Halloween

Hey.


View from Brian's window. He lives on the tenth floor of the East Tower.

On Friday, I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show with Zack as Brad! It was fantastic. I've never really been a huge fan of Rocky Horror... until now! They did a great job, and Zack was fantastic.

Halloween! On Saturday there was a big Halloween party-thing in the Campus Centre with pumpkin carving, wax hand-making, a haunted house and candy. I had a pretty good time.

We also recorded the third episode of "Sunrise Boulevard" last week. I'm just a production assistant, but the guy who hosts the show, and writes it, gave me a part as a British reporter. It was so much fun. I worked on the audio for the first half of the show, then did the reporter bit, and after that Mike put me on camera 2. There's only going to be one more episode because the two guys in charge are both seniors (fourth-years) and they're going to be really busy next semester. Zack and I are working on proposing our own show though... it could be cool.



Halloween decorations in the Terrace Dining Hall. And Kevin's hand. Kevin is a great guy. He's close friends with Alexis, and we're going to be partners in the computing class for a while.


Fall trees. Rock, rock on.


Zack as Brad in Rocky Horror. He was the man - as usual.


Jon as Dr Scott and Zack (in my dressing gown he borrowed).


Blue Skies.


Charlie and I took a walk around some of the residential areas near the college.


Ithaca is so freakin' beautiful in the fall.


Surburban Ithaca.


Yeah, that's right - that is where they dwell.


Charlie went as... well, something to do with the Soviet Union. But he wears that hat all year round.


Wendy gets angry with Emily.


Brian works on his pumpkin.


Brian.


Leaves for sorrow, leaves for joy...


Sign. Woo.


Brian, Betsy, Priyam, Whitney and I went up to Syracuse on Sunday evening for a marching band competition that Brian's high school was playing in. His girlfriend is a couple of years younger and she was playing. We also got to meet a bunch of his old friends. It was a good time, and Brian's high school came first in their section!

One of the bands played an arrangement of a Pat Metheny song, which I was pretty thrilled about. America continues to impress me.


The open road.




One of the bands warming up at the Syracuse Carrier Dome, where the contest took place. Syracuse is famous in the sports world for its Lacrosse team, which I think is no.1 in the US at the moment. Their basketball team is also pretty good.


Medina (Brian's old high school) gets ready to play.


Marching bands are so much cooler than I expected. They don't just march, they do crazy formations and have very precise patterns. It's awesome, and very entertaining. The movie 'Drumline' is also very popular here. I remember seeing it on Sky movies one time and the info given for it was "Does for marching band music what 8 Mile did for rap".


They only used the one side of the stadium because the marching bands face the audience. It's also a bloody huge stadium.


BK (Brian Kaiser) gets into his element.


Betsy, me, Priyam and Whitney. Medina rocks!


Syracuse University Band creates the shape of New York State while playing 'New York, New York'. I <3 NY!


The awards are given out.


Brian, Alexis, Emily, Wendy and myself by some halloween decorations in the campus centre. Just a nice photo to end with.


Mood: The little American flag I have in my room!

Currently listening to: John Mayer - Room for Squares... still.

Crazy American fact #9: So... The Prez's best mate Harriet Miers was like totally nominated for the Supreme Court but the democrats were like "Whatever!" and then even Bush's ultra-conservative base was like "Shut up! She ain't got no experience in the judicial branch!" so he was like "Dude?!" and they were like "Whoa!". Then Harriet was, y'know, like "I ain't having none of this shit biatches!" and she withdrew her nomination. Then Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby was like indicted for totally leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent just cause her boyfriend was like "There ain't no WMDs in Africa!" and so the the Prez was like "You guys suck. Bigtime. I'm nominating Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme Court! Have some of that!"