Emo song title I think would be cool if I had a produced cd and a record label and most importantly a band of the day:

Evian is naive spelled backward

Hey fellas whats shakin?

So I know I've been guilty of neglecting my  xanga site over the last few months and I figure its time for some routine upkeep.  Rather than go over all of summer that has happened since my last post which would be boring and pointless to try, I figure I'll hit on a few key points. 

Adam is still in the hospital so everyone please keep prayin.  He's one of my best friends and thank God that things turned out as well as they did.  It was a close call that I think he's finally done with.  But keep praying for the family in the car behind and the driver of the truck who must be devastated by it all.

I've been back and forth on the lip ring.  Itd be so fresh.  Dont know if I'm going to commit on it or not.  Of course Eric and Terri hate the idea and I'm sure IWU has problems with it too, but if I have any say in the matter (which last time I checked I'm pretty sure I do) you might be seein me with one in the next few weeks.  No biggie right?

My mom's bday was last weekend and she got a magic bullet!  If you arent a late night infomercial connoisseur like myself, you might not know what it is.  If you are, then I bet you already have a smile on your face.  The thing does everything.  I haven't gotten to play with it yet, but be assured I will and when I do there will be some awesome inventions/creations that I'm sure I'll hype up a ton.  Im thinking like insta-meals.  Like I throw in what I normally eat for lunch, say a turkey sandwich chips and a coke and magic bullet it and if im ever in the need to eat lunch on the go......Man I'm a genius.

Fantastic Four sucked!

Batman Begins rocked my sox!

War of the Worlds was depressing but good!

Be Cool was not funny!

Constantine was not biblically based!

Hitch has Kevin James in it who is my hero!

Those were some of the movies I've seen this summer.  Weren't those great reviews?  I should be a movie reviewer guy.

I didn't much like Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger which Dan Moore, if you read this, I'm sorry.  I thought there were some really cool parts and some of the things Salinger says are inspiring, but the story itself I didn't really appreciate.  Not saying that I could do better by any stretch.

I shot my first gun this summer which was kinda cool and I gotta say I felt like James Bond.  Brandt was cool enough to let me go out to his farm and let me shoot cinder blocks, which I think after about 30 shots from 4 feet away I may have hit about 2 times (and one was arguable I think I k-nicked the side of the thing).  They were only .22s so no big deal.  But now I am disillusioned by action movies which makes me sad.  First off that the good guys seem to have infinite ammo, perfect aim, shoot  desert eagles with one hand, and the sound doesn't deafen them.  Yeah right Hollywood, yeah right.

Don't feel like getting into anything too detailed when it comes to hangouts and stuff I've done with friends over the summer.  Lots of Age of Empires though at Derek's house.  Anyways, I'm bored and my mind is wandering so I don't feel like typing anymore.

P.S.- I did find the coolest pirate shirt ever which now is my favorite shirt. 

Superpower of the Day:

Following up a post that you did less than 24 hours ago with an even shorter post.

So some interesting stuff has happened in the last day.  First off, me and this kid in art class have gotten in a fight for the last 4 school days on who would end in a fight between ninjas and pirates.  It started by me saying, like I always do, "Man, as soon as I figure out I can, I am going to grow the most massive pirate beard in the world!" and this kid turns to me and says "Why not a ninja beard?" to which I say "Cause ninjas suck and pirates rock!" and craziness ensues.  He tries to tell me that a ninja is cooler than a pirate, who does he think he is?  I got him by painting a pirate crossbones on the table in front of him while he went and got paint....Garrr matey its still there.  It culimates today when he prints off this website=www.ninjapirate.com/battle.html.  What a piece of libel!  Obviously written by a loser ninja who is completely biased and doesnt know what hes talking about.  I am going to write a pirate website devoted to going out and kicking ninja butt on the weekends.

Anywho, I beat my dad in HORSE which is almost braggable.  If you know my dad, he is the stereotype of white man basketball.  He IS Steve Kerr.  He refuses to play me in one on one basketball which leads us to choose the only other basketball game there is, HORSE.  Obviously, I am playing right into his hand.  He then proceeds to stand behind the line and light it up.  Well not today.  After getting a small injury after falling into a trash can filled with rose weeds with thorns on them and scratching up my leg something fierce, I got it together and started drainin the shots.  Beat him HORSE to HORS.  Yeah Billy!  Havent done this since I was like 4 when he used to pick me up and hold me next to the rim when it was my turn to shoot.  I hope you are not still reading this.

I also was officially called on having no fashion sense today.  Recently, I have been going through all of those clothes that dont fit me and havent fit me since my growth spirt like 3 years ago and trying to figure out away to get rid of them and begin a chapter in my life where I start clothing myself like a big boy.  I go to this so called Plato's closet, where you can apparently get money for your slightly used, in style clothing.  As long as they have been in fashion in the last 18 months that is.  Out of the oh say 80 possible clothing items, THEY TOOK SIX!  I got 16 dollars and the other 74 articles of clothing are still sitting in the back of my car.  If that doesnt say "Andrew you have no regard for what is in, nor for what is even remotely cool to wear" I dont know what does quite like a Return to Sender at a used clothing store.

I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel. 

This shout out goes to all the juniors sufferin from senioritis. 

Anyways, haven't had much time to post lately.  Take that back, I've had time but I haven't enough of it to sit idly at the ol' comp and spill my thoughts on xanga.

Some things have happened lately that are not really worth mentioning but I figure that stupider people write about stupider things (or so I assume) so I might as well tell my last few weeks.

Prom was pretty fun.  The after prom stuff was pretty amazin and our school really put forth the effort to make it a blast.  I won 10$ to Xochimilco and 3 free ice creams at Baskin Robbins which pretty much made my month.  There was jousting which I lost at, and a mechanical bull which was being run by a complete TOOL (see POTENTIALLY HOMOSEXUAL LOSER), who each time I'd try to show everyone my cowboyness would set the stupid thing on like 10, so I would last approximately 2.3 seconds and then get launched.  Props to this getter who hit on junior girls, wore a muscle shirt, and got his jollies out of throwing senior guys or those he knew were more man than he is off of his bull..........No, but seriously, what a joker. 

I saw Star Wars Episode III opening night.  Yeah, that's right, I;ve left myself open for a bunch of nerd accusations. But the movie was ridiculously amazing so I dont care what you fellas say.  George Lucas, I tip my hat to thee.  I hated your first two attempts at a prequel, but you shut me up with the third.  Fights were pretty awesome.  First movie that genuinely made me sad in like 4 years which is messed up on so many levels but whatever.  DOnt care what you say Mark, this one was so awesome and Lucas is somewhat redeemed. 

Nuff of that.  Definately had a CES 4 year reunion Friday night.  Amazin.  Everyone's changed so much.  People i didnt recognize: Cassie Matson, Zach Crawford, Nathan Schober.  Most changed definately went to Kendra, who was really cool to see.  Dan the Man and John Murphy definately kept that party hoppin.  It was fun to see everyone.   Found out my seventh grade science teacher Mr. Ziemba is in prison because he caught manufacturing meth....Man, that explains all the rock candy we made that we werent allowed to eat.  No, but seriously.  Man, CES tried so hard to mess us up.  Im just glad I made it out with any kind of social skills at all, which I guess is debatable. 

Anyways, can't think of anything more so I better wrap this all up.  Might add some mo stuff later.  As I promised...

TOOL-(see POTENTIALLY HOMOSEXUAL LOSER)

POTENTIALLY HOMOSEXUAL LOSER- (n.)  1:  Guy who takes things way too seriously, usually noted by bleached hair, tight shirts.  Usually hits on anything that walks and breathes, no matter that age difference....Scratch that, anything that breathes.  2:  Guys who sit high up in the bleachers, turn the mechanical bull things onto a ridiculously high level, and watch guys who threaten them get rocked by the thing.  3:  (Adj) To be born without sense of humor.  4:  Vanna White

Superpower of the Day:

Super Speed.  Did I use this one?..........Anyways, for the first time throughout all of high school I've stopped running awkwardly and I can finally run relatively fast.  Beat out an in field ground ball in church circuit softball on monday and it felt pretty amazin.

Anyways, I've come to figure that life is too short.  Heaven is going to be so awesome, but I might as well live life to the fullest while I'm here as well.  This week I came up with a list of things/jobs I would like to do in my lifetime.  Here she goes. (This list in no particular order).

1.  I'd like to be a comic book artist and complete at least one comic and have it published. 

2.  I'd like to be a studio artist my entire life.  No matter what else I do on the list, I would like to be able to go home and paint and then sell my paintings on the side.

3.  I'd like to be a New England fisherman.  I know it sounds crazy, but this is top priority on my list.  It'd be so awesome to sail out every gray morning and reach in deep to God's beautiful ocean.  What an  adventure it will be. 

4.  I'd like to write a novel and/or collection of short stories.  I've been inspired lately by certain authors, namely Ernest Hemingway and Cormack McCarthy and I've been trying my hand at the art of story telling.  I have no clue what it would be about, but I want it to glorify God, as the rest of my life will.

5.  I think it'd be awesome to be involved in a movie.  Preferrably, it'd be awesome to story board action scenes and maybe help a bit in helping the overall vision of the movie.  However, it'd also be awesome to be some obscure guy in a huge movie so people could be like "Whoah, who's that guy who got killed by Godzilla......?  Is that?  ANDREW???"

6.  I think it'd be awesome to be a fireman.  I really respect those guys who go out everyday and protect people who can't protect themselves.  Firemen get in there and get the job done and they truly put their lives on the line. 

7.  I'd like to fix up a boat in the Caribbean and sail out in it. 

8.  I think it'd be cool to own some small, hole in the wall soup and sandwich shop that sold cheap but quality food.  I'd try to be a good owner and learn the names of what few customers I'd have and talk to them about what goes on in their lives.  This is prolly the least realistic of my goals but I'd still want to try it out.

9.  I'd like to be a bartender.  Let me explain.  I think bartenders get a chance to know more about people than most others in the world.  People go to bars to drink problems away, and it'd be so awesome to be a bartender that wouldn't drink but would be there to help perople sort through their problems and find what they really need, God.  It might be misguided, but I think it'd be an awesome way to help people.

10.  I'm going to be a street artist.  Whether caricature art for people or drawing local scenes from an easle in a park I think it'd be awesome to be out on the street and involve people in the artistic lifestyle.

11.  I think it'd be cool to find a small band that no one cares about and follow them around religiously, going to every show and helping them set up.  It'd be so cool to be a band's numba one fan. 

12.  I want to live the life of the artist through everything, noticing the beauty of all God's work and not taking anything for granted.  I want to live life on the edge and breathe in all the aspects of a fulfilling God-honoring life.

13.  World's best husband.

14.  World's best dad.

I wanted to put the list up because I know I'll lose the one I have on paper whereas online journal will stay up for awhile anyways.  I don't know how many of these I'll accomplish and I'm sure the list will change, but I don't want to be tied down to the same job for years and years.  I want to sample everything while still supporting my family.  These are some of my ideas, what can I say.