Aesop Under Fire

ilidz @ 2006-07-11T00:08:00

2006-07-11T04:11:56Z

i want you all to know that i think you're swell because i may not be around after friday to tell you so.
thursday i jump out of a plane, and its only costing me $125 to do it.

ilidz @ 2006-06-19T17:25:00

2006-06-19T21:26:09Z

my right shoe is dirty and worn and my left shoe is brand new.
horse shit.

ilidz @ 2006-05-02T18:04:00

2006-05-02T22:08:24Z

It turns out that 'Black Holes' is dead. The black spots on his body were just holes caused by the spikes on the tractor wheels that ran him over. I thought he was licking my face but it was really just his entrails falling out and getting in my nose and mouth. I always wondered why he just sat around the way he did, and I'm surprised that i didnt notice he was dead when i picked him up and hugged his remains the first moment i found him.

I suppose i shouldnt have taken him to show and tell at Bradley's school. It turns out that several of the kids have odd diseases now.
My life is full of wonder and exitement.

ilidz @ 2006-05-02T18:01:00

2006-05-02T22:04:15Z

I found a puppy on the side of the road today. He was little and i named him 'Black Holes' thanks to his spots. He's great, i pick him up and swing him around, and he licks my face and all that jazz. What a pup.

ilidz @ 2006-04-08T00:09:00

2006-04-08T04:17:11Z

Brian's Hip Hop Favorites of the Day:

RJD2
Mos Def
Aesop Rock
Andre Nikatina

(mostly for me so i can remember all of them)

ilidz @ 2006-03-31T00:26:00

2006-03-31T05:28:08Z

whats that dog eating?
perhaps its a juicy shit...
life is magical.

ilidz @ 2006-03-08T23:24:00

2006-03-09T05:00:51Z

tour planning work.... shit this is hard....

PLEASE RESPOND IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERT GOING FRIENDS OR FAMILY IN OR AROUND THE FOLLOWING CITIES:
(VERY IMPORTANT!)

ORLANDO
JACKSONVILLE
SAVANNAH
CHARLESTON
RALEIGH
RICHMOND
WASHINGTON DC
BALTIMORE
PHILADELPHIA
NEW YORK
(ANYWHERE IN JERSEY)
BOSTON
CHICAGO
INDIANAPOLIS
DETRIOT
CLEVELAND
CINCINATTI
ST. LOUIS
AUSTIN
SAN ANTONIO
HOUSTAN
NASHVILLE
BIRMINGHAM
ATHENS

music:
Mute Math - Noticed.... hooray for neatoness.... this band is pro at promotions.

ilidz @ 2006-02-21T01:40:00

2006-02-21T06:46:28Z

Things done today:

1.Crapload of Study-work.
2.Best recording session ever Tree for 5 hours
3.Got into UGA
4.Answered some of the world's Ultimate Questions

Things didnt do today (or last night):

1.sleep
2.eat
3.anything hygenic

music:
Psapp - Tiger my Friend :: hooray for ugly people who make good indie/electronica music.

ilidz @ 2006-01-18T00:37:00

2006-01-18T05:39:05Z

last time i took one of these tests i was pegged as an ENTP - the inventor. pretty much what this shows is that im right on the brink between an intp and an entp and it really kind of puts into perspective what kind of person i am. interestingly enough, alex is an intp as well.

INTP - the Architect
You scored 45% I to E, 15% N to S, 71% F to T, and 63% J to P!

You are more introverted than extroverted. You are more intuitive than
observant, you are more thinking based than feeling based, and you
prefer to go with the flow rather than have a routine. The single word
to describe your type is the Architect, which belongs to the larger
group of rationals. You wish to sculpt the world around you. Others
often find you arrogant, yet you have no desire to direct others, only
to inform them. You must know the structure of things, and have a
voracious appetite for knowledge. You are very rational in everything
you do, and probably consider yourself smarter than most.

As a romantic partner, you can be playful with great energy to get
things started, but not quite as good on follow through. You may have a
tendency to hurt the more emotional types unintentionally by not
sharing your own reactions and feelings as you can get swept up in your
own ideas and projects. You want to be appreciated for your ability to
respond quickly and to fix problems creatively. You need plenty of time
to yourself - therefore your parnter must respect your need for
independence and originality.

Your group summary: Rationals (NT)

Your type summary: INTP

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 55% on I to E
You scored higher than 9% on N to S
You scored higher than 82% on F to T
You scored higher than 66% on J to P

Link: The LONG Scientific Personality Test written by unpretentious2 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

ilidz @ 2005-11-15T23:43:00

2005-11-16T04:56:57Z

i sit down here, this fine night, to write for you, john, because im 93% sure that you're the only person that reads this.

im seriously considering take up writing cd reviews for extra cash, but am really afraid to take on anything else. right now im still feeling my way around my schedule and am really unsure whether this term is going to be full of work or more of a breeze. from what i remember from last year physics is a lot of work, from what i've started off witness to (with the homework) ap. government is a lot of work, and i know that there is a lot of reading lined up for me in literiture... a lot of work. shit on my chest and call me alfonso, i've got a lot of work to do. none the less, if any of you know of anyone who wants to buy a website, definately hit me up. im in need of dough.

for those of you who can, help make things less awkward on me and print this thingy out and stick it up around school. or at least have people pass it around so they get a chance to see it:

http://www.crumblingarches.net/media/masq1.gif

music:
animal collective - sun tongs :: i just got my hands on this cd, quite eccentric but i like it.

ilidz @ 2005-11-07T23:14:00

2005-11-08T04:36:08Z

im really starting to feel bad for bushie, all the shit he screwed up on is landing on his face. skim these if you have a minute.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051108/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_torture
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051107/wl_afp/usiraqintelligence;_ylt=AnWMpV_6rSWvD3XhBJsxjV2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051107/ap_on_go_co/congress_detainees;_ylt=AhHLF74maZJqcPym8nqO0b1p24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-te.md.national07nov07,1,7326546.story?track=rss
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2196982005

i cant even imagine how hard it must be to hit the top of your career and just know that everyone in the world is beginning to hate you. that feeling in your gut...

music:
son of sam - elliot smith :: alex introduced me to this guy's music. he was prominant and friend with beck, conor oberst (bright eyes), and the guys from earlimart amongst others. he sounds like a super good combination of all of the above with a beatles feel to it. i love his songs but sometimes i have trouble getting past the idea that he stabbed himself in the heart...

ilidz @ 2005-10-02T23:58:00

2005-10-03T03:59:53Z

i have slept probably 5 hours in the past 3 days. we played my old friend juan's house party the other day. there was a lot of people there, probably close to 250, most of them girls because there was a list for boys but any girls could get in. most typical high school party ever. the cops came in the end and all the kegged up drunk kids ran into the woods. i just kinda chilled with my friends from 23 jinx for most of it and caught the whiffs of the overbearing clove cigarettes which nearly everyone was smoking except me and them. the advent of the cops meant we could get out stuff out of there, which was good, and i finally got home about about 1:30 only to feel the need to shower, change, eat dinner, unpack some of my personal equiptment, and pray to my alter of scroog mcduck, and slept.

the next day i chilled for a bit in the morning with my femfriend adding athen's myspace people and trying to get them to come to the show, dropped by alex's and moved all the equipment from my car to his mothers since his mother was driving up for the night to viset alex's grandmother anyways and we wanted to save on gas. patrick, alex, and i rode with her and alex's little sister up to athens in caravan with ian and zachary in their van with their parents (real rock star, huh?) and found ourselves in front of Dt's at about 7:30. We ate at transmetropolitan (cheap pizza place, i got my whole meal for 4.50) and met up with the sovus radio guys whome i love dearly. they tried to pick up change playing acoustic songs out front while we all loaded into the tiny tiny venue. one microphone, shitty pa, really small bar, no payment, hella fun brosif. hella cutty indeed. we played well, sovus played really well, and we got our name out there and popped out athens cherry. got back at about 2:00 and attempted to sleep on alex's grandmother's floor while watching clockwork orange, ate lots of bagels, and drove back.

music:
paul mccartney - chaos and creation in the backyard :: i am really enjoying this album. very unique. some of it sounds like a mix between pinback and cave in, other between coldplay and radiohead... way better than i expected.

ilidz @ 2005-09-09T00:57:00

2005-09-09T05:10:37Z

holy shit, this is going to be a really good album... i act like this around every one of their album releases... they are so good at building hype for their albums... I CANT WAIT!!!

listen to the sampler: http://www.myspace.com/thrice

on a second note, CA has been really really busy lately, if you didnt get to see the funky jew video then i have it stored on the web so i can show friends. every one whose seen it shalt tell will what a wonderful job he has done...

still havnt applied to any schools... does this mean im a slacker?

ilidz @ 2005-08-23T20:48:00

2005-08-24T02:13:07Z

im only doing this because i've been tagged 3 times and i feel like it:

5 reasons im a geek -

1. i make websites, like to program, and probably spend an average of 3-4 hours online A DAY
2. i've only been to 1 out of the 8 marist dances in my highschool career and none of the homecomings
3. im on the debate team and like to argue with my teachers
4. in most classes im the "quite kid" who asks a lot of questions (i cant believe people really call me quiet)
5. i read 3 more books than required over the summer including Harry Potter which im rather addicted to
6. i've never done any drugs besides a little catnip and percicet
7. i know the name of probably no more than 30 people at my highschool
8. i dont shower enough.... (no more on that)
9. i spend lots of time myspacing
10. i am in a physical relationship with mythbusters... its love... dont judge me.

i tap: elvis, donald, marcus, principle pheeny, and edward scissorhands.

music: i saw the mars volta and system of a down the other day and it was really really good. i liked the mars volta a lot but system of a down was amazing, they definately know their craft.

Fable - Gatesby's American Dream :: this is about Lord of the Flies... really good song.

ilidz @ 2005-08-17T13:20:00

2005-08-17T17:21:42Z

you know what kinda chokes my wistle. when im lying in a bed and a gargantuan leech climbs on top of me sucks on my left teet. what really irritates me is that happens EVERY TIME i trip on acid in the nursary wing of a hospital. every time. damn those leeches.

have you ever thought about how much the concept of santa clause reaks of pedophelia? he's an old, rather "jolly", man breaking into people's houses to leave little gifts for little girls and boys. he's absolutely adored by the little children of the world, and every christmas when i see him at macy's he makes me give him blowjobs. i swear... just like a pedophile.

so i hit this deer while driving down this road a few months back. it tore my car to peices. but i swear, its really hard to drive at night while some leech that you took with you from the hospital nursary is sucking on your teet. i was ok but the deer was dead. santa walked over to me all pissed off about how i hit it. it must have been his. the strangest part was that he had a leech sucking on his teet also. i offered him a blowjob and he cheered up, that way we didnt have to square anything with the insurence companies.

ilidz @ 2005-08-17T00:39:00

2005-08-17T04:47:07Z

"a man shot another man in the forehead. the man with the bullet hole in his forehead died.

no really deserves to get shot in the forehead but unfortunately people do... and most of the time they die. if you would die when someone shot you in the forehead paste this in your journal."

...i hate chain letters / emails / journal entries no matter what their content may be.

music:
hulahoop wounds - at the drive in :: raw and mighty disshevled. much like a brain after colliding with a bullet.

ilidz @ 2005-08-09T23:46:00

2005-08-10T04:06:16Z

it's been quite some time since i last posted, however, i want you all to know that i AM nosy enough to read you journals frequently. I definately dont have enough to do on my own to occupy my time.

here is my current schedule for the interested... it very well might change:

1.economics
2.english
3.calculus
4.ap music theory
5.independent study
6.christian life choices
7.study hall (i get to come to school late on tuesdays and leave early on friday bitches... charlie our independent study situation might have screwed this up for me though; dirty mother-fucker.)

for anyone in ap music theory... please clue me in on what was said in that one letter that we got from craddock (sp?). we were supposed to get certain books and read something but i lost the letter and know absolutely nothing about what i have to do to prepare.... fuck it.

havn't really done any summer reading... however i did read "hitchikers guide to the galaxy", "the once and future king", and Harry Potter VI. Does someone care to point me to a good sparknotes alternative for the 'Mountains Beyond Mountains' book? catch 22 is funny but has no real story so i cant bear to read more than 3 pages at a time.

as i have openly stated... i get my wisdom extracted on friday and will be mighty stupid, you guys are welcome to get me flowers, cookies, and all that shit.

for all those interested here is a really good personality quiz that my friend john showed me; unlike the any of the other tests this is
actually acknowledged by the scientific community: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

im an ENTP.

music:
the flaming lips - one more robot :: drool. this is the ultimate sleeping song. the ultimate chilling song. the ultimate.
(on a side note; while you guys are bemoaning your first day of school assignments i'll be slamdancing to the likes of system of a down and the mars volta. stick that in your hooka and smoke it!)

ilidz @ 2005-06-19T22:13:00

2005-06-20T02:32:54Z

its 10:13 and im in atlanta... and im going to bed. at this time i have been up for 23 hours.

i know this isnt the same, but here for your amusement, why dont you speculate on which one of these assertions is false:

(x) received painful butt rashes after improperly wiping in a poop burning in an enemy's garage in the middle of the night incodent
( ) ridden a bike off a flaming ramp
(x) sent a flaming tire down a street into a tree, and jumped in the fire to stamp and pee it out.... only to reach around in my pee in search of a lighter
(x) got caught being filmed half nude by Will's neighbor in the middle of the day
(x) win the 'top jew award' in a 'jews revenge against the mummy' episode
(x) harrassed a rent-a-cop and got in a car chase
( ) got caught by a cop making love at 2 in the morning in a car
(x)
(x) picked a friend up above my head soley by his underwear
( ) turned a porta-potty on its head
(x) peed out a second story window
(x) gotten shot in the leg with a bow and arrow
(x) had a deaf girl use the special telephone service to leave a dirty message on my family answering machine
(x) made love to burly cop named mark with only one arm to get out of paying a parking ticket in southeast moscow during the celebration of testis day
(x) trick a french person into thinking that i speak french

-which ones

ilidz @ 2005-05-28T20:01:00

2005-05-29T00:11:13Z

one day i will figure out the key to time travel. and on that day, all of your drinks will taste a bit like urine.

music:
the waifs - flesh and blood :: i've been kinda digging folk music more than i ever have. this is an australien band that has been touring for pretty much 15 years straight, a lot of their songs have this cool vibe.

ilidz @ 2005-05-23T18:04:00

2005-05-23T23:37:26Z

im doing research on children with aids, here is some of that research buts its kind of old. if any of you know where i can get better, more recent statistics and information i would highly appreciate you informing me:

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More than 2,000 children are infected with HIV each day worldwide according to recent estimates.

Mother-to-child transmission has accounted for more than 90% of all HIV infections worldwide in infants and children.

In 2000, 3 million people died of AIDS – 500,000 (1,400 per day) of them were children.

More than 36.1 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and 1.4 million of them are children.

This epidemic disproportionately affects children of color. In 1998, 58% of the children with AIDS in the U.S. were African American and 23% were Hispanic.

AIDS has orphaned at least 10.4 million children currently under 15 (that is, they have lost their mother or both parents to the epidemic). The total number of children orphaned by the epidemic since it began—13.2 million—is forecast to more than double by 2010.

AIDS-related deaths caused some 2.3 million children to become orphans (at the rate of 1 every 14 seconds) in 2000. UNICEF estimates that up to a third of those children were less than five years old.

Before the onset of AIDS, about 2% of all children in developing countries were orphans. By 1999, 10% and more were orphans in some African countries.

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Everybody Vote for CA on http://www.musicdraft.com and get all of your aim buddies and theirs to follow suite. winning would just be neat, even though im not quite sure what we get if we win.

Things are quite boring as of now. I dont really have any schoolwork yet my parents arn't too keen on my doing stuff because its still schooldays. Will and I are having trouble of thinking of stuff to do, we would love to hear suggestions...

music:
waitin for superman - the flaming lips :: i have heard some crazy stories about these guys live shows. im thinking of selling my kidneys and going to san pedro california to watch them for three days straight on the "Xingolati Groove Cruise".

ilidz @ 2005-05-08T23:07:00

2005-05-09T04:11:22Z

drum-drumming
trumpet-trumpeting
sing-singing
lyre-lying?

i made a crumbling arches livejournal community to try to get more livejournal people to be members of the community and up the number of links back to our site. a marketing strategy you might say. im not quite sure how to work communities though. if you can give me any suggestions on how to add people as friends to it, how to post and such let me know.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/crumblingarches/

also, there is a new message board on the CA website that i need as many people to sign up, get involved on and posting as possible. i want to make it a really active, engaging community like the thrice, thursday, or mars volta boards. shall be fun.
http://www.crumblingarches.net/phpbb2/

can anyone here tell me how to set up a paypal account to sell presale tickets?
http://www.paypal.com

Gatsby's American Dream

music:
The Sloppy Meateaters - Stop :: really reminds me of the presidents of the united states of america. quite a good band from rome.
http://www.myspace.com/sloppymeateaters
Gatsbys American Dream - Shh Im Listening to Reason :: i really like this band. perhaps once i have access to some of my cash i'll buy their cd.
http://www.purevolume.com/gatsbysamericandream

ilidz @ 2005-04-10T23:52:00

2005-04-11T04:21:44Z

here's the low-down:

A.Saw the incredible Muse show today with Carolyn, Charlie, and his friend Thom, who i was glad to meet. Didnt get to stay until the end because carolyn had to get home, but i saw an hour's worth of them. Razorlight, before them, played for an hour as well and to be nice... sucked. They were generic, out-of-the-pocket, and really boring. Their light person was talented though...

speaking of Muse... i played "falling away with you" acoustically for my "audition" for Peter Channell(sp?) day. I auditioned so that it could help me sell tickets and cd's for our may 7, masquerade show. I chose this song because i like to play it, its really hard, but its vocally flashy. if you havnt heard this song, then download it or something because its one of my favorites. i was really nervous. i have never played acoustically and ALONE in front of many people. but i was nervous and it definately showed, i was kind of choppy and vocally moderate. i played the song in front of probably around 40 people, and got a good taste of what solo performances are like. the next day i had a bunch of kids (especially in 8th, 9th, and 10th) approaching me and telling me how great it did and how amazing they thought it was. none-the-less i didnt make the audition.

im not sure how this makes me feel. this is 2 days after i come in third in emergenza semifinals at Earthlink live, 2 days after the official "release" of our new material recorded at Treesound, one day after we start actively working towards this other big show we are working on putting together. it made me feel like i was riding on the talent of my (very talented) bandmates and that i didnt really have the talent individually. it wasnt really the not making the audition that bothers me, its the losing out to groups of guys like brent ducote's band. in the end, i figure i need more experience performing solo acoustically and getting more comfertable playing alone in front of a crowd. if anyone here is willing to help me out with that, then so be it, but otherwise i suppose i'll just be performing songs like "falling away with you" in front of the mirror.

glassjaw is no more

other music: i have a new favorite song...
Two Tabs of Mescaline - Glassjaw :: this song is incredible and the lyrics are really good. here are my favorite... "my turkish prison is knowing that i fit in... and....and...i fit IN!"

oh yeah... and CA songs are now for sale on iTunes and napster and stuff. we also have 'captain holmes and the whale of time' for sale on cdbaby... tell all your out-of-town friends that they should buy it..

ilidz @ 2005-04-03T21:36:00

2005-04-04T02:32:05Z

This will be my rant about the Atlanta music scene. For those of you who dont know much of it; read and be enlightened, for those of you who have experienced it please post your opinions and reactions...

There are a circle of somewhere between 8-9 huge regional bands who i keep on hearing about. This doesnt necesarily make them good, but it does mean that regionally and locally they are promoted quite a bit, those bands are: Crazy Anglos, Red Letter Agent, YOU, Echovalve, Family Force 5, Avenge Vegas, Bain Maddox, Lazyeye, Jad, Second Shift, and Rantings of Eva. Almost all of these have their promotions centered around the Atlanta Music Guide ( www.atlantamusicguide.com ) which seems to promote some bands quite well. We have played with some of these bands, we have met some of these bands, and they seem pretty nice, but only a few of them do i really feel belong on my 'like' list.

There is an actual sound and style that regions have. Seattle (at least in the early 90's) had a thriving grunge scene and bands like nirvana and the presidents of the united states of america would prove that in seattle they would make a practice out of saying the same one or two words again and again and again at a some point in the song. In DC it is this unique kind of punk-psycadelia sound like frodus, and central california is riddled with punk - post hardcore / emo bands. but there are bands like that in pretty much every highschool now... Atlanta has a style of its own as well. I dont know any city with more Pantera-Wannabe's than this one. We have played countless shows with this hardcore metal bands that are just terrible. Terrible Metal and Terrible Hip-Hop are THE WORST. The general style of this region is marked by this. It saddens me how the number bands in the Atlanta area that i like can pretty much be counted on one hand. But the ones i like i think really have promise.

For me, i think my very favorite local bands would be 'sovus radio' and 'to whom it concerns.' i would check out their myspace pages if i were you, but im not, so i guess i'll have to climb into your body and force you to do it myself. we've played with 'sovus radio' and 'to whom it concerns' just has some awsome music and is involved with treesound.

the 23 jinx guys are too good to us. they have come out to almost all of our shows this past year, and have been really helpful with some stuff. from now on im going to have to get defensive anytime one of you guys are going to bash their band. they really have a passion for this business, they work really hard, and even if some of you dont like it, their new stuff is delish.

And my definition of the day:
di·ar·rhe·a also di·ar·rhoe·a Audio pronunciation of "diarrhea" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-r)
n.

Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.

ilidz @ 2005-03-15T00:34:00

2005-03-15T06:22:48Z

i've been posting too much, but i couldnt resist after reading this article...

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3786

its a conservative blog that i came across. evidently they advocate that the lebonize rallying for syria to leave their country is a sign that 'The Bush Plan' and democracy promotion is working. Unfortunately the concept of people rising up to rid a unsatisfactory military or diplomatic power corrupting their government isnt new. Lets say... the islamic jihad against the US! So great job for the Bush administration, they convinced the UN to continue with something they were already working on (charter 1335, to get the syrians out of lebannon). Perhaps he doesnt seem to understand that we serve as an unsatisfactory military and diplomatic power in almost every country in that region. If he wants to continue with his plans of 'democracy promotion' he better tread softly because we are bound to step in a bear trap pretty soon.

Brian's alternative? GET THE FUCK OUT! We keep embassies only in the countries in the middle east, promote multilateral actions and diplomatic resolve, and use our overstretched military power to solve the iraq crises and to supply to UN missions.

good times author rant or privetization...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/11046125.htm

muzik:
ernie ball botb - i entered tonight, not quite sure how it works, but if the judges like the song then we play at warped...that would be sweet....

ilidz @ 2005-03-11T23:12:00

2005-03-12T04:15:33Z

I've never done one of these, but i decided to try it because it was on a few of you guy's journals. The results didnt really surprise me...

You scored as paganism. Your beliefs are most closely aligned with those of paganism, Wicca, or a similar earth-based religion. You may also follow a Native American religion.

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paganism

79%

Islam

75%

Buddhism

67%

Hinduism

58%

Christianity

46%

Judaism

38%

agnosticism

38%

Satanism

33%

atheism

13%

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com

musik: we finished our recording. we have and own it now. it will first be sold at the april 2nd, earthlink show. havnt chosen graphics or a name for the EP yet. adieu