Something about cutting down flowers but not being able to stop the spring

Life is very bizarre as of late, but I will go into that more at a later time.

I just read Jade's LJ and found this thing that she grabbed from Facebook and figured to post it to keep the 3 people who actually read this occupied until I actually grace you all with a real post.

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Think of 15 albums, CDs, LPs (if you're over 40) that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life. Dug into your soul. Music that brought you to life when you heard it. Royally affected you, kicked you in the wazoo, literally socked you in the gut, is what I mean. Then when you finish, tag 15 others, including moi. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it.

Thursday - Full Collapse
No record has changed my life as much as this one did. The first time I heard Understanding in a Car Crash I was working at a shitty chain record store in a mall and this song was on a comp that we got but never played. I threw it in just for kicks and when this song came on I felt as if my insides were vibrating. It was a great day.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
I stole this cassette from my dad and played it on my Sesame Street boom box, seriously. It fucking changed EVERYTHING.

Ramones - Mania
I heard this when I was like 12 and it made me want a leather jacket really bad.

Fugazi - 13 Songs/Repeater
I received a mix tape from an older cousin that had Repeater and Waiting Room on it and I immediately headed to Camelot Music to purchase these records. At this time I thought that Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden were cutting edge... yeah...

Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Do I really need to say anything abut this record? It's amazing, period.

Aphrodite - Urban Jungle
I stole this cassette from Blockbuster Music. At this point in my life I was getting into electronic music pretty heavily but this mixtape changed everything I had thought of mixetapes. It was a combination of jungle beats and grimey hip hop acapellas, it is still amazing.

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
To quote Jade "fuck you if you dont love this album. you are not my friend and i do not want to talk to you."

Circa Survive - Juturna
I heard this record at a time when all I thought I wanted was blood curdling screams and chugging guitars that made me want to punch myself in the face. I was so wrong. Anthony Green is one of my favorite vocalists of all time. He can hit the most unaturally high notes and that in combination with some of the best drumming in "modern alternative rock" makes for a wild ride of a record. This record still makes me well up with tears at points.

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
I had given up on hiphop until I heard this record. Mos Def has one of the best voices in the game and his storytelling is hard top.

Vice - Run The Road
A comp cd should not be on this list, but this record changed my adult life. Hip hop/Rap had been long dead when I heard this. This record furthered my desire to have a british accent and the word grime will never be the same for me because of this record. U.S. MC's couldn't even dream of making tracks half this hood, shit is serious.

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Don't think that because this record is towards the bottom of my list that it makes it less important. I'm from El Paso and I never saw this band live, I suck at life, but seriously bands are still trying to make this record now and failing miserably.

I'm stopping there. This is way too hard of a list to finish but I will list off some honorable mentions at this point

Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
Van Halen - 1984
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
The Fall of Troy - Doppleganger
and so on and so forth

I was told the other day by a friend that she had been checking this in hopes that I would update it soon and seeing as how I have some time and my life has been kinda picking up a bit I decided I would update this just for Michelle.

A person who I hold very close to my heart has returned from Brooklyn for a couple weeks and when he walked into the shitty club that we were meeting at I felt as if my organs began vibrating with joy. I've been having trouble sleeping lately and it just got so much worse since he returned.

I met him a couple years ago while working at Urban Outfitters and it was insane to find out how much we had in common. When he is around I feel like I vomit good ideas left and right while suffering from a serious case of creative diarrhea. He was my motivation for starting this brokenteeth.org thing, which will be up and running very soon, I promise. He currently has me stoked on getting back into djing again, which I have been wanting to do for a while. Hopefully this time next year I will be killing the dance floor at his annual party that he throws when he returns to Dallas.

I rarely miss people when they aren't around, maybe it's because I'm a grumpy old asshole as Jade would say, but when he isn't around I genuinely feel sad.

The next couple weeks will be full of dancing, good music, art, great food and the drunken shenanigans of my friends. I'm gonna try and soak up enough to last me for the next couple months.

I'm going to L.A. tomorrow for some much needed vacation. I will be taking lots of pictures and eating lots of food. I will share upon my return.

I say air

Life is very strange lately. As the summer loosens it's stranglehold on me I can't help but feel that I spent the whole time that it was here hiding. Lots of new things and people popped up over the summer that have made my life a bit more awesome than it was before the sweltering heat rolled in, but I still can't help but feel as though I'm stuck. I feel like I'm drowning in my ideas most of the time and when I finally get a chance to come up for air, all I can think about is breathing and everything else is washed away.

I need balance.

I guess at this point I don't have much room to complain. I have made about 12 different t-shirt designs for one of my favorite bands ever and there is a good chance that at least 2 will see the light of day. I have a loose plan of action to finally make music with someone that I consider to have been made from the same strange psychological mold as myself. I have a weekly internet radio show that people actually listen to and enjoy. I don't know. I guess I just wish that there could be a a few different copies of me who could focus on various elements of my life so that they all could get the attention they deserve and be successful. Maybe one day I will be able to figure this all out... maybe...

I really hope that some day I can make this blog a piece of art like Michelle's, but she's educated and what not so I'm not holding my breath. I'm just gonna focus on not having too many misspelled words for the moment.

Listen to the "The Devil" by Portugal, The Man and "The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturers Medallion" by The Sound of Animals Fighting

Day One

So, I'm totally dumb with technology so please bare with me while i try an figure this whole thing out. I will do my best to sprinkle pretty colors here and post pretty pictures there. I'm a big fan of lists though so why not start this whole thing out with one...


Things I love right now...

- picking scabs
- the new Sound of Animals Fighting record
- orange juice
- waiting for stuff to come in the mail
- my cats loving oatmeal
- twitter
- cool weather


Things i hate right now...

- my addiction to the new 90210
- AIM
- not having Chipotle in front of me
- having to shave
- not getting enough sleep
- leaving somewhat important things out in the rain