my room is comfortably small with rubber lining the walls and there someone always calling my name

i really should be sleeping but its not happening so i figured i would do some updating. this is probably going to be pretty random and all over the place. hope it makes some kind of since to some one.

first...happy birthday to my sister. yes its late me saying it all. i bought her a present early in june and its still in the back of my car. have to mail that soon.

second...best well wishes to heroin_she_said. hope she is feeling better and is put back together now. please pass this on to her.

and now..
the reason i should be sleeping is because we went to see a midnight showing of the rocky horror show at carpenters square last night. nothing like being in downtown oklahoma city in the middle of the night. mostly because it is so completely and utterly dead. it ended up being really fun because they actually encouraged audience participation (not to mention that us cellular was giving away free glow sticks). when seeing the stage production you have about a 50-50 chance of this being the case. but shit i have heard stories of movie theatres discouraging ap. i just dont get that. i mean isnt that why most people go to the movie in the first place. anyway because of going i did not get to sleep until something like 3:30 am. normally this would not be any kind of real problem.

it is a problem because imbecilemikey, his wife, scooter and i are all suppose to leave around 3:00 pm today to drive down to dallas to see they might be giants at the club trees. i have seen them before but nobody else in the group has. as far as we have been able to tell they have never in 20 years played the okc metro. yeah they have played tulsa but even that was many moons ago. so off we go. we are actually going to be getting to dallas early so that we can make a few stops.

the first stop is going to be at bills records. mikey is taking a chance on this one. you see i really like my records and bill well he really likes his young men. we ended up in there one time on bills birthday. unfortunately for mike he was wearing a tank top. this really caught bills eye because at the time mikey was really buff (and no not like cartman buff) and had some really good muscle tone. we had gone our separate directions when we went in to the store but would occasionally walk over to each other to show or mention some great find we had come across. i was getting ready to just that when i see bill with his arm around mikey feeling up his pecks. i had to turn around to try and control my laughter. he still complains about how he felt so violated.

i had known that with the outfit he was wearing he was going to get bills attention but i didnt know that it would work to my favor so well. you have to understand that nothing is priced there (or at least it wasnt at the time) and how much you pay for something depends on your attitude and how much bill likes you. so when i got ready to pay for my stuff i made damn sure mike walked up to the counter with me. i told him happy birthday and did the whole thing about him not looking near his age. kinda true. then i went off with the whole story about how we had driven from okc to dallas just to visit his wonderful store. this was simple fact. it ended up that we both walked out of there a free t-shirt and i only paid $20 instead of the quoted $25 for my copy of einstürzende neubauten's halber mensch video. yes it is true. i have no problems pimping out my friends to support my music habit.

for those concerned that maybe i was toying with bill by doing this you shouldnt be. at times bill is a very shrewd business man at that is always give and take. at other times he is just greedy. a lot of the prices are excessive because he knows that is the only place you will be able to find some of the stuff. at the time he also scalped tickets. he would have each of his employees by the maximum number of tickets for the more in-demand concerts and then pass on the cost to you the consumer. dont get me wrong i like bill. and i absolutely love the store. you just have to watch yourself and play his game.

so the next stop will be for diner at ezs. ezs is a small texas chain of retro looking restaurants. the food is a little pricey but you get what you pay for. when you get your burger you will swear they used half the cow to make it. and it will be so fresh you will still be able to hear it moo. and the fries that will come with it will be a huge order of huge fries. and just as fresh. i would say i would bring some back for you but it would never make it.

one of the last times i was at ezs i got a $25 gift token out of their game. i have had this ting for mine years now. carried it all over the country. most of the time it has been hanging from my bulletin board. now that i have a need and use for it i cant find the damn thing. i guess i will just have to wait until i do and make a trip just to use it. oh damn. i am so heartbroken. (thats sarcasm you are smelling.)

once we are pleasantly stuffed we will be off to the show. none of us have ever been to trees before but i can already tell you what it is going to be like. suck galore. first it is located in deep ellum which basically amount to dallas entertainment district. if i see a big green monster i will not be surprised. so you just know parking is going to be a bitch. then there are going to be way to many people out on the street. people are wrong. once we get into the club it is going to be asses-to-elbows people. sure they will have the ac going but with that many people packed in at the end of a 100° day it will do little if any good. but with all of this it will still be fun.

mikey decided a while a go that no matter how much the two opening bands suck we would still be upfront just to reserve our places. well that got me more than a little curious especially after seeing that the bands were corn mo and common rotation. really really dumb names. too make it worse one of the was described on the trees website as sounding similar to the dave matthews band. oh god! the horror! please make it stop! so i went searching and found the websites for both of them. neither of them are really that bad. i am so very thankful neither are dave matthews band bad. i would simply have to vomit.

one special thing about this show is that it also happens to fall on mikeys birthday. i havent told him but i sent an email to them asking if they could say happy birthday to him at the show or something. if it happens that would be great. honestly though i am not expecting anything.

sometime in the past couple of days allism sent me a link for a short little interview that flansburgh did with msnbc concerning their recently opened download store. even if you dont like they might be giants it is still a nice little read.

a little earlier than that one allism sent me the link for intuitor insultingly stupid movie physics. it is a nice little entertaining page. the way they tear apart movies is great. one thing that really caught my attention was actually buried in the footnotes for their assripping of the core. it mentioned george gobles famous charcoal grill experiment. i had heard about the whole strawberry pop tarts blow torches but i had never heard about this one. ok so this one is a little more dangerous. dangerous to the degree that i really want to do it but in the end will leave it up to the professionals.

i just wish i had known about that when we went out to red rock canyon last weekend. while i was manning the grill it would have given me something fun to think about. yeah it was a fun day trip but the though of blowing shit up would have put that special little smirk on my face.

for those who have never been to red rock canyon it is basically a whole in the ground campsite. i took some pictures that i will try to post later. it is an interesting place to visit. it was used as a hide out for indians and outlaws. it was used as a stopping point on the way to california during the gold rush. it has a stream fed by a natural spring. it has fishing, camping, rappelling and a swinging pool.

it was nice to be able to go swimming after walking around and exploring for a while. i mean really nice. and i hate public pools. damn first graders. while we were at the pool one of the teenager lifeguards kept have the bottom of her swim suit go up her ass. it was almost as bad as the episode of the simpsons where homers swimsuit keeps disappearing. i am almost willing to bet that she put on a little weight but didnt think she needed to by a new suit. oh she did. and yeah she was a little heavy but not really what you would call fat. it was pointed out to me several times that she was a little more that top heavy. i didnt really notice but then i wasnt wearing my glasses either. and i was too busy laughing about her disappearing swimsuit. it was so very hard not to stare.

there are several points of interest around this state park like the tree they claim as the largest box tree in oklahoma. didnt look like it was made out of cardboard to me. yet. however one of the funniest things is some of the warning signs. i took a picture but it didnt come out because of the sun reflecting off of it but it basically said 'use caution when repelling because previous accidents have lead to serious injury or death.' yes it most certainly said 'have lead to' and if that is not a warning i sure as hell dont know what is.

since red rock canyon is about an hour away from okc there are all kinds of fun places to stop and things to see along the way. the most interesting one would have to be the cherokee trading post in geary. there are four buildings located on this one piece of property. there is a gas station, a restaurant, a gift shop and most of a hotel that is closed/being remodeled and will probably never reopen.

the main reasons we stopped there was to use the bathroom and explore the gift shop. the first thing i saw was a penny crushing machine. or so i thought. turned out to be a quarter smusher. score! it was different in another aspect. it was automated. with most of these you insert 51¢ and turn the crank to press the selected image onto the penny. with this one all you had to do was insert your coins and push a button to select the image you wanted. i liked it. the only down side was that you only had three images to choose from instead of the usual four

as it turned out they had a penny machine at the other entrance. it operated just like the quarter machine. i ended up with two quarters and two pennies. i would have gotten the other two coins but i ran out of change. i am sure i will eventually get them though.

if you have any of these coin crushing machines near you i beg you to get me what you can. email me when and if you have some to send and i will work out the details with you. i also take tokens. and transit passes.

while roaming around the gift shop we got a few small xmess presents. one for my mom and another for my aunt. i hate being rushed. there were a lot of nice things that i would have loved to have but it was all a matter of money. one of the cheaper things they had was some bins of indian jewelry. except they had a sign on the bins that said "not indian made." it was nice to see that kind of honesty. as some of you may know i have enough documented cherokee in me to receive benefits so that too kind of made that nice. i guess i mean nice to see they were proud of who they were.

after we got done in there we walked down the hill to where they kept there bison. there was a big sign saying that the bison were the official state animal. official. state. animal. whatever you say. not surprising coming from a state that has an official state rock. yeah ok rose rocks are not really that common in the rest of the country but still. yes we have seen the bison at the okc zoo multiple times but these were not the same ones and there were a couple of more of them. hell yeah i took pictures.

after our little study we continued on our journey. we were only two exits away from where we got off the high way to go to the canyon so it made the last mile not so hard. shortly after you exit the highway you see a sign that says welcome to hinton. a weather beaten sign in front of an abandoned building with a fireworks stand next to it. a real happening place. i was joking about how that was probably the whole town. well it wasnt.

as we got further up the road we started seeing signs of civilization. "hitch hikers may be escaping prisoners" warning signs. gun ammo and bait store. slower and slower speed limits. a stop light. the single blinking kind hang across the intersection that was main street. and that was the town. i so have to go back there to take some pictures. that was funny as all hell.

had enough? i have. more will come later. see you at the rock show.