.rotten.kids.are.all.about.it.

too long

2007-10-30T22:46:11Z

I feel the gears grind to a halt. I know it's because of me and the guilt that washes over me on the factory floor is apparent. I stare at my boots and scuff the floor with my heel. I don't know if I'll ever make my way here. I don't know that I'm cut out for it.

"Hey, kid!"

lame.sauce

2007-06-07T20:22:58Z

Here Is What You Gotta Do:

1. Open your ENTIRE library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

NO CHEATING

Opening Credits: Thomas D feat. Franka Potente - Wish (Komm Zu Mir) <--isn't that the opener from Run Lola Run?

Waking Up: UnderOath - Angel Below

First Day At School: Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter (uhhh...)

Falling In Love: AFI - Catch a Hot One

Fight Song: Early Man - Brain Stick

Breaking Up: Commander Venus - My Other C (tag missing...fucker)

Prom: Small Brown Bike - Sincerely Yours

Life's OK: Thrice - Where Idols Once Stood

Mental Breakdown: Bright Eyes - When the Curious Girl Realizes She is Under Glass

Driving: The Format - The First Single (I am soooo embarassed OMG OMG OMG)

Flashback: Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day

Getting Back Together: Cake - Jesus Wrote a Blank Check (wtf?)

Wedding: Jamiroquai - Black Crow (sometimes I forget how awesome this song really is...)

Birth of Child: Mindless Self Indulgence - Futures

Final Battle: Voodoo Glow Skulls - Yo No Tengo Tiempa Para Ti

Death Scene: Ghostface Killah - Jellyfish (ft. Cappadonna, Shawn Wigs, Trife)

Funeral Song: Jamiroquai - Mr. Moon

End Credits: Atom and His Package - Wonderman (Hammer Smashed Ball)

NEW! Now with TERRIBLE RESULTS!

brokenliife @ 2007-05-27T22:26:00

2007-05-28T02:25:45Z

Idk if anyone is interested, buuut....

we.are.all.natural.disasters

2007-05-23T15:49:48Z

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

My whole work schedule is getting a bit tedious. The fact that I have class at 8:00am, then go directly to work, then have 3hrs off, then go back to work and directly to class after that (returning to my apt at 10:00pm) is getting old already. Though, if you think about it, the summer session is nearly 1/3rd over. Amazing.

Though I will argue that staying busy helps me maintain focus. Also, I made the most bomb-ass analysis of a real estate investment ever. I am SO levered. If i win the competition, I get $130 cold, hard (eh?), cash.

just in case you missed it: Leveraged Sellout

brokenliife @ 2007-05-22T11:24:00

2007-05-22T15:27:13Z

Apparently, Rachel McAdam's age has been called into question.

Aren't birth certificates of public record? Hollywood should set down the publicist shit and do their own detective work...

In other news, summer is progressing slowly, but pleasantly as I work each day away and spend my time outside of class attempting to master Tony Hawk's Project 8 on Xbox360.

It's not going so well.

It was good to be home, and it's good to be back. Onward, summer...onward.

well.well.well.

2007-05-14T19:49:13Z

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

fancy that? more @ explosm.net.

brokenliife @ 2007-04-27T21:10:00

2007-04-28T01:12:37Z

if powerspace is making a video at any point (hope hope), I think this is what we can expect:

democracy.wins

2007-04-12T19:59:18Z

Invalid video URL.

'nuff said.

alec is famous.

2007-03-25T17:53:49Z

Well, i guess if anyone was wondering, Alec has officially become famous. He is now listed in the "Noteable Alumni" section of Palatine High School's Wikipedia entry.
see for yourself.

ok, enough avoidance of studying. Gah.

.end.of.an.age.

2006-12-29T00:21:37Z

Luckily for you all, i don't feel the need to write a 2006 wrap-up.

I will, however, list some things that have been cool.

1) Being abroad
2) Mew (just got into them)
3) Annuals (them too)
4) living with Rion this coming semester in Geekdom
5) meeting the people i have met, because in some cases, they crush the people i knew before in awesomeness (in others; not)
6) liberation

whateverness. The blog hasnt been updated in a long time, just thought i'd do that.

brokenliife @ 2006-11-23T16:29:00

2006-11-23T16:29:37Z

i am thankful for the following:

1) Being a-political
2) Europe
3) the fam
4) sweatshop.org (someone just said this and i suppose it's something to be thankful for)
5) powerspace
6) consumer electronics, most notably the new treo 680 which will likely be the winner of my hard-earned mulah
7) mullets
8) small, quiet children

end of story. get out of the store before you break something.
byekids.

.not.so.timely.

2006-11-20T07:46:48Z

Man. I have been doing a terrible job of updating this blog...but I feel like I made up for it in the other blog...it's here if you're interested.

Finally succeeded in branching out a bit socially over here, and so far the results have been fantastic. Dave and I contend that we likely know everyone here between the two of us. Excellent. I think coming back to campus whith all of these people should be fun...plus my apartment is entirely likely to be a really tight nerd-den. Awesome.

Bleh. International business class should not begin at 8:15. This then means that I have to be ready to leave by 7:00 am. Thanks 1:15 commute, you never get old. I will go from the 1:15 commute here in Luxembourg back to the 1:00 hr commute to the Loop when I get back. Damn it.

byekids.

amsterDAMN!

2006-10-23T19:20:08Z

spent the weekend in amsterdam. What a wonderful place. Never found the Red Light District. Oh well. I have no idea what went down on friday other than Mary thinking we had never left our hostel. She sat in the coffeeshop we were in and paused. "I get it," she submitted, "we're not leaving the hostel tonight." Yeah, so everyone was pretty high.

Spent saturday in a haze...and saturday night in a cocktail of chemicals i didn't plan on ingesting, but did anyway. I remember being in front of a haunted house somewhere in the city and smoking, and then I was eating chinese somewhere else, wired the whole time. Between the "herbal speed", the pot, the 13 or so beers and the addy, i was in a strange place.

The next morning i woke up with a bit of a hangover and sat outside for a few hours before everyone woke up. It was perfectly frigid in the morning. Just what i needed.

Midterms here are a silly thing. You KNOW they're not going to be that difficult, but Miami being as Miami is, everyone is freaking out and studying a shitton. Oh well.

I have resolved myself to not studying for German, studying for Music, studying for Marketing and studying for Accounting (hard).

Meh. I suppose bring it on. Haven't written the post for the travel blog yet, but I will have it posted before tomorrow morning.

byekids.

.ooh.la.la.

2006-10-19T09:16:55Z

here i am in europe, and missing silly things at home. Like mealplans. Like Cereality. Like Harolds.

And those are just the things i feel like i should miss. There are others that I feel no obligation to miss, but do.

Like having a place of my own.
Like foods.

But ultimately, I am not too worried. This weekend: AMSTERDAM

new xmas gift ideas welcome.

.oui.oui.

2006-10-10T13:09:24Z

I was surprised to discover that paris doesnt blow.

in fact, it doesn't even suck.

It's actually really really fucking cool.

I partied really hard, went to a giant buddha bar. It was great. Met some 32 year olds that we flattered into buying us drinks and driving us around town.

Got stuck in the middle of a rollerblade parade. It was nuts.

It was fashion week. The San Antonio Spurs were there. I tried to get into the Chloe (some designer) show, but was stopped by a man with a headset and a gun. Dr. Smith is not staying in room 261 of the swankiest hotel in Paris which has hosting an industry-only party (open bar).

shit man, this whole europe thing is nuts. More details in the other blog

.bash.bang.fuckface.

2006-10-04T12:49:39Z

Well, it looks like I am headed to paris this weekend.

it also looks like i don't have housing for next year.

it also looks like it's raining outside.

The Killers' new album is pretty king, enjoying it.

Paris? I don't think you're ready for this jelly. DragonForce should be the national anthem of the Nation of Living Peoples. Just fyi. man oh man, amsterdam is coming up too. Getting high legally? redic. I told everyone to brace themselves for my rediculousness.

Last night was jazz night at this place called Liquid. Smoked some Reds, got pumped about acid jazz all over again and started listening to indian music and masses from the middle ages. Thanks music appreciation class. I need to go blow off some steam, .

bye kids.

.back.now.

2006-10-02T08:13:25Z

Back from Interlaken and the rest of my week in Switzerland. I am discovering the wonder that is Hot Chip right now.

I went canyoning, which is a lot like rafting...without a raft...in a narrow canyon full of 30 foot drops and jagged rocks. Our guide hurt himself. It was badass.

The time spent in the switzerland was a show. Party-time too often for anyone's good. Underground clubs and empty bars. Lots of hookah-smoking beer-slamming good times.

Things to remember:

move to interlaken with alec and cdub to become a guide
continue partying as if my body is a useless sack of rice or beans
fight more often
accept $500 worth of drinks for businessmen who keep your champaigne glass full at bars for the famous
make less lists
make more lists

fuckers. still partying, new peoples new parties, you know the deal.

smashed and smashing in europe.

bye kids.

.breaking.barriers.

2006-09-19T14:13:13Z

travel blog

Ok, so that's the parent-safe one. I accomplished blacking out at oktoberfest by 3pm. Drank a total of 7 liters of beer.

made out with a german girl.

made some new friends, got lost in general, at a lot of sausage, went on a impromptu date with said german girl, fought a security guard, danced on tables, passed out on germans.

didnt even lose anything important.

slutty and sausage-laden in europe.

brokenliife @ 2006-09-12T13:52:00

2006-09-12T11:53:49Z

things i have lost in europe so far:

ipod
sandal
digital camera

things are finally looking up.

.here.we.go.

2006-09-07T10:31:02Z

This journal is reserved for my party stories.

To check up on those things that are uncouth, check here. For those that are socially acceptable (that is, parent friendly) go to AstrideAtlantic my new blog for all things Brian-is-in-europe-and-blogging.

no drunken debauchery yet. details to follow.

this.is.far.from.home.and.boring

2006-09-05T11:08:10Z

Greetings from luxembourg.

Umm, this is just like high school. So that's awesome seeing as I loved that part of my life. Only part is, since all of the friends I had over the summer suck ass I am pumped to meet a crapton of n00bs. Which is tite.

This weekend looks like its going to be Brussels and Brugges. Find it on a map. You kids can do it i swear. So yeah. New crew, more brews.

out

bye kids.

brokenliife @ 2006-08-17T17:32:00

2006-08-17T22:34:21Z

I'm running off to Europe tomorrow. I will be without comp for a few days while i'm sailing. I will likely keep everyone posted on how life is going abroad via a new blog.

Ummm, so

international apathy

is on its way.

until then, listen to powerspace.

bye, kids.

brokenliife @ 2006-07-31T20:15:00

2006-08-01T01:25:22Z

So in the last few days, I've discovered the wonder that is Girl Talk a new Illegal Art release. I attempted to track it down at Rock Records in the loop, but no dice.

I settled on buying a ticket for saturday's lolla. The lineup for sat put everything else to shame.

I'm sportin' contacts now. Badass on my part.

I just at some frozen pre-made food. Shitty on my part.

Last weekend was nuts because of Pitchfork, which totally rocked socks. Saturday involved seeing Ted Leo, The Mountain Goats, Art Brut (awesome) and the Futureheads--also smoking more cigs than i care to count. Whoops. I think 12 if i were to try to count. It's up there.

Sunday was Liars, Yo La Tango and Aesop Rock (holyfuckingshit 'twas awesome).

Ummmm so this week is lookin' busy. Maybe I'm down for some hangouts.

bye kids.

brokenliife @ 2006-07-19T18:29:00

2006-07-19T23:38:26Z

duders.
It's been soo long. But i am not going to catch you jagoffs up.

Basically, I am working on this gigantic project at work that may net the firm a nice 200 Million dollars. Tight shit because that's like a shit-ton of money. Other than that, I've picked up, quit, and re-pciked up smoking so far in the last month or two. THat's pretty neat. I also inadvertantly coined the word "king" to mean something sweet or perhaps righteous. That's pretty bro'ed out if you ask me. I am attempting to get my golf game in line a bit. We'll see how that works out (probably terribly).

I hang with Sarah a lot, which is fun, duh--we're strikingly similar; she's attempting to convince me that it has something to do with astrological signs. This coming weekend there are rumblings of making the trek to Southern. We'll see if that plays out or not.

Getting ready for Lux is being a bit stressful right now. I have a crap-load of crap that needs to be crapped. Etc.

Now to research some wakeboards, mhmm.

byekids.
Liana - when are we tieing the knot?

am.i.thirty

2006-06-24T07:38:15Z

Went out to happy hour with my coworkers today. It was fun to hear some of them let their hair down. Gianna is more of a card than I expected. She's even someone i might find in my group of friends...i mean, like as an equivalent or something.

Aside from that, I just went to Trang's to eat her family's delicious vietnamese food. I then watched about 20seconds of some asian movie and fell asleep. Sweet rockets.

Now that i've returned home from that disasterous attempt at watching independent asian cinema (and completed a trip to Pride of Lake County--the greatest gas station that ever stationed), I can only hope i can stave off sleep for a few more hours so as to....well, I really don't have a reason, do i?

In light of that, I'll likely spend the next few minutes/hours seeing what's new on the internet. I mean, there's always something new...right? Hopefully saturday's physical exertion will allow me to take more pleasure in tomorrow evening/afternoon.

rock on, kids.