The only happy LJer

because why?

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:03:48 GMT

I don't know why i am posting here. Maybe you select group of people who
know about this futile online journal can answer this question.

So, i was just looking at what few entries i have in here, and i was reading the
posts from last summer. i find it quite mind blowing that summer is only
half way through. the most memorable parts of my summer didn't even happen
until right about now, this time last year.

i would love to post the blog address for the blog i have been keeping about
me being in seattle for the summer (WHAT?! you didn't know i was in seattle?),
but apparently there are some people from seattle who might get ahold of the
address, and i don't feel like having them read. if you want the address drop
me a line and ill send it too you.

with all of my free time (because i slacked off for a little too long and didn't get
a job) i started re-building my websites, one by one, like i had been planning to
do MONTHS AND MONTHS ago. so the new website HUB address is

dustindrankoski.com

so, to catch everyone up on my summer thus far (there is so much to come!), a
list is in order. ready? ok... GO!

•im in seattle
•ill be in ny on august 3rd
•im unemployed
•last nite i drank a lot of cheap champagne and went to a high school reunion
roof party. i only knew 3 people, so we just made up some sordid past so
people thought i was cool
•rossi is good, sparks is better
•they don't have colt 45 here. WHERE ARE THE BLACK PEOPLE AT?
•i worked on rebuilding a house for a little while... it was fun. i got $10 an hour
•my d100's batteries are dead, and i don't have the charger... thus, no digital pics
•i like white t-shirts
•i bought a road bike
•i have a massive crush on a girl
•the most important thing i have in my room is the box that my printer came in.
it doubles (triples) (quadruples) into my desk, workstation, and nightstand.
•i met someone named sterling... his parents couldn't commit to silver i guess
•i kicked the crap out of toby by accident
•laura has punched me in the face, elbowed me in the head, and nearly tried
to poke my eyes out nearly everytime i have seen her
•my living room didn't have couches for a month...
•i got two noise complaints the first two nites i was in my apartment
•i still haven't used the word 'hella'
•they STILL WEAR FLANNEL HERE. AND THINK ITS COOL. and everyone has
listened/still listens too, and loves, the blood brothers

i doubt ill post again for another bajillion months (yes, thats a number, it comes
right after 7 and just before 8.), and im not sure why i posted anyway! i guess
i had a livejournal calling. MISS ALL OF YOU (who read this)!

-d

A Post to hold you over

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 06:12:35 GMT

Since i have this i might as well appease the masses and post once in a while.

So, this is my ode to the semester.

First, i would like to mention that i found my old online journal thing that i
thought had been deleted from the server a longtime ago. its so strange
reading something about so long ago and being so absolutely disconnected
from the feelings at that time. its also strange to read about stories that include
people i don't even talk to anymore. my favorite entry was the one about avery
the nite his now gf refused to talk to him and he started crying. that made me
laugh. a lot. more than it should have.

so how was everyone's semester?

mine was alright. not enough free shooting, more grounded in assignment work
i guess, between studio and crit.

reviews went well i guess. the studio review told me nothing useful, which is fine
because i spent no time taking the pictures, printing it, or even putting it together.
i have a particular distaste for that class actually.

the my crit review went well. i actually liked the work i produced that was a change.
of course, when i looked at it again in portfolio form, i decided i didn't like it anymore.
and, god forbid, my teacher told me it was fine art. gasp. i know. he also told me he
liked it, but i should do editorial because fine art is for people who like looking like they
do fine art (his exact words which made me laugh, which was also funny because he said
that right as Meg came in for her review and she was considering persuing fine art, oh
timing).

my tech final is tomorrow, and then printing and crit on monday. then my favorite
semesterly meeting with frailey. oh good times. nothing like being trapped in a 5'x8'
box with a man that holds your career in his hands.

and my supposed easy ending semester just got uprooted by the realization that there
is work to be done and im merely piling everything up into about 2 days worth of time.

AWESOME.

i hope everyone has a wonderful break, a merry christmas, or if you rock that candle
lighting thing, a happy chanookah! happy new year! and call me if you are in NYC
on the 31st!

And a fond fair well to michelle, who is leaving (cause she's stupid) to go be educated
in... well... i dont know, stupid things i guess, like emo bands.

-d

Its Getting Chilly

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:40:14 GMT

Yesterday was so chill, and fun and awesome.

It was like a massive trip around town. I was downtown,
uptown, eastside, brklyn.

It was also like photo overkill. In a good way. I mean, as a
photo major (those of you who are will get this) we are constantly
bombarded with photo STUFF. Technical, artistic, conceptual, obscure,
straightforward. All this stuff, "need to know." Its all we do; but we
don't really do things with a lot of it. We learn it, talk about it, and then
leave it at the school. We may talk about printing a lot, or cameras, but
when was the last time you just played with a camera for 8 hours? took
pictures for 8 hours? scouted, planned, wandered, got lost, for a long
time? maybe i just slack off and haven't while everyone else has; but
between doing a small shoot on the fdr with qflashes, wandering brklyn
at nite with a tripod and backpack full of gear, and then wandering uptown
to find weird nite pictures, i feel like i had my first real experience with
photoraphy, or maybe its just been so long it shocked me. either way
it was awesome.

ps - taking pictures with a hasselblad on the street is really tedious.
stopping, setting up a tripod, then metering, then focusing, then re-
metering. but a lot of fun to slow down that much

-d

Party

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:47:03 GMT

You all rock! Thanks for all coming you
made it an awesome party.

sorry to anyone who i kind of bailed on
there at the end. really sorry. you know
thats not how i usually operate.

ps. VIDEO GAME PARTY NEXT TIME!!!
-james bond
-mario kart
-diddy kong racing
-mario tennis
-etc

-d

Sucka

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 05:57:32 GMT

Everyone is back in the city
and im more overjoyed than ever
im like... busy.

haha i have things i need to... like... DO.
i have people i not only have to see,
but people i desperetaly missed!

not that i didn't love you shannon and
erin for keeping me waaaaaaay entertained
all summer, you two are my personal heros,
you just know how it is!

i wish i wasn't so tired!

YAY CLASSES!

printing with devon and the crew tomorrow
makes everything great. the concept makes the
world a better place. how i missed printing.

-d

No Words

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:28:51 GMT

ok, so with new information being uncovered,
maybe the emo jokes weren't in best taste, SO
instead of lyrics to a dashboard song, im posting
lyrics to the Statistics "(a memory)" :

-d

No more drunk posting

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:46:53 GMT

haha i think this is what i get for putting up drunk posts.
i swear to god i never even read what i wrote for that last
entry, drunk or sober. either, way, seeing as how i have
discovered people coming out of the wood work just to
comment on how "erin-esque" my entry was, it has
banished to the far off kingdom of deleted entries.

instead (to stick with the apparent theme of emotasticness,
aka erinitis) i am going to post some dashboard lyrics. haha
i think this will make a nice alternative.

emo girls who get off on these lyrics and wish to have
sex with me (i know, i know, unlikely, but you can't say i
didn't try) give me a call! 914 282 2001

Pacific Sun, you should have warned us, it gets so cold here.
And the night can freeze, before you set it on fire.

And our flares go unnoticed.
Dimminished, faded just as soon as they are fired.

We are, we are, intrigued. We are, we are, invisible.

Oh, how we've shouted, how we've screamed, take notice, take interest, take me with you.

But all our fears fall on deaf ears.

Tonight, they're burning the roads they built to lead us to the light.
And blinding our hearts with their shining lies,
while closing our caskets cold and tight. But I'm dying to live.

Pacific sun, you should have warned us, these heights are dizzying,
and the climb can kill you long before the fall.

And our trails go unmarked and unmapped and covered
just as soon as they are crossed.

We are, we are, intriguing. We are, we are, desirable.

Oh how we've shouted, how we've screamed,
take notice, take interest, take me with you.

But all our fears fall on deaf ears.

Tonight, they're burning the roads they built to lead us to the light.
And blinding our hearts with their shining lies,
while closing our caskets cold and tight. But I'm dying to live.

ps - this is just for fun i swear!!! haha these aren't about
anyone or anything

I was dead

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:30:15 GMT

OK ok OK ok.

So i haven't really been around in awhile; I KNOW I KNOW.

Shannon claims that i died, because i didn't talk to her for
an astonishingly unprecedented 5 days. I have talked to Erin
TWICE in like a month in a half, and seen her ZERO times.
Sean and i never got coffee. the roof party never happened
(still could).

i blame a lot of this on the work schedule which is really tiring.
Most of the blame can be set on the fact that i had to go home
nearly every week for the past month. I have spent more time
somers than i did all last school year combined. its weird. the
fact that i bought the first season of arrested development on
dvd can't help much either. oh, and the heat. as soon as it gets
hot im more likely to build a fort with the couch in the living
room than even go outside to get food. that happened by the
way, and i ate a whole box of cookies. i think i gained 400 ibs
that nite. and the cookies were gross.

so lets see, instead of trying to catch everyone up, because it
would be futile, and more like an exercise in remembering the
most random thing i did. i got drunk a bit. i saw old friends.
i worked a stupidly large amount. i wondered the city a bit.
i started to say goodbye to lots of people. i ditched a lot of
people. i went to a great concert. and right now im working on
my new portfolio, so that means endlessly scanning negatives
that i haven't even printed. i have someting like 50 rolls that
i need to print. its just irritating at this point. but ill have two
new books hopefully. oh, i have my cousins wedding this
saturday in central park, im going to sweat my ass off. i hope
zan also throws that fucking party for anthony. i just want
him to meet her room mates... haha that kid is awesome.
tuesday will roll around and nicole is coming in to see aristocrats
(NOT WITH SHANNON) and pass the vodka and vermouth on
over to me (martini's anyone?).

i am so excited for North Carolina next week. since italy, i
haven't just stopped and done nothing. its going to be so
awesome to do NOTHING. a whole shit load of it. to the point
where it is a brilliant amount of something. now i just need
anthony and amber to find a cute girl for me to hook up with,
oh those two together scare me.

um. i think thats it... i should have left work probably...

byyeeeee!
-d

INTERnet

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 18:55:21 GMT

Ok, i don't really have much time, this is just a good blanketed way to get in touch with
a lot of people at once, SO

i have like NOOO internet. they are building a pool at my house and just like, decided
to dig up the cable box which is on the oppisite side of the property... but whatever

the only time i have internet is at work... so shit man...

and to my favorite NYC-ers; im sorry that i got stuck in Hellchester, but i had a long ass
week and i could never get back into the city with all of my stuff. oh, and i have a wedding
this weekend there so it seemed pointless to run back and forth!

miss everyone talk to you (hopefully) soon

i leave you with lyrics for a song ben folds sang last nite that i love;

You took a trip and climbed a tree
At Robert Sledge's party
And there you stayed 'till morning came
And you were not the same after that
You gave your life to Jesus Christ
And after all your friends went home
You came down, you looked around
And you were not the same after that

(Ahhh ahhh)

You were not the same after that

(Ahhh ahhh)

You were not the same after that
You see 'em drop like flies from the bright sunny skies
They come knocking at your door with this look in their eyes
You've got one good trick and you're hanging on you're hanging on...
To it

You took the word and made it heard
And eased the people's pain and for that
You were idolised, immortalised
And you were not the same after that
Walking tall, you'd bought it all
And you were not the same after that
Till someone died on the waterslide
And you were not the same after that

You see 'em drop like flies from the bright sunny skies
They come knocking at your door with this look in their eyes
You've got one good trick and you're hanging on you're hanging on to it

(ooh ooh ooh ooh)
(YOU WERE NOT THE SAME!)

You see 'em drop like flies from the bright sunny skies
They come knocking at your door with this look in their eyes
You've got one good trick and you're hanging on you're hanging on:

You're hanging on
You're hanging on

-d

Should I be excited?

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:32:50 GMT

Haha is it bad that i was really happy to be paying my first bill?

probably...

i got a letter from leila today and it absolutely made my summer.
not only was i not expecting it at all, it was a BIG ASS LETTER.
i didn't even need to open it to be happy. remember those large
pads of paper in middle school that teachers used to write on, that
sat on the easels? ya she wrote my letter front and back on a piece
of paper that size. i think it took me longer to read that than harry
potter.

so i just wrote her back and that was cool. now off to run errands.

-d