LIAH #1023

i'm seeing Modest Mouse in Brooklyn over the summer! finally, a concert i am very much excited about. extremely bummed i missed the foxboro hot tubs two shows in nyc this past weekend, but, just didn't work out. i've got literally a million things going on right now. well no not literally, more like a solid 7-10 things going on right now. that's too much for me, you throw 2 or 3 things at me i can deal. 1 i'm fucking solid. but 7-10, no, no. good thing is the beauty of prioritizing. brooklyn college has this wonderful program where if you pass the class, you can change the grade to pass or fail. you get two of those, i used one. english, you're fucking out. i mean, we'll see what happens. but it's not looking good.





summer or bust.

LIAH #1022

everyone close their eyes. think of ultimate doomsday scenario minus serious shit, because who wants to talk about serious shit? anyway, yeah my car died AGAIN. i've dumped more than 500 bucks into this car the past week. not including my parking tickets. i'm a jew for god sakes! i'd rather give up body parts than 500 dollars.
but life goes on. at the end of the day you move forward. it's all you can do.

LIAH #1021

my friend got in trouble with his mom for smoking weed once. she said she knows that he was a "habitual pot smoker". "habitual pot smoker". bad thing? i think not. let's get my man dr. paul in office 2012, LEGALIZE.

happy 420 to all my fellow lovers of that beautiful sticky green stuff.

for those about to burn, i salute you.

LIAH #1020

Why do you got to be such a buzz kill man. More of a buzz kill than, shit, I don't know, my fucking grandma or something. But if I told my grandma that it was time to get motherfucking paid, she'd listen. - Boomer

i'm shooting a scene from my foosball epic soon. i'm quite excited about it. anyway, my fucking car man. i love it, i love it so dearly. the '95 pontiac grand am with it's glowing aqua paintjob. it's beautiful and it's at 99,200 miles. we're so close to 100k, but a snag yesterday. well it begins even before yesterday. check it, even before. over winter break the city of white plains decided to ram me straight in the ass with parking tickets. the parking department of white plains is a sick, demented, and twisted place who take pleasure out of my pain. but, i was down to owing only 100 to them, and things seemed good. then the big boys got involved. i unknowingly parked my car in front of a fire hydrant for two nights. it was hidden by cones and other shit, i swear. i'm not a tard, i'm not. but the city of new york slapped me with two tickets, totaling 230 bones. damn. but still, doable? it couldn't get any worse right? of course it does.
yesterday morning, the grand am barely started. it started, but barely. i knew i was in for trouble. made it off the belt parkway, only to have the radio turn off. bad sign number one. i turned around and started to head back, but it was struggling. luckily, i got off the highway before it completely died, but literally i was right off the highway. car overheated. it's had problems with the coolant for a long time i was well aware of it. but it finally was too much. so now i got to get a new radiator. 300 big ones.
it sucks, yeah. pretty much two weeks worth of pay, down the drain. but now my car will work. i'm getting the flooding fixed too. my car will be normal. it won't struggle to get to 100k, it will get to 100k with grace and pride. stay strong grand am, good times ahead.

note- not my car. just a googled aqua 95 grand am.

LIAH #1019

alright. i'm set up at home base, WP, for another hour until i head back to BK. using keys efficiently, it's what i do. so i'm finally starting to feel like i'm getting somewhere with life. that's intense right, but like in a mad good way. i've got a solid job, i've got mad film stuff going on now with school. working on two scene recreations on 16 mm, then i'm shooting a scene digital for my foosball epic, King Of The Foos. on top of all that, my fantasy baseball team is kicking ass and taking names. right now, yeah, i'm down by 20 points. i've got my entire rotation going the next 3 days of the week. lincecum hasn't pitched yet, weaver, beckett, brett anderson american hero, and andy legend pettite.
life is good.

LIAH #1018

after ranting in the nature i did, pretty much, sony denied the story about that dude being the lead, but the story still stands by their sources. i don't really care about who is playing spiderman, i mean i do, but i care about if the movie is going to suck or not.
anyway. officially, after one week of fantasy baseball, i am in first place with the most points. it's a weekly thing so everyone is either 1-0 or 0-1, but i scored the most points. looks like someone brought the awesome. boom.

LIAH #1017

Reports say the new film will be even more family friendly than the original trilogy, which featured Tobey Maguire as Parker and was directed all three times by Sam Raimi. James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) penned the script which will place a high school-aged Peter Parker in a more contemporary setting, as a teenager grappling with normal teen problems while also dealing with his superpowers. - RopeofSilicon.com's Brad Brevet (great fucking movie website, great critic, i check it multiple times daily)

wow. what, a, buzzkill. for those not in the know, the spiderman franchise has rebooted. at first, yeah, that's awful news. knee-jerk reaction is to be bummed. but then after i thought about it, i saw a slim glimmering piece of hope somewhere in the distance. marc webb is directing. his only feature is 500 days of summer, which is pretty good for what it is. he's a big music video director, a bunch of weezer, all the new green day ones after sam bayer. check his stuff out for the most part quality music videos. anyway, here we have a not so experienced director, but potentially pretty solid one, taking over the spiderman franchise. the studio cut the budget from sam raimi asking for more than 230 million to 80 million. that is a major fucking cut for a spiderman movie. we're talking huge, blockbuster spiderman. a "low" budget comic book movie? interesting. i was somewhat intrigued if all the positives of this mess worked out.
but no. of course not. spiderman is dead. long live spiderman.
"reports say the new film will be even more family friendly than the original trilogy". i feel like you need to read that again. more family friendly than the original? are you fucking serious? how low are we going with this. let's do a little simple math. to find out what we're gonna get with this new reboot spiderman bullshit.
A - B = new reboot spiderman bullshit. A, original spiderman trilogy. well. spiderman. willem freaking dafeo was norman osborn. i wanted more without a mask, but what are you gonna do. it was an orgin story. it a solid time at the movies, and did justice to the books. now spiderman 2? arguably one of the best of the super hero films. you can't say comic book films anymore, too broad a discussion. but spiderman 2, fantastic. the subway chase scene? i used to say for me top super hero movies, batman begins and then spiderman 2. batman is just cooler than spiderman, and he's being done by a way cooler director too. and of course now number 1 undisputed champ of super hero movies IS the dark knight. of course. not even a debate. i don't want to hear it. spiderman 3? fucking terrible. the movie was forced from the studio, the script went through like seven different people maybe explaining the simple problem with it we don't need 37(3) villians. so they fucked up. they fucked up hard. but sam raimi wanted to make spiderman 4. he totally would not have come within miles of it if he didn't want to. he wanted john malkovich as the vulture. yes. absofuckinglutely. when absolutely and fucking combine their powers of awesomeness, boom. and he wanted more than 230 million for it. they've got plenty of money sam raimi can be trusted. i don't want to hear it about the money, such a cop out.
so in total, A, as a whole? yes, pretty sweet trilogy. now B, what wasn't family friendly about the original trilogy? hm. it wasn't language, there wasn't really dark themes to the films they were pretty lighthearted. if i remember right he definitely never bangs mary jane(mary jane!). violence? violence. fight scenes. hijacking a subway and almost killing hundreds of people, while spiderman nearly kills himself saving them. definitely not family friendly.
= a spiderman where everything cool about spiderman doesn't happen.
why.

LIAH #1016

my fantasy baseball team is so good, i should start filling out mlb job applications. it's ridiculous. tim lincecum my ace, kicking ass, taking names. beckett, not so much but i don't seem to be that upset about it? bretty anderson baby, six scoreless yesterday.
i love baseball.

LIAH #1015

well hello. i had a major decision to make these past couple of weeks. last summer i worked as a cabana boy at westchester country club. i made a shit ton of guap doing pretty much nothing. i opened up peoples cabanas in the morning, sat on a bench afterwards, and waited for the rich people to ask for more ice or alcohol. sometimes they'd tip me, sometimes they wouldn't. it was a good summer job.
after a couple months of dicking around in brooklyn, around october i went broke and needed a job. now for those who have had to look for a part time job before, you don't need me to tell you how incredibly stressful that process is. you've got no money in your pocket, you're going around new york city interviewing trying to get something. i think my low point this year was when i saw an ad for an open call at some hotel on the west side. i went to class, and during my lunch break headed to the city. not knowing the west side at all, i got completely lost and was fifteen minutes late. i was sweating, had my bookbag on, and trying to quit smoking at the time. i finally got there only to find a line around the block. luckily i was able to bum a smoke after feeling utterly defeated.
around mid november i got a job at this newly opened burrito place, Dos Toros. there wasn't even a sign out front, as apposed to when i joined the Shake Shack monopoly last year. dont get me wrong, when it comes to making burgers and milkshakes shake shack knows whats up. just writing burgers and milkshakes is really making me want a shake shack burger and milkshake. but that doesn't mean that wasn't the most miserable job i've ever had. keep in mind i stuffed bears for almost a year.
so why am i giving my employment history right now? well andrew southard had a big decision to make. you could either spend another year at wcc, beckoning to the spoiled Georgetown, Boston College, and Notre Dame alums. not that i have anything against those schools, go irish! but having the "where do you go to school?" conversation thousands of times, enough was enough. "brooklyn college""oh boston college? that's great!""no, i go to, brooklyn college""oh...i see. well isn't that nice." well fuck you too. i'm not being a peasant again for a summer. i want to be at a job where i mean something. there's not many decisions in life that you get to make on principle, and i feel like this is a decision i need to make on principle.
here's to taking a stance in life. cheers.

LIAH #1014

ah, baseball season starts tomorrow. i did my first live intense fantasy draft last night. i've done plenty of fantasy baseball before, but this is a legit league with a board and whatnot. fantasy baseball man, the last thing i need right now. i don't like classifying people, putting them in groups and whatnot. labeling, stereotyping, all bad stuff. but there's one label i wear on my shoulder with pride, and that is fanboy. andrew southard, complete and utter fanboy of all things awesome. movies, sports, music, i love it. i eat that shit up. sacked, lunch. yumyumyum.
what was i trying to say? i'm not too sure, but all i know is, i picked up tim lincecum first round. love that dude. a hero for stoners everywhere. speaking of labels, nothing wrong with that one either.

LIAH #1013

oh man i just woke up from a dream where i was sick and it was my first day of work at some random job. i wouldn't throw it in the nightmare category, that's just my brain being a pain in the ass.
somehow i thought that'd be a talking point, but it didn't happen.
happy passover to my fellow members of the tribe.