Aesthetic

I guess since the year is almost over I should write some sort of review so that when I want to look back to this year, I can just read my own review.

2011 Music: Some Albums that caught my attention.
Vacation by Bomb the Music Industry!
England Keep My Bones by Frank Turner
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming by M83
Resolutions by Dave Hause
Sit Resist by Laura Stevenson and the Cans
Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins by Jim Ward
Self Titled- Wild Flag
This is A Desert EP by the Henry Clay People

I have my reasons for falling in love with these records, I recommend you check em out and find your own reasons rather than reading mine.

2011 Movies:
Beginners (by far the best film I have seen in the last 12 months or so)
Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
Take Shelter
Another Earth
Everything Must Go

Let's see...other things that I did this year...
I went to three different music festivals.
Went to Florida for the first time.
Got my very first tattoo.
Read more books than the past year.
Moved from an apartment to a house.
Meet some amazing, amazing people.

hmm maybe I'll come back to this and add few more things when I remember.

Plan for 2012: Win the last game of the Season.

The National at Bill Graham

Last night I witnessed the National at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. I'm not even going to bother talking about the opening acts Local Natives and Wye Oaks....The National were simply perfect.

I have waited three years to see them live but I could never convince anyone to with me and for some odd reason, they are the only band I would refuse to see alone. Last night I went with my friends Ryan and Nicole, my sister bought me the tickets for my birthday and I have to say, it was the best thing anyone could have bought for me.

The way the Nationals control your emotions live is really rare. Their songs build up this tension within you that just makes you want to scream and then after five or six songs into their set, they played 'Squalor Victoria' which gave you a little chance to release that tension towards the end of the song though not all of it. It left you for wanting to scream more, wanting to release that tension more. Few more songs, more tension builds up and then they go into 'Abel' where Matt, the singer just becomes a disaster. This process continues till the end until they play 'Mr.November' and 'Terrible Love' back to back and you just release everything that you had inside you.

It was perfect, just the way I wanted it to be.

My friend Ryan on Local Natives: "They look like a band Urban Outfitters created."

Controlled Chaos

Few days ago, I mentioned I was working on the Romantic Catastrophe/Bellyflop split...well, I decided to scratch the idea. Not really, I kept half of the concept and just sort of expanded on that concept and also decided that the title of the split, together don't sound too good. Individually, the meaning behind the name is interesting to me but together, not sure if it's too good of an idea.

So the split evolved into 'Controlled Chaos"...so here it is:

1. On My Way Back Home by Jim Ward
2. Lived In Bars by Cat Power
3. Goodbye England by Laura Marling
4. La Cienga Just Smiled by Ryan Adams
5. Tacoma by Tim Barry
6. Love Ire and Songs by Frank Turner
7. Man of the Hour by Eddie Vedder
8. A Broken Promise by Sleepercar
9. If U Got Some Magic by Rademacher
10. Apartment Story by the National
11. Forever by the Parson Red Heads
12. Call It Off by Tegan and Sara

Late night thoughts 11/26

For the past few weeks, I've been having a really hard time getting into this whole grad school thing. The studying for GRE exam, working on my CV/resume, trying to figure out where to apply etc...the whole process just doesn't seem as important to me as it should. Back when I was a senior in high school, deep down I knew I wanted to go to college which made the whole process a lot easier.

Part of the reason I having trouble applying to graduate school is that I'm not exactly sure if that's what I want to do. Being a fourth year college senior, I should have things figured out and worked out but the fact that I don't bothers the living day lights out of me. So, maybe grad school is an excuse...a way to buy more time to figure out my plans and delay my entrance into the real world. If in fact it is an excuse, then I need to gather my shit quick and find some motivation to make this excuse come true. 

T-Day 2011

Every once in a while, I am flabbergasted by how genuinely nice some people around me are. Yesterday was one of those days. Maybe there is hope in this world.

...working on a Romantic Catastrophe/Bellyflop split. 

Bands I saw at Fest 10

Friday
Dead To Me
Savage Brewtality
Tigers Jaw
Kid Dynamite
Bouncing Souls
Hot Water Music
Elway (Acoustic)
Red City Radio (Acoustic)
Holy Mess (Acoustic)

Saturday
The Menzingers (Acoustic)
Paul Baribeau
Grabass Charleston
RVIVR
Iron Chic
Bridge and Tunnel
Definace Ohio
Tim Barry
Youth Brigade
Dillenger Four
Ted Leo + the Pharmacists
Against Me!

Sunday
Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves
Cheap Girls
The Menzingers
Bomb the Music Industry! (Acoustic)
The Measure [SA]
Bomb the Music Industry! as the Weakerthans
The Flatliners as Rocket From Crypt
Comadre as At the Drive-in.

Unthought Known

A much delayed post.


On monday Oct 17th, 2011. I went down to Santa Cruz to the Rio Theatre to see Ryan Adams.
Jason Isbell opened up and played 8 songs and then Ryan played for 2.5hours. I think total of 23 songs with just him, his guitar and harmonica. He did play two songs on the piano including a wonderful stripped down version of 'New York, New York.'
This was my fifth trip to Santa Cruz this year and I fall more and more in love with the city every time. I know lots of people who want to live in San Francisco but I will choose the mountains and the beach any day.

About a month ago, a house few blocks from where I live caught on fire. I walked past it few days later to see what kind of shape it was in. It's kind of sad to see a house burnt down but there is also some type of beauty in it.

A few weeks ago, as I was walking out of the King Library I noticed this on the ground near a bench.

Impresario

Last night was perfect. I went to Slims in San Francisco with my friends Ryan and Nicole. I have nothing but good memories from my time spent at that venue. I have seen countless acts there and it was all the very first venue I went to in San Francisco.

First up was Evan from Into it.OVer it. He is a good guitar player but I felt like most of his songs sounded the same.

Second was Andrew Jackson Jihad. I saw them back in June as part of the Asian Man 15 Fest and I was really impressed with their live act so I was looking really forward to their set. They played everything I wanted to hear...everything. There was also a good amount of singing along and circle pits going on for their set.

Next up was the one and only Frank Turner with the Sleeping Souls. This was my sixth time seeing Frank and second time with a backing band. Most of the songs he played were more towards the upbeat pop type but it was fun none the less.

Somethings that I will remember from the night...I have never drank at a show until last night. Once I got in the venue, I went straight to the bathroom and spent few minutes washing them off my wrists. My buddy bought me few beers and since I no longer had the stamp, I could drink freely. I'm not sure if I will do this again but I do believe it helped me lossen up and made the signing along a lot more easier.

Tembloroso

I have been busy lately, but a post of pictures and important words is on the way.
Some time soon.

Frank Turner Friday
Ryan Adams Monday
Florida 16 Days

Expectations.

Last week, I applied for graduation. For some reason I haven’t shared the news with many people and out of the people that I did share the news, only one responded in a way I had hoped everyone to respond. In a way, I understand how not every one is excited to leave college like I am so maybe it’s unfair to expect a type of response from everyone that I shared the news with.

So now that I have had few days to think over it and let the news settle in, I don’t know if I’m content with where I am today. I was looking forward to college graduation before I even began my first day of class at SJSU, I wanted to be done and over it before I even moved into the dorms. I had a certain idea of what kind of person I would be and what I would have accomplished by the time I graduate and I guess the fact that things are not how I imagined it would bothers me in a way. I’m not saying that I failed in doing certain things or that I choose the direction, the things that are out of my control aren’t exactly where I hoped they would be by today.

"My kinds been around forever, I claim to be one of the few."

Festivals

I'm always amazed by how uncreative we are as human beings sometimes. I don't understand why we have a 'Walnut' street in every town, why we have a 'Newark' in New Jersey and California, same goes with 'Pittsburg' in California and Pennsylvania...you get the point. Is it really hard to come up with different name?

I'm not a big festival type of guy. Yeah, the atmosphere and vibe is nice but the food is usually overpriced, there's always a big line for the bathroom and you always end up missing one of the acts because someone else is playing at the same time.

Thank being said I had a pretty decent time at FYF Fest this weekend. It was all because of Explosions in the Sky.

Goodbye Hooray.

Well, it's finally here. One of the most dreadful days of the year, the last day of summer is finally here. I have to say, it was quite a productive summer and one of the shortest summer I have ever encountered.
Here's what I want to remember.
Live Music I witnessed:
June 11: Title Fight, Shook Ones, Touche Amore, The Menzingers
June 17: Andrew Jackson Jihad, Shinobu, O Pioneers!!!, The Wild
June 22: Two Gallants, The Mumlers
July 25: Rademacher
July 28: The Henry Clay People
August 5: Jimmy Eat World, Dead Country and Dustin Kensrue
August 12: Joyce Manor, Shinobu, Four Tomorrow
August 16: Bomb the Music Industry!, The Sidekicks, Hard Girls

I also had the pleasure to attend my very first San Jose Giants game, Los Angeles Dodgers game and after a three year hiatus, I made a visit to the Angel Stadium of Anaheim to watch the halos play.

There were also very 'firsts' for me this summer...I went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk and rode the big dipper for the first time, played Scrabble, Ride the Bus and Pictionary for the first time and went to the Palm Desert for the first time in my life.

Along with many other productive things, I'm glad I started and finished four books this summer...Ask the Dust by John Fante, Catcher in the Rye and Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilman and Ham on the Rye by Bukowski.

As always, I do have few regrets about the summer, but at the moment I rather just focus on the good things that happened.

La Quienta Police

Panther Beach.

If I had to write one sentence to describe this summer, it would be:
I'm finally getting older and growing up

Summer Update

What I have been up to the past few weeks:

The Henry Clay People at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA

Late Night Nature Trail Adventure.

Rademacher at DiPiazza's in Long Beach, CA

Risk!

This was on the front porch of my friend Robbie's house

Halos vs. the Twins

Street art in Los Angeles.

I saw this car and immediatly thought of my older sister. So I took a picture and sent it to her.

None of these pictures are in particular order. The reason I uploaded them here was because I'm too lazy to write about my summer adventure and I have a feeling that I am going to keep in contact with this blog a lot longer than with facebook.

No One Gets Remembered.

Music is..
It's the base code,its everything its the background. I'm always humming something. The thing I look out for in music is honesty. the moment when you feel like somebody has pushed themselves past this kinda barrier of keeping your guard up. you suddenly you break through and you got this perfect moment where you break through and you see something real. something underneath, you see the bone through the flesh, you feel the glimpse of the soul when the voice cracks and the guitar feeds back. and you just feel like you have heard something true and something that can't be taken back...that's the moment I love music.

Summer time.

There is only one band that reminds me of summer, for some reason it feels wrong to listen to them during other parts of the year.

This was the song, that started it all. The Bass riff that started it all.




"He goes to the desert, fires a rifle in the sky, and says 'God, if I have to die you will have to die."

I'm on my way back again.

I had these set of beliefs. I lived by them for the past three and half years and recently, I have come to the realization that I'm not sure if I still believe in them anymore. Part of me feels like an idiot for being so into them and allowing those beliefs to run my life for so long.

I believed that each person comes into the world alone, travels through life as a separate person and ultimately dies alone. I felt like it didn't matter what we did in between or who we surrounded ourselves with because at the end we are going to be alone. I was fine with this, I had accepted this and in a way, I wanted to accelerate this process.

I don't know anymore, it all feels wrong. I felt like things were becoming clearer early on but now It's like everything is gone. I feel like I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind.
My favorite phrase was 'We Are What We Believe' but now, I'm not sure what it all means.

Radio Nowhere

July 10, 2011

Today is my last day in San Jose, I leave tomorrow morning for Irvine. At the moment, I'm sitting on the couch listening to Bruce Springsteen and waiting for time to pass by so I can head to the San Jose Giants game already.

The past few weeks in San Jose have been different that what I had expected. Besides from going to class twice a week and once in a while going to the track, I tried couple new things. It's funny how simply saying 'Yes' can change your day. I went to Santa Cruz twice this past month, that's more than I have been during my previous three years in Northern California. I also went to the pet store few weeks ago for the very first time in my life. I think I'm finally getting a sense of what kind of people I want to be surrounded by, I can only hope that these people stay with me for the rest of my life. The other day my best friend told me "the key to life is surrounding yourself with people that make you happy." I am starting to believe this is true.

I'm not sure what to expect for the 30 days or so while I stay in Irvine. Part of me is excited to go back and hit the Jacuzzi every other night, play pick up Soccer and eat home cooked food but I know all these expectations can be killed really easily.

Tomorrow morning I hope on a bus for a 7hr long ride to Southern California. At the moment I playlist includes lots of Lucero and Bruce Springsteen. A friend of mine let me borrow 'Catcher in the Rye' few weeks back, I'm halfway through the book and hopefully I can finish it tomorrow.

I could really use some Ice Cream right now.

Trying new things.

Yesterday was full of positives. I think it's partially funny because when I woke up I was nervous about the what was ahead of me for that day. As I mentioned earlier, I am currently taking 'Intro to Forensic Anthropology' this summer session. This is the last week of class and we had a wonderful option of turning in a paper on Thursday or do a 10 to 15minute Presentation in front of everyone. I decided to go with the presentation because I was in no mood to write a paper. So instead of hanging out with friends during the day of fourth of July, I stayed in and worked on my powerpoint. I did walk to the San Jose Giants stadium during the night to catch the fireworks.














My presentation went a lot better than I expected. As I said I was pretty nervous going into class and part of the reasons was that I hadn't given a public presentation in a over a year. My topic was on 'Disposal of Human Corpses' I was the second one to present so I could get it out of the way. I know I did good because when I finished and started walking back to my seat, the girl sitting in front of me said I did a good job. Part me things that she was just being nice but I would like to think that she really meant it when she said I did good.

After class ended at four, I took a nice sweaty mile walk back to my house, ate some dinner and watched the Cardinals-Reds baseball game. I figured I would be spending the rest of the night on the couch watching baseball when about an hour later I got a phone from a friend asking if I wanted to hangout. Fifteen minutes later I was in a car with three other people driving around looking for food. The four of us ended up eating dinner at Chilies. I had a Black Bean Avocado Burger, it was alright, nothing fancy. After dinner, we played a  game called 'Spud' in the parking lot. It was really fun and I found it fascinating that just because four people were running around a part of the parking lot meant that we had reserved the spot. The game lasted around 40 minutes we had no problems with cars.
After the game, we went back to one of our friends house and I played Scrabble and Pictionary for the first time. I really enjoyed playing both games, I had trouble with Scrabble early one but I look forward to giving both games another shot.

Looking back, I have done lots of new things during the past five weeks in San Jose.  I will save that for another time.

10 Favorite Songs

These songs that I love so much that I could just listen to them for hours:
1. Everlong by Foo Fighters
2. Trailer Trash by Modest Mouse
3. Man of the Hour by Pearl Jam
4. The Backseat by The Gaslight Anthem
5. Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins
6. Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed
7. Slow Dancing by Lucero
8. Love Ire and Songs by Frank Turner
9. A Broken Promise by Jim Ward
10. Apartment Story by The National

Crepe Place

Last night I saw something magical, something out of this world. I don't think I will ever witness anything more amazing than what I experienced last night. I saw two dudes rock the shit out of the Crepe Place.

Two Gallants were better than the time I saw The Gaslight Anthem, or the time I saw Frank Turner or the time I saw Pearl Jam or the time I saw Patti Smith.

Last night I saw Two Gallants put on the most magical show I have ever witnessed.
I don't think that live performance will ever be matched.

June 20, 11:21PM

It's not fair that I finally meet the people I've been looking for since the day I started SJSU.
Why does this have to happen now, right before my last year of college?
Why couldn't I meet these people during my freshman year or heck, even a year earlier.
It's not fair that just when things seem to be falling in place, I start my last year of college.
Why couldn't all this happen a year ago?
Why couldn't I meet these people earlier?
Why does life have to be so cruel?

I feel like I have been punched in the gut, and all I want to do is scream out in frustration.
The fact that I can't do anything about the situation just bothers me more.
It bothers me how these things are out of my control.

Zip City

A friend of mine turned 20 yesterday, when I called him to wish him Happy Birthday, he told me about his plans for the day and it reminded me of the day when I turned 20 (only like 6months ago).

One of the things I did on my 20th birthday was go to a music store in Costa Mesa called Second Spin. They had a sale going on used CDs, I think it was like buy one-get the second half off or something. If I recall correctly, I bought six albums that day.

One of the albums I bought was Lucero's 'Nobody's Darlings.' It wasn't in my original stack of albums that I was going to buy, I couldn't find any Lucero albums on the shelfs, so when I went to pay the cashier asked me if I had found everything alright and thats when I said I was looking for something by Lucero...he helped me find the stack and the only one they had was Nobody's Darlings. Even thought I don't consider it to be my favorite album by the band, I still enjoy listening to it a great deal. There are plenty of great tracks on the album. Roy's drumming in 'Sixteen' and 'And We Fell' is amazing. 'Hold Me Close' is a song that I would consider playing at my wedding. The slow songs 'Nobody's Darlings' and 'The War' are lyrically beyond perfect to me. And of course, how can you not love 'California' when you live in the state.

It's funny how you get introduce the band. I had no idea who Lucero was until May of 2010. When I think it was either Brian Fallon or The Gaslight Anthem tweeted something like How Good is Lucero, That Good...few days after seeing that, I did some research and downloaded one of their albums. It took me a while to get into it. I was new to the alternative-country genre but after a while I grew on me. It's been little over a year since I started listening to them and I have already seen them live three times.

It's funny how bands, albums or songs remind you of a certain time. I have spent the last year listening to the band so much that now, they have become a big part of my life. I would call my third year of college as the year I fell in love with Lucero. I spent many nights last school year, laying on my futon listening to the them rather than going out on a saturday night. I don't regret any of it.

The only thing I regret is that I didn't find then earlier.

Buttercross

Well Summer Break 2011 is over for now. I start summer session tomorrow morning. Four hours of Forensic Anthropology should be fun.

I'm back in San Jose listening to the new Frank Turner album 'England Keep My Bones'. I'm glad I ordered the deluxe version, the leather cover feels nice and the bonus songs are good...Overall the album is worth 22bucks.

One of the purchases I did over break was the new Eddie Vedder album and the dvd. Here's me spending the night with my favorite singer.

Vegetarian Tacos at my favorite Mexican Restaurant And of course, can't go down to Orange County and not visit the beach

Story of my Life

Tonight I had a chance to see a true indie rock band. A band that help define the indie rock sound in the 90s.

As usual, I had tickets to the show...no ride.
No one to blame but myself for this. I'm the one without a car, I'm the one putting my hopes on people with the car. I'm the one setting myself up for the disappointment.

Right now, all I can do is hope that I don't have to wait 13 years to see this band live.


In lighter terms, here is one of my favorite songs of all-time...I really enjoyed the movie when I saw it back in eight grade. This song came on during the end credits, and made the film ten times better. It was also the first time I had heard of this band.

Night Like These

Man, I had quite a nice night tonight. It's always nice seeing a dear friend after what seems like a long time. It's even better when it's just the two of you.

I don't really have much else to say. I will add some pictures in the next couple posts and I will start my writing project once I'm back in San Jose.

hmm yeah...one of the best nights of the year. Everything just seemed perfect.

Summer Writing Project.

So, I'm back in Irvine. The plane ride was annoying, my flight got delayed twice due to 'Air Traffic.' This boggles me, I thought we created airplanes to avoid traffic.
All in all, it's nice to be back. I get to sleep on a real bed for the next ten days and get to eat good food.

This morning I did an inventory of all the CDs' I own. So my idea for the summer writing project is to write or blog about each album that I have bought physically. Maybe write when I bought it, why I bought it and what got me into the band/album...there are couple albums in my collection that I haven't listened to in years so it will be fun re-visiting them and trying to figure why I bought it in the first place.

I woke up this morning with an email from the Ten Club saying my pre-order of Eddie Vedder's new album has been shipped. I know there is a stream of it on NPR but I am going to try my darn hardest to avoid listening to it until I have the physical copy in hand. Something about an ukelele album recorded by my favorite singer plus a song which is a duet with Chan Marshall (who I'm absolutely in love with) get's me pretty excited.....might be the perfect summer album.

I also pre-ordered the new Frank Turner album last night. I got the deluxe version of the album which for some reasons is $7 more than the normal version. I have never spent $23 on one album in my life...I hope I never have to again. I hope this one is worth it.

So I'm going to enjoy the ten days I have here in Southern California and start with the writing project once the Eddie Vedder album arrives. I think I have a total of 80-something albums. Should be fun.

Couldn't resist turning my phone on during mid-flight to take a picture of the glowing lights.

'Somewhere on the Golden Coast'

Strange Strange Girl

So a week or so ago, The Airborne Toxic Event released their sophomore full-length. Many people around me love it and some of my friends asked me what I thought about it. I couldn't give them a true answer because I don't know how I feel about it.
I have listened to the album few times, from beginning to end with no distractions in between but will it ever top the debut self titled full length? To me, I doubt it.

Back in 2008 and 2009, they were a big part of my life. Living near Los Angeles, I saw em multiple times. I will always associate them with certain memories. Going to San Francisco for the first time on a Wednesday night when I was 18 to see em play a shack hole type place with the Henry Clay People. Going to downtown LA and one of the sketchiest place I have ever been to on a cold December night with two friends of mine because Mikel was going to play couple songs by himself at some guy's living room. Sneaking into the Mezz Bar through the Alexandria Hotel because the people working at the door wouldn't let us in because my friend and I were not 21.

I have fond memories from following this the “little band from Los Feliz” (their words).

So when I listen to the new album, watch the music video for 'Changing' I have almost no emotional response to it. To me its just there.

Ch-Check It Out

Last full week of Class!

A friend of mine showed this to me. Pretty cool. Kinda goes along with what I would like to do next summer.

Straight Trippin' from SKATEDAILY.net on Vimeo.

Only Time Will Tell

So last night I saw Frank for the third time. Dave Hause opened up.
Dave was awesome, it was my first time seeing him solo. I saw him with his band the Loved Ones back in 2009. There were only few people there who knew of him or the loved ones...he played 8 songs including a Hot Water Music cover.
Here's the setlist:
Prufrock
Try This At Home
I still believe
Real Damage
I am Disappeared
Worse Things Happen at Sea
Peggy Sang the Blues
Motel Blues (Loudon Wainwright III Cover)
Fastest Way Back Home
One Foot before the other (New Song)
Sunshine State
Ballad of Steve
The Next Round
Dan Song
Substitute
English Curse (new song)
Long Live the Queen
Journey of Magi
The Road
Photosynthesis
Encore:
Constructive Summer w/ Dave Hause (Hold Steady Cover)
Don' Think Twice (Bob Dylan cover)
Ballad of me and my friends

also I got to the venue Three hours before they opened and got to help Frank set up...While he carried his merch box from the car, I Got to carry His Guitar!

I also meet a nice couple who gave me a ride back to San Jose...which was awesome cause Frank stopped play at 12:30AM...way past the last Caltrain and the Bart

Gasoline Week.

Crazy stuff has been happened this past week. Between the midterms and papers, I found a House for rent which I will be moving into June.
I attended my first San Jose Giants game and my first Minor League game since I moved from Delaware...I am not quite sure why it took me so long.

I must check this out before it goes away....anything related to Patti Smith is awesome!

Also last night, I attended the Sparta Awards followed by the Club Sports Awards/Banquet.
This is what you get for running 900 miles and being on the team for three years:

Cannonball!

It's days like yesterday, it's great to be alive.

I got to Oakland right around 7, walked around a bit and then headed to the venue. The Oakland Opera House is basically a big warehouse. I felt quite like a bad ass in the beginning cause when I was standing in line, Sean recognized me and came to talk to me and when we were finally allowed it, I was on the guest list which was pretty cool. Right after we got in, the guy behind me in line started asking me how I got on the guest list and how I knew Sean and all.

The first opening act was a solo set by the guitarist from the Laura Stevenson and the Cans. The played few nice slow songs including a wonderful John Cale cover.

Next up was Laura Stevenson and the Cans, they were really good. Few jokes by Laura in between songs. They played a good mix of upbeat and slow songs. I got their setlist and bought their new album 'Sit Resist'.

The final opening act was Pomegranates...I was looking forward to seeing em cause my buddy who went to the show in Anaheim said he was really impressed and he even bought their cd. (he never buys CDs). They didn't disappoint, the members kept switching instruments which kind of kept it fresh and they were just down right groovy. I wish I had bought their album.

This was my first time seeing Fake Problems as an headline act. So I was pretty stoked. Earlier when I got to the venue, when I Sean for what seemed like a long time and I dropped in few request. They played a good mix of old and new. I have yet to see a band have more fun on stage than they do. Casey Lee cracking jokes and laughing the entire time, Chris jumping around everywhere. Good set of songs by them, the only one they didn't play that I requested was 'Motion of the Ocean.' Sean after the show promised me they will play it next time I see em.The Setlist below isn't entirely correct. They called some audibles during the show so the order was little bit different

Overall it was an awesome day. There is no band out there that I'm closer with than the guys from Fake Problems. Can't wait to see em at the Fest

Another year, Another Season

So Track season is over. I can't believe I only have one year of eligibility left, time does fly. I think looking back the only thing I will remember from this season is that I went from a long distance running to short-mid distance running. We traveled to couple schools that we hadn't the previous two years but besides that I can't say anything spectacular happened during the 2011 SJSU Track and Field Season.

The next few weeks are going be hectic. As much as I love spring and end of the school year, I hate how everything just seems to pile up during the months of April and May. I can't wait to see Fake Problems this friday for the third time this year, Sparta Awards and club sports banquet next week and of course the highlight of the year (Frank Turner live) the week after. In the middle of all this crazy fun stuff, I have term papers due. Lots of em, I guess that's what I get for being an Anthro major. I also have to start looking for a new apartment since my current lease ends at the end of may and of course, I still have finals

Also I have been going to the school library a lot to get work done...check out the view.
One of the reasons why I love spring time is cause everything is green.


Fun Fun Fun

Grown up.

Things that make me feel all grown up: Tying my own tie.

San Jose's been pretty green lately:

Lost Coast

Delaware by way of Irvine?

Can't wait for this:

Things I learned during Spring Break 2011

1. Camping is fun, it would be fun to get a RV and spend a week camping at a different State Park during the summer.

2. Southern California gets better every time I visit.

3. Even though I enjoy Southern California, I would rather spend rest of my life in Nor Cal.

4. Summer time in the Bay Area seems more and more likely.

5. I forgot how good sunflower seeds are.

6. If there is such a thing as a perfect human being, I think I have found one.

7. The Board game Risk can kill some friendships.

Camping pictures.