spladow

It has been quite a while since I updated but I haven't forgotten about you SG. I've still been keeping up with your blogs. My Suicide Girl friends and stalkees tend to get much more interesting during finals season. It's funny how that happens. And keeping you informed becomes much more important as well. right now it's raining outside and I'm trying to get my stomach in order after a making a rare socializing appearance last night at a med school party. Those doctors party pretty hard when they get a chance. My room mate and I spend a lot of time pretending to know what the fuck we were talking about and trying to worm our way into as many med student photos as possible. Someday, somewhere, people will say, what a handsome doctor, and they'll be talking about me, and I'll feel it in the air and tilt my head back and laugh. But if I can't be a doctor I'll take a degree in English please.

I guess I'm graduating. It still seems a ways off but really there's not much left. a test and a paper due monday. two takehome finals and two real finals all done by the 9th and that's all she wrote on my college education. So far all I've done to prepare is sell my bikes. Despite all my "plans" and the freedom to explore new interests and such I've been spending more time looking at bike stuff than studying. I'm in a debate with myself whether or not I want to get another fixed gear considering that san francisco's terrain seems so unfriendly towards fixed gears. I know they're huge there but I am of the opinion that that many people can in fact be wrong. If i get a really solid job somehow I might just pick up a second bike like I did here. I still like the idea of having a fleet of bikes at my disposal. plus it's nice to be able to ride w/ friends that don't have their own.

That's enough about that. I will be making a stop in Los Angeles for at least a month before I make it up to the bay to live with one of my best friends of all time. I'm slightly nervous as I've already seen some decent jobs listed in L.A. that depend on knowing about venues and bands and local stuff in general, which is awesome because I love my city and have put in a lot of time getting to know it. It also makes me worry about finding jobs in SF without that type of knowledge. But Doc's been there for a while now and he's got friends and hopefully it'll be a pretty fast acclimation for me. Most of the worrying has turned into looking forward to things but even so I really can't wait to go back to L.A. and have a proper last date with my old home. I think I'll try and build myself a bike there, explore more of the east side, maybe a little of the west side. Depending on how a certain girl feels about it I might even break my long standing ban on the Palisades.

It's moving times I'm happy I have my SG subscription, It helped me out a lot when I moved to Dallas even if the SGDFW group isn't that active I did find a few members to talk to and even the non regional groups help out a bunch just in terms of giving me a supplementary outlet to talk about the stuff I like when I don't know anyone with the same interests in my new digs.

Oh, I should be changing my name to Spladow because that's what I seem to be using on more and more sites these days. including twitter.com/spladow Oddly enough I think finishing college is going to have an age defying effect and hopefully geezer won't apply to me anymore.

Long post, I'm not sure if there are many people still on the site that give a crap about this type of thing but thanks to those that do. You've all helped make my time here (dallas/sg take your pick) a little better in your own ways.

Edit: I forgot to add I've been talking to Tinymixtapes.com about being a contributor there. I've been waiting a while to hear which means it could ultimately lead to nothing but they've also assured me that they're really busy with their first compilation release. As long as they don't tell me no I guess that's a good sign right? If I get the gig its concert tickets on Spladow!