Dylan Richard

I’ve had a horrible day. Felt sick all day, and just completely out of it. I’ve been surly and bitchy.

But that’s all changed now, thanks to Rodney Anonymous.

Ah, so much better now.

-d.

Sarah leaves in about an hour for a week.
lame.

Dom gets to Chicago in about two days for almost a week.
awesome.

Now, if only I wasn’t spending every free second sitting in front of the computer…

ugh.
-d.

I think Liberation Frequency by Refused might be one of my favorite songs ever.

Also, I’m listening to Parliament’s Chocolate City right now.

Ha… different by a letter.

Awesome.

-d.

-Amazon Prime is pure genius. I know damned well that I’m paying a flat rate to force myself to buy more stuff… and yet I can’t help myself. I have a hard time buying things from anywhere else. Stupid Amazon and stupid me (or.. smart Amazon and smart me…)

-Chicago is fucking cold. I know that this is not news or anything. I forget sometimes, though just how cold it is. When I’m sitting out at the bus stop for 20 minutes waiting for the bus, I remember. Holy crap do I remember.

-I suck at keeping in touch with people. People that I care about and miss. I will literally remind myself everyday to get in touch with Ben and Jape… and I have yet to do it. It’s been months. WTF.
Okay… I took five minutes to email both of them. whew, that’s slightly better.

-I’m getting married this year. At some point. It makes me laugh, because last weekend was our 9 year anniversary. Hilarious.

Excellent excellent.

-d.

At quitting smoking.

Actively seeking ideas.

-d.

Yeah… i don’t normally write this much about classical music…

When I was at the CSO yesterday, I saw that Pierre Boulez is going to be conducting a couple of shows (symphonies? what’s the right word here?) there throughout the year.

I know, awesome, right?

Wait… who the fuck is Pierre Boulez? Well, in addition to being a contemporary composer and conductor [source], he happens to be my dad’s favorite composer. (Also of note, he conducted Zappa…)

So, couple quick phone calls to the family and it looks like my dad is going to be coming out to see a show!

Awesome!

-d.

I went to the symphony today.

Weird.

Here’s what I learned.

Tchaikovsky was gay.
When he was writing his 4th symphony (which is what they were playing today) he decided to get married. Kinda for the hell of it.
He got fan mail from some chick. She essentially said “Marry me or I will kill myself.” Tchaikovsky was like, “Okay. I love the life I have, but Ive been feeling kinda selfish.. So, sure let’s get hitched.”

Weird.

Next concert on my agenda: Earth Crisis reunion show.

Fucking hilarious.

-d.

So… a year ago life was weird. I had a job that I kind of hated. I’d been there for years. I was tired of it. I felt stagnant and bored almost all the time.

So, I came up with a solution.

I would move (back) to California and start over. Again.

Cut to today.

I have a new job, that I love and enjoy.

I walk and take the bus to work.

I have a great group of friends that constantly challenge me to better myself.

I’m working on quitting smoking (my worst habit that I’ve been doing for almost as long as I can remember…)

I’m planning out a wedding (to my wonderful techno-phobic partner of 9 years[next week]).

All in all, life kinda rules right now.

Guess what. I’m not in California.

This might be the first time in my life I can say that I was planning on bailing on life and actually stuck with it. Hooray for me!

Turns out, that if something in your life is sapping your will to live… you can change just that one thing. Shocking!

Onwards and upwards.

-d.

so.

I decided I needed to separate out my personal stuff from my (soon to be exclusively) tech oriented blog.

Since that blog is my “online” name, I figured what better name for my personal blog than my name? So, here’s me. Dylan Richard: more than just a nerd.

werd.

-d.