Aaron Gillespie

Motto: And the award for the most awkward you’ve ever felt sitting next to your girlfriend goes to……… 

> Okay, so a while back on here I think I made the comment “if I had a dollar for every time I saw a lesbian vampire sex scene in a movie with 300 other people, I would now have a dollar.” Right? Well, I’ve got a better one- “If I had a dollar for every time I’ve ever seen two actors completely naked pretending to have sex less than 20 feet in front of me with my girlfriend sitting right by me with 250 other people, I would have a dollar.” I saw “Nightmares: an Artful Demonstration of the Sublime” for free at Lawrence Art Center last night. To put it lightly, Christine turned to me at intermission and said “I feel like we came here to watch porn, I feel sick to my stomach.” BUT! I actually enjoyed the play a lot. Not necessarily because of the seemingly gratuitous sex scenes (notice the plurality of that,) but because it was funny, scary, depressing, and told a very important story. It was definitely a 9.4 out of 10. The lead (maybe) character (who turned out to be the dude who wrote the whole damn thing) was absolutely hysterical. I advise anybody who’s in the mood for an eye opening experience, wants to see and interesting story, or just wants to see 4 naked people to go watch it. Mom and dad, if you go watch it, we can just both pretend like each of us has never seen it. I have to write a two page paper about the acting later on. I think it shouldn’t be too hard (no pun intended.) You should read about it.

 > Now to completely turn around all of that.

 > Ever since the trip to Florida, I realized I like having a gigantic drink around me at all times. 32 oz is minimum size. Right now I’m writing this with a 33.8 oz Kiwi-Strawberry Propel setting next to me. I prefer plain “Berry,” but they didn’t have any.

 > Adam Burnett, the guy who wrote it, made a quip during the play, “Oh I hate clever women,” then pointed at me sitting in the front of the crowd next to Christine and says “You know what I’m talking about, right?” >  I realized I used parenthesis a lot (maybe way too much even.)  

Top 5: Phrases I overuse

5. Dude

4. If I had a dollar for ever time I ________ 3. What’s going down?

2. Chillax – sometimes preceded by #5 up there

1. Wicked (usually followed by awesome)

Quotes:

” He told me that I was going to suffer from dogma, and I told him that he was the son of a dog ma…. That’s right, son of a bitch! “
         - John Henry Fuseli (Adam Burnett) in his play, the first part of the of the quote wasn’t near what he really said. I just forgot what he really said and made something similar up to put in it’s place -

” Well bloody hell you’ve moved three times already! “
         - John Henry Fuseli (Adam Burnett) to me and Christine before the play had even started, it was true –  

Motto: Hear Ye, Hear Ye, I’m Near Pee

 > Have you ever been in a room quiet enough that, when you take a drink of something, you can hear when it enters your stomach. Christine and I noticed that a while back. Mine was more noticeable. I think it’s because I’m bigger.

 > I just got out of poetry class. This is a common time for me to update now. I cracked a joke at the end of class today. It got the weirdest response I’ve ever heard. Let me set the scene:

We just read a poem where a girl expresses her jealousy of a shirt, because it is on a guy that she likes and it’s all over him.

People had discussed how the poem personified the shirt, and made the girl envious.

The bell was getting ready to ring, I had the last comment.

I said “Yeah I think the shirt is definitely a point of jealousy for the girl, but what I find strange is this: why does the girl want to be the shirt? Why doesn’t she just want to be the girl who’s having sex with that guy?”

The entire room was absolutely silent for a moment, the professor had the most bewildered look I’ve ever seen him have.

Somebody said “What?!” and then simultaneously everybody in the room got that it was a joke and laughed, hard. Really hard. Like, beyond what laughter that joke should warrant hard.

 > That was my interesting story for the update I suppose. > I finished a speech about Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. It was supposed to be five minutes long, but I fear that my speech is going to a bit closer to eight. The subject fascinates me. > Serj Tankian put out a new music video. For my favorite song (as of right now) on his album – The Sky is Over. This is the first music video I’ve ever seen that is made entirely of one shot. That’s crazy to me.

Top 5: Reasons I’m having a good day 5. I cracked a joke that everybody (eventually) laughed at

4. It’s nice weather outside

3. My intramural team won by 34 points yesterday

2. It’s Valentine’s day and I’m going to see a play with Christine tonight (it’s for my acting class) footnote: the play has nudity in it, weird?

1. I beat Nick at Mario Kart this morning

Quotes:

” I think you put that very eloquently, and it’s a good point. “
         - Carey Voeller, my Poetry teacher, to me. I was proud.  -

” Hey daddy, you know I’m down, always been down with the doo-doo brown. “
         - Nutsnack, which I’m listening to right now –  

Motto:  People - Stupefyingly Stupid 

> I was pretty busy the whole weekend. I got sick. So I didn’t really feel like writing a whole bunch. I actually slept yesterday for probably 15 hours out of the whole day? Maybe? It was kinda sweet.

 > My thought process is being disrupted. I’ll try to play some music to help center myself up. Ahhh, the Animals. Possibly?

> I’ve got a lot stuff to do. I’m still having a hard time focusing. Let’s channel my chakra to this column for the next five or six minutes. 

> I spent the weekend back home with my folks AND in Iola. I like the people in Lebo and I like at least one person in Iola, but I wouldn’t really say I particularly enjoy the actual areas themselves. I have a hard time going back to Lebo High School and thinking “what a big grand facility this is!” after I’ve been here at KU, walking out of a multimillion dollar library with probably every book ever written somewhere within it’s recesses, and right into a lecture hall which has had in it poets, actors, presidents, dictators, and yes, even Bill Cosby. Going from stop lights on 2 lane roads with driven on by cars to stop signs on gravel with tractors, it’s a hard transition.  > There was a run-on sentence in that last paragraph. See if you can find it kids!
 

Top 5: Assignments I should be working on riiight now.

5. Thinking of a 1 minute desperate situation act- using no language

4. Reading 2 chapters and an online article for Sound Film class

3. Finding a 2-3 minute monolog and memorizing it  

2. Five minute speech about Nikola Tesla

1. Four-page poem analysis for a 1/4^th page long poem…

Quotes:

” I’m in here doing the dishes, Why aren’t you in the watching Family Guy? “
         - Christine Fraker, one of the many reasons I love this woman -

” I think they call it ‘Tiger Face, Lemon Face.’ “
         - Chandra Hopkins, my Acting instructor –