My lastest eBay purchase

I recently have wanted a cooler, hipper, and more functional bag for carrying my books, laptop and other things. So I started looking online, the only place to find detailed reviews of hip cool things. So I found a lot of bags: side bags, messenger bags, and laptop bags. I wanted a bag that had a lot of room to hold my laptop, books, and extras that I could need. I found a lot that were just enough room for a laptop. Then I found the Crumpler brand, who sells many interesting named bags for all different sized laptops. They are definitely in the height of fashion. I started looking at one bag, but found out it was for 17" laptops, which is huge, and didn't need one that big. So I found the part and parcel. Made for most all 15.4" laptops, durable material, 3 pockets, one for a lappie, one for books, and one for accessories. I saw it was 160 buck-a-roos and kinda lost a bit of motivation. Then I reembered my recent eBay buying streak, and searched for it. Found one, slightly used (only a few pen marks on the inside) going at the time for 40$. I started watching it for a few days, it went up to 60$, and I was still happy it was less than 160$. So, it came to be the day when it was ending at 9 in the morning on a saturday, meaning not realy sleeping in. I got up and sat and watched. It counted down. Finally under a minute. Was around 80$. I was going to bid for 90$, thining it a fair price. I decided that if I didn;t get it at 90 I'd goto 100$. It was worth it. I then thought that if I wu=ould goto 100, might as well start with that as my maximum bid. Final seconds, I bid, and the bidding closes. I win for 91$. I sigh in relief as I relize I wouldn't have won for 90 alone. but by risking the 100 I win for 91. I pay for the shipping, and go back to bed. 4 days, 3 buisness days, I get the bag in the mail. It's awesome. It has enough room to hold my books and my laptop comfortably. the lappie is a tight fit, takes a minute to get it in right, but after that I feel like its not going anywhere or getting hurt at all. It was totally worth the buy.

From music is wonderful into my goals

How did music get so amazing? Where did that happen and why wasn't I there? I was listening to Belles of Skin City and I realized, for the millionth time, how much I love music and in that case, music with great jamming abilities. Bands like that: Belles, Fugazi, Hockey Night, Stnnng, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and many others just blow my mind. I would buy a CD of hem just messing around for an hour or two because it would have some great drum, bass, and guitar runs that might not make it into a song, but still might have a great sound. I told bass on bass that we should jam like that and they pointed out that those musicians had been in previous bands, had years of practice, and were very talented at improvising. Sadly, I don't really fit any of those properties. That's why I always get this jolt of inspiration to make great music and I don't because I don't know how to. I think I will start practicing more during my free time instead of playing GTA or Stumbling Upon random websites. Oh man, how many pages I could fill with my repeating cycle of wanting to do so much. I want to make guitar effects, play guitar, record guitar, play drums, write lyrics, make a desktop background, listen to music, write in this blog, ace my classes, find new music, and a few other things. Too much I say, but really I could do it if I wanted to, I just don't use my free time that productively.

Finding music, and music shows.

I've been recently trying to find a good way to find new music that I will like. I have tried the major music review sites, cokemachineglow, pitchfork, and meta critic. These mostly have a good sense of what's good and what simply isn't. But most of the artists I have never heard of and are really either not my taste or something I am unable to get my hands on. This makes it hard to find and listen to new music. On my radio show, there is a 4 new songs per hour minimum that we have to follow. This means I hear about 4-6 new songs which has led me onto some decent bands, but nothing amazing because the amazing ones are hyped enough that I recognize the name off the shelf and I pass it by. I then rip the CD's and listen too them later, or I don't. I usually get too much music that I don't know where to stat listening to it, which makes it hard to listen to the music, espescially all the way though. I never really get the full hour and a half span of time to listen to an album all the way through, but I want to. I'll start it in a break and I will have time planned out,but then I'll get another song, usually a single stuck in my head and so I'll switch and ruin my roll. I dunno what way I should follow to really get into the music and eventually start writing reviews on this blog. Maybe I'll just figure it out. Who knows?

Video Games

How are they so very fun. I just semi-beat crysis (I haven't technically killed the final boss, but I will soon). and I am getting gears of war to play because I've heard it's worth it. This post is mostly for testing rss feeds so w/e.

Doing laundry before class.

Today I had my first radio show of the new semester, its called A Rude Awakening. The show went really well, forgot a few things, but they came back pretty quick. Played some great music: TPC, Belles of Skin City, Radiohead, Fugazi, and some Pixies. I missed having access to that much music, it's quite nice, usually I can get a bunch of new music but today there wasn't much new. I got two new Cd's and plan on getting a bunch more this semester. Also, it's one of my goals to listen to music more, like really listen to it. Last semester I listened to music between classes and when I went to bed, but it was only like 5-10 minutes of music. I want to remember certain songs that I like and have more opinions about the music. I usually just have background music, but I want to listen listen to it.
One thing over winter break I didn't do nearly enough was go to live shows. I just really didn't see anything that looked to interesting to see. And I hurt my back and had my wisdom teeth out within a week of each other. It was an interesting week.

So, I brought my amp up to college and I am pumped to start using it, but it's a bit too loud to play too much with my room mate and others around. So I decided, with other reasons, to buy a recoding interface. Basically it goes: Guitar>>Amp>>Interface>>Laptop. This lets me record things on my computer and would let my band record ourselves with drums and stuff. I am trying to find one on eBay for cheap, and haven't been successful yet. Because I had to use my debit card over break for things like Christmas shopping and new tires, I only had 74.60 dollars on it. It was a good thing I lost the first two biddings, because I didn't have the money, but I got outbid last second last night. How is it possible to bid 2 seconds before it ends, thats crazy. But I just put in some money so I'll be set in like 4 days for the next auction.

Anyways, i got to go get my laundry and goto class. Cya.