| Runners in the Night + Obamanation |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|07:32 pm] |
So, I'm walking the streets at night, keeping the neighborhood watched, and making sure everyone says hello to their mother for me. Either way, I wind up seeing a guy who's path I've crossed a couple times. Just running shirtless, with his a stick that he always holds limp in one arm at an askew angle.
It was strange to see him. I was close to my house, and I usually see him on the main streets. It looks like he started to branch out.
Let's talk about running.
Running the streets at night is entertainingly paranoid. When you go down the canal pass at US1, a concrete barrier is at your side, so none of the
street lights hit the sidewalk. It feels like your running on thin air. You look at the ground, and wonder how level it is.
Bushy sidewalks are also a bitch. I run down a narrow, dingy unlit street, with one hand in front of me, fearful of possible spider webs. I wonder how the people in the cars see me running with my hand dangled in front of me and my eyes squinting against the beam of light that's almost blinding when it pierces the darkness.
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My thoughts about that runner and running were cut short by non-stop honking from a group of people in a van that felt like a hot tub on wheels from all the hooting and hollering. "Obama! Obama! Obama!"
I come home.
"You better not go running tonight. Obama's going to win. They're gonna kill any black boy out tonight!"
What the hell does that mean? What will happen to that other guy? I mean, he's white, and he has a stick to evade politically driven beatings, so he should be okay riiight?
Surely something wouldn't happen to him that would occur...
Radio Drama coming soon!? |
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| Youngest man to fly around the world lands in Opa-Locka today! |
[Jun. 27th, 2007|11:41 am] |
COOL!
It's nice to see how easy it can be to travel if you have your own means(or sponsorship). It's inspiring to see if you can get your own sailboat or plane or other mode of transport and travel wherever, whenever. Anyone know anymore about this or have any experiences? |
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| Short notice! |
[May. 2nd, 2007|08:29 pm] |
IT'SSSSS BAAAAAAAAAACCCKKK!!!!
Table for one and a Chair radio show. It's the show I did for a while until I got a job that i'm quitting now. I'm not sure if my summer class would actually interfere with this show. So, this most likely will be the last show at this time. :(
Tommorow 12PM-1PM! 88.1 FM or 95.3FM! Or listen online at http://www.wrgp.org
Tune in for new music and fun that might last longer for an hour! Request stuff also!
Also soon... surprises! |
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| Oooh! |
[Feb. 12th, 2007|09:09 pm] |
It's raining slowly and continously outside. It's not like the type of rain that outright blasts from the sky and makes you say "WHAT THE FUCK!?" It's more like the type of rain that makes you blink two times and then say "Fuck, man". You don't really realize what you mean by what you say until later. Later came for me when I stepped outside of the slightly cold AC on full blast in campus to find that the temperature outside was exactly the same.
"Fuck, man."
I'm pretty much over it now.
Either the way,
Chinese New Year Festival at Miami-Dade College! This looks fun! They'll be acrobats doing acrobatic things and what-not. Here's some details. |
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| Algortihm Exercisesゴリズム体操！ |
[Jun. 23rd, 2006|12:53 pm] |
Ritsumeikan`s program is ending soon. We`ll be going to Tokyo on Wednesday. For our closing ceremony, our class has to do an (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxzbGGeym8algorithm) exercise, which is one of the best dances ever. One of our teachers,(the oldest one) assigned it to us. We practiced it today with the youngest teacher, and i was able to film some of the people doing it. |
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| ようこうそ！日本 |
[May. 30th, 2006|01:37 pm] |
Hello, typing this right now from the Ritsumeikan University]s website. The keyboard is designed for Japanese students, so it is a little difficult to use.
Today is my second day in Japan. から９時午前、立命館大学がいます。At 9 AM we met up with our ]buddies], a group of people are age, about half our age. All of them are nice. There were a couple of guys and most of our buddies were girls. One interesting part of Japanese teen fashion, are that most have a casual 70s rocker/punk rock look. Nearly all the guys gave spikey well-done wild hair and wear casual rock styles. There]s some rock clubs on campus.
I thought that our group would stick out more, but everyone]s nice to us, and I haven]t seen anyone staring really except for old people. When we were walking to the university, a bunch of kids were in a bus and they waved at us and said hello.
I]m going to get a bike soon. You can get a normal one with a bell and basket for about $35-$60! They look really nice and everyone uses them for obvious reasons. The roads are narrow! They have SUV]s and van-type vehicles that are scrunched up horizontally so they have a cool sharp rectangular design. The streets are so fucking beautiful, though! One of the best designs i]ve seen. They go any way they feel like and follow nature. Our inn is a tall-ish building with multiple stories. Go outside, and your inside a village-like city. A street next to our building is cut by a stream that runs under it. Look to the sides, and you can see tiny hills and slopes. Always on the horizon you can see the mountains that surround it from three sides. You can also sell the bike i]ve heard when you]re done.
The university has a lot of activities. They have some music practices and whatnot i might hit up soon, and the bike will help travel immensly. For now, i]ve decided to take it easy, and get to know the group better and not go off on limbs like i usually do really early. By keeping a sharp ear and overall sticking to the little group we got seperated in, I found out we]re going downtown around 4 PM.
Wow, it]s probably really early in the morning for you guys. On the first day of the trip we flew for like 18 hours with few breaks. My head almost split open on that Los Angeles to Tokyo flight. It was the first time that happened in descent. Usually, my ears just feel foggy. When there was 10 minutes left on the flight, it felt like someone was squeezing my head really hard. I found out about a new type of torture.
I]ll put some pictures up soon if any of you guys like. I need my cord to upload pictures right now and I don]t have that.
It wasn]t raining too long ago, maybe it stopped?
さようなら |
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| Table for one and a Chair! |
[Mar. 8th, 2006|09:32 pm] |
 This top 5 for this week... i'm not sure! I'll check right now. So...The new Nightmares on Wax and some other bands. My co-host, and the one who selects most-all the top 5 adds of the week, Cyn, had a major art review around charting time. When I talked to her about the adds, she said that she just picked four random CDs and the Nightmare on Wax, and wanted to go home from her stressful art review. So...Call in for whatever songs you'd like to hear! I'll bring some records for the hell of it, and may/may not play them, and Cyn'll bring some CDs. You guys could also phone in some requests (305)348-3575.
So... Tune in for the zany and unpredictable show which may or may not be fun, this week on... Table for One and a Chair. Thursdays 12 - 1 PM on WRGP.
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| Table for one and a chair |
[Mar. 2nd, 2006|12:01 pm] |
So! I'm doing a radio show right now with the new music director, Cyn weekly, called Table for One and a chair.
It'll play the newest stuff in rotation. Each week we top it off with the top 5 new CDs of the week.
Give it a hoot if you're interseted. 12-1 PM on Thursdays.
http://www.wrgp.org OR 88.1 FM |
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| Happy end of February |
[Feb. 28th, 2006|07:14 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | foot tappin' | ] |
If you haven't done your FAFSA, now is a good time to badger your parents and/or get it done! |
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| PSA/Brief Intermission/Whatever |
[Jan. 22nd, 2006|03:38 pm] |
Island of the Blue Lagoon is playing in the background. Coincedentally enough, some wind is blowing from outside indoors. I'm typing on this computer, and looking for anything I should look for on the internet right now. It's pretty comforting to have a movie you remember fondly playing while typing something, even though you can hardly see it. I might continue doing what i'm doing in front of the movie.
Yeah, so if anyone is reading this now and lives in Miami, Island of the Blue Lagoon is showing right now on UPN 33. From what I remember it's pretty cool. So watch it, or not. |
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| Goodbye Black Friday, Hello Ruby Tuesday |
[Nov. 25th, 2005|09:20 pm] |
Spent most of the day updating rotation.
( Read on if you want the rotation contents spoiled )
Listen in to the rotation during the mornings-evenings on WRGP. (88.1 FM or www.wrgp.org). The DJs who play rotation play a bunch of their own stuff too, and all of them have their own unique, interesting personalities that make each listen a different experience. At night's (7 PM - 1 AM) and sometimes during the day, they have specialty shows in a variety of genres. Ranges from Hip Hop to Metal to Local Rap to Indie to Electronica... so on and so forth. Good stuff.
Spent the rest of the day reading.
The only activity besides sleep that rivaled Esmerelda’s fastidious scrubbing in terms of bulk occupation of time was “looking at the television.” At no point when anybody was awake and at home were all three of the apartment’s TVs off. While her son, Johnny, likes to mix things up with some Judge Mathis and Law & Order from his dorm-style bed, Esmerelda sticks with the rich Spanish pageant of afternoon talk shows on Univision and Telemundo. Their tastes sync up at 4:00 for a show that would probably have put Oprah out on the streets by now were it subtitled. It’s called Laura.
If you’ve never seen Laura, don’t listen to anybody who calls it the Peruvian Jerry Springer. To the best of my knowledge, Springer did not regularly bring out child molesters, confront them with their victims and hidden-camera footage of the act, then let every person onstage beat the ever-loving shit out of them while they’re being held down by guards before having them dragged out of the studio to be arrested.
Have a good one folks. Hope you guys had a happy thanksgiving. |
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| After-Wilma |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|08:28 pm] |
I was moving some debris from Hurricane Wilma with my brother to a pile outside our yard. About half-way through I stopped and told my brother, "it feels like christmas."
It still does. I woke up cold, but after all of the activity, my body was enjoying the cooler temperature. When we were essentially done, I started dancing to the Breakestra CD that was playing in the living room, courtesy my brothers intuition and the music director job. It's filled with funky break beats which make me want to make some type of mix CD for when I feel like jogging. I wanted to ride my bike, but I decided that there were other things to be done today.
One of these things is finding a format for a story I finished recently to be published in. Going through different creation processes in my head for longer comics:
1- I would write a simple script and come up with a plan to draw it.
The panel, action format for scripting comics doesn't appeal to me. You lose the quick mental activity and fluidity of writing in prose, and you lose the serendipity of drawing. None of my projects which used that format went to fruition.
2- I would just draw out the comic in a series of sketches.
I would have about nine pictures on each page, and make up with a story as I went along. It started last year, with a (pretty good, IMO) story about a girl who was stranded in the middle of an ocean with a genie. You find out about another character, and a confrontation occurs when the girl lands on an island, ending on a tragic note. I made another story in New York with the same format, which was about a girl who needs to eat sugar in order to balance herself(or else she starts cutting people), and a boy who just sees her and decides to take her out for a day.
I tried to develop the latter story. What I did was make rough draft pages, where the pictures were assembled on the page as a comic in pen. The plan was that I would re-do the pages, and finalize them with ink.
Making the rough drafts was an ok process. The problem was the redundancy involved in the process. When compiling the sketches into a whole page of comic, it was fine because there was some improvisation and creativity going on. When I felt that I would have to draw some of the sketches again, I started to hold my head.
Which leads me to what i'm planning to do now...
3- Get the comic done in one fell swoop
I have the story written out in prose form. My plan now is to make small thumbnails, and then do the final version staight on paper. My little picture stories(especially the sea one) were good because of the inspiration going on in my head while I drew the poses. I make much better natural drawings when I work them from a feeling in my head, then copying them from a picture I already drew. Plus, this will involve maximum creative output on two fronts: writing, and drawing.
Time's moving, and so must I. :P
Let's see what happens.... |
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| Fucking FUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS |
[Sep. 9th, 2005|09:02 pm] |
Someone's getting fucking punched in the face!
Nah... just kidding.. iF anyone wants to get punched in the face though; fuck, i'm free.
:o |
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| An update from lands beyond |
[Aug. 28th, 2005|05:37 pm] |
In the swank new computer lab on the first floor of GC. It's odd to see the guy(s) who were at the second floor of GC now in this place. Moving on up and down at the same time. Progress goes that way sometimes...
So, yeah, David Shaw, FIU Sophomore was pretty stoked today to be in Everglades Hall. I went to the office to check in, and then I found out that my name wasn't on the list. I went to the Housing Office. It seems that I had to finish up some Financial Aid business in order to move the rooming process along. I got my room assignemnt sheet and then I go back to the EH lounge again.
I get my room assignment from a lady who seems nice and is going to be my RA. Cool! I move along to the next table to fill out my RIFF. Then, the lady there shows a look of confusion on her face. I notice this, and pay it no mind. She shuffles through a rolodex and looks at my card.
"Apparently, you're supposed to be going to Panther Hall instead." (PH = Panther Hall, EH = Everglades Hall).
Housing Office again. They say that I marked myself as a 'Freshman' on my housing application(maybe because in Spring 2005 I was), and they ran out of rooms at Everglades Hall, so they decided to put me in Panther Hall. I've got to stay there two weeks until I can fill a transfer request to go somewhere else, most likely UPA if I can't live in Everglades.
Some posters and stuff in here would be cool. There's a multicolored striped whatever body pillow on my bed, and a jungle themed rug on the floor. I wanted some type of "vintage?" jungle/forest-y design. I was planning on having pictures of the everglades mixed with some modern-age-esque designs on the wall. If I felt like I uglified the room, it would be cool. It's competing space with my roomate's whatever things.
Maybe it's a type of progress? |
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| I was supposed to score my license today, but one of my mom's brake light's broke |
[Aug. 5th, 2005|02:59 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
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Yeah... I'm making an appointment right now for next week. Here she goes: Next Thursday, 1:30 PM. Printed and everything.
I practiced last night and everything. I was ready to rip the test a new hole. I guess i'll just practice some'more. Fuck a brake light.
In other news
I might dye my hair! 0_o Golden brown/blonde. I don't know. I just say this woman in a bus one day and I looked at her hair, with her skin complexion similar to mind and I was like... AAAHHHHHH. Some weird part of me though that it would be bad mannered to ask her what color dye she used, so I slumped out of the bus crying.
It'll work with my low hair cut.
In more important news
Just picked my classes for FIU. I think this is the best semester i'm going to/had class wise. Here goes:
Intro to Envir Sci Bovard, Brian D Tuesday, Thursday: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Envir Science Lab Wednesday: 12:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Painting I Torres, Donna PFriday: 9:30 AM - 3:15 PM
Interm Japanese Haraguchi, Asuka Tuesday, Thursday: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Percussion Tech Launius, Michael J Tuesday, Thursday: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
African World Intro Kouadio, Bertin K Thursday: 5:00 PM - 7:40 PM OR Honors Seminar
The Honors Seminar class looked interesting to me. For this semester, i'm interested in working on my story/comic, improving at drumming for the bee-rand, having fun, and understanding what made things the way they are now, how are things the way they are now, and what's going to happen/can happen. I was very surprised when I saw that the whole Honors Seminar currciulum is based around that. I'm uncertain as to whether or not i'll continue. Looked at in that light it might be useful if I really participate my ass off, talk to the professors, oh.. and think.
I'm considering whether or not to drop it, or to keep it this term, and take African World Intro next semester. I'm leaning towards the latter(given the info above)... Any comments/experiences that might help out?
Next time: More New York pictures(w/ stories), a pinch of filosofizing, good news or bad news, other shit. |
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| It's all inferred emotion--So she says |
[Jul. 28th, 2005|06:14 pm] |
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR FIU PEOPLES: Check your financial aid on sis.fiu.edu. They've started processing FAFSA and giving out awards!
I'm listening to the SMILE CD again. It's been a while. It's a very nice and relaxing listen.
I'm currently surrounded by CD's in this office I exist in. I'm kinda unkempt, and i've realized that as long as I don't spend a lot of time at the music-"biz" websites I have to go to, or just stick away from CDs that look like they've been fucked and cleaned througholy by "music-bizzers" or by aiming to be succesfull in the music biz as #1, that it's not a bad place. I glance through each new CD we get here, and if it sounds good on first glance, I take it out of here and give it a good listen in a nice, comfortable place. It gives me the ability to seperate music from it's business aspect as much as possible.
Here's some pictures from NY. One of them is slightly NSFW--for the wussy's out there.
( Can I take a picture of you? )
Oh yeah, I failed my driver's license test today. I'll pass it next time. It would be nice to have a car now, though. I could give some music a good listen on a relaxing drive home. Hopefully the bus isn't cold...
More NY pictures shall cometh. So it is written, so it shall(possibly) be done. |
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| The hip new tagging thing that's sweeping the world! |
[Jul. 24th, 2005|10:34 am] |
Yo. So I got tagged by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) firestarter713. Even though I have a lot of CDs, I only play the ones I really like, and play them with a vengeance.
SONGS I'VE ROCKED MY ASS OUT TO RECENTLY:
1. Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Honesty and sincerity which moves anyone to visualize--if only temporarily--the best of who they are and all of their potential. What else can music strive for? The CDs in a DVD player in New York. :(
2. Best of Velvet Underground CD
This is what I always imagined rock music to be, and felt every now and then when I listened to an exceptionally good rock song. The songs range from campy fun songs like Waiting for the man and Run Run Run. They then move onto more somber tones with Femme Fatale, I'll be your mirror, and climaxing with Pale Blue Eyes. They're songs about girls who are sick and tired with life, and are wishing to move on to something better.
(aside: something I see a lot in different genres and mediums(and I think it's the only thing i've done as well): Most songs about people feeling unfullfilled and finding fullfilling through music or some other type of venue seem to be done through the eyes of girls and not guys. Ignoring any sexist implications concerning the conclusion that can be arrived at: are girls then supposed to be the eternal fans, and the guys the eterntal musicians?(blah blah blah)-- I know that writing female characters in situations like that is done through some type of idealization of innocence, which leads further to an idealized view of male/female roles. There's more to this...)
These songs make me feel more grateful for the thing which taps into what my latent strength and hope needed to move forward with my goals/efforts/missions.
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
There was nothin' happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all, not at all
Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all, no not at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll, rock'n'roll
Despite all the amputations
You know, you could just go out
And dance to the rock'n'roll station
And it was all right
3. Modest Mouse - Lives
To a person who doesn't intentionally listen to the lyrics, the CD is something that you can move to, and feel like the people playing the music are saying something important, even if you can't tell what it really is. This song comes near the end and strips away a lot of the external, and makes you stop and listen to what they have to say, and makes sure it's said in a way you'll understand. It goes from gathering pieces of information that the musician sees to be true, and fills him with sadness--if not for himself, then for people that he has met who he can say feels this way or would act this way. He then, like a person who's doing a lot of important thinking, and reaching deeper into what makes him sad or angry or content or happy, comes up with a statement that summarizes what causes himself or other people to feel that way. Then, the song sinks low again into what he has said earlier. With the context of the lyrics during the epiphany stage of the song, the musician, goes full circle and presents the lyrics from the beginning. With the information given in the middle of the piece, the musician is now challenging you to face these two pieces of information, and come up with your own answer. And that answer is something you should always remember.
4. 13 and God - Soft Atlas
I don't know what any of the fucking lyrics mean. I personally don't want to. I'd rather interpret them my own way. Dose One's lyrics are better that way. You know what I mean, right? Dose One's value isn't necessarily what his words mean, they're it they way they are arranged and crafted. The problem with Dose One was that he didn't have the proper music to befit his throaty what-the-fuck-european accent-does-this-guy-have sound in his previous efforts. When he found the right music, he finally reached that growth point with a track on Boom Bip's Seed to Sun album--Mannequin Trapdoor which I remember, where he had well crafted and evolving music which was a match made in heaven for his lyrical style(not, you know, a simple rap beat, or electronic arragement). When I got a CD a year later, that was *gasp* a collabaration between the Notwist and Them(Dose One's lyrical supergroup(*'_'*)), I was stunned. This collabaration works magnificently, and you truly apprectiate the amount of care Dose One takes with word aesthetics and arrangement that would fit the music along with the Notwist's mastered atmospheric indie-rock(which culminated in Neon Golden); that the mood it creates is an innovative experience, that will trigger emotions in you that you'll be grateful for experiencing. You need to listen this while driving at night with a good sound system.
I gotta tag some peepz:
1. sullenfiend
2. iamadvil
3. starvedart
4. morganlight
5. legalstep |
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| I made a comic in New York... |
[Jul. 13th, 2005|03:35 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Sage Francis - Crumble | ] |
If you don't know, i'm currently in Florida. I'm in FIU right now, taking advantage of their T1 connection, fast-as-fuck scanners, and Adobe Photoshop copies(legal!). I'm also listening to Sage Francis's latest album, a healthy distrust again. The last time I heard it was two months ago. I didn't like it back then. I have a much higher opinion of it now.
The first couple of pages are redone from the originals. They're a "second rough" done in the comic format I want it to be in, with some other things fixed up...
( Enjoy the comic! )
I'll have NY pictures up soon. At least two of them involve sex... and lesbians! |
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| Skate China! |
[Jul. 12th, 2005|06:48 pm] |
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