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What up? That hiatus felt good. Now I guess I'll have to catch you guys up on all the stuff that's gone down since I came back from my race. Which was a FOCKING long time ago. I hope you're ready for five weeks of Gowdey, cause I took a lot of time after school to write this thing. :P
Starting from the five-week-ago spot: My team ran NCS.
At once, we made it our mission at the beginning of the meet to stake out Hotlips's location, and return home with NEW PICTURES. Szabo and Sos (friend of mine who is an insane driver) followed a guy they saw with an Alhambra jacket back to "headquarters", and the wait was on for Hotlips to arrive. After about an hour of going back and forth from our camp to theirs to check, he finally turned up: We saw him playing dice (no, not sex dice) with the exact same expression on his face as before. The only differences this time were that he was wearing glasses *shudders to think at Hotlips in those glasses*, and that he had grown a bit of a 'stache. We got tons of pictures of this legend both before and after the race, and even immortalized him in a movie clip.
His real name, we deduced from placing and results:
Brian Kearney
You're all welcome. And while we're on this topic, the HOTLIPS PHOTOSHOP CONTEST is finally up, so vote!
So anyway, the race was unbelievable, I got 6th place out of 121 (3.1 miles in 16:35)--last year, it was 49th and some mid 17. Best of all, I shocked the world by qualifying for State (the cross country championships for California, held in Fresno of all places, heheh) since I was one of the top 5 runners who wasn't on a team going to State. Speaking of which, our team missed going by one point...dammit, dammit, dammit. And thanks to some mess up, they gave the guy behind me a "top 5" medal and the photo-op, and only later did they realize that I deserved it. I still got it hastily handed to me, but ugh, I didn't get recognized.
And so, I had to repruhsent the team last Saturday in Fresno by myself, cheered on by Szabo who came along, my parents, my coach Bruce, and his "friend" Kate. It was a 3 1/2 hour drive up, but my walkman and Szabo's digital camera provided enough entertainment, with us taking pictures of stupid billboards, including a religious billboard with a priest and a boy reading "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD...LISTEN!", and a casino one with "CAUTION: WINNERS AHEAD". Best of all photo ops was a big orange button at a 7-11 nacho machine that says "Push For Cheese". We also found an actual snack called "Munchos" (pretty good, too). I'll have a folder of these up if he ever dumps them off of his camera.
We stayed at a Day's Inn, Szabo and I watched Trading Places (best line in movie by Big Black Guy: "Yeah!"), and the next morning, went to the ultimate post-any-tournament hangout, Denny's, where everyone around me ordered heaps of meat and cheese breakfasts...meanwhile I was stuck with the fuggin' runner's breakfast of oatmeal and toast. I guess it paid off in the race though, since I got 54th out of 187. Once again, the finish came down to the wire, with me finishing one place/second behind my rival from San Rafael HS who I'd stayed up thinking about finally beating the night before. It was still pretty incredible, though...I mean, races don't get any bigger than State. Like my "weaksauce" quote in the paper goes, "This is the best race of my life and I'm really happy." X(
After the race was done and we had bid Bruce goodbye and I could feel my legs again, Szabo and I went over to this Scandia ripoff place, which had everything Scandia had (golf, karts, DDR, overpriced food), right down to the fake castles. We burned through both golf courses in 35 minutes, thanks partly to the idea of Speed Golf (if you don't get a birdie, you score yourself a 3 and run to the next hole). Oh, and the ball can still be moving for your second stroke.
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The local DDR players there included some guy getting a 1200+ combo on the Naoki Standard oni course, so I didn't even bother playing until I was sure nobody was around to watch me un-combo Spin the Disc and Highs Off U and whatnot. They had a 5th mix, though, which only cost a dollar for 5 songs. The first time playing, though, I thought it was for 3, so I walked off after Rhythm and Policing...then was called back to the machine just as the timer hit 0, forcing me to play R&P AGAIN (and fail). >_<
To add to the cool day, I was winnar of the go-kart race. Whee, kart powersliding. =D
Couple random things that suck--ridiculously extra puffy jackets and when a black/latino girl says "ummm hmm" (a la The Weather Girls). So shoot me, I sound racist.
Then the next next week (last Friday), I was supposed to meet Jeff, Adam, Soy, her friend Annie, and Nathalie (g0ts0y: "Who the fuck is Nathalie?") to go see the BATS improv troupe again, but all the girls weren't going, so it was off to Hannah's house for a party where they played sex dice and watched Barbarella. Except I didn't go, since it was my mom's birthday and Jeff said Hannah's mom "didn't know me well enough", wtf, so instead I ate with my parents for my mom's birthday...so all my plans were ruined, and I was miserable for missing out on two fun social gatherings. That last line sounds completely insensitive, and it is...that is, if my parents hadn't given me permission to go out and see BATS in the first place while they ate. Worst night in a long time, even if I got to overplay After the Game on doubles.
I should never have inroduced my sister to the theme from Requiem For a Dream. She's been playing it at least 5 times a day, now that she heard it in the Two Towers trailer, and hasn't even heard of the original movie...and when she does, her friends will snag a copy of it and watch it at some sleepover. Then she'll be TRAUMATIZED and agh. Requiem is seriously a movie nobody should think they're ready see until they're 18.
Downloaded Movies of Late (Because You Care): 8 mile and Teh Tuxedo. 8 Mile was pretty good for the freestyle battles alone, not to mention the fact that Eminem did a perfect job at playing himself. Kim Basinger was a MILF, to boot. The Tuxedo on the other hand...uh, at least I can now say I've now seen the worst Jackie Chan movie of all time.
Moving on, UC college apps have been sent in, whoopee. I finished writing the personal statement thanks to some tweaks from all of youse guys. =)
Last last Friday, we all went and saw Star Trek: Nemesis in a huge, row filling group of geeks. The movie wasn't all that good--cliched battle sequences, especially--and Steve and I just kinda poked fun at it the whole time. After that came a DDRty at the very Canadian home of the Griffins (where I'll probably be able to convert stuff to digital). I debuted "total desperation", a really generic name for what happens when you have to leave a party and you realize you haven't eaten enough snacks yet (take a handful of chips, and go to town on all of them at once over the sink until there's nothing left). Just about everyone in the DDR club was there, which made for fun times overall...and that cheese ball was good.
And once those Griffins get home, I've got something else to put online: videos of Bryan and Adam's performances at this school theatre production Jeff and I had to sit through. Pretty funny stuff, what with Bryan over-acting, and Adam fighting the Spirit of Summer to the Mortal Kombat movie theme. Oh, I also got Sophie's performance on tape, but you wouldn't care to see that, now, would you? =P
DDR section of this blog: I finally beat Max300, and not on the keyboard this time. It's either the first or second (people actually debate over this) hardest song in DDR until Extreme comes out--I'm so praud of myself. I've also cleared every 9-foot song ever made, sans MaxX Unlimited.
The date of that tournament at Starbase is now set for "whenever we get Extreme"...so most likely the song that I went through choreographing won't be on the new machine. >_< I'm still trying to find one that will work for me...not Spin the Disc or Long Train Runnin', they're overplayed. Possibly So In Love, Kind Lady, or...ack, who knows?
Speaking of DDR tournaments, I just went to my first the other day at Scandia, which will get more of an in-depth blog when I feel like it...I mean, this blog is big enough without that, don'tcha think?
MP3s/Beginning of Indogutsu Pluggage: Indogutsu says to download "We've Been Had" by the Walkmen (kinda Flaming Lips-ish). I say to get Autumn Colors by Ugress and 511 from Beatmania, as they're two of the most relaxing "loop" songs I've heard to date.
Want to see the best way I've ever seen to present an original RM2K RPG? Check out Indo's IMDB inspired one for New Ordeals. It works way too well. =)
More garbled Bemani lyrics by the man: Living in America and Sanctus. Ask me and I'll temporarily upload the MP3s to Almasy's server--they shouldn't be on there, y'see.
And this all brings us to today...
I've been wanting to meet this girl Nathalie for weeks now, but since she lives 60 miles away, there's no chance of that happening anytime soon. My best bet is to go take her along to BATS some Saturday, but it's not going to work tonight since she's in Oregon with a friend. We've had all these depressing chats where we both think we're too good for each other, and this only makes me want to meet her more. Brgh.
Summing up this whole thing, I mentioned dice two more times than I ever have on any blog, don't see The Tuxedo, I brag way too much about tiny things like DDR and running, I still do stuff on weekends, and Nath is slowly taking over my thoughts. Now to catch up on Christmas and the last week...the internet is so owning my work ethic lately.
Oh yeah, new AIM snippets. All happy now? =)
