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i got deferred from the university of chicago and i'm not upset. it's been a good week, anyway. |
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[Oct. 18th, 2005|01:11 am] |
several notes:
- colleges so far: wesleyan, brown, u of chicago, mcgill, oberlin, wash u st louis and god knows what else
- applications done: 0
- i'm already sick of the college process/people getting obsessed with the college process/people trying to make money off of the college process
- which is impressive considering how little i've done so far
- trying to make a relationship work when one is a busy (ha), uncommunicative (i'm not contagious), asshole is harder than making a relationship work when one is an asshole with lots of time on his hands.
- but no excuse and nothing i'd like to do more than change the asshole part
- black keys in less than a month!
- i'm going to miss water polo quite a lot
- deutsch ist herrlich. however, frau hopps gets a certain glint in her eye when she asks me "ißt du Schweinefleisch?"
- not really being jewish makes it hard for me to justify not coming to school on the high holy days
and finally
- my brother has got to be the only 11-year-old that listens to talib kweli while playing "take me out to the ball game" on his trumpet
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[Sep. 25th, 2005|06:33 pm] |
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reason number 12 why i hate sundays
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[Sep. 19th, 2005|09:03 pm] |
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[Aug. 14th, 2005|09:21 pm] |
back from spain as of a few weeks ago and back from chicago as of a few hours ago. spain was pretty amazing. chicago a lot less so.
but i won't explicate it further here because all of the really good stories are best told in person. and i'm lazy and haven't posted pictures.
also,
just a note for those who communicate with me over aim:
if you have recieved strange messages from the screenname "jerbol" over the last few months, it may not have been me. apparently the aim client on some computer at some internet cafe somewhere in spain saved my password and has since seen a whole mess of bored spainards trying to talk to people on my buddy list. "you is al pacino?" and "i like to make fuck with your mother" are only two examples, but if it's in broken english it's probably a spainiard.
or was- i'm changing my password.
in any case, that's all for now. those of you in ct can give me a ring as i'm pre-preseason for a couple of weeks more and could always stand a good night out. |
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[Jun. 20th, 2005|02:06 pm] |
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first of all, i recommend anyone who is a fan of yo la tengo to pick up their three cd set, prisoners of love. it is quite good.
so the countdown begins. in a few hours i get to go to choate with my suitcase (and my carry on [carrion] and my 220v/110v converter and my camera etc etc etc) to get orientated. i'll meet some of the hopefully-decent-and-interesting people with whom i'll be sharing a country for several weeks. then, on wednesday, i'll get on a coach bus to jfk and fly out on a 767 (maybe an airbus?) operated by iberia airlines. and then, with any luck, i will be in madrid. and then santander.
hooray.
i've pretty much given up on this livejournal thing (note lack of real entry since march) and it's doubtful that i'll update much (at all) from spain. unless i have the means to upload photos in which case i might. in any case i'll continue to correspond by email with anyone who wishes to do so and i'll even make a few calls with my handy international phone card if i am so inclined. you are also more than welcome to write me the old fashioned way at the following address:
Jeremiah Bolinsky
Urbanización los llanos n˚ 28
39011 Santander, Spain
also, i am a big fan of sending postcards so if anyone (anyone at all... really) wants one he (or she) can get me their address somehow (comment, gmail, etc) and i will send him one. or her. pronouns, and such.
that's about it. hasta agosto, muchachos! |
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[May. 31st, 2005|10:44 am] |
motherfuckers
more extensive entry to come on wednesday or thursday |
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[May. 23rd, 2005|09:35 am] |
to think i almost forgot. for all you forgetful froods (just a bit of an oxymoron)
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[Apr. 19th, 2005|07:26 am] |
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sadly enough, this sums up my academic life pretty nicely
...fucking non english speaking freshmen |
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[Mar. 15th, 2005|09:10 pm] |
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i went to a really awesome shop called match on the other side of the island. very interesting walk-in humidor with an amazing selection- who would have known that there is a brand of cigar called "anarchy" or flavored cigars with orange and lime highlights. there were also rare wines, mounds and mounds of old, turn-of-the-century sports equipment and typewriters. plus there was a little stack of maybe two or three dozen cds for sale including stuff like rare godspeed you! black emperor eps and a whole mess of quality indie stuff. i got the new black keys cd and it's pretty damn good. and very very good key lime pie.
blues-heavy lo-fi is extremely tasty
goddamn connection is proxied, and i can't seem to get around it. the only ports open are for http and mail so i can't do anything fancy. no instant messenger for jerbol.
and the bastards are censoring my fucking webcomics:
so call me, already! i'm fucking bored here!
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[Mar. 14th, 2005|11:31 pm] |
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been a long time since a real, what-the-fuck-is-up
entry, so i suppose that it's about time. end of the term went well
enough. introduced a very attractive person to mogwai. decent grades
and i got all a's on my finals. swimming ended well too: new englands
were up at exeter and we took second and guernsey got a new england
record for the 500. i dropped half a second in my fly, missing breaking
a 59 by a shite turn. the wednesday before new englands probably also
helped fuck my taper up a tiny bit. went out with shira and sara and...
well the rest is history. let's just say that my parents called the
cops. but that ended up not too badly. after new englands i slept for a
few days and got fitted for a tux for rit's prom. i look really fucking
skinny in a tux. then i got to meet orson scott card and i bought his
new book and had him sign it and my old copy of <i>ender's
game</i>. that night ray li got in and we chilled for the next
few days. then i took an 8 o clock flight out of hartford and here i am.
so the deal is that i'm on hilton head island in south carolina at my
aunt and uncle's golf-oriented timeshare. no one in my family golfs. so
i'm trying to spend as much time as possible catching up on movies and
reading and as little time interacting with the increasingly annoying
parents and sibling.
so it goes
hopfully it'll all be fine if my parents continue to let
me sleep until 1 every day and leave me to my own devices for the rest
of the time, but for some reason i think that quite soon they will try
to destroy my self-imposed isolation and ennui (ha, ennui). for now, however, i'm quite content to sit and just absorb.
funny things about this part of the nouveau-rich south:
- sweet tea everywhere
- sushi places are called "japanese steakhouses"
- everyone seems to smoke cigars
- abundance of rib restaurants
- every female has blond highlights
- everyone drives american cars
- the ever-entertaining accent
- no intersections on the roads, only roundabouts
- they call parts of the island "plantations"
- according to the map, there are 19 golf courses and 8 churches in only a few dozen square miles
i don't
know if i've ever posted my golf rant, but needless to say i hate it
and i think that it's the most wasteful and useless game ever divised
by man. i mean, do you know how much water and fertilizer it takes to
maintain golf courses? not to mention the gasoline needed to mow all of
that grass. and then there's the land: if you added up the land taken
up by all of the golf courses in the united states alone, it would take
up more square milage than maryland and two delawares.
george carlin once said that cocaine was god's way of telling you that you had too much money, but i beg to differ: golf is.
blech, i need to get out of here
ps. happy pi day, wankers!
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[Feb. 27th, 2005|10:50 pm] |
one exam down, five more to go
damn euphoria. it strikes at the most random times.
reasons to be euphoric:
- i'm actually getting the trig i'm studying
- unexpected visits from madisonians
- i get to keep the jewfro this year
- le tigre on wednesday
- dorky conversations with hamden hallers
- "death of a ferret"
- copy editorship
- spring break is coming
- not taking calc this spring
- lifeguard cert as a sport
- brownies
- writing inflammatory opinion pieces for the probably doa "hocus choakus"
- acting as a 6th class
- starbucks double shot espressos
- the individual medley
- graham murphy
- explo people
- unsubstantiated hatred of stream-of-consciousness writers
- getting to dress like a victorian gentleman
- spats
- june's ap us history exam study guide
- acquisition of sebadoh cd
- seeing the cat from hell
- gollands's chicken and gollum impressions
- temperature above 32 degrees
- the sine laws
- not really caring too much about college
- rit getting into bucknell with a scholarship
- liz turning 20
- brian no coming back from spain
- bacchus
- hemingway
- broken social scene
- sherman's march to the sea and burning stuff
- random catch-22 references in conversation
- and last, but not least... ( salot!? ) |
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[Feb. 21st, 2005|10:27 pm] |
course planning for next year. here's how it pans out so far:
Fall
EN452HO - World Lit (2nd choice EN453HO Journeys and quests)
MA512AP - Calc
SP550AP - Spanish Lit (after Spain?)
RU150 - Beginning Russian
VA421 - Photo I
ID416HO - Romanticism
Winter
EN452HO - World Lit
MA513AP - Calc
SP550AP - Spanish Lit
RU150 - Beginning Russian
ID417HO - Modernism
HI475AD - Conflict in the Balkans
Spring
EN426 - Brothers Karamazov
MA514AP - Calc
SP550AP - Spanish Lit
RU150 - Beginning Russian
ID418AD - Post-Modernism
HI411HO - Con Law
should i take more history? i really want to take russian, but is that going to kill me? and must i take calc!?
comments and/or concern appreciated |
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[Feb. 11th, 2005|08:31 pm] |
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brief update:
washington trip this week wasn't bad. got to see the oval office and the west wing and meet all sorts of people. though i suppose it says something that the most interesting person i met was our bus driver, yanoush. in any case more about (and perhaps a copy of the editorial i'm writing on) that at a later date.
classes are going well enough. english is slowly suffocating me and everything else i'm just blindly stumbling through. why does it feel that so much of everything is just me stumbling through? in any case, i need to sign up for senior classes. any grads/seniors have any suggestions?
this spring should be amazingly easy: acting as a 6th course and a lifeguarding cert course two days a week. beautiful.
i can't think anymore.
oh, and anyone interested in going to see le tigre on wednesday the 2nd next month at toads? |
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[Jan. 31st, 2005|08:43 pm] |
this is what scares borderline-libertarians like me the most:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly protected free speech.
It turns out the First Amendment is a second-rate issue to many of those nearing their own adult independence, according to a study of high school attitudes released Monday.
The original amendment to the Constitution is the cornerstone of the way of life in the United States, promising citizens the freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly.
Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
"These results are not only disturbing; they are dangerous," said Hodding Carter III, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which sponsored the $1 million study. "Ignorance about the basics of this free society is a danger to our nation's future."
The students are even more restrictive in their views than their elders, the study says.
When asked whether people should be allowed to express unpopular views, 97 percent of teachers and 99 percent of school principals said yes. Only 83 percent of students did.
The results reflected indifference, with almost three in four students saying they took the First Amendment for granted or didn't know how they felt about it. It was also clear that many students do not understand what is protected by the bedrock of the Bill of Rights.
Three in four students said flag burning is illegal. It's not. About half the students said the government can restrict any indecent material on the Internet. It can't.
"Schools don't do enough to teach the First Amendment. Students often don't know the rights it protects," Linda Puntney, executive director of the Journalism Education Association, said in the report. "This all comes at a time when there is decreasing passion for much of anything. And, you have to be passionate about the First Amendment."
The partners in the project, including organizations of newspaper editors and radio and television news directors, share a clear advocacy for First Amendment issues.
Federal and state officials, meanwhile, have bemoaned a lack of knowledge of U.S. civics and history among young people. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, has even pushed through a mandate that schools must teach about the Constitution on September 17, the date it was signed in 1787.
The survey, conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut, is billed as the largest of its kind. More than 100,000 students, nearly 8,000 teachers and more than 500 administrators at 544 public and private high schools took part in early 2004.
The study suggests that students embrace First Amendment freedoms if they are taught about them and given a chance to practice them, but schools don't make the matter a priority.
Students who take part in school media activities, such as student newspapers or TV production, are much more likely to support expression of unpopular views, for example.
About nine in 10 principals said it is important for all students to learn some journalism skills, but most administrators say a lack of money limits their media offerings.
More than one in five schools offer no student media opportunities; of the high schools that do not offer student newspapers, 40 percent have eliminated them in the last five years.
"The last 15 years have not been a golden era for student media," said Warren Watson, director of the J-Ideas project at Ball State University in Indiana. "Programs are under siege or dying from neglect. Many students do not get the opportunity to practice our basic freedoms."
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[Jan. 28th, 2005|08:06 pm] |
blech. getting over viral plague mindfuck. swimming 200 fly tomorrow after SATURDAY CLASSES OF FUCKING DOOM. except they won't be that bad.
this (from here) made me happy:
Beethoven Got Laid a Lot
Well we know that Beethoven was notriously grumpy. He was also the greatest musical genius to ever live. That of course is a value judgment,and if you disagree with it you are a terrorist.
So the real question is not how well he wrote for the human voice(quite), or if he was a manic-depressive(no), or why he and Haydn didn't get along(who gives a shit?) but how much did he get laid? I say a lot and here's why:
Fur Elise, or the Bagatelle in A Minor, is designated as WoO 59. For those who haven't read my Seductor's Guide to Classical Music(trademark pending), which is everyone because I haven't written it yet, WoO means 'without opus.' I have been informed that it is from the German werke ohne opus which translates to "work without opus [number]."
The title 'Fur Elise' in German is just a dedication meaning simply, 'For Elise.'
Now the piece was published in 1810 when Beethoven was 40. His first piano sonatas were published in 1783 when he was 13, so we can safely say he was capable of writing a comparatively simple piece like Fur Elise 27 years before he supposedly actually did.
Now, this will seem like pure conjecture now, but I am confident that when scholars get around to reading some of those old diaries that everyone seems to have kept in the 18th century so some humanities major can get their Ph.D. they will discover that Beethoven had that piece for many years before its now officially recognized publication date.
Why did he never make it public?
Because he used it to score more pussy than a bonobo.
First look at the properties of the piece: it can be played by one person. Someone of Beethoven's piano skill would be able to play it and still hold a conversation. It demads no attention, or concentration. So a woman goes into the room to meet the great Beethoven and he's sitting in there alone and he's playing this tune. I imagine the typical conversation went along these lines:
Julie: "Hello, Mr. Beethoven, what's that?"
Beethoven: "Oh, just a little piece I'm working on. And please, call me Ludwig."
Julie(nervously): "It's beautiful. What's is it called?"
Beethoven: "I was thinking of calling it 'Fur Julie'"
Julie(blushing madly): "Oh Beethoven,really....?"
Beethoven: "Absolutely. Here let me show you the first notes. Come sit next to me..."
All the various lures he is holding out here are breathtaking. Beethoven is offering everything anyone could want: immortality, their name attached to something beautiful, the chance to meet whatever noble Beethoven was working for at the time, and of course, making a nice guy out of a notorious bad-boy.
Now is anyone going to tell me that that would not have gotten him laid? And he lived at a time when social conventions were such that all the ladies in town couldn't publish in the local scandal sheet how they were tricked and seduced by Beethoven.
Historical evidence will eventually prove that there was a girl named Elise that was proving very hard to fuck, so Beethoven finally had to play the piece in public. It was probably at this point that he got that scowl that we see him with in almost every representation of the man. He was giving up his best seduction method and deaf. One or the other would be bad enough, but the combination of both probably kept him pissed until the day he died.
ok i'm off to write about cocopuffs. |
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[Jan. 13th, 2005|11:39 pm] |
of course it is time to self destruct.
well not quite so melodramatic; i may just have to stay up a bit early
in order to get this studying done. and this thesis developed. and this
outline drafted. and this paper written.
so it goes.
some random thoughts from today:
- odd weather: 5 inches of snow + 65 degree weather = insane fog
- catch up set: it's times like this that i truly realize how masochistic one must be to be an enthusiastic swimmer
- speaking of which, this chlorine shit is bad for my hair (he realizes)
- spoke very briefly with kemi today. she gave me
this south african strawberry candy. it was quite good. i also realized
that i never really talk to her/see her. freshman year we hung out a
lot more. depressing, but that's what happens.
- supposed to see gnhyo at choate tomorrow.
torcellini's playing and i haven't seen him for at least a year. never
really keep regular contact with the middle school people. except
perhaps mel, but she's an odd one. and still as uptight as ever. but
she sent me a feckin lodestone for christmas. that's awesome.
- lawrence: [looks down at watch] "oh fuck, i have to go celebrate diversity now"
- sat down at a table with jeff chen, sam sack, and
peter st john. st john makes one of his usual stupid and pointless
comments; "at my middle school a kid put a lot of laxative in another
kid's soda so he got expelled." i stared at him for a few seconds and
then added, "at my middle school a kid stabbed another kid so he got
expelled." then i got up and walked out. embellishments,
embellishments, embellishments
ok so that was a good waste of time. now to finish work...
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[Jan. 12th, 2005|10:55 pm] |
22:50:58 kikixxstar: you're swimming in the snow!
22:51:03 kikixxstar: hurray! |
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