12 of 30: Suburban Epidemic's new album

Suburban Epidemic has been on of my favorite bands for awhile now, since I saw them in Josh's basement with How To Steat And Cheal like the 3rd day of my freshman year. We have become good friends and they are still making bitching songs. Our bands have played bunches of shows together and we all dry hump each other. Friday was their most recent CD release show. I just got around to listening to the album today. I would safetly say this will become one of my favorites. It is awesome. You need to get a copy of it. Talk to Sean or Landon or Kevin or anybody from their hood if you know anyone from that area. And if you don't I will set you up. It will be $5 you will never miss.

Get on it.

11 of 30: Remember, Remember the 3rd of November

So it is for sure Fall now. It has been toying with us, but it is too cold for hoodies and I can see my breath. Hello Fall.

You know the saying, "Spring showers bring May flowers, but what to Mayflowers bring?" Yeah, that is how Fall is. Except its Fall cold brings Oct/Nov shows, and Oct/Nov shows bring really really good bands. Every year around this time it seems like all these sweet shows happen. Yesterday was Flatfoot, today is Hobgob, Tuesday is The Toasters, the 14th is The Copyrights. It's chaulk full of killer times.

I am here tonight speaking to the concert going folks. There are a lot of good shows happening, where ever you may be. Springfield, St. Louis, Belleville. Get out and get to some shows. Must of us try to get to shows, but fail way too much (like myself). I am wanting to say this now before the roads are snowy: Get out and support your scene.
DIY or die.

Go have yourselves a Halloween.

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10 of 30: Short blog

Out of time. Gotta type fast. Why do we like hot long showers, they make our lungs hurt? I used to not like to shower, or bathe at all. It's boring. That is why I shower at night. I do not waste time in the shower that I could be reading or playing games with friends. My sickness is turning around.

Live Long And Prosper.

9 of 30: Top 10 Comic Book Movies That I Have Seen

I am tired and sickly and nothing exciting or interesting happened today. David is reading 'V for Vendetta' so I was thinking of best movies from comic books. Here is mine:

1. Watchmen
2. Ghost World
   
3. American Splendor
   
4. V for Vendetta
5. Sin City
6. All the Batman's
7. Both Hellboy's
   
8. 300
9. All the X-Men's
10. Mystery Men

Runners Ups:

1. The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentlemen
   
2. The Spirit
3. Judge Dredd

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8 of 30: Late is better than never

NOTE: So today was a busy day for me and I couldn't get my blog in on the real time I was supposed to do it. I can't miss a date so I am going to post a late one. Sorry.


So I was thinking about what to write. I was going to write about going to the doctors, then I had a real fun time at the show tonight so I was going write about that, but then I found what I wanted to write about. The title kind of gives away the main idea. I was thinking to myself, "Should I even post?" I decided to because late is better than never. I feel that we all need to carry this philosophy in aspects of our lives.

I was transcribing a DVD of deans of music that are All Steinway Schools. In a segment, a few students were interviewed. They talked to this women. She was a pianist and had a future in playing, but she met a guy. They had kids and she raised them all. Now all of her kids are out of the house. She has decided to get the degree in performance. It took her decades but she is finally realizing and living her dream. It was late for her, but it was never too late.

I am getting closer to graduating. And I am in classes with people that are like 3 credits from graduating. I seem to think about being in their shoes, being so close to a career or even in a career. I wonder if they have done what they wanted, realized the dreams they have had. Or is working in their career field the dream they have had for themselves? I will never know, nor does it matter. What matters is the point that I want to achieve with this blog. I want to say to you that you should do what you have always wanted to do (I would write more but I am tired and sick). But I say go today and start. Go buy a guitar and start a band, write that letter, drive to Canada, fly out to California, join an armed force, write a book, paint something, backpack Ireland, ask that crush out. Do not let yourself forget the dreams of your youth, even before you lose your youth. People get busy, or tired, or embarrassed and they put off the little dreams for themselves and I am afraid we will grow up to be a generation of lost dreams. Don't let us be that. Let us all have the stories for our grandkids just like our grandparents had for us.


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7 of 30: Cleanliness Is Next To Diseaselessness

I live in a house off of campus. I live with dudes. 7 dudes. 8 including me. The place gets a little untidy at times, as you can imagine. This blog is not about tidiness. I am by far not tidy. This blog is about being clean, like smelly-free clean and rotting trashlessness. It is gross and unhealthy to live in grossness. The bathrooms get filthy and trashcans pile up at my house. It starts to smell and it gets pretty grody. I am going to give a break down on how I think houses/apartments should be taken care of without actually having to do much manual labor. This will in turn keep your home stench free.

LIVING ROOM/LOUNGE AREA:

• If you are eating food, throw uneaten food into the trash can. This will keep the old food from sitting out on the couches and tables for days at a time, and it won't smell like Chinese food for weeks!
• Throw your trash away! Most areas that have a lot of traffic will have a waste bin near. If not, you should get one. Very helpful! It doesn't take but a second to toss away some garbage and it helps to keep the room look clean for guests. And paper cups start to leak after awhile and cause a big mess.
  
• Trashcans should be emptied regularly. The food in there will go bad and smell terrible after a few weeks, so take it out when it is relatively full instead of falling onto the floor.
  

KITCHEN:

• Clean the food of your dishes into the trash can. You know you won't be doing dishes anytime soon, so this saves your sink from smell like poo.
• If you microwave something and it pops and some of it gets on the walls of the microwave, just grab a paper towel and wipe it up. It will be fresh and you won't have to scrap it off a month later.
• DO YOUR DISHES. 'Nuff said.

BATHROOM:

• If you pee on the seat, wipe it up. We all do it, so just grab some paper and wipe it. This also goes for peeing on the floor. And yes, that does happen. Way too much.
  
• If you clog the toilet, get a plunger and plunge the shit out of it. Haha, that pun made me laugh. If the problem is taken care of promptly, other stinky issues will be avoided.
  
• Throw away your empty toilet paper rolls. They look dumb. Unless you draw faces on them all like I did one semester. That is funny.
• Clean the sink off every once and awhile. The tooth paste film and the soap film are grody, so get yourself some cleaning wipes and give it a rub down. It won't hurt anything.
• Clean the shower every so ofter. Grim gets at the bottom and it is not pretty. So all you gotta do it get your bleach and go to town. It will smell bad, so watch out.

BEDROOM:

• Pick up your dirty clothes. I have a problem with this. Keeping the dirty clothes of the floor is kind of one of those real lazy things I do. I just put them wherever. But every time I think about it, I put them all in the basket or a pile. It makes things look nice!
• Don't let trash build up. It is nasty.
• Change your bed and pillow sheets every so often. New linens are comfy!

So there you go, my simple steps on keeping your home tidy and stench, trash, and disease free!

PS: This blog is not written towards anyone in particular, but it was written with a certain 8 maned house in mind.


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Blog 6 of 30: Life In The Slow Lane

We are a product of our generation. We want everything fast, easy, cheap, and good. I am guilty of this. And if you say you are not, think about it. I am sure that you are probably guilty of it yourself. I am not going to speak against that tonight. I am just going to say that I feel we all need to appresh everything we run by everyday. We miss the nuances of life that make the boring, monotonous routines we fall into worth it.

Today, I saw something I have not seen in a long time around the Lew. Getting on my bike in front of Spellgirl, I notice a person bend over and pick up a leaf, freshly fallen and beautifully colored and covered in rain. They just looked at it. Appreshed it. I was amazed. I used to do that kind of thing, take in the beauty of the such an insignificant object. They just enjoyed that 5 seconds of their life with that pretty leaf instead of hurrying, bustling, worrying about the next thing life has coming.

I have been getting into photography recently. I use a slightly vintage Canon AE-1. It takes real nice pictures. The reason I bring up this hobby is the whole reason I got into film photography in the first place. I had a digital camera, like everyone else that has a digital camera or a camera phone. I would take a picture of someone, and then they would demand to see the picture and then hence delete if not up to their standards of self image. This bothered me. I felt slightly offended, but not offended. I wanted to capture that 1/250 of a second. But instead I was told to recapture the moment, to recreate something that has passed. I did not want to do that. So I went out and bought disposable cameras so people couldn't edit the tiny momeny I wanted to preserve. Then I eventually got my Canon AE-1 and the rest of history. I learned to enjoy the ugly pictures, the grainy, the misframed. I could not do anything about it, as people would say, I "rolled with the punches." Film photography is how life truly is. Life is not something we can edit to fit what we want. We need to accept our ugly moments, our beautiful moments, our stupid moments, our brilliant moments, our grainy moments, our misframed moments, our overexposed moments, our masterpiece moments.

Moral of the Story: Live life second by second. Everything is important, do not ignore anything.


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