dear livejournal, i want you to know me
first update in a long time, well over a year i believe. i'm not sure if this should be a recap or what. why not? it's most likely gonna be dull and washed up, but do i care? no. i'll do it anyway. then possibly resume with the random thoughts only thing i was planning on sticking with for this website.
so...let's see. last update was mid-summer before i decided to transfer and go away to college in amherst. damn this could take a while.
2005:
first semester, awkward as fuck.
going from living at parents, to living in a 15x15 foot room with a total stranger in a bunk bed right below you is weird as anything. my roomate's name was sharky.... i just remember late nights coming back from the fine art center after working my ass off, only to come back to my room full of stupid hippies getting stoned and watching simpsons while eating chicken wings.
near the end of the semester i made friends with 2 other punk kids named ian and todd. i also started crushing on one girl, made friends with a kid also into bikes named jesse who would later be my roomate, and 2 kids down the hall that lived together named emir and tony. emir was from bosnia and i talked with him about how pathetic american culture is. tony played banjo and was generally ridiculously awesome.
second semester, not so bad.
roomed with that kid jesse, got into indie rock and much better music in general, and our room was filled with bikes and cool stuff. someone once said it "smelled like travelling kids". not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, but i'm into it. i wore the same pair of tan carhartts every single day, had a super shy crush on the same girl (liz), and hanged out with ian and todd all the time- usually at dead air. i blew all my money that year on vinyl every single week, and got drunk a lot. i didn't get drunk until i went away to college. not very surprising. i also met alexkahn this semester, and found him to be a cool kid into bikes and thrash. a good combination. made many friends over the whole year, and did tons of crazy shit- wish i could remember it all (now realizing the novelty of these online journals).
that summer: rode bikes- with jesse, mattunderwood, andy who lived across the hall, and marcus- from amherst up to white mountains, NH. 260 miles total. 130 of which in one day, it took us 3 days to get there.
nothing too crazy besides that.
2006:
i was able to experience a spectrum of emotions.
first semester: depressing.
i don't know what got into me. i went in there feeling confident and psyched on life. smoked too much weed while listening to electric wizard and other depressing stoner music and a hellofalot of psych rock...every day, while listening to emir rant about how much his life sucked and how much this country and umass sucked. super rad girl next door, but my door was always kept shut. i called my mom almost every day with half hour conversations trying to figure shit out. formed a band with zack on drums and this kid named dan on bass and vocals. we sounded a little like sonic youth, and it was cool. we had 1 song. considered dropping out of school and running away to somewhere warm, probably gainesville. i was super reclusive and paranoid for 3 months straight. shit sucked, and so did winter break.
second semester:
winter break helped me figure myself out or something crazy like that. i was surrounded by people i knew love me, as in my family, had enough alone time to think without getting distracted, and layed off the pot.
started out the semester by keeping my door open and hanging out with my neighbors. glad i did. crushed super hard on the girl next door: named kristen. talked to her a lot, hung out, went on adventures, had a lot of fun, made out in the middle of a field on saint paddys day, crushed on her hardcore realizing how awesome of a person she is, lost my virginity at age 21 sometime in april, hung out, repeat, we made it official may 12 and i'm so psyched on her. didn't work a job this semester and it was so worth it. moving out of the dorms was slightly emotional, as i'll never live in one again. but moving on to something new and exciting, found a sick house to rent with ian, todd, and a friend from baker named sean. i'm at my parents house now, and am moving in to my house a few hours after i wake up in 7 hours from now....
so i didn't want to get into too much detail with this thing. 2 years is a lot, i know, but i'm impatient with writing long things on computers now.
i'm looking forward to this summer. living in an awesome house, with awesome people. i can ride my bike to destinations now, rather than in circles by myself. i'm going to cook food, eat apples and cheese in a hammock, hang constantly, sleep under stars, and have all sorts of fun times all with a girl i'm totally into. basement shows, house bands constantly forming and disintigrating. friends. shitty painting job. house in the middle of the woods. i'm gonna miss my family, but i think this is all for the better. i've "grown".
this is about the deepest livejournal will hopefully ever see me get.
so...let's see. last update was mid-summer before i decided to transfer and go away to college in amherst. damn this could take a while.
2005:
first semester, awkward as fuck.
going from living at parents, to living in a 15x15 foot room with a total stranger in a bunk bed right below you is weird as anything. my roomate's name was sharky.... i just remember late nights coming back from the fine art center after working my ass off, only to come back to my room full of stupid hippies getting stoned and watching simpsons while eating chicken wings.
near the end of the semester i made friends with 2 other punk kids named ian and todd. i also started crushing on one girl, made friends with a kid also into bikes named jesse who would later be my roomate, and 2 kids down the hall that lived together named emir and tony. emir was from bosnia and i talked with him about how pathetic american culture is. tony played banjo and was generally ridiculously awesome.
second semester, not so bad.
roomed with that kid jesse, got into indie rock and much better music in general, and our room was filled with bikes and cool stuff. someone once said it "smelled like travelling kids". not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, but i'm into it. i wore the same pair of tan carhartts every single day, had a super shy crush on the same girl (liz), and hanged out with ian and todd all the time- usually at dead air. i blew all my money that year on vinyl every single week, and got drunk a lot. i didn't get drunk until i went away to college. not very surprising. i also met alexkahn this semester, and found him to be a cool kid into bikes and thrash. a good combination. made many friends over the whole year, and did tons of crazy shit- wish i could remember it all (now realizing the novelty of these online journals).
that summer: rode bikes- with jesse, mattunderwood, andy who lived across the hall, and marcus- from amherst up to white mountains, NH. 260 miles total. 130 of which in one day, it took us 3 days to get there.
nothing too crazy besides that.
2006:
i was able to experience a spectrum of emotions.
first semester: depressing.
i don't know what got into me. i went in there feeling confident and psyched on life. smoked too much weed while listening to electric wizard and other depressing stoner music and a hellofalot of psych rock...every day, while listening to emir rant about how much his life sucked and how much this country and umass sucked. super rad girl next door, but my door was always kept shut. i called my mom almost every day with half hour conversations trying to figure shit out. formed a band with zack on drums and this kid named dan on bass and vocals. we sounded a little like sonic youth, and it was cool. we had 1 song. considered dropping out of school and running away to somewhere warm, probably gainesville. i was super reclusive and paranoid for 3 months straight. shit sucked, and so did winter break.
second semester:
winter break helped me figure myself out or something crazy like that. i was surrounded by people i knew love me, as in my family, had enough alone time to think without getting distracted, and layed off the pot.
started out the semester by keeping my door open and hanging out with my neighbors. glad i did. crushed super hard on the girl next door: named kristen. talked to her a lot, hung out, went on adventures, had a lot of fun, made out in the middle of a field on saint paddys day, crushed on her hardcore realizing how awesome of a person she is, lost my virginity at age 21 sometime in april, hung out, repeat, we made it official may 12 and i'm so psyched on her. didn't work a job this semester and it was so worth it. moving out of the dorms was slightly emotional, as i'll never live in one again. but moving on to something new and exciting, found a sick house to rent with ian, todd, and a friend from baker named sean. i'm at my parents house now, and am moving in to my house a few hours after i wake up in 7 hours from now....
so i didn't want to get into too much detail with this thing. 2 years is a lot, i know, but i'm impatient with writing long things on computers now.
i'm looking forward to this summer. living in an awesome house, with awesome people. i can ride my bike to destinations now, rather than in circles by myself. i'm going to cook food, eat apples and cheese in a hammock, hang constantly, sleep under stars, and have all sorts of fun times all with a girl i'm totally into. basement shows, house bands constantly forming and disintigrating. friends. shitty painting job. house in the middle of the woods. i'm gonna miss my family, but i think this is all for the better. i've "grown".
this is about the deepest livejournal will hopefully ever see me get.