Howdy Folks

Got a quiz here, well, it's old actually, I took it a while ago, but I've been waiting to break it out. Feels like a good time to do it, since I'm currently rocking Elliott Smith (can you rock some E. Smith? Sure you can).

Elliott Smith You scored 33 Intensity, 41 Popularity, and 33 Experimentality!

A personal favorite of the test author, you sort of stabbed yourself in the heart in October of 2003. This, well, resulted in your death. So you don't make music anymore. But when you did it was good...it was heartbreaking and haunting and it induced all sorts of pathos. Underappreciated and only known by many for your involvement with Good Will Hunting, your music is some of the best to have been made in the last century...and that is no exaggeration.

This test tracked 3 variables. How the score compared to the other people's: Higher than 20% on Intensity Higher than 59% on Popularity Higher than 6% on Experimentality

Link: The Indie Rock Artist Test written by TheSquareRootOf on Ok Cupid

In some sort of mood for some reason, and I have no reason to be. Must be the isolation hahaha. No one home, and I have nothing I feel like getting done-not at this moment anyway, although I have a management science assignment I might tackle soon just to get it done early. The cable has been turned off I suspect, but the 'net and the phone are fine-I hate cable anyway to be honest, dumb, pointless, and hardly worth the money. I agreed on it as a compromise really.

I feel like I should clarify the previous post regarding me possibly moving-it is a possibility, but it's not an inevitability. I just wanted it to be known now, so that any commitments and relationships I have on the go won't be any more adversely affected than my leaving would already cause. To be honest, my primary concern was about the band. I felt that a higher level of commitment was going to be asked of me, and I couldn't in good conscience keep going knowing what I knew. Luckily my announcement coincided with other plans that were in the works, so another well-timed move on my part. The first one being when I moved out of my mom's house right before my 17th birthday....not having to stick around so I could stay at my high school meant she got to move closer to her place of work, plus buy a house. It was good timing, although that particular instance still makes me feel shitty about how it went down. At least this time it went well, technically it was the second time I've done it-leaving the band to move that is......ah, memories of Ottawa. Oh snap-that just reminded me of an awesome story I wanted to put on here regarding a drunken conversation I had with Chris Brown in the wee hours of January 1st, 2006.

Basically, it began with Mr. C. Brown asking me about Ottawa, something that no one had really done at all-I mean, people asked questions, but not THIS question. He wanted to know how I felt, not about all the junk with Isabelle, but just in general how I felt about having moved, and then staying there on my own. This has never happened, and I've always had the answer on the tip of my tongue too. I'll try to relate what I remember maybe possibly having potentially said. (This is SO paraphrased BTW)

Me: "Well, I got there, and got my ass dumped. I felt terrible, and after a couple of days there I decided to head to Halifax and go to SMU, since I called them and they said I could get in still, regardless of the fact that it was already Sept. 6th or something like that."

"I went and dropped all my classes, and withdrew myself from residence. I then went back to my room and packed up my stuff. I never slept that night though, I realized after I was done packing, that if I left Ottawa, then that would begin a cycle of pussying out on anything and everything. I got up without my alarm at sunrise, got myself ready, and then went to the residence offices and waited for them to open. Luckily, the papers hadn't been touched, and although I got a good lecture about being more responsible in my decisions, I got back in, the papers were ripped up right there in front of me. I then went and got back into 4 out of my 5 classes."

So, that's that. The reason I stayed-all about personal growth, courage, my own dignity in a sense. I couldn't live as some type of coward, and I knew it. The rest, as they say, is history. :)

Later skaters.