Time to shed the layers and get ready for the POOL!!! O my am I so pumped up to go swimming today. Moreover, I am pumped to go to Wakarusa for the second year in a row. This year I am going with my little brother Henri, who came to Bonnaroo with me as well in 2008. There is just something about going to festivals that is magical. Recently my friend Jenna went to her first, New Orleans Jazz fest, she got to see MMJ and Better than Ezra. When she came back to reality, aka Dallas, she just couldnt keep it in about how much fun she had, how nice the people were, and the pure joy that everyone is experiencing.
On top of all the amazing people that will attend Wakarusa some of the best bands out there will be jamming out. Disco Biscuits, STS9, EOTO, Umphrey's McGee, Widespread Panic, etc etc. The list goes on forever. What you can count on is that nothing is strange. People wear costumes, shave heads, dye hair, paint themselves, walk around half naked, on and on.
My favorite of all though is the dancing. People are just dancing all over the place, in their own way, however the music is moving them. Me personally I stomp around, people move the hell out of the way, and vaboom! I have my own area to kick it without all the elbows and little kids asking me to hookem up.
To all those going to Wakarusa, see you soon! To all those that have never been to a festival, start with ACL, SXSW or Jazz Fest. That way you dont have to deal with camping, and all the 'weirdos' walking around.
be happy!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Punk Ass Bitches
Everyday I log on and check the Dallas Morning News as well as CNN FoxNews and the likes. Everyday I am just as surprised as the last.
Kids just throwing their life away for a quick score. Last year 2 teens in the are killed a man leaving his Christian recording studio and made $2. Not a typo, they killed a man over $2. You can panhandle and make more money in an hour. Recently a bunch of punk kids, who happen to be latino, killed a gas station attendant when he left to deposit money in the bank. 4 kids 21, 18, 17 and a juvenile have just thrown their life away.
How long did these kids think about this for? Did they really think they could get away? I mean they got caught because it was an inside job, did the idiot not realize there are cameras in his place of work? what an IDIOT!
These are the people that need to just be shot! I'm dead serious there are too many dickheads, douche bags, punks that think they are entitled to having the best life and living like Jay-Z or Snoop Dogg.
What is most annoying is that they dont even try to work hard to make money so that one day they might be the next Gangster Rapper, or movie producer, or whatever they idolize. They see this crap on MTV or whatever shitty station this douchbags watch these days and tell them selves 'see man with a piece we can do anything.' Well if that do anything means go to jail like an idiot, cool that is just fine by me.
Keep the world a better place, for us all. I have no intention in bringing a kid up in this fucked up place where people murder for money instead of work, you dont even have to work hard. Go to MacD's or better yet Whataburger ( i go there quite a bit, so ull be in business for sure).
Kids just throwing their life away for a quick score. Last year 2 teens in the are killed a man leaving his Christian recording studio and made $2. Not a typo, they killed a man over $2. You can panhandle and make more money in an hour. Recently a bunch of punk kids, who happen to be latino, killed a gas station attendant when he left to deposit money in the bank. 4 kids 21, 18, 17 and a juvenile have just thrown their life away.
How long did these kids think about this for? Did they really think they could get away? I mean they got caught because it was an inside job, did the idiot not realize there are cameras in his place of work? what an IDIOT!
These are the people that need to just be shot! I'm dead serious there are too many dickheads, douche bags, punks that think they are entitled to having the best life and living like Jay-Z or Snoop Dogg.
What is most annoying is that they dont even try to work hard to make money so that one day they might be the next Gangster Rapper, or movie producer, or whatever they idolize. They see this crap on MTV or whatever shitty station this douchbags watch these days and tell them selves 'see man with a piece we can do anything.' Well if that do anything means go to jail like an idiot, cool that is just fine by me.
Keep the world a better place, for us all. I have no intention in bringing a kid up in this fucked up place where people murder for money instead of work, you dont even have to work hard. Go to MacD's or better yet Whataburger ( i go there quite a bit, so ull be in business for sure).
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Change
Simply all there is to it. I need some change. Not sure what it is exactly, but my life has become way too stagnant for me. Probably has something to do with working for a company that employs too many people, making any kind of raise or promotion improbable unless there is some spike in sales. Fat chance of that happening with the economy the way it is.
I thought I was going to be able to pull some strings and shabam a job would fall out of the sky, but no luck so far. Have talked to a lot of good people and been pushed/nudged in the right direction; however, the more I think about it, the more I realize I need adventure, I need different, I need new. Was able to get in touch with an old friend of mine (thank you Facebook!) that works in the mountains of Colorado, and bam here we go!
For the next month or so that is going to be my concentration as living in Colorado would be o so beautiful, and would at least quench my thirst for another year or so.
PS: living on the mountains and close to Red Rocks for a year would make my life!
I thought I was going to be able to pull some strings and shabam a job would fall out of the sky, but no luck so far. Have talked to a lot of good people and been pushed/nudged in the right direction; however, the more I think about it, the more I realize I need adventure, I need different, I need new. Was able to get in touch with an old friend of mine (thank you Facebook!) that works in the mountains of Colorado, and bam here we go!
For the next month or so that is going to be my concentration as living in Colorado would be o so beautiful, and would at least quench my thirst for another year or so.
PS: living on the mountains and close to Red Rocks for a year would make my life!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
WOAH!!!!!
So ive taken a nice leave of absence, and im back now due to some RIDICULOUS events that transpired over the weekend. A little background: Derek and I had a falling out and have not seen each other since... time frame has to be somewhere in the many moons category. So after leaving the super weak dunk contest at the ASG this year friends and I went to a bar to meet up with more friends and continue the evenings festivities.
Who do I run into but Derek at this bar... of course, he is hanging out with all the friends I introduced him to way back when. That in itself is kind of funny, at least to me. Any who, after hanging outside with everyone for a bit I had to go inside to relieve myself. What happens as I open the door to go inside you ask yourself? BAM!!! Beer bottle misses my head by inches and just breaks everywhere right as the bar tender was walking outside. So not only is the bartender upset, but i want to know what the hell that was all about!! When confronted, Derek responds with "if I wanted to hit you with the beer bottle I would have!!" Ha, what to do, but just laugh at that. So i told him if he wanted to hit me so bad, he could just punch me in the face like a man instead of throwing something at me while I have my back turned.
Not sure why, but we all had to leave the bar. Thankfully my friend Bobby lives 2min walking from the bar, so after calming down and closing out we head there to just hang out. Of course who is there causing problems, Derek. In the little while it took me to close out and get over there Bobby's mom had been pushed/shoved to some degree, and a girl got hit in the face, not too hard... but still its the point, all by Derek.
So as everyone begins to ask this guy what the hell gives that he is pushing a 50yo woman with MS and striking a girl in the face accidental or not he seems me pull up and again challenges me to a fight of some sort. At this point I still had my cool and I simply told him there is nothing for me at least to fight about, so with the advice of my friends I go inside to hangout and just keep the peace.
After deciding this was just a ridiculous way to spend a saturday night I went back outside to see what was going on, and this guy hasnt calmed down a bit. After some verbal sparing and him taking a swing at me that breaks my glasses a couple of us decide to leave.... this is where it gets good.
After Bobby, who's father is dead, helped keep the peace this whole time, Derek decides to insult him in this classy way: "Your father would rather be with the Devil than with your whore mother." At this point Bobby and Derek get into fisticuffs, with a couple window panes breaking, a couple fence boards getting broken. More importantly though Derek runs away like a little girl rocking the cyclops look because his eye was so swollen shut from Bobby beating his.
FIN
Who do I run into but Derek at this bar... of course, he is hanging out with all the friends I introduced him to way back when. That in itself is kind of funny, at least to me. Any who, after hanging outside with everyone for a bit I had to go inside to relieve myself. What happens as I open the door to go inside you ask yourself? BAM!!! Beer bottle misses my head by inches and just breaks everywhere right as the bar tender was walking outside. So not only is the bartender upset, but i want to know what the hell that was all about!! When confronted, Derek responds with "if I wanted to hit you with the beer bottle I would have!!" Ha, what to do, but just laugh at that. So i told him if he wanted to hit me so bad, he could just punch me in the face like a man instead of throwing something at me while I have my back turned.
Not sure why, but we all had to leave the bar. Thankfully my friend Bobby lives 2min walking from the bar, so after calming down and closing out we head there to just hang out. Of course who is there causing problems, Derek. In the little while it took me to close out and get over there Bobby's mom had been pushed/shoved to some degree, and a girl got hit in the face, not too hard... but still its the point, all by Derek.
So as everyone begins to ask this guy what the hell gives that he is pushing a 50yo woman with MS and striking a girl in the face accidental or not he seems me pull up and again challenges me to a fight of some sort. At this point I still had my cool and I simply told him there is nothing for me at least to fight about, so with the advice of my friends I go inside to hangout and just keep the peace.
After deciding this was just a ridiculous way to spend a saturday night I went back outside to see what was going on, and this guy hasnt calmed down a bit. After some verbal sparing and him taking a swing at me that breaks my glasses a couple of us decide to leave.... this is where it gets good.
After Bobby, who's father is dead, helped keep the peace this whole time, Derek decides to insult him in this classy way: "Your father would rather be with the Devil than with your whore mother." At this point Bobby and Derek get into fisticuffs, with a couple window panes breaking, a couple fence boards getting broken. More importantly though Derek runs away like a little girl rocking the cyclops look because his eye was so swollen shut from Bobby beating his.
FIN
Saturday, August 8, 2009
The World... According to Americans.
A couple months back, one of my fist posts I believe, I wrote about how Americans do not understand the concept of being told no. We grow up with our parents telling us that we can become president do whatever we want; however, its said with such ease that it takes away from the concept of how hard some people work to achieve their dreams. I am brought back to this topic because of recent tragedy in Pittsburgh, man kills three in gym.
After reading this article it is so sad to see that a man seriously took out all his inadequacies on everyone else. How can someone be so sick in the head that they dont realize that something is wrong with them, not with the thousand of people who they have had social interaction with. Hell my life would so much easier if I could blame my neighbors for my lawn not getting mowed, or if I was pissed at the kid next to me for not getting me better grades in school, or pissed at my college because I'm not making $100,000 like some stupid bitch is. Seriously, there is a girl suing her college because she doesnt have a job. Like the job was supposed to just be waiting there for her, just the way your dog waits for you to get home.
Humans are not perfect, nobody is perfect, yet some people fail to recognize they have any flaws. Is this the parents fault? I dont know, but its taking its toll on the public. Columbine, Virginia Tech, this Gym, I am sure there are thousands maybe millions of other examples, but these are the easiest to come up with. If as a race we want to last and go to places we would have never thought, we will have to learn how to deal with rejection. That's how it goes. The world is not there to deliver all that you would like, i.e. a girlfriend, without hardwork. Maybe you need to find a girl with similar intrests, that can be tough, but she has to be out there, so work at it. Maybe girls get turned off by you because of what you look like, how you act, or something else. Well, instead of killing someone over it go work out, go make friends and learn to interact, and most importantly use these things a guide/lesson to help you become a better person, not to ruin hundreds of peoples lives in just an instant. Yes only 3 people died, but those three people had family, friends, and co-workers who counted on them and now they have been taken away from them with no explanaiton, which can be the hardest part of coping with a death.
For the sake of the general public, AMERICA I implore you please learn to see your own faults instead of blaming everything on everyone else.
After reading this article it is so sad to see that a man seriously took out all his inadequacies on everyone else. How can someone be so sick in the head that they dont realize that something is wrong with them, not with the thousand of people who they have had social interaction with. Hell my life would so much easier if I could blame my neighbors for my lawn not getting mowed, or if I was pissed at the kid next to me for not getting me better grades in school, or pissed at my college because I'm not making $100,000 like some stupid bitch is. Seriously, there is a girl suing her college because she doesnt have a job. Like the job was supposed to just be waiting there for her, just the way your dog waits for you to get home.
Humans are not perfect, nobody is perfect, yet some people fail to recognize they have any flaws. Is this the parents fault? I dont know, but its taking its toll on the public. Columbine, Virginia Tech, this Gym, I am sure there are thousands maybe millions of other examples, but these are the easiest to come up with. If as a race we want to last and go to places we would have never thought, we will have to learn how to deal with rejection. That's how it goes. The world is not there to deliver all that you would like, i.e. a girlfriend, without hardwork. Maybe you need to find a girl with similar intrests, that can be tough, but she has to be out there, so work at it. Maybe girls get turned off by you because of what you look like, how you act, or something else. Well, instead of killing someone over it go work out, go make friends and learn to interact, and most importantly use these things a guide/lesson to help you become a better person, not to ruin hundreds of peoples lives in just an instant. Yes only 3 people died, but those three people had family, friends, and co-workers who counted on them and now they have been taken away from them with no explanaiton, which can be the hardest part of coping with a death.
For the sake of the general public, AMERICA I implore you please learn to see your own faults instead of blaming everything on everyone else.
Friday, July 10, 2009
T.O. was my friend
Recently I had a terrible experience with having to deal with a T.O type character. What made this real tough is that it was within my circle of friends. For at least myself, I do not want to talk for the others, I know I was definitely blinded by his charisma for quite some time just like T.O has done to three, now four teams. His smile is huge, he talks the talk, and he just seems so sincere. Hell ya I was a T.O. fan when he came to the cowboys. I thought he was a game changer, kinda like this old acquaintance. However, just as in football as soon as the times get tough the small things start to come out and little by little they build and build and ends up becoming a whole soap opera mess with the media spreading half truths all around.
But the time had come. The Executives for three different teams had had enough, just as my circle just couldnt take the drama anymore. Never have I known a single male individual to cause so much drama within a group of friends. I didnt realize it but this guy who I always thought of as being the most confident guy and what not was actually quite the opposite. He needed the attention to make himself feel good. He was the opposite of confident, atleast thats what I think. You should have confidence in yourself because you know you can, not because some group of friends you just convinced otherwise are now agreeing with you.
It only became more apparent that he had self-confidence issues when he would just start bashing our friends for just about everything they would do. I myself took up yoga and of course it instantly became the butt of his jokes for however long, I guess to make himself feel better. Not sure why, might have had to do with his consistant talk of how he was going to have a 6 pack by then of June.. no July.. no Aug, it was always getting pushed back for him, so maybe he was upset I was actually doing something active or maybe he was upset because it was not with him. Ya he is that lame. He is the guy that needs to be invited to everything or he'll invite himself over, just like everyday after work. I love all my friends and I think they would all say the same about me... that they know in any situation needed i'd be there, but arent their certain situations when one likes to be alone at home to contemplate and relax after working all day? Not for him.
Anyways, after looking back on the facts, which I wont bore you with because that would just be petty. I came across an article on relationships that I actually think translates well into friendships as well. I cant find it on the net, but it has 8 main points about Dating/Being with a 'Loser'
1) Rough Treatment - basically anything that includes getting hit
2) Jumps Right into "I Love You" - includes showering you with gifts, spending the rest of their life with you; more than likely this means they have shallow emotions and are looking for someone to attach themselves to in order to validate their own self-esteem issues.
3) Confidence Killers - always putting you down basically, never good enough
4) Breakup Panic-ers - they make wild promises, will do ANYTHING
5) Prison takers - you're not alowed to have outside intrests, everyone is a bad influence on you, but not them, they criticize what you enjoy doing on your own (ahem, yoga), basically they want to cut you off from any other influences
6) You never do enough - self explanatory
7) The Paranoid Controllers - have to know where and what you're doing ALL the time, if you dont answer the phone they want to know why, etc
8) Wild Story specialist - say just about anything to get your attention including saying their mom is in the hospital even though its not true.
But the time had come. The Executives for three different teams had had enough, just as my circle just couldnt take the drama anymore. Never have I known a single male individual to cause so much drama within a group of friends. I didnt realize it but this guy who I always thought of as being the most confident guy and what not was actually quite the opposite. He needed the attention to make himself feel good. He was the opposite of confident, atleast thats what I think. You should have confidence in yourself because you know you can, not because some group of friends you just convinced otherwise are now agreeing with you.
It only became more apparent that he had self-confidence issues when he would just start bashing our friends for just about everything they would do. I myself took up yoga and of course it instantly became the butt of his jokes for however long, I guess to make himself feel better. Not sure why, might have had to do with his consistant talk of how he was going to have a 6 pack by then of June.. no July.. no Aug, it was always getting pushed back for him, so maybe he was upset I was actually doing something active or maybe he was upset because it was not with him. Ya he is that lame. He is the guy that needs to be invited to everything or he'll invite himself over, just like everyday after work. I love all my friends and I think they would all say the same about me... that they know in any situation needed i'd be there, but arent their certain situations when one likes to be alone at home to contemplate and relax after working all day? Not for him.
Anyways, after looking back on the facts, which I wont bore you with because that would just be petty. I came across an article on relationships that I actually think translates well into friendships as well. I cant find it on the net, but it has 8 main points about Dating/Being with a 'Loser'
1) Rough Treatment - basically anything that includes getting hit
2) Jumps Right into "I Love You" - includes showering you with gifts, spending the rest of their life with you; more than likely this means they have shallow emotions and are looking for someone to attach themselves to in order to validate their own self-esteem issues.
3) Confidence Killers - always putting you down basically, never good enough
4) Breakup Panic-ers - they make wild promises, will do ANYTHING
5) Prison takers - you're not alowed to have outside intrests, everyone is a bad influence on you, but not them, they criticize what you enjoy doing on your own (ahem, yoga), basically they want to cut you off from any other influences
6) You never do enough - self explanatory
7) The Paranoid Controllers - have to know where and what you're doing ALL the time, if you dont answer the phone they want to know why, etc
8) Wild Story specialist - say just about anything to get your attention including saying their mom is in the hospital even though its not true.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Vacation
WOW!!!
vacation was out of control this year. I barely had any, but made the most of it. On back to back to back weekends I went to Austin, Red Rocks and Wakarusa. So much has happened since then, I barely remember any of it because of last weekend, which was my first official weekend by the pool all day. And that was exactly what I need because my brain had been spinning OUT of control since I went to Austin to visit my friends.
Jager and Raj came down from NYC, a couple friends from Dallas made the trip down. And what a riot it was. With playoff basketball, college graduation, and a group of about 10 friends there was nothing but drunken good times to be had. There are about 'X' amount of bars on 6th street in Austin and while with jager and raj we probably went to 'X -1.' The one we left out was the gay bar, haha. Seriously though we would walk in to a bar order a shot, look around, decide there were no cute girls and leave. We repeated this move until we were so blacked out we could barely walk anymore and decided dancing was probably a better way to talk to girls.
After barely surving that wknd and having liz drive me all the way back to dallas as I slept, I knew what was in store for me 13hr road trip to Red Rocks. WHAT!?!?! you may be asking yourself. That right, my roomate Travis and I killed it!!! With a little help from a friend. Left thursday after work got in Friday morning CRASHED! woke up fri afternoon to see some beautiful landscape at Red Rocks park and get our selves situated for Sat night, which is why we did that crazy drive. BISCO INFERNO baby!!! What you know about White Chicks and Gang signs?!?! That shit was hot!!! Still gives me goose bumps. Anywho, Disco Biscuits KILLED it. They played a new song by Manger and dropped all their WHOMPS!!!
Not only was the music amazing, but they had some dancers on stage in all fluarescent clothing and was quite amazing to the eye. Music from 5pm -2:30am. Pure FIRE, pure greatness, PURA VIDA to the max!!! I'll tell you what though driving 13hours back the next day was not FIRE, haha.
On to my last trip out to Wakarusa, a measly 5hour drive. Got to see Pretty Lights drop some PHAT beats. My DJ buddy got me into them a while back, and I have not been able to stop. 'Hot Like Sauce' is simply amazing, and he just never stops with the hard hitting bass bombs. Found a new group called 'BoomBox' similar to Ghostland, and they were good fun. Unfortunately one of the groups I was really excited to see STS9 only brought the fire for one of their two sets. was sadly disspointed on their Sat night set. No bass, no fire, no love... would have rather seen just about anything else instead of them at the time. I honestly think i would have enjoyed my cousins ballet to the tune of some heavy metal or something. I dont know, I just guess they were going for a different vibe that night unfortunately for me.
Anywho, I survived 3wknds of pure craziness and now its time to get back to work, where when my sales rep goes out of town she expects me to do work on sat for her. are you serious!?!?! do I look like a monkey? F that!!!
ool time!!!!
(notice: above is not a spelling error, I try and keep my pool pee free thank you very much)
vacation was out of control this year. I barely had any, but made the most of it. On back to back to back weekends I went to Austin, Red Rocks and Wakarusa. So much has happened since then, I barely remember any of it because of last weekend, which was my first official weekend by the pool all day. And that was exactly what I need because my brain had been spinning OUT of control since I went to Austin to visit my friends.
Jager and Raj came down from NYC, a couple friends from Dallas made the trip down. And what a riot it was. With playoff basketball, college graduation, and a group of about 10 friends there was nothing but drunken good times to be had. There are about 'X' amount of bars on 6th street in Austin and while with jager and raj we probably went to 'X -1.' The one we left out was the gay bar, haha. Seriously though we would walk in to a bar order a shot, look around, decide there were no cute girls and leave. We repeated this move until we were so blacked out we could barely walk anymore and decided dancing was probably a better way to talk to girls.
After barely surving that wknd and having liz drive me all the way back to dallas as I slept, I knew what was in store for me 13hr road trip to Red Rocks. WHAT!?!?! you may be asking yourself. That right, my roomate Travis and I killed it!!! With a little help from a friend. Left thursday after work got in Friday morning CRASHED! woke up fri afternoon to see some beautiful landscape at Red Rocks park and get our selves situated for Sat night, which is why we did that crazy drive. BISCO INFERNO baby!!! What you know about White Chicks and Gang signs?!?! That shit was hot!!! Still gives me goose bumps. Anywho, Disco Biscuits KILLED it. They played a new song by Manger and dropped all their WHOMPS!!!
Not only was the music amazing, but they had some dancers on stage in all fluarescent clothing and was quite amazing to the eye. Music from 5pm -2:30am. Pure FIRE, pure greatness, PURA VIDA to the max!!! I'll tell you what though driving 13hours back the next day was not FIRE, haha.
On to my last trip out to Wakarusa, a measly 5hour drive. Got to see Pretty Lights drop some PHAT beats. My DJ buddy got me into them a while back, and I have not been able to stop. 'Hot Like Sauce' is simply amazing, and he just never stops with the hard hitting bass bombs. Found a new group called 'BoomBox' similar to Ghostland, and they were good fun. Unfortunately one of the groups I was really excited to see STS9 only brought the fire for one of their two sets. was sadly disspointed on their Sat night set. No bass, no fire, no love... would have rather seen just about anything else instead of them at the time. I honestly think i would have enjoyed my cousins ballet to the tune of some heavy metal or something. I dont know, I just guess they were going for a different vibe that night unfortunately for me.
Anywho, I survived 3wknds of pure craziness and now its time to get back to work, where when my sales rep goes out of town she expects me to do work on sat for her. are you serious!?!?! do I look like a monkey? F that!!!
ool time!!!!
(notice: above is not a spelling error, I try and keep my pool pee free thank you very much)
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