| the get up kids apologize for inventing emo. |
[07 Nov 2009|05:26pm] |
While acts like Fall Out Boy pay tribute to Get Up Kids, the feeling isn't mutual. "If a band gets huge and they say we inspired them – great," Suptic said. "The problem is most of them aren't very good. What does that say about us? I don't know. Maybe we sucked."
read the whole thing here.
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[07 Nov 2009|09:20am] |
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go back to the shadow.
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| Cuffed Gauntlets |
[06 Nov 2009|10:28am] |
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back in August a friend organized what we called "Son of Sock Swap: Things You Wear on Your Hands" (the first Swap was... well, Socks lol) and I participated. All who were interested gave her their name/LJ name/Ravelry name; she magically mixed and matched and paired up swappers and swappees... and we had until 10/31 to complete our project and then mail them out after the 31st.
This was a FUN project. I tried to play with a few of the patterns I found on Lion Brand's website, and Caron's, and on Ravelry... but my brain just wasn't wrapping around following an unfamiliar pattern. So, I kinda whipped one up on my own... based on a baby hat pattern (for the cuffs) and playing with DCs and SCs in alternating colors. I ended up with about 4 prototype pairs before I finally got the results I wanted... and set out to make a pair for my Swappee.
Turns out I loved 'em so much and loved the color combo that I made another pair for her in slightly alternating combo of colors... and even then altered the pattern because I wasn't too fond of the way I closed the edges in the first pair.
Package was received, she was very happy and liked them muchly... and now I have gone out and purchased 10 more skeins of this delicious Bernat Satin Worsted Weight Yarn because it is sooooo delicious to work with!
so, here's the final project (and the semi-final project in black LOL) I apologize for the blur, not so easy to take a pic of your own hand without a tripod hehe
( pictures under the cut )
I did try to write up a pattern... its kinda hard really, writing up the steps to something you just intuited...
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[05 Nov 2009|06:30pm] |
"Missing someone isn’t about how long it has been since you have seen them or the amount of time since you’ve talked. It’s about that very moment when you’re doing something and you wish that they were right there with you."
i miss you a little bit more each time i take a breath and you're not right next to me, every time i'm cooking dinner for myself and i make two much food because i wish i was cooking for both of us, every time gwen says or does something ridiculously cute, every time i can tell that she's a little bit says that she's just sad because she misses you...
i'm not sure that words can fully express just how much of an influence you've had on our lives, all i know is that i don't want to waste anymore of my life without you in it.
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[05 Nov 2009|01:04pm] |
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all i can do is hold on, try to fight the forces of implosion threatening to tear me up from the inside out. all i can do is remember, and hope that we'll both feel that way again. all i can do is hope that one of these days my phone will start playing your (fucking) song again, and often.
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| "if i had a time machine" |
[05 Nov 2009|09:38am] |
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i'm not really sure what hurts more right now - feeling like my version of paris is burning or knowing that when it comes down to it all of the reasons you don't feel the same are my fault. i wish like hell that i had a time machine, that i could go back to that day and reverse the stupid decision that i made. i should have just listened to you, i should have just broken the cycle then. but i didn't, and now i'm left sitting here regretting that day, and constantly remembering what it felt like to feel alive.
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| this needs to be said. |
[05 Nov 2009|01:07am] |
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tonight was: getting drunk on free wine on a king street rooftop patio at a friend's art show.
it also was: sitting in a dark room with a bird perched on my finger as everyone took turns singing auto-tuned on bryar's recording equipment as he ripped solos on his electric guitar in the corner.
tomorrow is a guided tour of the Steichen exhibit at the AGO.
fuck i love the city.
regards,
Tara
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[04 Nov 2009|11:16am] |
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you're still the star of the movies of my dreams, and i'm pretty sure that's never going to change. it feels like the walls are closing in, like the sky is falling on my head. i don't know what to do. i don't know where to start. i just write and pass out underneath your blankets on the couch, constantly remembering what it feels like, and wondering if we'll ever get back there.
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[04 Nov 2009|03:29am] |
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i give myself too much time to think.
i reminisce a lot about things, about people, long gone.
i am swimming in "what if's" right now.
and these romantic movies aren't helping.
(this is why i don't keep alcohol in my apartment)
otherwise i'm good.
regards,
Tara
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[03 Nov 2009|12:42pm] |
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"daddy, i really love you and tephie so much."
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[31 Oct 2009|11:31pm] |
dudes.
my life has gotten weird. everything is better than i ever could've asked for -- but its still weird.
i work for the man. if not THE man, then i work for the dude that works for the man. i do what i wanted to do. i do what i love. i just have been questioning my motives i guess.
sidenote: green tea canada dry ginger ale? best soda ever made.
i started working for the louis-berger corp. a gigantic, international city planing and engineering company. they have a teeny tiny little "xe", cultural resource, archaeology department.
they gave me my first job up in albany, ny. i worked about 5 weeks at fort campbell, kentucky/ tennessee. and then came to philly. they pay most of my expenses. they pay my stay and travel.
they take the jobs no one else wants. they take the jobs they know they can under bid. they pay their employees JUST enough to keep them on. they make people go bat shit crazy.
this week a woman hurt herself. she threatened the company with a sexual abuse charge solely to keep her apartment/benefits. ...because she was going to be let go before her workman's comp shit came through.
tonight someone went with full red face and body paint, white button up shirt, devil horns -- and a company sticker across his chest.
its true.
there is absolutely no archaeology in what i'm doing...on this project anyway. i am literally tearing out/up bodies. individuals. out of the ground. the hardest part for me is trying to not think of these as people. thinking of these as vessels. thinking of the body and soul. and what remains. and what does not. thinking of how these people wanted to be thought of. these people were never supposed to have been seen again. they were laid to rest.
but money controls all -- x had more money than y. money overturns law. law overturns safety and respect. overturned respect leads to jobs...
all of this negativity.
but berger has given me the best gift of all. love.
and its been a long long time since i've used that specific 4 letter word.
when i went to tennessee, i went running and hoping for anything better than what i had been living with. i went nervous and skiddish as hell. i never have given too much faith to coincidences. but there have been way too many lately to ignore. my field partner, the kid who trained me on the army base...i do actually believe...was made, for me. and i for him. christopher ryan andrade. since day awkward one. we hit it off. we haven't spent more than probably 72 hours apart since...and that was...late august? he got me on this philly project, and has gotten me pretty comfortable with most of the staff.
he is the sweetest. kindest. most whole-hearted person i have met since i was young. high school, tommy jones and matt tobey young.
genuine and so fucking honest.
i've met his family. his mom and 'dad'. his 'sister'. his aunt and now uncle. cousins in tennessee. never, outside of my own family, have i ever felt so much love. he just, does it. we play video games and watch cartoons.
we've kind've moved in together. i keep feeling that things are moving way too fast, but when you live AND work with someone, the relation is accelerated and exaggerated ten fold. usually we have hotel rooms. since we're on such a long term project we both have furnished 1 bedroom apartments. i'm definitely not complaining.
...i'm definitely not complaining...
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[31 Oct 2009|01:32pm] |
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anyone have or wanna make a butternut squash stencil?
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| Happy Halloween! N.P.C. tomorrow! |
[31 Oct 2009|10:52am] |
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The fourth Annual NPC is almost here, and it is going to be the best one yet.
NPC is a gamer convention hosted every year by the Guild of Gamers. There are 10 projectors of games, with a library of 100+ to choose from. Events such as war gaming, Dungeons and Dragons Delves, Rock Band hours and DDR going on all day. Buy your favorite gaming trinkets from Dragon's Den, and meet with other gamers all day. Even better, come in costume - it is the day after Halloween! There might be a prize for you... several new release video games incuding DJ Hero, Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero 5, Uncharted Drakes Fortune 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and potentially Guitar Hero Van Halen.
Admission: $2 for students and $4 for non-students
TOURNAMENTS:
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (12:00 P.M.)
Halo 3 (1:30 P.M.)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (3:30 P.M.)
Street Fighter IV (6:00 P.M.)
Yu-Gi-Oh (3:00 P.M.)
There are prizes, like PlayStation Portable 3000, Nintendo DS unit, and other misc. items.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Magic: The Gathering draft (1:00 P.M.)
Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.
Rock Band Karaoke
Costume Contest
LARP Weapon Booth
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| Only in Colorado |
[30 Oct 2009|03:04pm] |
Livejournal I do not have much to say. I am writing three pages a day in a journal. So, when it is time for the internet I am kind of wrote-out. But this is maybe my favorite picture I took last summer:
What does it mean?
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[30 Oct 2009|11:01am] |
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i'm trying to make a pom for a hat i am making but i feel like whenever i put one together its gonna fall apart cause you can pull the yarn pieces and it will come out is there any other way to make a pom or make it stay together?
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| Happy Halloween |
[28 Oct 2009|11:15am] |
Hello everyone watching and visiting ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) sunynewpaltz!
We used to be such an active and vibrant community.
It would be nice if we could share more things about our school. :)
How do you guys plan on spending halloween?
I you know any events happening both on-campus or off-campus, do share!
;) and there's always the parade at 5PM on main street each year in town.
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