Friday, April 30, 2004

Danger: Swans Can Bite Off Weewees


I don't know the above danger from my own experiences, but somebody once told me it is common knowledge for every child in Norway. Anyway, moving on.... I have had a BUSY week, yesterday was the busiest day, with all sorts of driving in the city, going out to lunch, and working. Believe it or not I almost got lost yesterday in Boston, or at least I couldn't find the road I was looking for. I was going to the airport to pick up Vanessa and Jess, so I figured I'd hop on I-90 East and take the Ted Williams Tunnel. Apparently you can't get there from here. I first went South, but there was only the option to go on I-90 West. I turned around in South Boston and took I-93 North hoping I could find the other tunnel under the river, but in the end I had to go over the Tobin and drive all the way around just to get to the airport. It took an hour to go from downtown Boston to the airport, WTF. Once there, it was nearly impossible to find parking, but finally I parked under an Exit sign.

Oooh time to go to work. Enjoy the pictures and have a great weekend.
Keeg

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

I never update this anymore

Weekend Pictures including TJ's party
I know it has been a while since I have updated, but not much has gone on. Well I suppose a lot of things have happened I just haven't put them online. For instance, it is now official that I am moving, I told my landlord last night that I will be moving out May 31st. It is a little sad leaving Salem, since I really do like my apartment and the neighborhood. I just wish it was closer to the city and I didn't need to buy a commuter rail pass. Oh well onward and upward into a new home in Somerville.

What else lets see. I had Mark and Kate over for homemade pizza on Sunday. We also watched some home movies of me from middle school, the prom, college and finally an old spring break video. After that we enjoyed the Office which I bought on DVD and finally I played a short acoustic set.
Set list:
Dressed In Black -> Big Eyed Fish
In My Life
Angel From Montgomery
Too Much
Help (Alternate Lyrics)

I was so nervous at first, but eventually calmed down and became comfortable with playing in front of people. I guess it was my first performance with an actual setlist. So for all you fan sites out there be sure to keep track of April 25, 2004.

Talk to y'all later. I'm goin to the BoSox game with mom tonight. Hooray what fun!!!

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Colombia's Population


For this evening's BoCaNO we went to trivia night at the Kinsale. We got off to a rocky start, but once the Tufts kids showed up things began to turn around. After the first standings announcement we were in fourth place. Now this was nothing new we had always done well, but things were different prior to the final round. The Trivia Jockey announced us as being in second place by a point. We knew these next two questions would count and we went for it and go the first question wrong. The final question was a bit easier and we waged the maximum bid and got it correct. They then began announcing the final results and we finished in third place, but wait there was a problem and we were forced into a tie breaker round. The question was what is the population of Colombia? We guessed 7.8 million and the other team guessed 4.5 million. The actual population was 41 million, so we won third place outright. Our reward was a $10 gift certificate to the Kinsale. It was very exciting and we told the TJ we would be back and do better next time.

Good times!!!
KWS

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Multimedia Day

Well I have some multimedia for you today from pictures to two new songs. First off I have a link to some pictures I took at the Boston Marathon on Monday. I also have pics of the macaroni and cheese I made on monday night. There are also pictures of the Public Garden yesterday afternoon. Here is the link Boston Marathon Slide Show

I haven't made any more guitar movies lately so last night I recorded a bunch of stuff. So without wasting anymore of your time here are TWO links today. The Too Much was just having fun, but it turned out okay I guess.
Imagine
Too Much

Okay time for work. Enjoy my tunes.
Keeg

She stands a tear falls from her chin
She wonders
In all these hours and all these years
I woke up today to find out
It all comes down to nothing.

Sunday, April 18, 2004

Good times!!!


Above is a picture of Zack's baseball game which I attended on Saturday, well at least I saw the bottom half of the last inning of the game. I was in Amesbury again because it was on my way home from the VW dealership. I brought my car in for service, which they said would take several hours, so I was prepared and had lots of music and reading. Fortunately they finished in just under two hours and it gave me time to take a drive down the coast and also visit the family.

Next up was meeting Scottie and Dale in Methuen for Kill Bill Volume 2. It was pretty decent, much different than the first one, but still worth seeing. Afterwards things got a bit interesting... Scott needed to get a stripper for his friend's bachelor party, so he went online and found a couple online. The only problem was she wouldn't post her picture online, so he had to set up and interview of sorts with her in person. Now that is where I come in. He planned on meeting her after the movie which just happened to be the same time I would be with him. It was very covert from the one way phone calls to the meeting in a public place. She wouldn't give out her phone number which made meeting up all the more difficult. Finally after several phone calls we agreed to meet her and her partner at the mall. While we were waiting for them to show up we kept looking at all the women that walked through the door and wondered if it was them. They finally called and said they were there and it didn't take long for us to find them. Now I don't believe I had every actually talked to her seen a stripper up so close and upon seeing them they pretty much looked like any other girls walking around the mall. I guess this goes to show how little girls where these days. They were attractive, but it goes to show how I do really like the plain and plain girls. We introduced ourselves and proceeded with the er... interview. I had know idea what we could ask, but Scott as always was prepared and had several questions, mostly business and logistics. After he ran out of questions they basically went over some of the things they do in their um.. act. I feel like Howard Stern on the radio, trying to keep it PG, but at the same time entertaining. We thanked them for there time and left. It was certainly a once in a lifetime experience, and if it does happen again at least I know what questions to ask.

Afterwards I went to Scott's house for an awesome dinner of pork chops, steak, potatoes, squash and Mrs. K's apple sauce. It was excellent and a great prelude to our trip to Boston to see Dave Attell at the Comedy Connection. I drove in and at one point accidentally turned down a one way street the wrong way, upon realizing this I turned back on to the original street, but in the wrong lane. I kind of scared everybody in the car, but I wasn't too rattled. The city was so warm and everybody was out and about just enjoying the beautiful weather. The show was very funny and it was nice to be experiencing a Saturday night like most twenty somethings do, out in the city. Seeing everybody out and having a great time just made me feel like I didn't really belong. I think I have missed an important part of life, the part where most people learn to go out and socialize in public. Perhaps it was the fact that most of my college life was spent working and not partying like the rest of the world. It seems like something I will never really learn so I guess there really isn't much point reflecting on it.

Today was another nice day spent mostly at home resting. In the afternoon I went to Amesbury to do laundry. It was a pretty uneventful day. Oh yeah except for the fact that I brough three trash bags full of clothes to the Salvation Army. I was inspired after watching an episode of Queer Eye. The Fab 5 were just ripping through this guys closet and giving him such grief about his clothes. I decided to do the same thing and realized about half of the stuff I own I will never wear. One of the hardest things to get rid of was a bunch of my Dave Matthews t-shirts. I just realized that I never wear half of them because they are the shirts with the tour dates on the back. I kept a couple of them, including my first shirt, but the rest are now in a big red dumpster in Newburyport.

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Best Mom Ever!!


Just so you all know your mom's might be good, but unfortunately for you I have the best mom ever. You might ask why is my mom better than all of the rest of the moms? Well there are several reasons, but one big reason is that she drove in to Boston from Amesbury last night at nine o'clock just to give me a ride to Salem. The reason I couldn't commute like I do every other night was because of the Charlestown acid spill which interrupted most commutes north of the city. Thanks again mom.


Okay now on to the movie review. Last night's BoCaNO was a movie night. We saw "The Girl Next Door". The movie was good and had many clever twists and turns which were hard to predict and in my history of movie watching that is a good thing. It also didn't hurt to have porn stars in almost every scene. Okay now obviously I wouldn't end this without some sort of criticism I mean it had to have something wrong with it since its a teenager movie. My big problem with the movie was how quickly it jumped from one scene/situation to the next. It all seemed very rushed, one example was how within two days of meeting Danielle, Matthew was already completely in love and made a big speech to her about how much he liked her. By this time she had already decided to go back to porn, after just having one high school kid foolishly treat her like a porn star. Another example was when Kelly became friends with Matthew and picked him up at school. It seemed like a friendship or some odd relationship was starting and then the next day he is off to Las Vegas for the Adult Video Convention. The story just seemed to move along without enough inter-character development. Overall though I would give the movie a B rating. Check it out.

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Bad News:Good News

Well the bad news is that the rain is out of control up here. I just can't believe how heavy it has been. Yes I know it was lame bad news, but I needed to come up with some clever writing technique.

The good news is that I got my Dave Matthews Band seat locations for the four shows I am going to this summer.
Here's the breakdown:
June 17 in St. Louis - 5th row center
July 6 in Mansfield - 17th row center
July 7 in Mansfield - 4th row way back where the lawn used to be
July 29 in Tampa - 7th row center

I don't think I did too bad. Now I just have to figure out who will be going to one of the Mansfield shows. I am really looking forward to the St. Louis show, because it will involve a nice trip to Chicago, Washington DC and in some other areas I haven't yet decided on yet.