Fortunately, I’m adhering to a pretty strict, uh, drug, uh, regimen to keep my mind, you know, uh, limber.

I’m going to be going to MoogFest. I’m so full of anticipation that my genitals have sucked up into my body cavity. Tickets weren’t too expensive and the lineup isn’t even complete yet! Since my last update, I did receive my iMac and it’s still sitting in its box. I’m a freak about dust and hair, and I don’t want my mother’s corgis to get their hair all over it. I go back to school Saturday so I’ll be able to set it up then.

I’m going to attempt to stretch my lobes again in the future. I never did explain what happened when I tried to before, but let’s say it didn’t exactly work out the way I wanted. As of right now, I have little balls of annoying hard scar tissue in each lobe, which are slowly going away. Emu oil works wonders. I’m going to have them re-pierced in early October and hope that scar tissue stretches without hassle.

I sold a bunch of textbooks on eBay for about $500. Some of them were in horrible condition. YES I MADE SURE TO EXPLAIN THAT IN THE LISTINGS. >:|

I have so much packing to do tomorrow.

DJ Bowie performing the opening act. He mostly just mixed a bunch of dubstep and drum n bass, which I don’t care for, but he wasn’t too terrible.

Hey, it’s Ken Jordan! He looks farther away in this picture than he really was. I was about 2 feet away from him at this point, but actually got to see him face to face later on in the show. Sorry about the terrible quality; it was really dark.

The visuals were pretty lame, but fun.

I’ve never seen anybody twiddle knobs as fast as this guy.

Ken answering a phone call on stage.

And my tasty linguine soup with hot sake.

Oh, I stopped at Wonderland before the show and found a vortex bowl. I’m excited to try it tonight because I hear the plumes it creates are crazy thick.

Right now, I’m not sure if I’m in a good patch in my life, or not. I’ve probably thought more about myself and the world in general in the past 4 months than I have in my entire life. I’ve been slowly trying to teach myself how to deal with situations that I have little to no control over, and it is pretty difficult. I remember back when I was younger, I cared so much what people thought about me and I really wanted to be recognized for something – anything. Now, I don’t even care, but my life at this point does feel like a waiting room. I have, hopefully, about a year and a half left of school. The idea of not finding a job right after school terrifies me because I want to be stable. I don’t want to end up living with one of my parents and working a dead end job like everyone else I know. I want to be able to live the life I’ve always wanted to since I was young. Not finding a job is a very real possibility, but I’m trying my best so that this doesn’t happen. One of the qualities that I like about myself is that I’m extremely independent; it’s done more good than harm, for the most part, so I don’t see it as a bad thing anymore. I’ve recognized that I’ve lived about a quarter of my life (or so I hope) and I really want to do as much as I can with the amount of time I have. I think this idea is due in part on why I’ve wanted to take so many risks over the past few months. I don’t think I’ve made enough mistakes in my life and the ones that I have, I’ve learned from greatly.

I am pretty excited about Moogfest, though. The lineup hasn’t been fully announced yet, but I really hope a lot of good artists will be there – ones I actually listen to. I also hope that tickets aren’t expensive; I’m sure a lot of free shit will be given out and I love free shit. I’m going to see the Crystal Method live next weekend and I’ve not listened to them since I was in middle school. Their past couple of albums have just not been that good, but from what I hear, their shows these days are amazing so I’m really looking forward to going.

I’m also going to buy myself an iMac.

Chillax. I’ll still use my ThinkPad, but things have gotten to a point where using Linux has not grown past anything but a great OS for a server, and if I dare say, a novelty on the desktop (or laptop in this case). Don’t get me wrong, I love Linux to death. I’ve been using it since 2001. I started out with RedHat and moved from it to Mandrake, to Fedora, to Slackware, to Debian in 2006. I can build a custom kernel, patches or not, like something fierce. Frankly, I’m tired of how capricious it is. I’ve used a myriad of distros, and while some are better than others, they all essentially work the same. I’m tired of using VirtualBox to perform tasks in Windows that can easily be done in OS X that cannot be done in Linux. OpenOffice sucks and I have to use Microsoft Office. Gimp feels like a bucket of rusty nuts and bolts. There are no seriously good audio players – they’re all either too slow, terrible at managing playlists, ugly, or defective in some other way. I’m tired of using drivers that just cut the mustard. More is needed than just the minimum in functionality. There are other reasons as to why I no longer feel like dealing with Linux on a daily basis anymore, although they are trivial, but they’ve piled up over the years. I’ll still try to work with it on my server, but for now, I’m going to have to switch over to OS X come mid-August. Yeah, I know I’m a heretic. My 18 year old self would carve it into my arm.

I do start school again in 3 weeks. I couldn’t be happier.

• - Harold and Maude
• - Un Chien Andalou
• - The Short Films of David Lynch
• - Re-Animator
• - Withnail and I

I would have more to list, but I can’t seem to remember them right now.

I finally bought a new server. Yes, Alice has been laid to rest and has been superseded by my new server, mogwai. Mogwai is an Acer Revo R1600 running Debian stable 64bit. I bit the bullet and built a kernel for it without CIFS support and I’m not even going to transfer files to it using SSH (I know, right?). Instead, I’ve found that NFS4 provides throughput speeds way faster than either of those two (why I even used CIFS before, I don’t know?), not to mention it no longer takes an hour to build a kernel.

This afternoon, I ordered a Bodum Santos.

I’m pretty excited because I’ve heard the coffee it makes is really good – not bitter at all, and there are no grounds left behind. Unfortunately, I’m just not manly enough to use it with a butane burner, BUT I’m going to be daring and bring a hot plate to school with me in the fall. If you look up a demo of one in action, you’ll be jealous. And you’ll want one. Amazon sells them for $50 and they retail at $120.

Also: of Montreal sounds like Phoenix. And I don’t have to work tomorrow. Sa-weet.

1994.

Thanks. I love taffy.