2016 Favorites

Favorite Music related things in no particular order:
Angel Olsen: My Women
Seeing Wolf Parade twice
Seeing LCD Soundsystem
Anohni live at FYF Fest
Fakers: Sounding the Alarmist EP
Jeff Rosenstock: Worry
Kevin Morby: Singing Saw
Hamilton Liethause + Rostam: I Had A Dream You Were Mine
John K Samson: Winter Wheat
Joyce Manor: Cody
Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
A Tribe Called Quest: Thank You For Your Service, We Got it from here

Movies/Television:
Midnight Special
Everybody Wants Some
Arrival
Stranger Things
Halt and Catch Fire
Westworld
The Americans

Days/Events:
8 days in Nashville for Summit
Climbing Big Bad Wolf in Red Rocks
Cape Hatteras/North Carolina
Maia
Weekend trip to Yosemite/Staying in Curry Village
Four days in Zion
Being one out away from Matt Moore throwing a No Hitter vs Dodgers on August 25

Spotify:

Last.FM:

2015 List

Favorite albums in no particular order:
Shinobu - 10 Thermidor
Mac McCaughan - Non Believers
Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
The Albert Square - I (Assume I) Know What I'm Doing
Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion
Torres - Sprinter
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
Quarterbacks - S/T

Favorite Movie of 2015:
The End of the Tour

Days/Events:
Visiting Seattle in January.
Shinobu's 10 Thermidor record release show at VLHS
Solo camping trip to Zion.
Climbing trip to Bishop.
Reaching the top of Half Dome via cables.
Spirtualized at FYF Fest
East Coast Trip (DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Tallahassee, Gainesville)
Renting a car for the first time.
Visiting Austin in October.
Seeing Brand New and The Replacements on back-to-back days.
Family Arizona trip
Seeing Spoon on back-to-back days.
Getting T-boned in Culver City
Going up to Santa Clara to see Taylor Swift

My 2014.

Favorite albums:

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Hard Girls - A Thousand Surfaces
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Diners - Always Room
Angel Olsen - Burn your Fire for No Witness
Taylor Swift - 1989
The Smith Street Band - Throw Me in the River
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Cloud Nothing - Here and Nowhere Else
Ex Hex - Rips
Tim Barry - Lost and Rootless

Favorite Movie of 2014:
Boyhood

Days/Events:
Against Me show in Santa Ana at the Observatory.
Run The Jewels show in Los Angeles at the Echoplex
Visiting New York City with Jaake for the last Btmi show
Visiting Lauren in Washington DC
Two day hike to the summit of Mt. Whitney
Moving the fuck out of Orange County
Weekend trip to Phoenix just to watch one Spring Training Baseball game
Growing Up Is Dumb V2
Climbing in Joshua Tree
Bike riding around SF/Brewery hipping and ending the day with a Giants game with Jenn.
Visiting Point Reyes National Seashore

Last.fm Stats:

Almost Crimes

Woke up at 8 am from a bad dream, proceeded to throw up which didn't help. Realized that I graduated from SJSU two years ago, it made me feel even worse...I dislike days like toady.

Thunderbird Blues

Here's some 2014, first quarter activities.

During January, I flew out to New York City for three days. The main reason behind the trip was to watch the very last Bomb the Music Industry show. It was a lot of fun. Their set was split into two, totaling almost three hours of wild chaotic music. I saw the first act from the crowd and the second from the side of the stage, thanks to Keegan.

Sometimes it's fun to wake up at 5am and drive to Arizona to watch couple spring training games. You get there by noon only to find out that the game's sold out. So you goof around all day, eat at a Chinese-Mexican fusion food. The next day, you hit jackpot and get tickets to a game. Witness a walk-off homerun, drive six hours west back to California and go to work the next day. 

I love California, specially its geography. I love that I can get to the beach in 15 minutes, the mountains in a hour and the desert in two. I went down to Joshua Tree for the very time this past weekend. I really enjoyed it, scrambling on top of the rocks is fun. Figuring out how you are going to comedown is even more fun. 

Positively unemployed. Orange sauce, burritos, minor league baseball games, house show, cal train at the Bay Area this week.  

Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

Do you know the way to San Jose?
I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.

L.A. is a great big freeway.
Put a hundred down and buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star.
Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass.
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas.

You can really breathe in San Jose
They've got a lot of space. There'll be a place where I can stay,
I was born and raised in San Jose
I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.

Fame and fortune is a magnet.
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You pack your car and ride away

L.A. is a great big freeway.
Put a hundred down and buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas.

I've got lots of friends in San Jose,
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Can't wait to get back to San Jose.

Places that pull

To-do List:
Go to Arizona for a weekend in March for spring training.
Quit my current job.
Move North.


I should probably write more often. 

My 2013

I haven't really updated this and will probably won't too many over the next few months but I did want to make a list of things I enjoyed this year just so I can keep track of things.

Music/Albums that came out in 2013 that I enjoyed the most:
Neko Case: the Worse things get, the Harder I fight, The Harder I fight, The More I Love you
Tegan And Sara: Heartthrob
Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt
LA Font: Diving Man
The National: Trouble Will Find Me
Diarrhea Planet: I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Boboso: Grown Ass Man
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
The Wild: Dreams Are Maps.


Movies:
Before Midnight
Short Term 12
Mud
Dallas Buyers Club
Wolf Of Wall Street
The East
Spectacular Now
Fruitvale Station
Man of Steel
Way Way Back
Kings of Summer

2013:
Getting a Driver's license
Buying a Car
Week in Chicago
Watching the fucking Replacements
The Henry Clay People at the echoplex
DeDe's wedding in Monterey
Backpacking at Sequoia National Park
Winning fantasy football
Going to ten baseball games over summer, including first time visit to Petco Park and Comerica Park
Spending the last four days of the year in the Bay Area.