>Nine Inch Nails - The Day The Whole World Went Away

My mom told me that we’re going to Wildwood (this great beach town) on Tuesday. We’re staying with my cousin, she has this great oceanfront condo, it has a huge pool and everything. And right around the corner is the boardwalk and the beach. It’s going to be so fun, my cousin is really funny, affable and animated. Whoa, alliteration, that was strange. Anyway, I’m happy we’re going but kind of sad because I might not get my lunchboxes before we go, because they’re supposed to be delivered on Tuesday. Well, yesterday I took my plants (the three seedlings, Navarre, Sarus, and Isaakus out of the window today to water them and put them in the sink to drain, when I noticed there was white mold on Issakus’s leaf and green mold in the cup I had them in. I potted them from just soil in our front yard (I should have known it was mostly clay). I foraged in the garage, found a bag of potting soil, and potted them in the pot that I’d bought at the Rag Shop (an East Coast craft store). I repotted them, watered them a bit, and put them in the window, like I normally do. I got up today, and they were all really wilty. I freaked out, and watered them a bunch, I hope they do fine. Sarus and Isaakus are kind of little yet, Navarre had a huge root structure going almost to the bottom of the pot, but Sarus and Isaakus had really short roots, not even an inch. Well, I just thought I’d add that. Oh, by the way, I bought a bunch of my favorite movies on Amazon.com. I bought the book The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and the movies Crash, Nadja, The Doom Generation, and Dark City. I really wanted ExistenZ, but it’s kind of a one-watch-a-month movie, where the rest I could watch fifty times. But anyway, my wrist is tired from web design and these two posts, so I guess I’ll go.

>Korn - A.D.I.D.A.S.

I just HAD to share this with someone, it’s about Mike (my history teacher) who I’m not liking the more I think about him. When he was my teacher, I had seen the movie Titus, with Anthony Hopkins, and loved it. It was based on Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus”. I was talking with him about it, and Mike said that he wouldn’t watch it (more like that it wasn’t his cup of tea) because he doesn’t like Shakespeare. So anyway, yesterday I was crusing DVDs at Amazon.com, and I stumbled across this one title he’d absolutely raved about, called RAN. It’s in either japanese, chinese or mongolian, I’m not sure, but he told me I absolutely had to see it, it was one of the classics…etc. I read the review…and guess what, it was based on Shakespeare’s King Lear. Fuck you, Mike the hypocrite. Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. The thing I don’t like about Mike is that he doesn’t strive for truth, he just plays around with the different sides of an argument. Most things have a right or wrong answer, and while I strive to find the truth, he’d just sit there and debate for sixteen hours whether the moon is made of green cheese rather than listen to anyone else’s ideas, and permit the possibility that someone else might be right, or have a valid opinion, other than Mike, Knower Of All Things. Perhaps he bruised my intellectual ego, but he really wasn’t flexible in his teaching styles. For Kate, who sucked up to him (intentionally or unintentionally), he gave her lectures on history, and she got credit. But for me, no, I had to do sixteen chapters out of this book written by somebody with their foot in the grave, and I couldn’t even get him to give me an overview or any kind of help. Yeah, Mike, asking for help was sure “claiming intelluctual superiorty as a reason for blowing off the responsibility”; as he wrote in an e-mail to me. Anyway, I’m in the process of COMPLETELY redesigning my site, so a bunch of pages are probably going to offline for a few days.