"Hell will be forever for rent"

Oh, the evangelist Billy Sunday, you had high hopes for prohibition, but they did not turn out the way you had hoped. I really love reading about prohibition and the 20's in general. I do it every time history is boring. I must have read the chapter entitled "Life in the Roaring Twenties" five or so times over by now. These "I am" speeches we have to give, where we dress up a person, and give an autobiographical speech as them, they were scheduled as such that I miss being able to do someone from the 1920's by a few years. So I can't be Billy Sunday and preach against the evils of alcohol, and I can't be Al Capone and explain how my career as a "Furniture Broker" got me where I am today. It's all right, history still interests me, but the roaring twenties, those are just really fascinating to me.

Tonight is the night before our first play performance. We've been working on "Cheaper by the Dozen" since about February I believe, and it's been a pretty good time. Most of the people in the cast were already my friends before we started working on it, with the exception of the two freshmen, who I like a lot now. I guess there is hope for that class after all. This will be a weekend of craziness, 4 performances in 3 days. And after that, well, prom.

I'm planning on actually enjoying prom this year. What a novel idea. I'm really looking forward to it. That's all for now. I'm sure I'll discuss it more afterwards.

This past weekend was the talent show, which Becca and Bethy came down for. Thanks, you two. It really does mean a lot. I feel kind of bad, because they had to ride all that way down to see us play for like 3 minutes, and I don't think we even played that well. Granted, a musician is his own harshest critic, but it's been better. Oops, I digress. Anyway, thanks. You definitely hold the distance record for coming to see us play.

Aside from that, I just felt I should make a post and all. I should learn more songs on acoustic, requests anyone? Not that more that 2 or 3 people even read this, but we need stuff for prom. Until then, stay safe, stay sober, and enjoy whatever weather we have. It's all good.

Hours pass...

Today I had a snow day, it was alright. We went to Ming's, and Ming's was a pretty good time. As usual. Then we went to Meyer's and watched That 70's Show, which is less funny the more I watch it. It's just not a very funny show, and it has an obnoxious laugh track. I got excited, because while we were flipping through channels, we caught part of a Dutch-British soccer game between PSV Eindhoven (Which reminds me...try the Google maps directions from Madison, WI to Eindhoven, Netherlands...it's amusing how they have you get there) and Liverpool. It turned out that it was a replay of a a game anyway, but still. I didn't know the outcome.

I just googled it, and Liverpool won 1-0. That's not too shocking. Liverpool is a good team, and actually is now owned by Americans, just like Manchester United and Aston Villa, and possibly Arsenal in the future. Their next game in the championship cup is against Chelsea, who are basically the Yankees of British soccer, along with Manchester United. Go Liverpool, I suppose. Peter Crouch is a great striker (and like 6'7''), but he's British and has stereotype-confirmingly bad teeth. He also does the robot after he scores goals. What a guy.

According to this result, however, that wasn't a replay of the game, or at most a couple hours later than the actual game. I wish we would have watched it.

I've determined soccer for me is like bands for Evan. I think this was determined while I was talking to Evan about this. The comparison is that Evan looks up bands he likes and finds out way more about them than anyone would need to know, and is really interested by it. I do the same thing with soccer...and the similarity is that when we tell people, they are totally disinterested. I guess we aren't up on interesting topics, but to each their own. I'd be a smash hit in England.

Jake Hanke is the only person who shares a remotely similar interest in the topic. I talk to him about "futbol" when we get the chance, I guess he's going to be an assistant coach on the team too? He also has Scrubs seasons on DVD. Score!

That's a really great show.

Hey! I don't have any idea what I even blog about! What did I blog about before? Was my life filled with some sort of drama that I am completely devoid of now? I think I just let everything roll off my back a lot more than I used to. It's kind of a good thing I suppose, because if you never get your hopes too high, they never fall too far. But they also never get to be high, which is bland and uninteresting, just like the good old Blake Samanas blog. Better nothing happen than bad things happen I guess. It all evens out. Life won't bore me out of my mind for long, will it?