Saturday, September 6, 2003

Arts, College, and Food

First things first, new MIDI file up top! It is now The Last Kiss, one of my favorite songs. It is also off of their album Black Sails in the Sunset. I really need to put a song from a different album up there, lol.      Anyway, today I woke up around 11:30 AM because my mom woke me up reminding my that my dad was picking my sister and I up at noon. When he did, we went over to a local art show that is just a bunch of artists setting up tents and selling their stuff. It was pretty cool. There was this one guy that I remembered seeing last year when I went. His stuff is really cool. He does hard edge paintings, and I am talking a really hard and fine edge. It is so amazing. Last year I thought he was a graphic designer and he did those things in the computer, but I got up close to them this year and saw the canvas texture. I was very impressed. I wish I had the money to buy one. That was not my favorite, though. My favorite was this one guy that had these abstract, almost tribal and childlike, colorful drawings. They were really neat. I really wish I could have bought one of them. They were so awesome. It looks like something I would like to do with thick crayon or maybe oil pastel.      After we finished there we stopped by Borders, a book and entertainment store, to pick up a book about how to get into the right college since I am very much clueless about how to go about doing this kind of thing. So we got The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College. from what I have looked at of it so far it seems pretty helpful. Mainly I have looked at their listings of good unconventional colleges, and good art and design colleges. Then from there I started to read it from the beginning. I was at my dad's house when I did this, and ended up falling asleep for about three hours, lol. I put the book down before I did this because I felt sleep coming on.      Eventually my dad woke me up around 5:00 PM and asked if I was ready to go eat, so I said, "Yeah." He then took us all to Tanner's Bar and Grill of which he told me about earlier. It is not far from that Lunker's place I mentioned quite a few posts back that had the chicken fingers that tasted like turkey. Tanner's had just recently opened here in Omaha, this was their first weekend being open, and my dad had checked it out previously. I must say it is a pretty good place. the food is good -- I had onion rings, cheese sticks, and a bacon cheeseburger and fries --, and the service was pretty good too. Near the end there was a long wait until the waitress came and checked on us again, but the place was beginning to fill up and she had mentioned earlier that they were short on staff today. I took note of the name and address of the place so maybe I could talk to my newspaper adviser about doing a review on it for the paper.      I called a guy for an interview for one of my stories earlier tonight, but he was not home and I was told that 10:00 AM tomorrow would be a better time to call him. So I guess I am going to have to set my alarm. -__-; I think that is all I have to say...

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