Scared of the Youth, Scared of What's Next!

As I sit here in the quiet house in San Jose all by myself with rain slightly pouring outside and spring training baseball on TV...it's kind of a bitter sweet feeling knowing that my last 'real' spring break is almost over...part of me feels like I should wait till Spring Break is over to write about it but eh.

I started my break off by seeing Mike Huguenor play a solo set at the Blank Club in San Jose. Mike plays in couple amazing bands such as Shinobu, Hard Girls and Classics of Love. He recently started a graduate program at Chicago so it had been a while since I saw him. After the show I got a chance to talk about what he is researching and look forward to talking to him again in future about his studies.

I also got to see Fake Problems open up for Say Anything. They had a 30 minute set which included six songs. Also got a chance to see the new guitarist.

The day later, I went up to Berkeley to see Yulia and Hard Girls play at 924 Gilman Street...Hard Girls played 'Masters of the Universe'...they never play that song.

I spent the rest of my break camping at Julia Pfiffer Burns State Park. Our campsite was right by the ocean which was awesome. I'm sure I've mentioned this before but I love the ocean, there is noting else in this world that is more soothing that just sitting and staring at the ocean. 

There is something about dangling off cliffs and looking down to a fifty feet drop into rocks and ocean. It's scary but also in a way a direct pure connection with the ocean. 

hmm that is all for now I guess....56 days till Graduation. 

Jack of All Trades.

Everything works in circles. Like sometimes you're doing something and a year later or in my case four years later, you're back at the same point. So currently I'm on circle one, and someday or in my case come august, I'll probably do circle two.

Two weeks ago, I went to Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco to see Cloud Nothings. I really enjoy their new album so it was cool to see those songs live..I had a weird feeling when I found out that the leader singer was younger than me..I guess I'm getting old.

 A whiskey bottle dating from 1870-1910...the other side of the bottle is completely cracked.

A shotgun shell. Dating from 1860-1900.

One of the cool things about studying Archaeology at a university level is that you get to work and do research on cool artifacts.  Currently I'm working on artifacts that were found in an excavated site at Mono Mills in California.

Spring Break is coming up so maybe I'll write more later. Midterms and Papers are keeping me busy at the moment.

"Music should sound like escape, not rent" -Tim Barry