Well Well...
wow. the old "El-Jay"... lately, ive been bumping into it now and again, and i think im gonna make a return. i need some practice stretching out my fingers for the scholarship essays i plan on writing for the next five years. anything to finance my damned education. sure, it's an investment, but the past 3 days ive had some semi-frustration with my school (Temple University) about some aid that hasn't gone through and reading a large pile of brochures about different loans and such and everything is pointing to the same thing.... ME. i never had much responsibility in my life, financially. maybe most people my age havent. it's like a metaphorical 'wedgie, and the bullies, or my bills/billees (haha- billee/bully!), are the ones shaking me down for everything i got. even though i told my mother countless times how im prepared to do my best in school and get a summer job that'll at least give me some cash to put towards school, im still a very disappointing person nevertheless. i blew like $500 out of my checking account in like.... a month? on various junk. so that shows i cant be trusted/ im a psycho for PayPal, ebay, and Gap jeans. so, i had a serious look at myself yesterday (in a soul searching mirror) and i decided to stop being such an asshole. hopefully, i wont be like this come fall.
THE GIST: money sucks, and communism is awesome! but you kids already knew that, didn't you?
i love returning to this blog because of my Clint Eastwood theme. totally love it. my roomate will flip. and btw, i have finally come into contact with her, and we're fine, she's incredibly nice. i always like to think im nice, but when someone points out to you that you can be a jerk, you give up on the hopes that you are nice. she's a cute/naive type. i guess to say naive is hypocritical, but when i told her to make sure she studies exceptionally well for her placement tests, since it would dramatically effect her shedule (i mean, this is normally the case, but for our major, Architecture, it'll take some serious back-tracking to get to follow the required curriculum like everyone else), she replied:"Oh? you have to study for those? I thought i could just walk in and score however i score." oy, that was very funny/cute to me.
now i cant stop typing, there's so much to talk about all of a sudden. i go out too much for the sake of going out and not for the sake of doing something new or constructive, so im gonna stop that too.
the 'old' me: saw A Scanner Darkly 3 different times with 3 different groups.
the 'new' me: will go to a 16mm filmmaking workshop w/my friend Jon tomorrow
the workshop is free, thanks to the new 2007 Toyota Yaris-- go to http://www.yarisworks.com for some pop-culture workshops coming near you and some other cool stuff, like a free 25-song music sampler, which is really good (i would know).
OY. finding a new domain for the mp3 blog has been hard, and new writers have been as well. clearly this isnt something i'd be able to do on my own (at as large as a level i had been hoping for). contributing to one site, then having my own blog, then going through nutty crap in general has proven so. i dont wish to have the aid of friends, they made everything with regards to work difficult or personal, yet i am not in the position to pay strangers. haha, i dont think it'll ever pay. i had another idea to start a circular and have the website refer to that content... im still configuring some of these new ideas, but i just need work of that sort in my life. not even work, just music. i had to work a lot this summer, for school, and i put a lot of that on pause. yet, i still go to shows like nobody's business.
only time will tell....
maye more details tomorrow.
apologies for turning parts of this post into an advertisment, i only support things i have personal experience with, or wanna put out to people. i refuse to upgrade my account for that purpose alone, so there. (as though no one knew i was so old school to begin with..)
and im spent.
EDIT: in resoultion to my despair over the sold-out Sleater Kinney tickets last post, i was able to snag 2 tickets and go to the show because the awesome Sean Agnew posted the release of 10 more tickets via myspace. haha-- the one and only time i am actually on that horrid site. if i am mySpace friends with you, apologies. im just there for artist info and tour dates. i dont make bulletins. i dont message anyone other than artists. im a terrible MySpace-r. but i still love you.
SK was the hottest show i have ever been to where there wasnt an actual mosh pit. just some large gay men soving past me while they did "the sprinkler" rapidly as though they were in a gay bar. i met a very interesting man on the train that same evening, also gay. he was a dear. he had been a Temple student, and was in the same program for 2 years, coincidentally, and he gave me some ups and downs. most memorable train-ride ive had in a while. of montreal/grand buffet was the next day. i had brought a Patch Adams VHS and 'Nate Kuklah' was eternally grateful. it's a long story, but if you ask nicely, i'll tell you sometime.
ive been annoying enough for the evening. and if no one hasnt said it yet, Tom Vek is the hottest solo artist since Beck. i found it personally gratifying that i heard one of Vek's songs in an H&M store last week whilst buying a fall coat. it's like someone whispering in your ear that you had been right all along. indeed i had. that man is all sorts of fabulous.
THE GIST: money sucks, and communism is awesome! but you kids already knew that, didn't you?
i love returning to this blog because of my Clint Eastwood theme. totally love it. my roomate will flip. and btw, i have finally come into contact with her, and we're fine, she's incredibly nice. i always like to think im nice, but when someone points out to you that you can be a jerk, you give up on the hopes that you are nice. she's a cute/naive type. i guess to say naive is hypocritical, but when i told her to make sure she studies exceptionally well for her placement tests, since it would dramatically effect her shedule (i mean, this is normally the case, but for our major, Architecture, it'll take some serious back-tracking to get to follow the required curriculum like everyone else), she replied:"Oh? you have to study for those? I thought i could just walk in and score however i score." oy, that was very funny/cute to me.
now i cant stop typing, there's so much to talk about all of a sudden. i go out too much for the sake of going out and not for the sake of doing something new or constructive, so im gonna stop that too.
the 'old' me: saw A Scanner Darkly 3 different times with 3 different groups.
the 'new' me: will go to a 16mm filmmaking workshop w/my friend Jon tomorrow
the workshop is free, thanks to the new 2007 Toyota Yaris-- go to http://www.yarisworks.com for some pop-culture workshops coming near you and some other cool stuff, like a free 25-song music sampler, which is really good (i would know).
OY. finding a new domain for the mp3 blog has been hard, and new writers have been as well. clearly this isnt something i'd be able to do on my own (at as large as a level i had been hoping for). contributing to one site, then having my own blog, then going through nutty crap in general has proven so. i dont wish to have the aid of friends, they made everything with regards to work difficult or personal, yet i am not in the position to pay strangers. haha, i dont think it'll ever pay. i had another idea to start a circular and have the website refer to that content... im still configuring some of these new ideas, but i just need work of that sort in my life. not even work, just music. i had to work a lot this summer, for school, and i put a lot of that on pause. yet, i still go to shows like nobody's business.
only time will tell....
maye more details tomorrow.
apologies for turning parts of this post into an advertisment, i only support things i have personal experience with, or wanna put out to people. i refuse to upgrade my account for that purpose alone, so there. (as though no one knew i was so old school to begin with..)
and im spent.
EDIT: in resoultion to my despair over the sold-out Sleater Kinney tickets last post, i was able to snag 2 tickets and go to the show because the awesome Sean Agnew posted the release of 10 more tickets via myspace. haha-- the one and only time i am actually on that horrid site. if i am mySpace friends with you, apologies. im just there for artist info and tour dates. i dont make bulletins. i dont message anyone other than artists. im a terrible MySpace-r. but i still love you.
SK was the hottest show i have ever been to where there wasnt an actual mosh pit. just some large gay men soving past me while they did "the sprinkler" rapidly as though they were in a gay bar. i met a very interesting man on the train that same evening, also gay. he was a dear. he had been a Temple student, and was in the same program for 2 years, coincidentally, and he gave me some ups and downs. most memorable train-ride ive had in a while. of montreal/grand buffet was the next day. i had brought a Patch Adams VHS and 'Nate Kuklah' was eternally grateful. it's a long story, but if you ask nicely, i'll tell you sometime.
ive been annoying enough for the evening. and if no one hasnt said it yet, Tom Vek is the hottest solo artist since Beck. i found it personally gratifying that i heard one of Vek's songs in an H&M store last week whilst buying a fall coat. it's like someone whispering in your ear that you had been right all along. indeed i had. that man is all sorts of fabulous.