Geoff's Blog of Sweetness

2003-04-23T15:07:00.000-04:00

kalashnikov theory made their own website.

check it out - i get a shoutout on the news page (not by name).

dec article comes out today. hope it doesn't suck - the guys who interviewed us seemed pretty lame, and they kept giggling and making smileys at us over AIM.. whatever.

2003-04-22T15:47:00.000-04:00

An open letter to Luke:

Dear Luke,
I haven't hung out with you for almost a week now. You haven't updated your blog in just as long. I don't really know what's been going on with you, man... I talked to Zoe on AIM yesterday and she said you basically told her you didn't want anything to do with her. She's obviously really upset about it - and you don't even seem to care. I know that things have been really weird with me, too - but we've been best friends since first year - and for me, this friendship is worth all the shit we've had to go through together. Do you remember the first time I walked by your dorm window, you were blasting rancor's "Killing Flame" at full volume? You're the one that gave me my edge in the first place, man. Since then we have been pretty much inseparable, until now, right when things have been going worst for me. I can understand why you'd be so mad at me.. But I've made a resolution not to take any more painkillers - no matter how bad it gets. Even though I can't hear the music, you know that I'm still listening, don't you? I don't care if you go out with my "alderman princess" - I just want my friend back.

I forgive you, man.

And I hope we can bring it all back.

xCrucified to the Xx,
xGeoffx
XBARRUTHERSX

2003-04-20T20:59:00.000-04:00

yesterday someone from the Dec interviewed me and Luke over AIM about our blogs. it seems like this blog has been getting a lot of attention lately, some of it unwanted... i'm starting to feel like a zebra in the african grasslands, stalked by a thousand lions. looking over my last post, i realized a) i haven't updated in a while, and b) i seem to be going through some kind of identity crisis. i don't know what the deal is with all the hacker-talk i've been using, actually the last couple of days have been kind of a daze for me.. yesterday i spent most of the day throwing up, ostensibly because i ran out of painkillers, and i've been so depressed over the fact that my alderman princess won't even talk to me anymore, yet hangs out with Luke 24 hours a day. i guess i shouldn't really worry too much about it - if she doesn't like me, those are the breaks, and there's nothing i can do to change it. then again, maybe she'll change her mind and email me :^)

so as a lot of you apparently already knew, Luke was the one that kicked me in the head at the kalashnikov show. i really don't know what to think about this, i'm not mad about it, or even really surprised.. if all my other friends have turned against me, why not Luke too? i guess i have been acting pretty fucked up, from the way people are reacting, but i can't even tell anymore. i'd say that i'm sorry - but if i don't know why i'm apologizing, how can i be sincere about it?

i locked myself in my room and finally finished the comments page. we have already had a few postings, as you can see. i'm probably going to take it down within the next couple of days, as it all seems like a big waste of time to me now..

2003-04-17T23:04:00.000-04:00

sup d00derz?

some of u have b33n pretty pizzed at m3 l4tely. wh1ch iz pretty fuked up cons1dering i justg0t out of the hospital. also i br0ke my edge & u guyz dont even seem to care? wutever..

neway i hope u guyz had fun reeding about urselves in my bl0gz, and luke'z. i know i did!

howevr, as u have pr0bably n0ticed, i havent been bl0gging about u dewdz 2 much lately, c0nsidering that i have s0 much fuked up sh1t g0ing on in my l1fe rite n0w, and b1llionz 0f feelingz ab0ut it. espec1i4lly the ladiez! which u d00dz know i am ALL ABOUT.

lewk and 1 r going thru sum tuff timez rite now - sumtimez 1t seemz we w1ll nevr m4ke it. he kn0wz i m crushing h4rd on a sw33t b4bem3ister, y3t he iz all trying 2 monopolize her precious m0mentz. wtf?

k33p w4tching th1s space, b-cuz there r g0ing 2 b a l0t of ch4ngez 4round here. i m w0rking 0n a badazs "graffitti wall" where u guyz wil b able 2 post ur thoughtz on theze matterz. also i m w0rking on a "community blog" were 0ur various reederz wil b able 2 log in and gr0up bl0g ab0ut the w0rld process.

and as 4 my health - gentlemen, i M thanking g0d...

2003-04-16T17:41:00.000-04:00

okay. some of you out there are probably thinking i have totally flipped.

well i haven't.

last night i was hanging out with my AP and her roommate with Luke in brown college when we ALL decided to go for a walk.

but as soon as we got outside, luke grabbed my AP's hand and ran off with her toward alderman...

i have been pretty woozy from the painkillers and didn't have enough energy to follow them.

i walked around for a while by myself thinking about things then went back to her room. i waited there for 3 hours hoping they would come back - but they never did.

wtf am i supposed to think?

2003-04-16T02:51:00.000-04:00

all this time i thought i had a team, but really i was a soldier alone in the wilderness.

all this time i thought i had a brother, but really i was an orphan in a crazy f*cked up world.

all this time i thought i had a friend, but all i really had was.....

2003-04-16T02:41:00.000-04:00

all this time luke has been acting like he's not some macho f*ck obsessed with making out with as many girls as he can.. and guilt-tripping me for bragging about the chicks i've drilled. suddenly, just when i've let my guard down, he f**king benedicts on me - but he's too much of a poon to admit what's going on.

F**K YOU, DUDE! THIS FRIENDSHIP IS OVER!

2003-04-16T02:30:00.000-04:00

WTF is going on??

i don't know if i can even blog about this...

luke is a completely f**kd up backstabbing liar!

i hope he f**king eats s**t and chokes on it.

i thought you were supposed to be my best friend, luke. but it turns out you are my worst enemy.

all this time he has been telling me how sorry he is about what happened at the kalashnikov show... i don't give a f*** about that s**t! he knows my mind is focused.

the worst part is - he's doing this right as i'm getting out of the hospital. and while i'm completely f**king death in both ears.

EAT S**T YOU F**KING LAMER!! I KNOW YOU ARE READING THIS!

2003-04-16T02:16:00.000-04:00

my alderman princess made me a new shirt with a drawing of the lead singer of kalashnikov theory on it f***ing ronald mcdonald up the a**.

i am wearing it right now.

i finally got out of the hospital. i'll get the tests back from the MRI scan in a week. luke and i had dinner in the brown college room with my alderman princess and our friend millarie, who is TOTALLY trying to cock-block me. millarie is pretty cool and all but can't she see the special spark we share?? anyway, luke and my AP seemed to really get along, which is okay i guess.. "if you wanne be my lover, you gotta get with my friends" - f*** that shit.

my ears are still f***ing killing me...

last night luke tried to request a bunch of kalashnikov theory songs on the radio. needless to say they didn't play them - corporate bulls***. not that i'd be able to F***ING HEAR THEM ANYWAY

2003-04-15T17:22:00.000-04:00

this is geoff.

i'm in the hospital.

i can't hear.

and all i want to do is scream.

2003-04-14T15:45:00.000-04:00

Wow.

First of all, I'd like to say that the Kalashnikov Theory f***ing owned, and in no way do I blame the spasm-inducing fury of the band's performance for what happened last night. But I am in the hospital right now - and I can't hear a f***ing thing.

The ride up was awesome - hanging out with Luke, Chris, Christian and the gang in Luke's stationwagon for 2 hours listening to Kalashnikov's unbelievable first album, and I finally got to meet Zoe, the girl that Luke has been too busy to hang out with his friends with lately. Christian put on Kalashnikov's latest, "No Spiritual Surrender," and we only got halfway through the album before Luke said it sucked, and was distracting him in his driving, and put on Earth Crisis' time tested "All Out War." Don't get me wrong, Luke is my MAN, but he can turn into a total fagwad when he's irritated about something. I, for one, hadn't heard NSS except for a few times and I barely knew the words to the last 5 songs, so obviously I wanted to get a little more familiar with them before seeing them performed live, but Luke had to go all fascist on us... whatever. So when we get to the show, Luke is all talking about how he wants to get some of the Kalashnikov on vinyl - they're only selling the latest album and an EP, and he goes and buys them both - despite the fact that he already has NSS on CD, and doesn't even like it! The only reason he bought it is so he can tell people that he has all Kalashnikov's albums on vinyl just to show how f***ing core he is.

When Kalashnikov finally goes on, they rip up the crowd with "Burning Fight" as their first song - I go over to talk to Zoe to get to know her a little better, and by the time Kalashnikov busts out "Your Smoke, Your Lungs" - we are really hitting it off. Suddenly out of nowhere - a guy flies off the stage and kicks me in the side of the head with a monster roundhouse - right in the ear.. As I fall to the ground, I hit my head against the dude standing next to me, and I'm out cold..

By the time I wake up, I'm in the hospital, deaf in both ears, and my head feels like it's about to f***ing explode. The doctors have been running tests on me all morning, and put me through a giant MRI tube that looked like the time machine from twelve monkeys - I felt like a giant penis slipping it into the robotic motherlord.. weird. Chris, Bry, and Zoe came over this afternoon with Luke (where the f*** was Christian?), and Luke brought his laptop with him and told me I could use it until I get out... But I'm still pretty freaked out and tired, my head hurts like hell, and (obviously) i haven't been taking any painkillers... got to take it easy for a while.

wtf is happening??

2003-04-13T17:04:00.000-04:00

I happened to run into my ALDERMAN PRINCESS today - and I gave her the Kalashnikov CD Luke and I had been planning to listen to in the car - and invited her to go to the show with us!

I'm really excited - today is a test of true love.

2003-04-13T16:50:00.000-04:00

going to DC tonight with Luke for the Kalashnikov Theory show - awesome!

Luke and I have gotten to hang out so much recently so I'm really excited about it. I think Luke might have a new girlfriend (YEAH RIGHT) but anyway he just hasn't been around - tonight will be our first chance to chill like we used to. DC PRIDE!

2003-04-13T02:25:00.000-04:00

Today I went to a HUGE SF competition in Harrisonburg - there were street fighters from New York, North Carolina, LITERALLY all the way up and down the east coast...

You'll never guess who I got to go with me, either.. The princess of the Alderman cafe!

She didn't seem that she was really into the street-fighting.. So I can only assume that the only reason she went with me was to spend time with me. I'm pretty sure she's TOTALLY into me - but there's only one way to find out for sure.

At the same time, going to the competition got me to thinking about how sweet it would have been if I had gone to JMU. Macrock, SF competitions, and a college SF team that wipes the floor with our UVA team.

Lost opportunities.. broken chances. But then again, I never would have gotten a chance to meet my Alderman princess - Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi spem longam reseces!

2003-04-13T02:19:00.000-04:00

Where the f*** has Luke been all day??

2003-04-12T03:54:00.000-04:00

So I'm sitting in Alderman library tonight, doing my thing, a little light blogging, I'll be honest - thinking a little about the library babe-action, when the BIGGEST IDIOT I have ever seen with a f*(*@#* crewcut and an army shirt comes up and asks me what I was doing. Drain the lizard and come right back - and look at what he's doing.

Is this some kind of a f*!@#@! joke?

2003-04-12T03:33:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the awesomest night in history.

Remember that girl I saw in alderman checking out the BBC website? I saw her again tonight looking at the ingredients on the animal crackers in the cocke hall vending machine - to make sure they are vegan - I showed her the list I carry in my pocket of all the vegan snacks available on campus & which vending machines they could be found in, and she was completely amazed. It turns out she lives in brown college - AND SHE INVITED ME OVER TO HER ROOM FOR E-Z BAKE VEGAN COOKIES!

As for the remaining details - a gentleman never tells. But I can tell you this much - things are on the up and up in Geoff's world of sweetness.

2003-04-11T16:47:00.000-04:00

Peter Pan (1911), at 2 p.m. What an exemplary work. If you haven't read it, then you're a bad and neglectful person. It's easily the most delightful thing I've ever read. Anyway, I'm on to my eveningly duties, which include Joshua Cohen's estimable political philosophy and Pojman's shittily editted epistemological anthology misleadingly entitled The Theory of Knowledge, which, but for Pojman's own article, might be worth the effort and have anything to do with knowledge. Just kidding, epistemology is worth the effort; I won't take the facile, self-styled-wastrel route to intellectual decay by claiming that I think it's lame and that I imbibe it only ironically. That's fucking shit; there's plenty of interesting arguments to be found in it.

2003-04-11T16:42:00.000-04:00

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the whole girlfriend thing - basically, if I had a girlfriend, she would have to be into politics, she'd have to be vegan BEFORE i met her (because by now we should all have a few things figured out) - well okay, I might make an exception on that one, she would have to understand that I'm not going to sit around and watch TV with her, she would have to understand something about computers, because without them you're really not going to be able to access any kind of alternative media, she would have to be very friendly, but ready kick a** when it comes to a**hole fascists, but in addition to all this, what do I really want a girlfriend for? At some point I'm going to have to face up to the fact that the physical relationship is the bottom line here - we are all consenting adults, and there shouldn't be anything wrong with that, because otherwise you're just going to get hardwired into genitofrustration overtime, I don't care what kind of philosophies you're into, this is pure biology I'm talking about - and this is what's really upsetting me. We're not talking about soulmates, we're talking about bedmates, and somebody to kiss your neck when you're about to fall asleep - why can't people just get around this fact??

2003-04-11T16:35:00.000-04:00

Don't tell me you didn't see this one coming!

I am completely disgusted with the american people right now.

2003-04-11T12:21:00.000-04:00

scheming and planning, maybe we seeming to be fanning the
flames, but deep in my crybaby being i'm becoming insane -

new purposes on the female frontier.

watch this space for updates as we get 'em.

2003-04-11T12:14:00.000-04:00

When will people wake up and smell the $!@#@!ing coffee????

In other news, I am sitting in alderman right now next to a totally sweet chick who doesn't even know I am blogging about her. Skirt over the blue-jeans - reading the bbc website - first class HPCG - hot politically-conscious girl.

Life is pretty good sometimes.

2003-04-11T12:11:00.000-04:00

Yeah, like this is a surprise:

NEW YORK - Thousands of construction workers and firefighters packed a noontime rally at ground zero Thursday in support of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) which, to many of them, began right there on Sept. 11, 2001.

--snip--

Many speakers and participants described the war as a natural outcome of the World Trade Center attack, drawing little distinction between the terrorist group al-Qaida and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).

"The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001," Gov. George Pataki said.

link

2003-04-11T12:07:00.000-04:00

Chris has been pretty down lately - doesn't really want to go out and do anything, hasn't been updating his blog as frequently as he used to... There's only one remedy to "the blues" in this world that I know of... STREET FIGHTER!! lol - I'm going to be pulling spinning pile drivers on his krispy kreme butt all weekend long, like michael moore on charleton heston. BRING IT, BIZNITCH!

sweet.

2003-04-10T21:14:00.000-04:00

What is Luke's problem? Whenever we hang out we have an awesome time - laughing, cracking jokes - but then afterwards he just goes and writes on his blog that I am an asshole. I am getting pretty fed up with this duplicitousness, and the war in Iraq.

2003-04-10T21:10:00.000-04:00

George Bush is such a F#@!$

2003-04-10T20:39:00.000-04:00

I am hanging out with Luke right now in Clemons - Christian totally stood him up for some reason. We are simul-blogging at adjacent computers - 21st century digital boyz indeed.

More updates to come.

2003-04-10T20:38:00.000-04:00

Hot links to some of my best friends

my man Luke

Chris

Bryan

Christian

2003-04-10T20:31:00.000-04:00
Sup everyone. Welcome to my new blog of sweetness. Lately I have noticed all of my friends have been getting blogs and I intend to put theirs to shame.

Keep your eye on this page in the future.

Big ups to Luke, Christian, Chris, and Bryan!