Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Trying times and the way it goes...
Alone Again - Spiritual Rez
Willie (Live) - Cat Power
Let's Dance - M. Ward
Just bought on itunes two albums by M. Ward which I am listening to right now. I heard this bowie cover on my "Peasant" pandora station and enjoyed it mucho. Kazuya was having me listen to some M. Ward earlier and I like the emotion conveyed and the tempo of most of the songs. Much slower and mellow and full of reflection! Matt's got such a sweet voice I could listen to it all day! Did some positive work with Cat Power, Bright Eyes and some others.
Well I'm trying to write this outline paper for one of my ethics classes on a world war 2 medal of honor winner. I just have to outline why I am writing about him for my 15 page paper due at the end of the semester, or sometime in April, and discuss some moral issues he faced and what made him a good leader or something like that. I'm doing this submarine commander from world war 2 that did some nuts shit sinking all these ships, sometime I don't condone but I dunno seemed kind of absurd this shit he did so it intrigued me. I guess you can read more about him here.
These nights and days are getting pretty fucked up. I am tired and the winter is starting to depress me. Last night I watched How I Met Your Mother, downed 15 beers and smoked half a pack from my window sill. I then went to class. After being extremely unproductive all day I came home and took a nap. Then I had to wake up to do more work due tomorrow. I cannot wait till friday, whenever I turn in all my work due for the week. Then I can sort of relax, but I can't promise I won't still be depressed! How exciting!
Big Bills - Flosstradamus ft. Caroline Polachek
Engineering sucks. Don't do it. I mean I'm sure the opportunities for work afterwards are good, but do something you love to do or else you'll hate yourself for it. I don't hate myself for it, I like the idea of it, just the application is kinda lame. There is too much work and the expectations are far too high. I can handle it, it just pisses me off. I gotta wake up and sleep at random times, because that's my only option. I stay up late hours doing work and rarely get to sleep, so I nap during the day and then can't sleep on a normal schedule when I get the chance! Most of my friends are in the same boat, we have poor planning I guess you could say, but fuck it that's life. Other than that little complaint, actually I really don't hate it at all. In fact I love every minute of it. For that reason I probably realize that I like where I am at and that's why I haven't quit yet. Engineering is alright. Do it if you like.
I miss skateboarding right now. The weather was TERRIBLE. Rain, sleet, snow, random ass puddles all over the place. Puddles in places that defy most of physics, ones you can't see and don't expect and then you end up walking around with a wet sock and a puddle in your shoe. It's so easy to fall too, the sidewalks are all icy right now. I was walking down a hill and started sliding. I didn't fall but I couldn't stop. So I just kept sliding down to the bottom of the hill till I hit a rough spot and was able to finally gain some traction. It was cool I guess, made me look kind of stupid even though I stayed on my feet. I would like to go skateboarding but I don't really know where, plus there is so much work to be done. As soon as the roads clear up I am gonna get back on my board. Till then looks like I am stranded.
This update was pretty random. I don't really have any good pictures to go along with it either. I need a new digital camera, the screen on mine right now is broken so you can't see what you are taking pictures of or what settings you are on. So I just have to trust it and wait till I upload them to see. I guess I could get it fixed at a store but I am too lazy. So I don't really know what to do, just complain about it for now I guess? Regardless, I want more pictures for my daily blogs. Anyway, I have to get back to this paper.
And with that I leave you, Evan Smith
Willie (Live) - Cat Power
Let's Dance - M. Ward
Just bought on itunes two albums by M. Ward which I am listening to right now. I heard this bowie cover on my "Peasant" pandora station and enjoyed it mucho. Kazuya was having me listen to some M. Ward earlier and I like the emotion conveyed and the tempo of most of the songs. Much slower and mellow and full of reflection! Matt's got such a sweet voice I could listen to it all day! Did some positive work with Cat Power, Bright Eyes and some others.
Well I'm trying to write this outline paper for one of my ethics classes on a world war 2 medal of honor winner. I just have to outline why I am writing about him for my 15 page paper due at the end of the semester, or sometime in April, and discuss some moral issues he faced and what made him a good leader or something like that. I'm doing this submarine commander from world war 2 that did some nuts shit sinking all these ships, sometime I don't condone but I dunno seemed kind of absurd this shit he did so it intrigued me. I guess you can read more about him here.
These nights and days are getting pretty fucked up. I am tired and the winter is starting to depress me. Last night I watched How I Met Your Mother, downed 15 beers and smoked half a pack from my window sill. I then went to class. After being extremely unproductive all day I came home and took a nap. Then I had to wake up to do more work due tomorrow. I cannot wait till friday, whenever I turn in all my work due for the week. Then I can sort of relax, but I can't promise I won't still be depressed! How exciting!
Big Bills - Flosstradamus ft. Caroline Polachek
Engineering sucks. Don't do it. I mean I'm sure the opportunities for work afterwards are good, but do something you love to do or else you'll hate yourself for it. I don't hate myself for it, I like the idea of it, just the application is kinda lame. There is too much work and the expectations are far too high. I can handle it, it just pisses me off. I gotta wake up and sleep at random times, because that's my only option. I stay up late hours doing work and rarely get to sleep, so I nap during the day and then can't sleep on a normal schedule when I get the chance! Most of my friends are in the same boat, we have poor planning I guess you could say, but fuck it that's life. Other than that little complaint, actually I really don't hate it at all. In fact I love every minute of it. For that reason I probably realize that I like where I am at and that's why I haven't quit yet. Engineering is alright. Do it if you like.
I miss skateboarding right now. The weather was TERRIBLE. Rain, sleet, snow, random ass puddles all over the place. Puddles in places that defy most of physics, ones you can't see and don't expect and then you end up walking around with a wet sock and a puddle in your shoe. It's so easy to fall too, the sidewalks are all icy right now. I was walking down a hill and started sliding. I didn't fall but I couldn't stop. So I just kept sliding down to the bottom of the hill till I hit a rough spot and was able to finally gain some traction. It was cool I guess, made me look kind of stupid even though I stayed on my feet. I would like to go skateboarding but I don't really know where, plus there is so much work to be done. As soon as the roads clear up I am gonna get back on my board. Till then looks like I am stranded.
This update was pretty random. I don't really have any good pictures to go along with it either. I need a new digital camera, the screen on mine right now is broken so you can't see what you are taking pictures of or what settings you are on. So I just have to trust it and wait till I upload them to see. I guess I could get it fixed at a store but I am too lazy. So I don't really know what to do, just complain about it for now I guess? Regardless, I want more pictures for my daily blogs. Anyway, I have to get back to this paper.
And with that I leave you, Evan Smith
You are starry, starry, starry and I'm tumbling down...
Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie - Joanna Newsom
I really love this song and this is a great live version. I love Joanna.
Yes I have been up all night, I just finished the first season of "How I Met Your Mother" in one sitting, been drinking brews all night smokin' up a storm of marbreds and I am not the least bit tired. The best part is I finished just in time to get to class! So that is where I am headed, off to gather more knowledge that I will forget by later this evening when I finally fall asleep and wake up in drunken delirium. The only thing I will remember however, is you and this song so enjoy every minute of it because I know I am.
I really love this song and this is a great live version. I love Joanna.
Yes I have been up all night, I just finished the first season of "How I Met Your Mother" in one sitting, been drinking brews all night smokin' up a storm of marbreds and I am not the least bit tired. The best part is I finished just in time to get to class! So that is where I am headed, off to gather more knowledge that I will forget by later this evening when I finally fall asleep and wake up in drunken delirium. The only thing I will remember however, is you and this song so enjoy every minute of it because I know I am.
How I met your mother...
Been drinkin' been smokin' watching How I Met Your Mother and I stumbled, literally, across this. Laughed pretty hard the first time. Decently hard the second time. This guy is awesome!
Check out Forgetting Sarah Marshall if you haven't seen it yet. It is hilarious all of the time. Especially if you just broke up with your significant other. Good medicine!
Check out Forgetting Sarah Marshall if you haven't seen it yet. It is hilarious all of the time. Especially if you just broke up with your significant other. Good medicine!
TL bringin me DL...
Heartstopper - Emiliana Torrini
Kazuya suggested this song to me and I have to say that I like it. I also drink too much and smoke too fast. Recently I have been working on a new album, but I have been having issues with creativity. I realize I am not a creative person but I wish I was. See I don't have trouble with the guitar or piano or whatever other instrument that I choose to experiment with, but I do have trouble writing lyrics. I find that I like poetic artists, like Joanna or other folk artists, but i just simply don't have the ability to come up with anything poetic. Maybe I do, maybe I just don't have faith in myself. All I know is from where I sit, I am not happy with much of what I write. Maybe I should let Kazuya write for me, he tends to have good ideas and I always love what he writes me. He also has good taste in music and together we share some of the things that we discover. I enjoy waking up to various facebook comments and emails with suggestions for videos and songs to check out, he knows me and knows what I like. It's all a breath of fresh air.
New Year's Eve was kinda interesting wasn't it. I wish I didn't leave that jacket at home. I really like it, it belonged to my Grandfather and I found it in my closet earlier that day. That closet is at home, maybe I will have my mom send it to me when it gets a bit warmer. I wonder, that could be a good party jacket and photos know/show I love to party!
Over Thanksgiving break (I am so far from home I decided to spend it with my friend Jeff and his family) I was delighted with this little gift. My friend Jeff drew me, I guess the way he saw it, I mean I'm not complaining. This is a beautiful rendition. Fuckin' PAB.
I dunno, maybe you can tell I am a little bored right now. It's pretty late, kickin' back a brew or two, just chillin. I'm trying to write a new song actually but I can't. I love guitar, I love playing the guitar. and I love you.
I look pretty damn faded in this picture haha. That was thanksgiving two years ago, Mike's guitar.
Clip from Wristcutters: A Love Story (good movie I like very much)
I think this is a painting or drawing by someone I don't speak to anymore or doesn't speak to me (dunno), but I just stumbled upon it on my computer and I remember it was one of my favorites. So here ya go.
Chase that impossible dream you punk ass bitch.
Kazuya suggested this song to me and I have to say that I like it. I also drink too much and smoke too fast. Recently I have been working on a new album, but I have been having issues with creativity. I realize I am not a creative person but I wish I was. See I don't have trouble with the guitar or piano or whatever other instrument that I choose to experiment with, but I do have trouble writing lyrics. I find that I like poetic artists, like Joanna or other folk artists, but i just simply don't have the ability to come up with anything poetic. Maybe I do, maybe I just don't have faith in myself. All I know is from where I sit, I am not happy with much of what I write. Maybe I should let Kazuya write for me, he tends to have good ideas and I always love what he writes me. He also has good taste in music and together we share some of the things that we discover. I enjoy waking up to various facebook comments and emails with suggestions for videos and songs to check out, he knows me and knows what I like. It's all a breath of fresh air.
New Year's Eve was kinda interesting wasn't it. I wish I didn't leave that jacket at home. I really like it, it belonged to my Grandfather and I found it in my closet earlier that day. That closet is at home, maybe I will have my mom send it to me when it gets a bit warmer. I wonder, that could be a good party jacket and photos know/show I love to party!
Over Thanksgiving break (I am so far from home I decided to spend it with my friend Jeff and his family) I was delighted with this little gift. My friend Jeff drew me, I guess the way he saw it, I mean I'm not complaining. This is a beautiful rendition. Fuckin' PAB.
I dunno, maybe you can tell I am a little bored right now. It's pretty late, kickin' back a brew or two, just chillin. I'm trying to write a new song actually but I can't. I love guitar, I love playing the guitar. and I love you.
I look pretty damn faded in this picture haha. That was thanksgiving two years ago, Mike's guitar.
Clip from Wristcutters: A Love Story (good movie I like very much)
I think this is a painting or drawing by someone I don't speak to anymore or doesn't speak to me (dunno), but I just stumbled upon it on my computer and I remember it was one of my favorites. So here ya go.
Chase that impossible dream you punk ass bitch.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Some tunesss...
Sometimes it is easier to deal with the complexities of life simply by listening to music. I am constantly trying to expand my musical catalog. I really enjoy these artists, and here are some of the very few videos I could find on youtube for these artists. If I find more videos that have good songs then maybe i'll put those up, too. Could become a regular installment. I am after all very very bored and enjoy wasting my time writing this stuff and posting this stuff to people that don't exist.
I take zero credit for any of these videos, but i throughly enjoy the songs that they accompany.
Mexican Summer - Marissa Nadler
Those Days - Peasant
Little Life - Josephine Foster
Through the Roof 'N' Underground - Gogol Bordello
Let Her Go Into the Darkness - Jonathan Richman
This Heart is a Stone - Acid House Kings
I take zero credit for any of these videos, but i throughly enjoy the songs that they accompany.
Mexican Summer - Marissa Nadler
Those Days - Peasant
Little Life - Josephine Foster
Through the Roof 'N' Underground - Gogol Bordello
Let Her Go Into the Darkness - Jonathan Richman
This Heart is a Stone - Acid House Kings
Droppin' the heavy tote bag on my foot
Wild last few days in Hawaii, not sure what I was going to do with these pictures. Guess I found a good place to put them where noone's gonna see 'em. I'm in Boston now, can't dress like this much.
Just chillin' in the valley high speed dubbin' with Lemon Jelly and Josephine Foster. It started raining and got a little crazy, definitely one of the craziest nights of my life.
Hiding out from the rain is a good idea for John and his fixie.
Christmas tree park.
Courtesy of Riley.
He is the Zissou.
All the ducks are swimming in the water.
The day after was probably just as intense as the night of. Check out Kaz in some intense concentration.
Focus my young friend.
And I leave you with the silence of John. Shot in about 5 minutes.
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