Donkey Daddy

boyforpele @ 2006-04-14T16:04:00

2006-04-14T20:54:52Z

The semester is coming to a close. My job with ETSU's foreign language dept. is almost over. My major will be complete in May. THEN HOPEFULLY I CAN GET THE TEACHING JOB WITH THE MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM THIS SUMMER. If not, maybe I'll travel. Either way, I'll be working at ETSU this summer with Migrant Education.

I have to finish up all that Minor business in the Fall. It will be strictly theatre (maybe one Spanish class). This means that I will be working, HANDS ON, on shows that semester. I've spent so much time on Spanish and projects in the Span. dept. that I haven't had time to REALLY get involved with our theatre program. Next semester, though, all that changes.
It's really kind of sad because I've devoted so. much. time. to the Spanish dept. and I know all the professors well and have a fantastic time there. But! I'm sure the theatre dept will be just as fun. Actually, it will be more fun...I'll be building sets. I'll be hammering and cutting and painting and ...okay, yeah so leaving the Spanish dept. isn't all that bad.
I'm just afraid of falling out of practice. I HAVE to keep speaking or reading Spanish or I will fuck myself over before grad school. I talked to Dr. Palmer (an important lady in the Spanish dept. - head of ETSU's National Spanish Honor Society)about maybe doing an independent study with her which would allow me to take her grammar course without really being IN her grammar course. (This doesn't seem to make sense...but, I can't enroll in her class in the fall because my theatre courses take up all my time. So there.)

ANYWAY...more school stuff below.

I made grad school decisions.

I am going to grad school for my MATFL - Master in Teaching Foreign Languages. Once I have completed the program, I will be able to teach at the high school level (or community college) (or university level as an adjunct). I will be able to teach both Spanish and Theatre. I'll do that for a few years, travel during the summers if I can get the scholarships my old high school Spanish teacher keeps telling me about, and then move on to my Doctorate after a little experience.

As far as schools that have interested me thus far, I'm looking at the following:

Middlebury College (FUCKING HELL THIS SCHOOL IS AMAZING. It's in Vermont, but you don't REALLY go to Vermont because the grad program for Foreign Languages REQUIRES THAT YOU STUDY ABROAD. You spend part of your time studying grammer in the States and the rest STUDYING MUSIC, LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS IN MADRID.)

University of Tenn (Their MAT program is fantastic from what I've heard)

University of Florida (My professor, Dr. Nelson, attended this school for her Master's...I think...either her Master's or her PhD)

University of Texas @ Austin (Preferable due its proximity to the border ..in comparison with the other schools.)

NOW...

UT would be fantastic if Steph decides to go to grad school there...and MAYBE WE COULD LIVE ON CAMPUS TOGETHER AND BOTH HAVE GRADUATE ASSISTANT POSITIONS AND STUDENT TEACH. READ THIS STEPHANIE, AND LOVE THE IDEA.)

Plus, it won't be far away from here. I KNOW, I know...that shouldn't matter. But my god...I have the most amazing friends. Everyone deals with this, bla bla bla, but they usually do it for Undergrad...I'm a little late and it's harder for me. Pet me.

MIDDLEBURY is the dreamschool. Who knows if it will really work out?

NOT SCHOOL NEWS:

I have so much music. I have a ridiculous amount of material. I'm practicing my ass off. I need people to play other things with me. I want to perform this summer, whether it's an open mic thing or something formal (if that can happen for me).

Okay I'm done.
Give me feedback. Anyone.

boyforpele @ 2006-01-09T03:40:00

2006-01-09T08:40:31Z

My only resolution this year is to be unapologetically alive.

Any of you fuckers get in my way and I will unapologetically kill you.

In other news:

I am no longer accepting bullshit, malarchy, pettiness, MasterCard or hullabaloo.

boyforpele @ 2005-09-18T00:51:00

2005-09-18T04:56:42Z

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW!!!!!

was fun.

I danced. They danced. We all danced.

I don't care what any of you fuckshits say...
A bluegrass moshpit is the MOST hardcore. I've been to punk shows, rock shows, hippityhop shows...and yes sir...bluegrass moshpits are indeed...where IT is AT.

boyforpele @ 2005-09-17T14:59:00

2005-09-17T19:00:39Z

Erin and Daniel,

Find a way to go to Rhythm and Roots tomorrow. I really don't want to go alone.

Thank you.

boyforpele @ 2005-09-09T19:46:00

2005-09-09T23:54:11Z

Everyone:

This month

The Be Good Tanyas - Rhyhtm and Roots
Old Crow Medicine Show - Rhythm and Roots
Menage - Rhythm and Roots
Bela Fleck - Rhythm and Roots
The Everybodyfields - Rhythm and Roots
Virginia Ground - Rhythm and Roots

The Decemberists - Orange Peel - This month

Cat Power - Orange Peel - October

Rusted Root - Orange Peel - November

...sweet hellcrackers.

-Jeremy

boyforpele @ 2005-08-16T11:18:00

2005-08-16T15:20:17Z

I can NOT believe the shows that are a-comin' this way over the next few months.

boyforpele @ 2005-07-17T13:26:00

2005-07-17T17:27:50Z

I dreamt that nothing changed.

boyforpele @ 2005-07-10T03:33:00

2005-07-10T07:39:44Z

Uhhh. Last night was amazing. Laughter and drinking (everyone but me and Erin). Playing guitar while Jodi and Daniel sang along. I haven't had that much fun since 1919...and you know what happened in 1919.

..well, if you don't...You will soon...

Stay tuned for the audio sample of Jodi's lyrical masterpiece "Bows in They Hair"

boyforpele @ 2005-07-01T12:19:00

2005-07-01T16:32:27Z

Big fat rainstorm last night.

Erin says "Haha. We should play in the rain."

*Jeremy kicks off shoes*
*Erin kicks off shoes*
*Jeremy and Erin beckon Daniel*
*Daniel kicks off shoes*

*Rainplay commences*

*Behind-the-house waterfall is discovered*

*Hardcore rainplay commences*

*Lightning strikes and probably kills something not so far away*

*Rainplayers care not*

*Rainplayers summon neighbors*

*Neighbors are pooheads and refuse to leave their quarters*

*Rainplayers continue undeterred*

I like this game. (lines from the song or simply just the titles)

2005-06-30T17:29:37Z

You taught me most of what I know about digital composition. You've broken many hearts and I piss a lot of people off when I say that you're one of my dearest friends...even though we rarely act like dear friends. I think about you whenever I hear BT's "Never Gonna Come Back Down" - "Sucker deejays they get stopped by a single finger" and "We are here to save the erf"

You've been around since the beginning of time and I don't know why we haven't killed each other. We live parallel lives and I think we'd still love each other even we didn't live 6 seconds from one another. I think about you whenever I hear Tori Amos' "You don't know the power that you have with that tear in your hand." The Dresden Dolls' "Girl Anachronism" Ani Difranco's "Knuckle Down" and Rilo Kiley's "Better Daughter/Son" and The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights"

You don't have a computer. You don't have a livejournal. You'll never see this but you're one of the most important people in my life and I tell you that frequently. Just being who you are and being willing to be in my life...improves the quality of mine and life without you, I imagine, would be painfully dull. I think about you when I hear Tears for Fears' "Sowing the Seeds of Love" and Tori Amos' "I got my rape hat on but I always could accesorize" and "put the hood right back where you could taste heaven perfectly" and "she's in her phone booth stage" and "father lucifer, you never looked so sane...how's your Jesus Christ been hanging? Nothing's gonna stop me from floating"

You moved away. I love you so much it hurts. It doesn't hurt that you moved away, though, because all those miles don't have shit on us. I do, however, miss trips to Virginia and getting lost intentionally.
I think about you whenever I hear Y Kant Tori Read's "Is it cool on your island?" and Tori Amos' "Even a glamorous bitch can be in need...I'm glad you're on my side" "Took a taxi from L.A. to Venus in 1985" and "give me peace love and a hard cock" and "threads that are golden don't break easily"

You're one of the most magical people I know and it pains me that you have no idea just how fantastic you are. I can't express how much I care about you and how much I want to protect you. I enjoy sharing music with you more than anyone else. Our friendship, to me, is like one of those cheesy movie friendships that everyone wants to have. I think about you whenever I hear Tori Amos's "threads that are golden don't break easily" Bjork's "who is it that never lets you down?" Pavement's "Shady Lane," Rilo Kiley's "My Slumbering Heart" and Patty Griffin's "'cause you can't make somebody see with the simple words you say all their beauty from within sometimes they just look away" and the Mars Volta's "Televators" and Engine Down's "Songbird"

I'm in love with you.
I think of you whenever I hear Modest Mouse's "I've got this thing I consider my only art of fucking people over" and "It took a lot of work to be the ass I am and I'm really damn sure that anyone can equally easily fuck you over" Patty Griffin's "I know a cold as cold as it gets"

You didn't speak to me for 3 years because of your boyfriend. You know better now.
I think of you when I hear Patty Griffin's "Just before the flood comes just before the night falls just before the blood runs into the valley just before my eyes go just before we can't go no further, you see, love throws a line to you and me" and the fucking Will and Grace theme.

I barely know you but you know my friends from Virginia.
You make me think of Patty Griffin's "One Big Love" and Enon's "Conjugate the Verbs" and "Daughter in the House of Fools" and Three Mile Pilot's "On a Ship to Bangladesh"

You moved away, too, but not as far as the previously mentioned mover. You are by far my favorite male of the homosexual persuasion.
I think about you when I hear Rilo Kiley's "Spectacular Views" Camera Obscura's "I Don't Do Crowds" Bjork's "Pagan Poetry" and that damned Chicago (the musical) song Deathcab for Cutie's "The New Year" and The Postal Service and The Brunettes.

You are older and wiser and bla fucking bla. You're like an older brother and I feel safe. You know more about me that I'd like you to...You know just how crazy I am.
I think about you when I hear PJ Harvey.

boyforpele @ 2005-06-29T23:05:00

2005-06-30T03:05:48Z

You were rude! You're not supposed to do that!