2003-04-29 - 10:23 a.m.

4/23.2003

So i go down to the KDVS fundraiser at 4 pm on Wednesday. There is a ridiculous amount of people in the studio. I walk in to see what is going on. Teresa shouts out Rob Roy. It is right after easter so there is an insane amount of peeps kara bought boxes and boxes and boxes of Peeps in bunny and egg and chic let form for $3. Their is pink and yellow sugar on the counters. I walk over to the microphone. I’m supposed to count down and everyone is going to put these peeps (ingredients: marshmallow, sugar, and food coloring). I count down and when everyone’s mouths are full i bust into my radio persona. i then get all pumps up and excited. I own the airwaves for a brief moment and the adrenaline infuses in my blood stream. I then join the peep orgy. Four at a time I stuff eight peeps in my mouth. Teresa sees this and is amazed. Esa thinks I’m mad. I have never had a Peep in my lifetime until i stuff these eight pink bunnies in my mouth. No one else could fit more than fore in their mouths. i was a regular Steven Tyler. Later i told everyone that i was going to die because i’m allergic to pink. I actually get a buzz from the sugar. It was more of a head ache and a hyperactivity, but it had the same potency as about one bottle of beer.

Although it says in the manual for the fundraiser that we are not supposed to beg - that is all we are doing. Give us money. give us money. Give us money. Call 1-800-862-6102. Give us money. Go to kdvs.org. Give us money. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I then stand around and talk to everyone and wait for Dr. Andy to show up. Now that i am used to the folk at KDVS i like most of everyone. They stay wary of the new people so the new people stay wary of them. that is what i did, but know that marina, Esa, and Teresa know me and are used to me then we all get along. At first i thought everyone was pretentious, but now i realize its only some of the people.

Dr. Andy shows up and we set up the studio. we talk about who is supposed to be on the show: Susun Boyd (the Mayor of davis), Virginia Henshaw (Vice Chancellor of Davis), Aaron Difranco (Professor at Davis), and Mike Thompson (U. S. Congressional Representative).

The News program runs late and Dr. Andy ponders cutting it off. The problem was teresa got a little too excited and took her show late. So dr. Andy has to start his show late. we decide that for $100 I’ll write a poem for someone. If we get to $750 dr. Andy will rap and if we hit $1000 then I will perform “Howl” on the quad while only wearing a Speedo. During the show i talk to fast and barely annunciate my words. I’m surprised people don’t just hit me to get me to slow down and maybe make sense. dr. Andy certainly wouldn’t hit me. He is far too patient of a man. The highlight of the show for me was my impersonation of Christopher Walken reading Emily Dickinson.

last week I co-hosted Dr. Andy’s show and i got an e-mail from my friend Gina saying she heard me on the radio. I have e-mailed her several times over the course of the week. now I’m not attracted to Gina, which is regardless because she has a boyfriend, but i have the hots for her best friend Jenny. I met them in a film class i took last quarter. They dressed with an eccentric genius that stood them out from the rest of the class. Jenny has this habit of wearing skirts and my eyes have this habit of being addicted to her legs. normally i’m not a leg guy but i make an exception with her legs. She wears high boots a lot of the times so she only shows a few inches of skin, just those few inches below the knee, but those few inches gives me about two inches of smile on my faces and few inches of something else somewhere else on my body.

So this week when i hosted Dr. Andy’s show i was pleasantly surprised to see Jenny and Gina walk into the station right as i was finishing. I had e-mailed a message to gina that mentioned that i was going to co-host the show. i was just expecting them to listen, but it was nice (nice is an understatement) to see them.

When they fist showed up we wear rapping up and Jenny was holding a card that asked “how much for your dignity?” A smaller question on the card asked, “$134.47?” When i looked at the inside it showed a cartoon of me bouncing on a pogo stick wearing a klan outfit that says ‘What Would Henry Rollins Do?” Jenny says that she will donate 4134.47 to KDVS if I practice what i preach. Earlier in the year i told them about seeing henry Rollins. henry has a story about his idea on defeating the KKK. What we all should do is make a crazy Klan outfit and turn a Klan rally into a party that accepts every race and sexuality. She tells me that she heard me on the radio (she was actually the one that heard me last week and told Gina) and wanted to walk over to the station while I was still on the air to surprise me with the request. but she actually drew the cartoon while she was walking to lower freeborn hall. I say a lot of crazy stuff and i find it so sexy for a woman to hold me to my words. A woman that keeps me honest is a woman that i want.

I show the two of them a little bit of the KDVS station, but not too much - its always best to leave the opportunity of a second visit and a reason to hang out again. KDVS is actually the only radio signal that makes its way into Jenny’s apartment. Her television antenna does not work either, so as she stands in the radio station she stands in the only media center that reaches the privacy of her own home.

I introduce the two of them to Todd U. and Stephanie and Gary, all peculiar KDVS DJs. They look at all the band and concert posters of the walls. There is a black flag poster rom 1986 hanging up on the walls. the three of us are surprised that punk rock historians don’t pillage the wallpaper of the room.

The two of them are off to Gina’s move class. i ask if I can attend. They say sure. originally i was going to go to Delta Venus on this night. i attend the open mic there every week. But what for? I like doing it, but Faith will be there and she’ll just call me an uptight misogynist just to get a rise out of me. I’d be hanging out with Dan and Chris but I hang out with all the time. And there are things that I hope to do with jenny that i would never consider doing with dan and Chris, if you know what i mean.

We walk over to Olsen hall. We are early for the film class so we go over to the vending machines. The two of them debate over what to get. jenny pays for a diet Coke but the machine jams so we spend a few minutes abusing the machine. Jenny kicks it. I try to be a brute and lift it up just enough to jiggle a Coke can out. I’m no hero. Jenny loses her seventy five cents and does not get her Coke from this machine. So we move on to the other machine.

eventually we sit in the classroom and they talk about the massive amount of the queers in the class that aren’t there yet. The class supposedly has an unofficial seating chart. my presence may tweak that but i’m not leaving. When asked where i should sit i ma given the option to sit next to Gina or Jenny so i walk to the end of the row to pick up a newspaper. this gives me an excuse to sit next to Jenny because when i walk back she is sitting on the inside. We then talk about how shitty the California Aggie is.

While people filter in to the classroom i see a bunch of people I know. Gus walks in and says, “Rob Roy.” In a slow low voice that people like to do when they someone they know. I talk to him about the Aggie article that called me a mascot. Gus was the one that called me a mascot. It amuses me so i complain but really it isn’t sincere.

The class is actually homosexual cinema class. The instructor is definitely gay. this pudgy short guy with a blonde afro. But he has a humor and presence to him. I definitely wish i would have taken this class. The movie of the evening is “Desert Hearts.” When watching it Gina and Jenny have a few laughs with each other. Occasionally jenny leans over and whispers a joke in my ear. The film is about lesbians in Reno in 1959. A lot of people think Gina and jenny are lesbians but they aren’t. I wouldn’t be there is they were. well, at least if jenny was. i’m no homophobe, being friends with gay folk isn’t a waste of time, but chasing lesbo tail is a waste of time.

At one point we sit and try to come up with a clever term for the male equivilant of a fag hag. Alas, we can’t be as witty as we would like on the spot.

At their apartment complex. We talk out in front for awhile. Gina walks up stairs. I rarely get to spend time alone with Jenny. I like Gina but as i keep saying i want jenny.

Gina has this idea that when she outside its the only time it really storms in Davis California. But as jenny and i stand outside it starts to sprinkle so we move over to covered area.

I talk to her about falling off rooftops and KDVS and the Klan outfit. The falling off rooftops is in reference to her getting really sugared up when she a camp counselor and she tried to jump on to a tree from a rooftop and messed up. Why are we talking about sugar highs, because jenny heard me snort particles of pink sugar on KDVS today. After all the Peeps were finishes, I did a line. And of course the Klan outfit. It needs to be made so i eventually get her to agree to make it. She offered a reason to spend sometime with her so i grabbed it up. She has a sewing machine and that is the machine that we ill use to make to Klan outfit. But what time could we do it? I say I’m available anytime on friday, we could do it around 7 p.m. She says it need not be that late and offers 5 p.m. the more time i get to look at her, listen to her, watch her move, stand next to her, the happier a man I will be. So then we agree 5 p.m. on friday we will make a tie dyed klan outfit.

Last Saturday i went to a party at dani’s place. She mentioned that there was a party at her place on friday. I never got her number but she did know that I am the webmaster of writeclub.net and my phone number is posted there so she has access to it. My evening with Dani was all right. We kissed and held onto each other. because she was dunk and i was lonely but really she was a distraction. As i talked with dani last weekend I realized that she is hung up over her ex boyfriend Tim. And so she is distracted. I’ve been distracted by several women but jenny has been my fascination since last quarter. i used to sit in the class that she attended and just stare at her. She is pleasant to stare at. i used to open the door for the two of them as they left the classroom and i desperately tried to think of something to say to start up a conversation. until one day i was walking next to them after class and there was a ruckus of frat boys eighty yards away. They said something about them and i said something about them and alas we have been friends since. That night that i talked to them i was very proud of myself because I did. i felt like a little boy. I was attracted to several women last quarter to varying degrees. Although i got a physical connection with Aisha for a night and then a little bit of day she was just a distraction. Although i tell myself that i won’t just focus on one woman because i may (lets be honest i probably will) get rejected. But i’m a monogomous sort of guy, even in my fascinations.

4/24

On thursday morning i am scheduled to do the phones for metal Gina’s program on KDVS. While there I talk to Teresa a nd Marina a little bit. I take a few hundred dollars worth of phone calls. One guy has a crush on Metal gina and donates $75 because of it. he wants to see a picture of her on her web site. Another guy calls up and gives $120. $100 is a birthday present for his son. His son wants to host his own hip hop show. The guy on the phone also wants some black metal CDs. This guy knows a a lot about black metal. For those of you that don’t know, black metal is extremely heavy satanic metal originating from Scandinavia where they more hiss than scream. As a general rule, death metal is growling while black metal is hissing. This guy has a lot of Swedish Black metal so he asks if we have any Finnish stuff. This guy is a father of a teenage boy and he really likes black metal. i can’t get over being amused by that.

I miss my viticulture class again, this time at least it is for KDVS as opposed to sleep. the less i sleep the better because it is just a waste of time. This guy named Nathan D. starts talking to me while i’m trying to leave for amy poetry class. I hate this guy because he is a leach. sometimes i feel like i am a leech. I’m usually not the guy to end conversations but when someone wants to end it then i’m perfectly capable of accepting a conversation's end. This guy is socially inept.

I got all my classes. In-between them i hang out with grace Chris and Kristin. A few people recognize me from my Aggie article and the letter to the editor. this girl named Caitlin seems to be the one i talk to most in the class. She likes be offended. But she fuels some great comedy by me. She’s a good straight man to my crazy man act. i freak out the class by talking about how shitty the aggie is. i repeat some of the comments i made in my aggie letter. maybe i just talk load but my class seems to only pay attention to me before it begins. Or maybe when you talk about how America will be defeated by immigrants and how great of a thing that is people listen.

After class Caitlin says she’ll attend Write Club. I tell her i’ll believe it when i see it. i go to Write Club and talk to Will and bill before hand. then we have our meeting. I read my transcript of the Aggie interview with me. Afterwards we all realize why the article was so fucked up. because i was an ass to the Aggie writer. Dan is an Aggie writer and he says that the guy had it coming.

At Alternative film club James shows as a pre movie a documentary on Andy kaufman. A great choice but the problem with it that no one wanted it to end so we started the film early. then james showed a preview of next week’s movie. “Dawn of the Dead.” The preview was long and gory and kind of paradoxical to show before the screening of “All About My Mother.”

Chris, Dan, and I are a little down because neither own of us brought any beer. I’m not that sad by it because this isn’t really a beer drinking movie and I spend too much money on alcohol so its no big deal.

I keep looking for other people that i know during the screening. I’m a horrible shameless self promoter so i constantly mention any club that i am involved in. I feel sometime validated when more people show up at Write Club and even though AFC is james’ club i feel more validated when more people show up because i help promote it. Although james is the main promoter, but even then, i want him to feel validated.

After the movie we walk over to the M.U.. to visit lisa and talk about house (The Pentagram) where we will live at next year. We just need to find a house. I show them the list i compiled. Chris tales it and says he will call some numbers.

We leave the M.U.. and Dan goes to the right and says he’s going to the turtle house which means he’s going to go fuck his girlfriend. Chris and I with that we could have some direction to turn to that will mean will get to fuck someone, but instead we walk to Woodstock’s pizza and i been Chris a beer. i see Paul Wilbur, rachel, and Dan from legibitron and Nadia at Woodstocks. I also watch a hundred people root against the lakers as the watch basketball on TV. i hate the Lakers, but i won’t expand on that because that will take a long time to tell why. But lets just say that i love the Sacramento Kings.

I buy Chris the beer because he isn’t 21[although as i write this at this moment he is], but he will turn 21 on Saturday night. I then walk back to campus and to KDVS. i call up the station to tell them that they need to let me in. Azver actually opens the door. i didn’t know Azver was volunteering but it was nice surprise. I do the phones for two hours. i sit Jordan and a few other people shoot ruberbands at each other. then at 2 am Annaliese offers me the spot of co-hosting with her and Azver. Azver actually just started volunteering and is really only at KDVS because he has aN English Class with Annaliese and she offered him a spot n her show. I agree that for every $50 we receive during the show i will be pummeled by a giant rubber band. Also if we make $400 I will have my stomach shaven. We make fools out our selves. Azver and I highjack Annaliese’s show, but i don’t she she cared because she wanted us there so she didn’t have to talk that much. James and Kristin call. James i harass because he won’t give out his credit card number but it was all in good fun. When kristin calls I go on about her sexy voice. And it really is. Chris and agree that kristin has a very sultry phone voice. Then Nathan D. calls and makes a request n vinyl. No one really likes Nathan D. Even jenny and Gina know who he is and they don’t like him.

The whole day i was hoping that Jenny would call while I was there. And she eventually did. She called the 1-800 number and as i heard that she pledged $134.47 I became very excited and told her over the air to call up the studio. I had told Azver and Annaliese that i was hoping she would call and they know that i like her so kept trying to steer the conversation away from the crush i have on her. I kept referring to her on the airwaves as the wonderful Jenny but really i wanted to call her the beautiful Jenny. But a man has a rhythm and a path that he has to follow and i don’t wan them interrupting mine. She eventually does call right before the show ends and says it is all about Henry Rollins and what he says to do. Really, this is a woman after my heart. Rollins is my god and she is a fellow disciple. When i say over the airwaves that I’ve agreed to pogo stick in a tie dyed Klan outfit Jordan came in to the studio and made jestures for me to not talk about that. But that was what the caller wanted to talk about. The show ended and we made $174 form 2 to 3 am.

After the show I went and listened to some Danzig and Misfits records on vinyl then I drove home.

{I still have to write about the weekend - i am so far behind in this journal}

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