Friday, December 28, 2001
workahontas...
i heard of another harry potter book burning in texas. go team fanatic christians!!!! me and my mom were talking, and even she thought it was pretty silly. oh well, at least it was in texas and not around here.
another kind of funny thing i saw today. it shouldn't really have been funny, like the group of blind people running across the street frantically. ok, that really was funny. anyways, there was this blind guy walking down the street, talking on the cell phone. he had a black baseball cap on that said PHONY in white block letters across it. either he is a phony, or someone gave him that hat and he can't see what it says. either way, it is kind of funny.
Alright, my trip. what else to tell. i already blogged about John, the walking linkin park song. he basically epitimized everything linkin park represents, which means by definition he probably hates linkin parks music. isn't it funny how a lot of the really angst ridden suburban teenagers absolutely hate linkin park, even though everyone sees linkin park as 17 year old punks who didn't get their beamer for christmas, so they sing angry music and rap like monkeys about it. me and ryan had all sorts of discussions about it. anyways, whatever. apparently there was drama between alyson and ryan on the trip. i wasn't there to see it. maybe i was, and i just didn't know about it. anyways, he is "sparing us the boredom" of the details now. spill it man!! drama is never boring, thats why it is drama. otherwise no one would care.
so yeah, first night, we get up there. go out to a nice dinner at carrumbas, i get this really good salmon fettucini or something like that. go home, we pile like 7 people in the hot tub. it rocked, because at least i was drinking, i think a few other people were. the thing was over flowing. people were jumping out into the snow. a good time was had by all. for some reason, no one else but me really used the hot tub for the rest of the week. i half wonder if it was me for some reason, because i would be like hot tub hot tub? and everyone would be like, naahhh... and then a while later, people would be like, i think i might go in the hot tub. and then i would be like sweet, hot tub!!!! but then everyone would change their minds about it. oh well, more hot tub time for me. i just felt odd using it so much when no one else did. i don't feel bad, because i slept on the floor. so yeah, first night, got drunk in the hot tub.
second day, people went skiing. i, of course, didn't. i was the only one who didn't. i tried to go in the hot tub, but it was like 115 degrees. it was really hot. it had both warning lights lit up, kind of funny. i turned the temp down, and went and took a nap and watched the price is right. eventually collin got back, and so me and him chilled for a bit, watched like 5 hours of snowboarding competition or something. it was hilarious, because after that we had seen it all, but no one else had, so it was on the rest of the week. so me and collin ended up watching it like 5 times. i think we went out to eat, but i don't remember where we went. we go back, and start playing kings. it was a lot of fun. i hate the game i never, so i just think up outlandish things that i have done, so i will have to drink. usually i pull out things that other people have done, but are embarrassing. i pulled out the "i have never seen ryans naked penis" one. last year, he stripped naked and jumped off the balcony, so i caught an unwanted peek. ryan and i thought it was pretty funny, and really, what else matters? then, john showed us this game called fuck the dealer. it is hard to explain, but by the end of the game, one person ends up taking like 40 drinks. so, anyways, ryan and alyson were both really fucked after that. they both ended up throwing up i think, and both kind of just passed out.
day 3 was pretty boring. a few people went skiing, but not many. most of us stuck around at home and watched tv. i think a few people went christmas shopping in the villiage. later, we went to see lord of the rings. glorious. GLORIOUS. i'll talk more about lord of the rings later i am sure. anyways, the theater up there is kind of crappy. the sound was in stereo, and way too low, and the screen was too dark, and they had the overhead lights on, but still i loved it. what a great movie. after that, we wandered over to the irish pub. that was pretty fun as well. we drank a lot of overpriced beer, and listened to gaelic renditions of disco songs. it was a good time. drinking makes anything a good time for me :) after that we went back, and kind of just went to bed, for all i can remember.
day 4, a few people went skiing. the rest of us chilled. some people went into the villiage again. it was kind of an off day, leading up to the big fancy dinner at hys steakhouse. also, it was the last night we were going to be up there, so me and ryan and alyson needed to do shrooms this night. long story short, i used a $30.00 filet mignon to mask the taste of the mushrooms i was eating. oh, the hilarity. i don't think these mushrooms were as good as the ones i have taken in the past. it was kind of nice not to be tripping quite so hard. the only problem was that ryan was tripping a lot harder than me and alyson. it was really unfortunate, because i have been wanting to shroom with ryan since last whistler. it was still a lot of fun, and it was good to have him there, even if he did feel a little out of place. he NEEDED to be there (those of you who have done shrooms will understand this). we'll have to do it again sometime, most definitely.
next day, we drove back. border crossing was really quick. they didn't search our cars or anything. ryan and i were pretty tired, but especially ryan because he didn't sleep at all the night before.
that was the whistler trip. it was a lot of fun, but a little short. we didn't go to any clubs, which was kind of funny. ahh well.
alright, this is the portion of the blog where my dorkish tendencies are going to come out. i think i have mentioned this before, but i am a really big fantasy book nut. i used to be a huge nut. i had a website up for like 6 years about fantasy books, until it got deleted because my webhost went out of business. so yeah, seeing lord of the rings was really incredible for me. it was the first really well done fantasy novel conversion to a movie. i still stand by my feelings that tolkien's books aren't the greatest fantasy novels of all time, but i will stand by my feelings that he is the greatest fantasy author of all time from a historical stand point. his novels CREATED the fantasy genre. he was the first. his books are a guideline for all fantasy authors today. without tolkien, there would be no fantasy genre. so i cut him some slack. i still really enjoyed the lord of the rings series when i read it way back when. i was almost in tear at parts of the movie because i was so happy that something i had been looking forward too so much was so successful and so well made.
i was talking about MUDs a few blogs back, and about how i wanted to find another one to play. well, instead of doing that i just went out and ordered a game called Dark Age of Camelot. it is a MMORPG, or Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. it is basically a mud, in graphical form. you are a character, you run around, but there are hundreds of other people playing at the same time. if you have ever heard of Everquest, or Ultima Online, i hear it is a lot like that. now, i have never played a game like this for a few reasons. one, i know i will get addicted. i know once i start playing, my life will be over. directly linked to this is two, the fact that you have to pay by the month to play. the idea of paying for a game is blasphemous to me these days, but the idea of paying a fee to play one is just downright sacreligious. but, i know it is going to be a lot of fun. just about everyone in my UT clan is playing it now, and they love it. they aren't even into fantasy or rpgs or muds like i am. that should be here in a few days. i'll tell you how it is, but it should be incredible.
i'm about to go off to lunch, so this blog will be in ending in 3...2...1...
whatever, wankever, amen
i heard of another harry potter book burning in texas. go team fanatic christians!!!! me and my mom were talking, and even she thought it was pretty silly. oh well, at least it was in texas and not around here.
another kind of funny thing i saw today. it shouldn't really have been funny, like the group of blind people running across the street frantically. ok, that really was funny. anyways, there was this blind guy walking down the street, talking on the cell phone. he had a black baseball cap on that said PHONY in white block letters across it. either he is a phony, or someone gave him that hat and he can't see what it says. either way, it is kind of funny.
Alright, my trip. what else to tell. i already blogged about John, the walking linkin park song. he basically epitimized everything linkin park represents, which means by definition he probably hates linkin parks music. isn't it funny how a lot of the really angst ridden suburban teenagers absolutely hate linkin park, even though everyone sees linkin park as 17 year old punks who didn't get their beamer for christmas, so they sing angry music and rap like monkeys about it. me and ryan had all sorts of discussions about it. anyways, whatever. apparently there was drama between alyson and ryan on the trip. i wasn't there to see it. maybe i was, and i just didn't know about it. anyways, he is "sparing us the boredom" of the details now. spill it man!! drama is never boring, thats why it is drama. otherwise no one would care.
so yeah, first night, we get up there. go out to a nice dinner at carrumbas, i get this really good salmon fettucini or something like that. go home, we pile like 7 people in the hot tub. it rocked, because at least i was drinking, i think a few other people were. the thing was over flowing. people were jumping out into the snow. a good time was had by all. for some reason, no one else but me really used the hot tub for the rest of the week. i half wonder if it was me for some reason, because i would be like hot tub hot tub? and everyone would be like, naahhh... and then a while later, people would be like, i think i might go in the hot tub. and then i would be like sweet, hot tub!!!! but then everyone would change their minds about it. oh well, more hot tub time for me. i just felt odd using it so much when no one else did. i don't feel bad, because i slept on the floor. so yeah, first night, got drunk in the hot tub.
second day, people went skiing. i, of course, didn't. i was the only one who didn't. i tried to go in the hot tub, but it was like 115 degrees. it was really hot. it had both warning lights lit up, kind of funny. i turned the temp down, and went and took a nap and watched the price is right. eventually collin got back, and so me and him chilled for a bit, watched like 5 hours of snowboarding competition or something. it was hilarious, because after that we had seen it all, but no one else had, so it was on the rest of the week. so me and collin ended up watching it like 5 times. i think we went out to eat, but i don't remember where we went. we go back, and start playing kings. it was a lot of fun. i hate the game i never, so i just think up outlandish things that i have done, so i will have to drink. usually i pull out things that other people have done, but are embarrassing. i pulled out the "i have never seen ryans naked penis" one. last year, he stripped naked and jumped off the balcony, so i caught an unwanted peek. ryan and i thought it was pretty funny, and really, what else matters? then, john showed us this game called fuck the dealer. it is hard to explain, but by the end of the game, one person ends up taking like 40 drinks. so, anyways, ryan and alyson were both really fucked after that. they both ended up throwing up i think, and both kind of just passed out.
day 3 was pretty boring. a few people went skiing, but not many. most of us stuck around at home and watched tv. i think a few people went christmas shopping in the villiage. later, we went to see lord of the rings. glorious. GLORIOUS. i'll talk more about lord of the rings later i am sure. anyways, the theater up there is kind of crappy. the sound was in stereo, and way too low, and the screen was too dark, and they had the overhead lights on, but still i loved it. what a great movie. after that, we wandered over to the irish pub. that was pretty fun as well. we drank a lot of overpriced beer, and listened to gaelic renditions of disco songs. it was a good time. drinking makes anything a good time for me :) after that we went back, and kind of just went to bed, for all i can remember.
day 4, a few people went skiing. the rest of us chilled. some people went into the villiage again. it was kind of an off day, leading up to the big fancy dinner at hys steakhouse. also, it was the last night we were going to be up there, so me and ryan and alyson needed to do shrooms this night. long story short, i used a $30.00 filet mignon to mask the taste of the mushrooms i was eating. oh, the hilarity. i don't think these mushrooms were as good as the ones i have taken in the past. it was kind of nice not to be tripping quite so hard. the only problem was that ryan was tripping a lot harder than me and alyson. it was really unfortunate, because i have been wanting to shroom with ryan since last whistler. it was still a lot of fun, and it was good to have him there, even if he did feel a little out of place. he NEEDED to be there (those of you who have done shrooms will understand this). we'll have to do it again sometime, most definitely.
next day, we drove back. border crossing was really quick. they didn't search our cars or anything. ryan and i were pretty tired, but especially ryan because he didn't sleep at all the night before.
that was the whistler trip. it was a lot of fun, but a little short. we didn't go to any clubs, which was kind of funny. ahh well.
alright, this is the portion of the blog where my dorkish tendencies are going to come out. i think i have mentioned this before, but i am a really big fantasy book nut. i used to be a huge nut. i had a website up for like 6 years about fantasy books, until it got deleted because my webhost went out of business. so yeah, seeing lord of the rings was really incredible for me. it was the first really well done fantasy novel conversion to a movie. i still stand by my feelings that tolkien's books aren't the greatest fantasy novels of all time, but i will stand by my feelings that he is the greatest fantasy author of all time from a historical stand point. his novels CREATED the fantasy genre. he was the first. his books are a guideline for all fantasy authors today. without tolkien, there would be no fantasy genre. so i cut him some slack. i still really enjoyed the lord of the rings series when i read it way back when. i was almost in tear at parts of the movie because i was so happy that something i had been looking forward too so much was so successful and so well made.
i was talking about MUDs a few blogs back, and about how i wanted to find another one to play. well, instead of doing that i just went out and ordered a game called Dark Age of Camelot. it is a MMORPG, or Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. it is basically a mud, in graphical form. you are a character, you run around, but there are hundreds of other people playing at the same time. if you have ever heard of Everquest, or Ultima Online, i hear it is a lot like that. now, i have never played a game like this for a few reasons. one, i know i will get addicted. i know once i start playing, my life will be over. directly linked to this is two, the fact that you have to pay by the month to play. the idea of paying for a game is blasphemous to me these days, but the idea of paying a fee to play one is just downright sacreligious. but, i know it is going to be a lot of fun. just about everyone in my UT clan is playing it now, and they love it. they aren't even into fantasy or rpgs or muds like i am. that should be here in a few days. i'll tell you how it is, but it should be incredible.
i'm about to go off to lunch, so this blog will be in ending in 3...2...1...
whatever, wankever, amen
