Does it Say Liver MUSH on the Package?

All Yellow
Originally uploaded by link5001.

"Under the surface trying to break through
Deciphering the codes in you"

Coldplay was, in a word, awesome. If you EVER and I mean EVER...even if you're a remote fan, get the chance to see them live for less than 60 or 70 dollars TAKE IT. I've not been to many concerts in my time but regardless of that fact I can't imagine any concert being much better than what my sisters Melissa and Elizabeth, girlfriend Caroline, roommate Devin, friend from the dorm Merri, and I, all saw together Saturday night. It's really easy, even as a fan of Coldplay, to forget they they are the creators of some of the best rock songs out there now. Going to one of their concerts stands as a sobering reminder, something along the lines of "Hey, these guys are dang good! I need to listen to all their stuff again!"
I was expecting to sing along with some of their bigger hits like "Yellow" and "Clocks", then enjoy all the other mess they played in-between. What I found was that almost every song played, I knew the words too, and reason being that I really enjoyed them. That's right...ALL of them. If you have only heard the singles off the albums and the popular ones from the radio, I suggest you do yourself a big favor and pick up one of their albums. If you’re having trouble deciding, go with A Rush of Blood to the Head.
From their awesome entrance to the stage with "Square One" and a huge white countdown screen behind them to the friendly yellow balloons of "Yellow", to the hilarious screw up of "The Scientist" (he coughed and restarted near the beginning) and the sad goodbye with "Fix You", the experience made itself well worth the $20 for our tickets and indeed, called for lights to guide us home...because if they hadn't left the stage, we wouldn't have budged.

For more detail and different perspectives on the concert visit my sister, Melissa's blog and my roommate, Devin's. I also must note that all the pictures from the concert in my flickr page were taken by Devin, that sneaky bastage snuck his camera in behind enemy lines for all of us. ENJOY!

Stay tuned as my next review will be of the Death Cab concert in October!

How Do You Like It? How Do You Like It?

I'm a SNEAKY little devil!

Now to announce the winner of the SLOANNEVERSARY COMMENT COMPETITION...
Ready for this?

EVERYONE THAT LEFT A COMMENT!!!!
That's right, if you left a comment, you get a sticker. So congrats to:
Yam
Stephen
Matt
Cousin Stephen
Amanda
Jacob(nice sucking up by the way!)
Melissa
and
Shay

If you fine folks would be so kind as to email link5001@gmail.com with subject heading "Sticker Winner" and put your mailing address in the email, I'll get it out to you asap. Now here is the thing! If you want the normal green sticker from my online store, but "Sticker Winner (normal)" in the subject heading. If you want the new First Sloanneversary sticker design, which will be available to ONLY YOU GUYS...then put "Sticker Winner (special)"
If you don't care, don't specify and I'll give you whatever I feel like.

Now as for everyone else, if you haven't yet gotten pouty and left my blog I have good news for you too! In order to stimulate posts I've decided that prize giving shall become a semi-regular occurrence. Every so often I'll write a post and decide before hand its going to be a prize post. If you comment on the special post you'll be notified and get a prize....YAY!
So start posting more comments!!!

I now leave you fine folks with the promise of a good post soon as I'll be leaving Wilmington this afternoon to head home for the Coldplay concert tomorrow. Rock, rock on! There is much excitement and thrilling adventures on the horizon!

Shadows from the Evening/Nighttime Border

Glad to see all the flurry of activity on my anniversary post. This is just a quick post to link you guys up with
FindShelter | Providing Assistance for Hurricane Katrina Victims
This site was pulled together by a group of people I know through my ties with Caswell and it works by matching victims up with churches and people willing to help get them back on their feet. If you've been looking for a way to help, check it out.

Being in my zone of newslessness I've been largely oblivious to the seriousness of this disaster, so if you're like me in that way I hope you'll at least join me in praying for them from now on.

The First Sloanniversary

Has it been that long?

I can still remember the scared, lonely, mildly depressed freshman I was when I sat, hold up in my room for the 20th night in a row, and I decided to join the blogging bandingwagon to provide an outlet for my pent up genius. Freestyle for Friends of the Wild West was my first post but no one would read it for a week because I decided I wanted to look at least slightly established before I let anyone see WilmingSloan. For that first week the postings piled up and by some miracle, I've managed to (somewhat) regularly update this thing for much longer than I would have originally expected to. It's been a lot of fun, even if though the times that I've been my # 1 reader and I hope along the way I've provided a chucked or two for some of my friends and family too.

To help celebrate this momentous occasion I am offering the first ever PRIZE contest. Everyone should participate. Leave a comment about WilmingSloan in the past year, on this post, by 9-6-05, and I'll pick the one I like the best to win a WilmingSloan sticker. Hey, it's a free dang sticker and surely you can come up with something! Do remember to leave some form of identification in your comment so I can get up with you to send you the prize. Have at it kiddos!

Mark of the Molten Chocolate Chip

Note Scrap
Originally uploaded by link5001.

8:00 AM Classes deserve to be slept through! They're asking for it! What business have they being all...early and stuff?

Yesterday I went and got a new Bible (NLT version) only to bring it back and realize that its the OLD NLT version and not the new one so now I have to take it back. This puts me in an interesting dilemma. I'm going to take a BIBLE back! Isn't that wrong somehow?
"Well, you see, this copy of God's Holy word isn't exaaaaaactly what I'm looking for. Do you have anything with a pink and lime green dueltone leather cover?"
Honestly I shouldn't worry about it but if the newer version is the newer version it must have been updated for a reason you know? At least I'm not exchanging it for such superficial reasons.

Coldplay is indeed a go-go and I'll be going with Caroline and my sisters Elizabeth and Melissa. Interestingly enough, I won't be able to escape the icy death grip of my kind and loving roommate, Devin, as he got tickets long ago and will probably be meeting up with us there, along with his guest, fellow dormie, Merri.
In a few short weeks expect a full report on how hilarious it is to watch drunk people try to "rock hard" to the mellow tones of Coldplay.

If you've felt any rumblings and thunderings around lately, fear not! It isn't the laughter of all evil people associated with the raising of gas prices by 25 cents last night. It's the Thunder of approaching excitement as the 1 year anniversary of WilmingSloan approaches! So go ahead kids, make some thunder of your own!

In certain situations I maintain that it is perfectly acceptable to punch your aunt and then wink at your uncle.

Emo Taco

So much for more free time.

Ahhh! Home again I am! For a scant two days I get to enjoy some time off from the already heckishly busy schedule of school. Be sure to stop by here on September 1 as there will be something crazy cool happening to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of this blog!

It appears that I'm going to be going to the Coldplay concert in two weeks which should be pretty awesome. I'll keep you guys updated.

Since the once a week updating continues in my area (and I PROMISE once things settle down I shall return with full force) I highly suggest you go to my links section located at the top of the page and browse around.

And don't forget to order your EMO TACO!

The President of the International League of Soccer Moms...

Just a short one to bring some of the speed up to ya.

Classes started Wednesday and WHOOPY DOO! What do you know but my schedule was doomed from day one. My MWF Italian class had to be moved in with all my other classes on TR (long story) and so now I have once class on MWF and ...well, 4 on Tuesday and Thursday.

One of my classes is public speaking in which I will be made to give 4 speeches. I now hate myself for signing up for this class.
I kid, I kid. I'm sure I'll astound my classmates with my...ability to make them all feel better about talking in front of people.

So I got on the topic of fantasies the other day with my girlfriend (PLEASE NOTE: THE TOPIC WAS DEALING WITH CLEAN FANTASIES) and the idea came to me. How awesome would it be if you were a super hero, and your super power was the ability to make a Wendy's Classic Triple appear on the floor in the middle of your room between the hours of 2 and 4 AM? Even better would be the fact that you couldn't will it when you wanted it. You'd just wake up in the morning some mornings and there'd be a hot fresh burger. MMM MMM GOOD!

The job hunt is on and I've turned in a few applications to different places. I've actually got an interview at one of them. Babbages (no not cabbages, thankfully) the video game store also know as "Game Stop" has called me in for a monday date. Hopefully that will go over well, I'd love to work there. I also put in one at the Game Stop near campus and the EB at the mall. Of course we can't forget Sam Goody, where they said they'd be hiring soon and probably give me a call. YES YES YES YES. If I get a job this year you all are in for a special treat as I'm sure it will provide me with humorous entertaining stories to share.

I love you...and your mothers. (and everyone else...gosh)

All Non-stinky Hamsters Please Report to the "Don't Exist" Room

Get ready...
Originally uploaded by link5001.

I think Jeffery's face is a good illustration for the feeling I have right now. Classes start tomorrow and I haven't even gotten my books yet. The move in went well. Devin got in on Monday (I did on Friday) and we seem to have gotten the most awesome dorm theater set up around. It's very spacious and, actually, arranging everything over the weekend has made me feel a little more like an interior decorator. That puts the overall feeling up to a -35 on the "Possible carreer-ometer"

As always I have a MILLION brilliant ideas on what to write about here but they never seem to stay in my head for longer than 30 minutes before they are lost into oblivion. So, keep your fingers crossed that some of them make it as I go into the coming week.

I've also got to start looking for a job. I hear Radio Shack is hiring, but in recognition of the fact that working there would put me over the brink and into the hopeless loser category, I'm going to look elsewhere for the next little while anyway. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a bookstore or coffee shop or something mildly hip so that some of the cool kids on campus will get to know me.

...and if they don't they aren't cool...they're just dirty hippies...

So here is Hoping for a fantastic WilmingSophomore!!! God bless us all!!!

Flying Squirrels 16% Less Lame than Regular

Rotten to the Core

Man on Man! I was worse off than I thought! I went to my uncles office, and for those of you that don't know him, he's a dentist. I've had the good fortune of always being fond of the dentist because of that fact, but now that I've gone through the painful process of a filling I know why so many people dislike them. Oh...but that's not all ladies and gents. I had 4 nasty fillings to have done. You know, the procedure wasn't pleasant, but it wasn't that bad. Oh no...the procedure isn't bad at all, its the 5+ HOURS OF FEELING LIKE YOU HAVE NO FACE THAT STINKS.

I spent the better part of the afternoon asleep in an attempt to avoid the sensation. At least padre made me dinner since I had to watch him eat lunch and suck my lip up repeatedly while drinking my milkshake. Mmmm Mmmm good!

Now that I got all of that out there I feel much, much better.

Only Two days until Dub-time!!!

How I miss my Caswell friends!!!!

When I Built Your Mom I Put a Bow in her Hair

Sun Sets Over Caswell
Originally uploaded by link5001.

Say good-bye to the crazies...

It happened again. For the third time in a row, a summer ended and I had to pack up and leave one one place away from home that I can honestly say I feel just as comfortable at. Caswell 2005 is now behind me and I'm sad to say that I don't know for absolute sure if I'll ever get to go back and work there again. Hopefully God will lead me to serve another summer there but I know I'll eventually have to be open to other opportunities.

All that sadness behind I have to say that I really look back on it and appreciate all the great things I got from it.

Wonderful friends, like none I've ever or will ever meet anywhere else.

Wonderful memories with those friends. Experiences that make me both laugh and cry. Both tore me down and built me up.

Experiences with God that I couldn't have anticipated going in. I thought working Hatch would become a job. It became the biggest blessing to me.

To everyone who had a part in making Caswell what it was this summer. I give you my most sincere thanks. I look forward to seeing you again, if not sooner, then later. ;-)

To everyone else, this means that WilmingSloan is back in action! I'll be moving back into UNCW this friday and I should start a regular 3 day a week posting schedule then.

My uncle's pet nose monkey took the alan wrench set from the garage and now I have to hunt him down...