New Frustration

So, yesterday I found a way to free about 1gig of memory. Which means I can start downloading music again. Not like I don't have enough to go through already. I still have to go through a bunch Nick Drake, Kings of Convenience, Stars, The Album Leaf and a few songs from other varies artists.

The reason all my music has piled up is ,because I just get frustrated and overwhelmed with so much new music. Anther thing that bugs me is that I have to end up deleting most of it since my psp only has 4gigs. So, basically I have sift through all the music and pick out the artists best songs. Then when I finally get through picking out my favorite songs. I have to pick what songs to delete from my psp, since its completely full. This is really painful, because at this point of time the songs that are left on it are songs that I really like. Having to pick favorites is never fun.

Today I finally got around to adding songs that I had picked out during early fall. I ended up deleting about half of my radiohead/DCFC songs. In order to make room for The Notwist, Stereolab, and Helio Sequence. It pained me to do it, but new songs are good. Plus it makes new room on my computer for more songs.

Now I just downloaded a bunch of songs by M83, My Bloody Valentine, and Mogwai. This will only add to amount of music I need to go through. I realize this is a stupid thing to be bitching about, but this whole process really takes the fun out of listening to new music. Instead of enjoying the music, I have to criticize, rate ,and compare it to other music I have. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.(Except: Buying a new music storage device since I am currently to poor for that.)


Today I also finally got my T.V. back. After throwing away about 13 Honey Nut Cheerios boxes, that had built up in my room. I was able to catch two amazing movies on t.v. The first was Dodge Ball, which is probably my favorite comedy of all time. The other was Forsest Gump, which I have seen countless times before. I can honestly say that I will never regret calling this movie, "one of the best movies ever made". The whole movie is amazing, how many different adventures he has in his life and the ending still makes me sad. The funny thing is the first couple of times I saw it, I believed it was based on a true story.

Atheist Anthem

"Jesus Christ,
When your back's against the wall
It's sure hard to be grateful
When you've nothing here at all
You say that Hell's below us, Lord
Heaven can be mineI don't believe your promises
I don't believe your lies

And, Lord, let it rain on me
Let it all come down
I'll sell my soul to let it roll
And I'm about ready now

Lord, let it rain on me
Now I know I'm goin' down
I've got a little knowledge, Lord
And I'm about ready now

Jesus Christ,
Look at what you've gone and done
2,000 years of lookin' down
The barrel of a gun
You got the fools believin'
That there's something else to gain
Jesus Christ,
When you comin' down again?

And, Lord, let it rain on me
Let it all come down
I'll sell my soul to let it roll
And I'm about ready now

Lord, let it rain on me
Now I know I'm goin' down
I've got a little knowledge, Lord
And I'm about ready now"


Now I'm not a complete Atheist. I do believe that there is a chance that god exists. Although, I don't believe he is a perfect being. Which makes it hard to find a current religion that agrees with my views. So, for now I'm going to lean towards the Atheists side.

Also the song is from Amazing Grace by Spiritualized. His most recent CD, that I thought of as a piece of crap at first listen. Like most other fans, I though it didn't have the overpowering emotional feel as his previous two Cd's. While his last Cd's took about a year to produce. Amazing Grace was done with in two weeks and was all recorded live. This gives the CD a different kind feel that you gradually learn to love. After about four listens, my view has completely changed and is now one of my favorite Cd's.

Side Note: It is official, I'm way more obsessed with Spiritualized, than you were with Stars. Hahahahahahahahaha

The Future Looks Nice

Due to my t.v. being taken away. My day just consisted of listening to music and browsing the internet mostly about music. What I discovered is the future of music looks to be really good.

This year in music has been ok at best. With only few artist that I enjoy, who released records this year. Notable ones are Sparklehorse, Muse, Headlights, The Flaming Lips(not nearly their best work). As for tours I missed Muse, The Cloud Room, Sigur Ros and Matt Pond PA. But I am pretty happy with the number shows I was able to see. The only downside to the touring aspect is just the past couple months. When I was on break and I had plenty of time and money for shows. They all of sudden stopped and I ended up seeing a grand total of zero shows over break. Even my friends were wondering why there were no shows over break. Oh well, Now for the future.

The bands that are expected to release new albums consist of: Spiritualized, The Shins, Air, Matt Pond PA, Of Montreal, Wilco, Bright Eyes, and The Arcade Fire. All these bands are expected to tour to support their new albums. Plus Shout Out Louds, The Notwist, and Smashing Pumpkins are all working on a new album. Shows I definitely must see are Spiritualized, Sparklehorse, and Matt Pond PA. Over all I'm happy with the coming years possibilities.

To top this all off Halo 3 is coming out. I just got to get my 360 fixed, which is a problem that I should take care of very soon.

Not Good

So, I have been procrastinating paying for ECC. I thought you were supposed to pay like a week before classes. I just checked and the deadline was like two ago.

Time to cross my fingers and hope I wasn't dropped from my classes.

The way I see things...........

I'm becoming a vampire.

I've always had a irregular sleep pattern. Even when I was in middle school, I would stay awake until 1a.m. It naturally progressed to between 2-4a.m. during high school. Wake up time for school was always around 6:45 a.m. since I always had to compensate for 45 min showers. (Yes, I know that a long time for a shower, but when I'm in the shower is the only time during the day, that I am completely at peace and can get my thoughts together.)

Now that college has rolled around, my average bedtime is 5. Which is pretty late, but now I get to choose what time my classes start and I make sure that I can sleep in every other day. Currently over break my average bed time has risen to 7. Even I can now emit that I have a insomniac problem. Going to sleep as your dad is waking is never a good thing.

What has caused this to progress so far?

Well as my experiences during daytime have been getting worse and worse. The night has begun to look more and more inviting and pleasant. I have always enjoyed the dark calmness of night and disliked the bright chaos of day. Most days I am awake for only a couple hours of sunlight.

I think I might have to lower my bed time before school starts again.

I'm Back

So, I haven't wrote anything here for awhile, because my computer is crap and didn't load the log in page. Now that I finally found a way around that here is a recap of what happened over the past two weeks.

Movies:

Rocky Balboa- Surprisingly this movie was quite good. Best Rocky movie I can remember since the original.

Children of Men- This movie is probably the best movie I've seen in a long time. There is one word to describe this movie "intense". The story, plot, and acting are all amazing. I highly recommend it.

Holidays:

Christmas- It was a very good Christmas. I got mostly spiritualized stuff that I had been eagerly looking forward to for months and some unexpected money to keep me a float through whats left of winter and spring.

Christmas Presents:
Spiritualized- Amazing Grace CD(His most recent work has few garage rock gems), The Complete Works Vol. 2 CD(Amazing instrumentals and mix of b-sides and old tracks), Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space(This CD is absolutely amazing and the first three tracks alone are worth the money), Spiritualized T-Shirt(Its so cool I wore it on New Years).

The Flaming Lips-Ego Tripping At the Gates Of Hell EP(The Postal Service Remix of "Do You Realize" is a little disappointing, but the two remixes of "Ego Tripping At The Of Hell" and the Christmas song are pretty nice).

Also got slippers, Adidas hoodie, and most importantly ANDIE'S CHOCOLATE MINTS. Next to spiritualized, the mints are the best thing on Earth.

Forgetting Montgomery Show:

After Christmas I decided to go to the show since Tuesdays are pretty lame. Like always its very awkward to be surrounded be emo high schoolers that all smoke. To top that it has be at Clearwater, where there is nowhere to sit, get away from the smoke, charge two fuckin dollars for water and they don't let you leave in between sets, so I had to sit through Panic At The Disco get played over and over and over again. Now, no offense to FM and the rest of the bands, but they are small local bands and you should be able leave and come back for local. I can see them not letting any in or outs for big shows, but come on LOCAL BANDS. Even though screamo really isn't my style, FM had a few songs that were pretty good and the rest of the bands I stayed for were EH.

New Years:

This was probably the best New Years party that I've been to. It was pretty much the same as last year, but I actually new most the people at the party this time. I was very proud that I actually managed my buzz this time and was drunk without throwing up the whole night. Even though half the people that showed up weren't invited, I was always able to find a room to chill in with people that I knew. I even for a while got on good terms with a kid that never really got along with. Until 6 am came around and the party was wrapping up. I found out about the Packers kicking the shit out the bears and went on a drunk rant afterwards. Which pissed off the kid and made him hate me again, since he was a bears fan. Even though I'm sad that the packers barely missed the playoffs, a win over the bears was like the cherry on top for great new years night.

This was followed by the most ugly mourning of the year. I don't know if this year was an improvement to last years puking like eight times. Instead I had the flu and a hang over. Not being able to breathe well and coughing with a hang over is a very bad mix. I some how was able to drive 40 min to home and crash the rest of the day.

Ugliness:

Having the flu for over a week(new years didn't help).
No Snow at alllllllll over break!!!!!!!!!(So much for snowboarding) :(
School is about to start and I'm not looking forward to this semester at all.