The World According To Chris Brewer

I think it was about five or six months ago that I picked up my friend Adam Gillette to go to a church event down in Chesapeake. He brought this weird looking CD, popped it in my car’s CD player, and out of my speakers came beautiful harmonic sounds of….well, it was pretty much indescribably awesome. After much discussion, I found out the band was named Sigur Ros, they’re from Iceland, and the words they sing are a mixture of English and Icelandic (they call it Hopelandic). So needless to say, I got hooked on their music, got their CD ( ) (that’s actually the title of the CD, an open parentheses followed by a closed parentheses) and listened in my car, in my dorm, etc. Now their new CD, Takk, comes out in 3 days and I’ve been listening to a preview of it on Myspace. It sounds awesome. Check out their Myspace page and you can preview the album too. Sucks that rewind and fast forward are disabled, because I really like the Takk Intro and "Mea Bloanasir." But rest assured, this will quite possibly be my favorite album to buy in all of September.

I have a lot of time on my hands lately.  Working nights and no college classes has meant that I have a lot of idle time recently.  But even with all the time I have to waste, I don’t have time to deal with some crap that’s been going on recently.

Last night I said goodbye to Stephanie Dorsey for good.  When my mom was visiting my dad in DC along with my brother Jason, I got a rare opportunity to talk with her one-on-one about how life is going.  I mentioned Stephanie to her and she instantly told me I should drop her like a hot potato.  I asked why and she said "think about it, ever since you and her broke off of each other she has only wanted to be your friend when she needs something."  Which was completely true.   Stephanie used to want to talk to me all the time — even if she was busy, she would find time to talk to me at least for a little while.  But then of course, things went south and I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and even tried to let her take the high road.  I tried as long as possible to be civil toward her, and actually thought I could be friends with her again.  But as it turned out, she never really wanted to talk to me (I would call her and she would instantly say "I gotta go"), she only contacted me when she needed something from me (I don’t know why she would need me in the first place), and I kept on trying to continue a friendship that simply wasn’t there.  I mean, take this for example…I helped her with a paper for one of her college classes recently.  She talked to me last night and thanked me for it.  It went something like this:

Stephanie: “Thanks for helping me with my paper! You’re my hero!!!”
Me: “Let’s see just how much of a hero I really am when you don’t need anything from me.”

And BAM, that set her off.  It set me off too because I fired off a volley against her and gave examples of her offenses.  Probably not the smartest thing to do, but all her response was: "I’m sorry you feel that way, and I’m sorry if I made you feel that way."  Sigh.  I told her that was the end of everything since she didn’t want to make an effort to be friends, and she went off.  I mean seriously, she must be a 11 year old girl trapped inside a 20 year old woman’s body.  Suffice it to say I got rid of every method of contact I had with her.

Whew. That being overwith, it’s time for me to get a haircut then run to the store to replenish my nonexistent food supply.