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Some things:
Michigan St. made the final four. Throughout my life i think there has been two people (Lori, and my brother) who have understood how a team of people that will never know me, that change every year, that play a game with a rubber ball, could affect me like they do. I think a lot of people look down on fanaticism, but it makes me so motherfucking happy. There is something beautiful about a bunch of people that are extraodinarily good at something. And to me, the fact that basketball has very little relevence to reality makes the game even better. When people become obsessed with things that do operate in reality, you get wars and political debates and guilt. But for me with Michigan State passion can exist with all the intensity and without any of the real world consequences. Its great escapism, and there's something very powerful about that.
When I said there isnt any real world consequences to MSU basketball i was lying. Im probably happier now than ive been in a couple years. MSU basketball (and march madness in general) gives me this careless, senseless sort of happiness that makes everything better. I pity the fool that marginalizes that.
Also:
So I did go to the meeting about the fire. And it turns out i wasnt overreacting about these fucktards. They are going to have me pay 700-1000 dollars for damages to the carpet, they gave me a "fire prevention" saftey video about college students (Im pretty sure dougie houser, md narrates it), and i have to give a FIRE SAFTEY PREVENTION PRESENTATION to my 19 dirty, drug fiend, suitemates (guys, i say that with affection). Depending on how "enthusiastic" i give the presentation, I may or may not have a UJC (the uva legal system) trial (worst case scenario- get kicked out of first year housing, meaning i get kicked out of school for the semester). But really, the most insulting part of the entire thing was that these women that I had to meet with were actually playing Good Cop/Bad Cop. One would be like, "Andrew, I am a little concerned with the way you chose to deal with the burning trashcan. Usually, because we are so worried about your safety, it would have been better if you had called the fire department and not tried to carry the trashcan out of the suite." and the other would be like, "YOU IGNORED PROTOCALL ARE YOU SOME KIND OF IDIOT DONT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!". They actually suggested i ask a fireman to come in and waste his time to to tell us fire saftey tips like, "dont start fires" and "smoke rises". I kind of felt underestimated. I know so much more about smoke then they do.
Also:
this is a taste of the reason why i sleep 6 nights a week at most. I am the script supervisor for the promo (this is actually just half of the promo) and for "Loss of Life" which is being made by the same director (Han West) and crew. I think its real perdy. p.s. im the dashing young fellow in the black "hitchcock" sweatshirt behind the monitor in the end.
this is why i didnt go to class today.
heres what my coconspiritors and i have gotten:
1 Dead Poets Society
5 My Girl
9 Full Metal jacket
10 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
11 Lawrence of Arabia
14 Do the Right Thing
15 Saturday Night Fever
16 Field of Dreams
18 Pulp Fiction
21 Ransom
25 Mr. Deeds
27 A Knights Tale
28 The Blair Witch Project
29Eyes Wide Shut
30 Hellraiser
31 A Christmas Story
33 Forrest Gump
34 Office Space
36 Crossroads
38 Shrek
42 the Cable Guy
43 Porky's
47 the Matrix
49 Scream
51 Grease
54 Changing Lanes
57 Boogie Nights
59 The Fast and the Furious
61 Schindler's List
62 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
63 Jerry Maguire
65 Deliverance
66 Waterboy
68 the Breakfast Club
69 Wet Hot American Summer
70 White men cant jump
71 Sleepy Hollow
72 Godzilla
OH! and finally, i decided that the slogan to my drug dealing bussiness is............
CARPE DIME!
Michigan St. made the final four. Throughout my life i think there has been two people (Lori, and my brother) who have understood how a team of people that will never know me, that change every year, that play a game with a rubber ball, could affect me like they do. I think a lot of people look down on fanaticism, but it makes me so motherfucking happy. There is something beautiful about a bunch of people that are extraodinarily good at something. And to me, the fact that basketball has very little relevence to reality makes the game even better. When people become obsessed with things that do operate in reality, you get wars and political debates and guilt. But for me with Michigan State passion can exist with all the intensity and without any of the real world consequences. Its great escapism, and there's something very powerful about that.
When I said there isnt any real world consequences to MSU basketball i was lying. Im probably happier now than ive been in a couple years. MSU basketball (and march madness in general) gives me this careless, senseless sort of happiness that makes everything better. I pity the fool that marginalizes that.
Also:
So I did go to the meeting about the fire. And it turns out i wasnt overreacting about these fucktards. They are going to have me pay 700-1000 dollars for damages to the carpet, they gave me a "fire prevention" saftey video about college students (Im pretty sure dougie houser, md narrates it), and i have to give a FIRE SAFTEY PREVENTION PRESENTATION to my 19 dirty, drug fiend, suitemates (guys, i say that with affection). Depending on how "enthusiastic" i give the presentation, I may or may not have a UJC (the uva legal system) trial (worst case scenario- get kicked out of first year housing, meaning i get kicked out of school for the semester). But really, the most insulting part of the entire thing was that these women that I had to meet with were actually playing Good Cop/Bad Cop. One would be like, "Andrew, I am a little concerned with the way you chose to deal with the burning trashcan. Usually, because we are so worried about your safety, it would have been better if you had called the fire department and not tried to carry the trashcan out of the suite." and the other would be like, "YOU IGNORED PROTOCALL ARE YOU SOME KIND OF IDIOT DONT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!". They actually suggested i ask a fireman to come in and waste his time to to tell us fire saftey tips like, "dont start fires" and "smoke rises". I kind of felt underestimated. I know so much more about smoke then they do.
Also:
this is a taste of the reason why i sleep 6 nights a week at most. I am the script supervisor for the promo (this is actually just half of the promo) and for "Loss of Life" which is being made by the same director (Han West) and crew. I think its real perdy. p.s. im the dashing young fellow in the black "hitchcock" sweatshirt behind the monitor in the end.
this is why i didnt go to class today.
heres what my coconspiritors and i have gotten:
1 Dead Poets Society
5 My Girl
9 Full Metal jacket
10 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
11 Lawrence of Arabia
14 Do the Right Thing
15 Saturday Night Fever
16 Field of Dreams
18 Pulp Fiction
21 Ransom
25 Mr. Deeds
27 A Knights Tale
28 The Blair Witch Project
29Eyes Wide Shut
30 Hellraiser
31 A Christmas Story
33 Forrest Gump
34 Office Space
36 Crossroads
38 Shrek
42 the Cable Guy
43 Porky's
47 the Matrix
49 Scream
51 Grease
54 Changing Lanes
57 Boogie Nights
59 The Fast and the Furious
61 Schindler's List
62 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
63 Jerry Maguire
65 Deliverance
66 Waterboy
68 the Breakfast Club
69 Wet Hot American Summer
70 White men cant jump
71 Sleepy Hollow
72 Godzilla
OH! and finally, i decided that the slogan to my drug dealing bussiness is............
CARPE DIME!