Hello dear readers!

Welcome to the long awaited Third Installment of my critically acclaimed column! This time i intend to focus on ... oh i don't know yet. we'll get to topic later. i gotta say a few things before i forget......buy anything you can track down by the Registrators! i just got their 'Terminal Boredom' LP, and it rocks like nobody's business! these japanese garage punk fellas got so much energy that upon listening i have no choice but to jump up and down and run around in circles until i collapse gasping to the floor (which doesn't take very long...).

Okay, second on my agenda- FUCKING EMAIL ME! come on people! it's not that hard! if ya like what i have to say, let me know. if you think i'm a damn nitwit, let me know that too! i'm a decent pen/keyboard pal, and i love email. Maybe you've noticed but i'm not the most socially adept of people, and i just love making new friends. plus, if i ever get up the gumption to start travelling around i'll need friendly people to let me sleep with them. err, sleep at their houses. (Freudian slip, sorry.)

Listen to me folks, i'm serious here...sorta. this column isn't really critically acclaimed (YET, it's not critically acclaimed YET. (You've got to visualize if you want to achieve your goals.)) and this third column wasn't actually all that long awaited. long procrastinated perhaps. i'm only sitting down at the keyboard now because i don't want to do all the homework i avoided doing over my thanxgiving break (which was fun by the way, i got to see SNFU, one of my fave bands, bought the Registrators record and some Boris the Sprinkler 7inchers, got to see my girlfriend and stuff (maybe not as much "and stuff" as i'd like, but hey. (actually i didn't get to see or talk to her as much as i wanted to either.)), saw the Romeo and Juliet movie (wanted to hate it but actually enjoyed it. damn.), hung out with my rad-as-fuck friend Jess, and ate a fucking ton at thanxgiving. man how i miss my mom's cooking.) and starting up my column is a good way to avoid all that work. you know how sometimes you'll be doing something that really sucks, like mowing the lawn or getting a tooth pulled, and you just hafta take a break? and this break makes the unpleasant task oh-so-much more bearable, at least for a little bit? well that's how i do my homework. i take one big long break, so when i eventually get around to starting up, i don't mind so much.

Well, okay, i usually wait till immediately before the assignment is due and then panic sets in- "ohfuckohfuckafivepagepaperinanhourandihaven'tevenread
thebookyetohfuck i'mgonnaflunkoutofcollegeforsureohFUCK," and then my brain goes into adrenaline induced overdrive and i fly through the work on autopilot. and of course afterward it's all no big deal cuz i had it all under control the whole time. yeah.

Some say i'm lazy and have poor study habits. Bah! they just don't know how to make their own natural 'fight or flight' instinct work for their benefit. and once again we can conclude from this what, class? "that nate is vastly superiorly. the reason this is not widely recognized is because most puny humans can't understand him, him being so far above them." (sort of like how a lot of less evolved people fail to realize the awesome power of a GOOD band like the Joylkiller, content in their ignorance to listen to certifiably BAD music like Skankin' Pickle or any grindcore band.)

Go away. this column has no topic. i lied. well okay, it does have a topic. and that topic is...ummm...my pal Zach the skater. To sum it up- Zach is rad.

Nate Holdren



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