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| *New Song -- "The Execution of All Things" by Rilo Kiley*
So i guess it has been a while... again. so youth camp was good, i even got to know one of my biggest influences in music pretty well. josh wilson owns, and you should all listen to him. speaking of listening to music, there are two new songs on the band's myspace. www.myspace.com/companycallsagain and so far those of you who have listened have apparently liked it... considering we got 165 plays today alone, and we hadn't gotten that much altogether since it was started in february. but it helps that we finally started telling people about it cos now there are actually 4 songs. The song Wait is a death cab cover, and is about to be replaced by another original. so 4 original songs... woot. A quick shout out to Kurt and Kenny: You guys are great and without you, Company Calls would not exist. To the rest of you: please check us out, and if you already are listening, then thank you and keep it up! At this rate we should be done with the cd before school starts, and if not we will be really close. Thanks to those of you who have started telling people about us, it is most definitely appreciated.
And now shifting gears from self-advertising... i realized not too long ago, that the people closest to me do not get near the amount of love that they give. and i am extremely sorry. you all know who you are, and i know that sometimes it seems like i cant be anything but sarcastic and analytical. But i appreciate all of you so here are a few shout-outs.
1. We could not be more alike, and perhaps it was meant to be just that way. I told you this during the passing of "the encouragement stick" but ill tell you again, you keep me going man, and you're the closest thing i have to a brother.
2. You challenge me to evaluate myself and realize what it is i truly have, what it is i truly lack, and what exactly it means to be selfless. I know that currently you have made several realizations about your own life, but know that you inspire me at every moment.
3. You told me that i made your birthday go from bad to great, but in reality i think it was you who made my birthday great. Perhaps waiting is sometimes the right thing to do.
4. You and I have said on quite a few occasions that we feel close to each other, even for only having known each other for a short time. Our friendship has truly become important, and i feel connected in that we can tell each other anything, with absolute trust.
5. Sluggy Freelance pwns, Spoon pwns, and so do you. You are living proof that it is possible to be truly kind without any motive or concern with profit for yourself. You are a great person and all those who truly know you, love you more than you love W.O.W.
--thats all for now, i promise it wont be another month before my next post. | | |
| *New Music -- Styrofoam Plates by Death Cab for Cutie -- off of The Photo Album*
So the summer begins well, my trip to new york was awesome, and i expected no less. I did so many amazing things and it would take me quite a while to detail them all. I will simply say that i saw all of the major builidings, i have now seen some of the most famous paintings in history, went to the botanical gardens which was way more awesome than i expected. It was a seriously perfect day and it was like one huge forest with every type of plant you could possibly think of. I think they said over 30,000 types of plants. good luck listing them. I saw a house in the hudson river valley that was built in 1804. of course i saw the empire state building and such, but i also went to the museum of modern art cos we went to the metropolitan museum last time. They had starry night there, and van gogh rules. they had an entire jackson pollock section and he's greatness as well. some monet, cezanne, gaugin, seurat, kandinsky, matisse, picasso, and degas. keep in mind these are just the modern artists from impressionism up through post modern. I haven't been home very long but things are going well. My birthday is tomorrow, im getting a 360 so thats pretty frickin awesome. Now that im done with online courses im gonna work super hard on music. Ive seen some people that i havent seen in a while and that's always nice. I went to hang out with gracie tonight and that was some of the best fun i have had in a really long time. I hope things start going extremely well for you gracie! I saw claire as well tonight and that was great. Hopefully tomorrow will be a good birthday and im sure it will. Ill get to see even more friends and just in general have fun with it. Music is the primary concern now and my goal is to get a cd done before the end of the summer.
As is my usual custom im going to leave you with some thoughts, however, the concern this time does not lie with love. Instead i would like to express some thoughts on spirituality that i discussed earlier tonight with gracie. All too often we view our faith as a crutch. We see it as something to fall back on when our entire world gets a hole blown through it like dick cheney's hunting partner. But it isn't just a coping device. The point of faith and spirituality is a relationship that holds within it something greater than any of us is ever going to find here on our tilt-a-whirl planet. Generally people, myself included, take great care of their relationships with their girlfriends or boyfriends and even just friends. Yet when it comes to the most important relationship of all, we neglect it and just expect things to work out. Imagine your dating someone and you call them like once a month or so when you need them to do something for you, you might say thank you if they do it for you, and if they dont you hate them and stay angry with them until the next time you need something. How long would you say that relationship would last? luckily our faith is a bond that is impossible to break. In other words it takes more than a text message saying "it just isnt working out" to lose our spritual relationship. So maybe its time we put the same effort into God as we do to our significant other. After all, what could be more significant than God? | | |
| hmm... so an update? why not. i got an utada hikaru cd, that made me happy, never thought pop could do the musical trick for me, especially not japanese pop. but hey, variety is always good. ya know, im becoming increasingly aware of certain inevitabilities about to occur in my life. but some things just have to happen, some changes just have to be made. up until this year, i think my inclination to worry about the future ended up in nothing more than completely unfounded fears about things out of my control. and fear of the unkown/inevitable is a waste of my time. and i think the realization about worrying too much came when i was thinking about how people worry about love. how they think about it so much it becomes nothing more than another fear. and as i've been saying in my other entries, with love, you can't spend time analyzing and plotting. all you can do is love, and dont even worry about the rest later, forget it entirely. its the same with change. if change is coming, then its gonna come, and you can either accept it or not. if you don't, if you put all of your energy in to preventing the change, or fearing it; then you haven't done anything at all. except you've assured that not only will change come, but you won't be ready for it. so just accept change, in essence, accept life itself.. because life is just one change after another. its a sequence of events that will happen, and that's the one thing that remains unchangeable. regardless of your state of mind, life will occur. you can count on it. so disregard the uncertainty of what's going to happen, just focus on the certainty that it will happen anyway. and then let that be your motivation to prepare yourself, to direct yourself, and gain control over the things you are sure of. and here are a few certainties to get you started: god is real, love is real, and even more things will become certain when you have faith in those two things.
*new music: Song - War All the Time, Album - War All the Time, By - Thursday* | | |
| so we're reaching this last little bit of school... so close to freedom. it would be better if i could say, well we're done, but not quite. and at least im done with all of those horrible tests. so im into j-pop now. i never thought those words would ever be uttered, or typed, by me. i dont think i ever considered japanese pop my thing, but it was inevitable i suppose, cos hikaru utada is pretty much awesome. even though there are about 8 different ways she puts her name. sometimes she is credited as utada hikaru. but other times its the other way around. in america she just goes by utada. but in japan they call her hikki. so idk. but anyway now its like i dont have enough of it to listen to. i only have to full songs of hers on my computer, the rest i have to go google and listen to them. so im gonna have to get some of her cds. and if you're wondering "what the hell is japanese pop?" then you are a disgrace. just kidding. if you've ever played any decent video games, then you've heard some. because japanese game makers cannot resist a little j-pop to go with their games. the opening sequence of Final Fantasy X-2 is the main character performing a japanese pop song to a huge crowd. this is the same girl mind you that is called the summoner. and forgive me, but "wise, strong-willed, magic wielding summoner" does not equal "japanese pop star dancing and singing." but games are how i came to know utada hikaru in the first place. and for the rest of you, its pretty much just regular pop, with better lyrics and then there's the all important factor that most of it is in japanese. I had a little recital thing this past weekend, and i played transatlanticism just me and the piano, it actually went really well. On another musical note (no pun intended), the guy who owns dot com coffee opened up an indoor coffee house, and since my dad knows him, he said i could play there any time i wanted to. so thats kool.
here is something that concerns music, and at the same time doesnt. one of the songs ive been listening to repeatedly cos its so damn good, is called simple and clean. and i realized that this song actually demonstrated something i was talking about earlier. sometimes people over complicate things, one portion of the song, the girl is saying that she doesnt think things are that simple with love. but whoever she is talking to responds that they are, and someday, love will be enough for her, simple enough. so i stress that sometimes you just need to take love as it is, simple and clean. well this has been a really long entry, concerning nothing important, so im gonna be heading off now to play some japanese games. | | |
| *the new music Phenomena by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I wanted to let you guys
here some stuff of the new CD 'Show Your Bones' which i highly
reccommend, but that's also because im extremely addicted to the yeah
yeah yeahs and im in love with Karen O.*
So the movie is finally done. and that's both good and bad, because
while it was arduous and extremely annoying to be directed phillip, i
still had a lot of fun and it's going to be weird not seeing those
people all of the time. the premier was fun, even though the sound
quality of the movie sucked and phillip changed the channel on the tv
like 8 times. i got my song used in it which is fun. and ironically if
i get any money it will be for providing music, not because i was a
main character in the movie. but whatever works. And i talked with
helen about video games... that was one of the strangest events ive
experienced in a while, but fun.
Easter is here... any thoughts on that? because i dont have any. For
those of you used to me saying something remotely deep, im not sure
what i can offer you. Because currently nothing is happening to me that
inspires an analytical thought process. But i will continue what i
talked about in my last entry for a little bit.
I compared love to jumping to your death last time because i see it as
being willing to throw everything else away for something beyond
yourself. But if you do that, you better make damn sure you're truly ready
to give it all up and embrace whatever happens to you. You can't
approach love like a problem that simply requires planning and rational
thought to control. Because love isnt rational and you cant plot it
out. But at the same time, it's one of the few things in life that
actually makes sense. So stop overthinking it, stop analyzing something
that you can't understand, stop worrying about the future. If your in
love then do just that... be in love. Know that first, before anything
else.
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