Blog of Josh Hall

nothing like a walk home from station square at 1 am.  the T stopped coming at 12:30.  i am not complaining though, i not only enjoyed the walk home, i enjoyed the 2 hours of jimmies chicken shack.  amazing.  they play sooooo many songs, and talked so much, and…drank a lot too.  they were definitely gone by the end of the show, but they rocked just the same.  i plan to write a full review on the band in the reviews section later on.  i gotta get into the shower, i wreak of cigs and beer.

today turned out to be a pretty good day.  i walked down to pittsburgh guitars and played a lefty SG.  different from a strat, and only $150….i can’t.  I would love to, but i can’t.  also eyed up an acoustic pick up for $40, i need one of those.  i guess it will have to wait for brighter days.

so later on today, i am going to wake up, catch a T to south hills, meet J’aime, and go home.  Adam is having a shindig at his casa, i might make a guest appearance.   Then, it is off to Penn State to Silly Serah’s abode, to do whatever there.  if i get back intime sunday, I’ll probably get a ride back to the burgh with da jenks and show kathy around campus for her classes monday.  It would appear her schedule is already messed up. 

while i was out have a blast, comcast was busy firing all the employees of TechTV.  what the crap is that about???  i don’t even get that channel here yet.  Idiots.

alright, i gotta get a shower and some sleep.  i will continue this on another date.  until then, pass the time with looking at how crazy ricers get over seas.  check out the vans and tail pipes!

MIKE DOUGHTY IS COMING TO PITTSBURGH!!!!!!!! HOLY CRAP I CANT STOP FLIPPING OUT!!! I AM LIKE A SCHOOL GIRL!!!!! tuesday may 18th, who is in?!?!?!

well, saturday didnt work out as i had hoped.  I had asked someone to go, and they ended up not getting my email until today. :-  and saturday night, i asked someone else to go, and he said he would drive, so 8 rolls around, and he was supposed to pick me up then, and he calls and says he cant go.  by then, it was too late for me to catch a bus, so no matchbook romance for me.  oh well, i guess it was just not meant to be.  Hopefully the band will stick together and come back around.  This thursday is jimmies chicken shack though. Nothing is getting in my way.  Nothing.

turns out what i thought was 55 cents per impression for ads, was really 55 cents per thousand impressions.  quite the difference.  since it wasnt even worth it, i took it down.  i was all exited there for a second.

i have been thinking about puting the videos section back up and hosting them else where so i dont kill my bandwidth.  i will probably do that sometime this week.

going to Penn state this weekend with my sisters to see serah and help her….welll i dont know why we are going up really.  they just asked me to go.  always good times with the sisters though.

for all of you that voted for keren, she is lucky to have friends like you.  friends that are willing to lie just to make her feel good.  and kudos to all those who dared to be different and vote for the stick.  i didnt see that one coming at all. 🙂

so i guess i have to leave you will some interesting tidbit of knowledge, or something funny, or just something partially entertaining.  well, here it is.  you can either learn how to make a stun gun from a disposable camera, or you could use your disposable camera for good and turn it into a digital camera.  the choice is yours.

did a few things to the site today.  Added a review section where anyone can review movies, bands, concerts, products, places, anything you want.  Use it.

Added a web links section, submit your link there and get some traffic from my site.

i added some ads for anonymous users.  once you log in though, they go away.  Those ads, and the poster store are just ideas to see if they work for revenue generation.  they may or may not stay.

“College is overrated.
 Just racks up debt and delays your “real life”
 It ain’t what it used to be.
When only the priviledged few and Draft Dodgers went.
Now it’s just a place to party.
And avoid responsibility.”

-My Mom

Well, I just got done watching Donnie Darko again.  In the movie, Drew Barrymore says that a famous linguist once said that “Cellar Door” was the most beautiful word in the english language, which leads him to his destiny of going into Grandma death’s cellar door.  From what i have researched so far, the original “linguist” to have said this is debatable.  Fact:  Tolkien wrote about it in a short essay:

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“The basic pleasure in the phonetic elements of a language and in the style of their patterns, and then in a higher dimension, pleasure in the association of these word-forms with meanings, is of fundamental importance. This pleasure is quite distinct from the practical knowledge of a language, and not the same as an analytic understanding of its structure. It is simpler, deeper-rooted, and yet more immediate than the enjoyment of literature. Thought it may be allied to some of the elements in the appreciation of verse, it does not need any poets, other than the nameless artists who composed the language. It can be strongly felt in the simple contemplation of vocabulary, or even in a string of names. …Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that *cellar door* is ‘beautiful,’ especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful that, say, *sky*, and far more beautiful than *beautiful*, Well then, in Welsh, for me *cellar doors* are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant.”

Others chalk the origins up to Poe, saying that Tolkien was just commenting on what Poe said.  do a google for “cellar door beautiful” and you will find a gagillion threads about the topic, pretty much all of them inspired by donnie darko. 

i had some other things to comment on and say, but i completely lost track, it’s 5 am.  what do you expect.  anyway, watch donnie darko.  Fear, love, religion, time travel, patrick swazey involved in a kiddie porn ring, what more could you want in a movie?