Wed - April 4, 2007

Finally....we did it



Current
Music: "I don't Love You" - My Chemical Romance
Mood: Kinda shitty...but there's nothing more I can do.




So this past weekend Sean, Sciullo and I finally lived out our dream of attending Wrestlemania. It was easily the best weekend of my entire life thus far, and even holds a flame to senior trip, and spring break senior year. We've been trying to go to Wretlemania for a few years now, and we finally were able to pull it off thanks to a travel package offered through the WWE. A few months ago either Sean of Jeff suggested we get the travel package, and we all agreed on Silver. This was the best choice I've ever made. Period.

We were set to leave early Friday morning, around 9am, so Sean came over Thursday night and slept over. We both hardly slept at all in anticipation of the upcoming trip. By the way, I'll have pictures posted in a few days, I just need to get the cord from my pops to hook the camera up to my computer. So anyway, Friday morning we went to Sciullo's and picked him up and started on our 5 hour journey to the motor city, Detroit, Michigan. I gave Sciullo the luxury of shotgun for the entire trip up there, because I was just enjoying the view from the back seat the entire way up. Lemme just say this, Ohio is the most boring fucking state in the world to drive through. No hills, no mountains, nothing...just boring as hell. At one point in the ride we all hated each other, but then no more than 30 seconds later loved each other again...it was just a joke tho, haha. The ride up was mainly filled with Wrestlemania predictions, the sentence game, and tunes by those guys known as "The Beatles."

We eventually made it to Detroit, no thanks to Sean's crazy swerve driving, haha. We found our hotel and I damn near shat myself when I saw it. The place we stayed was more of a giant complex with 5 buildings, 4 of which were offices, and one was the hotel. We got there around 3 and our room wasn't even ready yet, so we just had to sit in the lobby with our luggage. Sean and I talked to this cop outside with the best "I'm going to fuck around with you" attitude, and parked his car. So we get back and Sciullo has all of our gifts/tickets from WWE ready. We waited a little longer in the lobby, and then our room was finally ready...on the 56th floor of the hotel. By no means am I afraid of heights, but holy shit was this crazy to look down from. From our window you could see across this lake to Canada, or into the city, where Ford Field and the baseball stadium were. The view was amazing, and we could see for miles upon miles. Our hotel was so bad ass though, the beds were comfortable as fuck...but there was only two. Oh well, we came up with a plan so each person would have a bed to themselves one night. We put all the food Sean and Jeff brought on ice, which we used our sink for, and a bag in our tub, haha. At that point we just kind of layed around the hotel and waited for the time we'd be leaving for the world premiere of Steve Austin's movie, "The Condemned." Throughout this I'm gonna mention some funny things that happened, that I wrote down..here's the first. I was being an ass, and sat on Sean, which was followed by this comment, "I felt your asshole separate nicely on my leg." Probly won't be funny to anyone else, but I guess you just had to be there for it. So we were hanging out and just talking about how awesome the weekend was gonna be and I said to Sean, "dude, we're here...why did we do it..." and before Sean could say anything, I said, "cuz we wanted to." We were also talking about next year's WM, and how we want to go, and for those of you who don't know, Sean may be getting a nice chunk of change pretty soon in a lawsuit, so we talked about going next year and Sciullo says to Sean, "we'll see how far your lawsuit takes us." We all got a good laugh about it. So this was all while we were getting ready and putting on our suits for the movie premiere. We hop on the DPM(Detroit People Mover) and head over to the Fox Theater...or so we thought. We make our way over to the theater and see a line of gothic looking kids wearing all black...Sciullo says, "man this is a rough crowd." We agree, and stand in line...a few minutes later I hear an oh so familiar whistle...I look over and see the crazy vendor from Mellon Arena, TC. We were blown away that he was in Detroit, but we loved it. So we're standing in line, and eventually realize...we're standing in line for the STONE SOUR concert, wearing suits. No wonder all the people looked at us funny. So we went into the Fox Theater and we're finding seats, and Sean takes a picture. Here we go...security guy comes over and takes Sean outside, makes him throw his batteries away for his camera, bummer. We saw a bunch of wrestlers n shit, and that was sweet. The movie ended up kicking ass, so go see it. After the movie we got back on the DPM and headed back to the hotel. While on the DPM Sean says, "dude where do we get off." Without even thinking, and not trying to be a dick I immediately shot back, "same place we got on." This got a laugh from the other people around us, and I felt bad, haha. We ended up back in our room and were hungry so we went and looked for some food, saw a guy walking through the lobby by chance with pizza, and got the number. Funny side story...Sean got hit on by a gay guy Thursday who gave Sean his number...for some reason, Friday comes, and it was still in Sean's pocket. So we were talking about it later and I said, "he had this gay mans pocket in his number." Ooops...I fucked up, haha. Eventually we got tired and went to sleep in preparation of Saturday mornings activities...and then something happened around 4am....but that's saved for the next edition. Suckers.


Good day for now.


-Steve

Posted at 09:58 PM    

Tue - May 9, 2006

New Crew > Old Crew...kind of...



Current
Music: "Lipstick and Bruises" - Lit
Mood: Excited, ready for full out SUMMER

So Kennywood started on Friday and I gotta admit, I came into this year pessimistic about how fun it would be or how long I would be at the park this year. However, even after just the first three days, I honestly think this summer is gonna blow away last year in some ways. Some things can never be replaced though, like the karrousel every sunday night, tellin Darius he licks balls every night leaving the park, or going to Friday's with the old crew and watching JPH stuff 13 lemon slices in his mouth at once. Haha, or when JPH jumped in the fountain outside of cold stone at the water front, I just can't see stuff like that happening this year. Plus I'm gonna miss a few people who had been with me since my first year at the park, without them I don't think I woulda lasted more than a year. Anyway, now that I just gave a fake acceptance speech about nothing, this year is gonna be awesome, I can already tell. I wasn't sure how well I'd fit in with a new crew, because I remember my first year I was kind of just, to myself most of the first month. I think bein a manager last year and opening up and just talkin to everyone helped though. I think this summer will be better because there's not anyone that I'm like "wow, I can't stand this person." Last year I had at least 4 people like that everyday that I just DID NOT want to talk to or see. Hopefully I don't start to hate anyone this year, because I just like to chill, and have fun. Honestly though, no matter how cool the crew is this year...nothing will top my crew from summer 04...we were just fucking awesome.
On top of working rides this year I'll be working sound tech on Fridays and Saturdays. So far it's pretty sweet, and I get to work with Bill or Darius...wear khaki shorts, a supervisor shirt and have a bunch of keys to a bunch of things. So I guess getting demoted worked in my favor in a way in the end. I transferred to a new crew with rides that aren't for 5 year olds and 65 year olds...and now I'm in the sound dept. I guess I can thank the supervisors who demoted me, haha.
The first weekend of KW was sweet though...First of all, during training I said I would laugh my ass off if I saw someone fall in the lagoon...and I already got to see it, thanks Adam..haha...Saturday night we had the Racer rockin like you won a million dollars if your train ended up winning. Of course there was some drama, but seriously...it's Kennywood, what else can you expect? Sunday was the shit, we closed at 9 and the end of the night might have been the best thing ever. We're in the tent, talking about how bad it hurts to get ball tapped...and ebony asks why doesn't it hurt when guys are...and she really did this...::makes motion of guy having sex::....now keep in mind as she's doing this Tom, supervisor, just enters the tent and sits down on the bench...as soon as he sat down he stood up and just threw his arms up in the air and goes "seriously, i don't even want to know"...which led to Ebony falling over from laughing. So basically, I might have to wear a cup to work now because they tried to ball tap all the guys on the way out....remember, tittie twisters will be handed out on a regular basis if it comes down to it.
For real though, our crew acts like a crew that's been together for a few months already and it's only been a weekend. I was talkin to Erica in Racer booth and said, hopefully I can take some "kennywood friends" and make them "real friends" from this crew, like I have in the past..haha

I'm gonna get rollin though...gotta wake up at 6am in order to make it to the park by 7 so we can dig up some shit and wire in the rapids/clubhouse to the park sound....laaaaaaaater


-Steve

Posted at 10:59 PM    

Tue - May 2, 2006

I'll Russian Leg Sweep Your Mom



So training at Kennywood has come and gone, I think I'm good to go on all the rides. I'll probly end up screwing up something, although it's kinda hard to screw up at boats, and Racer is kind of a joke...but Skycoaster is crazy. We open this weekend, so hopefully I can smooth everything out that I'm unsure about then. I dig my new crew, everyone seems pretty cool so far. However, I also thought the same thing in my first year at the park when I met everyone. So hopefully everyone stays cool, and they don't fag it up, cuz then I'll be real pissed.
I started up a website recently that Sean, Mike, Nick, JP and I will be posting stuff on. I posted something small to get the site off the ground, and am just waiting on everyone else to start sending me shit so I can post it. I have a feeling though, that nobody will send me anything, and this will be another useless attempt at getting a cool website going. Everyone always bitches that they want a place to post stuff, and they don't have anywhere to post...well here's a website, here's where you can post...let's get some shit rolling. http://homepage.mac.com/sikntwstd8/irlsym check it out, lemme know what you think. If you wanna contribute to the site, lemme know and I'll see what I can do.
Now onto something else that inspired me to write this blog entry...the movie, Silent Hill. I don't care who you are, that was a damn good movie. Sure, it may have been a little difficult to understand at times, but come on people! When they show people walking in the same place, at the same time but in different environments...you gotta understand, THEY'RE DEAD. I hated the ending too, there was noooooo need for that ending, but I'm told that the studio decided to add that in, because the general public wouldn't understand it if they ended without that cheapness. Well, BOO HOO!! There's a ton of movies that end and people are like "wtf?" kinda like ahh, THE RING(1). That movie was fucking TERRIBLE, like...FUCK! I've never seen more loose ends and confusing turns in a movie than were in The Ring. I absolutely hated it, but I loved the 2nd one, so oh well...if you're gonna go see a movie like Silent Hill, take someone who is partially knowledgeable about movies so they can explain it to you. Or you can just not see it at all, your choice, your money.
Another thing that pisses me off...Tina(new KW crew), mentioned this to me the other day and it fired me up. So you're in a grocery store right, and you're lookin for some chips. Yeah, you found the perfect bag and you pay for it, get home and open the bag and....WHAT?! HALF OF A BAG OF CHIPS?! That's some bullshit right there. Either fill the rest of the bag, or make the fucking bag smaller, quit faking me out. It would probly save the companies money if they made the bags smaller too. If they want to make the bags that big, fill them with more chips and sell them for a little more. I just want a fucking bag of chips, that is full. Is that so hard for a company to do? To NOT rip someone off? I guess so...
The Flyers are losing 5-0 right now, and I NEVER EVER EVER thought I'd be pissed off that they're losing. I am though, and it's f'n weird. I hate Buffalo with a passion, and I gotta cheer for RJ because he's the hometown kid playing in the NHL. Fuck Buffalo, and Ottawa...I hope they both get smoked in the next round.


-Steve

Current:
Music: "XO" - Fall Out Boy
Mood: Chiil style, ready for "The Wood" this weekend...

Posted at 08:34 PM    

Tue - April 25, 2006

So it's been a while...



Wow, last time I wrote was really December 4, 2005. I really had nothing important to write about between then and now, but it's almost summer again, and summer is the shit. We had a shit load of cool ass parties at Chesterfield and I'm sure a few of you were there to experience them. If not, there will be a ton this summer, so you'll get a chance to be there. This winter was pretty cool though, finished up another semester at CCAC and I'm headin to Cal U in the fall for Communications - Radio/Television. So I'm lookin forward to goin there eventually. I'm on a new crew this summer at Kennywood, and so far it seems like it's gonna be the shit. Yeah, I'll miss workin the AutoRace cuz it was fun as hell and I knew it like the back of my hand. However, it'll be cool to get away from those rides and move onto some new rides. You'll be able to find me at Skycoaster/Racer/Paddle Boats...so if anyone is comin to the park and wants to visit me, you'll know where. The playoffs are going on now, and neither the Pens or Leafs are in this year, which is depressing as hell. The worst part is, I've found myself actually hoping the Flyers win, but ONLY so RJ can get his name on a cup. They're down 2-0 in the series, but I think they can come back and pull off the win. For the record, fuck Ottawa. ECW is coming back, that's easily the best thing I've heard in years. For those of you who don't know what ECW is, you can just go ahead and dive off a cliff. If it comes back in the capacity I'm imagining, it's gonna be....extreme....

Yeah, this entry sucks so far, but I just gotta get back in my groove and I'll be good to go. First time I hear of some shitty story, or something that's funny as hell...I'll be sure to update....g'day mates...


-Steve

Current:
Music: "Touch The Sky" - Kanye West
Mood: Content with life.

Posted at 12:16 AM    

Sun - December 4, 2005

IT'S CALLED A CHRISTMAS TREE


Disclaimer: I say some things in this post that may offend you, sorry...but hey, shit happens. I make reference to a certain religion, because 99% of the time, it's them bitching...

So I sign on AIM the other day, and I'm just lookin around online and I find this link to a poll that didn't really piss me off at first, so I took the poll. The poll read,
What do you call it?
Christmas Tree
Holiday Tree

Obviously I voted for Christmas tree, and it won like 97% to 3% out of 300,000 some odd people at the time I took it. So I got kinda fired up that even 3% of that 300,000 called it a holiday tree. Who in blue hell decided to even attempt to change the name of a Christmas tree to Holiday tree? I'll tell you who, some JACKASS up in Boston that thought the city calling their tree a Christmas Tree was dated and not politically correct anymore. Well you know what the Mayor of the city did when some group decided it wasn't politcally correct? That bad ass dude called it a CHRISTMAS TREE, while they lit the mother fucker up in the town square. This king who donated the tree said that if he knew the tree wasn't going to be called a Christmas tree, he would have fed it to the wood chipper. That right there is a cool ass dude. Rather than donate his big ass tree to be called something dumb, he would just toss it away. Kudos sir. For once, Christian conservative groups are doing the right thing and saying that not calling it a Christmas tree will belittle the holiday, and I agree with them 100%. The group that wants it changed might as well go after Chanuka or however the fuck you spell it. Why can't we call it a Christmas tree, which it is, yet Jews can call their candelabra, a Menorah. Why do they get a special name for their holiday? How come they can call a dreidel that? Why isn't it just a top? Because that's all it is, a modified top. What's next? They're gonna start calling Christmas presents, Holiday presents? That is where I draw the fucking line, because that's just down right trying to change part of a religion. Might as well not even call it Christmas, just call it X-Mas, so everyone can celebrate it and we're not excluding anybody. Why is it that the average white man is always screwed out so that everything can be politically correct? Or maybe we'll change Thanksgiving break to Turkey Break so that it doesn't exclude any of the people in the United States that don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Better yet, let's change Independence Day(4th of July) to just United States Freedom Day, so that all the dirty Mexicans and other illegal immigrants in our country aren't offended. Since our country seems to care about their well being so much. "Fuck the people who came here legally, let's help out all the fuck bags that snuck over the border and are here illegally and taking work from our legal citizens." Fuck that shit. It's called Christmas, they're Christmas presents, it's a Christmas tree, and it's still known as Christmas break to kids all around the country. Politically correct? WHO THE FUCK CARES, GET THE FUCK OUT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT.

Oh yeah, can't call it Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation or Christmas music....soon they're gonna be Holiday Story, Holiday Vacation and Holiday Music...and all Holiday music will be edited to say holiday any place it says Christmas. Ralphy doesn't want a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas, he wants it for X-Mas....FUCK THAT, IT'S STILL CHRISTMAS!!!

UPDATE: SNL followed up on the original story from Boston, and RUINED that shit, they had Christmas songs, religious ones, and changed the words, and it was hilarious.

And would it hurt you jerks to comment on my posts? I see that 904 people have read my blog, and I only have like 7 comments total...COME ON!!!


-Steve

Current:
Music: "Holly Jolly CHRISTMAS" - Burl Ives
Mood: CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 04:58 AM    












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