News 12/2 - 12/8
11/2/01 (kal)
Isn't Christmas here yet? I'm bored of this snowless crap. I remember back in the day when it snowed in early October! Don't doubt me boy, it did. We haven't seen any more from this Dan Pottter since my editing, but I have a feeling he's gonna strike soon. Why can't we all just be friends? Seriously. And Tim told us that this Dan fellow hacked into the official Star Wars site and destroyed it. If this is true (and it's not, Tim's just sticking up for his cousin), then what fun does he get from screwing around with crappy sites like Execrate and Matt-O-Mac? And especially when we have such little self-esteem that we would hack into our own site and destroy it when we're bored. Yeah, this Dan should just lay off. Maybe I should lay off a little on the "fags" and the Harry Potter stuff, because I've already overdone that (as I do with everything else), and what's the point? It just makes 'em angry. And while we really don't care if our site is sabatoged, it would be nicer to have a dumb dysfunctional site than a dumb dysfunctional site that we can't get into. Now beyond all this hacker talk, let's talk Christmas. I was planning on getting Matt-o a Ringo Beatles figure, mainly because he hates and has no respect for Ringo, but because of the national crisis, I'm getting him George. By national crisis, I am of course referring to George's death, just on Thursday. Oh, poor poor George. Sure, he had heart, lung and brain cancer and was stabbed multiple times, but death goes a little too far. Geez. Last night all I was doing was cranking Beatles albums, and this morning Matt-O made me listen to the George album I have, Cloud 9, which has the song "I've got my mind set on you", which Weird Al parodied on Even Worse. I didn't even know that song was a parody, let alone a George Harrison parody. I just downloaded Sober by Tool, cool song with a weird music video, and I'm currently downloading Hush. No idea what it sounds like or what the video's about, but here's the edited lyrics -
I can't say what I want to,
even if I'm not serious.
Things like....
"F*** yourself,
kill yourself,
you piece of s***."
People tell me what to say,
what to think,
and what to play.
I say...
"Go f*** yourself,
you piece of s***.
Why don't you go kill yourself?"
Just kidding.
Ahh, I laugh every time I see that "just kidding". What a crackup, huh? Well the picture of the video that I saw has some naked guy with his unmentionables covered with a Parental Advisory sign, and it's black and white. I'm not sure if the rest of the video's like that. There's only half as much info to download on this as the others, so I'm guessing it's a short video. I don't have much else to write, except I hate all of you, you imaginary viewers, you. Oh, I saw National Lampoon's European Vacation last night on Comedy Central (not as good as Christmas Vacation though, which I highly suggest all of you watch), and the California girl Rusty meets in Italy is Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit Zappa. Her brother's name is Dweezil Zappa. This should reflect the music of Frank Zappa, and it does. Listen to Brown Shoes Don't Make It, a 7:30 minute song about a 13 year old girl who knows how to nasty, or Call any Vegetable, a song about talking to vegetables. Call any vegetable, and the chances are good, the vegetable will respond to you. Check Song of the Day for more Zappa today. Hey, Hush just downloaded, and there are four guys all with tape over their mouthes and Parental Advisory: Explicit Parts covering their front and back. And yes, these four people are Tool themselves! I know because I recognized Adam from a Guitar World interview, but I don't know what any of the others look like, because the current bassist wasn't with them then, and I know what he looks like too. But it's apparantly all about cencorship and how you can't say anything. Boy, I need to get Opiate, Undertow, Salival and Ænima, plus Mer de Noms or whatever that Perfect Circle cd is, and whatever other Perfect Circle cds there are, because Maynard James Keenan is lead singer for both bands, and he's cool. Now die, die, die!
12/3/01 (kal)
Hey, two days in a row of mindless crap! I'm trying to upload the Tool videos onto the site as zip files so you can all download them quickly, but this is taking a while. I'm uploading Ænema, and that's a pretty large file. I probably should have started with Hush, the smallest of all of them; less than 3 minutes! "What?", you ask. "Tool with short songs? Impossible." Au contraire, mon frere. Ah, here's Ænema. On a 56K modem, it should take about 35 minutes. It takes 70 minutes on a 56K modem when it's not zipped, so thank me, thank me. But if this doesn't work, just click these links to get the hour download versions:
Hush
Sober
Prison Sex
Stinkfist
Ænema
Schism
These are all from http://toolshed.down.net, a cool site about... you guessed it, tool. Hopefully my videos are quicker and work, but if not, you can always fall back on those. I'll put links to all these in the links section, so don't worry about forgetting this page later (as if you care). How aboot (to coin a Canadian phrase) a different topic now? Last night I went album searching in my basement, and found 3 new toys to play with (as in albums). Frank Zappa: Hot Rats, Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard: Together (or something like that), and Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick. The Hot Rats album is all instrumental except for Willie the Pimp, but it's still cool. My dad said he only bought the Together album because of Hendrix, but he didn't really listen to it because of Little Richard. And lastly, Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick is one 40 minute song that continues from the front to the back and just kind of moves around in different directions throughout. It apparantly was one of my dad's favorites, so it can't be too bad, considering I listen to all the stuff my dad listens to. Well, gotta go for now, but I'll be back.
12/4/01 (kal)
I'm on a role! Tim says that his cousin is on vacation, and maybe he'll do something thinking time to realize how wrong and immature this hacking thing is. No, probably not, but it was worth a try. I'm not doing much now, except moving the news files around in an orderly fashion. If any don't show up, put it in the guest list. I don't really feel like talking about Tool today, I've got nothing to say. I didn't get anything new, but I think a cd store in newport (Matt-O has agreed to come with me this year [it's a yearly mini-vacation for me]) also has a few vinyls. I have to check it out when I go. Right now, I'm just sitting here, waiting for news to break. I might put up a song of the day, but I dunno. Geez, I'm bored. This rearranging isn't going as planned, apparantly you can't move subdirectories into other subdirectories, as well you should. I think I have the hang of it now, but this all just takes too long. From this point forward and backwards to the Right now, each line is written 5 minutes apart from each other, just keep that in mind. I'm really really bored now. I think I'll just stop for now, and if any breaking news occurs, I'll write about it tomorrow.
12/5/01 (kal)
Hey, I'm doing my English homework right now, which consists of starting a lenghty oral report that's due tomorrow. Oh boy. I'm gonna bring in my guitar and play Here Comes the Sun, for Matt-o's and my own report. I don't really want to play for Matt-o, but apparantly I was drafted into it. He agreed for me. Now I've got some info, enough to probably make a halfway decent report. But because of my brilliant axwork, I should probably get a 3/4way decent grade. I'm guessing a C, because we needed to show Mrs. Large our progress, concerning introductions, outlines, outroductions (is that a word?), and I haven't shown her any. So today she said she'd have to call my mommy, and I'm thinking, "What are you, a 1st grade teacher?" So what if I don't have the intro, as long as there's a good finished effect. Right? Ah, who needs you. I'm looking up lyrics to the Mothers of Invention, because sometimes it's hard to hear them. Seriously, get any Frank Zappa or Mothers of Invention you see, because it's completely awesome. I haven't checked for anymore threats to the site, but I'm about to. C ya Soon! And hopefully cliche web phrases won't be popular anymore by then. Ha!
12/08(?)/01 (Matt)
Man, it's a pain in the ass to edit the news section now but it is more organized. Today I planned for me and Kal to mucially jam but that has gotten postponed as I had to work tonight. I catered to this party for pfizer and they had a band playing, and then I saw the huge BASS. It was awesome, I told the guy before he played that he had the best instrument in the world and he actually let me play it a little. I told him I didn't know how to play but he said that basically anything sounds good on it. So I played the Hash pipe base line on it and it sounded cool, the big bass is alot for comfortable to play than an electric bass (like kal's electric bass "case"). I also tryed to play it like a piano, which is hard to explain. I treated each string like an A, B, C, or D note and would treat pressing a string on the neck like an A sharp, or B sharp, etc. you get the idea (maybe you don't but I think Kal gets it atleast). It sounded good but like the guy said anything on it sounds good it's getting a rhtyhm that's the hard part. But the FUCKING MORONS (yes I'll say the "F" word, which by the way is fuck because Kal's the only one who'll read it) at pfizer had the band go home early as they would rather play a shit slideshow instead. Oh yes vegetarian is now a sware word when referring to vegetarians who can't stick to it(we'll call real ones like Alice vegans). Like this lady who was a vegetarian and ordered a vegetarian meal for the party (remember meals are pre-ordered you're not suppose to change your mind at the last minute) because she was a vegetarian. Note the use of the word vegetarian towards her, apparently a few drinks can make you do anything (like a certain Mom me and kal had a frightning experience with when staying staying at certain freinds house ....cough...Lala Land...) and this vegetarian ask for a plate of TEN JUMBO SHRIMP. When I said she can't have shrimp (this was after she argued with the orginal waiter and demanded to see the "chefs", although we don't make the food we just prep it)and showed her that it's not what she ordered she said "I'm Telling" WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO TELL YOU CRAZY BITCH! WE'RE THE ONE's IN CHARGE! Anyway I'm going to Newport with the Peduzzxxazzzazzai family this next weekend and that'll be cool. And this wek at youth group they talked about abstinence and it would have been very uncomfortable if I was there, I learned all I need to know about sex from cable television and Health Class (although that didn't teach too many new premises). STAR TREK IS BORING.
12/10/01 (kal)
True, this is the tenth, and the page goes from 12/2 - 12/8, but so what. Matt (note the lack of -O-Mac), you read my mind about the swearing. In fact, I was just gonna write something concerning our swearing, because we just don't fucking care anymore. FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK. Boy, Chris was right all along. About Dan POTTTER, he's apparantly on vacation with his Grampa at Pearl Harbor, what a fucking jackass. So this Dan child is about 350 pounds, 7 feet tall, a genius, a jock, and any other good or bad trait, depending on how you look at it. But my question is; if he's a genius, shouldn't he be doing something productive with his time, instead of hacking? Or at least not hacking some shitty web site some 14-year olds made. And how many jocks even use computors, let alone hack into the official Star Wars website? Shit, I'm bored. If you're concerned about the swearing level, it'll die down soon. We just have to make up for the EIGHT FUCKING MONTHS we went without. I'll be back soon, it's time to eat.