I'm thinking that summer is not the time of year to make posts. so that'll likely not happen for a little while.
However, for reference sake, tonight i had a good time, hung out with kent and dave till about midnight, then me and kent went to play some ball for a few hours, had a good chat about our summer goals, then some guys showed up, and we played some ball with them for a while, they gave us a few beer. I'm going to have a pretty sick black eye from the bball. Later we went back to their house, had some more beer, and we left. Good times though. met a few guys that i'll probably share some drinks with this year.
The posts will be few and far between, if you want to know what's up, feel free to write an email. simonthelikeable@hotmail.com
to start, i'll write something that kent typed up today, it's pretty solid, so read up folks. And the contridiction in the first sentance made me grin.
Simon, if there's anything I want you to realize, it might be two things. Dave writes in Pig "forget this tired notion that the best is yet to come" so whether you're in BC waiting to come home or home waiting for your next adventure, you should be considering the fact that you do have a role to play in making every day great and memorable. Secondly, beauty surrounds us and should be appreciated so look for it and enjoy it when you find it.
"You have a role to play in making every day great and memorable." - kent.
I like that so much. Thumbs up.
I'm going to talk about my last few days in res.
It was pretty hard saying bye to everyone. I found that tuesday was the first weird day, it seemed like everyone was moving all of their stuff. I wasn't really ready for it all to end, but it sorta had to.
Thursday was my last night in res. I was in my room, drinking some whisky and coke, and colin came by. I was really happy to see him, we went to the lounge, drank, and then set out to find people, see what else was going on. We didn't find many people, cause alot of people had moved out. I thought i'd take a page out of dave's book, and steal myself a fire extinguisher. We went to Jessica's room with it, and hung out with them for a little while, and drank. I went to the bathroom, and bent the thing on the door so it couldn't open properly. I blame the alcohol. I also returned with another fire extinguisher.
I had a shot of something that jess gave me, and it was pretty good smelling and bad tasteing, so i decided to go for a small walk to stop feeling rotton. I went to my room, played some guitar, and returned about a half hour later, with a third and final fire extinguisher. I was drinking out of a five alive carton, it was mixed with a variety of things.
We went to a house party, with a bunch of people we didn't know. Being my last night around here, i figured i'd not hold back with comments about the attractiveness of the female population, or inquiring to whether or not there was any bud floating around the party. There wasn't, by the way. So we left the party after about 20 minutes. Went to the bars. We (me and colin) went to the back of the bar, to finish off our drinks. i figure i had my share of alcohol, i was feeling good. Me and colin go in to splashes and do whatever people do in bars, it was a pretty good time.
When we got back, we went for the fire extinguishers, and went outside and shot them around, they had a weird smell, but i tried not to inhale too much. Then we through them somewhere, and went back inside. We got some food from varius sources, and ate it in the lounge, it was pretty sweet, we were all still so very drunk. With the possible exception of janna, who was laughing at all of us. At around 4 i figure i passed out. Some RA woke me up in the lounge at about 6:30, and tim woke me up from bed at around 8:30, so that he could give me a drive home. I was hurting, but in a good post-fun sort of way.
I had a chew of tobacco on the drive to nelson, first time doing that. I enjoyed it briefly untill i threw up. If you ever chew tobacco, spit a whole bunch, cause if you swallow it, it makes you sick. Tim laughed at me when i threw up, and i felt really good about it. I wasn't ashamed or anything. i think i really like tim, and i'll miss him alot.
on a bit of a tim-tangent here, i kinda felt like he acted like an older brother (he's 22 if that matters). Possibly because i dont know how an older brother acts. But yeah, when we played basketball together, it seemed like he'd try to coach me, try to help me play good. Even when he was against me, he was helping me out. When i threw up, he said lots of first time chewers get sick. One night he helped me find some weed when everyone else had had their fill, and he half burnt his fingers when he was lighting the roach. I got pretty frigging choked saying goodbye to that guy. And it pretty much took me untill the car ride home to realize how good of a guy he is.
So yeah, then i find myself in nelson, with my dad, it was good to hang out with him for a while. He's a pretty sweet dad. yeah.
I dont think i have anything left to say, other then thanks for the post josh, it made me feel good.
three days.
I've obviously missed alot in the online community. Josh had a good day at work, then slept in the following day. Aine got back from pei, and is dealing with exams and looking forward to going home to pei, and Dave has abolished his template that he once cherished so much. Dave also ridded his blog of comments. Chronologically speaking, it may not have necessarily been Aine's lead. But i suppose it's the source of inspiration that matters.
I was talking to Lindsay today, about my planned post. And to be honest, earlier today, i was quite excited about making it. I was doing alot of thought about memories i've got. And it was fun thinking along those lines. I believe i'll try again. But i can't promise this will work out as well as i'd like it to.
I think what i'll try and do is put up a list of my twenty favorite memories. These of course are only the ones that come to mind, i'm sure i'll be forgetting some. But then the memories wouldn't really be remembered, so the list will remain accurate.
note: these are not in order.
The car drive
If you were part of this, you'd know it. This was the evening that me, josh, dave and lindsay went off in my mother's corolla, and had what i would discribe to be a perfect evening. Dave and Linds were in the back converging in some fashion towards the center seat. Josh and myself were in the front, and we were singing along with the songs on the radio. Doesn't sound like much, does it. If you only knew. (this memory also includes earlier that evening, when aine was present. That's what's going on, nothing's fine, i'm torn).
Dave at SPAC
How much can i really say? probably alot. but i wont bore you all. This was just an amazing evening. #41/Everyday still makes me smile. Ants felt like it was for me, i like that feeling.
The Green and White thingy
I wouldn't have said "thingy" if i knew what it was called. This was something that me and kent went to, it was just a great evening. I felt at all times like i was doing what i wanted to be doing. I was doing something different, for the first time in too long. And i felt like i was being myself, i liked it.
My two nights in penticton
These were likely my two most favorite drunken nights of the year. It seemed like nothing could go wrong. If i was violently ill, then i'd be blacked out during that time, if i was turned down by some hot chick, then i was too drunk and/or high to care. I laughed a ton, both times, and had simply brilliant times.
The night at shan's house
If you were there, then you likely know how important this was to me. If you weren't there, i'll give a quick low-down on what made it special for me. I played guitar for people. And i believe they enjoyed it. This was probably the first time that i felt like i was able to play music, and entertain people. And it made me very very happy.
Matthew Good Concert
The amount of inspiration that i'm working with pretty much doubled. This man impressed me so very much. The vocals really blew me away. I had a great time.
Guitar with Brooke
To set the scene, there's this girl, brooke, i heard here at an open mike once before, and to say the absolute least, i was floored. One of the best voices i've ever heard. Hop off the stage jewel, because i would like to hear brooke sing a few songs. Yeah, it's definately like that. So anyway, there was one morning, i was sitting in the lounge, around 4:00-5:00 in the morning, and i'm studying for my exam at 1:00 pm. And brooke shows. Sentance fragment. I have my guitar handy, for periodical study breaks. I ask her if she'd like to play a few songs. Basically through the run of about 4 hours we take turns playing songs for one another. And it was pretty freaking beautiful. Highlights for me included tunes by counting crows, ben harper, and the song "romeo and juliet" by whomever. Stunning stuff.
Memory = Simon + Kent + Jenna + Dispatch
This was just fun times. Me and kent go pick up jenna while we're doing our rounds. Me and kent did this time to time, because from time to time, everyone would be working. So we'd hit up the normal spots: the fitzroy house, sobeys, dan mcrae's, jenna's, and from time to time, the awkward house. On this sunny day, after sobeys, we went to jenna's house, asked her basically, if she'd like to come out and play. She did. While in the car, some highlights include me leaving the front passenger seat to go out my door, and in through the back door, then out the back door, and over the trunk, and into the other back door, and then kent driving by holding onto the steering wheel and running along side of the car. All while dispatch was making us all smile, and jenna was having a cute smile. Bottom line, it was a fun day. (note: at the end of the day in question, i found myself and jenna's watching fight club, and i asked her out. This relationship would blossom for up to three days, before spiraling down, in the following three days).
Albany
I know i already mentioned the dave concert. But this night in albany was something special all in it's own. I very much enjoyed the basketball we played. And the walk around town, with the discovery of that all night museum was something that i consitered extraordinary.
S.E.D.M.H.A.
This was hard to think about, in that it gives as many bad memories as good ones. Good: I loved it there. Bad: I've never felt that much of a rush since then, and i likely never will. I think my major problem with my life right now is that i'm not playing sports. I'm going to do my best to play a ton of basketball over the summer. And then i'll try and play ball next year. I know that chances are slim to none, and slim likely already purchised a bus ticket to leave town. Non refundable. But hey, no shame in trying.
Random evening.
There was a night at lindsay's. I remember enjoying myself alot. I think the people there were me, dan, linds, and carley. I dont remember much, except for dan lying under a cover and proping up his knee so it appeared he had a giant penis. My apologies to all involved if dan is actually kent, but i thought dan.
Another Guitar Tale
After walking out into the woods with Arlynn, Julia, and Joe. I played guitar for the three of them for quite some time, then Julia and Joe went to get blankets and i played for Arlynn for a while. Then they came back. I was singing loudly. It was just a good night. I likely could stress that enough, but as of now, i havn't. Which means the goodness is well worth stressing.
Canada Day Weekend
This mostly just has to do with my involvement with amie during said time period. Nobody has ever known me so well, and liked me so much for who i am. I really felt like something good for a little while. Too bad she's getting married. That train has sailed.
18th birthday
I've classified this day before as being the best day of my life. I dont know if i'd still back that comment, but it's surely up there. If this day was only special because it was the day i got my guitar, then it'd be special enough, but oh no, that's not all. And i begin: Late the night before, i planned on listening to apparitions, as soon as i turned 18. But it ended up being a game time decision. Strange Days it is. Disapointed i was not. All in all, i listened to about 5 different songs, headphones on. Looking down into my basement. It was a nice quiet place for me. Looking into the darkness downstairs. I heard all my favorites, Strange days, apparitions, Mr Jones, Hang. probably more. I dont remember them all. Anyhoo, that was the start of my day. School that day, was just nuts. I honestly felt for the first time, like i was something special at school. i felt like i frigging owned the place. I carried my book around all day, getting people to sign it. Some of you know what book i mean. I walked into mr cody campell's class, and he left for a minute, and told me to watch his students. These were grade 11 students. It was pretty cool. "What stuff do you guys want to learn about?" i asked. After some rambling i heard a muffled voice say "double yuh double yuh two". I thought it was suitable. I drew a horrible map on the board, asking the students for names of european countries. I had a boot drawn for italy. And i couldn't remember what the scandanavian countries were. There was sweden, finland, and denmark i think. But there was some confusion over something there. Something came up about the language spoken in those places, i said something about the language being finish. But i chose to write it on the board with a PH. thus: phinish. I'm assuming you had to be there, cause i'm not there now, and it doesn't seem funny. But it really was funny at the time, and that's what counts. These people were certainly my peers, and yet, they listened to what i was saying, and were entertained by it. After some more stuff, i left, and went to my chemestry class. I was about 25 minutes late. I told Hadley where i was. Class went on as scheduled.
At one point, i said something which was odd to say, and hadley said he'd make me run laps. I asked him, if i could go run laps. It was raining at the time. he said soemthing about climbing the soccer nets, and being struck by lightning, but it didnt' matter, mind was made, i was gone. After running twice around the field i was soaked, people were yelling "yeah simon" from the windows of the school. I went back indoors, to cody campbell's class, "hey guys, it's raining out, just to let you know" i say. Then i go back to chem, apparently the teacher to the math class next door, came and got hadley, by the ear, took him out in the hall and told him to make sure his students weren't interupting her class anymore. I liked this.
That was my day at school, afterwords, i went out for supper with a group of people who have been my best friends over the years. It was pretty sweet. I got a guitar for my birthday.
Andrea
There was one night with andrea that was pretty rad. but nobody but me should care.
Pizza hut
One night, outside of pizza hut some people played a cover of faith, which turned out to be by limp bizkit. that was fun.
I think i'm really reaching now. I'm sure i had more, i'll just get the good ones out.
Dan McRae: the meeting of
The first night i met dan mcrae was a night of laughter and discovery of someone who was very much like myself. It was a fantastic discovery. I dont believe i'm the only one who feels the need to say "jinga jinga jinga."
Shoehorn
Some things should not be said in a public place such as dairy queen. We said them. And i believe my life is enriched because of it.
Couple of Quotes
"We were stealing the free cookies?"
"Oh man, i got really drunk last night, now i have a girlfriend"
"They all had huge loads and they kept coming and coming"
I think i'm pretty much done. I'm home in 4. That'll be neat.
Today i was watching a fan special on the dave matthews band, and there was a girl who went to columbine high school that is a big fan of the band, and when her friend got shot she wrote on the casket "Celebrate we will, Cause life is short but sweet for certain." it made me think, maybe you'll do the same.
In other less sombre news today, i was playing guitar in my room at around 3pm when a gentleman by the name of morgan walks in, he asks me if i'm interested in having a keyboard. I emphatically say yes. He gives me a keyboard. Tells me if i can afford to pay him like $40 or $50 then that'd be cool, but if i can't swing it, then that's okay too. Well sir, i'm pleased to say that i own a keyboard. And it's good, 210 different sounds on it, comes with a stand. I'm going to do my best to learn the keys this summer, as well as improve my guitaring. I think this keyboard can do nothing but help me musically. And if i'm in a band, which i might be (you guys know who you are) then this will help all of us. In case anyone is curious, i'm going to do my best to pay the guy his monies.
by the way, holy shit, i have a keyboard in my room, and i own it.
Keep living everyone.
When i'm done exams, i'll play guitar, and i'll be feeling pretty good about it.
I had a pretty solid weekend. I now have one exam finished off, i did quite well, but i wasn't worried about it, so meh. It's these next two that are trouble, we'll have to see how it goes. I really have nothing to say, just thought i'd post so that i could throw in the next two quotes, cause i like them.
"Our guitars are more clitoris substitutes than phallus ones. We stroke them in a nicer, gentler way." - Jonny Greenwood
and what cody said to me last night before packing it in:
"like the fat kid in dodgeball, i'm out."
"It is also rumored that Radiohead are negotiating with Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario for a show on August 16."
DMB may have more tallent in anything from songwriting to soloing to drumming. But radiohead is my style. I can now say with a sense of confidence that Radiohead is my favorite band.
This is a big deal for me.
When the new album is heard by me, it will be very good.
True love waits. if i could sing it i would.
I'm kinda wigging out now. in both a good and a bad way. It's like there's a big ball of clay in my lungs, which is weighing me down, slowing me down. I'm angry with it. If i can get it out, into my hands, then i'll be able to mold it into something beautiful. Metaphorically speaking, i could mold it into wings, and fly.
I wanted to end with that, cause i like it alot. But i feel like i have some more less important things to say. In my mind, i feel like i have potential to be a good singer. But i find it really hard to open up. Matthew Good started playing guitar when he was 20. I want to be matt good, i dont want to be dave genn. There are hundreds of other dave Genn's. Thousands. And you could probably raise someone to be what dave is. But matt does something that can't be taught.
How can anybody strive to do anything that isn't music? why didn't i know how amazing music is when i was graduating from West Royalty School. Then i could've gone into music at Queen Charlotte, and i'd be better at knowing things now. Probably. Maybe not.
i think gatorade says it best when they ask "is it in you?" You know, gatorade, i'm not sure. i'll get back to you on that.
Some of the highlights of reading old posts were dave's comment: "Besides, wouldn't you want to, uh, deposit your money into a slot rather than just banging it on the table?" and one of kent's comments which seemed to have no bearing on any conversation, Kent: "I'm happy"
Yeah, it's all good. As i said in an early post, "yay life"
You should all check out June 24th for the post entitled "best quote ever", i had almost forgotten. Heh, good show em.
FEEL THE FURY OF
THE FIVE FOOT'A
FIVE DOLLA MAKE YA
HOLLA 9:30 PM
IN DA WOODZ
pei simon
do you guys ever get flyers slid under your door? This one struck me as odd.
and i feel as though i have to add that pei was initially spelled peei, with the second e crossed out.
However, for reference sake, tonight i had a good time, hung out with kent and dave till about midnight, then me and kent went to play some ball for a few hours, had a good chat about our summer goals, then some guys showed up, and we played some ball with them for a while, they gave us a few beer. I'm going to have a pretty sick black eye from the bball. Later we went back to their house, had some more beer, and we left. Good times though. met a few guys that i'll probably share some drinks with this year.
The posts will be few and far between, if you want to know what's up, feel free to write an email. simonthelikeable@hotmail.com
Say yes.
to start, i'll write something that kent typed up today, it's pretty solid, so read up folks. And the contridiction in the first sentance made me grin.
Simon, if there's anything I want you to realize, it might be two things. Dave writes in Pig "forget this tired notion that the best is yet to come" so whether you're in BC waiting to come home or home waiting for your next adventure, you should be considering the fact that you do have a role to play in making every day great and memorable. Secondly, beauty surrounds us and should be appreciated so look for it and enjoy it when you find it.
"You have a role to play in making every day great and memorable." - kent.
I like that so much. Thumbs up.
I'm going to talk about my last few days in res.
It was pretty hard saying bye to everyone. I found that tuesday was the first weird day, it seemed like everyone was moving all of their stuff. I wasn't really ready for it all to end, but it sorta had to.
Thursday was my last night in res. I was in my room, drinking some whisky and coke, and colin came by. I was really happy to see him, we went to the lounge, drank, and then set out to find people, see what else was going on. We didn't find many people, cause alot of people had moved out. I thought i'd take a page out of dave's book, and steal myself a fire extinguisher. We went to Jessica's room with it, and hung out with them for a little while, and drank. I went to the bathroom, and bent the thing on the door so it couldn't open properly. I blame the alcohol. I also returned with another fire extinguisher.
I had a shot of something that jess gave me, and it was pretty good smelling and bad tasteing, so i decided to go for a small walk to stop feeling rotton. I went to my room, played some guitar, and returned about a half hour later, with a third and final fire extinguisher. I was drinking out of a five alive carton, it was mixed with a variety of things.
We went to a house party, with a bunch of people we didn't know. Being my last night around here, i figured i'd not hold back with comments about the attractiveness of the female population, or inquiring to whether or not there was any bud floating around the party. There wasn't, by the way. So we left the party after about 20 minutes. Went to the bars. We (me and colin) went to the back of the bar, to finish off our drinks. i figure i had my share of alcohol, i was feeling good. Me and colin go in to splashes and do whatever people do in bars, it was a pretty good time.
When we got back, we went for the fire extinguishers, and went outside and shot them around, they had a weird smell, but i tried not to inhale too much. Then we through them somewhere, and went back inside. We got some food from varius sources, and ate it in the lounge, it was pretty sweet, we were all still so very drunk. With the possible exception of janna, who was laughing at all of us. At around 4 i figure i passed out. Some RA woke me up in the lounge at about 6:30, and tim woke me up from bed at around 8:30, so that he could give me a drive home. I was hurting, but in a good post-fun sort of way.
I had a chew of tobacco on the drive to nelson, first time doing that. I enjoyed it briefly untill i threw up. If you ever chew tobacco, spit a whole bunch, cause if you swallow it, it makes you sick. Tim laughed at me when i threw up, and i felt really good about it. I wasn't ashamed or anything. i think i really like tim, and i'll miss him alot.
on a bit of a tim-tangent here, i kinda felt like he acted like an older brother (he's 22 if that matters). Possibly because i dont know how an older brother acts. But yeah, when we played basketball together, it seemed like he'd try to coach me, try to help me play good. Even when he was against me, he was helping me out. When i threw up, he said lots of first time chewers get sick. One night he helped me find some weed when everyone else had had their fill, and he half burnt his fingers when he was lighting the roach. I got pretty frigging choked saying goodbye to that guy. And it pretty much took me untill the car ride home to realize how good of a guy he is.
So yeah, then i find myself in nelson, with my dad, it was good to hang out with him for a while. He's a pretty sweet dad. yeah.
I dont think i have anything left to say, other then thanks for the post josh, it made me feel good.
three days.
I havn't posted for a while. I'm going to do a post. Thank goodness for logic.
I've obviously missed alot in the online community. Josh had a good day at work, then slept in the following day. Aine got back from pei, and is dealing with exams and looking forward to going home to pei, and Dave has abolished his template that he once cherished so much. Dave also ridded his blog of comments. Chronologically speaking, it may not have necessarily been Aine's lead. But i suppose it's the source of inspiration that matters.
I was talking to Lindsay today, about my planned post. And to be honest, earlier today, i was quite excited about making it. I was doing alot of thought about memories i've got. And it was fun thinking along those lines. I believe i'll try again. But i can't promise this will work out as well as i'd like it to.
I think what i'll try and do is put up a list of my twenty favorite memories. These of course are only the ones that come to mind, i'm sure i'll be forgetting some. But then the memories wouldn't really be remembered, so the list will remain accurate.
note: these are not in order.
The car drive
If you were part of this, you'd know it. This was the evening that me, josh, dave and lindsay went off in my mother's corolla, and had what i would discribe to be a perfect evening. Dave and Linds were in the back converging in some fashion towards the center seat. Josh and myself were in the front, and we were singing along with the songs on the radio. Doesn't sound like much, does it. If you only knew. (this memory also includes earlier that evening, when aine was present. That's what's going on, nothing's fine, i'm torn).
Dave at SPAC
How much can i really say? probably alot. but i wont bore you all. This was just an amazing evening. #41/Everyday still makes me smile. Ants felt like it was for me, i like that feeling.
The Green and White thingy
I wouldn't have said "thingy" if i knew what it was called. This was something that me and kent went to, it was just a great evening. I felt at all times like i was doing what i wanted to be doing. I was doing something different, for the first time in too long. And i felt like i was being myself, i liked it.
My two nights in penticton
These were likely my two most favorite drunken nights of the year. It seemed like nothing could go wrong. If i was violently ill, then i'd be blacked out during that time, if i was turned down by some hot chick, then i was too drunk and/or high to care. I laughed a ton, both times, and had simply brilliant times.
The night at shan's house
If you were there, then you likely know how important this was to me. If you weren't there, i'll give a quick low-down on what made it special for me. I played guitar for people. And i believe they enjoyed it. This was probably the first time that i felt like i was able to play music, and entertain people. And it made me very very happy.
Matthew Good Concert
The amount of inspiration that i'm working with pretty much doubled. This man impressed me so very much. The vocals really blew me away. I had a great time.
Guitar with Brooke
To set the scene, there's this girl, brooke, i heard here at an open mike once before, and to say the absolute least, i was floored. One of the best voices i've ever heard. Hop off the stage jewel, because i would like to hear brooke sing a few songs. Yeah, it's definately like that. So anyway, there was one morning, i was sitting in the lounge, around 4:00-5:00 in the morning, and i'm studying for my exam at 1:00 pm. And brooke shows. Sentance fragment. I have my guitar handy, for periodical study breaks. I ask her if she'd like to play a few songs. Basically through the run of about 4 hours we take turns playing songs for one another. And it was pretty freaking beautiful. Highlights for me included tunes by counting crows, ben harper, and the song "romeo and juliet" by whomever. Stunning stuff.
Memory = Simon + Kent + Jenna + Dispatch
This was just fun times. Me and kent go pick up jenna while we're doing our rounds. Me and kent did this time to time, because from time to time, everyone would be working. So we'd hit up the normal spots: the fitzroy house, sobeys, dan mcrae's, jenna's, and from time to time, the awkward house. On this sunny day, after sobeys, we went to jenna's house, asked her basically, if she'd like to come out and play. She did. While in the car, some highlights include me leaving the front passenger seat to go out my door, and in through the back door, then out the back door, and over the trunk, and into the other back door, and then kent driving by holding onto the steering wheel and running along side of the car. All while dispatch was making us all smile, and jenna was having a cute smile. Bottom line, it was a fun day. (note: at the end of the day in question, i found myself and jenna's watching fight club, and i asked her out. This relationship would blossom for up to three days, before spiraling down, in the following three days).
Albany
I know i already mentioned the dave concert. But this night in albany was something special all in it's own. I very much enjoyed the basketball we played. And the walk around town, with the discovery of that all night museum was something that i consitered extraordinary.
S.E.D.M.H.A.
This was hard to think about, in that it gives as many bad memories as good ones. Good: I loved it there. Bad: I've never felt that much of a rush since then, and i likely never will. I think my major problem with my life right now is that i'm not playing sports. I'm going to do my best to play a ton of basketball over the summer. And then i'll try and play ball next year. I know that chances are slim to none, and slim likely already purchised a bus ticket to leave town. Non refundable. But hey, no shame in trying.
Random evening.
There was a night at lindsay's. I remember enjoying myself alot. I think the people there were me, dan, linds, and carley. I dont remember much, except for dan lying under a cover and proping up his knee so it appeared he had a giant penis. My apologies to all involved if dan is actually kent, but i thought dan.
Another Guitar Tale
After walking out into the woods with Arlynn, Julia, and Joe. I played guitar for the three of them for quite some time, then Julia and Joe went to get blankets and i played for Arlynn for a while. Then they came back. I was singing loudly. It was just a good night. I likely could stress that enough, but as of now, i havn't. Which means the goodness is well worth stressing.
Canada Day Weekend
This mostly just has to do with my involvement with amie during said time period. Nobody has ever known me so well, and liked me so much for who i am. I really felt like something good for a little while. Too bad she's getting married. That train has sailed.
18th birthday
I've classified this day before as being the best day of my life. I dont know if i'd still back that comment, but it's surely up there. If this day was only special because it was the day i got my guitar, then it'd be special enough, but oh no, that's not all. And i begin: Late the night before, i planned on listening to apparitions, as soon as i turned 18. But it ended up being a game time decision. Strange Days it is. Disapointed i was not. All in all, i listened to about 5 different songs, headphones on. Looking down into my basement. It was a nice quiet place for me. Looking into the darkness downstairs. I heard all my favorites, Strange days, apparitions, Mr Jones, Hang. probably more. I dont remember them all. Anyhoo, that was the start of my day. School that day, was just nuts. I honestly felt for the first time, like i was something special at school. i felt like i frigging owned the place. I carried my book around all day, getting people to sign it. Some of you know what book i mean. I walked into mr cody campell's class, and he left for a minute, and told me to watch his students. These were grade 11 students. It was pretty cool. "What stuff do you guys want to learn about?" i asked. After some rambling i heard a muffled voice say "double yuh double yuh two". I thought it was suitable. I drew a horrible map on the board, asking the students for names of european countries. I had a boot drawn for italy. And i couldn't remember what the scandanavian countries were. There was sweden, finland, and denmark i think. But there was some confusion over something there. Something came up about the language spoken in those places, i said something about the language being finish. But i chose to write it on the board with a PH. thus: phinish. I'm assuming you had to be there, cause i'm not there now, and it doesn't seem funny. But it really was funny at the time, and that's what counts. These people were certainly my peers, and yet, they listened to what i was saying, and were entertained by it. After some more stuff, i left, and went to my chemestry class. I was about 25 minutes late. I told Hadley where i was. Class went on as scheduled.
At one point, i said something which was odd to say, and hadley said he'd make me run laps. I asked him, if i could go run laps. It was raining at the time. he said soemthing about climbing the soccer nets, and being struck by lightning, but it didnt' matter, mind was made, i was gone. After running twice around the field i was soaked, people were yelling "yeah simon" from the windows of the school. I went back indoors, to cody campbell's class, "hey guys, it's raining out, just to let you know" i say. Then i go back to chem, apparently the teacher to the math class next door, came and got hadley, by the ear, took him out in the hall and told him to make sure his students weren't interupting her class anymore. I liked this.
That was my day at school, afterwords, i went out for supper with a group of people who have been my best friends over the years. It was pretty sweet. I got a guitar for my birthday.
Andrea
There was one night with andrea that was pretty rad. but nobody but me should care.
Pizza hut
One night, outside of pizza hut some people played a cover of faith, which turned out to be by limp bizkit. that was fun.
I think i'm really reaching now. I'm sure i had more, i'll just get the good ones out.
Dan McRae: the meeting of
The first night i met dan mcrae was a night of laughter and discovery of someone who was very much like myself. It was a fantastic discovery. I dont believe i'm the only one who feels the need to say "jinga jinga jinga."
Shoehorn
Some things should not be said in a public place such as dairy queen. We said them. And i believe my life is enriched because of it.
Couple of Quotes
"We were stealing the free cookies?"
"Oh man, i got really drunk last night, now i have a girlfriend"
"They all had huge loads and they kept coming and coming"
I think i'm pretty much done. I'm home in 4. That'll be neat.
10 days? hmm, aughta do something about that.
I'm not hugely in the mood to type, so i'll just give you guys the info that i'd want to know if i weren't me.
Today i was watching a fan special on the dave matthews band, and there was a girl who went to columbine high school that is a big fan of the band, and when her friend got shot she wrote on the casket "Celebrate we will, Cause life is short but sweet for certain." it made me think, maybe you'll do the same.
In other less sombre news today, i was playing guitar in my room at around 3pm when a gentleman by the name of morgan walks in, he asks me if i'm interested in having a keyboard. I emphatically say yes. He gives me a keyboard. Tells me if i can afford to pay him like $40 or $50 then that'd be cool, but if i can't swing it, then that's okay too. Well sir, i'm pleased to say that i own a keyboard. And it's good, 210 different sounds on it, comes with a stand. I'm going to do my best to learn the keys this summer, as well as improve my guitaring. I think this keyboard can do nothing but help me musically. And if i'm in a band, which i might be (you guys know who you are) then this will help all of us. In case anyone is curious, i'm going to do my best to pay the guy his monies.
by the way, holy shit, i have a keyboard in my room, and i own it.
Keep living everyone.
Today, i'm going upstairs, i see cliff, he's a good guy, and he says to me that he's leaving tomorrow at around 2 o'clock. So it's unlikely that i'll see him again. I step down a few stars, shake his hand, tell him it's been good knowing him. I tell him to have a good life. you too he says. And when i turn back up to go back to studying. he says "find the truth". And i'm having alot of trouble not thinking about that. Thanks cliff.
"Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams." - Thom Yorke
When i'm done exams, i'll play guitar, and i'll be feeling pretty good about it.
I could've sworn i posted the other day, but apparently not.
I had a pretty solid weekend. I now have one exam finished off, i did quite well, but i wasn't worried about it, so meh. It's these next two that are trouble, we'll have to see how it goes. I really have nothing to say, just thought i'd post so that i could throw in the next two quotes, cause i like them.
"Our guitars are more clitoris substitutes than phallus ones. We stroke them in a nicer, gentler way." - Jonny Greenwood
and what cody said to me last night before packing it in:
"like the fat kid in dodgeball, i'm out."
I read this on fakeplastic.com if anyone is interested.
"It is also rumored that Radiohead are negotiating with Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario for a show on August 16."
holy shit holy, radioheadtabs.com if you're a guitarist, and you like radiohead, go here.
True love waits.
DMB may have more tallent in anything from songwriting to soloing to drumming. But radiohead is my style. I can now say with a sense of confidence that Radiohead is my favorite band.
This is a big deal for me.
When the new album is heard by me, it will be very good.
True love waits. if i could sing it i would.
I'm kinda wigging out now. in both a good and a bad way. It's like there's a big ball of clay in my lungs, which is weighing me down, slowing me down. I'm angry with it. If i can get it out, into my hands, then i'll be able to mold it into something beautiful. Metaphorically speaking, i could mold it into wings, and fly.
I wanted to end with that, cause i like it alot. But i feel like i have some more less important things to say. In my mind, i feel like i have potential to be a good singer. But i find it really hard to open up. Matthew Good started playing guitar when he was 20. I want to be matt good, i dont want to be dave genn. There are hundreds of other dave Genn's. Thousands. And you could probably raise someone to be what dave is. But matt does something that can't be taught.
How can anybody strive to do anything that isn't music? why didn't i know how amazing music is when i was graduating from West Royalty School. Then i could've gone into music at Queen Charlotte, and i'd be better at knowing things now. Probably. Maybe not.
i think gatorade says it best when they ask "is it in you?" You know, gatorade, i'm not sure. i'll get back to you on that.
I was reading some of my old posts, and i enjoyed doing that. I pretty much read the month of june. I was surprised to see how unhappy i was at the time. I always think that up until where i am i have always been happy. I guess not.
Some of the highlights of reading old posts were dave's comment: "Besides, wouldn't you want to, uh, deposit your money into a slot rather than just banging it on the table?" and one of kent's comments which seemed to have no bearing on any conversation, Kent: "I'm happy"
Yeah, it's all good. As i said in an early post, "yay life"
You should all check out June 24th for the post entitled "best quote ever", i had almost forgotten. Heh, good show em.
SUPER BONG NITE
FEEL THE FURY OF
THE FIVE FOOT'A
FIVE DOLLA MAKE YA
HOLLA 9:30 PM
IN DA WOODZ
pei simon
do you guys ever get flyers slid under your door? This one struck me as odd.
and i feel as though i have to add that pei was initially spelled peei, with the second e crossed out.