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just can't seem to get it right. spent all weekend trying to write a brief with no success, but a promise to get at it today. as soon as i finished my reading. then i read for the next seven hours, and no, i'm not writing it at this point. i will need to accomplish a lot by saturday to feel alright about going to a beer festival. some things just can't be helped i guess. the michigan brewers guild had their winter beer festival at old kent park. such a better name than fifth-third; numbered entities should not be able to hold naming rights to sports. it only leads to strange connotations when at all translated to any given sport. anyway, i bet no one reading who lives nearby actually went. i realize y'all (not marked, sweet) have lives, but c'mon (marked, weak) a beer festival is a thing to get to. expect a detailed report on the one here sometime next week.
after the beer festival, back 40 played a cd release party at founders, and i know some people made it to that. hoping for a recording. the point is, i missed what was potentially the day of the year back home. who knows, something could have always gone wrong, but that combination is tough to deny. i am not so spiteful to wish i could say the weather had been shitty and new founders sucks, but in any event the weather was nice and the sound in the new space is vastly preferable. i am sure both events facilitated good times for a wide variety of people, and it is good to know things like that still go on. all this serves my notion that gun rue is not a terrible place to be from, regardless of what anyone says. it feels strange to write about things i wasn't doing, but it is comforting to know they still sound appealing.
also, i was not doing a whole lot interesting during that time. as noted, i was mostly throwing myself at what amounted to a whole wall comprised of writer's blocks. i did, however watch blazin' saddles. this is one of those movies that virtually everyone i know thinks is hilarious. if you haven't seen it, i cannot express the level of priority it should immediately take. presumably, most people have seen it, so watch it again. dude punches out a horse. what more do you want? mel brooks talking for about an hour? because my dvd totally had that, labeled as an interview. no questions are included, and many things seem like they could never be the answer to any sane question. he just runs his mouth while the movie plays with no sound. he says plenty of interesting things, including how they had two horses on the set who were trained to fake a fall when an unseen fish line tugs at their leg. for the animal concerned, this is precisely what they used in the horse punching scene.
you realize what this means: if horses know how to sell a fell, we could easily have horse pro wrestling. they'd call it h.w.c., purportedly heavy weight championship (competitors must conveniently weigh literally as much as an average horse), but really just horse wrestling championship. the whole thing wouldn't hit stride until wwe buys it out and integrates it so the horses wrestle against people. get your tickets, kids seats just five bucks. saturday, Saturday, SATURDAY. and yes, at the delta plex.
see, i would have missed that too. at least i watched blazin' saddles. i also managed to go someplace i hadn't been before, which is ridiculously easy for me to do still. odd little space, teahouse/restaurant (fusion? i think i'm guessing/extrapolating) with a little bar in it. went with my sister and chilled out on a friday afternoon, overall something to make me happy about living here. the place happens to be named bubble house, which brings me to something else i didn't do. medeski martin and wood played a few days ago at penn. no one mentioned this to me before it happened, but no less than three separate people told me in the next couple days after the show. guess i should have checked the tour dates. one last thing i managed to not do on saturday was see wilco. sold out way before i even knew it was going to happen. the only solution is to buy tickets for anything i see online, pay some stupid surcharge, and get spam forever telling me about every single fucking band at their mediocre venue. i definitely would have known if wilco played the state theater in detroit, or if mmw played at the house of blues in cleveland.
well, this was the post that was supposed to be for yesterday but i couldn't post it due to connectivity problems. i figured i would post it when i got to school in the morning. and then i looked and the last couple paragraphs were gone. apparently the last time the thing auto-saved was while i agonized over the spelling of "cleveland", eventually resorting to quick research. yeah, i totally had it wrong. but how often have i needed to spell cleveland? not too often, that is how much.
anyway, i think the other stuff was mostly about law school. something about how contextualization is generally lacking. law reviews skewed my notion of law school, etc.. ubiquitous puns in law review titles, blah blah, my con law prof is awesome. something along those lines. maybe something about how absolutely fucked i am. we probably did not lose anything the record is worse off without.
this gets us to today, which really doesn't offer a whole lot more. i'm still freaking out about my brief. today featured a full-on large scale second guessing of my approach to the issue that controls the entirety of my argument. have i misinterpreted my prof's comments? will she be up front if i have? will she tell me what it is she wants? time will tell. the only upshot is that i get to give myself the rest of the night off, which is only an upshot tonight, and regret fodder for tomorrow.
my school email inbox is enough to induce a panic attack on its own (except the one about the ABA and LSD, but that wasn't near as interesting as it sounded). most recent arrivals note the upcoming financial aid and work study deadlines, along with a host of comments from my writing prof answering INANE questions other people have asked. i am so confused about how these people could be better off than i am, if this is what they are asking. they're so proactive that they have asked about minutia before i've settled the most important question. and yet, i could answer their questions. i want to scream. also, i failed in class today. i could not figure out what my prof was asking me; i first asked him to repeat the question and then had to concede i just could not answer because i had no idea what he wanted. through a couple flukes i got asked about a case i read like three weeks ago. i understood what the case said, but his wording was just bizarre. well, whatever. just frustrating, especially considering i had put extra preparation into the next few cases, the ones i thought i might be asked to talk about. i could have talked ad naseum about anything else he asked anyone else, but no, it couldn't be simple. so it goes.
apparently something blew up in eastown today. i am glad i was not back home getting evacuated. i probably would have been at work, i guess. if i was home, i wager i would have been either sleeping or too sketched out to open the door to talk to whoever comes to tell people to evacuate. i seem to remember this would not have been the first time.
instead, the most important thing of my day was finding out about this. i suspect i'm late in the game like everything else, but on the off chance that someone has not seen this, it is worth checking out. i have an awful lot of things to say about it, but i will spare you all for now. i'm just glad it manages to be provocative and inviting. so tempted to go on and on... the only disappointment is that as far as i've covered, they have not included the site itself on the list. i'll pass on lampooning it for now. all i can think about is fair use and parody. the upshot is that we listened to none other than the 2 live crew in intellectual property the other day. this was one of the worthwhile things that disappeared from yesterday's inchoate post. in fact, my prof listened to this particular track with none other than ruth bader-ginsberg, for whom he was clerking when the case came down. parody roy orbison, will you? i guess so. acuff-rose was a party in the case, and i kept hearing that tweedy tune in my mind.
i recall noting that this 2 live crew track included no cusses. and the opinion footnoted a definition of rap music. classic. the best is probably that the official title of the case includes "AKA luke skyywalker".
i have likewise been going somewhat old school with music this evening. broke out the cd book, one of the strangest out there, but some things i don't mind hearing. tonight has featured the kottonmouth kings and iron maiden. yup. i don't regret any of that. the cd collection stopped growing several years ago now, and the end result has been that i own much more of the music i currently enjoy on vinyl. bargains galore. but it is nice to go back and play some things i haven't heard in a while. no, i do not own any 2 live crew of my own. but my birthday is coming up...
right now we are talking about the lorax. i cannot believe how many people in this class have never heard of it. the biggest upshot is that i found this and it has gotten me through most of the pointless discussion. man, people just like to hear themselves talk. the worst part is we are more or less in an extended discussion of utilitarianism, framed as an alternative to making moral judgments. of course, this is a fiction - "knowing" what is good for people inheres countless value choices. the monetary worth assigned to things works the same way. alright, i'm going to try and pay attention...