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Home again, home again...
Mar. 2nd, 2003 01:21 amHome is about the nicest place to be, I'm pretty well convinced. Aside from the fact that my classes and friends are in the 404, there's really not much of a benefit to being there. Eh, it's not s'bad, I suppose. I just really enjoy being here, in my own Land o' Trees. This is where my family is, this is where everything's all canopied and where there's open space and forest trails and friendly dogs and not nearly so much pavement. This is where I live in a nice, spacious, comfortable house like a real human being, instead of a little box. This is where the world doesn't fit inside North, Northside, 10th, and I-75. This is where I can relax for a minute... or a bunch of minutes :) Yay.
Lessee... yesterday, I slept in for a while, hung around and chatted mit meiner Schwester und meiner Mutter, ran in the forest, and ended up getting together with Brett (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zip4096) and Garrett. We hung around for a while, then ended up going to see the DJ Vadim and the Russian Percussion show with Brett's friend Samir, who's a funky Indian fellow from London who knows a whole lot of stuff about indie-ish music. Neat guy :)
I was laughing at myself about how disorienting it was to be in an environment full of 20-somethings where the Tech Ratio wasn't in effect... I noticed this almost as soon as we hit the FSU campus to pick up Samir. At the show as well, it was very strange... there were actual girls there. Yow. Tech probably isn't too healthy for extended periods of time.
We saw DJ Wu at the show, and that was interesting... hadn't seen him for a while, but he used to hang out with Brett and myself at Cafe oM, back when there was a Cafe oM. *wistful sigh* Ah, and we also ran into this guy Justin, whom we'd known from a very long time ago... he used to be called "Spite", and addressed me as "Dr. Demento", a handle which I haven't been called by in approximately forever.
DJ First Rate (one member of the RP) was absolutely amazing... his hands move obscenely quickly when he's scratchin', and he would use various unorthodox body parts to do strange things to the records, and at one point, he balanced the turntable on the back of his head and neck and scratched like that for a while. Ah, and some b-boys (breakdancers, for those not hip to the lingo) had taped down a mat, and were doing some really strange things involving being upside-down and spinning at the same time, towards the back...
We've decided (or at least I have) that we need to do some social sciences research on the group psychology of clubs and dances and things like that... we want to find the threshholds of numbers of people, crowd densities, intoxication levels, and whatever other factors might be involved in this sort of situation, and figure out the how and the why of it all. Maybe it can be modeled -- that'd be Really Cool :) Then we wouldn't have to actually go to clubs at all (*laughs* ... as much time as we spend being in clubs...), because we could just set up simulations at home.
Today I hung out con mi padre, and we worked out (today's run was 4 miles on the treadmill) and talked about stuff for a while... ah, and Natalie and myself went to go see Something's Afoot, featuring... our mother. That was really amusing. The set was particularly well done, and nuestra madre is (of course) a brilliant actress :) It's just sort of ... a really light, fluffy, comedic murder mystery. Sort of like Agatha Christie running headlong into Gilbert and Sullivan, if you can imagine that, except maybe the musical numbers weren't quite as brilliantly composed. *shrugs* It sort of reminded me of Gosford Park, just in terms of the setting. That's a pretty funky film. If you've got some free time and you're in the Tallahassee area (which would include, among my many readers... hrm, Brett? Anybody else?), you should definitely go and see this sometime :) It's in Quincy, at the Leaf Theatre. It's in the paper.
We hit the nearby Wa-Ho after the show... that's another thing I need to do some social sciences research about, Waffle Houses. They're so entirely different, one to the next. I should go across the country and visit all of them and take copious notes and write a book.
Hrm... and there's still more homework to be done, before tomorrow night. Hrmph. Ah well, at least it can be done in a very comfortable environment :)
Lessee... yesterday, I slept in for a while, hung around and chatted mit meiner Schwester und meiner Mutter, ran in the forest, and ended up getting together with Brett (
zip4096) and Garrett. We hung around for a while, then ended up going to see the DJ Vadim and the Russian Percussion show with Brett's friend Samir, who's a funky Indian fellow from London who knows a whole lot of stuff about indie-ish music. Neat guy :)I was laughing at myself about how disorienting it was to be in an environment full of 20-somethings where the Tech Ratio wasn't in effect... I noticed this almost as soon as we hit the FSU campus to pick up Samir. At the show as well, it was very strange... there were actual girls there. Yow. Tech probably isn't too healthy for extended periods of time.
We saw DJ Wu at the show, and that was interesting... hadn't seen him for a while, but he used to hang out with Brett and myself at Cafe oM, back when there was a Cafe oM. *wistful sigh* Ah, and we also ran into this guy Justin, whom we'd known from a very long time ago... he used to be called "Spite", and addressed me as "Dr. Demento", a handle which I haven't been called by in approximately forever.
DJ First Rate (one member of the RP) was absolutely amazing... his hands move obscenely quickly when he's scratchin', and he would use various unorthodox body parts to do strange things to the records, and at one point, he balanced the turntable on the back of his head and neck and scratched like that for a while. Ah, and some b-boys (breakdancers, for those not hip to the lingo) had taped down a mat, and were doing some really strange things involving being upside-down and spinning at the same time, towards the back...
We've decided (or at least I have) that we need to do some social sciences research on the group psychology of clubs and dances and things like that... we want to find the threshholds of numbers of people, crowd densities, intoxication levels, and whatever other factors might be involved in this sort of situation, and figure out the how and the why of it all. Maybe it can be modeled -- that'd be Really Cool :) Then we wouldn't have to actually go to clubs at all (*laughs* ... as much time as we spend being in clubs...), because we could just set up simulations at home.
Today I hung out con mi padre, and we worked out (today's run was 4 miles on the treadmill) and talked about stuff for a while... ah, and Natalie and myself went to go see Something's Afoot, featuring... our mother. That was really amusing. The set was particularly well done, and nuestra madre is (of course) a brilliant actress :) It's just sort of ... a really light, fluffy, comedic murder mystery. Sort of like Agatha Christie running headlong into Gilbert and Sullivan, if you can imagine that, except maybe the musical numbers weren't quite as brilliantly composed. *shrugs* It sort of reminded me of Gosford Park, just in terms of the setting. That's a pretty funky film. If you've got some free time and you're in the Tallahassee area (which would include, among my many readers... hrm, Brett? Anybody else?), you should definitely go and see this sometime :) It's in Quincy, at the Leaf Theatre. It's in the paper.
We hit the nearby Wa-Ho after the show... that's another thing I need to do some social sciences research about, Waffle Houses. They're so entirely different, one to the next. I should go across the country and visit all of them and take copious notes and write a book.
Hrm... and there's still more homework to be done, before tomorrow night. Hrmph. Ah well, at least it can be done in a very comfortable environment :)
