so it turns out that i haven't posted in a while. i said i wasn't going to let it go like this for so long, but once again, i have failed in my basic responsibilities as a blog user. but, such is life. floyd collins has been consuming my soul, but it is by far the most productive experience thus far in my year and change at ccm. i have learned so much from being an assistant lighting designer, that maybe i'm ready to design at this school. we'll see. the idea still scares the shit out of me.

i've developed a slight case of insomnia over the past few nights, no more than a few hours of sleep, and not even working on things. i just lie in bed. no thoughts, no anxieties, no worries, no dreams. just not sleep. i need to get over this quick if i want to continue to have maintain normal body functions like movement and basic cognitive reasoning. otherwise i will become the typical burned-out college student who roams the earth like the undead. speaking of the undead, the onion posted a hilarious story about the un-preparedness of pittsburgh for a zombie attack. i laughed out loud last night. well, let's try the getting into bed thing because the paper that's due at nine in the morning isn't getting written and i need to get up in a few hours to finish it.

floyd opens tomorrow and i kind of get my life back... for a week and a half. to all of those who i haven't talked to in the last couple of weeks, i'm sorry, but this is how my college life goes. enjoy.

oh, and comments have been back on for a while, so hook it up.

harvey danger released their new album in september, and oh, by the way... it's free online

you can download "little by little" at

harvey danger

it's pretty sweet.

i would like to share with you the transcript from andy rooney's weekly commentary on 60 minutes on cbs last night.



i'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the united states — our united states — is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in iraq that we never should have gotten into.

we still have 139,000 soldiers in iraq today.

almost 2,000 americans have died there. for what?

now we have the hurricanes to pay for. one way our government pays for a lot of things is by borrowing from countries like china.

another way the government is planning to pay for the war and the hurricane damage is by cutting spending for things like medicare prescriptions, highway construction, farm payments, amtrak, national public radio and loans to graduate students. do these sound like the things you'd like to cut back on to pay for iraq?

i'll tell you where we ought to start saving: on our bloated military establishment.

we're paying for weapons we'll never use.

no other country spends the kind of money we spend on our military. last year japan spent $42 billion. italy spent $28 billion, russia spent only $19 billion. the united states spent $455 billion.

we have 8,000 tanks for example. one abrams tank costs 150 times as much as a ford station wagon.

we have more than 10,000 nuclear weapons — enough to destroy all of mankind.

we're spending $200 million a year on bullets alone. that's a lot of target practice. we have 1,155,000 enlisted men and women and 225,000 officers. one officer to tell every five enlisted soldier what to do. we have 40,000 colonels alone and 870 generals.

we had a great commander in wwii, dwight eisenhower. he became president and on leaving the white house in 1961, he said this: “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. …"

well, ike was right. that's just what’s happened.


that makes me smile