Monday, December 08, 2008 i'm not crazy because i take the right pills

Current mood: anxious well, to my legions of fans out there lol. i'd like to apologize for not posting a blog last week. it was thanksgiving and i was busy. or was that the week before? fuck it i don't remember anymore. but i've been busy. and i'd like to apologize in advance because i don't think i'll be posting any blogs over christmas break. i tend to write in this thing only when i'm supposed to be studying or writing a paper. and since i'll be on break i'll be doing other more fun things than worry about homework and procrastinate 'till 5 minutes before it's due. so, this will probably be the last blog until mid januaryish. aaanyway, so how was everybody's thanksgiving? mine was alright. i had another one of those moments when you realize that you're getting old. i was at my uncle's house and i found my little cousin's guitar, and started playing some songs. badly i might add because it's a little kids guitar and my fingers where too big to hit just one string at a time, so i'd try and hit a string and i'd accidentally hit the one beneath it at the same time. wasn't too bad though. aaaaanyway, i played some sublime tunes, and then i figured out the intro riff to a bob marley song that's on my cousins myspace profile. then, it happened. i asked if anybody had any requests and my little cousin asked me if i knew any jonas brothers songs. normally with my punk rock attitude i'd be like "fuck no" or whatever but what do you say to a little girl who's crazy about these little d-bags? i did the only logical thing and played her some bouncing souls instead. lol. stupid jonas brothers. maybe i should listen to a jonas bros. song because i've never even heard them before. they might be cool. all i know is that they're the new "it" thing so i'm against it. lol. whatever. i'm not listening to that crap. i also recently played rock band at a friend's house. i suck at that too. i've always kind of tended to avoid playing that or guitar hero because i've always thought why play a video game when you can play the real thing? and of course just as i thought, it didn't come naturally and it's really kind of frustrating. first because depending on what skill level you choose, it messes with the natural tempos of the song. say you put it on easy, it only makes you play like every 3rd or 4th "note" of the song. so you might naturally want to hit the button but the screen tells you not too. my friend started laughing at me because we played lit's "my own worst enemy" and with the starting riff i started playing it like you play it in real life, i started strumming like you would in real time, but i totally botched the beginning of the song because it only wants you to play like every 2nd note as i mentioned before. same thing happened with rise against's "give it all". so you have to set it to expert in order for the tempos to match real time. but if you set it to expert it's like impossible to play. also, i've always kind of taught myself the songs, so when you hear a note that's higher than the one before it, my hand naturally goes up the fretboard. and in the game sometimes it goes down the fredboard even though the notes get higher. so that screwed me up too. and finally i'm color blind anyway, so i'm screwed no matter what i do. i couldn't tell apart the orange and red keys. they looked brown to me. so i'd be hitting the wrong keys even if i did have the tempo down. i'm sticking to real guitar. enough with guitars though. who saw oj simpson get sent to prison? what a moron. if i got away with murder i'd be a saint for the rest of my life. but not this guy. he said, "fuck it, i must be on a hot streak or something or i might be unconvictable" because why the hell would you try and rob some dudes at gunpoint and kidnap some guy? MORON. i saw the thing on espn. because it was on and i had nothing better to do. besides study i mean. but anyway it kind of pissed me off that the familly of that guy that he killed (sorry supposedly killed) back in the day was in the courtroom. it's not that i'm not sympathetic or not compassionate, but this was a different court for a different set of crimes and thought that it was stupid that they were there. also, i've decided that i no longer like the show "house". i used to love that show but now the formula for that show has gotten really old really fast. i'm gonna show you what every house episode goes like. somebody gets sick and passes out. they show up at the hospital house makes some witty remarks and makes somebody feel dumb. they go over the symptoms and house makes some more witty remarks. they decide it's not lupus. house has some stupid interaction with wilson. they go over something that may seem entirely irrelevant. they run tests on the patient and house tells the staff how worthless they are. house finally meets the patient and the patient is usually astonished at how rude he is. the patient gets worse. they rule out other diseases. they run more tests. then 10 minutes before the show is over, house has an epiphany regarding that dumb irrelevant issue that he and wilson were going over earlier in the show. he runs in just in the nick of time and saves the patient from dying. house is a dick again. the end. and that's what every episode is like. they should just make the show half an hour long and just air the parts where house is making his sharp witty comments. that's the only reason i watch the show anyway, and they would save me half an hour and maybe run an episode of family guy with that extra half hour. yup. also, it's december now so you should all add "100 resolutions" by the lawrence arms to your profile. or by sundowner, somebody should have it up. it will be up on my profile soon. who's going to the show on new years eve? i totally wanna go just to see them play this song. but it's on new years eve and i'll probably end up doing something else. if you go sing along for me. i'm sure they won't dissapoint. alright well that is all for now. i'm sure i won't be writing on here for a while so merry christmas, happy new year, happy hannukah, kwanzaa, ramadan or whatever it is you celebrate. if you're not religious, well, idk. happy next couple of weeks i guess. 'till next year.