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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
5:27 am	road trip to dallas checklist: 1 ticket Houston Dynamo vs. FC Dallas 1 bus ticket for our charted bus 1 cooler 36 beers 10 pre cooked ready to eat brawts 12 buns for brawts 1 flask of vodka 1 small bottle of vodka 1 dynamo jersey 2 dynamo shirts 2 orange bandanas 1 texas flag/cape 3 plastic bags of newspaper confetti 15 orange streamers 10 Texian Army flags 2 middle fingers 15+ spanish songs and... the intensity F*C* Dallas (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
3:24 am	i went to a houston dynamo game today... aka houston's MLS team. it was one of the best sporting events have ever been to. it was a fuckton of fun despite the tie 1-1. i consider this as an impact comment as i have been to most every professional sporting event possible including the world series and the world cup. expect me to be tailgating with a 30 pack at every dynamo game i can... you can find me in the parking lot 3 hours before game time with a beer and a frisbee. during the game find me in the Texian army section on the north side of the stadium. i highly recommend that everyone come and experience a game, even donny who i would never expect to enjoy soccer said that he would come to every game he could. love peace and dynamo ~mabeuf (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
3:20 am	on sat zero and i drove to austin to meet up with sean goto 6th and attend one of the greatest things i have ever done in my life... http://www.originalalamo.com/downtown/frames.asp?b=/online_tix/show_details.asp?show_id=3393 shit tons of fun (Comment on this)
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
3:04 am	today so today sucked because the US were officially eliminated from the world cup, but! i did get trashed by 11am watching the game, props to curry hung and zero for riding shotgun in the world cup adventure. so this morning im drunk and hanging out in the house playing nhl hitz with zero, it was my freshman year of college all over again, fun stuff. zero made a new team featuring some of the old people from the dorm and some new people, ie our new forward dan keesee, the picture zero found for him is priceless. it looks like keesee if he put on 80 pounds, aged 10 years and obtained a canadian citizenship. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
7:44 am	i determine if a movie is good or not if it puts me in such an emotional state that i regret watching it (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
10:06 pm	so yesterday sucked ass. it was the anniversary of something i hate to think about and i spent all day acting like i did not know that it was the 38th anniversary. i feel like shit today for being such a wuss and ignoring that the date just so that i would avoid being depressed all day. well i caught up to me anyway. as if that were not enough my mom and dad just figuratively blew up. well my mom at least, my dad has never been an emotional guy so he is just going to sleep on it but my mom just broke down. my mind then subsequently exploded upon comforting her. did you know my mom is an orphan? because i did not... fun day so far... at least my german cousin sent me a badass munchen 1860 soccer jersey with 'Croes' on the back. the note with it said 'im a lion, you are a lion.' (the team mascot). i gotta come up with something amazing to send him back. wait if my mom is an orphan than is he really my cousin? i was under the impression that he was the grandson of my mother's estranged german father who had my mother with my grandmother... but if my grandmother was not my paternal grandmother then that leaves some holes in the family tree. cheers to the rest of your day being better than mine Current Music: weakerthans (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
2:58 pm	god that was stupid, im already depressed and i just watched a 2 hour documentary on the history channel entitled "Kennedy's: Curse of Power." pretty much two hours detailing the death/downfall of every kennedy. it was like seeing a train coming and standing on the railroad tracks. additionally i already knew the entire show, i had never seen it before but might as well have been the narrator. i regret leaving nacogdoches. i miss my family. i miss my brother. i never took for granted everything i enjoyed because i knew the moment of departure would come. that seems to have been a flawed policy as i now miss everything more. the world failed to mention this when it proposed carpe diem to me as such a viable lifestyle. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 20th, 2006
3:28 am	post february 19th... still stands PS. don't get hurt about anything it just makes you a whiny bitch (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 8th, 2006
12:29 pm	in the waiting room i wanted to gag, the president after a year and a half of doing nothing comes forward today claiming he is the first person to declare darfur genocide and to offer help. at least something is finally being done, all it took was george clooney. (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
2:44 am	FUCK YES!!!!!! i won the 5th annual fantasy basketball league! that makes my fourth ring! my second basketball league in a row, and my 3rd title out of the last six leagues! i am pumped!!!! (Comment on this)
Monday, March 20th, 2006
1:08 am	i salute hung hung i salute you, i wish for all of you to read the title of my friends page, then read six_two's most recent update. /tear (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
11:37 pm	i left this out of the last update, but i am going to try and grow an adam morrison mustache. it will look fucking terrible but whatever. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:12 pm	please read all of this exciting weekend. after my lazy week of enjoying myself in a cyber-pirate world i reentered the real world. first off mad props to steven, we had a little run in which he fucking owned like a complete champ. i got a free mountain dew out of it also, badass D, mad props. on friday steven rabbit and i went to the say anything concert in houston, there we met up with curry, josue nachos, katie and evil amongst others. also some dude from sfa recognized me from campus and gave me some props, i forget his name, but props to that guy. let me say first off that the crowd at this show blew ass, hardly anyone was into it. it makes no sense, it was like SA was the opening act, perhaps a third of the crowd singing the lyrics and having fun while the rest stood there with crossed arms waiting for the next band; only SA were the headliners. anywho, i briefly caught up with alex, the bass player, and met the new guitarists after the show, all were in good spirits and seem very capable of carrying the SA banner with enthusiasm and pride. the band brought the intensity despite the lame crowd, of course i enjoyed this more than anyone in the crowd. i was front and center as usual. max recognized me in the crowd and signaled for me to get closer (or on stage, as with hand motions you cant really tell) i got as close as possible and did my best to keep him pumped. several forehead singing incidents happened... trust me there is nothing more cathartic then screaming your favorite songs with the lead singer of your favorite band forehead to forehead. i respect max bemis to the utmost due to similarities i infer between us and the emotions i feel in his music and my being. so you can imagine how fucking good it feels to share moments like that. god dammit it is so good. the set was extensive including songs he has never played on a tour before such as... i can be sexual... little girls, i want to know your plans, admit it, and walk through hell. awesome, i love say anything but i cant talk about them forever in this post, so ill end talking about them there........ or will i? buh buh bummmmmmmmmmmm on saturday morning i left houston at 6 am to goto austin to play ultimate with sfa at the centex tournament at UT. mixed results... it was the worst weather ever, fucking misty to raining the whole time, and fucking cold. awful, still our shorthanded team (12 people) rose to the occasion and played all our games. my parents came for the first two, they left after those because of the shitty weather, cant blame them. we got killed our first game 13 - 1. we played our second game against the all-women team composed of the two best womens teams in the state, we were in it as long as we played our guys, but broke down and played all women for awhile and ended up losing. so yes i lost to a team of girls, hot, athletic, attractive, better than me at throwing lasses. lets just say damn, losing was never so awesome, mad props to those lasses for hanging tough and kicking ass. also in this game i ran into someone i graduated from high school with. this chick emily, i recognized her face but never knew her in high school, but now she plays competitive ultimate. that was cool, i guarded her briefly and god damn does she fucking run alot and hard. after we lost those first two games. we busted out the "lightweight traveler." aka Windsor Canadian whiskey, good for traveling. if you are playing ultimate, driving, or at court for your recent DWI or PI the lightweight traveler is for you. we then cleaned up in our last two games using the lightweight traveler as our war cry. ok so after that we showered and started to drink in the hotel room with nothing to do then the impossible happened. say anything/saves the day/dashboard confessional were all playing at austin city music hall that night, we wanted to go but had no way of getting there. then sean calls his uncle, who is the head chef/caterer at the venue who hooks us up with all access passes to the show. fuck yes!!! after getting our passes from 'Bulb' the electrician, we made quick friends with alot of the stage crew for the venue who were from nac. we arrived after SA was almost done, only caught molly and admit it but enjoyed every second of it from backstage. then sean's uncle showed up and introduced us to everyone at the venue, i dont want to write everything that occurred because im lazy, ask me about it and ill tell you the whole story. there are lots of small mini-stories that came out of the concert. anywho when dashboard came on we chilled and joked about chris carraba's (spelling?) guitar tuning army, he using tuning manipulation to make guitar easier (results in having 2 full time tuners and over 15 guitars). so we see half the show from that half the stage, then we go over to the other side of the stage... there i run into Parker, Say Anything's temporary keyboardist and exmember of JamisonParker (yes none of you know who he is but i enjoyed both of this JP cd's and i was thrilled when he was admitted to SA). i sit down next to him introduce myself, he seems ecstatic that i knew who he was and procedes to talk to me for the remaining 20 minutes of SA's set. it was awesome, he was very friendly and actually kept talking to me. i kept expected him to stop talking to me after everything we said, but he would keep turning to me and bringing up a new point of conversation, i was thrilled. we talked about everything from me apologizing for the lack of energy from houston but how i appreciated him still rocking out, to him asking me about what chris carabba was doing onstage technically, (i of course had no clue, but felt it awesome he was treating me as an equal in the conversation, considering he has two cd's and 2 years of nationwide touring). i loved every second of it and will buy that guy a beer anyday of the week. he was so humble and interested in talking to me that i was exhilarated. i have that guys back in whatever he does. seriously i dont think anyone understands how cool that was to me and how much i enjoyed it. anyway, that was my weekend sans trip back with eileen today. it was a great weekend. ~beuf also, if you are a computer game fan, check out this video... it is 35 minutes long, if you watch the first five minutes you will watch the rest. it is will wright's new game (creator of the sim games and maxis), it looks amazing and the video is awesome. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
2:33 am	the previous update lacks any semblence of grammer, i apologize to no one! its like im in high school again, strung out on mountain dew, playing an mmorpg for hours at a time. its rather fun. did i mention that i didnt goto sleep last night? i was on this killer pirate ship. Current Music: deathcab ears/decembrists head (Comment on this)
2:21 am	so today i got a cortisone shot in my hip, which has been nagging me for the past 2 months. it feels good, a little sore from the needle, but the muscles feel better already. you know what this means? ass kicking time at centex. i cannot wait to play some hardcore defense all up and down the field at centex, and whatever offense i can muster, normaly not alot. i have not touched a disc in a week, i need to change that, anyone in kwood, please call me tomorrow and let us go throw the disc for 30 minutes or so. work any last minute kinks out of my mechanics. also, i have done nothing all week but play fucking puzzle pirates. the game is very fun, i think it as very innovative. no one expressed an interest, other than rabbit playing with me and dave saying he would, in playing with me so i will stay on the free server to allow anyone that wishes to play to come play with me. SERVER: SAGE my Grant research is good. i am writing a revisionist term paper on US Grant's presidency. it was going better until i got this dude's thesis/book, it is pretty much my whole argument already written for me. so that is a bummer, i prefer challenges and will do my best to not paraphrase this book but rather find another way to skirt the idiocy of the reconstruction/gilded age. Current Music: deathcab discography (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
5:00 am	puzzle pirates this is an open call to anyone that wants to play a mini-mmorpg with me. its called puzzle pirates, google it to find out what it is. it is based only on puzzle minigames. it is quite fun and addicting. i think i am going to start paying to play, its like 8.50 a month (less in bigger chunks). im looking for anyone to play with me... i find games much more fun when i have friends i know to play them with. people i can discuss the game with, compete with and make fun of other people with. if you are interested let me know, im not expecting much response as i know most people are opposed to pay as you go games, once again, the game is free to d/l just costs money to play monthly (only on two servers its complicated, talk to me and ill fill you in) peace beuf also, going to kwood, say anything on friday, austin for centex ultimate tournament on sat and sunday. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 5th, 2006
11:00 pm	my legs dont work this weekend i went to dallas and played in my Winter League Tournament. this is the end of the year tourny where the winner of the league is decided. it was the first full tournament i have played in where i played a majority of the points. my team went 9 and 5 in the regular season which ranked us in the second pool in which we would need a 2 - 1 record to advance. the first game was ridiculous, we lost 9 - 2. no one was playing well and i was timid the entire time. i was waiting to get in on some defensive points and cause some havoc, but in order to play defense we have to score and give them the disc, which only happened twice. everything about that game can be forgotten. the next two games were stellar. we won both by a margin of at least 4 points. i played the best i ever had in the last three games we played, including these two. i had numerous D's causing turnovers left and right. i even scored at least 2 points in each of our last games. my team was very into it. i spent the whole time reminding our team that defense wins championships and that intensity is the name of the game. i was my teams rasheed wallace it was awesome. i had a few good plays in these runs, i sky'ed some dude for a td and i had an awesome thigh block (it was brought back on a bullshit foul call, i had all disc). layouts were in abundance. my knees are torn up pretty nicely and my lower back has a cut on it, but laying out is part of playing good D. this brings us to our quarterfinal game. it was going very well, we went up 3 - 1, including 2 scores by myself. then things fell apart. as i mentioned earlier, my team was of the older variety, i was the most athletic person on the team, which is not saying much for the team. at this point in the tournament, it being the 4th game, things just fell apart. the entire team died. at this point i realized what was happening and did everything i could to get my team back in the game, i was playing some ridiculous defense, but my team was gone. at this point i did not come out of the game. we gave up five straight points making it 6 - 3. we then scored one easy one, then the soft cap blew, that means there is 10 minutes left until the game is over, so we start pouring it on. we amazingly rally and score two more points to tie the game. at this point the soft cap has expired creating ultimate point, next team to score wins. we are pulling to them... they quickly drive downfield and make a 25 yard shot at the end zone, i leave coverage of my man to chase this disc before the endzone and i lay out and block the fuck out of it. while horizontal in midair i get t-boned by some dude on the other team right in the ribs (that hap pend 3 times over the day, ribs very tender now). my team drives slightly down field and then takes a shot at the endzone which comes up short. again the other team tries for the endzone and i intercept the pass, 2 D's on the ultimate point! surely my team can come through on its second chance at the endzone... no we turn it over fairly quickly which the other team converts with a quick score. heartbreak! had we of wont we would of gone to the semifinals and played a team with 4 people from nac on it sean, mike, porter and pam. we would have been soundly defeated in that game but it would have been fun. right now my body has never been more sore. every one of my leg muscles wants to do absolutely nothing. i have never been this sore in my life. my ribs are killing me from getting nailed multiple times and my knees ache from laying out. i left everything i had on the field. overall i feel good, i held up very well stamina wise and i could of played another game at a high level for sure. the thing that i am most proud of is what happened after the quarters game. after the game we are doing the handshake line like in little league and the captain of the team pulls me aside. he tells me that i played really well and invited me to come play for the Dallas team, Dallas United. turns out he is the captain for the team... in ultimate there is no professional league, but there is a national tournament everyear. the nation is divided into 8 regions each sends a designated number of teams based on the number of teams that play in the region. Dallas United is one of the top 3 teams in texas. it traditionally does not qualify for the national tournament but it is still a competitive team that wrecks shop in tournaments in texas. i am excited because it tells me that my play has elevated to a level that i did not think it was at and it means that there is a place for me to play ultimate after SFA. after all the tournament stuff there was a free party at a bar in dallas, free booze, and Karaoke! Nacogdoches won the party as we filled the bar with renditions of Don't Stop Believing and Anyway you want it, everyone from SFA was up on stage rocking out, Dont Stop climaxed with sean and i air guitaring back to back, great fucking time. anyway, this weekend kicked ass, great time, i also refuse to proof read this document. Current Music: socratic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
3:14 am	never doubt that my loyalties lie where my friendships do... Current Music: Brand New - Demo Track 4 (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
4:05 pm	so im taking jogging and today i ran about 2.3 miles and i feel great. my body does not feel exhausted or tired in fact i feel ready to play ultimate tonight. i am doing alot of physical conditioning because all my hard work paid off and i made the SFA Savage Seven team. the Savage Seven is a tournament in college station with no substitutes. the average ultimate game takes 45 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes to play, this tournament is all in one day. meaning six games minimum with no substitutes in a row. i am very happy because playing on this team is also flattering as it is marking the beginning of my ascent into an upper level of players. i am not there yet, i still lack tournament experience and my handling still needs work at greater than 20 yards but i am getting there. it is a great feeling to have your hard work and dedication begin to pay off. im just hoping that my hip extender or and right knee are up to all this. i foresee the biggest problem is that my heart will outpace my body. my parents are going to come watch me play in savage and i figure that i will be setting Croes family records in activity with every step (my rather standard lethargic family being the benchmark). with that said im out (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 5th, 2006
2:01 am	today was awesome, i played some good ultimate tdoay at winter league, i did alot of handling, which is very good. tonight we threw a surprise birthday part for BK, it was awesome the best part was the dance off. five guys vs. five girls, lets just say i acted like i had seen showgirls multiple times, and gave BK a birthday dance in my boxers, good times. (1 Comment |Comment on this)