I have not updated in a while. I don't have a whole lot to say at the moment. I'm back at school, working and kind of bored.

Good news: I got a new job

Bad news: I got like 5 seconds to get my ass to work. See ya!

Not a whole lot today, I'm getting ready to go back to school tomorrow. If things go according to plan, this time next year will be my last semester, and I'll have a real job by the following January.

Boy do I have a story for you. Last week I thought that I hurt my tail bone, because that area of my ass was sore and had a little bump. No big deal, It will be healed by the end of the weekend, or so my logic says. Well low and behold by Saturday IT WAS FUCKING WORSE! I could not sit down comfortably and I had a party that night so I didn't have much fun. Sunday, it was hell. I ended up going to a walk in clinic (my grandma drove me because I could not) and it turned out that I had an infection on my tail bone, so that had to be popped. That was fucking painful and I swore quite a bit, but I got through it. Now I can sit down and do just about everything I could previously do! Any ways, nothing much new, just waiting for school to begin, I want to graduate.

questions

1) what are you reading right now?
2) what are you listening to right now?
3) name 5 current celebrities/professional athletes you envy.

my answers

1) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, next I'm reading American Theocracy.
2) The Brewers game at the moment
3) Well Wilt Chamberlain (more one night stands than career points) gets my honorable mention here because he is not current

my list 5) Tom Cruse (he gets a shit load for making crappy movies, how fucking easy is that!)
4) Derek Jeeter (makes tons of $ and probably gets lots of chicks)
3) Jim Sorgi (he backs up Peyton Manning, so he gets paid a lot to do nothing)
2) Tony Parker (He's banging Eva Longoria)
1) Brad Pitt (He's banging Angelina Jolie, makes tons of $ and chicks dig him)

Not a whole lot going on here, but heres an update. I'm working a lot like always and I'm taking a psych course for the summer. I've been too busy to be social lately and the band is still looking for a guitar player, but we may have found him. We're still looking for a bass player too but I've had a few leads in that department too. My neighbor's house was broken into yesterday but the thief got scared off for my neighbor was home. This makes me wish I had a gun at times. I'm looking forward to starting work at Alpine Valley in a few weeks, the cash is good and the work is rewarding.

Questions
1) What book are you reading right now?
2) Hows your summer thus far?
3) What would make you piss your pants?

My answers

1) Settling Accounts: The Grapple by Harry Turtledove, good alternate history
2) meh, not too exciting, no cute girls around to peek my interest
3) hmmmm, I guess winning the lottery or the Brewers making the playoffs LOL

All right my friends, I need a favor from you guys. I'm doing a survey about ethics in my psych class. Just leave your responses as comments. Thanks

1) A house in Iraq is taken out by an air strike conducted by the US Military. The house was a suspected hide out for Al Qaeda leaders who were plotting to kill American soldiers in Iraq and to kill innocent Americans on US soil. The strike kills the Al Qaeda leaders and derails their plans to attack US soldiers and civilians. But a consequence of the air strike was that an innocent family who had no say in the harboring terrorists in their home was killed. Is the air strike an ethical choice? Why or why not?


2) The Iranian government is in fact supplying insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan with weapons and knowledge to fight and kill American service members in those countries. The US government accuses the Iranian government of supporting terrorists while the Iranian government is saying that they are protecting their sovereignty. Is the Iranian government justified in arming those insurgents? Why or why not?


3) An Athenian general in ancient Greek times has decided to press the women and children into slavery and to put to death the entire adult male population of another Greek city that sided with the Persians during a recent war. The Athenian general justified his decision by claiming that making an example of that city will make other Greek cities less likely to side with the Persians in the future thus securing the future security of Athens. Is the Athenian general justified in his decision? Why or why not?

Well we've hit a road block with the band. The guitar player got kicked out of his father's house because he could never hold down a job and pay rent and it looks like he's moving to Tennessee to live with his mom. Me and Dan have decided to kick him out of the band, and yet the guy insists that he can still part of the band. I have no idea how, because he cannot drive (I've always had to drive to Fond du Lac and pick him up) and he doesn't even know how to get from Fond du Lac to Milwaukee, what makes him that that he can get from bum fuck Tennessee to Milwaukee, because I won't drive down there and back to get him. So it looks like we are in the market for a new guitar. He blames every one else for his problems and yet neglects to look in the mirror. Plus the guy's just throwing a pity party for him self, we do not need such weakness. Though it sucks that my guitar player/song writer is gone, I'm also kind of relieved that he is gone because I don't have to deal with his bull shit and have to worry about him eating all of my food and drinking all of my soda and burning all my gas just to get him and drop him off. I wasn't really keen on his budding NS ideologies, I don't want that bull shit tainting my lyrics and the ideology of the band, we may as well become a worship band.

questions

1) Where were you five years ago?
2) Where do you hope to be five years from now?
3) ask me a question, I'm too tired to come up with a third.

my answers

1) Finishing my first year of college, still shy but starting to break out of it, now I'm more of an introvert.
2) Employed as a sound tech or doing something with my soon to be acquired degree, hopefully still in my current band, or maybe doing vocals for another band.
3) ask away.

So I've decided that I want to grow my hair again. I've had my head shaved since November of 2005 and feel that I miss having long hair. I won't do dreads again because it would hurt the job situation and having dandruff isn't fun. I'll just get my hair straightened because it gets too fucking puffy. Any ways school is nearing the end for me, I fucking hate my digital instructor because he cannot teach and he's a hard ass (in fact he couldn't teach farm animals how to fuck). My other classes are going fine. There is a girl at school who I've seen in the cafeteria who I find very attractive, but I'm too fucking shy to say hello, it's something I must get over, I'm just nervous that she'll think that I'm some creepy stalker and greet me with pepper spray to the face and have some security goons beat me senselessly with batons. Any ways on the band front I think that we've finally finished out demo, Dan's just got to mix it, see if my vocals fit because we had to redo the instrumentals. I've promised people that we'd be done earlier and it pisses me off that we are not done. I'm starting to think that we are pulling an Axel Rose with this fucking demo. We may finally have a bass player too, but we haven't really had to talk with her and see what she sounds like behind the bass. Once we get organized we hope to write new material (I've already started penning some lyrics) work on our first full album and play in some bars.

1) What are you listening to?
2) What book are you reading?
3) What are your thoughts on religion?

my answers

1) Marduk's new album, Rom 5:12, great album
2) The Case Against Christianity by Michael Martin, a book which gives that religion a thorough philosophical examination and finds tons of flaws
3) The organized religions I see as generally bad and something which should be criticized and challenged especially when those religions start encroaching upon everyday life.

Hello alll . . . three or four of you folks who bother chatting with me LOL. I'm doing well. I had my birthday party last night and my band played a basement show in celebration. We got a good reaction from the guests and had a cool after party. Any ways I'm on a positive high right now, school is going great for the most part, with the exception of my digital logic class where the instructor is fucking incompetent (he could not even teach farm animals how to fuck). At least I'm pulling a C+ there (I was worried that I was going to fail and would have to drop). Other wise it's straight A's. Well back to the band, I think we may have found a bass player last night. One of my friends bought some of his friends over to watch our set and a girl who was in his group plays bass and is rather interested in trying out for us. Plus me and Dan hope to have our part of the demo done in the coming weeks (he wanted to redo his drum tracks, I still have yet to do my vocals) and they'll be posted on our myspace account. If she's any good and has the dedication she's in the band. Things seem to be going well now, I hope things get better over all.

Questions
1) Do you play bass?
2) Say something random
3) Hows life looking for you right now?

my answers
1) No, and I'm no good behind most instruments
2) dead baby spider monkies!
3) rather optimistic at the moment

Well I guess that it;s time for me to update. Sorry, I've been very busy. I'm back in school to become a broadcast/sound engineer, and so far I'm doing pretty good. I guess spending 4 years at UWM has paid off. The band is doing well, we're rerecording our demo again to get a better sound, and we are looking for a bass player. If any of you guys seriously know some one who has the drive to play for a band and they live in the Milwaukee area, have them email me, EvilTed654@hotmail.com. Oh yeah, my trip to Hawaii was fun, and when I got back I went to Chicago to see Enslaved and Dark Funeral. Enslaved fucking stole the show. Plus a few eeks ago again in Chicago I saw Belphegor, they put on a good show too. Any ways just giving you folks an update here, and now some questions

1) What book are you reading right now?
2) So hows the weather in your neck of the woods?
3) Ask me a question, my brain hurts right now.

my answers

1) The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS, what can I say I'm a history nut
2) Shitty, I almost smashed my car this morning
3) Well, ask away.