Archive for October, 2003

Ahh, another interesting week. Last weekend I went to Rock Island, a local hip hop club, to dance my ass off. I succeeded in doing so and have since been searching Denver for the remaining pieces of my ass. See if you can find them all! Anyway, whenever I go clubbing, I am usually quickly befriended by a talented black dancer kid or two and we battle people all night. This trip to Rock Island was no different, except I finally encountered a girl (gasp!) that was a near worthy dance battle competitor! This little short spikey-haired blonde cutie, who looked like Pink(you know, the pseudo-badass chick rocker?) saw me dancing, twirled over to me and we started talking. She was really cool and after talking for a minute, a break(dance) circle started up right in front of me so I jumped in and pulled some of my fake-break moves(I can’t break that well but I’m a good uprocker and gymnast), and then stood up and started pop n’ locking. She then kinda pushed me out of the circle and let loose with her modern/ballet/jazz moves. I was very pleasantly surprised at her skill level and self confidence, and I told her so. Then we had a fuette contest – a fuette is an unnatural spin on one foot and you bring your other foot around with the spin and kick around each rotation. I have never taken ballet, and that is a very tough move, but for some reason I’m really good at it. Anyway, she was a really great dancer and an all-around fun, sweet girl, so I got her number. So her name is Gabi, lives like 4 hours away in the mountains, which sucks, but we’re gonna go clubbing together whenever she comes back to Denver.
Last night was another session of open gymnastics gym, so of course I went with Dewey and we tore it up like we always do. Last night I think may have been my most productive time in open gym ever. I tried a double backflip on the trampoline for the first time ever, and after one or two imperfect landings (landing on my knees, or rotating too fast and landing on my heels), I NAILED one. I kept doing them over and over, and after a few more tries, Dewey tried a few and landed. I also tried a back layout 360 on the tramp, and got it perfectly. Dewey and Francis (this cool 25-ish instructor that practices with us) said that my back fulls were just beautiful, poetry in motion, so next week I’m bringing my camera so we can take some pictures and video clips that I can post. I’ve been really sore since gymnastics, so today was just errands day – I washed my car, got my credit card fixed, ordered my new cell phone, sorted my laundry, and cleaned my room a bit.
Oh, hey, by the way, I get a LOT less traffic than you think I do, and I put a LOT more work into each entry than you think too, so could you please tell your friends to come check out my groovy site here? Thanks Gees.

Listening to: Jurassic 5 – Swing Set

So a few months ago I found out that two of my favorite standup comedians, Dave Attell and Lewis Black, were touring together. I was pretty sure that they would come here, and I checked, and they were! They were going to be at the Fillmore (you may remember that I saw Sum 41 there). Anyway, I got tickets as soon as I could on Ticketmaster. They were section AA, row 2, seats 1 and 2. There was no seating chart because it was gonna be folding chairs put down on the floor. I wasn’t sure exactly where we would be sitting, I mean, section AA? Sounded to me like A woudl be the front, and then AA would be on the side or behind it or something. Then I talk to my friend Jon and he was like “Dude you’re going to that show? I can’t wait to see Mitch.” I went “What do you mean, Mitch? Like, Mitch Hedberg?” and he said “Yeah man he’s opening for them.” I was freaking out. Now THREE of my favorite standup comedians were all doing a show together. I was sooo psyched. So my main man Colin comes down from CSU to come to the show with me last Thursday, and we get in, and the usher looks at our tickets and goes “Ok, down the middle, alllll the way down…” and we look at each other like “Roooock!” SO we walk down to the front. We’re in the freaking second row, in the middle, at the aisle. The seats were divided into, think of the four quadrants of a coordinate plane. We were in the first one, top right, AMAZING seats. We sat down and just kept high fiving and being giddy and going “Tech Niiiine!”
The show was hilarious. We were literally 10 feet away from the performers on the stage. They were all really funny, and there was a lot (almost too much) audience interaction. After the show, we were walking around trying to find out where they would be signing autographs and stuff. Almost the whole crowd was surrounding the place they thought Dave and Lewis would be coming out, but we heard someone ask a security guard where they would be and he said right where we were standing! So we ended up second in line for autographs and pictures, and as you can see, our pictures came out freaking awesome. Lewis was really nice and genuinely seemed happy to be talking to me, while Dave looked really tired and just feigned interest in my questions and praise. Completely excusable, we were just glad we were there at the beginning of the line instead of the end. What a great show. Everyone should go see them!

Listening to: Midtown – Like a Movie

I just woke up with my entire right arm numb. I had the whole ‘so tingly it almost hurts’ thing goin’ on. It went away when I let the blood rush into my arm though. What a weird feeling to wake up with.
Let’s see… not too much exciting stuff happened this week, which makes for a semi-unexciting post, but an ok post is better than no post at all, right? Eh? Ehhh? Aight anyway, I got a DVD burner. I’m psyched about that. It is dual format, so I can burn +r/w and -r/w – pretty damn cool.
“But Peet, that sounds really expensive! Do you have the kind of money for a dual format DVD+/-RW?”
Relax, you concered reader you. I actually found a super cheap internal drive and bought an external IEEE1394 case. Together, with tax and shipping, I got the whole thing for $161. If you know anything about computer peripherals and hardware, that price is just, insanely good. I challenge you to find an internal drive and a case and get them to your door for less than that. I will be very proud if you can. An already-assembled external drive costs about $300+, so… I am the man. Hehehe. I ordered the pieces from different places and they got here really fast – I was psyched about that. When they got here I had to go to a meeting, it was like not being able to open your Christmas/Hanukah presents for hours after you get them. When I did get back to my room, I put the internal inside the case, connected the EIDE ribbon and power, and then connected it to my computer and it works! I have since ordered some 4x DVD+Rs from Amazon and they should get here around the 9th. Yaaaay for all that.
Last night was open gymnastics gym, which my boy Dewey and I go to every week. You’re supposed to be enrolled in one of the classes at the gymnastics facility to be able to take advantage of open gym, but we’re sort of VIPs there. Most of the classes are for little kids, and we’re much more advanced than they are, and we’re more responsible and less likely to kill ourselves by being stupid, etc. We stretch a little bit on the floor and then its onto the trampoline. Both of us are pretty good, for our experience level that is. I took gymnastics for about 2 years when I was 9 years old, and since then I have gotten a LOT better without any formal training. Dewey and I go every week and try to think of new stuff we can do. Last night was the most productive night I’ve had in landing tricks. I learned for the first time and landed a flatspin 720 and a backflip full twist. I had never tried either of those and I learned and landed them both in one evening! I had tried a double front flip before, but I had never landed it, I would always open up too early and land sitting down on the mat, or too late and end up doing a dive roll. Last nite I went for it and bam, landed it perfectly. I think if I had a trampoline in my house I might never stop trying crazy stuff on it. If ever I make a lot of money in my job when I have my own house, I am getting a trampoline. I can’t wait!
Tonite is the first big bar party. Bar parties = the coolest. One of the frats or sororities rents out a bar/club for the nite, and only DU kids can get it. It is like going to a dance club with 300 of your closest friends, and I especially love it because I get to dance circles around people that had no idea I could at all – after all, to a lot of people I’m just ‘Peet the computer guy’. Oh, I’ll show ‘em.

Listening to: Yo, Flaco! – Benjamin’s Ark