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Re: Sandy Fjord
« Reply #135 on: October 09, 2008, 03:06:27 pm »

Of course.  I don't get many opportunities to make horrible jokes at school, so I have to do it here.  Y'know, relieve some of the pressure.


So, there was an obligatory meeting in the gymnasium for all the guys.  I thought we were finally going to practice the skits.  We didn't.

Instead, we were there to practice the song written by a couple of the other guys, which we are to sing at the very end of all the other Girl party festivities.  All of us are to sing it.

He probably should have made more copies.  Even with most of us huddled together, there were a few guys who didn't get much chance to look at the lyrics.  I was one of them.

But hey, that's okay.  When you've got thirty voices all singing at roughly the same time, nobody can hear you.

After a couple times through the song, we noticed some big ropes attached to the ceiling and started a climbing competition.  Then it just devolved into random swinging until most everyone filtered out of the gym.

But we're going to be meeting up again tomorrow!  Sometime around four.  And then we'll practice the sketchy stuff.  Maybe.

Or maybe we'll just spend an hour proving our primate ancestry again.


I also hear rumors among the Film group that we're going to have interviews with more members of Satan's Foreskin.  There's a little interview with a couple of the band's more prominent members at the end of the music video, but I guess they felt they needed more.

Naturally, they have to be real pansies for the interview.  Talking about the time when they played in a kindergarten and a couple kids ended up getting pretty scared.  Almost to the point of tears.

Almost.


But, naturally, it's all in Norwegian.  Not that it's that great of a loss though.  The video itself is undeniably the show-stealer.

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« Reply #136 on: October 12, 2008, 12:35:11 pm »

Well, that was interesting.


The day of the party started out slightly earlier than I would have expected.  I was lying in bed and trying to snatch a couple more minutes of sleep before my alarm was set to go off when I heard some sounds coming from the door.  I look up and see a group of girls slowly opening the door and peeking in.

The only time I lock the door is when I'm not in the room.  When I'm inside, the door is either unlocked or downright open.

Anyways, in come a group of girls in their nightclothes (or at least "comfy clothes"), padding along very softly and carrying cups of cocoa.  We each got a cup while we sat in bed, along with some softly spoken "good morning"s.  Not to mention some titters of laughter at our groggy states.

Hell of a way to start a morning, I'd say.

It moved from that to breakfast, which was decidedly unremarkable aside from the buzz of anticipation and general good cheer everyone had.  Some time after breakfast, the guys assigned to massage duty went into the gymnasium to set up shop and go through a quick recap of what we were supposed to do when massaging our clients.

The massage group had fifteen guys in it, and with roughly sixty girls to massage we were going to need four shifts.  For me, the first round wasn't quite what I might have hoped.  I was a bit tense about getting the massage right, and the girl who sat down at my station wasn't leaning on the front of the chair, so she was using more of the muscles to keep herself upright (why'd it have to be a shoulder massage?  Things are damned difficult if you're gonna do it right).  I don't think it went smashingly, but I can hope that she at least got something good out of it.

The second shift was incomplete, so my station was empty.  One of the guys was sent out to look for more girls to fill the spots, but there weren't any around.  I assume that they were still sleeping (it was about 10:30 at the time, and on a Saturday that's still within sleeping range).  Third shift was missing one girl.  Namely, my station.  I got sent out to see if I could find anyone, and I managed to find someone who hadn't gotten her massage yet.  She seemed a bit confused about the whole thing, since she thought she had a later appointment.

That round was better, but again, not perfect.  For the first massage, I was nervous.  For the second massage, she was nervous.  Took quite a bit before I could get her to loosen up a bit...

Fourth round was incomplete yet again.  My station was open, I'd relinquished my pillow to someone who actually had a client, and there wasn't a whole lot for me to do in there.  So instead, I stepped outside and decided to wander around a bit.


Right outside the gymnasium is a little sitting area, and the chairs were occupied by several girls who were just relaxing from their massage, along with a couple guys who had either given their shift to someone else or didn't have anyone at their station. 

When I stepped out, one of the girls asked if I was one of the excess masseuses.  I acknowledged this (truth be told, I didn't understand what she had said.  I just shrugged, figuring that would answer the question). So, since I was free, she asked if I would mind giving her a massage.

One of the other girls sitting there was the one I had covered in the last shift, the one who took a bit of loosening up.  The reason I said that massage went better than the first one is because she piped up at that moment and said that I gave a very good massage.  A "thanks" after having the massage is almost demanded by polite standards, but a recommendation to someone else is an actual compliment.


So although I didn't give an "official" massage for the fourth shift, I did end up giving a massage.  Woo.

For the whole massage thing, there were really only two people who knew what they were doing.  The British metalhead, who coordinated the whole thing, and one other guy who has been practicing the art of massage for several years.  Apparently he needs some sort of exercise for his fingers, and there aren't a whole lot of activities that can provide that.

The Brit was walking the rest of that massage group through the movements while the other guy paid absolutely no attention at all and went about actually giving his client a massage.  Hell, the guy even knew how to work pressure points.


So, that was that.  Afterwards, there was a bit of random wandering around until lunch, which the girls had laid claim to.  Not a whole lot of interesting stuff, but there were a couple girls clothed only in foil and plastic wrap who were lying on the food table and serving as platters for assorted sweets.

Some time after lunch, we were treated to one of the bigger things the girls had pulled together.  All the guys walked into the big theater-room upstairs while the girls sat farther back and provided us with thunderous applause.  The lighting was rather romantic, with the only sources being numerous candles, and with the projector displaying the title image for a slideshow (basically, a reddish background with lots of hearts and something along the lines of "for the guys" written on it).

The rest of the decor was primarily made up of a line of big paper hearts going around the ceiling, each with the name of one of the guys written on it (one for each).

After everyone was present and somewhat accounted for, they started up some music and let the slideshow roll.

What came next was a series of pictures where there were either two or three girls in some provocative pose (often holding up a related object as the only means of covering themselves), accompanied by the name of one of the guys.  A miniature fan club for each and every one of us blighters.


We went through the show once, laughing and ooh-ing at the pictures, and finally gave a big round of applause when it was over.  But it wasn't really over, not quite...

The slideshow was brought up again, but this time was gone through picture-by-picture.  When a guy's picture came up he would be accompanied up to the stage by the girls in the picture, whereupon they would give him his trophy.  The trophies were generally sorted into either crowns, sashes, or decorative t-shirts.  On each item was a little rhyme about the guy's shining traits, which was read aloud to him by the girls on stage.  Some were cute, some were quite clever, some were romantic, and some were downright raunchy.

Female adoration is the greatest gift that can be given to guys like us.


So, that was fun.  I was given a sash proclaiming me to be "Mr. Las Vegas", with a rhyme that was even written (and recited) in English.  For reasons of paranoia, I shall censor my name.

"
Name, you're such a nice guy,
The door is always open when we pass by.

You're also such a gentleman,
all the way from another land.
"

Amazing how so much information (I am an American who leaves his door unlocked) can be conveyed in only two verses.  Well, the sash has gold glitter on it.  And it sends hugs from the girls who made it.  Pity it doesn't have the picture though... 

I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but the only thing I can remember after that was dinner, which the girls again had coordinated.  Everyone was assigned specific places to sit, so that all the guys got to sit next to their admirers for the evening.  Cozy.  Especially considering the places were marked with little notes for the guys which contained bullet-point lists of how great they were.

Some time during dinner, a little giftwrapped box was given to one of the guys while the upcoming game's instructions were announced to those in attendance.  Inside the first box was a second box, along with a message.  The message contained a rhyme that the person had to read aloud for everyone.  They then had to follow the instructions on that note.

The first note (since it was first handed to a guy) was for him to give the second box to the girl he thought """""""" (I can't remember.  Something complimentary).  She would take the box, open it up, and get to the third box with accompanying instructions.  It bounced back and forth between the genders for a while, going from sweet or playful things to " give this to the girl who has the most exciting breasts" and culminating with "give this to the guy you think the most girls would like to take home".   

Which, naturally, was my roommate.  Why in the devil's name does it always have to be him?
(Hawkfrost, this is your cue to say something about using the lord's name in vain)

Inside the final box was a little note that basically just talked about how great guys were to have around, particularly those at this school.


Dinner continued, then came dessert (where I got to exercise my gentlemanliness by giving away my chocolate heart), and then came the speeches.  First the male representative gave his speech about how wonderful girls are, and then all the guys stood up and toasted them.  The feminine representative then got up and gave her speech about how great guys are, and then those of a manly persuasion got to be toasted by the women.

There was a brief respite after dinner, and then we went up into the theater room to see the big show the girls had prepared for us.


It started off with two girls coming out and presenting "Girl's Evening".  They asked the guys if they were having a good time. "YES".  They asked if they were anticipating the show.  "YES".  They asked if we were horny.

...

"YES!"

Then they asked if we were ready to get even hornier!  The response was naturally an affirmative.  Now we were really interested in seeing what was going to be presented to us.

The girls who presented the show walked offstage while the curtain drew back and some sexy music started to play.   The anticipation was building.

And then two girls clothed in the baggiest, most ridiculously colored clothing available jumped out and started thrashing around in a pseudo-erotic manner.  These were supposed to be understudies who were standing in because of issues with the previously scheduled programming. 

After that, the real skin show started.  We got several different themed groups coming out one after the other to dance in a coordinated provocative manner.  Everything from secretaries gone bad to athletic gals to cowgirls to dominatrices (one girl was enjoying that role just a wee bit too much...  And one had forgotten to bring her thick leather belt so she had to mime everything). 

And then there was a short series of skits that showed us menfolk how we are supposed to treat women.  For this, the used two girls dressed up as man and...  Well, woman. 

Things would start off with the woman instigating a situation, and the man hopelessly buggering it up in stereotypical manly-man fashion.  After that, they would reset their positions and start again, except this time the guy would do it the "right" way, thus earning the delighted approval of the woman.

After that came the games.  First game had several girls line up while two teams of two guys tried to identify them through touch.  There actually wasn't that much touchy-feely of inappropriate parts, but there was one instance where a guy got a perfect feel just as the girl he was examining was looking somewhere else.  I don't know if he intended it or not, but he certainly got plenty of applause. 

Next game was a strip quiz.  Answer the question correctly, and your assigned girl takes off a piece of clothing.  As with most strip quizzes, the questions were dreadfully challenging.  Not very many clothes were taken off, but one did end up taking off her outer layer.  But I think that's just because she wanted to.

The other girl ended up taking off more than she bargained for.  When removing her stocking-pants (anyone wanna tell me what those things are actually called?), she ended up taking off one pair of panties as well.  Definitely not intentional, but she had at least two other pairs on.

Then there was the reminder for the guys to always use protection.  They then showed us why, with several different STD's coming out and singing about all the nasty things they did.   Really, the most interesting part of that was the finish, where one of the presenters came out and started tossing condoms and single-serving packets of lube (no idea why) into the crowd.


Finally, all the girls step up and sing the boy song.  It was alright, but not quite as clever as it probably could have been.  There was one bit that poked fun at the duplicate names we've got among the male students, but other than that it was pretty much just a recital of all of us.

Lots of applause, much appreciation for all the stuff they did for us and so on.


Then it was our turn.


The gymnasium has a stage of its own, in case I had forgotten to mention that.    That's what we were using.

To start off there was a brief instrumental number while everyone was getting ready backstage.  Just a little piano and drums to keep the audience satisfied, and our own presenters were doing their stuff when they had stuff to do.

Then came the bad boys after they had spent the past fifteen minutes oiling themselves up and doing some quick push-ups to appear more muscular.  They did their homoerotic stripping/dancing routine to thunderous applause and not a small amount of laughter after they revealed their heavily-stuffed underwear.

A quick intermission, and then 'twas time for the sketch.  After the numerous revisions and logistics failures, it eventually came down to three skits, only one of which involved me.  But oh, what a sketch it was...

"Man Through the Ages"
Essentially, it's just a quick rundown of how masculinity has been trailing off as time goes on.  We had several different eras, each one represented by a different guy in a costume.  It went from Stone Age, to Viking Age, to Renaissance, to Cowboy Era, to 60s, to 80s, then wartime in Norway, then the Modern Age (represented by a picture taken of one of the teachers, who is wearing a frilly pink bra.  He's the very male athletics teacher), and finally the Future.

I got Stone Age.  And gosh darn it if I didn't make a good caveman.  Hell, I've been receiving compliments on my performance ever since.  I guess the role just comes naturally to me.

A few moments after the future boys went onstage (E.T., Essentially Transvestites), all the other eras came out and had a nice little spastic dance together, just to show how far we've come from the days of masculinity.

Heh, just found a picture of that last dance.  Not a very good one, but it's the only one I've seen so far.  I am concealed except for a foot and my spear (a broken broomhandle I found in the auxiliary costume closet.  Who knows what it was doing there).  This wasn't actually intentional, just so ya know.



Left to right:  Cowboy, Future, Viking, Renaissance, 60s, Future, Caveman, 80s.


We had lots of other stuff as well, and it all went over relatively well.  The auction went a bit strangely, however...   The first guy to go up for bidding (played the cowboy.  He's the one I have suspicions about being mildly damaged upstairs) got up to 15Kr before bidding stopped.  Bid increases were 5Kr per bid, roughly one dollar.

The next guy went for somewhere around 30, then there was a guy who went for 45, and then there was one who went for 75. 

The big blast was when one of the school helpers was put up.  I really don't see what's so amazing about his looks, but he's been something of a sex idol in the school.  I guess girls just go wild for mid-length "shaggy" hair.

He went for 500 Norwegian Crowns.  Roughly a hundred dollars for three hours on Sunday.  Eek.


Lemme see...  There was one musical intermission during the competition (the competition wasn't that interesting, just had eight girls dealt up into four teams and then sent through various tests to get points.  Actually, it was pretty interesting, but I'm tired and this post is getting ridiculously long) where Drops sang a song from Elton John.  During the first practice session, we were all expecting to either laugh or moan when he opened his mouth to sing. 

The guy actually has an amazing singing voice.  He nailed that song perfectly.


And then there was the final sketch...  Two guys from the sketch group had offered themselves up to the mercy of the womenfolk in a barbaric ceremony of ritualistic torture.

They got waxed.  Literally.  The screams...   


...were hilarious.  It all went over quite well, and many swatches of hair were taken as souvenirs.  Not to mention the pictures.  Damn that skin was red...


We also showed off the movie which included the death metal music video.  It was set up as a gay porno, complete with bad acting and horribly cheesy lines.  But before you get to see anything fancy, the view drifts over to a TV screen which i splaying the first music video.  The transition was actually quite well done, and a similar shot is shown at the end of the death metal section, where they zoom out from the screen and return to the two happy lovers for a couple more one-liners before the end. 

And then, for some unfathomable reason, they slapped on a blown-up animated blowjob smiley at the end.  I personally don't think it added a whole lot...   But still, the movie had quite an appreciative audience. 


For the finale, we all came out and sang our song for the girls.  I had decided to wear my caveman outfit, supplemented by my navy blue fedora and "Mr. Las Vegas" sash. 

The song was an absolute hit.  Easily the greatest part of the whole show.  The applause was so great that we felt the need to do a spontaneous coordinated theater-bow.  Unfortunately, this was not something we had practiced.

I don't know if anyone else did it, but I ended up bowing as everyone else's linked hands were going up.  And then again when it was actually time to do so.  Slightly embarrassing.  Not to mention the fact that I was holding hands with the stressed-out Brit, who felt responsible for the whole show (he tries to take responsibility for most things, actually...).  And especially not to mention the fact that I smacked his hand into a speaker when our arms came down.

Oh well.


After the boyparty was all said and done, the girls set up the final word.  Basically, it was supposed to be a movie and a sleepover in the gymnasium.  Everyone was asked to bring along sleeping equipment (top mattresses and comforters).  Some people even did.

So we watched "The Most Fertile Man in Ireland" until 1:00 in the morning.  And after that, everyone left.  I guess not enough people had brought along mattresses, so the people who did didn't really feel a need to stay, and then those who were left felt a bit self-conscious about being the only ones in there.


So I slept in the gymnasium.  And that was that.  Boys and girls will be boys and girls.  We should do this again sometime.

There's a half hour left until Sunday's evening movie, and I can hear karaoke coming from the room across the hall.  I'm going to see if they've got Walk This Way.


Kagus out.

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« Reply #137 on: October 12, 2008, 03:19:11 pm »

Kagus in.

Just got back from watching Sunday's movie, called "The Man From Earth".  Rather interesting little movie, but it apparently didn't appeal to the majority.  Of the fifteen or so people who were there when I got in (a few minutes after it had started), about ten of them left halfway through. 

Anyways, after the film and some light chit-chat with the people who watched it (including the guy who had set up the movie for watching.  Rather peculiar character...  He's wearing some decorative contact lenses that give his eyes a very wild look.  He's also the one who actually knows how to massage), I played a game of billiard with one of the gals who watched the film.  She was one of the first people I met here at the school, but for some odd reason we sort of dropped off connections shortly thereafter.  I don't really know why, she just didn't seem all that keen on being around me.  It was good to get back on her good side, she's a nice gal.

Anyways, while we were playing, I asked her a couple things about the girl party.  In particular, I asked her how the girls were picked for the various admirer mini-clubs. 

As I had suspected, they drew from a hat.  There were of course some obvious choices (those who actually had girlfriends), but mostly it was just sticking to who you got.


I lost the round of billiard (actually, I think it was better that way), but I gained some valuable information.  I'm actually feeling pretty good, even though there's really no reason I should be.  I just found out that the praise given to me was created with no real feeling or even knowledge of who I am (one of the things on my bullet-point list is that I am nice to talk to.  How those two girls could possibly know that is beyond my ken, seeing as I've never really talked with either of them.  I asked one of them who I should pay for going to the party, and I was paired up with the other for singing practice).

The guy-raffle was probably the best way of handling things.  If they'd actually gone by preference, Mr. 500 would have so many girls stuffed into the picture that they wouldn't be able to breathe.

...Not that they could breathe anyways.  I mean, it is just a picture.  They're not real.  Well, I mean, they are real, but the picture-...


I should probably go to sleep.

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« Reply #138 on: October 13, 2008, 10:45:02 am »

Nothing particularly exciting to report today.  The film teacher is worrying about our student evening again, and has put everyone into groups for handling different things we were planning on having for that night.  I decided I could offer myself up for work on some music videos, seeing as they're generally a lot of fun.

The teacher then does some spontaneous rearranging so that everyone is in a full group.  He adds two people to the music video group in order to make it complete.  Those two people are Drops and a student who wasn't there that day, since he or someone he knew was in for surgery on something.

That means I got to brainstorm one-on-one with Drops again.  Will my joys never cease?


You know, I really thought I could have more respect for that guy after his singing.  Then he started talking.

I need to work on a side project with a couple of the other guys, just so that my brain can be cleansed of that twit's yammering.  Good grief...  Not only is he demented, he's also remarkably dense.  He's asked me four times now if he should write down the camera angles in the synopsis for our project.  And I suppose I speak in a not-too-clear fashion, as by the time his subconscious has pieced together the meaning behind the latest idea I described, he will have forgotten I said it and then present the same idea to me as his own.

Those are just about the only times I'll hear something sensible come out of his mouth.  It's sort of been agreed-upon that each of the three people in our group will have control over one video.  I have decided that my video will be "Born to be Wild", where I shall run around as my caveman persona in the modern world, with lots of running and jumping.  Drops suggested that he could portray my stone-age wife who I could rescue from some foul danger.

It took me five tries before I finally got him to drop it.  That was downright scary.


In other news, I have received two more compliments today on my performance at the party, one of them from one of the guys who saw me during the practice session, and thus knew what to expect.  I'm beginning to wonder if I was maybe a little *too* good at that role...

Also, I've lost my jacket.

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« Reply #139 on: October 13, 2008, 02:58:34 pm »

Found my jacket.  Someone had put it into the costume closet.

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« Reply #140 on: October 13, 2008, 03:19:07 pm »

I really want to express my interest in this blog by commenting on your adventures, but I haven't come up with anything worthwile to say. Also you have made so many consecutive posts that I felt the need to tell you how very interesting your adventures are and that people are still reading every word of them.


Oh wait. Now I have something to say about something you wrote.

Your name.

I'm quite surprised that you will make sure that we can see a video you perform in and so see your face (unless you have been made undistinguishable), but not tell the readers your (first) name. For me, the former one seems a lot more paranoia-inducing.

I'm not trying to make you tell your name. This just seemed really strange.
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« Reply #141 on: October 13, 2008, 03:33:20 pm »

It's death metal.  My hair is in my face for the entire video, save for a couple moments when I'm passing by in the background.  So unless you've got image-enhancing tools to coax forth my face, you're not going to see a whole lot.

I do believe it's possible to see my awkward cross-shaped chest hair though.  The stuff hasn't exactly grown in a respectable manner...


And besides, it's a hell of a lot easier to get information on someone if you've got their name than if you've got a picture of them.  At least until image-recognition technology reaches new heights that are mildly unfathomable today.

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« Reply #142 on: October 13, 2008, 06:49:22 pm »

LASD put his comment very well. Keep it up Kagus and good luck again! I can't really think of anything else to say.
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« Reply #143 on: October 14, 2008, 02:51:46 pm »

Well, I've spent the last hour reading all of your posts, Kagus. I usually browse through such threads for a minute or two before disinterest sets in, but something about your adventures has me hooked. I MUST HAVE MORE. THE BLOOD GOD DEMANDS IT.

Oh yeah, I feel your pain when it comes to unrequited love interests and uncomfortable silences. I've got a major crush on a girl I'm aquainted with in my commercial cookery class. The thing is, there's another guy (who I'm sort of friends with) who always makes her laugh by saying, for the most part, idiotic things.
I'm not a funny guy. I occasionally say things that make people laugh but its usually unintentional on my part. When I TRY and make people laugh, I fail. It kills me that I can't get her to laugh and he does it so casually. Plus, there's usually uncomfortable silences when we talk, and I always struggle to find things to talk about with her. She always makes me think of the line "Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there" by Otomo no Yakemochi. WOE IS ME.....
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« Reply #144 on: October 15, 2008, 05:28:31 pm »

Another dreadfully interesting day today.  It's late and I'm tired, so I'll cut this down to what I really want to say.

I made a funny.


So there are about five of us sitting in someone's room, including the Brit.  I've made a couple comments on things he's been saying, and we've started a full-fledged conversation in English.  It has gone over to matters of perception defining reality by this point.

He makes a statement to the room, about how "when we look up at the sky, we just see a bunch of pricks and dots, we don't actually know what..."

I pop in and say:

"I don't need to look up in order to see pricks"


And the crowd goes wild...   Damn I wish I could do that in Norwegian (everyone in the room had a good enough grasp to get it, but still...).

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« Reply #145 on: October 17, 2008, 03:07:18 am »

Okay, recap.  Day before yesterday, we went out and filmed Drops doing his music video.  He makes an absolutely ridiculous cowboy, by the way.

Got to see him pretend to smoke a stick, fumble with a gun, look utterly out of place when chopping some wood, and generally make a fool of himself (we've got a couple takes of him running around with his arms out, doing an "airplane".  He seems to think this is what cowboys did in their spare time in order to relax).

Yesterday, we started clipping the footage.  Turns out he wasn't even close to holding the right rhythm, so we're going to have to film all the singing sections over again on Monday.  His lips don't synch up with the music at all.

He also seems to think that you actually need to hear him singing for the music video.  His reasoning?  "Because everybody knows he doesn't sound like Elton John".

Who the bloody hell cares?  The boyfest film contained two music videos in it, and I can assure you that the students pretending to sing couldn't even try to sound like the people they were pretending to be.

Answer:  He cares. 


What's strange is that I was at least expecting him to be smart.  Call it a stereotype, but you normally expect the awkward glasses-and-braces character wearing the pastel turtleneck to be reasonably intelligent, and that people are just put off by his speech patterns and appearance.

Well, Drops is most certainly not intelligent.  I'm sure there's some redeeming quality in him, but he's done a pretty damn good job of hiding it.


Anyways, the morning gathering worked out alright.  I also helped the guy who had it today, since his previously assigned partner has been AWOL for the past few days.  It's so damned nice to work with someone I actually like for a change...

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« Reply #146 on: October 18, 2008, 05:42:35 pm »

Oookaay. 

Today was a pretty standard Saturday, with most people telling breakfast to go bugger itself in favor of sleeping in for a few extra hours.

The only real points of interest would be the conversation I've been having with one of the girls here, and the seminar for this weekend.


The girl is one who is quite proud of her (surprisingly good) American accent.  Her personality is what I can only describe as blatantly outgoing.

In any case, she sent me my appreciation picture from the girlfest.  Funnily enough, it's not quite as good a picture as I remember it being...  Hmm.

Right.  Anyways, she has been informed of my "evening sickness", and has been telling me to think positively.  Hell, she even sang a song about it.  While sitting on one of the tables in the rec room.  At full volume.  With accompanying guitar (made up primarily of the altered chords from Wonderwall).

If she can even comprehend the emotion of insecurity, all it does is make her act even more outrageously.  An admirable trait, but it can get somewhat uncomfortable if you happen to be the object of such a spontaneous serenade...  Especially if she's making up lyrics on the fly, and hasn't quite thought of something positive that rhymes with your name.

Her Facebook profile lists her as a 39 year old wife with four children, who is apparently in an open relationship with her wife.  All things considered, she's holding up remarkably well.


What a delightfully insane person.


Next on the list is today's "seminar".  It was supposed to be centered around advertisements, and how a person would go about making them.  The film teacher had equipment to handle 15 people willing to take that seminar.  He ended up with 45.

As such, everything got changed last-minute because ordering ten more cameras was a bit out of the question.  instead, it turned into a northern film festival.

In essence, we got to watch movies.  There were two different screenings, so people had to pick which film they wanted to see.  Of all the movies being shown here, I've only seen one of them.  I opted to see it again.  Just as good as last time.

My first film was "Tillsammans", a Swedish film about a commune in the mid-seventies.  It's a highly enjoyable film with some good laughs in it, and I can vouch for the English translation being funny enough to do it justice.  The film is sort of in between serious and comedy, but leans towards the more humorous aspects of life among the clinically disillusioned.  I would have to recommend it.

Second film was a Danish horror/thriller which was only mildly memorable.  Still though, free movie.  And we get cake.


It is forty minutes past midnight.  Although I could potentially find something sociable to do, I'd rather not be half-dead throughout Sunday.  Besides, I've actually done some talking with people tonight.  Makes me feel like I can almost be a functioning member of society.

But then I look over at one of the other tabs in my browser, which is currently open to the IMDb page on "Slither".  My mind automatically rearranges the letters into "Shitler". 


Probably best if I go to bed before I hurt someone.  G'night.

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« Reply #147 on: October 20, 2008, 01:22:57 pm »

Ahh, yes.  Monday.  We got to finish up the music video today, and now we're trying to figure out what to do for the next project.  What was once below-average footage has turned into an abomination that melts higher thinking capabilities if a person is exposed to it for extended periods.

A few of the other guys got to see it as well, so now word is circulating around about Drops' music video.  It makes me feel good to know that I'm not the only one who finds him unbearable.

In fact, it's not even just the Film and TV guys who have a problem with him.  I've mentioned him to people from a couple of the other majors, and from their reactions it would appear that his personality (or perhaps just his reputation) has spread to all corners of the school.  Hell, I think even some of the teachers are annoyed by him.

But enough of that.  We need to talk about me more.  Namely, the fact that I have started becoming confident enough in my Norwegian to begin adding things to the conversation.  It's a tentative start, and not without its pitfalls, but it's something.

I also had a little jam session with one of the F&TV guys.  Jamming is only fun when you're just as unskilled as the other guys.  We managed to butcher Wonderwall, Knocking On Heaven's Door, and Random Striking of the Guitar.  You know, the timeless classic.


Later on at evening-food time, I was sitting at a table with him and one other guy from Film and TV.  After we started bouncing off each other in a little chit-chat and quipping, I realized that I was grouped together with some of the most hopeless nerdy wackos around.  Good grief we're peculiar.

And you know what?  I wouldn't have it any other way.


EDIT:  Got the room to myself tonight.  The theater majors took off for Oslo this morning, and they're gonna be gone for a while.  Pity it won't go to any better use than just having a bit more P&Q.

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« Reply #148 on: October 21, 2008, 04:40:45 pm »

Tuesday.  Had song training in the morning, which was only remarkable because a hefty portion of its members are from the theater major, and are thus off doing whatever it is they're doing in Oslo.

Later, we had guitar.  Only remarkable thing is that not many people showed up, so we were dealt up into two groups instead of three and as such were given more time.

From the practice sessions before and after that, I discovered a few new chords and a slightly butchered version of "Velvet" by A-Ha.  Dreadfully exciting.


But then we had interesting stuff.  We had a concert up in the theater-room by the band "Hooter's Blues", led by a bassist who calls himself "Hooter".  He's American, but he's been living in Norway for some time. 

The drummer is Danish (it was also his first day with the band.  He was pretty good for not having rehearsed anything or played before with the guys), and the guitarist/singer was the Mississippian Travis "Moonchild" Haddix.  Not to be confused with the guitarist/singer Jimi "Voodoo Child" Hendrix.

So we got to have a little blues concert.  Great fun.  The songs were a little too similar to each other to warrant my shelling out 20 bucks for an autographed CD, but it certainly beat sitting around doing nothing.


And the guys were rather amiable as well.  Got to chat a little bit with them after the show, and they were naturally quite surprised to find someone from Vegas in a Norwegian school (the Brit introduced himself as an American from Seattle.  If he can say he's from Seattle, I can say I'm from Vegas).  We found out that "Moonchild" is having a birthday on the 21st of December. 

His 70th.


If you got close to him it was obvious that he was getting on in years, but 70?  You would never be able to guess that.  He's been playing blues for fifty years.  He even got an award from a mayor somewhere.

Needless to say, he can play a bit more than just a slightly butchered version of A-Ha's "Velvet".


Another thing of note was the way the Brit was acting.  He was high as a kite.  And this wasn't the first time, either.  He'd kissed Mary Jane before the girl party of Saturday past. 

I don't have a problem if he gets high on his own time, even if it is expressly outlawed by the school, but it annoys me that he feels the need to dope himself up before going to see a performance.  It just seems like all the work that went into the actual performance is given lesser worth since he's too stoned to know the difference.


I would like to add that this guy is a spokesperson for weed.  He is an active member of a marijuana forum, supports various medical marijuana groups, and will barrage you for hours with unsourced facts on how much better hemp is than cotton, and how there is absolutely nothing bad or even mildly unpleasant about anything related to marijuana or its usage.  This man does not argue, he insists.

He's been trying to get me to smoke the stuff for some time now, saying it fits my personality so perfectly that I practically have to do it.  I have so far remained courteous in my rejections, but if he brings it up a third time I'm going to tell him which orifice he can smoke it with.


And that's the news from lake Sandefjord, where all the teachers are wrong, all the girls are uninterested and all the students...  Are about average.

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« Reply #149 on: October 22, 2008, 05:49:28 pm »

Today was interesting.  It started off with principal's hour, which was only interesting because the principal is resting with a nasty tear in his Achilles tendon.  Instead, we got someone who is actually engaging and mildly interesting.  And it included a demonstration from the kitchen chief, who is about as nice and exuberant a person as you are ever likely to find.

From there it went to standard class hours.  But not quite as standard as I might have thought.  We talked a bit about the upcoming student evening, and how we really needed to get our asses in gear if we wanted to have stuff set up by then.  Progress reports were given on how everyone was moving along.  I mentioned that although we had finished the first section of our project, I wasn't entirely sure the quality would be up to standards (Drops had conveniently stepped out to use the bathroom a little while before I said this).  The teacher asked if he could see it later on, and give his opinion.

Then we broke to work on our different projects, and I took the rest of the class aside for a quick private showing of the music video.  They'd been chomping at the bits to see this thing, and I think they got what they were asking for.  Drops, to my knowledge, was still using the bathroom.


I had suggested when we were in the classroom that, instead of trying to sort out what else we would work on, we could just blend into the other groups and help out.  The teacher seemed to consider the idea, but wasn't completely set on it just then.  But since the subject had been broached, I felt perfectly fine sitting with the other guys in their group while waiting for everyone to settle in.

In so doing, I missed a lot of time.  When I poked my head out the door and looked down to the room where the video was being kept, I could hear the teacher speaking with Drops about what needed to be done with the video in order to shape it up a bit.  After a little while the teacher popped out and started walking down the hall.  I made myself noticeable.  He noticed me.

We had a little chat about my doubts regarding the quality of the film, and how he could understand where I was coming from.  He seemed to be treading very carefully around the subject, as though he might hurt my feelings by saying something bad about the film. 

Anyways, when that was over he told me to go ahead and sit in with the other group, since he needed to talk with Drops anyways and there wasn't much point in my just sitting around being useless.  I proceeded to do just that.


This talk that he needed to have was part of an ongoing thing here where each of the teachers have one-on-one conversations with their students in order to make sure everything is going well for them, and that their Skiringssal experience is tweaked to suit them perfectly.

An hour or so later, a late arrival to class shows up.  His arrival also brought strange news.

He had apparently been looking for the film teacher, and after finding his office empty was redirected to someone else (this someone else is basically there to help out with all person-related logistics, including mild psychotherapy).  Her office was also empty, and so he went to another someone else's office (this one is sort of the vice-principal, but he does more to run the school than the "real" principal.  He also happens to have a personality). 

Inside, he found the film teacher, someone else #1, someone else #2, and Drops.


That's pretty drastic stuff.  We were certainly expecting strange things from Drops' scheduled conversation, but this was way out there. 


Much later, the teacher pops in on our planning session and gives us a heads-up.  After a very long talk with Drops, it has been decided that the best course of action is to get him in on some projects where he is not given control over the process, like he was with the music video.  The guy is ridiculously domineering, and so they think it's a good idea that he get in on some stuff where he has to follow orders instead of give them. 

The teacher also mentioned, cryptically, that Drops has a hell of a lot more reason to go to a folkehøyskole than the rest of us.  As such, we should try our hardest to help him out and make things alright for him, even though it is a bit tiresome.


Wow.  I thought the guy was just annoying.   But after hearing all this, I think he may really be f***ed up.

We are going to try and make things work out for him, and we're finding places for him in our projects.  It's taking him a little while to settle into a less authoritarian role, but it's obvious that he is actually trying (of note is the fact that he doesn't know about the heads-up.  He just said that he would like to be in on whatever we were working on, if we had space for him, and that he was too tired to do any planning or idea consultation).


So anyways...  Drops gets in on a group that really wanted him, and my group gets to do some really professional filming (I got to be the sound man, boom and all).  That was absolutely wicked fun.  Hell, I'm still grinning.

We're making a semi-spoof of "24", with a few other parodies thrown in for good measure.  We're also making a "behind-the-scenes" portion, and there are plans of spoofing our own spoof later on.  With dubbing (this thing's going to be in English, the language of high-profile filming everywhere.  So it would be a Norwegian dub).

I think this is going to end up being damned good.  I really can't wait to get back on it.


That took up most of the afternoon/early evening.  After that was a film picked out by the film club, called "Battle Royale".  A Japanese creation that lies on the borderline between "so bad it's good" and "just bad".  After that came some random goofing around, and some mutual showing-off of minimal guitar skills.  Then it started getting a bit late, and I decided to pop into my room and write an update for y'all.

Then came a knock at the door.  The door opens, and a couple of the guys are out there.  They ask me if I want to break a record.  I ask what kind of record.

They were apparently having a miniature party on the building's miniature balcony.  The record was to have fourteen people on it at once.  I was Mr. #14.


So we just sat (or stood.  There wasn't a whole lot of space left) around for a while out there, chatting.  some people came and went, and the record was eventually (although only briefly) pushed up to sixteen. 

After some time out there things started getting damn cold, so we went inside.  Namely, to the room of another one of "the guys".  He and his roommate had redecorated since the last time I was there.  A semi-finished string of taped-together Coke and 7-Up cans descended from the ceiling to the floor.  Apparently, it was an unfinished stripping pole.


I stuck around for as long as I could manage, but I really hate being tired in the morning and it's already inching towards 1:00AM.  I bid adieu, and made my way back to my personal chamber.  Where, as you can see, I completed the update. 

Now to see if this damned forum is willing to cooperate with the posting... 
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