You're goddamn right I'm UNCERTAIN

[Augo]

http://picard.ytmnd.com/

Holy shit that's hilarious

my friend jojo sings that all the time. i never knew where it came from.

i guess i still kinda don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx3S5mqvvig

May have been posted on the boards sometime before now...
Worth posting again.  It's fucking gold.

I was going to let this go, but since it's now been quoted twice and not commented on, I'd just like to salute pollo for never giving up.

I thought it was pretty genius so I didn't mess with it, but I didn't really know what to say about it either.

[jebreject]

So, I'll put this here, because it wasn't quite right for the sad or annoyed threads, and I wasn't going to start an incredibly-disappointed-but-strangely-relieved thread:

We almost got to open for Dead Meadow. Obviously, this would have been awesome for any number of reasons, the most important one, I guess, being that we'd be playing to more people than we've ever played for before, and unless we sucked completely, we'd be certain to sell a number of CDs and make some new fans and friends. So between yesterday afternoon (when I found out that we might be able to do it) and this evening, when I was told that we wouldn't be, I got myself very, very excited about the prospect. So it's definitely a major let-down. I mean, in a way, though, I am relieved, because that show would have been scary as shit for me, and also we're pretty sloppy and tend to drink too much before we play and sometimes have pretty major fuck-ups, etc. Which I mean is fine, generally, and with a lot of practice, we would have been able to pull off a show like that no problem, but that's the other thing: the show is a week from Monday. So not much time to tighten things up, etc. So really, it's maybe for the best, but goddamn if it wouldn't have been awesome and a really, really good opportunity for us.

[girl]

I'm happy and sad for you, then. Mostly I'm hoping you'll get another opportunity like this one soon.

[jebreject]

thanks 

[andronicus]

Hey fuck those guys dude, I'm pretty much the arbiter of taste and general determiner of The Good in this era of man (such as it is), and I don't own a single Dead Meadow album but I do have a good chunk of the DA discography. 

[guanajuato]

this just means you guys are teetering on the edge of opening for biggish bands. even if it fell through, it's still awesome jeb!

[peacocks]

Just now a guy was flailing around on my front porch yelling for help, bleeding everywhere.  Apparently he was trying to rob someone and got shot in the belly.  Cops and detectives are outside now, our house is surrounded by crime scene tape.  cool.

[guanajuato]

that would only be better if you were the one who plugged his ass

[Andrew_TSKS]

jeb, i agree with jon--if you were considered for this by someone who books those types of shows, it's only a matter of time before someone who books those types of shows will go ahead and offer you one for sure. and that's awesome.

also, i never told you, but i think there's some significant improvement in you guys' songwriting on that practice recording that you posted a month or so ago. the part in the second song (is it still called "a whisper growing"?) where everything breaks down to a bassline and then the rest of the band comes back in and follows that bassline into a really awesome groove is fucking awesome.

[jebreject]

thanks everyone! i hope yer right!

andrew! i think you are right. since we've started writing as a band, the songs have a lot more dynamics and are in general a lot more interesting, i think. and thank you for saying so!

[alexandra]

going to new mexico to meet the bf's parents. weird.

[elpollodiablo]

New Mexico is pretty weird

[alexandra]

agreed. 5 days in Santa Fe might just freak me out.

[C of heartbreak]

When I was driving across the country I spent 3 days in Albuquerque because I blew 3 (!?) tires and fucked up a rim on a gigantic pothole on one of their shitty highways. I just about went crazy. Good burritos and salsa, though.

[elpollodiablo]

The southwest is for the birds

[diesel_powered]

JEB! OMG!

There's a guy working down at the Trader Joe's that looks exactly like you!

WHAT SHOULD I DO???

[girl]

(You're asking that here? Really?)

At the very least, you should try to make out with him.

[diesel_powered]

Geez. You're right.

http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/forums/index.php/topic,9534.325.html

[C of heartbreak]

PIHB

[girl]

Geez. You're right.

http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/forums/index.php/topic,9534.325.html

Ha! No I meant here as in LPtJ--you know the only answers you're gonna get are:

PIHB

and HTS.

 

[Andrew_TSKS]

agreed. 5 days in Santa Fe might just freak me out.

my friend jojo is from there and swears it's wonderful. just for the record.

[The_Tourist]

my job is starting to get to me.

every time i brush off my boss overreacting, yelling, getting frustrated before taking the time to even understand what is going on, and a million other things, a tiny bit stays with me. these bits have built up to the point where the second she does her usual thing, instead of just agreeing with her to make her shut up, i've been getting angry, upset, and resentful. i've been confronting her and frustrating myself further when i normally would've just said "ok...i understand" until she got over it.

i don't exactly have job recruiters knocking on my door and am planning to move (to somewhere with higher rent) in a a few months. and the thought of having to start spamming my resume on craigslist or calling everyone i know for a connection in the hopes of finding a job scares the crap out of me.

i really don't know what to do.  right now i'm just sitting at work and staring not doing what i'm supposed to be doing.

[Wally]

Okay, so my tutor got back to me on the whole "helping profs with their research thing" and nothing within the uni turned up, however she's found two internships at the research at the institute for science and society, both of which sound pretty sweet, both of which she's pretty sure I could get with references from her and another lecturer who's in my corner. Only problem is they're full time, and paid. The full time thing might be tricky given that I've already got a full time job which will be going from 42 hours to 62 over the summer, and  even if I were to be able to fit two full time jobs into my life there's a chance that having f/t wage packets would change my loan, grant and bursary situation. It's possible I could quit the care work for the summer to take an internship, but I'd have to look into that. Plus a ten week internship would certainly put the kebosh on both filmaking and Istanbul, although the former is pretty fifty/fifty at the moment. I should bitch about these options, because they're all pretty good but I hate having to make choices.

[alex]

But Dom, if you take on a position dealing with science & society stuff, we'd be colleagues! Don't do two full-time jobs, though, that's no way to spend a summer. If these people are willing to go out of their way to see if they can get you a research gig after your first year, they'll certainly be able to figure something out after your second year, too, so don't consider this a once-in-a-lifetime chance. It does sound potentially neat, though.

Well anyway, good luck with making a decision!

[Wally]

Yeah, because she knows something about my situation she did ram home the point that she'd be willing to go to bat for me next year, so I know that it's not a one off. My main issue is that if all I do is my one current job over the summer, then it's not going to be a summer I get a hell of a lot out of. And I don't want myself just going down the work, come home, sleep, work, come home, sleep, route, which I've done to death, and because of the way work has been means I have to be extra careful about what goes on at home. I kinda need something good, something that'd give me a fill up to bridge the whole home and work divide. It's been uni for the last few months, and that's awesome but I've got a long ass summer head and that's making majorly uncertain.

However, what's not making me uncertain is that my train tickets to maastricht came in the post today, same dates and times I mentioned. Which is super awesome.