Update post:

I've been blogless for some time now, and have been blogging on Facebook instead. Here is a recap of what i've posted there recently. I suggest you don't take the time to read it all, but its all here.


Stain
5:31am Wednesday, Mar 28

My night almost went perfect.

I walked to work from my house, and enjoyed it. It was warm, i had my iPod, there was a breeze.

I got to work, and had a great team of people there with which to work. Not great in the efficient sense, great in the people sense. We laughed, we joked, and i enjoyed it.

The truck driver who brought our every-other-day shipment was new, mostly retarded, and made my life difficult. But, i twiddled through my normal responsibilities without much problem. I wouldn't say i enjoyed it, but i was ok.

I took my break outside, in the cool evening air, and i enjoyed that too.

I took out the cardboard, and enjoyed the outdoors once again.

I stayed two and a half extra hours at work, just for the hell of it.

At 2:30am, i began my walk home, which was arguably the best walk home i ever had. I looked out over the town of Lititz from the road leading where i was headed, and listened to the beautifully orchestrated music of Massive Attack, from the film Danny the Dog. I can't recall ever being so at peace as i was, there on the road, watching the smoke from my cigarette float off into the field adjacent to me.

All the way to my computer desk, i enjoyed it.

I laid in bed after, and read for two and a half hours or so. Again, i enjoyed it. I could feel my day wrapping up, finishing, slowly coming to rest.

I decided to breifly check my life-via-internet stuff, and almost, almost made it all the way through before my nice peaceful evening ended.

Nothing is quite as jarring as the stab, unexpected and unannounced, of memory. I fucking hate it. I hate not being able to sleep because of some stupid fucking memory. I hate the acrid taste this stupid, foul, irrevocably senseless memory leaves in my mouth. I despise the utter foolishness, the bullheaded stubborn mindset, the uncalculated, childish, pointless nature that surrounds it.

I want it to die, to leave, to evaporate, to vanish.

If i could reach out and press a button, or pull a lever, or invoke some incantation to remove it all from my head i would, without hesitation, do so.

I wish more than a thin veneer of my mind buried it.

I wish it would go away when i wanted to fucking sleep.

And you know what, i know you probably have no idea what i'm talking about, and this post reads quite melodramatically, and it mirrors posts flowing from so many person of angst. Fuck them. Simply because they rant thier bullshit distastefully, prolifically, doesn't mean i can't ellude to my perfectly legitimate and current situation in such a clandestine manner.

109 of the movies on the list, which is extremely incomplete
3:51pm Monday, Feb 26

Dude, this list is waaaay incomplete. Where's the prestige, v for vendetta, layer cake, cast away, tears of the sun, mortal kombat 1 and 2, national lampoons christmas/vacation etc, wallace and grommit, the batman movies, the superman movies, the star trek movies, casablanca, the passion of the christ, total recall, crouching tiger hidden dragon, ferris beullers day off, tron, the exorcist, a scanner darkly, a beautiful mind, hackers, the x files movie, toy story 1 2 and 3, all the disney movies, minority report, mission impossible movies, the james bond films, the blair with project, etc etc etc... but man, they missed some big ones.


() Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(X) Boondock Saints
(X) Fight Club
() Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(X)Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
(X) Deep Impact
() KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
() Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
(X) Joe Dirt
(X) King Kong

9

(X) A Cinderella Story
(X) The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
(X) Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
() Halloween
(X) The Ring
(X) The Ring 2
() Surviving Christmas
(X) Flubber

7

(X) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
() Chicago
() Ghost Ship
(X) From Hell
() Man of the House
() The New World
() Casanova
(X) Oliver Twist
() The Da Vinci Code
() Happy Feet
() Casino Royale
() Borat
() The Departed

3

(X) The Day After Tomorrow
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
(x) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
() Sixteen Candles
() Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
() The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask

4

(X) Bad Boys
(X) Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
(X) Lucky Number Sleven
(X) Ocean's Eleven
() Ocean's Twelve
(X) Bourne Identity
(X) Bourne Supremecy
() The Fog
() Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George

6

() Christine
(X) E.T.
(X) Children of the Corn
() My Boss' Daughter
(X) Maid in Manhattan
() War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
(X) Rush Hour 2

5

() Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That
() Calendar Girls
() Sideways
() Mars Attacks
(X) Event Horizon
(X) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
() Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
(X) The Terminator
(X) Terminator 2
(X) Terminator 3

6

(X) X-Men
(X) X2
(X) X-Men: The Last Stand
(X) Spider-Man
(X) Spider-Man 2
(X) Sky High
(X) Catch Me If You Can
(X) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
(x) Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2

12

(X) Miracle on 34th Street
(X) Old School
() The Notebook
() K-Pax
() Kippendorf's Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
(x) Boogeyman
() Halloweentown
() Wedding Crashers
(X) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
(X) Finding Nemo
() Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie
() Madagascar
(X) Mr. and Mrs. Smith

6

(X) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(X) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

6

(x) House of 1000 Corpses
(x) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
() Mothman Prophecies
(X) American History X
() Three
() Crash
(x) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
() Kicking and Screaming
(X) Munich
() The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
() Bride and Prejudice
(x) House of Wax
() Cursed

7

() The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
(x) Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
() Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(X) Shaun Of the Dead
() Willard
() Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
() Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
() Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
() Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

5

() High Tension
() Club Dread
(X) Hulk
() Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
(X) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 Days Later
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(X) Waterworld

4

(X) Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() the Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
() Army of Darkness

1

(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
() Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
() Ewoks The Battle For Endor

6


(X) The Matrix
(X) The Matrix Reloaded
(X) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
(X) Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs
(X) Hannibal

8

(X) Batman Begins
(X) Hitch
(x) Fantastic Four
(X) Chicken Little
() The Pacifier
(X) The 40-Year-Old Virgin
(X) Saw
(X) Saw II
(X) Saw III
() Scream
() Scream II
() Scream III

8

() Cheaper by the Dozen
() Cheaper by the Dozen 2
() The Dukes of Hazzard
(x) The Exorcism of Emily Rose
(X) Sin City
(X) Herbie: Fully Loaded
() Jarhead
(X) Cinderella Man

4

() Scary Movie
() Scary Movie II
() Scary Movie III
() Scary Movie 4
() Failure to Launch
() The Pink Panther
(X) The Santa Clause
(x) The Santa Clause 2
() The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

2

() World Trade Center
() Step Up
() Miami Vice
() Flushed Away
() The Shaggy Dog
() The Benchwarmers
() The Guardian
() Nanny McPhee
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() The Illusionist
() Snakes on a Plane
()She's the Man
() The Wicker Man
()The Covenant
() The Black Dahlia
() Flyboys


Boy am i stupid. Now you can see.
7:42am Monday, Feb 19

Yeah, i did it. I joined youtube. After watching enough videos of people talking about pointless shit, i thought to myself "hey, i talk about pointless shit all the time. Why not make an account?" so i did.

yeah, i see you rolling your eyes. but, regardless, here is my first youtube video, which is a story about what not to do when your house gets robbed. True story, too.



Steve r, you know who this is about. A bald military guy, if you'll recall.


I know i know, another one.
4:40am Friday, Feb 16

Steve W, scotty, Steve R, this one is for you. guys. you guys. nevermind...In this

Watch this, and tell me it isn't fucking sweet.
4:52am Thursday, Feb 15


because it is.

Holy fucking RPMC and Sheetz controlling my life...
4:42am Tuesday, Feb 13

Between sheetz and the RPM Challenge Kurt and i joined, i have no time to do anything without feeling guilty i should be doing something else.

Kurt and i officially have two weeks left to write, record, master, and cut eight more tracks, or 25 more minutes, of music. Whichever comes first.

We are on to something, though. We have three works in progress, all of which sound great, they just need some tweaking and mastering. Only one needs to be structured, the rest already passed that point. I hoped to put a sample up, but alas, i have been unable to. oh well.

Besides that, work is going well, so i'm happy. Funny how many people you meet working at sheetz. Sheetz does so many things, and is such a repeat joint, that i am getting to know most of my town really, really fast. And it helps that 50% of them are chics.

Anyways, off i go to pretend to sleep. yay.

For christs sake...
8:21am Thursday, Feb 1

I can not sleep. Not, hmm i wish i could sleep, or, gee, i sure had alot of coffee. I mean, sleep is a fucking myth and i can't have it. I can't.

I make genuine attempts to, i swear. Sorta. I lay here. With my laptop... and read things... and watch shit on YouTube... and write terrible music... and google sewing machines... and...

Damnit, if i could become TIRED then maybe i could sleep. I'm just trying to wear myself out, right? RIGHT?!

And god, has anyone noticed how terrible some people's facebook profile images are? Don't people typically put them up deliberately? I mean, they intend for themselves to look remotely attractive or decent, i think. However, i'm noticing a trend where people take a really terrible group photo they happen to be in, and crop everyone out but themselves. So now you have a photo of yourself with your arm wrapped proudly around the search bar to the left of the profile page. Not to mention the half-assed "boy do i love these people, golly gee" smile. Uh huh.

Even better are the ones where the person is toting a glass of presumably alcoholic
somethingorother and gesturing to the camera wildly. "Hey! Cheggidout man! Its like a freakin party or something! Woo! (insert cheap flight destination here) fuckin rocks!"

Whats worse is, i know some of these people, and they genuinely are NOT ugly or stupid. I suppose if you intend to ward off potential suitors, this technique of posting grossly misleading facebook images is fine. Or, you know, if you simply don't give a shit.

For example, Steve has a photograph of himself and one of the blue men rocking out at some unnamed party. Its cool. It is a pretty standard image of Steve, and all his friends see Steve being Steve with a blue man. Cool, no problem. This is a prime example of appropriate use of party photo.

The terrible photos to which i refer are the ones that are intended to be remotely serious or accurate images of ones self, and yet are... of you crammed between sally and bobby on the dance floor of jim-bobs-booze-kabab.

But like i said, most of you don't care. This isn't a personals page, as it were. So in retrospect, perhaps the photo of you standing on the deck furniture isn't so bad.

And currently, my image is basically a really terrible poster with me pointing the proverbial gun to my head.

So i have very little room to speak.

But, if you know me well, you know i need virtually no room to speak before i open my big mouth.

But hey, it makes a nice 8:20am insomniac rant.In this note: Steve Whiskeyman (notes)No comments | Add a commentI can't believe i'm doing this in here...Share
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My blog is down. My entire website, in fact. So, until i get my first paycheck and somehow slip past the ten bucks i need to start it all up again, i have to *sigh* post in here instead of mirror it from the .com.

Yeah, i see your eyes rolling.

Anyways, time for a post that no one will probably ever read, except maybe the other Joe Schell, and only with the most satirical of spectacles.

First off, is it not terribly stereotypical of the artist in me to stick something besides a photo of myself up as my nifty little profile image? Yup, i had to add some witty comments about foreign people, and then a little stab at those who don't like the relatively new open status of Facebook. *shrug*

Oh well. In other news...

I have discovered that there is virtually no comfortable way to sit in bed and work with my trusty laptop. Everything conspires against me to create a most uncomfortable and complicated event out of what could be a very simple one.

First, my laptop battery sucks. Maybe it'll last a half an hour, if the monitor is down and i'm only playing mp3's. So i have a nice long cable which extends from the upper right hand side of the keyboard to the surge protector on my floor, at the foot of my bed. Er, mattress. This cable usually feels the need to either A. unplug, or B. become hopelessly tangled in my headphone cables. Headphone cable*s* you ask? yes, i have two pairs. One pair is too treble biased and one is too bass biased, so i have to swap between them to write music even remotely balanced. Oh, and they help tangle everything up. I hate cables, fucking hate them. Hate. Them. And you know what the best part is? My primary set of headphones has something like a bazillion foot long cable. I sit about six inches from the headphone jack. I could twisty tie the copious cable into a nice neat little bundle, but we all know its only a matter of time before i remove it and twisty tie my index fingers together instead.

Tangled cables is pretty miserable. but then my cute, adorable, fucking retarded cat decides to lay down next to me (which she invariably does if i am in my bed). It isn't that simple, however. She has to first engage in a long, predetermined series of subtle attacks prior to actually laying the hell down. I have designed a clever flow chart to show exactly how the cat thinks during this process:

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As you can see from the chart, the only way to get the cat to lay down and stay there is to pet it. However, i'll be damned if i don't try every other method a few times first before i do succumb to petting.

Besides the cat, i also have simple physiology erring on the side of fucked up and pointless. You'd think a mattress would be relatively comfortable over time. This is not the case, however, for one with so bone laden an ass as my own. After some magical number of minutes i have yet to figure out, my ass becomes quite numb and equally achy, or "ache-ified" as i like to call it. Shifting solves the problem temporarily, however either the cat assault or the weight leaning on my (typically) left arm causes similar ache-ification in said extremity, and i move again. It sucks.

Despite all of this, i still manage to stay awake and plugged in from about two AM every night till nine AM every morning, which is about the time i make a valiant (albiet unsuccessful) attempt to sleep.

And right at this very moment, i think i will do just that.

after i grab some food.

and some milk.

and read some things on my rss feed.

and check deviantart, and organize my MP3 folder...