( Herein lies a gigantic post about our insane whirlwind tour of Montreal, Quebec City, and Maine. I am sure I missed a ton, but hopefully tenu can fill in some blanks in the comments. )

Well, not quite yet, but at the stroke of midnight, it will be tenuday 2007!

What is tenuday you might ask? It's the day that we come together to celebrate the most wonderfull person in the world, the girl I married, tenu! Please stop by her LJ and wish her a happy one!

I commented to her the other day that since Boston is having their Chinese New Year celebration on tenu day this year, that it officially makes it her year. To do anything with she likes! So Im expecting you all to be supportive on this. If she wants to swap Wednesday with Friday one week, you're just going to have to go along with it ok?

Seriously though, I love you with all my heart sweetie. I feel so wonderful every time I stop and think about how we've shaped each others lives and how we'll be together forever, and we'll be having awesome adventures for as long as we live. It's something that everyone should hope to have and Im so glad we have it together!

Posting this because you make me feel all tingly inside. I love you!

-Davey

P.S. To all who are local don't forget the official tenuday celebration takes place at our Apartment on Saturday, March 3rd!

( I never remember to do LJ cuts.... )

my new user pic

My Johari Window

Brought to me from tenu

I do think that 6 adjectives is a bit too limiting though! 12 would have still been a challenge, I had 14 picked out for tenu before I realized it had to be 6 or less!

It's an interesting concept though :)

*KISSES* and *LOVES* to tenu!!!

If you think you know us pretty well, I challenge you all to take our super challenging how well do you know your friends? test!!

Be sure to post your results! (btw we both got 100%)

*kisses tenu*

So tenu and I headed over to Northampton, MA for our tradition of Northampton First Night! We met up with Elizabeth and dishliquid and had a wonderful time!!

Unfortunately I don't have time now to do the full image-laden post I have in my head, so instead Ill post the captions Im thinking of and then you can try and fill in the blanks. Later, when I do my full post, you can compare your imagination to my captions.

The festivities begin with rhythym and dance!

..and continue on to scary clowns on stilts! ....

.. followed by a drum filled parade! ....

...and a dragon! (with aparently a disembodied head popping out of the middle!) ....

.. with a brief interlude by some horses ....

... on to more scary clowns in Pulaski Park! ...

.... our morning was filled with dance! ...

.... and more dance! ...

.... and Klezamir rock! (this is the SECOND seriously awesome genre of music we've discovered at First Night! Think rockin; Jewish Gypsy music!) ...

... then women do karate! ...

.. Then tenu looks beautiful as she watches the lighted snow! ....



.... then some jazz to close out the night!


Unfortunately, due to inclement weather, we couldn't stay for the ball raising and cannon firing, but it doesn't really matter, we had an awesome time. PLUS we got home to see Carson Daley made entirely uncomfortable by Wand Sykes on NBC's New Year's show.

*KISSES* to tenu! I love you!!!

Yes my friends, DJ Souffle will spin classic electro-breaks while grilling you a garlic, cheese, and chive sandwich. Really, what more could you ask from a man with two turntables (and a CD deck and a kaospad, as I can spy from the photos), and a griddle? I mean, c'mon now.

So, since there's a .001% chance that someone who reads this doesn't know that tenu is the best, most beautiful, most awesome, most most person on planet toadkillr, I just had to let you all know.

We were out at the mall yesterday and totaly by surprise, she bought me a Nokia 6101 cell phone!.

It weighs like -1 ounces, has a camera, a color screen, and best of all mp3 ringtones (soon passer by's will be wondering what cataclysmic event is occuring as Venetian Snares comes pouring out of my phone at random.).

I love you sweetie!!!

I got tagged by tenu to do the 7 Interesting Songs Meme. 7 Songs that I currently am really into, no matter if they are good, bad, or indifferent.

1. "Alive" by Armadon of ExPlIzIt - It's an old, old, old, goofy rave song written in "Impulse Tracker" for DOS, released I think in 1995 or maybe 1996. It bounces, it beeps, it tells us, repeatedly, that "This fucking place is ALIVE with evil!". It has cheesey rave stabs all over the place. It's part of the reason I started making music as a teenager.

2. The Muppet Theme Song - I'm not sure if this is the definitive one or not. It's been ages since Ive seen anything muppets. It is definately the one that plays in a recent commercial with two people eating dinner and she isn't listening to what he's saying, and instead keeps hearing the muppet theme song being sung by a bunch of muppets. Anyhow, I sing this now every time I see one of our cats, sitting up in the pantry. See, when I walk into our kitchen through the living room, she will poke her hear out from around the side of the pantry, thus looking like a muppet. So every time she does that, I sing her the muppet theme song.

3. The Super Mario Brothers Theme - This is pure genius, seriously. Is there a more insidiously infectious song on the planet? Could you even read the words "Super Mario Brothers Theme" without getting this stuck in your head for at least half an hour? What amazes me is the sheer number of different version they do for all the different levels of all the different Mario games.

4. "ICCT Hedral (Phillip Glass Orchestration)" by Aphex Twin - Was stuck in my head for quite some time after they kept playing it to advertise the Alfred Hitchcock week on AMC. Too bad we didn't win the trip to San Francisco sweepstakes!

5. "Hyperspeed" by Prodigy - To fit in with my trip back to oldschool rave land. Now, we all know the horror that Prodigy has become in recent years, but anyone listening to electronic music that was cognizant back in the early 90's will have to admit they rocked out to "The Prodigy Expirience" and "Music for a Jilted Generation" in their bedrooms back in the day.

6. "Crying in Your Face" by AFX - Off of the new "Analord" series by AFX. It's tough to figure out the percentages on this one. As in which percentage is old school acid house, which percentage is Michael Jackson groove, or which percentage is whacky Aphex. It sure is catchy though.

7. "U Don't Quit" by Hellfish - Because the "Am-MU-Nition" mix CD is stuck in the CD player in my car, for quite a while now, Ive been forced to listen to it over and over and over and over again for quite some time. Thankfully, this track barely gets old. Take one part old 80's Ice-T rap track, add two part's hardcore rave and one part insane expiramental nonses and you get 4 parts of badassity.

I shall tag dishliquid and god_of_biscuts to tackle this one next!

And thanks and *KISSES* and loves to tenu for tagging me, and helping get the Super MArio theme stuck in me head.

Well I'm leaving here in a few minutes to go pick up tenu, and then we're headed ot Pernet, perhaps to move around turkeys for their thanksgiving drive.

We've been playing alot of Super Mario Sunshine as of late. You know, there's something about the Mario games. They're really able to capture that irreverant fun of playing a video game for the first time. That's the best way I can describe it. Rather than feeling derivitive and stale, they inspire that same sense of wonder that you had the first time you sat down for a real hard night of gaming at your Apple or Atari or NES or what have you. Playing with tenu is awesome, we would've made quite the team back in the NES days.

Perhaps spurred on by this nostalgia, Ive been downloading the entire archive of the old MOD/IT/S3M/XM group 'Explizit'. Lame name, for sure, but this stuff really takes me back. For those who aren't versed, way back before we had mp3's and big ass datapipes capable of trasferring an entire library in 15 seconds, to share music online meant with a 'mod' file. A 'mod' file is basically made up of little tiny samples of music, which are then arranged in a sequence to make a big piece of music. So the file only contains that bass drum hit once. That hi hat hit once, etc, and then it gets instructions on how to play them all. Anyhow, this also was the first true wave of the bedroom musician. Anyone with an Amiga or an Atari ST or later a 286/386 could make simple electronic music. This is what got me into writing music. Alot of it is really cheesy, but who cares. At age 14, this was bedroom rave at its finest.

Kisses and loves to tenu.

So I downloaded an album off of bleep recently, titled "Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin". As you might guess by the title, its a large orchestral ensemble performing (very well done) arrangements of songs written by Aphex Twin (arguably the greatest electronic musician of all time, less arguably the most influential).

In one word, I would have to say: impressed.

In two words, I would have to say: damn impressed.

In two other words, I would have to mention: four percussionists.

It loses a little bit of magic there. Though they do mingle so seemlessly thats what led to the dissapointment. On first listen, I thought I was hearing a single drummer perform "Mt Saint Michael/Saint Michaels Mount", and, well, to give you an idea, Chris Cunningham's video for the song features a monkey with an exorcist style revolving head and 10 arms performing it on the world's largest drumset. No, they employ 4 percussionists for those extra heavy duty tracks, but the effect is devilishly good.

I read up a bit on their production, and they took it really really seriously. In fact, over the past 4 years they've been arranging, picking out odd bits to use as instruments (rubber hosts, radiator screens, etc), getting every minute detail they could to try and re-capture the sound.

The album starts out with a bang, as the orchestral cacophony and drum circle swirl of "Cock/Ver 10" envelops you. Especially enjoyable is the bit towards the end, where the song gets all mellow and sing-songy, and someone from the orchestra actually screams out the famous "COME ON YOU CUNT LETS HAVE SOME APHEX ACCCCCID!" line that kicks you back into the deliciously harsh climax of the song.

They took a turn towards the absurd in track 2 with "Logon Rock Witch", slide whistles and all! Its funny, because this song translates so well and its not one I think stands out among Aphex fans. I mean, sure its a fun, catchy, inventive little tune, just overlooked. Nice to have it brought back up here and re-appreciated.

Another surprising choice was the inclusion of two of the longer, droning tracks off of "Selected Ambient Works Vol 2" -- Cliffs and Blue Calx. Of course, they come out SO damn well it makes me wonder why I was originally surprised.

Sortve tacked on at the end are two ho-hum remixes from another electronic artist of two of the orchestral versions -- thats right, a electronic remix of an acoustic rendition of an electronic song. To be honest, while I like the concept, they aren't the greatest Ive heard. It wold have been nice if old Richard D had come in to remix two of his own redone tracks.

All in all, this is a great buy if you like Aphex, and even if you don't, its worth it to stop by the bleep link above, they provide high quality free streaming previews, and FULL previews at that (you just need to "re-click" on the waveform bar to keep it from fading out every 30 seconds). Check out "4" or "Mount Saint Michaels", then be sure to at least take a casual listen to Avril 14, its certainly different!

LJ Interests meme results

1. aphex twin:
   Ah, the Aphex Twin. He is THE definitive expiramental electronic musician. Others came earlier for sure, but none, in my opinion, have had the same impact. His influence has trickled down to everything from bedroom musicians to mainstream rock acts. Albums such as "The Richard D James Album", "I Care Because You Do" and "Selected Ambient Works Volume 2" remain as stone pillars of greatness in the crowded, muddied world of electronic music. Creative brilliance beyond compare.
2. beaches:
   On our most recent beach adventure to Block Island, RI, I remember mentioning to tenu "See, I couldn't live close to a beach like this, I would fall helplessly into the trap of beach bum". Rocky or sandy, but preferably only light populated, I feel there isn't anything as relaxing, awe inspiring, and carefree as a good day at the beach.
3. computers:
   Well this is sort of a no brainer for someone on LJ. I mean, obviously we're all using our computers here for entertainment, am I right? Still, it can be amazing to sit and think just how far they have come, and we with them, in the past 20 years alone.
4. electronic music:
   My favorite form. Without trying to sound like too much of a music snob, I find its limitless possibilities and (typically) abstract nature refreshing and potential for enjoyment unbounded. When done right, it speaks more directly to my emotions than any other art form.
5. hot topic:
   This one should actually be on the way out. I put it in here back when there were lots of great little shirts to be had here, but they've been pretty lame lately!
6. long drives:
   Tenu and I never can seem to figure out why some people dread these. It's like the ultimate physical manifestation of freedom. You point the wheel whichever way you'd like to head and watch life roll by at whatever pace you choose. Admittedly, this is one that should be expirienced with others.
7. music:
   Well, this was covered mostly in the electronic music one, but its my chosen art form to boot.
8. planet-mu records:
   Check them out at http://www.planet-mu.com. Home to Mu-Ziq, Venetian Snares, Jega, Shitmat, Remarc, Harvatski, and a whole mess of other weird, digable music.
9. samplers:
   Little machines or programs that take tiny bits of audio and let you replay them in a number of creative ways. Turn the sound of your cat leaping onto the floor into a bassdrum!
10. szeki kurva:
    Now know as "The Fighting Cocks", and not nearly as good as they used to be. Szeki Kurva (which translates in Hungarian to "Whore from the Province of Szeki), was a crazy, incredible mash-up band before anyone knew what a mash-up was. Combining sped up Hungarian Folk tunes with sampled backdrops from sources such as Ice Cube, Ministry, and The Prodigy, topped off with crazy vocals, wildly random sound bit samples, and unforgettable lyrics such as "Im the chicken hunter, hunting for the chicken I'm a clockwork orange with my mechanism tickin' I got, Sunshine on a cloudy day, I got a black AK gonna blow you away, yah!"
    
    Check out "The Sound of Dead Goats" and "Music for Joyriders".

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

Alrighty alrighty, so it's been like, forever since I last updated. For some reason or another I just haven't seemed to have gotten around to it lately (can you call 6 months lately?) for some reason or another. But here I am! Back to bring you...and I do mean all 1, maybe 2 of you who read this, exciting news and developments!

While tenu has already posted regarding our new kitty situation, there's been oh so much more ;)

So far this summer, we've gotten season passes to 6 Flags New England, and have already gone twice! It really is a great time and anyone who's reading this that wants to join us, we got super cool season pass holder coupons that can get you in for like 10 bucks! Every time we go it reminds me of the old annual summer trip to Kings Dominion my parents would take me and Darren to when I was a kid. There's this totaly alien "feel" to being in an amusement park that seems to be the same throughout them all. I think its the cascading sounds all around, the coasters, people laughing and screaming, the smell of the food. I think this must be the same in every amusement park around the world, like no matter what's in it, the ambiance is the same and it really takes me back :)

Aphex Twin released a whole slew of new stuff. The Analord EP series (Analord 1-11). All told, when you put the whole thing together, it makes like a pretty solid double cd set (which is truly difficult to do with a vinyl only release!). Alot of the stuff is filler, but the standouts (for me, Fenixfunk 5, Untitled, Where's Your Girlfriend, Crying in Your Face, and PWSteal.Ldpinch.d) REALLY stand out. In a predictably unpredictable manner, all of these songs pretty much eschew former Aphex releases/styles (and by default, the current "norm" in expiramental music), and take things off on a new, yet nostalgic direction. The best way I could describe Crying in Your Face is "Michael Jackson does acid house", for instance. It's not his best work, and with a bit of sadness I have to wonder if his best work will remain the mid 90's (between Hangable Audio Bulb, The RDJ Album, and I Care Because You Do). It wouldn't be so bad, I mean, that trio pretty much redefined how a generation of musicians viewed and created music, and was responsible, in one way or another, for just about everyone else I listen to. When your peak is so high, even really damn good offerings seem pale in comparison. I'm content to let Rich be the old master on the hill, not as new or flashy as the latest thing, but always ready to bust out the grand master kung fu and remind the kids who's boss when the situation depends on it. I couldn't make a post without at least one Kung Fu movie cliche metaphor, you understand.

In other news, my parents are comming up to visit this week. Unfortunately, New England weather seems to be consipiring against us, and the forecast PROMISES that we'll be drenched for at least half the week. Hopefully that will change though because we REALLY DESPERATELY URGENTLY need to get to a beach sometime soon before we both completely go crazy. And so that means this week, period! We have a ton of things we're ready to offer my parents as options so it will remain to be seen which ones we end up going to, but tenu or I will be sure and report on it afterwards ;)

Later on this month we're going up to Montreal with Lili and tenu's mother. It'll be really fun for tenu and I because we're the Montreal "experts" (Lili and tenu's mother having never been). I'm not sure what it is about that that sounds like fun but it just does. Like "yup, we're the cool world travelers that hang out in French Canada all the time". Plus, any excuse to yell "I am Quebecois! I smoke in church!" is a good time ;)

Oh, and I know we're about 10 years behind the curve on this one, but the Mr Clean Magic Eraser thing is fucking freaky. Where did my stains go? Is it a little spongey black hole? Im so confused and mystified. I seriously ran around for 20 minutes before bed last night searching for those little tiny, "oh that will never leave" scuff spots on the walls of our apartment, just to giggle like a schoolgirl when they came right off. Sheer awesimity.

*KISSES* to tenu! I love you!

Oh, and completely without qualification or explanation, I leave with the following declaration: Dianetics is the new fuck.

So, tenu and I just returned from another trip to Canada, Montreal more specifically. It was, of course, awesome, and amazing, and you can read all about everything we were up to in tenu's journal.

What I'm here to talk about is how Canada in general is about the awesomest place on the continent to vacation to. Don't believe me? Lets put it this way. Take your favorite U.S. Metro Area. Now remove the crime, dirt, horrible traffic, insanely high prices, and Bush/Cheney stickers. You're getting close to Toronto or Montreal. There is literally not a section, block, street, or area in Canada I would feel unsafe walking in at 3 in the morning (or at least if there is, I haven't found it). Now name a U.S. City with a population over 500,000 you could say that about. You can stop thinking, it's ok, because it doesn't exist.

It seems to me alot of people here just have no interest in going, or haven't thought about it. Ill mention it and they'll answer "hmm, that sounds great" as though I said "this new brand of toilet cleaner really works well!" instead of telling them about a great Country available to visit a few hours away. To each their own I suppose, but I wonder where the "Canada is inferior" attitude began in America.

Maybe Im just frustrated because I keep seeing stupid ads for "visit South Carolina!" or "Virginia is for Lovers!" on TV and thinking "Christ, Montreal could blow these fucks outve the water if they'd just do a bit of advertising." I mean, imagine trying to sell a trip to Atlanta over Montreal on television. I mean really.

Frustrations all vented now :) I think Im just suffering from Canada withdrawl.

So last night tenu and I went to see Grada perform at a local Knights of Columbus meeting hall. Despite some early finding the place type difficulties (for some reason Mapquest didn't understand the differences between Circuit Street East, West, North and South), we arrived just on time to buy tickets and look around the place a bit before the show. Well, look around the place is a bit extreme. More like stand in the lobby area, as I was pretty much completely uncomfortable and offput by the fact that, although it was open to the public, everyone there seemed to be in on this whole Knights of Columbus thing. So there was alot of "Hey Jim! There you are!" being shouted from across the room. I have to admit to having a bit of irrational anxiety of situations like this. For some reason I feel as if at any moment, everyone is going to realize I don't belong there. Which is pretty silly, but it didn't matter because soon the doors were open, and after a few nerve wracking moments of us being seated at a table with several other regular members, the show started.

The band was really really amazing. They play very traditional Irish music, but quite alot of their own material, which is all played in a pretty traditional Irish manner. Some of the instruments I was unfamiliar with and amazed by, such as a drum the lead singer had that made sounds kindve like drops of water when struck in a certain way. Anyhow, it created the most fantastic little staccato rhythms. They played a new song that they had never performed before, written by their double bass player called "Red Civic" which was as he stated rather sheepishly "about a car I head back in New Zealand", which the both of us thought was really cute and completely like something we would do. We tend to personify and magify(lol is magify a word?) vehicles we have that've taken us on long trips, as they always seem like dependable friends who are bestowers of freedom and good fortune. They also aparently all had the flu, which further amazed us since we both have trouble sitting up in bed to watch a movie or put on our shoes when we have the flu, let alone romp around a stage banging on drums and singing at the top of our lungs. Oh, they were also quite amazed at all our snow, as aparently it snows about once every three years where they come from. In between songs they would relate little stories about how amusing it was to see "a motorbike with just the two little mirrors sticking out", and sometime during their performance it started to snow quite heavily outside so that seemed really fitting.

Im probobly forgetting a ton of little details and stories here, but really the main thing is they were really awesome and well worth the price of admission (and the freaky meeting hall with a close knit group of people attending!). I really have enjoyed all of the live music we've been seeing recently (a TON of stuff at first night and now this). Im now totally in the mood to find some good Jazz playing somewhere and check that out. In fact, I think before my approach to seeing live music was totaly wrong. I used to only go see acts that I knew well, and the problem with that is, its either really good -- and basically like listening to the CD but in a club. Or really under your high expectations for a favorite act and therefore disapointing (Squarepusher with sound engineering at a club so bad you couldn't hear anything). I think now that going to see smaller artists we've never heard before and coming in with limited expectations is the way to go. Broaden the horizons and end up having more fun and bestowed with a sense of a night of musical adventure to boot.

They'll be playing in CT this week, you can check the dates and times up on their website and if you're anywhere near them it'd be worth it to go check it out!

had to do this:

( dont read.... )

Specific things to do:

pumpkin patch
sculpture museum
foliage drive thrpugh mohawk trail
Pittsburgh
Canada (Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto?)
Submarine Museum
Mount Washington Cog Train
Bijou
Boston Symphony
first night in northampton
halloween party
boolean's halloween costume
hay ride
knit scarves
plymouth lantern tour


In general indoorsy stuff to do:

museums
plays
concerts
cooking classes
automotive class
ballroom dancing

So I took the night off last night, because tenu and I went to the Car & Driver and Road & Track "Ride and Drive" Boston event! We had gotten a card in the mail that said "register online to drive a BMW 5 series, Mercedes E Class, and A Cadillac STS and compare them for free!" It went on to mention that you'd be the "editor for the day" and compare and contrast all three cars, picking your favorites and have a chance to get your comments printed in the magazine. So, this all sounded fairly exciting to us. We picked the 3:15 time slot, so that I'd only have to take that night off from work. We registered online early, and yesterday we were off to the track!

It was in South Weymouth, at what I beleive is "Shea Memorial Airforce Base" At least it was an airforce base on Shea Memorial Drive. The only eventfull part here was that, as we were crawling down the (repeatedly warned as "HEAVILY ENFORCED") 25 mph road to the test field, the last "Car and Driver" sign we past also had a side attached to it warning "No Tresspassing - Environmental Investigation in Progress". Not to be deterred in any way, we drive right past that and up to the event. After registering in the tent about 25 minutes early, we walked over to the orientation tent to wait for the instructor to come teach us the basic of performance driving. The previous group was still out on the track, turning tires into mush, forcing electronic traction control systems to drag brakes, and in general creating alot of smoke, noise, and fury. This was all capped off by an older gentleman walking back from the track mentioning to our group, quite randomly, that he was embarassed because after all the tossing and turning around the test track, he had thrown up a bit. tenu had already decided she'd rather not drive the cars, with an instructor urgently barking out instructions and other people from the event in the car, it just wasn't her style. But, since she had a reg number she could at least ride along which was quite fine.

After what seemed like an eterinity, the first instructor we met came around to the tent and introduced himself. I completely forget his name (sorry guy!), but he did inform us that in edition to driving racing shifter karts since he was 8, he drives in Formula 2000, Formula Ford, Formula Mazda, and Formula Atlantic races. He's been a test driver for Mercedes and Volvo, and has spent most of his adult life somewhere around 180 miles per hour in an open wheeled race car. He then goes over a few basics of car control.

After all of this he lets us out on the race track. There are actually two tracks. One is a very short (perhaps 1/4 mile), almost-oval (it has a chicane in the back and an S curve toward the end), and it has almost no room for acceleration. We will be testing the V-8 models here ( Cadillac STS V-8 and Mercedes E500). The other is a V-6 track, which is much longer, much more like an autocross course, with the BMW 530i and the Cadillac STS V-6.

On our first drive, we get in the Caddy. I'm picked to go first, and manage to completely forget everything that was just taught to me. Its not so much that I frogot it, but I think people underestimate how quickly everything seems to be happening when all of this is happening. Still though, I managed to makes some tires screech and engines roar, so that was fun!

The other guy who came with tenu and I was this older guy, and he was up next. He was very, very timid throughout the whole thing, and Im not even sure if he ever really floored it. He did seem to really enjoy the car though. After that, tenu explained to the dinstructor she didn't want to drive and he grins and says "oh, good, that means I get to go!".

Now, here's where the stark, stark contrast between your average driver with 10 miutes of instruction, and a full on race car driver get really noticable. There was another group out on the track just as he took over. They were about oh, halfway done (and mind you this is an incredibly short track), and he goes "eh, now would just be too easy, oh that would just be MEAN" and waits until they're almost 3/4 of the way through, at the Chicane, and then punches it. He switches off the traction control midway through and tosses the car around like a rag doll, yet, sure enough, by the time we're rounding the last corner, he's right behind the group ahead of us.

Our second drive was much less eventfull, we got in the Mercedes, which was noticably slower than the Caddy, and our instructor barely said two words the entire time. That was fine through, as I rememberd quite alot more of the course this time around and at least was pleased with how I improved. I managed to remember most of what the precious instructor said even!

After that we went onto the longer course, and unfortunately, due to time constraints, were only able to drive one car. We got the BMW, and I actually managed to make the instructor say "dude, when I say brake you have to BRAKE or we're not going to make the turn", which was fairly embarassing. Our other group member drove even more timidly this time, and the instructor didn't take tenu's turn this time either.

After all of this, we get to turn in our compare. constrast statements to the people, take an exit sruvey, and get a free gift. Now, the exit survey makes it fairly obvious that Cadillac sponsored the whole thing (not that I really mind), since all of the questions were things like "Didn't you think the Cadillac was awesome?" and "If you didn't think the Cadillac was awesome, what's wrong with you?" We're taking this survey in front of a brand new Cadillac XLR, and our free gift is a pair of Cadillac binoculars, with a cadillac brochure to go with them (in a cadillac leather case no less!).

To be fair, the Cadillac really DID drive very impressively, its really quite a long way from the really lame Caddy's of the 90's.

This entry is getting ridculously long and there's really so much more to tell and talk about but we had an awesome time and would DEFINATELY go to another one of these, and really if one is comming to your area, you should really try and go, its quite a blast!

If I were a month I would be: June
If I were a day of the week I would be: Sunday
If I were a time of day I would be: 11:11pm
If I were a planet I would be: inhabited
If I were a sea animal I would be: an octopus
If I were a direction I would be: handle with care
If I were a piece of furniture I would be: a floor lamp
If I were a sin I would be: Procastrination
If I were a historical figure I would be: Mozart
If I were a liquid I would be: Glass
If I were a stone, I would be: a smooth, round, skipping stone
If I were a tree, I would be: an apple tree sappling
If I were a bird, I would be: the other of the pair of crows
If I were a tool, I would be: an enhanced toothpick
If I were a flower/plant, I would be: a fuzzy dandelion
If I were a kind of weather, I would be: a warm spring day
If I were a musical instrument, I would be: a synthesizer
If I were an animal, I would be: a loud little cat
If I were a color, I would be: bright red
If I were an emotion, I would be: wonder
If I were a vegetable, I would be: a strawberry
If I were a sound, I would be: a hard drive clicking
If I were an element, I would be: Chromium
If I were a song, I would be: Bucephalus Bouncing Ball by Aphex Twin
If I were a poem, I would be written by: Natsume Soseki
If I were a number I would be: Planck's constant: 6.626068 × 10-34