| why, hello there |
[Dec. 5th, 2006|09:38 am] |
it is december.
what?
still in argentina until the 21. craziness.
we're currently in exams and i'm working on two final papers which are progressing rather smoothly. and that's refreshingly nice.
anyhow. wow.
and check out http://www.wam.umd.edu/~nmburka and http://www.fotolog.com/travelingbard for a few last words on the Argentine adventure.
It's been too wonderful for words. in either english or spanish.
take the care, and see you soon.
-nick |
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| shana tova, mis amigos |
[Sep. 24th, 2006|07:06 pm] |
and for my australian viewers
and a merry Shana Tova u'mtukah to all you out there wherever you may be.
Me? I'm still in Buenos Aires enjoying myself immensely and I encourage you to visit http://www.wam.umd.edu/~nmburka for all the fun and excitement.
Cheers, abrazo, beso, chau, and saludos,
-Nick Burka |
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[Jul. 14th, 2006|07:12 pm] |
I have been updating my agrentine journal about every three days or so. check it out.
thanks,
-nick |
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| t-minus eighteen hours |
[Jun. 22nd, 2006|01:37 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | my room | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  excited but terrified | ] |
| [ | music |
| | mike doughty - unsingable name | ] |
I want to be your absolute ultimate
Want to be your only one now
Feel the wave come up from your sulkiness
Feel the rays you radiate now
Sweet and plain unsingable name
That rings in my mind now
That strums me like a string
Shine, unsingable name
Over everything
Beware the thrum of hearts in your presence and
Watch the breeze that snaps at you now
All the dogs that bark from the fences and
Everything is wanting for you
Smirk on the face and fists in the clenches and
Make the radiator blow now
Crack the planks and shatter the lenses and
Mix the salt, the sugar and flour
Slushing, sleeting through the blue gloom
Some long bell's lonely ring
Chime, unsingable name
Over everything
I want to see the mountains in silhouette
Want to split for Singapore now
I want to see the mystery trees
Want to hear the womanly sound
ps. i'll be attempting to update at the website with a few pictures and journal entries from abraoad. if that doesn't work, I'll continue using this account. enjoy. and take care. |
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| true story |
[Jun. 14th, 2006|03:21 pm] |
to the tune of "my baby died..."
my ipod died last week
it died of an aqueous infection
it cost three hundred dollars
a lowsy way to go anyway
tra la la a new one
please pass the cash.
indeed it pains me so.
BUT. new one. cool options. sleek style. and
last week was wonderful. simply wonderful. and my voice is still not at 100 percent. but that's my own dambed fault.
one week until argentina.
wow.
-nick |
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| surprise of surprises |
[Jun. 5th, 2006|11:50 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | amused | ] |
| [ | music |
| | jamie cullum - these are the days | ] |
so today, when i printed out my itinerary for Hava Nashira, the flight I thought I'd booked for Wednesday the 7 I had actually booked for the 6. Which is tomorrow.
thus, i go tomorrow with the URJ song leaders afterall. what fun.
wooooodoggie.
-nick |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 3rd, 2006|12:13 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home. | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  surreal & sleepy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | third eye blind in my head | ] |
at night is when our desires start to play.
i find myself wondering about someone i haven't really spoken to in months. if not years. but let's not be dramatic.
and the internet is a wonderful tool for helping to re-unearth information.
i'm going away in 20 days. but who's counting? and, well, i don't know.
it's not like i'm leaving school, or maryland for that matter, for good. just for six months. they shall prove to be wonderful, and terrifying, and probably rightfully reserve a spot as one of the most influential turning points of my life. but i'm having a hard time, as usual with me, in realizing exactly how. great. a. change. and at the same time how. soon. this. change. will. be. happening.
it's surreal.
i'm reading other friends' old journal entries. how marvelous. how very summer-procrastination of me.
good night all.
-nick |
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| taking an unwarranted break from ivrit to bring you this noticia |
[May. 15th, 2006|08:49 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | dorm | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  don(key) quixotic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | whatever greg's got on his computer | ] |
reading my argentine contact's online journal about her experiences and looking at her photos I am made all the more excited.
this journal will make a shift from american to argentine entries in t-minus one month and ten days (or roughly 38 days). I may even shift to a new website for easier agility and stuff. but then, i'm not the greatest at html.
ah me. ah argentina. ah ivrit. that's hebrew for hebrew. or rather, that's english transliteration for the hebrew word for hebrew.
felt i had to clarify.
so close. so close.
-nick |
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| [near] half-way done |
[May. 11th, 2006|05:02 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | st. mary's hall | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  wearing my glasses as usual | ] |
| [ | music |
| | colin hay - be good johnny | ] |
My dad called today. asked me how it feels to be almost done with my second year of college. it's strange. it's a relief. it's life.
exams start on monday for me.
then friday i'm on the radio with andrew, reuben, and possibly adrienne. tune in. 2-5 PM www.wmucradio.com.
then memorial day weekend i think andrew, myself, and anica are trekking up to New York City once more.
the following weekend is wacky weekend, which I'm staffing,
then it's hava nashira
then it's my birthday,
then it's father's day
then it's hasta luego.
sure. there'll be things happening in between, but it's gonna be fast. and as of yet, i still don't know where or with whom i'm staying in Buenos Aires, so i can't supply an address yet.
am i excited? terribly. am i nervous? terribly.
-nick |
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| "my my my it's a beautiful world... |
[Apr. 25th, 2006|10:20 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | the apo office, y'all | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | pirate-like | ] |
| [ | music |
| | ...incubus...first time in a LONG time | ] |
I [used to] like driving in my car..."
I saw Colin Hay of Men At Work at the Birchmere in Alexandria yesterday. It was wonderful.
After that, I also saw the gas prices at the local station and was outraged two fold at the ever exponentially climbing gas prices and at the fact that there is suspiciously no Regular grade left. I've heard one suggested reason for this, that they're switching over to Ethanol (which is a fuel product of wheat, actually) but that doesn't change the fact that it's insane and outrageous and outrageously insane. So from now until the end of school, i will be driving no where. only walking or riding public transportation.
in other news. yes, colin hay is marvelous and funny. and he was signing cds and tickets after the show. Hoorah. it must be wonderful to be a mostly-known musician. you have all these wonderful casual stories about meeting Jack Nicholson on the street and playing with Ringo Starr (though he did say that it never failed to give him a euphoric surprise at seeing the Beatle backing him up each night of that tour), or even being mistaken for Sting at a gas station in St. Louis, Missouri. The closest I've ever come to any of these is casually talking to Rick Recht, playing with Dan Nichols, and being told that I look like a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt by a sweet old lady on a NJ Transit bus on its way from Port Authority in New York City to the Warwick area.
I suppose it comes with time.
that's all for me today.
hasta luego,
-nick |
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| boleto |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|11:43 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | fantastico | ] |
| [ | music |
| | they might be giants - they might be giants | ] |
comienza la cuenta atras. |
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| a birthday list among other things |
[Apr. 13th, 2006|07:42 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  wearing a french beret | ] |
| [ | music |
| | only good music | ] |
because I'm a college student and thus money is ever slipping out of my wallet. and if i didn't write it down somewhere, it'd get lost.
-Paul Anka - Rock Swings
-O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack
-Bob Dylan - Nashville Sunrise
-Some nice collared t-shirts
-two big memory cards for my camera
and that's about it. i think there's more music than that, but I can't remember.
It's been a busy week. and gosh. it's already thursday. happy pesach y'all. Matzah Madness has begun.
what's your favorite Matzah creation?
mine's pizza.
-Nick "Matzah King" Burka |
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| I love this game |
[Mar. 30th, 2006|04:45 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | happy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | jamie cullum - twentysomething | ] |
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING! (although i don't really care if you do)
1) "It's happening baby / They're putting up the chairs / Taking the money / And all we can do is pray"
2) "You're the one I've waited for / I need your love more and more / I don't know what your name is / I don't know what your game is / I want to take you tonight / Animal apetite"
3) "I used to know everything about you / But today when I tried to point you out to one of my friends / I picked the wrong girl again"
4) "He pauses shaving and he tells himself that he is the bomb / She has a curler set and credit cards are paying the funds"
5) "I look straight in the window, try not to look below / Pretend I'm not up here, try counting sheep / But the sheep seem to shower off this office tower"
6) "Men made out of monkeys / Men made into mice / Happy days are here again / And all the drinks half price / A girl with a trick and a man with a calling"
7) "I’m all at sea / Where no one can bother me / Forgot my roots / If only for a day / Just me and my thoughts / Sailing far away"
8) "Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend / Be it mine right or wrongfully / I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends / To tie up the time most forcefully"
9) "Well, the Lone Ranger and Tonto / They are ridin' down the line / Fixin' ev'rybody's troubles / Ev'rybody's 'cept mine / Somebody musta tol' 'em that I was doin' fine"
10) "It takes a backwash man to sing a backwash song / Like a frying pan when the fire's gone / Driving my pig while the bands taking pictures in the grass / And my radio's smashed"
11) "Let's go away for a while / You and I to a strange and distant land / Where they speak no word of truth / But we don't understand, anyway."
12) "Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...(insert trippy music here as well)"
13) "You got my pride, hangin' out of my bed / You're messin' with my life so i bought my lead / Messin' with my children / And you're screamin' at my wife / Get off of my back / If you want to get outta here alive"
14) "Honey pieeeee / Honey pieeeeeee / I love you, honey pie"
15) "Well, take me back down where cool water flows, yeah / Let me remember things I love / Stoppin’ at the log where catfish bite / Walkin’ along the river road at night / Barefoot girls dancin’ in the moonlight"
16) "Give me one more chance / And you’ll be satisfied / Give me two more chances / You won’t be denied"
17) "Baby, babe, let's get together / Honey, hon, me and you / And do the things, ah, do the things / That we like to do"
18) "Why don’t you ask him if he’s going to stay? / Why don’t you ask him if he’s going away? / Why don’t you tell me what’s going on? / Why don’t you tell me who’s on the phone?"
19) "You wake up late for school - man you don’t wanna go / You ask you mom, ’please? ’ - but she still says, ’no!’ "
20) "I don't know how I'm gonna tell you, I can't play with you no more / I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me, My friend, the boy next door"
good luck. some of these are lesser knowns, but all the artists are well known. two artists have two songs on here.
hope everyone's enjoying good weather like I am.
-nick |
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| "Congratulations!... |
[Mar. 27th, 2006|10:54 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | muy bien. | ] |
| [ | music |
| | barenaked ladies (o mujeres nudas) | ] |
You have been selected to go to San Andres for the summer and fall 06."
this is it. I am going to Buenos Aires, Argentina come June 20thish. Earliest I return is late November. This promises to be a blast.
and check this out...
and
the tango....ooooooofun....
so I'm set.
i'll send more information as i receive it. mailing addresses and other cool things.
Time for bed.
-Nick |
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| some ryan adams |
[Mar. 26th, 2006|10:08 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | happy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | barenaked ladies - jane | ] |
Ryan Adams - Firecracker
Black birds slow and softly breaks a glass of wine
Broken bluesy whisper sing to me tonight
Well, everybody wants to go forever
I just wanna burn up hard and bright
I just wanna be your firecracker
And maybe be your baby tonight
Maybe be your baby tonight
Lady, your kicks of silence cough into your room
Kiss me slow and softly make me dream of you
Well, everybody wants to forever
I just wanna burn up hard and bright
I just wanna be your firecracker
And maybe be your baby tonight
Maybe be your baby tonight
So when does the plane go down
'Cause I'm ride it till it hits the ground
Then go out with a fight
'Cause I just wanna be your baby tonight
( --other news-- ) |
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| I'll always love you, New York |
[Mar. 22nd, 2006|10:26 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | ryan adams - new york, new york | ] |
Just returned from a two and a half day trip/jaunt/excursion/what-have-you to New York City and my my my was it nice. Central Park, Washington Square, 42nd street, Columbia University--no, I know, pretty well-known and overly-traveled to places but I was doing it with only the help of my good friend Andrew and non-else (aside from our lodging at his cousin's apartment on 72nd). It was magnificent and I can not wait to go back again. I have always loved New York City and now that I better understand the ways of the Subway, the boroughs, the to tourist or not to tourist faux pas...it'seven more wonderful.
Though, on the note of touristy standards, we did see a show. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels based on the film. It was stupendous. A riot. A blast. As was a late-night meal at Stardust diner off Broadway and 50th. Anyhow.
The rest of break promises to be quite busy: radio fill-in tomorrow from 12-2 (listen in! wmucradio.com), some Spanish and government work to do, Argentina plans to finalize, lots of things.
What fun,
-Nick |
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| that was fun... |
[Mar. 16th, 2006|03:33 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | only the best | ] |
Let's do it again! TOMORROW 10-12 est. Yes, I'm filling in again. Please do take a listen. Thanks everyone who listened in and gave requests and well-wishes. It was my best show to date. no doubt.
(after tomorrow, check me out next thursday at the same time, 12-2).
If you missed it, you can listen to the mp3 archive of the show here.
Also, the website is updated.
Have a good day, all.
-Nick |
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