goodnight
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
project mayhem
watched fight club again. i really like that movie.
even though there are random parts that don't really make sense and can only "make sense" by attributing the impracticality or improbability of the situation happening (spoiler alert) to schizophrenia, it's still a great movie. i remember someone saying it's even better when you watch it a second time, and i will have to agree. the way the director(s) handle the entire situation is genius in retrospect. overall, the movie is/was/will always be great, regardless of the parts that don't seem to make much sense realistically (then again, it could just be me being slow).
i keep watching movies i've already seen over and over again. this isn't helping me get anywhere with my list of 250 movies (aka the imdb top rated movies of all time) to watch by the end of summer. hopefully i'll get a hold of memento (meh-mehn-toe, as the fruitcake at hollywood video felt the need to butt in to the conversation that did not involve him), oldboy, city of god, blow, etc. all the movies i feel i should've seen somehow before if i had ever actually been interested in films... or entertainment in general, actually.
whenever i think back on how behind i am when it comes to knowing random tidbits everyone else will seem to take for granted, and realize that i don't know anything about them, i feel comparable to stephen (knows NOTHING about popular culture, excluding new - bad – music). the only thing i realize i know about is rap music. my 90s hip hop knowledge stayed pretty much up to par throughout my childhood, but when the underground scene came about, i refused to immerse myself within the community. something else i regret. sure, i was blastin' nas before most kids were; when i illegally downloaded illmatic in 6th grade i thought i was the shit, but i missed out on so many great acts around that time. i remember when i used to browse sixshot forums to keep up to date on the latest hip hop news. waiting to see what scandals and rumors had arisen. i remember downloading my first MF DOOM song, being completely unready for such creativity and thinking that mess was trash, then proceeding to read up on the most recent nelly or jay-z story. all in all i guess my journey through hip hop wasn't too bad - there are still some (18 year-old) "kids" today running around bumpin power 106 to hear the latest weezy or g-unit single. diversify, kiddies... it's good for you.
well all the people that were awake have simultaneously drifted off, and i suppose it's about time for me to do the same.
late
even though there are random parts that don't really make sense and can only "make sense" by attributing the impracticality or improbability of the situation happening (spoiler alert) to schizophrenia, it's still a great movie. i remember someone saying it's even better when you watch it a second time, and i will have to agree. the way the director(s) handle the entire situation is genius in retrospect. overall, the movie is/was/will always be great, regardless of the parts that don't seem to make much sense realistically (then again, it could just be me being slow).
i keep watching movies i've already seen over and over again. this isn't helping me get anywhere with my list of 250 movies (aka the imdb top rated movies of all time) to watch by the end of summer. hopefully i'll get a hold of memento (meh-mehn-toe, as the fruitcake at hollywood video felt the need to butt in to the conversation that did not involve him), oldboy, city of god, blow, etc. all the movies i feel i should've seen somehow before if i had ever actually been interested in films... or entertainment in general, actually.
whenever i think back on how behind i am when it comes to knowing random tidbits everyone else will seem to take for granted, and realize that i don't know anything about them, i feel comparable to stephen (knows NOTHING about popular culture, excluding new - bad – music). the only thing i realize i know about is rap music. my 90s hip hop knowledge stayed pretty much up to par throughout my childhood, but when the underground scene came about, i refused to immerse myself within the community. something else i regret. sure, i was blastin' nas before most kids were; when i illegally downloaded illmatic in 6th grade i thought i was the shit, but i missed out on so many great acts around that time. i remember when i used to browse sixshot forums to keep up to date on the latest hip hop news. waiting to see what scandals and rumors had arisen. i remember downloading my first MF DOOM song, being completely unready for such creativity and thinking that mess was trash, then proceeding to read up on the most recent nelly or jay-z story. all in all i guess my journey through hip hop wasn't too bad - there are still some (18 year-old) "kids" today running around bumpin power 106 to hear the latest weezy or g-unit single. diversify, kiddies... it's good for you.
well all the people that were awake have simultaneously drifted off, and i suppose it's about time for me to do the same.
late
Friday, June 27, 2008
impulse
spontaneity. its great.
i love when things happen out of the blue.
tonight was a great preview of the irvine trips that will be happening this summer, and within 6 hours we had so much fun that the day-long trips have to be promising.
good stuff.
interview tomorrow at 2, ugh.
goodnight.
i love when things happen out of the blue.
tonight was a great preview of the irvine trips that will be happening this summer, and within 6 hours we had so much fun that the day-long trips have to be promising.
good stuff.
interview tomorrow at 2, ugh.
goodnight.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
eh i'll do it later
being on summer break makes me realize: i'm one of the most unproductive people ever, period. i had about 40 things planned to do. ranging from basketball, to watching movies, to washing my clothes, to cleaning up, etc. i woke up at 830, went to the gym, got home at 12, and slept until 530. then i woke up, got chipotle, came back home, and sat at my desk for about 8 hours. i didn't finish washing, cleaning, uploading pictures (although that was facebook's fault - or at least facebook's exporter app)..... nothing. and now it's 530 in the morning, and i'm going to sleep after wasting the entire day. hopefully tomorrow is more worthwhile.
in case you don't know, i hate doing nothing.... if that makes sense. i have to be busy. when i worked at disneyland, i loved working register. there were always people needing help with something. and if people didn't need help, there was candy to be transported, clothes to be arranged, items to find, etc. that's why i'm always so ancy sitting around at school and at home. i'd rather be out roaming the streets or driving around aimlessly with friends than sitting at home "relaxing." you'll have plenty of time to relax by yourself later, go out and do something.
speaking of hanging with people, this reminds me: i want to take pictures of the sunrise next schoolyear. hopefully michael will have his dslr and i won't be the only person awake to do it. whenever i'd take my eyes off the computer screen to glance at the clock and upon seeing the time of "4:30" displayed in those huge greenish-yellow bars, i'd contemplate getting up off my butt and going outside to take pictures of the sunrise. of course i'd get lazy and make excuses like "oh i don't have a tripod," or "it'll be boring just taking pictures by myself," or some other nonsense to make me feel better about being lazy. next year though, i'll do it at least once. it will be added on my mental list of "things to do" before the year's over.
today as i was browsing around the internet, i stumbled upon a few blogs and "artsy-sites" where people like to express their feelings and opinions and whatnot, and realized something: not that i've been using colons a lot more as of late, but that so many people are over-dramatic. i may be known to exaggerate a few things (okay, MOST things), but people that really know me well can tell that i'm usually just joking. what i mean is that i quite often say how much i "hate" something, or how much i wish someone would cease to exist (usually famous people), but my friends know that it's just a joke. i don't actually wish people would die, that's extreme hateration - i'm only a moderate hater at most. and i may be annoyed by lots of things, but i don't "hate" many things per se, i just wish i could see less of them. but i realize people aren't all the same, and that when i dislike something, not everyone will feel the same way. i'm fine with that. but when people talk about how much things suck or how sad random things make them, it just makes me want to look at them and ask "do you need a hug?" yeah, we all have problems and hardships that we have to deal with, but i don't see how people can be so down about their lives so often. i was always taught that when i have a problem to fix it. nowadays it seems that when people have problems, it's better to complain about how bad it is than to do something about it. sure, this entire blog could be considered "complaining" about problems i have, but that's not my intent. i'm a very happy person, i'm very content with who i am, where i am, and how i've become me. i just wish people could be happier overall, i wish i could help somehow. maybe everyone should just listen to electronic music. you can't be sad when you roll around blasting girl talk (props to nick seranio for recommending me this guy) all day. let's stray away from the dashboard confessional and linkin park, guys. it'll make the world a happier place :)
in case you don't know, i hate doing nothing.... if that makes sense. i have to be busy. when i worked at disneyland, i loved working register. there were always people needing help with something. and if people didn't need help, there was candy to be transported, clothes to be arranged, items to find, etc. that's why i'm always so ancy sitting around at school and at home. i'd rather be out roaming the streets or driving around aimlessly with friends than sitting at home "relaxing." you'll have plenty of time to relax by yourself later, go out and do something.
speaking of hanging with people, this reminds me: i want to take pictures of the sunrise next schoolyear. hopefully michael will have his dslr and i won't be the only person awake to do it. whenever i'd take my eyes off the computer screen to glance at the clock and upon seeing the time of "4:30" displayed in those huge greenish-yellow bars, i'd contemplate getting up off my butt and going outside to take pictures of the sunrise. of course i'd get lazy and make excuses like "oh i don't have a tripod," or "it'll be boring just taking pictures by myself," or some other nonsense to make me feel better about being lazy. next year though, i'll do it at least once. it will be added on my mental list of "things to do" before the year's over.
today as i was browsing around the internet, i stumbled upon a few blogs and "artsy-sites" where people like to express their feelings and opinions and whatnot, and realized something: not that i've been using colons a lot more as of late, but that so many people are over-dramatic. i may be known to exaggerate a few things (okay, MOST things), but people that really know me well can tell that i'm usually just joking. what i mean is that i quite often say how much i "hate" something, or how much i wish someone would cease to exist (usually famous people), but my friends know that it's just a joke. i don't actually wish people would die, that's extreme hateration - i'm only a moderate hater at most. and i may be annoyed by lots of things, but i don't "hate" many things per se, i just wish i could see less of them. but i realize people aren't all the same, and that when i dislike something, not everyone will feel the same way. i'm fine with that. but when people talk about how much things suck or how sad random things make them, it just makes me want to look at them and ask "do you need a hug?" yeah, we all have problems and hardships that we have to deal with, but i don't see how people can be so down about their lives so often. i was always taught that when i have a problem to fix it. nowadays it seems that when people have problems, it's better to complain about how bad it is than to do something about it. sure, this entire blog could be considered "complaining" about problems i have, but that's not my intent. i'm a very happy person, i'm very content with who i am, where i am, and how i've become me. i just wish people could be happier overall, i wish i could help somehow. maybe everyone should just listen to electronic music. you can't be sad when you roll around blasting girl talk (props to nick seranio for recommending me this guy) all day. let's stray away from the dashboard confessional and linkin park, guys. it'll make the world a happier place :)
Monday, June 23, 2008
weezy bay-beh
today i had like 6 different conversations about entertainment, careers, yadda yadda. after aimlessly browsing the internet for a few hours, getting into a very cynical mindset, and then listening to a bunch of electronic music, i've come to a conclusion about all these convos i had throughout the day - everything comes down to creativity.
if i could just pick one solid theme that my day revolved around, it would without a doubt be creative aptitude. i was talking to my mom earlier about how important creativity is to find certain jobs and stuff, it was a very interesting discussion. then we argued about lil wayne for like 8 hours at mar'tee's. that whole discussion was kind of saddening. i can't understand how people can honestly like music AND like lil wayne, doesn't make sense to me and probably never will. then the whole television thing: family guy, then some terrible movie, then a brief talk about "good movies" and m. night shamalan. creativity was responsible for everything that made me laugh, entertained me, made me upset, made me feel ashamed, made me feel anything.
i realize that i am entertained by things that are different, and things that are not different just tend to piss me off. i mean, i kinda knew this already, but it didn't really matter that much to me until i saw how much it affected my mood today. some of the discussions i had just pissed me off because i don't see how people can be so simple-minded sometimes. i want to be as detailed with this as i can because i want to reread this later and reevaluate my position because i might be overreacting or just being extremely elitist about this whole thing. all in all, people that have no creativity or uniqueness to them upset me. i mean, it's just so easy to have something special about yourself. some recognizable quality that makes you different. something to distinguish you from the rest of mindless drones that walk around like automated machines, living life pretty much systematically.
this is why i always try to go against the grain for fun, the reasons i don't want to blend in with what people expect me to blend in with. this is why i always make fun of mike when he dresses like me, or make fun of neil for listening to the same music i do, or just laugh at all the random indie mofos that dress like their life is so tragic and live an entirely counterintuitive existence by trying to stand out, but looking exactly like all the other indie kids with no real sense of individuality. a lot of the time my prejudgment is proven to be inaccurate when i actually get to know someone, but that makes meeting people all the more exciting. its just when i do encounter those repetitious, mundane personalities, it frustrates me. don't get me wrong, you don't have to be some bright-color-wearing, obnoxious-acting, artistically-abstract-thinking, animated character, you just have to care about being an individual. i know people that look boring, are extremely quiet, and enjoy (things that i feel are) the stupidest hobbies on the planet. but these people can still be interesting to me for the fact that they don't want to fit in. that's creative in my eyes. creativity is just not being like everyone else; whether you're reserved or super-outgoing, it doesn't matter. just don't be like everyone else, please.
since i'm pretty much just having an e-tantrum right now, i might as well go on about something else that bothers me. something that really gets on my nerves is when people try to be internet-chic or e-cool by using random formatting and emoticons. that shit does not look "pretty" or make you seem like some uber-stylish tech genius. FORMATTING IS ONLY USEFUL IN EMPHASIZING WORDS THAT DESERVE EMPHASIS, STOP USING IT AS IF IT'S SOME TYPE OF PUNCTUATION TOOL OR BASIC SENTENCE BUILDER . don't alternate capitals, don't put little "~"s and "&hearts"s in your text, it doesn't look good. alternating caps is the worst idea since chopped & screwed music. it looks terrible, is incredibly difficult to read, and wastes your time typing it and my time trying to figure out what you're saying and why you can't type it like a normal person would. don't format words for the sake of formatting, bolded words that deserve no special attention are just regular words that look stupid. imagine formatted words to be words you'd yell or stress or drag in a verbal conversation (e.g "he did WHAT?"). you don't bold words unless they need that emphasis. this is my little test for if a word deserves formatting.
read the sentence with formatted word out loud
if word is bolded - say louder. if italicized - hold it longer. if underlined - who knows, but say it differently.
see if formatting fits well in current spot
if not, TAKE THAT JUNK OUT.
alright, i guess that's enough negativity for one day. hopefully everything's sunshine tomorrow. i'm gonna go daydream.
out
if i could just pick one solid theme that my day revolved around, it would without a doubt be creative aptitude. i was talking to my mom earlier about how important creativity is to find certain jobs and stuff, it was a very interesting discussion. then we argued about lil wayne for like 8 hours at mar'tee's. that whole discussion was kind of saddening. i can't understand how people can honestly like music AND like lil wayne, doesn't make sense to me and probably never will. then the whole television thing: family guy, then some terrible movie, then a brief talk about "good movies" and m. night shamalan. creativity was responsible for everything that made me laugh, entertained me, made me upset, made me feel ashamed, made me feel anything.
i realize that i am entertained by things that are different, and things that are not different just tend to piss me off. i mean, i kinda knew this already, but it didn't really matter that much to me until i saw how much it affected my mood today. some of the discussions i had just pissed me off because i don't see how people can be so simple-minded sometimes. i want to be as detailed with this as i can because i want to reread this later and reevaluate my position because i might be overreacting or just being extremely elitist about this whole thing. all in all, people that have no creativity or uniqueness to them upset me. i mean, it's just so easy to have something special about yourself. some recognizable quality that makes you different. something to distinguish you from the rest of mindless drones that walk around like automated machines, living life pretty much systematically.
this is why i always try to go against the grain for fun, the reasons i don't want to blend in with what people expect me to blend in with. this is why i always make fun of mike when he dresses like me, or make fun of neil for listening to the same music i do, or just laugh at all the random indie mofos that dress like their life is so tragic and live an entirely counterintuitive existence by trying to stand out, but looking exactly like all the other indie kids with no real sense of individuality. a lot of the time my prejudgment is proven to be inaccurate when i actually get to know someone, but that makes meeting people all the more exciting. its just when i do encounter those repetitious, mundane personalities, it frustrates me. don't get me wrong, you don't have to be some bright-color-wearing, obnoxious-acting, artistically-abstract-thinking, animated character, you just have to care about being an individual. i know people that look boring, are extremely quiet, and enjoy (things that i feel are) the stupidest hobbies on the planet. but these people can still be interesting to me for the fact that they don't want to fit in. that's creative in my eyes. creativity is just not being like everyone else; whether you're reserved or super-outgoing, it doesn't matter. just don't be like everyone else, please.
since i'm pretty much just having an e-tantrum right now, i might as well go on about something else that bothers me. something that really gets on my nerves is when people try to be internet-chic or e-cool by using random formatting and emoticons. that shit does not look "pretty" or make you seem like some uber-stylish tech genius.
read the sentence with formatted word out loud
if word is bolded - say louder. if italicized - hold it longer. if underlined - who knows, but say it differently.
see if formatting fits well in current spot
if not, TAKE THAT JUNK OUT.
alright, i guess that's enough negativity for one day. hopefully everything's sunshine tomorrow. i'm gonna go daydream.
out
Sunday, June 22, 2008
hype
dslrs are the new dunks.
photography has become the new sneaker culture. perhaps that's because most sneaker hype ass kids jumped on the bandwagon to take dope pics of their nikeSBz and bright stussy/hundreds/streetwear shirts. whether or not i once fell into that category is irrelevant, i've had this camera for almost 2 years, and before that i was trying to use my mom's canon and my point & shoot i got in 04. even though i'm not good at taking artistic or stunning photos, i've always enjoyed photography, and will continue to build my skills, being an enthusiast. but nowadays, everyone's buying cameras because they think they're cool. c'mon, did you really need that camera? do you even know what SLR stands for? do you know why that piece of equipment costs 600+? if not, you might've fallen into the ever-increasing hype of the photo world. oh well, i guess it just happens. hopefully people use it to actually pursue a hobby, and don't just treat it like some plain old powershot or something.
in other news, today was fun. played basketball, saw a bunch of random people i don't know, and bothered stephen. that equals success to me. now i'm tired, i've been up for too long. and i think i have to wake up early, ugh.
pictures coming soon... peace
photography has become the new sneaker culture. perhaps that's because most sneaker hype ass kids jumped on the bandwagon to take dope pics of their nikeSBz and bright stussy/hundreds/streetwear shirts. whether or not i once fell into that category is irrelevant, i've had this camera for almost 2 years, and before that i was trying to use my mom's canon and my point & shoot i got in 04. even though i'm not good at taking artistic or stunning photos, i've always enjoyed photography, and will continue to build my skills, being an enthusiast. but nowadays, everyone's buying cameras because they think they're cool. c'mon, did you really need that camera? do you even know what SLR stands for? do you know why that piece of equipment costs 600+? if not, you might've fallen into the ever-increasing hype of the photo world. oh well, i guess it just happens. hopefully people use it to actually pursue a hobby, and don't just treat it like some plain old powershot or something.
in other news, today was fun. played basketball, saw a bunch of random people i don't know, and bothered stephen. that equals success to me. now i'm tired, i've been up for too long. and i think i have to wake up early, ugh.
pictures coming soon... peace
Thursday, June 19, 2008
teh internets
the world wide web is full of amazing sites/services that most people will never know exist. for lack of giving too much away, that is all i will disclose (no, it's not anything pornographic for all you neil-type people). being able to spend over 3 hours using random internet programs without getting bored. amazing.
job search went eh. got like 40 applications and about 2 responses: "we're accepting applications, but are currently fully staffed" and "sorry, we're not hiring." why is everyone so packed. don't people have vacations to go on? or summer school to attend? full time? ugh. finding a job should not be this difficult. in the meantime, my bank account slowly diminishes. stupid disneyland. why can't a corporation that large and "professional" handle their own affairs? they need some serious internal restructuring.
also, lil wayne sucks. i don't know if you knew that, but he is terrible. one of the worst rappers i've ever heard. he's like dr. seuss's ghetto-horny-drug addicted-dysfunctional-nappy headed-less artistic-stupid-pompous alter ego. he talks about random ordinary things and compares them to other random ordinary things. hence: "i'm counting all day like the clock on the wall." really? this is considered "talent?" i could honestly come up with bars like this without having more than a second-grader's understanding of the english language. oh wait... i can't believe people look up to this guy. do you really think you can make that much money? do you really think money is even that important? do you think that this guy is respectable now because he made a dirty fortune? get outta here. i've had tacos smarter than this guy. but what do i know, immoral behavior is the new black. bah.
while on music, someone recommend me some jazz. i got a bunch from my grandpa, but i want it ALLLLLLLLL!
k, i'm tired from basketball a few hours ago, shower then sleep. more job searching tomorrow -_-
night
job search went eh. got like 40 applications and about 2 responses: "we're accepting applications, but are currently fully staffed" and "sorry, we're not hiring." why is everyone so packed. don't people have vacations to go on? or summer school to attend? full time? ugh. finding a job should not be this difficult. in the meantime, my bank account slowly diminishes. stupid disneyland. why can't a corporation that large and "professional" handle their own affairs? they need some serious internal restructuring.
also, lil wayne sucks. i don't know if you knew that, but he is terrible. one of the worst rappers i've ever heard. he's like dr. seuss's ghetto-horny-drug addicted-dysfunctional-nappy headed-less artistic-stupid-pompous alter ego. he talks about random ordinary things and compares them to other random ordinary things. hence: "i'm counting all day like the clock on the wall." really? this is considered "talent?" i could honestly come up with bars like this without having more than a second-grader's understanding of the english language. oh wait... i can't believe people look up to this guy. do you really think you can make that much money? do you really think money is even that important? do you think that this guy is respectable now because he made a dirty fortune? get outta here. i've had tacos smarter than this guy. but what do i know, immoral behavior is the new black. bah.
while on music, someone recommend me some jazz. i got a bunch from my grandpa, but i want it ALLLLLLLLL!
k, i'm tired from basketball a few hours ago, shower then sleep. more job searching tomorrow -_-
night
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
asphalt and chlorine
again, another great day of summertime activity. even though i woke up at freakin 10 in the morning and went to sleep at 6 and even though the lakers lost and even though i still don't have a job, today was fun.
got up, met with resco, gave him his shirt. took back my shoes, visited higgins while waiting for everyone to wake up and stephen to flake on me (lulz), went to like 34062943 taco tuesdays to find out nobody wants to start serving tacos until it's way too late to even eat them, went to brea with mike, met with mary, rushed back to make it to que pasa, watched lakers get blown out, ate ice cream, played basketball, on the run, then home.
these types of random events make life great. i'm one for planning out things and whatnot, but i love surprises too (most of the time... but that's another story). last summer we'd make the most random possible trips to orange county at like midnight, enjoy the sounds of the ocean and fresh air at 2am, then go home. even though we haven't made any huge excursions as such, playing basketball at 11 with 8 people at crossroads park is pretty ill still. especially when you're playing with characters like v lin, k lock, houseshoes senegal, and (yesterday) duy-pain. quite the cast. basketball and swimming, two activities i hope to see quite a bit of this summer. i want to go back to school in better shape, financially comfortable, and content with my summer. if we keep up at this rate - excluding the whole jobless thing - that should be pretty easy.
tomorrow: job hunting starts. me and neil are tired of being completely effin broke, always wanting random small items but justifying not purchasing them because of our lack of dough. i should become a rapper. everyone can do it nowadays anyway. if i don't find a job by the end of next week, i might just have to put out a demo tape. all i need is a gimmick. dave chappelle taught me at least that much. some type of dance or style or facet of culture that nobody has incorporated into rap music. i can be like the rap yellowcard and rap while using a ukulele. but then again, to be the rap version of yellowcard - as mike, jared, lauren and i agreed today - i'd also have to suck at making music. oh well, i'll look into it.
okay, i'm getting sleepy now and have to wake up at 10, so it is time to wrap it up... later
got up, met with resco, gave him his shirt. took back my shoes, visited higgins while waiting for everyone to wake up and stephen to flake on me (lulz), went to like 34062943 taco tuesdays to find out nobody wants to start serving tacos until it's way too late to even eat them, went to brea with mike, met with mary, rushed back to make it to que pasa, watched lakers get blown out, ate ice cream, played basketball, on the run, then home.
these types of random events make life great. i'm one for planning out things and whatnot, but i love surprises too (most of the time... but that's another story). last summer we'd make the most random possible trips to orange county at like midnight, enjoy the sounds of the ocean and fresh air at 2am, then go home. even though we haven't made any huge excursions as such, playing basketball at 11 with 8 people at crossroads park is pretty ill still. especially when you're playing with characters like v lin, k lock, houseshoes senegal, and (yesterday) duy-pain. quite the cast. basketball and swimming, two activities i hope to see quite a bit of this summer. i want to go back to school in better shape, financially comfortable, and content with my summer. if we keep up at this rate - excluding the whole jobless thing - that should be pretty easy.
tomorrow: job hunting starts. me and neil are tired of being completely effin broke, always wanting random small items but justifying not purchasing them because of our lack of dough. i should become a rapper. everyone can do it nowadays anyway. if i don't find a job by the end of next week, i might just have to put out a demo tape. all i need is a gimmick. dave chappelle taught me at least that much. some type of dance or style or facet of culture that nobody has incorporated into rap music. i can be like the rap yellowcard and rap while using a ukulele. but then again, to be the rap version of yellowcard - as mike, jared, lauren and i agreed today - i'd also have to suck at making music. oh well, i'll look into it.
okay, i'm getting sleepy now and have to wake up at 10, so it is time to wrap it up... later
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
summaaaaa
well today was officially the first day of summer vacation for everyone. neil and i decided to swim and tell everyone to come by. mike mary belinda and theresa all came. pretty fun day.
swim, pictures, shoppes, argument, swim, basketball, food, winco. good times.
i hope summer stays this fun. i guess it's only so free now though because i don't have a job. ughhh i need a job. gas is killer, i want so much junk, food costs money, currency sucks. everything is so expensive now, and it makes such a dent in my pocket. i always try to execute some premature plan to make money for spending or to save up money so i can buy something big, but it becomes so much harder when there's no type of money flowing inward. i gotta stop, though. i don't want to live always thinking about making money (ehhh, college is a different story). i want to be able to enjoy summer for what it's worth - sitting out in the sun listening to dope music and driving around aimlessly all day/night. that's what made last summer so amazing. hopefully when we all have jobs, the random excursions at midnight will commence.
switching topics: i haven't blogged in quite some time, and yesterday i noticed that michael and tatum had left me comments. and randomly mike rich commented my blog. it was funny how i noticed everyone started to see this thing around the same time (or at least it became apparent that people knew about it around the same time). it's fun though, this whole blogging thing. it gives me something to do around these times when i need to sleep but don't want to yet, and it gives me time to listen to music.
musicmusicmusic, another reason summer is so great.i don't know about everyone else, but i think "summer music" is so great. summer music to me is just more mellow, more relaxing overall, more vibe-ey. summertime is all about vibin', chillin', laxin', and other dope-sounding words without the "g" (etc. "swimmin', shoppin', ballin'," etc.). i plan on doing lots of that stuff with my ipod present. can't go anywhere without my ipod now, and once we get the boombox project completed, it's gonna be even better.
alright then. things to do tomorrow: wake up early, go to the mall, buy harddrive, look for boombox, make flickr account, and eat at home.
goodnight, time to listen to some seu jorge.
swim, pictures, shoppes, argument, swim, basketball, food, winco. good times.
i hope summer stays this fun. i guess it's only so free now though because i don't have a job. ughhh i need a job. gas is killer, i want so much junk, food costs money, currency sucks. everything is so expensive now, and it makes such a dent in my pocket. i always try to execute some premature plan to make money for spending or to save up money so i can buy something big, but it becomes so much harder when there's no type of money flowing inward. i gotta stop, though. i don't want to live always thinking about making money (ehhh, college is a different story). i want to be able to enjoy summer for what it's worth - sitting out in the sun listening to dope music and driving around aimlessly all day/night. that's what made last summer so amazing. hopefully when we all have jobs, the random excursions at midnight will commence.
switching topics: i haven't blogged in quite some time, and yesterday i noticed that michael and tatum had left me comments. and randomly mike rich commented my blog. it was funny how i noticed everyone started to see this thing around the same time (or at least it became apparent that people knew about it around the same time). it's fun though, this whole blogging thing. it gives me something to do around these times when i need to sleep but don't want to yet, and it gives me time to listen to music.
musicmusicmusic, another reason summer is so great.i don't know about everyone else, but i think "summer music" is so great. summer music to me is just more mellow, more relaxing overall, more vibe-ey. summertime is all about vibin', chillin', laxin', and other dope-sounding words without the "g" (etc. "swimmin', shoppin', ballin'," etc.). i plan on doing lots of that stuff with my ipod present. can't go anywhere without my ipod now, and once we get the boombox project completed, it's gonna be even better.
alright then. things to do tomorrow: wake up early, go to the mall, buy harddrive, look for boombox, make flickr account, and eat at home.
goodnight, time to listen to some seu jorge.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
wow
so pretty much finals week sucks.
i keep listening to the new n*e*r*d CD, first couple songs (not including the opening track) are still w/e to me, but it is a dope CD.
i listened to Seeing Sounds, Return to the Sea, and Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? at least 5 times each while writing this damn paper, and now i'm done.
i still have to pack... and study... and prepare to go.
ughhhhhh
two more days (about)......
i keep listening to the new n*e*r*d CD, first couple songs (not including the opening track) are still w/e to me, but it is a dope CD.
i listened to Seeing Sounds, Return to the Sea, and Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? at least 5 times each while writing this damn paper, and now i'm done.
i still have to pack... and study... and prepare to go.
ughhhhhh
two more days (about)......
Thursday, June 5, 2008
breakfast?
so i guess i'm done with my rough draft for that paper. i didn't even do a conclusion, but it's good enough. i've been up since 12 o'clock 6/4, and i haven't crashed yet. i just need to make it until tonight and i'm good. the sad thing is, i could've gotten at least 4 hours of sleep, but i have the shortest possible attention span in the world. i would sit down for 45 minutes doing nothing and write for 15 minutes. get about a paragraph done then go back to not working. this entire night was like shampoo-bottle directions on how to not be productive:
daze off
write for 30 seconds
research
surf the internet
daze off
repeat.
oh well, at least i get to go to sprinkles today if the line's not too long. i also need to go to walmart, but the closest one is on effin crenshaw. i'm def. not going that far to go find 5 dollar shoes and cheap toothpaste, i'll just have to deal with the overpriced rite-aid imitation that is cvs pharmacy.
this weekend better be fun, i've done too much work this week already, and i still have math homework and cluster reading to do... ugh.
alright enough pessimism, i'm gonna go eat breakfast - and it's a weekday! there's a first time for everything right?
PS: i want this, someone buy it for me please.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
almost back to normal
finally, my music is back on my computer. feels good knowing it's (somewhat) backed up. even though it took way too much work to take songs off my iPod and put them on the computer, at least they're there now, and i can relax a bit. i was so paranoid my iPod would somehow break and i would lose all my music before i could back it up, but it survived. now i can sit here listening to random songs and procrastinating at 4am like the good ol' days. hoorah.
i've been trying to create my summer playlists for a while now, but i keep getting too distracted. and when i actually do make one, the list is really long. i have my "chill" songs numbered at 300 right now. that's gonna be wayyyyyy too many songs to actually be able to navigate in the car. i guess it's all tentative. one thing's for sure: by school's end i should have the perfect playlists for summer. ahh a week and one day. so little time, so much to do. ughhhhh.
my brain isn't working well tonight, i really have nothing to talk about and i don't want to ramble on about nothing for another 3 paragraphs, so i'm just gonna do mastering physics. oh hell and i work tomorrow, even better.
Monday, June 2, 2008
reunited
so i finally got my computer back. it's so weird. none of my stuff is on here, i hate starting from scratch. music is all backed up, so that's no big. applications, no problem. documents even i can do without. what REALLY upsets me is that i lost all those pictures. gahhhhh. oh well, i guess it's all memory now (and whatever's on facebook). on the flipside, the ol' mac is running very smoothly. it's fast and there aren't any bugs. i'm gonna be very careful with 3rd party apps from now on. even if that didn't brick my hard drive, i don't want to risk it. and i'll be buying an external this week. i've learned my lesson.
i've been listening to Islands/The Unicorns for the last month or so and still haven't gotten tired of it. i'm really liking the music. it makes me so happy and relaxed. even though canadians may not know how to play basketball, they got this indie music thing down.
speaking of music, Mighty Mic was last week. i'm pretty bummed that i missed Zion I and Rhymefest. even stephen (lol) said they were good, which is really something. now, let's chronicle my Mighty Mic experience:
i got there while some random band was in the middle of their performance, then went to find stephen. when i found him he was saying something or another about free stuff and earplugs. i didn't really know what he was trying to tell me, but i nodded and went to collect freebies from the "booths" in the back. after getting honest tea and free american apparel shirts (approved by mike chan i'm sure), i went back towards the stage to hear some band called Rock & Roll perform. after a short while they started their performance, and after an even shorter duration of time, i left. i can honestly say that was the worst performance i had ever witnessed (worse than Lupe at UCI). they were terrible. they just rambled about absolutely nothing for like 12 seconds, and i realized if i were to stay for any longer my intestines would explode. so i went back to the room with my honest tea, and then went out for roscoe's with the r7n peeps and michael.
as opposed to pretty much everyone, i'm kinda sad school's coming to an end. the year went by so fast that it makes me feel a bit scared. i've always heard that schooling goes by faster and faster as you get older, and now i'm really feeling it. i thought senior went by fast just because it was my last year in high school, but now that my first year in college went by even faster than that, i don't know what to think. i'm also a bit disappointed because i didn't make any really good friends. i feel like i made a lot of acquaintances and quite a few friends, but i don't think i made any friends that are "keep-in-touch-over-summer" or "let's-hang-sometime" friends. everyone i know will go back to their respective groups and stuff. i'm sure we'll all be cool next school year, but i wanted to be closer to people than that. i guess that's just something i have to try to change next year.
also, i need money and a job. i keep seeing things i want to buy but i have no dollazzz. and i keep planning on buying so much stuff in the near future, but don't have the capital to do so. decisions decisions. hopefully the radiohead tickets will get me out of this "hole" i'm in.
okay that's enough. goodnight
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