Archive for June, 2006

a whole summer’s worth of dreams

June 25, 2006

Friday night I didn’t go out. Fell asleep when I got home from work at 6 and slept all the way until 10 in the morning on saturday. I swear I had a whole summer’s worth of dreams in one night.

p.s. I need to get a new cellphone. my current one is such an ancient piece of shit that I probably will have to reenter all the phone numbers manually. Most of these are of people I barely talk to, but of course you still have to enter all their names in just so you know not to answer when they call. This is also the best reason to enter my number into your phone.

mr evasion

June 24, 2006

So Wednesday night, I was driving home from target eating some goldfish crackers and blasting my pretty things cd(coincidentally, the song “mr evasion” was playing). As I was about a block from my house, my phone rang. Never one to miss a call, I was reaching for my cell as it vibrated in my pocket and I turned kind of “sketchily”. All of the sudden, there was a cop behind me shining his spotlight getting ready to pull me over because he must have thought I was drunk or something. Rather than wait for him to pull me over and get a ticket for no registration and no insurance and god knows what else, I simply parked my car and got out while talking on the phone loudly and cheerfully pretending I didn’t see him. I just walked off, and I looked back to see the cop stop and park next to my car. I walked all the way around the block and cut through the alley back to my house.
After a half hour or so, I took a peek outside down the street, and sure enough the cop was still there with his lights flashing and looking at my car. At this point I called Clint to discuss strategy and warn him of the situation, and I live with a cop who happened to be home so I went in the bathroom to talk and left the water running so no one could overhear anything. I couldn’t go back to my car because the cop would have asked a lot of questions and potentially given me various fines, run my name(s) as well as go through my wallet and ask about my various “ID’s”. About two hours later, I decided the cop would probably be gone by now, so I walked the long way around only to find as I almost turned the corner, that he was right there waiting for me. I didn’t look directly at him though, and I kept walking only this time when I came back around the other side of my street, there was another cop sitting there! With no way home, I went to AM/PM and bought a bottle of aquafina so it looked like I was actually going somewhere. With no way home, I called Jeff and told him to meet me at Hollywood video in 10 minutes, and I proceeded to make my way there via alleys and side streets. When I finally made it to Hollywood video, I swear it felt so great it was just like when Chevy chase finally got to Wally World(before he discovered that it was closed and went crazy.)Hollywood Video was open though, so I browsed around and briefly checked out all of the crappy new releases and remakes of great and mediocre 70′s films. Jeff got there right on schedule, and drove getaway back to his apartment on central and camelback in downtown phoenix, or “the belly of the beast” as I like to call it(for those who know). I tried to get him to go to bikini lounge, because the ordeal was so intense that it made me want to go there and (censored) but he was too tired. I was slightly exhausted myself, and crashed on his couch using only my arm as a pillow. Thursday after work I went home planning to find my car towed, plates taken or some sort of ticket attached at the very least. Much to my surprise, the car and the plates were intact without even so much as a note attached to it. I got off scot-free!

Today I went and bought some insurance and got my car registered. As always, at that moment where I have to give them my license at the dmv so they can run it I always get slightly nervous at what will come up. My hand was shaking a little, and I looked around for what would be the nearest exit if I had to run for it. The guy at the counter looked at his computer screen said “oh no, that’s not good” and went in the back for a while, when he came out he handed me my new title and registration, and I left. So now my car is legal, thanks to the highly affordable prestigious institution of “Coast National Insurance”, whom I’ve never heard of until today.

The whole event was reminiscent of the days of skateboarding and running from the cops downtown and making our way down treacherous ravines in the pitch black to escape busted house parties in the middle of nowehere.

sweatin to the oldies

June 10, 2006

I have a car again(no AC), which means I’ll be driving around “sweatin to the oldies” literally. I don’t like to listen to cds in the car, because I like the unpredictability of when a great song comes on the radio at just the right time even though you have to suffer through a lot of crap in between. Though I reserve the right to change my mind about this.

I’m not really into dating and romance these days. I sort of lost interest in it in favor of my old ambitions and megalomania. I just laugh about love, seems so silly to me to get caught up in that nonsense.

I think Andie Macdowell said it best in the movie “Sex, Lies and Videotape”:

Being happy isn’t all that great. I mean… the last time I was… really happy… I got really fat.

What I really wish I had was a partner in crime, a sidekick. I just sort of drift from group to group, and I have a friend or two in every group, but I don’t quite belong in any of the groups. Most people have one friend that they do everything with, and they see the world the same, yet subtly different way. They’re down to do the same things, eat at the same places. I’ve had such partners from time to time, but definitely not here, not now.

Oh yeah, and I disappeared for a while, so need to wonder where I was. I went to Florida, California, Pennsylvania, and my grandma’s for easter. I also stopped going out for a while, as I like to get things accomplished once in a while like writing new songs, and playing super nintendo.

50 more facts about Brandon Adamson

June 6, 2006

1. I am an only child.

2.I have an excellent memory. I can often remember events even more vividly than the people who were actually there.

3. When I was a kid I was a typical imaginative 80′s loner boy (think the kid from “Time Bandits”). I read a ton of books as a child, everything from greek mythology and Choose Your Own Adventures, gihugic english textbooks to mad magazine. I attribute most of my personality to these early influences(in addition to 1980′s HBO movies).

4. I’ve been called a narcissist, but really I’m just a guy who wants to relax and play super nintendo.

5. I’m a very shrewd businessman.

6. I’m not religious. I don’t believe in god or any of that nonsense.

7. I’m a republican I’m pretty sure that my conservatism can be traced to watching Michael J Fox in “Family Ties” as a little kid.

8. I’m mostly obsessed with working on music, writing and various creative things. Everything else I consider to be just killing time.

9. I mostly go everywhere by myself. A lot of people think this is weird, but I like to go shopping and stuff and just daydream while I do it, and I just don’t have much need for human contact. When I was a kid I used to play basketball by myself, and I would play as both the teams, and keep score in my head. Sometimes I made up elaborate tournaments with many different teams, and played as all of them myself.

10. I grew up in a giant old house with 14 bedrooms. The entire third floor I had all to myself, and I would just stay up there and play nintendo, and read. We had an intercom system in the house that my mom and stepdad would yell at me through. My stepdad used to call me “Howard Hughes” because he thought I was such a hermit. It was meant to be derogatory but as I got older more and more I began to take it as a compliment.

11.I used to go deerhunting with a bow and arrow with my dad. I have a strange nostalgia for this.

12. Another reason I go places by myself is that I can never find people who want to do the same things I want to do regularly, but rather then give up, I just do them alone.

13. In the 6th grade I did my “hero” report on Richard Nixon. I came to the conclusion that he was the best leader the United States had ever had. And like the line in the song “Sweet Home Alabama” says Now, Watergate does not bother me. Does your conscience bother you? Now tell the truth…

14. I like girls who are lonely, clingy and aggressive. I don’t ever go for the girl who’s in high demand, because I know she’ll always be too busy to really get close to. I go for the girl who’s not in high demand, but that I feel deserves to be. So often when it’s between two people, we choose the wrong one. I’m kind of at the point where I choose none of them.

15. I have an amazing collection of garbage pail kids. Thousands upon thousands, many in laminated plastic cases. They’re at my mom’s house in Pennsylvania.

16. Once I make up my mind that I like you, I’ll like you even if you don’t like me. I don’t mean that in a romantic way even, just in a friend way. Lots of times girls have hated my guts and thought I was the biggest creep, but I always said nice things back hoping eventually they might understand, and sooner or later they decided I was all right.

17. I think objectively. I’m so objective that when someone doesn’t like me, I can totally understand why. Sometimes I get into debates with people, and I end up arguing the other side’s viewpoint better than they can. Most people see things as “only they have the answer and everything is just the way they see it”. I don’t see it that way.

18. I’m always fighting with girls ever since I can remember. I tend to really gamble with them and say things and push the envelope. A lot of people have had to apologize and make excuses for me over the years to keep me from getting my ass kicked as a result of something I’ve said to a girl.

19. I only stop hating my ex-girfriends when I don’t like them anymore.

20. I’m more of an asshole than I am shy. The other day I was at a restaurant eating and minding my own business when a girl started talking to me. After saying a lot of flattering things, she said “I swear I’ve never seen someone look so uncomfortable in my life”. but in my mind I was thinking,”Hey, I just want to eat my lunch, and I wish I could throw a fork at your head to make you stop talking, but then I would go to jail and make a scene and I was well raised and have good manners so I’ll just act mildly annoyed and maybe you will go away”. Occasionally i lose my temper and just have it out with these kinds of “unsolicited talkers”.

21. I’m currently reading “The Man Who Folded Himself”. It’s a 70′s sci fi novel about a guy who time travels and ends up meeting tons of different versions of himself, and even having sex with some of them. I discovered it on the $1.00 shelf outside the book store on Mill ave.

22. I like things that get a lot of bad reviews, because most people are two dimensional, so if something is rejected by the mainstream, even if it is truly bad, it must at least be interesting.

23. I’m terrified of relationships, because I’m always afraid that one might actually work out, and that would be the end of all my dreams because I’d just end up getting married or something.

24.I don’t like most people. I don’t have all that much respect for human life.

25. The city of Phoenix and I have a mutual understanding with one another. Neither of us takes the other one seriously.

26. I like to give girls hickeys. I guess it’s because girls like to pretend when they’re in public that they’re not slutty, while secretly they’re slutting it up. So if you can leave some kind of mark on them that makes it harder for them to go about their daily charade with a straight face. I let them do it back to me though and they always do it 10 times worse.

27.I also kind of have a foot fetish.

28. I love to dance. I love dancing with friends. I love dancing with randoms.

29. My new line is “You’re not even old enough to remember when I used to give a fuck”

30. I’m mostly nice.

31. I like internet friends. They’re not really real, but sometimes you think about them or stuff they write, and it’s just weird. It’s this strange new medium that is having unknown psychological effects on all of us.

32.I love to lay around in my room and watch movies and listen to records.

33.I have this new way of determining whether someone’s relationship will work out. If I see a girl who’s attractive and looks remotely interesting, and she’s dating a guy who I consider to be wack. Then their relationship will probably succeed.

34.I’m very observant. I often get hung up on details.

35. The one thing all my ex girlfriends have in common is that they all got fatter and happier after we broke up.

36. I would never date a girl who had a kid. I mean how can we be partners in crime? Can you imagine Bonnie and Clyde with some carseat in the back? It turns into “Raising Arizona” and basically just ruins the whole ambience.

37. I’m really into girls who are straightforward and make the extra effort.

38. I would have made a great dictator because I value loyalty over ability.

39. I reciprocate.

40. I’m notoriously cold. One time when I was in class, this girl was doing a presentation on divorce and in the middle of it she started crying uncontrollably because apparently her parents had been divorced, and the whole classroom was silent, and I just started laughing out loud and they all looked at me like I was the biggest jerk in the world, but I just couldn’t understand why she thought it was such a big deal. I mean if you can’t deal with something as trivial as divorce in the family, what good are you to the human race as it faces real challenges like space colonization or saving humanity from itself? And yes I recognize the irony in that statement.

41. I love to eat. I’m the hungriest kid.

42. I like to make out.

43. I’ve come to the conclusion that 11:11 wishes are an ineffective tactic in romance.

44. I’m a misogynist.

45. Most people always try to change things about their personality that they perceive as bad. But I’m totally fine with my idiosyncracies. I just go with it. That bothers some people.

46. I often question conventional wisdom. I sometimes think the South should have won the civil war.

47. I used to want to join the french foreign legion. Then I realized that the French no longer have much of an empire. It used to be you could go to romantic places like algeria and indochina and die in battle. Nowadays you’d probably just end up in Chad or some other ragtag third world country bored out of your mind.

48. I have road rage.

49. “I know, like I don’t know, you know? it’s cool.” This statement pretty much sums me up.

50. who cares…


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