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 –  

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