Lesson Learned.

... And that is why you never get a crush on a cello player.

TUESDAY NIGHTS.

It is Tuesday night.

That can only mean one thing.

WINGS!

A friend.

Have you ever had a friend that has
been there for you no matter what,
and has always been on your side?



I can tell you.
Best thing in the world.

Google +

Well, I'm sure you've heard of Google + by now. Actually, you may not have. I was talking to people around campus today and they had no idea what it was.

If you're feeling like Facebook is letting you down, it probably is. From the several opinions I've heard, it does nothing but make people wonder why they spend so much time on it. Not to say that Google + would cure your time-wasting habbits, but you'd definitely be wasting your time in a better way. Facebook has gone way too mainstream. Hipsters unite.

And I'm sure that when Google + slips into the mainstream, something else will come up. I'm sad to say that I received my first "game invite" on + yesterday, and it made me die a little inside. That is one of the things I hate about Facebook the most; there are game invites and useless notifications all over the place. It's good to start new in +.

Will I delete Facebook? Probably not. People are always telling me that I have some random thing I need to look at that they've posted in my wall or sent in a private message. In the need to contact people, Facebook is a good place to go. It's pretty developed and almost everyone I know has one. It's only in those moments of hipster pride where I tell Facebook to jump in a ditch. I probably lose hipster points for that, but the communication pros outweigh it.

Anywho, you should join Google +. It's a little lonely on there now.

ANTLERS

I am pretty excited. I bought some tickets to see The Antlers, and if you've even glanced at any of my other blog posts you'll know that I'm sickly obsessed with those people. From the youtube stuff that I've seen, they are excellent live. I remember thinking before I knew they were coming to where I live, "Look at all those people in the audience not even smiling... and they're watching The Antlers. I would kill to see them."

The Squirrel, my '93 Toyota Corola 5-speed, may or may not be able to handle 2 1/2 hour trek to the concert location. Well, I believe that it would make it, and I was gonna take it. However, my parents believe otherwise and are going to somehow let me borrow my dad's Toyota Camry (forgot the year.... can't be less than 2000) for the night.

But it's an automatic...

Bleh. I hate driving automatic cars now.  I feel like it's way too easy and I start multitasking to the point where I forget what I'm really doing; driving.

Asocial.

It's really easy to be asocial in college. For me, anyway. I can go to class and run back to my apartment for safety at any time. I suppose that's a really great thing except that I'm not going to meet anyone this way.

I need to do something outside of this apartment. That is my goal for the week. I am going to make friends, danggit.

Foreign Guys.

College so far has been pretty great. Exactly how I expected, but a little better. Living on my own in an apartment has been a blast. Here are a few highlights of my week.

-The pool at my apartment is way nice.

-The student teacher helping teach my Freshman Seminar class is amazing. Foreign, smart, and oh yeah, foreign.

-I drank this coke today that was really great.

-My lab partner in Chemistry is a smart guy who always knows what he's doing. (Thank you!)

I've been trying to be a little bit more positive (just kidding, I have a couple other blogs where I'm a total debbie downer), so here is my attempt.

The Gallery by Muse 

Love this so much it's probably unhealthy.

A confession: I just wrote my first real check ever today in order to pay my rent. I looked at that check kinda blankly. Even though I've seen people write them, know what to write on them, and have done it before with fake checks, I wasn't really sure what to do. Thank you google and your infinite wisdom.

I can now drive a 5-speed without stalling out. I consider this a major accomplishment.

Plastic Beach Problem

I can't stop listening to Plastic Beach. This is getting pretty scary. I started doing my college homework and it was stuck in my head so badly that I thought I was listening to it. Luckily I grabbed some headphones and now I really am listening to it, so I don't have to be delusional.

Maybe sometime I'll write something in this blog that is actually important. But maybe not. That's ok. I have many blogs.

~

Stick Shifts are Fun.

So, I'm going back out to try to get better at driving my manual. The other day I drove around, it was pretty scary, but I think I can get it. I just gotta try it a couple more thousand times and I KNOW I'll have it down.


Well, here I go again.

Candy for your ears.

If you are like many people including myself, then you like to listen to albums all the way through and in order. It's really nice. It's good to get into the feel of one artist and just kinda sit there for a while, like going on vacation somewhere for a couple weeks then going home.

But you know what's really fun? Shuffle. When you haven't put your iPod, Zune, whatever, on shuffle in a while, try it. It's an adventure. And you realize what kinda awesome stuff you have on your iPod, and it's a complete surprise after every song. It's like opening Christmas presents. You may open a present and found you got some awesome socks (I dunno, I love getting socks for Christmas) , or that you got that new laptop you were dying for, or some chocolate that you really love.

So yup, try it.

Random songs that I forgot were on my iPod and found thanks to shuffle.

Just a song I think you should listen to. Simply because you should.

ALMOST EMPLOYED.

After searching for over a month, I finally have a job. All I need to do is get my drug test and my background check and I should be ready to go.

Music PTSD

This has probably happened to you.

You find an album. This album is amazing in every way, and you wonder where it's been all your life. You never shut up about it, you dream about it, you wake up with songs stuck in your head from it, you learn how to play whatever you are capable of playing from it on the guitar, and you vocalize your love for it to the entire world (via Facebook, blogging, texting, ect.). This album was created a long time ago, way before you were, so you're mad that you didn't find it as soon as you were birthed. 

You are hopelessly OBSESSED.

Then you find another album, love it, but not in the same way. This happens with say, another 20 or so albums.

A year or two passes and you have started stalking blogs like crazy, just to read about other people's angst and music preferences (the two best things to blog about, imo). You come across a post about a song from that album, The Album, the one that you went through so much brain trauma with. You listen to the youtube link--

You experience something similar to PTSD at this moment.

You want to drop everything in your life right now and marry this album, if possible. You look online to see if it is legal to marry an album of music. You get weirded out by the stuff you find when you search "is it possible to marry an inanimate object" and decide against it. However, you are now in a secret relationship with this music.

This just happened to me with Meddle.

You can thank this blog post.

I really do love Meddle. Favorite of all Pink Floyd. 

On a side note, I'm still listening to Plastic Beach a whole ton. Mostly selecting songs from it that I really like now.

Yes.

"The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma."

Plastic Beach

I love you Plastic Beach.

Thanks to an extremely awesome person I listened to Plastic Beach. This extremely awesome person will be recurring in this blog because I get tons and tons of music from this extremely awesome person.

Rhinestone Eyes is my favorite song on the album.

After listening to the album straight through about 8 or 9 times, I found that there are really no songs on the album that I dislike. I like them all. All of them I like, most of them I love love love.



REALIZATION
Just figured out that Bullet with Butterfly Wings is the theme song for Whale Wars. I am very slow with making connections like this, so I am very very proud of myself.

Now listen to Chameleons, and be exposed to good music. DOO EET.

: D

I analyzed my dreams...

SOOO I usually analyze my dreams every now and then, and I always get the same meaning at the end: That I need to move across the world and get a life. Today, I got a different fortune! (I also had a different dream, finally.)

There you go!

So, what if you don't exactly have a romantic love life....?




O.o

We Hate You Please Die

"This one's called We Hate You Please Die."

(I am still listening to The Antlers and The National obsessively, FYI) First of all, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a terrific movie. The way it was directed was pretty much genius. Of course, the Scott Pilgrim books are better, but the movie wasn't disappointing compared to the books, like most book-based movies (good luck following that sentence). Second, the soundtrack from the movie is also terrific. Thank you Nigel and Beck. And others.

COKE VS PEPSI

I am mostly writing this to really annoy one of my blog readers (sorry man), but here goes. So which is better, Coke or Pepsi? The obvious answer is coke. That is all.

On a side note, Dr. Pepper is better than both of those, by a lot, so it is not even worth putting it in the poll.

I'm going to try to drive a manual car again today. Everyone says it's easy but that's because those people have been driving cars since before they were out of diapers. So I'm at a disadvantage here. Because I followed the law and waiting until I had a permit to drive.
You know, before I got my permit, I was asked by my driver's ed instructor what kind of car I drive. "What kind of car do you drive?" "Yeah, I don't drive. You know that law? In the United States? Where you can't drive a car until you have a permit? Yeah, I follow that."
ANYWAY. So apparently it's some unspoken rule that everyone in this beach town I live in is supposed to own and drive their own car before they can even use the toilet. Oh darn.
The most important thing about this entire experience though is that when I learn how to drive this car, I will be a boss because I can drive a manual. I've already driven it a couple times, just got to get the hang of it now.

The National/The Antlers

I know I just made a post about the National, but that was back when I was only listening to Boxer. I have now +1 up.

I have been sucked into a The National phase. I really like them so much. I was trying to listen to other music to get out of it, and I got sucked into The Antlers at the same time. I am hopeless. But found some amazing videos of them playing.

Other than that, I am just hanging around with people who are also just hanging around, doing nothing. I really could listen to music all day. And all night.

Loser.

I feel like a loser.

That is all.

Fractal Art

I was bored, so I started using Livebrush, a Vector app that came with my tablet, to make Fractal and Vector art. It's so easy that it's not even funny, but it's fun, so who cares?

And for those people who hate reading (not like that's me or anything... O.o), you'll really like this entry. PICTURES FOR THE WIN.

The Only CUre.

This is really the only cure for my insanity. And ironically enough, sometimes The Cure is my cure, when I am listening to The Cure on my iPod. Which is a fantastic pun, by the way. I may use it sometime soon.

I'm a nocturnal human being, I'm pretty sure. I stay up half the night and sleep half the day, and it's quite unhealthy. Or is it?

SLENDERMAN

He's tall and he's faceless,

seems scary and mean,

standing over your bed,

Isn't he so handsome? <3 <3

all nicely dressed and lean.

But one day I got to know him,

(he watches me a lot)

And he's really misunderstood

and often violently fought.

I felt extremely bad for him,

went on some pity dates,

never did we know,

what lied in our fates.

Eventually we fell in love,

he's such a funny guy.

Changed my status on facebook:

"Slenderman and I."

Chuck?

SO here's the album I've been listening to, discovering, exploring, lately.
Boxer by the National.
I first heard Fake Empire on an episode of Chuck, which I was extremely obsessed with for a long time. It's a really great show, and I kind of love Zachary Levi. So when I heard the song, along with others that were very good, I got all the tracks from season 1, 2 and 3 until I found all the songs I liked; Fake Empire being one of them. So eventually (5 months later) I decided to check out the whole album.

AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW? IT'S AMAZING!

Another really amazing thing is that my best friend is going to visit me soon. Approximately 5-7 days, give or take a day. Ok, I have no idea when really. Pretty soon I know.

The God of all fountain drinks.

A round of applause, please.

I would just like to write a little tribute to my kidneys.

Thank you kidneys, left and right, for not failing on me through all the Dr. Pepper, Coke, and Pepsi, I've been drinking. I am truly grateful. 

A common album phase for indie-lovers everywhere.

"I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST, JESUS CHRIST I LOVE YOU, YES I DO."

Apparently everyone goes through this album and eats it right up. And by everyone, I mean people who love indie. Basically I really like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a lot. I usually like things with less lyrical emphasis; quieter lyrics that don't overpower. But in this album Mangum is a very loud and prominent singer and some may find it overbearing and annoying. Refer to above quote.

But for some reason I find the singing enchanting and it fits the style of the music really well.

I even learned the riff to The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1. It's not much but it still makes me happy.

Basically this is an album I love to blast in my car when I have to drive for quite a while so that I can sing loudly and happily to abstract and sometimes nonsensical lyrics.

HERP DERP MUSIC LOVE

WUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUWUW

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te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te te 

da da  dadada  da da  dadada  da da  dadada da da da da  dadada  da da  dadada  da da  dadada 

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WUB WUB  wuwu wuwu wubwubwubwubWUB   

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da da  dadada  da da  dadada  da da  dadada da da da da  dadada  da da  dadada  da da  dadada 

WUWU WUBWUB WOWOWOW 

TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA

WUWU WUBWUB WOWOWOW 

TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA TE TE DA DA

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I <3 Dubstep. It makes me feel like my brain is turning on and off.

And thus concludes all my feelings about Dubstep.

Love, music druggie.

The Antlers

This is not a recent obsession. In fact, Hospice by the Antlers became a huge phase album just this past July 16, as I was leaving Utah from a week-long visit/vacation. It even surpassed a few other albums on my list, which does NOT happen often.

So far it's the only album I've listened to today, and if I switch to another album it will probably be Burst Apart anyway. So today may just have to be an Antlers day.

My feelings... let's see. Depressed. Slightly angry. Things have not been going my way in many departments of life right now. I'm only 17 and my financial plans aren't working out as I wanted them to, I'm nervous for college and wondering if I'm going to make it, I've been trying to get a job as a pharmacy tech and it's been 4 weeks since I began the search, I just broke up with my boyfriend I've had for 9 months, I just took a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) test and can't access my scores, and I'm in love with my best friend living 2000 miles away.

Yeah, yeah. Poor me. I bet those aren't anything compared to most people's problems, but it's slightly affecting me.

So The Antlers are a great fix for feeling depressed. Listening to Hospice, being about a hospice patient and a doctor's relationship, can usually feed satisfy that "everything-is-so-sad-and-I-hate-it" feeling in your gut and let you get everything out. I know that the album made me cry at least 5 times, and at the time it was just what I needed. As I was told by a friend; "The album is a perfect metaphor for a dying relationship..."

Once you've had your fill of sorrow and wallowing in tears, you can move on to Burst Apart (not that you're leaving Hospice forever) to calm down and eventually go back to your less depressing Indie and Alternative, and if you're just that hipster, your techno, trip-hop, dubstep, electronica....

As for being depressed, sadly this happens a lot to me. But that is also why I'm so addicted to music.

-Wake

http://antlersmusic.com/lyrics/hospice/

I Don't Care™

Inspired by Dave



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YES, YOU!!
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Getting dragged along to things like PARTIES.
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I'm not usually like this.

So at the moment I'm phasing through Dido like crazy. Ok, I've always loved Dido, ever since I was a little kid. But to be listening to it obsessively... This is a little abnormal.

Don't Leave Home

When I listen to Dido, it means at least 4 things;
-I am feeling defiant in some way.
-My feminist side is showing. I am angry about something sexist most likely.
-I am weirdly emotional in the most girly way possible.
-I am thinking of someone. Someone important to me.

Thank You

Of all the music I listen to, about 5 or 6% of the music is sung by female singers. Most female voices kill me inside (all pop music) because the voices are nasally and whiny and 6 octaves above normal voice range. Dido's voice is a in a very soothing range, and her voice sounds like real singing. I can sing along and match the wispy tone in her voice perfectly. Beautiful.

See You When You're 40

The slowness of her music is perfect for emotional moods. I can almost cry during a few of her songs. Almost. Not quite, but close.

See The Sun

And at this moment, the thoughts in my head scream "I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU." And BOOM. Dido solves that problem. If the problem can be solved anyway. Ok, maybe it doesn't solve anything. It just makes me feel better.

Blue Yoshis are the best.

If you haven't played Super Marioworld then you are a sad little deprived child and you need to go find a way to play it if it means punching babies and stealing from children.

(That was a great way to start a blog; I am friendly, warm and inviting. Don't be fooled.)

This is my blog where I will post music that I'm phasing through, so if you hate music you have found your enemy blog. But if you hate music you should just... never mind.