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I did it again

$25 from Amazon. Love.

New Phone Home Screen

Lotta good stuff going on here.

BEST Blu-Ray Impulse BUY

$7.99 for No Country For Old Men. Yes please. Anytime I find a price that is as good or better than Amazon I turn into a crazy, hoarder-like shopper. This is the latest.

I have a baby!

Only the latest reason for not blogging.

Look what I got...

Quick post just to do a little bragging. I'm stuck at work but have been messing around with this thing all day. Expect to see my Flickr page brought back to life thanks to this beauty!

Movie: W.

Excuses Excuses

I'm sitting around at my girlfriend's work (Starbucks), waiting to go
to breakfast when I was suddenly struck with guilt. Blog guilt. I get
it pretty frequently these days. I made a promise and I broke it. Oh
well. See you soon I think.

Movie: What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Sent from Travis Limon's iPhone

Stalling

This will be brief. I did it. I worked on music! It may not sound that impressive, but for me it is. I've been so busy/lazy and writing for me had kinda fallen off. I really miss it and I'm glad it's back in my life. The next post will be an official music post, I promise. For now, keep an eye out here.

Movie: Wanted

Selling Out or Buying In

As I've stated in an earlier post, within the last couple of months I started a new job. It pays well, it's not very hard, I have good benefits and I even like the people I work with. This is the first job I've had where I'm not treated like a complete child. It's a big company and along with that comes a lot of structure and formalized procedures. And even those things I like. My last job was the exact opposite. It was a small shop and things were made up on the fly. It was nice while it lasted but I was ready for something more solid. I tried for six months to get a new job, and of all the ones I applied for this was the one I wanted most and the only one that got back to me. Everything seems perfect. Still, something doesn't feel right.

One thing keeps coming back to me: the feeling that I've given up. Ever since I was in high school I've been playing music. It started out as my brother and I just horsing around on guitar and drums, but eventually we had a band and were playing local shows on a regular basis. Although that band didn't work out, another band I was in went a little further. We recorded a couple E.P.'s and sold over 4000 copies of them on our own. It felt like we were moving in the right direction but as we got older we started seriously lacking in the funds department. Eventually our guitar player pulled the plug and told us he'd be quitting to join the CHP.

It was a serious blow to the band and while we tried to keep it going for a time, we too eventually moved on. I still play music a little bit and would someday like to get back into the studio. I've even come to the conclusion that I'm happy playing music in any form. I don't need to be famous or live the rockstar life to be happy. I really don't. I like my life right now and I actually have exciting things going on for me at the moment. HOWEVER, I still wonder what could have been if we didn't give up. Is it even fair to call it "giving up"? Did we reach the peak or could it have gotten even better? I guess I'll never really know.

All I can know is what I want to do. I want the best of both worlds. I want to write and perform music but I also want to have a family and a regular life. And maybe now is the best time for that. Everyone knows that the state of the music industry is changing. It's a rare thing for people to become stars and even rarer for them to maintain that stardom. And I don't even want that. All I want is to make music. Weather or not that is my job I can't control right now, but that shouldn't stop me from being creative! I'll keep it going, however indie it has to get. Maybe the next time you hear from me I'll have new music to prove it.

Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

New Plan

Blog= Once a week, Twitter= Daily. I also want to start working on music more often. Maybe everyday also. So now I just have to pick a day of the week to start blogging on...

Movie : The Holiday

Coming Soon

Somehow this old looking camera has me obsessed. From everything I've read it's the perfect medium between thousand dollar dSLR's and tiny point and shoot's. I've played with it a couple times and I want it now. I'm in the process of selling my old camera and as soon as I get that together I should be able to have it. Then I can really start taking advantage of that Flickr Pro account.

Movie: Goodfellas

Mo' money, Less Problems as Long as I Use Smart Money Management Techniques

Today I accepted an offer for a new job. I've been trying to get it for a while now and things finally worked out today. I no longer have a high school kid's job! Just wanted to fill peeps in real quick. Be back soon. Maybe.

Movie: Drugstore Cowboy

So what's happeing here again?

I was gonna write something here about politics again but I just can't bring myself to. Instead, I want to talk to myself. I've talked about this before. I'm pretty sure nobody reads this. Its okay. I'm just a regular person, not a celebrity. So why am I writing this? I never tell people about it and I probably won't. Is this just an online diary? Am I thinking one day maybe someone will come across this and give it a read? Do I really want random strangers reading my thoughts? I really don't know. I do enjoy writing and I guess this is just the way kids do it these days.

By the way, I am writing this while watching the second presidential debate. Some ridiculous stuff going on. I just wish I could have seen Ron Paul answering these questions. That guy knows how to get people going.

Anyway, I think I've come to this realization before (maybe even here on this blog) but I guess I'm just gonna keep this going as an online diary. I do want to, however, get better at it in terms of frequency. *ahem* I am getting busy with school but hopefully I'll be able to keep this up. Only time will tell...

Movie: Dances with Wolves

p.s. - Speaking of movies, did i mention I have a 42" TV and PS3? I love my life :)

Politicians are such politicians

So I just finished watching a portion of the RNC and I gotta say that politics just bug me. Everything is so fake. I've watched portions of both the DNC and the RNC and its funny to me that people will get up and cheer and for their favorite new candidate when just a few months ago they probably had never really heard about them. Just a few weeks ago these candidates were talking crap about each other and now they come together and pat each other on the back and tell you to vote for them. Its just weird to me. It seems so corny. Oh well. Just had to get it off my chest.

Movie: Cars

A Three-Day Weekend is a Good Weekend

It's the beginning of a three day weekend and anything is possible. Kinda. I just love the weekend okay? So I'm getting really excited about my future in Fire Prevention. I met with a retired Fire Capt. and he went over the pros and cons of the job and what I need to do to get things going. It seems like the pros out way the cons if you ask me but then again I've only been looking into this for a few weeks so... Anyway, I've started a couple classes and I'm hoping things work out cause minimum wage isn't cuttin' it anymore. On a netflix note, Netflix is sucking right now. A couple weeks ago they had the big meltdown but now I've sent in two movies and still haven't gotten any back yet. I'm pissed. But only mildly.

Movie: The Darjeerling Limited

School is cool

So I've got a few minutes here at work in between things to do so I thought I'd post a post. The only real big thing going on these days is that I... reapplied back at college. Crazy, I know but I had to do something. Making no money with the band and minimum wage at work had turned me into the dreaded "Loser Boyfriend." Signed up for a couple Fire Tech class. Hopefully gonna get some good stuff out of it. We'll see.

Movie: The Majestic

Oops

So one night Christina and I decided to trim my hair. We forgot to put the gaurd on the clippers and this is what happened. I look like I joined a metal band.

Movie: Hustle and Flow

Let's try again

So I guess I kinda forgot about this place and after spending 20 or so minutes trying to remember my password I finally got back on blogspot.  I guess this will just be my official homepage from now on.  I'm not sure how often I will get things up here but I like being mysterious.

Movie: Grizzly Man

Hello

Anybody there?

No news is bad news when blogging

It's the weekend kinda. I have to work tomorrow so it's not the same but it's cool. Not a whole lot going on right now except for one horrible tragedy. My Netflix account got messed a little. I sent a couple DVD's back and Netflix never got them. So I've been stuck on only one DVD at a time for the week and it happened to be American Psycho (which sucked a little). I'm really distracted right now because I'm watching Diggnation. I like. Okay it's over, I'm back. I think I'm gonna start using this blog to do updates of my band. Maybe one day if this band gets going this will be a place where someone could come and be kept up do date on what's going on from my point of view. Cool. Right now we (the band) are done recording but are waiting for the music to be mastered. Very close to being done. While waiting we've been taking care of the other stuff that goes along with a CD other than music. We just picked out all the final artwork for the CD. It looks very nice and we're all real happy with the finished product. Our friend JR did it all. Visual mastery is a good way to describe his ability and it's pretty obvious when you check out more of his stuff. That's all for now but don't worry I shall return.
P.S. - I "southparked" myself up above.

Movie: Saw 2