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    Sunday, September 25th, 2005
    2:17 pm
    Well, it takes a stupid political test to get me to update again. Dallas is treating me well, as is Coors Brewing Company. I still miss everyone in Athens and Atlanta, maybe I'll make it back that way someday...I've come to realize how beneficial it is to move around the country on a constant basis. Well, not constantly, but maybe every few years. It really changes your perspective on shit.

    Its funny the similarities that I see here. Dallas and Atlanta are virtually the same city, except that the people here are infinitely more about image, looks, and wealth than they are in Atlanta. Except, unlike Atlanta, these people dont have the $$$ and power to back it up. We call them the "$30,000 millionaires" and they are a dime a dozen. Everyone is trying to pose as someone else, and it really provides for a great deal of entertainment. I love the people here, they say that Georgia is the center of Southern hospitality, but I would have to beg to differ. The weather is beautiful, traffic is still terrible, and I still spend 5 hours a day in my car, but for some reason I'm so much more satisfied than I was in ATL. But, I'm crazy, so what do I know?

    Well, I'll try to update more often than once every 3 months...



    Oh yeah, here is the political test. Turns out that I am a stupid hippie after all!

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (73% permissive)

    and an...

    Economic Liberal
    (30% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Democrat




    Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid


    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Eagles vs. Raiders
    Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
    7:50 pm
    New Weezer kicks ass. Never thought they had it in them. Its like the polar opposite of their best album, very happy and poppy, yet with actual substance.

    New System of a Down is...good so far. I still dont know why it took them 4 years to follow up Toxicity, but I'm glad that another album is coming out so soon after this one. This record lacks the substance that Toxicity had.

    IM me if you want them.
    Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
    8:41 pm
    In Tampa for the evening on business. I got a raise! Gooooooooo me! Thats double my salary AND a raise all since January. I'm gonna have to roll naked in this cash someday...

    Oh yeah, we had planned to go to the beach tomorrow after our meetings...but its POURING down rain and will continue until my flight tomorrow. So much for sunshine and water.
    Thursday, April 14th, 2005
    6:58 pm
    I have the new Nine Inch Nails record and you don't.


    Haha!
    Thursday, April 7th, 2005
    5:35 pm

    Describe yourself using one band and song titles from that band

    Created by naw5689 and taken 24448 times on bzoink!

    Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band:Andrew WK
    Are you male or female:Take it Off
    Describe yourself:Party Hard
    How do some people feel about you:Fun Night
    How do you feel about yourself:I Get Wet
    Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend:Totally Stupid
    Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend:Really in Love
    Describe where you want to be:I Love NYC
    Describe what you want to be:Party 'Til You Puke
    Describe how you live:Don't Stop Living in The Red
    Describe how you love:Make Sex
    Share a few words of wisdomLong Live the Party

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    Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
    11:07 pm
    Check this trailer:

    http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/waroftheworlds/new_japanese_trailer_qt.php

    This movie needs to come out TOMORROW.
    Thursday, March 31st, 2005
    1:21 pm
    Howard Stern says that his friend Mitch Hedberg died of a heroin OD yesterday....

    this had better be an early April Fools joke...
    Saturday, March 19th, 2005
    3:45 am
    St. Patricks Day is all sorts of fun until you are the guy that 50 bars are depending on to supply beer, decorations, giveaways, and hot girls. Then it becomes STRESS!'

    This weekend will be spent in redneck land (ie ATL Motor Speedway) because of the race on Sunday. If I come back wearing a camo trucker hat, drinking Budweiser, and spitting Skoal into an empty Mellow Yellow bottle...the terrorists have won.

    Got my new laptop (finally). HP ZD8000, or the biggest monsterest laptop in the world. I love it, it even has freakin' Tivo on it.

    Got my new system. 2 rockford PL2 12"s in the back, a kickass Alpine head unit w/ my iPod in the front, and some Polk speakers to round it out. This fucker shakes windows.

    I cant wait until April 1st. Then I can actually enjoy life again.
    Saturday, February 5th, 2005
    4:29 am
    http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/03/420172130d868

    The Red and Black wrote an article on my house's poker game!!! I'm locally pseudo-famous!!

    GO ME!
    Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
    2:16 pm
    I guess lazy Saturdays are good times to update
    quick update on the Dave:

    -I've spent 90% of the past three weeks out of town. First it was Miami, then it was Miami, then Atlanta for a few days, then Macon yesterday. I am so glad that I don't have to travel this weekend....

    -I got promoted! I will be moving to Atlanta in about a month to take over that market. Why? Because its almost double what I am making now! And a whole host of other benefits. So, if you are in ATL and want to hang out with the Miller girls, give me a call.

    -Which brings me to my third and fourth points. A) anyone need a nice place to live in Athens? and 2) Anyone know a nice place to live in ATL? I'm flexible on location and price, but i'd like someplace nice.


    As imagined, this move is pretty hard on my lovely girlfriend, but we will work through it as always. Before I leave Athens, I AM planning on throwing a "Little Dave in the Big City" going away party, anyone got an extra $40 million laying around?


    Oh yeah, and I can't wait to go see The Arcade Fire on Wednesday.
    Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
    5:52 pm
    22 years ago at this exact minute, a Dave was born.


    Happy Birthday to me!!!
    Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
    4:41 pm
    Great new Eminem protest song....
    pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
    And to the Republic for which it stands
    One nation under God
    Indivisible
    It feels so good to be back..

    Scrutinize every word, memorize every line
    I spit it once, refuel, reenergize, and rewind
    I give sight to the blind, mind sight through the mind
    I ostracize my right to express when I feel it's time
    It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
    I say to fight you take it as I’m gonna whip someone's ass
    If you don't understand don't even bother to ask
    A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
    Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
    Or at least shows no difficulty multi task
    And juggling both, perhaps mastered his craft slash
    Entrepreneur who has held long too few more rap acts
    Who has had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
    Of his career typical manure moving past that
    Mister kiss his ass crack, he's a class act
    Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back

    Come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
    As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
    Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
    Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
    Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
    Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
    We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
    We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors

    To the people up top, on the side and the middle,
    Come together, let's all bomb and swamp just a little
    Just let it gradually build, from the front to the back
    All you can see is a sea of people, some white and some black
    Don't matter what color, all that matters is we gathered together
    To celebrate for the same cause, no matter the weather
    If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
    They ain't gonna stop us, they can't, we're stronger now more then ever,
    They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go,
    Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
    Stomp, push up, mush, fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home come on just . . .

    Come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
    As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
    Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
    Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
    Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
    Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
    We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
    We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors, come on

    Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us,
    Mosh pits outside the oval office
    Someone's trying to tell us something, maybe this is God just saying
    we're responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered
    This is Bin Laden, look at his head nodding,
    How could we allow something like this, Without pumping our fist
    Now this is our, final hour
    Let me be the voice, and your strength, and your choice
    Let me simplify the rhyme, just to amplify the noise
    Try to amplify the times it, and multiply it by six
    Teen million people are equal of this high pitch
    Maybe we can reach Al Quaida through my speech
    Let the President answer on high anarchy
    Strap him with AK-47, let him go
    Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
    No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
    No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
    If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
    Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
    They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
    And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
    If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight

    So come along, follow me as I lead through the darkness
    As I provide just enough spark, that we need to proceed
    Carry on, give me hope, give me strength,
    Come with me, and I won't stear you wrong
    Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
    Till the light, at the end, of the tunnel, we gonna fight,
    We gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march through the swamp
    We gonna mosh through the marsh, take us right through the doors

    [Eminem speaking angrily]
    And as we proceed, to mosh through this desert storm, in these closing statements, if they should argue, let us beg to differ, as we set aside our differences, and assemble our own army, to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president, for the present, and mosh for the future of our next generation, to speak and be heard, Mr. President, Mr. Senator
    Sunday, October 17th, 2004
    3:23 pm
    Mmmm...Halo 2...

    Current Mood: Chiefy
    Current Music: Screams of the Covenant
    Sunday, October 3rd, 2004
    4:53 pm
    This weekend was kind of a blur. Lots of promos, football, and beer.

    Had a keg party last night. The only casualty was our glass table beside our couch. Someone decided to try out some new wrestling moves and they ended up through it. For once, nothing of mine was destroyed!

    Except for the rest of the house. Which I am going to get started on as soon as I file this paperwork. Go me.


    Listening to the new (ish) Pearl Jam live record, recorded at Benaroya Hall. It is incredible. Very strippped down, with ukelele(sp?) versions of a lot of songs. The setlist is from their mid-to late period, with only a few early standbys (Black, Ledbetter) appearing. I love Pearl Jam live, they really are one of the best live bands around.
    Thursday, September 30th, 2004
    2:23 am
    From the previous article:


    There are some skills Bush can use with little or no effort; according to friends, he can quickly size people up and detect their vanities and weak points. Other skills appear to require too much effort for him to bother with. He has rarely been interested in the details of any policy matter, believing that he "has people" who can master the subject for him. But Bush clearly is willing to work hard and observe strict discipline when it matters to him—for instance, in physical conditioning. The evidence is that he approaches campaign preparation with the same iron will.
    2:14 am
    http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200407/fallows

    This is a really interesting article for anyone interested in the debates.
    1:55 am
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/...storyId=4052162

    Ten things you should know about the debates:

    Quote:
    (10.) They aren't debates!

    "A debate is a head-to-head, spontaneous, structured argument over the merits of an issue," Rice says. "Under the ridiculous 32-page contract that reads like the rules for the Miss America Pageant, there will be no candidate-to-candidate questions, no rebuttal to your opponent's points, no cross questions or cross answers, no rebuttals, no follow-up questions -- that's not a debate, that's a news conference."

    (9.) The debates were hijacked from the truly independent League of Women Voters in 1986.

    "The League of Women Voters ran these debates with an iron hand as open, transparent, non-partisan events from 1976 to 1984," Rice says. "The men running the major campaigns ended their control when the League defiantly included John Anderson and Ross Perot, and used tough moderators and formats the parties didn't like. The parties snatched the debates from the League and formed the Commission on Presidential Debates -- the CPD -- in 1986."

    (8.) The "independent and non-partisan" Commission on Presidential Debates is neither independent nor non-partisan.

    "CPD should stand for 'Cloaking-device for Party Deceptions' -- it is not an independent commission on anything. The CPD is under the total control of the Republican and Democratic parties and by definition bipartisan, not non-partisan. Walter Cronkite called CPD-sponsored debates an 'unconscionable fraud.'"

    (7.) The secretly negotiated debate contract bars Kerry and Bush from any and all other debates for the entire campaign.

    "Under what I call the Debate Suppression and Monopolization Clause of the contract, it is illegal for the candidates to debate each other anywhere else during the campaign," Rice says. "We need a new criminal law for reckless endangerment of democracy."

    (6.) The debate contract effectively excludes all other serious presidential candidates from participating in the debates.

    "This is what I call the Obstruction of Democratic Debate Rule, which sets an impossibly high threshold for third-party candidates... Where are we, Russia? Isn't Vladimir Putin wiping out democracy in Russia by excluding all opposing candidates from the airwaves during his re-election campaigns? Most new ideas come from third parties -- they should be in the debates."

    (5.) All members of the studio audience must be certified as "soft" supporters of Bush and Kerry, under selection procedures they approve.

    "It's not enough to rig the debate -- they have to rig the audience, too? The contract reads: 'The debate will take place before a live audience of between 100 and 150 persons who... describe themselves as likely voters who are soft Bush supporters or soft Kerry supporters.' We should crash this charade and jump up in the middle to declare ourselves hard opponents of this Kabuki dance."

    (4.) These "soft" audience members must "observe in silence."

    "Soft and silent... In what I'm calling the Silence of the Lambs Clause of this absurd contract, the audience may not move, speak, gesture, cough or otherwise show that they are alive and thinking."

    (3.) The "extended discussion" portion of the debate cannot exceed 30 seconds.

    "Other than the stupidity of the debate contract, what topic do you know that can be extendedly discussed in 30 seconds?"

    (2.) Important issues are locked out by the CPD debate rules and party control.

    "Really important but sticky or tough issues get axed, because the parties control the questions and topics," Rice says. "For example, in 2000, Gore and Bush mentioned the following issues zero times: Child poverty, the drug war, homelessness, working-class families, NAFTA, prisons, corporate crime and corporate welfare."

    (1.) Fortune 100 corporations are the main funders of the CPD-sponsored debates, and the CPD's co-chairs are corporate lobbyists.

    The CPD is run by Frank Fahrenkopf, a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist, and Paul Kirk, a top gambling lobbyist," Rice says. "And the biggest muliti-national corporations write the checks that fund the CPD -- Phillip Morris, Anheuser-Busch and dozens more. The audience may have to be silent and motionless, but the corporate sponsors can have banners, beer tents, Budweiser girls handing out pamphlets protesting beer taxes -- a corporate-sponsored circus to go along with the Kabuki Debates. Could we get a more fitting description of our democracy?"
    Saturday, September 25th, 2004
    7:27 pm
    So it has been a very busy week, and I haven't really had a lot of time to update, so here goes.

    Monday and Tuesday consisted of me travelling to Atlanta and Macon, respectively, to hold trainings for my job. Funny thing is, I was training 50 someodd people on promotions that I myself had never done. Apparently I did a good job, because my boss repeatedly told me how impressed that she was with my presentations. Right on. I also decided that I hate Macon. Sorry Krista.

    After travelling for a few days, I had to go do promos on Wednesday night. The thing that I love about my job thus far (which will not continue in the future) is the ability for me to cancel promotions (i.e. not work) whenever the mood strikes me. Now, being the responsible person that I am, I have only done this twice: Once during the attack of Ivan, and then again on Wednesday night. It was Adam's birthday, so when I got downtown and saw that A) Firehouse had four people in it, and B) 5 hot blondes cornered me and demanded that I let Lindsey off of work so she could go out with them, I relented and went out with my friends too. And got really drunk. And got home at 4:30 AM. And had to get up and be in Winder at 7:30 AM. I was a zombie. Not the good kind of "send more cops" zombie, either, but the angry, pissed off Dawn 2004 zombie. Luckily, I went and napped for a couple of hours midday and was ready for the main event that night.

    WILCO at the FOX!!!!

    I decided to take Krista to her first "real" concert, and as luck would have it, we scored some excellent (Orchestra, Row E) tickets to Wilco the day before the show. What an incredible show it was. Tweedy owned the crowd, repeatedly railing against Bush

    "If you don't like what I have to say, go get a big crowd of people and a microphone and you can say whatever the fuck YOU want. Or you could just go listen to one of those great Republican rock bands."

    Funny guy. They played all but two songs off of the new record, which is made to be played live. The Neil Young guitar solos kicked the crowds ass, especially on Spiders and At Least Thats What You Said. Older stuff was scattered throughout the set, specifically Kingpin off of Being There, which was apparently a spur of the moment addition. New guitarist Nels Cline (of the Minutemen and a billion other things) was great. During the second song, Krista goes "Holy shit, he is playing past the bridge! With an eggbeater! He's insane!" She really liked it, and she has demanded more Wilco albums.

    Good news yesterday, even if only I care. I finally got my equipment for my REAL promos. Between now and November 20th, I must execute 75 promotions in order to secure my sizeable bonus. It will be difficult, but I will do it. So, I will be downtown every night of the week. COME SEE ME. And I will buy you a beer.

    Stayed in and watched Empire Strikes Back and ROTJ today on the pristine new DVDs. These are incredible. Half the the films (the FX, especially during the space and Hoth battles) look as if they were made in 1999, which should stop people bitching at the perceived technology gap between the two trilogies. Bring on Episode III.

    Krista has never seen them before. So, I am torn as the whether or not to go through the prequels first and then the originals, or show them to her in the order which they came out. I think the latter will do.

    Oh yeah, I played Fable ALL LAST WEEKEND. And as impressed as I was with the game when I was playing it, I really wish that the little things (alignment, marriage, etc) had been integrated a little bit better. As it stands though, the sequel will blow it out of the water. I just wish that Molyneux would keep his trap shut about his games. Then there would be a lot less dissapointment.
    Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
    8:51 am
    So to continue with the complaints:

    Our power bill was huge last month, around $300, and it was mainly due to the fact that lights, AC, TVs, etc. never EVER get turned off. So, I mention to my roommates last night that we need to be conscious in our efforts to turn things off so we don't pay that much again. Well, I get up an hour ago (after going to bed at 2:30 AM, mind you, so I should have a pretty good idea of the state of the house) and EVERY light downstairs, most of the upstairs lights, the STOVE, the TV and XBOX, and the outdoor lights are turned on.


    Oh, yeah, AND THE FRONT DOOR IS HALFWAY OPEN!


    I love living with people who get so fucked up at night that they don't even realize what they are doing.
    Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
    10:33 pm
    Are there certain things that should be off limits to say during sex?


    I am of that opinion...my girlfriend, apparently, is not...
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