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Ok... So I really want to write more, for serious, I need to find more reasons to write. I have not had nearly as much time as I should.

Everything I have written recently is related to my Grandfather, and how much I miss the shit out of him, he was such a cool dude, and I realize that it has been several years, but damn, he was so cool. I hope that someday I am as awesome as my Grandpa was.

So on the writing thing... I may be doing some reading at an art gallery... Dr. Fuller asked me to, and I seriously almost cried when she asked me, because I felt super shitty about my stuff recently... and it was really affirming... so yeah...

I just shaved my head... and I like it.

Holy crap... I don't even know where to start. This seriously was the best summer that I have ever had in my entire life... seriously... Anyway, lets go through summer in review.

Started fairly dull... I could not find a job to save my life (until the later mentioned job), wasn't really doing anything, was just kind of hanging out and doing a ton of research for Electra, which was awesome and stuff... but yeah... Then the first activity of the summer came in early June and it was assistant directing/stage managing an incoming freshman (in high school) production of Annie. It was super fun and super cute (judge away), not high art or anything like that, but it was fun. Then I began my real job of the summer. I answered phones at Pius XI High School, seriously the most fun real job that I have ever had. It was awesome, really easy, paid well, really fun, hung out with teachers that I used to have during work who would come in. Fantastic. Then during that job (I got off for 4 weeks) I started the Summer Theater Lab. Taught a basic reading and understanding Shakespeare class that people actually liked, which was mildly shocking, and directed Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay Abaire, which was a terrifying experience but turned out really well. It was a huge stretch for everyone involved, probably mostly a stretch for me to pull off, but it went swimmingly. Then after that was all over the receptI sionist job started back up again. THEN!!! (yes there is more) Then I started working on some electronic work, I built a couple of effects pedals for myself, and just learned a lot about electronics and all that (do you know what an LFO is, other than the band of course, I think not!!!) And in all of this I hung out with one of my best friends out here basically a few times a week, which was amazing. I saw two amazing concerts, which were M. Ward with the Watson Twins, and the second was A.A. Bondy and Bon Iver. They were both seriously some of the best concert experiences of my life, well actually just experiences of my life. I think that might be about it for the summer.

I am extremely pumped to start school, basically in a few days, my dad, Aaron and I leave tomorrow super early and move in on Monday. I will see all of you Catawba peoples then, or whatever...

So me and my friend Eric are starting a novelty hip hop group... because novelty things are fun, and hip hop is fun to make fun of...

so here are the lyrics for our next single

tell me what you think

Da Debut by Da Beta Dawgs (funny hip hop name? yes!)


CHORUS
Yo it's the beta dawgz, embraceable
Virtually unhateable
We're definitely mateable
If something better comes along, perpetually replaceable
Yo, it's the beta dawgz, embraceable
Our girlfriends are inflateable
Our egos are deflatable
Could we win a fight with a baby? That's debatable

JORDAN
Pull up a chair and rock out with your wiener out 12
Like Skeet Ulrich, give you something to scream about 12
I started investing, I bought me a sweater vest 13
I’m a pirate looking for bigger booty or better chests

Rhymes stupider than eighteen hundreds on the SATS
Fly to Jupiter and back and still ace that test with ease
I got a wicked rash from making too much love
We’re blowing splish splash straight out of the tub

The ladies think I'm hot to fantastic degrees
Playing tonsil hockey, scoring hatricks with ease
I don't like my ladies stocky, so no fatchicks please
We're natural enemies like matchsticks and trees

I glow like molten plastic, in a bowl full of ashes
My flows snap back like they’re made of elastic
Some people try to tell me that my flows are too spastic
My flows are thicker than molasses with glasses

Fatties on the right, I go left like Franken
If I see Kim Bauer, you bet I’ll be spankin’
I write the lyrics, yo I write the flows boy
These beats are fat like the Pillsbury doughboy

I’m the desperado like the Eagles or Jim West
Frank Caliendo’s impressions never leave me impressed
I never wanted warts so I always hated frogs
Looking at the data logs, hey it’s the beta dawgz

Looking in her eye, I could sense a little twinkle
Looking at her brain, she was thinking of my winkle
When I see her in those overalls my private eye twitches
I wanna take her to my pad and get some butterfly kisses

It’s sunny outside like its Bono not Bono
I like the ladies more than Rosie O’Donnell
Got more hip hop than the rabbits at the bunny store
If I get dumped I bounce back like a bungee cord

I’m like Barry Bonds, I get so player hated
I last a long time like fruit irradiated
I got flows pouring out, like it was a heavy day
Got the girls getting wet like after the levee breaks


My flows aren’t pussy, like a tabby or a calico
My wee wee’s not peewee like the basement of the Alamo
Put a dime in the slot, throw it in her like magic fingers 15
Have you vagina lip syncing like you were karaoke singers15

Thanks for listening to these raps, I commend you
I hope my raps didn’t happen to offend you
Yo this rap is a wrap, like I was Dexter Morgan
We built it like bob, it only gets more rewarding

Yo it’s the beta dawgz, embraceable
Virtually unhateable
We’re definitely mateable
If something better comes along, perpetually replaceable
Yo, it’s the beta dawgz, embraceable
Our egos are deflatable
Our girlfriends are inflateable
Could we win a fight with a baby? That’s debatable

ERIC
Yo, we won’t pretend we’re the best there are
The ghosts of the repomen repossessed our car
Lions want some lamb meat? Or lion meat like scar?
I was lying earlier, we’re the best by far

Completely decked out in Fubu, not too much to do
I’m in my room, watching stuff on youtube and hulu
Who knew that you’d do the voodoo you do
It’s the true blue, new brew by the Beta Dawgz Crew

I went to Hogwarts, Harry was jealously mean mugging me
Madlibs, adverb? I’ve gotta say thuggingly
Suddenly I’m on the scene like Scorcese
Went on Riddlin but it made me more lazy

I’m crazy, like I’ve got tin foil and pajamas on
More frustrating than the lost boys at Comicon
I haven’t even ate for eight hours like Ramadon
Cause I saw the signs like Ace of bass and Shyamalon

Jon Malon said it would be overcast like Jack Black
At Potawatomi, growing low on cash playing black jack
Going to the store Jordan, pick me up a snack pack
Watching twenty four, having me a Jack attack

On the fast track, like I was riding raging bull
The sound of cash registers? beta dawgz mating call
Gotta do wrong cause it’s pretty dang cool
See a pretty girl, wanna bang her by the pool

I can Be Cool like Travolta or a Hulk like Norton
Pete Townsend wants to hear a ‘Who’ like Horton
After Einstein I’m the next most smartest
Reformed criminal painter is an ex con artist

Target the camera, it’s a drag like grandmamma
I want to take a dip in your canal like the panama
I wear a panorama of colors in camouflage
I don’t know when to stop, like banananana

Avra kedavra, put a spell on you like screamin jay
I wonder if the colorblind also dream in gray
Elmstreet should some day be renamed demon way
Jean Grey turns to Phoenix, we may not be okay

Jordan’s on the hunt like you’re the prey and he’s the predator
Keep you in the paper ($) every day like he’s the editor
Dude will make you scream like Carl Weathers in the predator
Put two things together, give them meaning like a metaphor

I’ve got several more lines than Downey junior’s mirror
Driving down the road, getting closer to the beer store
All up in a girl’s grill like I was George Forman
They usually stay over until four in the morning

Jordan is snoring at a quarter to three
Dude gets more can than Chef Boyardee
There are girls in the room getting fingered like bassoons
While we’re in the saloon getting blown like balloons

A cartoon cartoonist? Hey that’s Jon Arbuckle
When I saw Sinbad, I was way too starstruck yo
I wear a hip pack, where I store my moneyclip
My hair’s slicked back and I adore a funny chick

When waves are raging, man is it scary
They’ve got me sweating like they’re Hayden Panettiere
The very grossest thing to see’s a knob slob puker
Eating corn on the cob listening to Bob Uecker


Yo it’s the beta dawgz, embraceable
Virtually unhateable
We’re definitely mateable
If something better comes along, perpetually replaceable
Yo, it’s the beta dawgz, embraceable
Our egos are deflatable
Our girlfriends are inflateable
Could we win a fight with a baby? That’s debatable (x2)

So I finally got another job! I am one of the three people taking turns working the Pius XI switchboard, I'm a receptionist! That makes me more likely to be sexually harrased right? God I hope so... wouldn't that be fantastic! Anyway... The young kid musical in a week starts in two weeks... I'm excited for that... I probably get my own intern as an assistant. Awesome? YES! Necassary? God no... I'm excited for that as well. I may even be getting an assistant director for the normal Lab... again, awesome yet completely uneccasary. Anyway, I've been working on music for Electra a lot lately... Too much really bizzare research into really bizzare music. Do many other college students know how to build square wave oscillators? I think not...

So I just filled in an application for Walmart... I know... I hate it... but I need a job, and I cannot find one... It sucks big time...

I hate filling out applications, I have officially turned in my 12th application...

BUT anyway, I had to fill out a 65 question assessment, and as I was taking, the only thing I was thinking was "If I fail this assessment, I will stab myself in the face...", but some of the questions were really stupid. For example, one of the questions was "Have you ever stolen from an employer?", thats a normal question; however the options for answers were strongly disagree, disagree, neither agree or disagree, agree, strongly disagree. Seriously? What the fuck am I supposed to answer? I mean, I guess I strongly disagree. I hate Walmart, and their assessments.

So in 2007 (in my humble opinion) the best album of the year was The Shins fantastically lyrical "Wincing the Night Away". This year, is it an established band, wait... the Decemberists didn't come out with a new album year... no, it couldn't have been Sigor Ros, "Takk..." came out in 2005.

Yes it is too early to speculate this but, might this years best album be from a new comer? Might the best album be from the best new band of the year? Might that album be Vampire Weekend's first (title) album be the best of the year? Is pop finally starting to make a turn for the better? YES to all those questions.

This album... is soooooooooo good. It is by far one of the best pop albums I have heard in a very very long time.

Anyway... things are looking up lately... so thats good right?

This place is... soul draining...

This year has been nothing other than completely miserable.

Sorry if this is a downer. It is my journal after all.

Alright, alright, alright! I know what you have all been wondering lately... What kind of stuff is Jordan into, so I know what to be into? Alright... here goes this most recent Top 5

5. Directing 1 with Beth Homan... sigh... It is so fantastic, and interesting, and marvelous. I might be in love with this class/ Beth Homan.

4. The adventure that Justin Lewis and I took to Atlanta for his audition. It was fun, and fantastic, and I hate fog. Yes... FOG... we ran into a lot of fog, and I felt like I was in a bad horror movie (the original Fog, I haven't seen the new one yet).

3. The English language. Thank you English language for being so awe-inspiring and fascinating. I want to study you for the rest of my days...

2. William H. Macy and the fact that he plays the ukulele. Look it up... He is brilliant. Me and William H. Macy are basically the same person... we both play ukulele, which makes us awesome...

1. The Mountain Goats. Seriously... Check them out... I know... they have been around for a while... but I have too many other bands I was trying to get into... The Mountain Goats didn't have room, now they do. They are the perfect band for me right now. So... GET OVER IT! But... they are really crazy inspiring me to writing songs, because they prove that you don't need much other than a few chords and some awesome metaphors, which I can provide! So... yeah... their album Get Lonely... get it... NOW!

Peace all... I love you all... well... some of you...

in spite of everything...

in spite of everything
which breathes and moves,since Doom
(with white longest hands
neatening each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn,and(stooping
through the morning)kiss
this pillow,dear
where our heads lived and were.

--Edward Estlin Cummings

The Quiet World


In an effort to get people to look
into each other's eyes more,
the government has decided to allot
each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it
to my ear without saying hello.
In the restaurant I point
at chicken noodle soup. I am
adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long
distance lover and proudly say
I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn't respond, I know
she's used up all her words
so I slowly whisper I love you,
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

-- Jeffrey McDaniel


I hope you enjoy

So valentines day is coming up... which is lame... but i want a fucking valentine... so let me know... haha

this year has been and continues to be, completely miserable...

I was watching the movie, High Fidelity recently, and their is this monologue in it about whether music or misery came first, and the more i think about it, it was misery. I could listen to the most upbeat music i can imagine and i would still be as unhappy as i am when i put on elliot smith...

i hate this feeling, its awful... fuck this

sorry if this is a complete downer...

http://www.virb.com/colossalwreckords

So this is a website i created for a record company i would like to start at some point in my life. This is all stuff I recorded with my friend Eric in a band we have called The Baps (which stands for Bomb Ass Pussys)

An Ode: To His
by, Johann Turd

“Margaret are you grieving
over Goldengrove unleaving?”
-Gerard Manley Hopkins

To one of those who would wrap the world up
In one ball, one of those with world enough
For time, and coyness never would disrupt
Time.
Though I don’t claim to be a Prince Hamlet
I wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
I disappear in the life of winters.
I walk around till town would vanish,
Till the game we play completes with a fold,
Until Goldengrove receives no more tears
From Margaret.

Do you ever have that feeling that you are a confused/ confusing asshole? Anyway...

Today was probably the best Labor Day of my entire life... The day starts out in the following way... I wake up at about 12ish, you can figure out why it was that late, well I can tell you, I was hanging out until like 4 in the morning... Anyway. I wake up, go and get Osaka with Jesse, Aaron, and Justin. Then we come back... hang out for a bit. I head out to Improv auditions, they went well. I come back, start making my world famous chili. We go to the storage unit, come back, eat the chili, which was fantastic by the way, and then we decide to crack open the watermelon. It was cut in half, and the insides scooped out. Thus began the saga of Watermelon Helmet. Check the facebook album that nicole bowles imported. All I can say is Watermelon Helmets freaking rule... Now Jesse and I are watching the early Anthony Hopkins horror movie Magic. Watch it, its incredible.

I really hope I'm not a confused/ confusing asshole...

so... it just kind of hit me... Ive officially been paid for a directing gig... I directed a show... and I got paid for it... thats really wild... I know that its not like a big deal... but to me it is... so... its just exciting to know that I got paid for a job... woah... I dont even know if this is what i want to do with my career, but still, its nice to be paid for doing this kind of thing...

so i just bought the new harry potter book... but i havent read the 6th yet... so i have to do that... i'm really excited... the cover alone is really exciting... by the way, if any of you out there in LJ land are around milwaukee wisconsin on july 25th, which is my birthday by the way, but anyway, pius xi theatre lab is putting up a series of performances, on the 25th will be The Nerd by Larry Shue, directed by me!, and a comedia masterpiece directed by Ryan Musil, and Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon directed by Joanne Woodard and kira walters, and then on the 26th the play A Piece of My Heart, directed by aaron ganas, oscar wildes classic The Importance of being earnest by laura braza, and another comedia masterpiece directed ryan again... anyway... rock the casbah... and i really love the show Americas Funniest HOme Videos

So I just downloaded the new Shins album, Wincing the Night Away... its brilliant, absolutely brilliant... if you like how the Shins explore sound... get this album, its absolutely fantastic... its beautiful, and exceptional... also I just downloaded some stuff by the band Explosions in the Sky.... also extremely interesting and enjoyable... anyway... i havent updated in a little while... I'm obsessed with the with the shows Survivor Man and Man Vs Wild... watch them... now... Law and Order is always on somewhere... Fiona Apple is straight up hot... lets just put that out there... also... idk if i should, but i kind of like the Arcade Fire... idk why... anyway... so i'm teaching and directing at a theatre camp right now... well not right now, but during the week... i love string cheese... i'm gonna head out...

So I'm working at Summerfest... at Major Goolsbys. Its pretty boring... But! Me, Aaron and April went to a few concerts... first we went to see Built to Spill, who were really neat and good, and then we decided to go see as many concerts that night as we could. So we went and watched a single song from a couple of terrible bands: Saliva... Big and Rich... and Sister Hazel. It was fairly bad ass... and by bad ass I mean just get rid of the Ass... It was hella fun though. Then we stopped by the Chipotle stage and saw a local jam-ish kind of band called like Rooster McCabe or something like that. And they were really good. Tomorrow me and my parents are going to go see Willy Porter... and then B.B. King... I couldn't be more excited, and then Friday, Aaron and I are going to go see We The Living (the new name for the madison based band The Profits). Its gonna rock...