For the few

http://www.mediafire.com/?n7d9sf0ijcug96s

New and Improved

I love the beginning of school semesters.  It makes you feel like everything will turn out alright.  This cold weather could be helping my good moods too.  Fall is the best season for multiple reasons:  Cold weather (I run about fifteen degrees hotter than everyone I know), Trees change colors (how f'n cool is that?!), and Halloween! Not to mention wearing hoodie's and jumping in giant leaf piles...

I've recently started reading again. I think it's been a good year since I read a book.  That sounds so bad when I say it in my head.  But I just flew through "Diary" by Chuck Palahniuk in three sittings and can't wait to read "The Call of The Wild" next.

I also bought a really nice journal and have been writing in it everyday.  I realized I have a horrible memory and should probably start documenting my life so when I'm older I can look back and see how naive and reckless I was through my twenties.

I'm trying to enjoy my time on this miracle of a planet we live on and I want to start treating the people I love with kindness and make them smile as much as possible. You have to find out who is on your team and has your best interests at heart, and try and do the same for them.

But enough philosophy, I hope everybody has a great school year and to kick it off here's a little toon-idge to groove to:

Clive

Where the hell did you go?! I have owned the same Clive backpack since ninth grade and i wouldn't sell it for a thousand dollars. It is the most comfortable, spacious, rugged and versatile backpack I've ever owned. Unfortunately Clive went out of business or dropped out of the game completely because they have no website and stopped selling skate bags a long time ago.  I have been on a mission these last few years to hunt down and purchase any and all bags that are close to my model. Here it is (It's the one on the right, and I've got it in black) :

If anyone you know has one of these backpacks, steal it from them and i will reward you handsomely. That's a fact.

Holga

My

boy Mayer Hawthorne remixed snoop dogg's track "gangsta luv" recently, and damn if it isn't catchy as hell. here check it out for yourself!

http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2010/03/23/snoop-dogg-gangsta-luv-mayer-hawthorne-g-mix/

This

year I was introduced to a new trend among college students that involves taking a little prescription drug known as Adderall. I won't name names but I've had the chance to interact with people in my social circle who have been on it regularly and honestly this drug scares me. It's one thing for a person who has ADHD to use Adderall as a tool to take control of their life, but when I see, excuse my french, STUPID people taking this drug illegally without a prescription it really grinds my gears.

The problem with this drug is that kids who don't need it look at it like it's some miracle drug. It allows you to be super focused on one task at a time and makes it easier to study for hours on end with unbroken concentration. The trend that goes along with this drug is taking Adderall to control ones weight. I have known friends who have lost significant amounts of weight in short periods of time just because they are taking Adderall. So your saying Jon. what's the problem here? A drug that can get me better grades and make me super skinny with no exercise! Sign me up! Well for those of you who are chomping at the bit to go bug your friends to start sharing their prescription drugs with you, take a look at the list of side effects that go along with this little miracle pill:

Side effects of Adderall abuse:

suppression of growth in height (if you are still growing)
excessive sweating
decreased appetite
excessive talking
nervousness
insomnia
nausea
vomiting
dizziness
heart palpitations
headaches
skin rashes
itching
digestive problems
toxic psychosis
drug dependence (addiction)
severe depression upon withdrawal

* I've highlighted in red some of the side effects I've observed in friends who are taking Adderall without a prescription.


Really I just wanted to talk about my frustration with the abuse of this drug and hopefully make whoever reads this think twice about starting/continuing the use of Adderall without a prescription. I have always been opposed to any type of prescription drugs and try to shy away from taking headache medicine as well. Understand that I'm not bashing everybody who is taking Adderall. There are people out there who legitimately need this drug to hold their lives together and for them this truly could be a miracle drug. But as far as using it as a performance enhancing drug/weight loss supplement, I'm going to have to give a very disapproving head shake.

hooked

Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck on a hook, with the business end stabbin through the back'a my lip,
silly me thinkin that you people were good, and this underwater hell isn't helping my mood,
cause I've been plucked from the dirt, only to be returned,
to the only other place where I'm considered a food,
ahh the life of a worm, such a desolate fate,
well atleast I'm not goin out on some fat bastards plate.

I've

always been intrigued by marching band arrangements. I just love how they can take a well known song and somehow make it better! Well I was in search of some good marching band music to download and man did I find some. James Madison University was awesome enough to not only record all their songs, but give them away for free!!! Here's the link and I suggest you at least go check out some of the song titles. They have an awesome selection and have music all the way from the 1988 season to the 2004 season, and the quality is not half bad. So check that shizz out pronto:

http://www.jmu.edu/music/mrd/audio.html

This

is what I do instead of sleeping in class.

Get

rid of one addiction, go find another one! I am now fully engulfed in the release of the new Dillinger album. Here's a taste of the new stuff:



Gold teeth on a bum looks like it might be my favorite song as far as 30 sec previews go. Now I just have to figure out how to get money to buy tickets when they tour...anybody want a squier strat? ; )

Today

I deleted my facebook. It scared me how attached I had become to it. So much that I sat there and pondered the consequences for a good while before I hit the button. But really I have no reason to keep it. I feel that facebook is easily comparable to pornography. It's okay to look at it every once in a while but when you're doing it 20 times a day it becomes a problem. So it's gone and I feel a lot better! No worrying about who said what to who or if i have any new notifications. I am hoping to use the time that I would be lurking on facebook to pursue more creative endeavors.

Wish me luck!

It's funny

How you don't realize how much you appreciate something until it's gone. Lets take health for example. You wake up almost everyday and go to work, school etc. and don't think twice about how you're body is feeling/working. Then, one day, you wake up and feel like you were sucking on razor blades all night and your head feels like it's going to explode. Only then do you really truly appreciate all those days you felt like a million bucks. I guess I'm just saying don't take things that are always there for granted, because one day you will wake up and they won't be there anymore.

Musix #2

Copeland - Where's My Head
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Jay Walking Backwards
The Blood Brothers - Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Jay-Dee - Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check (The Jay-Dee Bounce Remix Instrumental)
Tim Williams - Murderous Air
Elliott Smith - Somebody That I Used To Know

RAWR

I don't know if it's the lack of sun this last week but I just can't seem to get happy. Too much shit to deal with right now to be relaxed. I've been having super weird dreams cause I'm too hot at night and on top of all that the holidays are here and I have no job to pay for presents. Maybe it's the seven seasons of trailer park boys that I just watched but I'm ready to just move into a trailer, start growing dope and sit around and dream up ridiculous schemes to get money. Anybody wanna come? Oh yeah and I wanna dress like bubbles.

musix #1

I think I wanna start doing random updates on music I think is super awesome. So here is the first installment:



Handsome Boy Modeling School - I've Been Thinking (feat Cat Power)
Amon Tobin - Slowly
Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto
Andrew Bird - Anonanimal
The Blood Brothers - Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon
Danny Elfman - Forbidden Zone
Monsters Of Folk - Slow Down Jo
Refused - New Noise
Coconut Records - The Summer
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
A Tribe Called Quest - 1nce Again

for...ummmm

So I was searching for some song lyrics today on google and got a little lost. Let me explain. I hit the search button and got lots of results but nothing that told me who the artist was. I was about to try again when the first result in the page caught my eye. Here's the line I'm talking about:

All girls at my school are pretty much materalistic snobby race mixing whores. ... with people of the same interests, maybe a hobby with mostly whites. .... My current girlfriend was dating someone else when I met her, .... So if you lived in Germany, how would you act different to what you do now? ...

In my head I was thinking, "wow, that sounds a tad bit racist...I wonder what kind of forum this is from". So of course I decided to check it out. I opened the thread and started reading this forum about how this kid couldn't find any nice smart white girls to date at his school so he was asking for advice on how to find some. Here are some of the responses other people left:

Yeah I know what your saying. All girls at my school are pretty much materalistic snobby race mixing whores. :(

My advice to you is to first avoid the non-white friends. No smart and decent white girl will be attracted to you because of your company. Try to befriend only other whites and tell them that you are looking for this and this type of white girl. They may be able to set you up with blind dates

Get your education on. Work out. Fake a high confidence.

Be a man, fulfill all the clichès (cool look, guitar, whatever works, poetic lines that strike home).

So I was extremely interested in what the hell this site was where all these kids were getting together and talking like this, so I clicked the link to their home page and low and behold it was a youth forum for White nationalists! This is not the first time I have stumbled across one of these sites. It creeps me out every time to think that there are actually people who have these fucked up ideals and views that get on their computers and spread their racist bullshit everywhere. Really gets my panties in a bunch.

online homework

Alright, I know that online homework is probably a teachers best friend nowadays. No more grading papers by hand. No printing out assignments and all that other bullshit.

But I am thoroughly fed up with doing two hours of homework and then checking the next day, only to find non of it was recorded. How do you prove that?! There's no paper trail. It's not like I turned it in and got a shit grade. I did it and got full credit and now have to start all over!

And if you've ever used an online homework site you know exactly what I'm talking about. Maybe I'm just an analog boy living in a digital world, and I sound like someone's grandpa right now but seriously...fuck online homework.

In other news...If you like Sufjan stevens and hip-hop, you should go check out this free remix album from TOR:

http://www.illinoize.biz/

It's got some good tracks with some awesome artists.

turnin twenty two in twenty days...

I haven't

Got anything important to talk about. So I think I will just ramble.

I'm extremely excited for Julian Casablancas new album to come out on the 3rd! If you don't know he is the lead singer of The Strokes and while they were on their musical hiatus he decided to write an album. From what I've heard so far it is very 80's driven and I LIKE THAT! Besides the artwork for it is awesome. Here are some promos:





Other than that I guess I will share some music that I can't get enough of lately:

1. Camera Obscura-French Navy
2. Camera Obscura-The Sweetest Thing
3. Julian Casablancas-11th Dimension
4. Mayer Hawthorne-Just Ain't Gonna Work
5. Mayer Hawthorne-Make Her Mine
6. Sparklehorse-Little Girl (feat. Julian Casablancas)
7. Stars-This Charming Man
8. Weezer-Run Over By A Truck
9. Wu-tang-What's happening ft. Busta Rhymes
10. Felt-Woman tonight
11. John Legend-Slow dance

If you're going to check out anybody check out Mayer Hawthorne. He is this white boy from Ann Arbor who was a DJ for 12 years and then started writing soul, influenced by music his dad used to play in the car when he was a kid. He sounds like he could be Curtis Mayfields love child and I'm pretty jealous of his whole album "A Strange Arrangement" .

new stuff

hey I just wrote a little thing. thought you guys might want to hear it. It's just guitars but it is sounding very weezer-ish right now. I think i will continue with it. let me know what cha think!

Tough mornings

Today was pretty brutal getting up. It's getting harder and harder to pry myself from my down comforter and walk into the freezing bathroom to hop in a shower that only stays warm for three minutes. I feel like we completely skipped Oct and went straight to winter! Never the less I am at school, going to classes, taking notes, trying to focus as much as possible.

I am actually really stoked for winter to get here! Not so much for the cold but for the snow. I haven't gone sledding in two years and last winter wasn't exactly my most active winter. But this year I've got a whole building of people to go outside and hang out with. This is probably the most ideal living situation I could have ever imagined. I don't have to leave my apartment to hang out with all my friends at once and all i have to do is walk downstairs to see my beautiful girlfriend.

The other perk is the free meals! Lately brittany has been whipping up some pretty sweet community meals for everyone and they have been delicious! Since four of us have bridge cards now we can afford to have healthy meals together and not have to worry about running out of food. (with $200 a month how could you?!)

Nick came up Tuesday night for a surprise visit which was awesome! I love it when friends make the drive for one night to hang out since sometimes it's impossible with school. I'm looking forward to seeing Tiger! Tiger! on Oct. 30th with La Dispute. I haven't seen either band in a while and I miss going to local shows and seeing old friends.

All in all I'm pretty content right now. I've been indulging in Zombie movies lately. (I found the original dawn of the dead, the new dawn of the dead and land of the dead all for just $16!) There goes my entertainment money for the month! Oh well, totally worth it. I love my zombies!