Keep This Going

“I’ve run through a thousand parties, I’ve run through a million bars. Nobody knows where you are living. Nobody knows where you are. You’ve been hung and in a haze forever…praying for Pavement to get back together…“

Shoot, is The National my hands-down favorite American band?

Too nice…

Caleb posted about Will Whitmore recently so I’d thought I’d share the link to the leaked new album.  If you guys are into stealing music of hardworking musicians.  I’m going to buy this when it comes out in Feburary but it was too tempting to hear this!

http://www.mediafire.com/?iwondjontjt

BOYZ

I apologize… I’ve been out.  I’m out.  Tag your it/OUT.  3 strikes of the baseball bat swing and I’m on 3rd OUTTING.. I know…

So… I wanted to catch yall up on where I’m at

In case you don’t know.. I own a house, in CEDAR FALLS, IA.. a small peaceful village with many passages to other places.  The house is great, I’ve had it for 6 months now and I’ve paid like $500 off on it hahahahaha (STUPID MORTAGES)
I’ve been working at Porters Cameras in Cedar Falls, IA.  The address is 323 Viking Rd, Cedar Falls, IA in case you wanted to write Porters a letter describing their employee, Tim Dodd.  I make jack shit.  I make $6.15 an hour plus commission.  I’m sick of it, I hate the hours, I hate working everyday.. it sux… SO… I’m quitting.  Like, soon.  I’m putting my two weeks in next week… I know.. maybe not smart with the economy the way it’s going.. but you know what.. oh well, screw it.

Why am I quitting? www.timdoddphotography.com I’ve been getting super into doing my own work and I’m getting fairly well booked up for 2009 already and it’s just too hard for me to juggle the two at once, let alone find time to promote myself and keep myself organzied.  So… come February I will officially be a full time (kinda struggling) professional photographer! Yay. I’m seriously super stoked and I feel like this is the right move and I’m looking forwad to my newly found free time.

What would one do with such free time? www.myspace.com/eastbyair Our album just came out on iTunes.  If you have $9.99 lying around, please pick it up because our recording came right out of my pocket.  The other two guys are poor and we’re not hardly a band really…. I dunno.. it’s all just the music I’ve written the past year and Karl Renfro plays bass and Spencer Ford plays drums.  So if you can help me out, buy it!!!

I want to travel super hardcore bad and I will be doing so money allowing.

That’s me, Tim Dodd, 2008-2009. So.. yeah I’ll try to not skip out for another year.

That’s about it from me I love you all

I’ve started a new site. It’s a blog and place to showcase my copywriting portfolio. It’s also a place to share thoughts on design and advertising… if you’re at all interested, stop by, leave a comment and get involved.

www.wordsbybryan.com

You know, I can’t help but smile…

Toilets…

Well as some of you know I am living in an apartment right now in St. Paul. Usually our maintenance is pretty good, so I can’t complain. I just find this interesting.

It first started one morning when I entered my bathroom and lifted the lid… to find it was dripping with toilet water. Weird, I thought, but non the less I was there to urinate so my focus was on my aim. Then a couple of days later I was laying in bed… and my attention was drawn to my bathroom (that is attached to my room). A weird gurgling sound seemed to be coming from it. After a bit it went away. The second time at night this happened I convinced myself (which took a lot of convincing) to get out of bed and go check it out…. Sooo I grabbed my 319 hoody to give myself the moral boost and then grabbed the hockey stick… I slowly crept closer to the bathroom. The gurgling seemed to be coming from the toilet. I opened the lid quickly preparing to hack down the villain I was expecting to jump out…. but to my disappointment all I found was a miniature geyser that was coming out of my toilet. Weird, and annoying I thought. I went back to bed and buried my head under the pillows so it wouldn’t keep me up.

After a couple more times of coming home to a wet lid I decided to report this. After about two weeks it was still happening so I went to the office again… they said “Our maintenance guy said he came in and fixed it.” I check the report… all he did was fix something completely unrelated… not at all related to the toilet. So I was just like… whatever, but for your sake I hope this thing doesn’t explode!

My guess, they don’t want to call in a plumber to take a look at it, whatever. In recent days it hasn’t happened…. as often. For a while there it was quite violent… we are talking so violent that it would lift my toilet lid! I would also come home to a bone dry toilet bowl as well.

I finally decided to take two quick pics. One with calm water and one with a size 3.19 (on a 5 point scale) eruption.

No worries my friends… the geyser has not erupted with a pile of poop and urine while I sit on it… but lets just say… I don’t spend more time on that thing then needed… hence the reason I mostly take a dump at work.

Before the storm

Building up!

“Life is what happens while we are making plans.”  Never were those words truer than this Christmas when I received the present I didn’t ask for, nor  want at the time.  But hey, God knows what I need more than I do and who am I to complain when I am daily asking for his guidance in my life.  Nothing can really prepare you for this present:

Its grape size right now.