8.30.2006

my classroom's a bloody mess. school starts on tuesday and it seems to be a good place. i've already made my first dw griffith joke in front of all of the teachers and it went over well.

i'm watching constant gardener with the wife and dog. it takes place in and around the kenyan slum of kibera. pretty intense. if you want an in depth look at my relationship with robyn you should watch this film... oh, i mean if you want an indepth look at the stuff robyn saw and experienced in kenya, you should watch this film.

i think rafe fines made this film to shake the evil nazi off his back.

8.27.2006

we've a free show on thursday. i think we need to put you on the list before hand for it to be free, though, so drop me an email if you want to go (or even if you might go but you're not sure). we're watching the latest harry potter and cohc.

8.22.2006

watching a dodger game. it's dog night at petco. we get our dog back tonight. wupee. i've had heartburn, i got a haircut and realized i'm going bald in a hurry, and i'm fat, and i think i'm breaking out.

8.20.2006

the end of summer is usually depressing, but this year it's not for some reason. robyn is back from africa, which has put me in a very good mood. we're going to eat some flank steak and asparagus and watch a movie and relax. i've more training all next week for my new teacher job, some shows to prep for, a wicked concept album to piece together, sweet blockbuster movies to write, and many many other fun things to accomplish (including, most importantly, chilling out hard core).

more gems from the attic...

this was a section from a report for health class. i believe it is a response to a video we may have watched. i guess i was the inspiration for ignatius j reilly.

date rape

the purpose of this video was to make people aware of the dangers of date rape. it was a learning experience that i never really thought of before. i believe that this is true that boys shouldn't presist on "getting what they want." but girls shouldn't be so sudctive and revelieng.

girls should be able to speak up for what they believe is right, and boys should stop when being tempted. i wish this video would have given more ideas from the male's point of view, because alot of women don't know what's going through a buys mind when hes being tempted like this, i think that some of the feminists who made this video should think of the pressure that the girl is putting on the boy.

(note the teacher didn't correct any spelling or grammar mistakes)

funny stuff from my attic

i'm cleaning out my attic... old papers from school, etc.

some highlights...

1992 fax to jim rome

1998, your glory year you were led by mickey hatcher and alfredo griffin, half your team is drifting around the minors, on class c ballteams.

when your sending sympothy packages to crackdaddy, daryl straberry, filled with cocaine. to nocal, ponder on this question, who has one the most world series, and have the most men in the hall. p.s. switched at birth matt williams, harmon killibrew, and martina narvatilova.

and this journal entry. the topic: the most dangerous game i can think of is...

my answer: i would have to say what some of the marines did in vietnam, where they would have a deck of cards and if they were to draw out an ace, they would kill a whole town.

8.5.2006

i am really feeling like a sloth today. i am too lazy to get food. too lazy to write. apathetic, lazy and bored.

8.1.2006

i am going to be working at david wark griffith middle school this next year. i will be teaching 7th grade english.

the school is indeed named after the same david wark griffith who directed such notable films as birth of a nation and intolerance.

it also looks like robyn's dad doesn't have parkinson's. i will celebrate by eating ribs and drinking soy milk.

7.31.2006

don't drink milk ever again

7.28.2006

happy b-day to my wife.

7.27.2006

i'm not a matt (o'brien or bethancourt) and i'm really pretty clueless when it comes to computers. mine is broken at the moment. upon going into the mac store to try and fix my charger, i found that it would cost $79.00 to buy a new one. fry's electronics, however, let me know that I could buy the same piece of compatable equipment for $40.00.

apple sucks big time. i use my computer to write and check internet. that's all. i could do it with a notepad and a library. for what i want to do with a computer, apples are more expensive, their service costs more and they are less reliable. why, as much as i love it, why am i spending over three-hundred... THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS... on this thing that plays music, when i could just play a cd. man, i'm stupid for being suckered into this whole apple thing. ipods, computers, everything; it's all a bunch of image conscience bolognia. it's stupid and my next computer will be someone's used pc.

i also hate those crappy apple commercials. the ones with that guy from dodgeball. really, i'd rather have work done by the pc dork. the cool dude may be just as knowledgeable, but he's probably less reliable, hung over, and he's probably a marxist. i'm just bummed i've been suckered into spending a lot of money for a computer that "looks cool." what a joke.

7.25.2006

Sunday @ the Knitting Factory
Rio Bravo and Jayson Belt
$5.00
i think we go on at 7 or 8

NEW WICKED REAL BLOG HOT GIRLS!

naked csi

6.24.2006

i'm taking advantage of the free wireless my local bar has to offer, drinking a cold beverage, and listening to the traveling wilburys. my wife has some people over. i'm pretty scattered and bored today. does anyone out there know a tv show i can write for? i'm going to start a blog called hireme.blogspot.com. i'll just post ideas for different tv shows and beg people to hire me. actually... hmmm...

cold pbr. cold and delicious. i just got the dos passos usa trillogy, still laboring through saul bellow. he likes the sound of his words too much for me sometimes. i'm also reading catch-22. everyone seems to get around to it sometime. it's not very funny. i wasn't really expecting much to be honest. the dialouge is to the book as the rake in the face gag is to wiley coyote. mildly amusing the first time around, then trying, then pointless. i like the book, i'm just not a fan of the 'comedy.'

we've got a show on saturday. man i need to make some money. seriously, if you own or operate a business, give me a call.

i went to the os mutantes, theivery corporation, flamming lips show last night. i really only cared about os mutantes, but the flamming lips blew my mind. such a good show. though theivery corporation were pretty terrible. we also took the train. which was cool on the way there, what with our nice conversation and hangout with the bethancourts; but man oh man did it suck on the way home. i'm glad we don't have better public transportation, because public transportation, even good public transportation, is still public transportation, and public transportation is boring and dirty.

montana was cool. i rode horses and floated, saw animals and had some libations. i missed my wife miserably and made many a joke about those furry little critters that live in creeks with the flat tails. my battery is about to die.

7.19.2006

i am home finally. i will write about montana maybe later.

7.11.2006

syd barrett died the other day.

7.10.2006

i'm watching david wright talk about himself during the home run derby. he looks like an adult malcolm in the middle. maybe he is. i also think pudge has adult braces, can someone confirm this?

now paul lo duca is pitching to malcolm in the middle. paul loduca likes skanky women who aren't his wife.

7.9.2006

listening to jim o'rourke. next on random, bix. next on random more bix. next on random, mary poppins. next on random, smashing punikins; roy smeck, t.rex, django, everly brothers with cathy's clown, comin' in at 3:00 pm... carry that weight, baby driver, harry nil, dylan, beatles' worstest song, bobby darrin, the band live, nirvana on a plain, she's goin' bald, funny... nirvana, on a plain unplugged, more of the band live, dancing at the lesbian bar, cry! cry! cry!, james taylor, muddy waters, me, muddy and wulf, lucina, iron and wyne, lips, beach boys pretty song, lip service, old 97s fun song, bob wills song i covered one time, brasil band i will see soon, sufjan with another of his stupid long titles, all you fascists, gillian, oasis on fire rocking the world, dreamer in my dreamz, jay-zzz, more frigging oasis being the best with war ballads for fighting, wilco, leo cohen and his jaw harp, JUNIOR!, j. cale, t. waits, cream, red foley, hawaiian wedding song sung by elvis and tribal natives, that song on bb and wilco sung by that black guy, jimi, everlys, ben folds being sincerely ironic, paul simon never being ironic, led z., g. dead, roy rodgers singing home on the range with his sons of the pioneers and i'm done for now as i should be writing my movie that will make me a zillion dollars none of which i will donate to charity because i will make a swimming pool of coins and soiled used dollar bills that i will pay my friends to jump in and hurt themselves and i will laugh behind my sunglasses ominous and cool and distant and most likely packing heat with my shirt off ready to shoot down insurgents like the remaining members of the clash who are assulting my ears with the right profile. nobody ever gives a thought to jimi h. and his flying quitar any longer. i will, i will buy large rugs that sport his embroidered mane and stoned far off gaze, i will listen to his music and think of out casts and doors fans and zeppelin and grateful dead t-shirt wearing high school juniors and realize that they're the only ones who really get the picture man. next song. get back. sign me up for a beatles rug too. a kinks rug would be cool, too. we had a willie nelson face at a house once. he's playing a standard now. i believe it was first written by george and ira. america's elvis costello is rocking. prissy belle and sebastian singing that stupid space boy dream song. good band but what a piece of crap song! oh!!! old kentucky home by satchmoses, i love this frigging somg so much. stephen foster, mintrel nonsense aside, wrote nice songs for to tap one's feet. man oh man. we will sing one song of our old kentucky home... by and by hard times will knock at the door... my old k home far away... he scats along... silent smoke and a bass solo, what's he doing? in the room many years ago... only the bass. now bass and piano, but no busted lip horn blowing, maybe a slug of gin, now everyone sing!! we will sing one song of our old kentucky home far away. the horn now... lyrical and driving... muted because he can... low... now... here it comes... soaring... driving along smokestack light saber... connecting through the stars and moon on the mississippi knee deep in the mud kids and crawfish and their little legs kicking in the boiling pot like fingers on the golden brass horn... and we're finished. buck owens died and i saw him like a corpse sing steady and drunk on my first date in bakersfield. i think they dug a hole and buried him in the sewer.

7.8.2006

saw a pirate movie and ate poke yesterday. and sushi. what to do today? run and surf. yes, i will run and surf.

7.7.2006

arrrrrrgh
Originally uploaded by jessegloyd.

mother-in-law's birthday, and my mom's dad's as well.

i will see a pirate movie.

for my birthday i got: a book, new baby blue sperry's, a hat, shorts, and new new ballance running shoes.

i am quite excited to see the said pirate movie. maximum camp must abound. i am reading a book about funny fat people in new orleans that darren wrote in the 1960s. his name was john kennendy back then.

one day, upon coming home from work, the weight of the world became too much for darren. he promptly gassed himself with a garden hose in his car in his garage and died peacefully.

then his mildly crazy mom found this book he had written about fat crazy funny people in new orleans. she thought it was a masterpiece, and it may have been, so she took it to walker percy. after bugging the hell out of him, he decided to read the now brittle manuscript.

the rest is history. john kennedy was reincarnated the same year his book came out. as a baby, farting along in his own little world (just like ignatius), he won the pulitzer in 1981.