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November 25th, 2007
12:22 am - not very fun
I had a long day. did a lot of work. But the Thompsons bought me food because my family's plans for dinner were disrupted. I was doing some data work and my dad had just gotten home and then my mom. it was pretty normal stuff, we were watching some college football game, uva and vt maybe. but then we got a call from urgent care. my brother had gone there with my mom to get something for a cough. his bloodwork came back, numbers were told. My mom restates them to my dad and I, we understand nothing about the relative meaning of these numbers. Basically urgent care said that scott should go to the emergency room right away. He was at work, so I called Urban, got brandon and then my mom and scott talked and agreed to meet at the hospital.
So I was left at home, unsure of what was happening. This was at 12:30. I got a call at 4 saying they were still there unsure what exactly was wrong. Then Nancy calls me at 5:40 telling me they were taking me to dinner. I eat and then go to the ER. I am told to wait in line with people checking in to get seen just to find out where scott is. so by 8 or so I get to go into the privileged area and see my brother. It is here that I find out his glucose levels were high and they were trying to bring them down. they think he has diabetes, thats about all the info I have. my mom thinks its most likely type 1, from how they are describing the problem. but I am just bummin for him. I know he's not happy right now and there aint much that can be done to help him. just think nice thoughts of him.
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August 17th, 2006
10:20 pm - burn
ive been in cali for 9 years. today.
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June 17th, 2006
03:36 pm - me first
I graduated today.
and I had to dismantle the art on my door... you can see pics of it in all it's glory a few entries back. but its gone now. and soon I will be too, back to NP.
Current Location: San Diego
Current Mood: done dude
Current Music: afi-kiss and control
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December 21st, 2005
01:37 am - the end of the line man
i went to pick up charlie at lax because i am cool. it took an extra hour because all the onramps north were closed from like century up to slauson or something like that. anyway, we went through inglewood and a black guy was crossing a dark street towards my car, punch it yo...
and i got home all good, so im happy. I spent 4 hours detailing my car the other day, its perhaps cleaner than its ever been before i think. and im pretty much wasting time here at home, nothing really to do, most everyone is doing stuff and i am tired a lot of the time, so the combination yields boredom. and thats about it
Current Music: Everytime I Die-Logic of Crocodiles
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July 28th, 2005
11:55 pm - to be
what is the subject of the summer?
do we just take it day by day or live our lives to make it to deadlines?
this past summer has been just like school, full of deadlines and such that has left me worn out and in need of release. the gathering was just the cure for such a disease. good food, after a long trial of getting the stupid grill started, you know... and then just hanging out not worrying about the prospect of failing the next day. I am relieved to be done with school for a bit. I am happy to be jobless and unbound in any way to san diego, i am free to roam north, to do anything. It is the height of too muchery. As i look around my empty apartment, i am happy to be free, to think about what good times lie ahead and just be. I would like to get the band back on track so that we can play again. of course. but man, i am just fine right now in this moment, to be here. this is what matters, to live for now and just be.
blah blah blah, i am gay.
Current Mood: yeah
Current Music: STRUNG OUT-firecracker
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July 11th, 2005
01:21 am - talent is exclusive to bands without pay
ok so A Park Tradition had a couple of shows this weekend. they were great and if you missed them, shame on you. I have talked to jon and he wants to do more shows, so we are set for that. heres the breakdown of my weekend because i did so much, because i am cool.
Thursday:
tutored at 2
class at 5
then drove to np at 9
played a little gta till 2
sleep
Friday:
beach at 7
mcdonalds at 1030 exactly, because thats when lunch starts
then... hung out with the band at toepfer's house
practice at 315
left for harmony sweet at 5
load in at 630 or so
played at 8, rocked hard
then went to toepfers and charlies to hang with some peeps till too late
Saturday:
woke at 1130 and went to the valley with charlie
sold some tickets for the show...
left for show at 5
load in at 630
played sometime later
dinner at bj's at 830, left at 1030 because they blow nuts in the service department
got home, went to peters for mario party, it was challenging, till a bit too late
Sunday:
beach at 630
paintball at 11 or so
grade papers at 2 ish
lazerstar at 4
in n out with pete
to petes house to rock some lagwagon and no use
then drove back to sd at 930
lazerstar has nothing on paintballing, you cant make a grown man yell out in fear by shooting him with an infared beam. i am tired beyond belief it makes me tired thinking about how tired i am, so i will sleep now. and rabbits keep grazing in the grass by our front door, i dont know what to make of that.
bye bye
Current Mood: done
Current Music: guns and roses-paradise city
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July 7th, 2005
01:48 am - I'm building a house
addition to a few minutes ago.
we can take this opportunity to reevaluate everything that we have done thus far. to really look at what we have come up with and decide what we want to change, what can stay, and then grow from the experience. i know that the last thing we want to do is start over, that blows. but it could help bring us all back on the same page and then make our sound even better. I mean we never really sat down and said, "hey what kind of sound are we going for in these songs." things just came out and i think it turned out pretty good, but i think we are capable of much better. we have the background and talent to do much better things, it just never went that way with how things were organized before. so a rebirth is upon us. a chance to truly define our musical style, now anyone looking to do some drumming??
ok bye for now.
Current Mood: rebirth
Current Music: from autumn to ashes-autumn's monologue
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01:31 am - this is your last chance, after this there is no turning back
SWEET DREAMS...
hahaha...
But seriously what is going on guys? Why does everything fall apart when it is just getting together, kinda retarded. Working so hard to make things work, in a place where there is no one to catch you when you fall. I feel abandoned and kin of taken for granted, I put in a lot of time, sacrificed studying and then it ends. I can say that I saw it coming, Scott can attest to that. But the timing just seems so bad it just can not be true. Nick, Scott and I gave up a lot to do this and we have to make it work, or nick will go away for the rest of the summer, putting further activities culminating in shows on hold. I look forward to writing with Scott, some experimental kinda things, whatever we can come up with with our limited skills, or I can say mine are limited. I have a lot to learn, and it doesnt seem to be coming all that easy...
The story ends here for now, and if you have been like, whats going on, I dont understand... our drummer and singer for A Park Tradition, are leaving to pursue other musical opportunities. If you make it out to the LA shows make sure you say goodbye to Jon and Mike.
Current Mood: checked out
Current Music: bad astronaut-break your frame
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June 30th, 2005
01:55 am - the rock show
I saw Evergreen Terrace and Bane this past night. It was awesome. They rocked the place. Then talked to Andrew and Craig after the show and gave them lucky pennies, for good luck of course. Other than that, i did nothing until 6, and then I tutored some people in programming (c/c++). The show gets better and better every time. nice huh?
Current Mood: blown away
Current Music: evergreen terrace-i say you he dead
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June 21st, 2005
10:48 pm - JADE
We moved to a new place, very bare with wood floors. So, I decided to make it more homey, you know, just some decorations. And well, it took forever to do this collage on the door, and about 50 million magazines, good god. Anyways the finished result is this:
give it some time to download, Its a big pic but I think its worth it, and you should too as it took me forever as I have already stated. Other than that there aint nothing to talk about. Show on Friday, come see us at The Hot Monkey Love Cafe, it starts at like 7 or something. Then we play a few shows in the LA area, so come to those too. COME TO THEM ALL. check the myspace for details, www.myspace.com/aparktradition
Im out for now, talk later.
Current Mood: done dude
Current Music: evergreen terrace-i can see my house from here
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April 14th, 2005
10:12 pm - COROLLA!!!!!
If you try to race me in a toyota corolla or a maxima with big wheel rims then you will lose. that is all, dont try to tell me otherwise because it wont happen. and if you feel bad dont try and pass me on the median, cuz i can take you in 3rd gear. you are a ballsack, now i have to clean my windshield bc the corolla idiot couldnt handle losing. then he has the balls to look over at me like hes the man, i mean how gay do you feel drivng your mom's car, huh?
and then the maxima guy needs to just learn patience and to know that he will always be wrong and i will always be right. good bye all i am going to plan my teaching for tomorrow, because i rule.
Current Mood: revved
Current Music: vaux-switched on
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January 23rd, 2005
10:51 pm - wisp
OH YEAH, and it was so foggy last night. i went out at 2 am and you couldnt see 20 feet ahead. it was so awesome. that is all.
Current Mood: whimsicle
Current Music: blue oyster cult-dont fear the reaper
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03:36 pm - turning my brown eye blue
today is sunday. the day after saturday and before monday. on this day it was sunny, so the day lived up to its name. it was really hot and i believe that it was even hotter as you get closer to the equator, because thats normal. if i had gone north for the weekend it might have been cooler, and a bit more comfortable. But i stayed in San Diego and it was alright. it goes without saying that San Diego normally has pretty mild weather.
Current Mood: mildly comfortable
Current Music: from autumn to ashes-take her to the music store
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November 21st, 2004
03:03 pm - overhead love
yesterday was the biggest reef day that tofu and I experienced. I think that it was at least overhead on the regular sets and then bigger on the big sets. so it was not cool when I got caught inside after being raped to the max on one big wave. hawaii here i come, yeah...
oh yeah did i mention, going to hawaii over christmas, spending 21st birthday there and riding some nice winter swells. hopefully we get some pics for tofu and others to look at and dream about. i just want to see my brother get worked because he hasnt been out riding in a while because he is in the unfortunate zone that is santa barbara.
done with all gen ed and lower div crap after this quarter, now you may bow down. peace out.
Current Mood: washed out
Current Music: afi-the devil loves you too
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November 3rd, 2004
01:12 pm - 199
I hate technology unless its programmed to pleasure me. The grad student in charge of my lab came into the room during the middle of and experiment and told me that the lab had to be reformatted. so we spent an hour doing that, so tedious.
As well after this quarter has come to an end I will look into a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier with 2x12 Rectifier Cabinet. That should prove to be fun. All in traditional covering.
Scott hates his job, and mine is just so hard to teach every person so that they understand. every person has their own way of understanding, even though they are wrong in their thought process. I am perpetually working to tell them that what they have is wrong and how to do things correctly. Programming is not for the weak.
forget it.
Current Mood: jerked
Current Music: poison the well-botchla
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September 27th, 2004
11:41 pm - Horses
I think that this is going to be a hard year. The road is hard and rough, kind of tough and I do not know what is ahead. We moved everything into the apartment and unpacked all of our belongings to make this place hospitable. I think its alright, you know. Not too flashy and awesome like those places in the MTV show The Real World, yeah right real world. But it was all free furniture, even a set that Tofu and I refinished to look pretty awesome.
But beyond the realm of the apartment I do not know what to expect. Uncertainty in every direction. At least I have got some place to sleep and some food in the pantry. We will see what this first quarter off campus brings.
Tofu and I surfed the reef at Shoes, and boy was that interesting. I had caught a couple of lefts and then turn around to see that a monstrous set was bringing down its full amount of vengeance on my face. So i decide to go in the only direction provided to me by human capabilities, duck under the white water. As I am in the midst of the duckdive maneuver I feel an object hit my fin with such force that I became alarmed. It appears that the reef was only 3 feet below the surface and i managed to come in contact with it. So as i battled my way to the left and outside of the wildebeest of a set all i could think of was the certainty that my fate had become in my choosing to ride at Horseshoes that day. As I neared the outside all I could think about was how close I had come to having a close encounter with the reefy kind. But it was this false sense of security on the outside that made me wary of every square foot in the vicinity of Shoes. While sitting stationary waiting for a the next set my foot once again brushed against a firm object under the water. When I pulled my foot up there was a line across my heel, that would soon be bleeding as i walked across the sand. But alas, before i could get to the sand I had to traverse the kelp that protected the shoreline. All we need now is a good swell with enough power to throw some good barrels at Horseshoes, not as good as the base was a week before though. Oh my, that was beyond words. All I can say is open barrels and plenty of them and no one else around to crowd up the lineup.
end scene
Current Mood: breast stroke
Current Music: afi-god called in sick today
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September 11th, 2004
07:19 pm
2 more days of work
4 more days to get crap together
and then sd is upon me
it will be good
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/charitycam/goth_boy/happy.gif) good
Current Music: lagwagon-rust
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September 6th, 2004
10:40 am - beach
hurricanes are great news. they bring good swells and make the surf fun to ride. while my brother is in florida sitting inside during the rains of a hurricane i am going to the beach in california riding the swell produced by another hurricane. all i hope for is more good swell for the next week or so. open barrels and then itll be a good last week at home. but school is going to be good oh well. im done.
Current Mood: jolt
Current Music: sublime-dont push
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August 30th, 2004
08:11 pm - Car Photos
i finally got a way to get photos of my car on here. so here they are
introducing:
i didnt use the high quality but oh well...
and the tint was free thanks to the dealer.
and here is a random picture of bjorn in his apartment, scary yo.
just spent some time in LA nothing else really. just workin, work. i swear to god i checked out like a week ago, i dont care anymore. peace
Current Mood: bomb
Current Music: afi-fall children
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August 17th, 2004
09:50 pm - METAL
today was an awesome day. a day to remember for at least a week. i mean we tried to see if the beach would be good for the past few days. we went in the morning at sunrise and then again in the afternoon until sunset. today all that waiting paid off in one incredible, epic session. until you experience taking off on 8 ft faces after riding flat crap for weeks, you havent experienced pure oceanic ecstasy. as well, it was way wedgy at one point and that made for some interesting bails, in which i felt like a pair of panties spinning around in a washing machine. we rode from 4:30 to after sunset, we rode until we could barely make out the waves. there are only a few things that make me way excited, and this swell is definitely one of them.
but the real story is the drive back. i mean its pretty gnarly to go up and down potrero in any conditions, but it just gets redonkulous at night. we made it up that valley rode without a problem. then this coyote just jumps from the median and tries to run across the road in front of us. scott freaks out and then clips the coyote in the ump and i just say that is the funkiest thing i have seen in a long time. so we take another pass and find no sign of the dog creature so we leave thinking its probably dying in a bush somewhere. and a while back one of kyle ray's cats went missing one night, believed to be abducted by coyotes. so in a way we avenged the death of cat ramrod.
i am going to sleep now. because tomorrow is another day and there is supposed to be more surf to be ridden. and ride it i shall. i cant wait for sd though, the chairs look great and the table is coming along nicely. they will be so goth.
out
Current Mood: metal
Current Music: evergreen terrace-knowledge
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