I typed out a long diatribe about psychology and sociology and how people think but I got really annoyed with it so I decided to make a simple hey whats up post.
What's up?
I've been up to not much lately, school I guess you could say. I don't even know what to say. I've been searching a lot. Searching has interesting meanings for me. Mainly it means I'm comfortable and ready to change things and add an uncontrolled element. Usually this ends up being an obsession with something that I end up never buying. Other times it's worse.
But that's back to talking about my mind, and as much as that has a place. It's not here.
Yesterday I had my first radioshow. It was the worst radio show I've ever had. Earlier in the day Tessa said that I would have two apprentices. What a fucking lie. I had five people show up at my radio show to get training. All in separate waves making it almost impossible to talk about anything. They also had a godforsaken taste of music and no sense of flow. One of the kids chose a seven minute chicago song and then later a fourteen minute version of freebird. Another only chose songs that he knew from rock band. It was painful. But next week I'll be by myself and so it will be better. I've gotten a few new songs that I want to share and so you all should listen. As always, it's kumm.org if your not from round these parts and 89.7 if you are.
This weekend I hope will be fun. Tomorrow I am (tentatively) going to bad movie night with my friend david. The rest of the night and saturday who knows. Probably seeing Jake and his crazy house. I've been wanting to see more people during the off peak times of the weekend. That hasn't really started though. That goes back to me wanting more than I have, so let's ignore it.
I am going to buy a banjo.
It's really hot here in morris. I wish it wasn't. There was one night when it was cold and I walked to campus to find meghan's stolen bike and I wore the winter hat tasha knit me and it was the perfect temperature. Until I rode home and was sweaty. But I've also realized that any colder and I'd be out of luck because I only have hoodies. But I'm going through the cities next weekend and I'll grab some stuff. The twelve hour drive back from music might kill me though so who knows.
I have to admit. I don't even know what a diatribe is. It just sounded nice.
I bought a server but haven't gotten it setup to something that I like yet. So thats why I haven't posted here, in hopes that it would motivate me to get my site working. But I will try and get some sort of blog going, I can't promise it will be pretty though. Then I'll post a link.
I'm going to go make more strawberry milk.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Quick test, good song
Testing the Yahoo media player, what MFR uses and it's really great for music blogs. Here's a song to test it out on here.
Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The break of yawn
I got up today at 8. That usually means I woke up at 8, went back to bed, and got out of bed at 9. not today. I woke up and was super energized, which was weird but welcome. I decided to go into work early instead of taking my usual half an hour to get ready. So I drive to work and eat a sandwich on the way there singing along to the music. most everyday I go to work before 9 I get a good parking spot. That's because most people get to work around 8:45 to 9:30. So I figured, because it was 8:20, I'd be super close to the building. Boy was I wrong.
I had to park in the back of the good lot, which is in someplace further than the next lot. It made no sense to me at all. Why would people get up early on a hump day and go to work. Well, the answer, I believe, is a mysterious force that connects everyone.
There are a lot of books and movies that attempt to describe the concept and some get closer to others, but it is a very vague idea. I think the best way to know it is to experience it and notice it when you think it happens. In the movie waking life, there is a discussion of the rough idea, here is the transcript:
Their conversation deals more with knowledge in the collective memory that people subconsciously tap into. While extraordinary, this is very subtle and you could do it everyday without knowing it. What I'm trying to get at is the real time version of this phenomenon. Today, hundreds of people went to work at Thomson earlier than usual. I have no idea if there are any statistics on what days people come in the earliest and it might be a coincidence. But I don't think so, mostly based on the fact that I never get to work that early. There was some pull that got me out of bed and in a rush to work. And I think it pulled a lot of other people here too.
Think about this: have you ever been doing something or feeling a certain way and talk to someone who is doing or feeling exactly what you are? It's kind of creepy. But it happens, a lot. Its a common group mentality that any given group will all have roughly the same emotion. There is rarely a split where a group of people are very happy or very sad. Last week I went to a bonfire with my friends and we were all surprisingly happy. It was surprising because we all had been not been doing anything exciting for the past two weeks and so for us to suddenly be okay was out of place. In the moment it was perfect though. Because when you have a unexciting week, you just want to be happy and so by our joined will, we were.
This also happens in very strong relationships. Not just romantic relationships either. I guess connection would be a better word to avoid the confusion, but I think that two people's connection is a part of their relationship. Best friends rely on each other to be there and the reason that that best friend is the best is because your relationship/connection is strong. I've had a lot of recent experiences where I'm doing or thinking something and I will tell a friend and they say that they were thinking or doing the exact same thing. It seems strange, but it also seems very fitting that they are my friend. It's like, oh yeah, that's why were close. Because we not only think alike, but we feel alike across unsaid distances.
If you have felt this way, then be proud of it because a lot of people don't understand just how strong our connections with others are and seeing that important.
I had to park in the back of the good lot, which is in someplace further than the next lot. It made no sense to me at all. Why would people get up early on a hump day and go to work. Well, the answer, I believe, is a mysterious force that connects everyone.
There are a lot of books and movies that attempt to describe the concept and some get closer to others, but it is a very vague idea. I think the best way to know it is to experience it and notice it when you think it happens. In the movie waking life, there is a discussion of the rough idea, here is the transcript:
I like that. It's like there's this whole telepathic thing going on that we're all a part of, whether we're conscious of it or not. That would explain why there are all these seemingly spontaneous worldwide innovative leaps in science and the arts, you know, like the same results popping up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer figures something out, and then almost simultaneously a bunch of other people all over the world figure out the same thing. They did this study where they isolated a group of people over time, you know, and monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles in relation to the general population, and they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people, and their scores went up dramatically. Like 20%. So it's like once the answers are out there, people can pick up on them. Like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.
Their conversation deals more with knowledge in the collective memory that people subconsciously tap into. While extraordinary, this is very subtle and you could do it everyday without knowing it. What I'm trying to get at is the real time version of this phenomenon. Today, hundreds of people went to work at Thomson earlier than usual. I have no idea if there are any statistics on what days people come in the earliest and it might be a coincidence. But I don't think so, mostly based on the fact that I never get to work that early. There was some pull that got me out of bed and in a rush to work. And I think it pulled a lot of other people here too.
Think about this: have you ever been doing something or feeling a certain way and talk to someone who is doing or feeling exactly what you are? It's kind of creepy. But it happens, a lot. Its a common group mentality that any given group will all have roughly the same emotion. There is rarely a split where a group of people are very happy or very sad. Last week I went to a bonfire with my friends and we were all surprisingly happy. It was surprising because we all had been not been doing anything exciting for the past two weeks and so for us to suddenly be okay was out of place. In the moment it was perfect though. Because when you have a unexciting week, you just want to be happy and so by our joined will, we were.
This also happens in very strong relationships. Not just romantic relationships either. I guess connection would be a better word to avoid the confusion, but I think that two people's connection is a part of their relationship. Best friends rely on each other to be there and the reason that that best friend is the best is because your relationship/connection is strong. I've had a lot of recent experiences where I'm doing or thinking something and I will tell a friend and they say that they were thinking or doing the exact same thing. It seems strange, but it also seems very fitting that they are my friend. It's like, oh yeah, that's why were close. Because we not only think alike, but we feel alike across unsaid distances.
If you have felt this way, then be proud of it because a lot of people don't understand just how strong our connections with others are and seeing that important.
Fish Fry
I have had a gross oily feeling for most of summer. I would eat greasy
fried foods and feel gross. I would then banish grease from my diet
and then not think of anything to eat. It really isn't easy to get
fast meals if you dont have the right ingredients ready and I usually
don't have them ready. At work, my first search was for the best and
cheapest food they served. I usually got cheeseburgers because they were a constant price and a good amount of food for $2.50. Then one day the grill was closed because it was after lunch hours and so I had to look around. I found the soup and chili. Now, I love chili. I really do.
And so when I saw that chili comes in cup servings for about two dollars I figured it was a good deal. But what I didn't do was keep getting chili. But today I wanted something hearty as my breakfast was smallish (usually I don't eat breakfast at all). So I got chili and an empty 32 oz cup (for 10 cents) and am having a healthy yet substantial meal.
And so when I go back to Morris, I will be sure to be making lots of chili and hearty meals. They really aren't difficult and usually aren't expensive and taste amazing.
fried foods and feel gross. I would then banish grease from my diet
and then not think of anything to eat. It really isn't easy to get
fast meals if you dont have the right ingredients ready and I usually
don't have them ready. At work, my first search was for the best and
cheapest food they served. I usually got cheeseburgers because they were a constant price and a good amount of food for $2.50. Then one day the grill was closed because it was after lunch hours and so I had to look around. I found the soup and chili. Now, I love chili. I really do.
And so when I saw that chili comes in cup servings for about two dollars I figured it was a good deal. But what I didn't do was keep getting chili. But today I wanted something hearty as my breakfast was smallish (usually I don't eat breakfast at all). So I got chili and an empty 32 oz cup (for 10 cents) and am having a healthy yet substantial meal.
And so when I go back to Morris, I will be sure to be making lots of chili and hearty meals. They really aren't difficult and usually aren't expensive and taste amazing.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
trilogy = new movie[1][3]
I like the matrix movies. I like them all.
That may get such reactions as "what an idiot," "how is that possible," or "yes, and?" but I just realized why I like them all. It's like this:
Most people like/love the first movie, "the matrix" as a stand alone film. I can see how that works, because it's good without all the complication that comes from the later films. I can't, however, see how it is a good movie by itself when you have knowledge of the other movies. The first movie does not end well. It is a huge cliff hanger and opens a crap load of doors that wouldn't stand if they weren't concluded. My main pet peeve is "Why does he fly like a stiff?" The end of the movie has neo say he's the one and then he just flies away. No explanation of how he flies or why we should accept that. Yeah, he's the one, but he also flies away looking stupid. I can't decide if the flying motion was bad editing choice or just limitations of the time. Because he is just standing, then he is moving vertically. Superman had the one arm forward pose and it was clear that he was in fly mode. The lack of change in stance between standing and upward momentum really upsets me. Even in the later movies he has more of a "yeah, I'm flying" look with his arms pretending to be small rudders.
Knowing that he can fly opens so many doors that there has to be more to tackle it, which brings us to the second movie: reloaded. This movie is all about excess action and entertainment. That is why it is a good movie. They built a section of a freeway in the middle of nowhere just so they could crash things and blow shit up on it. We also get more plot, which could have been simply left out except that the action demanded something to make it plausible. The plot was interesting enough that I will forgive the very rough dialogue. The problem with the plot was that they made it too big. Could they have made it shorter? maybe. But it would not be as epic a story and so they did the right thing and make another movie: revolution.
This movie is hard to talk about because I only saw it once, but it was good for what it did: conclude the plot. Every time I watch reloaded, I want to just go through the plot of this movie so I remember wtf happens and that it all makes sense somehow. The fact that his powers work in the real world? Kinda iffy, but I'll buy it. The thing that redeems this movie the most has to be the special effects. The tech had advanced so much by this time that they could do justice to Zion and the larger machine city. The fight between Neo and smith at the end is so epic a battle that it couldn't have not caused a lightning storm. Another fav subtly of this movie and also the second is the color scheme. They did what I love when movies do, they make the world colorful in a way only movies can be. They took the green neon glow of the terminal screen they read the matrix on and applied it to most every surface in the matrix world. This use of color makes me extremely happy.
I also want to briefly talk about another part of the matrix world: the animatrix. Where and when else do I get to talk about this stuff? Nowhere, never.
The animatrix was pure fanboy eye candy. There is some plot in there, but I'll focus on how they added to the world without crippling any of it. By adding smaller stories and plots to the trilogy they show how sweet the matrix can be. Think of who likes the movies: nerds and geeks. What do nerds and geeks like? Anime. And so why not combine the two into awesome? There is no reason, and so they did.
That is why I like all the matrix films and not just the first one. They all basically kicked ass.
That may get such reactions as "what an idiot," "how is that possible," or "yes, and?" but I just realized why I like them all. It's like this:
Most people like/love the first movie, "the matrix" as a stand alone film. I can see how that works, because it's good without all the complication that comes from the later films. I can't, however, see how it is a good movie by itself when you have knowledge of the other movies. The first movie does not end well. It is a huge cliff hanger and opens a crap load of doors that wouldn't stand if they weren't concluded. My main pet peeve is "Why does he fly like a stiff?" The end of the movie has neo say he's the one and then he just flies away. No explanation of how he flies or why we should accept that. Yeah, he's the one, but he also flies away looking stupid. I can't decide if the flying motion was bad editing choice or just limitations of the time. Because he is just standing, then he is moving vertically. Superman had the one arm forward pose and it was clear that he was in fly mode. The lack of change in stance between standing and upward momentum really upsets me. Even in the later movies he has more of a "yeah, I'm flying" look with his arms pretending to be small rudders.
Knowing that he can fly opens so many doors that there has to be more to tackle it, which brings us to the second movie: reloaded. This movie is all about excess action and entertainment. That is why it is a good movie. They built a section of a freeway in the middle of nowhere just so they could crash things and blow shit up on it. We also get more plot, which could have been simply left out except that the action demanded something to make it plausible. The plot was interesting enough that I will forgive the very rough dialogue. The problem with the plot was that they made it too big. Could they have made it shorter? maybe. But it would not be as epic a story and so they did the right thing and make another movie: revolution.
This movie is hard to talk about because I only saw it once, but it was good for what it did: conclude the plot. Every time I watch reloaded, I want to just go through the plot of this movie so I remember wtf happens and that it all makes sense somehow. The fact that his powers work in the real world? Kinda iffy, but I'll buy it. The thing that redeems this movie the most has to be the special effects. The tech had advanced so much by this time that they could do justice to Zion and the larger machine city. The fight between Neo and smith at the end is so epic a battle that it couldn't have not caused a lightning storm. Another fav subtly of this movie and also the second is the color scheme. They did what I love when movies do, they make the world colorful in a way only movies can be. They took the green neon glow of the terminal screen they read the matrix on and applied it to most every surface in the matrix world. This use of color makes me extremely happy.
I also want to briefly talk about another part of the matrix world: the animatrix. Where and when else do I get to talk about this stuff? Nowhere, never.
The animatrix was pure fanboy eye candy. There is some plot in there, but I'll focus on how they added to the world without crippling any of it. By adding smaller stories and plots to the trilogy they show how sweet the matrix can be. Think of who likes the movies: nerds and geeks. What do nerds and geeks like? Anime. And so why not combine the two into awesome? There is no reason, and so they did.
That is why I like all the matrix films and not just the first one. They all basically kicked ass.
I tend to cross my arms alo...damn it, don't judge me.
So I've been getting up late recently for work. It's probably because I also have been staying up later, but that's not the point. the point is that I figured a couple nights ago that setting one alarm wasn't enough. So I used my phone to set two more alarms. This worked yesterday morning because I snoozed my first alarm and so when my phone started playing music I woke up, but because it was good music it wasn't painful. This morning I did the same thing, but I got up over an hour after my alarms went off. How did that happen? I have no idea, but it's sad that three worked worse than one.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I had a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup for lunch, and I liked it.
I crack my knuckles. That shouldn't be a surprise for anyone, but I noticed today that I'm cracking my knuckles a lot this week. Like loud and obnoxious cracking that I think makes anyone without headphones around me annoyed. Tough luck for them. I've heard that cracking your knuckles is a sign of aggression, in body language speak. I don't really think it means that when I do it though. Because I do it because if I don't my joints become stiff and hurt. I have been trying to cross my arms less though, which I know is body language for not being approachable. I do it because I don't know where to put my arms sometimes when I'm standing. It's annoying, but I can see the idea.
Julie once recommended a body language book to me, but I forgot the title of it. Julie, if you read this, comment the name.
Julie once recommended a body language book to me, but I forgot the title of it. Julie, if you read this, comment the name.
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