some pictures of the epitaph (from my last post) -
http://www.adum.org/mtl06/
|
|
11:42 am
[Link] |
radio
It's still quite a work in progress, but feel free to check out my shoutcast station - http://mercy.prism.net:8000
Make requests, point out errors, e-mail me requests (with the mp3 attached :)
|
|
09:12 pm
[Link] |
wet blanket
I really pride myself in not being judgemental in how people get their kicks.
I'm just finding it harder and harder as time goes on to watch people getting really passionate about cheering for athletes, these whiny multi-millionaires with their contrived facial hair arrangements, throwing a ball around and patting each other on the ass as tho under the influence of absynthe in some sort of ancient Greek boot camp for the mentally challenged homosexual aristocracy.
..but it isn't the empty hero worship that bothers me. It isn't the fact that it only matters to people because people have arbitrarily arrived at a consensus that it matters. As I watch these macho beer drinking boffoons yell at the tv, all I can think about is the actual army people, getting paid an abysmal salary while actually getting shot at, actually getting blown up, and being in actual danger, for no reason which anyone has been able to adequately explain to me. And the boffoons, while cheering for the bruteish closet cases, honestly couldn't care less. Pride themselves on not caring. And keep drinking their cheapass beer.
Anyway, I hate feeling like this, because as I said, I try not to judge people. I've gotten my kicks in some pretty esoteric ways myself.
I think I just need to take a deep breath and go to bed.
|
|
10:15 am
[Link] |
question of the whatever!
If one truely believes in tolerance, mustn't one tolerate the intolerant?
|
|
06:27 pm
[Link] | images.google.com Photo Survey if you dare
|
|
05:10 pm
[Link] | Just returned from St. Maarten, for Christmas - New Year's.
PIX!@
http://www.adum.org/sxm
Current Music: wumpscut - i want you
|
|
01:19 pm
[Link] |
my Horoscope - m00se droppings e-zine, issue #1, 6/17/88
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21) You are optimistic and enthusiastic. You have a
reckless tendency to rely on luck since you have no talent. The majority of
Sagittarians are drunks and potheads. People laugh at you a lot because you
are always getting fucked.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
03:23 pm
[Link] |
escape --------------------death.
|
ignorance | dishonesty
|
|
--innocence ---survival------------comfort
|
|
art wisdom spirituality
innocense
n : white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda
|
03:17 pm
[Link] |
contradictions for the day
Romantic Love
Honest Businessman
|
|
12:11 pm
[Link] |
spider
'pider, 'pider, on the wall
why is it you do not crawl?
are you fried on LSD?
NO!
you're STUCK, with tape I can not see!
oh, 'pider,
how boring it must be!
Current Music: vnv nation - legion
|
|
10:16 am
[Link] |
duluth
Spent the day in Duluth last sunday -
http://www.adum.org/duluth
I think my favorites are
|
|
02:52 pm
[Link] |
grep
yea, I stand steadfast in my submission to you,
that the cat known as Grep
http://www.adum.org/lars&grep/grep-1.jpg
is but one feline entity, and therefore SHOULD be referred to, in the appropriate times, as "Grepper",
nay, not "Greppers", as is currently the case.
This blatant disregard to the modern vernacular within my proprietary social enclave must be stopped.
Current Music: random namnambulu
|
|
01:23 pm
[Link] |
Teller
ALMOST forgot - after the show, P & T stood on opposide sides of the aisle leading out of the theater, holding markers. I walked up to Teller (I was the first one to leave the theater), and said to him, 'you exist!' He looked at me sort of strange and chuckled nervously. I asked if there were any way he could give me an autograph. He paused for a moment and said, "well, I'm standing here with a marker and not doing anything else, so, why not?" I said, 'fine' and handed him my ticket stub. I then proceeded to get Penn's autograph across the aisle, on his book ("Sock") which I bought, and on two post cards.
Current Music: something bad from an eharmony commercial
|
12:46 am
[Link] |
viva las vegas
Just got back from Las Vegas - a surreal time as usual, made even more surreal when I lost my glasses. well worth it tho!
pictures at: http://www.adum.org/viva
left the house at 5:30 am last saturday, walked/took bus to the light rail stop, took light rail to the airport. talked to a nice woman from st louis on the rail. really nice. flew, got baggage, checked into the excalibur. there was a sideshow in the lobby where this guy was doing the 'robot' all too well to random 80s music. i'm not even kidding, he was amazing. never know how impressive that could be. unloaded luggage. got sunblock and took lots of pictures at the cvs. went to in-n-out burger - mother of narf. crispy buttery toasted buns, juicy meat, tons of toppings. mmmmm. took a while to navigate to it by foot, walking under bridges and over good old highway 15. went to jack in the box across the street afterwards and it sucked. wandered aimlessly about the strip, passed out in hotel room.
sunday - woke up, packed, got an insanely huge buffet with infinite champagne at the excalibur. staggered to the mgm; watched a pilot episode of 'south beach' at this rating venue; got to rate what we thought of it. thought it sucked. took the new tram to the other end of the strip. i can't believe it took them that long to build a tram. it was great tho. accidentally went to the regular hilton hotel (the one with the star trek theme - pretty zany decor/props). went and checked into the hilton grand vacations time share place. set up the wireless access point before taking my shoes off. wanted to be able to work from the jacuzzi. walked to the nearby albertsons, talking to some weird guy on the way. got $150 of grocieries (the hotel had a full kitchen). took the bus back. went swimming. ooooooh did we ever go swimming. i love swimming. the water was so warm, and it's just amazing how fast you dry off when you get out of the pool when you're in the desert. the warm, dry wind - it's almost as fun as the swimming itself. passed out.
woke up monday morning to ringing phone. yep, i worked from the hotel room. that sucked, but, it worked, which was impressive. lovely ip phones. was fed pina coladas by sarah while working. oh man those were good. done working at 2pm due to the time zone difference. INSANE wind outside. wandered around in the wind.
tuesday, woke up to more phone ringing. said screw work at around noon. told them i wasn't going to work for the rest of the day or wednesday. went downstairs to the time share presentation we had to go to. i was kind of nervous about it, but i gave them the "i have an insane amount of IRS debt" line, and it worked like a CHARM. they didn't even finish the presentation. time shares. gay. did some hardcore mad insane wandering adventuring fear & loathing style. decided to rent a convertible. rented it. a brand new mustang with a pretty horrorshow engine. drove to a fatburger. holy mother of mercy. fatburger. it really doesn't get any better than that, as the name implies. ate burgers in a nearby plot of desert near some office buildings. drove back, went back to our hotel room, chilled in the jacuzzi with several bottles of champagne. i'm pretty sure i frogged myself out (let the water get hotter and hotter til i started cooking). transferred to the bed. that bed ruled btw.
woke up thursday morning. got some gifts at the mgm, mailed some post cards, went straight for the covertible, and drove straight into the desert. took pictures, frolicked, drove on the open desert roads. sucked having to leave, as always; got to the airport, checked in, and found out at the gate that the plane had some sort of critical mechanical problem, and they had canceled the flight; had to hang around til midnight for the next one. didn't get to MN until 3:30am. steph drove us back. THANK YOU STEPH. got home close to dawn, just in time to sleep for 2 hours and work again.
moo!
|
[<< Previous 20 entries] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
vlaad's journal