wow! you can get a lot done in a weekend if you don't go away. went to a local "goth night". it was.... interesting. i was in the whole goth scene when i was at rutgers, but i grew tired of it. it was just like the cheerleaders and jocks that i hated in high school, but instead of how many drunk cheerleaders you felt up or what car daddy bought for you, people were swinging their music and clothing dicks around. "oh, i've got an ultra-rare sisters of mercy peel sessions. on *vinyl*." "nothing in my wardrobe hits a color level higher than purple." anyway, it was sort of interesting to see the people. of course, i was there in jeans and a white linen shirt, so felt like a sore thumb. there were people wearing white shirts, but they were of the poet/pirate shirt variety. one kid have full skull makeup on, like one of the bad guys from the first karate kid movie. one guy had his head shaved in a (un?)conscious imitation of the singer from the prodigy. one guy had on a shirt and tie, with a full-length white lab coat. ok.... there was also a woman there... stunningly beautiful. black hair, piercing blue eyes, and wearing a fantastic simple black silk dress. but then i heard her talking; pure pittsburgh. the good part of the night was the dj. he was spinning all sorts of good goth/industrial music. but he wasn't just playing a track, and then playing the next. he was beat matching, overlapping songs, *mixing*, you know? good stuff.

went to the karaoke thing last night. always a good time. there were two *ahem* mentally challenged individuals that got up and sang a few times. it was actually quite touching. one guy got up and did such a passable axl rose impression that if you didn't look at the guy, you'd swear it was a suprise g 'n' r show.

cleaned my apartment within an inch of its life, too. i threw my bathmats in the washer, which i've done in several occasions before. this time, however, they didn't really feel like playing. they sort of fell apart; all the rubbery stuff on the bottom coming off in large chunks, tufts of the carpet stuff falling off. i just found it interesting that they all decided to go at once. or, maybe it was the fact that i washed them in hot water... don't think i did that the times before. oops.