Macrolog
Adventures On Campus
I went out Belfield this afternoon to pick up my robe and hood for the graduation ceremony tomorrow morning. It’s only been seven months since I was last out there, but they place has really changed. New buildings and pathways all over. I have to say, I was a bit disoriented when I stepped off the bus.
After meeting up with Eoin in the Arts block, we headed over to join the queue at O’Reilly Hall. The last time I was there (not counting that weird careers fair thing they had there last year, where we did a lap of the place in five minutes and left) was my first day at university, over three years ago. Never even went near the place when I was studying. It could be said that it’s a tad pointless.
Anyway, I signed the forms, forked over the dough and collected the necessary garments. Painless, really.
On the way back to the Arts block we passed a growing crowd filing out of the hall: the Mode I graduates. Seeing them dressed up all fancy and all, I felt slightly less embarrassed about having to get dressed up all fancy myself tomorrow. That being said, I’m still glad that it’ll be over and done with before lunchtime.
All thoughts about my graduation disappeared, however, a few moments later when, stopping by the old Filmsoc office so Eoin could borrow a VCR for the evening, I was immediately drawn - by some seemingly quasi-supernatural force - to a video cassette sitting on top of the television. The label on the side read, in so many words, ‘Super J Cup’.
My jaw dropped.
Not only is this a wrestling tape, not only is this a Japanese wrestling tape, but this is a tape of one of the most spectacular junior-heavyweight tournaments that New Japan Pro Wrestling has ever hosted. And this tape was sitting there right in front of me like a carrot on a stick.
I need a copy of that tape. I need it more than a junkie needs heroin.
While we’re on the subject of addiction, I got a few new CDs yesterday: This Adultery is Ripe by The Blood Brothers (which is great, if you like… well you’d have to hear them first), the new Q And Not U album, Different Damage (which is just brilliant, can’t stop playing it), and Sadness Will Prevail by Today Is The Day (which is not very good at all; the songs are there I guess, and it’s suitably epic, but it sounds fucking woeful, as if they recorded the drums in Exhumed’s cardboard box - looks like a case of burn and return for this one).
News just in: my mate Dave just started a blog. Pay him a visit why don’t you.
Thu 12 Dec 2002 at 00:37 ·
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