a great friggin day
Oh man. ok, well... today in a word.... was great!
i woke up this morning(on time might i add. my alarm is set for 9am but i've trained my self to sleep through the obnoxious blaring of the local radio station. not good.) and watched Pulp Fiction while downing a quad-stack plate of waffles. nothing like a good dose of Quentin Tarentino in the morning. and i also finished tabbing this song this morning that i've been trying to decifer for a good year+ now. Broken by the System by Spudgun. great song with crazy bass so i was super stoked on that. afterwards, i went on the computer to stray from bordom. every time i think about ebay, i always think of lookin for dvd box sets of animes cause they're hella expensive in stores but always forget when i'm actually on. but this time i remembered. so after a few minutes, i came upon several choice finds but it seems that with ebay, there's never good intentions. like you're always gettin suckered or something. i dunno, maybe i just have little faith in online buying. whatevs. anyways, to make a long story short, i ended up bidding on a box set of the anime Trigun. no one had really found it yet and there were only a few hours left on the auction. so while sitting all antsy in my comp chair i was talking to carly online and she was just as excited as i was. the whole auctioning thing is quite exciting. invigorating if you will. it's like a rush. anyways, i won the auction and was super excited. i ran back and forth across my kitchen floor sliding in my socks Tom Cruise style. haha. so to make matters better, this kid i met here named Dustin called me up to.... DUM DAH DUUMMMMM..... SKATE!!! plans were to meet up with him at the little subway/gas station up the road(closest thing to civilization) and head to the local skatepark. so my pops was gonna give me a lift to the corner store and when we went to start the car.... the battery was dead. figures. so the corner store isn't that far from my house so i walked on down there, met up with him, and we were out. it just so happens that the park is actually in walking distance from my house(another +) so we headed down there. the park is great. all concrete, smooth as hell, and free! you couldn't ask for more. nice trannys, chill rails, and a killer bowl section. needless to say, i laid it down FxB style and tore that junk up! after doing some of the stock tricks on the little flat bars and ledges, i started to feel the "gawk-in-shock" feeling. ya know, where you're killin it, don't even realize, and when you're just cruisin by you feel the kids that are just standing there staring at you. and when the feeling kicks in full effect, you look up to notice the kid staring at you. and when he sees you've picked up on him he quickly looks away trying to seem as though he wasn't just eyeball fucking you. so anyways, i skated the little bank/bump Bz-N-Bz type thing and had alot of fun with it. kickflip all steezy first try. nollie b/s 180 all huge. nollie f/s 180 all huge first try(kinda felt bad cause one kid was really workin for nollie at the time). normal stuff. then busted out with the switch stuff. switch 180 all nice, switch pop shuvie-shuv, and in the first couple tries a quite impressive switch flip as well. nice and big too : ) almost did switch b/s 180 first try but dustin had to leave so i decided to bounce with him. all in all i think i made a good first impression. hahahahaha. i met alot of kids. too many to count on both hands and needless to say i don't remember their names(i hate that). the kids here are really cool. not stuck up, cruel, or anything. the normal shit talkers but you can tell they're just playing around in their tone of voice. so, an overall good vibe. dustin and i left, headed back towards the gas station, and then parted paths. i got salsa doritos and a black cherry pepsi at the gas station and started towards the house. halfway there i realived that my beenie was no longer in my back pocket so i was kinda pissed about that but eh, whatevs. it was a good thing i left the park when i did cause as i had set foot in to the house, i saw my dad sitting on the couch watching the OC!! luckily i had only missed about ten minutes of it so once again, another +. i decided to end the great day by celebrating with the grilling of some big fat hamboigas and maybe downing the last two Coronas. but we didn't have any hamburger buns. so my dad and i walked back down to the corner store, i walked all over the freshly mopped floor(and felt awful for it) to retrieve the buns, and what did i find on the way back home.... MY BEENIE!!!!! could this day get any better?!? so in any event, came back home, and now i'm gettin ready to chow down. so i bid goodnight to you all, and before i leave...
a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CARMEN!!!!(even though she prob won't see this)
P.S. - carly's gonna make me a picture and i'm gonna frame it so i can use it as a conversational piece at all my "swanky parties."
cheers
kel "the high bidder" logs
i don't know what i'm going to do, i'm feeling beaten black and blue
i'm so confused. is this really my life? society's holding my throat with a knife
play it their way or don't play at all. live your life inside a brick wall
there's no way out. is this what i dread? i refuse to give up. i'd rather die instead
::chorus:: broken by the system! my head is full of their lies
broken by the system! they refuse to hear the people's cries
broken by the system! ignorance and greed are the reasons why
(i'm)broken by the system! and i won't give in until i die!
my future you can't decide. it's my future, my genocide
it's up to me what i'm gonna do, i'm not gonna live my life for you
the system-rich people with the laws in their hands, they think it's theirs, this forsaken land
the ground i walk on doesn't belong to them. i refuse to give in to the system
::chorus::
i used to be at the top. now i'm at the bottom of the chain.
i'm drowning in this world. my lungs begin to strain
what about my dreams? i never had any. now i'm at the end.
i livedmy life but it wasn't mine. it belonged to the system.