Before I get started, I just want to say that by now I think you should know that I enjoy making lists. They're a great way of making me remember things and also a way to get what I want to say across in a fashionable manner.
So, I've been thinking of myself lately and I thought, "what would my perfect world consist of?" Well, besides the obvious, world peace, for starters. And perhaps be president of the United States, but I wasn't even born here, so that's out of the question... But I'm thinking of more realistic, achievable goals.
1. Open up a diner/venue - In a perfect world, I will be the owner of a sweet 50s styled diner (and POSSIBLE record shop) that plays rock-n-roll and pop punk songs in constant rotation. Co-owner will be my newly acquired friend, Pames Jollard, because it seems that we both share the vision to own our own restaurant and strangely enough, we both love pop punk and rock-n-roll. I also want to hold shows there that books a wide range of underground music. If that doesn't work, there's also a vegan, Mexican restaurant business I could look into.
2. In love - I will be dating (anonymous), my dream girl and I will love her forever, or at least until the apocalypse in 2012 kicks in. We will rock and take off in a rocket ship to the moon and play a punk rock show there to a bunch of punk rockers. We will have also discovered new life forms (ET) that will ask, "What is this fucking noise and funny feeling?" Once they realize that the funny feeling that is taking over their body is the all powerful rock-n-roll, they will join me and my love in our intergalactic journey to rock the entire Milky Way.
3. Own a record studio - Okay, so this may not be as realistic as rockin' out the Milky Way, but I would love to own a recording studio, fucking around and recording jams every night. I would experiment new styles and export tunes in great quality. Since I don't know shit about sound engineering, I will hire someone to do my work, I will just jam out... But to do that, I'd have to hire someone and that takes money, which brings me to my next one...
4. Millionaire - I fucking hate money, but goddamn, I would like to have lots of it. I feel like it's the root of all evil and cause of a vicious cycle, but hey.... what the fuck do I know about struggle or anything important? I have a job at a fast food joint and my parents pay for most of my shit. What they don't support is my punk rock hobby and obsessions, but that's where my burger joint paychecks come in. I just wish I was a cook and my parent's didn't have to work anymore so they could take a permanent vacation.
5. ??? - I can't think of a fifth one, honestly, but I guess what I'm currently craving is Taco Bell. So, I guess it'd have to be to have a private Taco Bell just for me, in my living room. I don't even want to own one, I just want a personal one that make perfect cheesy gordita crunches, crunchwrap supremes, and fiesta potatoes. Goddamn, I'm starving.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Upcoming Shows
Upcoming events worth being alive for:
October 10th: Riot Fest Chicago - Dead Milkmen, Teen Idols, Teenage Bottlerocket, one more...
October 1th: Riot Fest Chicago- Screeching Weasel, Alkaline Trio, Pegboy, and more...
October 18th: Iron Age and more @ Alley Katz
October 20th: Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls @ the Clubhouse
November 30th: The Queers with the Leftovers @ Strange Matter
TBA: My band recording in 5-song demo.
I don't really understand why, but how is it possible that I'm getting to see four of my favorite bands this weekend in one place? It's almost like there's a higher power that has answered my shitty and lonely cry of boredom. Something else that has just occurred to me is that I have close to no life and that all I do is music related and shitty. I need more.
I will be updating this list soon because I know there's a lot more, I'm just glad that life won't be boring in the following weeks. I'm also glad that the current band I'm doing is at least going somewhere and at a good pace.
PS. October is Misfits month. That's what's constantly on my playlist, including Graves era.
October 10th: Riot Fest Chicago - Dead Milkmen, Teen Idols, Teenage Bottlerocket, one more...
October 1th: Riot Fest Chicago- Screeching Weasel, Alkaline Trio, Pegboy, and more...
October 18th: Iron Age and more @ Alley Katz
October 20th: Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls @ the Clubhouse
November 30th: The Queers with the Leftovers @ Strange Matter
TBA: My band recording in 5-song demo.
I don't really understand why, but how is it possible that I'm getting to see four of my favorite bands this weekend in one place? It's almost like there's a higher power that has answered my shitty and lonely cry of boredom. Something else that has just occurred to me is that I have close to no life and that all I do is music related and shitty. I need more.
I will be updating this list soon because I know there's a lot more, I'm just glad that life won't be boring in the following weeks. I'm also glad that the current band I'm doing is at least going somewhere and at a good pace.
PS. October is Misfits month. That's what's constantly on my playlist, including Graves era.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Ten Reasons
So, I've been meaning to write this somewhere for awhile now and I guess I have the time. Or maybe I'm starting to finally stop feeling sorry for myself and I need to get over it. Anyways, it hit me a couple of weeks ago, when I was playing video games, why I'm single. Now, you know it's sad when you realize a reason why you're single when you're yelling at your TV because a video game doesn't go your way. I've singled it down to 10 reasons why (no particular order):
1. Cereal Collection - For as long as I could remember, cereal, and most breakfast foods for that matter, have been my favorite food to eat at any time of the day. I once tried going on a week where I ate nothing but cereal. At one point in the last year, I had 16 boxes of cereal. It may be unhealthy that I eat a lot of cereal, but also healthy in a sense that it can be nutritious. If you ever want to make my day, I like Honey Bunches of Oats and Frosted Shredded Wheat.
2. My guitar's name is Sheena - Under the influence of the Ramones' classic, "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker." If you think I got this from any other place than you're a dumb ass with no history. I'm thinking of picking up a new guitar soon, a Danelectro "Dead On '67." They're so beautiful, and I'm going to name her Judy.
3. Message Board Poster - I love message boards so much that I go out looking for new ones to start posting in. They mainly deal with my many interests, because I couldn't possibly take part in a message board unless I was trolling. Even then that's just stupid and a waste of time. Also, you know you're a loser that spends too much time on them when you get threads made about you.
4. Violence and Horror Obsessed - What grown man is obsessed with this type of material? Honestly, I find solace in witnessing blood, guts, and horror themed music. I find lyrical content to be very fitting and out of the norm.
5. Farmville Addict - Really!? So I just found out that this game is played in real time and that I have to keep checking up on my crops. Now whenever I'm at a friend's place, I have to ask if "I could get online to check on my crops." What the fuck does this even mean!?
6. I Yell at Video Games - You know when something just doesn't go your way.... for the 40th time!? Yeah well, I'm convinced everyone has a boiling point and mine gets reached when I experience the same outcome. By the way, to this day I'm still stuck on that fucking level...
7. Constant Playlists - I sercretly (I guess not anymore since you know) have lots of playlists I've made in the last couple of years that range from different types of music to comfort moods I have. I'm going to now start making tapes rather CD mixes and also start collecting tapes.
8. Collecting (in general) - Ever since I've had the internet, I've always been a huge collector in funny images, music and movies. They're about 90% responsible for who I am and make up most of my humor. Steve Buscemi said it best in Ghost World, "You think it's healthy to obsessively collect things? Can't connect with other people so you fill your life with stuff, just like all the rest of these pathetic, collector losers."
9. Stupid Music - My favorite band has a song titled, "I Can't Stop Farting." I think that says enough, but I honestly can't get enough of this. As stated above, music pretty much makes up my humor and I can relate to most of it. Quoting it also fun, this goes for movies as well. Not to mention the music I write is just as, if not, worse. Lame lyrical content, but it sums up me pretty well.
10. I'm a Genius - I think only stupid people have good relationships. Nothing is perfect, and for that matter, nothing in this world lasts forever. I figure, if I wait my time, the girl will come for me. Also the fact that I'm obsessed with the idea of love itself and also the fact that I live by every Queers lyric makes me a huge dork, but it's fun and I hope the right girl will see this.
1. Cereal Collection - For as long as I could remember, cereal, and most breakfast foods for that matter, have been my favorite food to eat at any time of the day. I once tried going on a week where I ate nothing but cereal. At one point in the last year, I had 16 boxes of cereal. It may be unhealthy that I eat a lot of cereal, but also healthy in a sense that it can be nutritious. If you ever want to make my day, I like Honey Bunches of Oats and Frosted Shredded Wheat.
2. My guitar's name is Sheena - Under the influence of the Ramones' classic, "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker." If you think I got this from any other place than you're a dumb ass with no history. I'm thinking of picking up a new guitar soon, a Danelectro "Dead On '67." They're so beautiful, and I'm going to name her Judy.
3. Message Board Poster - I love message boards so much that I go out looking for new ones to start posting in. They mainly deal with my many interests, because I couldn't possibly take part in a message board unless I was trolling. Even then that's just stupid and a waste of time. Also, you know you're a loser that spends too much time on them when you get threads made about you.
4. Violence and Horror Obsessed - What grown man is obsessed with this type of material? Honestly, I find solace in witnessing blood, guts, and horror themed music. I find lyrical content to be very fitting and out of the norm.
5. Farmville Addict - Really!? So I just found out that this game is played in real time and that I have to keep checking up on my crops. Now whenever I'm at a friend's place, I have to ask if "I could get online to check on my crops." What the fuck does this even mean!?
6. I Yell at Video Games - You know when something just doesn't go your way.... for the 40th time!? Yeah well, I'm convinced everyone has a boiling point and mine gets reached when I experience the same outcome. By the way, to this day I'm still stuck on that fucking level...
7. Constant Playlists - I sercretly (I guess not anymore since you know) have lots of playlists I've made in the last couple of years that range from different types of music to comfort moods I have. I'm going to now start making tapes rather CD mixes and also start collecting tapes.
8. Collecting (in general) - Ever since I've had the internet, I've always been a huge collector in funny images, music and movies. They're about 90% responsible for who I am and make up most of my humor. Steve Buscemi said it best in Ghost World, "You think it's healthy to obsessively collect things? Can't connect with other people so you fill your life with stuff, just like all the rest of these pathetic, collector losers."
9. Stupid Music - My favorite band has a song titled, "I Can't Stop Farting." I think that says enough, but I honestly can't get enough of this. As stated above, music pretty much makes up my humor and I can relate to most of it. Quoting it also fun, this goes for movies as well. Not to mention the music I write is just as, if not, worse. Lame lyrical content, but it sums up me pretty well.
10. I'm a Genius - I think only stupid people have good relationships. Nothing is perfect, and for that matter, nothing in this world lasts forever. I figure, if I wait my time, the girl will come for me. Also the fact that I'm obsessed with the idea of love itself and also the fact that I live by every Queers lyric makes me a huge dork, but it's fun and I hope the right girl will see this.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Take One
Ah, so here I am, starting something again, for the 3rd time in a course of a year. Hopefully this time I can keep up since my life has gotten less boring, kind of. August has come around again and here I am, figuring out new routes and schedules for this Fall semester. It's also supposedly that time of year where a friend of mine goes on a rant for the next few months over new college students infesting his city. I can clearly see where this can offend and piss off a local, don't blame him one bit. Just the first day of class made me realize how much I'm easily annoyed by everything. At least I have more tolerance than most of friends, I don't exactly dread going out in public. I kind of have to, and eventually everyone does. I usually just try to have fun with it and poke fun, it gets me through the day. I'm a freak, so there's nothing stopping anyone from doing the same. We're all not perfect, so I point it out to myself.
Aside from your first year hipster kids, you see the typical college student articles of clothing, like your typical ironic t-shirt (i.e. "I eat glue," "I'm secretly a ninja," we get it, you're weird, weirdo). Anyways, the other day, I saw a shirt that just made me cringe because it was so lame. Then again, most of Hollister's (Yes, Hollister) clothing are based on "bro" slogans and lame sexual innuendos and market to rich, jock kids whose favorite past times are sports and sex. Anyways the shirt read, "PROTECT THE BEACHES, THERE ARE GIRLS THERE." As if you shouldn't protect any other area, but the beaches. So, by this logic, girls aren't anywhere but the beaches. No wonder I haven't been able to find a date, because they're at the one place I hate the most: The beach. Fuck You.
Aside from your first year hipster kids, you see the typical college student articles of clothing, like your typical ironic t-shirt (i.e. "I eat glue," "I'm secretly a ninja," we get it, you're weird, weirdo). Anyways, the other day, I saw a shirt that just made me cringe because it was so lame. Then again, most of Hollister's (Yes, Hollister) clothing are based on "bro" slogans and lame sexual innuendos and market to rich, jock kids whose favorite past times are sports and sex. Anyways the shirt read, "PROTECT THE BEACHES, THERE ARE GIRLS THERE." As if you shouldn't protect any other area, but the beaches. So, by this logic, girls aren't anywhere but the beaches. No wonder I haven't been able to find a date, because they're at the one place I hate the most: The beach. Fuck You.
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