Archive for November, 2005

a helmet! a sword! a shield!

November 28, 2005

So the other night, I took a cab home in the middle of the night, and it was $9, but then i found $20 in the backseat of the cab, so I actually made money off the cab ride.

Oh and on saturday, something strange happened when I flagged down a taxi, he didn’t turn the meter on or anything, and then when I got out he told me it was 15 dollars, and I told him, there was no way I was paying that much. He tried to tell me that someone else gave him $20 for the same ride, and I was like “So what? I’M not paying that much” and this guy barely spoke any english, and here I am trying to convey to him: eloquently calculating the mathematics involved with the mileage and rate. He should have known better than to try to get schysty with another schyster(sp?). I gave him 5 bucks.

Then just yesterday evening I randomly wandered into Del Taco, and bought two tacos which I didn’t even really want, and I found $40 on the floor! It just feels like the Gods are on my side, giving me every oppurtunity to make it to LA. It’s like that part near the end of Clash of The Titans when Perseus, exhausted and beaten, collapses at the coliseum, and then when no one is looking Zeus puts him upright again to give him a chance to defeat the Kraken. So thanks for that.

“find and fulfill your destiny”

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I’m down for anything

November 26, 2005

I went to my grandma’s for thanksgiving. She lives way on the other side of town.
Man I ate so much food(turkey, shrimp, mashed potatoes, x3 helpings the whole shebang) I really am the hungriest kid. While I was over there, I looked at my grandparents’ housephone, and they have one of those old phones where there are people’s names written next to various buttons which their number is programmed to. Anyway I was looking at it, and half of the people whose names are on there aren’t even alive anymore and have been dead for at least like 10 years or at the very least been ostracized from the family.
I have a few new songs, they’re mostly about how i don’t care about anything, or anyone but me but not really, and having fun. There won’t be any “love” songs on my next album, only songs. okay well maybe a couple, but trust me they’ll be contrived.

Oh and I ran into Chris Corwin last night as well, still the most talented musician in town, who said he would give me a ride to Los Angeles in two weeks since he’s driving to ventura anyways. So after asking hundreds of people, I finally ran into someone who was just like “Sure I’ll totally do it. It’ll be great”. I’ll be home for Christmas.

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she said it was all make-believe….but I thought that she said maple leaves

November 22, 2005

Dawn Batson came to visit me from LA on Friday and Saturday.
She was visiting her family in austin and stopped to hang out with me for a couple days on the way back to Los Angeles. She brought me a little brass pill box with a maple leaf on it that she bought at an antique store while waiting for me to get off work. It was really a pleasant time. We went to Fashion Square, and ate at a bunch of places, went on some adventures, etc. And It’s really funny because I love Target, and she’s in all the target stores in this huge display ad that says “flirt for less”.

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the best chainletters are the ones left unsent

November 9, 2005

So lately I’ve been having a lot of nostalgia for the “nothingness” of all this. Real life can be so draining, and boring, and just sucks the life out of you. I went back through tons of old myspace messages and comments, and found that a lot of people who once said how great I was etc just ended up deleting me. But some of them didn’t, some became “real friends”, real life friends, romances, or just plain stuck around for whatever reason if there even was a reason. There’s a lot not to like about me and sometimes I forget how many people read this thing, and I occasionally write offensive or insensitive things so I’m sorry for that. Still, it’s the “immediate candor” of this thing that makes it even remotely interesting.

I love all my internet friends though I have a good balance between the outside world, and this one. I overdo everything in both, and I’m proud of that. I remember EVERYONE. Sometimes when I skim through people’s journals and myspace pages, and I see pictures of a girl with her boyfriend on a roadtrip, or people just fooling around at the mall in some far away city, and I wish it were me. I wish I was there, but then I don’t REALLY. Because I realize to actually get intimately involved with some group of people means devoting months or precious years of your time, and sacrificing loads of your dreams. I just want to divide myself into a “gillion” pieces and experience a little of everyone’s life(and whenever I hear the word “gillion” it always reminds me of that episode of married with children where Al Bundy pretended to be hurt and sued someone for a “gillion’ dollars…he lost of course). I just want to connect everything and everyone. With all of this, and all of you, I never really feel like i miss out on anything. My dream is to be everywhere at once.

Anyway, I just felt like saying hi to everyone on here, newcomers,longgoners, randoms, etc. Hi! Be sure to think of me randomly, occasionally, fondly. It’s all I ask.

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tiebreaker

November 3, 2005

So my roommate went out and bought a ping pong table and he asked me if I wanted to play last night. We played three games, and I won all three. The first one was close, but by the third game I was totally warmed up and I didn’t even let him score a single point. I think he’s going to want to play all the time now because he really wants to beat me just once. The thing is, most people don’t understand that games like tennis and ping pong are played with your mind. Like you have to be able to just ‘feel’ that the ball will be in or out. It’s an abstract game.

Reliability is the number one trait I look for in people, because it’s so rare. Reliable friends and girlfriends, are still you’re friends even when it’s not convenient. When you’re stranded somewhere and need a ride, and start calling people, then you find out who your real friends are. Unless you’re like me, cause I don’t even bother trying. I just call a cab or take the bus.

Some people, they like to go out dancing
And other peoples, they have to work, just watch me now!
And there’s even some evil mothers
Well they’re gonna tell you that everything is just dirt
Y’know that, women, never really faint
And that villains always blink their eyes, woo!
And that, y’know, children are the only ones who blush!
And that, life is just to die!
And, everyone who ever had a heart
They wouldn’t turn around and break it
And anyone who ever played a part
Oh wouldn’t turn around and hate it!

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