new places new things im sore

so...today was long. waking up for a movie in the city playing before noon makes your day seem instantly longer - something associated with movies and night time makes adjusting to it being not even 2pm after the film difficult.

soccer started and went well although im super sore. we didnt win but we had fun and meghan took a ball to the face only to say i cant feel anything. later she told us if anytihng she was more into the game after it. hell yeah

going home this weekend.


another rule broken - i was trying to use a tweeted picture as my picture of the day but this one more says it than anyitnhg else i took today. was really cool to go to this theatre - new theatres are a treat most times and this one had a bunch of classic movie quotes bordering the tops of the walls. very classy.

a love for the hard copy

i really think there is something to the hard copy of things. That being said - iTunes 9 just included LP mode which is more interactive and expansive on the digital album art work. And while it may be a very exciting and cool feature for a band's art i would rather have the physical casing. - which is one of the reasons why i will purchase an album i really want to support or have the actual copy of.

It is not often that I buy an album but sometimes I do, whether it is to support a band I really like, or maybe because it comes with a DVD or what ever reason. Today I decided I wanted to support Thrice by buying Beggars. They got screwed when their album (like Wolverine's movie) leaked onto the internet way in advance. They were forced to move up the digital release of the album to a week later on iTunes so as to not totally be in the hole from this. Today the album was released on hard copy and through both sympathy over the shitty situation and wanting to monitarily support a band who has plenty of releases, most of which I have, but none of which I have actually bought. - so this wasnt so much of wanting the copy for its art or anything as much as supporting the band monetarily and also benefiting from the 5 bonus songs you could attain through the hard copy.

I also bought Muse's The Resistance out of curiousity

But in regards to my point at the top - I bought Portugal. The Man's Satanic Satanist (which came out a little while ago).

The winner goes to the latter of the purchases. Not to comment on quality of the music on the three albums but on worthiness of a hard copy. I have never seen an album packaging/art as extravagant as this one. It is really awesome and totally worth every penny even if the cd was not good (which is not the case at all). The design of this case is something that, depisite getting the same art through iTunes, the presentation would be lost.

Tomorrow I will see H2 (if all goes according to plan) and finish the night with our first Intramural Soccer match. I am so out of shape and will be sore for a week (just in time for the next match) from it but I am so glad we got this to happen. It will be a lot of fun.

(Satanic Satanist after unfolding all of the flaps of the case).

uphill battle

so today i realized something. i am not who i was in 8th grade, or high school for that matter. what i mean by that is - when i played sports whether it was soccer or what i very rarely came out of the game. not because i was the star or anything like that but because i never needed a break. i remember in indoor - i subbed out once and recalled it had been the first time all season (this was like one of the last games) that i actually came off the field.

tonight we played a 'half-court' style game of soccer and within 15 minutes i had a severe cramp that wasnt just like a strain but a sharp very debilitating pain. luckily after a lot of nonchalant playing it passed and i was fine, but that is a bad sign. i never claimed to be in any kind of shape but that is also pretty bad. hopefully this soccer thing will work out to be more than just something fun to do.

had my last of my first classes today - my biopsych lab. so far i'd say that the majority of the psych courses here have been friendly. mainly reading heavy in the assignments and very rarely more than one big paper and the mid term and final. biopsych is not friendly - it will be a real real challenge but one im excited for because this is basically what the biology course should have been for psych students instead of learning about kingdoms and extinctions.

also - im happy to see so many new posts today. id link them in here as a shout out but no one who id link isnt already reading/aware of the other peoples blogs so its really not worth it. it is however nice to have so many different new blog updates at once.

last bit - ran in to mike deasey prior to the soccer match. was coming from class and was wearing like non-mesh shorts and skate shoes and thought - ok i dont think i can get away with this, but deasey isnt probably serious about this so im sure ill be fine in this if hes coming - he was in shorts and a t-shirt and a pair of tigers - he informed me that he had to get changed for our scrimmage - apparently that wasnt sports-ready so i quickly realized that my skate shoes and non-mesh shorts wouldnt fly. so i donned the most sporty pair of shoes i had - my tigers. apparently not sporty enough for deasey but they are the best i got. and theyll do for the season - minus a slight traction problem. i did fall a bunch. but i've recently been told i seem to be off-balance alot so maybe its not the shoes.