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Monday, December 18, 2006

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:58:21 GMT

http://www.eluvium.net/mp3s/02genius.mp3

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:17:32 GMT

It's like happiness, it's a goal we chase,
we obtain, and then it slips through our finger tips.
The mistakes we made, we learn from them...
or we learn how to make them again.
I want to look in from the outside.
I'd make my own rules.
I'd stand on something other than this sphere.
It would be more like a box
full of second chances.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:39:15 GMT

"I see an innumerable multitude of men, alike and equal, constantly circling around in pursuit of the petty and banal pleasures with which they glut their souls. Each of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest. Mankind, for him, consists in his children and personal friends. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, they are near enough, but he does not notice them. He touches them but feels nothing. He exists in and for himself, and though he still may have a family, one can at least say that he has not got fatherland."
-Alexis de Tocqueville (1840)

Saturday, August 06, 2005

Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:18:47 GMT

So I'm sitting here at caffeine dreams with absolutely nothing to do. It's friday night. I worked for the first time in a couple of weeks and I was looking forward to at least taking my mind off of things with something to do. I got home and no one was around and I couldn't get ahold of anyone, so I came here. I'm still bored, but at least I'm comfortable.

I really am getting sick of people not following through on what they say they're going to do. It sucks even more when they decide that their integrity isn't an important matter. Of course I'm speaking of making up the lack in follow through with some other sort of action. That sad thing about our generation, and I'm included in this, is that so many people don't feel that their integrity is important. Everyone wants to live on their own uncompromised schedule, which is quite simply put, impossible.

Somewhere along the line a lot of the friends I used to hold in such high esteem stoped caring about what people think. I'm not talking about stupid melodramatic social drama, I'm talking about how a person is thought of on a human level, not a social level. Everyone knows at least one person that when their name is mentioned, everyone responds with something along the lines of, "yeah, that kid is awesome" or "Nicest person I know". Most of the time the person isn't nice, they just understand that the world doesn't revolve around them. They have integrity and follow through. They don't think that their schedule is anymore important than anyone else's.

I'm going to continue drinking my red banana smoothie right now and hope that the people this blog most strongly pertains to think about what I wrote, but chances are most of them don't know that they have this problem. Oh well.

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:32:28 GMT

Well, hopefully I will start blogging more. Caleb, you've obviously made a request. I just recieved my new computer yesterday so maybe I'll find the motivation to start doing that. That's my quick little update, but I just woke up so I'm going to go eat and shit.

Monday, July 04, 2005

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:47:39 GMT

Show this Thursday, July 7th
Ted and Wally's (1120 Jackson St.)
$5

Comadre
Warp Speed Captain
South of No North

Show starts at 10:30 pm

Please come

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:04:43 GMT

So high school is quickly nearing its end. I'm not sad in anyway whatsoever because anyone I really truly cared about in high school will be in close contact with me or is staying here so that rules. I was trying to muster up some things I would miss about the high school and I came to the conclusion that the only thing that was any good about high school is the freedom to BS homework with ease. I can't honestly say that I put my all into any real academic assignment in high school. Now, I have put my all into a couple of TV stories/projects, but not once has any sort of paper/project had my full attention. And strangely enough, in 12 days I'm walking away from that money ridden, technologically overloaded, academically 'superior' high school. Fabulous. Can I get a fist in the air people? Raise um up... down with the man.

I was writing my definition of a concept essay today in class (the day it was due) and decided to write about the word special. I decided to share a little excerpt with you people. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.

"The thing that I personally have noticed is the overuse of the word special by elementary school guidance teachers. It’s truly a paradox. Guidance counselors, as I noticed when I was in elementary school, love to announce to the entire class that every one is special and unique. The thing that I fail to grasp is why being special is so special in itself, if everyone is special. You’re just like everyone else if every one is special. I find this quite humorous. "

Mosaic has a show this Wednesday at the Ranch Bowl. You should come. My other band, South of No North has a show at the Fort House next Tuesday. You should come to that too. If you have questions about either, just post it on here and I'll reply. Most of you probably don't give a shit though and some will probably pretend to but won't show up in the end. But I challenge you to fake it. Cause that's what all the cool kids are doing... yeah, cool kids. They all smoke too... so hot right now. Comment and shit.

Monday, April 18, 2005

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:02:06 GMT

For all you folks who watch WTV, the show Westside puts out on channel 17, my segment entitled "Rice My Ride" was ranked in the top 3 this weekend in a Video contest that Apple puts on known as "The Diggies". I'm pretty psyched about it. To the best of my knowledge this contest is a nationwide contest, but I have been informed that there is the possibility of rankings by region. Either way I'd say top 3 effin rules. Hopefully more quality videos will be produced in the near future.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:09:36 GMT

My room is really appealing right now. It's like the perfect temp, nice and clean, pictures of us pretty faces up on the wall, and the window wide open so I can see the lightning storm.

Prom is over. Not too sad about it though. Dinner was nice, the dance was boring, and post-prom was lame compared to last year. The night would have been like 1000 times better if I had gone w/ Allie, but things didn't work out that way. Oh well. Life goes on. Wearing my nice suit was fun. It's pretty schnazy.

Allie, Lindee and myself went down to Homer's today to check out the Copeland in-store performance. Needless to say, it ruled. Their singers voice is absolutely gorgeous and his transition from full voice to falsetto is flawless. I love it. The second guitar player did some sweet things with effects on his acoustic which made it a lot more fun to watch.

I purchased the new Mae cd today which I must say rules. Some glorious piano playing. I recommend picking it up. Every song is good and the production value deserves at least an 8.

Next week is Underoath and that should be a blast. A good group of people going. JJ is gonna kick it w/ me which I'm looking forward to. Lindee is gonna kick it w/ me as well. I'm excited to see what she thinks of the show. Not every band is as well rounded as Underoath, but it still should be fun.

That's all I've got for now. Leave comments and shit.

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:00:59 GMT

Today is a sad day to say the least as Spring Break '05 beings to wind down. Good friends were made and fabulous times were had so I can't complain. I can honestly say I don't think a day went by where Allie and I didn't hang out and that rules. This has been a truth though for the last month or so though. I love not getting sick of people.

I decided today that I'm going to start carrying my video camera everywhere and make a documentary at the end of the summer. An interesting venture, if I do say so myself, and I do. Hopefully all the good times we have and maybe even some bad ones get caught on tape because it'll make it really fun to look back on in ten years.

Another piercing? Yes or no? If yes, where? Give some feedback.