Brief Catch-up

Hello everyone who happens to come across my site.  I have a few things I’d like to mention.

My main computer that I use doesn’t let me open up the catagory list.  So I’m on another computer that does let me do so.  So I’m going to try and use all the catagories in one list here to get them to be able to appear.

I got 2 albums a couple of weeks ago.  They were Warren Zevon albums: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School, and Sentimental Hygiene.  By the way, if you haven’t been able to tell yet, I’m a huge Warren Zevon fan.

Speaking of Warren Zevon, I’ve been reading his biography, the one by his ex-wife.  I’m a slow reader…but I enjoy it.

Between late December of last year and early June of this year, I was writing a story called Matthew of the IHOP Restroom.  This guy goes to IHOP at 3:30am and goes to the restroom but in stead of going into the restroom, he enters a poratl to the 18th Demension.  The general idea was in response to having read the book STARDUST after having seen the movie about 3 or 4 times.  Anyway, I’ve started writing a spin-off called Dan of a Bank on Metcalf.  Dan was a friend of Matthew who happens to be a loveable idiot…but he’s kind of a pervert when he’s drunk.  If you are interested in reading any of these stories, you can visit my myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/classic_rockaholic

Bruce Springsteen is still coming to town and I still don’t have tickets.  But whatever.  The day before, which is this coming Saturday, I will be performing in my first live improv show.  The place is called The Roving Imp.  It’s in Bonner Springs.  I will be performing a Chicago style Harold with a group of fellow improvers.  I’ve been taking the workshops there at the Roving Imp for about a month now and having the time of my life!

I finally got the licence plate for my Chevy Aveo this last Tuesday.  Good thing to.  The 30-day experation tag was up on Wednesday.  But I got the letter in the mail this week that I have to pay car tax…on my old car that I had to get rid of because of the hail storm.  Now I have to let the state know that I now own the Chevy Aveo.  But also this week, I’ll be going back up to KU for my last full year of classes.  I will be a graduate of the Unversity of Kansas (hopefully) by May ‘09…To give you some idea, I’ve been going to college since Aug. ‘02.  I’m ready to be out.

I found out a week ago that I have an older 1/2 sister.  I mean, I knew that I had 2 older half sisters but it was one of those things that I stuck in the back of my mind.  I’m an only child and I’ve been an only child for 25 years and almost 2 months.  Now, not just do I have sisters, but I’ve also been an uncle for the past 17 years.

I saw Mummy 3 this last Monday and really enjoied it.  I want to go see Tropic Thunder.  I made a comment in my workshop that I already know that Jack Black’s charicter would be the most like me.  They suggested I should see the movie first to make sure the charicter who is most like me ISN’T a rapist.  So, hopefully, he’s not.  I just assumed because I see a lot of myself in a lot of other Jack Black charicters.  But anyway…

Yeah, so this is an update.  I’m sorry if anyone comes along and reads this and thinks I tried to type the most I’ve ever typed for the sole purpose of having more people come to my site.  That is not my intention at all.  I just wanted to make sure I could use all my catagories in one post.

 

Car and Warren Zevon

Well, I started the title with my car so I guess I’ll talk about it first. My car got bombarded with golf ball size hail on Wednesday. My car has huge dents all over the hood and a huge crack in the windshield…not to mention some of the glass in pieces came down on the driver’s seat. The car is currently at Binswanger Glass in Shawnee, KS where the windshield will be replaced on Monday. As it turned out, the windshield that is currently on the car was not the windshield that was on it when it was first made. The guy said he knows this because the frame that goes around it is on backwards. This would explain why I get rain coming into my car when it rains from underneath the windshield. I also get a sound like a gust of wind hitting my car when I drive on the highway. I hope this sound will be reduced also. Anyway, time will tell on that.
Now the Warren Zevon part. I started reading I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD: THE DIRTY LIFE AND TIMES OF WARREN ZEVON. This is a book that was written by his ex wife Crystal Zevon but it contains tidbits of what others (friends, colleagues, and family) had to say from the very early days up to the first 5 hours or so after his death. Anyway. I was reading the part at the front that has some literary praise for the book from magazine and news paper sources as well as others…(Rolling Stone, New York Times, also Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen) but it also has this blurb from the Portland Oregonian that said, and I quote…

“It’s a big book with lots of great stuff in it.”

This is my favorite review of the book and also the one I hate the most. I just can’t get over the fact that if I had written those words, not just would it have never gotten published but it would look like, after attempting to read it, they never finished but they just wanted to say something nice about it because they were on deadline. That’s all I have to say about that…

I have more I want to say but I’ll get to that later…