my space

So I've been creating a myspace account and I have a blog there now. Some material may be offensive or crude. tisk tisk. So I took the link out. The last couple of weeks I've been making the drive to B-town. So far my plans for July are to do a Pracs session and go to the Vans Warped Tour in the cities with my buddies smokey and steph. And as of today I'll be officially moved in with Erik Meyer, it's the apartment across the hall from MK and Greg.

Ta ta

shimmie

I took a nap after work last thursday and was woken at 6:30pm. I had gotten a phone call from my buddies in Bemidji. Because I was given the weekend off, I promised the guys a visit. they yelled at me of course for not being there yet so I grabbed my laundry basket and a few items and took off down Hwy 10. They had already started in the festivities.....for those of you who are not familiar with Bemijdi, the weekends usually start on thursday afternoon around two. I was welcomed by drunk'n arms and two shots of suki, a bottle imported from Thailand. very smooth. It seemed I caught up rather quickly. We hit up the local irish pub, drank some combats--a pitcher containing two beers, triple sec, vodka, grenadine, whiskey and a splash of 7-up. There was karaoke, a broken ashtray, a demolished chicken sub, one out of control Jason aka the asian sensation, and a lot of shimmie yah haaas. The next day entailed a heavy hangover but was remedied with chinese take out. we played a little pong out side with our new makeshift beerpong table held up by sinder blocks, knee high grass ready to seed and one stolen shopping cart labeled with the sign "alcoholic in training". We carried a couch and Alison (our new found friend or beer cooler) out to the side of the road to play the drinking car game. Here are a few of the rules to the car game. 1 drink for every red car that drives by. 2 drinks for a honk or wave. 3 drinks for a cop. 10 drink for a cop pulling a boat....hey it happens. 1 drink for every mosquito bite. Cor-e and I saw a skunk get run over so we had to finish our beers and then we added a new rule that for every car that dodged the skunk we drank. 45 mns later we were pretty sauced.
Saturday night we went to slims for PBR and burgers. First one always goes down pretty harsh but Gritz-e and I stuck with it. We headed back to the house and because we had such a great time the other night we played the car game again. But this time with Skinny dippers....a drink somewhat like strip and go nakeds, but instead of barcardi lemon we used cheap vodka mixed with lemonade blend in our new walmart blender. After jason and tim finished at work we went to Keg &Cork, then Turtle creek for some live music, where band members striped down to their boxers and tim and bobby danced with 45 year old women.

I'll be going back to Bemidji on tuesday night and might stay until friday, because the Writers Conference is in town.

Wooly Boys

The movie Wooly Boys is now out on DVD. During late summer and through the fall of 2000, the film was shot in the Badlands between Medora and Belfield, ND. Kris Kristofferson stayed in the Chateau de Mores in Medora and the TRMF catering service was responcible for feeding the cast members and staff. One afternoon driving to the film location, the catering van got a flat tire and had to serve the crew from the two track road in the middle of the prarie.

Mars Spectacular

Not only am I a poetry geek but I like to catch up on astronomy now and then.
During this month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m. By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter throughout the month.

shout out

I got a cool new EP from my buddy eric who's in the CharlznewmanBand They are based out of Minneapolis and have created a good following. Be sure to check out their site and concert listings! They will be playing at Moondance Jam in Walker, MN on July 16th at 2 p.m.

My Movie Roll

Imagine all the movies you could be watching if you weren't sleeping.

Seinfeld Episodes 1-3

Blade Trinity (yet another action/comedy)

Closer

Taking Lives (second viewing)

White Noise

One Who Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest


Other than watching too much TV, I've actually been pushing the pencil and wrote a few prose poems on my early morning wake up calls.

Zap

Yesterday I recieved another early morning phone call from my buddy Tim-e. He called to let me know that he was in Fargo, but only stopped to visit the pisser. He was driving to Zap, ND. Population 231. The reason for his stay in Zap is actually not uncommon. He's going on a three day
prairie dog shooting spree. It was too early in the morning to spout out animal rights, so I simply ended the phone conversation by wishing him happy killing and I went back to bed. I used to live in Medora and then made the big move to Dickinson ND, even then I never understood the logic or reasoning for shooting prarie dogs. A few years ago there was a sudden outbreak of monkey pox. Scientists believe the outbreak was caused by a Gambian rat from Ghana that infected prairie dogs at an exotic pet dealer in Illinois.

wake up call

At 10 am I got a wake up call from my good friend Tim-e. He had been up since 7 and already put in a solid three hours of work. I guess he got the sudden urge to tell me that I was a bum. He's right. I have been a pile. I haven't wrote anything since I've came back. Instead I've watched a marathon of movies in the last couple of days, such as Star Wars III, Troy, What dreams may come, King Arthur, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and The Chronicles of Riddick....and the list keeps getting worse and worse...you may insert your Vin Diesel jokes here ______ . The Hollywood action flick is more like my action/comedy hour. The next time I watch Riddick...correction...if I watch Riddick again...I will turn the movie into a drinking game...The first rule is....you drink each time Vin Diesel takes off his damn day vision goggles. Second rule is...drink two for every time he puts them back on. Third rule is....keep drinking till the movie becomes interesting.
I don't know why I watch this stuff. My new roomie Dist-e was rather shocked to come home from work and see that I too enjoi crummy action flicks. I guess you could say, we bonded.