There is so much music out there for me to consume it is crazy. I am looking forward to the All Tomorrows Parties festival here in UCLA in October. I will be a drooling mess that weekend I bet. I’ll be able to see Sonic Youth once again and also JSBX, Stephen Malkmus, Boredoms, and a whole lotta other bands.

And this weekend, I’m going back up to Santa Barbara to see Depeche Mode. So many things to do, so little time.

Sometimes things get a little to hectic that there’s not much time to breathe. It will be something of a renewal to get through the next couple of months. Sometimes I can even hear the sounds of the refineries at night. It’s an eerie sensation, especially since I’m not used to them anymore. It’s funny how four years of Santa Barbara changed me.

Tomorrow is another day….

In the beginning, there was nothing. What a way to start a religion by using nihilism.

This will just be a test and hopefully this stuff looks better and better.

Note 8/27/15: This is the very first LiveJournal entry I made. There is some overlap between LJ and my website entries over the next months before becoming almost exclusively LJ for a year or so. I don’t think any distinction needs to be made since I’m embarrassed by all of this. But for the sake of posterity, right?

The local news has read more like an obituary than anything else. The big incident was the guy plowing into 5 people and a dozen cars on Saturday night. Then there has been a mail-bombing and a suicide to throw into the mix. It’s been a bottle of joy here in Santa Barbara. On top of that I’ve been a bit whorish as of late (if you don’t think that’s traumatic, well you have another thing coming to you). I blame all of this on the weather. We need some sort of balance of our neurochemicals that the rain fucks up. It’s just that.

On a much different note, I have a couple of graphical ideas jotted down for the page. It will take longer than I anticipated doing these things. I also have several job offers that I am highly thinking about also. So it’s been a bit busy to say the very least.

I WILL finish this page. I promise.

This weekend was my trampy weekend. Evidence:

Boy#1: Had a crush on. I see him off and on.
Boy#2: Started making out with him at a party on Friday night. I left some “battle wounds” so to speak. Much fun. Falling for him.

I had a date with Boy#1 last night and he flaked. So that takes him off the list.

Outlook: Less trampy days with Boy#2.

I gots me own domain name!

There have been quite a few changes in this new year, which I am happy of. I will be changing a whole lot of things around here. Super happy fun!!!!!!!

Resolutions:
– Buy more shoes.
– Take a vacation.
– Publish something, anything.
– Get a cell phone.

I spent New Years in San Francisco and had a blast. I’m an LA boy so it was quite breathtaking going to clothing stores in the midst of skyscapers. One of these days I will make it to New York.

Work!

Here are some more albums that I completely forgot about while doing this Top Ten list thingee.

Milemarker — Frigid Forms Sell
Sound of Water — St. Etienne
The Best of… — Blur

I’m realizing more and more that I’m starting to burn out. A vacation would sound nice right about now. I’m just tired of work, friends, my apartment, etc. Going away sounds really nice. I can probably become a better person at the end of it. I don’t know. Just someone let me out!!!

I’m a sucker for lists. So here’s my Top Ten list:
1. Kid A — Radiohead
2. One Mississippi — J Church
3. The Fifth Release from Matador — Pizzicato 5
4. Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea — PJ Harvey
5. NYC Ghosts and Flowers — Sonic Youth
6. March to Fuzz — Mudhoney (no original songs, I know, but still good to listen to)
7. Suzuki — Tosca
8. Earth Odyssey — The Get Hustle
9. Music — Madonna
10. Breakup of the Smashing Pumpkins. It’s about fucking time!

I want Adam to shut the fuck up. I hear him speak all the time, and I’m just tired of it. Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!!

Ok. I’m done.

I think I can conjure the tracklist for the CD I burned last night.

1. Where Is My Mind? – Nada Surf (I know. I don’t like them either, but it’s actually pretty decent.)
2. Sugar Water (remix by Mike D, Russell Simmons and Yuka Honda) – Cibo Matto
3. Coffee and TV (live) – Blur
4. Baby One More Time – Travis (a hilarious cover. I truly enjoyed it.)
5. Dancing the Manta Ray – Pixies (They like manta rays.)
6. Novocaine (live on some radio show) – the eels
7. C’Mon Billy (live on World Cafe) – PJ Harvey
8. The National Anthem (live on SNL) – Radiohead
9. Beercan (live) – Beck
10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Barbie Dolls – Pizzicato 5 (I just love this one way too much)
11. Touch Me I’m Sick – Sonic Youth (from the infamous split single with Mudhoney)
12. Manta Ray – Man or Astroman?
13. My Black Ass (live) – Shellac (I’m going to see them next month!!!!!)
14. Slunk (live) – Smashing Pumpkins
15. Two Beats Off (live) – Fugazi
16. Anisette (live) – June of 44

I like this CD a whole lot.