Dave Journal

When you get to a certain age, you die

2008-05-15T23:59:17Z

I just saw a picture of me from a year ago and I realized I don't look or feel any different than I did then. Is this how the rest of my life is going to be? Immortality?

Smash Bruvvas

2008-03-12T17:01:25Z

2492-3848-5242

add mii

the Good Book

2008-02-09T02:57:18Z

I've decided to start reading the bible again...

a little bit each night, just like my sunday school teachers used to say I should. It's weird how these things work out, isn't it?

Does anybody have any favourite bits? I recently re-read the book of Job and realized how rad it is.

more records, a year hence

2007-09-30T18:36:27Z

I went to that same Record sale as last year, and got more records. Not as many as last time, but I think I'm pretty happy with everything I got. Still looking for a lot of stuff though- maybe I need to move to England

dave2 @ 2007-04-28T23:31:00

2007-04-29T04:33:54Z

3093 3606 5819
:3

added dos

dave2 @ 2007-03-15T16:46:00

2007-03-15T21:46:39Z

I need to move out...

dave2 @ 2007-03-11T21:06:00

2007-03-12T03:10:27Z

Huzzah!

dave2 @ 2007-02-22T13:35:00

2007-02-22T19:36:42Z

I finally beat Cave Story to it's fullest extent, but I didn't find the ending as rewarding as maybe I could've...

But it feels good. I am 2 years late to your Cave Story party.

as per vgame

2007-02-07T22:43:11Z

Today I delved too deeply and paid for it dearly

These Are Our Lives

2007-01-23T01:07:11Z

what hope is there for any of us?

homz "tagged" me

2007-01-09T05:53:15Z

I think this is the first time i've been chosen to do a meme! how exciting.

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Steve Cash - Southern Boys (As of today)
2. The Beatles - Rain (As of October 2006)
3. Daniel Lanois - San Juan (As of Who Knows but it's still growing on me)
4. Gruff Rhys - Chwarae'n Troi'n Chwerw (As of walking through the park in the rain)
5. Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York (As of August 2006)
6. Jay-Z - 99 Problems (As of long ago, but today I had a good moment with it)
7. The Knack - Maybe Tonight (As of Mid-summer)

i don't "tag"! it spreads disease

dave2 @ 2006-12-08T21:47:00

2006-12-09T03:47:32Z

OK I got a wii (sheesh!!)

and so my WII NUMBER is 1044 5332 7492 2690

Please comment with YOUR numbers so I don't have to troll your LJs, even though i think i'm going to anyway.

latkes

2006-12-01T20:53:25Z

I just made some insane latkes, guys. here's the recipe. i suggest you all make some.

Ingredients:

1 pound - Potatoes, peeled and grated
1 small - Onion, grated
2-1/2 Tbs. - Flour
1 - Egg
1/2 tsp. - Salt
1/8 tsp. - White pepper
1/4 cup - Olive oil

Directions:

In a small bowl, combine first 6 ingredients until blended. Heat oil in fry pan. Scoop a heaping tablespoon of latke batter into oil. Continually turn latke over until they are brown on both sides and potatoes are cooked. Remove latkes from pan and place on dish. Repeat with remaining latkes until all the batter is used. Top with sour cream.

Makes 14 latkes.

that sucked

2006-11-30T07:05:56Z

"I want to do something Freaky to you" - Marvin Gaye

dave2 @ 2006-11-23T21:26:00

2006-11-24T03:26:18Z

I'm almost caught up to where I ought to be for NaNoWriMo

However, I totally despise most of my novel. There are parts of it that I like, but mostly yeah I dislike it.

Also, Marvin Gaye is totally amazing. I don't know how he does it. did it. he's dead.

i wrote this at 2 a.m.

2006-11-16T08:12:17Z

I have a funny story about “Au Revoir”. It's sort of like other farewells. I've always been fond of farewells phrases, the English “farewell” especially. It's very old fashioned-sounding when you think about them. Fare thee well. It sounds like the kind of thing knights probably said to each other before parting ways. It's saying “I hope your life is gonna be all right” which is sort of the kind of thing I repeatedly find myself wanting to tell people. The sad thing about Farewell is the finality of it; you wish them a good life, a life that you presumably won't be playing a part in. Other languages have more uplifting goodbyes, which seem to fall into one of two categories, the “see again” variety and the “with god” variety. “Adios” is Spanish for goodbye. A and dios mean “Go with God”, more or less. It's the equivalent of the English Goobye, which means “God be with you”. I've always preferred “Godspeed”, it sounds cooler and adventurous and almost space-aged. Lots of languages have some sort of “God be with you” equivalent, such as Adieu in French, and the rare Addio in Italian. “Auf Wiedersehen” is a sort of boring one. German has other farewell phrases but this one literally translates to “Until seeing again”, which sounds awkward in English, or “'Til next time!” Arrivederci is much the same, but more fun to say. It simply means “See you”. Au Revoir means the same thing. Revoir is the verb “to see again”, stemming from the root word “voir” or “to see”. “Au Revoir” is simply “Until seeing again!” just like so many of its European counterparts. When I was a kid, I was told it came from “Rêve” which in this case would mean “a vision” (as in a sight, a seeing), but more often it means “a dream”. This isn't true, as I explained. Somehow that garbled etymology came down to me in elementary grade and it stuck with me, the kind of harmless misunderstanding which rarely, if ever has consequences. Because of this mistranslation I've always really had a soft spot for the farewell “Au Revoir”. It makes me think that instead of “See you around” it means “See you in your dreams” but without the inherent cheesiness that saying has in English. To me it was always a beautiful way of saying “Let us think of each other, and remember me, keep me in mind. Dream of me.”

So what's funny about that story? Well, after Emily told me “Au Revoir,” I didn't plan on “seeing again” as Au Revoir truly means. However, I did dream of her.

dave2 @ 2006-11-14T23:52:00

2006-11-15T05:52:11Z

guys i'm totally hitting the wall, novel-wise.

give your plot suggestions... i need one character to "be away", but they cannot die.

fer shure

2006-11-11T06:13:42Z

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The West
The Midland
Boston
The Inland North
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

i don't know that I agree with the bit about Fargo, but I guess I am a Canadian! Somebody oughta inform them that Canadians have a wide array of accents too.

novel writers don't die, their cells just stop reproducing and they decay

2006-11-10T03:48:41Z

I just realized that I'm actually writing a long work of fiction. The absurdity just hit me while I was typing. Normally I type one line and press enter, or I write in a scholarly tone for essays and stuff (speaking of which I should be doing school work!!!! OMG) But here I am, actually writing this thing. It's 20 pages so far, that's gross. I probably won't let anybody read it, but here's a few lines.

actually i changed my mind, nobody is allowed to read any of it. nobody is to read any of it aloud

dave2 @ 2006-11-06T01:29:00

2006-11-06T07:29:31Z

It never did rain,
It never did rain,
I never did rain till now

dave2 @ 2006-11-04T11:02:00

2006-11-04T17:02:34Z

What's not condusive to writing 1667 words a day?

Waking up at 6:40, going to school, then going to the dentist and at 11:00 getting knocked out with sedation for an hour while my wisdom teeth are removed, then waking up again, stumbling to the car, falling asleep, waking up, walking into the house, falling asleep on the couch for another 5 hours, watching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, vomiting a lot of blood, and then falling asleep again for 13 more hours. That's a 36 hour fast! Although since it wasn't intentional I guess it's just Real Life.

on the plus side I had insane dreams

dave2 @ 2006-11-02T19:59:00

2006-11-03T01:59:26Z

one night he was driving home, but technically that's not true, because if he HAD been driving he wouldn't have slammed into a tree on the boulevard doing 60.

Garfield is the best comic of our time

2006-11-02T19:34:16Z

dave2 @ 2006-10-31T21:45:00

2006-11-01T03:45:03Z

I just got a last.fm account... On the eve of November, maybe it'll give me something to do while I attempt to madly write a novel. My NaNoWriMo attempt from 2004, "Space Pirate Chronicles" topped out at about 5000 words, 10x too short to qualify, but frankly I hated writing that thing by the end.

So anyway, the problem with last.fm and "scrobbling" in general is that there's no way to 'scrobble' analog music like cassettes, or more importantly... vinyl. I thought about just playing the album on my computer with the volume off at the same time as playing it on my turn table, but that idea is especially stupid. Also, the only digital music I really listen to is on my iPod, which can technically be scrobbled, but I have yet to get it to work. But it won't be long before you can BASK in the GLOW of my musical tastes.

Did everyone have a happy halloween? I know I did, because I only had to answer the door once. Bless the weather, and bless my long, arduous driveway.

dave2 @ 2006-10-30T18:28:00

2006-10-31T00:36:05Z

I live in Manitoba. Today, in the mail I recieved a package from Essendine, England. Inside was a 7" Record of a band from Winkler, Manitoba (and Winnipeg). What a strange world we live in!

It's pretty cool to have, I don't really regret the purchase.

Also, in true Manitoba fashion, it snowed a ton today. let's all go rear end everybody!

happy hallowe'en